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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Virus%20Network | The Global Virus Network (GVN) is an international coalition of medical virologists whose goal is to help the international medical community by improving the detection and management of viral diseases. The network was founded in 2011 by Robert Gallo in collaboration with William Hall and Reinhard Kurth, and 24 countries were members of the network . The GVN fosters research into viruses that cause human disease to promote the development of diagnostics, antiviral drugs and vaccines, and its mission includes strengthening scientific training and response mechanisms to viral outbreaks. The GVN has organized task forces for chikungunya, human T-lymphotropic virus, and Zika. The network is headquartered at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Gallo serves as its scientific director.
Mission
The network's main mission is to tackle current broad viral threats as they develop, and to strengthen current research of viruses that cause human disease so as to prepare for any viral hazards. Their mission is outlined by 3 steps that they take to achieve it, which are international collective research, ongoing training of upcoming generations of medical virologists (public education), and advocacy. The GVN has grown to be a fundamental defense against diseases of viral nature.
International collective research
The GVN uses small grants to provide training fellowships so virologists can address current viral challenges. Global partnerships and mutual cooperation allows the GVN to span globally and to research viruses as they manifest and spread.
Public education
The GVN is also a source of credible information about viruses, vaccines, and breakthroughs in both fields, which they spread through digital and public speaking platforms. The GVN promotes educational and valuable programs for future generations of scientists and biologists, and is a stable resource for both large governments and small organizations attempting to prepare themselves for viral threats.
Advocacy
The final part of the GVN's mission is ensuring that funding persists, and that the network is able to provide up to date information through partnerships with governments and agencies across the world. The GVN also advocates for further virology research to be performed and for more virology training opportunities worldwide.
Funding
All scientists and their research under the GVN are supported through various continuous small grants. The GVN works with governments as well as research companies to ensure that funding for both virology training and research are kept high enough to meet the demands of global health. The GVN also receives funding from its partners, the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC).
History and centers
The GVN has 34 centers across 17 nations, each of which has a medical virologist as its director who |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20data%20deficient%20invertebrates | As of July 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 5278 data deficient invertebrate species. 29% of all evaluated invertebrate species are listed as data deficient.
The IUCN also lists 57 invertebrate subspecies as data deficient.
No subpopulations of invertebrates have been evaluated by the IUCN.
This is a complete list of data deficient invertebrate species and subspecies as evaluated by the IUCN.
Nemertea species
Argonemertes stocki
Annelids
Onychophora
Mesoperipatus tholloni
Molluscs
There are 1988 mollusc species and 40 mollusc subspecies assessed as data deficient.
Gastropods
There are 1526 gastropod species and 37 gastropod subspecies assessed as data deficient.
Vetigastropoda
Teinostoma fernandesi
Teinostoma funiculatum
Stylommatophora
Stylommatophora includes the majority of land snails and slugs. There are 392 species and 32 subspecies in the order Stylommatophora assessed as data deficient.
Partulids
Subulinids
Species
Subspecies
Opeas nothapalinus crenatum
Pseudoglessula leroyi fasciata
Achatinellids
Endodontids
Charopids
Helicarionids
Orthalicids
Euconulids
Rhytidids
Streptaxids
Species
Subspecies
Zonitids
Pupillids
Polygyrids
Species
Subspecies
Helminthoglyptids
Species
Shasta sideband (Monadenia troglodytes)
Subspecies
Camaenids
Lauriids
Vertiginids
Bradybaenids
Species
Subspecies
Euhadra scaevola mikawa
Helicids
Hygromiids
Enids
Other Stylommatophora
Species
Subspecies
Idaho banded mountain snail (Oreohelix idahoensis idahoensis)
Carinated striate banded mountain snail (Oreohelix strigosa goniogyra)
Littorinimorpha
There are 565 species and one subspecies in the order Littorinimorpha assessed as data deficient.
Strombids
Ophioglossolambis violacea
Pomatiids
Hydrobiids
Cochliopids
Bithyniids
Species
Subspecies
Gabbiella humerosa tanganyicensis
Moitessieriids
Assimineids
Pomatiopsids
Lithoglyphids
Amnicolids
Stenothyrids
Iravadiids
Truncatellids
Sorbeoconcha
There are 97 species and one subspecies in the order Sorbeoconcha assessed as data deficient.
Batillarids
Batillaria mutata
Pleurocerids
Melanopsids
Semisulcospirids
Oasis juga (Juga laurae)
Thiarids
Pachychilids
Paludomids
Species
Subspecies
Cleopatra bulimoides pauli
Architaenioglossa
There are 106 species and one subspecies in the order Architaenioglossa assessed as data deficient.
Neocyclotids
Cyclophorids
Species
Subspecies
Chamalychaeus itonis nakashimai
Pupinids
Diplommatinids
Aciculids
Viviparids
Ampullariids
Lower Heterobranchia species
Cycloneritimorpha
There are 30 species and two subspecies in the order Cycloneritimorpha assessed as data deficient.
Helicinids
Species
Subspecies
Pleuropoma zigzac ponapense
Pleuropoma zigzac zigzac
Hydrocenids
Neritids
Hygrophila species
There are 197 Hygrophila species assessed as data deficient.
Physids
Acroloxids
Planorbids
Lymnaeids
Chilinids
Latiids
Latia lateralis
Neogastropoda
There are 113 species in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Eyewitness is an American crime thriller drama television series that premiered on USA Network on October 16, 2016. An adaptation of the 2014 Norwegian miniseries of the same name, the series stars Tyler Young and James Paxton as two teenage boys who accidentally witness a triple murder. It also stars Julianne Nicholson, Gil Bellows, Warren Christie, and Tattiawna Jones.
Cast and characters
Main
Julianne Nicholson as Helen Torrance, a sheriff
Tyler Young as Philip Shea
James Paxton as Lukas Waldenbeck
Gil Bellows as Gabe Caldwell, a veterinarian, and Helen's husband
Warren Christie as Ryan Kane
Tattiawna Jones as Kamilah Davis, an FBI agent
Recurring
Amanda Brugel as Sita Petronelli, Kamilah's sister
Aidan Devine as Bo Waldenbeck, Lukas' father
Rainbow Sun Francks as Burlingame, Kamilah's partner
Matt Murray as Tony Michaels, a deputy
Katie Douglas as Bella Milonkovic
Mercedes Morris as Rose, Lukas' ex-girlfriend
Carlyn Burchell as Anne Shea, Philip's mother
Alex Karzis as Mithat Milonkovic
Adrian Fritsch as Tommy
Episodes
Production
Principal photography commenced on April 25, 2016 and wrapped on August 8, 2016. The majority of filming took place in Parry Sound, Ontario. Filming also took place in McKellar, Rosseau, Seguin, Magnetawan, and Bracebridge.
On March 1, 2017, USA Network confirmed the series would be canceled because it did not hold as much of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit audience as the network had hoped.
Reception
Critical response
Eyewitness received positive to mixed reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series has a 83% "certified fresh" rating based on 12 critics. On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, based on 11 critics.
Ratings
In Nielsen's Live+Same Day ratings, the miniseries attained a 0.17 in the 18-49 demographic and 639,000 total viewers.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2016 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
2010s American crime drama television series
2010s American LGBT-related drama television series
2010s American mystery television series
American television series based on Norwegian television series
American thriller television series
Crime thriller television series
English-language television shows
Gay-related television shows
Television series by Universal Content Productions
Television shows filmed in Ontario
Television shows about murder
USA Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Semago | Vladimir Vladimirovich Semago (; born 27 April 1947, Moscow, other data Harbin, China) is a Russian politician and businessman. Deputy of the State Duma of the first (1993-1995), the second (1995-1999) and fourth convocations (2003-2007, was a member since 2006). In the State Duma of the first and second convocations entered into a faction of the Communist Party (in the second part of the State Duma — until September 1998), in the State Duma of the fourth convocation — the faction United Russia. In 2016 he unsuccessfully ran for Duma from the Yabloko party. The president of the Energoprom Company.
Played a small role in the film by Stanislav Govorukhin Voroshilov Sharpshooter (1999) and Not Вy Вread Аlone (2005), Tycoon (2002) by Pavel Lungin.
References
External links
Дискуссия с Владимиром Рыжковым — Радио Свобода 25.08.2011
Передачи на «РСН»
1947 births
Living people
Patriots of Russia politicians
Former members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
United Russia politicians
21st-century Russian politicians
Russian male actors
Yabloko politicians
First convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Second convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Fourth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVMNews%2B | TVMNews+ (formerly TVM 2) is a terrestrial television network in Malta, operated by national broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services. Unlike the more wide-ranging TVM network, TVMNews+ focuses primarily on newscasting and educational television.
History
The network was originally launched as Education 22, an educational television service operated by the Maltese government's Ministry of Education, Employment and the Family. In March 2012 responsibility for the channel was shifted from the Ministry to the national broadcaster, Public Broadcasting Services (PBS), and the network began broadcasting as TVM2 on 8 March 2012. Following a restructuring of operations within PBS, as from October 2021 the network has been broadcasting under the name of TVMNews+.
Programming
TVMNews+ primarily airs news and educational programmes, including direct learning programmes on Maltese history and culture as well as coverage of current events. It also airs a nightly newscast in Maltese Sign Language for persons who are deaf or hearing impaired.It also airs news broadcasting and also an English version. Like TVM, special programmes like Maltese Carnival, Football and festivals are sometimes broadcast yearly.
References
External links
Television stations in Malta
Television channels and stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in Malta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%26T-Seq | G&T-seq (short for single cell genome and transcriptome sequencing) is a novel form of single cell sequencing technique allowing one to simultaneously obtain both transcriptomic and genomic data from single cells, allowing for direct comparison of gene expression data to its corresponding genomic data in the same cell...
Background
The advent of single-cell sequencing has provided researchers with the tools to resolve genotypically and phenotypically distinct cells within a mixed population. In cases where such heterogeneity is relevant, such as in tumours, this technique enables the study of clonal relationships and tumour evolution. As well, rare cell types and samples otherwise containing low cell numbers, such as in the case of circulating tumour cells, can also be studied in greater detail. However, previous methods of library preparation typically involve the capture of either mRNA or genomic DNA (gDNA), but not both. By simultaneously capturing and sequencing both DNA and RNA through a method called G&T sequencing, researchers are able to obtain sequence information for both genome and transcriptome analysis from single cell libraries, thereby allowing integrated studies involving both networks. As a proof of concept, the authors of G&T-seq demonstrated its ability to acquire both the messenger RNA (mRNA) and genomic DNA (gDNA) by using paramagnetic beads with biotinylated oligo-deoxy-Thymine(dT) primer to separate the polyadenylated (Poly-A) RNA from its gDNA prior to amplification and library preparation. Validation experiments on G&T-seq performed using cell lines with previous sequencing data available show that sequencing coverage, gene expression profile, and DNA copy number profiles were reliably reproduced by G&T sequencing, and that this method was able to call a majority (87%) of all previously annotated single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in these cell lines. The authors have argued on this basis that the process of physically separating mRNA from gDNA did not negatively affect the yield or quality of sequencing data.
Methods
Similar to conventional single-cell sequencing, G&T-seq involves the harvesting and lysis of desired cells. However, both gDNA and polyA-mRNA are captured and physically separated prior to amplification and library construction for analysis using sequencing platforms.
Separation of poly-adenylated RNA from genomic DNA
G&T sequencing separates the mRNA from the gDNA using an unbiased global amplification procedure described previously. First, mRNA is isolated on specialized oligo-dT (5’-biotin-triethyleneglycol-AAGCAGTGGTATCAACGCAGAGTAC(T)30VN-3’) conjugated to streptavidin-coupled paramagnetic beads. The oligo-dT binds to the poly-A tails of processed mRNA, fishing them out from the pool of genomic material. Next, the paramagnetic beads are spatially isolated by magnetization. The genomic material remaining in the supernatant is extracted and physically separated from the mRNA.
Amplification and Seq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20711 | The IBM 711 was a punched card reader used as a peripheral device for IBM mainframe vacuum tube computers and early transistorized computers. Announced on May 21, 1952, it was first shipped with the IBM 701. Later IBM computers that used it were the IBM 704, the IBM 709, and the transistorized IBM 7090 and 7094.
Overview
The 711's read mechanism was based on the IBM 402's and could read 150 cards per minute (250 cards per minute on the IBM 7090). It included a control panel that could be wired to transfer any 72 columns out of the 80 on a card into the computer's memory, though in practice the panel was almost always wired to read the first 72 columns. Cards were read in binary format. Data from each row was read into two 36-bit words, starting with row 9, for a total of 24 words per card. Computer object code could then be executed directly. Conversion to characters or numbers was done in software. The 72 column restriction influenced early computer languages, such as Fortran and Cobol, which only allowed source code in the first 72 columns of each punched card.
The 711 was relatively slow and magnetic tape was much faster, so it was common for 7000 series installations to include an IBM 1401, with its high speed peripherals, to do card-to-tape and tape-to-line-printer operations off-line, with the 711 mainly used for initial program load of operating systems and diagnostics.
Variants of the 711, the IBM 712 and the IBM 714 were used with the IBM 702 and IBM 705 computers.
In the media
An IBM 711 is shown reading cards as part of an IBM 7090 installation in the 2016 American biographical film Hidden Figures.
See also
IBM 716 companion line printer
List of IBM products.
References
IBM 700/7000 series
Card reader (punched cards)
711 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-STEM%20Center | C-STEM (Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education) is a UC Approved Educational Preparation Program for Undergraduate Admission for all UC campuses, meaning that participation in the C-STEM program is recognized in the UC admissions process as achievements that have explicitly prepared students for college and career. C-STEM has University of California A-G Program Status. High schools can easily add the A-G approved rigorous C-STEM curriculum to their own school’s A-G course lists to satisfy the UC/CSU admission requirements.
The C-STEM center is located on the University of California – Davis campus. The Center aims to transform computing, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (C-STEM) education in both formal and informal K-14 programs through integrated learning, guided by two key objectives:
Close the achievement gap by broadening participation of students traditionally underrepresented in computing and STEM related careers and post-secondary study.
Develop students’ 21st century problem-solving skills to tackle real world concerns through integrated computing and STEM education.
The C-STEM Center has developed innovative educational technology C-STEM Studio and RoboBlockly with computing in C/C++ for K-14 hands-on integrated learning.
C-STEM Studio is a platform for teaching computing, science, technology, engineering and mathematics with robotics (Barobo Linkbot, Lego Mindstorms NXT, EV3, and Arduino boards). RoboBlockly is a web-based robot simulation for learning coding and math. The Center has also developed integrated C-STEM curriculum that integrates computing and robotics into Common Core compliant math courses with coding and math activities for grades 1 through 9.
The vision of the C-STEM is to provide formal computing education for all K-12 students. C-STEM ICT Pathway provides 12-years computer science education for K-12 students. The Pathway includes robotics and math with coding activities in RoboBlockly and C/C++ for elementary school students, rigorous Computer Programming course for middle school students, and Computer Programming courses and AP Computer Science Principles for high school students.
One of goals for the C-STEM program is to provide formal computing education for all K-12 students. The C-STEM Center studies how to use innovative computing and robotics technologies to increase student interest and help them learn STEM subjects with an emphasis on Algebra, a gatekeeper for high-school graduation, university education and careers in STEM fields. The C-STEM program helps close the achievement gap, engages traditionally unrepresented groups and at risk students in learning STEM subjects while preparing all students to be career and college ready.
The C-STEM Center provides unique professional development for teachers without any prior computing experience through C-STEM 2-Day Academy, On-Site Training, 1-Week Institute, and Train-the-Trainer program to integrate computing and robotics i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough%E2%80%93Quorn%20railway%20line | The Peterborough–Quorn railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Located in the upper Mid North of South Australia, it opened from Peterborough to Orroroo on 23 November 1881, being extended to Quorn on 22 May 1882.
Following the opening of the Trans-Australian Railway in 1917 it became part of the main east-west railway across Australia from Sydney to Perth. This ceased in 1937 when the Trans-Australian Railway was altered to operate via Port Pirie.
At the time it was built, Quorn was on the Central Australia Railway from Port Augusta to Alice Springs, and Peterborough was on the Port Pirie–Broken Hill railway line from Port Pirie to Broken Hill.
It closed between Eurelia and Quorn on 3 March 1987, and Peterborough and Eurelia on 22 November 1988. After closure, part of the line was used by the Steamtown Peterborough Railway Preservation Society.
The stations south to north on the line were Peterborough, Black Rock, Orroroo, Walloway, Eurelia, Carrieton, Moockra, Hammond, Bruce and Quorn.
References
Closed railway lines in South Australia
Railway lines opened in 1881
Railway lines closed in 1988
1881 establishments in Australia
1988 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal%20server | In computer networking, a bare-metal server is a physical computer server that is used by one consumer, or tenant, only. Each server offered for rental is a distinct physical piece of hardware that is a functional server on its own. They are not virtual servers running in multiple pieces of shared hardware.
The term is used for distinguishing between servers that can host multiple tenants and which use virtualisation and cloud hosting. Unlike bare-metal servers, cloud servers are shared between multiple tenants. Each bare-metal server may run any amount of work for a user, or have multiple simultaneous users, but they are dedicated entirely to the entity who is renting them.
Bare-metal advocacy
Hypervisors provide some isolation between tenants but there can still be a noisy neighbour effect. If a physical server is multi-tenanted, peaks of load from one tenant may consume enough machine resources to temporarily affect other tenants. As the tenants are otherwise isolated, it is also hard to manage or load balance this. Bare-metal servers, and single tenancy, can avoid this. In addition, hypervisors provide weaker isolation and are much more risky from a security point-of-view compared to using separate machines. Attackers have always found vulnerabilities in the isolation software (such as hypervisors), covert channels are impractical to counter without physically separate machines, and shared hardware is vulnerable to defects in hardware protection mechanisms such as Rowhammer, Spectre, and Meltdown. As, once again, server costs are dropping as a proportion of total cost of ownership against their administration overhead, the classic solution of 'throwing hardware at the problem' becomes viable again.
Bare-metal cloud hosting
Infrastructure as a service, particularly through infrastructure as code, offers many advantages to make hosting conveniently manageable. Combining the features of both cloud hosting, and bare-metal servers, offers most of these, whilst still conveying the performance advantages. These cloud offerings are also called Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaaS).
Some bare-metal cloud servers may run a hypervisor or containers, e.g., to simplify maintenance or provide additional layers of isolation.
Note that the distinction between these services and the traditional dedicated server offerings is the user's ability to provision infrastructures composed out of multiple servers, a complex network and storage setup rather than servers in isolation.
Bare-metal cloud software
Both commercial and open-source platforms exist enabling companies to build their own private bare-Metal private clouds.
BMaaS software typically takes over the lifecycle management of the equipment in a datacenter (compute, storage and network Switches, firewalls, load balancers and others). It enables datacenter operators to offload much of the manual work typically associated with deploying hardware. It also reduces waste by simplifying reuse and increas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paktor | Paktor is a location-based dating and networking mobile application that connects mutually interested users and allows them to chat individually or as a group. Founded in Singapore, the app was launched in June 2013, and has over 5 billion swipes to date (October 2015). In late 2013, Paktor launched a subsidiary called GaiGai, an offline dating service that focuses on match-making and dating events. The word 'Paktor' originates from the Cantonese word for 'dating' (Chinese character 拍拖).
History
Founding
Paktor was founded by Joseph Phua and Ng Jing Shen.
Paktor was first launched in Singapore in June 2013. Despite the immature market, there was a lot of interest from consumers and according to a Paktor newsletter, there were 250000 matches in the first 2 weeks of 2014. The company also shared that it had received over 100 million profile ratings at that time.
The app is also available in Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and South Korea.
In February 2017, Paktor acquired dating apps DOWN, Goodnight, and Groopify, folding them into Paktor Labs, a social app accelerator.
Change of Management
In November 2017, Paktor Group appointed co-founder and chief technology officer Ng Jing Shen as CEO of Paktor Group, taking over from current CEO Joseph Phua. Phua remained in the group CEO of M17 Entertainment which was formed after the merger of Paktor and 17 Media. The company also promoted current head of operations Shn Juay to Chief Operating Officer at Paktor Group.
In 2018, M17 Entertainment sold DOWN, the United States-based dating application, back to its founder Colin Hodge.
Company Overview
Financials
In March 2014, Paktor revealed its first round of funding with a US$500,000 pre-Series-A round that valued the brand at US$6.5 million. At this time, co-founder and CEO Joseph Phua was quoted as saying that the app was “easily 10-20 times ahead of the next player” referring to their main markets; Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines.
Series A was secured in November 2014, bringing the total raised to US$5 million. This round was led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. The funds were reported to be used for expansion into different territories and the introduction of new services under the Paktor group. At this time, the size of the network stood at 1.5 million registered users.
The next milestone was the US$7.3 million Series B funding in July 2015. This raised total funding to more than US$12 million and Paktor said its network had five million registered users and 12 million matches a month. There were also 500 million monthly swipes on average across the region.
The startup secured another US$10 million in a venture round with its sights set on expansion in Japan and South Korea. YJ Capital — the corporate venture firm belonging to Yahoo Capital — led the round, which included participation from fellow new investors Global Grand Leisure, Golden Equator Capital and Sebrina Holdings, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%20growth%20models%20of%20Canada | Forest growth models are mathematical or computer models to project the future state and yields of forest stands or forest trees, over a time scale of from a few years to many decades.
Structure and function of growth models vary: some are purely empirical, based on the reproduction of past observations, while others explicitly mimic specific processes relative to tree ecophysiology, stand dynamics, etc. Typically, growth models use forest inventory data and site characteristics, such as soil type, drainage class, average annual temperature, precipitation, etc., as input for growth projections. Most models are calibrated for a given region and a given set of stand types, defined by the species composition and the management regime (even-aged versus uneven-aged stands, managed versus unmanaged stands).
Some models consider only stand growth and dynamics processes, while other can simulate the effect of silviculture practices (plantation, partial harvest, fertilization, etc.).
Typology of models
Model types
Scale/resolution
Whole stand model:
Stand table model:
Tree list model:
Construction
"Empirical models seek principally to describe the statistical relationships among data with limited regard to an object's internal structure, rules, or behaviour. In contrast, process models seek primarily to describe data using key mechanisms or processes that determine an object's internal structure, rules, and behaviour."
Models can be either distance-independent or distance-dependent. In the later case, geographical positions of trees are known and used for modeling competition and/or dispersion processes.
Forest Region
refers to Forest Regions of Canada
Species
Eastern SPF: Balsam fir, black, red and white spruce, jack pine
Western SPF: Spruce-Pine-Fir
Other western softwoods: Western Red cedar, western hemlock
Other eastern softwood: white and red pines, eastern white cedar
Tolerant hardwoods: Maples, yellow birch, Beech, Oaks,
Boreal hardwoods: Aspen, white birch
Regime
Even-aged Vs. uneven-aged
Silviculture
Unmanaged Vs. managed stands (plantation, tending, thinning, fertilization, recurrent partial cuttings, etc.)
Yields
Growth model outputs can fall in the following categories:
Tree attributes: species, diameter at breast height, taper, vigour index, quality grade, crown dimensions, etc.
Stand attributes: living tree density, dead tree density, mean diameter at breast height, dominant height, basal area, crown closure, etc.
Biomass production: biomass or volume per compartment (bole, branches, leafs, roots), carbon storage, etc.
Ecophysiologial indicators: respiration, net productivity, water consumption, heat transfer, etc.
Lumber and fiber products: merchantable volume, lumber volume per grade, pulp volume, wood quality indicators (MOE, MOR,...), etc.
Ecological indicators: volume of large woody debris, snag density, species diversity index, etc.
Economic indicators: net value of standing trees, net present va |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Sederberg | Thomas W. Sederberg is the associate dean of the college of physical and mathematical sciences and professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research involves computer graphics and computer aided design. He helped invent free-form deformation and T-splines.
Education and career
Thomas W. Sederberg studied civil engineering at Brigham Young University for both his Bachelor's (1975) and his Master's (1977) degrees. Sederberg received his PhD from Purdue and joined the civil engineering faculty at BYU in 1983. His PhD thesis discussed how to compute intersecting Bézier curves.
He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics and for Computer Aided Geometric Design.
Sederberg co-founded T-Splines, inc. in 2004, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.
Awards
SIGGRAPH awarded Sederberg with the Computer Graphics Achievement award in 2006. In 2013 Sederberg received the Pierre Bézier award for his contributions to solid modeling.
Purdue gave Sederberg the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award in 2014. Brigham Young University awarded him the Steven V. White University Professorship, the Technology Transfer Award and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award. His publications are highly cited—in 2014 Thomson Reuters named Sederberg as one of the 108 most-cited professors in computer science.
Personal life
Sederberg married Brenda Clark in 1978, and they had eight children.
See also
T-spline
free-form deformation
References
External links
Sederberg's syllabus for CS 557: Computer aided geometric design
Sederberg's publications at ScholarsArchive
BYU devotional on faith and joy
Brigham Young University faculty
Brigham Young University alumni
Purdue University alumni
Living people
Computer graphics researchers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20More%20You%20Know%20%28TV%20programming%20block%29 | The More You Know (TMYK) is an American programming block that is programmed by Hearst Media Production Group (formerly Litton Entertainment), and debuted on October 8, 2016, on NBC as a replacement for the animation block NBC Kids. It airs on weekend mornings on NBC and Telemundo, and as of 2017 is replayed Sunday mornings on sister network Cozi TV. The block's programs are also available through all of NBC's video on demand venues, including the network's site/app, Peacock, and cable/satellite services.
Based on NBCUniversal's series of public service campaigns of the same name, the three-hour weekend morning block features live-action programming aimed at pre-teens and teens ages 10 to 18 that are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines.
It is Hearst's fourth E/I-centric programming block across the major U.S. television networks, joining three other Hearst blocks: Weekend Adventure (ABC), Dream Team (CBS), and One Magnificent Morning (The CW).
As of January 6, 2018, a version of the block also airs on NBC's sister network Telemundo under the name MiTelemundo, with all of its programs dubbed in Spanish. Telemundo had previously aired a Spanish-language version of NBC Kids under the same title.
History
Between February 24, 2016 and March 3, 2016, NBCUniversal announced that it would discontinue its existing weekend morning block NBC Kids, which was programmed by Sprout (now Universal Kids), in favor of The More You Know, a new, three-hour block produced by Litton Entertainment, that would feature live-action educational programming aimed towards preteens, teenagers, and their parents. The block serves as a brand extension of The More You Know—a series of public service campaigns first launched by NBC in 1989.
NBC Kids aired for the final time on September 25, 2016. It was thought to be the last conclusive Saturday morning block across the major U.S. commercial broadcast networks that primarily featured non-educational children's programming. Such content has gradually fallen out of favor because of the E/I rules, as well as shifts in viewing habits towards cable networks and online video on demand services for cartoons and other youth-oriented content. The More You Know debuted two weeks later on October 8, 2016 (October 1 children's programming was pre-empted for NBC network coverage of the 2016 Ryder Cup). Programs in the block often air at alternate times (including weekdays) due to pre-emptions from NBC Sports, including golf coverage.
On January 6, 2018, Telemundo relaunched its MiTelemundo block—which had also been programmed by Sprout—with a new schedule consisting of Spanish dubs of The More You Know's programming.
Programming
Current
Former
References
National Broadcasting Company
Litton Entertainment
Brokered programming
Television programming blocks
Television shows featuring audio description |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont%20Fabros%20Technology | DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (DFT) was a real estate investment trust that invested in carrier-neutral data centers and provided colocation and peering services. In 2017, the company was acquired by Digital Realty.
Operations
As of December 31, 2016, the company owned 11 operating data center facilities comprising over 3.3 million net rentable square feet. Eight of the properties were in Northern Virginia, two were in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and one was in Santa Clara, California.
The company leased space to companies, on a wholesale level, in which such companies rented space to build their own data centers.
The company had 32 customers and derived 92% of its revenue from its 15 largest customers. The company's largest customers included Microsoft (25.4% of revenue), Facebook (20.2% of revenue), Rackspace (9.0% of revenue), and Yahoo! (6.0% of revenue).
History
The company was co-founded by Lammot J. du Pont, an analyst for JPMorgan Chase and Hossein Fateh, a real estate developer in the Washington metropolitan area. The company sought to acquire data centers that belonged to defunct internet service providers.
In 2004, the company's predecessor acquired 5 data centers from Savvis for $52 million in a leaseback transaction.
In 2005, the company's predecessor acquired a 230,000 square foot data center from AOL for $58.5 million.
On March 2, 2007, the company was incorporated as a real estate investment trust.
In October 2007, the company became a public company via an initial public offering that raised $640 million, the 7th largest initial public offering of a real estate investment trust at that time.
In early 2008, the company halted construction projects due to a lack of financing.
In 2009, the company was named as the fastest growing company in the Washington metro area by American City Business Journals.
In February 2011, Mohammed Mark Amin resigned from the board of directors and was replaced by John T. Roberts Jr.
In 2012, Hossein Fateh, the chief executive officer of the company, forgone his $450,000 salary in exchange for use of the company jet.
In 2012, the company reported that the volume of leasing was the largest in company history.
In May 2012, Mohammed Mark Amin, formerly a director of the company, was accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of making a $618,000 profit as a result of insider trading in the company's securities.
In September 2014, the company opened a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia.
In February 2015, Christopher P. Eldredge was named chief executive officer of the company.
In March 2015, the company won the Brill Award For Data Center Design issued by Uptime Institute.
In March 2016, the company acquired a 46.7 acre parcel of land in Hillsboro, Oregon for $11.2 million.
In June 2016, the company sold a 38-acre data center in New Jersey to Quality Technology Services for $125 million.
In October 2016, the company acquired the former printing plant of the Toronto Star |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STV2 | STV2 was a British local television network in Scotland, operating five city-based TV licences serving Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Ayr. It was owned and operated by STV Group plc.
Initially broadcast as two separate stations – STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh – the launch of three local licences in Aberdeen, Dundee and Ayr led to the launch of a single networked service on 24 April 2017. In May 2018, it was announced that STV2 would shut down at the end of June 2018 as part of a strategic review. It closed on 30 June 2018.
Overview
In January 2013, the broadcast regulator Ofcom announced STV had been awarded two licences to broadcast local TV services in the Glasgow and Edinburgh areas for a twelve-year period. The broadcaster pledged to run the channels in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University and Edinburgh Napier University respectively.
Coinciding with a group-wide revamp, STV Glasgow began broadcasting at 6.30pm on Monday 2 June 2014, with the first edition of its flagship evening magazine programme, The Riverside Show. STV Edinburgh followed at 7pm on Monday 12 January 2015, launching with the first edition of The Fountainbridge Show.
In March 2015, STV won three further local TV licences for the Aberdeen, Dundee and Ayr areas under the working titles of Around Aberdeen, View from the Bridges and Ayrshire Today. No other bids were received for the three services.
The majority of STV2's programming was produced and broadcast from STV's headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. Unlike the main STV channel, where transmission originates in-house, playout and presentation were provided by Comux, the local TV multiplex operator, at its operations centre in Birmingham.
Programming
The five local TV services under the STV2 banner carried a single schedule of networked programming.
STV News aired bespoke half-hour bulletins for STV2 at 1pm and 10pm alongside a simulcast of the Edinburgh edition of STV News at Six. The network's flagship news programme, STV News Tonight aired each weeknight at 7pm and incorporated Scottish, UK and international news. The half-hour programme, presented by Halla Mohieddeen, was produced in partnership with ITN.
Non-news programmes for the channel included the early evening magazine Live at Five, Peter & Roughie's Football Show, Scottish Politics This Week, documentary series The People's History Show and chat shows including My Life in Ten Pictures and The Late Show with Ewen Cameron. Acquired programming included the Irish soap Fair City and Finnish drama Black Widows. Archive content included popular Scottish soap Take the High Road and crime drama Taggart.
List of programmes
Black Widows
Bodo
Britain by Bike
Fair City
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Home Cooking
Jak and Eddie's Scottish Kitchen
Julie and Jimmy's Hot Woks
The Late Show with Ewen Cameron
Liberty's Great American Cookbook
Live at Five
Medics of the Glen
Murder at 9
My Life in T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn%20TV | Acorn TV is a British-American subscription video streaming service offering television programming from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, other Commonwealth countries, Spain, and Mexico. In other countries, it is available on a variety of devices including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Chromecast, and Roku.
History
Acorn TV is owned by RLJ Entertainment, Inc. Acorn Media Group has distributed British television in the United States since 1994, originally selling VHS tapes before moving into DVD and Blu-ray media. Continuing the company's expansion into new formats, Acorn TV launched as a subsection of Acorn's direct-to-consumer e-commerce website in 2011. In 2013, Acorn TV was relaunched as a standalone service with expanded content offerings and monthly and annual subscription options. In 2013, the service began offering exclusive content, starting with the United States premiere of Doc Martin, Series 6. In 2015, Acorn TV was the only niche streaming service to have a program nominated for an Emmy when Curtain: Poirot's Last Case was nominated for Outstanding Television Movie. As of December 31, 2016, it had 430,000 paid subscribers.
Acorn TV launched in the United Kingdom as a service in its own right on April 29, 2020.
On 24 November 2022, Acorn TV announced without further elaboration that it would no longer be available in South Africa by the end of 2022, and requested that subscribers cancel their memberships. They previously launched in South Africa from December 2018.
Programming
Acorn TV offers a combination of new and classic mysteries, dramas, comedies, and documentaries. The service licenses content from producers and distributors including ITV, Channel 4, BBC Studios, All3Media, DRG, ZDF, and Content Media.
Original programming
Because its parent company, RLJ Entertainment, has a 64% stake in Agatha Christie Limited, the licensing arm of the Christie estate, Acorn TV was able to offer the United States premieres of the final episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot in summer 2014, BBC co-production Partners in Crime in September 2015, and The Witness for the Prosecution in 2017.
RLJ Entertainment also owns all rights to Foyle's War, allowing Acorn TV to offer the United States premiere of the final season in 2015. Subsequent original series include Agatha Raisin, Close to the Enemy, The Level, Striking Out, Queens of Mystery, Dead Still, and Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries. On October 20, 2020, it was announced that the series Dalgliesh will premiere in 2021.
United States premieres
Since its launch, Acorn TV has offered the United States premieres of some or all seasons of British series including Detectorists, Vera, Inspector George Gently, and Midsomer Murders. After initially focusing exclusively on programming from the United Kingdom, Acorn TV expanded its content offering to include programs from other territories, including Australia's A Place to Call Home, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Jack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naku%2C%20Boss%20Ko%21 | () is a 2016 Philippine television drama political series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Marlon N. Rivera, it stars Gabbi Garcia and Ruru Madrid. It premiered on April 25, 2016 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Heart of Asia Presents. The series concluded on May 5, 2016 with a total of 8 episodes. It was replaced by Love Me, Heal Me in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Jon G, a young and inexperienced mayoral candidate was made to run by his politician father. The drama satirizes and parodies traditional Philippine politics and exposes the absurdity and hypocrisy of some of the campaign strategies used by most politicians today to win voters. It aired for two weeks right before the presidential election on May 9.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Tessie Tomas as Ms. F.
Leo Martinez as Onofre Mesa Ganid / O.M.G.
Ruru Madrid as Joven Jon Philip Ganid / Jon G.
Gabbi Garcia as Cheverlyn "Che" Dimasupil
Supporting cast
Arianne Bautista as Angela Mae "Gelai" Inocente
Jackie Rice as Margeaux
Archie Adamos as Achil
Jao Mapa as Pepe
Glenda Garcia as Martha Dimasupil
Love Añover-Lianko as Cora Kamkam
Vince de Jesus as M
Patani Daño as Dora Mae
Pekto as C
Jay Arcilla as Emil
Maey Bautista as Eya Binabalita
Lance Serrano as Rob
Dang Cruz as a reporter
Gene Padilla as a reporter
Guest cast
Divine Aucina as Osang
Mel Martinez as Hanash
Martin del Rosario as Carlos Manalastas
Benjamin Alves as Kenji "Ken G." Ganid
Jen Rosendahl as Madonna
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 10.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 12.9% rating.
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine political television series
Philippine television miniseries
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20R%20Journal | The R Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by The R Foundation since 2009. It publishes research articles in statistical computing that are of interest to users of the R programming language. The journal includes a News and Notes section that supersedes the R News newsletter, which was published from 2001 to 2008.
The journal serves a dual role as a research journal in statistical computing and as the official newsletter of the R Project. It publishes regular news updates about The R Foundation, the CRAN repository system, and the Bioconductor project. It also published articles fore-shadowing new development directions for R.
The journal also publishes articles on best-practice and innovation in modelling, for example in multivariate statistics or multi-level modelling. A feature of the journal is the inclusion in articles of complete code by which readers can reproduce results and examples.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.673.
Editors-in-chief
The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief: Vince Carey (2009), Peter Dalgaard (2010), Heather Turner (2011), Martyn Plummer (2012), Hadley Wickham (2013), Deepayan Sarkar (2014), Bettina Grün (2015), Michael Lawrence (2016), Roger Bivand (2017), John Verzani (2018), Norman Matloff (2019), Michael Kane (2020), Dianne Cook (2021), and Catherine Hurley (2022).
References
External links
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2001
Computational statistics journals
Online-only journals
Open access journals
R (programming language)
Biannual journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sovereign%20states%20by%20body%20mass%20index | The data for international body mass indexes was published by the World Health Organization. The list below refers to year 2014.
Data
* indicates "Health in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
See also
List of countries by obesity rate
References
Body mass index
Obesity
Body Mass Index
Body Mass Index
Social science indices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinIO | MinIO is a High-Performance Object Storage released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. It is API compatible with the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. It can handle unstructured data such as photos, videos, log files, backups, and container images with a current maximum supported object size of 50TB.
History & development
MinIO's main developer is MinIO Inc, a Silicon Valleybased technology startup founded by Anand Babu Periasamy, Garima Kapoor, and Harshavardhana in November 2014.
MinIO has published a number of benchmarks to disclose both its own performance and the performance of an object storage in general. These benchmarks include comparisons to an Amazon S3 for Trino, Presto, and Spark, as well as throughput results for the S3Benchmark on HDD and NVMe drives.
Re-licensing
As of April 23, 2021, MinIO, Inc submitted a change that re-licensed the project from its previous Apache V2 to GNU Affero Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3)..
Architecture
MinIO storage stack has three major components: MinIO Server, MinIO Client (a.k.a. mc, which is a command-line client for the object and file management with any Amazon S3 compatible servers), and MinIO Client SDK, which can be used by application developers to interact with any Amazon S3 compatible server.
MinIO Server
MinIO cloud storage server is designed to be minimal and scalable. It is light enough to be bundled along with the application stack, similar to NodeJS and Redis.
MinIO is optimized for large enterprise deployments, including features like erasure coding, bitrot protection, encryption/WORM, identity management, continuous replication, global federation, and multi-cloud deployments via gateway mode.
MinIO server is hardware agnostic and thus can be installed both on physical and virtual machines or launched as Docker containers and deployed on container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
MinIO Client
MinIO Client provides an alternative to the standard UNIX commands (e.g. ls, cat, cp, mirror, diff, etc.) and adds support for Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage services. It works on Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms.
MinIO Client SDK
MinIO Client SDK provides an API to access any Amazon S3 compatible object storage server. Language bindings are available for Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, Haskell, and languages hosted on top of the .NET Framework.
References
External links
Cloud applications
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud storage
Object storage
Free software programmed in Go |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI%20encryption%20dispute | The Apple–FBI encryption dispute concerns whether and to what extent courts in the United States can compel manufacturers to assist in unlocking cell phones whose data are cryptographically protected. There is much debate over public access to strong encryption.
In 2015 and 2016, Apple Inc. received and objected to or challenged at least 11 orders issued by United States district courts under the All Writs Act of 1789. Most of these seek to compel Apple "to use its existing capabilities to extract data like contacts, photos and calls from locked iPhones running on operating systems iOS 7 and older" in order to assist in criminal investigations and prosecutions. A few requests, however, involve phones with more extensive security protections, which Apple has no current ability to break. These orders would compel Apple to write new software that would let the government bypass these devices' security and unlock the phones.
The most well-known instance of the latter category was a February 2016 court case in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wanted Apple to create and electronically sign new software that would enable the FBI to unlock a work-issued iPhone 5C it recovered from one of the shooters who, in a December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, killed 14 people and injured 22. The two attackers later died in a shootout with police, having first destroyed their personal phones. The work phone was recovered intact but was locked with a four-digit password and was set to eliminate all its data after ten failed password attempts (a common anti-theft measure on smartphones). Apple declined to create the software, and a hearing was scheduled for March 22. However, a day before the hearing was supposed to happen, the government obtained a delay, saying it had found a third party able to assist in unlocking the iPhone. On March 28, the government announced that the FBI had unlocked the iPhone and withdrew its request. In March 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported that "the FBI eventually found that Farook's phone had information only about work and revealed nothing about the plot."
In another case in Brooklyn, a magistrate judge ruled that the All Writs Act could not be used to compel Apple to unlock an iPhone. The government appealed the ruling, but then dropped the case on April 22, 2016, after it was given the correct passcode.
Background
In 1993, the National Security Agency (NSA) introduced the Clipper chip, an encryption device with an acknowledged backdoor for government access, that NSA proposed be used for phone encryption. The proposal touched off a public debate, known as the Crypto Wars, and the Clipper chip was never adopted.
It was revealed as a part of the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden that the NSA and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had access to the user data in iPhones, BlackBerry, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaklava%E2%80%93Moonta%20railway%20line | The Balaklava–Moonta railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. It ran across the top of the Yorke Peninsula.
History
The first part to be built was a horse-drawn tramway between the port at Wallaroo and mines near Kadina in 1862, followed by mines near Moonta in 1866. This was originally constructed as gauge.
A separate isolated horse-drawn tramway was constructed to deliver grain from the plains east of Port Wakefield in the areas of Balaklava, Halbury and Hoyle's Plains (now Hoyleton) to that port. It opened in 1869.
The gauge line from Port Wakefield reached a new junction with the Kadina–Brinkworth railway line at Kadina and opened on 9 October 1878. It continued to Wallaroo on a new track adjacent to the older broad gauge track. The line from Kadina to Barunga Gap had started construction from the Kadina end in 1877
On 1 August 1927, the line was converted from to broad gauge. A junction at Kadina connected to the Kadina–Brinkworth railway line. The section from Kadina to Wallaroo was converted to dual gauge broad and standard gauges on 2 December 1982 after the Adelaide–Port Augusta railway line was converted to standard gauge.
The section from Balaklava to Paskeville closed on 4 April 1984, followed by the Wallaroo to Moonta section on 23 July 1984. The broad gauge section from Kadina to Wallaroo also closed on 23 July 1984, but the standard gauge line remained open until 3 March 1993. The Paskeville to Kadina section closed on 14 March 1990. After the railway closed, part of it was used by the Lions Club of Yorke Peninsula Railway for heritage tourist services, but this ceased operations in 2009.
The line between Wallaroo and Kadina has since been pulled up and replaced with a rail trail and retail stores on both ends.
References
External links
Gallery
Closed railway lines in South Australia
Railway lines opened in 1876
Railway lines closed in 1993
3 ft 6 in gauge railways
5 ft 3 in gauge railways in Australia
Standard gauge railways in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington%20railway%20line | The Wilmington railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. It opened from Gladstone to Laura on 2 June 1884. It was extended from Laura to Booleroo Centre on 13 April 1910, and to Wilmington on 20 July 1915.
There were proposals to extend the line towards Port Augusta either through Horrocks Pass or via Quorn, but neither plan was acted upon.
With the conversion of the Port Pirie to Broken Hill line from narrow to standard gauge in 1969, the line became an isolated narrow gauge railway. Passenger services ceased at this time, with the line formally closed on 13 March 1990.
References
Further reading
Closed railway lines in South Australia
1884 establishments in Australia
Railway lines opened in 1884
Railway lines closed in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadina%E2%80%93Brinkworth%20railway%20line | The Kadina-Brinkworth railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network.
History
The first section of the line opened on 1 October 1879 from Kadina to Snowtown, branching off from the Balaklava-Moonta line. It was extended to Brinkworth on 2 July 1894 where it joined the Hamley Bridge-Gladstone line. On 1 August 1927, the line was gauge converted from to .
The section from Kadina to Snowtown was converted to dual gauge on 2 December 1982 with an extra rail laid following the conversion of the Adelaide-Port Augusta line. The Snowtown to Brinkworth section closed on 20 February 1990 followed by the rest of the line on 3 March 1993.
References
Closed railway lines in South Australia
Railway lines opened in 1879
Railway lines closed in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory%20Viner | Rory Viner (born May 31, 1983) is a sound artist, experimental composer and installation artist based in Tokyo, Japan. His works focus on interpreting data, either gathered by the artist or publicly available, into musical arrangements: "Mapping them to music allows data that is usually cold, distant and sterile to become more emotionally felt and immediate. In a way, it is a type of synesthesia, allowing a mixing of senses, or in this case, ways of thinking and experiencing the world."
His first data sonification work to receive international press attention was 2014s "One Year of Suicides in Japan on Piano"
, which The Japan Times has called a "provocative composition" and Wired magazine has called "a haunting piano score". The sonification of Japanese suicide data was followed by similar projects mapping American crime statistics.
Viner's second work to achieve widespread recognition was the more personal "Sex, Sensors & Sound", called "melancholic and beautiful" by Vice magazine's online magazine and video channel Motherboard. sonification of kinetic data created by "strapping movement sensors across his and his partner’s bodies during intercourse, feeding the signal to software programmed to respond with synthesizer notes, and playing the output back live." "Sex, Sensors & Sound" has been featured in numerous publications worldwide.
Works
"One Year of Suicides in Japan on Piano"(2014)
"American Rape Statistics by State for Piano"(2014)
"American Murder Statistics for Piano"(2014)
"Sex, Sensors & Music"(2015)
Solar Future (Installation)(2015)
References
1983 births
Living people
Artists from London, Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precobs | Precobs is a predictive policing-software using algorithms and knowledge about crimes committed in the past to predict the commitment of so-called "near repeat"-crimes. Precobs is an abbreviation and stands for Pre Crime Observation System. It is developed and sold by the Institut für musterbasierte Prognosetechnik (Institute for pattern-based Prediction Technique) – IfmPt – located in Oberhausen, Germany.
The concept of near repeat-prediction
Precobs is used to forecast the commitment of "near repeat crimes", at the moment basically for the burglary prevention. The knowledge about near repeats bases on the experience that crimes of the below mentioned categories are often not committed only once, but several times within a close geographical and temporal context, the so-called spatiotemporal proximity (see also Crime Contagion Models). Near repeat crimes are typically repeated within 72 hours.
Apart from burglary, those crimes can be:
Street robbery,
armed robbery and
motor vehicle theft.
Behind the concept of near repeats stands the empirical observation that "crime clusters in space and time". Different international studies about near repeat burglary have revealed patterns in the geographical and temporal connection of committed break-ins. The highest risk of a near repeat exists within 48 hours after the first crime. Afterwards, it remains for approximately one month. Johnsons and Bowers concluded after the analysis of burglary data from Merseyside, UK: "The central conclusion is that a burglary event is a predictor of significantly elevated rates of burglary within 1–2 months and within a range of up to 300–400 metres of a burgled home."
Two approaches try to explain this phenomenon: According to the "boost hypothesis", a past victimization "boosts" the probability of becoming a victim again. It is argued that the perpetrator returns to the place of the first crime to make use of his knowledge about this area. In contrast, the "flag hypothesis" refers to the attractiveness of the target. Perpetrators will generally focus on attractive targets.
Application and advantages
The Precobs-software is based on the existing knowledge about burglaries of the past. It uses so-called "triggers" and "anti-triggers" to determine the probability of near repeats. Trigger criteria are characteristics about the site of crime, the way of how the crime was committed (modus operandi), the stolen items and the date of the crime. If certain trigger criteria are fulfilled, the system qualifies the crime as a potential near repeat. The existence of anti-triggers, in contrast, prevents the system from near repeat alerts. This can be, for example, the intentional breaking of window glass. Such a modus operandi would indicate a non-professional background which lowers the likelihood of a near repeat significantly. Furthermore, past success rates of the software play an important role.
The software analyses this data and predicts future crimes in a geogra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-STX | Mini-STX (mSTX, Mini Socket Technology EXtended, originally "Intel 5x5") is a computer motherboard form factor that was released by Intel in 2015 (as "Intel 5x5").
These motherboards measure 147mm by 140mm (5.8" x 5.5"), making them larger than "4x4" NUC (102x102mm / 4.01" x 4.01" inches) and Nano-ITX (120x120mm / 4.7" x 4.7") boards, but notably smaller than the more common Mini-ITX (170x170mm / 6.7" x 6.7") boards. Unlike these standards, which use a square shape, the Mini-STX form factor is 7mm longer from front-to-rear, making it slightly rectangular.
Mini-STX design elements
The Mini-STX design suggests (but does not require) support for:
Socketed processors (e.g. LGA or PGA CPUs)
Onboard power regulation circuitry, enabling direct DC power input
IO ports embedded on the front and rear of the motherboard (akin to NUC, but unlike typical motherboards which often use headers instead to connect built-in ports on enclosures)
Adoption by manufacturers
This motherboard form factor is still not in particularly common use with consumer-PC manufacturers, although there are a few offerings:
ASRock offers both DeskMini kits (that use mini-STX boards) and standalone motherboards,
Asus offer VivoMini kits (that use mini-STX boards) and standalone motherboards,
Gigabyte offers a few motherboards, and
industrial PC suppliers (e.g. Kontron, Iesy, ASRock Industrial) also provide some options for mini-STX equipment.
Derivatives
ASRock developed a derivative of mini-STX, dubbed micro-STX, for their 'DeskMini GTX/RX' small form-factor PCs and industrial motherboards.
Micro-STX adds an MXM slot which allows the use of special PCI Express expansion cards, including graphics or machine learning accelerators, but increases the width of the board to be extended two inches, resulting in measurements of 147 x 188 mm (5.8" x 7.4")
References
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2975764/components/intel-unveils-ultra-tiny-fully-upgradable-5x5-mini-pc-motherboards.html
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/technology-provider/products-and-solutions/desktop/mini-stx-for-mini-pcs.html
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H110M-STX/
https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/ (AMD AM4)
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H110MSTX-HD3-rev-10#ov
Computer hardware
Motherboard form factors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20Tertiary%20Matriculation%20Examination | The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective undergraduates in Nigeria. It is designed to assess problem solving, critical thinking, knowledge of scientific concepts and principles significance of each subject taken. Prior to 2014 the exam was a paper-and-pencil test; since May 17, 2014, however, all administrations of the exam have been computer-based.
Policies
Registration is usually once in a year, and candidates are allowed to register in four subjects. The use of English is compulsory and any other three subjects relevant to the proposed course of study as set out in the relevant chapters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination brochure.
The board prohibits the use of calculators, timers, or other electronic devices during the exam. Cellular phones are also strictly prohibited from exam rooms and individuals found to possess them are penalised, usually made to forfeit the exam. The only item that may be brought into the testing room is the candidate's Reprinted E-registration slip.
Exam results are made available just few days after the exam has been conducted via board's website, SMS and email. The board also sends scores to universities and institutions being applied to.
Preparation
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board does not prepare candidates for its examination by establishing secondary schools or tutorial centers, and no such institution is affiliated with the body.
However, the board provides a syllabus brochure, which is either made available online or given to students when they register. Candidates are expected to cover all the subject areas in the syllabus.
The board also has an online practice test on its website which enables students to practice. There are also some test software and applications which are made by several test preparatory companies, none of which are affiliated with the board.
Students also purchase books that contain questions asked in the exam during previous years. The book is made by different publishing companies.
JAMB Subject Combinations
1. Understanding JAMB Subject Combinations
JAMB subject combinations refer to the specific subjects that a student must select during the UTME (Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination) registration process. Each course of study has its unique set of required subjects, and students must carefully choose the right combination to be eligible for admission to their preferred courses.
2. Importance of Choosing the Right Subjects
Selecting the correct JAMB subject combinations is of paramount importance for several reasons:
Course Eligibility: Different courses have specific subject requirements. By choosing the right subjects, students ensure they meet the prerequisites for their desired courses.
Admission Chances: Universities and other tertiary institutions consider a student's subject combinations when evaluating their eligibility fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEVN-LD | KEVN-LD (channel 7) is a low-power television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside ABC affiliate KOTA-TV (channel 3) and MeTV affiliate KHME (channel 23). The stations share studios on Skyline Drive in Rapid City, where KEVN-LD's transmitter is also located.
KEVN is also carried on KOTA's full-power satellites. KHSD-TV (channel 11.2) in Lead, South Dakota serves the Black Hills proper; it can also be seen over the air in Rapid City. KSGW-TV (channel 12.2) in Sheridan, Wyoming serves northern and northeast Wyoming. KHSD's transmitter is located on Terry Peak near Spearfish, South Dakota, while KSGW's transmitter is on Bosin Rock.
History
KEVN intellectual unit
Until 2016, the KEVN call sign, Fox affiliation, and virtual channel 7 assignment were used on the broadcast license presently associated with KOTA-TV. KEVN-TV had launched in 1976 as an ABC affiliate, replacing KRSD-TV, which had signed on in 1958 as an NBC affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation, switched to CBS in 1970, and was denied license renewal in 1971; KRSD shut down several months before KEVN began operations. KEVN switched to NBC in 1984 and Fox in 1996. The original KEVN was also seen on a satellite station in Lead, KIVV-TV (channel 5), which operated on the license now used by KHSD-TV; virtual channel 5 is presently used by KQME, a satellite of MeTV affiliate KHME (channel 23).
Current license
On September 14, 2015, Gray bought the non-license assets of the market's ABC affiliate KOTA-TV as part of its acquisition of Schurz Communications' television stations. Due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership restrictions, Gray established this new low-powered station to move the Fox affiliation, KEVN's call sign, virtual channel, and programming. KOTA's ABC affiliation and program streams including its existing PSIP channel 3 numbering was then moved to the old full-powered KEVN, transmitting on RF channel 7. The original KOTA-TV license was then sold to Legacy Broadcasting and became KHME.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
News operation
KEVN-LD broadcasts hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station carries a 6:00 p.m. newscast, but does not produce any newscasts during morning or midday timeslots. It rebroadcasts its hour-long 9:00 p.m. news program at 6:00 a.m. on weekday mornings.
Early in KEVN's Fox affiliation (on what is now KOTA-TV), the station produced an hour-long morning newscast at 7 a.m. and half-hour newscasts at noon, 5:30 p.m., and 10 p.m.; on weekends, KEVN aired only its late newscast. In 1998, the station moved the late newscast to 9 p.m., making it the first Rapid City station to produce a primetime newscast; Around the same time, the morning and midday newscasts were discontinued. By 2001, KEVN expanded the weeknight 9 p.m. news to an hour; t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless%20Framework | The Serverless Framework is a free and open-source web framework written using Node.js. Serverless is the first framework developed for building applications on AWS Lambda, a serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. Currently, applications developed with Serverless can be deployed to other function as a service providers, including Microsoft Azure with Azure Functions, IBM Bluemix with IBM Cloud Functions based on Apache OpenWhisk, Google Cloud using Google Cloud Functions, Oracle Cloud using Oracle Fn, Kubeless based on Kubernetes, Spotinst and Webtask by Auth0.
A Serverless app can simply be a couple of lambda functions to accomplish some tasks, or an entire back-end composed of hundreds of lambda functions. Serverless supports all runtimes offered within the cloud provider chosen. Serverless is developed by Austen Collins and maintained by a full-time team.
It was first introduced in October 2015 under the name JAWS.
References
External links
Official Website
Serverless on GitHub
Official Blog
Serverless computing
Free software programmed in JavaScript |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreeNC | In bioinformatics, The Green Non-Coding Database, GreeNC, is a biological database that acts as an archive of plant lncRNAs and annotations.
Started on 2015, the GreeNC database provides information on sequence, genome coordinates, coding potential and folding energy of lncRNAs. GreeNC includes about 200.000 pages with information on more than 190.000 transcripts from 37 plants and six algae. According to Paytuví and collaborators, by using the same pipeline to annotate lncRNAs GreeNC make it possible to compare lncRNA sequences and distribution from different species.
References
External links
GreeNC
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem | Librem is a line of computers manufactured by Purism, SPC featuring free (libre) software. The laptop line is designed to protect privacy and freedom by providing no non-free (proprietary) software in the operating system or kernel, avoiding the Intel Active Management Technology, and gradually freeing and securing firmware. Librem laptops feature hardware kill switches for the microphone, webcam, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Models
Laptops
Librem 13, Librem 15 and Librem 14
In 2014, Purism launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply to fund the creation and production of the Librem 15 laptop, conceived as a modern alternative to existing open-source hardware laptops, all of which used older hardware. The in the name refers to its 15-inch screen size. The campaign succeeded after extending the original campaign, and the laptops were shipped to backers. In a second revision of the laptop, hardware kill switches for the camera, microphone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth were added.
After the successful launch of the Librem 15, Purism created another campaign on Crowd Supply for a 13-inch laptop called the Librem 13, which also came with hardware kill switches similar to those on the Librem 15v2. The campaign was again successful and the laptops were shipped to customers.
Purism announced in December 2016 that it would start shipping from inventory rather than building to order with the new batches of Librem 15 and 13.
, Purism has one laptop model in production, the Librem 14 (version 1, US$1,370).
Comparison of laptops
Librem Mini
The Librem Mini is a small form factor desktop computer, which began shipping in June 2020.
Librem 5
On August 24, 2017, Purism started a crowdfunding campaign for the Librem 5, a smartphone aimed to run 100% free software, which would "[focus] on security by design and privacy protection by default". Purism claimed that the phone would become "the world's first ever IP-native mobile handset, using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication." Purism cooperated with KDE and GNOME in its development of Librem 5.
Security features of the Librem 5 include separation of the CPU from the baseband processor, which, according to Linux Magazine, makes the Librem 5 unique in comparison to other mobile phones. The Librem 5 also features hardware kill switches for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication and the phone's camera, microphone, and baseband processor.
The default operating system for the Librem 5 is Purism's PureOS, a Debian derivative. The operating system uses a new user interface called Phosh, based on Wayland, wlroots, GTK and GNOME middleware. It is planned that Phosh/Plasma Mobile, Ubuntu Touch, and postmarketOS can also be installed on the phone.
The release of the Librem 5 has been postponed several times. In September 2018, Purism announced that the launch date of Librem 5 would be moved from January to April 2019, because of two hardware bugs and the holiday season in Europe and North America. The Librem 5's De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crin%20%28disambiguation%29 | Crin may refer to:
Crinoline
Child Rights Information Network
Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria
Crin Antonescu, Romanian politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms%20%28film%29 | Moms () is a 2012 Russian anthology film. It consists of eight short films which are set on 8 March, the International Women's Day.
Plot
Every year, on March 8, telephone networks of Russia transmit millions of calls and SMS messages. Hardworking analysts have calculated that the absolute majority of telephone calls are addressed to the most important women in the life of every man — mothers.
Cast
Elena Korikova — segment My Beloved
Olga Volkova — segment My Beloved
Yuliya Grishina — segment My Beloved
Tatyana Kosmacheva — segment My Beloved
Sergey Bezrukov — segment My Beloved
Yekaterina Vasilyeva – segment I am not Kolya
Alexandra Nazarova – segment I am not Kolya
Mikhail Porechenkov – segment I am not Kolya
Mikhail Gorevoy – segment I am not Kolya
Marina Golub – segment Parachute
Ekaterina Artemenko – segment Parachute
Fyodor Dobronravov – segment Parachute
Ivan Dobronravov – segment Parachute
Liya Akhedzhakova – segment Partner
Olga Makeeva – segment Partner
Dmitri Dyuzhev – segment Partner
Pyotr Fyodorov – segment Partner
Ravshana Kurkova – segment Father and son
Egor Beroev – segment Father and son
References
External links
2012 comedy films
2012 films
Russian anthology films
Russian comedy-drama films
Films directed by Sarik Andreasyan
2010s Russian-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re%20Back%20in%20the%20Room%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | You're Back in the Room is an Australian television game show based on the British TV show of the same name that began being aired on the Nine Network on 3 April 2016. It is hosted by Daryl Somers and hypnotist Keith Barry who is the hypnotist on the British version.
Format
The contestants have the opportunity to win cash prizes while being under the influence of hypnotism. Hypnotist Keith Barry puts each one under hypnosis to thwart their efforts. Over five rounds, the contestants take part in a series of outrageous games where tasks need to be completed in order to win. Their cash pot accumulates throughout the show before they attempt to win as much as possible in a fast-paced final round.
The contestants are all competing for $20,000, but may lose money if they do not succeed in a set number of challenges that need to be completed successfully in order to accumulate prize earnings.
Episodes
Episode One round
Episode Two rounds
Episode Three rounds
Episode Four rounds
Episode Five rounds
Ratings
References
Nine Network original programming
2010s Australian game shows
2016 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Sydney
Australian television series based on British television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Shapiro%20%28programmer%29 | Michael W. Shapiro is an American computer programmer who worked in operating systems and storage at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and EMC.
While working at Sun Microsystems, Shapiro developed pgrep, the Modular Debugger (MDB), DTrace, fault management and diagnosis, and other software for Sun's Solaris operating system.
The pgrep and pkill utilities Shapiro created are today found in every major Unix operating system, including Linux, BSD, and macOS, and are commonly used by system administrators and developers.
Shapiro and the DTrace team received a Technology Innovation Award and Overall Gold Medal for Innovation for DTrace from The Wall Street Journal in 2006.
DTrace was also recognized by USENIX with the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award in 2008. Over the next 10 years, DTrace was ported and incorporated into other major operating systems, including BSD and Apple's macOS.
Starting in 2006, Shapiro led Sun's engineering effort to build a commercial storage product using Solaris and Sun's ZFS filesystem, announced in 2008. In interviews with the New York Times and Fortune, Shapiro explained how a small engineering team at Sun dubbed "Fishworks" pitched the project to Sun's executives and developed the product outside of Sun's organizational structure.
After Oracle Corporation acquired Sun, Shapiro managed engineering for storage products as Vice President for Storage. Oracle reported in 2015 that the ZFS Storage product line had surpassed $1B in revenue.
Shapiro announced his departure from Oracle in a 2010 blog posting, and was revealed several years later as a member of the founding team of DSSD when EMC purchased the startup. He developed the DSSD software architecture with fellow Sun engineer Jeff Bonwick, and served as DSSD's vice president for software. Shapiro explained how DSSD built the industry's first NVM Express pooled storage system for multiple host computers in a 2016 interview with the Hot Aisle podcast. The DSSD product was used in the TACC 2015 "Wrangler" computer cluster and received HPCwire's Editor's Choice Award later that year.
After EMC was acquired by Dell Technologies, the DSSD group was folded into the EMC storage product division in 2017.
Shapiro was a co-author of the NVM Express over Fabrics storage protocol announced in 2014. By 2019, IDC analysts reported that NVMeoF was disrupting SAN purchasing by offering significant performance improvements for networked SSDs.
Publications
NVM Express over Fabrics Protocol and Architecture Webcast
References
External links
HDD Vendors Screwed: TheRegister Interview with Mike Shapiro
Smart People on Ice: Battery Ventures Interview with Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal
DSSD bridges access latency gap with NVMe fabric flash magic
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American computer programmers
Solaris people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sun Microsystems people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%A1rio%20da%20Lexa | Diário da Lexa is a Brazilian television documentary series
of his career and the life of the singer Lexa, The series debuted on July 26, 2015, on the MTV network.
Production
Lexa started on your YouTube channel, a series of videos, which she called Diario da Lexa. The webseries will show the fans, career behind the scenes of the singer, as studio recordings, film covers videos, test for the shows, among other times working the new darling of the funk.
Episodes
External links
Brazilian television series
Lexa (singer) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Zweig | Janet C. Zweig (born April 4, 1950) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of art in the public realm and computer-driven language-generating sculpture.
Life and career
Janet Zweig was born in Milwaukee, WI, raised in Chicago, IL, and has lived in New York since 1994. Zweig received her BA from Cornell University and her MFA from The Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY.
In the 1980s she produced several editioned artist's books. In the late 1980s, she started to make computer-driven sculpture using printers and language-generating programs. After 1997, she began to work exclusively in the public realm.
She is currently a senior critic at the Rhode Island School of Design and a lecturer at Brown University's Graduate Program in Public Humanities.
Zweig has received several fellowships and awards including the Rome Prize Fellowship in 1992, and residencies at PS1 Museum and the MacDowell Colony. She has received the Public Art Network Year in Review award for eleven of her public commissions, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Computer Arts in 1999, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Sculpture in 1994.
Zweig has works in various public and private collections.
Public commissions
Some of her public commissions include the following works:
Columbus Never..., Columbus, OH, 2012-3. This was a temporary piece for the bicentennial of Columbus on a 66' wall across the street from the state house. The first five words of this generative sentence were written by the artist and installed in three parts every two weeks. Afterwards, a writing contest solicited three to five word entries from the residents of Columbus to continue the sentence. The winning entries were installed every two weeks during the bicentennial year of the city.
Lipstick Enigma, Orlando, FL, 2010. Made of 1200 resin lipsticks, and 1200 stepper motors, this computer-driven sentence-generator, using rules and lexicon written by the artist, invents and writes a new line of text, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector. The sentences mix the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising. The piece was commissioned by The State of Florida Art in State Buildings Program for an engineering school at The University of Central Florida.
Prairie Logic, Kansas City, MO, 2012. Zweig created a full-scale boxcar and planted a prairie on a public rooftop in downtown Kansas City in collaboration with local architects, El Dorado. The boxcar doorway, when opened, becomes a proscenium stage for performances. Through local curation, events are programmed for the space.
Carrying On, New York, NY, 2004. Zweig collaborated with Edward Del Rosario on a steel, slate, and marble frieze installed in the Prince Street subway station in New York. This piece is part of the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority’s collection.
7:11AM 11.20.1979 79°55'W 40°27'N , Pittsburgh, PA, 2009. Zweig was commissioned by th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptidoglycolipid%20addressing%20protein | The Peptidoglycolipid Addressing Protein (GAP) Family is a member of the Lysine Exporter (LysE) Superfamily. It is listed as item 2.A.116 in the Transporter Classification Database. The mechanism of its action is not known, but this family has been shown to be a member of the LsyE superfamily. Therefore, these proteins are most likely secondary carriers.
The proposed generalized reaction catalyzed by members of the GAP family is:
PGL (in) → PGL (outer membrane).
See also
Transport Protein
Glycolipid
References
Further reading
Tsu, Brian V.; Saier, Milton H. "The LysE Superfamily of Transport Proteins Involved in Cell Physiology and Pathogenesis". PLOS ONE 10 (10).doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137184. PMC 4608589.PMID 26474485.
Seeliger, Jessica C.; Holsclaw, Cynthia M.; Schelle, Michael W.; Botyanszki, Zsofia; Gilmore, Sarah A.; Tully, Sarah E.; Niederweis, Michael; Cravatt, Benjamin F.; Leary, Julie A. (2012-03-09). "Elucidation and Chemical Modulation of Sulfolipid-1 Biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Journal of Biological Chemistry 287 (11): 7990–8000. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.315473. ISSN 0021-9258. PMC 3318749. PMID 22194604.
Protein families
Membrane proteins
Transmembrane proteins
Transmembrane transporters
Transport proteins
Integral membrane proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cybernetic%20Grandma | The Cybernetic Grandma (Czech: Kybernetická babička) is a 1962 Czechoslovakian stop motion puppet cartoon. It is a surreal science fiction-horror animation film, showing a dystopian situation where machines tend humans into a cybernetic lifestyle. The story is seen through the eyes of a little child who is led by his grandmother to enter an underground world. There it witnesses many strange events and ends up being cared for by a cybernetic grandma looking like a hybrid between a robotic wheelchair and a giant moth. The film shows a contradiction between the kind and sweet way the machine talks to the child and its disturbingly cold insensitive behavior. The cybernetic grandma is portrayed by the mechanically accurate and formally perfect voice and language of Czech actress Otýlie Benšíková. At the end of the movie, the little child is rescued by its true biological grandma, who turns off the cybernetic one and takes care of it.
References
Martin Flašar, "Jan Novák, Jiří Trnka A Jejich Kybernetická Babička", Musicologica Brunensia 48, 2013, 1.
External links
Film review at www.weirdwildrealm.com by Paghat the Ratgirl
1962 films
1960s Czech-language films
1962 animated films
1960s dystopian films
Films directed by Jiří Trnka
1960s science fiction horror films
Czech science fiction horror films
1960s Czech films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Robert%20Slagle | James R. "Robert" Slagle is an American computer scientist notable for his many achievements in Artificial Intelligence. Since 1984 he has been the Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, with former appointments at Johns Hopkins University, the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland), the Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1961 in his dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Marvin Minsky, Slagle developed the first expert system, SAINT (Symbolic Automatic INTegrator), which is a heuristic program that solves symbolic integration problems in freshman calculus.
References
External links
James R Slagle University of Minnesota
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Minnesota faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Alright%20Now | I'm Alright Now is a 1967 Australian TV variety show starring Reg Livermore and Ruth Cracknell.
References
External links
1967 films
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip%20Sync%20Battle%20Philippines | Lip Sync Battle Philippines is a Philippine television reality competition show broadcast by GMA Network. The show is the Philippine version of the American reality television series of the same title. Hosted by Michael V. and Iya Villania, it premiered on February 27, 2016 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up replacing Celebrity Bluff. The show concluded on July 1, 2018 with a total of 3 seasons and 40 episodes. It was replaced by The Clash in its timeslot.
Overview
Lip Sync Battle Philippines debuted on GMA Network on February 27, 2016. It is presented by Michael V. with Iya Villania serving as the color commentator.
The show is an adaptation of the American TV series, Lip Sync Battle. The game pits two celebrities against each other in a lip sync battle for two rounds. The celebrities lip sync songs of their choice. The crowd determines the winner after the two rounds have been completed.
During the third episode of the first season, the show had their first tag team battle with Betong Sumaya and John Feir battling Gladys Guevarra and Pekto.
Episodes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Lip Sync Battle Philippines earned a 25.6% rating. While the premiere of the second season scored a 24.3% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series
Philippine television series based on American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker%20culture%20in%20Sardinia | The Beaker culture in Sardinia appeared circa 2100 BC (or according to other datations in 2300 BC or earlier) during the last phase of the Chalcolithic period. It initially coexisted with and then replaced the previous Monte Claro culture in Sardinia, developing until the ancient Bronze Age circa 1900–1800 BC. Then, the Beaker culture mixed with the related Bonnanaro culture, considered the first stage of the Nuragic civilization.
Chronology
The European Beaker culture is characterized by the use of classic bell-shaped ceramics. The different styles and decorations of these ceramics allow the Sardinian Beaker culture to be split into three main chronological phases:
A1 Maritime-International phase (c. 2100–2000 BC)
A2 Italian-Sulcitan phase (c. 2000–1900 BC)
B Undecorated Beaker phase (c. 1900–1800 BC)
The various phases show the succession of two main components: the first "Franco-Iberian" (Catalonia and Southern France) and the second "central European" (throughout the Italian peninsula). Thus, it seems likely that the Beaker culture was brought to the island over a long period of time by different waves of migrants from different regions of Europe. Sardinia was in turn the intermediary that brought Beaker materials to Sicily.
Finds
Beaker finds have been found at about seventy sites in Sardinia; they are concentrated mostly along the western coast of the island, from the Nurra region to Sulcis-Iglesiente, and in Campidano, with some settlement in the east, in Dorgali and in the Sarrabus.
Almost all Beaker finds are from burials (generally in pre-existing domus de janas, but also documented from individual burials within stone cists at Santa Vittoria-Nuraxinieddu near Oristano). The objects found include, besides the ceramics, the characteristic brassards (stone wrist-guards) to protect the forearms of archers, flint arrowheads and various ornaments including necklaces made of shells or tusks and buttons with a V-shaped perforation.
Metal objects include copper daggers with a triangular blade and pins. Gold artifacts appeared for the first time on the island (collier from the tomb of Bingia 'e Monti of Gonnostramatza).
Settlements
The old open-air Monte Claro villages disappear almost completely after centuries of occupation (possibly due to climate change or tribal clashes with the newcomers) and only three settlements specifically attributable to this culture are known (Monte Ossoni in Castelsardo, Monte Ollàdiri in Monastir and Palaggiu in Samassi). This could mean that the Beaker bearers were nomadic people dwelling in tents or caves that depended mainly on the cultivation of wheat and the raising of sheep and goats.
Beaker-bearing entities may have induced forced migration of the Monte Claro culture in refuge settlement such as Biriai (Oliena).
A unicum in Sardinia is represented by the site of Guardiole, on the island of Caprera. The complex, made up of a large rectangular megalithic enclosure and other buildings, shows eviden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raikabag%20Palace%20Junction%20railway%20station | Raikabagh Palace Junction railway station is a railway station on the North Western Railways network in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is located approximately 2 km from Jodhpur railway station.
Platform
The station has two platforms. Entry to platform no 1 is from Paota side.
See also
Jodhpur district
References
External links
Railway stations in Jodhpur district
Jodhpur railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent%20Online%20Knowledge | Advent Online Knowledge, Inc. was a Schaumburg, Illinois-based producer of software for Prime Computer minicomputers.
Products
AOKCALC - spreadsheet program
Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) - enabled a system administrator to monitor the activities of a selected terminal user or scan the activities of all terminal users on a system
Extra-Sensory Perception.2 (ESP.2) - enabled a system administrator to capture all prelogon activities of selected dial-up and direct-connect lines in a file
Financial Reporting System (FRS)
Personal Calculator - a visual calculator
References
Defunct companies based in Illinois
Defunct software companies of the United States
Schaumburg, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20database%20management%20analysis | Standard database management analysis
History
Maximized Tables in ERD
Flexible for all business sizes
Easy to Maintain
Waterfall and SDLC mixed
Billion Ideas when business update or report changes
Understanding Clearly about Business Flow
Maximize Cost in Future development
No Stress in SDMA
Happy with all projects
Going Faster and Stable
Understanding about Server part and Configuration for HA, Failed Over Cluster on Data Center
Strong Security and Maintenance
References
Databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saitama%20International%20Marathon | The Saitama International Marathon is a women's marathon held in Saitama, Japan, and hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations, Saitama Prefecture, Saitama City, Nippon Television Network and the Yomiuri Shimbun. The event is an IAAF Silver Label Road Race.
The competition took the place of the Yokohama Women's Marathon which was held in Yokohama from 2009 until 2014 and itself a successor event to the Tokyo International Women's Marathon, which was held in Tokyo from 1979 until 2008. Following the creation of the annual Tokyo Marathon in 2007, which featured its own annual women's marathon, the sponsors decided to move the women's marathon to Yokohama in 2009 and then on to Saitama in 2015.
The first Saitama International Marathon held on 15 November 2015 also served as the selection race for Japan women's marathon representatives for 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Winners
Key:
See also
Tokyo International Women's Marathon (1979–2008)
Yokohama Women's Marathon (2008–2014)
References
External links
Saitama International Marathon official website
2015 Official Results
Marathons in Japan
Recurring sporting events established in 2015
2015 establishments in Japan
November sporting events
Women's marathons in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computer%20Channel%20%28BSB%29 | The Computer Channel was a British satellite television channel run by British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) from 28 June to 29 November 1990.
The channel was broadcast on the same frequency as BSB's Sports Channel, while it was off-air in the mornings.
The Computer Channel was created to broadcast specialist training programmes for the computer industry. The Analysis programme covered IT news, interviews and reviews of new products. The editor and main presenter was Clive Couldwell, former editor of Which Computer magazine.
The channel was not for home viewing by the general public, and so was not promoted in most BSB advertising, or on their other channels. It was part of BSB's Datavision subsidiary, which offered encrypted television services and data reception to business users through BSB's domestic TV receivers.
References
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
English-language television stations in the United Kingdom
1990 establishments in the United Kingdom
1990 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1990
1990 in the United Kingdom
1990 in British television
1990s in the United Kingdom
1990s in British television
History of television in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstweg | Bürgi's Kunstweg is a set of algorithms invented by Jost Bürgi at the end of the 16th century. They can be used for the calculation of sines to an arbitrary precision. Bürgi used these algorithms to calculate a Canon Sinuum, a table of sines in steps of 2 arc seconds. It is thought that this table had 8 sexagesimal places. Some authors have speculated that this table only covered the range from 0 to 45 degrees, but nothing seems to support this claim. Such tables were extremely important for navigation at sea. Johannes Kepler called the Canon Sinuum the most precise known table of sines. Bürgi explained his algorithms in his work Fundamentum Astronomiae which he presented to Emperor Rudolf II. in 1592.
The principles of iterative sine table calculation through the Kunstweg are as follows: cells in a column sum up the values of the two previous cells in the same column. The final cell's value is divided by two, and the next iteration starts. Finally, the values of the last column get normalized. Rather accurate approximations of sines are obtained after few iterations.
As recently as 2015, Folkerts et al. showed that this simple process converges indeed towards the true sines. According to Folkerts, this was the first step towards difference calculus.
References
Algorithms
Trigonometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Loop%20%28Tucson%29 | The Loop is a network of shared-use paths in metropolitan Tucson, Arizona maintained by Pima County. Once complete it will comprise of paved trails dedicated to cyclist, pedestrian, and equestrian use. By 2014, the network was 85% complete, with over one hundred miles in place. Pima County estimates the Loop is used by an average of 2,000 visitors each weekday and more than 5,000 on weekends.
Characteristics
All but one of the Loop's trails follow the Santa Cruz River or one of its tributaries to the east. Although rivers within the city are dry for most of the year, ground water near the surface supports a variety of wildlife. Riverbank alignment allows for trails to pass under bridges at major streets.
Many trailheads are equipped with bathrooms, drinking fountains, shade structures, benches, and parking. Horse trailer parking and decomposed granite paths which parallel the asphalt trails for significant stretches support equestrian use of the Loop.
Routes
Santa Cruz River Park
The Santa Cruz River Park runs north–south on the west side of town, passing through Tucson's downtown. As of 2014, the park contained over 40 miles of paved paths, with another 22 miles in planning or under construction. Paseo de las Iglesias, which translates to "the path between churches", a 1.5-mile park that completed the link with the Julian Wash Greenway, was completed as part of a flood control project in 2015. Completed in March 2016, the Midvale Park Segment extends the west-bank path from Drexel Road to Valencia. With this addition the park extends for more than 22 miles from Valencia to its northernmost trailhead at El Rio Park in Marana. Work to extend the park north from El Rio Park to Avra Valley road began in 2017.
Rillito River Park
The most established and highly trafficked of The Loop's six trails, with paths running on both sides of the river in all but one or two stretches, is the Rillito River Park, which runs east–west along the northern edge of Tucson following region's most significant tributary of the Santa Cruz. From where it meets the Santa Cruz near the intersection of Thornydale and the Interstate 10, the park follows the Rillito for 12 miles to Craycroft, where the river forks into the Tanque Verde and the Pantano. The park contains more than 25 miles of paved trails.
Julian Wash Greenway
Feeding into the Santa Cruz River Park's east-bank trail three miles north of its southernmost trailhead, at the edge of the City of South Tucson, is the Julian Wash Greenway, which runs to the southeast, paralleling the Interstate 10 to Rita Ranch on the city's southeast side. Completed in 2014, the park has 16.1 miles of paved trails.
Pantano River Park
The Pantano River Park was the last piece in the continuous circuit of trails around the city of Tucson to be completed. It now runs from the Rillito trail at Craycroft Road, south-south-east to the Harrison Greenway connection at Sellarole Road.
Harrison Greenway
The Harrison Green |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20broker | Cloud Broker is an entity that manages the use, performance and delivery of cloud services, and negotiates relationships between cloud providers and cloud consumers. As cloud computing evolves, the integration of cloud services may be too complex for cloud consumers to manage alone.
In such cases, a cloud consumer may request cloud services from a cloud broker, instead of contacting a cloud provider directly," according to NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture.
Overview
Cloud Brokers provides a single point of entry to manage multiple cloud services for business or technical purposes. The two important unique features of a cloud broker are the ability to provide a single consistent interface to multiple differing cloud providers and the clear visibility that the broker allows into which company is providing the services in the background.
In general, cloud brokers provide services in three categories:
Aggregation: A cloud broker combines and integrates multiple services into one or more new services. The broker provides data integration and ensures the security of data in transition between the cloud consumer and multiple cloud providers.
Arbitrage: Service arbitrage is similar to service aggregation, except that the services being aggregated are not fixed. Service arbitrage means a broker has the flexibility to choose services from multiple Providers, depending upon the characteristics of the data or the context of the service.
Intermediation: A cloud broker enhances a given service by improving some specific capability and providing value-added services to cloud consumers. The improvement can be managing access to cloud services, identity management, performance reporting, enhanced security, etc.
Benefits of using a cloud broker
Benefits of using a cloud broker for a business or technical purpose include the following:
Cloud interoperability - Integration between several cloud offerings.
Cloud portability - Move application(s) between different cloud vendors.
Increase business continuity by reducing dependency on one cloud provider.
Increase SLAs by leveraging multiple cloud providers.
Cost savings - Most IaaS clouds offer significant volume discounts to those who have purchased a large number of instances. For example, Amazon provides 20% or even higher volume discounts in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Due to the sheer volume of the aggregated demand, the cloud broker can easily qualify for such discounts, which further reduces the cost of serving all the users.
Pay for what is needed: Cloud brokers provide a selected assortment of services required by the consumer.
Drawbacks of using a cloud broker
Despite the benefits that cloud broker can provide, there are also concerns related to the use of a cloud broker:
The greatest drawback in using a cloud broker is business reliance on the broker to be continuously up to date on new cloud technologies, options and offerings.
Using a cloud broker also adds complexity i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20TV%20One | This is a list of programs broadcast by TV One. This list is current as of January 2022.
Current programming
Original programming
Asking for a Friend
ATL Homicide
Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction: Last Words
For My Man
The One
Payback
Uncensored
Unsung
Unsung Hollywood
Syndicated reruns
A Different World (The Carsey-Werner Company)
All of Us (Warner Bros Television)
The Cosby Show (The Carsey-Werner Company)
Good Times (Sony Pictures Television)
Living Single (Warner Bros Television)
Sanford and Son (Sony Pictures Television)
Former programming
Original programming
100 Greatest Black Power Moves
Baisden After Dark
Belle's
Bid Whist Party Throwdown
Bill Bellamy's Who's Got Jokes?
Black Men Revealed
Born Again Virgin
Can You Dig It!
Celebrity Crime Files
Deceived
Divine Restoration
The D.L. Hughley Show
Donnie After Dark
Evidence of Innocence
Family Reunion
Find Our Missing
For My Woman
Full Plate
G. Garvin: The Road Tour
Get the Hook Up
Here We Go Again
Hollywood Divas
I Married a Baller
Justice By Any Means
K-Ci & JoJo...Come Clean
Life After
Life Therapy
Lisaraye: The Real Mccoy
Living It Up with Patti LaBelle
Living with Soul
Love Addiction
Love That Girl!
Makeover Manor
The Manns
Mario's Green House
#Murder
My Momma Throws Down
One Stage to the Next
Parole Diaries
Quiet on the Set
R&B Divas: Atlanta
R&B Divas: Los Angeles
Renovate My Place
Rickey Smiley For Real
The Rickey Smiley Show
Roland S. Martin Perspective
Save My Son with Dr. Steve Perry
Sharp Talk
Singletary Says
Sins of the City
Sister Circle
The Funny Spot
The Game of Dating
The Gospel of Music with Jeff Majors
The Next :15
The Tom Joyner Sky Show
The Ultimate Merger
Thou Shalt Not
True Hollywood Stories
Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin
TV One Access
TV One on One
Two Sides
Verses and Flow
Vidiots
We're the Campbells
Wet Paint
Will to Live
Acquired programming
227
All About the Andersons
Amen
The Bernie Mac Show
Between Brothers
Boston Public
Brick City
B. Smith with Style
Cedric the Entertainer Presents
City of Angels
Comics UnleashedThe Cosby MysteriesDay BreakDivorce CourtDonna Richardson: Mind, Body, & SpiritEmpireEve Everybody Hates Chris Family MattersFamily Time FastlaneThe Flip Wilson Show For Your LoveGeorgeGimme a Break!
Girlfriends
Good News
Half & Half
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
HawthoRNe
The Hughleys
In Living Color
In the House
I’ll Fly Away
The Jeffersons
Judge Karen
Keasha's Perfect Dress
Lincoln Heights
Like Family
A Man Called Hawk
Martin
Minor Adjustments
New York Undercover
One on One
On Our Own
The Parent 'Hood
The Parkers
The PJs
The Richard Pryor Show
Roc
Showtime at the Apollo
Soul Food
South CentralStarting OverThat's My MamaThe Tom Joyner ShowThe Tracy Morgan ShowUnder One Roof Wanda at LargeThe Wendy Williams ShowWhat's Happening!!What's Happening Now!!Where I LiveNews and information programmingAmerica's Black ForumBlack Enterprise Business ReportDish NationNews One NowOur World with Black EnterpriseWashington Watch with Roland Marti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble%20average%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ensemble average is a mean in statistical mechanics.
Ensemble average or ensemble averaging may also refer to:
Ensemble averaging (machine learning)
Process ensemble average, usage in econometrics and signal processing
Ensemble (fluid mechanics), usage in fluid mechanics
Ensemble forecasting, usage in weather forecasting
Climate ensemble, usage in climatology
See also
Ensemble (disambiguation)
Ensemble coding, a theory in cognitive neuroscience involving an average
Replication (statistics)
Resampling (statistics)
Monte Carlo methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20resilience | Cyber resilience refers to an entity's ability to continuously deliver the intended outcome, despite cyber attacks. Resilience to cyber attacks is essential to IT systems, critical infrastructure, business processes, organizations, societies, and nation-states.
Adverse cyber events are those that negatively impact the availability, integrity, or confidentiality of networked IT systems and associated information and services. These events may be intentional (e.g. cyber attack) or unintentional (e.g. failed software update) and caused by humans, nature, or a combination thereof.
Unlike cyber security, which is designed to protect systems, networks and data from cyber crimes, cyber resilience is designed to prevent systems and networks from being derailed in the event that security is compromised. Cyber security is effective without compromising the usability of systems and there is a robust continuity business plan to resume operations, if the cyber attack is successful.
Cyber resilience helps businesses to recognize that hackers have the advantage of innovative tools, element of surprise, target and can be successful in their attempt. This concept helps business to prepare, prevent, respond and successfully recover to the intended secure state. This is a cultural shift as the organization sees security as a full-time job and embedded security best practices in day-to-day operations. In comparison to cyber security, cyber resilience requires the business to think differently and be more agile on handling attacks.
The objective of cyber resilience is to maintain the entity's ability to deliver the intended outcome continuously at all times. This means doing so even when regular delivery mechanisms have failed, such as during a crisis or after a security breach. The concept also includes the ability to restore or recover regular delivery mechanisms after such events, as well as the ability to continuously change or modify these delivery mechanisms, if needed in the face of new risks. Backups and disaster recovery operations are part of the process of restoring delivery mechanisms.
Frameworks
Resilience, as defined by Presidential Policy Directive PPD-21, is the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Cyber resilience focuses on the preventative, detective, and reactive controls in an information technology environment to assess gaps and drive enhancements to the overall security posture of the entity. The Cyber Resilience Review (CRR) is one framework for the assessment of an entity's resiliency created by the Department of Homeland Security. Another framework created by Symantec is based on 5 pillars: Prepare/Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Special Publication 800-160 Volume 2 Rev. 1 offers a framework for engineering secure and reliable systems—treating adverse cyber events as both resiliency and security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DerbyCon | DerbyCon was a computer security conference based in Louisville, Kentucky. The first DerbyCon took place in 2011 and was founded by Martin Bos, Dave Kennedy, Alex Kah and Adrian Crenshaw. The conference has been held at the Hyatt Regency Louisville typically in late September.
On January 14, 2019, organizers announced that DerbyCon 9.0, to be held in September 2019, would be the last of the series, citing the increasing difficulty of holding conferences in the face of "a small, yet vocal group of people creating negativity, polarization, and disruption".
Events
DerbyCon common activities included:
Presentations from keynote speakers, with topics including software security, social engineering, cyber security, security in the present day and future, and mobile applications.
Preconference training
Vendors and publishers
Lockpick Village
Mental Health & Wellness Village
BourbonCon, a social gathering during DerbyCon focusing on sampling fine Kentucky Bourbon
DerbyCon Party, which has featured The Crystal Method (2013, 2015) and Infected Mushroom (2014)
Conferences
DerbyCon 1.0 September 30 – October 2, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky
DerbyCon 2.0 "Reunion" September 27–30, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky
DerbyCon 3.0 "All in the Family" September 27–30, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky
DerbyCon 4.0 "Family Rootz" September 24–28, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky
DerbyCon 5.0 "Unity" September 23–27, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky
DerbyCon 6.0 "Recharge" September 21–25, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky
DerbyCon 7.0 "Legacy" September 20–24, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky
DerbyCon 8.0 "Evolution" October 3–7, 2018 at the Marriott in Louisville, Kentucky
DerbyCon 9.0 "Finish Line" September 4–8, 2019 at the Marriott in Louisville, Kentucky
References
External links
Derbycon website
Computer security conferences
Recurring events established in 2011
2011 establishments in Kentucky
Events in Louisville, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20set%20size | In computing, unique set size (USS) is the portion of main memory (RAM) occupied by a process which is guaranteed to be private to that process. The unshared memory of a process is reported as USS.
This concept is used for software running under the Linux operating system. It was proposed by Matt Mackall because of the complications that arose when trying to count the "real memory" used by a process. The concepts of resident set size or virtual memory size (VmSize) weren't helping developers who tried to know how much memory their programs were using.
See also
Proportional set size
Resident set size
References
Memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%20set%20size | In computing, proportional set size (PSS) is the portion of main memory (RAM) occupied by a process and is composed by the private memory of that process plus the proportion of shared memory with one or more other processes. Unshared memory including the proportion of shared memory is reported as the PSS.
Example:
Process A has 50 KiB of unshared memory
Process B has 300 KiB of unshared memory
Both process A and process B have 100 KiB of the same shared memory region
Since the PSS is defined as the sum of the unshared memory of a process and the proportion of memory shared with other processes, the PSS for these two processes are as follows:
PSS of process A = 50 KiB + (100 KiB / 2) = 100 KiB
PSS of process B = 300 KiB + (100 KiB / 2) = 350 KiB
This concept is mostly related (if not unique) to the Linux operating system. It was proposed by Matt Mackall because of the complications that arose when trying to count the "real memory" used by a process. The concepts of resident set size or virtual memory size (VmSize) weren't helping developers who tried to know how much memory their programs were using.
See also
Unique set size
Resident set size
References
External links
PSS (Proportional Set Size) Calculation
How much memory are applications really using?
Memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20bureau | A computer bureau is a service bureau providing computer services.
Computer bureaus developed during the early 1960s, following the development of time-sharing operating systems. These allowed the services of a single large and expensive mainframe computer to be divided up and sold as a fungible commodity. Development of telecommunications and the first modems encouraged the growth of computer bureau as they allowed immediate access to the computer facilities from a customer's own premises.
The computer bureau model shrank during the 1980s, as cheap commodity computers, particularly the PC clone but also the minicomputer allowed services to be hosted on-premises.
See also
Batch processing
Cloud computing
Grid computing
Service Bureau Corporation
Utility computing
References
Time-sharing
Computer systems
Business models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faddeev%E2%80%93LeVerrier%20algorithm | In mathematics (linear algebra), the Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm is a recursive method to calculate the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of a square matrix, , named after Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev and Urbain Le Verrier. Calculation of this polynomial yields the eigenvalues of as its roots; as a matrix polynomial in the matrix itself, it vanishes by the Cayley–Hamilton theorem. Computing the characteristic polynomial directly from the definition of the determinant is computationally cumbersome insofar as it introduces a new symbolic quantity ; by contrast, the Faddeev-Le Verrier algorithm works directly with coefficients of matrix .
The algorithm has been independently rediscovered several times in different forms. It was first published in 1840 by Urbain Le Verrier, subsequently redeveloped by P. Horst, Jean-Marie Souriau, in its present form here by Faddeev and Sominsky, and further by J. S. Frame, and others. (For historical points, see Householder. An elegant shortcut to the proof, bypassing Newton polynomials, was introduced by Hou. The bulk of the presentation here follows Gantmacher, p. 88.)
The Algorithm
The objective is to calculate the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of the matrix ,
where, evidently, = 1 and 0 = (−1)n det .
The coefficients are determined by induction on , using an auxiliary sequence of matrices
Thus,
etc.,
...;
Observe terminates the recursion at . This could be used to obtain the inverse or the determinant of .
Derivation
The proof relies on the modes of the adjugate matrix, , the auxiliary matrices encountered.
This matrix is defined by
and is thus proportional to the resolvent
It is evidently a matrix polynomial in of degree . Thus,
where one may define the harmless ≡0.
Inserting the explicit polynomial forms into the defining equation for the adjugate, above,
Now, at the highest order, the first term vanishes by =0; whereas at the bottom order (constant in , from the defining equation of the adjugate, above),
so that shifting the dummy indices of the first term yields
which thus dictates the recursion
for =1,...,. Note that ascending index amounts to descending in powers of , but the polynomial coefficients are yet to be determined in terms of the s and .
This can be easiest achieved through the following auxiliary equation (Hou, 1998),
This is but the trace of the defining equation for by dint of Jacobi's formula,
Inserting the polynomial mode forms in this auxiliary equation yields
so that
and finally
This completes the recursion of the previous section, unfolding in descending powers of .
Further note in the algorithm that, more directly,
and, in comportance with the Cayley–Hamilton theorem,
The final solution might be more conveniently expressed in terms of complete exponential Bell polynomials as
Example
Furthermore, , which confirms the above calculations.
The characteristic polynomial of matrix is thus ; th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone%20Rock%20Point | Lone Rock Point is a promontory north of Burlington, Vermont and on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain. It is publicly accessible via a trail network and sits on land owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont.
The site is of geologic significance for its spectacular exposure of a thrust contact between the Cambrian-aged Dunham Dolomite and the Middle-Ordovician Iberville Shale. The thrust fault exposed at this location is regionally called the Champlain Thrust which formed during the Taconic Orogeny. At this site, the stratigraphic throw of the Champlain Thrust measures about 8,850 feet.
The site is arguably the most visited structural geology feature in all of New England and is featured in many structural geology text books as a classic example of a thrust fault.
Dunham Dolomite at Lone Rock Point
The Dunham Dolomite is a Cambrian dolomite that is exposed in the hanging wall of the Champlain Thrust Fault at Lone Rock Point. This unit was initially deposited in a warm, shallow sea environment as a platform carbonate. Well-exposed mullions at the base of the dolomite plunge about 15 degrees southeast, indicating transport direction (headed toward the modern lake). The light colored rocks along the shoreline are blocks of dolomite that have fallen after the shale eroded away.
Iberville Shale at Lone Rock Point
The Ordovician Iberville Shale was likely deposited in a deeper marine environment and consists of fine-grained clastic materials.[1] Slip surfaces within the Iberville Shale seen at Lone Rock Point often contains calcite slickenlines along the planar thrust surface. Overlying pressure has led to a high degree of vertical faulting and calcite dissolution (white banding) throughout the unit. The top-most layer of the shale has been eroded away.
References
Geography of Burlington, Vermont
Landforms of Chittenden County, Vermont
Tourist attractions in Burlington, Vermont
Geology of Vermont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Existing%20and%20New%20Chemical%20Substances | Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances (ENCS) is an inventory database for the management of existing and new chemicals primarily aimed at manufacturers of chemicals within, and importers of chemicals to Japan.
References
Chemical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Schkolne | Steven Schkolne (born 1976 in Cape Town, South Africa), inventor of speedcabling, is a South African American computer scientist, inventor, and digital artist.
Biography
Schkolne was born in Cape Town and moved to the United States as a child. During high school he attended North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. Later he earned his BS from Carnegie Mellon University. Schkolne went on to obtain his PhD in Computer Science at Caltech where he pioneered foundational methods for drawing in 3D or virtual reality environments.
Surface drawing
Schkolne's graduate work at Caltech resulted in the first fully functional drawing program for virtual reality. The program, an early precursor to Google's Tilt Brush, was shown at SIGGRAPH in 1999. The program captured hand movements and translated them into digital strokes. Schkolne worked in collaboration with BMW's Designworks to use Surface Drawing as a platform for creating conceptual prototypes.
References
1976 births
Living people
People from Cape Town
South African emigrants to the United States
California Institute of Technology alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
American computer scientists
Computer graphics researchers
American digital artists
South African digital artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%20Fran%C3%A7aise%20de%20Toronto | Alliance Française Toronto is a cultural and language institute, part of the Alliance Française network. It consists of five centres across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), located at Toronto Downtown (Spadina), Mississauga, North York, Oakville and Markham. The Spadina centre houses the cultural centre and a 147-seat theatre.
Founded in Paris in 1883 by Louis Pasteur, Ferdinand de Lesseps and Jules Verne, Alliance Française has always embodied the modern values of humanism, respect of linguistics and cultural diversity. Established in Toronto in 1902, Alliance Française Toronto (AFT) is a 100% Canadian non-profit and charity organization. Alliance Française Toronto has grown to become the largest French language school in Canada, the first Alliance in North America and the sixth worldwide with more than 6,500 students enrolling each year on the five campuses.
History
Alliance Française Toronto was founded on October 28, 1902 by Charles Saint-Elme de Champ and his faculty colleagues to help students learn French. The institution was located on the Victoria Campus of University of Toronto and remained there until the end of the 1950s. During the First World War, the centre offered French courses to Canadian military officers who were about to be shipped away to the French front. Between 1960 and 1970, courses were offered in the basement of one of its teacher's home. Alliance française moved to new premises in 1970 at 60, Charles St West, at the crossing of Bay Street and Charles St.
Since then, Alliance française Toronto has considerably expanded its courses and cultural offerings, especially after the arrival of the director André Petit in 1977 and the election of Bill Graham as a president in 1978.
In 1980, Alliance française Toronto settled in Yonge Street. The space consists of eight classrooms over four floors and a gallery space for exhibits. In 1986, the institution moved to a new building with a typically Victorian character at 24 Spadina Road in the Annex.
From the 1990s onwards, Alliance française Toronto has opened new schools in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The first one was opened in Mississauga, a few miles away from Toronto in 1991. In September of the same year, a new branch was opened in North York at 1, Elmhurst Ave. The centre moved to bigger premises at 95 Sheppard Ave West in 2004. A new branch opened in Markham in 2010. In 2014, the Spadina Centre renovated its premises and built up a 147-seat auditorium. Nowadays, Alliance française Toronto proposes about 114 cultural events each year including concerts, theatre plays, lectures, movie screenings, dance shows and provides the opportunity to discover the French art de vivre with regular wine and cheese parties.
Education
Alliance française Toronto offers a wide variety of French courses for adults and children of all ages and levels. Different classes are specifically designed to help adult learn French language through General French courses, Conversation courses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2022%29 | Season twenty-two of Dancing with the Stars premiered March 21, 2016, on the ABC network.
On May 24, model Nyle DiMarco and Peta Murgatroyd were crowned champions, while UFC fighter Paige VanZant and Mark Ballas finished in second place, and Good Morning America meteorologist Ginger Zee and Valentin Chmerkovskiy finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. Edyta Śliwińska returned as a professional dancer after an eleven-season hiatus. Also returning to the pro roster were Artem Chigvintsev, Peta Murgatroyd, and Sasha Farber. Actress Jodie Sweetin was the first celebrity revealed on Good Morning America on March 2, 2016, while TV meteorologist Ginger Zee was also revealed on that show two days later. The remaining celebrities and professionals dancers were later revealed, also on Good Morning America, on March 8.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, while judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli returned this season. Head judge Len Goodman returned after missing last season, while Julianne Hough, who served as a judge during the previous three seasons, did not. Season 16 runner-up Zendaya returned as a guest judge on April 11, and Maksim Chmerkovskiy returned as a guest judge on April 18.
Dance troupe
The dance troupe consisted of Jenna Johnson, Hayley Erbert, and Alan Bersten, who were joined by new members Dennis Jauch, Kiril Kulish, and Shannon Holtzappfel.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: Latin Night
The couples danced a Latin-inspired routine, and are listed in the order they performed.
Mark Ballas was unable to perform due to an injury, so Paige VanZant performed with Alan Bersten instead.
Week 3: Most Memorable Year Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to celebrate the most memorable year of their lives. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4: Disney Night
Individual judges scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Zendaya, Bruno Tonioli.
The couples performed one unlearned dance to a song from a Disney film, and are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: Switch-Up Night
Individual judges scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Bruno Tonioli.
The celebrities performed one unlearned dance with a different partner selected by the general public. Couples are listed in the order they performed. Due to the nature of the week, no elimination took place this week.
Wee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%20Leadership%20Conclave | India Leadership Conclave is an annual industry event organised by Indian Affairs. Speakers address current issues at the annual conclave from Network 7 Media Group. In 2013, India Leadership Conclave themed the Conclave "New India - Agenda for Change". India Leadership Conclave in 2014 debated on "Perform or Perish" at a time when the National Election Campaigning was at its peak and Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power.
History
India Leadership Conclave also known as "ILC Power Brands" is an annual leadership event and award program awarded to companies and individuals that have excelled in their respective categories. These set of awards has been initiated by the organisers of Network 7 Media Group, under its Chairman and Editor-In-Chief Satya Brahma. India Leadership Conclave was started in 2009 in Delhi and was subsequently followed by six annual editions in Mumbai and Bangalore.
India Leadership Conclave 2016
The 7th Annual India Leadership Conclave and Indian Affairs Business Leadership Awards 2016 was held in Mumbai on Friday,1 July at Hotel Hilton Mumbai International Airport under the Make in India theme of "Advantage India - It is now or never" with 350 attendees.
Award winners
Late Prime Minister of India Rajeev Gandhi was awarded posthumously in its first edition. Business people such as Yash Chopra, Mukesh Ambani, Uday Kotak, Sudha Murthy, and Chanda Kochhar among others received in its very first edition in 2009. Notable figures who received Awards include, Sushmita Sen, Ratan Tata, Mukesh Batra, Priyanka Chopra, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Kunal Bahl, Nagabhairava Jaya Prakash Narayana., Mukesh Hariawala, Anamika Khanna, Manasi Kirloskar, Huzaifa Khorakiwala, Parvathy Nair, Urvashi Rautela, Sunny Leone, Arshi Khan, Jennifer Winget, Reza Shariffi, Bhairavi Jaikishan, Shaina NC, Muffazal Lakdawala, Ashok Soota, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Govinda, Manjula Anagani.
India Leadership Conclave 2017
The 8th Annual India Leadership Conclave & ILC Power Brand Awards was held under the theme "Introspection" on Friday, 4 August, Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai, India. Surjya Narayan Patro, Odisha’s Minister for Food Supplies and Consumer Affairs received "India’s Best Performing Minister in a state in India".
India Leadership Conclave 2018
India Leadership Conclave's 9th Annual edition was held under the theme on "Introspection – Agenda 2018 at Mumbai on 6 July 2018.
India Leadership Conclave 2019
The 10th Annual India Leadership Conclave & Indian Affairs Business Leadership awards also called as ILC Power Brand Awards was held in Mumbai on Friday, 23rd of August 2019 at Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai, India. The theme of the Conclave was "Opportunities - Making India USD 5 trillion Economy".
India Leadership Conclave 2020
Network 7 Media Group organised the 11th Annual edition of India Leadership Conclave & Indian Affairs Power Brand Awards 2020 virtually on Saturday, 26 December 2020 under the theme - Rebuilding India : Opportunities in th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Computer%20Rank%20Examination | National Computer Rank Examination (NCRE) is a national exam held by China Education Department to test the computer proficiency and programming skill of non-computer specialized students and practitioners. The programming language can be chosen by examinees, including C, C++, Java, Visual Basic and Python 3. NCRE is widely recognized by enterprises and organizations in China.
Education in China
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWHB | DWHB (103.9 FM), broadcasting as 103.9 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located at Room 203, Laperal Bldg., Upper Session Rd., Baguio, and its transmitter is located at Diplomat Rd., Dominican Hill, Baguio.
History
Established on February 4, 1980, DWHB was one of the pioneer FM station in Baguio, along with DZWR and DZYB; hence the station began operations as Smooth Jazz HB103, one of the few RMN FM stations at that time, airing a smooth jazz format together with DYXL in Cebu (which they carrying easy listening format). It was the first FM station in the city to carry such format. On August 16, 1992, HB103 was only lasted for almost a decade, when all RMN provincial stations started carrying the Smile Radio branding and switched to a mass-based format. On November 23, 1999, it was rebranded as 1039 HBFM (pronounced as "one-o-three-nine") and switched into a CHR/Top 40 format, with the slogan "Live It Up!". On May 16, 2002, DWHB was amongst the stations relaunched under RMN's iFM network and returned to its original mass-based format. In 2018, iFM started carrying the slogan "Ang Idol Kong FM", coinciding with the nationwide launch of its new jingle.
References
External links
iFM Baguio FB Page
iFM Baguio Website
Radio stations established in 1980
Radio stations in Baguio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXIX | DXIX (102.3 FM), on-air as 102.3 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. Its studio, office and transmitter are located at the 4/F Pafs Mejia Bldg., Roxas Ave. cor. Aguinaldo St., Iligan.
History
The station was established in 1978 under the call letters DXYX, airing a CHR/Top 40 format. On August 16, 1992, the station was relaunched as Smile Radio 102.3 and switched to a mass-based format. On November 23, 1999, it was rebranded as 1023 YXFM and switched back to its CHR/Top 40 format, with the slogan "Live It Up". On May 16, 2002, the station was relaunched once more 102.3 iFM (with a call letters DXIX) and brought back its mass-based format. In 2019, iFM began simulcasting some programs from its sister station DXIC.
References
Radio stations established in 1978
Radio stations in Iligan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYHT | DYHT (94.3 FM), on-air as 94.3 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located at the RMN Broadcast Center, 17th Lacson St., Bacolod, while its transmitter is located at Sitio Aning, Brgy. Pahanocoy, Bacolod.
History
DYHT was RMN's 6th FM station in Bacolod, established in 1978 as 94.3 HT-FM, carrying a CHR/Top 40 format together with other RMN FM stations across the country, excluding DWHB in Baguio (which they carrying smooth jazz format) and DYXL in Cebu (which they carrying easy listening format). On August 16, 1992, the station was rebranded as Smile Radio 94.3, one of the few Smile Radio station with the same format, along with its flagship station in Cagayan de Oro. On November 23, 1999, it was rebranded again as 943 HTFM, with the slogan "Live it Up!". Some of the programs aired at that time were "The Alternative Zone", "Power 20 Hit Show", "Free Rock" and "Absolute Replay". On May 16, 2002, after almost 2 decades of being CHR/Top 40 station in the city, the station was relaunched as 94.3 iFM and switched to a mass-based format.
References
External links
iFM Bacolod FB Page
Radio stations established in 1978
Radio stations in Bacolod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXWR | DXWR (96.3 FM), broadcasting as 96.3 iFM Music and News, is a radio station owned and operated by Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the 2nd Floor, Zameveco Bldg., Pilar St., Zamboanga City.
History
DXWR was established in 1978 on 93.9 FM with a Top 40 format. In 1986, it transferred its frequency to 96.3 FM. On August 16, 1992, the station was relaunched as Smile Radio 96.3 with a mass-based format. On November 23, 1999, it rebranded as 963 WRFM and returned to its Top 40 format with the slogan, "Live It Up!". On May 16, 2002, the station rebranded as 96.3 iFM and brought back its mass-based format. On June 25, 2018, the station added news and talk to its format, with news provided by its AM sister station DXRZ.
References
External links
iFM Zamboanga FB Page
iFM Zamboanga Website
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1978
Radio stations in Zamboanga City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYXY | DYXY (99.1 FM) RMN Tacloban is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at #181 Goldtrade Bldg., P. Burgos St., Tacloban. The station operates daily from 3:30 AM to 11 PM.
History
DYXY was launched in 1978 on 93.9 MHz. It carried a Top 40 format. In 1980, it moved to 99.1 MHz.
On August 16, 1992, DYXY rebranded as Smile Radio and switched to a mass-based format. On November 23, 1999, the station rebranded as 991 XYFM and returned to Top 40.
On May 16, 2002, the station was relaunched as 99.1 iFM and returned to a mass-based format. It also adopted the slogan, Hit after Hit.
On March 2, 2009, as part of RMN's nationwide expansion, iFM changed its new logo and the slogan Sa iFM, Siguradong Enjoy Ka!.
On November 9, 2015, iFM launched its new logo and slogan "Ang Bestfriend Mo!".
In January 2017, the station switched to a news and talk format under the name RMN Tacloban, the second RMN branding after DWNX in Naga, Camarines Sur. However, iFM's bumpers are only used for its music blocks.
References
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1978
Radio stations in Tacloban |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXSY-FM | DXSY (96.1 FM), broadcasting as 96.1 Radyo BisDak, is a radio station owned and operated by Times Broadcasting Network Corporation. The station's studio is located at 2/F Paguito Yu Bldg., Mabini Extension, Brgy. Carmen Annex, Ozamiz City. Formerly the station was affiliated with RMN until 2016.
References
Radio stations in Misamis Occidental
Radio stations established in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navin%20Kumar | Navin Kumar (born 29 August 1952), is a retired Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S.) officer of Bihar cadre in India. He also served as the first chairman of Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) in India from 2013 to August 2017. He has also served as Chief Secretary in the state of Bihar retiring from service in August 2012. He belongs to the I.A.S. batch of 1975. He has also served as Secretary in Ministry of Urban Development, Chairman of Metro Rail Corporations of India such as Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation and Director General of Doordarshan with additional charge as CEO of Prasar Bharati.
Early life and education
Kumar joined Indian Administrative Service and began his government service in 1975.
Career
Kumar joined Indian Administrative Service in 1975 and belongs to the Bihar Cadre. In 1977 he was posted as Sub-Divisional Officer of Samastipur. He then went on to serve various districts of Bihar and Jharkhand (erstwhile part of Bihar) as District Magistrate. Between 1988 and 1990 he took central deputation in Ministry of Water Resources as National Coordinator for an engineers' training program. In 1990 he became PS to then Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha under Chandra Shekhar Government. When the government fell in June 1991, he shifted to Department of Economic Affairs under Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
From 1993 to 1996 he was posted as chief technical adviser to a food aid program - funded jointly by the World Food Program and a Commonwealth institution run by the British Government - in Sierra Leone. After returning from Sierra Leone he was posted in Bihar as head of Bihar State Electricity Board. In 1999, he again went on Central Deputation as Joint Secretary in the Finance Ministry handling external assistance from EC, UK and Canada. He served on this position until 2004 when he was made Director General of Doordarshan. In 2006, he also took additional charge as CEO of Prasar Bharti. In the same year, he was posted back in Bihar, where he served as State Finance Secretary and IT Secretary, setting up e-governance systems linking the Common Service Centers in Panchayats, computerizing treasury operations and setting up a comprehensive public finance management system. In 2010, he joined Ministry of Urban Development as Secretary and was also made Chairman of various Metro Rail Corporations of Indian cities such as Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Chennai.
In September 2011, he returned to Bihar when he was named Chief Secretary of the State. He served on this position until his retirement from Indian Administrative Service in 2012. In March 2013, a selection committee headed by then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram cleared Kumar's name to head Special Purpose Vehicle to handle the Goods and Services Tax Network.
Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)
In March 2013, Kumar was selected as chairman of Goods and Services Tax Network by a selection committee. The selection committee, headed by Finance Mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Magpakailanman%20episodes%20%28second%20incarnation%29 | Magpakailanman (English: Forevermore) is a weekly drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. The show is hosted by 24 Oras anchor and GMA Kapuso Foundation founder Mel Tiangco and features inspiring stories and life experiences from both famous and ordinary people. It airs every Saturday on the network's primetime block.
The following are the lists of Magpakailanman episodes listed by the year they were aired, in the second incarnation that premiered on November 17, 2012.
Series overview
Episode list
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
References
Lists of anthology television series episodes
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathlight | Pathlight may refer to:
Pathlight Technology, an American manufacturer of storage area network products
Pathlight School, a Singaporean school for high-functioning autistic children
Pathlight (magazine), a magazine featuring Chinese literature in English translation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D%20optical%20data%20storage | 5D optical data storage (also branded as Superman memory crystal, a reference to the Kryptonian memory crystals from the Superman franchise) is an experimental nanostructured glass for permanently recording digital data using a femtosecond laser writing process. Discs using this technology could be capable of storing up to worth of data for billions of years. The concept was experimentally demonstrated in 2013. Hitachi and Microsoft have researched glass-based optical storage techniques, the latter under the name Project Silica.
The "5-dimensional" descriptor is for marketing purposes, since the device has 3 physical dimensions and no exotic higher dimensional properties. The fractal/holographic nature of its data storage is also purely 3-dimensional. The size, orientation and three-dimensional position of the nanostructures make up the claimed five dimensions.
Technical design
The concept is to store data optically in non-photosensitive transparent materials such as fused quartz, which has high chemical stability. Recording data using a femtosecond-laser was first proposed and demonstrated in 1996. The storage medium consists of fused quartz, where the spatial dimensions, intensity, polarization, and wavelength are used to modulate data. By introducing gold or silver nanoparticles embedded in the material, their plasmonic properties can be exploited.
According to the University of Southampton:
Recorded data can be read with a combination of an optical microscope and a polarizer.
The technique was first demonstrated in 2010 by Kazuyuki Hirao's laboratory at the Kyoto University, and developed further by Peter Kazansky's research group at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton.
Uses
In 2018, Professor Peter Kazansky used the technology to store a copy of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, which was launched into space aboard Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in association with the Arch Mission Foundation.
See also
3D optical data storage
DNA digital data storage
Data store
References
External links
Marketing website of the Southampton research team
Big data
Solid-state computer storage media
Non-volatile memory
Digital preservation
Emerging technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Central%20%28Australian%20and%20New%20Zealand%20TV%20channel%29 | Comedy Central is an Australian and New Zealand 24-hour linear subscription television channel dedicated to comedy programming owned by Paramount Global, launched on April Fool's Day 2009 in New Zealand and on 1 April 2016 in Australia. The channel is exclusively available via Australian IPTV provider Fetch TV in Australia and is broadcast on the Sky TV platform in New Zealand. It was one of the first Comedy Central franchises to be launched outside the United States. The channel has a strong blend of animation, stand-up and scripted programs. The core audience demographic covers the 15–48 age bracket. It features well known international titles, as well as some local content. It has strong viewership and is one of the top entertainment channels on the Sky TV platform.
History
On 29 February 2016, it was announced that following discussions since mid 2015, Fetch TV had finalised discussions with Viacom on Friday 26 February 2016 to launch Comedy Central. The launch comes following increased local presence by Comedy Central. The channel, which will be advertisement free and be exclusively available via Fetch TV, will be broadcast from Australia and as a result see Viacom hire additional local personnel for operations. The launch of Comedy Central coincided with the initial closure of sister channel MTV Classic prior to its eventual rebrand.
Comedy Central programming is also available across Australia via the SVOD service Paramount+, which replaced 10 All Access on August 11, 2021.
Programming
The network airs content from its U.S. counterpart, with 90% of the programming at launch coming from the ViacomCBS library, in addition to local productions - which initially is in short form. Although Viacom have existing agreements with the Foxtel-owned The Comedy Channel, content is made available to both Comedy Central and The Comedy Channel at the same time.
Original programming
Trendy
These New South Whales
The Mike Nolan Show
Acquired programming
Some programmes available include:
@midnight
Another Period
Adam Devine's House Party
American Dad!
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Are You Being Served
Beavis and Butt-head
Balls of Steel
The Benny Hill Show
The Big Bang Theory
The Billy T James Show
The Black Adder
Broad City
Bob's Burgers
Bottom
bro' Town
Chappelle's Show
Comedy Central Roast
The Cleveland Show
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Digman!
Drawn Together
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
Drunk History
The Eric Andre Show
Family Guy
Facejacker
Fonejacker
Friday Night Dinner
Friends
Futurama
The Half Hour
Hogan's Heroes
How I Met Your Mother
Idiotsitter
The Inbetweeners
Inside Amy Schumer
Impractical Jokers
Key & Peele
Live at the Apollo
M*A*S*H
The Middle
Mr. Black
My Name Is Earl
Nathan for You
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
Not Safe with Nikki Glaser
The Office
On The Buses
Only Fools and Horses
Regular Old Bogan
Rick and Morty (Season 1-2)
Robot Chicken
Rude Tube
Russell Howard's Good News
Saturday Night Live
The Simpsons
Some Mothers Do |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCBS%20239 | BCBS 239 is the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's standard number 239. The subject title of the standard is:
"Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting".
The overall objective of the standard is to strengthen banks’ risk data aggregation capabilities and internal risk reporting practices, in turn, enhancing the risk management and decision making processes at banks.
The standard was published in January 2013 and applies from 1st January 2016 for Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) who were defined as such no later than November 2012, otherwise three years after their designation as G-SIBs. The standard also recommends that it is, by the national supervisors, applied to Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs) three years after their designation as such.
Structure of standard
The standard consists of five sections, as aside, four of which subsume fourteen principles:
The principles of the standard are, in turn, broken down into more detailed paragraphs. Even on the lowest level it is a principle based-standard with few clear and defined metrics which can be used to monitor compliance.
A brief description of the 14 basic principles is given below.
Principle 1
Governance – A bank’s risk data aggregation capabilities and risk reporting practices should be subject to strong governance arrangements consistent with other principles and guidance established by the Basel Committee.
Principle 2
Data architecture and IT infrastructure – A bank should design, build and maintain data architecture and IT infrastructure which fully supports its risk data aggregation capabilities and risk reporting practices not only in normal times but also during times of stress or crisis, while still meeting the other Principles.
Principle 3
Accuracy and Integrity – A bank should be able to generate accurate and reliable risk data to meet normal and stress/crisis reporting accuracy requirements. Data should be aggregated on a largely automated basis so as to minimise the probability of errors.
Principle 4
Completeness – A bank should be able to capture and aggregate all material risk data across the banking group. Data should be available by business line, legal entity, asset type, industry, region and other groupings, as relevant for the risk in question, that permit identifying and reporting risk exposures, concentrations and emerging risks.
Principle 5
Timeliness – A bank should be able to generate aggregate and up-to-date risk data in a timely manner while also meeting the principles relating to accuracy and integrity, completeness and adaptability. The precise timing will depend upon the nature and potential volatility of the risk being measured as well as its criticality to the overall risk profile of the bank. The precise timing will also depend on the bank-specific frequency requirements for risk management reporting, under both normal and stress/crisis situations, set based on the characteristics and overall r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixnet | Pixnet is a Taiwanese mobile photo sharing, blogging, and social networking service, started in 2003, that enables its users to store pictures or create blogs and share them either publicly or privately on its website. The service is also available as an application, PIXNET is available at the App Store and the Google Play Store. The service has a large user following in Taiwan, but access to it is blocked in China.
History
PIXNET was started in 2003 as an online photo hosting service for students, and over time evolved into a social network.
In 2007 it received financial backing from the Hong Kong-based TOM Group. This backing supported the site's hosting by Amazon Web Services in order for it to grow; AWS processes over 10 million pictures every day.
See also
Instagram
Flickr
Spaces
ImageShack
References
External links
2003 establishments in Taiwan
Internet properties established in 2003
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Image-sharing websites
Mobile software
Taiwanese social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20art%20in%20Barcelona | Public art in Barcelona is a designated group of monuments and outdoor sculptures in the city. The artworks in city's architecture and network of museums, parks, and gardens, put an artistic stamp on the Catalan capital. Public art in the city developed in the 19th century, although the first municipal commission was the 1673 monument to Saint Eulalia in Pedró Square.
Artworks are typically located in niches and on the façades of public buildings. They are concentrated because of the city's enclosure by medieval defensive walls. The walls were demolished in the 19th century, sparking a boom in public works such as Ildefons Cerdà's Eixample project.
The city annexed several municipalities in the early 20th century, increasing the space available for public art. Some were commissioned for particular events such as the 1888 and 1929 Expositions, the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures.
Overview
Public art in Barcelona is regulated by the city council and protected by Law 9/1993 of Catalan Cultural Heritage, which guarantees the protection, conservation and research of cultural heritage at several levels.
Urban planning includes architecture, engineering, gardening, industrial arts and sculpture. Urbanism relates to politics, economics, history, geography and sociology.
Monuments are generally located in parks and gardens, squares and intersections, or near public buildings. There are several types; until the 19th century the most common were the column, the triumphal arch and the equestrian statue, three types of monuments inherited from Roman art. Later monuments were busts placed in niches, medallions, fountains, steles and pedestals, friezes, reliefs, commemorative plaques, gravestones, followed by installations, land art and multidisciplinary works. Commonly-used materials include wood, plaster, terracotta and other ceramics, stone, marble, bronze, iron, steel, concrete and aluminium.
Themes include homage to a character or event: religious, mythological, symbolic, allegorical, historical, political, military, scientific or artistic. Public artworks commemorate many aspects of the history of Barcelona.
History
Middle Ages
Barcelona's first public artworks were created during the Middle Ages, when the city was part of the Crown of Aragon and an important commercial Mediterranean port. The 13th-century Council of One Hundred was one of Barcelona's first public institutions. The city was growing beyond its core – the present-day Gothic Quarter. The El Raval neighbourhood was developed during the 14th century when Barcelona's population was about 25,000.
At that time the city had fountains, and the Gothic city hall had sculptures in front dating to about 1400. In front stands a stone statue of the archangel Raphael. At either side were statues of St. Severus (bishop of Barcelona) and Saint Eulalia of Barcelona.
Early modern era
During the Renaissance, Barcelona became part of the kingdom of Spain that emerge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%27s%20rule%20%28computer%20science%29 | In the field of computer security, Anderson's rule refers to a principle formulated by Ross J. Anderson: systems that handle sensitive personal information involve a trilemma of security, functionality and scale, of which you can choose any two. A system that has information on many data subjects and to which many people require access is hard to secure unless its functionality is severely restricted. If it has rich functionality, you may have to restrict the number of people with access, or accept that some information will leak.
References
Computer security
Rules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blelloch | Blelloch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Guy Blelloch, American professor of computer science
Ian Blelloch (1901–1982), British colonial administrator in Malaya
Sir John Blelloch (1930–2017), British civil servant
See also
Blaylock |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afifella%20marina | Afifella marina is a phototrophic bacterial species of the genus Afifella.
References
Further reading
External links
Type strain of Afifella marina at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy-Hoffman%20Company | Murphy-Hoffman Company (MHC) is a privately owned multi-state network of truck dealerships and leasing locations, providing truck-related services. Founded in Springfield, Missouri, as of 2022 it is based in Leawood, Kansas.
History
MHC was founded on January 1, 1975, in Springfield Mo., as Ozark Kenworth, Inc. by Reed Murphy Senior, and Ken Hoffman. For over 45 years, the company grew from a temporary facility with only three employees to operating across 19 states with 120 locations, including dealerships, full-service transport refrigeration locations, full-service leasing and rental operations, TRP part retail stores and a finance company.
Business
MHC's divisions support the heavy and medium duty truck industry with dealerships, truck leasing and rental dealerships, transport refrigeration dealerships and MHC Financial Services.
Truck Dealerships
MHC operates over 70 truck dealerships, which offer new and used truck sales, all-makes parts inventory, technicians and service bays. Technicians are trained for PACCAR, Cummins and Caterpillar engines, and Eaton and Dana components, to service all makes of trucks, including Kenworth, Volvo, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Mack, International, Western Star, Hino, Isuzu, Ford and GMC. Parts and service are available seven days a week, 24 hours a day at most MHC locations. The company offers on-site delivery for all makes including Kenworth, Volvo, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Mack, International and Western Star.
Truck Leasing and Rental
MHC Truck Leasing manages more than 4,700 trucks for a wide range of businesses. Leasing plans range from full-service truck leases to contract maintenance programs. In addition, short-term and long-term rental trucks are available. There are over 25 MHC Truck Leasing locations which are also part of PacLease's network of more than 480 leasing locations.
Transport Refrigeration
MHC runs four Carrier-Transicold dealerships that carry an array of replacement parts for both Carrier and Thermo King refrigeration units, as well as provide emergency mobile service seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Technicians design and install multi-temp systems that are monitored by data logging systems to reduce customer operating costs and increase efficiencies.
Financial Services
MHC Financial Services, Inc., is MHC's wholly owned finance company.
Reception
MHC has earned Kenworth's North American Dealer of the Year Award over 14 times in the last 30 years. The company has also received the Kansas City Business Journal's Champions of Business Award two times in the last five years.
Operations
MHC operates dealerships across 19 states. Additionally, the company owns and operates its RoadReady Center, a pre-delivery inspection facility in Chillicothe, Ohio, Truck Source, a network of used truck dealerships, RoadForce, a private all-makes parts label, and the first TRP All-Makes Parts and Service store in Grandview, Mo.
See also
PACCAR
Kenworth
Class 8 Trucks
Semi- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20security%20assessment%20tools | This is a list of available software and hardware tools that are designed for or are particularly suited to various kinds of security assessment and security testing.
Operating systems and tool suites
Several operating systems and tool suites provide bundles of tools useful for various types of security assessment.
Operating system distributions
Kali Linux (formerly BackTrack), a penetration-test-focused Linux distribution based on Debian
Pentoo, a penetration-test-focused Linux distribution based on Gentoo
ParrotOS, a Linux distro focused on penetration testing, forensics, and online anonymity.
Tools
External links
SecTools.org: Top 125 Network Security Tools – a list of security tools suggested by a community
Computer security
Security assessment tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne%20phonetics | Cologne phonetics (also Kölner Phonetik, Cologne process) is a phonetic algorithm which assigns to words a sequence of digits, the phonetic code. The aim of this procedure is that identical sounding words have the same code assigned to them. The algorithm can be used to perform a similarity search between words. For example, it is possible in a name list to find entries like "Meier" under different spellings such as "Maier", "Mayer", or "Mayr". The Cologne phonetics is related to the well known Soundex phonetic algorithm but is optimized to match the German language. The algorithm was published in 1969 by Hans Joachim Postel.
Method
The Cologne phonetics matches each letter of a word to a digit between "0" and "8". To select the appropriate digit, at most one adjacent letter is used as a context. Some rules apply specifically to the initials of words. In this way similar sounds are supposed to be assigned the same code. The letters "W" and "V" for example, are both encoded with the number "3". The phonetic code for "Wikipedia" is "3412" (W=3, K=4, P=1, and D=2). Unlike the Soundex code, the length of the codes from the Cologne phonetics method is not limited.
Procedure
That for the letter "C" the rule "SC" has priority over the rule "CH" was taken into account by the addition of "except after S, Z" in line 10 of the table. This is not explicitly mentioned in the original publication but can be inferred from the examples listed there, e.g. for "Breschnew" the code "17863" is specified.
Lowercase letters are encoded accordingly; all other characters (such as hyphens) are ignored. For the umlauts Ä, Ö, Ü, as well as ß, that are not taken into account in the conversion table, it suggests itself to match them to the vowels (code "0") respective to the group S, Z (code "8").
Processing of a word is done in three steps:
Encode letter by letter from left to right according to the conversion table.
Remove all digits occurring more than once next to each other.
Remove all code "0" except at the beginning.
Example
The name Müller-Lüdenscheidt will be coded as follows:
Encode each letter: 60550750206880022
Collapse of all multiple consecutive code digits: 6050750206802
Remove all "0" digits: 65752682
Literature
Hans Joachim Postel: Die Kölner Phonetik. Ein Verfahren zur Identifizierung von Personennamen auf der Grundlage der Gestaltanalyse. in: IBM-Nachrichten, 19. Jahrgang, 1969, S. 925-931.
See also
Metaphone
External links
Martin Wilz: Aspekte der Kodierung phonetischer Ähnlichkeiten in deutschen Eigennamen (PDF-Datei; 502 kB). Magisterarbeit an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln, 2005; enthält eine Implementierung in der Programmiersprache Perl.
Maroš Kollár: Perl-Implementierung der Kölner Phonetik und ähnlicher Verfahren als freie Software im CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)
Andy Theiler: PHP und Oracle PL/SQL-Implementierung der Kölner Phonetik
Nicolas Zimmer: PHP-Implementation der Kölner Phonetik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20%28server%20framework%29 | Perfect is an application server, web and server framework written in the programming language Swift. It provides tools for developing web and other representational state transfer (REST) services in Swift, and web server and datasource connectors, providing default structures for developers working with databases, web services, and web pages. Its main focus is to make mobile development easier by using the Swift language on both sides of the client–server model, the client mobile device, and the server, where it competes with other server-side development tools such as Node.js and Python. It is open-source software, released under an Apache License.
History
Perfect 1.0 was released on November 23, 2015, just before the Swift language became open-source, and draws much of its history from a programming language named Lasso, formerly part of Apple's product line.
Version 2.0 was rolled out September 6th 2016 and brought Swift 3 compatibility and a more modular approach to the framework. The revised approach enabled developers to choose the specific features to include in Perfect-oriented projects rather than having all features bundled in by default.
References
External links
Servers (computing)
See also
Vapor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messengers%20%28Scottish%20band%29 | Messengers were a Scottish new wave duo consisting of Danny Mitchell (keyboards and programming) and Colin King (vocals and percussion). The duo were originally part of Modern Man, a Glasgow post-punk/new wave band discovered by Midge Ure of Ultravox. Modern Man disbanded after releasing one album produced by Ure, Concrete Scheme (1980), after which Ure stayed as producer with Mitchell and King as Messengers.
Messengers toured as support band to Ultravox, contributing to the live album Monument (1982), and with Mitchell co-writing Midge Ure's "If I Was". Enough material for an album was recorded by 1984, but Ure's label Chrysalis declined to release an album after offering a three singles deal only.
An album was finally released in November 2004 when Mitchell and King re-recorded many of their songs, written during the period of 1979 and 1985, for release via the official Ultravox website. Of the thirteen tracks released on the album, only three were new compositions: "(Did) You Take Me For A Ride", "Send That Letter Home" and "The Reformation Waltz".
Discography
Messengers
Album
...It's Been Twenty Years, Let's Try Turning Up the Volume... (10 November 2004), MESSCD200401
Singles
All tracks written by Daniel Mitchell/Colin King, except "I Turn In (To You)" and "Plains of Siberia" by Daniel Mitchell and "Andy Warhol" by David Bowie.
"I Turn In (To You)" / "The Semi-Professionals (Theme No. 1)" (3 December 1982), Chrysalis Records
"I Turn In (To You) (Extended Version)" / "The Semi-Professionals (Theme No. 1)" (3 December 1982), Chrysalis Records
"Great Institutions" / "Here Come the Heroes" (June 1984), Chrysalis Records
"Great Institutions (MF Mix)" / "Here Come the Heroes", "Strawboy (recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, Dec 1982)" (June 1984), Chrysalis Records
"Frontiers" / "Plains of Siberia" (28 September 1984), Chrysalis Records
"Frontiers (Extended Version)" / "Plains of Siberia", "Andy Warhol" (28 September 1984), Chrysalis Records
Tracks recorded and mixed at DBS by Father Dan. Vocals recorded at Carlton Studios, Glasgow.
Modern Man
Album
Concrete Scheme (12 September 1980), MAM Records
Singles
All tracks written by Danny Mitchell, except "Things Could Be Better" by Jim Cook.
"All the Little Idiots" / "Advance" (15 August 1980), MAM Records
"Body Music" / "I Couldn't Stop" (31 October 1980), MAM Records
"Things Could Be Better" / "Wastelands" (13 February 1981), MAM Records
"Things Could Be Better" (12″ mix) / "Wastelands" (13 February 1981), MAM Records
"War Drums" / "Tell Us Lies" (31 July 1981), MAM Records
Personnel
Danny Mitchell – guitar and synthesizer
Jim Cook – lead vocal
Mike Moran – bass
Ali McLeod – lead guitar
Colin King – drums and vocals
All tracks written by Danny Mitchell
Produced by Midge Ure
Engineer - Brian Young
Recorded at Cava Studios, Glasgow
References
Scottish new wave musical groups
New wave duos
Musical groups from Glasgow
Chrysalis Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-integrated%20POS | Semi-Integrated Point-of-Sale is a checkout method used by retailers which integrates payment processing and POS software in a secure & streamlined network configuration. Semi-Integration allows retailers to accept Chip/EMV credit card and debit card payments, as well account for inventory changes, returns, voided transactions and other payment functions.
Semi-integration is a measure that ensures payment terminals are connected with retail point-of-sale software, while maintaining separation between payment information transmission and other systems. In order for retailers to become PCI compliant without extensive investment into fully integrated compliant systems, semi-integration offers a cost-effective, compliant resolution.
Semi-Integration offers the following benefits:
One to many integration - Solutions that offer semi-integration are often supported with several different processors meaning ISVs develop to one semi-integrated specification and can support multiple processors with the single integration
No costly EMV certifications - EMV certifications are already completed by the processor; the most that is usually required is a simple device integration script or unit testing
PCI PA-DSS Reduced Scope - No sensitive card account data is sent to the POS application that drives the semi-integrated terminal
Customer facing device; merchant should never touch the card
All receipt data is returned from the device to the POS application
Multiple Connectivity Methods - Some devices may allow TCP/IP (wired or WiFi), Serial, USB, Bluetooth or Web Services type connections between the device and POS Application
P2PE - Some processors may offer Point-to-Point Encryption (Note: P2PE is mainly needed when sensitive data like a credit card number traverses an insecure network like a POS PC or tablet. Most Semi-Integrations ensure that no sensitive data touches an insecure network and which makes P2PE a moot point)
Dial Backup - If supported by the device, dial backup is usually automatic if the IP connection fails
References
Retail store elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahal%20Barak | Nahal Barak (), also known as Barak gorge or Barak river, is an intermittent stream and canyon in the Arava desert in Israel's South District. When it is flooded, Nahal Barak forms part of the network of streams that drain the Negev desert. The stream itself is 18 km long and flows in a general easterly direction into the Nahal HaArava, which in turn flows northward into the southernmost end of the Dead Sea. The stream cuts through limestone to form the gorge, which is known as White Canyon. There are several options of hiking at the Barak gorge including a tour.
References
Rivers of Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBBC%20Official%20Chart%20Show | The CBBC Official Chart Show is a British children's entertainment series presented by Cel Spellman with Yasser Ranjha and Millie Lloyd as relief presenters. The show first aired on the CBBC network on 10 May 2015 and ended on 17 February 2017. The series was replaced by a new show taking over from April 2017 by The Playlist.
Format
From 10 May 2015 until 5 July 2015 the CBBC Official Chart Show aired from 6.30pm until 7.00pm. It counted down the top 10 tracks of the weeks plus games. The time to announce number 1 came at the same time on the Radio 1 show. On 4 September 2015 the show returned, this time from 5.20pm until 5.50pm on a Friday. It aired until 18 December 2015.
The show returned on 12 March 2016 and for the first three episodes, which aired on Saturdays from 9.50am until 10.20am, were pre-recorded. The show moved to Fridays on 1 April, live, from 5.15pm until 5.45pm. In the second half of the second series the show moved to 7.00pm until 7.30pm. In this series the show was revamped, with viewers being able to vote for 3 songs that would be played on the show under the title 'The Playlist'. For the Christmas Special in 2016, the show moved back to a late afternoon slot, 5.30pm until 6.05pm. There were more games, and the chart was shown at the end of the episode in one block.
Whilst the series was not on air a video of the chart was published on the CBBC website. In the break between series 1 and 2, the video was shown on CBBC every Friday at 6.30pm.
The show was replaced by The Playlist, a show of a similar format in April 2017.
Presenters
Cel Spellman hosted the show since it began in May 2015 till it ended in February 2017. When he was unavailable, relief presenters presented the show for him.
On 29 April, 6 and 20 May and 21 October 2016 the show was presented by Yasser. Yasser and Spellman both presented on 22 July 2016.
Episodes
References
External links
BBC children's television shows
2015 British television series debuts
2017 British television series endings
2010s British children's television series
BBC high definition shows
English-language television shows
2010s British music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomi%2C%20LP | Boomi is a software company that specializes in integration platform as a service (iPaaS), API management, master data management and data preparation. Boomi was founded in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, and first launched its services in 2007.
History
Boomi was founded in 2000, beginning with "configuration-based" integration. Its technology allows users to build and deploy integration processes using a visual interface and a drag and drop technique. This interface remains one of the key elements of the current Boomi platform. The company was named after Bhūmi, the Hindu goddess representing Mother Earth.
In 2007, Boomi released the technology now known as "AtomSphere," an Integration Cloud. AtomSphere kept the visual, point and click interface for building integrations and can be managed through a browser-based UI.
On November 2, 2010, Boomi announced its acquisition by Dell.
In March 2017, Boomi acquired cloud-development platform company ManyWho.
In December 2019, Boomi acquired Unifi Software.
In February 2020, Boomi released its Integration Center of Excellence (ICoE) service.
As of March 2020, Boomi has approximately 1,300 employees and 11,000 customers.
On May 2, 2021, it was announced that Francisco Partners and TPG Capital had entered into a definitive agreement with Dell Technologies to acquire Boomi.
Platform
Boomi provides an integration platform as a service (iPaaS), which enables the connection of applications and data sources. It is a low-code development platform. The platform provides API, lifecycle management and event-driven architecture features for cloud integration. This includes an API Proxy, API Gateway and API Developer Portal.
The platform also supports event-driven architectures. Boomi's EDA partners include Dell EMC and Solace as well as vendors specializing in message brokers, event meshes, streaming and pub/sub technology. The platform also offers integrations for Amazon SQS, Microsoft's Azure Service Bus services and Pivotal's RabbitMQ.
After Boomi acquired Unifi Software, Boomi incorporated data discovery, catalog and preparation tools into its platform, and continues to offer Unifi as a stand-alone product.
In August 2019, Boomi’s iPaaS was authorized by FedRAMP.
Boomi's platform is currently being used by the American Cancer Society, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Gilead Sciences, International Justice Mission, Novartis, Sky Group, Texas Instruments, University of Technology Sydney and Moderna.
The ICoE service run by Boomi provides reusable frameworks and industry guidelines for integration.
References
External links
Boomi homepage
2000 establishments in Pennsylvania
Cloud computing providers
Companies based in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Dell acquisitions
American companies established in 2000
Software companies established in 2000
Software companies based in Pennsylvania
Software companies of the United States
2010 mergers and acquisitions
2021 mergers and acquisitions
TPG Capital companies
Private |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20Visual%20Basic | Embedded Visual Basic or eVB, is an implementation of Microsoft Visual Basic which is geared towards generating programmes for embedded systems such as PDAs, cellular telephones, pocket computers and other programmable electronic systems and devices, generally for use under Windows CE. The tools themselves run on desktop operating systems such as Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows XP and subsequent. The tools are also capable of compiling executables for Windows NT Embedded as well.
Embedded Visual Basic is available from Microsoft, as are other such tools including Embedded Visual C++ (eVC++), which is discussed in the Wikipedia article about Microsoft Visual C++, and Embedded Visual J++ (eVJ++), as well as other development tools and a relational database system for Windows CE (a de facto Visual FoxPro replacement). A centrally important Windows CE-related tool is ActiveSync, which allows access of a device from a desktop computer as well as Control Panel functionality (e.g. Install & Uninstall Programmes). Amongst other tools is a version of RegEdit for Windows CE.
The implementations of these tools provide objects and components which can be used to write programmes which automate Microsoft Office's Pocket versions, which would be the one way to get scripting and macro capability for the Pocket office suite. There is not an Embedded Visual InterDev version, nor have MSDN or Visual Source Safe been ported to Windows CE. The other means of obtaining Visual Basic functionality under Windows CE is to install the Windows Script Host implementation which is a non-default install available from the installation CD-ROM.
Version 3 of the embedded Visual Basic, Visual J++, and Visual C++ tools approximate the language and implementation of Visual Basic 6.0, Visual J++ 6.0, and Visual C++ 6.0. The CD-Roms for installation of these tools have been provided for free from Microsoft. A further update of the latter, version 4.5, is also available. Programming tools for .NET systems are also produced by Microsoft. One Basic development tool which can be run on board the Windows CE machines themselves is the third-party NS BASIC.
References
Articles with example BASIC code
BASIC compilers
BASIC interpreters
BASIC programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-regular%20sequence | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, a k-regular sequence is a sequence satisfying linear recurrence equations that reflect the base-k representations of the integers. The class of k-regular sequences generalizes the class of k-automatic sequences to alphabets of infinite size.
Definition
There exist several characterizations of k-regular sequences, all of which are equivalent. Some common characterizations are as follows. For each, we take R′ to be a commutative Noetherian ring and we take R to be a ring containing R′.
k-kernel
Let k ≥ 2. The k-kernel of the sequence is the set of subsequences
The sequence is (R′, k)-regular (often shortened to just "k-regular") if the -module generated by Kk(s) is a finitely-generated R′-module.
In the special case when , the sequence is -regular if is contained in a finite-dimensional vector space over .
Linear combinations
A sequence s(n) is k-regular if there exists an integer E such that, for all ej > E and 0 ≤ rj ≤ kej − 1, every subsequence of s of the form s(kejn + rj) is expressible as an R′-linear combination , where cij is an integer, fij ≤ E, and 0 ≤ bij ≤ kfij − 1.
Alternatively, a sequence s(n) is k-regular if there exist an integer r and subsequences s1(n), ..., sr(n) such that, for all 1 ≤ i ≤ r and 0 ≤ a ≤ k − 1, every sequence si(kn + a) in the k-kernel Kk(s) is an R′-linear combination of the subsequences si(n).
Formal series
Let x0, ..., xk − 1 be a set of k non-commuting variables and let τ be a map sending some natural number n to the string xa0 ... xae − 1, where the base-k representation of x is the string ae − 1...a0. Then a sequence s(n) is k-regular if and only if the formal series is -rational.
Automata-theoretic
The formal series definition of a k-regular sequence leads to an automaton characterization similar to Schützenberger's matrix machine.
History
The notion of k-regular sequences was first investigated in a pair of papers by Allouche and Shallit. Prior to this, Berstel and Reutenauer studied the theory of rational series, which is closely related to k-regular sequences.
Examples
Ruler sequence
Let be the -adic valuation of . The ruler sequence () is -regular, and the -kernel
is contained in the two-dimensional vector space generated by and the constant sequence . These basis elements lead to the recurrence relations
which, along with the initial conditions and , uniquely determine the sequence.
Thue–Morse sequence
The Thue–Morse sequence t(n) () is the fixed point of the morphism 0 → 01, 1 → 10. It is known that the Thue–Morse sequence is 2-automatic. Thus, it is also 2-regular, and its 2-kernel
consists of the subsequences and .
Cantor numbers
The sequence of Cantor numbers c(n) () consists of numbers whose ternary expansions contain no 1s. It is straightforward to show that
and therefore the sequence of Cantor numbers is 2-regular. Similarly the Stanley sequence
0, 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 27, 28, 30, 31, 36, 37, 39, 40, ...
of number |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Plaisant | Catherine Plaisant is a French/American Research Scientist Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park and assistant director of research of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab.
Education
Catherine Plaisant completed her Ph.D. in industrial engineering at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France. She also earned a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (one of the French Grandes écoles).
Research
After five years working at the Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaine in Paris, Catherine Plaisant joined the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab to work with Ben Shneiderman.
Catherine Plaisant is known for her work on human–computer interaction and information visualization. She contributed to the early development of touchscreen interfaces. For example, her work is cited in the lock screen (or "slide to unlock") patent litigation, which cites in particular her 1991 video of a touchscreen slider.
Plaisant also contributed to the development of Treemap (in particular Treemap 4.0) and Lifelines, a visualization of personal records, such as patient records. Other work has focused on visual analytics tools for exploring patterns of temporal event sequences, with projects such as LifeLines2 and EventFlow that enable analysts to find patterns in large databases of patient records, student records or customer records.
Catherine Plaisant was elected to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CHI Academy in 2015, for her contributions to the field of study of human–computer interaction. Her work has been cited more than 32,000 times.
In 2018, Dr. Plaisant was awarded an INRIA () International Chair. The chairs are awarded to eminent international researchers to join its project teams. Plaisant's research project, for 2018–2022, Visual Analytics for Exploratory Data Analysis, is hosted by INRIA research team AVIZ (Analysis and Visualization).
In 2020 she received the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Later in 2020 Plaisant was recognized by the IEEE Computer Society with the 2020 Visualization Career Award "for her comprehensive body of work within the field of data visualization, including her contributions to evaluation, benchmarks, case studies, and her specific research focus on event sequence visualization."
Books
Designing the User Interface Pearson by Shneiderman, B. and Plaisant, C. - 4th Edition (2005), 5th Edition (2010), and 6th Edition (2016) .
References
External links
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Human–computer interaction researchers
Information visualization experts
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Living people
1957 births
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood%20Systems | Norwood Systems is an Australian telecommunications software company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It provides cognitive, voice, messaging and data services for carriers, consumers and enterprises globally.
The company was founded by former 3Com Corporation executive Paul Ostergaard, in May 2015. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Services
Norwood Systems offers several technologies, including a new Cognitive Platform, communication applications, World Voicemail, World Phone, World Message, SecondLine and data services, World Secure and World Wi-Fi.
The company generates revenue through its telecommunication and enterprise customers, and consumer application subscribers.
Cognitive Platform
Norwood’s Cognitive Voice Services Platform uses AI and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to offer digital cognitive services. The platform launched in 2022 under the Aïda brand name, available as a white-label offering to telecommunication providers. Aïda acts as a personalised virtual assistant that screens for spam, take messages and route calls.
World Voicemail
World Voicemail is a visual voicemail application available on iOS and Android. The service enables its users to listen to and read transcriptions of their voicemails.
The World Voicemail platform is also a white-labelled service to telecommunication providers worldwide.
World Phone
World Phone is a VOIP-based communication application available on iOS and Android. Users of the application can purchase World Credit through the app to make international and domestic calls.
The service lets users lease virtual phone numbers from several countries for inbound and outbound calls.
World Message
World Message is an instant messaging and SMS communications application available on iOS and Android. Like World Phone, users can lease virtual international phone numbers for inbound and outbound text messages.
SecondLine
SecondLine is a joint offering of the company’s World Phone and World Message applications. When used together with a virtual phone number capable of both Voice and Messaging, the user effectively holds a fully functional secondary phone number on their device.
The SecondLine service is available to enterprise and government customers as a SaaS solution that can be managed and configured through a cloud-based web portal.
World Secure
World Secure is an on-demand and dynamic VPN application available on iOS and Android. The app allows its users to connect to the internet through a VPN. World Secure’s key feature is its ability to automatically switch to its VPN when connected to an insecure Wi-Fi access point like a public hotspot.
World Wi-Fi
World Wi-Fi is a Wi-Fi finder application available on iOS and Android. Users can use a map or augmented reality (AR) to precisely find and connect to public Wi-Fi access points worldwide.
References
External links
Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Telecommunications companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Electronics%20Technology%20Group%20Corporation | China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC; ) is a Chinese state-owned company established in 2002. Its fields include communications equipment, computers, electronic equipment, IT infrastructure, networks, software development, research services, investment and asset management for civilian and military applications. It was founded with the stated goal of leveraging civilian electronics for the benefit of the People's Liberation Army.
In 2021, CETC became the third largest electronics and IT company in China after absorbing Potevio, with a combined revenue of $53 billion in 2019, behind only Huawei and Lenovo.
The company also handles electronic parts and systems for radars, missiles, key components for satellites in the BeiDou network, semiconductors, antennas for wireless infrastructure as well as equipment for autonomous-driving technology.
History
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation was founded in March 2002 by the Minister of Information Industry. The company is located in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shaanxi and 18 other provinces. CETC has been the intended recipient of several prosecuted acts of industrial espionage in the U.S.
In 2012, CETC celebrated their tenth anniversary and had 80,000 employees at the time.
In March 2016, the government tasked the company with developing software to identify potential terrorists; using data on jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and other behaviors.
In June 2017, CETC successfully launched the world's largest fixed-wing drone swarm to date. The drones in the swarm were a commercial fixed-wing model produced by Skywalker Technology, a Wuhan-based company.
In December 2017, CETC was reported to be soliciting government contracts to deploy facial recognition systems in Hotan Prefecture.
In September 2020, a CETC subsidiary named Zhenhua Data was implicated in a leak of intelligence gathering information on individuals worldwide.
In 2021, it was reported that Potevio had been absorbed into China Electronics Technology Group (CETC).
CETC partners with Siemens and is the most important shareholder of Hikvision.
U.S. sanctions
In August 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security placed four CETC subsidiaries on its Entity List for their work to militarize artificial islands in the South China Sea. In November 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the United States Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army, which included CETC. In August 2022, CETC's 43 and 58 Research Institutes were added to the United States Department of Commerce's Entity List. In December 2022, CETC's 28 Research Institute and other CETC subsidiaries were added to the Entity List.
Following the 2023 Chinese balloon incident, the U.S. Commerce Department added CETC's 48 Research Institute to the Entity List for supporting "China's military modernization eff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Color%20BASIC | Extended Color Basic is an update to the Color BASIC interpreter for the Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer series and is the default Basic interpreter, for the Color Computer 2. The Color Computer Basic implementations are somewhat different for the versions of Basic which come with the other family of TRS-80 machines, namely Basic Levels I, II, and III. Assemblers and Pascal and C programming language compilers are available for the different machines in the series. Modified subsets of Color Basic may be found on many of the Radio Shack PC series of pocket computers (PC-1 to PC-4 by Sharp, PC-5, PC-6 to PC-8 by Casio) of the era.
Color Basic was updated again for the Color Computer 3 and some sources refer to it as Enhanced Color Basic. A version containing routines for disk management known as Disk Color BASIC was also developed for these machines. Updates to the language include routines such as Play (for use with the sound facility), Draw (for vector graphics and other things with lines) and other additions as well as undocumented functions such as those inherited originally from the original Color Basic to work with the semi-graphics modes. A fifth programming language for this series of computers is the Basic interpreter which runs on the Radio Shack/Tandy MC-10, a small computer marketed beginning in 1984.
References
Discontinued Microsoft BASICs
TRS-80 Color Computer |
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