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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-stage%20quantum%20cryptography%20protocol | The three-stage quantum cryptography protocol, also known as Kak's three-stage protocol is a method of data encryption that uses random polarization rotations by both Alice and Bob, the two authenticated parties, that was proposed by Subhash Kak. In principle, this method can be used for continuous, unbreakable encryption of data if single photons are used. It is different from methods of QKD (quantum key distribution) for it can be used for direct encryption of data, although it could also be used for exchanging keys.
The basic idea behind this method is that of sending secrets (or valuables) through an unreliable courier by having both Alice and Bob place their locks on the box containing the secret, which is also called double-lock cryptography. Alice locks the box with the secret in it and it is transported to Bob, who sends it back after affixing his own lock. Alice now removes her lock (after checking that it has not been tampered with) and sends it back to Bob who, similarly unlocks his lock and obtains the secret. In the braided form, only one-pass suffices but here Alice and Bob share an initial key.
This protocol has been proposed as a method for secure communication that is entirely quantum unlike quantum key distribution in which the cryptographic transformation uses classical algorithms
The basic polarization rotation scheme has been implemented in hardware by Pramode Verma in the quantum optics laboratory of the University of Oklahoma.
In this method more than one photon can be used in the exchange between Alice and Bob and, therefore, it opens up the possibility of multi-photon quantum cryptography.
This works so long as the number of photons siphoned off by the eavesdropper is not sufficient to determine the polarization angles. A version that can deal with the man-in-the-middle attack has also been advanced.
Parakh analyzed the three-stage protocol under rotational quantum errors and proposed a modification that would correct these errors. One interesting feature of the modified protocol is that it is invariant to the value of rotational error and can therefore correct for arbitrary rotations.
See also
Three-pass protocol
List of quantum key distribution protocols
References
Quantum cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improv%20Heaven%20and%20Hell | Improv Heaven and Hell is a Canadian comedy television series, which aired on The Comedy Network from 1998 to 2001. Hosted by Albert Howell and Andrew Currie, a comedy duo billed as The Devil's Advocates, the series featured a rotating cast of Canadian comedians and actors performing in an improvisational comedy competition similar to Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Howell and Currie, both veterans of The Second City's Toronto company, first became prominent as regular contributors of video comedy segments to Citytv's Speakers' Corner.
The first season of the series was taped at the Masonic Temple, and the second was taped at the Bathurst Street Theatre.
Performers who appeared on the series as competitors included Peter Oldring, Lindsay Leese, Bob Martin, Frank McAnulty, Lisa Merchant, Colin Mochrie, Jack Mosshammer, Paul O'Sullivan, Jenny Parsons, Teresa Pavlinek and Janet van de Graaf.
References
External links
1998 Canadian television series debuts
2001 Canadian television series endings
Television shows filmed in Toronto
CTV Comedy Channel original programming
Improvisational television series
1990s Canadian comedy television series
2000s Canadian comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy%20of%20the%20vertebrates%20%28Young%2C%201962%29 | The taxonomy of the vertebrates presented by John Zachary Young in The Life of Vertebrates (1962) is a system of classification with emphasis on this group of animals.
Phylum Chordata
Phylum Chordata [p. 24]
Subphylum 1. Hemichordata (e.g., Balanoglossus, Cephalodiscus, Rhabdopleura)
Subphylum 2. Cephalochordata (= Acrania) (e.g., Branchiostoma)
Subphylum 3. Tunicata (e.g., Ciona)
Subphylum 4. Vertebrata (= Craniata)
Superclass 1. Agnatha
Class 1. Cyclostomata
Class 2. †Cephalaspidomorphi (e.g., †Cephalaspis)
Class 3. †Pteraspidomorphi (e.g., †Pteraspis)
Class 4. †Anaspida (e.g., †Birkenia, †Jamoytius)
Superclass 2. Gnathostomata
Class 1. †Placodermi (e.g., †Acanthodes)
Class 2. Elasmobranchii
Class 3. Actinopterygii
Class 4. Crossopterygii
Class 5. Amphibia
Class 6. Reptilia
Class 7. Aves
Class 8. Mammalia
Subphylum Vertebrata (= Craniata)
Superclass Agnatha
Subphylum Vertebrata (= Craniata)
Superclass 1. Agnatha [p. 81]
Class 1. Cyclostomata
Order 1. Petromyzontia (e.g., Petromyzon, Lampetra, Entosphenus, Geotria, Mordacia)
Order 2. Myxinoidea (e.g., Myxine, Bdellostoma)
Class 2. †Osteostraci (e.g., †Cephalaspis, †Tremataspis)
Class 3. †Anaspida (e.g., †Birkenia, †Jamoytius)
Class 4. †Heterostraci (e.g., †Astraspis, †Pteraspis, †Drepanaspis)
Class 5. †Coelolepida (e.g., †Thelodus, †Lanarkia)
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Elasmobranchii
Superclass 2. Gnathostomata
Class Elasmobranchii (= Chondrichthyes) [p. 175]
Subclass 1. Selachii
Order 1. †Cladoselachii (e.g., †Cladoselache, †Goodrichia)
Order 2. †Pleuracanthodii (e.g., †Pleuracanthus)
Order 3. Protoselachii (e.g., †Hybodiis, Heterodontus)
Order 4. Euselachii
Suborder 1. Pleurotremata
Division 1. Notidanoidea (e.g., Hexanchus, Chlamydoselache)
Division 2. Galeoidea (e.g., Scyliorhinus, Mustelus, Cetorhinus, Carcharodon)
Division 3. Squaloidea (e.g., Squalus, Squatina, Pristiophorus, Alopias)
Suborder 2. Hypotremata (e.g., Raja, Rhinobatis, Pristis, Torpedo, Trygon)
Subclass 2. Bradyodonti
Order 1. †Eubradyodonti (e.g., †Helodus)
Order 2. Holocephali (e.g., Chimaera)
Class Actinopterygii
Class Actinopterygii [p. 228]
Superorder 1. Chondrostei
Order 1. Palaeoniscoidei (e.g., †Cheirolepis, †Palaeoniscus, †Amphicentrum, †Platysomus, †Dorypterus, †Cleithrolepis, †Tarrasius, Polypterus [bichir])
Order 2. Acipenseroidei (e.g., †Chondrosteus, Acipenser [sturgeon], Polyodon [paddle-fish])
Order 3. Subholostei (e.g., †Ptycholepis)
Superorder 2. Holostei (e.g., †Acentrophorus, †Lepidotes, †Dapedius, †Microdon, Amia [bowfin], Lepisosteus [gar-pike])
Superorder 3. Teleostei
Order 1. Isospondyli (e.g., †Leptolepis, †Portheus, Clupea [herring], Salmo [trout])
Order 2. Ostariophysi (e.g., Cyprinus [carp], Tinea [tench], Silurus [catfish])
Order 3. Apodes (e.g., Anguilla [eel], Conger [conger eel])
Order 4. Mesichthyes (e.g., Esox [pike], Belone, Exocoetus [flying fish], Gasterosteus [stickle-back], Syngnathus [pipe-fish], Hippocampus [seahorse])
Order 5. Acanthopterygii (e.g., †Ho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH16 | Asian Highway 16 (AH16) is a road in the Asian Highway Network running from Tak, Thailand to Đông Hà, Vietnam connecting AH1 and AH2 to AH1 after AH1 takes a turn from south to North after crossing Cambodia. The route is as follows:
Thailand
Route 12: Tak () - Phitsanulok ()- Khon Kaen () - Somdet - Mukdahan
Route 212: Mukdahan - Bang Sai Yai
Route 239: Second Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge
Laos
Route 9W: Savannakhet - Xeno
Route 13: Xeno (concurrent with for 3 km)
Route 9E: Xeno - Xépôn - Dansavan
Vietnam
QL9: Lao Bảo - Đông Hà ()
Asian Highway Network
Highways in Thailand
Roads in Vietnam
Roads in Laos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinka%20Ayefele | Olayinka Joel Ayefele MON is a Nigerian music producer, gospel singer, radio presenter, and founder of Fresh and Blast FM network of radio stations across south-western Nigeria.
Early life
Ayefele was born in Ipoti-Ekiti, a city in Ekiti State in southwestern Nigeria.
Education
He attended Our Saviours Anglican Primary School in Ipoti-Ekiti for his primary and secondary education before he later proceeded to Ondo State College of Arts and Science in Ikare Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria.
Career
Ayefele worked briefly as journalist and broadcaster at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Ibadan, where he also produced jingles and musical works on radio. He began his music career in 1997 after he was involved in an automobile accident which damaged his spinal cord and made him reliant on a wheelchair. While in the hospital where he spent about 9 months, his friend, Kola Olootu, visited and advised him to put some songs together. This suggestion resulted in the release of his debut album titled, Bitter Experience in 1998 which brought him into limelight. The release of Bitter Experience was followed by the release of Sweet Experience. Other albums released by the gospel musician are Something Else, Divine Intervention and Life after death, released in honor of Gbenga Adeboye, a Nigerian radio presenter, musician and comedian. The title Bitter Experience reflected his ordeal and Sweet Experience was the sweetness after a "Bitter Experience". Ayefele's music has been published by different outfits, including API Music (Alloy Production International) 1998 - 2009, Galaxy Music (2008 - 2018), and Role Model Entertainment (2019 till date).
Awards and honours
Ayefele has received over 200 awards. Among other awards are:
Member of the Order of the Niger awarded by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (2011)
Ekiti cultural ambassador award
Radio station
Yinka Ayefele owns a network of radio stations across southwestern Nigeria called Fresh FM. The Ibadan arm of the network was established in 2015 and licensed by the Nigerian National Broadcasting Commission on 30 April 2015. Other arms of Ayefele's radio stations have, at different times since then, been opened in Abeokuta, Ado Ekiti, Akure, Osogbo and Lagos.
Ayefele's Music House, which also houses the Fresh FM radio station and a studio, was on 19 August 2018 demolished by the Oyo State Government. The reason the government gave for the demolition was that the property's location contravene the stipulations by the town planning authority. This sparked outrage from fans and sympathizers.
Discography
Bitter Experience (1998)
Sweet Experience (1999)
Something Else (2000)
Divine Intervention (2001)
Fun Fair (2002)
Life after Death (2003)
Aspiration (2003)
Fulfilment (2004)
New Dawn (2005)
Next Level (2006)
Gratitude (2007)
Absolute Praise (2008)
Transformation (2009)
Everlasting Grace (2010)
Prayer Point (2011)
Goodness Of God (2012)
Comforter (2013)
Overcomer (20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Dyson%20%28businessman%29 | David Richard Dyson (born 27 April 1970) is the former Chief Executive of Three UK, one of 4 mobile networks operating in the UK.
Early life
He was born in Bury, Lancashire and is now based in Greater Manchester.
Career
He joined Three (the trading name of Hutchison 3G UK) as Chief Financial Officer in 2006, becoming Chief Operating Officer in 2009.
He became Chief Executive on 1 July 2011, replacing Australian Kevin Russell.
On 5 March 2020 in an email to staff he announced he would be stepping down as CEO of Three UK. He will be replaced by Three Ireland CEO Robert Finnegan, who will now hold both roles simultaneously.
See also
:Category:Mobile phone companies of the United Kingdom
Ronan Dunne, chief executive since 2008 of O2 (United Kingdom)
Olaf Swantee, chief executive since September 2011 of EE Limited
References
External links
Three
1970 births
British technology chief executives
British telecommunications industry businesspeople
CK Hutchison Holdings people
English chief executives
People educated at Bury Grammar School
People from Bury, Greater Manchester
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Thomas%20%28musician%29 | Pat Thomas is a San Francisco-based musician, music journalist and compiler of music reissues.
Compilation
Thomas was the founder in 1988 of Heyday Records. He later moved on to Water Records, and currently compiles reissues at Omnivore Recordings.
Heyday Records leveraged the commercial success of Paisley Underground bands as a springboard for new artists who captured the flavor of the 1960s American and British folk scene, particularly local San Francisco artists such as Barbara Manning. Thomas also made pilgrimages to England, tracking down musical artists of the 1960s such as the Incredible String Band, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Shirley Collins, Davey Graham, and Wizz Jones, before most had any of their music reissued on CD. While living in Germany for two years in the early 1990s, Thomas also promoted artists for Heyday and other labels.
His credits as a compiler of reissue recordings also include albums by Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Television, and for Omnivore, artists such as Game Theory.
Writing
Thomas is the author of the book Listen, Whitey: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power, a 2012 work of African-American cultural history centering on the Black Panther Party, with a concurrently released CD and double LP recording of speeches and protest songs.
He is also known for his work as a music critic. He has written for Bucketfull of Brains, The Bob, Juxtapoz, Crawdaddy and Mojo and was editor of the last issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope.
Music
As a musician, Thomas has been drummer and percussionist for bands such as Absolute Grey, and presently for the musicians' collective Mushroom, which he founded.
From 1987 to 1997, Thomas released five solo records. He has also recorded as Patrick O'Hearn.
Thomas founded Mushroom in the San Francisco Bay Area, in November 1996. The group's sound has been described as a "diverse and eclectic blend of jazz, space rock, R&B, electronic, ambient, Krautrock and folk music".
Mushroom released its first recording in 1997, a 12" single called "The Reeperbahn," described by critic Fred Mills in Magnet as a recording that "could fool a blindfolded test applicant into thinking its 25-minute psych blowout was some long lost Krautrock epic from the early '70s. Let the band's wah-wah guitar, feedback violin, volcanic bass, jazzbo percussion, and tape loops take you down the fabled motorway, never to return to the place you once knew." "The Reeperbahn" provided the basis for CDs released in 1998 in the Netherlands and Germany.
In 1999, the band released Analog Hi-Fi Surprise in the United States and Germany, followed by a European tour, by which time keyboard player Graham Connah had exited and was replaced by Michael Holt. Toronto music magazine Exclaim! wrote that the band "dish out the tastiest psychedelic funk you're ever likely to encounter. The groove's the thang as these tasty tracks cruise on Rhodes-driven jazz, ambient beats, surf riffs, and post rock textures. The band brew all t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clienteling | Clienteling is a technique used by retail sales associates to establish long-term relationships with key customers based on data about their preferences, behaviors and purchases. Clienteling is intended to guide associates to provide more personal and informed customer service that may influence customer behavior related to shopping frequency, lift in average transaction value, and other retail key performance indicators. From the customer's perspective, clienteling "could add a layer of personal touch" to the shopping experience.
Clienteling software
While at its core, clienteling is a sales technique, the term is commonly used today to describe the related assisted selling software tools used to support relationship-building activities between store associates and their customers. Software-based clienteling has been said to have the advantage of collecting data about clients across different interaction channels in a searchable and retrievable database for later use. Clientbook is an example of such a software. Clienteling software may also provide digital tools on mobile devices or fixed workstations aimed at enabling retailers to establish long-lasting learning relationships with their customers. While sales history collected in customer relationship management (CRM) platforms can provide some insight into a customer’s tendencies, this insight can be augmented by data collected by an associate working directly with a customer, who can improve the customer profile through each face-to-face interaction. This information can then be used to further personalize future interactions. Capabilities such as notes, wish lists, preferences, alerts, and purchase history are sometimes used to enable associates to enhance client profiles in ways that purchase history and e-commerce activity alone could not. Clienteling can also be an effective means of selling excess inventory without resorting to discounting by pairing products with the right consumers, using their past purchases to predict what they are likely want to buy.
Use in retail stores
In 2014, a software-based clienteling solution was deployed on iPad to over 3,500 associates at Saks Fifth Avenue. Ralph Lauren has also used clienteling to invite select shoppers to special shopping events.
See also
Consumer relationship system
Customer experience
References
Customer relationship management
Online advertising methods
Retail processes and techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20Indie%20Soap%20Awards | The 4th Annual Indie Soap Awards (ISA4) took place on February 19, 2013, once again at New World Stages in New York. The nonprofit Indie Series Network served as the charity sponsor. Colleen Zenk and Kevin Spirtas, who both landed on web series after attending ISA3, opened the show. Two former ISA winners, Martha Byrne and Hillary B. Smith, closed the show as the theater once again was filled with bubbles. The ceremony was live-streamed for the first time ever.
Awards
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface:
References
External links
Indie Series Awards History and Archive of Past Winners
Indie Series Awards
2013 film awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox | Tox or TOX may refer to:
Science and technology
TOX, a protein encoded by the TOX gene
Tox screen, medical diagnostic screening for toxic substances
Computing
Tox (protocol), peer-to-peer instant messaging software
tox (Python testing wrapper), a tool used for continuous testing with the Python programming language
Places
Tox, Haute-Corse, a French commune on the island of Corsica
People
Daniel Halpin (born 1985), British graffiti artist also known as Tox
Tox (Ninjago), a character in Ninjago
See also
Ton (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Health%20Service%20Central%20Register | The National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) is a Scottish Government database accessible to public bodies approved by the Scottish Parliament. The register was established in the early 1950s to facilitate the transfer of patients between Health Board areas or across borders within the countries of the United Kingdom. However, its role has expanded over the decades and it now also provides Scottish local authorities with a Unique Citizen Reference Number or UCRN used to identify people on their own databases.
In 2006, the Scottish Government and the National Records of Scotland made a major expansion of the applications of the NHSCR by changing regulations with section 57 of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006. In 2015, the Scottish Government proposed expanding access to the NHSCR to more than 100 additional public bodies. The associated consultation received 302 responses. The proposed expansion was criticised by the Open Rights Group, who believed it may breach data protection rules and human rights and resembles a national identity system. In February 2017, the Scottish Government informed the Scottish Parliament that it did not intend to proceed with the proposals.
Community Health Index
The Community Health Index is a register of all patients in NHS Scotland, Scotland's publicly funded healthcare system. The register exists to ensure that patients can be correctly identified, and that all information pertaining to a patient's health is available to providers of care.
Patients are identified using a ten-digit number known as the CHI Number, pronounced /ˈkaɪ/. This number is normally formed using the patient's date of birth (as DDMMYY), followed by four digits: two digits randomly generated, the third digit identifying gender (odd for men, even for women) and a check digit (Modulus-11). As of March 2010, uptake of this number (based on radiology requests) varied across Scotland from 96.5% to 99.9% depending on the local NHS Board.
Pharmacy
The CHI number is included in electronic medical referencing systems, such as AMS (Acute Medicine Service), CMS (Chronic Medicine Service) and MAS (Minor Ailment Scheme). All of these connect to Scotland's ePharmacy which contains details of all medical patients for Scotland.
See also
NHS number
Registration district
Scottish National Entitlement Card
References
External links
National Health Service Central Register at the National Records of Scotland
NHS Scotland
1950s establishments in Scotland
Databases in Scotland
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Identity management systems
Health informatics in the United Kingdom
National identification numbers
Politics and technology
Demographics of Scotland
Authentication methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH11 | Asian Highway 11 (AH11) is a road in the Asian Highway Network running 1567 km from Vientiane, Laos to Sihanoukville, Cambodia connecting AH12 to AH1 and continuing to Gulf of Thailand. This international highway connects capitals of Laos and Cambodia.
Laos
: Vientiane - Vieng Kham (Concurrency with begins) - Thakhek (Concurrency with ends) - Xeno (concurrent with for 3 km) - Veun Kham.
Cambodia
Highway 7: Dong Calor - Skuon.
Highway 6: Skuon - Phnom Penh ()
Highway 4: Phnom Penh - Sihanoukville
Junctions
Laos
Vientiane
Ban Lao
Thakhek
Seno
Cambodia
near Harbin
See also
List of Asian Highways
References
External links
Treaty on Asian Highways with routes
Asian Highway Network
Roads in Cambodia
Roads in Laos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20of%20Angels | Web of Angels is a novel by John M. Ford. Written in 1980, the novel investigates the life of a hacker of the Web, an instantaneous communications network that allows some users to retrieve and store data, write computer programs, and even travel between different human worlds.
Web of Angels is often considered a proto-cyberpunk novel, predating the publication of William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by four years.
References
Novels by John M. Ford
1980 American novels
1980 science fiction novels
Novels about the Internet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set%20intersection%20oracle | A set intersection oracle (SIO) is a data structure which represents a collection of sets and can quickly answer queries about whether the set intersection of two given sets is non-empty.
The input to the problem is n finite sets. The sum of the sizes of all sets is N (which also means that there are at most N distinct elements). The SIO should quickly answer any query of the form:
"Does the set Si intersect the set Sk"?
Minimum memory, maximum query time
Without any pre-processing, a query can be answered by inserting the elements of Si into a temporary hash table and then checking for each element of Sk whether it is in the hash table. The query time is .
Maximum memory, minimum query time
Alternatively, we can pre-process the sets and create an n-by-n table where the intersection information is already entered. Then the query time is , but the memory required is .
A compromise
Define a "large set" as a set with at least elements. Obviously there are at most such sets. Create a table of intersection data between every large set to every other large set. This requires memory. Additionally, for each large set, keep a hash table of all its elements. This requires additional memory.
Given two sets, there are three possible cases:
Both sets are large. Then just read the answer to the intersection query from the table, in time .
Both sets are small. Then insert the elements of one of them into a hash table and check the elements of the other one; because the sets are small, the required time is .
One set is large and one set is small. Loop over all elements in the small set and check them against the hash table of the large set. The required time is again .
In general, if we define a "large set" as a set with at least elements, then the number of large set is at most so the memory required is , and the query time is .
Reduction to approximate distance oracle
The SIO problem can be reduced to the approximate distance oracle (DO) problem, in the following way.
Build an undirected bipartite graph where one part contains a node for each of the n sets, and the other part contains a node for each of the (at most) N elements contained in the sets.
There is an edge between a set and an element, iff the set contains the element.
This graph has the following properties:
If two sets intersect, the distance between them is 2 (from one set, to an element in the intersection, to the other set).
If two sets do not intersect, the distance between them is at least 4.
So, with a DO whose approximation factor of less than 2, we can solve the SIO problem.
It is believed that the SIO problem does not have a non-trivial solution. I.e., it requires space to answer queries in time . If this conjecture is true, this implies that there is no DO with an approximation factor of less than 2 and a constant query time.
References
Data structures
Set theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20learning%20machine | Logic learning machine (LLM) is a machine learning method based on the generation of intelligible rules. LLM is an efficient implementation of the Switching Neural Network (SNN) paradigm, developed by Marco Muselli, Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council CNR-IEIIT in Genoa.
LLM has been employed in many different sectors, including the field of medicine (orthopedic patient classification, DNA micro-array analysis and Clinical Decision Support Systems ), financial services and supply chain management.
History
The Switching Neural Network approach was developed in the 1990s to overcome the drawbacks of the most commonly used machine learning methods. In particular, black box methods, such as multilayer perceptron and support vector machine, had good accuracy but could not provide deep insight into the studied phenomenon. On the other hand, decision trees were able to describe the phenomenon but often lacked accuracy. Switching Neural Networks made use of Boolean algebra to build sets of intelligible rules able to obtain very good performance. In 2014, an efficient version of Switching Neural Network was developed and implemented in the Rulex suite with the name Logic Learning Machine. Also, an LLM version devoted to regression problems was developed.
General
Like other machine learning methods, LLM uses data to build a model able to perform a good forecast about future behaviors. LLM starts from a table including a target variable (output) and some inputs and generates a set of rules that return the output value corresponding to a given configuration of inputs. A rule is written in the form:
where consequence contains the output value whereas premise includes one or more conditions on the inputs. According to the input type, conditions can have different forms:
for categorical variables the input value must be in a given subset :.
for ordered variables the condition is written as an inequality or an interval: or
A possible rule is therefore in the form
Types
According to the output type, different versions of the Logic Learning Machine have been developed:
Logic Learning Machine for classification, when the output is a categorical variable, which can assume values in a finite set
Logic Learning Machine for regression, when the output is an integer or real number.
References
External links
Rulex Official Website
Machine Learning Engineer
Classification algorithms
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataran%20Pahlawan%20Melaka%20Megamall | Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall (Malacca Warrior Square) is a shopping mall located in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia. It was developed and is owned by Hatten Group Sdn Bhd on a 7.7 hectares site in the city, and is the biggest lifestyle shopping megamall in the state. The mall has a gross area of and a net retail area of , and houses international fashion brands, international and local food and beverage favourites, entertainment centres, a movie cinema owned by Golden Screen Cinemas and karaoke centre. The land the mall now stands was once a seaside green space named Padang Pahlawan (Heroes Field), where the date of the independence of Malaya was announced.
See also
List of shopping malls in Malaysia
Mahkota Parade
References
External links
2006 establishments in Malaysia
Shopping malls established in 2006
Buildings and structures in Malacca City
Shopping malls in Malacca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated%20diagnostics | Coordinated diagnostics is a portion of the coordinated care healthcare model that focuses on diagnostic workflow, real-time data flow, information systems, expertise, and informed decision making. When practiced, coordinated diagnostics integrates the diagnostic data and activities of care providers, testing facilities, information systems providers, diagnostic domain experts, payers, and patients. Coordinated diagnostics maximizes the effective use of diagnostic information and resources across the healthcare continuum to improve patient care while reducing overall costs.
Practice
When practicing coordinated diagnostics, actors within the healthcare continuum:
Decide to perform particular diagnostic tests based on balancing the trade-offs between optimizing the patient’s heath outcome while minimizing the cost of the diagnostic testing, treatment episodes, and overall patient care across episodes.
Interpret diagnostic results accurately and completely based on a complete set of patient information.
Communicate diagnostic information in real time to healthcare continuum actors that can take action.
Engage patients and patient advocates in the diagnostic testing, data exchange, decision making, and action taking activities.
To fully perform these activities, actors across the healthcare continuum need:
A complete view of results and interpretations from prior diagnostic testing for the patient
Prior diagnostic tests ordered for the patient that have not yet been resulted
Relevant patient information such as medication history and family history
Informed methodologies and tools that use all available information to guide decision makers through coordinated diagnostic activities
Access to domain experts (e.g., pathologists) who provide consultative services
Feedback mechanisms that organize and analyze historic diagnostic information to improve efficacy of the coordinated diagnostic processes
Industry applicability
The concept of coordinated diagnostics as a component of coordinated care is new to the Healthcare industry and its applicability to various industry challenges such as EHR interoperability and the correlation of diagnostic results across disciplines makes it a useful organizing principle.
References
Medical diagnosis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCN | VCN may refer to:
The ventral cochlear nucleus
Acrylonitrile, also called vinyl cyanide
Vancouver Community Network
Video Core Next – brand for some ASIC related to video compression and decompression by AMD
Virtual Card Number - see Controlled Payment Number |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Copenhagen | The Copenhagen tram system was a tramway network in service from 22 October 1863 - 22 April 1972 in and around Copenhagen, Denmark. The first lines were horse-drawn trams which were replaced in the 1880s by steam-powered tramways. In the 1890s electrical trams were introduced. The trams were operated by a number of private companies until 1911 when the city took over the operation of most of the system, followed by a full take-over some years later.
The system was closed on April 22, 1972, at a time when streetcar systems across Europe and North America were being closed because they were not seen as a modern transportation solution and they were largely replaced by buses and private cars. Copenhagen also had an expanding commuter rail service, the S-train, which had expanded greatly over the preceding decades.
Teddy Østerlin Koch has since argued that the removal of the trams was a mistake, as modernised trams were more economical than reported in the city's evaluations of the time, and that an updated tram system would have been cheaper, more timely, better for the environment, and more effective at transporting large volumes of passengers than the solutions eventually implemented: building a Copenhagen metro (opened 30 years after closure of tram system) and expanding the bus network.
Future developments
After a 40-year absence, plans are now underway to build a new light rail line in Copenhagen between Lundtofte and Ishøj, scheduled for completion by 2025.
See also
Transport in Copenhagen
History of trams
Kjøbenhavns Sporvei-Selskab
References
External links
Danish tram museum
Tram Travels: Københavns Sporveje (KS)
Rail transport in Copenhagen
Tram transport in Denmark
Copenhagen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone%20%282014%20film%29 | Drone is a 2014 English-language documentary film directed by Norwegian director Tonje Hessen Schei. The film explores the use of drones in warfare. Drone aired on the TV network Arte on , 2014. The documentary screened at several film festivals throughout 2014, winning several awards. Drone was released in Norway on , 2015.
Premise
Variety reported, "'Drone' depicts the recruitment of young pilots at gaming conventions, explores the changing perceptions of what 'going to war' means, as well as the moral stance of engineers behind the technology. The docu also investigates the ways in which world leaders engage in wars, as well as look at the struggle of anti-war and civil rights activists."
Production
Drone was produced by Lars Løge at Flimmer Film and directed by Tonje Hessen Schei. The film received financial support from backers in Norway and from around the world.
Release
Theatrical screenings
The sales outfit LevelK acquired Drone at the Nordic Film Market at the Gothenburg Film Festival in January 2014. A 58-minute cut of Drone premiered on the TV network Arte on , 2014. A 79-minute cut was edited for subsequent screenings. In October 2014, Drone screened at the Bergen International Film Festival and won Best Norwegian Documentary and the Checkpoint Human Rights awards. In January 2015, it screened at the Tromsø International Film Festival and won the Norwegian Peace Film Award. In the following February, LevelK sold distribution rights to Drone to several major territories.
Drone was released in Norway on , 2015. It was released in the United Kingdom on , 2015.
Critical reception
John DeFore, reviewing for The Hollywood Reporter, called Drone "an important contribution to debates over a means of warfare that is just in its infancy". DeFore said the documentary had an "effective and clear-headed" presentation of "multiple sides of the debate". The critic concluded, "Drone takes a quick look at realities of the warfare industry and asks the obvious question: How will Americans feel when another government (or non-governmental entity) has remote-controlled death hovering constantly over our heads?"
See also
List of films featuring drones
References
External links
- an interview with those in the documentary at Democracy Now!
2014 documentary films
2014 films
Norwegian documentary films
Documentary films about military aviation
Drone warfare
Documentary films about robots
2010s English-language films
English-language Norwegian films
English-language documentary films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis%20Steele | Mavis Mary Steele (1928-1998) was an England international lawn bowler.
Personal life
Mavis was born in Kenton, Middlesex on 9 September 1928. She was a data preparation manager by trade.
Bowls career
In 1973 she secured a double silver at the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington, New Zealand in the singles and the pairs with Phyllis Derrick. Eight years later she her finest moment came when claiming double gold in the fours with Eileen Fletcher, Betty Stubbings, Gloria Thomas and Irene Molyneux and the team event (Taylor Trophy), during the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto.
Mavis was twice selected to represent England at the Commonwealth Games; the first in 1982 in Brisbane where she won a bronze medal in the triples with Norma Shaw and Betty Stubbings and the second in 1990.
She won eight outdoor National titles; the singles in 1961, 1962 and 1969, the pairs in 1964 & 1971, the triples in 1968 and the fours in 1963 & 1969. She played for Sunbury Sports Club outdoors and the Egham club indoors.
Awards
Steele was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1983 New Year Honours for services to women's bowls.
References
English female bowls players
1928 births
1998 deaths
People from Kenton, London
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Harrow
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Brent
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
Bowls World Champions
Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20Baking%20Championship | Kids Baking Championship is a competitive reality baking program produced by Levity Entertainment Group for the Food Network. Each week, the children compete to make the best dish, and are judged on presentation, taste, and creativity. All nine seasons of the series have been hosted and judged by actress Valerie Bertinelli and baker Duff Goldman of Charm City Cakes. In 2018, the show enjoyed its highest ratings ever that also eclipsed Duff Goldman's earlier show, Ace of Cakes, as the highest-rated series in the network's history.
Most seasons have had twelve contestants, while some have had as few as eight. In most seasons, the prizes awarded along with the title of 'Kids Baking Champion' have been $25,000 in cash and a feature in Food Network Magazine. Seasons two and three did not include the article, while in season one the winner received $10,000 and a full kitchen remodel for their parents' house instead of the $25,000; in addition, a re-creation of their winning cake was sold by Charm City Cakes.
The seventh season premiered on August 5, 2019. On November 19, 2020, it was announced that the ninth season would premiere on December 28, 2020. On November 18, 2021, it was announced that the tenth season would premiere on December 27, 2021.
Season 1
Contestants
Elimination table
(WINNER) This baker won the competition.
(RUNNER-UP) This baker made it to the finale, and was in second place.
(FINALIST) This baker was eliminated in the finals.
(WIN) This baker won the baking challenge.
(HIGH) Baker was one of the judges' favourite bakers that week, but didn't win.
(IN) Baker got through to the next round.
(LOW) Baker was one of the judges' least favourite bakers that week, but was not eliminated.
(ELIM) This baker was eliminated from the championship.
: Jackson and Natalie were eliminated before the winner was announced.
Episodes
Season 2
Ten talented young bakers compete for the title of Kids Baking Champion and $25,000. Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli are the hosts and judges again.
Contestants
Elimination table
(WINNER) This baker won the competition.
(RUNNER-UP) This baker made it to the finale, and was in second place.
(WIN) This baker won the baking challenge.
(HIGH) Baker was one of the judges' favorite bakers that week, but didn't win.
(IN) Baker got through to the next round.
(LOW) Baker was one of the judges' least favorite bakers that week, but was not eliminated.
(ELIM) This baker was eliminated from the championship.
Episodes
Season 3
Contestants
Source for first names, hometowns, and age:
Elimination table
(WINNER) This baker won the competition.
(RUNNER-UP) This baker made it to the finale, and was in second place.
(WIN) This baker won the baking challenge.
(WIN) This baker was on the winning team of a team challenge.
(HIGH) Baker was one of the judges' favorite bakers that week, but didn't win.
(IN) Baker got through to the next round.
(LOW) Baker was one of the judges' least favorite ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20424001%E2%80%93425000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Series%20of%20Fighting%2019%3A%20Gaethje%20vs.%20Palomino | World Series of Fighting 19: Gaethje vs. Palomino was a mixed martial arts event held in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. This event aired on NBCSN in the U.S and on Fight Network in Canada.
Background
The main event was for the WSOF Lightweight Championship as champion and Arizona native Justin Gaethje made the second defense of his title against challenger Luis Palomino.
Raymond Pina was originally scheduled to face Lucas Montoya in a lightweight bout, but unfortunately had to pull out of the fight a few days before the event due to an injury.
This event was also scheduled to feature the first semifinal fight of the WSOF Light Heavyweight Championship tournament between Thiago Silva and Ronny Markes. But after Vinny Magalhães and Matt Hamill's fight was canceled due to Magalhães being removed from the tournament it was announced that Hamill and Silva would face off in the first semifinal fight of the WSOF Light Heavyweight Championship tournament. However, on the day of the event, Hamill was removed from the fight due to illness and was replaced by Teddy Holder. Holder's original opponent, Jake Heun, remained on the card and fought Clifford Starks. Starks' original opponent, Eddie Arizmendi, was removed from the card entirely, but paid his show and win money.
Results
Tournament bracket
See also
World Series of Fighting
List of WSOF champions
List of WSOF events
References
Events in Phoenix, Arizona
World Series of Fighting events
2015 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Series%20of%20Fighting%2021%3A%20Palmer%20vs.%20Horodecki | World Series of Fighting 21: Palmer vs. Horodecki was a mixed martial arts event held on in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This event aired on NBCSN in the U.S and on Fight Network in Canada.
Background
The main event was originally scheduled to feature a middleweight fight between Yushin Okami and WSOF Canadian Welterweight Champion Ryan Ford. However, Ford was forced out of the bout due to an injury and the pairing was scrapped.
The main event was then changed to a WSOF Featherweight Championship fight between champion Lance Palmer and WEC & Bellator MMA veteran Chris Horodecki.
The co-main event featured a WSOF Heavyweight Championship fight between champion Smealinho Rama and Bellator MMA veteran Blagoy Ivanov.
Results
See also
List of WSOF champions
List of WSOF events
References
Events in Edmonton
World Series of Fighting events
2015 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Index%20Medicus | The African Index Medicus (AIM) is an international database to African health literature implemented by World Health Organization (WHO) and African partners. AIM makes available (on line) health information produced on Africa or by African researchers for health workers, policy makers and communities.
Background
Establishing a regional database of health literature published in Africa (an African Index Medicus) was mandated by the Regional Committee by resolution AFR/RC30R5. In 1984, the work began on developing the database in AFRO but for various reasons was subsequently suspended.
The project was relaunched in 1993 following a consultation in Accra, Ghana, among African Health information professionals, members of the Executive Committee of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA). and WHO technical staff.
Objectives
The major objective of the AIM project is to provide access to information published in or related to Africa and to encourage local publishing. It aims to collect references of published and non-published health information relevant to the Region and not indexed elsewhere. The major challenges for this project are:
To promote African publishing by encouraging writers to publish in their countries or regional journals
To give greater visibility to health and biomedical research carried out in African countries
To strengthen the South-South flow of information, especially among African countries
To reduce the cost of information access for developing countries
To integrate the African publications into international information networks
To develop and encourage collaboration and information sharing in the region
What is indexed in AIM?
Grey literature
Technical reports
Theses and dissertations
Medical journals (some with full articles)
Which journals are indexed in the AIM?
All African Medical journals could be indexed in the AIM database. Articles on or related to Africa and published in other regional or international journals are indexed.
Structure and management
The African Index Medicus Project is based at the World Health Organization Regional office for Africa. (Library) in Brazzaville, Congo.
Data are provided by National focal points and African Medical Editors. Many of them are FAME (Forum of African Medical Editors) members. The information received by the IMA project team are indexed, cataloged, compiled and integrated into a database available on OPAC accessible from the website of the African Index Medicus.
Partnership into international information networks
AIM is recognized by leading institutions and organizations as the main catalog of African health information. Therefore, the recommendations and / or referrals to the African Index Medicus, are present on the websites of many of these organizations, including international networks such as le CISMEF (France), universities such as the Stanford University, University of Alberta. Also the African and Malagasy Cou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20Modeller | Flood Modeller is a computer program developed by Jacobs that simulates the flow of water through river channels, urban drainage networks and across floodplains using a range of one- and two-dimensional hydraulic solvers. The software incorporates a user interface for building, running and viewing the results of models, including a GIS map interface.
Flood Modeller was previously known as ISIS software (named after the local name for the Upper Thames).
The software has been independently benchmarked by the Environment Agency and has helped thousands of users transform how they undertake modelling and how they share and communicate flood-related information with clients and members of the public.
Initially developed by Halcrow Group and then CH2M Hill, Flood Modeller is now developed by Jacobs Engineering group.
Solvers
1D solvers
Flood Modeller includes steady-state and unsteady 1D river solvers for modelling open-channels.
It also provides a 1D urban solver for modelling urban drainage systems.
2D solvers
Flood Modeller includes three different 2D solvers:
The ADI solver is based on the DIVAST numerical engine first developed in the 1980s, and is designed to simulate fluvial, overland, estuarine and coastal situations where flow does not rapidly change.
The TVD solver is designed to represent rapid changes in the water surface profile, but results in longer run-times.
The FAST solver uses simplified hydraulics to perform rapid assessments of flooding.
See also
Hydrology
Surface-water hydrology
Hydrological transport model
HEC-RAS
SWMM
GIS
Computer simulation
References
External links
Flood Modeller website
2015 software
Hydrology models
Scientific simulation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNJ-TV | DYNJ-TV was a UHF free to air television channel, formerly owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network Inc. owned by Ramon "RJ" Jacinto. It is off the air.
Television stations in Cebu City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo%20Livi%20Bacci | Massimo Livi Bacci (November 9, 1936) is an Italian professor of Demography, School of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri,” University of Florence and Department of Statistics, Computing, Applications “Giuseppe Parenti”.
Early life and education
Livi Bacci was born in Florence. In 1960, he graduated from the Faculty of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri” of the University of Florence. In 1960-61 he studied at Brown University, supported by a Fulbright scholarship.
Academic career
In 1962 Livi Bacci began working in the University of Rome. In 1966 he became a full professor of demography in the Faculty of Economics, University of Florence. In 1984 he was a professor in demography in the Faculty of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri”, also the University of Florence.
Livi Bacci has spent periods teaching and conducting research about various aspects of demographics in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and various European countries. His research has included studies on the effects of famine, disease, and culture on fertility rates and population changes. He has also studied methods of predicting future population growth.
Livi Bacci has written many books and articles about various topics related to population growth, decline, and migration. He is known for having developed the concept of "mortality crisis."
Livi Bacci was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2004. As of 2015, he is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Florence.
Political career
Livi Bacci was elected to the Italian Senate twice from Toscana: April, 2006 and April 2008.
References
External links
Massimo Livi Bacci'', Personal page on the web site of Universita Degli Studi Firenze
1936 births
Living people
Brown University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Florence
Members of the American Philosophical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20Data%20Standard | The Navigation Data Standard (NDS) is a standardized format for automotive-grade navigation databases, jointly developed by automobile manufacturers and suppliers. NDS is an association registered in Germany. Members are automotive OEMs, map data providers, and navigation device/application providers.
NDS aims to develop a standardized binary database format that allows the exchange of navigation data between different systems. NDS separates navigation software from navigation data, thus enhancing flexibility for creating various navigation products for end users. In addition to this interoperability, NDS databases support incremental updates, protection against illegal use, and compactness.
NDS products have been available in the market since 2012, among others in BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen cars.
Objective
The vision of NDS is to provide a leading worldwide map standard for automotive-grade use. A “leading standard” means that the map format shall:
be widely used in the navigation industry and be adopted by leading suppliers of navigation maps
be interoperable between navigation platforms
enable up-to-date maps
be globally applicable
fulfil specific needs of all regions of the world
"Automotive grade" implies that:
the standard is developed and maintained as a cooperative effort by leading OEMs and suppliers in the automotive industry.
the standard consistently supports all automotive-specific use cases for map-related data.
the standard supports advanced navigation technologies like eHorizon, autonomous driving, and cloud solutions
the design is validated through large-scale adoption, implementation, and deployment.
To realize this vision, NDS pursues the following goals:
fast implementation of extensions and changes to the NDS standard
promotion of the NDS standard to increase its adoption in the worldwide automotive market through ease of use and efficient implementation
securing the freedom to operate the NDS standard
certification of compliance with the NDS standard
To support the adoption of the navigation standard and reach its goals, NDS supports NDS projects (e.g. by providing tools and support), constantly develops the standard technically, and aims at enlarging the association.
Design model
NDS uses the SQLite Database File Format. An NDS database can consist of several product databases, and each product database may be divided further into update regions. This concept supports a flexible and consistent versioning concept for NDS databases and makes it possible to integrate databases from different database suppliers into one NDS database. The inner structure of databases complying with NDS is further characterized by building blocks, levels and the content itself.
Product database
Each product database is delivered by one database supplier, has its own version control and can therefore be updated independently from other product databases. Product databases can contain one or more building blocks. Product databas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20Detective%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, premiered on January 12, 2014, on the premium cable network HBO. The principal cast consisted of Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittles. The season had eight episodes, and its initial airing concluded on March 9, 2014. As an anthology, each True Detective season has its own self-contained story, following a disparate set of characters in various settings.
Constructed as a nonlinear narrative, season one focuses on Louisiana State Police homicide detectives Rustin "Rust" Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart (Harrelson), who investigated the murder of prostitute Dora Lange in 1995. Seventeen years later, they must revisit the investigation, along with several other unsolved crimes. During this time, Hart's infidelity threatens his marriage to Maggie (Monaghan), and Cohle struggles to cope with his troubled past. True Detective first season explores themes of philosophical pessimism, masculinity, and Christianity; critics have analyzed the show's portrayal of women, its auteurist sensibility, and the influence of comics and weird horror fiction on its narrative.
Pizzolatto initially conceived True Detective as a novel, but felt it was more suitable for television. The episodes, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, were filmed in Louisiana over a three-month period. The series was widely acclaimed by critics and cited as one of the strongest dramas of 2014. It was a candidate for numerous awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film, and won several other honors for writing, cinematography, direction, and acting.
Episodes
Cast
Main cast
Matthew McConaughey as Detective Rustin "Rust" Cohle, a troubled, nihilistic state police detective and Hart's partner
Woody Harrelson as Detective Martin "Marty" Hart, a state police detective and Cohle's partner
Michelle Monaghan as Maggie Hart (née Hebert), Hart's wife, later divorced
Michael Potts as Detective Maynard Gilbough, a state police detective interviewing Hart and Cohle seventeen years after the murder of Dora Lange
Tory Kittles as Detective Thomas Papania, a state police detective interviewing Hart and Cohle seventeen years after the murder of Dora Lange
Recurring and guest
Kevin Dunn as Major Ken Quesada, Hart and Cohle's superior in 1995
Madison Wolfe as young Audrey Hart, Hart's daughter
Erin Moriarty as teenage Audrey Hart
Meghan Wolfe as young Macie Hart, Hart's daughter
Brighton Sharbino as teenage Macie Hart
Alexandra Daddario as Lisa Tragnetti, a court stenographer with whom Hart has an affair
Michael Harney as Steve Geraci, Hart and Cohle's colleague, later the sheriff of Louisiana's Iberia parish
J. D. Evermore as Detective Bobby Lutz, Hart and Cohle's colleague
Don Yesso as Commander Speece, Hart and Cohle' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20Detective%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, began airing on June 21, 2015, on the premium cable network HBO. With a principal cast of Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly, and Vince Vaughn, the season comprises eight episodes and concluded its initial airing on August 9, 2015.
The season's story takes place in California and follows the interweaving stories of officers from three cooperating police departments; when California Highway Patrol officer and war veteran Paul Woodrugh (Kitsch) discovers the body of corrupt city manager Ben Caspere on the side of a highway, Vinci Police Department detective Raymond "Ray" Velcoro (Farrell) and Ventura County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Division Sergeant Antigone "Ani" Bezzerides (McAdams) are called to assist in the following investigation. Career criminal Francis "Frank" Semyon (Vaughn) attempts to legitimize his business with his wife Jordan (Reilly) by investing in a rail project overseen by Caspere, but loses his money when Caspere is killed, prompting him to start his own investigation.
Cast
Main cast
Colin Farrell as Detective Ray Velcoro, a corrupt detective from the Vinci Police Department
Rachel McAdams as Detective Sergeant Antigone "Ani" Bezzerides, a Ventura County Sheriff's Office CID agent
Taylor Kitsch as Officer Paul Woodrugh, a California Highway Patrol officer, veteran, and former employee of a private security firm
Kelly Reilly as Jordan Semyon, Semyon's wife
Vince Vaughn as Frank Semyon, a career criminal and entrepreneur who struggles financially after his partner's death
Recurring cast
Ritchie Coster as Austin Chessani, Vinci's corrupt mayor
Christopher James Baker as Blake Churchman, one of Semyon's men
Afemo Omilami as William Holloway, the Vinci chief of police
Michael Irby as Detective Elvis Ilinca, Bezzerides' partner
Leven Rambin as Athena Bezzerides, Bezzerides' prostitute sister
Abigail Spencer as Gena Brune, Velcoro's ex-wife
Lolita Davidovich as Cynthia Woodrugh, Woodrugh's mother
James Frain as Kevin Burris, a lieutenant under Holloway
Riley Smith as Steve Mercer, a California police officer
Adria Arjona as Emily, Woodrugh's girlfriend
Michael Hyatt as Katherine Davis, a non-corrupt state attorney
Yara Martinez as Felicia, a bar owner and friend of Semyon
Christian Campbell as Richard Brune, Gena's husband
Jon Lindstrom as Jacob McCandless, a powerful businessman
Emily Rios as Betty Chessani, Chessani's daughter
Vinicius Machado as Tony Chessani, Chessani's delinquent son
Ronnie Gene Blevins as Stan, Semyon's loyal man
Timothy V. Murphy as Osip Agranov, a Russian businessman and rival to Semyon
C. S. Lee as Richard Geldof, the Attorney General of California
Chris Kerson as Nails, Semyon's loyal man
Rick Springfield as Dr. Irving Pitlor, a plastic surgeon and Caspere's psychiatrist
Ashley Hinshaw as Lacey Lindel, an actress who runs af |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20adaptation | Domain adaptation is a field associated with machine learning and transfer learning. This scenario arises when we aim at learning a model from a source data distribution and applying that model on a different (but related) target data distribution. For instance, one of the tasks of the common spam filtering problem consists in adapting a model from one user (the source distribution) to a new user who receives significantly different emails (the target distribution). Domain adaptation has also been shown to be beneficial for learning unrelated sources.
Note that, when more than one source distribution is available the problem is referred to as multi-source domain adaptation.
Overview
Domain adaptation is the ability to apply an algorithm trained in one or more "source domains" to a different (but related) "target domain". Domain adaptation is a subcategory of transfer learning. In domain adaptation, the source and target domains all have the same feature space (but different distributions); in contrast, transfer learning includes cases where the target domain's feature space is different from the source feature space or spaces.
Domain shift
A domain shift, or distributional shift, is a change in the data distribution between an algorithm's training dataset, and a dataset it encounters when deployed. These domain shifts are common in practical applications of artificial intelligence. Conventional machine-learning algorithms often adapt poorly to domain shifts. The modern machine-learning community has many different strategies to attempt to gain better domain adaptation.
Examples
An algorithm trained on newswires might have to adapt to a new dataset of biomedical documents.
A spam filter, trained on a certain group of email users during training, must adapt to a new target user when deployed.
Applying AI diagnostic algorithms, trained on labeled data associated with previous diseases, to new unlabeled data associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
A sudden societal change, such as a pandemic outbreak, can constitute domain shift and cause machine learning algorithms trained on now-obsolete consumer data to fail and require intervention.
Other applications include wifi localization detection and many aspects of computer vision.
Formalization
Let be the input space (or description space) and let be the output space (or label space). The objective of a machine learning algorithm is to learn a mathematical model (a hypothesis) able to attach a label from to an example from . This model is learned from a learning sample .
Usually in supervised learning (without domain adaptation), we suppose that the examples are drawn i.i.d. from a distribution of support (unknown and fixed). The objective is then to learn (from ) such that it commits the least error possible for labelling new examples coming from the distribution .
The main difference between supervised learning and domain adaptation is that in the latter situation we study two dif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEEXtreme | IEEEXtreme (often abbreviated as Xtreme) is an annual hackathon and competitive programming challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members, often supported by an IEEE Student Branch and proctored by an IEEE member, compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. The competition is underwritten and coordinated by IEEE's Membership and Geographic Activities department, and is often supported by partnering sponsors, like IEEE Computer Society.
History
IEEEXtreme was created in 2006 by Marko Delimar and Ricardo Varela who, at the time, were with the IEEE Student Activities Committee. The first instance of IEEEXtreme was held in 2006 with a global participation of 44 teams and 150 contestants. The numbers more than tripled the second time it was held, in 2008, to 130 teams with 500 participants. The iteration of IEEEXtreme in 2015, enjoyed the registration of over 2,300 teams, participation of over 1,900 teams, 5,500+ student competitors, 600+ proctors, and 100+ volunteers around the world.
Competition rules
Teams of up to three student IEEE members receive sets of programming problems over 24 hours, starting at 0:00 UTC on the competition date. All teams receive the same problems to solve and are expected to solve the problems without direct outside consultation. Teams don’t need to tackle every problem, but the more they solve, the more points they score. Students submit their solutions using an online tool, which has been HackerRank in recent years. Points are awarded based on how the problem was solved, the time it took, and its difficulty. Higher-grade IEEE members serve as judges and proctors for the competition.
The competition is free, but IEEE Student Membership is required to participate. Students - undergraduate and graduate - are welcome to register as IEEE Student Members and participants in IEEEXtreme on the same day. The cost of IEEE Student Membership varies from country to country.
Yearly results
IEEEXtreme 12.0 (2018)
IEEEXtreme 12.0 was held on 19 October 2018.
IEEEXtreme 11.0 (2017)
IEEEXtreme 11.0 was held on 14 October 2017.
IEEEXtreme 10.0 (2016)
IEEEXtreme 10.0 was held on 22 October 2016.
IEEEXtreme 9.0 (2015)
IEEEXtreme 9.0 was held on 27 October 2015.
IEEEXtreme 8.0 (2014)
IEEEXtreme 8.0 was held on 18 October 2014.
IEEEXtreme 7.0 (2013)
IEEEXtreme 7.0 was held on 26 October 2013.
IEEEXtreme 3.0 (2009)
IEEEXtreme 3.0 was held on 24 October 2009.
See also
Competitive programming, a type of mind sport involved in programming competitions
References
Programming contests
Recurring events established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupterote%20undata | Eupterote undata is a moth of the family Eupterotidae. It is found in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Sumatra, Java and the Philippines.
The wingspan is about 70 mm for females and 65 mm for males. Adults are brownish-yellow or yellow with black double postmedial lines and various wavy black lines on the wings.
The larvae feed on Elettaria, Eugenia hemispherica, Coffea arabica, Maesa indica, Macaranga indica, Veronia arborea, Persea macrantha and Paulownia species.
References
Moths described in 1844
Eupterotinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%20like%20button | The like button on the social networking website Facebook was first enabled on February 9, 2009. The like button enables users to easily interact with status updates, comments, photos and videos, links shared by friends, and advertisements. Once clicked by a user, the designated content appears in the News Feeds of that user's friends, and the button also displays the number of other users who have liked the content, including a full or partial list of those users. The like button was extended to comments in June 2010. After extensive testing and years of questions from the public about whether it had an intention to incorporate a "Dislike" button, Facebook officially rolled out "Reactions" to users worldwide on February 24, 2016, letting users long-press on the like button for an option to use one of five pre-defined emotions, including "Love", "Haha", "Wow", "Sad", or "Angry". Reactions were also extended to comments in May 2017, and had a major graphical overhaul in April 2019.
The like button is one of Facebook's social plug-ins, in which the button can be placed on third-party websites. Its use centers around a form of an advertising network, in which it gathers information about which users visit what websites. This form of functionality, a sort of web beacon, has been significantly criticized for privacy. Privacy activist organizations have urged Facebook to stop its data collection through the plug-in, and governments have launched investigations into the activity for possible privacy law violations. Facebook has stated that it anonymizes the information after three months, and that the data collected is not shared or sold to third parties. Additionally, the like button's potential use as a measurement of popularity has caused some companies to sell likes through fake Facebook accounts, which in turn have sparked complaints from some companies advertising on Facebook that have received an abundance of fake likes that have distorted proper user metrics. Facebook states in its Terms of Service agreement that users may only create one personal page, and it has ongoing efforts against the spread of fake accounts.
Use on Facebook
The like button is a feature of social networking service Facebook, where users can like content such as status updates, comments, photos and videos, links shared by friends, and advertisements. The feature was activated February 9, 2009. It is also a feature of the Facebook Platform that enables participating websites to display a button that enables sharing the site's content with friends.
When a user clicks the like button, the content appears in the News Feeds of that user's friends. The button also displays the number of users who liked each piece of content, and may show a full or partial list of those users. The ability to like users' comments was added in June 2010, and the ability to react with one of five pre-defined emotions, including "Love", "Haha", "Wow", "Sad", or "Angry", was added in May 2017.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20reality-assisted%20surgery | Augmented reality-assisted surgery (ARAS) is a surgical tool utilizing technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a surgeon's view of the operative field, thus providing a composite view for the surgeon of the patient with a computer generated overlay enhancing the operative experience. It can be used for training, preparation for an operation, or performance of an operation. ARAS can be performed using a wide array of technology, including an optical head-mounted display (OHMD)—such as the Google Glass XE 22.1 or Vuzix STAR 1200 XL—and a digital overlay from robotic and laparoscopic surgery feeds. The technique has been primarily been tested in the urological and cardiovascular domains.
Specialized uses
A subset of called augmented reality-assisted urologic surgery (ARAUS) specifically aids with urological surgery. This intraoperative training tool was first described and utilized by Tariq S. Hakky, Ryan M. Dickey, and Larry I. Lipshultz within the Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, and Daniel R. Martinez, Rafael E. Carrion, and Philippe E. Spiess within the Sexual Medicine Program in the Department of Urology, at the University of South Florida. It was initially used to teach medical residents how to place a penile implant from start to finish via an application downloaded onto the OHMD. Intraoperatively, an optical display camera output feed combined with software allowing for the detection of points of interest enabled faculty to interact with residents during the placement of the penile implant. Both faculty and residents demonstrated a high degree of satisfaction of the ARAUS experience, and it was shown to be an effective tool in training urological surgical technique. Advantages of ARAUS include real-time feedback of residents during suy and superior visibility and interaction between faculty and residents.
ARAS has also been applied to the cardiovascular realm. Terry Peters of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada has teamed up with other researchers at the Robarts Research Institute to implement ARAS towards the goal of improving repairs to the heart's mitral valve and replacement of the aortic valve. In an interview for the Medical Augmented Reality Blog, Peters stated that his research team could not only use ARAS to "[improve] the speed and safety of the cardiac valve repair procedure"; they also conducted "the evaluation of an AR environment to plan brain-tumor removal, and the development of an ARF-enhanced system for ultrasound-guided spinal injections."
Holosurical Inc has developed the clinically-tested ARAI™ surgical navigation system that provides real-time patient-specific 3D anatomical visualization for presurgical planning, intraoperative guidance, and postsurgical data analytics. The augmented reality component of the system allows the surgeon to focus their attention on the patient's internal anatomy, without actually exposing it. On January 10, 2019, HoloSurgical Inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20intelligence | Media intelligence uses data mining and data science to analyze public, social and editorial media content. It refers to marketing systems that synthesize billions of online conversations into relevant information. This allow organizations to measure and manage content performance, understand trends, and drive communications and business strategy.
Media intelligence can include software as a service using big data terminology. This includes questions about messaging efficiency, share of voice, audience geographical distribution, message amplification, influencer strategy, journalist outreach, creative resonance, and competitor performance in all these areas.
Media intelligence differs from business intelligence in that it uses and analyzes data outside company firewalls. Examples of that data are user-generated content on social media sites, blogs, comment fields, and wikis etc. It may also include other public data sources like press releases, news, blogs, legal filings, reviews and job postings.
Media intelligence may also include competitive intelligence, wherein information that is gathered from publicly available sources such as social media, press releases, and news announcements are used to better understand the strategies and tactics being deployed by competing businesses.
Media intelligence is enhanced by means of emerging technologies like ambient intelligence, machine learning, semantic tagging, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and machine translation.
Technologies used
Different media intelligence platforms use different technologies for monitoring, curating content, engaging with content, data analysis and measurement of communications and marketing campaign success. These technology providers may obtain content by scraping content directly from websites or by connecting to the API provided by social media, or other content platforms that are created for 3rd party developers to develop their own applications and services that access data. Technology companies may also get data from a data reseller.
Some social media monitoring and analytics companies use calls to data providers each time an end-user develops a query. Others archive and index social media posts to provide end users with on-demand access to historical data and enable methodologies and technologies leveraging network and relational data. Additional monitoring companies use crawlers and spidering technology to find keyword references, known as semantic analysis or natural language processing. Basic implementation involves curating data from social media on a large scale and analyzing the results to make sense out of it.
See also
Ambient awareness
Content intelligence
Creator economy
Cultural technology
Influence-for-hire
Marketing and artificial intelligence
Marketing intelligence
Media monitoring
Social bot
Social cloud computing
Social marketing intelligence
Social media intelligence
Social media monitoring
Social software
Virtu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH13 | Asian Highway 13 (AH13) is a road in the Asian Highway Network running from Hanoi, Vietnam to Nakhon Sawan, Thailand. The route is as follows:
Vietnam
: Hanoi ( and ) - Dien Bien
: Dien Bien - Thai Trang border crossing
In future, will become to AH13 instead of National Highway 6 and 279 in today.
Laos
Route 2E: Thai Chang border crossing - Muang May - Muang Khoua - Oudomxay ()
Route 2W: Oudomxay - Muang Ngeun - Ngeun border checkpoint
Thailand
: Huai Kon border checkpoint - Huai Kon - Den Chai
: Phrae bypass
: Den Chai - Uttaradit - Phitsanulok ()
: Phitsanulok () - Nakhon Sawan ()
Asian Highway Network
Highways in Thailand
Roads in Laos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20to%20Backspace%20and%20Pillywags%27%20Mansion | Back to Backspace and Pillywags' Mansion are a pair of animated television pilots produced by Cartoon Network Studios for Cartoon Network. Back to Backspace was created by Dominic Bisignano and Amalia Levari, while Pillywags' Mansion was created by Sam Marin. The pilots were released on the network's official website in November 2014, to positive critical reception. Bisignano and Levari's pilot was nominated at the 42nd Annie Awards, although it did not win.
Plots
Back to Backspace
Patti and her coworkers Herschel and Sweatpants, who are brothers, live and work in Backspace, a virtual reality where "deletions"—rejected ideas—are sent. Their boss Yaga tells Patti to look for incoming rejections. At the headquarters of a newspaper company, its CEO rejects a design proposal for a cartoon man named Mustacki, sending the file to the trash and emptying it. After Mustacki is sent to Backspace, Patti calls Yaga for a hovercraft so they can give him a guided tour. Patti and her workers explain that there are three types of deletions: "good-bad" ones, which are sent back; "lousy-bad" ones, which are counseled and repaired; and "evil-bad" ones, which are tortured and shredded. Patti becomes distracted by a group of singing cubes, called soundcubes, and leaves the brothers to explain that "Krampses" are a group of "evil-bad" deletions whom are difficult to purge. Herschel tells that Ranklin, leader of the Krampses, was captured by Sweatpants, but Sweatpants suggests that it was actually Herschel who did so.
Patti collects the soundcubes for herself and then returns to find Mustacki missing. Ranklin had appeared in her absence and is holding Mustacki hostage at the shredder. Patti and the brothers tell Ranklin that Mustacki is already dead, and Mustacki spits out some gummy worms to demonstrate this. Falling for the trick, Ranklin kicks Mustacki away, only to be laughed at for his gullibility. Before escaping to the real world, Ranklin taunts Patti, by suggesting that the others should ask her about how she got sent to Backspace in the first place. When her coworkers and Mustacki ask what they should do next, Patti shrugs it off, tells them that she has to go, and suggests that Mustacki get a job at Backspace. At her abode, Patti houses her soundcubes in a container in such a way that they fit together as a rectangle. On her laptop, she records a song pondering her existence in Backspace.
Pillywags' Mansion
Pillywags' Mansion uses puppetry and centers upon a fictional variety show within the series, titled The Pillywags Show. The titular Master Pillywags hosts the variety show in his basement, with the help of his servants, Screen (a projection screen with eyes and a mouth) and Greg (a goblinesque creature). In the pilot, Pillywags interviews a pair of inanimate dolls propped up on a shelf before performing a song about love. He then invites a guest onto the set, his neighbor Professor Steve, who has been captured by Pillywags pet monster and is enclosed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20websites%20about%20food%20and%20drink | This is a list of websites about food and drink.
Websites about food and drink
African Food Network
ChefsFeed
The Daily Meal
Eater.com
Food Network
Food.com
Freezerburns
HungryGoWhere
Just A Pinch Recipes
LocalEats
The Packer
Pimp That Snack
OpenRice
Serious Eats
Smitten Kitchen
Sprudge
Tasting Table
This is why you're fat
Urbanspoon (defunct)
Yummly
Cucumbertown
Epicurious
FoodPair
Meishichina
My Drunk Kitchen
MSN Food & Drink
NeverSeconds
PlateCulture
RecipeBridge
Simply Recipes
Online food ordering
Bolt
DASHED
DoorDash
Deliveroo
Delivery Hero
Delivery.com
EasyPizza
EatStreet
Foodhub
Foodler
Foodpanda / hellofood
Glovo
Grab
GrubHub
Hungryhouse
Just Eat
Menulog
OpenRest
Seamless
Swiggy
Takeaway.com
Too Good To Go
Ubereats
Waiter.com
Yemeksepeti
Zomato
Wine websites
American Winery Guide
Bottlenotes
Bourgogne Live
Snooth
Vinopedia.hr
Vivino
Wine Folly
See also
List of films about cooking
List of films about food and drink
List of food and drink magazines
Lists of websites
References
Websites about food and drink
Food and drink |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%20230 | The British Rail Class 230 D-Train is a diesel electric multiple unit or battery EMU built by rolling stock manufacturer Vivarail for the British rail network. The units are converted from old London Underground D78 Stock, originally manufactured in 1980 by Metro-Cammell, and have been assigned the designation of Class 230 under TOPS.
The conversion re-uses the D78's aluminium bodyshells with new interiors. It runs on the same bogies but these are rebuilt to as-new standard by Wabtec and fitted with brand-new three-phase AC induction motors sourced from Austria. The initial build of three vehicles for London Northwestern Railway replaces the four-rail traction-current system with four diesel gen-sets, driving eight traction motors via purpose-built electronic traction control units. In this configuration, every wheel is driven and all are braked by a computer-controlled blended reactive/pneumatic braking system, allowing for optimum braking performance in all weather conditions.
In August 2016, a prototype was produced for testing and accreditation; the type was planned to be prepared to enter passenger service during the following year. During July 2016, it was announced that the prototype was to be tested in mainline service on the Coventry to Nuneaton Line over a 12-month period with operator London Midland; however, this trial deployment had to be postponed after the prototype was damaged by a fire and could not be repaired quickly enough. It is proposed that up to 75 units may be converted, with each unit consisting of two or three cars. During October 2017, West Midlands Trains announced that it would procure three 2-car D-Trains for the Marston Vale line and the first unit entered service in April 2019. Transport for Wales' units started passenger service on the Borderlands line on 3 April 2023.
History
During November 2014, Vivarail purchased 150 driving motor cars and 300 carriages of London Underground D78 Stock, which has been replaced by S Stock before the end of their lifespan, so that the subsurface lines (Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan) could have a common rolling stock fleet compatible with a new ATO system. The stated purpose of the D-train is to ameliorate a perceived shortage of affordable, modern rolling stock on Britain's regional rail routes, resulting from the slow pace of electrification. In the conversion programme, the company re-uses the bodyshells and bogies from the D78 units, and fits them out with new diesel engines and interiors.
Two prototype units that were operated by Vivarail, designated as 230001 and 230002. The diesel-electric multiple unit (DEMU) 230001 is a three-car unit; each of these is outfitted with passenger fitting and fixtures, including seats, tables, a single toilet, onboard Wi-Fi, and electrical charging points. 230001 retains the original Brush traction motors, but future units make use of AC motors from Traktionssysteme Austria.
Unit 230002, which was completed duri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Belgian%20railway%20services | This is an index of all passenger rail services operated in Belgium.
Passenger rail services in Belgium are operated by NMBS/SNCB.
The Belgian rail network was reorganised from 14 December 2014. Since this date there are two domestic passenger train categories on the main lines, these are:
Intercity trains - An express, limited-stop service, often calling only at major railway stations; in some cases it has stops at all stations along part of the route.
Local (L) trains (Lokale treinen / trains Locaux) - A local service calling at all stations along the route.
To cater for the large number of commuter workers, especially into Brussels, complementary peak-hours trains run on mornings and late afternoons of working days, they are classified as P-trains.
Another category was added in December 2015, to comprise operations on the Brussels suburban network GEN/RER and took over a good deal of the local trains. These are classified as S-trains, and were later also introduced around other key cities like Antwerp, Liège, Gent.
International (high speed) services operate to countries such as the Netherlands, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and UK. These are operated by Thalys, Eurostar, NS International, Deutsche Bahn, ÖBB Nightjet and SNCF.
Below the train services are arranged by type, and for each type ordered by number. All services are correct to May 2020.
Services
References
Services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET | .NET (pronounced as "dot net"; formerly named .NET Core) is a free and open-source, managed computer software framework for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. It is a cross-platform successor to .NET Framework. The project is mainly developed by Microsoft employees by way of the .NET Foundation and is released under an MIT License.
History
On November 12, 2014, Microsoft announced .NET Core, in an effort to include cross-platform support for .NET, including on Linux and macOS, source for the .NET Core CoreCLR implementation, source for the "entire [...] library stack" for .NET Core, and the adoption of a conventional ("bazaar"-like) open-source development model under the stewardship of the .NET Foundation. Miguel de Icaza describes .NET Core as a "redesigned version of .NET that is based on the simplified version of the class libraries", and Microsoft's Immo Landwerth explained that .NET Core would be "the foundation of all future .NET platforms". At the time of the announcement, the initial release of the .NET Core project had been seeded with a subset of the libraries' source code and coincided with the relicensing of Microsoft's existing .NET reference source away from the restrictions of the Ms-RSL. Landwerth acknowledged the disadvantages of the formerly selected shared license, explaining that it made codename Rotor "a non-starter" as a community-developed open source project because it did not meet the criteria of an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license.
1.0 was released on June 27, 2016, along with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, which enables .NET Core development. 1.0.4 and .NET Core 1.1.1 were released along with .NET Core Tools 1.0 and Visual Studio 2017 on March 7, 2017.
.NET Core 2.0 was released on August 14, 2017, along with Visual Studio 2017 15.3, ASP.NET Core 2.0, and Entity Framework Core 2.0. 2.1 was released on May 30, 2018. NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018.
.NET Core 3 was released on September 23, 2019. .NET Core 3 adds support for Windows desktop application development and significant performance improvements throughout the base library.
In November 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5.0. The "Core" branding was removed and version 4.0 was skipped to avoid conflation with .NET Framework, which remains the Windows-specific product. It addresses the patent concerns related to the .NET Framework .
In November 2021, Microsoft released .NET 6.0, and in November 2022 released .NET 7.0, but only the former is a long-term support (LTS) release.
Alpine Linux, which primarily supports and uses musl libc, is supported since .NET Core 2.1.
Windows Arm64 is natively supported since .NET 5. Previously, .NET on ARM meant applications compiled for the x86 architecture and run through the ARM emulation layer.
Language support
.NET fully supports C# and F# (and C++/CLI as of 3.1; only enabled on Windows) and supports Visual Basic .NET (for version 15.5 in .NET Core 5.0.100-preview.4, and som |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo%20Ninja | Photo Ninja is a raw image processing software by PictureCode, first released as a finished product in September 2012. It includes Noise Ninja noise reduction algorithms. Development of Noise Ninja as a separate product was discontinued when Photo Ninja was introduced.
References
External links
Review by Digital Camera Review
Review by MacWorld
Review by Nikonians
Proprietary raster graphics editors
2012 software
Raw image processing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20AWK%20Programming%20Language | The AWK Programming Language is a well-known 1988 book written by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger and published by Addison-Wesley, often referred to as the gray book. The book describes the AWK programming language and is the de facto standard for the language, written by its inventors. W. Richard Stevens, author of several UNIX books including Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, cites the book as one of his favorite technical books. The book is translated to several languages and is cited by many technical papers in the ACM journals.
According to the book's frontmatter the book was typeset "using an Autologic APS-5 phototypesetter and a DEC VAX 8550 running the 9th Edition of the UNIX operating system".
In September 2023, the second edition was published by Addison-Wesley, along with an accompanying website.
References
External links
The Awk Programming Language book review - IEEE
Computer books
Computer_programming_books
Addison-Wesley books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%20Who%20Code | Girls Who Code (also known as GWC) is an international nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. The organization was created with the intention of showing girls that coding is a problem-solving tool that can be used to invent, lead, and explore. "Girls who Code" hosts a summer Immersion Program, a specialized campus program, after-school clubs, a college club, College Loops, and a series of books. The organization is based in New York and has programs in the United States (all fifty states), Canada, India, and the United Kingdom. Girls Who Code has also released many public campaigns to raise awareness of its mission.
Summary
Girls Who Code was founded by Reshma Saujani in 2012, who came up with the idea of creating the organization during her run for the United States Congress. Reshma believed that schools along her campaign route lacked female representation in computer science classrooms. The organization began under the White House Science & Technology Initiative. Girls Who Code runs programs during the academic year teaching high school girls computing skills like programming, robotics, and web design, with sessions including projects and trips to companies like Twitter and Facebook. As of 2014, there were more than 1,500 Girls Who Code clubs across America, with the organization aiming to teach one million girls to code by 2020. By December 2014, three thousand students had completed a Girls Who Code program, 95% of whom stated they desired to major in computer science in higher education. According to the organization's 2022 report, there are approximately 185,000 colleges or post college age alumni who have completed the program.
In 2019, the organization announced plans to expand to 10,000 clubs in all 50 states. In 2020, Girls Who Code launched a free 2-week virtual Summer Immersion Program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the program serving 5,000 girls in its first year.
The organization is sponsored by several software and technology companies, including AOL, Google, and Microsoft, and in August 2014 received a $1 million contribution from AT&T.
History
As of 2015, only 18% of computer science college graduates are women. Reshma Saujani participated in a TED Talk where she spoke about the tech industry. The company announced that in 2016 the non-profit organization would be expanding to all 50 states. In August 2017, the non-profit launched a successful series of 13 books, , including a nonfiction book, Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, and several fiction books. By the spring of 2018, Girls Who Code will have reached more than 50,000 girls with their computer science education programs.
As of February 2021, Girls Who Code has more than 80,000 college-aged alums who are entering the workforce. Girls Who Code clubs and programs have reached more than 300,000 girls globally as of March 2021.
The organization's efforts to close the achievement gen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbanak | Carbanak is an APT-style campaign targeting (but not limited to) financial institutions, that was discovered in 2014 by the Russian cyber security company Kaspersky Lab. It utilizes malware that is introduced into systems running Microsoft Windows using phishing emails, which is then used to steal money from banks via macros in documents. The hacker group is said to have stolen over 900 million dollars, from the banks as well as from over a thousand private customers.
The criminals were able to manipulate their access to the respective banking networks in order to steal the money in a variety of ways. In some instances, ATMs were instructed to dispense cash without having to locally interact with the terminal. Money mules would collect the money and transfer it over the SWIFT network to the criminals’ accounts, Kaspersky said. The Carbanak group went so far as to alter databases and pump up balances on existing accounts and pocketing the difference unbeknownst to the user whose original balance is still intact.
Their intended targets were primarily in Russia, followed by the United States, Germany, China and Ukraine, according to Kaspersky Lab. One bank lost $7.3 million when its ATMs were programmed to spew cash at certain times that henchmen would then collect, while a separate firm had $10 million taken via its online platform.
Kaspersky Lab is helping to assist in investigations and countermeasures that disrupt malware operations and cybercriminal activity. During the investigations they provide technical expertise such as analyzing infection vectors, malicious programs, supported command and control infrastructure and exploitation methods.
FireEye published research tracking further activities, referring to the group as FIN7, including an SEC-themed spear phishing campaign. Proofpoint also published research linking the group to the Bateleur backdoor, and expanded the list of targets to U.S.-based chain restaurants, hospitality organizations, retailers, merchant services, suppliers and others beyond their initial financial services focus.
On 26 October 2020, PRODAFT (Switzerland) started publishing internal details of the Fin7/Carbanak group and tools they use during their operation. Published information is claimed to be originated from a single OPSEC failure on the threat actor's side.
On March 26, 2018, Europol claimed to have arrested the "mastermind" of the Carbanak and associated Cobalt or Cobalt Strike group in Alicante, Spain, in an investigation led by the Spanish National Police with the cooperation of law enforcement in multiple countries as well as private cybersecurity companies. The group's campaigns appear to have continued, however, with the Hudson's Bay Company breach using point of sale malware in 2018 being attributed to the group.
Controversy
Some controversy exists around the Carbanak attacks, as they were seemingly described several months earlier in a report by the Internet security companies Group-IB (Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH14 | Asian Highway 14 (AH14) is a road in the Asian Highway Network running from Hai Phong, Vietnam to Mandalay, Myanmar connecting AH1 to AH3 in Kunming, Yunnan, China and eventually to AH2. The route is as follows:
Vietnam
Hanoi–Haiphong Expressway: Hai Phong–Hanoi
Noi Bai–Lao Cai Expressway: Hanoi - Lào Cai
China
: Hekou - Kaiyuan
: Kaiyuan - Kunming
: Kunming - Zhen'an - Mangshi - Ruili
Myanmar
National Highway 3: Muse - Lashio - Mandalay ()
References
Asian Highway Network
Roads in Myanmar
Roads in China
Roads in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH15 | Asian Highway 15 (AH15) is a road in the Asian Highway Network running from Hồng Lĩnh, Vietnam to Udon Thani, Thailand connecting AH1 to AH12. The route is as follows:
Vietnam
QL8: Vinh () - Cau Treo
Laos
Route 8: Nam Phao - Vieng Kham
Route 13 (Concurrent with ): Vieng Kham - Thakhek
Thailand
Route 295: Third Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge
Route 212: At Samat - Nakhon Phanom
Route 22: Nakhon Phanom - Udon Thani
Asian Highway Network
Highways in Thailand
Roads in Vietnam
Roads in Laos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalog%20of%20Fishes | Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer.
The taxonomy maintained by the Catalog of Fishes is considered authoritative and it is used as a baseline reference for instance by the broader global fish database FishBase, which involves cross-references to the Catalog's information for all accepted taxa. the searchable catalogue contains entries for about 58,300 fish species names, about 33,400 of which are currently accepted (valid), and for some 10,600 genera (5,100 valid). The information given for any species name generally contains the reference to the original description, to the type specimen, references to the usage of the name in taxonomic literature, a statement of the current status of the name and valid name of the taxon, and the family it belongs to.
A printed 3000-page three-volume and CD version of the Catalogue was published in 1998. That was preceded by a Catalog of the genera of recent fishes in 1990.
The Catalog was renamed Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes in 2019, and is now edited by Ronald Fricke, Richard van der Laan and William N. Eschmeyer. It is available online, and updated monthly.
See also
FishBase
WoRMS
Fishes of the World
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
References
Original resource
Eschmeyer, W.N. Catalog of Fishes Online Database
Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.) 1998. Catalog of fishes. Special Publication, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 vols. 2905 p.
Eschmeyer, W.N. 1990. Catalog of the genera of recent fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 697 p.
Biodiversity databases
Fish taxonomy
Ichthyological literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-HX50 | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX50 is a hyperzoom camera with 30x optical zoom, released in 2013.
Features
Wide-angle lens
20.4 megapixel resolution
Optical image stabilizer in the lens, reducing blurring by compensating for hand shake—10 fps continuous shooting
Double the 30x optical zoom range to an effective 60x with Clear Image Zoom (reduced picture quality)
5 cm minimum focusing distance
Full HD 1080p movie mode in both normal and wide aspect ratio
"Intelligent Sweep Panorama"
As with most Sony Cyber-shot cameras it uses a BIONZ engine
Built-in Wi-Fi
Multi Interface Shoe for flash, electronic viewfinder or microphone
Battery lasts for approx. 400 pictures, charging inside the camera (via miniUSB)
AF system (without spot)
Dust + push- sensitive objective
The Cyber-shot DSC-HX50/-(V)/-(VB) release to the USA was announced in 2013. The camera is the successor of the Sony DSC HX30/-(V)/-(VB) and been replaced by the Sony DSC HX60/-(V)/-(VB).
Photo gallery
Camera
Examples
See also
List of superzoom compact cameras
External official infos
Data sheet
References
HX50
Point-and-shoot cameras
Superzoom cameras
Cameras introduced in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moira%20Burke | Moira Burke is an American computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction. She currently works as a data scientist for Facebook.
Education
Burke received her bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon in 2001 and her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 under the supervision of Robert E. Kraut.
Research
While at Carnegie Mellon, Burke published a study which found that talking to close friends on Facebook was associated with improved well-being. In 2013, Burke and Kraut published a study which found that Facebook users who contacted close friends about job opportunities were more likely to find employment than were those who contacted acquaintances. In 2014, Burke and Kraut published a study which found that interaction with other users on Facebook increases closeness, regardless of how much effort this interaction takes. In 2020, Burke with two other Facebook researchers published a study examining how use of social media contributed to social comparison bias. The study found that teens experienced more social comparison than adults.
References
Human–computer interaction researchers
Facebook employees
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Oregon alumni
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20computing | Liquid computing refers to a style of workflow interaction of applications and computing services across multiple devices, such as computers, smartphones, and tablets. The term was coined in July 2014 by InfoWorld, but the underlying concepts have long existed in computer science, such as in the notions of pervasive computing and ubiquitous computing. The key differentiator for liquid computing over other related notions is that of being focused on the movement among devices of a workflow involving people.
In a liquid computing approach, a person might work on a task on one device, then go to another device that detects the task in progress at the first device and offer to take over that task. For example, you might begin composing an email on a smartphone and when you come near your computer, its mail software detects the in-progress email and lets you continue to work on it on the computer. The data involved, including its current state, flows from one device to another (more accurately, from an application on a device to an application on another device), thus the term "liquid computing."
An example of this approach is Apple's Handoff (Continuity) service in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite (the feature is available only for compatible devices, such as iOS devices with a Lightning port and 2012-or-later Mac models that support Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi Direct).
Google has announced a similar approach for applications in its Android Lollipop operating system and its ChromeOS operating system to interact with each other in a manner similar to Handoff.
A limitation of current liquid computing implementations is that they are confined to specific vendors' platforms, such as within Apple's iOS and OS X pair or within Google's Android and ChromeOS pair. That means workflows can't flow across different vendors' devices, such as from an Apple iPad to a Microsoft Windows PC. That is not a technical limitation of the liquid computing concept but a vendor decision to encourage adoption of its product ecosystem. Both Apple and Google, for example, make liquid computing capabilities available to developers through a set of APIs that theoretically could be made available to competing platforms, but currently are not. To address this problem, the liquid computing concept can be applied to Web applications running across different Web-enabled devices.
Related technologies
Several operating systems — Apple's iOS and OS X and Microsoft's Windows 8 — can sync settings across multiple devices, as can the Google Chrome browser and Apple Safari browser. The cross-device interaction concept is similar to liquid computing, but lacks the workflow characteristic of liquid computing.
Another related concept involves transferring a service from one device to another, such as sending a phone call or text message from a phone to a computer. Apple does not include this capability (available in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8) in its definition of Handoff, but instead assigns this |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Yao%20graph | The k-semi-Yao graph (k-SYG) of a set of n objects P is a geometric proximity graph, which was first described to present a kinetic data structure for maintenance of all the nearest neighbors on moving objects. It is named for its relation to the Yao graph, which is named after Andrew Yao.
Construction
The k-SYG is constructed as follows. The space around each point p in P is partitioned into a set of polyhedral cones of opening angle , meaning the angle of each pair of rays inside a polyhedral cone emanating from the apex is at most , and then p connects to k points of P in each of the polyhedral cones whose projections on the cone axis is minimum.
Properties
The k-SYG, where k = 1, is known as the theta graph, and is the union of two Delaunay triangulations.
For a small and an appropriate cone axis, the k-SYG gives a supergraph of the k-nearest neighbor graph (k-NNG). For example, in 2D, if we partition the plane around each point into six wedges of equal angles, and pick the cone axes on directions of the cone bisectors, we obtain a k-SYG as a supergraph for the k-NNG.
See also
Geometric spanner
References
Computational geometry
Geometric graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullarton%20Computer%20Industries%20Ltd%20v%20Central%20Arbitration%20Committee | Fullarton Computer Industries Ltd v Central Arbitration Committee [2001] Scot CS 168 is a UK labour law case, concerning collective bargaining.
Facts
Fullarton was challenging a Central Arbitration Committee decision for recognition of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. Fullarton had announced redundancies in October and November 2000 after an application from the ISTC for recognition. In December 2000 the ISTC applied to the Central Arbitration Committee for recognition in respect of a bargaining unit under Schedule A1 paragraph 22. CAC made a panel with a case manager, but no agreement was reached by February 2001 so the CAC decided the bargaining unit was at the relevant plant as the union proposed. Comparing the manager and the union lists, the case manager decided 49.3% of people at work were union members. The union requested reconsideration, and then it was 51.3%, so the CAC decided a ballot would not be held. Fullarton argued the case manager’s decision was ultra vires, because the CAC ought to take the decision, that it was unfair anyway because 15 new members were found and Fullarton had no way of seeing how the conclusion was reached, that even then the decision was irrational because paragraph 22(4) conditions were not given proper weight, nor was the marginal nature of the decision.
Judgment
Lord Johnston in the Court of Session, Outer House, dismissed the petition, and said that although he probably would have ordered for a ballot to be taken, the decision to not have a ballot was rational. Delegating to the case manager was legitimate. Although natural justice would be violated if injustice could occur (even if it did not) when evidence showed the complaint had no effect anyway it would not be. Fullarton had conceded it would just mean that the CAC would reach the same conclusion after reconsideration anyway. Para 22(4) were exceptions there based on good industrial relations and member attitudes. But the ballot decision was not flawed and the CAC had considered each of the 3 exceptions and reached conclusions without manifest error.
See also
UK labour law
Notes
References
United Kingdom labour case law
Court of Session cases
2001 in United Kingdom case law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat%20115%20West%20B | Eutelsat 115 West B (previously Satmex 7) is a communications satellite that is operated by Eutelsat, providing video, data, government, and mobile services for the Americas. The satellite was designed and manufactured by Boeing Space Systems, and is a Boeing 702SP model communication satellite. It is located at 115 degrees west longitude. It was launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 2 March 2015 (UTC time).
The satellite is solely propelled by electrically powered spacecraft propulsion, with the onboard thrusters used for both geostationary orbit insertion and station keeping.
The satellite had a launch mass of . It is notable for being the first commercial communications satellite in orbit to use electric propulsion, providing a significant weight savings. Eutelsat 115 West B was launched with another Boeing 702SP satellite, ABS-3A, on the same rocket.
Eutelsat 115 West B is planned to be the first in a family of four satellites in the Eutelsat constellation. The satellite was scheduled for entry into service in November 2015, but entered service a month earlier than expected, in October 2015.
Launch
The launch occurred on March 2, 2015, at 03:50 UTC and the satellite has been deployed in the planned supersynchronous transfer orbit.
The launch is also notable for being the first flight of Boeing's stacked satellite configuration for the Boeing 702SP,
a configuration Boeing designed specifically to take advantage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 capabilities.
On-orbit operations
The sister-satellite 702SP from the same launch—ABS-3A—became fully operational as a geosynchronous communications satellite by 10 September 2015 after a handover from Boeing to ABS for on-orbit operations on 31 August 2015, approximately one month earlier than planned. A press release on 15 October 2015 stated that Eutelsat 115 West B has started providing service.
See also
2015 in spaceflight
List of Falcon 9 launches
References
External links
ABS/Eutelsat-1 Launch, Fact Sheet, SpaceX, 26 February 2015. (pdf)
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
SpaceX commercial payloads
Satellites using the BSS-702 bus
Spacecraft launched in 2015
Eutelsat satellites
Satellites of Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%20Jazz%20Radio%20Network | The Utah Jazz Radio Network is an American radio network consisting of 11 English language and one Spanish language radio stations which each carry coverage of the Utah Jazz, a professional basketball club which is a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The network's flagship radio stations are "The Sports Zone," KZNS-AM 1280 and KZNS-FM 97.5. The network has affiliate stations in Utah and Idaho. David Locke has been the English radio play-by-play announcer since 2009, after leaving the play-by-play position with the Seattle SuperSonics. Former Jazz player Ron Boone is the English color analyst.
The network's Spanish flagship station is KTUB 1600 AM. Nelson Morán is the Spanish-language play-by-play announcer/color analyst, Isidro Lopez is the Spanish-language play-by-play announcer, and Nicole Hernandez is the Spanish-language color analyst/sideline reporter.
The radio network broadcasts all preseason and all 82 regular season games.
Station list
English language stations
Utah
Idaho
Spanish language stations
References
External links
Official Utah Jazz broadcast schedule and information
The Zone Sports Network - 1280 AM and 97.5 FM
Utah Jazz
National Basketball Association on the radio
Mass media in Salt Lake City
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim%20%28programming%20language%29 | Nim is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, statically typed, compiled high-level systems programming language, designed and developed by a team around Andreas Rumpf. Nim is designed to be "efficient, expressive, and elegant", supporting metaprogramming, functional, message passing, procedural, and object-oriented programming styles by providing several features such as compile time code generation, algebraic data types, a foreign function interface (FFI) with C, C++, Objective-C, and JavaScript, and supporting compiling to those same languages as intermediate representations.
Description
Nim is statically typed. It supports compile-time metaprogramming features such as syntactic macros and term rewriting macros. Term rewriting macros enable library implementations of common data structures, such as bignums and matrices, to be implemented efficiently and with syntactic integration, as if they were built-in language facilities. Iterators are supported and can be used as first class entities, as can functions, allowing for the use of functional programming methods. Object-oriented programming is supported by inheritance and multiple dispatch. Functions can be generic and overloaded, and generics are further enhanced by Nim's support for type classes. Operator overloading is also supported. Nim includes multiple tunable memory management strategies, including tracing garbage collection, reference counting, and fully manual systems, with the default being deterministic reference counting with optimizations via move semantics and cycle collection via trial deletion.
, Nim compiles to C, C++, JavaScript, Objective-C, and LLVM.
History
According to language creator, nim was conceived to combine best parts of Ada typing system, Python flexibility, and powerful Lisp macro system.
Nim's initial development was started in 2005 by Andreas Rumpf. It was originally named Nimrod when the project was made public in 2008.
The first version of the Nim compiler was written in Pascal using the Free Pascal compiler. In 2008, a version of the compiler written in Nim was released. The compiler is free and open-source software, and is being developed by a community of volunteers working with Andreas Rumpf. The language was officially renamed from Nimrod to Nim with the release of version 0.10.2 in December 2014. On September 23, 2019, version 1.0 of Nim was released, signifying the maturing of the language and its toolchain. On August 1st, 2023, version 2.0 of Nim was released, signifying the completion, stabilization of, and switch to the ARC/ORC memory model.
Language design
Syntax
The syntax of Nim resembles that of Python. Code blocks and nesting statements are identified through use of whitespace, according to the offside-rule. Many keywords are identical to their Python equivalents, which are mostly English keywords, whereas other programming languages usually use punctuation. With the goal of improving upon its influence languages, even though Nim suppo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Apple%20Review | Australian Apple Review was an Australian computer magazine (ISSN 0816-7184) published by Gareth Powell Pty Ltd and Saturday Magazine Pty Ltd and initially printed by Offset Alpine and then by Ian Liddel Pty Ltd. The first issue was available in newsagents and dealerships in 1984 (36 pages) at the recommended price of $3.00. Its headquarters was in Randwick, New South Wales.
The magazine was published roughly monthly with 10 issues per year. The final issue was Vol 4 No 5 1987. The first editor of the magazine was Graeme Philipson. Later issues were edited by Gene Stephan and Gareth Powell.
The articles in Australian Apple Review catered for beginners to computing, through to highly technical programming techniques, industry updates and resources, with a focus on software, peripherals and computers available from Apple Computer. Articles were written by both full-time magazine staff and freelance contributors, including Paul Zabrs.
References
External links
Complete scanned and OCR'd issues of Australian Apple Review
1984 establishments in Australia
1987 disestablishments in Australia
Computer magazines published in Australia
Monthly magazines published in Australia
Defunct computer magazines
Defunct magazines published in Australia
Home computer magazines
Magazines established in 1984
Magazines disestablished in 1987
Magazines published in Sydney
Macintosh magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-LOTOS | In computer science E-LOTOS (Enhanced LOTOS) is a formal specification language designed between 1993 and 1999, and standardized by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2001.
E-LOTOS was initially intended to be a revision of the LOTOS language standardized by ISO 8807 in 1989, but the revision turned out to be profound, leading to a new specification language.
The starting point for the revision of LOTOS was the PhD thesis of Ed Brinksma, who had been the Rapporteur at ISO of the LOTOS standard.
In 1993, the initial goals of the definition of E-LOTOS were stated in ISO/IEC JTC1/N2802 announcement.
In 1997, when the language definition reached the maturity level of an ISO Committee Draft, an announcement was posted describing the main features of E-LOTOS.
The following document recalls the milestones of E-LOTOS definition project.
E-LOTOS has inspired descendent languages, among which LOTOS NT and LNT.
See also
Formal methods
List of ISO standards
Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification
CADP
References
External links
French-Romanian contributions to E-LOTOS
Process calculi
Formal methods
Formal specification languages
Concurrency (computer science)
Concurrency control
Synchronization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oopsis%20griseocaudata | Oopsis griseocaudata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fairmaire in 1881.
References
Oopsis
Beetles described in 1881 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oopsis%20brenneocaudata | Oopsis brenneocaudata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fairmaire in 1879.
References
Oopsis
Beetles described in 1879 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraz%20Javed | Faraz Javed is a television journalist, presenter, and producer who has worked in the United States and United Arab Emirates for broadcasters including MTV Networks, part of Viacom Media Networks and Dubai One, Dubai Media Incorporated.
Career
Javed is one of the new broadcast journalists to join ABC News in Detroit at WXYZ-TV. He has covered a variety of stories, from breaking news, to political agendas and issues that impact people across Michigan. Javed is also part of the networks's weekend morning team.
Javed was previously seen as one of the news anchors and senior reporters at Emirates News, Dubai One TV. The program broadcasts from a Dubai Media City studio. However, Javed also reported breaking news from various locations across the United Arab Emirates, covering major events like the Emirates Mars Mission and Abraham Accords among others. In addition to his duties at Dubai One TV, Javed also had his reality series on CrossFit on dubai On demand, one of Dubai's leading YouTube channels.
He has produced a number of television series including That's Entertainment, Hayati Amali, Studio One, Peeta Planet (Consulting Producer) and Mouth Piece. He has also worked on various commercials, infotainment videos, short films, music videos, and feature films such as Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Star Trek Beyond.
Javed is also associated with various radio stations in the United States and United Arab Emirates. He has hosted 'Kickstart' on PZR 91.1 FM broadcasting in Michigan and co-hosted with Ray Addison on Dubai Eye 103.8.,
Alongside producing, Javed is an actor, appearing in a number of plays, short films and commercials.
A sports enthusiast, Javed has been trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing, swimming, horse riding and Crossfit.
List of Interviews
Hollywood Film and TV Interviews
Ben Stiller
Eva Longoria
Susan Sarandon
Simon Baker
Priyanka Chopra
Alexandra Burke
Jay Leno
Kelly Hu
Sarah, Duchess of York
Madeleine Stowe
Gina Torres
Sarah Rafferty
Jodi Benson
Patrick Renna
James Jude Courtney
Che Pope
Bollywood Film and TV Interviews
Shah Rukh Khan
Salman Khan
Ranveer Singh
Priyanka Chopra
Vaani Kapoor
Shilpa Shetty
Athlete Interviews
Rio Ferdinand
Mo Farah
Political Figure Interviews
John Rakolta
References
1984 births
Living people
American television producers
American directors
University at Buffalo alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-1 | The Poly-1 was a desktop computer designed in New Zealand for educational use.
Background
The Poly-1 was developed in 1980 by Neil Scott and Paul Bryant, who at the time were teaching electronics engineering at Wellington Polytechnic (now Massey University's Wellington campus), which the computer was named after. As with the Acorn BBC Micro in Britain, Scott and Bryant saw the increasing need for a fully integrated computer to serve the New Zealand school market, which had the blessing of then Education Minister Merv Wellington. After Scott and Bryant gathered a team of engineers and designers, DFC New Zealand Limited and Lower Hutt-based Progeni Systems — founded by Perce Harpham in 1968 — formed a joint venture, Polycorp, to market and build the Poly-1, which entered production in 1981.
A distinctive fibreglass casing was designed to house the computer and monitor as an all-in-one unit, in a similar fashion to the Commodore PET.
The Poly-1 came standard with a colour display and 64KB of RAM. A BASIC interpreter and a text editor were included, with the operating system being FLEX. The machine could display 40x24 character text (or teletext) or graphics in 240x204 or 480x204 resolution in 7 colors. There was no internal store, but the computer could connect to a CP/M based server. The Proteus was available as an accessory to make the Poly-1 network-capable, allowing up to 32 of the computers to be linked.
One of the earliest clients for the Poly in classroom networks was Rotorua Boys' High School, one of whose staff Derek Williams was seconded in 1984 to work as a computer programmer and software developer of educational applications for Progeni Systems Ltd on the FORGE Computer Learning System for New Zealand schools under the supervision of Emeritus Professor John Tiffin. FORGE was also used for training by the Victorian Fire Brigade in Australia, and for the first time, allowed New Zealand educators to design and deliver curricula on class computer networks.
There remains interest in the Poly with an ongoing Poly Preservation Project.
Decline
Despite strong support from teachers for the Poly-1, the Muldoon Government reneged on a Ministry of Education agreement to purchase 1000 units over 5 years, after coming under pressure from Cabinet ministers and lobbyists who favoured economic deregulation. In particular, the then Minister of Regional Development, Warren Cooper, remarked that he and his colleagues "could see no reason why Government should spend money so that teachers could do even less work".
The Poly-1 cost up to several thousand dollars per unit, and aggressive undercutting from Apple Computer further weakened the Poly-1's place in the market. However, a sizeable consignment was still able to be sold to the Australian Defence Force and a number of local organisations.
A Poly 2 model with a separate keyboard and monitor, and Poly C designed for the Chinese market were produced, but in much smaller numbers. Plans to sell to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qizx | Qizx is a proprietary XML database that provides native storage for XML data.
Qizx was initially developed by Xavier Franc of Axyana and was purchased by Qualcomm in 2013. Qizx was re-released by Qualcomm in late 2014 on Amazon Web Services.
Packaging and bindings
The Qizx database can be configured to run embedded into an application, in a hosted client-server environment, or as a software service hosted on Amazon Web Services. The client-server version supports database clustering for both load balancing and data redundancy. Qizx is bundled with a multi-platform GUI client and can also be accessed through a RESTful API that includes embedded online documentation.
Qizx includes bindings in Java, Python, C and C# as well as native XPath and XQuery support. Qizx also provides a number of extensions to the XQuery language for updating documents, accessing document metadata and various other tasks.
References
External links
Qualcomm Qizx on AWS Marketplace
Big data products
Database-related software for Linux
NoSQL
Qualcomm software
Semantic Web
XML databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThingSpeak | ThingSpeak is an open-source software written in Ruby which allows users to communicate with internet enabled devices. It facilitates data access, retrieval and logging of data by providing an API to both the devices and social network websites.
ThingSpeak was originally launched by ioBridge in 2010 as a service in support of IoT applications.
ThingSpeak has integrated support from the numerical computing software MATLAB from MathWorks, allowing ThingSpeak users to analyze and visualize uploaded data using MATLAB without requiring the purchase of a MATLAB license from MathWorks.
ThingSpeak has been the subject of articles in specialized "Maker" websites like Instructables,
Codeproject, and Channel 9.
See also
Web of things
Ubiquitous computing
References
External links
Internet of things |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borivoj%20Lazi%C4%87 | Borivoj G. Lazić () (1 August 1939 – 4 April 2015) was a Serbian computer scientist and professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade. He is known for his involvement in the development of microprocessor systems and the CER Computer.
References
Serbian engineers
1939 births
2015 deaths
Serbian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malini%20N.%20Menon | Malini N. Menon is an Indian entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates. She is the Founder and managing director of IEDEA, (formerly known as Indian Expressions), a business ideation and network facilitation agency engaged in the IP development of branded business events and PR initiatives that are focused on sustainable investor outreach and acquisition located in Jumeirah Lake Towers, under the DMCC Free Zone, Dubai, UAE.
Since 2015, Menon has been involved with several initiatives of the UAE government. She also contributes to the initiatives of the Dubai Women Establishment and serves as Advisor across multiple editions of the Global Women's Forum Dubai. In 2019, in partnership with CNBC Arabiya, Menon launched the ABLF Talks TV series featuring Asian government and business leaders in 3-minute episodes across six leadership themes.
Career
In 2007, she founded Indian Expressions, now called IEDEA.
In May 2010, The India-UAE Knowledge Forum, a joint venture by Menon's company IEDEA and the Rajen Kilachand Knowledge Foundation, was established, through which the potential areas of cooperation between India and UAE are discussed.
Menon's work in promoting Asian ties between the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and the Far East has been commended by H.H. Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al-Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, UAE; H.E. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, UAE; H.E. Sheikh Fahad bin Mohammad bin Jabor Al-Thani, chairman of the Board of Directors of Doha Bank, Qatar; H.E. Khalil Abdullah Al Khonji, Chairman of the Federation of GCC Chambers and Chairman of the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Oman; and Dr Amer bin Awadh Al Rawas, CEO of Omantel, Oman, among others.
Her initiatives have been covered by outlets such as Pakistan Observer, Zawya, The Hindu, Arab News; Khaleej Times, Al Bawaba, Gulf Times, The National, The Peninsula, Emirates New Agency, Times of Oman, Gulf News, Muscat Daily, Gulf Today, Deccan Herald and Dubai Chronicle, including popular TV programme, Zee Connect.
References
Businesspeople from Dubai
21st-century Indian businesswomen
21st-century Indian businesspeople
Indian women business executives
Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
Living people
1965 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechWriter | TechWriter and EasiWriter are closed source proprietary word processor applications for RISC OS computers.
Essentially they have the same feature set, except that TechWriter has more features that are specifically aimed at Technical Writers such as the ability to edit mathematical formulae and insert Greek characters.
The default file format is proprietary; it is also possible since Version 8.9 to import Microsoft Word .docx documents and OpenOffice/LibreOffice .odt files. It is also possible to save in TeX, HTML, and PDF format.
Development
Originally owned and developed by Icon Technology Ltd, in association with Acorn Computers, it is now developed by MW Software.
Due to the way in which RISC OS has developed slowly since the 1990s (see History of RISC OS) it has not attracted any of the main software companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Sun/Oracle or the various open-source communities so the availability of software commonly found on other platforms is limited. A handful of word processor applications exist such as FireWorkz and PipeDream (as well as the cut-down version of EasiWriter simply called Writer+).
As of 2015, LibreOffice or its equivalents are yet to be ported to the platform which means that to edit documents created on other platforms a version of EasiWriter or TechWriter are required.
References
RISC OS software
Word processors
TeX editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVX | OpenVX is an open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform acceleration of computer vision applications. It is designed by the Khronos Group to facilitate portable, optimized and power-efficient processing of methods for vision algorithms. This is aimed for embedded and real-time programs within computer vision and related scenarios. It uses a connected graph representation of operations.
Overview
OpenVX specifies a higher level of abstraction for programming computer vision use cases than compute frameworks such as OpenCL. The high level makes the programming easy and the underlying execution will be efficient on different computing architectures. This is done while having a consistent and portable vision acceleration API.
OpenVX is based on a connected graph of vision nodes that can execute the preferred chain of operations. It uses an opaque memory model, allowing to move image data between the host (CPU) memory and accelerator, such as GPU memory. As a result, the OpenVX implementation can optimize the execution through various techniques, such as acceleration on various processing units or dedicated hardware. This architecture facilitates applications programmed in OpenVX on different systems with different power and performance, including battery-sensitive, vision-enabled, wearable displays.
OpenVX is complementary to the open source vision library OpenCV. OpenVX in some applications offers a better optimized graph management than OpenCV.
History
OpenVX 1.0 specification was released in October 2014.
OpenVX sample implementation was released in December 2014.
OpenVX 1.1 specification was released on May 2, 2016.
OpenVX 1.2 was released on May 1, 2017.
Updated OpenVX adopters program and OpenVX 1.2 conformance test suite was released on November 21, 2017.
OpenVX 1.2.1 was released on November 27, 2018.
OpenVX 1.3 was released on October 22, 2019.
Implementations, frameworks and libraries
AMD MIVisionX - for AMD's CPUs and GPUs.
Cadence - for Cadence Design Systems's Tensilica Vision DSPs.
Imagination - for Imagination Technologies's PowerVR GPUs
Synopsys - for Synopsys' DesignWare EV Vision Processors
Texas Instruments’ OpenVX (TIOVX) - for Texas Instruments’ Jacinto™ ADAS SoCs.
NVIDIA VisionWorks - for CUDA-capable Nvidia GPUs and SoCs.
OpenVINO - for Intel's CPUs, GPUs, VPUs, and FPGAs.
References
External links
OpenVX Specification Registry
OpenVX Sample Implementation
OpenVX Sample Applications
OpenVX Tutorial Material
Application programming interfaces
Cross-platform software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Image%20Interoperability%20Framework | The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF, spoken as 'triple-I-eff') defines several application programming interfaces that provide a standardised method of describing and delivering images over the web, as well as "presentation based metadata" (that is, structural metadata) about structured sequences of images. If institutions holding artworks, books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, scrolls, single sheet collections, and archival materials provide IIIF endpoints for their content, any IIIF-compliant viewer or application can consume and display both the images and their structural and presentation metadata.
There are many digitisation programmes that have resulted in a particular collection’s content exposed on the web in a particular viewer application, but these various collections have not typically been interoperable with one another, and end users or institutions cannot substitute a viewer of their choice to consume the digitised material. The IIIF aims to cultivate shared technologies for both client and server to enable interoperability across repositories, and to foster a market in compatible servers and viewing applications.
Image API
One major use of an Image API endpoint for a given high resolution source image is to allow clients to request low resolution tiles for use in a Deep Zoom style viewing tool such as OpenSeadragon.
Presentation API
An institution would publish a Manifest (a JSON-LD document) that describes the structure of each book, artwork, manuscript or other artefact. The manifest contains references to Image API endpoints. A viewer application consuming the manifest can produce a coherent user experience for the artefact by implementing features such as page by page navigation, deep zooming into images and annotations on images.
Search API
The IIIF Search API allows for "searching annotation content within a single IIIF resource, such as a Manifest, Range or Collection."
Example use case
A use case for IIIF would be to allow a user to view a manuscript that has been dismembered in the past, with its leaves now scattered across various collections. If each collection exposes its digitized images via the Image API, then a scholar can construct and publish a manifest that digitally recombines the leaves to present a single coherent user experience for the manuscript in any compatible viewer.
History
The Image API was proposed in late 2011 as a collaboration between The British Library, Stanford University, the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University), the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, and Cornell University. Version 1.0 was published in 2012.
Version 1.0 of the Presentation API was published in 2013 and of the Search API in 2016.
Partial list of software that supports IIIF APIs
Image Servers
Cantaloupe
Hymir IIIF Server
Loris IIIF Image Server
IIPImage
digilib
Djatoka (with helper)
Vi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned%20tram%20projects%20in%20Helsinki | The city of Helsinki and the neighbouring city of Vantaa have plans for a radical expansion of the Helsinki tram network within the 2020s and 2030s that would more than double the length of the network from 2021. If completed, the plans would both extend the current tram lines and build new light rail lines.
Projects under construction
Laajasalo
The city council of Helsinki decided on 31 August 2016 to build a tramway to the island of Laajasalo, located to the east of Helsinki city centre. The route will include three new bridges, the longest of which will be the longest in Finland at , and its pylons one of the tallest structures in Helsinki. The bridges will have bicycle and pedestrian lanes in addition to the tramway, but no lanes for private cars. The total length of new double track, including tramways on Laajasalo itself, is about .
Kalasatama–Pasila line 13
A new line 13 is being constructed between Pasila and Kalasatama, due to be completed by August 2024.
Approved projects
Vantaa light rail
The Vantaa city council approved the construction of a new light rail line from Mellunmäki to Helsinki Airport in May 2023. The line is projected to open in 2029 with an estimated daily ridership of .
West Helsinki light rail
The Helsinki city council approved the general plan for the West Helsinki trams () in January 2021, with an estimated total cost of €160 million. The project, previously known as the Vihdintie light rail (), includes a light rail line via Vihdintie towards Kannelmäki, and new city center tram tracks via Topeliuksenkatu to relieve traffic from the crowded track on Mannerheimintie. The new light rail line from the city center to Kannelmäki is estimated to have a daily ridership of by 2030. , construction was due to start in 2026.
Planned expansions
Jätkäsaari and Hernesaari
The building of tramways in Jätkäsaari has proceeded along with the construction of the buildings of the new district. The use of bi-directional trams was considered for the tramway extensions, but in the end, HKL decided to build the tracks with conventional return loops and to dismantle temporary loops as necessary.
As of August 2023, only the new turnaround loops in Tahitinkatu and Bunkkeri remain to be built. The completion of this stretch has been projected for 2022–2024. In the previous phases, tracks were extended from Ruoholahti to Saukonpaasi (opened 1 January 2012), from Kamppi to the old ferry terminal (opened 13 August 2012), from the old to the new ferry terminal (opened February 2017), from Jätkäsaarenlaituri along Välimerenkatu street to the return loop at Saukonpaasi (opened August 2017) and from Saukonpaasi to the new ferry terminal (opened May 2021).
Various versions of the lines and routes to Jätkäsaari have been proposed since the beginning of the planning. As of December 2017, lines 7, 8 and 9 are routed on Jätkäsaari according to the plan approved in 2015 (see Reorganisation). Line 6 awaits the completion of new tracks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mysteries%20of%20Alfred%20Hedgehog | The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, also known as Les Mystères d'Alfred, is an Canadian-French animated series that airs on several broadcast and cable networks around the world. The characters of the show consist of mainly the anthropomorphic woodland animals such as raccoons, moose and voles. The show follows three anthropomorphic animal pre-teens — Alfred Hedgehog, Camille Wallaby and Milo Skunk—as they solve mysteries in Gnarly Woods.
Broadcast
It has been shown on Qubo in the United States in 2010,Discovery Kids in Asia in 2012, and TVOntario as part of TVO Kids in Canada in 2011.
Characters
Hedgehog family
Alfred Hedgehog (voiced by Carolina Bartczak) is the protagonist of the series, and he is one of three characters appearing in every episode. His eyes are green and his primary outfit is a white long-sleeved shirt which is covered in a blue t-shirt with cream-coloured khaki crops. He is a young detective who carries a Smartphone device called a "Detectaberry". With the help of his friends and family, he uses these clues in order to solve the mysteries, most of which have something in order to do with the natural world or science. His primary catchphrase in most episodes is, "This is serious mysterious!" His nemesis is Cynthia Payne and he has a black belt in karate too. He loves to play basketball and baseball. He is really athletic and gets into fights a lot.
Lily Hedgehog (voiced by Gracie Orr) is the little sister of Alfred Hedgehog with low pigtails decorated in red bows. She adores her big brother and often helps him with collecting clues in order to solve his mysteries. She is a surprisingly good painter considering her age, and she is mentioned several times that she is able to sell her paintings and enter them in the art contests against much older competitors.
Mrs. Alice Hedgehog(voiced by Claudia Besso) is the mother of Alfred and Lily. She wears a ponytail tied in a hairband and owns the house of the Hedgehog family.
Mr. Ryan Hedgehog is the father of Alfred and Lily Hedgehog. He works as a bee keeper and is found as a solved mystery.
Alfred's detective friends
Camille Wallaby (nicknamed Cam voiced by Emma Taylor-Isherwood) is friendly and generous, but she is sometimes hotheaded and in too much of a hurry. She has red hair which is tied in high pigtails with a melon pink hairclip on her left side and blue eyes. Her primary outfit is a cream-colored hoodie with a red skirt and blue sneakers. She is one of the three main characters to appear in all episodes and she is the only girl in "Ol' Fingerbone's Revenge!".
Milo Skunk (voiced by Angela Galuppo) has a vivid imagination; some people say that he is "extremely active", with a flair for the dramatic and often jokes around while solving cases. He wears gray glasses and is a good runner. His primary outfit is a yellow sweatshirt with brown long pants. He is one of the three main characters in order to appear in all episodes. He invented the Milo-nator (a pair of goggles tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20S.%20Breidenbaugh | Andrew S. Breidenbaugh is an American librarian and director of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System. He has worked to bring online databases, eBooks, streaming media, music, and courses to the system.
Education
Breidenbaugh began his education in 1988 at Towson University, Towson, Maryland, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and Asian Studies. He was a member of the Phi Alpha Theta history honors society as well as the National History Honor Society. In 1990 he finished his Master of Arts in History at the University of Maryland. His area of concentration was Middle East and Islamic History. In 1996, he completed his education at the University of South Florida School of Information, where he received his degree in Library and Information Science.
Career
Before graduating from USF, Breidenbaugh managed a Barnes & Noble bookstore for several years. Towards the end of his graduate studies, he worked for the City of Tampa Archives and Records Center, where he accessed, arranged, and described records of the Tampa Fire Department. From 1996 to 1999, he held his first job as a librarian at the USF Tampa Campus Library where he was an adjunct reference librarian. It was in this position where he began his work with library technology and online services. Nearly concurrent to this time (1997–1999), Breidenbaugh began working for the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System at the New Tampa Regional Library as a reference librarian. He was also an adjunct instructor for the USF School of Information, where he taught Basic Information Sources & Services, Internet Research Skills, and Internet Resources.
From 1999 to 2002, Breidenbaugh was a senior librarian for Electronic Reference & Information, a call-in and email reference service for the Tampa-Hillsborough library system. From 2002 to 2006 he was a Principal Librarian at the John F. Germany Public Library, Tampa’s main library, and continued his focus on library technology and internet resources. Following his time at the John F. Germany library, he was named chief librarian for the South Tampa Region. In April 2014, he became manager of library technology and collections, which included oversight of the library’s collection process and its budget. In February 2015, Breidenbaugh was named director of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System, and oversees its $36.5 million annual operating budget, 25 libraries, and two mobile outlets.
Organizations and volunteering
Breidenbaugh is an active member of the American Library Association and the Florida Library Association. He also volunteers with FIRST, judging for FIRST Tech Challenge events in the Tampa Bay area.
References
American librarians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of South Florida faculty
Towson University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
University of South Florida alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20mobile%20virtualization | Remote mobile virtualization, like its counterpart desktop virtualization, is a technology that separates operating systems and applications from the client devices that access them. However, while desktop virtualization allows users to remotely access Windows desktops and applications, remote mobile virtualization offers remote access to mobile operating systems such as Android.
Remote mobile virtualization encompasses both full operating system virtualization, referred to as virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI), and user and application virtualization, termed mobile app virtualization. Remote mobile virtualization allows a user to remotely control an Android virtual machine (VM) or application. Users can access remotely hosted applications with HTML5-enabled web browsers or thin client applications from a variety of smartphones, tablets and computers, including Apple iOS, Mac OS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Windows desktop, and Firefox OS devices.
Virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI)
VMI refers to the method of hosting a mobile operating system on a server in a data center or the cloud. Mobile operating system environments are executed remotely and they are rendered via Mobile Optimized Display protocols through the network. Compared to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), VMI has to operate in low bandwidth network environments such as cellular networks with fluctuating coverage and metered access. As a result, even if a mobile phone is connected to a high speed 4G/LTE network, users may need to limit overall bandwidth usage to avoid expensive phone bills.
Most common implementations of VMI host multiple mobile OS virtual machines (VMs) on private or public cloud infrastructure and allow users to access them remotely via options such as Miracast™, the ACE Protocol or custom streaming implementations optimized for 3G/4G networks. Some implementations also allow for Multimedia redirection for better audio and video performance. Mobile operating systems hosted in the cloud are not limited to Android. Other operating systems like Firefox OS and Ubuntu Mobile can also be used as VM instances depending on uses. Microservers based on existing mobile processors can also used to host Mobile VMs as they provide full GPU access for feature-rich user interfaces. To achieve higher density, VMI implementations can use customized versions of Android that minimize memory requirements and speed up boot times.
VMI use cases
Satisfy compliance – VMI helps address data privacy regulations such as HIPAA. VMI minimizes the risks associated with mobile device theft by storing mobile data securely in data centers or the cloud, rather than on end user devices. In addition, with VMI, organizations can control and monitor access to data and can optionally generate an audit trail of user activity.
Prevent data loss caused by physical device theft – With the advent of bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives, more and more users are accessing business applicatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backsliders%20and%20Apostates%20Will%20Burn | Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn is the second EP by American noise rock band The Austerity Program, released in 2010 through Hydra Head Records through vinyl, compact disc, and even Data DVD-R formats. For marketing, instead of making usual press kits, the band decided to use humorous ways to market the release of the record, such as writing a fake review written by an angry staff member of Hydra Head.
Marketing
As a joke, the duo wrote a fake review for the album that is supposed to sound as if it was written by an irate staff member of Hydra Head Records complaining about the lack of material found of the EP. The "review" was posted on the EP's bandcamp and Amazon.com page:
What does it sound like? You tell us, man. We haven't even cracked open the reference copies because what's the point? If it's anything like their last record (and they claim that it is, but "so much better" -- whatever, guys) it'll have a drum machine and some guitars and bass and that one guy will be singing and can I just tell you how mad I am that I am even stuck writing this thing?
The band also released a short film to help market the record. In it, the band hires a "professional producer" to help them record the record, only for him to kick the band out of the project and to completely ruin it.
Track listing
Personnel
Performers
Thad Calabrese - Bass
Justin Foley - Guitar, Vocals
Drum machine - everything else
Production
John Golden - Mastering
The Austerity Program - Music, Recording
References
2010 EPs
Hydra Head Records EPs
The Austerity Program albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20L.%20Turin | George Lewis Turin (born 27 January 1930) was an American computer scientist.
From 1983 to 1986, Turin was the Dean of UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Turin retired from UC Berkeley in 1990, and died in March 2014.
Turin was an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the British Science and Engineering Research Council, and was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His Ph.D. supervisor was Wilbur Davenport.
References
External links
George L. Turin Professor Emeritus at Berkeley
George L. Turin Ph.D Dissertation at MIT 1956
1930 births
2014 deaths
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CollegeSource%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20AcademyOne%2C%20Inc. | CollegeSource, Inc. v. AcademyOne, Inc., 653 F.3d 1066 (9th Cir. 2011), was a United States legal case in which CollegeSource sued AcademyOne for a number of claims including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
The case was dismissed by Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel on September 24, 2015, clearing AcademyOne of any wrongdoing.
CollegeSource appealed the 9th Circuit District Court's dismissal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which unanimously affirmed the lower Court's decision on September 15, 2017.
Prior to summary judgement and its affirmation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that AcademyOne was subject to specific personal jurisdiction in California, but not general personal jurisdiction. The court then remanded the case to the District Court for the Southern District of California for further proceedings.
Background
CollegeSource and AcademyOne are competitors in the market that helps prospective students with the college transfer process. CollegeSource maintain its principal place of business in California, while AcademyOne maintained its principal place of business in Pennsylvania. However, both companies seek to serve the transfer market online not bound by state or region. Important to the appeal, AcademyOne targeted prospective transfer students by state through use of Google AdWords, solicited California colleges and state educational agencies through phone and email, and sponsored the keynote speaker at a conference held for the benefit of higher education executive officers meeting in San Diego.
CollegeSource claimed to own and copyright a digital collection of 44,000 course catalogs from 3,000 colleges, worth allegedly $10 million. The complete digital collection was available through subscription as .pdf files on CollegeSource's websites. Known to CollegeSource, many of the .pdf files were also individually distributed across thousands of institutional websites. AcademyOne, a few months after its founding, made several attempts to inquire about CollegeSource's collection of course catalogs as it researched how to compile a nationwide database of college and university level courses to support its college transfer websites. At least three employees registered for trial membership with CollegeSource that allowed them to download three sample catalogs each. CollegeSource declined AcademyOne's early attempts to partner to keep its competitive advantage in the market place.
Therefore, AcademyOne decided to collect and build its own collection of college and university catalogs to harvest the course information. AcademyOne hired a China-based contractor to collect the catalogs and mine the course descriptions from the files or web pages. The contractor collected over 18,000 .pdf files and thousands of html pages containing course descriptions from a list of schools' websites that AcademyOne had provided. During this process, the contractor collected roughly 680 .pdf files t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom%20Italia%20Sparkle | Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A. (formerly Telemedia International Italia Ltd.) is an Italian telecommunications company controlled by Telecom Italia S.p.A. of which it manages the Tier 1 network.
Through Seabone (South East Access backBONE), the fiber-optic backbone based on DWDM technology, present in Europe, America, Asia and the rest of the world, Telecom Italia Sparkle provides international routing for most of the telephone traffic and data generated by Telecom Italia users, as well as reselling services to third parties.
As of 2017 it was the seventh worldwide operator in the sector and second in Europe, behind Telia.
References
External links
TIM Group
Telecommunications companies of Italy
Companies based in Rome
Telecommunications companies established in 1987
Italian companies established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO | FIFO may refer to:
First in, first out
First in, first out describes a method of managing items in storage:
FIFO in stock rotation, particularly to avoid food spoilage
FIFO (computing and electronics), a method of queuing or memory management
Queue (abstract data type), data abstraction of the queuing concept
FIFO and LIFO accounting, methods used in managing inventory and financial matters
People
Fifó (born 2000), Portuguese futsal player
Other uses
FIFO (film festival) (Festival International du Film Documentaire Océanien), documentary film festival held in Tahiti
FiFo Records, an American record label
Fly-in fly-out, a human resources strategy for deployment of personnel to remote locations
See also
LIFO (disambiguation)
First expired, first out (FEFO)
First come, first served |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoros%20Angelinos | Theodoros Angelinos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελίνος; born 29 May 1984 in Athens, Greece), is a professional tennis player who participates in the ATP International Tennis Tour.
Personal data
Angelinos is the son of Stratos and Eleni Angelinos. He is 6 foot 3 inches tall and weighs 182 pounds. He attended CMA University high school and the University of Virginia.
Tennis career
2010 was the first year that Angelinos played professionally. He has to date, been nominated a total of five times. His final ranking for 2013 was 256. He garnered a top 1000 ATP ranking in singles and doubles and was a top junior player in Greece even when injured. Angelinos also trained at a high-level tennis academy in Valencia, Spain. He plays right-handed.
Angelinos has won 90.453 $ in prize money and has won 57.4% of all games played. Coach Klein says: "Ted's big-hitting game, height and athleticism make him a can't miss addition to the squad. He has a load of talent and his international experience in singles and doubles has impressed his teammates. He could become the first Greek tennis player to capture the attention of Division I college tennis."
Titles
Angelinos has earned 7 ITF Future singles titles, the last in 2009.
Games won
Year End ATP ranking
References
Greek male tennis players
Greek emigrants to the United States
Living people
1984 births
Sportspeople from Athens
Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-HX20V | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX20V is a hyperzoom camera that was released in 2012.
Features
Features of the camera include:
Wide-angle lens
18.9 megapixel resolution
Optical image stabilizer in the lens, reducing blurring by compensating for hand shake—10 fps continuous shooting
20x optical zoom range
1 cm minimum focusing distance
Full HD 1080p movie mode in both normal and wide aspect ratio
Panorama Still Image Size : Sweep Panorama:HR(10,480 x 4,096) / Wide(7,152 x 1,080/4,912 x 1,920) / Standard(4,912 x 1,080/3,424 x 1,920)
Optical SteadyShot™ with 3-way Active Mode Image Stabilization
Background Defocus
AVCHD 60i:28M PS(1,920×1,080/60p)/24M FX/17M FH(1,920×1,080/60i)/9M HQ(1,440×1,080/60i),MP4:12M(1,440×1,080/30fps)/6M(1,280×720/30fps)/3M VGA(640×480/30fps)
Dust + push- sensitive objective
Photo gallery
Camera
External links
Data sheet
Official Promo- video
References
HX20
Superzoom cameras
Digital cameras with CMOS image sensor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20National%20Trusts%20Organisation | The International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) is a network of national trusts and similar non-governmental organisations committed to preserving cultural heritage, "built and natural, tangible and intangible," including architecturally or historically significant items, and areas of natural beauty. INTO's mandate includes developing and promoting best practices, supporting existing national trust organisations, establishing new trusts, and advocating for heritage conservation.
INTO was formally established in December 2007 at the 12th International National Trusts Conference in New Delhi, India. It operates as a non-profit corporation registered in England and Wales, with headquarters in London.
INTO's secretary general and secretariat are supported by a board of trustees. Since 2015, the chair of the trustees has been Dame Fiona Reynolds, master of Emmanuel College Cambridge and former director general of the National Trust.
INTO membership represents more than 80 trusts spread across the globe. The full list of members is available via INTO's website.
References
External links
Cultural heritage organizations
National trusts
Heritage organizations
History organisations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Education%20Data%20Standards | The Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) project is a United States national collaborative effort to develop voluntary, common data standards for a key set of education data elements to streamline the exchange, comparison, and understanding of data within and across P-20W institutions and sectors. CEDS includes a common vocabulary for data elements, data models that reflect that vocabulary, variety of tools to understand and use education data, an assembly of metadata from other education data initiatives, and a community of stakeholders who use, support, and develop the standard.
See also
Schools Interoperability Framework
Standard data model
References
External links
CEDS
CEDS GitHub
Blog on CEDS in Educause
CEDS-aligned Ed-Fi Data Standard
Computer data
Education in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Jarosinski | Eric Jarosinski (born 1971) is an American Germanist, author, humorist, and public speaker. Jarosinski writes under the nom de plume NeinQuarterly on the social networking site Twitter, where he writes linguistic, political, and philosophical aphorisms, keeping to the 140-character limit. Jarosinski writes in German, Dutch and English. He began tweeting in 2012 and soon had a significant following (with 150,000 followers as of 2017). He then made the jump to print with a weekly column in the leading German weekly Die Zeit (2014–present) and the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad (2015-2016) Jarosinski's first book Nein. A Manifesto was released in 2015 and has been published in English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and Danish.
Background
Jarosinski grew up in Park Falls, Wisconsin. As a child he had some exposure to the German language (Wisconsin having a large number of German Americans), though he ascribes his interest in German culture and language more to his travels in Europe and later study of German and Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During those years he studied abroad in Bonn and at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he learned Dutch, and went on to spend a year studying in Frankfurt am Main as a Fulbright scholar.
After study and dissertation research in Berlin as a German Chancellor Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Jarosinski completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2005 with a dissertation on "transparency" as a political aesthetic and highly fraught ideological program.
Jarosinski has taught at the University of Rochester (2004-2005), Rutgers University (2005-2007), and the University of Pennsylvania (2007-2014), where his research and teaching focused on the Frankfurt School theorists Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer as well the work of Marx, Nietzsche and Kafka.
References
Sources
External links
Who is the Man Behind Nein Quarterly? A Conversation with Paul Holdengräber in LitHub, March 23, 2016
1971 births
Living people
People from Park Falls, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Germanists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20R | Distributed R is an open source, high-performance platform for the R language. It splits tasks between multiple processing nodes to reduce execution time and analyze large data sets. Distributed R enhances R by adding distributed data structures, parallelism primitives to run functions on distributed data, a task scheduler, and multiple data loaders. It is mostly used to implement distributed versions of machine learning tasks. Distributed R is written in C++ and R, and retains the familiar look and feel of R. , Hewlett-Packard (HP) provides enterprise support for Distributed R with proprietary additions such as a fast data loader from the Vertica database.
History
Distributed R was begun in 2011 by Indrajit Roy, Shivaram Venkataraman, Alvin AuYoung, and Robert S. Schreiber as a research project at HP Labs. It was open sourced in 2014 under the GPLv2 license and is available at GitHub.
In February 2015, Distributed R reached its first stable version 1.0, along with enterprise support from HP.
Components
Distributed R is a platform to implement and execute distributed applications in R. The goal is to extend R for distributed computing, while retaining the simplicity and look-and-feel of R. Distributed R consists of the following components:
Distributed data structures: Distributed R extends R's common data structures such as array, data.frame, and list to store data across multiple nodes. The corresponding Distributed R data structures are darray, dframe, and dlist. Many of the common data structure operations in R, such as colSums, rowSums, nrow and others, are also available on distributed data structures.
Parallel loop: Programmers can use the parallel loop, called foreach, to manipulate distributed data structures and execute tasks in parallel. Programmers only specify the data structure and function to express applications, while the runtime schedules tasks and, if required, moves around data.
Distributed algorithms: Distributed versions of common machine learning and graph algorithms, such as clustering, classification, and regression.
Data loaders: Users can leverage Distributed R constructs to implement parallel connectors that load data from different sources. Distributed R already provides implementations to load data from files and databases to distributed data structures.
Integration with databases
HP Vertica provides tight integration with their database and the open source Distributed R platform. HP Vertica 7.1 includes features that enable fast, parallel loading from the Vertica database to Distribute R. This parallel Vertica loader can be more than five times (5x) faster than using traditional ODBC based connectors. The Vertica database also supports deployment of machine learning models in the database. Distributed R users can call the distributed algorithms to create machine learning models, deploy them in the Vertica database, and use the model for in-database scoring and predictions. Architectural details of the Verti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20data%20breach | Medical data, including patients' identity information, health status, disease diagnosis and treatment, and biogenetic information, not only involve patients' privacy but also have a special sensitivity and important value, which may bring physical and mental distress and property loss to patients and even negatively affect social stability and national security once leaked. However, the development and application of medical AI must rely on a large amount of medical data for algorithm training, and the larger and more diverse the amount of data, the more accurate the results of its analysis and prediction will be. However, the application of big data technologies such as data collection, analysis and processing, cloud storage, and information sharing has increased the risk of data leakage. In the United States, the rate of such breaches has increased over time, with 176 million records breached by the end of 2017. There have been 245 data breaches of 10,000 or more records, 68 breaches of the healthcare data of 100,000 or more individuals, 25 breaches that affected more than half a million individuals, and 10 breaches of the personal and protected health information of more than 1 million individuals.
Black market for health data
In February 2015 an NPR report claimed that organized crime networks had ways of selling health data in the black market.
In 2015 a Beazley Group employee estimated that medical records could sell on the black market for -50.
Crime is the primary cause of medical data breaches.
How data is lost
Theft, data loss, hacking, and unauthorized account access are ways in which medical data breaches happen. Among reported breaches of medical information in the United States networked information systems accounted for the largest number of records breached. There is a large number of data breaches happening in the US health care system, among business associates of the health care providers that continuously gain access to patients' data.
List of data breaches
In May 2021, the Health Service Executive in the Republic of Ireland was the victim of a cyberattack involving ransomware, in the Health Service Executive cyberattack, with admission records and test results present in a sample of the data reviewed by the Financial Times.
In October 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the US reported that around 75,000 individual records had been affected by a data breach that took place through the ACA Agent and Broker Portal.
In 2018, Social Indicators Research published the scientific evidence of 173,398,820 (over 173 million) individuals affected in USA from October 2008 (when the data were collected) to September 2017 (when the statistical analysis took place).
In 2015, Anthem Inc. lost data for 37 million people in the Anthem medical data breach
In 2014 4.5 million people using Complete Health Systems had their data stolen
In 2013-14 1 million people using Montana Department of Public Health and Human Servic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Meduna | Alexander Meduna (born 1957 in Olomouc, Czech Republic) is a theoretical computer scientist and expert on compiler design, formal languages and automata. He is a professor of Computer Science at the Brno University of Technology. Formerly, he taught theoretical computer science at various European and American universities, including the University of Missouri, where he spent a decade teaching advanced topics of formal language theory. He is the author of several books and over sixty papers related to the subject matter.
Meduna is also an artist, who is primarily interested in visual art. He had several exhibitions in the USA and Europe. He often performs poetry reading as well.
Publications
References
External links
Official website
Publications at DBLP Database
Springer Link
Author Page on Amazon.com
Living people
Czech computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20New%20Play%20Network | The National New Play Network (NNPN) is the United States' "alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays.". It was founded in 1998 by David Goldman.
Programs
Rolling World Premieres
NNPN's flagship program, the Rolling World Premiere program is a unique model of developing and producing new plays across the country. Each RWP supports three or more theaters that choose to mount the same new play within a 12-month period, allowing the playwright to develop a new work with multiple creative teams in multiple communities. The playwright is part of the process, working on the script and making adjustments based on what is learned from each production and from each city. To-date, NNPN has produced over 85 Rolling World Premieres, totaling over 275 productions.
New Play Exchange
The New Play Exchange is the world's largest database of plays by living writers. Launched in 2015, the database has grown to include more than 24,000 scripts by more than 6,00 authors.
Residencies
Producers-in-Residence
In 2011, NNPN established its Producers in Residence program to support season-long residencies at NNPN Core Member theaters for individuals who wish dedicate their careers (or the next phase of their careers) to the creation and production of new work. Selected producers are given a home within a professional theater in which they can supplement their skills, increase their knowledge of the day to day operations of a company focused on new work, and be introduced as theater-makers to a community.
National Showcase of New Plays
Established in 2002, The National Showcase of New Plays is an annual 3-day event that showcases unproduced plays from across the country. Artistic leaders, literary managers, and other staff from Member Theaters, as well as literary agents, publishers, and independent producers are invited to attend.
Commissions
NNPN annually gives two major commissions.
The Annual Commission is a $10,000 award given to at least one proposal each year. Core Members nominate proposals for consideration, and the winning Member Theater is responsible for the administration and development of the commissioned play.
The NNPN Smith Prize for American Theatre is a $5,000 award nominated by a Member Theater and given to an early-career playwright who has been a participant in other NNPN programs to write a play examining the American body politic. The Member Theater who submits the nomination earns up to $2,500 for a developmental workshop of the play. Additionally, the first theater to full produce the commissioned play is awarded an additional $2,500.
Member theatres
References
Theatrical organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVgo | EVgo is an electric vehicle DC fast charging station network in the United States, with more than 850 charging locations . The company's charge stations are located in 34 states and are compatible with all major auto manufacturers.
History
EVgo originally started in 2010 as a clean energy push for regulatory compliance at NRG Energy. By 2016, EVgo was sold to investment group Vision Ridge Partners, and then again, in 2020, to LS Power.
In July 2021, EVgo acquired Recargo, the California company which develops the PlugShare electric vehicle charging station locator application, for US$25 million.
In June 2022, the company announced a partnership with General Motors (GM) to expand compatibility and access for GM vehicles.
At the annual CES tech trade show in January 2023, EVgo announced a partnership with online retailer Amazon to allow drivers with Alexa-equipped cars to locate, schedule and pay for charging using Alexa, with a planned roll-out later in 2023.
The company installed its 1000th fast DC charger on August 1, 2023, in Woodridge, Illinois.
Equipment
EVgo charging stations use CCS Combo 1 and CHAdeMO connectors, and at some locations North American Charging Standard (Tesla) connectors. (Tesla drivers can also use their own CCS and CHAdeMO adapters).
In 2022, EVgo launched Plug and Charge for compatible General Motors vehicles, and Autocharge+ for compatible Tesla vehicles when using a CCS adapter. These protocols automatically arrange for payment when a car is plugged in.
EVgo stations tend to be located at convenience stores and other retail establishments which already have parking lots, allowing drivers to make purchases while their cars are charging. It is also receiving funding to build stations near apartment buildings in California, among other government accelerated-build programs. EVgo also provides chargers for a fleet of Kenworth T680E semi-tractor trailers at the Fontana, California facility of logistics company MHX. Various government agencies and car manufactures have discount programs on the EVgo network, as do ridehailing companies Uber and Lyft.
See also
Charging station
Electric vehicle network
References
External links
EVgo
Charging stations
Electric vehicle infrastructure developers
Companies based in Los Angeles
Technology companies based in California
American companies established in 2010
Companies listed on the Nasdaq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNL%20Onstage | TNL Onstage is an annual music talent competition based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, organised by the TNL Radio Network. It is currently in its seventeenth season. The competition takes place over a four-month period, during which the participants (musicians and artists from all musical genres) undergo a training programme inclusive of workshops, training sessions and one-on-one work with established musicians.
TNL Onstage commenced in 1999. The inaugural winners of the competition was rock 'n' roll band, Independent Square.
In 2013 the competition won the 'Most Fashionable Contest' award at the Fashion Asia Awards held in China., a category assessing events from Malaysia, Taiwan, Cambodia, Thailand and China.
The 2014 finale of TNL Onstage took place on 13 September 2014 at the Viharamahadevi Amphitheater, with the winner of the soloist category, Nikhil, Constellation winning the best band category and DJ Hiranya winning the spin off category.
The Competition
Each year, musicians from around Sri Lanka submit recorded demos to TNL Radio Network. Station staff listen to the demos and make their first selections. Those chosen are called and given the opportunity to compete in the first round of Onstage. Judges evaluate musicians during each round on the basis of musicality.
At the end of Onstage, one winner is selected for each of the following categories:
Best Band, Best Soloist, and Best Musician. The winners are awarded cash prizes.
Past winners
Independent Square won the title for Best Band at the first TNL Onstage competition in 1999.
Soul Skinner won the title of Best Band at TNL Onstage 2004. The band subsequently released their debut EP titled 'River Flow' to a highly receptive audience, resulting in a sold out release. Their debut album 'Gateway to Eternity' was released in 2005 and featured original tracks including Illusions, War at mind, Angel Dust, Chaotic Symphony and the title track Gateway to Eternity.
Tantrum the Colombo based heavy metal band, won Best Band at TNL Onstage 2005. In 2006, they released their first EP, The Destruction Begins.
Magic Box Mixup got their start in 2005, and went on to win the People’s Choice Award at TNL Onstage in 2006. The band is currently one of the most popular English language bands in Sri Lanka.
The Rebels were named a runner-up at TNL Onstage 2008.
Road Kill won Best Band at TNL Onstage in 2011.
Magician’s Toolbox won best band at TNL Onstage in 2012. The band also won for Best Original Song.
Audacity won the title of Best Band in 2013. They were the first female band to do so in the history of the competition.
Constellation won best band TNL Onstage in 2014. Constellation created history in winning all major awards that year, which were Best Musician, Best Original Song, Best Look and the most prestigious award of the night, Best Band. Constellation was the first band to achieve this feat.
Legacy
TNL Onstage has become a major staple of the music industry in Sri Lanka. Many professio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASD%20OptiPlant | OptiPlant is a computer-aided engineering (CAE) software application for 3D conceptual design. OptiPlant is manufactured and sold by ASD Global. OptiPlant is a 3D knowledge based automation tool with 3D parametric modeling of equipment and structures, interference-free pipe router and tray router, and engineering analytics solely for Microsoft Windows Operating system.
Overview
Features
OptiPlant's features include 3D parametric modeling of equipment and structures, 3D interference-free auto-routing of pipe, tray, and conduit, as well as automated engineering analysis for stress, and hydraulics.
Modeling
OptiPlant provides multiple methods to model 3D equipment and structures. There is a library of pre-defined equipment and structures for a pick and place approach. Or users can load dimensional data through excel files for automated 3D modeling.
Plot-Plan Layout Rules or Equipment Layout Rules enable the user to check for the spacing between any objects modeled in OptiPlant for the confirmation against their project's safety and maintenance standards or against PIP spacing standards.
Auto Routing
Many companies have attempted development of automatic routing technology for piping and other commodities. One of the approaches followed was vector shooting or definitions of pre-defined paths supported by rules which had to be entered by the user. This approach processes quickly but limits the usage to specific types of facilities and requires a huge amount of time for the user to build in the rules. Ultimately the benefits of automation are then not realized because the user has spent so much time with the rules. Also the final results from this approach have not shown high levels of accuracy.
Another approach followed was the generate-and-test approaches where a trial route is generated and tested for satisfaction of constraints. This also leads to unpredictable results where each route has to be validated.
OptiPlant's approach leveraged a full space search using a robotics-based algorithm from Stanford University. This approach employs an A* search algorithm with embedded constraint knowledge to find the best sequence of nodes between the start and end of the route. A* search is widely used algorithm for path finding and is recognized for is performance and accuracy. It uses a best-first search and finds a least cost path from a given initial node to a goal node. It traverses the graph to follow a path of the lowest total cost or distance. It also leverages a knowledge plus heuristic cost function of each node. The embedded constraints spans data related to the engineering of the system, to the spatial and mechanical requirements and to the overall cost of the final result. Therefore, the results are highly accurate, and the algorithm can be applied in all types of industrial facilities from offshore, onshore, chemical, and power facilities.
Interoperability
OptiPlant provides extended interface capability in the form of DATA EXCHANG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20Mogenet | Emmanuel Mogenet (born 1967) is a software engineer and one of the investors and advisors behind Daedalean AI, a company dedicated to artificial intelligence for safety critical aviation applications.
Mogenet is also a former senior engineering director at Google Inc. and, until May 2018, lead Google Research Europe, Google's Zürich-based Machine Intelligence Research Center. Before that, he was head of Google's Zürich Search Team.
Born and raised in France, Mogenet received an engineering degree with a specialization in computer science from École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne and an M.S. degree from Jean Monnet University, both in 1990.
Mogenet started his career in the field of computer graphics and special effects. He worked in France, Singapore, Japan and the United States for various companies, including Thomson-CSF, Silicon Graphics, Sony Picture Imageworks, Nothing Real and Apple.
In 1996, with a group of friends from Sony Pictures Imageworks, he co-founded Nothing Real, a software company that produced the digital compositing application Shake. Nothing Real was acquired in 2002 by Apple
In 2006, he left Apple to join Google to work on the core search engine.He was with Google until May 2018, where he worked as senior engineering director, leading the Google European Research center in Zürich, Switzerland. with a strong focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
References
External links
Living people
Google employees
1967 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linter | Linter may refer to:
Places
Linter, Belgium, a municipality located in the province of Flemish Brabant
Linter, a neighborhood of Limburg an der Lahn, Germany
Computing and technology
Linter (software), a tool to analyze and find problems in source code.
Linter SQL RDBMS, database system
Linter Group, Australian textiles company
Linter, a machine for removing the short fibers from cotton seeds after ginning.
Surname
Dmitri Linter (born 1973), Estonian political activist
Juliana Emma Linter, British conchologist
See also
Lint (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESOS | ESOS may refer to:
The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme - a UK scheme compatible with the EU Energy Efficiency Directive
Enterprise Storage OS - a Linux distribution that serves storage area networks
Earth Simulator Operating System - the operating system for the Earth Simulator supercomputer
The Educational Services for Overseas Students Act 2000 or ESOS Act 2000, relevant to Education in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20Patil | Dhanurjay "DJ" Patil (born August 3, 1974) is an American mathematician and computer scientist who served as the Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2015 to 2017. He is the Head of Technology for Devoted Health.
He previously served as the Vice President of Product at RelateIQ, which was acquired by Salesforce.com, as Chief Product Officer of Color Labs, and as Head of Data Products and Chief Scientist of LinkedIn. His father, Suhas Patil, is a venture capitalist and the founder of Cirrus Logic.
Early life and education
Patil attended Kennedy Middle School, Monta Vista High School and De Anza College, all in Cupertino, California. While at Kennedy, he participated in a student exchange program, visiting Toyokawa, Cupertino's sister city in Japan, in 1988. In high school, he often got into trouble and graduated in 1992 near the bottom of his class. He followed his girlfriend to De Anza Community College, which he attended for one year. He earned a B.A. in mathematics from Earl Warren College at University of California, San Diego. He received a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. While a faculty member at University of Maryland College Park, he used open datasets published by NOAA to improve numerical weather forecasting.
Career
Patil has held positions at LinkedIn, Greylock Partners, Skype, PayPal, and eBay.
2004
In 2004, Patil worked in the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office in the Department of Defense. He served as the project leader for the Threat Anticipation Project. His role was to anticipate threats connected to and surrounding terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and failed states (with an emphasis on human rights violations), employing social network analysis to help anticipate these threats. Patil described himself as part of “the second wave of people” who were to use data to detect signalled noise, a concern which grew following the 9/11 attacks.
2011
While a data-scientist-in-residence at Greylock Partners, Patil produced “Building Data Science Teams.” The book provides advice and strategies on creating data science teams in business and technology. It was published by O'Reilly Media.
2012
Patil wrote “Data Jujitsu--The art of turning data into product”, also while a data-scientist-in-residence at Greylock Partners. The book gives instructions as to solving data science problems and whether they are "worth solving" at all. It was also published by O'Reilly Media.
2015–2017
On February 18, 2015, the White House announced Patil would be the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist (Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist). In addresses to the public, Patil explained: "The mission of the U.S. Chief Data Scientist, simply put, is to responsibly unleash the power of data to benefit all Americans." He added that his team's priority was to do so by creating data.
In a memoran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huitema | Huitema is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Christian Huitema (born 1953), French computer scientist
Durkje Huitema (1918-2010), Dutch speed skater
Jan Huitema (born 1984), Dutch politician
Jordyn Huitema (born 2001), Canadian soccer player
Dutch-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JLN | JLN may refer to one of the following:
JLN Corporation, owned by Janet Lim-Napoles
Joplin Regional Airport, Missouri, US, IATA code
Jacqui Lambie Network, a minor Australian political party |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritz%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Cybergold%2C%20Inc. | Maritz, Inc. v. Cybergold, Inc., 947 F. Supp. 1328 (E.D. Mo. 1996), was a personal jurisdiction case in which the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled that operator of website, for which server was located in California, was subject to personal jurisdiction in Missouri under "commission of a tortious act" provision of Missouri's long-arm statute, §506.500 RSMo. The case was brought before the court by Marits, Inc. alleging that the Cybergold's use of mark for advertising internet site was a trademark infringement. Cybergold moved to dismiss the suit for lack of personal jurisdiction, but the court found that the operational nature of the Internet based service provided a connection for Cybergold to be sued in Missouri.
Background
Factual background
Cybergold Inc., the defendant, was a California based corporation. The company created a website, www.cybergold.com, to promote its upcoming Internet service. The service consisted in maintain a mailing list of internet users who were willing to receive mailing in areas of their particular interest. Some of those users could be located in the state of Missouri. Cybergold provided to the users in its mail list an electronic mailbox and was planning forward advertisements for products and services that matched the users' interests to those electronic mailboxes. Cybergold business model considered to charge advertisers and to provide users with incentives to view the advertisements. At the time of the law suit, the service was not yet operational. The plaintiff asserted that Cybergold's website acted as a state-wide advertisement for CyberGold's forthcoming internet service and that through this website CyberGold was actively soliciting advertising customers from Missouri. Cybergold had no other contacts with the state of Missouri.
Maritz, Inc., the plaintiff, was a Missouri based corporation. It offered an identical online service through its own website at www.goldmail.com. Maritz apparently announced its "GoldMail" online marketing services prior to Cybergold's operation of its competing website.
Since Cybergold has set up its website, the website was accessed through internet users located in Missouri at least 311 times – 180 of the 311 times were by Maritz and its employees.
Proceeding background
Maritz brought the action before its home forum of Missouri alleging that California-based Cybergold was engaged in trademark infringement and unfair competition in violation of Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) by using the mark "CyberGold", which was confusingly similar to its mark "GoldMail" for identical online services. Cybergold filed a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue pursuant to the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(2).
Issues
Whether the court of Missouri had personal jurisdiction on the basis that Cybergold's use of alleged mark on its online services, which can be reached by consumers in Missouri |
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