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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-App%20Audio | Inter-App Audio (IAA) is a deprecated technology developed by Apple Inc. which routes audio and MIDI signals between applications on the iOS mobile operating system. The technology was first introduced in 2013 in iOS 7 and deprecated in 2019 with the release of iOS 13.
Scope
Inter-App Audio is a host-plugin technology. An IAA host application connects to a node application to send and receive audio, MIDI, timeline information, and other signals.
Node applications
Node applications can be of the following types:
Instruments (can receive MIDI signals and produce audio signals)
Generators (can produce audio signals)
Effects (can receive, transform and send back audio signals)
Limitations
At the moment, audio signal routing is only possible with a sampling rate of 44 1 Hz.
Deprecation
Inter-App Audio was deprecated in 2019 with the release of iOS 13 in favor of the third version of Audio Units.
Competing technologies
Audiobus
Audio Units
Ableton Link
References
External links
IAA Host Application List
IAA Instrument Application List
IAA Effect Application List
Apple WWDC 2013: What's New in Core Audio for iOS
IOS
Music software plugin architectures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudataenius%20socialis | Pseudataenius socialis is a species of aphodiine dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in North America.
References
Further reading
Scarabaeidae
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Beetles described in 1871 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudataenius | Pseudataenius is a genus of aphodiine dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are at least three described species in Pseudataenius.
Species
These three species belong to the genus Pseudataenius:
Pseudataenius contortus Cartwright, 1974
Pseudataenius gracilitarsis (Petrovitz, 1973)
Pseudataenius socialis (Horn, 1871)
References
Further reading
Scarabaeidae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoneta%20bicaudata | Adoneta bicaudata, the long-horned slug moth, is a species of slug caterpillar moth in the family Limacodidae.
The MONA or Hodges number for Adoneta bicaudata is 4684.
References
Further reading
Limacodidae
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Moths described in 1904 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohini%20Ghose | Shohini Ghose is a quantum physicist and Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has served as the president of the Canadian Association of Physicists (2019-2020), co-editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Physics, and the Director of the Laurier Centre for Women in Science. She was named a 2014 TED Fellow and a 2018 TED Senior Fellow. In 2019 she appeared on the Star TV show TED Talks India Nayi Baat hosted by Shah Rukh Khan. In 2017 she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Her book Clues to the Cosmos was released in India in December 2019. In 2020, she was selected as an NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering.
Early life and education
Ghose grew up in India where she dreamed of becoming an astronaut after finding out about the first Indian astronaut in space. She moved to Miami University for her undergraduate studies, where she majored in physics and mathematics. She received her PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico in 2003. She was awarded the Chairman's award for best dissertation titled "Quantum And Classical Dynamics Of Atoms In A Magneto‐optical Lattice", which delved into the quantum chaotic behavior of atoms interacting with lasers and magnetic fields.
Research and Professional Activities
In 2003, Ghose moved to the University of Calgary where she held a Alberta Ingenuity Postdoctoral Fellowship. After one year of postdoctoral research, she accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2005. She continued her research in the field of quantum physics, working on quantum entanglement, chaos and tunneling. She is best known for her work with her colleague Poul Jessen's team at the University of Arizona to make the first ever observations of individual cesium atoms that showed the effect of chaos on quantum entanglement. Her research on quantum chaos was selected for the 2011 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology – an annual collection of breakthroughs in science and technology.
In 2012 Ghose co-authored the first introductory astronomy textbook in Canada for university students. Today her research is focused on quantum information science. She has published on the topics of quantum communication, teleportation, multiparty quantum correlations and quantum chaos. She is a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and is the Co-Editor in Chief (2018-) of the Canadian Journal of Physics.
In 2019, Ghose's TED talk “A beginners guide to quantum computing” was featured on TED.com. In 2014 she gave a TEDx talk at Nickel City titled "Breaking barriers with quantum physics", in 2015 "How Quantum Physics Can Help Us Fight Climate Change" in TEDxVictoria, and in 2016 "The Surprising Power of Uncertainty" at Thunder Bay. She spoke at the 2015 Smithsonian Institution Future is Here Festival on "Alice in Quantum Wonderland". She has been featured in several online science vi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette%20Duhalde | Paulette Duhalde (23 July 1921 – 23 April 1945) was a French Resistance fighter, who operated under the alias of "Jojo" with the Jeanne Network in France's Normandy region during World War II. Betrayed to the Gestapo by a spy within the network, she was arrested, tried, sentenced to five years in prison, and jailed at Fresnes before being deported to a prison facility in Aachen, Germany. Subsequently transferred to the prison at Cottbus near Leipzig, she was then transported, in 1944, to the Nazi concentration camp in Germany known as Ravensbrück. She died there on 23 April 1945.
Posthumously honored with multiple awards, including the Legion of Honor, her life is remembered in a small, permanent exhibit in the Hall of Deportation in the Musée du Château de Flers (Museum of the Castle of Flers) at Flers de l'Orne.
Formative years
Born on 23 July 1921 in France's Normandy region in the community of Flers and baptized at the Roman Catholic church in St. Germain, Paulette Duhalde was the only child of M. Edouard Duhalde. Her mother operated a cafe in Flers. A "green-eyed brunette" who enjoyed spending time in the small garden of her family's Rue du Champ-de-Foire home, she reportedly read detective and espionage stories as a youth, and was an enthusiastic student of history and science at the Notre-Dame school in her community, who dreamed of becoming an aviator, but also later thought of following in the footsteps of St. Theresa of Lisieux. By the time she was a young adult, she had secured job as a clerk at the Banque de France de Flers. Forced to leave that job in 1940 when the bank downsized its staff in response to their town's occupation by German troops, she was able to return to her employment there after a two-year secretarial stint.
World War II
By the end of November 1940, Paulette Duhalde had secured a new job as secretary to the industrialist Alphonse Warcin, a position she continued to hold through August 1942 when she was able to return to work as a clerk for the Bank of France. While employed with Warcin, she became one of the first French Resistance fighters in her community when she joined the Jeanne network in February 1941. Named for its manager, Robert Jeanne, a reserve officer with the French army air force, this network was involved in resistance activities that were designed to disrupt the operations of the Nazi Luftwaffe in France's Normandy region. While serving as the network liaison officer to National Commandant Rupied and Robert Esparre de Caen, she functioned as a courier under the alias "Jojo." Delivering resistance communications between Alençon, Caen, Paris, and Vire, she also observed and reported on the movement of German troops and equipment, and ultimately attained the rank of second lieutenant of the French Forces of the Interior, according to documents associated with the awards for valor which she would later receive from the French government.
During summer or autumn 1942, the Jeanne organization was inf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20start | Cold start can refer to:
Cold start (automotive), the starting of a vehicle engine at a low temperature relative to its operating temperature.
Cold start (computing), a startup problem in computer information systems.
Cold Start (military doctrine), a military doctrine developed by the Indian Armed Forces.
Cold start (recommender systems), the problem of recommending items to users with insufficient data
See also
Cold open, a narrative technique used in television and films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus%20%28software%29 | Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using an HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting. The project is written in Go and licensed under the Apache 2 License, with source code available on GitHub, and is a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, along with Kubernetes and Envoy.
History
Prometheus was developed at SoundCloud starting in 2012, when the company discovered that its existing metrics and monitoring tools (using StatsD and Graphite) were insufficient for their needs. Specifically, they identified needs that Prometheus was built to meet including: a multi-dimensional data model, operational simplicity, scalable data collection, and a powerful query language, all in a single tool. The project was open-source from the beginning and began to be used by Boxever and Docker users as well, despite not being explicitly announced. Prometheus was inspired by the monitoring tool Borgmon used at Google.
By 2013, Prometheus was introduced for production monitoring at SoundCloud. The official public announcement was made in January 2015.
In May 2016, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation accepted Prometheus as its second incubated project, after Kubernetes. The blog post announcing this stated that the tool was in use at many companies including DigitalOcean, Ericsson, CoreOS, Weaveworks, Red Hat, and Google.
Prometheus 1.0 was released in July 2016. Subsequent versions were released through 2016 and 2017, leading to Prometheus 2.0 in November 2017.
In August 2018, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that the Prometheus project had graduated.
A variety of conferences focused on Prometheus have been held.
Architecture
A typical monitoring platform with Prometheus is composed of multiple tools:
Multiple exporters typically run on the monitored host to export local metrics.
Prometheus to centralize and store the metrics.
Alertmanager to trigger alerts based on those metrics.
Grafana to produce dashboards.
PromQL is the query language used to create dashboards and alerts.
Data storage format
Prometheus data is stored in the form of metrics, with each metric having a name that is used for referencing and querying it. Each metric can be drilled down by an arbitrary number of key=value pairs (labels). Labels can include information on the data source (which server the data is coming from) and other application-specific breakdown information such as the HTTP status code (for metrics related to HTTP responses), query method (GET versus POST), endpoint, etc. The ability to specify an arbitrary list of labels and to query based on these in real time is why Prometheus' data model is called multi-dimensional.
Prometheus stores data locally on disk, which helps for fast data storage and fast querying. There is the ability to store metrics in remote storage.
Data c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20detection | In image processing, line detection is an algorithm that takes a collection of n edge points and finds all the lines on which these edge points lie. The most popular line detectors are the Hough transform and convolution-based techniques.
Hough transform
The Hough transform can be used to detect lines and the output is a parametric description of the lines in an image, for example ρ = r cos(θ) + c sin(θ). If there is a line in a row and column based image space, it can be defined ρ, the distance from the origin to the line along a perpendicular to the line, and θ, the angle of the perpendicular projection from the origin to the line measured in degrees clockwise from the positive row axis. Therefore, a line in the image corresponds to a point in the Hough space. The Hough space for lines has therefore these two dimensions θ and ρ, and a line is represented by a single point corresponding to a unique set of these parameters. The Hough transform can then be implemented by choosing a set of values of ρ and θ to use. For each pixel (, ) in the image, compute r cos(θ) + c sin(θ) for each values of θ, and place the result in the appropriate position in the (ρ, θ) array. At the end, the values of (ρ, θ) with the highest values in the array will correspond to strongest lines in the image
Convolution-based technique
In a convolution-based technique, the line detector operator consists of a convolution masks tuned to detect the presence of lines of a particular width n and a θ orientation. Here are the four convolution masks to detect horizontal, vertical, oblique (+45 degrees), and oblique (−45 degrees) lines in an image.
a) Horizontal mask(R1)
(b) Vertical (R3)
(C) Oblique (+45 degrees)(R2)
(d) Oblique (−45 degrees)(R4)
In practice, masks are run over the image and the responses are combined given by the following equation:
R(x, y) = max(|R1 (x, y)|, |R2 (x, y)|, |R3 (x, y)|, |R4 (x, y)|)
If R(x, y) > T, then discontinuity
As can be seen below, if mask is overlay on the image (horizontal line), multiply the coincident values, and sum all these results, the output will be the (convolved image). For example, (−1)(0)+(−1)(0)+(−1)(0) + (2)(1) +(2)(1)+(2)(1) + (−1)(0)+(−1)(0)+(−1)(0) = 6 pixels on the second row, second column in the (convolved image) starting from the upper left corner of the horizontal lines. page 82
Example
These masks above are tuned for light lines against a dark background, and would give a big negative response to dark lines against a light background.
Code example
The code was used to detect only the vertical lines in an image using Matlab and the result is below. The original image is the one on the top and the result is below it. As can be seen on the picture on the right, only the vertical lines were detected
clear all
clc
% this MATLAB program will only detect vertical lines in an image
building = imread('building.jpg'); % This will upload the image building
tol = 5; % define a tolerance in the angle to acco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20desk | A decision desk is a team of experts that one or many US news organizations assemble to analyze incoming data about election results and project winners on election day. Decision desks use exit polling data as well as officially reported results as they come in, to project and then "call" the winners of elections on election night.
History
Exit polling data was gathered by Voter News Service which existed from 1990 to 2003, and which was disbanded due to disastrous mistakes in the 2000 presidential election and in the 2002 elections. Afterward they formed the National Election Pool which produced skewed results in the 2004 US presidential election and in the 2016 presidential elections.
Megyn Kelly was made famous when she walked backstage to Fox News' decision desk team during the broadcast of the 2012 US presidential election results, when Karl Rove contradicted the team's prediction that Obama would win.
References
Elections in the United States
Television news in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir%3A%20A%20Shadowy%20Thriller | Noir: A Shadowy Thriller is a 1996 adventure game developed by American studio TSi, Inc. and published by Cyberdreams for Windows. Noir was Cyberdreams' last released game before the studio shut down in 1997.
Plot
The setting of Noir places the player in Los Angeles in 1940 as a private investigator. The player is tasked with completing six non-linear 'cases' presented as the unresolved files of their missing partner, Jack Slayton. These cases can be completed in any order or concurrently. Once the player has solved all cases, they will discover the cause of Jack Slayton's disappearance.
Gameplay
Gameplay in Noir is consistent with other point and click adventure games, with the player navigating the environment through a series of still images. Whilst the player may examine or pick up objects with the cursor, there is no inventory system and the game will automatically use appropriate items as relevant. The game also presents multiple difficultly levels which affect the number of hints available to the player and the context clues represented by the cursor.
Development
Noir was developed by TSi, Inc, a short-lived company that developed computer graphics and proprietary software for motion capture in animation. The game was written and directed by Jeff Blyth, a director whose primary experience was documentaries shot in Circle-Vision 360° for Disney attractions and the 1989 Walt Disney Pictures film Cheetah. The full-motion video footage was filmed with a full cast, with photography taking place at Los Angeles landmarks including the Bradbury Building, Bernardo Fernandez House and James Oviatt Building.
Reception
Noir: A Shadowy Thriller received mostly negative reviews. Reviewers focused on the player's passive relationship to the story through FMV sequences, with David Wildgoose of PC PowerPlay writing that the sequences feel detached from the rest of the game, even though they are central to the plot. The reviewer noted that players cannot talk in the game, but just stand there, watch and listen. Many reviewers noted that automatic animations running when a player has the correct items to progress a puzzle limits the involvement of the player in the puzzle solving process, with Ron Dulin of GameSpot remarking that the players don't have to do anything, but just look everywhere in the right order. Next Generation agreed, noting that players will be left with the underlying feeling of being led to the answers rather than discovering them.
Retrospective assessments of the game have been more forgiving, focusing on the verisimilitude of the film noir setting. Phil Salvador of The Obscuritory noted that, in spite of the "confusing plot", Noir's presentation is "spectacular" and "really is like stepping into the gritty haze of an old detective film".
References
External links
Review in PC World
Review in Computer Player
1996 video games
Adventure games
Cyberdreams games
Detective video games
Full motion video based games
Monochrome vid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicy%20Realm | Juicy Realm is a roguelike video game developed by independent Chinese studio SpaceCan Games and published by X.D. Network]. It's about explorers going into an empire inhabited by sentient fruit and fighting them to save humanity. It was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X on May 3, 2018, and will be ported to the PlayStation 4. Versions for iOS and Android will also be released at the end of 2018. A Nintendo Switch version was released on November 7, 2019.
Gameplay
Juicy Realm is a roguelike twin-stick shooter where you play as one of the four characters, each with his/her own weapons and gear, to explore the fruits' empire through several maps with procedural-generated zones, monsters, and items. Players will face-off against all sorts of fruits and collect weapons and gear. You can also expand your camp base as you progress. At the end of an area you fight a boss monster. The game can be played alone or with another player.
Development
The game has been in development for a year by a two-man team at SpaceCan Games, which consists of app developer Tyreal Han and comic artist biboX, who are long-time gamers. BiboX is responsible for the artwork and music. It's the studio's first game for PC and consoles.
Reception
Prior to the game's release, it was nominated by indiePlay for the Best Game Grand Prize, but won for the Excellence in Visual Art from the same game trade show. Others awards are from the GDC's Indie Mega Booth and Bitsumit Vol. 6.
References
2018 video games
Indie games
Roguelike video games
Windows games
MacOS games
PlayStation 4 games
Nintendo Switch games
IOS games
Twin-stick shooters
Video games developed in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topcoder%20Open | Topcoder Open (TCO) was an annual design, software development, data science and competitive programming championship, organized by Topcoder, and hosted in different venues around US. In the first two years, 2001 and 2002, the tournament was titled TopCoder Invitational.
In addition to the main championship, from 2001 to 2007 Topcoder was organizing an annual TopCoder Collegiate Challenge tournament, for college students only. Also from 2007 to 2010 TopCoder High School competition was held.
From 2015, Topcoder Regional events were held through the year in different countries.
In 2020–2023 in-person Topcoder Open finals were cancelled, and replaced by virtual events due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, and subsequent economic slowdown. The 2023 Topcoder Open was the final edition of the contest.
Competition tracks
Competition tracks included in Topcoder Open tournament changed through its history. Many of them resemble the types of challenges offered to Topcoder Community through the year, but there is no 1:1 match. Here is the alphabetical list of all competition tracks ever present at TCO:
Algorithm Competition (SRM)
Timeline: 2001 – 2022
Champions: Gennady Korotkevich tourist (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2014); Petr Mitrichev Petr (2018, 2015, 2013, 2006); Yuhao Du xudyh (2017); Makoto Soejima rng_58 (2016, 2011, 2010); Egor Kulikov Egor (2012); Bin Jin crazyb0y (2009); tomek (2008, 2004, 2003); Jan Kuipers Jan_Kuipers (2007); Eryx (2005); John Dethridge John Dethridge (2002); jonmac (2001).
Details:
The only track that was present at all main TCOs events, and at most of the other Topcoder events. Follows the format of regular 1.5 hours Single Round Matches:
The Coding Phase – 75 mins: All competitors are presented with the same three algorithmic problems of different complexity, each problem has its own maximal number of points. Problem descriptions are initially invisible. Competitors have 75 minutes to solve these problems. Competitor can open any problem description in any order; once he opened a problem, the number of points he can get for the correct solution of that problem starts decreasing over time. When competitor submits problem solution (a code that successfully compiles), he is awarded with the current number of points he can get for that problem. He can re-submit a solution, getting the further decrease number of points, minus extra penalty for the resubmission. During the phase competitors can see the current points awarded to each participant, but they don't know whether solutions of those participants are correct or wrong, thus whether these scores will hold after The System Testing Phase, or will be reset.
The Challenge Phase – 15 mins: Each competitor can see all submission done by other competitors. He can (optionally) challenge any of them, submitting test cases that will cause other competitor's submission produce a wrong result. Submission of correct challenge test case gives submitter 50 point |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20of%20Synagogues | The Federation of Synagogues is a British Jewish organisation with headquarters in Hendon, London. It comprises a network of 19 constituent and seven affiliated communities.
As well as looking after its member synagogues , the Federation has a beis din, a Burial Society and runs a Kosher Food Licensing organisation that issues local kosher catering licences as well as undertaking product certification at home and abroad.
The Federation Beis Din’s dayonim are internationally recognised authorities and are available to discuss halachic matters. As a formal beis din they hear civil cases and deal with matrimonial matters.
The current av beis din (chief rabbi) of the Federation is Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman.
History
The Federation was first established in 1887, primarily due to the vision and efforts of Samuel Montagu MP (later to become the first Lord Swaythling). Montagu, a prosperous banker who was pious and generous as well as practical, saw a need to unify the numerous small and mostly ill-housed congregations and chevras that had mushroomed in London’s East End following the mass influx of refugees from anti-Semitic terror in Imperial Russia.
The relationship between the newcomers and the existing Anglicised community was an uncomfortable one; the immigrants suspected the Orthodoxy of the English Jews, while the latter, who lived and worshipped in greater affluence, tended to look down on their less fortunate brethren – who were by now a majority, but with no effective say in community affairs.
Within half a century the pre-eminent Anglo-Jewish Historian Cecil Roth was able to write:
“..The Federation of Synagogues is…amongst the greatest and most generous Jewish religious organisations in the world. By its insistence on traditional values and by its deep sympathy with every Jewish cause, it has swung itself into the mainstream of Jewish history.”
More recently, another Anglo-Jewish historian, Geoffrey Alderman made this evaluation: "The Federation has experienced a remarkable renaissance in recent years. It’s in a far better state now than it was in 1987, with renewed growth in greater London and in Manchester and with what is arguably the most intellectually prestigious Beis Din in Europe. Lord Samuel Montagu’s model for the Federation was to provide central services for small kehillos who wished to retain their independence while enjoying the support of a communal structure. This is exactly what is happening today—the younger generations do not want great cathedral synagogues, they want small, cosy shtiebels in which they can play a leading role."
Presidents
1887: Nathan Rothschild
1888: Samuel Montagu
1911: Louis Montagu
1928: Morry Davis
1945: Aaron Wright
1948: Jack Goldberg
1951: Morris Lederman
1989: Arnold Cohen
2001: Alan Finlay
2014: Andrew Cohen
Interaction with government
In 1946 Rabbi Dr Yaacov Kopul Rosen, representing the Federation, testified before the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine, asking the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20%26%20Furious%20Spy%20Racers | Fast & Furious Spy Racers is an American computer-animated streaming television series that premiered on Netflix on December 26, 2019, based on the Fast & Furious film series by Gary Scott Thompson. The series is executive produced by Tim Hedrick, Bret Haaland, Vin Diesel, Neal Moritz, and Chris Morgan. Hedrick and Haaland also serve as the show's showrunners.
The sixth and final season, subtitled Homecoming, was released on December 17, 2021.
Plot
Tony Toretto, Dominic Toretto's cousin, is recruited by a government agency together with his friends to infiltrate an elite racing league serving as a front for a criminal organization called SH1FT3R that is bent on world domination.
In Season 2, the gang goes to Brazil on an undercover mission to find Layla Gray and prevent potential world domination at the hands of a long-thought deceased daughter of a well-known gang in Rio de Janeiro.
In Season 3, Tony and his crew make a dangerous journey to the Sahara Desert when Ms. Nowhere mysteriously disappears on a mission there, all agents uncovering a plot by a maniacal villain using remote-control weather satellites.
In Season 4, Ms. Nowhere and Tony's crew are framed for a crime they had no involvement in prior, and flee to Mexico to both find the real culprit, clear their names, and flee the unstoppable super-agent hunting them down.
In Season 5, the group travels to the South Pacific Ocean to rescue one of their own, leading to a faceoff with an old enemy.
In Season 6, the team returns to fighting against an old nemesis in a showdown that takes them all the way back to Los Angeles.
Voice cast
Main
Tyler Posey as Tony Toretto: The younger cousin of Dominic Toretto. He aspires to be a legend like his cousin.
Charlet Chung as Margaret "Echo" Pearl: Tony's friend, described as a wildly talented artist and natural spy. She has green hair and ensures that their rides look great, She doesn't like being called by her real name. Echo was inducted into a spy training course by Ms. Nowhere in Season 3, but ultimately finds she'd rather go with following her heart instead of orders.
Jorge Diaz as Cisco Renaldo: Tony's friend who is also a mechanic, described as the muscle and the sweetheart of the crew. He enjoys food and drink; in one episode, he made sure to install cup holders everywhere in his vehicle.
Camille Ramsey as Layla Gray: A notable underground racer who worked for SH1FT3R and is Shashi's right-hand woman until she reformed. She prefers to be a lone wolf, and her voice has a Southern twang. Layla was recruited by Ms. Nowhere in Season 2 and has become one of the crew's most reliable allies. She is currently a member of Tony's crew as of Season 3.
Luke Youngblood as Frostee Benson: Tony's friend, a 13-year old tech genius. He enjoys devising gadgets, flying drones, and hacking into systems. His favorite drink is Yoka and, due to his age, he is the only member of the group without his own car until season 6, when he passes his driving |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe%20Swiss%20Cloud | Safe Swiss Cloud is a Swiss-based cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company. The company provides computing power (CPU, RAM, data storage), object storage and managed services.
History
Founded in 2013 by Prodosh Banerjee and Gerald Dürr.
In 2015, cloud services expanded to several data centres, while investing in equipment to increase capacity.
In 2017, Safe Swiss Cloud added a number of new platforms to its offerings, including Kubernetes & Openshift, Openstack and VMware/vCloud. An investment has been made to expand clustered and redundant solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity.
Services
Cloud computing service designed to offer computer, storage and managed cloud services. The company's cloud computing service includes an infrastructure service that offers virtual data centers that include firewall, router, network.
Acquisitions
In August 2015, Safe Swiss Cloud acquired Basel based Nexos, an IT services company.
In late 2017 Everyware AG, a Swiss IT services company, acquired a controlling stake in Safe Swiss Cloud.
Awards
In November 2015, the company was announced as a winner of the "Bully Awards" issued to European organizations that stand out through innovation, leadership and exceptional growth.
In December 2015, Safe Swiss Cloud was named best practice for finance applications in the Cloud by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) in the report "Secure Use of Cloud Computing in the Finance Sector".
Research
Safe Swiss Cloud collaborated with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences/ZHAW to research cyber intelligence and advanced cloud billing systems. This research was supported by CTI, the Swiss government's research and innovation program for industry.
References
2013 establishments in Switzerland
As a service
Cloud applications
Web services
Cloud computing providers
Cloud platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20ranaeceps | Datana ranaeceps, the post-burn datana, is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). Other common names include the heart-leaved catchfly and ranaeceps datana moth. It was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1844 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana ranaeceps is 7911.
References
Further reading
Notodontidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Moths described in 1844 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PegLeg%20%28video%20game%29 | PegLeg is a video game developed by High Risk Ventures and published by Changeling Software for the Macintosh.
Gameplay
PegLeg is a shoot-'em-up.
Development
PegLeg was released for Mac computers in August 1994.
Reception
Next Generations reviewer stated, "If you've got work to do, better stay away from this game." MacAddict named PegLeg one of the Macintosh's essential titles, and the magazine's Kathy Tafel wrote, "If you ever happen to visit us here at MacAddict, take a look at our receptionist's Mac. Chances are, you'll find it running PegLeg". Writing in The Macintosh Bible, Bart Farkas praised the game and said that it "will have you playing for hours—and will inflict serious damage on your trigger finger if you're not careful."
Macworld awarded PegLeg its 1995 "Best Shoot-'em-up" prize. The magazine's Steven Levy called it "compulsively seductive even to a jaded alien-blaster with an arthritic trigger finger".
References
External links
PegLeg
Classic Mac OS games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving%20object%20detection | Moving object detection is a technique used in computer vision and image processing. Multiple consecutive frames from a video are compared by various methods to determine if any moving object is detected.
Moving objects detection has been used for wide range of applications like video surveillance, activity recognition, road condition monitoring, airport safety, monitoring of protection along marine border, etc.
Definition
Moving object detection is to recognize the physical movement of an object in a given place or region. By acting segmentation among moving objects and stationary area or region, the moving objects' motion can be tracked and thus analyzed later. To achieve this, consider a video is a structure built upon single frames, moving object detection is to find the foreground moving target(s), either in each video frame or only when the moving target shows the first appearance in the video.
Traditional methods
Among all the traditional moving object detection methods, we could categorize them into four major approaches: Background subtraction, Frame differencing, Temporal Differencing, and Optical Flow.
Frame differencing
Instead of using traditional approach, to use image subtraction operator by subtracting second and images afterwards, the frame differencing method makes comparisons between two successive frames to detect moving targets.
Temporal differencing
The temporal differencing method identifies the moving object by applying pixel-wise difference method with two or three consecutive frames.
See also
object detection
motion estimation
video tracking
References
Image processing
Motion in computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle%20Tales%20%28TV%20series%29 | Jungle Tales is an Indian computer-animated television series produced by Moving Pictures Company India. It is an adaptation of stories from the Panchatantra and it was the first indigenous 3D animation programming on the small screen. It premiered on 6 November 2004 on Cartoon Network.
See also
The Jungle Book
References
2004 Indian television series debuts
Indian computer-animation
Indian children's animated television series
Cartoon Network (Indian TV channel) original programming
Animated television series about mammals
Animated television series about birds
Animated television series about insects
Animated television series about fish
Animated television series about reptiles and amphibians
Television shows set in jungles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20vs.%20South%3A%20The%20Great%20American%20Civil%20War | North vs. South: The Great American Civil War is a 1999 computer wargame developed by Erudite Software and published by Interactive Magic.
Gameplay
Development
Origins
Following the March 1998 release of developer Erudite Software's The Great Battles of Caesar, rumors spread inside the game industry that publisher Interactive Magic intended to reuse the Great Battles game engine for another project. Speculation arose initially that it would take place in feudal Japan. In June, this new game was revealed under the tentative title Rally Round the Flag, under development again by Erudite. Designed by S. Craig Taylor, who had produced the Great Battles series and designed the board wargame Wooden Ships and Iron Men, the game was announced as a Civil War-era computer wargame with a release date of October 1998. Despite using an upgraded version of Great Battles technology, the game could not be marketed under the series' name for legal reasons: while Erudite's earlier titles were adaptations of GMT Games board products, Rally was not. In early July, Rally Round the Flag was renamed North vs. South: The Eastern Campaigns of the Civil War.
Production
Erudite created only the art and code for North vs. South; Interactive Magic researched, designed and published the game. Although Taylor was a Civil War history enthusiast, and had worked on eight physical games set during the period, North vs. South was his first return to the topic since designing the 1988 version of Gettysburg.
Reception
References
1999 video games
American Civil War video games
Computer wargames
Erudite Software games
IEntertainment Network games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytics%2C%20Computing%2C%20and%20Complex%20Systems%20Laboratory | The Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems (ACCeSs@AIM) Laboratory is a R&D laboratory in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is situated within the Asian Institute of Management (AIM).
ACCeSs@AIM is AIM's first data science R&D consulting arm. It houses full-time research scientists and research engineers and hosts the fastest supercomputer in the Philippines, among the fastest in Southeast Asia. ACCeSs is envisaged to lead and advocate for the use of complex systems science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and computational models to support innovation in industries, government agencies, and other sectors.
Background
The Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems laboratory, also known by its short name ACCeSs@AIM, is situated within the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati. It is under AIM's School of Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship.
The facility was launched on March 8, 2018 by the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) with Acer Inc. Acer founder Stan Shih who is also part of AIM's international board of governors for more than three decades was also in attendance during the launch of the laboratory to concurrently introduce to the public the Acer-developed supercomputer he donated to the lab.
Usage
ACCeSs@AIM is meant to support the computing needs of Asian Institute of Management's graduate students and faculty, as well as researchers and its other stakeholders. It is optimized for Artificial Intelligence research meant to aid the growth of businesses and other organizations through computing technology. The laboratory is meant to encourage public-to-private partnership between the academia, business sectors and the government in the field of research and development.
It is also specifically meant to complement AIM's Master of Science in Data Science program and its PhD in Data Science program.
To date, through the MSc. in Data Science program, ACCeSs has completed thirty-nine (39) capstone projects with government agencies including the Commission on Higher Education (Philippines), the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, local and multinational corporations including Analog Devices, Western Digital Corporation, Moog, Inc., Reckitt Benckiser, ProWeaver, Inc., and Qavalo, Inc., to name a few, and international organizations like the Asian Development Bank and Unilab Foundation.
Supercomputer
ACCeSs@AIM's supercomputer, a.k.a. Super Jojie, is provided by Taiwanese technology firm Acer and was donated by the StanShih Foundation to AIM. The supercomputer has a capacity of 500 terabytes and computing speed of 12.9 teraflops (CPU)/1.2 petaflops (GPU) making it the fastest supercomputer in the Philippines and among the fastest in Southeast Asia. It was fully operational in April 2018.
At the time of donation, Acer Philippines described the supercomputer's capability as roughly equivalent to 250 "high end" laptops combined. In terms of storage it described the supercomputer a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishal%20Misra | Vishal Misra is an Indian-American scientist at Columbia University, New York, NY and known for his numerous contributions to Computer Networking. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to network traffic modeling, congestion control and Internet economics. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018. In 2019, he was designated a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay, from which he graduated in 1992.
He is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Columbia University. He is also an entrepreneur, having co-founded the world's most popular single sport portal ESPNCricinfo, where he designed and implemented the world's first live sport scorecard system on the Internet in 1996. In 2011 he founded the data center storage company Infinio.
As a researcher, he developed the first stochastic differential equation (fluid) model of TCP that led to formal control theoretic analysis of congestion control mechanisms on the Internet. Based on his work a team at Cisco developed the PIE (PI enhanced) controller that is being used to solve the problem of bufferbloat (excessive delays on the Internet because of larger than needed buffers). The PIE controller has become a part of the DOCSIS 3.1.
He has also worked on the topic of Network neutrality, and worked actively with both the citizen's movement and the regulators in India. The pro-net neutrality citizen's movement adopted his definition of Net Neutrality, and eventually the regulators in India passed regulations that are consistent with his definition, recognized as the strongest Net Neutrality protections anywhere in the world.
References
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
21st-century American engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
American electrical engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterocampa%20biundata | Heterocampa biundata, the wavy-lined heterocampa, is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). It was first described by Francis Walker in 1855 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Heterocampa biundata is 7995.
References
Further reading
External links
Notodontidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Moths described in 1855 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch%20normalization | Batch normalization (also known as batch norm) is a method used to make training of artificial neural networks faster and more stable through normalization of the layers' inputs by re-centering and re-scaling. It was proposed by Sergey Ioffe and Christian Szegedy in 2015.
While the effect of batch normalization is evident, the reasons behind its effectiveness remain under discussion. It was believed that it can mitigate the problem of internal covariate shift, where parameter initialization and changes in the distribution of the inputs of each layer affect the learning rate of the network. Recently, some scholars have argued that batch normalization does not reduce internal covariate shift, but rather smooths the objective function, which in turn improves the performance. However, at initialization, batch normalization in fact induces severe gradient explosion in deep networks, which is only alleviated by skip connections in residual networks. Others maintain that batch normalization achieves length-direction decoupling, and thereby accelerates neural networks.
Internal covariate shift
Each layer of a neural network has inputs with a corresponding distribution, which is affected during the training process by the randomness in the parameter initialization and the randomness in the input data. The effect of these sources of randomness on the distribution of the inputs to internal layers during training is described as internal covariate shift. Although a clear-cut precise definition seems to be missing, the phenomenon observed in experiments is the change on means and variances of the inputs to internal layers during training.
Batch normalization was initially proposed to mitigate internal covariate shift. During the training stage of networks, as the parameters of the preceding layers change, the distribution of inputs to the current layer changes accordingly, such that the current layer needs to constantly readjust to new distributions. This problem is especially severe for deep networks, because small changes in shallower hidden layers will be amplified as they propagate within the network, resulting in significant shift in deeper hidden layers. Therefore, the method of batch normalization is proposed to reduce these unwanted shifts to speed up training and to produce more reliable models.
Besides reducing internal covariate shift, batch normalization is believed to introduce many other benefits. With this additional operation, the network can use higher learning rate without vanishing or exploding gradients. Furthermore, batch normalization seems to have a regularizing effect such that the network improves its generalization properties, and it is thus unnecessary to use dropout to mitigate overfitting. It has also been observed that the network becomes more robust to different initialization schemes and learning rates while using batch normalization.
Procedures
Transformation
In a neural network, batch normalization is achieved through |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragnatha%20caudata | Tetragnatha caudata is a species of long-jawed orb weaver in the family of spiders known as Tetragnathidae. It is found in North, Central America, Cuba, and Jamaica.
References
Tetragnathidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Spiders described in 1884 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankhaus%20Bauer | The Bankhaus Bauer AG is a German private bank headquartered in Stuttgart. The bank is a member of the Association of German Banks and its deposit protection fund as well as a member of ATM network CashPool.
Business areas
As universal bank Bankhaus Bauer offers all banking services. Traditionally as private bank it focuses on wealth private and business clients as well as corporate clients.
History
The business was founded in 1931 as a limited partnership business entity by banker Richard Bauer under the name Bankhaus Bauer KG in Stuttgart. During World War II the business offices were destroyed in a bomb attack. At short notice the headquarter was moved to Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1944. After the war finished the headquarter was moved back to Stuttgart in 1945. In 1986 the business was converted into the joint-stock company Bankhaus Bauer AG.
In 1992 the Schuppli-Gruppe in Wiesbaden, the Hypothekenbank in Essen AG and the Hypothekenbank in Berlin AG joined the business. The shares of the Schuppli-Gruppe and the Hypothekenbank in Berlin AG were taken over by the Commerzbank AG in 1994, which then became majority shareholder of the Bankhaus Bauer AG. In 2001 the Schuppli-Gruppe, which also owned the Düsseldorf Hypothekenbank AG, again purchased the majority of the bank. Under executive board spokesman Wolfgang Kuhn the banks investment volume between 1997 and 2006 was increased to more than 700 million Euros. In May 2006 Kuhn left the Bankhaus Bauer AG at his own request.
In the light of the new Mortgage Bond Act the Schuppli-Gruppe merged its two subsidiaries Düsseldorfer Hypothekenbank AG and Bankhaus Bauer AG in 2006. The Bankhaus Bauer AG was added to Düsseldorfer Hypothekenbank AG and operated as its non-independent branch.
In 2010 the Bankhaus Bauer AGs re-founding or spin-off took place. Majority shareholder of the new business was the Raiffeisenbank Reutte reg.Gen.m.b.H. from the Austrian Reutte in Tirol.
In March2015 the BB Beteiligungs GmbH in Essen purchased the shares the Raiffeisenbank Reutte reg.Gen.m.b.H. had owned. The present businesses and client contacts are completely continued. Business strategies are supposed to be extended in the following years. Expansions in new business areas as well as new offers in the area of funding are planned.
The first expansion looked at opening a new branch in Essen in January 2017 for which BHF-Bank-Manager André Weber was employed manage the private customer service in Essen.
Technology
The business is a member of the cooperative data center Fiducia & GAD IT AG and uses its Core banking System their software agree.
References
External links
Official Website
Banks of Germany
1931 establishments in Germany
Banks established in 1931
German companies established in 1931 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Communication%20Network | Digital Communication Network (referred to as DigiComNet or DCN) is a non-profit communication association founded in 2016. It is run by the board, selected out of the existing members of the network.
History
Digital Communication Network, founded in 2016 after the same name program by the US Department of State, is a 6.000 member strong collaborative network that connects professionals of the digital age from a variety of backgrounds, in order to generate ideas, tools, and products for media outlets, civil society organizations, businesses and public authorities. Its main activities include professional trainings and workshops for media and related professionals as well as enhancing digital skills. Among DCN's biggest projects is an exchange program, funded by the US Department of State, and run by World Learning. The program invites nearly twenty media professionals from Eastern Europe and Central Asia for a three-weeks long internship in different media in the United States.
Today
The organization aims to facilitate the collaboration between media, civic entrepreneurs, businesses, policymakers, creative, tech, and other professionals around the ideas of digital innovation, entrepreneurship, and open Internet. The organization unites over 6,000 members mostly from Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The association develops projects in the following areas:
Exchange programs for communication professionals;
Camps, trainings, networking events, hackathons (ranging from international conferences to local meetups)
Research on trends and best practices;
Product development of the digital tools, content, and educational materials.
DCN's mission is to create lasting impact through empowering a new generation of voices and ideas in the digital communication space. To achieve this mission, DCN serves as an open space for communication, creativity and connectivity with the purpose of promoting truth and good values by being a catalyst for credible information and democratic changes in society.
Activities
Among the organization’s biggest projects is an exchange program, funded by the US Department of State and run by World Learning called Digital Communication Network exchange. The program invites nearly twenty media professionals from Eastern Europe and Central Asia for a three-weeks long internship in different media in the United States.
Digital Communication Network is associated with different projects such as the Rockit Conferences (co-organised with Granat), which bring together activists from civil society, journalists, tech developers, and businesses. Other projects include workshops and trainings for media and other professionals such as Training for Trainers camps
History of all events
Here is the list of the events the Digital Communication network has helped organize or co-organized.
Rockit Conference, Chisinau, Moldova, Feb 5–6, 2016
Language of disruptors. A digital talk, Tallinn, Estonia, March 10, 2016
Forum on Fact Checki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual%20Spanish%20Network | The Mutual Spanish Network (MSN; known in Spanish as Mutual Cadena Hispánica or MCH) was a short-lived radio network spun off of the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1972.
Creation
In the spring of 1972, Mutual Broadcasting System ("Mutual") president C. Edward Little announced the creation of two new networks designed to target minority audiences: the Mutual Black Network (MBN) and the Mutual Spanish Network (MSN), or Mutual Cadena Hispanica (MCH). Both services signed on May 1, 1972; MBN had 32 affiliates, while MSN//MCH began with 17 affiliates, mostly in the southwestern United States. Miguel Bomar was hired as news director for MSN/MCH, which aired 16 newscasts every day at :45 minutes past the hour between 7:45 a.m. and 11:45 p.m. eastern time. Two sportscasts were fed weekdays, three on Saturday and Sunday. One advertisement for the new network (headlined "A Spanish News Network? Si!") stated, "Now, for the first time, advertisers can reach the U.S. Spanish market on a national basis with network radio...one order, one billing covers outstanding Spanish radio stations in all the important U.S. markets."
Problems and closure
From the start, advertiser support was lacking for MSN/MCH: it wasn't until August that the network signed its first sponsor, when Sterling Drug bought 15 commercials on an alternate-week basis for Bayer Aspirin. One problem was a lack of commonality among the then-eleven million Americans who spoke Spanish. Instead of one audience united by an ethnic background, Mutual found three distinctly different groups of Spanish-speaking Americans: those of Puerto Rican descent on the east coast; Cuban-Americans in the southeast; and those of Mexican descent in the southwest and on the west coast. And with each group using a different dialect, the network's newscasts were unintelligible to a large portion of the audience.
Ultimately, MSN/MCH didn't have enough advertisers to keep it going, and the network signed off after about six months.
References
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Radio stations established in 1972
Radio stations disestablished in 1973
1972 establishments in the United States
1973 disestablishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull%20Cracker | Skull Cracker is a 1996 supernatural beat 'em up video game developed by American studio CyberFlix and published by GTE Entertainment on Macintosh and Windows. It is sometimes considered a spiritual successor to the 1991 title Creepy Castle, which the game's head of technology William Appleton had previously written for Reactor Inc. Skull Cracker was conceptually designed by Ben Calica.
Development
After the release of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, Cyberflix released this old project which had been sitting in the vaults for a few years. The game was demoed on October 28, 1995 at the Double Tree Hotel (Crowne Plaza) in Rockville. It also previewed at the 1994 Summer Consumer Electronics Show along with other Cyberflix games, presented by Paramount.
Plot and gameplay
The developers described it as an "old-fashioned side-scrolling arcade game". The game sees the player battle through 16 levels of the undead and monsters. The game contains 50s-style monsters and 90s-style urban grit.
Critical reception
GameSpot offered a scathing review, panning the title's "bad art, poor animation, limited controls, no decent action, lame gameplay". MacLedge felt the game was a letdown from Cyberflix's previous work. Inside Mac Games praised the title's intriguing storyline, witty humor and exciting gameplay. Cyberflix head Scott Scheinbaum would later say "Every company makes mistakes, and that was ours...It should have come out a year and a half before it did", noting that 1994 technology seemed stale by 1996. World Village noted the game was a departure from the history-based title Titanic.
References
1996 video games
Beat 'em ups
Horror video games
Classic Mac OS games
GTE Interactive Media games
Side-scrolling video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Single-player video games
CyberFlix games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied%20Communications%20Publications | Allied Communications Publications are documents developed by the Combined Communications-Electronics Board and NATO, which define the procedures for communicating in computer messaging, radiotelephony, radiotelegraph, radioteletype (RATT), air-to-ground signalling (panel signalling), and other forms of communications used by the armed forces of the five CCEB member countries and/or NATO.
See also
Allied Communication Procedures
References
Military communications
Military standardization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr%20%28video%20game%29 | Zephyr is a video game developed and published by New World Computing for DOS.
Gameplay
Zephyr is a shoot 'em up that takes place in an arena, and comes with network capabilities.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "for those net fiends who have the urge to blow away friends over the phone line, there is some good gaming to be played here."
Reviews
PC Gamer (US) (March 1995)
Computer Gaming World (Mar, 1995)
PC Games - Feb, 1995
PC Player - Dec, 1994
World Village (Gamer's Zone) (1995)
Coming Soon Magazine (Mar, 1995)
Génération 4 (Jan, 1995)
References
External links
1994 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
New World Computing games
Shoot 'em ups
Sprite-based first-person shooters
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-circuit | in-circuit is an adjective that is used in following terms:
In-circuit debugging
In-circuit emulation
In-circuit emulator
In-circuit programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20angusii | Datana angusii, or Angus's datana moth, is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). It was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1866 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana angusii is 7903.
References
Further reading
External links
Notodontidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Moths described in 1866 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Target | Prime Target is a 1996 action video game developed by WizardWorks Group and published by MacSoft for Macintosh computers.
Gameplay
Prime Target uses the Marathon 2 gaming engine.
Plot
An influential senator named Cathryn Mayfield has been murdered, and it is up to the player to uncover secret documents relating to a conspiracy.
Development
The team was led by Kirk Sumner. An arcade port of the game was developed and underwent location testing at a Champions Arcade in the Philadelphia area during 1997, but was never fully released.
Reception
The game received generally positive reviews from critics.
A Next Generation critic commented that the game's combination of shooting action and mystery solving "is a unique attempt to rework an old design, and for the most part it works." He also praised the large, challenging levels, the multiplayer options, and the need to move furniture and duck behind it for cover. However, he ultimately compared the game unfavorably to other Marathon 2 engine games such as ZPC and Damage Incorporated, and gave it three out of five stars. MacHome praised the game's realism and plot. MacGamer liked the replay value. MacGate appreciated how at the core of the game was a genuine mystery to solve. According to Italian company Mac-O-Rama, the title was the sixth entry on the 'Top Ten Mac Games List' for the period between January 31st and February 6th 2000.
Despite the reviews, the game saw mediocre sales upon release.
References
1996 video games
First-person shooters
Classic Mac OS games
Classic Mac OS-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Sprite-based first-person shooters
Marathon engine games
WizardWorks games
MacSoft games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENTSO | ENTSO may refer to:
European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E)
European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSO-G) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-normal%20triangle | The curved point-normal triangle, in short PN triangle, is an interpolation algorithm to retrieve a cubic Bézier triangle from the vertex coordinates of a regular flat triangle and normal vectors. The PN triangle retains the vertices of the flat triangle as well as the corresponding normals. For computer graphics applications, additionally a linear or quadratic interpolant of the normals is created to represent an incorrect but plausible normal when rendering and so giving the impression of smooth transitions between adjacent PN triangles. The usage of the PN triangle enables the visualization of triangle based surfaces in a smoother shape at low cost in terms of rendering complexity and time.
Mathematical formulation
With information of the given vertex positions of a flat triangle and the according normal vectors at the vertices a cubic Bézier triangle is constructed. In contrast to the notation of the Bézier triangle page the nomenclature follows G. Farin (2002), therefore we denote the 10 control points as with the positive indices holding the condition .
The first three control points are equal to the given vertices. Six control points related to the triangle edges, i.e. are computed asThis definition ensures that the original vertex normals are reproduced in the interpolated triangle.
Finally the internal control point is derived from the previously calculated control points as
An alternative interior control point
was suggested in.
References
Geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernia%20Express | Hibernia Express is a submarine communications cable system which was privately owned by Hibernia Networks linking Canada, Ireland, and the UK. Hibernia Express is now owned by telecommunications provider GTT Communications, Inc. after their acquisition of Hibernia Networks. At 58.95ms of latency, the cable is currently the lowest latency fiber optic route between the NY4 data center in Secaucus, New Jersey and London.
The cable was considered operational on September 15, 2015. Hibernia Express spans 4,600 km between its landing stations in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Brean, UK; and Cork, Ireland. The cable is constructed with 6 fiber pairs, with a design capacity for 53 Tbit/s.
During the planning phases of the cable, Hibernia Networks intended to use Huawei as the contractor for construction of the cable. Due to security concerns from the potential customers of the cable, Huawei was not used and the construction contract went to TE Subcom (owned by TE Connectivity).
References
Transatlantic communications cables
Submarine communications cables in the North Atlantic Ocean
2015 establishments in Nova Scotia
2015 establishments in England
2015 establishments in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Lewin%20%28telecommunications%20engineer%29 | Leonard Lewin (22 July 1919 – 13 August 2007) was a British telecommunications engineer and educator. Later emigrating to the United States, Lewin became Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was the author and holder of 40 patents and wrote, co-wrote, or edited nearly 200 technical publications.
Early life and career
Lewin was born on 22 July 1919 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Educated at Southend High School for Boys, and studying "mathematics with particular reference to transcendental functions and the electromagnetic theory of radiation," he first found employment in 1937 with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company. In 1941 he became a radio instructor and from then until the end of World War II he served with the Admiralty Signal Establishment (ASE) as a Temporary Experimental Officer, researching radar, radio antenna and mirror design, and in 1945 he served as chairman of the Inter-Service Committee on Radar Camouflage.
After the war, in 1946, Lewin worked for Standard Telecommunication Laboratories at Enfield, North London as a senior engineer and in 1950 he was appointed head of the Microwave Engineering department.
Academic career
In 1968, Lewin emigrated to the United States and embarked on an academic career. Joining the University of Colorado, he took up the post of Professor of Electrical Engineering, being made a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and ultimately becoming Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, run by the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He was also a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
Patents, awards, lectures and publications
Patents
During his career, Leonard Lewin authored and was granted 40 patents.
Awards
In 1962, Lewin was awarded the Microwave Prize by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.
In 1967, The University of Colorado awarded Lewin an Honorary Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.).
In 1981, Lewin became a Fulbright scholar, and he lectured in Austria, Turkey and Yugoslavia.
In 1981 and 1990, Lewin lectured at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications in Paris, France.
In 1987 Lewin gave the IEEE (New Zealand) National Prestige lecture on the topic of education.
In 1990, Lewin lectured at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He was also invited to speak at the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto, Japan.
In 1991, Lewin lectured at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany.
In 1993, after his retirement, Lewin received the Microwave Career Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.
Publications
Lewin also wrote, co-wrote, or edited nearly 200 technical publications, including more than 10 research books on waveguides, mathematics and telecommunications.
Technical publications include:
Reflection Cancellation in Waveguides (19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MGM%2B%20original%20programming | The following is a list of programs broadcast on MGM+.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Unscripted
Docuseries
Variety
Co-productions
Continuations
Original films
Scripted
Documentaries
Stand-up comedy specials
Upcoming original programming
Drama
Unscripted
Docuseries
In development
Notes
References
External links
MGM+ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoltenVK | MoltenVK is a software library which allows Vulkan applications to run on top of Metal on Apple's macOS, iOS, and tvOS operating systems. It is the first software component to be released for the Vulkan Portability Initiative, a project to have a subset of Vulkan run on platforms lacking native Vulkan drivers.
There are some limitations compared with a native Vulkan implementation.
History
MoltenVK was first released as a proprietary and commercially licensed product by The Brenwill Workshop on July 27, 2016.
On July 31, 2017, Khronos announced the formation of the Vulkan Portability Technical Subgroup.
Open source
On February 26, 2018, Khronos announced that Vulkan became available on macOS and iOS products through the MoltenVK library. Valve announced that Dota 2 will run on macOS using the Vulkan API with the aid of MoltenVK, and that they had made an arrangement with developer The Brenwill Workshop Ltd to release MoltenVK as open-source software under the Apache License version 2.0.
On May 30, 2018, Qt was updated with Vulkan for Qt on macOS using MoltenVK. On May 31, 2018, optional Vulkan support for Dota 2 on macOS was released. Benchmarks for the game were available the following day, showing better performance using Vulkan and MoltenVK compared to OpenGL. On July 20, 2018, Wine was updated with Vulkan support on macOS using MoltenVK. On 29 July 2018, the first app using MoltenVK was accepted onto the App Store, after initially being rejected. On 6 August 2018, Google open-sourced Filament, a crossplatform real-time physically based rendering engine with MoltenVK for macOS/iOS. On November 28, 2018, Valve released Artifact, their first Vulkan-only game on macOS using MoltenVK.
Version 1.0
On 29 January 2019, MoltenVK 1.0.32 was released with early prototype of Vulkan Portability Extensions. RPCS3 and Dolphin emulators were updated with Vulkan support on macOS using MoltenVK. On 13 April 2019, MoltenVK 1.0.34 was released with support for tessellation. On July 30, 2019, MoltenVK 1.0.36 was released targeting Metal 3.0. On July 31, 2020, MoltenVK 1.0.44 was released, adding support for the tvOS platform. On January 23, 2020, MoltenVK was updated to support for some of the new features of Vulkan 1.2, as of Vulkan SDK 1.2.121.
Version 1.1
On October 1, 2020, MoltenVK 1.1.0 was released, adding full support for Vulkan 1.1, as of Vulkan SDK 1.2.154.
On 9 December 2020, MoltenVK 1.1.1 was released, providing support for Vulkan on Apple silicon GPUs and support for the Mac Catalyst platform for porting iOS/iPadOS apps to macOS.
Version 1.2
On October 18, 2022, MoltenVK 1.2.0 was released, adding full support for Vulkan 1.2 as of Vulkan SDK 1.3.231.
In January 2023, MoltenVK 1.2.2 added support for Vulkan as of SDK 1.3.239, while this version of Vulkan SDK fixed some issues with the interconnectivity with Metal API.
References
External links
MoltenVK Source Code
Vulkan Portability Initiative
Computer libraries
Graphics software
V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahad%20Shaikh | Fahad Sheikh (born February 22, 1989) is a Pakistani actor and media personality. He rose to fame with the controversial ARY Television Network drama Jalan He was also seen in drama serial Dunk and drama serial Azmaish. Before Jalan he appeared in dramas such as Badbakht, Khudparast, and Bandish.
He was also seen in a short film "Nam Kya Rakha?" starring Hajra Yamin and Faizan Shaikh.
Career
Actor Fahad shaikh stepped into media industry in 2011, with a roadshow 11 Number on style 360. He started his acting career in 2017, with Drama Serial Mubarik Ho Beti Hui Hai. Then he was seen in badbakht and khudparast. Later he appeared as hamza in ARY drama serial bandish. In 2020, he gained popularity through drama serial jalan playing the role of Ahmer Aziz. In 2021 he played major roles in drama Dunk and Azmaish.
Filmography
Television
Digital media
References
1982 births
Pakistani filmmakers
Living people
Pakistani male actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20robusta | Datana robusta, the annual buttonweed or robust datana moth, is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae (the prominents). It was first described by Herman Strecker in 1878 and it is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana robusta is 7909.
References
Further reading
Notodontidae
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Moths described in 1878 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripudia%20dimidata | Tripudia dimidata is a moth in the family Noctuidae (the owlet moths) first described by Smith in 1905.
The MONA or Hodges number for Tripudia dimidata is 9007.
References
Further reading
External links
Eustrotiinae
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Moths described in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20Data | Gamma Data (; also referred to as CNG or CNG New Game Research) is a Chinese research institute specializing in video games, movies and television programmes. “China's Game Industry Report”, presented by Gamma Data and guided by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) and sponsored by Game Publishers Association Publications Committee (GPC), is the most authoritative report in the gaming industry. Gamma Data’s government-commissioned and nationwide reports, insights, and analytics data results have been released in China Game Industry Annual Conference and ChinaJoy Summit Forum dozens of times during the last decade. Its data and views are also extensively quoted in prospectus, listing memorandums and strategy press conferences by a large number of gaming companies.
About company
Gamma Data is the research institute of Gamma New Media & Culture Co., Ltd., which was founded in 2010 in Beijing, China. It focuses on cultural and creative industry including game industry (online download game, console game and mobile game) as well as motion picture and television industry (Internet film and television). Gamma Data advises on issues such as project assessment, market analysis, mergers & acquisitions and investment decisions with respect to its insights in the game industry and motion picture and television industry. It provides objective and impartial market researches and mass data reflecting the development and characteristics of these industries. The government-commissioned “China Gaming Industry Report”, presented by Gamma data, is the most authoritative report and widely acknowledged in China’s game industry. Nowadays, Gamma Data works with the government of Shanghai, Guangzhou and Sichuan respectively to co-produce regional market reports.
Notable information
Gamma Data is a professional research institute covering every vertical area of the cultural and creative industry while attaching the greatest attention to the fastest growing, the most dynamic and attractive game, film and television industry in China. Its research provides mass and fine-grained data by investigating the game industry as well as the motion picture and television industry meticulously on each dimension.
Activities
CNG Forum is a series of activities organized by Gamma Data, which is of great influence in the field of investment in the mainland of China. Simultaneously, CNG forum has drawn a great deal of attention from global investors.
In June 2017, Shanghai Game Elite Summit Forum was directed by the Press and Publication Bureau of Shanghai, hosted by Gamma Data, and co-organized by Guotai Junan Securities.
In July 2017, The symposium with the theme “Revolution & Integration”, was co-hosted by Gamma Data and Haitong Securities. "2017 Listed Chinese Gaming Company Competitiveness Report (A-share)" was issued at the symposium.
In April 2018, CNG Forum HK2018 was hosted by Gamma Data and co-organized by CITIC Securities and CLSA. As a high-end |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20protection%20officer | A data protection officer (DPO) ensures, in an independent manner, that an organization applies the laws protecting individuals' personal data. The designation, position and tasks of a DPO within an organization are described in Articles 37, 38 and 39 of the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Many other countries require the appointment of a DPO, and it is becoming more prevalent in privacy legislation.
According to the GDPR, the DPO shall directly report to the highest management level. This doesn't mean the DPO has to be directly managed at this level but they must have direct access to give advice to senior managers who are making decisions about personal data processing.
The core responsibilities of the DPO include ensuring his/her organization is aware of, and trained on, all relevant GDPR obligations. Common tasks of a DPO include ensuring proper processes are in place for subject access requests, data mapping, privacy impact assessments, as well as raising data privacy awareness with employees. Additionally, they must conduct audits to ensure compliance, address potential issues proactively, and act as a liaison between his/her organization and the public regarding all data privacy matters.
In Germany, a 2001 law established a requirement for a DPO in certain organizations and included various protections around the scope and tenure for the role, including protections against dismissal for bringing problems to the attention of management. Many of these concepts were incorporated into the drafting of Article 38 of the GDPR and have continued to be incorporated in other privacy standards.
References
External links
Section 4 - Data protection officer (DPO)
Data protection
Data protection authorities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenia%20Gp-16 | The Selenia Gp-16 was a general purpose minicomputer designed by the Italian company Selenia of STET group. It was followed by an upgraded version called Gp-160.
History
The Gp-16 was minicomputer designed mainly for industrial customers, whose concept in design was similar to PDP-8. The design took place in Rome during the mid-sixties under the supervision of Saverio Rotella, when the production was carried in Fusaro (Naples) in the second half of that decade.
The most known uses were in control tower in airports, as done in Venice; a modified upgraded version was used in Gruppi Speciali of CSELT, the second electromechanical phone switch in Europe. The Gp16 was later adopted also by Olivetti. However, it never reached a large diffusion because of a small market push from its producing company.
Technical features
Hardware
Gp-16 had:
word length: 16-bit;
RAM memory: 8 Kbyte, extensibile to 32 Kbyte (when the CSELT version extended it until 64 Kbyte);
cycle time: 4 microseconds;
ROM technology: magnetic-core memory;
input/output peripherals: punched card reader, punched tape reader, teleprinter.
Software
No true Operating system;
Fortran Compiler;
Arithmetical calculation Routine;
Monitor processing system;
Assembly language.
Notes
Bibliography
Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, La cultura informatica in Italia: riflessioni e testimonianze sulle origini: 1950-1970, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993.
External links
ENAV: GP-16/GP-160
Minicomputers
16-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-76 | El-76 () is a high-level programming language developed in 1972–1973. The language was created for the Elbrus computer. Participants in the creation of the language were: Boris Babayan, V. M. Pentkovskii, S. V. Semenikhin, S. V. Veretennikov, V. Y. Volkonsky, S. M. Zotov, A. I. Ivanov, Y. S. Rumyantsev, V. P. Torchigin, M. I. Kharitonov, and V. S. Shevekov.
Эль-76 was developed at the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Its syntax was based on Russian language.
Program sample
The sample below is a program of Hello World kind.
процедура передатьпривет = проц(ф32 числоприветов)
начало
если числоприветов = 0 то
печатьмс(стр8 "МИР не получил ни одного привета!")
инес числоприветов = 1 то
печатьмс(стр8 "В МИР был отправлен всего один привет!")
иначе
печатьмс(стр8 "МИРУ передали несколько приветов. А если точно, то их было");
печать(числоприветов)
все
конец;
печатьмс(стр8 "Привет просто так!"); % такой привет мартышка точно не потеряет
печатькс(); % разрыв строки
передатьпривет(100) % привет из процедуры
конец
Output:
Привет просто так!
МИРУ передали несколько приветов. А если точно, то их было 100
References
Programming languages created in 1972
Natural language and computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIR-3 | MIR-3 () is a third generation computer that was released in the 1970s in the Soviet Union. It collected all the achievements of microelectronics in the 1970s. The main task of the MIR-3 computer was to solve computational problems for engineers.
MIR-3 consisted of keyboard, TV (display), a means of reading magnetic tapes and disks, a processor. The size of MIR-3 has decreased. Now it was the size of a regular desk. True, the size was without the means of reading magnetic tapes and disks.
The speed of the MIR-3 computer was 105 - 107 actions per second. The memory capacity was up to 106 knocks.
Essentially, the MIR-3 computer consisted of several computers. The microprocessor consists of several processors, each of which was responsible for the operation of a separate MIR-3 unit. For example, one for reading information from magnetic tapes and transferring information, the other for processing and calculations, the third for printing on the keyboard, and so on.
The complex structure of MIR-3 required the creation of means for coordinating the work of individual computer parts.
When creating the charter, the language Analitik-74 was used.
Participation in the creation of computers MIR-3 hosted by the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, including Victor Glushkov.
References
Soviet computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicerca%20caudata | Dicerca caudata is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.
References
Further reading
Buprestidae
Beetles of North America
Beetles described in 1860
Taxa named by John Lawrence LeConte
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Audience | The following is a list of programs broadcast by the defunct Audience network, formerly known as Freeview and The 101 Network.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Anthology
Continuations
Docuseries
Documentaries
Talk shows
Acquired programming
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
American Gothic
Brotherhood
Call Me Fitz
Castle
The Closer
The Dan Patrick Show
Deadwood
Friday the 13th: The Series
General Hospital: Night Shift
Hit & Miss
How Not to Live Your Life
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Less Than Kind
Mad Men
Major Crimes
Monsters
Mutual Friends
Night Gallery
The Nine
No Heroics
Odyssey: Driving Around the World
Oz
Rake
The Rich Eisen Show
The Shadow Line
The Slap
Sleeper Cell
Smith
Sons of Anarchy
Tales from the Crypt
Trailer Park Boys
Twin Peaks
Underbelly
Weeds
The Wire
Wonderland
References
Notes
Audience (TV network) original programming
Audience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guia%20dos%20Quadrinhos | Guia dos Quadrinhos (Comics Guide) is a Brazilian comic book database created with the objective of cataloging all comics published in Brazil, whether graphic novels, magazines, fanzines or independent publications.
History
Edson Diogo, creator of Guia dos Quadrinhos, was responsible for the "price guide" section of the Brazilian edition of Wizard magazine in 1990s. The difficulty of obtaining reliable information about Brazilian comics at the time inspired him to create the database. The first version of Guia dos Quadrinhos was aired in 2006 and was updated manually by Diogo after receiving information sent by readers to him. In 2007, after suggestion of journalist Ricardo Soneto, the project became a collaborative database and had its official release.
Structure
The Guia dos Quadrinhos database records all information about Brazilian comics, such as date of publication, publisher, genre, size and price. For each edition of magazines or graphic novels, there is the possibility of individually registering each story, as well as authors, characters and story arcs. In the case of Brazilian editions of foreign material, there is also the indication of the original work, with cover and complete data.
There is also a list of authors and publishers, with a list of the works in which they participated. Guia dos Quadrinhos also has a blog, a space for publishing studies about comics and a social network in which users can relate and publicize their collections of comics. All informations are registered by collaborators. Covers are only posted after site team approval and, in some cases, after Diogo's digital restoration if the original comic book was very old and rare. New data also is checked regularly.
Festival Guia dos Quadrinhos
In 2009, the Festival Guia dos Quadrinhos was organized for the first time (until 2013, was called Mercado das Pulgas - Flea Market). The event is held bi-annually in São Paulo and its main objective is to give space for comic collectors to sell and exchange comics and related materials. Since 2009, the Festival also has booth for artists and publishers, as well as talks with artists and comics professionals.
Books
In 2017, Guia dos Quadrinhos published a book in honor of Jack Kirby (Os mundos de Jack Kirby: um tributo ao rei dos quadrinhos, ). Organized by Edson Diogo and comic artist Will, the book counted with 100 Brazilian artists, who draw the most important characters created by Kirby accompanied by descriptive texts. The book was crowdfunded by Brazilian crowdfunding website Catarse.
In 2018, a new book was released, also by crowdfunding, this time honoring the Vertigo imprint (Vertigo: além do limiar, ). 25 writers and 25 artists participated in the book, which also featured interviews with Karen Berger, Jamie Delano and Peter Milligan.
Awards
In 2017, Guia dos Quadrinhos won Troféu HQ Mix as a homage to its 10th anniversary.
References
External links
Guia dos Quadrinhos
Festival Guia dos Quadrinh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capraita | Capraita is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are some 60 described species in the Nearctic and Neotropics.
Selected species
Capraita carinimera
Capraita circumdata (Randall, 1838)
Capraita cuyaba Bechyné, 1957
Capraita durangoensis (Jacoby, 1892)
Capraita encarpalis
Capraita flavida (Horn, 1889)
Capraita indigoptera (J. L. LeConte, 1878)
Capraita nigrosignata (Schaeffer, 1920) (germander flea beetle)
Capraita obsidiana (Fabricius, 1801)
Capraita pervittata (Blake, 1927)
Capraita punzonensis
Capraita quercata (Fabricius, 1801)
Capraita saltatra (Blatchley, 1923)
Capraita scalaris (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
Capraita sexmaculata (Illiger, 1807) (Charlie Brown flea beetle)
Capraita spilonota (Blake, 1927)
Capraita stichocephala
Capraita sublaevis
Capraita subvittata (Horn, 1889)
Capraita suturalis (Fabricius, 1801)
Capraita texana (Crotch, 1873)
Capraita thelma
Capraita thyamoides (Crotch, 1873)
Capraita virkkii
References
External links
Alticini
Chrysomelidae genera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM-1 | The Processor Technology VDM-1, for Video Display Module, was the first video card for S-100 bus computers. Created in 1975, it allows an S-100 machine to produce its own display, and when paired with a keyboard and their 3P+S card, it eliminates the need for a separate video terminal. Using a 7 x 9 dot matrix and ASCII characters, it produces a 64-column by 16-row text display.
The VDM-1 is a complex card and was soon replaced by an increasing number of similar products from other companies. An early competitor was the Solid State Music VB-1, which offers an identical display from a much simpler card. Later cards using LSI chips have enough room to include the keyboard controller as well.
History
TV Typewriter
In September 1973, the cover article of Radio Electronics magazine was Don Lancaster's "Build a TV Typewriter", which allows users to type characters on a keyboard and have them appear on a conventional television. Given this limited functionality, they initially estimated that the magazine would sell about 20 copies of the plans for $20 each. Instead, they were flooded by requests and eventually sent out 10,000 copies.
Bob Marsh built a TV Typewriter and showed it to Lee Felsenstein. Felsenstein noted that it had no external memory, so once a full page of text had been typed, the entire page had to be erased to display additional text. He phoned Lancaster and asked him about this design note, and Lancaster replied that he simply hadn't considered using it as the basis of a terminal, "I don't know – people just want to put up characters on their TV screens".
Tom Swift Terminal
Throughout 1973, Felsenstein had been looking for a low-cost terminal for the Community Memory bulletin board system. He had designed the Pennywhistle modem to address the need for remote access at a price under $100, but the terminal that they hooked it up to still cost $1500.
Felsenstein began designing a printed circuit board that would combine the video output of the TV Typewriter with 1024 bytes of memory so it could hold a page of text in ASCII format and send it to a video monitor. He called the resulting design "The Tom Swift Terminal", after the Tom Swift books. The design manual also had an extended section on the concept of "convivial design" (essentially "friendly"), which argued that a device's social utility was inversely proportional to its complexity, and thus devices should be as simple and open-ended as possible.
Felsenstein sold the design document to local hobbyists, and wrote an article on it in the People's Computer Company in early 1974. By 1975, the system had still not been assembled by anyone.
VDM-1
In April 1975, Bob Marsh and Gary Ingram formed Processor Technology, initially to sell expansion cards for the Altair. Marsh approached Felsenstein with the idea of modifying the Tom Swift design to work with the Altair, which had been released that January. A key aspect of the resulting design was the use of electronic switches that a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%C3%A0sec | 5àsec ( ) is a franchising network specialized in cleaning and ironing clothes.
History
Founded in Marseille in 1968, the name "5 à sec" (literally "5 to dry") comes from the five pricing levels in use back then. The 5àsec network grew rapidly through franchising and in the first 15 years reached the number of 580 shops, making it one of the largest franchise networks in its field of operation.
In the 1970s, 5àsec began its international expansion, through master-franchisees in neighboring French-speaking countries: Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. In the 1990s, 5àsec expanded to the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Spain) and then to South America: Argentina and Brazil.
In the 2000s, the company made major acquisitions of franchisees and master-franchisees, particularly in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The number of 5àsec shops doubled, at a rate of 100 new outlets per year. In 2009, David Sztabholz became CEO and promoted the development of the company in growing markets, with acquisitions of master-franchises in Brazil (2010) and expanding to India (2010), Egypt (2011) and Colombia (2011).
As of 2012, 5àsec had nearly two thousand shops, and close to 7,000 employees, attending more than 120,000 customers per day worldwide.
References
External links
Official website in Australia
Official website in India
Service companies of France
Retail companies established in 1968
Franchises
Laundry businesses
French companies established in 1968 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gekko%20%28optimization%20software%29 | The GEKKO Python package solves large-scale mixed-integer and differential algebraic equations with nonlinear programming solvers (IPOPT, APOPT, BPOPT, SNOPT, MINOS). Modes of operation include machine learning, data reconciliation, real-time optimization, dynamic simulation, and nonlinear model predictive control. In addition, the package solves Linear programming (LP), Quadratic programming (QP), Quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP), Nonlinear programming (NLP), Mixed integer programming (MIP), and Mixed integer linear programming (MILP). GEKKO is available in Python and installed with pip from PyPI of the Python Software Foundation.
pip install gekko
GEKKO works on all platforms and with Python 2.7 and 3+. By default, the problem is sent to a public server where the solution is computed and returned to Python. There are Windows, MacOS, Linux, and ARM (Raspberry Pi) processor options to solve without an Internet connection. GEKKO is an extension of the APMonitor Optimization Suite but has integrated the modeling and solution visualization directly within Python. A mathematical model is expressed in terms of variables and equations such as the Hock & Schittkowski Benchmark Problem #71 used to test the performance of nonlinear programming solvers. This particular optimization problem has an objective function and subject to the inequality constraint and equality constraint . The four variables must be between a lower bound of 1 and an upper bound of 5. The initial guess values are . This optimization problem is solved with GEKKO as shown below.
from gekko import GEKKO
m = GEKKO() # Initialize gekko
# Initialize variables
x1 = m.Var(value=1, lb=1, ub=5)
x2 = m.Var(value=5, lb=1, ub=5)
x3 = m.Var(value=5, lb=1, ub=5)
x4 = m.Var(value=1, lb=1, ub=5)
# Equations
m.Equation(x1 * x2 * x3 * x4 >= 25)
m.Equation(x1 ** 2 + x2 ** 2 + x3 ** 2 + x4 ** 2 == 40)
m.Obj(x1 * x4 * (x1 + x2 + x3) + x3) # Objective
m.solve(disp=False) # Solve
print("x1: " + str(x1.value))
print("x2: " + str(x2.value))
print("x3: " + str(x3.value))
print("x4: " + str(x4.value))
print("Objective: " + str(m.options.objfcnval))
Applications of GEKKO
Applications include cogeneration (power and heat), drilling automation, severe slugging control, solar thermal energy production, solid oxide fuel cells, flow assurance, Enhanced oil recovery, Essential oil extraction, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). There are many other references to APMonitor and GEKKO as a sample of the types of applications that can be solved. GEKKO is developed from the National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant #1547110 and is detailed in a Special Issue collection on combined scheduling and control. Other notable mentions of GEKKO are the listing in the Decision Tree for Optimization Software, added support for APOPT and BPOPT solvers, projects reports of the online Dynamic Optimization course from international participants. GEKKO is a topic in online forums where users are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WireGuard | WireGuard is a communication protocol and free and open-source software that implements encrypted virtual private networks (VPNs), and was designed with the goals of ease of use, high speed performance, and low attack surface. It aims for better performance and more power than IPsec and OpenVPN, two common tunneling protocols. The WireGuard protocol passes traffic over UDP.
In March 2020, the Linux version of the software reached a stable production release and was incorporated into the Linux 5.6 kernel, and backported to earlier Linux kernels in some Linux distributions. The Linux kernel components are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2; other implementations are under GPLv2 or other free/open-source licenses.
The name WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.
Protocol
WireGuard uses the following:
Curve25519 for key exchange
ChaCha20 for symmetric encryption
Poly1305 for message authentication codes
SipHash24 for hashtable keys
BLAKE2s for cryptographic hash function
HKDF for key derivation function
UDP-based only
In May 2019, researchers from INRIA published a machine-checked proof of the WireGuard protocol, produced using the CryptoVerif proof assistant.
Optional Pre-shared Symmetric Key Mode
WireGuard supports pre-shared symmetric key mode, which provides an additional layer of symmetric encryption to mitigate future advances in quantum computing. This addresses the risk that traffic may be stored until quantum computers are capable of breaking Curve25519, at which point traffic could be decrypted. Pre-shared keys are "usually troublesome from a key management perspective and might be more likely stolen", but in the shorter term, if the symmetric key is compromised, the Curve25519 keys still provide more than sufficient protection.
Networking
WireGuard uses only UDP, due to the potential disadvantages of TCP-over-TCP. Tunneling TCP over a TCP-based connection is known as "TCP-over-TCP", and doing so can induce a dramatic loss in transmission performance (a problem known as "TCP meltdown"). TCP meltdown occurs when a TCP connection is stacked on top of another. The underlying layer may detect a problem and attempt to compensate, and the layer above it then overcompensates because of that, and this overcompensation causes said delays and degraded transmission performance.
WireGuard fully supports IPv6, both inside and outside of tunnel. It supports only layer 3 for both IPv4 and IPv6 and can encapsulate v4-in-v6 and vice versa.
Extensibility
WireGuard is designed to be extended by third-party programmes and scripts. This has been used to augment WireGuard with various features including more user-friendly management interfaces (including easier setting up of keys), logging, dynamic firewall updates, dynamic IP assignment, and LDAP integration.
Excluding such complex features from the minimal core codebase improves its stability and security. For ensuring security, WireGuard restricts the opt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian-Carlo%20Pascutto | Gian-Carlo Pascutto (born 1982) is a Belgian computer programmer. He is the author of chess engine Sjeng and Go software Leela, and the original author of the free and open-source Go software Leela Zero. Gian-Carlo also authored many core components of the foobar2000 media player.
He graduated from Hogeschool Gent in 2006, and has worked as a mobile platform engineer and manager at Mozilla Corporation since 2011.
Pascutto is a native of Ninove. He is married and has two children.
References
External links
GCP (Gian-Carlo Pascutto) on GitHub
1982 births
Living people
Belgian computer programmers
Computer chess people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizalina%20Ilagan | Rizalina "Lina" Parabuac Ilagan (born June 19, 1954—disappeared on July 31, 1977) was an anti-martial law activist who belonged to a network of community organizations in the Southern Tagalog region in the Philippines.
She was abducted by state security agents and disappeared on July 31, 1977, at the Makati Medical Center in Metro Manila, with nine other activists in what is believed to be the single biggest case of involuntary disappearance during Ferdinand Marcos’ martial law in the Philippines.
The group, consisting of university students and professors working as community organizers in Southern Tagalog, later came to be known as the Southern Tagalog 10.
Ilagan's name is inscribed on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Wall of Remembrance, which honors martyrs and heroes of martial law. She is one of the heroes honored on the University of the Philippines Los Baños 'Hagdan ng Malayang Kamalayan' memorial.
Biography
As a student, Ilagan was always at the top of her class. She directed plays in high school (and won best director) and wrote for the school paper. She also attended conferences held by youth organizations, such as the Future Farmers of the Philippines. She became an activist and joined the local chapter of the militant youth group Kabataang Makabayan (KM) in her senior year in high school.
She entered the University of the Philippines in Los Baños and became active in the theater group Tambuli under director Leo Rimando. She became the Southern Tagalog coordinator of KM's Panday Sining theater organization, which staged plays depicting the problems of Philippine society.
She left the university when martial law was declared in 1972 and worked full-time organizing communities in the underground resistance to the dictatorship. She also worked as a staff member for an underground newsletter in Southern Tagalog. It was at this time that military intelligence personnel began pursuing her and other activists working in Southern Tagalog.
On July 31, 1977, Ilagan and her two companions, Jessica Sales and Cristina Catalla, were abducted on their way to a meeting at the Makati Medical Center. They were to meet fellow community organizers Gerardo "Gerry" Faustino, Modesto Sison, Ramon Jasul, Emmanuel Salvacruz, Salvador Panganiban, Virgilio Silva, and Erwin de la Torre, all of whom were also abducted. Sison's body was later found in Lucena City, Quezon province. Silva and Panganiban's bodies were found in a ravine in Tagaytay City, Cavite. Ilagan and the rest were never found.
Ilagan is recognized as a martyr and hero of martial law and her name has been inscribed on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Wall of Remembrance. The arts festival Pista Rizalina of the Cultural Center of the Philippines was named in her honor.
In popular culture and mass media
The play Pagsambang Bayan is dedicated to Ilagan and other members of the Southern Tagalog 10. It was written by Ilagan's brother Bonifacio Ilagan and first staged in September 1977 by director Behn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMnets | RAMnets is one of the oldest practical neurally inspired classification algorithms. The RAMnets is also known as a type of "n-tuple recognition method" or "weightless neural network".
Algorithm
Consider (let us say N) sets of n distinct bit locations are selected randomly. These are the n-tuples. The restriction of a pattern to an n-tuple can be regarded as an n-bit number which, together with the identity of the n-tuple, constitutes a `feature' of the pattern. The standard n-tuple recognizer operates simply as follows:
A pattern is classified as belonging to the class for which it has the most features in common with at least one training pattern of that class.
This is the = 0 case of a more general rule whereby the class assigned to unclassified pattern u is
where Dc is the set of training patterns in class c, = x for , for , is the Kronecker delta(=1 if i=j and 0 otherwise.)and is the ith feature of the pattern u:
Here uk is the kth bit of u and is the jth bit location of the ith n-tuple.
With C classes to distinguish, the system can be implemented as a network of NC nodes, each of which is a random access memory (RAM); hence the term RAMnet. The memory content at address of the ith node allocated to class c is set to
=
In the usual = 1 case, the 1-bit content of is set if any pattern of Dc has feature and unset otherwise. Recognition is accomplished by summing the contents of the nodes of each class at the addresses given by the features of the unclassified pattern. That is, pattern u is assigned to class
RAM-discriminators and WiSARD
The RAMnets formed the basis of a commercial product known as WiSARD (Wilkie, Stonham and Aleksander Recognition Device) was the first artificial neural network machine to be patented.
A RAM-discriminator consists of a set of one-bit word RAMs with inputs and a summing device (Σ). Any such RAM-discriminator can receive a binary pattern of X⋅n bits as input. The RAM input lines are connected to the input pattern by means of a biunivocal pseudo-random mapping. The summing device enables this network of RAMs to exhibit – just like other ANN models based on synaptic weights – generalization and noise tolerance.
In order to train the discriminator one has to set all RAM memory locations to 0 and choose a training set formed by binary patterns of X⋅n bits. For each training pattern, a 1 is stored in the memory location of each RAM addressed by this input pattern. Once the training of patterns is completed, RAM memory contents will be set to a certain number of 0’s and 1’s.
The information stored by the RAM during the training phase is used to deal with previous unseen patterns. When one of these is given as input, the RAM memory contents addressed by the input pattern are read and summed by Σ. The number thus obtained, which is called the discriminator response, is equal to the number of RAMs that output 1. r reaches the maximum if the input belongs to the training set. is eq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anicia%20Peters | Anicia Peters is a Namibian computer scientist specializing in human–computer interaction (HCI). She is the CEO of the National Commission of Research, Science and Technology (NCRST).
Early life and education
Peters was born in Rehoboth, Namibia, and attended Origo Primary School. Her family moved to the Khomasdal suburb of Windhoek when she was about 8; there, she attended M.H. Greeff Primary School and later Concordia College.
Peters earned two undergraduate degrees cum laude from the Namibia University of Science and Technology, formerly known as Polytechnic of Namibia; one was the National Diploma in Business Computing and the other was a B.Tech. in Business Computing. For her B.Tech. degree, she earned the Rector's Medal for outstanding achievement and the Prof. Yrjö Neuvo Award for the best graduate in information technology at the institution.
Peters then studied at Iowa State University, obtaining a MSc and a PhD in human–computer interaction. She received two scholarship awards in 2013 from Boeing for contribution to HCI research conference publications. For her PhD, she received a Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University. She completed her PhD under a Fulbright International Science and Technology Award and a Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Women in Science fellowship. Her current research work is on social computing, gender in digital technologies, gamification, and e-participation such as e-government and e-health.
In 2012, she became a Google Anita Borg scholar in the United States. She also interned at Intuit in the Silicon Valley as user experience (UX) researcher prior to accepting a postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon State University. Here, she worked under Margaret Burnett, who co-founded the area of end-user software engineering and developed two visual programming languages.
Academic career
In 2015, Anicia Peters became Executive Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Informatics (FCI) and an associate professor in computer science at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), the first Namibian dean at NUST, where she contributed to establishing the India-Namibia Centre of Excellence in IT.
In Namibia, she started several initiatives such as the Namibia Women in Computing conference and three chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). One such local chapter is the ACM-W. She further chaired the International Culture and Computer Science Conference in Windhoek in October 2016. She also initiated and co-chaired the inaugural Africa Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI) in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2016 and served as special advisor to AfriCHI2018. In 2016, Peters was made Star Of The Week by the New Era newspaper highlighting her work in academia and research.
In February 2017, she was featured as one of 20 prominent personalities in Who's Who Namibia 2017. She is also one of 10 African Women Rolemodels in Technology featured by Afchix.
From 2020 until her appoin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Uttarakhand | News18 Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand is a Hindi-language 24/7 social television channel, owned by Network18. The channel is a free-to-air and was launched on 27 January 2002. On 16 March 2018 ETV Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand was re-branded News18 Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand.
See also
ETV Network
Network 18
CNN-News18
References
External links
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Hindi-language television stations
Television channels based in Noida
2015 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
2015 establishments in Uttarakhand
24-hour television news channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20Kerala | News 18 Kerala is an Indian Malayalam language news pay television channel owned by Network 18. It is headquartered in Thiruvananthapuram
The launch in Kerala was part of an expansion plan of News 18 franchise in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam-North East. Indian Super League (ISL) Season 10 is being broadcast on News18 Kerala with Malayalam commentary.
See also
Network 18
CNN-News18
References
External links
News18 India's Official website
24-hour television news channels in India
Malayalam-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Television stations in Thiruvananthapuram
2016 establishments in Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE%20United%20Kingdom%20Championship%20Tournament | The WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament was a professional wrestling tournament and WWE Network event produced by WWE, an American-based professional wrestling promotion. The event was established in December 2016, debuting as a WWE Network-exclusive event on 14 and 15 January 2017. The second event was held on 18 and 19 June 2018 and aired on 25 and 26 June. The first event was held for WWE's new United Kingdom division, while the second event featured wrestlers from their American-based NXT and United Kingdom-based NXT UK brand divisions.
The event was centered around the WWE United Kingdom Championship, which had been established in December 2016. The first event determined the inaugural holder of the championship while the winner of the second event received a match for the championship. The inaugural event was the genesis to the formation of WWE's NXT UK brand, a sister brand of NXT based in the United Kingdom; the 2018 tournament was NXT UK's first official event. The championship itself was later renamed as the NXT United Kingdom Championship.
History
In a press conference at The O2 Arena on 15 December 2016, Triple H, the chief operating officer and head of NXT for the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, revealed that there would be a 16-man tournament to crown the inaugural WWE United Kingdom Champion. The tournament was held over a two-day period, 14 and 15 January 2017, at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, Lancashire, England and aired exclusively on the WWE Network. The tournament featured wrestlers from WWE's upstart United Kingdom division. The tournament was won by Tyler Bate, thus becoming the inaugural WWE United Kingdom Champion.
A follow-up to the first event called the United Kingdom Championship Special aired on May 19. On 7 April 2018, a second United Kingdom Championship Tournament event was scheduled for 18 and 19 June at the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, London, England and to air on the WWE Network on 25 and 26 June. This tournament featured wrestlers from WWE's new United Kingdom based-brand, NXT UK, as well as wrestlers from WWE's American-based NXT. The full tournament was held on day one while the second day was promoted as "NXT U.K. Championship." Zack Gibson won the second tournament and received a WWE United Kingdom Championship match against reigning champion Pete Dunne during the main event of the second night, where Dunne retained.
Following the second tournament, the WWE United Kingdom Championship became the top championship of the NXT UK brand and its show, NXT UK, a WWE Network show produced in the United Kingdom that premiered on 17 October 2018. In January 2020, the title was renamed to NXT United Kingdom Championship to reflect its status as the top title of NXT UK.
Events
References
External links
Recurring events established in 2017
Tournament
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan%20Features | Tartan Features is a filmmaking network and distribution platform based in Scotland. It supports the production of micro-budget feature films.
Origin
Tartan Features was established in 2013.
Its name is in reference to the defunct "Tartan Shorts" filmmaking strand run by the Scottish Screen Production Fund (later Scottish Screen) and BBC Scotland.
In February 2014, Tartan Features made their first venture into do-it-yourself cinema distribution. Their first feature, Sarah's Room (then titled To Here Knows When) was screened at the Edinburgh Filmhouse Cinema via a collaboration with the independent short film night, Write-Shoot-Cut.
This was the first opportunity in Scotland for independent filmmakers to have their micro-budget feature films to be screened regularly in a cinema. Sarah's Room was followed by three other Tartan Features Write-Shoot-Cut collaborations during 2014: Skeletons, Take It Back and Start All Over Again and A Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide.
History
Tartan Features is a strand of a DIY Filmmaking initiative called Year Zero Filmmaking which also includes distribution, filmmaking events and a film festival. It was started by Grant McPhee and Neil Rolland’.
Various filmmakers and creatives have been involved throughout its existence including Lauren Lamaar, John McPhail, Grant McPhee, Neil Rolland, Graham Hughes, Olivia Gifford, Alison Piper and journalist Neil Cooper.
The origins of Tartan Features can be traced back to the 2008 Glasgow Bootleg Film Festival, a then unusual ‘maverick alternative’ to traditional festivals where films were screened at ‘pop up’ screenings in non typical settings such as coffee shops and unused spaces and on lo-fi equipment.
In 2013 the Bootleg Film Festival teamed up with the Edinburgh local independent film screening night, Write, Shoot, Cut. Tartan Features was born from a further collaboration to develop a platform to create and screen locally produced micro-budget feature films. It was set up as a reaction to the lack of micro budget feature films by Creative Scotland (now Screen Scotland) such as England’s Micro-Wave.
Glasgow Fringe Film Festival was set-up in acknowledgment of what the Fringe Festival was to the Edinburgh International Festival due to the belief that there were not enough opportunities for highlighting local filmmaking talents at the two large Scottish film festivals – Edinburgh International Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival.
Ethos
The ethos, influenced by the independent record industry is to advocate DIY methods and combine that with professional filmmaking processes; to act as a bridge between grass roots filmmaking and lift the lid on how the filmmaking industry works. This often includes creating guides for self sufficiency based on classic DIY music manifestos such as The KLF’s ‘How to Have a Number One he Easy Way’ and Scritti Politti’s ‘How to Make a Record’.
“Our biggest desire is to not make a series of financially lucrative ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar | Baykar is a private Turkish defence company specialising in UAVs, C4I and artificial intelligence.
Name
Baykar is a portmanteau of the words Bayraktar Kardeşler (). The company presently operates under the names "Baykar Teknoloji" () and "Baykar Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş." ()
History
The company was founded in 1984 as Baykar Makina, a CNC precision machining supplier subcontractor by Özdemir Bayraktar, with the primary goals being production of automotive parts such as engines, pumps and spare parts to ensure the localization of the automotive industry. Established in this direction, Baykar is an engineering company founded with 100% domestic capital. It took steps towards producing unmanned aerial vehicles in the 2000s in line with the developments and progress in the aviation sector. Bayraktar Mini UAV was the first unmanned aerial system produced entirely with domestic capital, included in the Turkish Armed Forces inventory in 2007. Having launched R&D activities for this purpose, Baykar has realized pioneering productions in its field and by producing subsystems, it has achieved to provide technical support to Turkish national defence industry, as the latter has grown and started exporting weapons including Baykar drones. Baykar's portfolio of advanced UAVs includes Bayraktar Tactical UAS (Bayraktar TB1), Bayraktar TB2 UCAV, Bayraktar Akıncı UCAV. It is also developing a flying car (quadricopter) which it started testing in 2020. The car, called Cezeri and weighing 230 kilograms, rose 10 metres above the ground in the tests carried out in Istanbul in September 2020.
Baykar's drones have been used in 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war by the Azerbaijani army which resulted in a series of boycotts from international companies whom Baykar used to buy products from. Domestic drone manufacturing before that war relied on imported and regulated components and technologies such as the engines from Austria (manufactured by Rotax), fuel systems (manufactured by Andair) and missile rack (manufactured by EDO MBM) from the UK, optoelectronics (FLIR sensors imported from Wescam in Canada or Hensoldt in Germany). Engines exports were halted when Canadian Bombardier, owner of Rotax, became aware of the military use of their recreational aircraft engines. In October 2020 Canadian Wescam (optics and sensors) exports were restricted by the Canadian Foreign Ministry. After learning that their products were utilised to create combat drones, Hampshire-based UK aircraft manufacturer Andair announced the discontinuation of all sales to Baykar Makina on 11 January 2020. The British manufacturer became the latest company to stop selling equipment to Turkey after its components were found in drones shot down during the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Turkish industry responded to foreign sales boycotts by announcing provision of domestically manufactured alternatives to Baykar - PD170 motor (Turkish Aerospace Industries), optical camera (Aselsan CATS system), and fuel valve (A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelong%20Planning%20A%2A | LPA* or Lifelong Planning A* is an incremental heuristic search algorithm based on A*. It was first described by Sven Koenig and Maxim Likhachev in 2001.
Description
LPA* is an incremental version of A*, which can adapt to changes in the graph without recalculating the entire graph, by updating the g-values (distance from start) from the previous search during the current search to correct them when necessary. Like A*, LPA* uses a heuristic, which is a lower boundary for the cost of the path from a given node to the goal. A heuristic is admissible if it is guaranteed to be non-negative (zero being admissible) and never greater than the cost of the cheapest path to the goal.
Predecessors and successors
With the exception of the start and goal node, each node has predecessors and successors:
Any node from which an edge leads towards is a predecessor of .
Any node to which an edge leads from is a successor of .
In the following description, these two terms refer only to the immediate predecessors and successors, not to predecessors of predecessors or successors of successors.
Start distance estimates
LPA* maintains two estimates of the start distance for each node:
, the previously calculated g-value (start distance) as in A*
, a lookahead value based on the g-values of the node’s predecessors (the minimum of all , where {{math|n'''}} is a predecessor of and is the cost of the edge connecting and )
For the start node, the following always holds true:
If equals , then is called locally consistent. If all nodes are locally consistent, then a shortest path can be determined as with A*. However, when edge costs change, local consistency needs to be re-established only for those nodes which are relevant for the route.
Priority queue
When a node becomes locally inconsistent (because the cost of its predecessor or the edge linking it to a predecessor has changed), it is placed in a priority queue for re-evaluation. LPA* uses a two-dimensional key:
Entries are ordered by (which corresponds directly to the f-values used in A*), then by .
Node expansion
The top node in the queue is expanded as follows:
If the rhs-value of a node equals its g-value, the node is locally consistent and is removed from the queue.
If the rhs-value of a node is less than its g-value (known as a locally overconsistent node), the g-value is changed to match the rhs-value, making the node locally consistent. The node is then removed from the queue.
If the rhs-value of a node is greater than its g-value (known as a locally underconsistent'' node), the g-value is set to infinity (which makes the node either locally overconsistent or locally consistent). If the node is then locally consistent, it is removed from the queue, else its key is updated.
Since changing the g-value of a node may also change the rhs-values of its successors (and thus their local consistence), they are evaluated and their queue membership and key is updated if necessary.
Expansion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20peripheral%20operation | In computing, autonomous peripheral operation is a hardware feature found in some microcontroller architectures to off-load certain tasks into embedded autonomous peripherals in order to minimize latencies and improve throughput in hard real-time applications as well as to save energy in ultra-low-power designs.
Overview
Forms of autonomous peripherals in microcontrollers were first introduced in the 1990s. Allowing embedded peripherals to work independently of the CPU and even interact with each other in certain pre-configurable ways off-loads event-driven communication into the peripherals to help improve the real-time performance due to lower latency and allows for potentially higher data throughput due to the added parallelism. Since 2009, the scheme has been improved in newer implementations to continue functioning in sleep modes as well, thereby allowing the CPU (and other unaffected peripheral blocks) to remain dormant for longer periods of time in order to save energy. This is partially driven by the emerging IoT market.
Conceptually, autonomous peripheral operation can be seen as a generalization of and mixture between direct memory access (DMA) and hardware interrupts. Peripherals that issue event signals are called event generators or producers whereas target peripherals are called event users or consumers. In some implementations, peripherals can be configured to pre-process the incoming data and perform various peripheral-specific functions like comparing, windowing, filtering or averaging in hardware without having to pass the data through the CPU for processing.
Implementations
Known implementations include:
Peripheral Event Controller (PEC) in Siemens/Infineon C166 and C167 16-bit microcontrollers since 1990
Intelligent autonomous peripherals ( CCU6) in Infineon XC800 series of 8051-compatible 8-bit microcontrollers since 2005
Event System (EVSYS) in Atmel AVR XMEGA 8-bit microcontrollers since 2008
Peripheral Event System (PES) with SleepWalking in Atmel (now Microchip Technology) AVR32 AT32UC3L 32-bit microcontrollers since 2009
Peripheral Reflex System (PRS) in Energy Micro (now Silicon Labs) Gecko EFM32 32-bit ARM-based microcontrollers since 2009
IXYS/Zilog ZNEO Z16FMC 16-bit microcontrollers since 2011
Event Link Controller (ELC) in Renesas microcontrollers since 2011
Programmable Peripheral Interconnect (PPI) in Nordic nRF 32-bit ARM-based microcontrollers since about 2011
Autonomous peripherals in Infineon XMC 32-bit microcontrollers since 2012
Data Transfer Manager (DTM) in Silicon Labs Precision32 SiM3L1 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers since 2012
Peripheral Event System (PES) with SleepWalking in Atmel (now Microchip Technology) SAM4L 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers since 2012
Power-Smart Peripherals in Freescale (now NXP) Kinetis L 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ microcontrollers since 2012
Event System (EVSYS) with SleepWalking in Atmel (now Microchip Technology) SAMD, SAML and SAMC 32-bit ARM Corte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Wear%20OS%20devices | The following is a comparative list of wearable devices using the Wear OS operating system.
See also
References
Wear OS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Data | PC Data was an American market research and point of sale tracking firm founded in 1991 and based in Reston, Virginia. Its founder, Ann Stephens, had worked previously as the head researcher for the Software Publishers Association. Initially, the firm tracked only the United States' computer software market, but later expanded to include hardware sales and, in 1999, Internet traffic. By 1996, The Washington Post described PC Data as "the preeminent tabulator of facts and figures of the monthly sales of consumer software in the United States". Its coverage of the United States retail software sales market had grown to 80% by September 1998.
In March 2001, The NPD Group purchased PC Data's point-of-sale research branch and merged it with its Intelect Market Tracking division. Following a legal settlement with the rival company Jupiter Media Matrix regarding patent infringement, PC Data ceased Internet traffic research and closed later in March. Firms NetValue and ComScore purchased the remainder of PC Data's Internet research branch.
References
External links
Official website (archived)
Market research companies of the United States
Companies based in Reston, Virginia
Marketing companies established in 1991
Companies disestablished in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Honestly%20Love%20You%20%28album%29 | I Honestly Love You is the soundtrack to the Australian biographical miniseries Olivia: Hopelessly Devoted to You, the first part of which screened on the Seven Network on 13 May 2018, with the second part to air on 20 May 2018. The miniseries tells the story of Olivia Newton-John, an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. The soundtrack comprises the star of the series, Delta Goodrem, performing covers of iconic songs from Newton-John's career and was released in Australia on 11 May 2018.
Upon announcement, Goodrem said “Having Olivia as a friend for all these years has been such an incredible gift. From a young age, she was an artist I admired and looked up to.”
The album was announced and available for pre-order on 29 April 2018 and came with the pre-order duet "Love Is a Gift", to which Newton-John explains "When we wrote "Love Is a Gift", we wrote it as a love song. Now, when [Delta and I] sing it, it's about friendship and love between friends and so it still has the same meaning; it's just a different time for the song."
Reception
David from AuspOp gave the album 3 out of 5 and wrote: "Listening through the songs, nothing is overly groundbreaking, but the covers do feel like they have had some attention paid to them". He called the album "decent enough" and "an opportunity to take a look at Olivia Newton-John's music from a different perspective", noting "Physical", "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "Love Is a Gift" as highlights.
Track listing
Charts
Release history
References
2018 soundtrack albums
Delta Goodrem albums
Sony Music Australia albums
Soundtracks by Australian artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Cure%20episodes | The Cure is a 2018 Philippine television drama series starring Jennylyn Mercado and Tom Rodriguez. The series premiered on GMA Network's GMA Telebabad evening block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from April 30 to July 27, 2018, replacing Sherlock Jr..
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
In the tables below, the represent the lowest ratings and the represent the highest ratings.
April 2018
May 2018
June 2018
July 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capraita%20circumdata | Capraita circumdata is a species of flea beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is endemic to North America.
References
Further reading
Alticini
Beetles of North America
Beetles described in 1838
Taxa named by John Witt Randall
Articles created by Qbugbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegana | Stegana is a genus of vinegar flies, insects in the family Drosophilidae.
Seven species complexes have been established based on morphological data: S. biprotrusa (Chen & Aotsuka, 2004), S. castanea (Okada, 1988), S. coleoptrata (Scopoli, 1763), S. nigrolimbata (Duda, 1924), S. ornatipes (Wheeler & Takada, 1964), S. shirozui (Okada, 1971) and S. undulata (Meijere, 1911).
See also
List of Stegana species
References
Drosophilidae genera
Drosophilidae
Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enypia%20packardata | Enypia packardata, or Packard's girdle, is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Enypia packardata is 7007.
References
Further reading
External links
Ourapterygini
Articles created by Qbugbot
Moths described in 1906 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veris%20Ltd | Veris (formerly OTOC) () is a spatial data services company in Australia.
It is said to be the largest provider of spatial data services.
History
Ocean to Outback Electrical was formed in 2003 by Adam Lamond and Ocean to Outback Contracting (OTOC) was established in 2008. It renamed to Veris in November 2016.
Projects
Metro Tunnel Project
WA Museum Boola Bardip
Sunbury Line Upgrade
Sydney Light Rail
Epping Chatswood Rail Link
Timbertop Estate
Perth Airport
Hydro Tasmania
Launceston Model
Australia 108
References
Engineering consulting firms of Australia
Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Service companies of Australia
Business services companies established in 2008
Australian companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecard | Mecard may refer to
MeCard (QR code), a data file in a QR code format, developed by NTT Docomo
Turning Mecard, a South Korean toyline and media franchise developed for Sonokong by Choirock
Turning Mecard (TV series), a South Korean animated television series which is a part of the franchise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideya | Hideya (written: 秀弥, 秀哉 or 英也) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
Hideya Kawahara, computer programmer and developer of Project Looking Glass
Hideya Matsumoto, Japanese mathematician
, Japanese footballer
Hideya Suzuki, Japanese musician and member of Mr. Children
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese actor and model
See also
Hideya Station, a railway station in Aga, Higashikanbara District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makatote%20Tramway | The Makatote Tramway was from the late 1920s to 1940 a long bush tramway network near Makatote in the central North island of New Zealand with a gauge of using metal and wooden rails. It was operated by Dinwoodie's Timber Company with probably less than 10 employees.
Route
The Makatote Tramway lies east of State Highway 4 approximately south of the village National Park, New Zealand on the western boundary of the Tongariro National Park. The track consisted of two main branches of tramlines extending in easterly and northeasterly direction. Both wooden and metal rails can still be found throughout the site. Several pits and water races were installed to serve the steam-powered log haulers and to meet the fire safety requirements of the tramway license.
Main Branch
Only a small number of sleepers and rails of the Main Branch are still in situ today, but the route can be clearly distinguished. The wooden tramway of the Main Branch was constructed from approximately tōtara rails, laid onto rough-sawn logs of various diameters. The rails were attached to the wooden sleepers by large metal spikes, some of are still in place along the tramway. The sleepers are spaced apart and the gauge of the rails is approximately similar to the Wellington tramway system. A bogey wheel is also still on site near the main branch, shortly before a junction where it splits into the Left-hand and Right-hand Branches.
Left-hand Branch
The Left-hand Branch runs from the Main Branch Junction northwards and has several side branches to the east and west. The second side branch to the west is particularly interesting because of its preserved rails, bearers and sleepers, and even a points change. It runs towards a skid site and log hauler, which is embossed with the name S. Luke and Co Ltd, Wellington, one of the 13 principal log hauler manufacturers in New Zealand. The log hauler has a significant fatigue crack in the side, which was crudely repaired on site, but subsequently taken out of service. The Left-hand Branch then splits into two branches at the former boundary between Lots 10 and 11. The Left Left-hand Branch has more in situ sleepers, rails and bearers than the Left-hand Branch, and has two skid sites, a causeway and a bridge crossing. The Right Left-hand Branch runs from the junction towards east. It crossed two bridges and consisted mainly of intermittent sections of corduroy roads, but there is a small length of wooden tramway at the very end of the branch, which lead to a skid site and associated draglines. There is also a junction partway along the Right Left-hand Branch with a branch in northerly direction.
Right-hand Branch
The Right-Hand Branch runs eastwards up a slight incline from the junction, where exotic trees have since been planted on either side of the track. It then runs north-eastwards towards a skid serving some draglines. It is partially overgrown, but continuous lengths of wooden rail, including a section of double tramline, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Expert%20Speciation%20System | Joint Expert Speciation System (JESS) is a package of computer software and data developed collaboratively at Murdoch University and elsewhere by researchers interested in the chemical thermodynamics of water solutions with important applications in industry, biochemistry, medicine and the environment. Using information from the chemical literature, stored in databases for numerous chemical properties, JESS achieves coherence between frequently conflicting sources by automatic methods.
JESS places a strong emphasis on the concept of chemical speciation (i.e. the identity and relative abundance of different chemical entities which may be present), which can be predicted from known stability constants of metal-ligand complexes. Characteristic quantities for water solutions such as solubilities, equilibrium constants, activity coefficients, heat capacities and densities can be calculated from changes in the chemical speciation.
Recent examples of practical problems that can be investigated by JESS include kidney stones (mineral precipitation and dissolution in the kidney) and Wilson’s disease (copper physiology in the human eye).
At the core of the software package is a thermodynamic database called the ‘JESS Parent Database’ (JPD). JPD now comprises over 80,000 chemical reactions for which some 280,000 equilibrium constants and other thermodynamic parameters have been recorded from the chemical literature. Over 70,000 distinct chemical species are involved. The whole contents of this database in a set of associated PDF documents, which have been specifically prepared for free, widespread scientific dissemination, are available at the Zenodo repository.
References
External links
Chemistry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20Tank%20%28Australian%20season%204%29 | The fourth season of Shark Tank aired on Network Ten from 15 May 2018. The series was confirmed following the opening of auditions in August 2017.
Summary
The show features a panel of potential investors, named "Sharks", who listen to entrepreneurs pitch ideas for a business or product they wish to develop. These self-made multi-millionaires judge the business concepts and products pitched and then decide whether to invest their own money to help market and mentor each contestant.
Investments by Shark
Episodes
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Ratings
References
2018 Australian television seasons
Shark Tank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D%20Dinosaur%20Adventure | 3-D Dinosaur Adventure is an educational video game by Knowledge Adventure released on CD-ROM for MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1993. Versions for Macintosh and Windows 3.x were published in 1996. A 1997 re-release and an updated version for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows is titled 3-D Dinosaur Adventure: Anniversary Edition.
Gameplay
3-D Dinosaur Adventure is presented as a theme park, with areas for the player to explore, including an encyclopedia, a quiz, and a virtual museum. They offer insight into how dinosaurs lived and evolved. Additionally, activities teach players how to use fossil photo records and illustrations for visual recognition of dinosaurs.
The title comes packaged with 3D glasses and has special areas that make use of them.
There is also a Doom clone in which the player has to save the dinosaurs from the comet that is about to hit the Earth.
Development
As part of a co-publishing arrangement with Random House Inc. to develop multimedia titles on September 5, 1994, Random House also took over distribution-to-bookstores for current Knowledge Adventure titles such as 3-D Dinosaur Adventure. On July 5, 1995, Random House Children's Books entered into an agreement where they would handle distribution of all Knowledge Adventure software titles in the U.K. and Ireland, given the right to repackage, reprice, and readjust wherever necessary for each target market. The game was uploaded to the ZOOM-Platform.com website in 2014 alongside 3D Body Adventure, Space Adventure, and Undersea Adventure.
Reception
The game was the third best selling Macintosh product in the week ending Oct 11, 1997.
3-D Dinosaur Adventure was reviewed in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Guide Book where it was praised for its "text, beautiful graphics, and amazing sound effects". Characterizing the program as one of "the programs to load on [an older child's computer] first", the authors warned that the programs were resource intensive, "tak[ing] nearly 10 megabytes of disc space [and requiring] a sound card to get the full effect". Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond argued that the small Knowledge Adventure was able to produce a better game than Microsoft's Microsoft Dinosaurs. The Educational Technology Handbook praised the game's animation sequences for bringing the experience to life in a way that students would remember. PC Mag noted the high tech effects were limited, though thought the title was a good reference tool.
Retrospective reviews from the modern era have been more mixed. RetroJunk's 2009 review found the game to be innovative for its time. Bustle's 2016 review, however, deemed the program little more than a glorified encyclopedia.
Awards
1994 – Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award Platinum Award
March 1994 – Electronic Entertainment Editors' Choice Awards: Best Edutainment Title (Honorable Mention)
1994's Best Overall Education Program by the Software Publishers Association as part of its Excellence in Software Awards Pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz%20Kacprzyk | Janusz Kacprzyk (born 12 July 1947) is a Polish engineer and mathematician, notable for his contributions to the field of computational and artificial intelligence tools like fuzzy sets, mathematical optimization, decision making under uncertainty, computational intelligence, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, data analysis and data mining, with applications in databases, ICT, mobile robotics and others.
Kacprzyk is a professor of computer science at the Systems Research Institute and an academician (full member) of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently he is president of the Polish Operational and Systems Research Society and past president of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) in 2009-2011.
He is a foreign member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (2007), of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2013), of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (2018), of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (2019), as well as member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and fellow of multiple professional societies, like IEEE, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), European Coordinating Committee of Artificial Intelligence (EurAI/ECCAI), IFSA, and Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA). In 2013, he becomes the laureate of the annual IFSA Award.
Biography
In 1970, Kacprzyk graduated from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, with M.Sc. in automatic control and computer science. In 1977, he obtained Ph.D. in systems analysis and in 1991 D.Sc. (habilitation) in computer science. As of 1997, he is full professor, awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland.
As of 2018, Kacprzyk is professor of computer science at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, at Warsaw School of Information Technology, and Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chinqgqung, China. He is honorary foreign professor at the Department of Mathematics, Yili Normal University, Xinjiang, China, as well as part-time professor of automatic control at Polish Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements (PIAP) and part-time professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cracow University of Technology. Kacprzyk has been a frequent visiting professor in the US, Italy, UK, Mexico, China, Japan.
As of April 2018, Kacprzyk has authored 6 books, edited or co-edited more than 100 volumes, authored or co-authored approximately 550 papers. He is the editor-in-chief of 7 book series at Springer, and of two journals, and is on the editorial boards of approximately 40 scientific journals.
Honours
Prof. Kacprzyk is a lifelong fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) since 1997 and a fellow of IEEE since 2006. He is laureate of a number of awards for outstanding academic achievements, most notable of which are:
2006: Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal for pioneering works on the use of fuzzy logic in ec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN%20Smart%20Cities%20Network | The ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN) is a collaborative platform which aims to unify smart city development efforts across ASEAN by facilitating cooperation on smart city development, creating bankable projects in conjunction with the private sector, and securing funding and support from ASEAN's external partners. It was launched at the 32nd ASEAN Summit as a key deliverable of Singapore's ASEAN Chairmanship in 2018. The Inaugural Meeting of the ASCN took place on 8 July 2018.
Background
The ASCN is a response to the trend of the region's rapid urbanization. ASEAN's growth has primarily been driven by metropolises; 90 million more people are expected to reside in urban areas by 2030; "middleweight" cities of between 200,000 and 2 million residents forecast to drive 40% of the region's growth. The ASCN aims to help ASEAN Member States harness technological and digital solutions and thus improve the lives of people across the urban-rural continuum.
ASCN Cities
A list of the 26 Pilot Cities that have been nominated by the respective ASEAN Member States is as follows:
- Bandar Seri Begawan
- Battambang
- Phnom Penh
- Siem Reap
- Makassar
- Banyuwangi
- Jakarta
- Luang Prabang
- Vientiane
- Johor Bahru
- Kuala Lumpur
- Kota Kinabalu
- Kuching
- Naypyidaw
- Mandalay
- Yangon
- Cebu City
- Davao City
- Manila
- Singapore
- Bangkok
- Chonburi
- Phuket
- Da Nang
- Hanoi
- Ho Chi Minh City
The Smart City Action Plans and Priority Projects developed by the 26 Pilot Cities can be found here
Representation
Each ASEAN Member State nominates a National Representative to the Network. In addition, each city also nominates a Chief Smart City Officer (CSCO). The status of a CSCO is equivalent to that of a Chief Urban Planner or Chief Resilience Officer. CSCO's role is to attend the annual meeting, craft
his or her respective city’s action plan and discuss the ASEAN Smart Cities Framework. There is thus representation at both the national and municipal levels. The table below lists the CSCOs who are each city's main point of contact with the Network.
Support and partnerships
In March 2018, Australia announced an A$30 million fund to support smart city development in ASEAN.
In July 2018, five agreements were signed during the Opening Ceremony of the Inaugural ASCN Meeting. Among them was an agreement between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) which expressed support for the ASCN in the context of promoting sustainable development in the Asia Pacific. An agreement was also signed between the Amata Smart City Corporation Chonburi and the Yokohama Urban Solutions Alliance.
References
ASEAN
Economic geography
Sustainable urban planning
Urban studies and planning terminology
Smart cities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllobrotica%20circumdata | Phyllobrotica circumdata is a species of skeletonizing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America.
References
Further reading
Galerucinae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Beetles described in 1824
Taxa named by Thomas Say |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS | ZFS (previously: Zettabyte File System) is a file system with volume management capabilities. It began as part of the Sun Microsystems Solaris operating system in 2001. Large parts of Solaris – including ZFS – were published under an open source license as OpenSolaris for around 5 years from 2005 before being placed under a closed source license when Oracle Corporation acquired Sun in 20092010. During 2005 to 2010, the open source version of ZFS was ported to Linux, Mac OS X (continued as MacZFS) and FreeBSD. In 2010, the illumos project forked a recent version of OpenSolaris, including ZFS, to continue its development as an open source project. In 2013, OpenZFS was founded to coordinate the development of open source ZFS. OpenZFS maintains and manages the core ZFS code, while organizations using ZFS maintain the specific code and validation processes required for ZFS to integrate within their systems. OpenZFS is widely used in Unix-like systems.
Overview
The management of stored data generally involves two aspects: the physical volume management of one or more block storage devices (such as hard drives and SD cards), including their organization into logical block devices as seen by the operating system (often involving a volume manager, RAID controller, array manager, or suitable device driver); and the management of data and files that are stored on these logical block devices (a file system or other data storage).
Example: A RAID array of 2 hard drives and an SSD caching disk is controlled by Intel's RST system, part of the chipset and firmware built into a desktop computer. The Windows user sees this as a single volume, containing an NTFS-formatted drive of their data, and NTFS is not necessarily aware of the manipulations that may be required (such as reading from/writing to the cache drive or rebuilding the RAID array if a disk fails). The management of the individual devices and their presentation as a single device is distinct from the management of the files held on that apparent device.
ZFS is unusual because, unlike most other storage systems, it unifies both of these roles and acts as both the volume manager and the file system. Therefore, it has complete knowledge of both the physical disks and volumes (including their status, condition, and logical arrangement into volumes) as well as of all the files stored on them. ZFS is designed to ensure (subject to suitable hardware) that data stored on disks cannot be lost due to physical errors, misprocessing by the hardware or operating system, or bit rot events and data corruption that may happen over time. Its complete control of the storage system is used to ensure that every step, whether related to file management or disk management, is verified, confirmed, corrected if needed, and optimized, in a way that storage controller cards and separate volume and file managers cannot achieve.
ZFS also includes a mechanism for dataset and pool-level snapshots and replication, including sn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bachelorette%20%28Australian%20season%204%29 | The fourth season of The Bachelorette Australia premiered on Network 10 on 10 October 2018. The season features Ali Oetjen, a 32-year-old healthy lifestyle motivator from Adelaide, South Australia, courting 18 men. Oetjen previously appeared on the first season of The Bachelor Australia featuring Tim Robards, where she finished in third place and later appeared on the first season of Bachelor in Paradise Australia.
Contestants
The season began with 18 contestants.
Call-Out Order
Color Key
The contestant received the first impression "wild rose", having the ability to steal a single date from another contestant.
The contestant received a rose during a date.
The contestant was eliminated outside the rose ceremony.
The contestant was eliminated during a date.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant quit the competition.
The contestant won the competition.
Episodes
Episode 1
Original airdate: 10 October 2018
Episode 2
Original airdate: 11 October 2018
Episode 3
Original airdate: 17 October 2018
Episode 4
Original airdate: 18 October 2018
Episode 5
Original airdate 24 October 2018
Episode 6
Original airdate 25 October 2018
Episode 7
Original airdate 31 October 2018
Episode 8
Original airdate 1 November 2018
Episode 9
Original airdate 7 November 2018
Episode 10
Original airdate 8 November 2018
Episode 11
Original airdate 14 November 2018
Episode 12
Original airdate 15 November 2018
Ratings
References
2018 Australian television seasons
Australian (season 04)
Television shows filmed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20Kannada | News18 Kannada is a Kannada news channel from ETV Network and owned by Reliance Network 18, which went live on 20 March 2014.
Initially, it used to be broadcast from the Hyderabad studio, until 2014 general elections, when the channel shifted its base to Bengaluru and set up five or six bureaus in the state. It was branded ETV News Kannada till September 28, 2017.
See also
List of Kannada-language television channels
Television in India
Media in Karnataka
Media of India
References
External links
Kannada-language television channels
24-hour television news channels in India
Television stations in Bangalore
Television channels and stations established in 2015
2014 establishments in Telangana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20Odia | News18 Odia is an Odia news channel. It is owned by Network 18, which launched on May 4, 2015. Its tagline is `News is Life’. ETV News Odia is a part of the ETV News Network, one of the largest satellite television channels in India. ETV News Odia is the 10th regional news channel of the ETV News Network in India. Nilambar Rath was the channel's first editor.
List of programmes
Chhota Mora Gaonti
Sidha Katha
Abhula Gita
E-Cafe
Kana Kala Ma
Crime Bureau
Mantra Mahima
Kathare Kathare
Annadata
Hakim Babu
My Doctor
Aapananka Bhagya
Editors
Nilambar Rath (May 2015 to November 2015)
Bhakta Tripathy (January 2016 to October 2016)
Satyaprakash Nayak (March 2017 to December 2017)
Dayanidhi Dash (present editor)
See also
List of Odia-language television channels
References
Odia-language television channels
Privately held companies of India
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Television stations in Bhubaneswar
2015 establishments in Odisha
24-hour television news channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News18%20Bangla | News18 Bangla is a 24-hour Bengali news channel owned by Network 18, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries. This channel is a free-to-air and was launched on 11 March 2014. It was formerly named ETV News Bangla till 12 March 2018, when the channel changed its name to News18 Bangla.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2014
24-hour television news channels in India
Television stations in Kolkata
Bengali-language television channels in India
Network18 Group
2014 establishments in West Bengal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand%29 | Nick/Nickelodeon is an Australian and New Zealand children's pay television channel owned by Paramount Networks UK & Australia. It is based on the namesake American television channel.
Since 1 December 2010 the Australian and New Zealand versions of the subscription channel have been the same. The New Zealand-specific version of Nickelodeon ceased broadcasting the day before.
The channel ceased broadcasting on Foxtel on 1 August 2023 as a result of free-to-air channel 10 Shake rebranding as "Nickelodeon" (while retaining the same schedule). The existing pay television channel continues to broadcast through Fetch in Australia, and on Sky in New Zealand. The Fetch feed was renamed "Nick", to differentiate it from the free-to-air channel.
History
Nickelodeon Australia was launched on 23 October 1995, replacing the Max and ClassicMax channels, offering live action shows and cartoons. Originally the channel timeshared with Nick at Nite which began at 8 on weekdays and 10 pm on weekends, and ended at 6 am. From 1 July 1998, the channel gained an extra half-hour on weekdays, moving Nick at Nite back to. 8.30 pm. On 2 January 2000, the channel introduced "More Nick", extending its broadcast hours to 10 pm every night of the week. Eventually in July/August 2000, Nick at Nite closed and Nickelodeon began broadcasting for 24 hours every day. After that, almost all of Nick at Nite's programming moved to TV1. Nickelodeon was also added to the Optus Television service in December 2002.
On 14 March 2004, Nick Jr. launched as the first full, 24-hour TV channel designed for pre-school audiences in Australia. Before this, Nick Jr. was a morning and afternoon programming block on Nickelodeon, including shows that now get much more airtime on the full channel, such as Dora the Explorer and PAW Patrol. For a few months after Nick Jr. became a full channel, it kept a 2-hour-long time slot on Nickelodeon, but it was drastically shorter than it was before it became a full channel. Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. began broadcasting in Widescreen on 2 March 2009.
During Kids Choice Awards 2010 Nickelodeon Australia rebranded the network with the new one using completely different bumpers than America's channel however the iCarly bumper with slime has been used in most advertisement breaks. The Nick Shack rebranded much earlier before the channel itself.
On 1 December 2010, Nickelodeon Australia launched in New Zealand, replacing the New Zealand version of Nickelodeon.
On 30 July 2013, Nickelodeon Australia became available on the newly launched Australian IPTV service Foxtel Play, making it one of the first channels to be available via the service.
On 3 December 2013, Nickelodeon Australia became available on Foxtel's streaming service Foxtel Go. On 1 January 2014, Nickelodeon Australia launched on Australian IPTV provider Fetch TV.
From 27 September 2020, a 12-hour block of Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. programming was broadcast on the new 10 Shake free-to-air channel.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valleywise%20Health | Valleywise Health (formerly Maricopa Integrated Health System) is a network of taxpayer-funded hospitals and medical facilities in Maricopa County, Arizona.
History
Maricopa Integrated Health System was founded in 1991 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The county's residents approved the formation of a special health care district in 2003. The members of the board of directors are appointed through elections and serve as county public officials.
In October 2018, the organization announced that it would be renamed Valleywise Health effective mid-2019.
Facilities
Facilities include:
Hospital and emergency-trauma center
Valleywise Health Medical Center (Phoenix)
A replacement acute care teaching hospital is to open in Fall 2023
Behavioral centers
Valleywise Behavioral Health Center – Phoenix
Valleywise Behavioral Health Center – Maryvale (Phoenix)
It opened in a former Abrazo Community Health Network facility in 2019
Valleywise Behavioral Health Center – Mesa
Valleywise Behavioral Health Center - Avondale
Comprehensive health centers
Valleywise Comprehensive Health Center – Phoenix
Valleywise Comprehensive Health Center – Peoria
Emergency care center (only)
Valleywise Emergency – Maryvale (Phoenix)
Community health centers
Valleywise Community Health Center – McDowell
Valleywise Community Health Center – North Phoenix
Valleywise Community Health Center – South Central Phoenix
Valleywise Community Health Center – South Phoenix/Laveen
Valleywise Community Health Center – West Maryvale (Phoenix)
The clinic moved to its current West Maryvale location on October 28, 2021.
Valleywise Community Health Center – Avondale
Valleywise Community Health Center – Chandler
Valleywise Community Health Center – Guadalupe
Valleywise Community Health Center – Mesa
References
External links
Hospitals in Arizona
Maricopa County, Arizona
Public hospitals in the United States
Trauma centers
Hospital networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20Virtual%20Herbarium | The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is an online resource that allows access to plant specimen data held by various Australian and New Zealand herbaria. It is part of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), and was formed by the amalgamation of Australia's Virtual Herbarium and NZ Virtual Herbarium. As of 12 August 2014, more than five million specimens of the 8 million and upwards specimens available from participating institutions have been databased.
Uses
This resource is used by academics, students, and anyone interested in research in botany in Australia or New Zealand, since each record tells all that is known about the specimen: where and when it was collected; by whom; its current identification together with the botanist who identified it; and information on habitat and associated species. ALA post processes the original herbarium data, giving further fields with respect to taxonomy and quality of the data. When interrogating individual specimen records, the environmental overlays show reverse jackknife testing to see whether the specimen is an outlier with respect to the climate and other environmental layers. See e.g., MEL 0304065A (Scaevola amblyanthera).
All records are downloadable in their entirety, by anyone. Examples of the use of these records may be found in
journal articles on: e.g., sea warming; marine biogeography; acacias; weeds; determining phytogeographical regions via species composition; developing biodiverse plantings suitable for changing climatic conditions; phylogenetics and conservation; and statistical issues arising when using herbaria data
some Wikipedia range maps for, e.g., Tribonanthes violacea, Blancoa canescens and Haemodorum coccineum.
A google scholar search, using the phrase Australia's Virtual Herbarium, shows that well over 200 articles (as of 3 May 2018) have been published using data from this resource.
Participating herbaria
The State Herbarium of South Australia (AD), Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Auckland War Memorial Museum (AK)
The Queensland Herbarium (BRI), Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation (DSITI)
The Australian National Herbarium (CANB), Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Plant Industry and the Australian National Botanic Gardens
The University of Canterbury Herbarium (CANU), University of Canterbury
The Allan Herbarium (CHR), Landcare Research NZ Ltd
The Australian Tropical Herbarium (CNS), a joint venture of CSIRO Plant Industry and the Director National Parks (through the Australian National Herbarium), the Queensland Government (through the Queensland Herbarium and the Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (DSITIA)) and James Cook University
The Northern Territory Herbarium, in Darwin (DNA) and Alice Springs (NT), Department of Environment and Natural Resources
The Tasmanian Herbarium (HO), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Department of State Growth
The James Cook Univers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Angel%20Network | Indian Angel Network (IAN) is a group of primarily Indian angel investors funding early-stage startups. The group had 450 members from 11 countries in 2017. The members include Ajai Chowdhry, Rajan Anandan, and Anand Ladsairya. The group has invested in companies, such as PregBuddy and SuperProfs. In 2018, one of its founder Padmaja Ruparel was ranked amongst Fortune (magazine)'s list of The Most Powerful Women in India. On Nov.8th 2020, Indian Angel Network (IAN) announced the joint with Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN). The aim is to work together to source, cross-refer, and promote linkages in technology-enabled startups in India and Bangladesh to create an enabling environment for venture investing in both ecosystems.
References
Organisations based in Delhi
Angel investors
Venture capital firms of India
Business services companies established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CircuitPython | CircuitPython is an open-source derivative of the MicroPython programming language targeted toward students and beginners. Development of CircuitPython is supported by Adafruit Industries. It is a software implementation of the programming language, written in C. It has been ported to run on several modern microcontrollers.
CircuitPython consists of a Python compiler to bytecode and a runtime interpreter of that bytecode that runs on the microcontroller hardware. The user is presented with an interactive prompt (the REPL) to execute supported commands immediately. Included are a selection of core Python libraries. CircuitPython includes modules which give the programmer access to the low-level hardware of supported products as well as higher-level libraries for beginners.
CircuitPython is a fork of MicroPython, originally created by Damien George. The MicroPython community continues to discuss forks of MicroPython into variants such as CircuitPython.
CircuitPython is targeted to be compliant with CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Programs written for CircuitPython-compatible boards may not run unmodified on other platforms such as the Raspberry Pi.
Usage
CircuitPython is being used as an emerging alternative solution for microcontroller programming, which is usually done in C, C++, or assembly. The language has also seen uptake in making small, handheld video game devices. Developer Chris Young has ported his infrared transmit-and-receive software to CircuitPython to provide interactivity and to aid those with accessibility issues.
Community
The user community support includes a Discord chat room and product support forums. A Twitter account dedicated to CircuitPython news was established in 2018. A newsletter, Python on Hardware, is published weekly since 15 November, 2016 by Adafruit to provide news and information on CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python on single board computers. A Reddit subreddit, r/CircuitPython, provides news on CircuitPython and related news and projects and has about 3,000 members.
Hardware support
The version 6.2.0 supports Atmel SAMD21 and SAMD51 microcontrollers from Microchip Technology, nRF52833 and nRF52840 from Nordic Semiconductor, CXD5602 (Spresense) from Sony, and STM32 F4-series from STMicroelectronics. Previous versions supported the ESP8266 microcontroller, but its support was dropped in version 4. It also supports single-board computers like Raspberry Pi.
References
External links
• Tutorials by Tony DiCola / Adafruit
Microcontroller software
Python (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSHP-LP | WSHP-LP was a community low-power FM radio station, licensed and operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, and broadcasting from Cary, North Carolina. The station's primary programming was religious, provided by Radio Católica Mundial, Eternal Word Television Network's (EWTN) Spanish language radio service. Due to its short antenna height and low power of just 37 watts, coverage was primarily limited to central and eastern Cary.
History
The initial application to construct the station was filed in November 2013, and plans for this station, along with WFNE-LP in Wake Forest, North Carolina, were announced in 2014. The original application specified a transmitter site on the St. Michael the Archangel parish grounds at 804 High House Road in Cary. This was later modified to a cellular telephone tower located a short distance west of downtown Cary along Old Apex Road.
WSHP-LP was first licensed on February 21, 2018. Its original programming consisted of EWTN's English service, in addition to Ave Maria Radio and locally produced religious programs and announcements. In July 2018, WSHP-LP temporarily suspended operations, as Divine Mercy prepared to transfer the EWTN programming to AM 540, WETC, which went live in February 2019. WSHP-LP resumed broadcasting in March 2019, now with Spanish language programs from EWTN's Radio Católica Mundial. The Diocese surrendered WSHP-LP's license to the Federal Communications Commission on April 12, 2023, who cancelled it the same day.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWSHP-LP (Facility ID: 197127)
SHP-LP
SHP-LP
Radio stations established in 2018
Radio stations disestablished in 2023
2018 establishments in North Carolina
2023 disestablishments in North Carolina
SHP-LP
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States
SHP-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FabHotels | FabHotels is a network of 3 star budget hotels in India, having its headquarters in Gurugram. As of November 2022 it operates in more than 66 cities of India with 900+ Hotels, including major cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata,
Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Coimbatore. Its operations began in 2014.
History
FabHotels was founded in 2014 by Vaibhav Aggarwal, an alumnus of IIT Guwahati and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Adarsh Manpuria, also an alumnus of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Funding
In 2016, FabHotels raised a funding of $8 million from Accel Partners, RB Investments, Mohandas Pai’s Aarin Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.
In 2017, FabHotels received a funding of $25 million in a Series B funding from Goldman Sachs. Accel Partners also participated in this round.
See also
List of chained-brand hotels
OYO Rooms
References
External links
Hotel affiliation groups
Hotel chains in India
Indian companies established in 2014
Hotels established in 2014
2014 establishments in Haryana
Companies based in Gurgaon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Category%203%20Atlantic%20hurricanes | Within the North Atlantic Ocean, a Category 3 hurricane is a tropical cyclone, that has 1-minute sustained wind speeds of between . Since the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane database in 1851, 162 tropical cyclones peaked at Category 3 strength on the Saffir–Simpson scale in the Atlantic basin, which covers the waters of the Atlantic Ocean north of the equator, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. This list does not include hurricanes that intensified further to a Category 4 or 5, the latter being the highest ranking on the scale.
Collectively, Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes caused nearly $100 billion in damage. Most of the damage total was caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which left $68.7 billion in damage when it struck New Jersey as a post-tropical cyclone, and which was briefly a major hurricane near Cuba.
The known Category 3 hurricanes cumulatively killed 18,361 people, including 7,469 in the 2nd half of the 19th century, 7,541 in the 20th century, and 3,351 so far in the 21st century. Four hurricanes accounted for more than half of the recorded deaths. In 1870, a hurricane killed 1,200 people in Cuba. The 1893 Sea Islands hurricane left over 1,000 casualties when it struck the U.S. state of Georgia. In 1909, a hurricane killed about 4,000 people when it moved ashore northeast Mexico. More recently, Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 killed more than 3,000 people when it moved near Haiti.
Background
In 1972, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began ranking hurricanes according to wind speed with the Saffir–Simpson scale. A Category 3 has maximum sustained winds between and . The NHC considers these winds to be sustained for a one-minute period at above the ground. These winds are estimated using a blend of data from different sources, including observations from nearby ships, reconnaissance aircraft, automatic weather stations, and images from various satellites.
Landfalling storms of Category 3 intensity can cause significant structural damage. The winds are strong enough to knock down trees, blow out windows, destroy roofs, and cause lengthy power outages. Such storms pose a risk of injury or death to humans and animals in the storm path.
Systems
1850s through 1890s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20processor%20program | A word processor program is a computer program that provides word processing functions. Originally a separate type of application to desktop publishing, the two program types now overlap, with many word processors now including what were once desktop publishing functions.
History
The first known electronic word processor program was Electric Pencil, released in 1976, as a tool for programmers to write documentation and manuals for their code. Electric pencil featured basic formatting and navigation, and supported external devices such as cassette recorders and printers. Electric Pencil II was released shortly after, targeting the CP/M operating system. Several other word processing programs were released shortly after, including EasyWriter and WordStar.
WordStar was created in four months by Seymour Rubinstein after founding MicroPro International in 1978. WordStar is commonly attributed as the first WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, as the WordStar editor replicated the printed output. Inspired by the success of WordStar, many competitors began to release their offerings, including WordPerfect in 1979, MultiMate in 1982, and Microsoft Word in 1983.
List of word processors
Notable programs include:
A word processing function is an essential part of any office suite, and may be provided as a stand-alone program (for example Word in Microsoft Office) or as a function of a more general program (for example LibreOffice Writer in LibreOffice) or other (for example
TextMaker in SoftMaker). With the emergence of the internet, different cloud-based word processor programs began to emerge, as Google Docs which allow people to work faster and more efficiently.
See also
Word processor
Word processor (electronic device)
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabells%27%20Predatory%20Reports | Cabells' Predatory Reports is a paid subscription service featuring a database of deceptive and predatory journals, and Journalytics is a database of "verified, reputable journals", with details about those journals' acceptance rates and invited article percentages. In June 2020, Cabells changed the name of its previous Whitelist and Blacklist to Journalytics and Predatory Reports, respectively. Cabells describes Predatory Reports as "the only database of deceptive and predatory academic journals." As of 2023, several freely available alternatives exist.
Subscription
Unlike Beall's List, which went offline permanently in early 2017, Predatory Reports is available on a subscription basis. Specifically, it is available either as a standalone product or as an "add-on" at a discounted rate to subscribers to at least one discipline in Journalytics.
The company originally considered offering its list for free. It then decided that the cost of building and maintaining it was too high for a free service.
Criteria
Cabells has produced two transparent criteria versions: v1.0 and v1.1. Cabells' v1.0 contains 64 criteria, which are organised by subject matter such as “integrity”, “peer review”, and “publication practices”. This v1.0 evaluation list was used for the preparation of the deceptive journal list before it was launched until early 2019, when Cabells launched its new v1.1 criteria version. This v1.1 evaluation checklist features 74 behavioural indicators, which are grouped “according to relative severity and subject matter”. Some of the criteria used by Cabells to tag journals as predatory have been criticized, including, for instance, the indicator “no policies for digital preservation" whose interpretation varies according to subjectivity.
Reception
Cabell's list has been criticized for including numerous empty journals, which "raises serious questions about the ways in which they prioritise journals for inclusion and their willingness to provide an up-to-date and useful blacklist to the scholarly community". Other concerns include "questionable weighing and reviewing methods" and "a lack of rigour in how Cabell applies its own procedures" as "identical criteria are recorded multiple times in individual journal entries" and "discrepancies exist between reviewing dates and the criteria version used and recorded by Cabell". Journals on Predatory Reports are not re-assessed by Cabells and as such the entries can rapidly become outdated.
Jeffrey Beall has argued that deceptive journal lists are useful to researchers who want to know where to publish, adding that he thinks Cabell's appeals process will be one of the most challenging aspects to manage. Aalto University economist Natalia Zinovyeva told Nature that it will be "extremely valuable" to help academic committees evaluate researchers' CVs. Rick Anderson, the former president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, wrote: "Overall, I find the Cabell’s Blacklist product to be a carefully |
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