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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Seventh%20Dwarf | The Seventh Dwarf (), is a German 3D computer-animated film, created in 2014. The film is based upon the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty and characters from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It is a sequel to the films 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood (2004) and 7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough (2006), and is the first animated film in the series. The film was released in cinemas on 25 September 2014 in Germany and on 31 July 2015 in the United States. The director Harald Siepermann died in February 2013 during the production of the film.
Plot
In the castle Fantabularasa there is a big celebration for the 18th birthday of Princess Rose, who has been cursed by the evil ice fairy, Dellamorta. If she is pricked with a sharp object before midnight, the whole kingdom will sleep for one hundred years. Thus, the princess is required to wear armor. Everything goes according to plan until clumsy Bobo, the seventh dwarf, makes a big mistake and Dellamorta's curse is fulfilled. Only with a kiss of true love the curse can be stopped, but Dellamorta captures the kitchen boy, Jack, who loves Rose. With the help of a dragon named Burner, the dwarves search for "Prince Charming".
Cast
Almost all performers of the first two films gave their characters their voices.
Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 22% based on 9 reviews,and an average rating of 5/10. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 20 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
Soundtrack
Track list (Soundtrack)
‘Hauptthema I’
‘Bakery Song’ (Kuchenback Lied)
‘Kuchenschlacht’
‘Hey, Dwarves ...’ (Hey Zwerge)
‘Ankunft im Schloss’
‘Happy Birthday’
‘Dellamorta's Tango’
‘Waffen!’
‘Merman Rap’ (Meermänner Rap)
‘Freundschaft’
‘Take a Chance’ (Gib dir ne Chance)
‘Pfeifen & Barbershop’
‘Fairy Tales’ (Manchmal werden Märchen wahr)
‘Size Doesn't Matter’
‘Burner entdeckt Bubi’
‘Schlittenfahrt’
‘Der Hoftüftler’
‘Das Drachentor’
‘Geh nicht weiter’
‘Schlosswalzer’
‘Der Fluch’
‘Eisriese’
‘Hauptthema II’
References
External links
Universal Pictures animated films
2014 films
2014 computer-animated films
German children's films
2010s German-language films
Animated films based on Snow White
Seven Dwarfs
2010s German films
German computer-animated films
German animated comedy films
German parody films
Fairy tale parody films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Am%20Chris%20Farley | I Am Chris Farley is a 2015 documentary film based on the life of comedian and actor Chris Farley, co-directed by Brent Hodge of Hodgee Films and Derik Murray, who was also a producer, of Network Entertainment. The production features interviews with numerous actors, comedians and others who worked with Farley during his career.
Premise
This documentary on the life of comedian Chris Farley follows the growth of Farley's career from his first production at a summer camp in Wisconsin to the movies. The film focuses on the importance of The Second City and Saturday Night Live in his career.
Featured cast of subjects
Christina Applegate
Tom Arnold
Dan Aykroyd
Lorri Bagley
Bo Derek
John P. Farley
Kevin Farley
Pat Finn
Jon Lovitz
Lorne Michaels
Jay Mohr
Mike Myers
Bob Odenkirk
Bob Saget
Adam Sandler
Will Sasso
Molly Shannon
David Spade
Brian Stack
Fred Wolf
Production and release
The film has been largely advertised on the Hodgee Films social media pages on Facebook and Instagram and was first announced on the official Chris Farley Facebook page on September 19, 2013.
The film's TV premiere was August 10, 2015 on Spike TV and had a simultaneous release on DVD/Blu-ray and digital download.
Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 31 reviews, with an average rating of 6.53/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "I Am Chris Farley lives up to its title by taking a poignant look at the life of the deceased star that should prove affecting and illuminating for novicers and longtime fans alike." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Reviewer Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film three out of four stars, calling the film "a love letter" to Farley and said that Farley "probably would have been embarrassed and a bit shy about the whole thing. But he would have loved the attention. He would have smiled and laughed. And sometimes that’s enough." Film critic Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+, calling it "skillfully helmed" by directors Brent Hodge and Derik Murray.
References
External links
Documentary films about actors
Documentary films about comedy and comedians
Films directed by Brent Hodge
Films directed by Derik Murray
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Patison | Robert Eugene "Bob" Patison (born July 2, 1956) is an American corporate executive who serves as President of MAVTV Motorsports Network as well as Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of Lucas Oil Products, Inc. His corporate responsibilities include overseeing Lucas Oil Production Studios and Team Lucas marketing and advertising programs.
Early life
A longtime member of the State Bar of California, Patison graduated from Western State College of Law in Fullerton, California in 1984 and entered private practice, joining a now-defunct local law partnership as a junior partner. Among the law partnership’s smaller clients were the legal needs of Forrest and Charlotte Lucas, who were transitioning out of the long-haul trucking business. Patison took over legal services for them, including for the founding of Lucas Oil Products, Inc., in 1985. Lucas hired Patison to oversee Lucas Oil corporate operations and become second in command of the rapidly expanding company in 1994.
Lucas Oil Production Studios
Patison also oversees the development of Lucas Oil Production Studios, which has grown to produce more than 300 hours of television annually for CBS, CBS Sports, NBC, NBC Sports and MAVTV. Productions include the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Lucas Oil Pro Pulling Series, Lucas Oil Modified Series presented by LoanMart, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series presented by GEICO, the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Series, the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals and The Dave Despain Show, along with live broadcasts of both the 250 and 450 classes opening motos for the entire 12-round Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship series. Other entities falling under the Patison umbrella include Lucas Oil Speedway, Lucas I-10 Speedway, and a presence in the Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts.
MAVTV
In 2011 when Forrest Lucas purchased the controlling interest in the MAVTV television network, he appointed Patison as president, with the responsibility of managing day-to-day operations including network growth, programming and production. MAVTV's programming is available in 68 million households across the US.
Family
Since 1978, Bob Patison has been married to his wife Dawn, the Operations Director at Lucas Oil Productions. They are the parents of Jason and Christin. Jason is the Director of Programming for MAVTV and an established motor racing star in NASCAR's Super Late Model Series. Christin is a field producer for Lucas Oil Production Studios.
References
External links
Lucas Oil
MAVTV
1956 births
Living people
Western State University College of Law alumni
California State University, Fullerton alumni
American businesspeople in the oil industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipak%20Kalra | Dipak Kalra (born 18 July 1959, London, UK) is President of the European Institute for Health Records and of the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data. He undertakes international research and standards development, and advises on adoption strategies, relating to Electronic Health Records.
Education
Dipak Kalra studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, and specialized in General Practice. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He worked as a London GP for a decade before specializing in Health Informatics. He obtained a PhD in Health Informatics in 2003 and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Career
Kalra plays a leading international role in research and development of Electronic Health Record architectures and systems, including the requirements and models needed to ensure the robust long-term preservation of clinical meaning and protection of privacy. He leads the development of CEN (European Committee for Standardization) and ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standards on EHR interoperability, personal health records, EHR requirements, and has contributed to several EHR security and confidentiality standards.
He has led multiple European projects in these areas, including Horizon 2020 and the IMI programme alongside pharma companies, hospitals and ICT companies. He recently co-led a €16m project on the re-use of EHR information for clinical research, EHR4CR, alongside ten global pharma. He is a partner in another IMI project, EMIF, on the development of a European clinical research platform federating multiple population health and cohort studies. Dipak also led an EU Network of Excellence on semantic interoperability, and is a partner in other EU projects on the sustainability of interoperability assets, the transatlantic sharing of patient summaries and quality labelling.
Dipak is President of the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (www.i-HD.eu), which seeks to drive best practices in the trustworthy use of high quality and interoperable health data by all stakeholders, for optimising health and knowledge discovery. He is also President of the European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec), which is the coordinator or a partner in many EC projects on electronic health record quality and systems accreditation, interoperability and the uses of health data for research. EuroRec leads a network of national ProRec Centres which promote good quality EHR system adoption across Europe.
Dipak Kalra is Professor of Health Informatics at University College London and Visiting Professor of Health Informatics at Ghent University.
Dipak is a member of multiple standards bodies including BSI Group, CEN, ISO and HL7-UK (International HL7 Implementations).
Dipak was a founding Director of the openEHR Foundation, a not-for-profit company which exists to promote and publish, via the Web, the formal specification of requirements for electronic health record infor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20science | Internet science is an interdisciplinary science that examines all aspects of the co-evolution in Internet networks and society. It works in the intersection of and in the gaps among a wide range of disciplines that have had to respond to the impact of the Internet on their 'home turf' and/or offer specific conceptual or methodological contributions. These include many natural sciences (e.g., complexity science, computer science, engineering, life sciences, mathematics, physics, psychology, statistics, systems and evolutionary biology), social sciences (e.g. anthropology, economics, philosophy, sociology, and political science), humanities (e.g., art, history, linguistics, literature and history) and some existing interdisciplines that cross traditional Faculty boundaries (e.g., technology, medicine, law). Professor Noshir Contractor and others have located it at the intersection of computational social science, network science, network engineering and Web science. By understanding the role of society in shaping Internet networks and being shaped by them Internet science aims to take care of the Internet in a way similar to that in which Web science aims to take care of the Web. The lingua franca in this interdisciplinary area include Internet standards and associated implementation, social processes, Internet infrastructure and policy.
Many disciplines support Internet science with different analysis tools, designs, and languages. To have a productive and effective dialogue between disciplines requires incentives for cooperation. The three main elements of Internet science are: multidisciplinary convergence, observability and constructive experimentation.
The European Commission funded a Network of Excellence on Internet Science (project acronym EINS) over the period December 2011-May 2015 under the FP7 funding programme. The Network in May 2015 had 48 member universities and research organisations and 180 individual affiliate researchers. Two major international Internet science conferences were held in April 2013 and May 2015 together with an unconference at the University of Bologna in May 2014 and official workshops at international academic conferences such as Human Behavior and the Evolution of Society and international inter-governmental and multistakeholder conferences such as the 2013 United Nations Internet Governance Forum.
Research
Significant areas of current Internet science research include:
Net neutrality
Net neutrality is the rule where Internet service providers should treat all the traffic on their networks equally. This means that companies should not slow down access or block any website content on the Web. In the United States, high-speed Internet service providers (ISPs), including AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon, have sought support for a two-tiered Internet service model.
In 2014, President Obama announced a new plan to preserve "net neutrality" and to prevent Internet service providers from blocking or sl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby%20ZR-84 | Hobby ZR-84 was an educational and home computer developed by MICROSYS Beočin in SFRY (now Serbia) in 1984.
Specifications
CPU: Z80A running at 4 MHz
ROM: 12 KB BASIC
Primary memory: 16 KB (expandable up to 48 KB)
Secondary storage: cassette tape, floppy drive
Display: text mode 16 lines with 64 characters each; low-res graphics mode 128x48
Sound: separate board
I/O ports: composite and RF video, cassette tape storage, and expansion connector
References
External links
http://forum.benchmark.rs/showthread.php?323083-Hobby-ZR-84-intervju
Home computers
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATADVANCE | DATADVANCE Is a software development company, evolved out of a collaborative research program between Airbus and Institute for Information Transmission Problems.
Product
pSeven Core, embedded in company main product pSeven, provides unique proprietary and state-of-the-art algorithms for dimension reduction, design of experiments, sensitivity analysis, meta-modeling, uncertainty quantification as well as modern single, multi-objective and robust optimization strategies.
References
External links
Computer system optimization software
Mathematical optimization software
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquantia%20Corporation | Aquantia Corporation was a manufacturer of high-speed transceivers. In 2004, Aquantia Corporation was founded and first made products for Data Center connectivity, and in 2012 developed the world's first integrated 10GBASE-T MAC/PHY for servers. In 2014, Aquantia introduced a new Ethernet technology into the Enterprise Infrastructure market and was joined by Cisco and others in co-founding the NBASE-T Alliance. Their Multi-Gig technology served as the baseline for the 802.3bz standard that was ratified by the IEEE in September 2016. This standard is now the basis for all new Multi-Gig implementations on Cat 5e and Cat 6 cabling in the Enterprise, SMB and SoHo environments.
In 2016 Aquantia introduced the first 100G technology, QuantumStream.
It won Company of the Year at the 2014 annual Creativity in Electronics awards, and was ranked by Deloitte Fast 500 as the fastest-growing semiconductor company in North America in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2016, Aquantia was named a finalist in UBM Tech’s EE Times and EDN Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards for “Company of the Year".
The company was acquired by Marvell Technology Group on September 19, 2019. The Aquantia brand was since phased out and replaced with Marvell brand. Aquantia's website was, for short time, redirecting to Marvell's website, but then it was shut down completely.
Acquisitions
Aquantia acquired the 10GBASE-T assets of PLX Technology in September 2012. PLX had picked them up in September 2010 from Teranetics.
References
External links
(archived)
Semiconductor companies of the United States
Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
2004 establishments in California
Companies based in Milpitas, California
2017 initial public offerings
2019 mergers and acquisitions
2019 disestablishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Photos | Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. It was announced in May 2015 and spun off from Google+, the company's former social network.
Google Photos shares the 15 gigabytes of free storage space with other Google services, such as Google Drive and Gmail. Users can upload their photos and videos in either quality setting, original or compressed (photos and videos up to 16 megapixels and 1080p resolution, respectively), that will count towards the free storage tier (compressed items uploaded before June 1, 2021, along with items uploaded via Pixel phones released before that date, are unlimited). Users can expand their storage through paid Google One subscriptions.
The service automatically analyzes photos, identifying various visual features and subjects. Users can search for anything in photos, with the service returning results from three major categories: People, Places, and Things. The computer vision of Google Photos recognizes faces (not only those of humans, but pets as well), grouping similar ones together (this feature is only available in certain countries due to privacy laws); geographic landmarks (such as the Eiffel Tower); and subject matter, including birthdays, buildings, animals, food, and more.
Different forms of machine learning in the Photos service allow recognition of photo contents, automatically generate albums, animate similar photos into quick videos, surface past memories at significant times, and improve the quality of photos and videos. In May 2017, Google announced several updates to Google Photos, including reminders for and suggested sharing of photos, shared photo libraries between two users, and physical albums. Photos automatically suggested collections based on face, location, trip, or other distinction.
Google Photos received critical acclaim after its decoupling from Google+ in 2015. Reviewers praised the updated Photos service for its recognition technology, search, apps, and loading times. Nevertheless, privacy concerns were raised, including Google's motivation for building the service, as well as its relationship to governments and possible laws requiring Google to hand over a user's entire photo history. Google Photos has seen strong user adoption. It reached 100 million users after five months, 200 million after one year, 500 million after two years, and passed the 1 billion user mark in 2019, four years after its initial launch. Google reports as of 2020, approximately 28 billion photos and videos are uploaded to the service every week, and more than 4 trillion photos are stored in the service total.
History
Google Photos is the standalone successor to the photo features previously embedded in Google+, the company's social network. Google launched the social network to compete with Facebook, but the service never became as popular as Facebook for social networking and photo sharing. Google+ offered photo storage and organizational tools that surpassed Facebook's in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Things | Android Things is a deprecated Android-based embedded operating system platform by Google, announced at Google I/O 2015, and launched in 2018. Android Things Dashboard shutdown began on January 5, 2021. After January 5, 2022, Android Things Dashboard has been shut down completely and all remaining data has been deleted.
Originally, Android Things was aimed for low-power and memory constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but in 2019 the project dropped support for low-power hardware and refocused on smartphone-class devices.
History
Pre-release
During Google I/O 2015, Google announced an upcoming Android-based embedded operating system platform, codenamed Brillo. At the time, project aimed to support low-memory devices with as little as 32-64 MB of RAM. Brillo platform was not just an OS for IoT devices, but instead a complete software stack with cloud component which included management console for device provisioning and update delivery. Brillo supported Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy and Weave protocol for communicating with cloud (including update delivery), communication with Android phones, and other compatible devices (including Google Nest products).
In 2016, Google revamped Brillo under the new name Android Things.
Originally, Android Things was aimed for low-power and memory constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which are usually built from different MCU platforms.
Release
In 2018, Android Things was officially released, with version number 1.0. At the same time, multiple OEMs (including JBL, Lenovo, and LG Electronics) released smart home devices powered by Android Things. These devices were based on two Qualcomm "Home Hub" systems-on-chip solutions and Google-provided implementations of Android Things tailored for Google Assistant-powered smart speakers and displays.
In February 2019, Android Things refocused on smart speakers and displays. The project dropped support for resource-constrained IoT devices and changed focus to smartphone-class devices.
Shutdown
In December 2020, Android Things Dashboard FAQ page was quietly updated with a notice about upcoming Android Things shut down. Android Things Dashboard stopped accepting new device registrations and projects on January 5, 2021, and stopped distributing updates on January 5, 2022 (at which point "the console will be turned down completely and all project data will be permanently deleted — including build configurations and factory images.")
References
External links
2015 software
Android (operating system)
Cloud clients
Embedded Linux
Embedded operating systems
Google operating systems
Internet of things
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse%20Labs | Lighthouse Labs is a tech education company that offers 12-week boot camps for web development and data science, as well as part-time up-skilling courses, with locations across Canada. In previous years, they organized an annual free learn-to-code event, The HTML500, in partnership with Telus.
Locations
Vancouver
Opened in 2013, Lighthouse Labs' first immersive boot camp facility started out of Launch Academy, an incubator in the heart of the city's Gastown neighborhood, before moving to new premises in the heart of downtown Vancouver in 2018. Students learn front and back-end development through the boot camp's web development full-time program and learn data science with a 12-week Data Science Bootcamp.
The iOS program, launched in July 2014, was arguably Canada's first immersive iOS immersive program and ran through the summer of 2019.
Toronto
As part of a national partnership with Highline, a seed-stage investment platform, Lighthouse Labs announced the launch of its Toronto operations during The HTML500 in February 2015. Located in Devhub in downtown Toronto, Lighthouse Labs joins existing Toronto-based boot camps such as Bitmaker Labs, BrainStation, and HackerYou, as one of several developer boot camps that offer in-person learning opportunities to individuals in the Greater Toronto Area.
Montreal
Operating out of the beautiful Spaces Mile End, Lighthouse Labs Montreal currently offers a 12-week Data Science Bootcamp, 12-week Web Development Bootcamp, and three part-time courses in web development and data analytics.
Victoria
Located in downtown Victoria at KWENCH, Lighthouse Labs immersed themselves in the local tech community by partnering with various community Tech leaders such as Viatech and Ladies Learning code. The Victoria location currently runs the web development boot camp and data science boot camp twice a year and three 6-week part-time web and data analytics programs.
Calgary
In April 2015, Lighthouse Labs launched a 'pop-up' program in Calgary through its national partnership with Highline, a co-venture platform that helps early-stage digital startups. Originally a 6-week part-time program, it has grown into a satellite campus offering full- and part-time courses in front- and back-end development.[8][9] With on-site mentorship and access to student aid and in-person career services, Lighthouse Labs have seen its cohort numbers grow over the past year.
Ottawa
Lighthouse Labs hosts their part-time courses at Bayview Yards and hosts a Bootcamp to become a developer in 12 weeks at Spaces Laurier.
See also
Coursera
The Data Incubator
Codecademy
Khan Academy
General Assembly
Lynda.com
App Academy
Bloc (code school)
References
External links
Lighthouse Labs website
Computer programming
Computer science education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.E.S.%20College%2C%20Sreekandapuram |
Courses Offered- Unaided
B.Com Computer Application
BCA
B A English
Courses offered - Aided
B.Sc. Mathematics
B.Sc Physics
B.Sc Chemistry
B.A. Economics
B.A English
B.B.A
B.Com Corporation
MCJ
Affiliation
S.E.S. College is affiliated to the Kannur University.
Notable alumni
K. V. Sumesh, Member of Kerala Legislative Assembly
References
Colleges in Kerala
Universities and colleges in Kannur district
Colleges affiliated to Kannur University
Educational institutions established in 1981
1981 establishments in Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal%20CPU | Baikal CPU was a line of MIPS and ARM-based microprocessors developed by fabless design firm Baikal Electronics, a spin-off of the Russian supercomputer company T-Platforms.
Design
Judging by the information available from online sources Baikal Electronics have selected a different approach compared to other Russian microprocessor initiatives such as the Elbrus-2SM, Elbrus-8S by MCST, and the Multiclet line of chips. The design by Baikal Electronics is based on existing commercial IP Cores from Imagination Technologies and ARM Holdings, compared to the more innovative approach of Multiclet, and the Elbrus CPU which has a history dating back to the Elbrus supercomputers from the Soviet Union.
Company's history
The Baikal Electronics company was established on January 11, 2012, as a daughter entity of T-Platforms and was registered as a public joint-stock company. T-NANO, a future investor in Baikal Electronics, registered on march 3, 2012 as a joint venture of T-Platformi (50.5 %) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (49.5 %).
In May 2012 Grigoriy Khrenov joined the company as the CTO. He is D.Sc. and formerly had been a Deputy Chief Designer at Micron Technology, then an Engineering Director at Cadence Design Systems.
In August 2021 TSMC was contracted for chip production, but such production was banned by sanctions adopted in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In August 2023, Baikal Electronics entered bankruptcy.
US sanctions, MIPS architecture chosen
Since March 8, 2013, the parent company T-Platforms was placed under US sanctions, which suspended the planned licensing agreement with ARM Ltd. Soon, on March 23, the ownership structure was changed: T-Platforms got 37.17 %, Rusnano through the Russian Direct Investment Fund - 62.83 %. For the first processor being developed (Baikal-T1 or BE-T1000) MIPS architecture by Imagination Technologies and 28 nm process were chosen. On December 31, 2013, US sanctions were lifted and a Technology License Agreement with ARM Ltd. was arranged on February 20, 2014.
On may 27, 2014 T-Nano formally became an investor in the development, production and sales of Baikal processors in a tri-party agreement between T-Nano, Baikal Electronics and T-Platforms. The exact amount invested is unknown, however, T-Nano received 1.2B rubles upon its creation and T-Platforms had plans for 800M invested.
In June, 2014 T-Nano received 25 % + 1 shares of the company while T-Platforms' part decreased to 75 % - 1 shares.
March, 2015, Synopsys Inc. announced that Baikal Electronics has selected Synopsys Solutions to accelerate design and verification of their advanced System on chips.
May, 2015, Baikal Electronics and Imagination Technologies announced that the first commercial Baikal microprocessor will be based on the MIPS Warrior P5600, and it will be called Baikal-T1. The first samples of the new CPU will be available starting from June, 2015.
ARM architecture, Baikal-M
Following this agreement in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%20Rosa | Marek Rosa is a Slovak entrepreneur, programmer, and computer game developer. He is known as the CEO and founder of Keen Software House, an independent video game design studio, and CEO, Founder, and CTO of GoodAI, a company dedicated to the research and development of general artificial intelligence. Both companies are based in Prague, the Czech Republic, and have their headquarters in the historical Oranžérie.
Keen Software House
Marek started as a programmer working independently on the Miner Wars games and the VRAGE engine. In 2010 he founded Keen Software House.
Miner Wars
In 2012, Keen Software House release their first video game, Miner Wars Arena. Later that year they released their second game, Miner Wars 2081.
Space Engineers
Keen Software House and Marek gained notoriety for their third game Space Engineers, which has sold over 4 million copies. Space Engineers is a voxel-based sandbox game that launched on Steam Early Access on October 23, 2013, and fully released on February 28, 2019.
Space Engineers presents the player with an open world sandbox that is defined by the players own creativity. Based on real science, Space Engineers features a realistic, volumetric-based physics engine: everything in the game can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed.
During the majority of its developmental life, Space Engineers was updated on a weekly basis based on stated development goals and community feedback. Since initial launch it experienced major updates adding survival mode, multiplayer, dedicated server support, planets, and more. Space Engineers is open to community creation and modding.
On October 20, 2014, Keen Software House announced that Space Engineers had sold over 1,000,000 copies.
On May 14, 2015, the development firm provided open access (but not making the game free) to the source code to accelerate mod development.
The Space Engineers population & player count has continued to grow over the years with its largest increases in concurrent players occurring over the last two years (2019/2020).
Space Engineers was well received by both critics and the gaming community. According to steam as of 22 February 2021 89% of the 74,301 reviews have been positive.
Medieval Engineers
On January 13, 2015, Keen Software House announced their third title and second engineering game named Medieval Engineers. It was also announced that the game will be available on Steam Early Access.
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build cities, castles and fortifications; construct mechanical devices and engines; perform landscaping and underground mining.
Medieval Engineers is inspired by real medieval technology and the way people survived and built architectural and mechanical works in medieval times. Medieval Engineers strives to follow the laws of physics and real history and does not us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelowia%20nudata | Bigelowia nudata, the pineland rayless goldenrod, is a species of North American flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States (from eastern Louisiana to North Carolina).
Bigelowia nudata is a sub-shrub that grows up to 70 cm (28 inches) tall, often forming clumps. Most of the leaves are in a rosette near the ground, with smaller and narrower leaves on the stems. Flower heads are small, yellow, and displayed in flat-topped arrays, each with 2-6 disc florets but no ray florets. The plants generally grow in swamps and bogs.
Varieties
Bigelowia nudata var. australis (L.C.Anderson) Shinners - Florida Panhandle
Bigelowia nudata var. nudata - from eastern Louisiana to North Carolina
References
Astereae
Flora of the Southeastern United States
Plants described in 1803
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Chavez | Agnes Chavez is a Cuban American artist, educator and social entrepreneur. Chavez is an installation artist working often with data visualization, sound, and image projection. Additionally, she designed and created tools for STEAM education and learning, often with a focus on learning through art, language, and physics. She founded the art and education programs, sube.com and stemartslab.com and a co-founder of Paseo Project, an arts festival in Taos, New Mexico.
Early life and education
Chavez was born and raised in New York City. Her parents were both from Cuba and they came to the United States as refugees.
In 1980, Chavez received an associate degree in Art from Miami Dade Community College. She went on to get her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1984. In 1986, Chavez moved to Taos, New Mexico.
Artwork
Light Forms: Jungle Rhythms
Chavez showed Light Forms: Jungle Rhythms in March 1993 at the Millicent Rogers Museum in El Prado, New Mexico. This piece combines technology and an appreciation for nature.
(x) Trees
In 2009, Chavez began to work with data visualization combined with projection art and created the installation piece, (x)Trees which was later shown at ISEA 2012. (x)Trees was a highlighted work at ISEA 2012. Chavez also served as Education Program Director for ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness Education Day. (x)Trees uses live data which is taken from the internet and projects this information as tree-like images which grow and change. The work was a collaboration between herself and computer programmers who developed the algorithms for the trees. Her team for (x)trees at ISEA 2012 was made up of herself, Jared Tarbell and Allesandro Saccoia. The data used to create the trees was taken from particular search words used in tweets from Twitter and text messages. Twilio was used to generate trees from SMS text messages so that anyone viewing x(Trees) could shape and interact with the art. Chavez's intent with using social media and text to generate the virtual trees is to show how individuals are digitally connected to one another. (x)Trees can also be installed almost anywhere, including outdoors.
Projecting pARTicles
Chavez does a large amount of research for her artwork. While working on the interactive installation, Projecting pARTicles, she collaborated with Dr. Steven Goldfarb, ATLAS Experiment at CERN to immerse herself in particle physics. She continued with a research stay in 2015, presenting outcomes at the CERN library.
Origination Point
Origination Point is a multimedia installation created in collaboration with Marcel Schwittlick (visual artist/software programmer) and Robert Schirmer (interactive sound). The installation uses sounds and vibrations of the Earth as recorded by NASA along with visuals of objects that look like particles and cells.
12th Havana Biennial
In May 2015, Chavez showed her physics inspired work, Origination Point and the Projecting Particles youth workshop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalere%20Health | Avalere, a part of Avalere Health, is a health care business consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., specializing in strategy, policy, and data analysis for life sciences, health plans, providers, government agencies, and industry associations. The company also publishes research studies on health care issues and the health care reform debate in the United States.
History
Avalere was founded as The Health Strategies Consultancy LLC in 2000 by Dan Mendelson. In 2008, Mendelson sold a minority interest of the company to ABS Capital Partners, a Baltimore, Maryland–based private equity firm. On September 1, 2015, Inovalon (Nasdaq: INOV), a leading technology company headquartered in Bowie, Maryland, providing an integrated cloud-based platform that enables healthcare organizations to implement large-scale highly sophisticated data-driven initiatives, acquired Avalere. Avalere operated as a subsidiary with a focus on providing advisory services on market consolidation, cost management, quality improvement, and managed care as well as business intelligence and corporate communication strategies. The firm has also published studies on drug plan coverage and managed care plans in the US. Avalere was acquired by Avalere Health (previously known as Fishawack Health) in June 2022.
References
Further reading
(Report to the Council for Affordable Health Coverage)
External links
2000 establishments in Washington, D.C.
American companies established in 2000
Companies based in Washington, D.C.
Consulting firms established in 2000
Health care management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20re%20Lowry | In re Lowry, 32 F.3d 1579 (Fed. Cir. 1994) was a 1994 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the patent eligibility of data structures. The decision, which reversed a PTO rejection of data structure claims, was followed by a significant change in PTO policy as to granting software related patents, a cessation of PTO appeals to the Supreme Court from reversals of PTO rejections of software patent applications, an increasing lenity at the Federal Circuit toward such patents and patent applications, and a great increase in the number of software patents issued by the PTO.
Background
Edward S. Lowry filed a computer software patent application in which he described an application program that managed database information by using software data structures that he called "attribute data objects" (ADOs). An ADO is a single primitive data element "compris[ing] sequences of bits which are stored in the memory as electrical (or magnetic) signals that represent information." According to Lowry's patent application, "[a]n attribute expresses the idea that one thing is attributed to another thing." Thus, the Attributive data model capitalizes on the concept that a database is a collection of attributions, whereby information is represented in terms of its characteristics and relationships to other information. Lowry asserted that using ADOs provided a more efficient method for storing, retrieving, adding, and removing information from a database.
Claim 1 was considered representative. It provided:
1. A memory for storing data for access by an application program being executed on a data processing system, comprising:
a data structure stored in said memory, said data structure including information resident in a database used by said application program and including:
a plurality of attribute data objects stored in said memory, each of said attribute data objects containing different information from said database;
a single holder attribute data object for each of said attribute data objects, each of said holder attribute data objects being one of said plurality of attribute data objects, a being-held relationship existing between each attribute data object and its holder attribute data object, and each of said attribute data objects having a being-held relationship with only a single other attribute data object, thereby establishing a hierarchy of said plurality of attribute data objects;
a referent attribute data object for at least one of said attribute data objects, said referent attribute data object being nonhierarchically related to a holder attribute data object for the same at least one of said attribute data objects and also being one of said plurality of attribute data objects, attribute data objects for which there exist only holder attribute data objects being called element data objects, and attribute data objects for which there also exist referent attribute data objects being called relation data ob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobothea%20bicuspidata | Colobothea bicuspidata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1811. It is known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and French Guiana.
References
bicuspidata
Beetles described in 1811
Beetles of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoScope%20%28software%29 | PicoScope is computer software for real-time signal acquisition of Pico Technology oscilloscopes. PicoScope is supported on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Debian and Ubuntu platforms. PicoScope is primarily used to view and analyze real-time signals from PicoScope oscilloscopes and data loggers. PicoScope software enables analysis using FFT, a spectrum analyser, voltage-based triggers, and the ability to save/load waveforms to disk. PicoScope is compatible with parallel port oscilloscopes and the newer USB oscilloscopes.
The software has been described as "very good for laptops" and can be used with desktop or laptop PCs. The Linux version has been described as "lightyears ahead [of] Qpicoscope and other attempts at Linux scope software" and "well capable of replacing a professional benchtop scope". Beta versions of the software also work on the ARM-based BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi development hardware.
PicoScope software requires a USB or LPT oscilloscope from the PicoScope range developed by Pico Technology. Such oscilloscopes are available with bandwidths up to 1 GHz, up to four input channels, hardware vertical resolutions up to 16 bits, sampling rates up to 5 GS/s, buffer sizes up to 2 GS, and built-in signal generators. Other features available on some models include flexible hardware resolution, switchable bandwidth limiters, switchable high-impedance and 50 ohm inputs, and differential inputs.
PicoScope for Linux won the EDN Hot 100 Products of 2014 award, under the Test & Measurement category, for "converting a Linux PC into an oscilloscope, FFT spectrum analyser and measuring device".
Features
Windows
PicoScope for Microsoft Windows is the full-featured oscilloscope application, and was first released in 1992 by Pico Technology. PicoScope software enables real-time scope display with zooming and panning, and buffers captured waveforms on the PC to enable engineers to view previous measurements. PicoScope uses configurable triggers, which are available for digital and analog waveforms. Triggers include pulse width, interval, window, window pulse width, level dropout, window dropout, runt pulse, variable hysteresis, and logic. Mixed signal variants combine digitised analogue triggers with edge and pattern triggering on the digital inputs.
Screen size and resolution are unrestricted, and depend on the PC connected. For developers that require integration, PicoScope includes a free software development kit (SDK) with that can be programmed from C#, VB.NET, C++, Microsoft Excel, LabVIEW or MATLAB.
Supported features
Scope, XY, spectrum and persistence views
Advanced digital, analog and mixed-signal triggers
Automated measurements
Signal generator with AWG editor
Serial decoding for 70+ serial standards including I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, RapidIO, PCI Express and Serial ATA.
Resolution enhancement
Segmented waveform buffer
Zoom and pan
Signal, time and phase rulers
Support for all USB & LPT PicoScope devices
Runs on Micro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Network%20of%20Learning%20Disability%20Nursing | The National Network of Learning Disability Nursing (NNLDN) is a voluntary network run by learning disability nurses from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland for Learning Disability Nurses. It was set up in 1990s following the English National Board of Nursing learning disability conference in Ripon & York College to be an umbrella network of networks for specialist networks of learning disability practitioners to exchange good practice and promote better standards of nursing care around the UK. Its last major contribution to practice development was as part of the UK Modernising Learning Disabilities Nursing Review in 2012 published as Strengthening the Commitment (DH April 2012). The network also acts as a vehicle for a national development conference held annually across each country in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the last of which was held at Bangor University in July 2011.
The NNLDN also supports the Fiona Law Student award which is given at the National Positive Choices Learning disabilities Conference for Student Learning Disability Nurses every year. The network has operated primarily as a social media forum since 2013 from which other networking groups have now developed including Learning Disability Nurse.com a resource for nursing students on learning disability nursing and Learning Disability Nurse Chat #LDNURSECHAT a Twitter forum for qualified practitioners to exchange and share good practice. The NNLDN stills hold seminars and workshops from time to time which are promoted via the networks it represents.
References
Further reading
Learning Disability Nursing Networks
Nursing organisations in the United Kingdom
Disability organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearVolume | ClearVolume is an open source real-time live 3D visualization library designed for high-end volumetric light sheet microscopes. ClearVolume enables the live visualization of microscope data - allowing the biologists to immediately decide whether a sample is worth imaging. ClearVolume can easily be integrated into existing Java, C/C++, Python, or LabVIEW based microscope software. It has a dedicated interface to MicroManager/OpenSpim/OpenSpin control software. ClearVolume supports multi-channels, live 3D data streaming from remote microscopes, and uses a multi-pass Fibonacci rendering algorithm that can handle large volumes. Moreover, ClearVolume is integrated into the FiJi/ImageJ2/KNIME ecosystem.
See also
FiJi
KNIME
Light sheet fluorescence microscopy
Volume rendering
References
External links
Website of the open source ClearVolume project with links to the wiki, code repositories and issue tracking.
ClearVolume KNIME plugin project page.
ClearVolume FiJi plugin project page.
Computational science
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIA%20locomotive | Gruppo Aziende Italiane e Argentine (mostly known for its acronym GAIA) was an Italian-Argentine conglomerate company that manufactured diesel locomotives for the Argentine railway network while being managed by Ferrocarriles Argentinos.
History
Fiat Ferroviaria had been commissioned to build a total of 280 diesel engines to power the same quantity of locomotives that Argentine company FADEL was planning to build. With 80 engines already arrived to Argentina and ready to be used the military dictatorship took over the presidency of Argentina after the Revolución Libertadora in 1955. FADEL closed a year later, so the project could not be carried out.
Ferrocarriles Argentinos, the company that managed all the railway lines in Argentina, was forced to search a local manufacturer that was able to build diesel locomotives that could be run with the Fiat engines. Soon after, FA signed a contract with an Italian and Argentine consortium created for that purpose, "Gruppo Aziende Italiane e Argentine" (abbreviated "GAIA") in 1957.
The consortium was formed by the following companies:
The contract committed GAIA to build 280 machines for the 280 engines previously built by Fiat. One of the main conditions imposed to the consortium was to use the largest number of Argentine-made parts for the construction of the locomotives.
Two versions of the locomotives would be built: the first with 1300 HP (130 units) and the second with 1050 HP (150 units).
The first 80 machines were assembled in the Cometarsa (a company of Grupo Techint) workshops at Campana, Buenos Aires with all their components manufactured in Italy. Other 60 machines were produced with only the engines made in Argentina, and the rest 145 locomotives were totally built in Argentina between 1965 and 1970.
The first 130 locomotives (1300 HP) were delivered to FA in 1962 (numbered from 6201 to 6350) and sent to run on Mitre railway diesel branches (Victoria–Capilla del Señor and Villa Ballester–Zárate). The locomotives were also used in passenger trains from Retiro to San Pedro and in the Rosario area for freight services.
The San Martín railway also received some GAIA machines, which were used in passenger and local freight services. In 1968, other 20 machines were sent to Sarmiento railway that used them for passenger services to Mercedes, José Mármol and Lobos although the division would transfer all the machines to Roca railway in 1971. The Roca railway received 20 locomotives used to run local services to La Plata.
The GAIA locomotives were also the first to be painted in FA corporate colors (bordeaux-yellow-red). At the end of the 1970s several locomotives were equipped with new engines, some were powered with Fiat's A230. Nevertheless, the modification did not produce the expected results, so in 1987 the GAIA locomotives were replaced again with the ALCO 251B (that had been retired from some RSD-16 models).
After all the Argentine network was privatised in the early 1990s, the oper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear%20preferential%20attachment | In network science, preferential attachment means that nodes of a network tend to connect to those nodes which have more links. If the network is growing and new nodes tend to connect to existing ones with linear probability in the degree of the existing nodes then preferential attachment leads to a scale-free network. If this probability is sub-linear then the network’s degree distribution is stretched exponential and hubs are much smaller than in a scale-free network. If this probability is super-linear then almost all nodes are connected to a few hubs. According to Kunegis, Blattner, and Moser several online networks follow a non-linear preferential attachment model. Communication networks and online contact networks are sub-linear while interaction networks are super-linear. The co-author network among scientists also shows the signs of sub-linear preferential attachment.
Types of preferential attachment
For simplicity it can be assumed that the probability with which a new node connects to an existing one follows a power function of the existing nodes’ degree k:
where α > 0. This is a good approximation for a lot of real networks such as the Internet, the citation network or the actor network. If α = 1 then the preferential attachment is linear. If α < 1 then it is sub-linear while if α > 1 then it is super-linear.
In measuring preferential attachment from real networks, the above log-linearity functional form kα can be relaxed to a free form function, i.e. (k) can be measured for each k without any assumptions on the functional form of (k). This is believed to be more flexible, and allows the discovery of non-log-linearity of preferential attachment in real networks.
Sub-linear preferential attachment
In this case the new nodes still tend to connect to the nodes with higher degree but this effect is smaller than in the case of linear preferential attachment. There are less hubs and their size is also smaller than in a scale-free network. The size of the largest component logarithmically depends on the number of nodes:
so it is smaller than the polynomial dependence.
Super-linear preferential attachment
If α > 1 then a few nodes tend to connect to every other node in the network. For α > 2 this process happens more extremely, the number of connections between other nodes is still finite in the limit when n goes to infinity. So the degree of the largest hub is proportional to the system size:
References
Networks
Network theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20on%20Religion%20and%20Justice | The Network on Religion and Justice (NRJ) is a community organization founded in 2004 for Asian Pacific Islander LGBTQ people of faith and allies.
NRJ was founded by faith leaders in response to anti-marriage equality protests following Governor Gavin Newsom's legalization of same-sex marriage in California. Members of NRJ were some of the first prominent API faith leaders to openly support the LGBT community.
Projects
In God's House is a documentary created by NRJ to tell the story about the experiences of LGBT-identified people. The film has been screened in churches and film festivals in the United States and internationally.
References
Organizations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuggedPlanet | BuggedPlanet.info is a wiki created in 2011 by Andy Müller-Maguhn, former spokesman of the Chaos Computer Club, that tries to list and track down the activities of the surveillance industry in the fields of "Lawful interception", Signals intelligence (SIGINT), Communications intelligence (COMINT) as well as tactical and strategical measures used to intercept communications and the vendors and governmental and private operators of this technology.
The site maintains a list of vendors of cyberweapons and surveillance technologies as well as a "country knowledgebase" that aims to accumulate country-specific news, activities and vendors on the topic. A special focus is placed on vendors that sell such technologies to undemocratic countries and related lobbying efforts.
The Spy Files
In December 2011 Privacy International and WikiLeaks collaborated with BuggedPlanet when they released documents collected from a number of surveillance trade shows and conferences included brochures, catalogues, technical specifications, contracts and pricelists for the products of around 160 companies.
See also
Cyber-arms industry
Mass surveillance industry
WikiLeaks
External links
References
Classified documents
Espionage
MediaWiki websites
Mass surveillance
National security
Online archives
Whistleblowing
News leaks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Bagley | Mike Bagley is an American motorsports commentator who works for the Motor Racing Network. He is the secondary turn announcer for MRN and has worked for the radio network since 1992 and became a turn announcer in 1998. Since 2008, Bagley has been a co-host of the nationally syndicated Sirius XM show The Morning Drive on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.
Early years
Born in Salisbury, Maryland, Bagley grew up listening to NASCAR races on MRN radio and developed a fascination with the race lap-by-lap calls, "so much so that I used to have a box of Matchbox cars. We had a shag rug in the den and every Sunday I'd plug the radio in, set it on the floor and mat down the rug in the shape of whatever track they were racing at. I would move my Matchbox cars around that makeshift track listening to Barney Hall, Eli Gold, Mike Joy, Jerry Punch, and Ned Jarrett; and became fascinated with NASCAR. At the same time, I also became fascinated with radio. I used to hang out at a local station and watch the DJ behind the booth."
Motor Racing Network
Beginning
After receiving a letter from then-General Manager of MRN John McMullen, Bagley began running boxes of cables to their respective turn positions at Dover International Speedway. In 1992, he worked his first race as a turn announcer for an Xfinity Series race at Watkins Glen International. "I got a call one day to work the Fay's 150 at Watkins Glen in 1992. I worked the '90' (Turn 1) that day and I thought that was an awful performance. But obviously, the powers that be heard something they liked and the rest is history. Here I am almost 23 years later to the day."
Role
Bagley is the secondary turn announcer for MRN. He works turns 3 & 4 at most tracks, the backstretch at both Dover races and the spring race at Richmond International Raceway, turn 2 at Pocono Raceway, and the backstretch at both Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. Bagley is normally the host of pre-race coverage before races most weekends.
Sirius XM
Since 2008, Bagley has been a co-host of the Sirius XM show The Morning Drive on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. He originally worked the show with David Poole until Poole suffered a fatal heart attack on April 26, 2009. After rotating hosts for the next two and a half months, he began doing the show with MRN colleague Pete Pistone on July 6. The two men do the show from different locations with Bagley in (Chesapeake bay studios) Annapolis, Maryland and Pistone in Chicago.
Unlike his other MRN colleagues Dave Moody and Pistone, Bagley is known for being eccentric, over the top and being into electronic dance music. Being a self-described "history buff," a hallmark of The Morning Drive is a short – usually ten-minute – segment called "The Calendar" in which he describes what events are associated with the day in question, such as holidays. He also runs down a list of historical events that happened on "this day" in past years and people who were born on the day in question from outside t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20%28Interception%20and%20Access%29%20Amendment%20%28Data%20Retention%29%20Act%202015 | The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that amends the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (original Act) and the Telecommunications Act 1997 to introduce a statutory obligation for Australian telecommunication service providers (TSPs) to retain, for a period of two years, particular types of telecommunications data (metadata) and introduces certain reforms to the regimes applying to the access of stored communications and telecommunications data under the original Act.
The Act is the third tranche of national security legislation passed by the Australian Parliament since September 2014. Pursuant to the Act, the following types of information need to be retained by telecommunication service providers: incoming and outgoing telephone caller identification; the date, time and duration of a phone call; the Location of the device from which phone call was made; the unique identifier number assigned to a particular mobile phone of the phones involved in each particular phone call; the email address from which an email is sent; the time, date and recipients of emails; the size of any attachment sent with emails and their file formats; account details held by the internet service provider (ISP) such as whether or not the account is active or suspended.
The content or substance of a communication is not considered to be metadata and will not be stored. Twenty-two agencies including the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), state police forces, Australian Crime Commission, Australian Taxation Office and NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) are able to view stored metadata without a warrant. The only exception is the metadata of those defined under the Act as journalists. Under a concession driven by the Australian Labor Party, agencies need to seek a warrant before a judicial officer before they are able to view the metadata of journalists, whilst ASIO will need to seek permission of the Attorney-General.
The Abbott government's decision to introduce a mandatory telecommunications data regime led to considerable community debate. It was supported by law enforcement and national security agencies, including the Australian Federal Police and ASIO, who argued telecommunications data is critical to criminal investigations and that it is only through legislation that they can be assured that it will be available. The decision was opposed by a wide range of groups and individuals including journalists, human rights organisations and civil liberties groups. Their objections were made on a number of grounds, such as the consequences for journalism and journalistic practice, the non-proportionate and increasing encroachment of the privacy of Australia's population, and the effectiveness of the regime as a tool to combat crime.
Questions over its cost and the consequences for the telecommunications industry, in particul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Sheng%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Li Sheng (; born 1943), is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. He began his research on Chinese-English machine translation in 1985, making himself one of the earliest Chinese scholars in this field. After that, he pursued in vast topics of natural language processing, including machine translation, information retrieval, question answering and applied artificial intelligence. He was the final review committee member for computer area in NSF China.
Born and raised in Heilongjiang province, he graduated in 1965 from the computer specialty of HIT, which is one of the earliest computer specialties in Chinese universities. Then he started to work as a staff in the Computer specialty of HIT, which was finally granted as a department in 1985. Also from 1985, he was appointed to undertake a series administrative positions in HIT, e.g. Dean of Computer Department(1987–1988), Director of R&D Division (1988–1990), Chief R&D Officer and several other key leading positions in HIT.
Resigned all his administrative positions in 2004, Li devoted himself as the director of MOE-Microsoft Join Key Lab of NLP& Speech (HIT), making it a leading NLP research group with more than 100 staffs and students working on various aspects of NLP. So far, the lab has already been granted for dozens of technology awards by the ministries of central government and local provincial government of China. Its research progresses are reported annually in top tier conferences including ACL, IJCAI, SIGIR etc.
As one of the pioneers in NLP research in China, he contributes NLP in China not only in technology innovations but also in talents education. So far, his research group has graduated more than 60 Ph.D. and almost 200 M.E with NLP major. Most of them are now working as the chief researcher in various NLP groups of universities and companies in China, including several world-known NLP scholars, such as Wang Haifeng of Baidu, Zhou Ming of Microsoft Research, Zhang Min () of Soochow University (China), and Zhao Tiejun () and Liu Ting () of HIT.
Owing to his contributions in Chinese language processing, Li was elected as the President of Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC) in 2011. He scaled this top level academic organization in China up to more than 3000 registered members, and promoted NLP into several national projects for research or industry development. In addition, the CIPSC is now enhancing its co-operations with world NLP organizations including ACL.
Machine Intelligence & Translation Laboratory (MI&TLAB)
Originates from Machine Translation Research Group of Computer Science Department, Harbin Institute of Technology, which was started Li in 1985. It is one of the earliest institutions engaged in MT research in China, featured by its investigations into Chinese-English machine translation. It is now running under the Research Center on Language Technology, School of Computer Scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatin%20Sapru | Jatin Sapru is an Indian sport's television host, broadcaster and cricket commentator who works for Star Sports network.
He also has a YouTube channel, 'Jatin Sapru', where he uploads vlogs etc.
Early life
Sapru was born in a Kashmiri Pandit family. His grandfather was a Vice Principal in Kashmir University and father was an engineer. In 1990, his family along with other Hindu families in the region had to flee from Kashmir valley to Delhi as a result of being targeted by JKLF and Islamist insurgents during late 1989 and early 1990, the event which is infamously known as the Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus.
References
Indian cricket commentators
Living people
1986 births
Journalists from Delhi
Kashmiri Pandits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant%20Revolution | Restaurant Revolution was an Australian cooking reality television series which screened on the Seven Network in 2015. The show consisted of five teams of one, two, three or four people with a pre-existing relationship competing to turn their vision for a restaurant into a reality. The teams were given the chance to design and run their own pop-up restaurant with viewers able to dine in and experience the food, service and atmosphere. The show was hosted by Scottish-born restaurateur Jock Zonfrillo.
Teams are scored and judged by a panel of experts. The industry expert panel consists of Neil Perry (chef and restaurateur), Erez Gordon (front-of-house specialist), John Lethlean (food critic) and Jess Ho (brand strategist). They were also scored on how much profit they made each week.
Restaurants and contestants
The teams were from the five largest capital cities in Australia. Their restaurants were constructed out of shipping containers located in an iconic spot for each city. The layout for every restaurant was identical and each seated 60 guests. It was up to the teams to determine the theme, atmosphere, exterior and interior details of their restaurants. All restaurants officially opened to the public on 14 July, a few weeks before they aired on the show.
Competition details
Restaurant Pre-opening - During this first stage of the competition, teams must earn cash to be able to build the interior of their restaurants, purchase supplies and prepare their staff. For each of the first two challenges, there was a total cash pool of $100,000 on offer. The experts distributed this cash based on how well the teams pitch or present their potential restaurant, food and service. The team who best meets the expert's requirements receives $40,000, second receives $20,000, third and fourth get $15,000 each and finally the worst performing team receives only $10,000. In the final 'last chance pitch', the experts only gave a total of $40,000 to the three best teams, with two teams missing out on the final cash offer.
Team Lunch - Each week, one team hosts a lunch inviting in all other teams, where they will be able to judge the food and service of each competing restaurant. Teams are given $50 to use for tips, which they can use up to all or none of. This process happens alongside the Weekly reviews. In Week 5, it was revealed that for every $10 tip, the team earns 1 point on their final scores.
Weekly Reviews - The experts will individually visit each of the restaurants on a weekly rotation. They judge the food and service based on their visit and give the team an overall score out of 10. A 5th 'secret critic' also joins the experts judging one team a week. Their identity remains anonymous, therefore teams do not know when or who will arrive to judge. Teams are also ranked for their profitability, with the team earning the highest profit margin getting 5 points added to the expert score and then the other teams ranked 4 to 1 point/s. The team with the h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITNAmerica | The Independent Transportation Network of America (ITNAmerica) is a nonprofit transportation network for seniors and people with visual impairments in the United States. It was founded in 2005 by Katherine Freund, the organization's current President.
The core of their service is a network of affiliated nonprofits nationwide that offers ride services to the older people and the visually impaired people. Roughly 40 percent of ITN rides come from volunteer drivers, though the model uses paid drivers as well.
ITNAmerica focuses on transportation network for seniors and people with visual impairments. They served their 1 millionth ride in May 2018.
Overview
ITNAmerica operates through an affiliate system, with 13 affiliated organizations in communities across 12 states as of July 2018. Affiliates are independent 501c3 nonprofits, each with their own board of directors. The ITN model is designed to work in communities with a population of at least 200,000. ITNAmerica helps communities develop their own local ITN service, supporting affiliates on an ongoing basis, and provides access to ITNRides, a proprietary software system for running the service. The network helps all affiliates to achieve sustainability.
ITN affiliates rely on the services of volunteer drivers, but often employ the use of paid drivers. Most drivers are in their fifties and sixties. Each member rider with ITNAmerica's transportation service has a Personal Transportation Account, which eliminates the need for on-site transactions during transportation. Rides with ITN cost about half the taxi fare for an equivalent distance and are locally subsidized by funding from businesses, philanthropic organizations, and other sources other than taxpayer dollars. Payments for rides are drawn from rider's transportation accounts, which ITNAmerica tracks through a payment system accessible to all its affiliates.
ITNAmerica's payment options allow drivers to plan for their future transportation needs by accumulating credits in a Personal Transportation Account by participating as volunteer drivers. Family members and friends who volunteer to drive for ITN can also allocate the credits they earn to a rider to help them pay for rides.
The CarTrade program allows ITN members to trade their no longer used cars to pay for their rides. Credits from trading a car are also tracked through the Personal Transportation Account.
ITNAmerica has facilitated more than 1 million rides to date throughout the affiliate network.
History
The organization grew out of an accident in 1988 involving Freund's son, who when he was 3-years-old was struck and injured by a car driven by an 84-year-old man. Instead of lashing out at the driver, however, Freund recognized older people face limited mobility options. Normal changes in vision, coordination and reaction times make it harder to drive, but the American transportation system is largely designed around private car ownership. The issue, Freund saw, was not old |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henchmen%20%28film%29 | Henchmen is a 2018 Canadian computer-animated action comedy film written and directed by Adam Wood, based on his own 2014 short film Henchmen: Ill Suited. The film stars Thomas Middleditch as a henchman-in-training, James Marsden as his mentor, Rosario Dawson as a scientist, and Alfred Molina as the super villain. Production began in May 2015 in British Columbia.
Produced by Bron Studios, the film was originally planned to be released in 2016, but ultimately received a limited release in Canada on December 7, 2018, by Entertainment One. In the United States, it was released on digital platforms on October 9, 2020, by Vertical Entertainment.
Premise
A fallen henchman named Hank leads a team of Lester and two others, called the "Union of Evil", who must prevent Baron Blackout from dominating the world. The crew are assigned to the Vault of Villainy, where Lester accidentally steals the ultimate weapon.
Cast
Thomas Middleditch as Lester
James Marsden as Hank
Rosario Dawson as Jolene
Alfred Molina as Baron Blackout
Will Sasso as The Gluttonator and Union Boss
Nathan Fillion as Captain Superior
Rob Riggle as Biff
Jane Krakowski as Jane
Craig Robinson as Stew
Bobcat Goldthwait as Jackalope
Production
The project was first announced on August 13, 2014, when Adam Wood's short film Henchmen: Ill Suited was released, with Gary Sanchez Productions (owned by Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and Chris Henchy) attached to executive produce the film for Bron Studios. Wood himself would write and direct the film. On May 29, 2015, the full voice cast was revealed, including James Marsden, Thomas Middleditch, Rosario Dawson, Alfred Molina, Nathan Fillion, Jane Krakowski, Rob Riggle, Craig Robinson and Will Sasso. At that time, it was also confirmed that production on the film had begun at Bron Studios in Burnaby and Duncan, British Columbia, and that Gary Sanchez Productions had left the project, replaced by Aaron L. Gilbert and Luke Carroll.
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2018 action comedy films
2010s animated superhero films
Animated action films
Animated superhero comedy films
Bron Studios films
Canadian action comedy films
Canadian animated feature films
Canadian superhero films
Features based on short films
Films scored by Toby Chu
Films shot in British Columbia
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films
Supervillain films
Canadian animated comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made%20in%20Punjab%20TV | Made in Punjab TV, also known as Punjabi TV, is a Canadian Category B Punjabi language specialty channel with select programming in English. It is owned by Studio 7 Production & Navalpreet Rangi features a mix of programming, including Punjabi Documentaries, news and music. This TV focuses on faith related art, prose and poetry. Made in Punjab aims to re-introduce Canadian Punjabi to their legacy and appreciate the need to preserve their culture and faith. Made in Punjab TV is also available on YouTube.
References
Punjabi TV Canada facebook Page
Official Punjabi TV Website
Punjabi TV Canada Youtube Blog
External links
Punjabi TV Canada facebook Page
Official Punjabi TV Website
Punjabi TV Canada Youtube Blog
Punjabi TV Canada
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Companies based in Surrey, British Columbia
Punjabi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4llings%C3%A5fallet | Hällingsåfallet is a waterfall and a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the European Union-wide Natura 2000 network.
Geography
The nature reserve is centred on Hällingsåfallet waterfall and the river canyon into which it discharges. The nature reserve is located at an altitude of around to above the sea level, and the waterfall itself is high. The canyon into which it falls is circa long, making it the longest in Sweden, and between and wide. The canyon was probably not formed by the current stream running there, but rather during the last ice age, when the melting ice eroded what was already a crack in the bedrock here. However, it cannot be excluded that the canyon is even older.
Flora
The moisture evaporating from the stream as it cascades through the fall has generated an unusual, very wet environment which is a good habitat for several types of Cryptogamae. Because of the extensive use of hydropower in Sweden, this kind of environment is today very unusual in the country. The purpose of the nature reserve is to protect this biotope. It contains several species of moss and lichen deemed to be in need of protection within Sweden, including Cavernularia hultenii, Cololejeunea calcarea, Fuscopannaria confusa and Lobaria hallii (the latter being known from only eight locales in Sweden, including Hällingsåfallet). It also includes threatened fungi such as Pseudographis pinicola and Neolecta vitellina.
The forest surrounding the waterfall and the canyon (and which is also under protection) is a circa 150-year-old mixed coniferous forest dominated by spruce and with the occasional even older tree. Apart from the aforementioned great variety of fungi, moss and lichen, the moist forest also contain the orchid species Dactylorhiza maculata and other unusual plants such as northern wolfsbane, Alpine snow-thistle and velvetbells. The bird-life of the area has also been described as "interesting"; species found here are grey wagtail, white-throated dipper, merlin and rough-legged buzzard.
For the convenience of visitors, a long path has been created from a nearby parking lot, and amenities such as outhouses and a simple shelter have been built. The path and one outhouse is accessible also for the disabled.
References
External links
Länsstyrelsens Natura 2000 Bevarandeplan
Euroturism
Nature reserves in Sweden
Waterfalls of Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bridle | James Bridle (born 1980) is an artist, writer and publisher based in London. Bridle coined the New Aesthetic; their work "deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one." Their work has explored aspects of the western security apparatus including drones and asylum seeker deportation. Bridle has written for WIRED, Icon, Domus, Cabinet Magazine, The Atlantic and many other publications, and writes a regular column for The Guardian on publishing and technology.
Career
Bridle studied computer science and cognitive science at University College London and holds a master's degree.
They have been Adjunct Professor on the Interactive Telecommunications Programme at New York University.
In 2018 Bridle curated the Berlin exposition Agency, a group show on works of the artists Morehshin Allahyari, Sophia Al Maria, Ingrid Burrington, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Constant Dullaart, Anna Ridler and Suzanne Treister at Nome gallery. Topics were mass surveillance and transnational terrorism, climate change and conspiracy theories, anti-social media and rapacious capitalism.
In April 2019 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a four part series by Bridle called 'New Ways of Seeing' examining how technology influences culture and analogue to John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. In March 2020 Bridle presented a keynote address at the Spy on me 2 festival (held in Berlin and online). Their 2019 film Se ti sabir that has its starting point in the Mediterranean Lingua Franca, premiered on 19 March 2020 in Berlin. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be streamed on the HAU-YouTube channel.
Bridle's artworks and installations have been exhibited in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
In popular culture
For their 2022 book on the nature of intelligence, Ways of Being, they were interviewed by Brian Eno at a 5x15 event.
Works
The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs, 2010
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, Verso, 2018,
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022,
References
External links
List of works by James Bridle
The blog of James Bridle: art, literature, and the network, since 2006
Children of the Drone, Vanity Fair on James Bridle's drone projects
James Bridle: The Drone Shadow Catcher, The New Yorker on James Bridle's drone projects
What is our relationship with alien consciousnesses?, Essay on Artificial Intelligence 2019
Living people
1980 births
Artists from London
British technology writers
The Observer people
21st-century English artists
British curators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KETQ-LP | KETQ-LP (93.3 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Yuba City, California. The station's broadcast license was issued in February 2015.
Programming
KETQ-LP broadcasts a community radio format including a mix of 1980's, 1990's and today's music, plus local community events. The station is the home of Captain, Gary and John in the morning in which they interview local business owners, civic organizers, community leaders, and everyday people who are making a difference in the lives of this community. 93Q is also an outlet for local sports. The station brought local high school baseball back to the radio in 2015. The station is heard live on the internet via Tune-In - look for KETQ or ask your Alexa, "Play KETQ".
Air Staff
Morning Show - 6 to 9 AM Captain, Gary and John Black
Drive Home Show - The Drive Home Guy 4 to 6 PM
Weather - Kurt Baird
Other Great Guys and Gals - The Fish / Ali / Cami Oh & Randy Warner / Stephanie / Danny Taylor
History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on August 20, 2014. The new station was assigned the KETQ-LP call sign by the FCC on December 16, 2014. KETQ-LP received its license to cover from the FCC on February 9, 2015.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
93Q Radio official website
2015 establishments in California
Community radio stations in the United States
ETQ-LP
Radio stations established in 2015
ETQ-LP
Yuba City, California
Companies based in Yuba County, California
American radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickellia%20cuspidata | Brickellia cuspidata is a Mexican species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to western Mexico in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco.
References
External links
Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden , type specimen of Brickellia cuspidata
cuspidata
Flora of Mexico
Plants described in 1887 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Reid%20Baker | Jeffrey Reid Baker (born 1947) is a pianist, composer, arranger best known for his work as a pioneer in the world of computer recording using synthesizers and digital instruments in the mid-1980s. He gained national media attention, from major publications such as the Chicago Tribune, Stereo Review, Digital Audio, and USA Today among others, when he produced four cross-over classical albums - Lisztronique (Now Fantastic Liszt), Rhapsody In Electric Blue, Carmina Burana Synthesized, and Everyone's Favorite Synthesizer Pieces. His work was also featured in both the BMG and Columbia House record clubs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
During the 1990s, Baker went to work for an Atlanta-based corporation and spent several years composing music in all styles ranging from walking tapes to children's music. His work on a Christmas project led him, in the spring of 1996, to start his own musical production company and record label - JRB Records. Its first release was “A Composer’s Christmas”. And in 1999, Baker released a Rachmaninoff CD containing the Third Piano Concerto in its original 2-Piano form (only recording), and his own arrangement of the Cello Sonata for two-pianos (world premiere). In the year 2000, Baker was asked by the Musicland/Sam Goody chain if he would produce a “Scott Joplin Greatest Hits” album.
Since then JRB Records, he has released “Grand Russian Fantasy” and “Fingerbreakers”. And in 2018 released his most recent album “Concrete Jungle”.
References
External links
Official Website
JRB Records - Catalog
JRB on iTunes
JRB on AllMusic
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
1940s births
20th-century American composers
20th-century American pianists
American male pianists
American male composers
21st-century American pianists
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraman%20X | is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions. The 27th entry to the Ultra Series, it is currently the last series to air as part of the New Ultraman Retsuden programming block on TV Tokyo. On July 13 Crunchyroll announced it would be simulcast in North America on their site and app, making it the first tokusatsu show in the world to be simulcast while airing in Japan.
First Kaiju: Demaaga
Last Kaiju: Greeza
Story
A solar flare called the has awakened mysterious OOPArts known as Spark Dolls from the depths of the earth and the ocean, materializing them into rampaging monsters that terrorize the Earth. Due to this, UNVER was formed to gather, collect and secure unstable Spark Dolls and a new attack team was formed, Xio to combat monster threats.
Fifteen years later, Daichi Ozora, a member of Xio's Lab Team who was orphaned when his parents got lost in the Ultra Flare, bonds and transforms into Ultraman X to battle threats from both aliens and monsters. He soon learns of the truth behind Ultra Flare and resolves to help Ultraman X to regain his physical body after the incident had trapped him in the form of computer data.
In the middle of the series, Daichi learns how to properly summon a Cyber Monster and thus, bringing forth Cyber Gomora, a monster modelled after his childhood Spark Doll, Gomora, becoming one of Xio's new allies and an alternative for Daichi whenever X is unable to fight. At the same time a strange energy source dubbed by Xio as frequently appears and turns ordinary monsters into berserks. Because the energy's effect also weakens X, it nearly killed him during his fight with Tsurugi Demaaga, the first victim of Dark Thunder Energy. To counter this, a new weapon was discovered by Daichi, the X-Lugger, which allows X to become Ultraman Exceed X and use the weapon to purify monsters from Dark Thunder Energy. In accordance to an alien named Dada, humanity is on the verge of extinction from the effect of Dark Thunder Energy's assault.
At the end of the series, the mastermind behind the Ultra Flare and Dark Thunder Energy appeared, namely Greeza. Having destroyed three planets in the past, it was thought to be killed after X banished it to the sun but instead survived and had journeyed through Mercury and Venus within 18 days. Now having arrived on Earth, Greeza sought to absorb the Spark Dolls to achieve its strongest evolution and X revealed himself to Xio members, seeking cooperation to defend their supply of Spark Dolls from Greeza. In the end, X and Daichi seemingly died after performing a kamikaze attack but Greeza survived its destruction and successfully absorbs Xio's Spark Dolls, finally achieving its final evolution. It wasn't until Asuna managed to bring Daichi back to the real world and X revived, with both managing to pursue the captured Spark Dolls to escape and merged with the Ultra to finish Greeza. Although the destroyer is killed, X however has yet to regain his true body, while continui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKSS-FM | CKSS-FM is an FM radio station in Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada. Owned by Blackgold Broadcasting, it broadcasts a country format branded as 88.1 The One.
Programming team consists of Katie Stanners on One Mornings, Justin Hartman on the Drive Home and Shane Michaels on One Evenings.
History
On September 15, 2014, beating a competing proposal by Golden West Broadcasting, the CRTC approved an application by Blackgold Broadcasting for a new FM radio station to serve Parkland County, which would serve as the first radio station to specifically target the region. The station planned to broadcast a country music format branded as 88.1 The One; in regards to local content, Blackgold stated in its application that it planned to broadcast 81 hours of spoken-word content per week, including news, agricultural reports, and other content of local interest. After the licence approval, the new station began to construct its facilities in Stony Plain, and hire staff.
The station officially launched on June 4, 2015.
References
External links
History of CKSS-FM - Canadian Communications Foundation
Kss
Kss
Radio stations established in 2015
2015 establishments in Alberta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Biosurveillance%20Strategy | The United States National Biosurveillance Strategy is the plan to implement a biosurveillance system that will monitor and interpret data that might relate to disease activity and threats to human or animal health – whether infectious, toxic, metabolic, and regardless of intentional or natural origin – in order to achieve early warning of health threats, early detection of health events and overall situational awareness of disease activity.
Types of data collection
It is debated whether is it better to engage in a “more data, faster is better” approach or whether it would be more effective to pursue fewer but more meaningful data streams. Some of the things that will be monitored are counts of clinical diagnoses, sales of over-the-counter remedies, and school absentees among select age groups.
Proposed plan
The Department of Homeland Security laid out the plan for the national biosurveillance system. They stated that an effect surveillance system relies on five key principles that are generally applied to public health and medical preparedness. The first is being prepared for all potential catastrophic health events; the second is having vertical and horizontal coordination among all levels of government; the third is having a regional approach to health preparedness; the fourth is the engagement of the private sector, academia, and other nongovernmental entities; the fifth is the important roles of individuals, families, and communities. The biosurveillance program must be nationwide, robust, and integrated with international disease systems in order to provide early warning and ongoing characterization of disease outbreaks in real-time. The system must be sufficiently able to identify a specific disease and its prevalence in varying populations and environments and must be able to tailor the analysis to new diseases. The system should create a networked system to allow for two-way information flow between and among Federal, State, and local government public health authorities and clinical health care providers. The system shall build upon existing Federal, State, and local surveillance systems where they exists and should enable and provide incentive for public health agencies to implement surveillance systems where they do not exist.
See also
Disease surveillance
Public health surveillance
References
Surveillance
Medical monitoring
Disaster preparedness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Villanueva | Prince Allan Ray Eugenio Villanueva is a Filipino actor who is presently signed up for an exclusive contract with GMA Network. Prince used to be co-managed by German Moreno and GMA Artist Center until the time of the former's demise, which made him the last talent discovery of Kuya Germs.
Early life
Prince Villanueva is a Filipino actor, born in Manila, Philippines on August 21, 1998. He is the only son of Allan Villanueva and Lizelle Eugenio Villanueva, Mrs. Philippines - International 2009. He has an older sister, Precious and younger sister, Princess. He finished grade school and high school at Adamson University. At present, he is in second year college taking up B.S. Business Administration major in Marketing Management in the same university.
Career
Prince started very young in front of the camera, having won the title SM Star Baby 1998 when he was only six months old. The contest was a segment in Brunch, a morning show hosted by Bing Loyzaga and Michelle van Eimeren, aired on GMA Network. Growing up, he has been continuously getting the nods of many whenever he competes for a title in school pageants like being Star of the Night in his JS Prom, Mr. Intramurals, among others. His natural inclination for entertainment is a product of genetic endowment because both of his parents were models and actors in the past. Prince went to many casting calls for commercials and television shows, until he found his niche in GMA Network when he auditioned for Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman in August 2014.
Having only three months of television exposure in 2014, Prince was already nominated Best New Male TV Personality 2014 in the 28th PMPC Star Awards for Television, held at Solaire Resort and Casino, and was aired by ABS-CBN. Presently, Prince is an exclusive contract artist of GMA Network and is managed by GMA Artist Center. He was first seen on TV show Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman, where he displayed his singing, hosting, and dancing prowess, from 2014 until the show closes in 2016. The TV series InstaDad in 2014 introduced Prince as Ikot, his first character role as a GMA artist. After which, he was seen again on GMA's afternoon prime Wish I May (TV series) as Dave.
As of this writing, Prince is a mainstay of the top rating, primetime show Alyas Robin Hood as Rex.
Furthermore, he has also engaged into theater acting, as he is playing lead role in a stage play entitled Aquarium na Walang Tubig, under the direction of veteran actress and acting coach Ms. Anne Villegas of the Sining Pinagpala Theater Foundation.
Filmography
Television
Theatre
Awards and nominations
Endorsements
Unisilver Time (HEA)
Apple Peel Facial Care and Spa
RMES Salon
References
External links
Prince Villanueva at GMANetwork.com
1998 births
Living people
Filipino male television actors
GMA Network personalities
Male actors from Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20network | In network science, a sparse network has much fewer links than the possible maximum number of links within that network (the opposite is a dense network). The study of sparse networks is a relatively new area primarily stimulated by the study of real networks, such as social and computer networks.
The notion of much fewer links is, of course, colloquial and informal. While a threshold for a particular network may be invented, there is no universal threshold that defines what much fewer actually means. As a result, there is no formal sense of sparsity for any finite network, despite widespread agreement that most empirical networks are indeed sparse. There is, however, a formal sense of sparsity in the case of infinite network models, determined by the behavior of the number of edges (M) and/or the average degree () as the number of nodes (N) goes to infinity.
Definitions
A simple unweighted network of size is called sparse if the number of links in it is much smaller than the maximum possible number of links :
.
In any given (real) network, the number of nodes N and links M are just two numbers, therefore the meaning of the much smaller sign ( above) is purely colloquial and informal, and so are statements like "many real networks are sparse."
However, if we deal with a synthetic graph sequence , or a network model that is well defined for networks of any size N = 1,2,...,, then the attains its usual formal meaning:
.
In other words, a network sequence or model is called dense or sparse depending on whether the (expected) average degree in scales linearly or sublinearly with N:
is dense if ;
is sparse if .
An important subclass of sparse networks are networks whose average degree is either constant or converges to a constant. Some authors call only such networks sparse, while others reserve special names for them:
is truly sparse or extremely sparse or ultrasparse if .
There also exist alternative, stricter definitions of network sparsity requiring the convergence of the degree distribution in to a well defined limit at . According to this definition, the N-star graph , for example, is not sparse.
Node degree distribution
The node degree distribution changes with the increasing connectivity. Different link densities in the complex networks have different node-degree distribution, as Flickr Network Analysis suggests. The sparsely connected networks have a scale free, power law distribution. With increasing connectivity, the networks show increasing divergence from power law. One of the main factors, influencing on the network connectivity is the node similarity. For instance, in social networks, people are likely to be linked to each other if they share common social background, interests, tastes, beliefs, etc. In context of biological networks, proteins or other molecules are linked if they have exact or complementary fit of their complex surfaces.
Common terminology
If the nodes in the networks are not weigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolaData | CoolaData is a big data behavioral analytics platform for online web and mobile applications.
Cooladata was founded with the vision of developing an advanced BI and analytics platform that would be able to store unlimited amounts of data events in the cloud, while providing advanced user behavioral analytics, or in other words, providing the analytical capabilities and agility of an enterprise, at a fraction of the cost.
Founders
CoolaData was founded by two veteran BI experts. CoolaData's CEO Tomer Ben Moshe spent several years at Amdocs (NYSE:DOX), where he co-initiated and served as SVP, COO of Amdocs Cloud Services. Before Amdocs Tomer was the CTO of Microsoft Israel, where he worked closely with software vendors, startups and the developer community.
Guy Greenberg, CoolaData's Co-Founder and President has more than twenty years of experience in Business Intelligence and Big Data. As co-founder and CEO of Gilon Business Insight, Israel’s largest provider of Business Intelligence, Guy turned Gilon into a multinational corporation with 300 employees, which was acquired by Ness Technologies in 2010. Guy was also a co-founder of Actimize, a market leader in financial crime, risk and compliance products which was acquired by NICE Systems (NASDAQ:NICE) in 2007. Guy is an active angel investor and adviser of Big Data startups. In July 2015, CoolaData offered a complete data warehouse with analytical services in SaaS mode.
Funding
The company is backed by 83North (formerly Greylock IL), Salesforce Ventures and Carmel Ventures.
Customers
CoolaData's customers include MySupermarket and Playbuzz.
Further reading
CoolaData Blog from Archive.org
INC Magazine: Why Behavioral Analytics are your Company's SecretWeapon
Ha, Anthony (February 6, 2014), "CoolaData Takes Its Behavior- Focused Analytics Platform out of Beta" AOL Tech. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
(October 22, 2013), "Big data analytics co CoolaData raises $7.4m" Globes Online, Israel business news. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
References
Business intelligence software
Analytics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20Code%20for%20Biology%20and%20Medicine | Source Code for Biology and Medicine was a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal in the field of bioinformatics, including information systems and data mining. The journal was published by BioMed Central and was established in 2006. The editors-in-chief were Emmanuel Ifeachor (University of Plymouth) and Leif E. Peterson (The Methodist Hospital Research Institute).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service, EmBiology, and Scopus.
References
External links
Academic journals established in 2006
English-language journals
BioMed Central academic journals
Monthly journals
Biomedical informatics journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Recidivism%20Coalition | The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization founded by Scott Budnick. ARC is a support network for formerly incarcerated individuals and advocates for criminal justice reform. ARC's mission is to reduce incarceration, improve the outcomes of formerly incarcerated individuals, and build healthier communities.
History
In 1997, Budnick first became interested in juveniles in prison after reading a Rolling Stone article about Brandon Hein and three other youths who were found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in California, even though three of them never touched the weapon. Budnick sent the article to a producer who optioned it for a documentary film called Reckless Indifference.
In 2003, Budnick began volunteering at the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, California. Budnick was a volunteer teacher for a group called InsideOUT Writers. As of 2014, Budnick still volunteers at the Nidorf Juvenile Hall. After this experience and others, Budnick began to tell administrators and politicians about the problems he was seeing in the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems. After the success of Budnick's The Hangover franchise, Budnick was able to leverage the work he does for incarcerated juveniles. Jake Gyllenhaal went with Budnick to the Sylmar juvenile detention center, to Men's Central Jail and out to California State Prison, Los Angeles County.
In 2012, Budnick was named California's Volunteer of Year by Governor Jerry Brown for a program he envisioned. After seeing kids desperate to change their lives but unable to because of California law at that time, Budnick and others launched a pilot program out of Los Angeles County where every single kid coming into the prison system—if they are doing the right things on their own—got to go to a place where they could get their high school diploma or GED, go to college classes, learn a trade, and be in self-help programs and substance-abuse programs. In 2013, the program was adopted statewide.
Founding
Budnick began to see many of the kids he worked with—in some of his college programs—come out of prison and going into universities, community colleges, and obtaining employment. Budnick saw a network of ex-offenders and ex-gang-members who were changing their lives. Then, Budnick and others started doing retreats where the formerly incarcerated young people would meet with mentors and lawyers, and eventually formed a private Facebook page where they organized events and provided support.
In 2013, Budnick officially launched the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), a formal organization of formerly-incarcerated young adults who work to support one another, and that also aims to lower the number of people flowing into the criminal justice system through policy advocacy and community organizing. Budnick said "I started to see that there was not an organization out there that had high-achieving guys coming out |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Mayrina | Ivan Ramesis Perez Mayrina (born December 23, 1976) is a Filipino broadcaster, journalist, reporter and news anchor. He is currently working in GMA Network.
Early life
Mayrina was hailed from Angeles City and is currently living in Quezon City, after graduating in UP Diliman, he focused on his family life.
He finished the secondary education at high school in Pampanga, his first tertiary education in Holy Angel University and graduated of broadcasting, and second tertiary education in University of the Philippines Diliman, with Bachelor of Arts in Communication Research at the College of Mass Communication and graduated in April 1997.
Prior to his work in GMA Network, he was once a training officer at Ayala Life Insurance, Inc. in 1997.
Career
He started his broadcasting career at GMA Network in 2000 with other known news personalities like Rhea Santos.
He is best known for being a host of the GMA News and Public Affairs shows 100% Pinoy! (2006–2007) and Pinoy Abroad (2005–2006), and a news anchor of QTV/Q's The Beat (formerly Sapulso) (2006–2011), News on Q (2005–2011) - all of which he was partnered with Rhea Santos (from 2005 to 2010) and Connie Sison (from 2010 to 2011), followed by the second tandem On Call: Serbisyong Totoo. Ngayon. (2011–2012);, aired by GMA News TV (now GTV).
Aside from being a regular reporter of GMA News, he is currently a host and of the morning show Unang Hirit (2000; since 2012), and a news anchor of GMA Flash Report and News TV Live (now News Live).
In May 2015, Mayrina anchored GMA Newsfeed, an interactive newscast which was broadcast nightly at 9PM on GMA News Facebook page until 2019, as he focused on hosting duties and replaced by various news reporters.
He replaced Jiggy Manicad as the anchor for 24 Oras Weekend in August 2018.
Personal life
Mayrina is married to Karen Tiongson, a GMA News Researcher in 2005. They have two children.
Filmography
Awards
20th PMPC Star Awards for Television
21st PMPC Star Awards for Television
22nd PMPC Star Awards for Television
23rd PMPC Star Awards for Television
24th PMPC Star Awards for Television
25th PMPC Star Awards for Television
26th PMPC Star Awards for Television
27th PMPC Star Awards for Television
28th PMPC Star Awards for Television
29th PMPC Star Awards for Television
References
External links
Ivan Mayrina on GMA News Online
1976 births
Living people
Filipino television news anchors
GMA Network personalities
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs people
People from Angeles City
University of the Philippines Diliman alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%209 | iOS 9 is the ninth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 8. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, 2015, and was released on September 16, 2015. It was succeeded by iOS 10 on September 13, 2016.
iOS 9 incorporated many feature updates to built-in apps. Most notably, Notes received the ability to draw sketches with different tools, image insertion, prominent visual appearance for website links and map locations, and advanced list formatting; an all-new Apple News app aggregates articles from different sources; and Apple Maps received mass transit support, although in a limited number of locations at launch. Major new system updates include proactivity, where Siri and advanced search are combined to make the operating system more contextually aware of information (such as time and location), and can provide the user with information ahead of time. For searching, the proactive intelligence can display instant results in a widget-like format, including weather, sports, news, and more. iOS 9 also added multiple forms of multitasking to the iPad. In iOS 9.3, Apple added a Night Shift mode that changes the color of the device's display to a warmer, less "blue light" containing shade, to reduce any negative eye health effects on users' circadian rhythms. Additionally, iOS 9 brought new user experience functions, including Quick Actions, and Peek and Pop, based on the touch-sensitive display technology in the iPhone 6S. Quick Actions are shortcuts on home screen app icons. Users can preview ("Peek") at content without moving away from the current screen before they enter ("Pop") the previewed content into full view.
Reception of iOS 9 was positive. Critics praised proactivity and Siri for making the Notification Center a central location for all information, and the potential for future updates to improve the functionality. The new multitasking features for the iPad were complimented, as were drawing and photo insertion in the Notes app. However, Apple News was criticized for a low number of decent-looking articles, and Apple Maps was criticized for the limited geographical availability of mass transit support.
Five days after release, Apple announced that iOS 9 had been installed on more than 50% of "active" iOS devices, which Apple described as the "fastest adoption rate ever for a new operating system".
iOS 9 is the last version of iOS to feature slide to unlock. With the release of iOS 10, Apple introduced the Today view, which was accessed on the lock screen by swiping to the right. Apple removed slide to unlock in iOS 10 because it would create confusion when users were trying to unlock their phone by sliding the screen, but instead of unlocking the phone, it took them to the new Today view.
Overview
iOS 9 was introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, 2015, with the first beta version made available to registered devel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIS-100 | TIS-100 is a programming/puzzle video game developed by Zachtronics Industries. The game has the player develop mock assembly language code to perform certain tasks on a fictional, virtualized 1970s computer that has been corrupted. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux personal computers in July 2015.
Gameplay
Within TIS-100, the player is said to have come across a malfunctioning TIS-100 computer ("Tessellated Intelligence System") and its manual, based on early computers of the 1980s. The computer is presented to the player as twelve separate processing nodes laid out in a four-by-three grid. Each node has a single processor register to store a numerical value as well as a backup register. Nodes also hold their own assembly language program as entered by the user. The assembly language, a simplified version of real-world assembly languages, allows the node to accept external input or a numerical value sent from an adjacent node, perform basic math and logic operations, store and backup the current data value, and then send results to an adjacent node or to the program's output. Later puzzles introduce stack nodes and an output to a simple 5-color graphics display.
The player is presented with a series of puzzles that require them to program the nodes to perform specific actions on a set of numbers from one or more input terminals to produce pre-determined output at other terminals. For example, one task requires the player to double the value of the input at the output terminal. The game presents the list of inputs and the target output values that it is expecting and requires the players to develop the code for each node to match this; if during execution the output nodes receive unexpected outputs, the player will have to rework their solution. Not all nodes are available in certain puzzles, so the player will need to route around these nodes. The game offers the player the ability to step through the execution of the code and insert debugging statements to determine logic issues within their code. Once the target output conditions are met, the player is considered to have solved the puzzle. The nodes that are disabled in puzzles contain cryptic messages related to the narrative of the game and which contain more information that can be accessed when the entire game is completed.
As with previous Zachtronics games such as SpaceChem and Infinifactory, once the player completes a puzzle, their solution is compared to other players through online leaderboards. The player is ranked based on the number of nodes used, the number of instructions within their code, and the number of instruction cycles used. The game allows the player to return to earlier puzzles to better their solution. The game launched in early access in June 2015 with about 25 puzzles within the game, and another 25 were added by the time of its official release the following month.
Computer architecture
A TIS-100 "machine" is made up of 12 interconne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogen%20Nature%20Reserve | Rogen Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
The nature reserve is centred on Lake Rogen and is part of a wider network of nature protection areas that extend also on the other side of the border with Norway. The landscape is distinctly characterised by Rogen moraine, a type of moraine named after the area. It consists of long, sinuous low hills interspersed with long lakes. In addition, large erratic boulders are spread over the land. In all directions, mountain tops — parts of the Scandinavian Mountains — rise to about . The highest peak in the area is Brattriet with an altitude of . The landscape was formed during the last Ice age, and has been described as "labyrinthine".
Fauna
The nature reserve has a rich fauna. European otter, Eurasian lynx, brown bear and wolverine all inhabit the nature reserve. Birds such as golden eagle, black-throated loon, rough-legged buzzard and osprey have all been seen here. The waters of the many lakes are furthermore rich in fish (fishing licenses can be acquired by visitors); species found here include brown trout, burbot, grayling, charr, perch and northern pike. The nature reserve contains Sweden's entire population of wild muskoxen. This small herd (in 2010 it totalled seven animals) traces its origins to animals which were introduced to Norway from Greenland in the mid-20th century. In 1971, some of these animals crossed the border into Sweden. Visitors are only allowed to approach the animals to within .
The nature reserve is also used as grazing ground for reindeer.
Flora
The flora is less diverse; the barren land is dominated by species such as Scots pine, cowberry, bilberry and wolf lichen.
Historical sites
Within the nature reserve, there are several remains from earlier human activity. These include pits for trapping reindeer of unknown age as well as settlements and graves dating from the Stone Age.
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 1976
1976 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saemundssonia%20laticaudata | Saemundssonia laticaudata is an insect species first described in 1869. It is part of the Saemundssonia genus and the Philopteridae family. It is a parasite of the Greater crested tern.
References
Lice
Insects described in 1869 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar%20Ahmad%20Nuseibeh | Bashar Ahmad Nuseibeh, (born 1967) is a professor of computing at The Open University in the United Kingdom, a professor of software engineering at the University of Limerick in Ireland, and chief scientist of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. He is also an honorary professor at University College London (UCL) and the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan.
Career
Bashar received a BSc (First Class Honours) degree in computer systems engineering from the University of Sussex, UK, in 1988, before moving to Imperial College London to complete his MSc (1989) and PhD (1994) in software engineering. He remained at Imperial College as a postdoctoral researcher until receiving a lectureship in 1996 before being promoted to reader in 2000. In 2001 he moved to the Open University as professor of computing, where he was director of research from 2002 to 2008. From 2009 to 2012 he took a secondment to Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre, as professor of software engineering and chief scientist. He was a visiting professor at Imperial College, and is currently a visiting professor at both University College London (UCL) and the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. He received two European Research Council (ERC) grants, including an Advanced Grant on Adaptive Security and Privacy.
Honours and fellowships
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).
Member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA).
Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS).
Fellow of Irish Computer Society (ICS).
Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET).
Member of Academia Europaea.
Automated Software Engineering Fellow
Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award.
Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Most Influential Paper Award at International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
ACM SigSoft Distinguished Service Award
IFIP Outstanding Service Award
References
External links
Personal Webpage
Selected publications
1967 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Sussex
British computer scientists
Academics of the Open University
Bashar Ahmad
Alumni of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Members of the Royal Irish Academy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20whispers%20%28clustering%20method%29 | Chinese whispers is a clustering method used in network science named after the famous whispering game. Clustering methods are basically used to identify communities of nodes or links in a given network. This algorithm was designed by Chris Biemann and Sven Teresniak in 2005. The name comes from the fact that the process can be modeled as a separation of communities where the nodes send the same type of information to each other.
Chinese whispers is a hard partitioning, randomized, flat clustering (no hierarchical relations between clusters) method. The random property means that running the process on the same network several times can lead to different results, while because of hard partitioning one node can only belong to one cluster at a given moment. The original algorithm is applicable to undirected, weighted and unweighted graphs. Chinese whispers is time linear which means that it is extremely fast even if the number of nodes and links are very high in the network.
Algorithm
The algorithm works in the following way in an undirected unweighted graph:
All nodes are assigned to a distinct class (The number of initial classes equals the number of nodes).
Then all of the network nodes are selected one by one in a random order. Every node moves to the class which the given node connects with the most links. In the case of equality the cluster is randomly chosen from the equally linked classes.
Step two repeats itself until a predetermined number of iteration or until the process converges. In the end the emerging classes represent the clusters of the network.
The predetermined threshold for the number of the iterations is needed because it is possible that process does not converge. On the other hand in a network with approximately 10000 nodes the clusters does not change significantly after 40-50 iterations even if there is no convergence.
Strengths and weaknesses
The main strength of Chinese whispers lies in its time linear property. Because the processing time increases linearly with the number of nodes, the algorithm is capable of identifying communities in a network very fast. For this reason Chinese whispers is a good tool to analyze community structures in graph with a very high number of nodes. The effectiveness of the method increases further if the network has the small world property.
On the other hand because the algorithm is not deterministic in the case of small node number the resulting clusters often significantly differ from each other. The reason for this is that in the case of a small network it matters more from which node the iteration process starts while in large networks the relevance of starting points disappears. For this reason for small graphs other clustering methods are recommended.
Applications
Chinese whispers is used in many subfield of network science. Most frequently it is mentioned in the context of natural language processing problems. On the other hand the algorithm is applicable to any kind of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20scale-free%20network | A scale-free network is a type of networks that is of particular interest of network science. It is characterized by its degree distribution following a power law. While the most widely known generative models for scale-free networks are stochastic, such as the Barabási–Albert model or the Fitness model can reproduce many properties of real-life networks by assuming preferential attachment and incremental growth, the understanding of deterministic scale-free networks leads to valuable, analytical results.
Concept
Although there are multiple deterministic models to generate scale-free networks, it is common, that they define a simple algorithm of adding nodes, which is then iteratively repeated and thus leads to a complex network. As these models are deterministic, it is possible to get analytic results about the degree distribution, clustering coefficient, average shortest path length, random walk centrality and other relevant network metrics.
Deterministic models are especially useful to explain empirically observed phenomena and demonstrate the existence of networks with certain properties. For example, the Barabási-Albert model predicts a decreasing average clustering coefficient as the number of nodes increases, whereas empirical evidence suggests otherwise. Hierarchical network models can explain this phenomenon while also retaining the scale-free property. Another notable example is that it is possible to generate networks deterministically, which are scale-free and linear world at the same time, showing that small-world property is not a necessary consequence of the scale-free property.
Properties
The exact properties of the generated networks depend on the particular algorithm with which they are constructed, therefore there are not many common properties. The single unifying property is scale-freeness, that is, the degree distribution of the nodes always follows a power law at least asymptotically, which means that a randomly selected node has k edges with probability
where the degree coefficient (λ) depends on the model parameters.
Also, because of the iterative construction, many of the models produce hierarchical networks with fractal-like properties. Other properties, such as network diameter, average path length, clustering coefficient vary across models depending on the construction.
Examples
Barabási-Ravasz-Vicsek model
One of the first deterministic scale-free network models was proposed by Barabási, Ravasz and Vicsek. It involved the generation of a hierarchical, scale-free network by following a set of simple steps:
Step 0: We start from a single node, that we designate as the root of the graph.
Step 1: We add two more nodes, and connect each of them to the root.
Step 2: We add two units of three nodes, each unit identical to the network created in the previous iteration (step 1), and we connect each of the bottom nodes [...] of these two units to the root. That is, the root will gain four more new links.
Step 3: We a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT%2016H | INT 16h, INT 0x16, INT 16H or INT 22 is shorthand for BIOS interrupt call 16hex, the 23rd interrupt vector in an x86-based computer system.
The BIOS typically sets up a real mode interrupt handler at this vector that provides keyboard services. This interruption is responsible for control of the PC keyboard.
Features
This interruption is responsible for obtaining basic keyboard functionality, i.e. is responsible for collecting the keystrokes, obtain the status of the buffer of keyboard, etc. The standard encoding of the keyboard that offers the INT 16 h is a US keyboard. To adapt the coding of the INT 16h to another type of keyboard (for example, an international keyboard), the code must analyze the scan-code of the key pressed, and then perform suitable interpreting.
For keyboards with 101 letters or more, there are some keys that INT 16h interprets as expanded keys, which have a scan-code that is different from normal keys (e.g., key pause).
List of services of the INT 16 h
INT 16h Detailed Function List
See also
BIOS
PS/2 port
References
External links
explained and complete list of interrupt 16h
BIOS
Interrupts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl%205%20version%20history | Perl is an open-source programming language whose first version, 1.0, was released in 1987. The following table contains the Perl 5 version history, showing its release versions. Not all versions are covered yet.
Note that additional minor release versions may not be shown in this chart, unless they include notable changes or are the latest supported version. Additional information can be found on the official Perl website.
Version history
Release numbers use semantic versioning since 5.6, where even-numbered minor versions (e.g. 5.36) are stable releases, and odd numbers are experimental development versions. The patch number is usually omitted in discussions of Perl versions.
The Perl Maintenance and Support Policy is to "support the two most recent stable release series" although important security fixes may be applied to stable releases from the past three years.
Note that this is separate from the Perl Toolchain (utilities for building and installing Perl modules) Support Policies, which will informally support older releases. The current policy is to support Perl v5.16 or earlier until July 2024, and then to support releases than have been available for at least ten years.
References
Perl
Software version histories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki%20Dinki | Nicolette "Nikki" Dinki (born May 11, 1983) is an American cook, cookbook author and blogger. She came to prominence as a contestant on the ninth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star, and she served as co-host of the Cooking Channel series Junk Food Flip, which aired from 2014 to 2016.
Biography
Dinki was born in Clarence, New York. She attended Clarence High School and graduated in 2001.
In 2006, Dinki appeared in The Sopranos sixth season episode "Johnny Cakes" as A.J. Soprano's girlfriend Bibi.
In May 2013, it was announced that Dinki had been selected as a contestant on the ninth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star. During the course of the series, she emphasized her semi-vegetarian lifestyle, which she often referred to as her "meat-on-the-side" ideology. Dinki was eliminated from the show on July 28, 2013, finishing in fifth place.
In August 2014, Dinki filmed a pilot for a potential series for Cooking Channel called Junk Food Flip. In April 2015, it was announced that the pilot would be picked up for a full series; and that fellow chef Bobby Deen would serve as co-host. The series officially premiered on June 2, 2015.
Dinki's husband, Evan, is a lawyer; they married in 2010. When she returned to Food Network Star for the ninth season finale, she announced that she was pregnant with a girl; however, she later suffered a stillbirth at 40 weeks. Her daughter was named Willa; and Dinki created a recipe called Willa's Lemonade Cheesecakes in her honor.
In January 2016, it was reported that Dinki was pregnant with her second child, who was due to be born in April 2016. In March 2016, she announced that the child would be a girl. Dinki announced the arrival of her daughter, Ivy, in May 2016.
Books
Meat on the Side: Delicious Vegetable-Focused Recipes for Every Day () (St. Martin's Press).
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
American bloggers
American cookbook writers
American television chefs
Food Network Star contestants
People from Clarence, New York
American women bloggers
American women chefs
Women cookbook writers
Writers from New York (state)
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncomputation | Uncomputation is a technique, used in reversible circuits, for cleaning up temporary effects on ancilla bits so that they can be re-used.
Uncomputation is a fundamental step in quantum computing algorithms. Whether or not intermediate effects have been uncomputed affects how states interfere with each other when measuring results.
The process is primarily motivated by the principle of implicit measurement., which states that discarding a register during computation is physically equivalent to measuring it. Failure to uncompute garbage registers can have unintentional consequences. For example, if we take the state where and are garbage registers. Then, if we do not apply any further operations to those registers, according to the principle of implicit measurement, the entangled state has been measured, resulting in a collapse to either or with probability . What makes this undesirable is that wave-function collapse occurs before the program terminates, and thus may not yield the expected result.
References
Quantum information science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henv%C3%A5len%20Nature%20Reserve | Henvålen Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network and parts of the wetland areas are designated Ramsar sites.
The nature reserve occupies a plateau at the edge of the Scandinavian Mountains and includes, apart from mountainous areas also wetlands and old-growth forest. The highest part of the nature reserve is the mountain peak Särvfjället, reaching .
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 1998
1998 establishments in Sweden
Ramsar sites in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20L.%20Gini | Maria Gini is an Italian and American Computer Scientist in artificial intelligence
and robotics. She has considerable service to the computer science artificial intelligence community and for broadening participation in computing. She was Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence SIGAI (renamed from SIGART) from 2003 to 2010. She is currently a member of the CRA-W board.
Biography
Academic
She received a degree in physics (a laurea) from the University of Milan in 1972. From 1974 to 1979 she was a Research Associate and from 1980 to 1982 a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Electronics in Politecnico of Milano in Italy. She then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in 1982 as an Assistant Professor. She became the first female to join the department. With her imagination and dedication to her field, she has received many outstanding achievements and honors in teaching, including the Morse-Alumni Award in 1987. While there she was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988 and to Professor in 1997. In 2001 Gini received the Distinguished Women Scholars Award from the University of Minnesota. Since 2005 she has also been Associate Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She was named an AAAI fellow in 2008 "for significant contributions to coordination and competition in multirobot and multiagent systems, for leadership in the AI community, and for inspiring the next generation". In 2011, she received the Mullen-Spector-Truax Women's Leadership Award from the University of Minnesota, presented annually to "a faculty or staff woman at the University who has made outstanding contributions to women's leadership development". Gini was also named an IEEE fellow in 2018. As of 2019, she has graduated 34 Ph.D students as well as nearly 100 graduate students.
Advocacy Efforts
Gini organized first the biennial MinneWIC (ACM-W Celebration of Women in Computing in the Upper MidWest) event in 2010, and went on to organize the event in 2012, 2015 and 2017 as well. The first event had 140 attendees.
She initiated and runs the Summer Computing Academy at the University of Minnesota for female junior high and high school students interested in computing. Every summer since 2015, Gini has invited up to 25 students on campus for this two week day camp where they are introduced to Python and get the opportunity to hear from various faculty and tour research facilities on campus.
Marriage
Gini met her current husband Daniel Boley through her fellowship at Stanford.
Career
Gini created POINTY, a system that introduced the use of an interpreted language into robot programming and was one of the very early user interfaces designed for robot program development. The major innovation in POINTY was to develop an interpreter for the programming language AL, which was the language used to program the Stanford manipulators. POINTY allowed programmers to develop and test pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4rvdalen%20Nature%20Reserve | Järvdalen Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
The nature reserve protects an area of old-growth forest, wetlands, lakes and areas of exposed bedrock. Within the nature reserve there are several different kinds of ancient forest, dominated by Scots pine, spruce and birch, respectively. To the west, the nature reserve borders on Vålådalen Nature Reserve.
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 2005
2005 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Community%20Churches%20of%20Australia | The Christian Community Churches of Australia are a network of Open Brethren churches, or "assemblies", in Australia. They do not form a denomination in the organizational sense, but rather a network of like-minded autonomous local churches.
Brethren history in Australia
Brethren assemblies have existed in Australia since the 1850s. Holding congregational autonomy as a core principle, they long resisted forming any kind of central organization, preferring to operate as a network bound together by relationships rather than organized bodies. A number of organizations aiming to support the Brethren movement did arise, however, and gained widespread acceptance among the assemblies. These included the Stewards Foundation (established 16 July 1965). A national committee was established in 2006, which was subsequently incorporated as the Christian Community Churches of Australia. Not all Brethren assemblies affiliated to it immediately; the Western Australian Brethren did not join it until 2013.
The Open Brethren in Australia have been embarrassed by negative publicity surrounding the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, a hardline branch of the Exclusive Brethren (and the only Exclusive group to exist in significant numbers in Australia), which some defectors have accused of being a cult. The Open Brethren decision to rebrand itself as the Christian Community Churches of Australia is seen by some as partly a reaction to public confusion between their own movement and the Exclusives.
According to the Evangelical publication, Operation World, there were 320 Brethren congregations in Australia with 46,176 affiliates in 2010.
Brethren diversity
The Brethren in Australia have diversified greatly in the last generation. They form a continuum ranging from conservative "Gospel Halls" and "Gospel Chapels" at one end, through "Bible Chapels", "Community Churches", and other designations that include the term "church" at the progressive end. (The terms conservative and progressive are often informally used in Brethren circles to categorize assemblies and individuals according to the emphasis, or lack of emphasis, they place on teachings and practices that have historically distinguished the Brethren from other Evangelical Christians. These distinctives included rejection of salaried pastors, "open worship" in which male members of the congregation who felt "led by the Holy Spirit" would propose hymns, read scriptures, and offer prayers, male-only leadership, a cappella singing, Dispensationalist theology, complete rejection of the Charismatic movement, and varying degrees of insularity from non-Brethren Christians). Some of the more conservative assemblies still emphasize these distinctives, while many at the more "progressive" end of the spectrum now have salaried pastors, accompanied music in worship, a less dispensational way of understanding eschatology, and may allow for female participation in worship, and in some cases, in leadership. Many of the progr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%E2%80%93periphery%20structure | Core–periphery structure is a network theory model.
Models of core–periphery structures
There are two main intuitions behind the definition of core–periphery network structures; one assumes that a network can only have one core, whereas the other allows for the possibility of multiple cores. These two intuitive conceptions serve as the basis for two modes of core–periphery structures.
Discrete model
This model assumes that there are two classes of nodes. The first consists of a cohesive core sub-graph in which the nodes are highly interconnected, and the second is made up of a peripheral set of nodes that is loosely connected to the core. In an ideal core–periphery matrix, core nodes are adjacent to other core nodes and to some peripheral nodes while peripheral nodes are not connected with other peripheral nodes (Borgatti & Everett, 2000, p. 378). This requires, however, that there be an a priori partition that indicates whether a node belongs to the core or periphery.
Continuous model
This model allows for the existence of three or more partitions of node classes. However, including more classes makes modifications to the discrete model more difficult. Borgatti & Everett (1999) suggest that, in order to overcome this problem, each node be assigned a measure of ‘coreness’ that will determine its class. Nevertheless, the threshold of what constitutes a high ‘coreness’ value must be justified theoretically.
Discussion
Hubs are commonly found in empirical networks and pose a problem for community detection as they usually have strong ties to many communities. Identifying core–periphery structures can help circumvent this problem by categorizing hubs as part of the network's core (Rombach et al., 2014, p. 160). Likewise, though all core nodes have high centrality measures, not all nodes with high centrality measures belong to the core. It is possible to find that a set of highly central nodes in a graph does not make an internally cohesive subgraph (Borgatti & Everett, 2000)...
Uses in economics
The concept was first introduced into economics as "centre-periphery" by Raúl Prebisch in the 1950s, but the origin of the idea could ultimately be traced back to Thünen's Isolated State (1826). However, the qualitative notion that social networks can have a core–periphery structure has a long history in disciplines such as sociology, international relations (Nemeth & Smith, 1985), and economics (Snyder & Kick, 1979). Observed trade flows and diplomatic ties among countries fit this structure. Paul Krugman (1991) suggests that when transportation costs are low enough manufacturers concentrate in a single region known as the core and other regions (the periphery) limit themselves to the supply of agricultural goods.
See also
World-systems theory
Core countries
Semi-periphery countries
Periphery countries
Degeneracy (graph theory)
References
Borgatti, S. P., & Everett, M. G. (1999). Models of core /periphery structures. Social Networks, 21, 375–395. do |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumble | Bumble is an online dating and networking application launched in 2014. Profiles of potential matches are displayed to users, who can "swipe left" to reject a candidate or "swipe right" to indicate interest. In heterosexual matches, only female users can make the first contact with matched male users, while in homosexual matches either person can send a message first. The app is a product of Bumble Inc.
Bumble was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd shortly after she left Tinder. Wolfe Herd has described Bumble as a "feminist dating app". As of January 2021, with a monthly user base of 42 million, Bumble is the second-most popular dating app in the U.S. after Tinder. According to a June 2016 survey, 46.2% of its users are female. According to Forbes, by 2017 the company was valued at more than $1 billion, and the company reported having over 55 million users in 150 countries as of 2019.
History
Whitney Wolfe Herd, an early VP of Marketing of Tinder, founded Bumble shortly after leaving Tinder. Wolfe Herd sued Tinder for sexual discrimination and harassment and settled for just over $1 million in September 2014. Amidst the media attention surrounding the lawsuit, acquaintance and Badoo founder and CEO Andrey Andreev contacted Wolfe Herd via email, and the two met up. Andreev suggested she get back into the dating space, and the pair eventually formed a partnership in which Andreev would receive 79% ownership in the company following an initial investment of $10 million along with additional investments and Wolfe Herd would serve as founder, CEO and 20% owner. As part of the agreement, the new company would also utilize Badoo's infrastructure and Andreev's consulting. After the partnership was established, the pair recruited fellow Tinder departees Chris Gulczynski and Sarah Mick to design the interface and help launch Bumble. Bumble was launched three months later in December 2014.
The company headquarters are in Austin, Texas and as of 2021 had 650 employees globally. In March 2016, Bumble released BFF mode as a way for users to find platonic friends. After switching into the mode, the app replaces potential dates with people of the user's same sex who are also looking for friends. In June 2016, Bumble announced a partnership with Spotify that would allow users to connect a Spotify account to their profile to show their music interests. In March 2017, the company announced its plan to launch a career networking app, Bumble Bizz. In August 2017, Bumble partnered with the Anti-Defamation League in an effort to remove users who display hate symbols in their profiles. In October 2017, the company launched Bumble Bizz which also uses a woman-first interface.
The company was valued at more than $1 billion in November 2017. When private equity firm The Blackstone Group purchased a majority stake in Bumble's parent company MagicLab, Bumble and its sister apps were valued at $3 billion. Bumble and its sister apps earned $162 million in net revenue for 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex%20%26%20Shanice | Flex & Shanice was an American reality television series starring Flex Alexander and Shanice Wilson. It premiered on November 1, 2014 on the Oprah Winfrey Network, as part of its Saturday-night reality lineup.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2015)
Season 3 (2016)
References
2010s American reality television series
2014 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20logistics%20network%20modelling | Reverse logistics is for all operations related to the reuse of products and materials. It is "the process of moving goods from their typical final destination for the purpose of capturing value, or proper disposal. Remanufacturing and refurbishing activities also may be included in the definition of reverse logistics."
In order to model reverse logistics network from an economics point of view, the following simplified reverse logistics system has to be set.
In this model the products are gathered from the consumers and transferred back to the producers, hence the direction of the flow in the distribution supply chain is reversed and the model is expanded with the recovery center. First of all the used products are collected from the consumers and moved to the recovery center, where the condition of the products are examined according to their end of life cycle. If there is still recapture value, then the product is disassembled as preparation for further reprocessing, which means physical transformation to new customer. Otherwise the used product is disposed and transferred to the landfill site. According to the introduced model the main differences between forward and reverse logistics can be identified:
Uncertainty on the quantity, quality and timing
Complex system due to more participants and more interactions
Mismatch between demand and supply occurs
Unexplored market opportunities but the low value of return flow means a limit
Modeling techniques for optimizing in reverse logistics network
In case of a reverse logistics network the nodes represent the different kind of facilities such as the manufacturers, distribution centers, recovery centers, ware houses. The opening of a facility is marked with a binary integer number. The links are acted for flow between facilities and the weights are continuous variables showing the quantity of flow. The two common way of designing reverse logistics network are the Mixed Integer Linear Programing (MILP) and Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programing (MINLP) methods, where the objective function, decision variables and constraint have to be defined
Mixed Integer Linear Programing (MILP)
Remanufacturing model
This model is a two-level location problem with three type of facilities, integrated forward and reverse flow of goods. It means that the used items are gathered from consumers, transported back to plants and after remanufacturing get into the logistics network of new products.
Objective function:
minimizing linear cost function including fix and variable costs
Decision variables:
location of manufacturer and distribution centeramount of production demand
quantity of returned used products
Constraints:
satisfaction of the demand
opening of facilities
Refurbishment model
This model take into account just reverse flow of goods.
Objective function:
minimizing linear cost function incorporating fix cost of settling sites and transportation cost of returning goods
Decision variable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5l%C3%A5dalen%20Nature%20Reserve | Vålådalen Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
The nature reserve contains a varied landscape with mountain tops, forests and wetlands. The area contains several geological peculiarities such as pyramidal hills, formed during the end-stages of the last Ice age. The fauna is rich, with species which are threatened in Sweden such as wolverine and Arctic fox represented. The flora also contains some unusual species (e.g. several types of orchids).
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 1988
1988 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomplete%20information%20network%20game | Network games of incomplete information represent strategic network formation when agents do not know in advance their neighbors, i.e. the network structure and the value stemming from forming links with neighboring agents. In such a setting, agents have prior beliefs about the value of attaching to their neighbors; take their action based on their prior belief and update their belief based on the history of the game. While games with a fully known network structure are widely applicable, there are many applications when players act without fully knowing with whom they interact or what their neighbors’ action will be.
For example, people choosing major in college can be formalized as a network game with imperfect information: they might know something about the number of people taking that major and might infer something about the job market for different majors, but they don’t know with whom they will have to interact, thus they do not know the structure of the network.
Game theoretic formulation
In this setting, players have private and incomplete information about the network and this private information is interpreted as player's own type (here, private knowledge of own degree). Conditional on their own degree, players form beliefs about the degrees of their neighbors. The equilibrium concept of this game is Bayesian Nash Equilibrium.The strategy of a player is a mapping from the player's degree to the player's action.
Let be the probability that a player of degree d chooses action 1. For most degrees (d) the action will be either 0 or 1, but in some cases mixed strategy might occur.
The degrees of i's neighbor are drawn from a degree distribution , where approximates the distribution over a neighbors' degree from the configuration model with respect to a degree sequence represented by P.
Given , the probability that a neighbor takes action 1 is:
.
Asymptotically, the belief that exactly m out of the d neighbors of player i choose action 1 follows a binomial distribution .
Thus, the expected utility of player i of degree who takes action is given by:
, where is the payoff corresponding to a game played on a certain network structure, in which players choose their strategies knowing how many links they will have but not knowing which network will be realized, given the incomplete information about the link formation of neighbors.
Assuming independence of neighbors' degrees, the above formulation of the game does not require knowledge of the precise set of players. The network game is specified by defining a utility for each d and a distribution of neighbor's degrees .
The Bayesian equilibrium of this network game is a strategy such that for each d, if , then , and if , then .
Example of imperfect information game played on networks
Consider a network game of local provision of public good when agent's actions are strategic substitutes, (i.e. the benefit of the individual from undertaking a certain action is not greater if h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillstab%C3%A4cken%20Nature%20Reserve | Fillstabäcken Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
The nature reserve contains Sweden's most extensive area of tufa, formed by a spring that has deposited calcium carbonate here for around 5,000 years. The spring and tufa is surrounded by an area of forest, and contains several unusual plant species such as fly orchid, birds-eye primrose, Scottish asphodel, fragrant orchid, Pedicularis sceptrum-carolinum and Carex flava and its subspecies jemtlandica.
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 1988
1988 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tysj%C3%B6arna%20Nature%20Reserve | Tysjöarna Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network, and has been designated as a Ramsar site since 2001.
The nature reserve is an important resting area for migrating birds. Three towers for birdwatching have been built in the area. Species that are known to be found in Tysjöarna Nature Reserve include whooper swan, common crane, tufted duck, common goldeneye, little gull, northern lapwing and common redshank.
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External links
Folder about the nature reserve
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Ramsar sites in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 2013
2013 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berge%20Virgin%20Forest%20Nature%20Reserve | Berge Virgin Forest Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
The nature reserve protects an area of virgin forest in a hilly landscape, and also contains the Lake Gråssjön. Some parts of the forest is almost completely unaltered by human activity; for example, one tree in the nature reserve has been found to be 580 years old. The forest is mixed coniferous, and contains a lot of coarse woody debris. The unspoilt area is an important habitat for several unusual species, including lesser twayblade, heath spotted orchid and northern coralroot. It is also a preferred habitat for several birds, like osprey, red-throated loon and Eurasian three-toed woodpecker; the latter two are on the national Swedish red list.
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 1998
1998 establishments in Sweden
Old-growth forests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96jsj%C3%B6myrarna%20Nature%20Reserve | Öjsjömyrarna Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
Öjsjömyrarna Nature Reserve has been created to protect a number of different kinds of wetlands. Between 2010 and 2015, some of the wetlands were restored through the EU-funded LIFE Programme.
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 1998
1998 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbabel | Unbabel is an artificial intelligence-powered human translation platform. The company has headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, and San Francisco, California.
Unbabel combines Neural Machine Translation with machine learning and a crowdsourced model to differentiate itself from other translation service providers. The name Unbabel is derived from the biblical story of Babel. The company is focused on the translation of customer service communications.
History
Unbabel was founded in August 2013 by Vasco Pedro, João Graça, Sofia Pessanha, Bruno Silva, and Hugo Silva and was incubated by Y Combinator in late 2014. The company was officially launched in March 2014.
In May 2014, Unbabel raised a $1.5 million Seed round to support the growth and development of its translation platform, receiving investment from prominent venture capital firms and business angels including Google Ventures, Matrix Partners, Caixa Capital, Faber Ventures, IDG Ventures, Digital Garage, Shilling Capital Partners, Wefunder, FundersClub, Elad Gil and Raymond Tonsing.
In early 2015, Unbabel was recognized as one of Y Combinator’s fastest growing Seed stage companies. In late 2016, Unbabel raised $5 million from lead investors Notion Capital and Caixa Capital.
In early 2018, Unbabel raised $23 million in Series B funding, led by Scale Venture Partners and Notion Capital, bringing its total venture capital funding to $31.2 million. The company is privately held.
On September 24 2019, Unbabel raised $60 million in Series C funding to further refine its AI+human translation platform. The latest funding round was led by Point72 Ventures with participation from e.ventures, Greycroft, Indico Capital Partners and existing investors, bringing its total funding to $91 million.
In the United States
In August 2019 Unbabel opened a research lab in Pittsburgh, PA. The lab is led by U.S. researcher Alon Lavie.
Its customers include easyJet, Booking.com, Rovio Entertainment, Under Armour, Pinterest, and Facebook.
References
External links
Translation companies
Online marketplaces of Portugal
Online marketplaces of the United States
Privately held companies of the United States
Freelance marketplace websites
Y Combinator companies
Technology companies established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics%20of%20networks | Economics of networks is a discipline in the fields of economics and network sciences. It is primarily concerned with the understanding of economic phenomena by using network concepts and the tools of network science. Prominent authors in the field include Sanjeev Goyal, Matthew O. Jackson, and Rachel Kranton.
This term should not be confused with network economics or network externality.
Models of networked markets
The concept of networks enables a better understanding of the functioning of markets. On the border of network science and market theory, several models have emerged to explain different aspects in markets.
Exchange theory
Exchange theory explains how economic transactions, trade in favor, communication of information, or other exchanges are affected by the structure of the relationships among the involved participants. The main idea is that the act of exchange is influenced by the agents’ opportunities and their environment. For example, the position of a given agent in the network can endorse them with the power in the auctions and deals they make with their partners.
Bilateral Trading Models
As part of exchange theory, bilateral trading models consider sellers and buyers. These models use game-theoretic models of bargaining in networks to help predict the behavior of agents depending on the type of network. The outcome of transactions can be determined by, for instance, the number of sellers a buyer is connected to, or vice versa (Corominas-Bosch model). Another case occurs when the agents agree on a transaction through an auction and their decision-making during the auction depends on the link structure. Kranton and Minehart concluded that if markets were considered networks, it would enable sellers to pool uncertainty in demand. Building links is costly, however, due to trade-offs not all links are necessary for the network, resulting in a sparse, efficiency-enhancing network.
Informal exchange
The study of networks in economics started before the development of network science. Károly Polány, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Bronislaw Malinowski studied tribes where complicated gift exchange mechanisms constructed networks between groups, such as families or islands. Although modern trade systems differ fundamentally, such systems based on reciprocity can still survive and reciprocity-based or personalized exchange deals persist even when a market would be more efficient. According to Kranton, informal exchange can exist in networks if transactions are more reciprocal than market-based. In this case, market exchange is hard to find and is associated with high search costs, therefore yielding low utility. Personalized exchange agreements ensure the possibility of long-term agreements.
Scale-free property and economics
Recent studies have tried to examine the deeper connection between socio-economic factors and phenomena and the scale-free property. They found that business networks have scale-free property and that the merger among |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotypic%20disease%20network%20%28PDN%29 | The first phenotypic disease network was constructed by Hidalgo et al. (2009) to help understand the origins of many diseases and the links between them. Hidalgo et al. (2009) defined diseases as specific sets of phenotypes that affect one or several physiological systems, and compiled data on pairwise comorbidity correlations for more than 10,000 diseases reconstructed from over 30 million medical records. Hidalgo et al. (2009) presented their data in the form of a network with diseases as the nodes and comorbidity correlations as the links. Intuitively, the phenotypic disease network (PDN) can be seen as a map of the phenotypic space whose structure can contribute to the understanding of disease progression.
History
During the last decade, several papers were published that aim at understanding the origins and interrelatedness of diseases using the analytical tools of network science. Interactions between disease-associated genes, proteins, and gene expressions have been explored.
However, phenotypic information was essentially overlooked, despite the fact that there exist extensive, high-quality data on it in the form of clinical histories, until the seminal paper of Hidalgo et al. (2009) introducing the human phenotypic disease network.
Data and methodology
Source data
Hidalgo et al. (2009) used Medicare hospital claims based on the MedPAR records on hospitalizations for the period 1990-1993. For the 32 million elderly Americans aged 65 or older enrolled in Medicare and alive for the entire study period, there were approximately 32 million inpatient claims, belonging to about 13 million individuals. The dataset consisted of mainly white patients over 65 years old living in an industrialized country which imposed some limitations on the study; for example, many infectious diseases or pregnancy related conditions did not appear in the data at all.
Comorbidity correlation measures
Comorbidity measures are used to measure the "distance" between two diseases. The relative risk (RR) of observing disease i and j affecting the same patient is given by
where denotes the number of patients affected by both diseases, N is the total number of patients in the population, and and are the prevalences of diseases i and j, respectively.
The -correlation (Pearson correlation for binary measures) can be expressed as
Both measures have inherent biases: RR overestimates relationships involving rare diseases and underestimates the comorbidity between highly prevalent diseases, while the -correlation is accurate in describing comorbidity between diseases with similar prevalence but underestimates the comorbidity between rare and common diseases. In the PDN, nodes are disease phenotypes and links connect those phenotypes that have significant comorbidity correlation according to the RR and -correlation.
Considering the complementary biases of these two measures, Hidalgo et al. (2009) constructed a separate PDN for each.
Disease network dynamics
Disease |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso%20Diaz | Alfonso Díaz is a Colombian director and host with the international network, Canal Nuestra Tele Internacional. He also serves as the entertainment correspondent for NTN24, the international news station geared to Spanish speaking audiences around the world. His show "Tenemos Que Hablar" reaches more than 20 countries.
Diaz has interviewed countless personalities in many diverse settings - on the red carpet, at press junkets, concerts and openings. These include Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, George Clooney, Robert de Niro, Patrick Stewart, James Franco, Laverne Cox and Sofia Vergara amongst others.
References
External links
Canalnuestratele.com
:es:NTN24
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Colombian journalists
Male journalists
Colombian television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20%28album%29 | Algorithm is the first studio album from My Heart to Fear. Solid State Records released the album on July 9, 2013.
Critical reception
Awarding the album three stars from Alternative Press, Jason Schreurs writes, "As is the case with the bulk of this musical style, the vocals bring it back down to a near-mediocre level." Bradley Zorgdrager, rating the album a five out of ten for Exclaim!, says, "Unfortunately, a lack of inspiration causes the songs to come undone, as many of the parts sound only like a means to get to the next." Giving the album four stars at About.com, Todd Lyons states, "everything binds together into one masterful meditation." Tim Dodderidge, indicating in an 8.5 out of ten review by Mind Equals Blown, writes, "From start to finish, My Heart to Fear’s debut full-length is an energetic, ferocious, cathartic and inspiring metal album."
Kevin Hoskins, giving the album three and a half stars for Jesus Freak Hideout, describes, "this is just metal done well ... but any hardcore fan will be digging this release all summer long." Awarding the album four and a half stars from HM Magazine, Sean Huncherick states, "One good thing about Algorithm is that the band realizes they don’t need to constantly play as fast as they can." Brody B., rating the album four star at Indie Vision Music, writes, "With a few minor tweaks here and there that could have made songs feel more fleshed out I would have had a hard time finding fault with this debut record."
Track listing
References
2013 albums
Solid State Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Safawi | Syed Safawi was the managing director and Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of VLCC. Prior to it, he was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Viom Networks, a telecom infrastructure company, the largest independent operator in India, according to Business Standard. Before Viom Networks, Syed was with Reliance Communications Limited (RCom) as the President and CEO of the Wireless Business and Chairman of the Reliance Management Board. He worked with RCom for over two years. He was earlier with Bharti Airtel Limited as the executive director, responsible for the East and West India operations along with the international wireless operations. In his earlier role at Airtel, he was also responsible for the global calling cards business and the B2B business of mobile services. He went to IRMA for postgraduation and during initial period worked with Gujarat Co Operative or Amul. He is from Lucknow.
Syed is also the honorary founding president of Imamia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI)
References
http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/how-safawi-turned-around-viom-s-fortunes-114032701285_1.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/business/business-others/shias-hope-own-industry-chamber-will-open-doors-to-business/
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/from-jobseekers-to-jobgivers/article6160087.ece
External links
Articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Forbesindia.com
Bloomberg.com
Business-standard.com
Business-standard.com
Articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalian%20transport%20network | Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China. It is the southernmost city of Northeast China and China's northernmost warm water port, at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. Today, it is becoming a financial, shipping and logistics center for Northeast Asia. Dalian has comprehensive network of roads, railways and a major airport.
Road Network
Expressways
Four expressways link Dalian to its neighbor cities and areas, they are:
Shenda Expressway (G15)
Hegang–Dalian Expressway (G11)
Tuyang Expressway
Dayaowan Expressway
China National Highways
There are two China National Highways starts/ends at Dalian.
China National Highway 201 (Hegang-Mudan River-Lüshun)
China National Highway 202 (Heihe-Shenyang-Lüshun)
Urban Public Transportation
Dalian Metro
The Dalian Metro or Dalian Rapid Transit is an elevated rapid transit system in the city of Dalian, China[3] (as of 2014, Dalian does not have a fully underground subway system). The metro opened on 1 May 2003. The system currently in operation consists of 3 lines: Line 3, Line 7, and Line 8.
Dalian Subway
The conception of building Dalian's Subway dates back to 1980s. In 1987, the plan was officially submitted for approval but failed. It was not until 2002 that its first line, line 3 was completed and operated. Currently, there are four lines - line 1, 2, 3 and 12 are in service. Line 4, 5 and 13 are under construction. In future, the city will all together have 12 subway lines.
Trams in Dalian
Trams in Dalian have been operating continuously since 1909 making them one of the oldest tram systems still in use in China. There were once eleven routes in operation in Dalian in the Northeast China. Only two routes remain in use today. Notably, all of the staff on Dalian's tram system are female, i.e. – driver, conductor, points man — even the depot manager. The tram system was the only rail network in the city, until Dalian Metro opened more than a decade ago; the Metro has a large ridership.
Public Bus
The public bus transport in Dalian is highly developed. Over 150 routes enable budget visitors to get around the city easily. The buses' operating times vary, starting between 4:30am and 6:30am and finishing between 8pm and midnight. Make sure of the operating hours when taking a bus.
Most buses have no conductors and so one or two Yuan in change will be needed before getting aboard. There are many one-way streets in the city, so do not always take it for granted that the return will drop people on the same street. People in the city are very kind to foreigners, so ask locals for help.
There are three well-preserved old tram routes from colonial times in the city. Luckily they still serve as an important means of transport. The antique red trolleys of 201, 202 and 203 cruise the downtown and southwestern areas in the city.
Buses with the initial number 6 are suburban commuters.
The flexible mini-buses usually cruise the lanes and corners of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQream%20DB | SQream is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia.
SQream is designed for big data analytics using the Structured Query Language (SQL).
History
SQream is the first product from SQream Technologies Ltd, founded in 2010 by Ami Gal and Kostya Varakin in Tel Aviv, Israel.
SQream was first released in 2014 after a partnership with an Orange S.A. in Silicon Valley.
The company claimed Orange S.A. saved $6 million by using SQream in 2014.
SQream is aimed at the budget multi-terabyte analytics market, due to its modest hardware requirements and use of compression.
SQream is also the basis for a product named GenomeStack, for querying many DNA sequences simultaneously.
A US$7.4M investment of venture capital was announced in June 2015.
It is an example of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units, alongside Omnisci and Kinetica.
The company applied for patents, encompassing parallel execution queries on multi-core processors and speeding up parallel execution on vector processors.
In February 2018, SQream Technologies partnered with Alibaba group's Alibaba Cloud to deliver a GPU Database solution on Alibaba Cloud.
In December 2021, SQream announced that it had acquired no-code data platform Panoply for an undisclosed sum, as part of the push to grow its cloud offering.
Software and features
The column-oriented database SQream platform was designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data, for compute-intensive queries. The product claims to improve query performance for very large datasets, over traditional relational database systems.
SQream is designed to run on premise or in the public cloud.
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External links
SQL
Relational database management systems
Relational database management software for Linux
Products introduced in 2014
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Big data products
Israeli inventions
Haskell software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted%3A%20The%20Nathan%20Drake%20Collection | Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection is a 2015 action-adventure video game compilation developed by Bluepoint Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It includes remastered versions of the first three main games in the Uncharted series: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007), Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009) and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011), all of which were originally developed by Naughty Dog. The Nathan Drake Collection was released in October 2015 exclusively for PlayStation 4. Players control Nathan Drake, a treasure hunter who travels the world to uncover various historical mysteries.
Development of The Nathan Drake Collection began in 2014, and required the largest team ever assembled by Bluepoint. To take advantage of the greater capabilities of the console, Bluepoint were able to remodel elements of the gameplay, including the shooting and grenade mechanics, some controls, and the camera schemes. In-game cutscenes were overhauled to improve lighting, visuals, and character models, while online leaderboards and motion blur were introduced. The Nathan Drake Collection only contains the single-player story modes, with all multiplayer content absent.
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its updates and improvements to the games, namely the graphics, controls, and visuals, and was deemed a worthy remaster of the original trilogy. There was some criticism for its aforementioned omission of multiplayer and lack of additional features.
Gameplay
The Nathan Drake Collection includes the single player campaigns of the first three mainline titles in the Uncharted series: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Played from a third-person perspective, they are action-adventure video games with platforming elements. In these games, the player assumes control of treasure hunter Nathan Drake, and must explore dangerous ruins, defeat enemies using various firearms and solve various puzzles. All three remastered games run in 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second, while the music was enhanced to support surround sound systems.
Bluepoint attempted to unify the gameplay across all three games. To achieve this, it overhauled the aim assist system and grenade gameplay from Drake's Fortune to match that of the other games, and altered Uncharted 3s camera movement. The team also remapped buttons to ensure that the control schemes across the three games are consistent. The aiming mechanics across all three games were improved. The game also features graphical improvements, with Bluepoint re-rendering the cutscenes, enhancing the lighting and the visual effects, making the models and textures more detailed, and incorporating ambient occlusion and motion blur, both of which were not supported in the original games. The team added friends leaderboards, new difficulty settings, trophies and a photo mode into the game, though the multip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioBam%20Bioinformatics | BioBam is a bioinformatics software company located in Valencia, Spain selling software for the analysis of biological data. Its products are used by public and private research organizations around the world. The firm was founded in 2011 by Dr. Stefan Götz and Dr. Ana Conesa. The managing director of BioBam is Dr. Stefan Götz.
Products
The firm develops and provides products for the functional annotation and analysis of genomics data sets. The most well-known product is Blast2GO; the paper describing it has been cited by over 3528 scientific citations (as of January, 2016). Blast2GO is for functional genomics specially for non-model organism research. Blast2GO is for functional annotation of novel sequences and the genome-wide analysis of annotation data. BioBam has partnerships with bioinformatics companies like CLC bio and Biomatters, among others.
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Companies based in Valencia
Software companies of Spain
Bioinformatics companies
Privately held companies of Spain
Cloud computing providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20point%20%28network%20science%29 | In network science, a critical point is a value of average degree, which separates random networks that have a giant component from those that do not (i.e. it separates a network in a subcritical regime from one in a supercritical regime). Considering a random network with an average degree the critical point is
where the average degree is defined by the fraction of the number of edges () and nodes () in the network, that is .
Subcritical regime
In a subcritical regime the network has no giant component, only small clusters. In the special case of the network is not connected at all. A random network is in a subcritical regime until the average degree exceeds the critical point, that is the network is in a subcritical regime as long as
.
Supercritical regime
In a supercritical regime, in contrary to the subcritical regime the network has a giant component. In the special case of the network is complete (see complete graph). A random network is in a supercritical regime if the average degree exceeds the critical point, that is if
.
Example on different regimes
Consider a speed dating event as an example, with the participants as the nodes of the network. At the beginning of the event, people do not know anyone else. In this case the network is in a subcritical regime, that is, there is no giant component in the network (even if there are a couple of people, who know each other). After the first round of dates, everyone knows exactly one other person. There is still no giant component in the network, the average degree is , that is, everyone knows one other person on average, meaning that the network is at the critical point. After the second round, the average degree of the network exceeds the critical point, and the giant component is present. In this specific case, the average degree is . The network is in a supercritical regime.
See also
Graph theory
Percolation theory
Complex network
Random graph
References
Networks
Network theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berga%20Kulle%20Nature%20Reserve | Berga Kulle Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Södermanland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
The nature reserve consists of a rocky plateau or hill and its surroundings. Large patches of bedrock dominate the hill, where Scots pine grow, often in the form of krummholz.(some specimen are as old as 250 to 300 years). In the south-western part of the nature reserve, moraine characterises the geology, and here the pine trees grow taller and stronger. Towards the north, spruce instead dominate the forest. The whole area also has plenty of coarse woody debris, which is beneficial for the area's biodiversity. The forest is rich in mosses and lichens, and the protection of the moss Buxbaumia viridis is one of the explicit aims of the nature reserve.
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Södermanland County
Geography of Södermanland County
Protected areas established in 2003
2003 establishments in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labro%20Meadows%20Nature%20Reserve | Labro Meadows Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Södermanland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
The nature reserve covers a gently hilly area with meadows and pastures, disused arable land and small hills overgrown with forest. In the eastern part of the nature reserve lies an observation tower for birdwatching. Several paths and information boards also exist within the reserve. The bird-life of the area is rich, with around 190 species observed in the area, out of which approximately 70 regularly breed within the nature reserve. The species include northern lapwing, common redshank and western yellow wagtail. From the flora, field gentian, globeflower, birds-eye primrose and catsfoot can be mentioned.
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External links
Nature reserves in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Södermanland County
Geography of Södermanland County
Protected areas established in 2003
2003 establishments in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20deletion | Node deletion is the procedure of removing a node from a network, where the node is either chosen randomly or directly. Node deletion is used to test the robustness and the attack tolerance of networks. Understanding how a network changes in response to node deletion is critical in many empirical networks. Application varies across many fields, including the breakdown of the World Wide Web via router removal, elimination of epidemics or fighting against criminal organizations.
Random deletion
Removing a node or multiple nodes randomly from a network means that the elimination of a set of nodes happens with a certain probability. The probability of deleting a node can follow any distribution; the most common is to assume a uniform distribution. The effect of the node deletion is highly dependent on the topology of the network, so it affects each empirical network differently.
Erdős-Rényi model
The effect on the network connectedness is measured with the diameter of the network (the length of the longest shortest path between two nodes). When we remove a fraction f of nodes, the diameter of the network increases monotonically with f. This is because each node has approximately the same degree and thus contributes to the interconnectedness by relatively the same amount.
Barabási-Albert model
The effect on a scale-free network is very different from what is experienced with random networks. As f increases, the diameter remains unchanged even on a 5% error level. This robustness comes from the presence of hubs in the network. As long as the hubs are not malfunctioning, the interconnectedness of the network is untouched.
Random removal from a growing network
When node deletion is combined with other processes, the topology of the network can change drastically. To illustrate this, consider the BA model. In each step add a new node with m links to the network, and also remove a node with probability r. This leads to different networks depending on m and r.
, Scale-free Phase: In this phase the network keeps growing, although the growth rate is smaller due to the deletion of nodes. Here the degree distribution remains a power law, with the coefficient .
, Exponential Phase: In this case the removal of nodes and the appearance of new ones are equal, so the network has a constant size. The network loses its scale-free property, the degree distribution turns into a stretched exponential.
, Declining Network: The rate of removal is higher than the growth rate, so the network declines, after finite steps it disappears.
Targeted deletion
When the objective is to break down a network, it makes much more sense to target certain nodes instead of removing them in a uniformly random fashion. This is the case for example when someone is fighting against a bacterium, or wants to dismantle a criminal network. Targeted removal can happen according to many strategies, the most effective ones are the targeting of the highest degree nodes, and the targeting of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Transport%20Network | Air transport network or air transportation network (ATN) is an example of transport networks and spatial networks. The nodes of the network are the airports and the links represent direct flight routes between two airports. Alternatively, cities can be considered as the nodes with links representing direct flight connection between them. Air transport networks can be defined worldwide as well as for one region or for one airline company; the scale of the network can be global or domestic.
Properties of air transport networks
The graph of an air transport network is spatial but not a planar graph. The air transportation network is a complex network which has the properties of small-world networks and scale-free networks. The degree distribution of the nodes displays a heavy-tailed distribution. The hubs of the network have large connectivities and long-distance connectivities at the same time.
An anomalous property of the air transport networks is that nodes with relatively low degrees may have very high betweenness centrality. It is an important observation related to the robustness of complex networks. According to this finding the critical points of the system are not necessarily the hubs, but some other cities which uniquely provides routes to certain regions. For example, Alaska can be easily isolated from the other parts of the worldwide air transport network.
The worldwide air transport network defines communities. These communities are mainly determined by geographical factors. However, in some cases the borders of the communities are different from the borders of geographic regions. Such an example is the community of Europe and Asian Russia.
Examples for air transport networks
The worldwide air transportation network is represented by the database of International Air Transport Association (IATA). The worldwide air transportation network is a critical infrastructure with high impact on mobility, trade and economy.
Another examples are the air transport systems of a country or a country's own air transport company. It is particularly important, because the quality of the airports and national airlines are also the measures of the state of development of the country.
Application of air transport networks
Modeling air transport networks aims airline companies to organize their routes in a cost-efficient way and therefore maximize their profits. Air transport network models are also the tool to investigate system robustness. They help to determine weaknesses of the system in case of various kinds of disruptions. Once weaknesses are determined, a substitute node which can support all or part of the traffic load can be identified through the alternative strength for the pair.
An alternative application is modeling human disease networks. Air transport network is used by millions of people every day, therefore it plays key role in the spread of some infections, such as influenza or SARS. In this sense air transport network is a tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20fold | Structural folding is the network property of a cohesive group whose membership overlaps with that of another cohesive group. The idea reaches back to Georg Simmel's argument that individuality itself might be the product of unique intersection of network circles.
Network structures in the business world
It has been proposed that successful firms often cluster together in cohesive groups, as dense ties among the group members reduce transaction cost by providing a basis for trust and coordination amongst the firms. Cohesive ties also enable the firms to implement projects beyond their capacity and cushions them against great uncertainty
However, another logic suggests that business groups might choose to forgo high density within the group in favour of maintaining some weaker ties to other firms outside the group. This way firms can reduce redundant ties and form long-distance links to other firms who can provide novel information to them. This logic rests on the assumption that the conservatizing strategy of in-group cohesion is maladaptive as it risks locking the businesses into early success and strategies, which in the absence of new information can easily become detrimental in a rapidly changing business environment.
A third, different, strategy would be to combine the benefits of the previous two. Such solutions can be termed either “closure and brokerage” or “cohesion and connectivity” and the benefits of the complementarity of these distinctive network features is common to them, especially for entrepreneurship. Actors at structural folds are multiple insiders, benefiting from dense cohesive ties that provide familiarity with the operations of the members in their group. However, due to being part of more than one group they also have access to diverse information. This combination of familiarity and diversity facilitates innovation and creative success through recombining resources.
Intercohesion
Intercohesion is a distinctive network structure built from intersecting cohesive groups. It rests on the theoretical principle that cohesive group structures are not necessarily exclusive, but network structures can actually be cohesive and overlapping. This idea originates from Georg Simmel's who, in one of his works, argued that a person is often a member of more than one cohesive group in the same time, and these multiple group memberships are part of both individuation and social integration of the person. Intercohesion thus refers to mutually interpenetrating, cohesive structures, while the resulting distinctive network position at the intersection is a structural fold.
Innovation
As actors at structural folds can be considered multiple insiders, who benefit from both dense cohesive ties that provide familiarity with the operations of the members in their group and from access to non-redundant information, they are believed to be in a better position for innovation and creative success.
Based on the Schumpeterian understanding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geekbench | Geekbench is a proprietary and freemium cross-platform utility for benchmarking the central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) of computers, laptops, tablets, and phones.
History
Geekbench began as a benchmark for Mac OS X and Windows, and is now a cross-platform benchmark that supports macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS.
In version 4, Geekbench started measuring GPU performance in areas such as image processing and computer vision.
In version 5, Geekbench dropped support for x86-32.
In version 6, the current version, Geekbench includes CPU and GPU Compute benchmarks.
Usage
It uses a scoring system that separates single-core and multi-core performance, and workloads designed to simulate real-world scenarios. The software benchmark is available for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. Free users are required to upload test results online in order to run the benchmark.
In 2013, the usefulness of the scores from earlier versions of Geekbench (up to version 3) was heavily disputed by Linus Torvalds in an online forum. Linus's concerns that Geekbench combined disparate benchmarks into a single score were addressed in Geekbench 4 by splitting integer, floating point, and crypto into sub-scores. Linus regarded this changes as improvements in an informal review.
References
External links
Benchmarks (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202015%20%28Slovenia%29 | List of the Slovenian number-one singles of 2015 compiled by SloTop50, is the official chart provider of Slovenia. SloTop50 publishes weekly charts once a week, every Sunday. Chart contain data generated by the SloTop50 system according to any song played during the period starting the previous Monday morning at time 00:00:00 and ending Sunday night at 23:59:59.
Charts
Number-one singles by week
Weekly charted #1 songs and highest charted counting among domestic songs only
Number-one singles by month
Monthly charted #1 songs and highest charted counting among domestic songs only
References
Number-one hits
Slovenia
Lists of number-one songs in Slovenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Mega%202 | The Samsung Galaxy Mega 2
is an Android smartphone/tablet computer hybrid ("phablet" or "tablet phone") manufactured by Samsung and is the successor to the Samsung Galaxy Mega. It was released in September 2014.
Features
The Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 has a display with a resolution of 720 x 1280, a Quad Core 1.7 GHz processor and an 8-megapixel camera. It has internal storage options of 8 GB or 16 GB (usable 5.34 or 12 GB, respectively), and has dual-SIM capability. The display includes Smart Stay, which utilises the front-facing cameras to track if the user is looking at the display, and powering off the display if they are not.
The device supports multiple windows (commonly referred to as ‘split screen’), with a home screen that is usable in portrait or landscape mode. Included in the phone's operating system is Samsung S Voice, a virtual assistant.
Hardware
The Galaxy Mega is a mobile device that closely resembles the Galaxy S5, sharing many similar features. Among its functions are customizable lock screens and quick access to settings via the drop-down notification bar. The device also includes Multi Window functionality, enabling users to run multiple applications on a single screen, an ability that is enhanced by the phone's 6.0-inch LCD display with a resolution of 720 x 1280.
The rear-facing 8-megapixel camera comes with shooting modes such as
HDR (Rich Tone)
Continuous Shot
Sports
Beauty Face
Shot and More
Virtual Tour
Sound and Shot
Night Mode
Panorama
Users can store additional music, photos and videos with up to 64 GB of expandable storage with an external microSD card. A 2,800mAh removable battery should allow the phone to run throughout the day on a single charge. The Galaxy Mega is powered by a Quad Core processor with 1.5 GB of RAM.
The motherboard of the Galaxy Mega 2 bears a similar design to that of the Samsung Galaxy S5, with a large sub-board housing the processor, SIM card and microSDXC card readers, front and rear-facing cameras, microphone assembly, and other components, located at the top of the device, connected to a smaller sub-board at the bottom housing the micro-USB port.
Design
The Galaxy Mega 2 measures 6.6 x 3.46 x 0.31 inches and it weighs 7.1 ounces. It utilizes a traditional IPS LCD screen.
The Galaxy Mega 2 does not utilize a unibody design or proprietary screws, allowing it to be disassembled relatively easily using a standard Phillips No. 000 screwdriver for repairs.
Software
The Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 runs Android version 4.4.2 skinned with Samsung's TouchWiz interface. Samsung's Multi-window Mode is the front and center feature of the device.
Similar to other Galaxy phones, the lock screen can be customized with widgets and shortcuts. Seven customizable home screens are available to the user. 11 quick settings buttons in the notification drawer enable users to toggle features including Wi-Fi connectivity, Sound Mode, Ultra Power Saving and Power Saving.
Variants
SM-G750F 6.0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202014%20%28Slovenia%29 | List of the Slovenian number-one singles of 2014 compiled by SloTop50, is the official chart provider of Slovenia. SloTop50 publishes weekly charts once a week, every Sunday. Chart contain data generated by the SloTop50 system according to any song played during the period starting the previous Monday morning at time 00:00:00 and ending Sunday night at 23:59:59.
Charts
Number-one singles by week
Weekly charted #1 songs and highest charted counting among domestic songs only
Number-one singles by month
Monthly charted #1 songs and highest charted counting among domestic songs only
References
Number-one hits
Slovenia
Lists of number-one songs in Slovenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Cybernetic%20Depression | The Great Cybernetic Depression is the second studio album by the New Zealand recording artist Princess Chelsea. It was released on 1 May 2015 in New Zealand through Lil' Chief Records. The album was produced by Jonathan Bree and Chelsea Nikkel.
Background
After the release of Lil' Golden Book, Chelsea Nikkel toured the album. Nikkel began work on her second album in October 2012. Nikkel announced the album title in May 2013. It was originally scheduled for a release in early 2014, but was rescheduled to May 2015 for unknown reasons.
"The Great Cybernetic Depression" is a metaphor for the anxiety and depression she was experiencing during the writing of the album.
"It's a fictional world event 10 or so years in the future (of course). It is a metaphor for the anxiety and depression I was experiencing during the writing of said album. I like channelling personal stuff through a narrative. It's easier to sing about the end of the world than how sad you are. However sometimes on the album I just straight up get emo on it – 'We Are Very Happy'. I'd like to try to be able to do that more in the future. I think it takes guts to be cheesy and emotionally direct."
- Nikkel on the album title
After the release of 'The Cigarette Duet' from Lil' Golden Book, Chelsea gained a fan base and introduced a new genre of music to people. Chelsea believes that her music has evolved since her last album in 2011, and that this album is quite different from the last.
"I'm always sort of terrified people who loved the first album will hate [this album] but you know what, Lou Reed always said make music for yourself and I like it."
Composition
The Great Cybernetic Depression is a pop album with elements of indie pop, synth-pop, and electronic music. The songs were recorded over a period of three years. The opener to the album, "When the World Turns Grey", is what Chelsea describes as the "only power ballad" on the album. It is described as "dreamy" and "wispy" and her vocals are described as "low-key" and "sweet". "Is It All OK?" was described by Pitchfork as "crystalline arpeggios rolling in waves" and Chelsea and Jonathan Bree's vocals as "affectless."
"No Church on Sunday" was chosen as the second single from the album. It is an electro-pop song described as "ethereal" and the music video was described as a "nerdy acid trip". 'Too Many People' was chosen as the third single, and is described as "twinkling" and a "cosmic lullaby".
"We Are Very Happy" was described by Chelsea as "personal" and "naked emotional". She said she felt "slightly uncomfortable" about releasing the song. She said that she tried to hide the song in the packaging of the album to make it "less self-indulgent to a certain extent." "Winston Crying on the Bathroom Floor" is a song that was previously released as a B-side to the song "Overseas", released from her first album Lil' Golden Book. Chelsea has once said that she wakes up every morning "to the sound of Winston wailing in [her] bat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%20Comics%20Super%20Heroes%3A%20Justice%20League%20%E2%80%93%20Attack%20of%20the%20Legion%20of%20Doom | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Attack of the Legion of Doom is a 2015 American computer-animated superhero comedy film based on the Lego and DC Comics brands, which was released on August 25, 2015, on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD. This is the fourth Lego DC Comics film following Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite, Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered and Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League.
Actors from various DC properties reprise their respective roles, including Mark Hamill as the Trickster, Nolan North as Superman, Khary Payton as Cyborg, John DiMaggio as The Joker, Josh Keaton as Green Lantern, Kevin Michael Richardson as Black Manta, Grey Griffin as Wonder Woman and Tom Kenny as The Penguin. The film received generally positive reviews, with praise for the animation, action, and humor, although some criticized the consumerism in the film.
Synopsis
Three supervillains, Lex Luthor, Sinestro, and Black Manta, discuss what they have learned about the Justice League. Lex suggests they should band together and form a team of their own, which he dubs the Legion of Doom. Meanwhile, Batman wins an election to determine the Justice League's leader.
Somewhere in a swamp, Lex Luthor, Sinestro, and Black Manta hold an audition for Legion membership using an obstacle course; the contestants consists of Joker, Man-Bat, Penguin, Cheetah, Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd, Deathstroke, and Giganta. Giganta is rejected for her massive size, Deathstroke is rejected for literally destroying the course, and Joker, Penguin, and Man-Bat are rejected because the Hall of Doom doesn't have enough parking spaces to accommodate them.
After triggering a stink bomb in a recent battle with Trickster, Cyborg begins to doubt his worth on the League. Quickly, the League becomes aware of the Legion and their plans to rob Area 52 (described by Luthor as being created to replace Area 51). The League battles the Legion. Darkseid manages to use a Father Box to teleport Lex into a vault containing what he was after. The Legion escapes with a cell containing a specific alien prisoner. After opening it, the alien inmate is revealed to be a Martian named J'onn J'onnz who Lex plans to use against the League. He tells J'onn that the Legion are heroes and the League is evil.
Back at the Hall of Justice, Cyborg begins to question what he should do to be a better member. In the Hall of Justice, he notices J'onn disguised at Batman, creating a false mission alert about the Metropolis power station being in danger. When the League arrive at the power station, Cyborg sees that the station seems perfectly safe while the rest of the League can see the danger. This is because J'onn used his telepathy to make the fake mission alert look as real as possible as they evacuate Lois Lane and the workers alongside stopping other "problems" to the power plant. After the League launch the Nuketron reactor core into space, they immediately realize the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianconi%E2%80%93Barab%C3%A1si%20model | The Bianconi–Barabási model is a model in network science that explains the growth of complex evolving networks. This model can explain that nodes with different characteristics acquire links at different rates. It predicts that a node's growth depends on its fitness and can calculate the degree distribution. The Bianconi–Barabási model is named after its inventors Ginestra Bianconi and Albert-László Barabási. This model is a variant of the Barabási–Albert model. The model can be mapped to a Bose gas and this mapping can predict a topological phase transition between a "rich-get-richer" phase and a "winner-takes-all" phase.
Concepts
The Barabási–Albert (BA) model uses two concepts: growth and preferential attachment. Here, growth indicates the increase in the number of nodes in the network with time, and preferential attachment means that more connected nodes receive more links. The Bianconi–Barabási model, on top of these two concepts, uses another new concept called the fitness. This model makes use of an analogy with evolutionary models. It assigns an intrinsic fitness value to each node, which embodies all the properties other than the degree. The higher the fitness, the higher the probability of attracting new edges. Fitness can be defined as the ability to attract new links – "a quantitative measure of a node's ability to stay in front of the competition".
While the Barabási–Albert (BA) model explains the "first mover advantage" phenomenon, the Bianconi–Barabási model explains how latecomers also can win. In a network where fitness is an attribute, a node with higher fitness will acquire links at a higher rate than less fit nodes. This model explains that age is not the best predictor of a node's success, rather latecomers also have the chance to attract links to become a hub.
The Bianconi–Barabási model can reproduce the degree correlations of the Internet Autonomous Systems. This model can also show condensation phase transitions in the evolution of complex network.
The BB model can predict the topological properties of Internet.
Algorithm
The fitness network begins with a fixed number of interconnected nodes. They have different fitness, which can be described with fitness parameter, which is chosen from a fitness distribution .
Growth
The assumption here is that a node’s fitness is independent of time, and is fixed.
A new node j with m links and a fitness is added with each time-step.
Preferential attachment
The probability that a new node connects to one of the existing links to a node in the network depends on the number of edges, , and on the fitness of node , such that,
Each node’s evolution with time can be predicted using the continuum theory. If initial number of node is , then the degree of node changes at the rate:
Assuming the evolution of follows a power law with a fitness exponent
,
where is the time since the creation of node .
Here,
Properties
Equal fitnesses
If all fitnesses are equal in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shehryar%20Zaidi | Shehryar Zaidi is a veteran Pakistani television actor. He is known for his acting for PTV Home and other networks tv dramas.
Career
He has appeared in a variety of television dramas and musical shows. He has worked with some big names of Pakistani industry. Mostly he has had roles where he has complex relationships with his children in these dramas. He has worked the most with Ismat Zaidi. He is famous for his role of Farooq in Sehra Main Safar, in which he has acted as the brother of Lubna Aslam, uncle of Ali Kazmi, and father of Zarnish Khan.
Television
Some of his major TV dramas are:
References
Male actors from Lahore
Muhajir people
Pakistani male television actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20homophily | Network homophily refers to the theory in network science which states that, based on node attributes, similar nodes may be more likely to attach to each other than dissimilar ones. The hypothesis is linked to the model of preferential attachment and it draws from the phenomenon of homophily in social sciences and much of the scientific analysis of the creation of social ties based on similarity comes from network science. In fact, empirical research seems to indicate the frequent occurrence of homophily in real networks. Homophily in social relations may lead to a commensurate distance in networks leading to the creation of clusters that have been observed in social networking services. Homophily is a key topic in network science as it can determine the speed of the diffusion of information and ideas.
Node attributes and homophily
The existence of network homophily may necessitate a closer examination of node attributes as opposed to other theories on network evolution which focus on network properties. It is often assumed that nodes are identical and the evolution of networks is determined by the characteristics of the broader network such as the degree. Degree heterogeneity is also observed as a prevalent phenomenon (with a large number of nodes having a small number of links and a few of them having many). It may be linked to homophily as the two seem to show similar characteristics in networks. A large number of excess links caused by degree heterogeneity might be confused with homophily.
Influence on network evolution
Kim and Altmann (2017) find that homophily may affect the evolution of the degree distribution of scale-free networks. More specifically, homophily may cause a bias towards convexity instead of the often hypothesised concave shape of networks. Thus, homophily can significantly (and uniformly) affect the emergence of scale-free networks influenced by preferential attachment, regardless of the type of seed networks observed (e.g. whether it is centralized or decentralized). Although the size of clusters might affect the magnitude of relative homophily. A higher level of homophily can be associated to a more convex cumulative degree distribution instead of a concave one. Although not as salient, the link density of the network might also lead to short-term, localized deviations in the shape of the distribution.
In the development of the shape of the cumulative degree distribution curve the effects of the link structure of existing nodes (among themselves and with new nodes) and homophily work against each other, with the former leading to concavity and homophily causing convexity. Consequently, there is a level of homophily such that the two effects cancel each other out and the cumulative degree distribution reaches a linear shape in a log-log scale. Large variety of shapes observed in empirical studies of real complex networks may be explained by these phenomena.
A low level of homophily could then be linked to a conve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Ace%204 | The Samsung Galaxy Ace 4 is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system. Announced in June and released by Samsung in August 2014, the Galaxy Ace 4 is the successor to the Galaxy Ace 3. An LTE model was also announced in 2014.
Features
The device is slightly thicker than its predecessor at 10.8 mm. The Galaxy Ace 4 is slightly heavier than the Ace 3 at 123.8 grams. The phone is available in black, grey and white.
The Galaxy Ace 4 is a 4G smartphone with GSM/HSPA network. It has 4.0 inch capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours WVGA (480x800) resolution. It has a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and auto focus, Geo-tagging, face/smile detection, panorama. Capable of recording videos at 720p@30fps), VGA. The Galaxy Ace 4 comes with a 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery.
Other specifications remain identical: 1 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage, a micro USB 2.0 port at the bottom and a combined stereo jack at the top. Access to the micro SIM slot and the micro SD slot is possible after removing the back cover.
Comparison table
See also
Samsung Galaxy Ace
Samsung Galaxy Ace 3
Samsung Galaxy Pocket 2
Samsung Galaxy Trend 2 Lite (SM-G318H/HZ)
References
Samsung mobile phones
Samsung Galaxy
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2014
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub%20%28network%20science%29 | In network science, a hub is a node with a number of links that greatly exceeds the average. Emergence of hubs is a consequence of a scale-free property of networks. While hubs cannot be observed in a random network, they are expected to emerge in scale-free networks. The uprise of hubs in scale-free networks is associated with power-law distribution. Hubs have a significant impact on the network topology. Hubs can be found in many real networks, such as the brain or the Internet.
A hub is a component of a network with a high-degree node. Hubs have a significantly larger number of links in comparison with other nodes in the network. The number of links (degrees) for a hub in a scale-free network is much higher than for the biggest node in a random network, keeping the size N of the network and average degree constant. The existence of hubs is the biggest difference between random networks and scale-free networks. In random networks, the degree k is comparable for every node; it is therefore not possible for hubs to emerge. In scale-free networks, a few nodes (hubs) have a high degree k while the other nodes have a small number of links.
Emergence
Emergence of hubs can be explained by the difference between scale-free networks and random networks. Scale-free networks (Barabási–Albert model) are different from random networks (Erdős–Rényi model) in two aspects: (a) growth, (b) preferential attachment.
(a) Scale-free networks assume a continuous growth of the number of nodes N, compared to random networks which assume a fixed number of nodes. In scale-free networks the degree of the largest hub rises polynomially with the size of the network. Therefore, the degree of a hub can be high in a scale-free network. In random networks the degree of the largest node rises logaritmically (or slower) with N, thus the hub number will be small even in a very large network.
(b) A new node in a scale-free network has a tendency to link to a node with a higher degree, compared to a new node in a random network which links itself to a random node. This process is called preferential attachment. The tendency of a new node to link to a node with a high degree k is characterized by power-law distribution (also known as rich-gets-richer process). This idea was introduced by Vilfredo Pareto and it explained why a small percentage of the population earns most of the money. This process is present in networks as well, for example 80 percent of web links point to 15 percent of webpages. The emergence of scale-free networks is not typical only of networks created by human action, but also of such networks as metabolic networks or illness networks. This phenomenon may be explained by the example of hubs on the World Wide Web such as Facebook or Google. These webpages are very well known and therefore the tendency of other webpages pointing to them is much higher than linking to random small webpages.
The mathematical explanation for Barabási–Albert model:
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