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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202017%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2017 (Australia)
List of number-one albums of 2017 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2017 (Australia)
2017 in music
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2017
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDMC%20Supercomputer | NDMC Supercomputer (Russian: НЦУО СуперкомпЬютер) is a military supercomputer with a speed of 16 petaflops. It is located in Moscow, Russia. The storage capacity is 236 petabytes. The supercomputer is designed to predict the development of armed conflicts and is able to analyze the situation and draw conclusions based on the information about past military conflicts. The database of the supercomputer contains data on the major armed conflicts of modernity for the efficient analysis of future threats.
See also
TOP500
References
Supercomputers
Petascale computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN%20Documentary | CGTN Documentary (formerly CCTV-9 Documentary) is a state-run English-language documentary channel operated by the China Global Television Network (CGTN) group, owned by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). The channel broadcasts documentaries in the English language, and is China's first state-level English-language documentary channel to broadcast globally.
It used to share the "CCTV-9" name with its sister documentary channel in Mandarin Chinese. The channel has also been known to carry some Mandarin-language programmes with English subtitles; it broadcasts new programming between 7:00pm and 11:00pm Beijing time, and repeats archival programming at other times.
Availability
In Macau, the digital terrestrial television operator TDM relays the channel on channel 74.
In Hong Kong, the city's public broadcaster RTHK used to simulcast the channel as RTHK TV 33 terrestrially in both digital and analogue formats, but on 29 May 2017, RTHK began simulcasting a separate version of CCTV-1 in its place after a short filler. The CGTN Documentary simulcast were resumed from 1 July 2022, this time on digital-only channel 34.
In Pakistan, the channel is aired on different cable systems, including the PTCL (Pakistan Tele Communication Landline).
In Europe it can be received unencrypted by satellites Hotbird and Astra and in Italy on platform Tivùsat at LCN 88.
References
External links
China Global Television Network channels
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in China
Documentary television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20protein%20subcellular%20localization%20prediction%20tools | This list of protein subcellular localisation prediction tools includes software, databases, and web services that are used for protein subcellular localization prediction.
Some tools are included that are commonly used to infer location through predicted structural properties, such as signal peptide or transmembrane helices, and these tools output predictions of these features rather than specific locations. These software related to protein structure prediction may also appear in lists of protein structure prediction software.
Tools
Descriptions sourced from the entry in the https://bio.tools/ registry (used under CC-BY license) are indicated by link
References
Protein methods
Cell biology
Computational science
Protein
Protein targeting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetta%20Chevalier | Henrietta Chetta Chevalier (2 April 1901 – 9 July 1973), a Maltese woman of British nationality resident in Rome, was a critical node in Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty's "Rome Escape Line" network operating in the Vatican during World War II. Her third-floor flat on the Via Imperia was used as a depot for supplies, and to lodge escapees fleeing the Fascist regimes of Europe. She was known within the organization as "Mrs. M." The provenance of her nom de guerre — whether this was a reference to her home island of Malta, her mother's maiden name, or another factor — is unknown.
Life
Chevalier was born Henrietta Scerri to Emmanuel Scerri and his wife Maria née Mamo in Sliema, Malta. She married Thomas Chevalier on 15 May 1920 at the Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Sliema. The couple lived in Rome, where Mr. Chevalier worked as an agent for British travel company Thomas Cook & Sons, and had several children. After the death of her husband and the imprisonment of one of her sons in 1939, the British widow found herself stuck in Mussolini's fascist state and responsible for the welfare of her children and elderly mother. Recruited into O'Flaherty's network, Chevalier essentially gave O'Flaherty carte blanche to use her apartment as a storehouse and safehouse for people fleeing fascism. Despite several close scrapes — including one which one of her daughters, Gemma, hid from Chevalier — and being under constant surveillance by Hitler's Sicherheitsdienst, Chevalier and her family continued their clandestine activities under constant risk of death until being evacuated by O'Flaherty's network one by one to a farm on the outskirts of the city where they lived out the rest of the war in hiding themselves.
In 1945, Chevalier was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for her extraordinary efforts to offer sanctuary to those in need. Her efforts are credited with directly offering assistance to 4,000 people during the war.
Chevalier passed away on her native Malta on 9 July 1973, and is buried at the Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery. A memorial garden has been planted in her honour at the Malta Aviation Museum and was opened on 24 November 2012.
References
External links
– includes a photograph of her grave and headstone
1901 births
1973 deaths
People from Sliema
Maltese people of World War II
British anti-fascists
Recipients of the British Empire Medal
British Roman Catholics
People who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
Burials at Addolorata Cemetery, Paola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilka%20Agricola | Ilka Agricola (born 8 August 1973 in The Hague) is a German mathematician who deals with differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics. She is dean of mathematics and computer science at the University of Marburg, where she has also been responsible for making public the university's collection of mathematical models.
Life and work
Agricola studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Munich from 1991 to 1996. After a guest stay at Rutgers University in New Jersey (United States) that lasted until the end of 1997 she went to the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where in 2000 she earned a mathematics doctorate under .
From 2003 to 2008, she led one of the Volkswagen Foundation funded research groups at Humboldt University in the field of special geometries in mathematical physics. From 2004 to 2008 she was a project manager in the priority program for string theory at the German Research Foundation and the Collaborative Research Center 1080. Agricola took the Habilitation in 2004 at the University of Greifswald in mathematics. In 2008 she was appointed full professor at the University of Marburg. From November 2014 until October 2018, she has been Dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. She is president of the German Mathematical Society for 2021–2022.
Agricola is Editor in Chief of two academic journals in mathematics published by Springer Science+Business Media, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (since 2015) and Mathematische Semesterberichte (since 2021). She is
an editor of the journal Communications in Mathematics published by De Gruyter.
Awards and honors
In 2003, Ilka Agricola received the Medal of Honor of Charles University in Prague. In 2016, she was awarded the of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and German Rectors' Conference for excellence in teaching mathematics. She was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to differential geometry, in particular manifolds with special holonomy and on non-integrable geometric structures and for service to the mathematical community".
Selected publications
Books
. Translated from the 2001 German original by Andreas Nestke.
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Papers
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References
External links
Ilka Agricola homepage at the University of Marburg
Author profile of Ilka Agricola in the database zbMATH
Papers by Ilka Agricola listed on ResearchGate
1973 births
21st-century Dutch mathematicians
21st-century German mathematicians
Dutch women mathematicians
German women mathematicians
Living people
21st-century women mathematicians
21st-century German women
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Presidents of the German Mathematical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostora%20%282017%20TV%20series%29 | () is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is loosely based on a 1993 Philippine film, Sa Isang Sulok ng mga Pangarap (). Directed by Albert Langitan and Aya Topacio, it stars Kris Bernal in a dual role. It premiered on July 3, 2017 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Legally Blind. The series concluded on February 9, 2018 with a total of 160 episodes. It was replaced by The Stepdaughters in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Nimfa, a street vendor willingly undergoes surgery and facial reconstruction and is ordered to pretend to be Rosette. When Rosette returns to take Nimfa out of the picture, she will attempt to kidnap and murder Nimfa.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kris Bernal as Nimfa del Prado-Saavedra / Rosario Margaret "Rosette" R. Cuevas
Supporting cast
Rafael Rosell as Homer Saavedra
Ryan Eigenmann as Jeremy Soriano
Assunta de Rossi as Katrina "Trina" Saavedra
Elizabeth Oropesa as Magdalena "Denang" Del Prado
Aicelle Santos as Deedee Castro
Vaness del Moral as Criselda "Crisel" Estanislao
Leandro Baldemor as Jomari "Omar" Estanislao
Sinon Loresca as Maximo "Maxi" Cuntapay
Rita Daniela as Maureen Mendoza
Yuan Francisco as Junic C. Saavedra
Dayara Shane as Celine C. Saavedra
James Blanco as Enrico "Eric" Espiritu
Jervy "Patani" Daño as Juliet
Guest cast
Djanin Cruz as Nancy Pineda
Renz Fernandez as Mateo Reyes
Aaron Yanga as Celso
Jay Arcilla as Alvin
Chariz Solomon as Fatima del Prado
Jerald Napoles as Oliver del Prado
Nanette Inventor as Remedios
Ranty Portento as a sales agent
Dex Quindoza as David
Jaycee Parker as Esther
Sophie Albert as Leticia
Frank Garcia as Dante Cuevas
Sheryl Cruz as Bettina "Betty" Romero
Marc Abaya as Leo Corpuz
Rob Sy as Emelito "Lito" Perez
Sheena Halili as Rafaela "Riffy" Maniego / Rosette Cuevas
Jade Lopez as Danica Santillan
Production
Due to high ratings, the show was given an extension up to February 9, 2018.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of earned a 5.3% rating. While the final episode scored a 7.4% rating. The series had its highest rating on July 28, 2017 with an 8.8% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series reboots
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Leonard%20Evans%20Jr. | William Leonard Evans Jr. (c. 1914 – May 22, 2007) was an African American businessman whose enterprises included Tuesday magazine and the National Negro Network.
Biography
Early life and education
He was born William Leonard Evans Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of William L. Evans Sr. and Beatrice Evans. His father was an architect and secretary of the National Urban League. After two years at Fisk University, Evans transferred to the University of Illinois, where he graduated with a degree in business in 1935.
Career
Advertising
In the 1940s, as a member of the Associated Publishers newspaper representatives, Evans was part of "one of the first extensive studies to examine the purchasing habits of black consumers in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C." Following his work with Associated Publishers, Evans had his own advertising agency (Evans and Durham, Inc.) in New York City before joining Arthur Meyerhoff & Company as an advertising executive in Chicago. After four years with Meyerhoff, "Evans reduced his role at the firm and opened a second agency in Chicago ... [and] created Negro market campaigns for companies such as Pet Milk, Philip Morris cigarettes, Wrigley gum, and Armour meat products."
National Negro Network
In December 1953, while Evans was an account supervisor at the Meyerhoff agency, he organized the National Negro Network of radio stations. The network was "composed of approximately 40 basic stations" and was expected "to reach approximately 12 million of the 15 million Negroes in America." The network operated just over a year before Evans ended it because of insufficient advertising.
Tuesday Publications
Evans began Tuesday magazine in 1965, with the formation of Tuesday Publications. He chose that name because Tuesday was "the traditional press day for Negro weeklies". The publication "featured positive stories on African American life, politics, and culture." Evans, who was the magazine's editor and publisher, summarized the magazine's role by saying, "Look and Life are basically published for whites but also read by Negros. Tuesday is basically published for Negros and read by whites too."
Tuesday was inserted as a supplement every other month in nine metropolitan general-circulation newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and the Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin. Its first printing "reached over 1.3 million homes". The magazine's success led to a spinoff, Tuesday at Home, which began in 1970. Evans' entry in The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia summarized the combined success of the two publications:By 1973, the two magazines were inserted into the Sunday editions of 23 major newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, and reached over 4.5 million subscribers. At its peak in the early 1970s, Tuesday Publications was the 29th-largest black-owned business in the United States, based on gross revenues, and the second largest of the nine devoted to communications. An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally%20Blind%20%28TV%20series%29 | Legally Blind is a 2017 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Ricky Davao, it stars Janine Gutierrez. It premiered on February 20, 2017 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Hahamakin ang Lahat. The series concluded on June 30, 2017 with a total of 93 episodes. It was replaced by Impostora in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Grace is about to fulfill her dream of being a lawyer. On the day to celebrate the results of her bar exam results, she will be raped leading to her pregnancy and an accident that will lead to her blindness.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Janine Gutierrez as Grace Reyes Evangelista-Villareal
Supporting cast
Mikael Daez as Edward Villareal
Lauren Young as Charina "Charie" Reyes Evangelista
Marc Abaya as William Villareal
Rodjun Cruz as Joel Apostol
Chanda Romero as Marissa Reyes-Evangelista
Therese Malvar as Nina Reyes Evangelista
Lucho Ayala as John Castillo
Ashley Rivera as Diana Perez
Camille Torres as Elizabeth Guevarra Anton Villareal
Guest cast
Ricky Davao as Manuel Evangelista
Denise Barbacena as Sabrina
Max Collins as Darlene Santos-Aguirre
Thea Tolentino as Maricar Nuevo
Paolo Gumabao as Chanston Aguirre
Rolly Innocencio as a lawyer
Dexter Doria as Martha
Dex Quindoza as Morgan Campos
Rob Sy as Marcus
Rafael Siguion-Reyna as Henry
Madeleine Nicolas as Stella Villareal
Menggie Cobarrubias as Anton Villareal
Elijah Alejo as Young Grace
Dayara Shane as Young Charie
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement ratings, the pilot episode of Legally Blind earned a 12% rating. While the final episode scored a 6.2% rating in Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes.
Accolades
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine crime television series
Rape in television
Television shows about blind people
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron%20Computer%20Methodology | The Tetrahedron Computer Methodology was a short lived journal that was published by Pergamon Press (now Elsevier) to experiment with electronic submission of articles in the ChemText format, and the sharing source code to enable reproducibility. It was the first chemical journal to be published electronically, with issues distributed in print and on floppy disks. It is likely it was also the first journal to accept submissions in a non-paper format (on floppy disks). The journal ceased publication owing to technical and non-technical reasons, and may have lacked sufficient institutional support. The last issue appeared in 1992 but was dated 1990.
References
External links
Computer science journals
Cheminformatics
Chemistry journals
Academic journals established in 1988
English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals
Publications disestablished in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maill%C3%A9%20affair | The Maillé affair concerns a court ordinance obtained by a private company to force scientist Marie-Ève Maillé to give access to data exposing the identity of her research participants. The researcher documented the conflicts that arose in a municipality of Québec in the context of a windfarm project. Dre Maillé, adjunct professor at Université du Québec à Montréal, refuses to comply to the ordinance because it contravenes the ethical duty of preserving the privacy of research data. The ordinance was retracted in May 2017.
Sequence of events
After a call for bids by Hydro-Québec in 2005, a wind farm project is presented by the Enerfín company for the regional county municipality (RCM) of l'Érable. Eventually, the company receives the contract for the project. Enerfín is a subsidiary of Elecnor, a Spanish S.A. company.
In 2008, Enerfín creates the subsidiary Éoliennes de l'Érable to develop the project.
The wind farm project divides the citizens of l'Érable. In the report presented to the Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement, a deterioration of social climate was noted, based on several essays submitted by citizens. Despite the tensions, the project is authorized and the wind farm construction starts in 2011. It has been in activity since 2013.
In 2010, Marie-Ève Maillé interviews residents of the RCM of l'Érable in the context of her research. Back then, she was a PhD candidate in communication at UQÀM. Her thesis is about information diffusion surrounding the wind farm project and the social division that resulted from the controversial project. In this context, she interviews 93 residents, of which 74 are opposed to the project and 14 are supporters. As a researcher, she is committed to protect the privacy of their personal data. This commitment is part of a consent form signed by her and each participant. She obtains her PhD in 2012.
In November 2012, some residents file a request for a class-action lawsuit against Éoliennes de l'Érable, complaining about inconvenience caused by the construction and operation of the wind farm. The request is accepted in 2014 by the Quebec Superior Court. In 2015, the residents involved in the class action ask Dr Maillé to act as an expert witness in the lawsuit. She accepts.
The lawyers of Éoliennes de l'Érable then make a request to obtain the records of the interviews conducted by Maillé for her PhD, as well as the names of the people interviewed, in order to prepare the company's defense. In January 2016, Judge Marc St-Pierre accepts the request and orders Maillé to transmit the data and private information about her research participants to the company's lawyers. However, as is it generally the case in academic research, the participants privacy was a condition to their participation in the research project. In order to avoid being forced to divulge her data, she withdraws her participation as an expert witness in the lawsuit. Despite her withdrawal, in March 2016, Dr Maillé receives a f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telltale%20%28TV%20series%29 | Telltale is a three-part television crime drama series set in South Wales, this series was produced by HTV Wales for the ITV Network, first aired on ITV from 10 to 24 June 1993. The drama stars Bernard Hill, Nigel Harrison, Robert Pugh and Rachel Davies, and involves an opportunist criminal puts his and his family's lives in danger when he turns supergrass.
Cast
Bernard Hill as DS Gavin Douglas
Nigel Harrison as DS Paul Herbert
Robert Pugh as Billy Hodge
Rachel Davies as Doreen Hodge
Beth Morris as Rosie Douglas
Melanie Walters as Jean Herbert
Episodes
References
External links
1993 British television series debuts
1993 British television series endings
1990s British crime television series
1990s British drama television series
ITV television dramas
1990s British television miniseries
British thriller television series
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Harlech Television
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/370%20Model%20135 | [[File:IBM magnetic disk drives 3330+3333.png|thumb|"Expanded channel capacity and the ability to use the high-performance IBM 3330 disk storage under either Operating System (OS)or Disk Operating System (DOS) were ... among the factors significant to the 's ...capabilities."]]
The IBM System/370 Model 135''' was announced March 8, 1971,
the only 370 introduced that year. The 135 was IBM's fifth System 370, and it was withdrawn October 16, 1979.
Special features
Although microcode was not a uniquely new feature at the time of the 135's introduction, having been used in most System/360 models and in most System/370 models introduced so far, the ability to upgrade a system's microcode without changing hardware, by storing the microcode in read-write memory rather than read-only memory, was not common at that time.
The read-write memory containing the firmware was loaded from a "reading device located in the Model 135 console"; this allowed updates and adding features to the Model 135's microcode. The "reading device" was a built-in (read-only) floppy disk drive. The 145, introduced the prior year, also had this feature.
Optional features
The Model 135 was the last of the 370s to be introduced without Virtual memory. Four of the five could be upgraded. Unlike the 155 & 165, which required an expensive
hardware upgrade to add a DAT box (Dynamic Address Translation), the 135 & 145 could obtain their virtual memory upgrades from a floppy disk.
Microcode upgrades were also available to add "user-selected options such as
extended precision arithmetic or
emulation of the IBM 1400 series."
An upgraded Model 135 was termed a 370/135-3
Customers of the 370/135 had a choice of four main memory sizes, ranging from 96K to 256K.
Other
The 370/135 was introduced as running "under either OS or DOS. Newer versions thereof (DOS/VS and OS/VS1) and Virtual Machine Facility/370 (VM/370) subsequently became available options once the 135's microcode was upgraded to support virtual memory. This was priced at $120,000 and came with "increased reloadable control store in addition to some power units." The upgrade could be done "in the field" and the resultant system was now deemed a 370/135-3.
The 135 was "partly developed at Hursley, UK."
External links
370 /135 Advertisement: "Presentamos el Sistema/370 Model 135"
Images
System/370 Model 135 operator's console
370/135 with some peripherals
See also
List of IBM products
IBM System/360
IBM System/370
Notes
References
IBM System/360 mainframe line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Hammer | Jessica Hammer is an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Early life and education
Hammer, who was a finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, attended the Maimonides School, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
She is the daughter of Michael Martin Hammer.
She earned her B.A. in computer science at Harvard University, her MS from the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program and her Ph.D. in cognitive science at Columbia University, where she developed the game design course sequence and was a founding member of the Teachers College EGGPLANT game research laboratory.
Career
Hammer's research focuses on the psychology of games, focusing on the way specific game design decisions affect how players think and feel.
While a graduate student at Columbia, Hammer helped create Lit, a mobile game designed to help individuals quit smoking. Hammer has worked on video games for the National Institute of Health and for Nokia.
She also spent time in Ethiopia, working with local partners to create game clubs that help girls acquire the social capital and the skills they need to solve their problems for themselves.
In 2014 she was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist.
In his 1998 book, Why We Don 't Talk to Each Other Anymore: The De-Voicing of Society, biolinguist John L. Locke discusses the research produced by Hammer as a young researcher working with Simon Baron-Cohen. According to Locke, Baron-Cohen and Hammer found that the parents of individuals with Asperger's syndrome did less well than the general population on tasks involving the interpretation of emotional status of others by looking at the expression of their eyes, and better than the general population at identifying shapes embedded within complex designs.
Since 2014, Hammer's recent projects include exploring live action role-playing games as a potential avenue for improving mental or physical health, and conducting research on how games may reduce opioid abuse after work-related injuries.
Currently, Hammer works as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed between the HCI Institute and the Entertainment Technology Center. She teaches courses related to Game Design and Learning Media.
Jessica Hammer started the OHLab with Amy Ogan along with their students, staff, and colleagues. The lab works at the intersection of culture, learning, play, and design in order to create brand new interactions and experiences. Through games, educational technologies, and new frameworks of interaction, the lab pushes on the edges of learning, empathy, and social empowerment.
References
External links
Hammer's personal homepage
Hammer's CMU home page
Hammer's OHLab
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Harvard University alumni
Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
New York Univer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Swan%20Data | Black Swan Data is a London-based technology and data science company that produces a social prediction SaaS platform called Trendscope. Trendscope uses predictive data science and proprietary Natural Language Processing to analyze Social data conversations that help businesses identify potential trends and customer behaviors. Its notable clients include PepsiCo, Unilever, McDonald's, Danone, Disney and numerous others. In 2016, the company raised a total of £9.2 million in two separate funding rounds led by investors like Mitsui, Albion Ventures, and The Blackstone Group. The company is headquartered in London and has offices in New York, Budapest, Szeged, Cape Town and Exeter.
History
Black Swan Data was founded in London by Steve King (CEO) and Hugo Amos (CMO) in 2011. In 2012, the firm raised £2.5 million from The Blackstone Group. By 2014, the company counted Disney, Tesco, Panasonic Avionics, Samsung, Debenhams, Argos, and Vodafone among its clients. It maintained regional offices in Hong Kong and Los Angeles and opened a new office in Exeter, Devon. The company was also listed among The Sunday Times Tech Track Top 10 Ones to Watch.
By early 2015, the company had added offices in Budapest, Manchester, and New York. In late 2015, Black Swan Data had added several clients, including GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, and Mars. The company was also listed first on the inaugural Sunday Times Sage Start-up Track 15 which identifies the fastest growing start-ups in Britain.
In March 2016, the company received £3 million in a funding round led by Mitsui. According to the company, the funding was procured to further develop its platform and expand the business into Japan and the United States. In July 2016, Black Swan Data raised an additional £6.2 million from an investor group that included Albion Ventures, The Blackstone Group, and Mitsui. This capital would again be designated for the development of the social prediction platform and further international expansion. Also in 2016, the company topped The Sunday Times SME Export Track 100. In 2017 the company ranked 6th fastest growing European SME in Financial Times 1000. Again in 2018, the company ranked 79 in Financial Times 1000. The same year its offshoot charity White Swan Charity officially launched.
As of 2020, Black Swan Data has over 160 employees, spread over six offices in four countries, and counts major brands in the food, beverages and personal care sectors in the UK, Europe, US, and Japan as clients for its Trendscope trend prediction platform.
Products and services
Black Swan Data's primary business offering is their proprietary data analytics software platform called Trendscope. The platform ingests millions of real-time, publicly available conversations from various Social data sources, including social media information, blogs and news. Trendscope filters and cleans this data, then uses algorithms to predict and forecast information to help businesses make marketing and supply c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/635%20Group | The 635 Group is a network of militant anti-fascists operating in West Yorkshire. Part of the Antifa movement of the 2000s, 635 Group was highly active in suppressing the British People's Party until its dissolution in 2013.
References
Anti-fascist organisations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202011%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the Monitor Latino number-one songs of 2011. Chart rankings are based on airplay across radio states in Mexico utilizing the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are ranked from Monday to Sunday. Besides the General chart, Monitor Latino published "Pop", "Regional Mexican" and "Anglo" charts.
Chart history
General
In 2011, fourteen songs reached number one on the General chart. Of these, thirteen songs were entirely in Spanish, and only one was in English. Ten acts achieved their first number-one song in Mexico: Gloria Trevi, Alejandra Guzmán, La Adictiva Banda San José de Mesillas, Los Tigres del Norte, Reyli, Yuridia, Calibre 50, Maroon 5, Christina Aguilera and Jenni Rivera.
"Golpes en el corazón" by Los Tigres del Norte & Paulina Rubio was the longest-running General number-one of the year, staying at the top position for sixteen consecutive weeks, which remains the longest number of weeks that a song has stayed at #1 since the General chart was founded in 2007. "Golpes en el corazón" was also the best-performing song of the year in Mexico according to Monitor Latino's Annual chart for 2011.
"Moves like Jagger" by Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera was the first English-language song to reach #1 since the General chart was first published in 2007.
Pop
Regional
English
See also
List of Top 20 songs for 2011 in Mexico
List of number-one albums of 2011 (Mexico)
Notes
References
2011
Number-one songs
Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20British%20computers | Computers designed or built in Britain include:
Acorn Computers
Acorn Eurocard systems
Acorn System 1
Acorn Atom
BBC Micro
Acorn Electron
BBC Master
Acorn Archimedes
RiscPC
Acorn Network Computer
Amstrad
Amstrad CPC
Amstrad PCW
Amstrad NC100
PC1512
PPC 512 and 640
Amstrad PC2286
Amstrad Mega PC
Apricot Computers
Apricot PC
Apricot Portable
Apricot Picobook Pro
Bear Microcomputer Systems
Newbear 77-68
Bywood Electronics
SCRUMPI 2
SCRUMPI 3
Cambridge Computer
Cambridge Z88
Camputers Lynx
CAP computer
Compukit UK101
Dragon 32/64
Elliott Brothers (computer company)
Enterprise (computer)
Ferranti MRT
Flex machine
Gemini Computers
Gemini Galaxy
Gemini Challenger
GEC
GEC 2050
GEC 4000 series
GEC Series 63
Grundy NewBrain
ICL
ICL 2900 Series
ICL Series 39
One Per Desk
Jupiter Ace
Memotech MTX
Nascom
Nascom 1
Nascom 2
Plessey System 250
Raspberry Pi
Research Machines
Research Machines 380Z
LINK 480Z
RM Nimbus
SAM Coupé
Sinclair Research
MK14 (trading as Science of Cambridge)
ZX80
ZX81
ZX Spectrum
Sinclair QL
Systime Computers Ltd
Systime 1000, 3000, 5000, 8750, 8780
Systime Series 2, Series 3
Tangerine Computer Systems
Tangerine Microtan 65
Oric-1
Oric Atmos
Tatung Einstein
Transam
Triton
Tuscan
Mechanical computers
Difference engine
Analytical Engine
Bombe
Early British computers
AEI 1010
APEXC
Atlas (computer)
Automatic Computing Engine
Colossus computer
CTL Modular One
Digico Micro 16
EDSAC
EDSAC 2
Elliott Brothers (computer company)
Elliott 152
Elliott 503
Elliott 803
Elliott 4100 Series
EMIDEC 1100
English Electric
English Electric DEUCE
English Electric KDF8
English Electric KDF9
English Electric KDP10
English Electric System 4
Ferranti
Ferranti Argus
Ferranti Mark 1, or Manchester Electronic Computer
Ferranti Mercury
Ferranti Orion
Ferranti Pegasus
Ferranti Perseus
Ferranti Sirius
Nimrod (computer)
Harwell computer
Harwell CADET
Hollerith Electronic Computer
ICS Multum
ICT
ICT 1301
ICT 1900 series
LEO (computer)
Luton Analogue Computing Engine
Manchester computers
Manchester Mark 1
Manchester Baby
Marconi
Marconi Transistorised Automatic Computer (T.A.C.)
Marconi Myriad
Metrovick 950
Pilot ACE
Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer
SOLIDAC
ICL mainframe computers
References
Computer
Early British computers
British
Computers designed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202017%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2017 in Mexico. The airplay chart rankings are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Mexico using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are ranked from Monday to Sunday. Besides the General chart, Monitor Latino also publishes "Pop", "Popular" (Regional Mexican) and "Anglo" charts.
The streaming charts are published weekly by AMPROFON (Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas).
Chart history (Airplay)
General
In 2017, thirteen songs reached number one on the General chart (fifteen if the remix versions of "Despacito" and "Mi gente" are counted as separate songs). Of these, eleven songs were entirely or mostly in Spanish, and two were primarily in English. Nine acts achieved their first number-one song in Mexico: Clean Bandit, Sean Paul, Anne-Marie, Christian Nodal, Willy William, Beyoncé, Nicky Jam, Camila Cabello, Young Thug and Nego do Borel.
"Corazón" by Maluma ft. Nego do Borel was the first No. 1 song to feature Portuguese lyrics since the General chart was founded.
"Despacito" by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee was the best performing song of the year.
Pop
Popular
Anglo
Chart history (Streaming)
In 2017, nine songs have reached number one on the Streaming chart; all of these songs were entirely in Spanish.
Venezuelan singer Danny Ocean was the first independent musician to have a number-one song.
See also
List of Top 100 songs for 2017 in Mexico
List of number-one albums of 2017 (Mexico)
References
2017
Number-one songs
Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202017 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2017
QandA
2017-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202017 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2017
2017 in American television
2017-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSeInt | PSeInt is a multiplatform educational free software, directed at people who start programming. The version for desktop operating systems interprets pseudocode in Spanish, the Android version interprets pseudocode in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Description
PSeInt is the abbreviation of PSeudocode Interpreter, an educational tool created in Argentina, used mainly by students to learn the basics of programming and the development of logic. It is a very popular software of its kind and is widely used in universities in Latin America and Spain.
It uses pseudocode for the solution of algorithms.
Purpose of PSeInt
PSeInt is designed to assist students who start in the construction of computer algorithms or programs. The pseudocode is usually used as the first contact to introduce basic concepts such as the use of control structures, expressions, variables, etc., without having to deal with the particularities of the syntax of a real language. This software aims to facilitate the beginner the task of writing algorithms in this pseudolanguage by presenting a set of aids and assistance, and also provide some additional tools that help you find errors and understand the logic of the algorithms.
Characteristics
Autocomplete language
Emerging aid
Command Templates
Supports procedures and functions
Intelligent Indentation
Export to other languages (C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, JavaScript, Visual Basic .NET, Python, Matlab)
Graphing, creation and edition of flow diagrams
Editor with syntax coloring
PSeInt official forum
Multi-platform software on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, in December 2016 started an independent development for Android.
Award
PSeInt was the Project of the Month at SourceForge on two occasions, from September 1, 2015 and from December 19, 2016.
References
External links
Ejercicios en pseint resueltos
Premiado por crear un novedoso desarrollo sobre software libre (Awarded for creating an innovative development on free software)
Cross-platform software
Free software
Educational programming languages
Non-English-based programming languages
Programming languages created in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu%20Raju | Manu Raju (born February 9, 1980) is an American journalist who serves as the chief congressional correspondent at the news network CNN, covering the United States Congress and campaign politics. He is also anchor of the Sunday edition of CNN's Inside Politics with Manu Raju. Raju previously reported for Politico as a senior Capitol Hill correspondent and for other D.C. news outlets as well.
Raju has won multiple journalism awards for his reporting on D.C. and his coverage of campaign politics. Raju moderated debates for the 2014 United States Senate election in Colorado and the 2014 Colorado gubernatorial election. He has regularly interviewed major political figures on national TV, including house speakers Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi, Republican senate leader Mitch McConnell, former senate minority leader Harry Reid, and senators Marco Rubio, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham.
Early life and education
Raju grew up in Darien, Illinois, the son of Tonse N. K. Raju and Vidya Raju who migrated from Karnataka, India, in the 1970s and both later worked at the National Institutes of Health. His father, Tonse Raju, is a neonatologist and formerly a professor of pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His grandfather Gopalakrishna Adiga was a poet from India who wrote in Kannada. Raju attended Hinsdale South High School, graduating in 1998. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 2002 with a degree in business administration. During college, Raju worked as the sports editor for The Badger Herald student newspaper.
Career
Raju first started working on the assignment desk at WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin, before moving to Washington, D.C. in 2002. There, he took a job with Inside Washington Publishers, covering environmental policy. He later worked for Congressional Quarterly, The Hill, and Politico, where he reported for seven years before joining CNN in September 2015. Before joining CNN, Raju was a regular guest on many networks and programs, including NBC's Meet the Press and CBS' Face the Nation. When he was hired by CNN, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post called the move a "towering get" for the network.
Raju has developed a reputation for finding out what politicians are discussing behind the scenes, and broke major stories during the 2013 government shutdown and during Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's high-profile reelection race in 2014. Raju broke a story about how McConnell’s opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes appeared to be getting an illegal campaign bus from her father, who was later sentenced to prison for campaign finance violations.
In 2016 for CNN, Raju was the network's lead correspondent covering Senator Marco Rubio's presidential campaign. He extensively covered the GOP establishment's struggle with Donald Trump and broke big news in high-profile Senate races, including in New Hampshire.
In 2017, Raju was featured on the cover of India Abroad newspaper, which dubbed him the "King of the Hill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-based%20digital%20data%20storage | Plant-based digital data storage is a futuristic view that proposes storing digital data in plants and seeds. The first practical implication showed the possibility of using plants as storage media for digital data. New approaches for data archiving are required due to the constant increase in digital data production and the lack of a capacitive, low maintenance storage medium.
Initial experiments
With the help of two biotechnologists, they encoded a basic computer program in Python Programming language into Nicotiana benthamiana.
They first encoded a “Hello World” computer program into a DNA code, synthesized it and cloned this coded DNA into a plasmid-vector to be used further for transformation into Nicotiana benthamiana plants. The encoded program was reconstructed from the resulting seedlings with 100% accuracy by showing “Hello World” on the computer screen.
Their approach demonstrated that artificially encoded data can be stored and multiplied within plants without affecting their vigor and fertility. It also takes a step forward from storing data into a naked DNA molecule.
It is inherent in progeny and authentically reproducible while the reduced metabolism of the seeds provides an additional protection for encoded DNA archives.
That was the first practical implication of utilizing a multi-cellular, eukaryotic organism for storing digital data in the world. It goes beyond plant genome manipulations for biotechnological research and plant breeding. It takes the advantage of multi-cellular organisms and serves to propagate the encoded information in daughter cells. The host organism is able to grow and multiply with the embedded information, and every cell of the organism contains a copy of the encoded information; therefore, it avoids the costs of synthetic production of multiple copies of the same encoded information. Moreover, in contrast to naked DNA, which can be affected by unfavorable environmental conditions like excessive temperature, in desiccation/re-hydration conditions, DNA stored in a seed is protected against alterations and degradation over time without the need of any active maintenance. Insertion of short computer programs into plants could also serve to provide a detailed description of a given variety, since the need for such labeling has already been expressed.
As for manipulating and storing archives, their approach leverages a new look at accessing, browsing and reading information. 1g of DNA could store exabytes of data and it is a huge, capacitive storage medium. DNA protected within a seed of a living plant could be easy to access when hand-held readers will become a reality.
See also
DNA digital data storage
References
Biochemical engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20of%20Pioneers | The Club of Pioneers is a worldwide network of the oldest continuing association football clubs from each country.
The Club of Pioneers was founded in 2013 by Sheffield FC, the first and oldest association football club in the world. The Club of Pioneers aims to discover and connect the world's oldest existing football clubs, to build a global network of like-minded football clubs to promote the importance of football history and the grass roots and amateur game.
Definition of Pioneers
According to today's historical knowledge and available sources of football history, the Sheffield Football Club Foundation awards the honorary membership within the Club of Pioneers to those football clubs, who:
Still play football in amateur or professional football competition today.
Have constantly existed as a sports organisation since their date of foundation. (exceptions for periods of inactivity due to external reasons, for example war.)
Are by definition the oldest existing football club of their country, referring to the foundation date of a football team as part of a multi-sport club or as a proper football club, playing to association football rules.
Live and support the values of the game and amateur football: Integrity, Respect, Community.
Team Work
The club has a work team made up of great professionals who have been working in the field of football for many years.
President: Richard Tims
Partnerships: Dylan Ralph
Ambassador: Tom Simons (Belgium)
Latam Ambassador: Juan Alvarez (France - Uruguay)
Ambassador: Robert Zitzmann (Germany)
Current members
(4 September 2023)
Pioneers Cup
Members of the Club of Pioneers, can also take part in a Pioneers Cup: a football tournament where only 'oldest' clubs can participate, to showcase their pioneering heritage. The teams themselves do not play, but are represented by 'Pioneer' teams of fans, former-players, and staff of the club.
Notes
Sources
Sheffield fc - the world's first.
Cliftonville fc : Introduction to the Club of Pioneers, 10 March 2013
Genoa CFC
St-Gallen fc
R Antwerp FC - Club of Pioneers
Globalise then localize Game of the People, 27 juli 2013
Sheffield Pioneers Cup BBC.com, 17 November 2013
El Recreativo de Huelva ingresa con honores en el “Club of Pioneers”, Cihefe.es, 5 May 2013
Entra en el ‘Club of Pioneers’ HuelvaYa.es, 5 May 2013
KHFC new member for the Club of Pioneers TheStar.co.uk 5 September 2014
St-Gallen aufnahme in Club of Pioneers Blick.ch, 23 September 2015
FC St-Gallen kommt inden Club of Pioneers Tagblatt, 22 August 2014
Antwerp Pioneers Cup GvA, 18 May 2016
Antwerp treedt toe tot Club of Pioneers GvA, 23 May 2016
Fola Esch, entering Club of Pioneers FuPa Lux, 14 November 2016
Fola fir 110. Anniversaire am "Club of Pioneers" opgeholl RTL.lu, 13 December 2016
Odds Ballklubb celebrated their place in "Club of Pioneers" at halftime in their match against Strømsgodset 13 May 2017
Odds BK - Club of Pioneers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20dynamic%20programming | Originally introduced by Richard E. Bellman in , stochastic dynamic programming is a technique for modelling and solving problems of decision making under uncertainty. Closely related to stochastic programming and dynamic programming, stochastic dynamic programming represents the problem under scrutiny in the form of a Bellman equation. The aim is to compute a policy prescribing how to act optimally in the face of uncertainty.
A motivating example: Gambling game
A gambler has $2, she is allowed to play a game of chance 4 times and her goal is to maximize her probability of ending up with a least $6. If the gambler bets $ on a play of the game, then with probability 0.4 she wins the game, recoup the initial bet, and she increases her capital position by $; with probability 0.6, she loses the bet amount $; all plays are pairwise independent. On any play of the game, the gambler may not bet more money than she has available at the beginning of that play.
Stochastic dynamic programming can be employed to model this problem and determine a betting strategy that, for instance, maximizes the gambler's probability of attaining a wealth of at least $6 by the end of the betting horizon.
Note that if there is no limit to the number of games that can be played, the problem becomes a variant of the well known St. Petersburg paradox.
Formal background
Consider a discrete system defined on stages in which each stage is characterized by
an initial state , where is the set of feasible states at the beginning of stage ;
a decision variable , where is the set of feasible actions at stage – note that may be a function of the initial state ;
an immediate cost/reward function , representing the cost/reward at stage if is the initial state and the action selected;
a state transition function that leads the system towards state .
Let represent the optimal cost/reward obtained by following an optimal policy over stages . Without loss of generality in what follow we will consider a reward maximisation setting. In deterministic dynamic programming one usually deals with functional equations taking the following structure
where and the boundary condition of the system is
The aim is to determine the set of optimal actions that maximise . Given the current state and the current action , we know with certainty the reward secured during the current stage and – thanks to the state transition function – the future state towards which the system transitions.
In practice, however, even if we know the state of the system at the beginning of the current stage as well as the decision taken, the state of the system at the beginning of the next stage and the current period reward are often random variables that can be observed only at the end of the current stage.
Stochastic dynamic programming deals with problems in which the current period reward and/or the next period state are random, i.e. with multi-stage stochastic systems. The decision maker's goal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel%20network | In transport, tunnels can be connected together to form a tunnel network. These can be used in mining to reach ore below ground, in cities for underground rapid transit systems, in sewer systems, in warfare to avoid enemy detection or attacks, as maintenance access routes beneath sites with high ground-traffic such as airports and amusement parks, or to extend public living areas or commercial access while avoiding outdoor weather.
In warfare
Sieges
Tunnel networks were sometimes developed during siege warfare, even dating back to classical antiquity. Starting with a single tunnel being dug to undermine a wall that might be detected by the defenders and met with counter-tunnels, leading to tunnel warfare. Defenders might first create a series of underground listing posts to preempt such mining attacks.
Trench systems
Any time the use of trenches becomes extensive, this naturally leads to connecting them with tunnel networks for safe passage both along the trench lines and with rear areas. In World War I, when given enough time and resources, the underground components of the defenses could become more extensive than those above ground.
The French Maginot Line, constructed from 1929 to 1939, was a chain of fortresses, bunkers, retractable turrets, outposts, obstacles, and sunken artillery emplacements, all linked by an extensive shell-proof tunnel network. It included underground barracks, shelters, ammo dumps and depots, and even had its own underground narrow gauge railways.
In Vietnam
The tunnels of Củ Chi are an immense network of connecting tunnels located in the Củ Chi District of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, and are part of a much larger network of tunnels that underlie much of the country. The Củ Chi tunnels were the location of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War, and were the Viet Cong's base of operations for the Tết Offensive in 1968.
The tunnels were used by Viet Cong soldiers as hiding spots during combat, as well as serving as communication and supply routes, hospitals, food and weapon caches and living quarters for numerous North Vietnamese fighters. The tunnel systems were of great importance to the Viet Cong in their resistance to American forces, and helped to counter the growing American military effort.
The Vịnh Mốc tunnels are a tunnel complex in Quảng Trị, Vietnam. During the Vietnam War it was strategically located on the border of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The tunnels were built to shelter people from the intense bombing of Son Trung and Son Ha communes in Vinh Linh county of Quảng Trị Province in the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. The American forces believed the villagers of Vinh Moc were supplying food and armaments to the North Vietnamese garrison on the island of Con Co which was in turn hindering the American bombers on their way to bomb Hanoi. The idea was to force the villagers of Vinh Moc to leave the area but as is typical in Vietnam there was nowhere else to go. The villagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Boys%20%28Grimm%29 | "Lost Boys" is the 3rd episode of season 5 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 91st episode overall, which premiered on November 13, 2015, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by Sean Calder and was directed by Aaron Lipstadt. In the episode, Nick and Hank must save Rosalee, who was kidnapped by a group of children who want her to be her "mom".
The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, although some criticized the filler aspect.
Plot
Opening quote: "I think I had a mother once."
Rosalee's (Bree Turner) life is in danger when a group of orphaned Wesen children — Peter, Lily, Big John, and Miguel — in need of a mother-figure to guide them, decide that Rosalee fits the bill. Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) find a vital clue in a fairly recent missing-person case. Nick decides to move out of his home to a safer location. Meanwhile, Renard (Sasha Roiz) is informed of the King's "accident" and that his daughter is safe with the Resistance. (A basis of Peter Pan & The Lost Boys).
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 3.66 million people, earning a 0.9/3 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking third on its timeslot and ninth for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind The Amazing Race, Hawaii Five-0, MasterChef Junior, 20/20, Dr. Ken, Blue Bloods, Last Man Standing, and Shark Tank. This was a 4% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 3.78 million viewers with a 1.0/4. This means that 0.9 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 3 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it. With DVR factoring in, the episode was watched by 5.91 million viewers and had a 1.6 ratings share in the 18-49 demographics.
Critical reviews
"Lost Boys" received generally positive reviews. Les Chappell from The A.V. Club gave the episode an "A−" rating and wrote, "Possibly the smartest decision Grimm made in its first season was the choice to add Bree Turner to its regular cast shortly after her first appearance. Beyond the fact that she's an engaging and charming actress, the character of Rosalee adds something important to the show's team. She's engaged with the Wesen world at a level that expands said world without constant trips to the Grimm diaries, and her level of empathy for those less fortunate helps drag Nick and his cohorts back from more ruthless approaches to problem-solving. Plus her appealing chemistry with Silas Weir Mitchell took a character who was already the strongest part of the ensemble to a new level, producing both the adorable Monrosalee moments and instances of raw emotion when this partnership is threatened."
Kathleen Wiedel from TV Fanatic, gave a 3.3 star rating out of 5, stating: "In certain particular ways, 'Lost Boys' definitely felt like a throwback to early-series Grimm. From the unsubtle fairy tale adaptation to the direct references to Adali |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden%20Quest | "Maiden Quest" is the 4th episode of season 5 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 92nd episode overall, which premiered on November 20, 2015, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by Brenna Kouf and was directed by Hanelle Culpepper. In the episode, Nick and Hank investigate an assassination attempt on a nightclub owner but they find that this attempt is involved in a trial for a maiden's hand. Meanwhile, Renard is asked to support the campaign of an old friend for mayor.
The episode received positive reviews from critics, who praised the plot and ending.
Plot
Opening quote: "After three days and nights, whoever tries and does not succeed shall be put to death."
While investigating an assassination attempt against nightclub owner Frankie Adkins (Robert Baker), who was saved by a mysterious Wesen, Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) stumble onto the archaic Wesen tradition of Maagd Zoektocht, where a Weten Ogen (a lynx-like Wesen) pits three suitors against each other for the hand of a maiden. In this case, Daniel Troyer (Richard Portnow) is making them fight for his daughter Emily's (Madeline Zima) hand, and their first trial is to kill Frankie, whose henchmen had killed Troyer's son.
After a second unsuccessful attempt on Frankie's life, the first suitor's mother points Frankie to Troyer. Frankie tries to kill Troyer, who's saved by the mysterious Wesen, Emily herself. Troyer explains to his daughter that the test was for her to prove she was worthy of succeeding him. Meanwhile, home life brings Nick and Adalind (Claire Coffee) closer together, and Captain Renard (Sasha Roiz) is asked to support an old friend, Andrew Dixon (Michael Sheets), who's running for Mayor. In the closing scene, an injured Trubel (Jacqueline Toboni), assumed to be dead, shows up at the door of Nick's new pad, and collapses in his arms.
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 3.62 million people, earning a 0.9/3 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking third on its timeslot and tenth for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind The Amazing Race, MasterChef Junior, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, Dateline NBC, Dr. Ken, Last Man Standing, 20/20, and Shark Tank. This was a 2% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 3.66 million viewers with a 0.9/3. This means that 0.9 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 3 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it. With DVR factoring in, the episode was watched by 6.21 million viewers and had a 1.7 ratings share in the 18-49 demographics.
Critical reviews
"Maiden Quest" received generally positive reviews. Les Chappell from The A.V. Club gave the episode a "B−" rating and wrote, "It's a course of action that's produced good episodes in the past, but 'Maiden Quest' doesn't manage to rise to those levels. Instead, it's a middling episode of Grimm that manages to del |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shudder%20%28streaming%20service%29 | Shudder is an American over-the-top subscription video on demand service featuring horror, thriller and supernatural fiction titles, owned and operated by AMC Networks. The streaming service offers original films, TV series—such as Creepshow, based on the 1982 film same of the name—and documentary series. Shudder's library also features non-original programming, including well-known horror films, and annually airs a Halloween "Ghoul Log" (a Halloween-themed equivalent to the Yule Log).
Distribution
Shudder began with an invite-only beta testing in the United States the summer of 2015. By October 2016, Shudder was fully out of beta testing and had expanded to Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Shudder is available on Android and Apple mobile devices, Amazon Fire devices, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Chromecast as well as subscription via Amazon Video in monthly or annual subscriptions. Shudder was also available as part of the VRV combo pack from August 2017 through July 2019.
In the US, a monthly subscription currently runs at $5.99 each month, while in other countries the price is adjusted according to the local currency.
On August 16, 2020, Shudder extended its operations to Australia and New Zealand.
In October 2022, Shudder was included as part of a bundle package during the launch of the AMC+ streaming service in New Zealand.
Content
In October 2016, Aja Romano writing for Vox noted that Shudder had over 500 horror films with their closest competitor, Screambox, carrying 400. Romano said Shudder had an "impressive selection of higher-quality films." Charlie Lyne, writing for The Guardian, notes that the UK version of Shudder carried around 200 films. Channel curators Sam Zimmerman and Colin Geddes offer categories like "Urban Decay", "Slashics", and "Not Your Ordinary Bloodsucker", which break the library down to specific sub-categories. Zimmerman previously worked for Fangoria and Shock Til You Drop while Geddes was previously a film programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival.
In late 2016, Shudder began carving out windows of exclusivity, premiering Rob Zombie's 31 two weeks before the DVD release and exclusively carrying the 4K restoration of Don Coscarelli's Phantasm. In another streaming exclusive, in March 2017, Shudder began carrying the full 109-minute unrated version of The Devils. This is the first time since the film's release in 1971 that the unrated cut of the film has been available in the United States. In June 2017, Shudder announced a full slate of original series in development, including Riprore, from director Patty Jenkins, and an adaptation of Emily Schultz's novel, The Blondes. In 2018, Shudder continued to release exclusive and original films and series, including Mayhem starring Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving, Downrange directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, Revenge, and the Syfy series Channel Zero and others.
In July 2018, Shudder hosted a 24-hour live event with legendary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver%20Greenway%20Network | The Vancouver Greenway Network is a collection of greenways across Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Greenways are streets where pedestrians and cyclists are prioritized over motorized vehicles, through structures such as road closures and road diverters to prevent or limit motor vehicle traffic, widened sidewalk-promenades, narrowed road space, speed restrictions, bike lanes, raised sidewalks and speed bumps. The City of Vancouver hopes to create and maintain the trend of constructing new greenways to establish a network where, potentially, every citizen could access a city greenway within a 25-minute walking or a 10-minute cycling distance of their home.
Anticipated ecological benefits of the build greenway networks include enhancing linkage of conservation and recreation areas for cyclists, protection of some natural assets along corridors, and improving resiliency. In addition, the current Council hopes that city greenways can encourage recreational opportunities in urban areas for citizens, increase trips by foot and by bike, decrease trips by motor vehicles, and strengthen pedestrian and cyclist links between nature and urban areas.
The network is partly constructed, with several greenways either still under development or in the consultation phase. The completed greenway network will be 140 km long, and serve as a pedestrian- and cyclist-prioritized network of trails and paths throughout the city.
City greenways
Arbutus Greenway
In 2016, the City of Vancouver purchased of land from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) for the construction of the new greenway bikeway. This occurred after a multi-year dispute between the City and CPR over CPR's plans to reactivate the railway that was unused for over a decade. The Arbutus Greenway will be connected from the Seaside Greenway in False Creek to the Fraser River. The goal is to create a space mainly for non-motorized modes of transportation. As part of a condition in the agreement between the City and CPR, at least part of the corridor is to be used for light rail, in addition to cycling paths. The construction of a section of the greenway bikeway is scheduled to start by late 2019. It will run parallel to Arbutus Street and West Boulevard, from the neighbourhoods of Kitsilano to Marpole.
The project is in its phase of conceptual design, which involves "design jams" and creating several design options. The phases are:
Temporary Path
Visioning
Conceptual design
Preliminary design
Detailed design
Construction
Proposed benefits of the Arbutus Greenway
Connect neighbourhoods
Provide a place for socializing
Provide a safe space for commuters
Provide a place for events
Central Valley
The Central Valley Greenway is a pedestrian and cyclist route that runs from Science World in Vancouver to New Westminster, through Burnaby. The greenway provides a safe corridor for commuters and a green route to local parks. In the Burnaby and New Westminster sections, the route runs parallel to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Morning%20Football | Good Morning Football is a live NFL morning television program on NFL Network. The program premiered on Monday, August 1, 2016. It airs from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET.
The program is hosted by Kyle Brandt, Jamie Erdahl, Jason McCourty and Peter Schrager weekdays, and Colleen Wolfe on weekends. Analysts Michael Robinson and DeAngelo Hall appear throughout the week, rotating as a fill in host on weekdays. NFL insider Mike Garafolo is featured all throughout the week.
Production
Good Morning Football replaced earlier attempts by NFL Network at a morning television program, including NFL AM and NFL HQ. Unlike its predecessors, which were filmed in Los Angeles, the show is produced live on the east coast. The move was made, in part, because doing the show required the live broadcasts to begin at 4 a.m. Pacific Time. According to chief content officer of NFL Media Jordan Levin, "There’s an energy to morning programming. The challenge is compounded when you have people who are literally doing the show in the middle of the night." The weekday program first utilized the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street as a condition of CBS holding the rights to Thursday Night Football.
Good Morning Football is the first NFL Network program to originate in New York since the network's launch in 2003. Sony Pictures Television's Embassy Row handles production of the show, with CEO Michael Davies as the executive producer.
In May 2018, the weekday program moved from the CBS Broadcast Center to 20 Times Square, inside a studio constructed within the new NFL Experience attraction. With the planned closure of the attraction, the show moved to SportsNet New York's studios at 4 World Trade Center with a new set debuting November 5, 2018. The weekend program is broadcast from NFL Films in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.
On April 25 and 26, 2019, the program was simulcast by ESPN2 as part of coverage of the 2019 NFL Draft (which would see personalities from ESPN and NFL Network appearing as contributors on each other's studio programs).
References
External links
National Football League television series
NFL Network original programming
Television morning shows in the United States
American sports television series
English-language television shows
2016 American television series debuts
2010s American television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Parsons | Ed Parsons (born 26 September 1965) is a London-based Geospatial Technologist and tech evangelist at Google. He is working to evangelise geospatial data for commercial application and consequently, to improve the usability and efficiency of location based tools at Google. He is credited as being one of the core proponents of Google Street View.
Parsons is a registered member of the Royal Geographical Society and he has been employed at Google since 2007. He is a supporter of the relatively new concept of Neogeography.
In 2015, he was appointed co-chair of the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group, a collaboration between the Open Geospatial Consortium and World Wide Web Consortium along with Kerry Taylor from the Australian National University.
Early life and education
Parsons is a British citizen who graduated from the Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University) in 1987 with a BSc (hons) in Geography. In 1989, he was a part of the team that established the world's first undergraduate course in Geographic information system at Kingston University. He completed his master's degree from the Cranfield Institute of Technology with an M.S. in Applied Remote sensing in 1989.
Career
After completing his M.S., Parsons began teaching GIS at the Kingston University. He continued teaching there until 1998. During his tenure, he is credited with having created the first online map of general election results of 1997.
In 1998, he moved to Autodesk as an EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems Division. He joined Ordnance Survey in 2001 as the organization’s first Chief Technology Officer and played an instrumental role in moving the course of the organization from mapping to geographical information and went on to become the youngest director of IT.
When Google Maps was launched in 2005, he described the event as ‘’In a few months Google Maps has done more to allow the individual to develop mapping based websites than the traditional GIS industry has done in 10 years. However, in June 2005, he was one of the first observers of the typing error that Belgium had swapped places with Netherlands on Google Maps.
Parsons left Ordnance Survey in December 2006 and he was offered a job by Google. Parsons began working at the London office of Google. He also set up his own company Open Geomatics, a strategic consultancy firm focused on the geospatial technology tracking and Neogeography. In 2010, Parsons received an honorary PhD in Science from the Kingston University in recognition of his contributions to the field of GIS and to the university.
Parsons oversaw the coordination of Google Maps and Historypin in 2012 in an initiative to recover lost photographs and document the Royal appearances of the Queen on an interactive map of the world provided by Google Maps.
In December 2015, Parsons was invited to deliver a keynote address at the GSDI World Conference in Taiwan.
Parsons is a member of the Board of Directors of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20vs.%20the%20Stars | People vs. the Stars is a 2017 Philippine television game show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Iya Villania and Drew Arellano, it premiered on January 15, 2017 on the network's Sunday Grande line up. The show concluded on April 16, 2017 with a total of 14 episodes. It was replaced by Follow Your Heart in its timeslot.
Gameplay
In People vs. the Stars, the program allows celebrities to play for a chance to win two hundred thousand pesos (PHP 200,000.00) via a variety of eight questions with respective cash values. The first seven questions has corresponding amount from 10,000 to 40,000 pesos while the eighth question is worth 50,000 pesos. The stars must answer each question in 45 seconds. If the stars fail to answer any of the questions correctly, the question's cash value will be given to the home viewers by answering the "People Question of the Week" through text.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement, the pilot episode of People vs. the Stars earned an 11.2% rating. While the final episode scored a 5.8% rating in People in television homes.
Accolades
References
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20environment | Distributed environment may refer to:
Distributed computing, about the computer science field of distributed computing
Distributed computing environment, about the software system developed in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20digital%20preservation | This page is a timeline of digital preservation and Web archiving. It covers various aspects of saving and preserving digital data, whether they are born-digital or not.
Trends
Digital preservation encompasses a variety of efforts and technologies, so its history can be viewed through various trends in these separate efforts:
File systems with built-in fault-tolerance
Various changes in the physical storage used
On-demand archiving services
URL shortening services
Various episodes of major archival work, sometimes as a result of services shutting down
Efforts at converting physical/analog information to more modern digital media, file formats, and storage
Timeline
See also
List of digital preservation initiatives
List of Web archiving initiatives
References
Digital preservation
Digital preservation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brune%20test | The Brune test (named after the South African mathematician Otto Brune) is used to check the permissibility of the combination of two or more two-port networks (or quadripoles) in electrical circuit analysis. The test determines whether the network still meets the port condition after the two-ports have been combined. The test is a sufficient, but not necessary, test.
Series-series connection
To check if two two-port networks can be connected in a series-series configuration, first of all just the input ports are connected in series, a voltage is applied to the input and the open-circuit voltage is measured/calculated between the output terminals to be connected. If there is a voltage drop, the two-port networks cannot be combined in series. The same test is repeated from the output side of the two-port networks (series connection of the output ports, application of a voltage to the output, measurement/calculation of the open-circuit voltage between the input terminals to be connected). Only if there is no voltage drop in both cases, a combination of the two-ports networks is permissible.
examples
The first example fails the series-series test because the through path between the lower terminals of 2-port #1 short-circuit part of the circuitry in 2-port #2. The second example passes the series-series test. The 2-ports are the same as in the first example, but 2-port #2 has been flipped or equivalently the choice of terminals to be placed in series has changed. The result is that the through path between the lower terminals of 2-port #1 simply provide a parallel path to the through path between the upper terminals of 2-port #2. The third example is the same as the first example, except that it passes the Brune test because ideal isolating transformers have been placed at the right side terminals which break the through paths.
Parallel-parallel connection
To check if two two-port networks can be connected in a parallel-parallel configuration, first of all just the input ports are connected in parallel, a voltage is applied to the input and the open-circuit voltage is measured/calculated between the outputs that are short-circuited each. If there is a voltage drop, the two-port networks cannot be combined in parallel. The same test is repeated from the output side of the two-port networks (parallel connection of the output ports, application of a voltage to the output, measurement/calculation of the open-circuit voltage between the inputs that are short-circuited each). Only if there is no voltage drop in both cases, a combination of the two-ports networks is permissible.
Hybrid connection
A similar approach as above works for the hybrid connection (series-parallel connection) and the inverse hybrid connection (parallel-series connection).
References
Two-port networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20transparency | Algorithmic transparency is the principle that the factors that influence the decisions made by algorithms should be visible, or transparent, to the people who use, regulate, and are affected by systems that employ those algorithms. Although the phrase was coined in 2016 by Nicholas Diakopoulos and Michael Koliska about the role of algorithms in deciding the content of digital journalism services, the underlying principle dates back to the 1970s and the rise of automated systems for scoring consumer credit.
The phrases "algorithmic transparency" and "algorithmic accountability" are sometimes used interchangeably – especially since they were coined by the same people – but they have subtly different meanings. Specifically, "algorithmic transparency" states that the inputs to the algorithm and the algorithm's use itself must be known, but they need not be fair. "Algorithmic accountability" implies that the organizations that use algorithms must be accountable for the decisions made by those algorithms, even though the decisions are being made by a machine, and not by a human being.
Current research around algorithmic transparency interested in both societal effects of accessing remote services running algorithms., as well as mathematical and computer science approaches that can be used to achieve algorithmic transparency In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection studies how algorithms are used by consumers by conducting its own research on algorithmic transparency and by funding external research. In the European Union, the data protection laws that came into effect in May 2018 include a "right to explanation" of decisions made by algorithms, though it is unclear what this means. Furthermore, the European Union founded The European Center for Algoritmic Transparency (ECAC).
See also
Black box
Explainable AI
Regulation of algorithms
Reverse engineering
Right to explanation
Algorithmic accountability
References
Accountability
Algorithms
Mathematical logic
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz%20Velho | Luiz Carlos Pacheco Rodrigues Velho (born 5 June 1956) is a Brazilian applied mathematician working primarily on computer graphics and computer vision. He is a full researcher and professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and leading scientist of VISGRAF, laboratory that conducts researches in the field of modeling, rendering, imaging, and animation.
In 2010, Luiz Velho received the National Order of Scientific Merit for his scientific and technical contributions. In 2005, he was keynote speaker in Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, in Vienna.
His academic background includes a BE in industrial design from ESDI-UERJ, a specialization in computer science from PUC-Rio, a MS in computer graphics from the MIT Media Lab, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellowship in applied mathematics from IMPA.
Selected publications
Luiz Velho and Jonas Gomes. "Digital Halftoning with Space Filling Curves". Computer Graphics, 25(4):81–90, 1991.
Luiz Velho and Denis Zorin. "4-8 Subdivision". Computer-Aided Geometric Design, 18(5):397–427, 2001. Special Issue on Subdivision Techniques.
Jingdan Zhang, Kun Zhou, Luiz Velho, Baining Guo, and Heung-Yeung. "Synthesis of Progressively Variant Textures on Arbitrary Surfaces". ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22(3):295–302, July 2003.
References
External links
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Biography
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers
21st-century Brazilian mathematicians
People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Recipients of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
1956 births
Living people
20th-century Brazilian mathematicians
Computer graphics researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-STEM%20Studio | C-STEM Studio is a platform for hands-on integrated learning of computing, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (C-STEM) with robotics. It can be used to control multiple Linkbot, Lego Mindstorms NXT and EV3, Arduino boards.
C-STEM Studio is developed by the UC Davis C-STEM Center’s. C-STEM Studio includes the software modules, programs, comprehensive documentation, teacher’s guides, and textbooks used in the C-STEM curriculum.
C-STEM Studio is specially designed for instructors to organize diverse teaching resources and for students to conduct computer homework assignments conveniently in formal computer teaching labs. C-STEM Studio is provided free of charge.
References
External links
C-STEM Center
C-STEM Studio
RoboBlockly
University of California
University of California, Davis
American educational websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-Crossed%20%28Grimm%29 | "Star-Crossed" is the 9th episode of season 5 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 97th episode overall, which premiered on February 12, 2016, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by Sean Calder and was directed by Carlos Avila. In the episode, Nick and Hank go after a Wesen serial killer who kills its victims through a barbarian crucifixion. They decide to use Monroe to go undercover and find the killer.
The episode received positive reviews from critics, who praised the case of the week.
Plot
Opening quote: "Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water."
Nick (David Giuntoli) and his team hunt for a Wesen serial-killer, a "Fuilcre", who uses an ancient barbarian Wesen water-rune/rain-crucifixion ritual with a symbol of the Golden Dawn. Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) goes undercover at a pep rally to help Nick investigate a lead. The rally is actually a recruiting tool for Black Claw. Eve (Bitsie Tulloch) and Trubel (Jacqueline Toboni) interrogate a Black Claw suspect; Eve uses a "See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil" technique. Adalind (Claire Coffee) helps Nick solve his case when she tells him about an Aztec ceremony, Fire Drill, involving Orion's Belt — whenever it rose above the horizon, a man would be sacrificed on top of a pyramid. This information leads to the next ritualistic sacrificial site.
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 4.19 million people, earning a 0.9/3 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking third on its timeslot and eight for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind Dateline NBC, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, The Amazing Race, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, Shark Tank, and 20/20. This was a 6% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 4.42 million viewers with a 0.9/3. This means that 0.9 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 3 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it. With DVR factoring in, the episode was watched by 6.78 million viewers and had a 1.7 ratings share in the 18-49 demographics.
Critical reviews
"Star-Crossed" received positive reviews. Les Chappell from The A.V. Club gave the episode a "B+" rating and wrote, "The uneasiness of that status quo is on full display in 'Star-Crossed,' which takes a familiar move out of the show's playbook—barbaric Wesen ritual in modern times — and updates its import by tying it to the season's unrest. The end result is a case of the week that's more interesting than that usual format, helping to spell out on a micro level the changes in the show’s ecosystem. While Black Claw's engaged in many acts of rebellion around the globe, 'Star-Crossed' understands that the group's reach is far more insidious than outright declarations of war, and that its promise of dominance can spark a thousand fires."
Kathleen Wiedel from TV Fanatic, gave a 3.7 star rating out of 5, stating: "Old |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%20Tulugarjuk | Lucy Tulugarjuk (born February 28, 1975) is an Inuit actress, throat singer, and director. She is executive director for the Nunavut Independent Television Network.
Biography
Tulugarjuk is from Igloolik, Nunavut.
Career
Tulugarjuk is known for starring in the 2001 film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, for which she won the award for Best Actress at the American Indian Film Festival. In 2015, she acted in the film Maliglutit.
In 2017 she directed her first feature-length film Tia and Piujuq (). The film featured Marie-Hélène Cousineau as producer, and Tulugarjuk's daughter in the lead role as Piujuq.
With Carol Kunnuk she was co-director, co-writer and co-star of Tautuktavuk (What We See), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 and won the Amplify Voices Award for Best First Film.
She performs as a throat singer, but in 2014 declined to perform for Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq in protest of the government's seismic testing. That year, she wore seal skin at the Gone Wild show in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories to support Inuit culture. In 2016, she also called for the resignation of Aglukkaq's successor as MP, Hunter Tootoo.
She is executive director for Nunavut Independent Television Network, a service of Isuma based in Igloolik. In 2021, Isuma launched Uvagut TV, a 24/7 online channel devoted to Inuktitut language programming, for which Tulugarjuk is managing director. Tulugarjuk reported that she sees the channel as "a tool for preserving and revitalizing the Inuit people's language and culture."
Filmography
As actress
As filmmaker
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Lucy Tulugarjuk at Isuma TV
1975 births
Actresses from Nunavut
Canadian film actresses
Canadian Inuit women
Canadian television executives
Canadian women film directors
Canadian women screenwriters
Film directors from Nunavut
Inuit actresses
Inuit filmmakers
Inuit from Nunavut
Inuit from the Northwest Territories
Inuit musicians
Inuit throat singing
Inuit writers
Living people
Musicians from Nunavut
People from Igloolik
Writers from Nunavut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%20Institute%20Library | The Morse Institute Library is a public library in Natick, Massachusetts that has existed for over 200 years. The library is part of the Minuteman Library Network, a consortium of 43 libraries that provide services to members in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts.
History
In 1808, the library began as a collection of about 100 books by Samuel Morse. He was a portrait artist and had an interest in developing a circulating library. By 1852, the collection, entitled the Citizen's Library, amassed 425 books. The Morse Institute Library was instituted in 1862 by Mary Ann Morse, Samuel Morse's granddaughter. Over the next several years, Mary Ann began the processes of raising funds and obtaining district approval. The collection opened to the public on December 25, 1873.
Today, the library is governed by a five-member board of trustees who are elected by popular vote to five-year terms. The establishment has around 200,000 books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, CDs, and audiobooks.
Initiatives
The library organizes events open to the public including book clubs, English immersion classes, and movie nights.
One major project is the Natick Veterans Oral History Project. In 1998, Eugene Dugdale, who was a Pearl Harbor survivor, proposed a project to "collect and preserve the personal recollections of those men and women who have served their country in the armed forces past and present." The collection has firsthand accounts of veterans from World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. The administrators of the program work in collaboration with the Natick Public Schools System and the Library of Congress. As of 2023, the project has more than 350 interviews in its collection.
References
External links
Morse Institute Library
Natick Veterans Oral History Project
Library buildings completed in 1808
Public libraries in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Natick, Massachusetts
1808 establishments in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Sea%E2%80%93Mediterranean%20Corridor | The North Sea–Mediterranean Corridor is the number 8 of the ten priority axes of the Trans-European Transport Network. It stretches from Ireland and the north of UK through the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg to the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France.
History
According to the European Union:
This multimodal corridor, comprising inland waterways in Benelux and France, aims not only at offering better multimodal services between the North Sea ports, the Maas (), Rhine, Scheldt, Seine, Saone and Rhone river basins and the ports of Fos-sur-Mer and Marseille, but also at better interconnecting the British Isles with continental Europe.
References
External links
Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) at European Union official web site
Transport and the European Union
TEN-T Core Network Corridors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental%20frequency%20keying | Incremental frequency keying, also known as IFK or IFK+, is a modified type of MFSK modulation where the data to be transmitted is represented by the difference in frequency between the previously received tone and the currently received tone.
This modulation produces a signal which is much more tolerant of receiver mis-tunings and frequency drift than MFSK modulation. Additionally, IFK modulation is more resistant to multipath interference and intersymbol interference caused by multipath propagation than traditional MFSK. This combination of features makes IFK modulation well suited for high frequency communications.
This modulation is used in the amateur radio data-modes DominioEX and THOR.
References
Quantized radio modulation modes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20J.%20Abbott | William J. "Bill" Abbott (born April 25, 1962) is the President and CEO of GAC Media since 2021. He is the former president and CEO of Crown Media Family Networks, the parent of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. When he became Crown Media CEO in 2009, he spearheaded the addition of scripted series for primetime, including Cedar Cove and When Calls the Heart, as well as the launch of the yearly special Kitten Bowl. Abbott has been featured in the Cablefax 100 list of top power players every year from 2009 through 2016. He also received the Diversity Partner Award from the T. Howard Foundation in 2016.
Early life and career
Abbott grew up on Long Island, New York. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1984. His early work experience includes positions as a spot buyer for the agency Nadler & Larimer in 1984–1985, a research manager for Seltel Inc. from 1985 to 1987, and a research manager for CBS Radio Networks in 1988. In cable television, he began work at the start of The Family Channel in 1988 and continued through its later operation as Fox Family Worldwide in various advertising sales and research positions. He was promoted to senior vice president of advertising sales for Fox Family Worldwide, and represented both Fox Family Channel and Fox Kids Network for advertising sales, working with Margaret Loesch, whom he followed to the Odyssey Network as it transitioned to Hallmark Channel.
Crown Media
Abbott joined Crown Media Family Networks in 2000 as its executive vice president of advertising sales. There, he led the national advertising sales operations for the networks, internet services and digital network development and oversaw its offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. In 2004, he oversaw the launch of Hallmark Movie Channel. During his tenure as EVP of advertising sales, Hallmark Channel's annual advertising revenue increased from $10.2 million to $223 million.
As CEO
Abbott succeeded Henry Schleiff as president and CEO of Crown Media, June 1, 2009. In his first year, Abbott made a deal with Martha Stewart to create a lifestyle block on Hallmark Channel that premiered in March 2010. The following year, Abbott launched Hallmark's "Countdown to Christmas" campaign, and in 2015 featured Mariah Carey in her directorial debut in A Christmas Melody, with 17 new original movies.
In 2012, he revived the daytime Emmy-nominated lifestyle program The Home and Family Show. Abbott also diversified and expanded the network's content to include primetime scripted series including Cedar Cove and When Calls the Heart, an honoree of the 2016 Christopher Spirit Award. Separately, he oversaw the 2014 rebranding of Hallmark Movie Channel to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
In January 2020, Abbott stepped down as CEO of Crown Media, a little more than a month after the network apologized for removing advertisements featuring same-sex couples from the air which were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamsole | Gamsole is a Nigerian start-up which produces mobile game. Gamsole was founded by Abiola Olaniran in April 2012.
History
Founded in 2012 by Abiola Olaniran, a Google Student Ambassador and Computer Science graduate from the Obafemi Awolowo University who emerged Nigeria’s Microsoft Imagine Cup Winner in 2010 and became a world finalist of the student competition in the same year. Abiola also won the Samsung Developer Challenge.
As at February 2015, the games had been downloaded over 10 million times across 191 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. Company has created more than 35 games. Among Gamsole games are Gidi Run, Temple Run, Monster Ninja, Sweet Candy.
References
External links
Gamsole Website
Gamsole on CNN
Why Gamsole Doesn’t Build Games For Nigerians
Africa's games makers dream of exporting to the world
Gamsole founder discusses inspiration
Mobile game companies
Video game companies established in 2012
Video game development companies
Video game publishers
Software companies of Nigeria
Nigerian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European%20Transport%20Network%20Executive%20Agency | The Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA) was an executive agency established by the European Commission in October 2006 in order to realise the technical and financial implementation of the TEN-T programme. It ceased its activities on 31 December 2013 and was superseded by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA).
The Agency was in charge of all open TEN-T projects under the 2000-2006 and 2007-2013 funding schemes. The projects represent all transport modes – air, rail, road, and maritime/sea – plus logistics and intelligent transport systems, and involve all EU Member States.
Its status as an executive agency meant that, although independent, the TEN-T EA was closely linked with its parent, the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE). DG MOVE dealt with all policy-making issues related to the TEN-T programme, while the Agency existed to execute the programme's specific tasks with a limited duration (31 December 2015).
References
Agencies of the European Union
2006 establishments in Belgium
2006 in the European Union
Government agencies established in 2006
International organisations based in Belgium
Trans-European Transport Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INEA | INEA could stand for:
The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency in Brussels
The Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los Adultos in Mexico
Instituto Estadual do Ambiente (Rio de Janeiro) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecting%20Europe%20Facility | The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) is a European Union fund established in 2014 for infrastructure investments (in particular the Trans-European Networks) across the union in transport, energy, digital and telecommunication projects, which aims at a greater connectivity between EU member states. It operates through grants, financial guarantees and project bonds. It is run by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency and then by the Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency.
CEF Digital
CEF Digital is the digital infrastructure arm of CEF.
A large portion of CEF Digital was split off in 2021 to form the Digital Europe Programme.
The actions which remain assigned to CEF Digital after 2021, include:
Deploying very high-capacity networks, including 5G systems, in areas where socioeconomic drivers are located
Guaranteeing uninterrupted coverage with 5G systems of all major transport paths, including the trans-European transport networks
Deploying new or a significant upgrade of existing backbone networks, including submarine cables, within and between Member States and between the Union and third countries
Implementing and supporting digital connectivity infrastructure related to cross-border projects in the areas of transport or energy
See also
High Speed 2 (England)
References
European Union
Information technology organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20des%20chemins%20vicinaux | The Atlas des chemins vicinaux was produced in order to preserve the Belgian street network from possible usurpations. A law passed on 10 April 1841 led to the creation of an atlas of streets and roads in each town, to specify officially the Belgium public roads network.
This atlas is still the only document which defines the public domain in Belgium.
References
External links
Atlas presentation
Law of 10 April 1841
Legislation in streets and roads
Atlases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica%20Ross | Angelica Ross (born November 28, 1980) is an American actress, businesswoman, and transgender rights advocate. A self-taught computer programmer, she went on to become founder and CEO of TransTech Social Enterprises, a firm that helps employ transgender people in the tech industry.
Ross began her acting career in the web series Her Story (2016), after which she received further recognition and critical acclaim for her starring roles in the drama series Pose (2018–21) and the anthology horror series American Horror Story (2019–21), both from FX.
Early life
Angelica Ross was born on November 28, 1980, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, then raised to the north in nearby Racine. Ross, a trans woman, has said she was perceived as feminine from a young age. In 1998, when she was 17, she came out as gay to her mother, an evangelical Christian. Her mother did not receive the news well; according to Ross, "she told me I should commit suicide or she would, because she couldn't have someone like me as her child." Ross considered ending her own life and overdosed on medication, but survived.
Upon graduating high school at 17, Ross briefly attended the University of Wisconsin–Parkside before dropping out after one semester. Ross decided to join the U.S. Navy (after her parents signed a waiver so that she could join as a minor) in order to qualify for the G.I. Bill. Ross initially moved to Rochester, New York, before being stationed in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. After six months of service, she requested and received an "uncharacterized" discharge under the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy (which was then in force) due to being harassed by enlisted men who coerced her into saying she was gay.
Ross moved back home, and made friends with a drag queen named Traci Ross who helped her begin her gender transition at the age of 19. Upon discovering that she was transitioning, her mother threw her out and Ross moved in with her biological father (who was slightly more accepting of her) in Roanoke, Virginia. Although Ross and her parents were estranged for a time, she states that they have since mended their relationship. During the six years that she lived in Roanoke, Ross worked as a waitress at Applebee's so she could earn enough money to pay rent and attend cosmetology school. Ross then moved to Hollywood, Florida and worked as a model and escort, then web manager, until 2003. She started a web development and graphic design business and took acting classes. She later moved to Chicago to become the employment coordinator for the Trans Life Center.
Acting career
In 2005, Ross made her acting debut in the comedy film Natale a Miami, followed by a role in the short film Bella Maddo (2010). In 2016, Ross received recognition for starring in Her Story, a web series about trans women in Los Angeles. The series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama. In 2017, she made guest appearances in the CBS legal drama series Doubt, the TNT crime drama s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20McLachlan | Geoffrey John McLachlan FAA (born 3 October 1946) is an Australian researcher in computational statistics, machine learning and pattern recognition. McLachlan is best known for his work in classification and finite mixture models. He is the joint author of five influential books on the topics of mixtures and classification, as well as their applications. Currently, McLachlan is a Professor of statistics within the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland.
Education and career
McLachlan was born in Rockhampton and obtained his BSc in mathematics at the University of Queensland in 1969. He went to pursue a PhD at the same university in 1973 under the supervision of Stephen Lipton, a former staff member at the famous Rothamsted experimental station in the UK. McLachlan obtained a Doctor of Science at the University of Queensland in 1994. He has served in many positions of academic service over his career, most notably including as an Australian Research Council College of Experts member (2008–2010). McLachlan is currently serving on the editorial boards of the journals: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, BMC Bioinformatics, Cancer Informatics, Journal of Classification, Statistics and Computing, Statistical Modelling, Statistics Surveys, and WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. McLachlan has also supervised numerous PhD students over his career, most notably including Professor Kaye Basford at the University of Queensland and Professor Angus Ng at Griffith University.
McLachlan is a prolific author in the fields of computational statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, and neural networks. He has written over 300 research articles. Further, Google Scholar lists him with an h-index of 63 and attributes over 60000 citations to his publications.
The themes in McLachlan's work include the use of finite mixtures of atypical distributions for clustering of complex data. This includes the use of multivariate t-distributions, and skew variants of multivariate t- and normal distributions. His works have found applications in numerous areas of practical research including biology, bioinformatics, cardiology, engineering, psychology, neuroimaging, among numerous other fields. McLachlan's research has been published in various well-regarded journals such as Biometrics; Biometrika; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society; Journal of the American Statistical Association; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA; Nature Methods; the Computer Journal; and the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Medical Imaging, and Neural Networks. He is a featured researcher in Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers, edited by Mohamed Medhat Gaber.
Honours and awards
Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow (2007-2011)
Pitman Medal of the Statistical Society of Australia (2010)
ISI Highly Cited Author (2010)
President of the International F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Corbett%20%28radio%20presenter%29 | Rachel Corbett (born 11 March 1981) is an Australian podcaster, television and radio presenter, and writer. She hosts a number of podcasts, and is a weekly panelist and fill-in host for Network 10's The Project.
Career
Radio
2002–2007
Corbett started her career in radio in 2002, co-hosting The Morning Madhouse with Steve Bedwell, James Brayshaw and Russell Gilbert on Triple M Melbourne.
She moved to the Central Coast in 2004, where she co-hosted the breakfast show on Sea FM with Paddy Gerrard.
In 2007, Corbett worked with Michael Wipfli on the breakfast show on 92.9FM in Perth, filling in for Em Rusciano while she was on maternity leave.
2009–2013
Between 2008–2009, Corbett hosted a number of shows, including the Hot30 Countdown with Sam Mac at 2Day FM, and summer breakfast on Nova 96.9.
In 2009, Corbett was signed to Triple M Sydney, where she co-hosted The Paul Murray Show with Paul Murray. The show was renamed Paul & Rach in 2010, and moved to the breakfast slot, then the drive slot.
In 2011, Murray left Triple M, and Corbett was moved to The Grill Team. In 2011, Corbett was announced as one of the hosts of the new drive show, Merrick and the Highway Patrol, featuring Merrick Watts and Jules Schiller. This show was broadcast to over 40 Triple M stations across Australia on Southern Cross Austereo.
Television
In 2001, Corbett appeared on the first season of Big Brother Australia. She entered the house as an intruder and was evicted four days later. Later that year, she and eight other housemates appeared on a special episode of The Weakest Link, where she was the second contestant to be voted off.
In 2011–2013, Corbett was a writer/performer on ABC2’s The Roast.
In 2014, Corbett began appearing regularly as a guest panelist and TV presenter. She has appeared on shows including Today, Paul Murray Live, The Verdict, Studio 10, The Project, Have You Been Paying Attention?, and Hughesy, We Have a Problem.
In 2015, Corbett started working on The Project on Network 10; as of 2022, she is a regular Wednesday panelist.
Podcasting
Corbett’s first independent podcast was Paul and Rach, a podcast with her ex-radio co-host, Paul Murray. Since then, she has created a number of her own podcasts, including You’ve Gotta Start Somewhere, an interview series with Australian media personalities who share stories of getting into show business. She also hosts the PodSchool Podcast, where she shares tips for people starting their own podcasts.
In 2015, Corbett started teaching radio and podcasting at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. In 2016, she founded PodSchool, an online podcasting course designed to help people start their own podcast.
In 2017–2020, Corbett was Head of Podcasts for Mamamia, as well as the host of a number of their shows, including Lady Startup, Before The Bump, and Sealed Section. During her time running the network, she oversaw the development of over 20 shows, and quadrupled the audience to over 90 millio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZUB%201xx | The ZUB 1xx system is a family of train protection systems produced by Siemens. Its ZUB balises were deployed in the ZUB 121 train protection system in the Swiss railway network, in the ZUB 122 tilting control system in the German railway network, and in the ZUB 123 train protection system in the Danish railway network. Some of these were adapted for other railway lines before the next generation ZUB 2xx family was introduced which is based on Eurobalises - the earlier ZUB balises are not compatible with those.
History
The German LZB was created in 1965 and it was deployed on high-speed lines throughout the 1970s. However, with its signal wire along the complete length of a track it was considered too expensive in order to replace the traditional PZB inductive train stops that have been put along with line-side signals. In the 1980s the manufacturers of railway signaling systems developed electronic versions that could be deployed in the same pattern as the traditional train stops. For Germany that would be the Indusi inductors on the outer side of the rail. For comparison the balises in France were already put in the middle of the track and their electronic variants (later named KER balises) were installed similarly.
The Swiss SBB railways had been evaluating ZUB balises throughout the 1980s but it took to the accident at Zürich Oerlikon railway station in 1992 that a final decision was made for their introduction. Siemens adapted the system to work in conjunction with the traditional Integra-Signum magnets resulting in the ZUB 121 train protection system.
In Germany the ZUB balises were taken as the basis for the GNT tilting control introduced in 1992. Siemens adapted the system to work in conjunction with the traditional PZB inductors resulting in the ZUB 122 train protection system.
The Danish State Railways had been evaluating a modern train protection system since 1978. It took to 1988 that they tasked Siemens to create a system for the Danish railway network. It was activated in 1992 and by 1996 the complete network had been converted to the ZUB 123 train protection system.
During 1995/1996 the Eurobalise specification was completed and in 2000 the European Train Control System (ETCS) specification reached a state where it was ready for deployment. While the Eurobalises are compatible with the earlier KER balises (named after their usage in the KVB, Ebicab and RSDD train protection systems) the ZUB balises are not. With the introduction of ETCS to be in sight the further development of the ZUB 1xx family was stopped. Siemens created a new family ZUB 2xx which uses Eurobalises along with the other ZUB components (the trademark ZUB is derived from German / train influencing).
By 2006 the old ZUB 1xx systems were discontinued by the manufacturer - by that time the EuroZUB system had been successfully deployed on the Swiss railway network showing a possible path to the replacement of the ZUB 1xx train protection systems. The ZUB 1xx s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboDK | RoboDK is an offline programming and simulation software for industrial robots. The simulation software can be used for many manufacturing projects including milling, welding, pick and place, packaging and labelling, palletizing, painting, robot calibration and more.
Main Features
Robot Brand Independence
RoboDK has a library of over 500 robots from more than 50 different manufacturers including ABB, Fanuc, Kuka, Motoman, Hwashi Robots and Universal Robots.
User Interface
The user interface enables easy simulation and doesn't require any previous programming knowledge.
File Format
Different types of files can be imported including step and iges files. RoboDK post processors allow for programs to be exported to an actual robot including, ABB Rapid (mod/prg), Fanuc LS (LS/TP), Kuka KRC/IIWA (SRC/java), Motoman Inform (JBI), Universal Robots (urscript), Hwashi (C＋＋), Kawasaki (Python and C＋＋) and more.
References
External links
Simulation software
Robotics simulation software
Simulation programming languages
Industrial robotics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosphingobium%20oryzae | Novosphingobium oryzae is a plant-promoting bacterium from the genus Novosphingobium.
References
External links
Type strain of Novosphingobium oryzae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteria described in 2016
Sphingomonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVi5%20Monde | TiVi5 Monde (), stylized as TiVi5 MONDE, is an international pay television channel launched at the end of January 2012 by the Francophone network TV5 Monde, which is aimed mainly to French-speaking African children (4–13 years). Its main goal is to teach French to young children through dedicated programs.
In the other regions, TiVi5 Monde is a block on TV5 Monde.
History
The channel was launched in the United States in 2012 exclusively on Dish Network.
On , the channel was launched in Africa, exclusively on Canalsat Horizons, StarSat, and Zuku TV.<ref name=":1" /
On , the channel was launched in the Middle East and North Africa exclusively on Arabsat.
Programming
TiVi5 Monde airs educational programs, cartoons, children's series and games. Starting 2016, 12% of the productions broadcast in the channel are African. All the programs are French-speaking; the channel doesn't make any French dubbing of American series. Its programs both playful and educational are broadcast without advertising.
This is a list of the programs formerly or currently broadcast on the channel:
See also
Gulli Africa
References
External links
(USA)
(USA)
Television networks in the United States
Television channels in Belgium
Television channels in Flanders
France Télévisions
French-language television networks
French-language television stations
International broadcasters
Mass media in Paris
France Médias Monde
Francophonie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdmapping | Crowdmapping is a subtype of crowdsourcing by which aggregation of crowd-generated inputs such as captured communications and social media feeds are combined with geographic data to create a digital map that is as up-to-date as possible on events such as wars, humanitarian crises, crime, elections, or natural disasters. Such maps are typically created collaboratively by people coming together over the Internet.
The information can typically be sent to the map initiator or initiators by SMS or by filling out a form online and are then gathered on a map online automatically or by a dedicated group. In 2010, Ushahidi released "Crowdmap" − a free and open-source platform by which anyone can start crowdmapping projects.
Uses
Crowdmapping can be used to track fires, floods, pollution, crime, political violence, the spread of disease and bring a level of transparency to fast-moving events that are difficult for traditional media to adequately cover, or problem areas and longer-term trends and that may be difficult to identify through the reporting of individual events.
During disasters the timeliness of relevant maps is critical as the needs and locations of victims may change rapidly.
The use of crowdmapping by authorities can improve situational awareness during an incident and be used to support incident response.
Crowdmaps are an efficient way to visually demonstrate the geographical spread of a phenomenon.
Examples
HealthMap is a freely accessible, automated electronic information system in operation since 2006 that monitors, organizes, and visualizes reports of global disease outbreaks according to geography, time, and infectious disease agent that also crowdsources user data.
2007–08 Kenyan crisis
In the 2010 Haiti earthquake the Ushahidi crowdmapping platform was used to map more than 3584 events in close to real time, including breakout of fires and people trapped under buildings.
One week after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 the Safecast project was launched that loaned volunteers cheap Geiger counters to measure local levels of radioactivity (or volunteers purchased their own device). This data was mapped and made publicly available through their website.
Hurricane Irene in 2011
In 2012 the Danish daily newspaper and online title Dagbladet Information mapped the positions of surveillance cameras by encouraging readers to use a free Android and iOS app to photograph and geolocate CCTV cameras.
In 2013, predict the reemergence of cicada swarms, WNYC—a public radio station in New York City—asked residents of certain areas to use sensors to track the soil temperature. The crowd-reported temperatures were displayed on a map on WNYC’s website.
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
See also
3D reconstruction from multiple images
Sensor journalism
Crisis mapping
Mass collaboration
Big data
Data activism
Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response
Participatory monitoring
Heat map
Crowdsensing
Participatory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno%20Radiation%20Vault | Juno Radiation Vault is a compartment inside the Juno spacecraft that houses much of the probe's electronics and computers, and is intended to offer increased protection of radiation to the contents as the spacecraft endures the radiation environment at planet Jupiter. The Juno Radiation Vault is roughly a cube, with walls made of 1 cm thick (1/3 of an inch) titanium metal, and each side having an area of about a square meter (10 square feet). The vault weighs about 200 kg (500 lbs). Inside the vault are the main command and data handling and power control boxes, along with 20 other electronic boxes. The vault should reduce the radiation exposure by about 800 times, as the spacecraft is exposed to an anticipated 20 million rads of radiation It does not stop all radiation, but significantly reduces it in order to limit damage to the spacecraft's electronics.
Summary
The vault has been compared being like "armor" or like a "tank", and the electronics within, like the spacecraft's "brain". The power systems have been described as a "heart".
The vault is one of many features of the mission to help counter the high radiation levels near Jupiter, including an orbit that reduces time spent in the highest radiation regions, radiation-hardened electronics, and additional shielding on components. The wires that lead out from the vault also have increased protection, they have a sheath of braided copper and stainless steel. Some other components used tantalum metal for shielding in Juno, and while lead is known for its shielding effect it was found to be too soft in this application. One reason that titanium was chosen over lead in this application was because titanium was better at handling launch stresses.
Another shield part of the spacecraft is the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU), which has six times the shielding to prevent static forming on images due to radiation.
Juno is a space probe sent to Jupiter in 2011 and it entered orbit the night of July 4, 2016. Juno is part of the New Frontiers program of NASA and was also built with some contributions by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). After arriving at Jupiter in July 2016, the mission went into a 53-day orbit around the planet, and collected data using its suite of instrumentation in the late 2010s.
Inside the vault
There are at least 20 different electronics boxes inside the vault, which is intended to reduce the amount of radiation they receive.
Examples of components inside the vault:
Command and data handling box
RAD750 microprocessor
Power and data distribution unit
Thermistor temperature sensors
UVS instrument electronics box
Waves instrument receivers and electronics box
Microwave Radiometer electronics
JADE instrument Ebox (or E-Box)
Low-Voltage Power Supply Module
Instrument Processing Board
Sensor Interface Board
High-Voltage Power Supplies (two)
JEDI and JunoCam do not have electronic boxes inside the vault.
Technological relations
A Ganymede orbiter proposal also included a design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Polsat | Super Polsat is a Polish television channel, launched on 2 January 2017. The channel provides programming with audio description and closed captioning for visually and hearing impaired.
Programming
Super Polsat broadcasts mainly light entertainment shows known from Polsat, such as talent shows (e.g. Dancing with the Stars. Taniec z gwiazdami, Must Be the Music. Tylko muzyka), reality shows (e.g. Wyspa przetrwania, Farma), TV series (e.g. Przyjaciółki, Świat według Kiepskich) and classic Polish films. A portion of programming is centred around disabilities.
Original programming include:
Joker – game show based on Turkish Joker (2017–2018);
Taxi kasa – game show based on British Cash Cab (2018);
Łowcy nagród – game show based on Israeli Raid the Cage (2020);
Pierwsza klasa – a pseudo-documentary series licensed from Dutch Brugklas (2018);
Tatuśkowie – comedy TV series (2021);
Miasto długów – TV series (2020);
Kopernik była kobietą – popular science magazine (since 2020);
SuperLudzie – documentary series about impaired people (2017–2019);
Małe wielkie marzenia – impaired people's home makeovers (ca. 2018);
Pozytywka SuperMagazyn – documentary series about impaired people's everyday life (ca. 2018–2019);
Flesz Integracja – news magazine about issues of handicapped persons (2018).
External links
Polsat
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Poland
Polish-language television stations
Mass media in Warsaw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20Moon | David A. Moon is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on the Lisp programming language, as co-author of the Emacs text editor, as the inventor of ephemeral garbage collection, and as one of the designers of the Dylan programming language. Guy L. Steele Jr. and Richard P. Gabriel (1993) name him as a leader of the Common Lisp movement and describe him as "a seductively powerful thinker, quiet and often insulting, whose arguments are almost impossible to refute".
Work
Maclisp, a variant of Lisp developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Richard Greenblatt in the late 1960s, originally ran on the PDP-6 and PDP-10 computers made by Digital Equipment Corporation. In the early 1970s, Moon headed a project at MIT that reimplemented Maclisp on a different kind of computer, the Honeywell 6180 running the Multics operating system. The compiler that he developed, NCOMPLR, became the "standard against which all other Lisp compilers were measured". As part of this project, he also wrote what became the standard manual for Maclisp more generally,
titled the MacLISP Reference Manual but often called the Moonual.
Moon was one of the original members of Greenblatt's project to develop the MIT Lisp Machine, beginning in 1974. In 1976, with Steele, he wrote the first (TECO-based) version of the Emacs text editor, and in 1978 with Daniel Weinreb he coauthored the manual for the Lisp Machine, known as the chine nual. With Howard Cannon, he developed Flavors, a system for doing object-oriented programming with multiple inheritance on the Lisp Machine.
As part of the Lisp Machine project, he also invented ephemeral garbage collection, an advance that led to the widespread use of continuously-operating garbage collection systems in Lisp more generally.
When Symbolics was founded in 1980 to commercialize the Lisp Machine, he became one of its founders. He continued to develop new hardware and software at Symbolics, and was listed as a Symbolics Fellow in 1989, but left the company in 1990 to join a project to develop a new operating system. He also made important contributions to the standardization of Common Lisp.
Later, he worked for Apple Computer, where he became one of "the primary contributors to the language design" for the Dylan programming language.
References
External links
Programming Language for Old Timers, David A. Moon, updated April 2012
Lunar Programming Language, David A. Moon, updated 2020
American computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Computer programmers
Living people
Lisp (programming language) people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datatrak | Datatrak was a hyperbolic radio navigation system similar to Decca, which operated on frequencies between 130 kHz and 150 kHz in the LF-range.
Datatrak was operated in the UK by Securicor Information Systems and by Siemens-Datatrak on continental Europe and was originally used for the surveillance of vehicles of Securicor, but later also allowed for the use of other customers.
The Datatrak receiver determines its exact position from the LF signals and transmits its position back to the central in Swindon, UK by UHF radio links, whereby also the transmission of telemetry data was possible. Datatrak was in use from the 1980s until the first half of the first decade in the 21st century in use in Germany, UK, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands. While the original UK network was shut down at midnight on October 31, 2011, it was also in use in some countries outside Europe and was for example in use in Argentina until 2014 .
References
External links
Looking for "Datatrak" info / recordings of ~130-145kHz LF radio band
Looking up a station?
Radio navigation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Inventory%20of%20Architectural%20Heritage | The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) maintains a central database of the architectural heritage of the Republic of Ireland covering the period since 1700 in complement to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland, which focuses on archaeological sites of the pre-1700 period. As of 2022, there are over 50,000 records in the database, including buildings, monuments, street furniture and other structures. It does not cover Northern Ireland.
Buildings recorded in the database are given a rating, either national or regional.
Formation
The NIAH is a unit of the Heritage Division within the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The unit was founded in 1990 to address the obligations of the Convention for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe of which Ireland is signatory. Initially, the NIAH existed only on a non-statutory basis with the task to create and maintain an inventory of to be protected buildings and sites. The legal framework for the NIAH was established with the Architectural Heritage (National Inventory) and Historic Monuments (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act of 1999 which introduced access rights to the interior of buildings for the NIAH and preservation obligations for the local planning authorities. The subsequent Planning and Development Act 2000 delegated the responsibility to maintain records of protected structures (RPS) to the planning authorities, leaving the role to identify and document significant objects of architectural heritage to NIAH.
Operation
Surveying started in 1991 and focused first on towns. Clare was the first county to perform a county survey. Each building covered by one of the surveys is rated on a scale that includes the values "record only", "local", "regional", "national", and "international" where usually objects of at least regional significance are considered for protection. In 2001, then minister Síle de Valera used the result of these surveys to recommend the inclusion of 2,155 buildings in the record of protected structures by the respective planning authorities. As a full survey of the entire country using the same approach as for the town surveys was assumed to take more than 100 years, it was decided to begin with interim county surveys that focused on buildings with at least of regional significance. The surveys were published on CD-ROMs and online. The dataset has been published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. In addition, a series of books was published, each presenting the highlights of one of the surveys. As of 2017, 33 volumes were published.
Another surveying project of the NIAH focuses on historic gardens and designed landscapes. These surveys started by comparing the 19th-century maps of the Ordnance Survey against aerial photography and were followed by on-site evaluations. In June 2009, the NIAH won the Europa Nostra Award for this project.
See also
Record of Monuments and Places
National monument (Ireland)
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20for%20Digital%20Response | Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response (AIDR) is a free and open source platform to filter and classify social media messages related to emergencies, disasters, and humanitarian crises. It has been developed by the Qatar Computing Research Institute and awarded the Grand Prize for the 2015 Open Source Software World Challenge.
Muhammad Imran stated that he and his team "have developed novel computational techniques and technologies, which can help gain insightful and actionable information from online sources to enable rapid decision-making" - according to him the system "combines human intelligence with machine learning techniques, to solve many real-world challenges during mass emergencies and health issues".
How to use
It can be used by logging in with ones Twitter credentials and by collecting tweets by specifying keywords or hashtags, like #ChileEarthquake, and possibly a geographical region as well.
Use
It has been deployed in conjunction with UNICEF in Zambia to classify short messages related to AIDS/HIV received through the U-Report platform.
AIDR was used for the first time during the 2010 Pakistan floods. The first real test of AIDR took place during the 2014 Iquique earthquake in Chile.
Related talks and events
Muhammad Imran delivered a keynote talk on the science behind the AIDR system at the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (ISCRAM).
Abdelkader Lattab and Ji Lucas also presented the system at the 2016 QCRI-IBM Data Science Connect event.
See also
Crowdmapping
Digital humanitarianism
Social media analytics
Social media mining
References
External links
Emergency management software
Free artificial intelligence applications
Social information processing
Mass media monitoring
Social media
Twitter
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20House%20Tonight | Full House Tonight is a 2017 Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Regine Velasquez, it premiered on February 18, 2017 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up replacing Kapuso Movie Night. The show concluded on May 27, 2017 with a total of 14 episodes. It was replaced by Celebrity Bluff in its timeslot.
Cast
Regine Velasquez
Solenn Heussaff
Miguel Tanfelix
Bianca Umali
Joross Gamboa
Kim Idol
Nar Cabico
Tammy Brown
Terry Gian
Boobay
Philip Lazaro
To the Top
One Up
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement, the pilot episode of Full House Tonight earned an 11.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 6.7% rating in Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes.
Accolades
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202008%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the Monitor Latino number-one songs of 2008. Chart rankings are based on airplay across radio states in Mexico using radio tracking data. Charts are ranked from Monday to Sunday. Besides the general chart, Monitor Latino published "Pop", "Regional Mexican" and "Anglo" charts.
Chart history
General
In 2008, nine songs reached number one on the General chart; all of these songs were entirely in Spanish. Eight acts achieved their first General number-one song in Mexico: Belanova, Juanes, Julieta Venegas, Ha*Ash, Reik, Luis Fonsi, La Oreja de Van Gogh and Banda El Recodo.
"El presente" by Julieta Venegas was the longest-running General number-one of the year, staying at the top position for eleven consecutive weeks, and "Cada Que..." by Belanova was best-performing song of the year.
Pop
Regional
English
See also
List of Top 20 songs for 2008 in Mexico
List of number-one albums of 2008 (Mexico)
References
2008
Number-one songs
Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202017 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each single's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2017, there were 16 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one of the year was "Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi. The final number-one single of the year was also "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)", which spent the last four weeks atop the chart.
The most successful single on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2017 was "Can't Stop" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which hs spent a total of 20 weeks at number one. Royal Blood have been number one for six weeks with two releases, Linkin Park were number one for five weeks with "Numb", Foo Fighters have spent five weeks at number one with "Run" and "The Sky Is a Neighborhood", The Darkness have spent four weeks at number one with "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)", Guns N' Roses have spent three weeks at number one with "Sweet Child o' Mine", and Thirty Seconds to Mars spent two weeks at number one with "Walk on Water".
Chart history
See also
2017 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2017
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2017 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202017 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2017, there were 32 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Metallica's tenth studio album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, which had been at the top of the chart since 1 December 2016. The final number-one album of the year was the live album One More Light Live by American alternative rock band Linkin Park.
The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2017 was Concrete and Gold by American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, which spent a total of eight weeks at number one. How Did We Get So Dark?, the second studio album by Royal Blood, spent five weeks at number one; Thunder's Rip It Up and Queens of the Stone Age's Villains were each number one for three weeks; and five albums – Night People by You Me at Six, Return to Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield, Infinite by Deep Purple, Is This the Life We Really Want? by Roger Waters and Paranormal by Alice Cooper – all spent two weeks at number one during the year.
Chart history
See also
2017 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2017
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2017 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodie%20%28software%29 | In computing, Hoodie is an open-source JavaScript package, that enables offline-first, front-end web development by providing a complete backend infrastructure. It aims to allow developers to rapidly develop web applications using only front-end code by providing a backend based on Node.js and Apache CouchDB. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows.
Hoodie is produced by the Hoodie Open Source Project, founded by Jan Lehnardt and Gregor Martynus in 2011 and first released in 2013. It is written in JavaScript and released as free software under the Apache License 2.0
Overview
Hoodie is designed to abstract away the configuration and communication between the database backend and allow web-based front end development using simple calls to the Hoodie API. Hoodie uses CouchDB to store data for the application. If the application is offline and cannot access the CouchDB database, data is stored locally on the device in the offline PouchDB database. The data will later be synced to CouchDB when the connection to the server is re-established, using CouchDB's database synchronisation feature.
Hoodie depends on Node.js and Node Package Manager (npm) to allow it to be used from the command line and to provide other tools for Hoodie projects. When Hoodie and its dependencies are installed, a skeleton project directory and basic files to start an application including index.html and main.js are created. Hoodie can also be used with large web application frameworks including Backbone.js, Ember.js, and AngularJS.
The core Hoodie package is targeted at creating personal applications and saving user data to personal storage areas. For instance, for to-do lists, memos or favourite book lists. A set of basic commands is provided to achieve these functions, which includes user signup, login, store, and more. Hoodie extensions provide functions beyond the core backend commands. Extensions can be written by anyone and use the npm package system. For instance, an extension to store data globally and allow multiple users to share and collaborate on the same data can be installed.
Architecture
The core structure of Hoodie is to provide a JavaScript package that provides API calls to store data on CouchDB or offline on PouchDB. The user does not need to understand how the online/offline synchronisation works. The backend is dealt with by simple commands to store and retrieve data.
Example of the store function:
hoodie.store.add(type, object);
The hoodie.store.add function adds an object to a personal database store. The type parameter is where the object will be stored in CouchDB. CounchDB is a noSQL database and as such does not have tables but the 'type' identifier is similar to adding to a particular table in a database. This allows data/documents of a similar type to be stored, queried or retrieved using the same type identifier.
Full example of store function:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexing%20software | Indexing software consists of computer applications that help to build an index (like this one:Index of branches of science).
Features
There are several methodologies for indexing:
Standalone indexing applications enable an indexer to create an index as a separate document, later to be integrated into the original text, by manually entering headings and page numbers or other locators. Such applications collate, alphabetize, and sort the raw input to create a formatted index.
Embedded indexing includes the index headings in the midst of the text itself, but surrounded by codes so that they are not normally displayed. A usable index is then generated automatically from the embedded text using the position of the embedded headings to determine the locators. Thus, when the pagination is changed the index can be regenerated with the new locators.
Tagging allows indexing codes to be embedded in the text after the indexing is complete. The indexer inserts numbered dummy tags in the files, and then builds the index separately
Many word processors and desktop publishing software have integrated automated indexing functions. These tools build a concordance or word lists from processed files. They have often limited usage.
AI and machine-learning approaches have not yet matured to the point where they can create finished or near-finished indexes.
See also
Subject indexing
concordance
tf-idf
References
Book publishing
Book design
Information science
Publishing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolgirl%20Strikers | is a Japanese social network game developed and published by Square Enix.
Plot
The newly established private high school for girls, Goryoukan Academy, has a hidden face that people on the outside don't know about. The world you know is under threat by aliens, named "Oburi" (apparitions). These enemies are too strong for normal humans, and are especially threatening due to the fact that they can travel through to the 'fourth' dimension where they can be safe. For some reason, certain young girls are able to harness the power to transverse these dimensions, and enter a 'fifth' dimension - a parallel universe.
The only ones capable of fighting this enemy of mankind are girls known as "Strikers", who have the ability to sense the fifth dimension. Goryoukan Academy is actually an organization that seeks out girls who are more than meets the eye and trains them up for the "Fifth Force", a combat force created to subjugate the Oburi.
There are endless amounts of parallel universes, all of which are similar but run in their own way. The Strikers are able to fight the Oburi by searching these alternate worlds for alternative "memory cards" (Memoca) costumes that are usable by them and effective against the "Oburi".
You have been chosen by a mysterious person to lead a group of 5 girls in defeating an enemy that is threatening to destroy the world. Why you were chosen and who you are yourself is a mystery...
Characters
Fifth Force
2nd Team - Coconut Vega
Hazuki Shiranui (Leader)
Mari Yukishiro
Imina Ibuki
Ryoko Shinonome
Ako Takamine
3rd Team - Procyon Pudding
Amane Kyoubashi (Leader)
Sasa Momokawa
Haruka Kurimoto
Rinoda Mano
Itsumi Natsume
4th Team - Biscuit Sirius
Niho Hinomiya (Leader)
Isari Haishima
Kagari Haishima
Yukie Aoi
Kaede Yamabuki
5th Team - Almond Fomalhaut
Charlotte Weiss (Leader)
Tatiana Alexandrovna Krovskaya
Faye Lee
Monica Blueash
Noel-Jaune Beart
6th Team - Altair Torte
Tsubame Miyama (Leader)
Satoka Sumihara
Io Yaginuma
Yumi Sajima
Mana Namori
7th Team - Schokolad Mira
Aoi Uraba (Leader)
Chitose Yui/Yui Chitose
Hotaru Sakamiya/Sakamiya Hotaru
Shiori Kannagi/Kannagi Shiori
Chika Wakatsuki/Wakatsuki Chika
Others
Sachiko Tanaka
Akara Origami
Hina Origami
Koori Origami
Morgana
Koharu Minato
Midori Hayakasaka
Tierra Sensei
NPCs
Moshune - モシュネ
Hana-chan - ハナちゃん
Gameplay
Schoolgirl Strikers is a card collecting mobile game with RPG and visual novel influences. It was released in 2014 and is available for iOS and Android devices. Some of the things that make Schoolgirl Strikers different from your average card collecting game are the special story missions and the 3D battle system; along with the ability to dress the girls up as you see fit. The way the battle system as a whole works is also quite different; you can choose any girls you want (limited to 5 at a time) to be in your team as long as you have at least one card of them. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean%20Oil | Aegean Oil S.A. () is a Greek oil company. It was an affiliated company of Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (AMPNI). The company is owned by the Melissanidis family.
Aegean Oil began its activities in the retail market in the early 2000 and became known for a network of gas stations opened throughout Greece. As of 2022, Aegean Oil has more than 700 gas stations across Greece.
See also
Energy in Greece
References
External links
Oil and gas companies of Greece
Greek brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Daniel%20Boissonnat | Jean-Daniel Boissonnat (born 18 May 1953) is a French computer scientist, who works as a director of research at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA).
He is an invited professor of computational geometry at the Collège de France, holding the Chair in Informatics and Computational Sciences for 2016–2017.
Boissonat was one of the founders of the CGAL project for implementing geometric algorithms.
With Mariette Yvinec, he is the author of the book Algorithmic Geometry (Cambridge University Press, 1998, translated from a 1995 edition in French). With Yvinec and Frédéric Chazal, he is the coauthor of Geometric and Topological Inference (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Awards and honours
1987: IBM award in Computer Science
2006: EADS award in Information Sciences
2006: Knight of National Order of Merit
2013: ANR Digital Technology Award
References
External links
French computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
1953 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlexNet | AlexNet is the name of a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, designed by Alex Krizhevsky in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, who was Krizhevsky's Ph.D. advisor at the University of Toronto.
AlexNet competed in the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge on September 30, 2012. The network achieved a top-5 error of 15.3%, more than 10.8 percentage points lower than that of the runner up. The original paper's primary result was that the depth of the model was essential for its high performance, which was computationally expensive, but made feasible due to the utilization of graphics processing units (GPUs) during training.
Historic context
AlexNet was not the first fast GPU-implementation of a CNN to win an image recognition contest. A CNN on GPU by K. Chellapilla et al. (2006) was 4 times faster than an equivalent implementation on CPU. A deep CNN of Dan Cireșan et al. (2011) at IDSIA was already 60 times faster and outperformed predecessors in August 2011. Between May 15, 2011 and September 10, 2012, their CNN won no fewer than four image competitions. They also significantly improved on the best performance in the literature for multiple image databases.
According to the AlexNet paper, Cireșan's earlier net is "somewhat similar." Both were originally written with CUDA to run with GPU support. In fact, both are actually just variants of the CNN designs introduced by Yann LeCun et al. (1989) who applied the backpropagation algorithm to a variant of Kunihiko Fukushima's original CNN architecture called "neocognitron." The architecture was later modified by J. Weng's method called max-pooling.
In 2015, AlexNet was outperformed by Microsoft Research Asia's very deep CNN with over 100 layers, which won the ImageNet 2015 contest.
Network design
AlexNet contained eight layers; the first five were convolutional layers, some of them followed by max-pooling layers, and the last three were fully connected layers. The network, except the last layer, is split into two copies, each run on one GPU. The entire structure can be written as where
CNN = convolutional layer (with ReLU activation)
RN = local response normalization
MP = maxpooling
FC = fully connected layer (with ReLU activation)
Linear = fully connected layer (without activation)
DO = dropout
It used the non-saturating ReLU activation function, which showed improved training performance over tanh and sigmoid.
Influence
AlexNet is considered one of the most influential papers published in computer vision, having spurred many more papers published employing CNNs and GPUs to accelerate deep learning. As of early 2023, the AlexNet paper has been cited over 120,000 times according to Google Scholar.
References
Deep learning software
Object recognition and categorization
Neural network architectures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Magenta | Muriel Magenta née Zimmerman is an American visual artist working in new media genres of computer art, installation, multimedia performance as well as video and sculpture. Magenta is Professor of Art at Arizona State University.
Education
Magenta received a BA from Queens College, in New York City, an MA from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and an MFA and PhD from Arizona State University.
Work
Magenta's installations involve the interface between electronic media and the audience, creating visual/perceptual experiences within actual spaces, transforming them into hybrids between virtual environments and lived space. Magenta's video art in the 1980s used controversial techniques such as leaving all crew members uncredited and using a pastiche style utilizing entire segments from the work of peers. Coincidentally, this style was popularized more prominently in the film industry by Quentin Tarantino in the 1990s who instead was candid about his influences from different genres. Magenta has had solo exhibitions at the University of Southern California, Kansas City Art Institute, LACE: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, among others. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brussels International Film Festival, European Media Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, SIGGRAPH among others.
Magenta served as the National President of the Women's Caucus for Art, and has been involved in the women's art movement for decades in leadership positions. She has curated exhibitions, such as Push Comes to Shove: Women and Power, in collaboration with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Arizona State University.
Videography
Bride (Tempe, Arizona: Muriel Magenta, 2000?).
Club M (Tempe, Arizona: Muriel Magenta, 2009?).
Coiffure Carnival Trilogy (Tempe, Ariz.: Muriel Magenta, 2000?). Includes: Coiffure Carnival: A Permanent Wave of Hair—Salon Doo—In Defense of a Hairdo.
The World's Women On-line!: Videowall. 1995
Times Square: 3D Animation (Arizona: Magenta Productions, 2002).
Token City (Tempe, Ariz.: Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, 1997).
28 Women: A Chance for Independence: Documentary (Tempe, AZ: M. Magenta, 2005).
Virtual Justice (Ariz.: Magenta Productions, 1993).
Exhibitions
Muriel Magenta Coiffure Carnival, Video/Sculpture: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 29-May 30, 1990. Curated by Robert E. Knight; exhibition catalog essays by J. Gray Sweeney.
Awards
In 2002 Women's Caucus for Art awarded her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
References
Feminist artists
American digital artists
American video artists
Arizona State University alumni
Arizona State University faculty
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women digital artists
American women academics
21st-century American women artists
20th-ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20European%20Union%20member%20states%20by%20health%20expense%20per%20person | This is a list of European Union member states by health expense per person.
Map
The table uses 2013 data from the World Bank. Numbers are in international dollar.
Table
The table uses an interval of years from the World Bank. Numbers are in international dollars.
See also
List of European Union member states by minimum wage
List of European Union member states by average wage
Economy of the European Union
Plotted maps
European countries by electricity consumption per person
European countries by employment in agriculture (% of employed)
European countries by fossil fuel use (% of total energy)
European countries by military expenditure as a percentage of government expenditure
European countries by percent of population aged 0-14
European countries by percentage of urban population
European countries by percentage of women in national parliaments
List of sovereign states in Europe by life expectancy
List of sovereign states in Europe by number of Internet users
References
External links
EU
Health expense per person
Member states by health expense per person
Health and the European Union
Lists of countries by per capita values |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20fraud | Ad fraud (also referred to as Click Fraud or PPC Fraud) is concerned with the practice of fraudulently representing online advertisement impressions, clicks, conversion or data events in order to generate revenue. Ad-frauds are particularly popular among cybercriminals.
While ad fraud is frequently associated with banner ads, video ads and in-app ads, click fraud has been associated with search marketing, mobile advertising and conversion fraud with affiliate marketing. AppsFlyer estimates financial exposure to app install fraud in Q1 of 2018 was as much as $800 million.
Ad fraud is the categorical term inclusive of all forms of online advertising fraud. A successful ad-fraud campaign generally involves a sophisticated combination of Identity fraud and attribution fraud: for instance, sending fake traffic through bots using fake social accounts and falsified cookies; bots will click on the ads available on a scam page that is faking a famous brand. In 2004 Google's CFO George Reyes said that fraud is the biggest threat to internet economy with the first research paper covering the topic in 1999 or earlier. In 2016 World Federation of Advertisers published its first guidance on Ad fraud to advise its members on how to counter the problem allegedly eating close to US$20 billion of its members ad budgets in 2015.
Comparison with other Cybercrime
In a 2017 report Juniper Research estimates ad fraud to be worth US$19 billion equivalent to $51 million per day. This figure, representing advertising on online and mobile devices, will continue to rise, reaching $44 billion by 2022. Ad fraud is the #1 cybercrime in terms of revenue, ahead of Tax-refund fraud. HP Enterprise in its Business of Hacking report highlighted ad fraud as the easiest and the most lucrative form of Cybercrime.
Important Classifications
Types of Fraud
Bots / Non-Human Traffic Ad Fraud
Click Farms Ad Fraud
Ad Injection Fraud
Domain Spoofing
Cookie Stuffing
Source:
Responses to Ad Fraud
In 2017, P&G and Chase suspended their digital ad budget of $200 million dollars and reduced their ad shares from 400,000 to 5,000 in an attempt to reduce their exposure to ad fraud.
Sources of Traffic
Botnets
Cloudots / data centers
Browser Toolbars
Infected software (Malware)
Paid to click (PTC) websites
Click Farms
Formats
Banner
Video
In-App
Social
Types of mobile ad fraud
Online advertising fraud is a leading concern amongst almost 50% of mobile marketers according to a report from iotec. Ad measurement and verification vendor TrafficGuard reports 7 different types of mobile ad fraud across 2 different categories:
Sourced Traffic
In a recent publication by Association of National Advertisers sourced traffic was reported as a notable form of ad fraud, a practice where companies partaking in the formal online advertising market buy fraudulent traffic to resell it as legitimate. Sourced traffic has been mistakenly referred to as arbitrage, because buying Sourced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zymic%20Jaranilla | Zymic Demigod Lara Jaranilla (born 20 May 2004) is a Filipino actor.
Jaranilla is a GMA Network contract artist. His first appearance in TV was May Bukas Pa which it broadcast on ABS-CBN, where he played as Junjun.
Personal life
Jaranilla is the youngest and the 3rd sibling within the Jaranilla family. He lives with his father, his grandmother, and his two older brothers. He is the brother of Zaijian Jaranilla which is a contract artist of Star Magic, the talent management agency of GMA Network's rival ABS-CBN.
Filmography
References
2004 births
Living people
Filipino male child actors
ABS-CBN personalities
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
GMA Network personalities
People from Marinduque |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20TV | Republic TV is an Indian English-language news channel by Republic Media Network, co-founded by Arnab Goswami and Rajeev Chandrasekhar. It is the Flagship channel of Republic Media Network.
Republic TV has been accused of practicing biased reporting in favour of the ruling BJP and stifling dissent; it has published fake news and Islamophobic rhetoric on multiple occasions. It has been convicted of breaching Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and News Broadcasting Standards Authority rules. Republic TV is being investigated by the Mumbai Police after being accused of manipulating the viewership ratings. The inflated TRP was allegedly used to bargain higher revenues from advertisers.
History
Launch
The channel was launched on 6 May 2017 as a free-to-air channel through most direct-to-home television in India and cable television operators, alongside over mobile platforms such as JioTV and Hotstar. Reporting on its launch, Business Standard wrote "The company has already hired 300 people, of whom 215 are on board. A state-of-the-art-studio is being built in Mumbai's Lower Parel area."
Notable events
Press conference ban by Indian National Congress
Reporters from the channel have been banned from attending any press conference of the Indian National Congress, citing them being subject to incessantly aggressive attacks by the channel.
Defamation
In May 2017, parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor filed a civil defamation case in the Delhi High Court against Goswami and Republic TV in connection with the channel's broadcast of news items from 8 to 13 May claiming him to be involved in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's unnatural death. Seeking the channel's response, Justice Manmohan of the High Court noted: "Bring down the rhetoric. You can put out your story, you can put out the facts. You cannot call him names. That is uncalled for."
IP rights infringement
In May 2017, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL) lodged a complaint against Goswami and Prema Sridevi, a journalist with Republic TV, under the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act, 2000 accusing them of copyright infringement. BCCL alleged that the two, previously employed with Times Now, that it owns and operates, had used its intellectual property (IP) in telecasting certain audio tapes that were in their possession during their time at the former Channel. Alongside IP infringement, the complaint also alleged the commission of offenses of theft, criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of property, on the two, on multiple occasions days after the channel's launch.
Regulatory censures
In 2018, News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA), the broadcasting regulator of India, demanded Republic TV to tender a full-screen apology for use of multiple objectionable words to describe a bunch of people at a political rally, who were harassing one of his journalists. Republic TV "removed the video from its website and YouTube account" after receiving the complaint but refused to comply |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisa%20Esage | Alisa Shevchenko (), professionally known as Alisa Esage, is a Russian-born computer security researcher, entrepreneur and hacker with Ukrainian roots. She is known for working independently with dominant software corporations such as Google and Microsoft to find and exploit security weaknesses in their products; being the first female participant in Pwn2Own, the world's premiere professional hacking competition with significant cash prizes; and being accused by the government of the United States of hacking the presidential elections in 2016.
Alisa Esage is the owner of Zero Day Engineering, an expert firm offering specialized training and consulting in software vulnerability research.
Biography
A self-described "offensive security researcher," a 2014 profile in Forbes says of Esage: "she was more drawn to hacking than programming." After dropping out of university she worked as a malware analysis expert for Kaspersky Labs for five years. In 2009, she founded the company Esage Labs, later known as ZOR Security (the Russian acronym stands for Цифровое Оружие и Защита, "Digital Weapons and Defense.")
Esage's company ZOR Security was placed on a list of US sanctioned entities after being accused of "helping Vladimir Putin bid to swing the [2016] election for Trump". Regarding White House accusations, Esage stated that authorities either misinterpreted facts or were deceived. To this day, U.S. officials have not said why they believe Esage worked with the GRU's hackers, or what she allegedly gave them.
In early 2021, Esage announced the Zero Day Engineering project, specialized on professional training, research intelligence, and consulting in the area of advanced computer security and vulnerability research.
Esage has won several international advanced hacking competitions, spoke at multiple international security conferences, and published technical articles in top-tier technical magazines.
Achievements
In 2014 Esage took the first place in the PHDays IV "Critical Infrastructure Attack" contest (alternative name: "Hack the Smart City"), successfully hacking a mock-up smart city and detecting several zero-day vulnerabilities in Indusoft Web Studio 7.1 by Schneider Electric.
In 2014-2018 Esage was credited for discovering of multiple zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software products from tech giants such as Microsoft, Firefox, and Google. Part of those vulnerabilities were responsively disclosed via the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) security bounty program, previously owned by U.S. tech giant HP, and credited under various pseudonyms.
Esage has presented her research at multiple international security conferences: RECON, Positive Hack Days, Zero Nights, POC x Zer0con, Chaos Communications Congress.
Her work has been featured in various professional security industry publications such as Virus Bulletin, Secure List, and Phrack Magazine.
Pwn2Own
On 8 April 2021 Esage was the first woman to win in the Pwn2Own, the advanced hacki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneish%20M-score | The Beneish model is a statistical model that uses financial ratios calculated with accounting data of a specific company in order to check if it is likely (high probability) that the reported earnings of the company have been manipulated.
How to calculate
The Beneish M-score is calculated using 8 variables (financial ratios):
Days Sales in Receivables Index
(DSRI)
DSRI = (Net Receivablest / Salest) / (Net Receivablest-1 / Salest-1)
Gross Margin Index (GMI)
GMI = [(Salest-1 - COGSt-1) / Salest-1] / [(Salest - COGSt) / Salest]
Asset Quality Index (AQI)
AQI = [1 - (Current Assetst + PP&Et + Securitiest) / Total Assetst] / [1 - ((Current Assetst-1 + PP&Et-1 + Securitiest-1) / Total Assetst-1)]
Sales Growth Index (SGI)
SGI = Salest / Salest-1
Depreciation Index (DEPI)
DEPI = (Depreciationt-1/ (PP&Et-1 + Depreciationt-1)) / (Depreciationt / (PP&Et + Depreciationt))
Sales General and Administrative Expenses Index (SGAI)
SGAI = (SG&A Expenset / Salest) / (SG&A Expenset-1 / Salest-1)
Leverage Index (LVGI)
LVGI = [(Current Liabilitiest + Total Long Term Debtt) / Total Assetst] / [(Current Liabilitiest-1 + Total Long Term Debtt-1) / Total Assetst-1]
Total Accruals to Total Assets (TATA)
TATA = (Income from Continuing Operationst - Cash Flows from Operationst) / Total Assetst
The formula to calculate the M-score is:
M-score = −4.84 + 0.92 × DSRI + 0.528 × GMI + 0.404 × AQI + 0.892 × SGI + 0.115 × DEPI −0.172 × SGAI + 4.679 × TATA − 0.327 × LVGI
How to interpret
The threshold value is -1.78 for the model whose coefficients are reported above. (see Beneish 1999, Beneish, Lee, and Nichols 2013, and Beneish and Vorst 2020).
If M-score is less than -1.78, the company is unlikely to be a manipulator. For example, an M-score value of -2.50 suggests a low likelihood of manipulation.
If M-score is greater than −1.78, the company is likely to be a manipulator. For example, an M-score value of -1.50 suggests a high likelihood of manipulation.
Aggregate recession predictor
A 2023 research paper will use an aggregate score of many companies to predict recessions. It finds that the score in early 2023 is the highest in some 40 years.
Important notices
Beneish M-score is a probabilistic model, so it cannot detect companies that manipulate their earnings with 100% accuracy.
Financial institutions were excluded from the sample in Beneish paper when calculating M-score since these institutions make money through different routes. Sales and receivables which are two main ingredients that go into the Beneish formula are not used when analyzing a financial institution.
Example of successful application
Enron Corporation was correctly identified 1998 as an earnings manipulator by students from Cornell University using M-score. Noticeably, Wall Street financial analysts were still recommending to buy Enron shares at that point in time.
Further reading on financial statement manipulation
A sequence of articles on Alpha Architect blog.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Hahn%20%28artist%29 | Alexander Hahn (born 1954) is an artist working with electronic media. An artistic innovator in his field, he integrates the time-based form of video with practices of computer imagery and print, animation, virtual reality, installation, and writing. He addresses the electronic image as a technological metaphor for perception, memory and dream: signals oscillate between lighting up and blanking out, between sensory presence, mental apparition and oblivion. As art historian Dominique Radrizzani writes in the catalog Astral Memories of a Flying Man: "It is this luminous realm of dream that Hahn’s great art of light and shadow rediscovers, using video like those infinite eyes which night has opened in us (Novalis) ... The terrains explored by Hahn are not those of the terrestrial globe anymore, but rather those of the ocular globe, the inward looking hemisphere of the eye."
Life
Hahn was born in Zurich and grew up in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland. Introduced to computers while at the gymnasium Kantonsschule Zürcher Oberland in Wetzikon (1966–1973), he created a game of snakes and ladders in the APL (programming language). During his studies in Visual arts education at the Zurich University of the Arts (Bachelor in 1979), he made his first videos and Super8 films, e.g. «Flight and Glass» (1976) or the Mockumentary «Demis» (1977) about the singer Demis Roussos. In 1981, he moved to New York and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP).
In 1990, he spent nine months in Rome as a fellow of the Istituto Svizzero. Between 1991 and 1994, he lived in Berlin, first as a fellow of the DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service, then as Artist-in-residence at ART+COM. From 1995 to 1997, he lived in Warsaw. Today, Hahn lives and works in the Lower East Side of New York City and in Zurich.
Work
In her analysis "Miniature and Series: The Re-invention of the Epistolary Form in the Work of Alexander Hahn", Cathie Payne writes that his "method of engaging with the very small, the fleeting, and the momentary, is part of an intimate, deeply personal and reflexive practice that offers a way to reproach the world through this change of scale - a world in miniature - and to reflect on this strangeness, vastness and beauty of what is found within the context of accelerated urban density and a changing anthropogenic worldview."
Since his first exhibition at the Lucerne Gallery Apropos in 1978, Hahn showed his work worldwide in over 20 solo exhibitions and in over 100 group shows and video festivals. In 2007, the Kunstmuseum Solothurn and Museum der Moderne Salzburg organized a retrospective about his work. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art showed his interactive work "Luminous Point" in 2008 in the bi-personal show "Room for Thought - Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer."
References
1954 births
Living people
Swiss artists
Zurich University of the Arts alumni
Artists from New York City
People from Rapperswil-Jona
Video art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Okasaki | Chris Okasaki is an associate professor of computer science at the United States Military Academy. He authored Purely Functional Data Structures (1998), based on a doctoral dissertation of the same name. He obtained a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 under advisers Peter Lee, Robert Harper, Daniel Sleator, and Robert Tarjan. Prior to his current academic appointment, he taught at Columbia University and the University of Glasgow.
Purely functional data structures
Okasaki published his doctoral dissertation as a book in 1998. It approaches the topic of data structures from a functional programming perspective, describing techniques for designing immutable structures that incorporate persistence.
References
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Columbia University faculty
United States Military Academy faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radinsky | Radinsky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kira Radinsky (born 1986), Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur
Leonard Radinsky (1937–1985), American paleontologist
Scott Radinsky (born 1968), baseball player and singer
See also
Radinska
Radzinsky
Radzinski |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%932019%20United%20Kingdom%20railway%20strikes | Between 2016 and 2019, major industrial action in the form of periodic strikes and protests took place on the national railway network of the island of Great Britain in the United Kingdom. The dispute centred on the planned introduction of driver-only operation (DOO) by several train operating companies, transferring the operation of passenger train doors from the guard to the driver. Later strikes also included disputes over pay rates, planned redundancies and working hours. NI Railways operating Northern Ireland's rail network did not strike. Some of the disputes continued into early 2020, and were resolved by negotiations during the pandemic without further action. Driver-only operation was however proposed again during the 2022–2023 United Kingdom railway strikes, leading to subsequent disputes.
Supporters claimed that DOO will save costs and shorten journey times, although opponents claim that the scheme is unsafe to passengers as drivers may not have as good visibility of the train doors as guards, who are able to step out onto the platform. Opponents also claim that the scheme could lead to hundreds of job losses to train guards, although several train operating companies have denied this, stating that guards will be redeployed to an otherwise equivalent role on board.
The strikes started on 26 April 2016, initially on Govia Thameslink Railway's Southern trains, and have since spread to eight more rail franchises across the country. The strikes were led initially by Mick Cash, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT); the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) joined the strikes in November 2016, followed by the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) in January 2018. Opposition to the strikes was led by then Prime Minister Theresa May and Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling, who labelled the strikes as "appalling" and "palpable nonsense".
Background
In April 2016, Southern introduced a new method of door operation, with control of the doors moving from the conductor to the driver. Southern also proposed that, following the changes to the door operation, conductors would take on an "on-board supervisor role", which would let them concentrate on passengers more than doors, but the RMT and ASLEF described this as an attempt to make conductors unnecessary, and would also be unsafe. However, the rail safety regulator, the Rail Safety and Standards Board, said that "We have 30 years of data which we have analysed. We have found that the driver performing the task does not increase the risk to passengers at all." The BBC suggested that the RMT was particularly worried about the new method of operation because if trains could run without conductors any strike action they took would be ineffectual. As a result of this, the RMT and ASLEF unions went on strike over the changes, causing severe disruption to Southern services.
Industrial action
The strikes b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-PC%20E8 | Embedsky Mini-PC E8 is a postcard sized (100 mm x 65 mm) single-board computer, developed by Guangzhou Embedsky Computer Tech Company.
It features a 32-bit microcomputer processor, as well as many peripheral interfaces similar to personal computers such as power connector, audio interfaces, both VGA and HDMI outputs, a network port, and USB interfaces for connecting WiFi and Bluetooth dongles, a keyboard, and a mouse. It uses A8 kernel, 1 GHz frequency, a built-in SGX540 graphics processor, a 512MB DDR2 storage, and 4GB eMMC FLASH memory. Most notably, it supports Android 4.0.4, as well as Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows CE6 operating systems.
References
Computing by computer model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG%20Bond%3A%20Guarding | GG Bond: Guarding () is a 2017 Chinese computer-animated fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Lu Jinming and Zhong Yu. The film is part of the GG Bond film series, following 2015's GG Bond Movie: Ultimate Battle. It was released in China by Le Vision Pictures on 7 January 2017.
Plot
The legendary G-Watch has the magical power to protect the world. However, it chooses GG Bond as its master, who is regarded as nobody by everyone. Just at that time, Mysterio shows up, aiming to destroy all G-Watches. GG Bond fights against Mysterio fearlessly with his wit and courage, but finds that Mysterio is the grown-up himself coming from the future world!
Cast
Jackson Yee
Chen Yi
Zhang Zikun
Rong Yan
Zhuang Chengsong
Li Taicheng
Liu Qingyang
Chan Chi Wing
Reception
The film has grossed in China.
References
Chinese animated fantasy films
Animated adventure films
Chinese fantasy comedy films
Le Vision Pictures films
2017 computer-animated films
2010s adventure comedy films
2010s fantasy comedy films
Animated films based on animated series
2017 comedy films
Chinese animated comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism%2B%2B | Journalism++ (J++) is a network of private service companies specializing in datajournalism. Founded in 2011, it has chapters in Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Porto, Amsterdam and Cologne.
History
Journalism++ was founded in 2011 par Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Anne Lise Bouyer and Pierre Romera, three former employees of OWNI (fr), a Paris-based news website that pioneered datajournalism in France.
Between 2013 and 2016, Journalism++ coordinated the Migrants' Files project, which aimed at measuring the number of persons who died in their attempt to reach or stay in Europe since 2000, and the cost associated with the so-called Fortress Europe policies. The project brought together 25 journalists and was published by several media outlets, notably Süddeutsche Zeitung, Libération and Český rozhlas in 2014 and 2015. The collected data served as the basis for the database of the International Organization for Migration on the same topic, which started in 2014.
Awards
The Migrants' Files project was awarded the GEN Data Journalism Award in 2014 and the European Press Prize in 2015.
References
External links
Global webpage
Swedish webpage
2011 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20inference%20using%20transcriptomic%20data | In molecular phylogenetics, relationships among individuals are determined using character traits, such as DNA, RNA or protein, which may be obtained using a variety of sequencing technologies. High-throughput next-generation sequencing has become a popular technique in transcriptomics, which represent a snapshot of gene expression. In eukaryotes, making phylogenetic inferences using RNA is complicated by alternative splicing, which produces multiple transcripts from a single gene. As such, a variety of approaches may be used to improve phylogenetic inference using transcriptomic data obtained from RNA-Seq and processed using computational phylogenetics.
Sequence acquisition
There have been several transcriptomics technologies used to gather sequence information on transcriptomes. However the most widely used is RNA-Seq.
RNA-Seq
RNA reads may be obtained using a variety of RNA-seq methods.
Public databases
There are a number of public databases that contain freely available RNA-Seq data.
Assembly
Sequence assembly
RNA-Seq data may be directly assembled into transcripts using sequence assembly.
Two main categories of sequence assembly are often distinguished:
de novo transcriptome assembly - especially important when a reference genome is not available for a given species.
Genome-guided assembly (sometimes mapping or reference-guided assembly) - is capable of using a pre-existing reference to guide the assembly of transcripts
Both methods attempt to generate biologically representative isoform-level constructs from RNA-seq data and generally attempt to associate isoforms with a gene-level construct. However, proper identification of gene-level constructs may be complicated by recent duplications, paralogs, alternative splicing or gene fusions. These complications may also cause downstream issues during ortholog inference. When selecting or generating sequence data, it is also vital to consider the tissue type, developmental stage and environmental conditions of the organisms. Since the transcriptome represents a snapshot of gene expression, minor changes to these conditions may significantly affect which transcripts are expressed. This may detrimentally affect downstream ortholog detection.
Public databases
RNA may also be acquired from public databases, such as GenBank, RefSeq, 1000 Plants (1KP) and 1KITE. Public databases potentially offer curated sequences which can improve inference quality and avoid the computational overhead associated with sequence assembly.
Inferring gene pair orthology/paralogy
Approaches
Orthology or paralogy inference requires an assessment of sequence homology, usually via sequence alignment. Phylogenetic analyses and sequence alignment are often considered jointly, as phylogenetic analyses using DNA or RNA require sequence alignment and alignments themselves often represent some hypothesis of homology. As proper ortholog identification is pivotal to phylogenetic analyses, there are a variety of methods ava |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Innovation%20and%20Competitiveness%20Act | The American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (AICA) is a United States federal law enacted in 2017 by President Barack Obama that aims to invest in cybersecurity and cryptography research. The legislation was initially introduced in the Senate by Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Gary Peters (D-MI). The legislation serves as a reauthorization of the 2010 America COMPETES Act that expired in 2013.
The legislation updates instructions to the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with a director of security position being created in the latter latter. AICA supports the coordination of citizen science and crowdsourcing by Federal agencies to accomplish their missions.
Provisions
As a result of AICA:
Program requirements on the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program, which coordinates advanced computer research across U.S. government agencies, were revised
The Office of Management and Budget was given the responsibility to create an interagency working group to reduce administrative burdens on federally-funded researchers.
Both interagency advisory panel and working groups were created to consider education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
See also
Computer security
Information assurance
Information security
Information security management system
IT risk
Threat (computer)
Vulnerability (computing)
References
Acts of the 114th United States Congress
United States federal government administration legislation
United States federal computing legislation
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Experience%20%28season%2029%29 | Season twenty-nine of the television program American Experience aired on the PBS network in the United States on January 10, 2017 and concluded on April 12, 2017. The season contained eight new episodes and began with the film Command and Control.
Episodes
References
2017 American television seasons
American Experience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%208%29 | The eighth season of the Australian competitive cooking competition show My Kitchen Rules premiered on the Seven Network on 30 January 2017.
Applications for contestants opened during the airing of the seventh season. Pete Evans and Manu Feildel returned as hosts, with Colin Fassnidge who was joined by Darren Robertson in the instant restaurant round.
The start date for the season was confirmed in January 2017, and once again debuted the evening following the network's coverage of the Men's Singles final at the 2017 Australian Open.
Four special episodes of The Chase Australia aired featuring eight teams from this season, premiering on 16 February at 7:30pm.
Format changes
Teams – All 18 teams from three groups appeared from the start of the competition. Although there have been the same number of teams in the past, a third group was usually introduced later in the competition.
Special Guest Judges – Two special celebrity guest judges have appeared alongside the main judging panel for some challenges.
Darren Robertson – Joined Colin Fassnidge as judges for Group 3's Instant Restaurant round.
Curtis Stone – Makes his second appearance as a guest judge alongside Pete and Colin during the fourth People's choice challenge.
Instant Restaurant Sudden Death – This season, the two lowest scoring teams from each round competed against each other in a Sudden Death Cook-Off to determine the team to be eliminated. In previous series, the lowest scoring team at the end of each Instant Restaurant group was immediately eliminated.
Ultimate Instant Restaurants – Eight teams travelled around together in the biggest Instant Restaurant in the show's history.
Teams
Elimination history
Competition details
Instant Restaurants
During the Instant Restaurant rounds, each team hosts a three-course dinner for judges and fellow teams in their allocated group. They are scored and ranked among their group, with the two lowest scoring teams competing in a Sudden Death Cook-Off, where one team is eliminated.
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 6
Air date — 30 January to 7 February
Description — The first of the three instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1. The two lowest scoring teams at the end of this round go through to Sudden Death, where one team is eliminated.
Sudden Death Cook-Off 1
Episode 7
Airdate — 8 February
Description — Being the two bottom scoring teams from Round 1, David & Betty and Bek & Ash will face off in a Sudden Death Cook-Off. The lower scoring team is eliminated.
Round 2
Episodes 8 to 13
Airdate — 12 February to 20 February
Description — The second group now start their Instant Restaurant round. The same rules from the previous round apply and the two lowest scoring teams go to Sudden Death, where one team is eliminated.
Sudden Death Cook-Off 2
Episode 14
Airdate — 21 February
Description — Being the two bottom scoring teams from Round 2, Josh & Amy and Alyse & Matt will compete against each other in a Sudde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%20%28software%29 | SATURN (Simulation and Assignment of Traffic to Urban Road Networks) is a computer program that calculates transport assignment on road networks. It is developed by the University of Leeds and Atkins.
Saturn competes with VISUM by PTV.
References
Traffic simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledger%20%28journal%29 | Ledger is the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology research.
The journal covers topics that relate to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. This includes aspects of mathematics, computer science, engineering, law, economics and philosophy.
The focus according to Wilmer is "blockchain technology research."
It is funded by Coin Center, a nonprofit.
The journal is open access. It is published by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Creation
The idea for the journal was born out of a discussion between managing editors Peter R. Rizun and Christopher E. Wilmer, on the bitcoin forum bitcointalk.org.
Wilmer envisioned ledger as a journal for "people passionate about the technology, to publish their research."
Wilmer called into question the reliability of 'white papers' that became common in the cryptocurrency boom.
According to Wilmer, the Ledger Journal receives two to four submissions a week, and many are of poor quality.
“Occasionally we get submissions with no citations."
Wilmer's vision for Ledger was to use a more a traditional peer review system.
A call for papers was issued on 15 September 2015 with the deadline set to 31 December 2015. However, this was delayed while formalising the review process. The inaugural issue was not published until December 2016.
Related persons and organizations
Rizun is a physicist and entrepreneur, who lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Wilmer is an assistant professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department.
He is the author of Bitcoin for befuddled. Wilmer first used bitcoin to purchase honey caramels from a beekeeper.
The University of Pittsburgh was featured in the documentary The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.
References
External links
Academic journals published by universities and colleges
Biannual journals
Computer science journals
Creative Commons-licensed journals
Cryptography journals
English-language journals
Finance journals
Cryptocurrencies
Academic journals established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic%20Resistance%20Lab%20Network | The Antibiotic Resistance Lab Network (ARLN) is a group of laboratories of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established to supplement the work of local and state public health laboratories in the identification and research of antibiotic resistance. It was created as part of the CDC's National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. The network is part of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Laboratories in this network cover seven regions and are located in Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin, as part of their state health departments.
Antibiotic resistance makes more than 2 million people per year sick. 23,000 people die each year from it.
One of the purposes of the ARLN is the identification of resistance mechanisms. Clinical samples are not routinely tested because it is not needed for patient-level decisions and insurance companies will not reimburse providers. Additionally, the ARLN will bank samples of bacteria containing resistance genes and make them available to researchers for further investigation.
References
Antimicrobial resistance organizations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukasz%20Plawecki | Lukasz Plawecki (; born January 25, 1987) is a Polish lightweight kickboxer, fighting out of HALNY Nowy Sącz Gym, Poland. He is World Kickboxing Network World Super Welterweight Champion, and the ISKA World Super Middleweight champion.
Polish professional boxer who started his sports career in 2021.
Biography and career
Lukas Plawecki started his martial arts training under Andrzej Śliwa in Nowy Sącz. When he moved to Cracow he joined Tomasz Mamulski gym (Polish National Team trainer). Since 2008 he is running his own club Halny Nowy Sącz Gym where he is main coach. He works with Martin Belak, coach in Slovakia Fire Gym during his preparations for professional fights.
Starting from 2006 he fought 29 times in professional kickboxing matches.
In 2015 he fought for Kunlun Fight for the first time. He lost to Superbon Banchamek during Kunlun Fight 25 event. One year later he participated in Kunlun Fight elimination tournament held on Kunlun Fight 46. He was given extra round in semifinal fight against Nishikawa Tomoyuki and two extra rounds in final fight with Tian Xin. He lost to Tian Xin after split decision.
In 2016 he was also competing for King of Kings. In April he scored draw after extra round against Alexandru Prepeliță and in November he won over Viacheslav Tevenish.
On 3 December 2016, during Simple The Best 13 event in Nowa Sol, Poland he won his first World Championship title after defending Lello Perego in five round fight. The event and title were sanctioned by World Kickboxing Network.
In 2017 he was signed by Glory and will make his debut at Glory 38: Chicago.
In 2018 he moved up to -77 kg and in his first fight in new weight class he defeated Wojciech Wierzbicki for Fight Exclusive Night champion belt.
Lukas Plawecki is ranked in first place in "Polish male kickboxers rankings" at Madfight24.com portal.
In 2019 Plawecki won the ISKA World Super Middleweight title, through a decision victory over Rodrigo Mineiro, and successfully defended it with a decision win over Michalis Manoli.
Ciric is scheduled to fight Robin Ciric at Enfusion's September Nijmegen event.
Titles
Professional
2017 MFC Champion Title (-70 kg)
2017 Celtic Gladiator Champion (-70 kg)
2017 International Professional Combat Council K-1 World Champion (-72,5 kg)
2016 WKN World Kickboxing Super Welterweight Champion (-72.6 kg)
2016 Kunlun Fight World Max Group O Tournament Runner Up
2019 ISKA World Super Middleweight Freestyle Kickboxing Champion
One successful title defense
Amateur
2009
Second place on World Cup in Szeged Hungary -71 kg
2006
Third place on World Cup in Szeged Hungary -71 kg
Professional kickboxing record
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|2020-9-5
|Win
| align="left" | Michalis Manoli
|HFO Solpark
|Kleszczów, Poland
|Decision (Unanimous)
|5
|3:00
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|- style="background:#fbb;"
|2019-12-7
|Loss
| align="left" | Sergej Braun
|Mix Fight Championship 27, Tournament Semifinal
|Frankfurt, Ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodata | Nodata may refer to:
A lack of data
Benimakia nodata, a species of sea snail
Microcolona nodata, a species of moth
Pilsbryspira nodata, a species of sea snail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%20%28spreadsheet%20calculator%29 | sc is a cross-platform, free, TUI, spreadsheet and calculator application that runs on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It has also been ported to Windows. It can be accessed through a terminal emulator, and has a simple interface and keyboard shortcuts resembling the key bindings of the Vim text editor. It can be used in a similar manner to other spreadsheet programs, e.g. for financial and budgeting purposes.
The program is based on the ncurses interface library, and has a rich manual page describing its options and configuration. It has a rich mathematical formula library and uses the same file format as Xspread, also supporting plugins as external commands. The program was previously known as vc. sc is already present in the default repositories of popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch Linux.
References
Further reading
External links
Ubuntu Linux manual page
Spreadsheet software
Free software that uses ncurses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafonoteca | Lafonoteca is an online music database and guide service website for Spanish popular music.
Content
As a database, Lafonoteca covers a multitude of styles and genres, from pop, rock and hip-hop to traditional Spanish and world music styles such as flamenco and rumba.
It contains over 1000 biographies of different Spanish bands and artists, including place of origin, time in activity and names of its components. In addition, for each band or artist they have an outlined discography and the most representative, which are rated from one to five stars.
Lafonoteca edit their web content licensed under creative commons.
Other activities
As a parallel activity they have promoted performances by Spanish bands in London to publicize independent Spanish music abroad. They debuted with Triángulo de Amor Bizarro, followed by Pauline en la playa, Joe Crepúsculo and Delorean, among others. Later they began to organize concerts in the Iberian Peninsula. Besides Madrid where the main activity takes place, they have a very active delegation in Barcelona, which since 2011 has organized around a hundred concerts, another one in Oporto is currently open.
In 2011 they started recording with the launch of a compilation titled No te apures mamá, es solo música pop, followed by series released annually. In 2013, with Walden Books, editorial work began with the reissue of Música Moderna by Fernando Márquez originally published in 1981. It was then followed by Saudade, the biography of the Galician musician Andrés do Barro and Batería, Guitarra y Twist in 2016, a book about the origins of Madrid rock.
Discography
VV. AA.: No te apures mamá, es solo música pop (Don't worry mum, it's only pop music) (2011)
VV. AA.: Espectros (Spectres) (2012); together with Discos Walden and Maravillosos Ruidos)
VV. AA.: Madrid está helado (Madrid is frozen) (2012)
VV. AA.: Nuevos bríos (New Energy) (2013)
El Último Vecino / Futuro: Nuevo anochecer #1 (The Last Neighbor / Future: New Dusk)(2013)
VV.AA.: Mar y Montaña (Sean and Mountain) (2014: LaFonoteca Barcelona together with Shook Down)
Puente Aéreo vol.1: Gúdar+Hazte Lapon (2014; together with LaFonoteca Barcelona)
Puente Aéreo vol.2: Univers+Celica XX (2014; together with LaFonoteca Barcelona)
Los Suspensos: Maquetas perdidas (2014)
VV.AA.: El Futuro B.S.O (2015)
Puente Aéreo vol.3: Wild Honey+Betacam+Fred i Son+Neleonard (2015; together with LaFonoteca Barcelona)
Puente Aéreo vol.4: Caliza+Màquina Total (2016; together with LaFonoteca Barcelona)
Puente Aéreo vol.5: Javier Díez Ena + Diego García (2017; together with LaFonoteca Barcelona)
Julio Bustamante: 'Cambrers' (2018; re-edited 1981; together with LaFonoteca Barcelona, Discos de Kirlian and Discos Walden)
References
Spanish music websites
Online music and lyrics databases
Internet properties established in 2008 |
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