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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20New%20Zealand%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of the regions of New Zealand by Human Development Index as of 2022 with data for the year 2021. The 2 most populated regions of New Zealand have the highest HDI, although the position of other regions has been variable across recent releases of the index.
Ranking
References
Human Development Index
New Zealand
New Zealand, HDI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20governorates%20of%20Egypt%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of the governorates of Egypt by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Egypt
Egypt
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ghanaian%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Ghana (2018 borders) by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Ghana
Human Development Index
Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne%20Scott | Suzanne Scott is the current CEO of Fox News, the second CEO in the network's history. She was ranked 61st in Forbes's 2021 list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
Early life and education
Scott was raised in Parsippany, New Jersey. Her father ran a trucking company out of the family home, and her mother worked as a real estate agent. She is a 1988 graduate of American University.
Career
Scott worked as an executive assistant to Chet Collier at CNBC before moving with him to Fox News at its inception in 1996. She began her work there as a programming assistant.
According to a 2018 Fox News Channel press release, "Throughout her tenure at Fox News, Scott has risen through the ranks in a number of programming, production and creative positions including: executive vice president of programming (2016); senior vice president of programming and development (2009); vice president of programming (2007); network executive producer (2005); as well as associate producer, producer and senior producer of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren (2002–2005). In addition, she was responsible for the launch of numerous on-air and digital initiatives, including the 2002 primetime debut of On the Record."
After founder and former CEO Roger Ailes departed in 2016 but before he died in 2017, Scott, Jay Wallace, and Jack Abernethy are credited with “turning Fox News around” after the scandal involving Ailes. In that time, Scott worked as the president of programming, overseeing Fox News Channel's opinion shows including Fox & Friends, The Five and Hannity.
On May 17, 2018, Scott was named CEO of both Fox News and Fox Business Network. During this announcement, Lachlan Murdoch said Scott “has now made history as [Fox’s] first female CEO.” She was also the only woman in charge of a major TV news organization until Rashida Jones was installed as head of MSNBC.
Controversies
This decision to elevate Scott was not, however, universally praised due to her alleged complicity in several sexual harassment suits within the company. Scott was not a defendant in the suits, but was cited within them, and was involved in several internal complaints. She denies the accusations.
A 2017 article quoting numerous former Fox News Channel on-air talent and support staff alleged that the "...executive assistant-turned-Fox News vice president of programming Suzanne Scott enforces with the wardrobe and makeup departments an aesthetic that features skimpy dresses, high-heeled open-toed shoes, and big hair for the channel’s on-air women."
In a June 2021 lawsuit filing, former anchor Ed Henry alleged Scott covered up an affair between the president of Fox News and a subordinate during her time helming the network.
On March 30, 2023, the Guardian reported she was furious when one of the network’s reporters was fact-checking Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election, writing it was “bad for business”.
References
American chief executives in the media industry
Fox Broadca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preconditioned%20Crank%E2%80%93Nicolson%20algorithm | In computational statistics, the preconditioned Crank–Nicolson algorithm (pCN) is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for obtaining random samples – sequences of random observations – from a target probability distribution for which direct sampling is difficult.
The most significant feature of the pCN algorithm is its dimension robustness, which makes it well-suited for high-dimensional sampling problems. The pCN algorithm is well-defined, with non-degenerate acceptance probability, even for target distributions on infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. As a consequence, when pCN is implemented on a real-world computer in large but finite dimension N, i.e. on an N-dimensional subspace of the original Hilbert space, the convergence properties (such as ergodicity) of the algorithm are independent of N. This is in strong contrast to schemes such as Gaussian random walk Metropolis–Hastings and the Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm, whose acceptance probability degenerates to zero as N tends to infinity.
The algorithm as named was highlighted in 2013 by Cotter, Roberts, Stuart and White, and its ergodicity properties were proved a year later by Hairer, Stuart and Vollmer. In the specific context of sampling diffusion bridges, the method was introduced in 2008.
Description of the algorithm
Overview
The pCN algorithm generates a Markov chain on a Hilbert space whose invariant measure is a probability measure of the form
for each measurable set , with normalising constant given by
where is a Gaussian measure on with covariance operator and is some function. Thus, the pCN method applied to target probability measures that are re-weightings of a reference Gaussian measure.
The Metropolis–Hastings algorithm is a general class of methods that try to produce such Markov chains , and do so by a two-step procedure of first proposing a new state given the current state and then accepting or rejecting this proposal, according to a particular acceptance probability, to define the next state . The idea of the pCN algorithm is that a clever choice of (non-symmetric) proposal for a new state given might have an associated acceptance probability function with very desirable properties.
The pCN proposal
The special form of this pCN proposal is to take
or, equivalently,
The parameter is a step size that can be chosen freely (and even optimised for statistical efficiency). One then generates and sets
The acceptance probability takes the simple form
It can be shown that this method not only defines a Markov chain that satisfies detailed balance with respect to the target distribution , and hence has as an invariant measure, but also possesses a spectral gap that is independent of the dimension of , and so the law of converges to as . Thus, although one may still have to tune the step size parameter to achieve a desired level of statistical efficiency, the performance of the pCN method is robust to the dimension of the samplin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Total%20Eclipse%20episodes | Total Eclipse is a web television series streamed on the Brat network. The series premiered on April 5, 2018
Plot
At Millwood high, Cassie and her band together to confront mean girls, boy drama, and their high school woes. But when reality becomes too much, they can always escape to their fantasy worlds.
Cast
Johnny Orlando as Sam
Mackenzie Ziegler as Cassie
Emily Skinner as Diana
Lauren Orlando as Kate
Nadia Turner as Jenna
Devenity Perkins as Morgan
Dominic Kline as Brayden
Darius Marcell as Spencer
Samuel Parker as Eli
Paityn Hart as Georgia
Lilia Buckingham as Autumn
Sophia Strauss as herself
Steffan Argus as Julian
Logan Pepper as Luca
Lissette
Production
Filming for Total Eclipse takes place in Los Angeles, California.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
Season 2 (2018)
References
Total Eclipse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Turkish NUTS1 statistical regions by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
List of Turkish provinces by GDP
References
Turkey
Human Development Index
Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, starting September 2018. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs, and fill timeslots not allocated to network programs with local, syndicated, or paid programming at their discretion. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or a digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any overrunning major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
All sporting events air live in all time zones in correspondence to U.S. Eastern Time scheduling; in situations in which a scheduled sporting event overruns into the late night time period (as with telecasts of NBC Sunday Night Football during Fall, ABC’s Saturday Night Football during Fall and NBA Saturday Primetime during Spring, and Fox’s Thursday Night Football during Fall, all of which typically ran into the 11:00 p.m. ET hour), local late-night programming will start or be joined in progress on owned and affiliated stations (particularly in the Mountain, Central and Eastern Time Zones) after the game’s completion.
Sunday–Friday overnights
Notes:
Early morning newscasts air Sunday–Thursday overnights; late night talk shows air Monday–Friday overnights.
ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates offer their rebroadcasts of the network evening newscasts to accommodate local scheduling in selecting markets that do not offer encores of the local late news; some stations with encores of local late news will air alongside the network evening news rebroadcasts leading in to the networks' overnight newscasts, or with syndicated and time-lease programs.
ABC, NBC and CBS offer their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
In April 2019, Today with Kathie Lee and Hoda was renamed Today with Hoda and Jenna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Switzerland%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of NUTS2 statistical regions of Switzerland by Human Development Index as of 2022 with data for the year 2021. In the same year the Zurich Region had the highest HDI score out of 1790 sub-national regions of the world.
References
Human Development Index
Switzerland
Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Czech%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of NUTS2 statistical regions of the Czech Republic by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Human Development Index
Czech
Czechia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing%20Earth | Amazing Earth is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Dingdong Dantes, it premiered on June 17, 2018, on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up.
Premise
The show features clips from Planet Earth II and National Geographic's Wild Antarctica and Extreme Animal Babies. The program also features sceneries, tourist spots and the residents in the Philippines.
Production
In March 2020, production was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Production resumed in July 2020. The show resumed its programming on July 26, 2020.
Accolades
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20provinces%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of 11 former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (from 1997 to 2015) by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Congo
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Greek%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of the administrative regions of Greece by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Greece
Greece
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Ink%20Crew%20%28season%207%29 | | country = United States
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The seventh season of the reality television series Black Ink Crew premiered on VH1 from September 19, 2018 until May 1, 2019. It chronicles the daily operations and staff drama at an African American-owned and operated tattoo shop in Harlem, New York.
Cast
Main
Ceaser Emanuel
Sky Day
Donna Lombardi
Ted Ruks
Melody Mitchell (episodes 1–14)
Walt Miller
Young Bae
Recurring
Miss Kitty
Jadah Blue
Alex "The Vagina Slayer"
Tatiana
Tokie Renet
Des
Genesis
O'S**t Duncan
Mama Bae
Krystal
Puma Robinson
Charmaine Walker
Guest
Desiigner
Ace
Herb
Rob — Bae's fiance.
Nikki Duncan — O'S**t's wife.
Kevin Laroy
Dutchess Lattimore — Ceaser's ex.
Episodes
References
2018 American television seasons
2019 American television seasons
Black Ink Crew |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Irish%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of NUTS3 statistical regions of Ireland by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Ireland
Ireland
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Danish%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Denmark by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
There are 5 regions of Denmark in total, all of which exceed very high development on the Human Development Index. In 2021, The Capital Region of Denmark had the highest development of any region. Denmark was ranked 6th on the Human Development globally in 2021.
References
Denmark
Denmark
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20provinces%20of%20Mozambique%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of provinces of Mozambique by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Mozambique
Mozambique
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20administrative%20divisions%20of%20Myanmar%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of administrative divisions of Myanmar by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Human Development Index
Myanmar
Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Lawrence%20%28professor%29 | Andrea Lawrence (born October 6, 1946) is an American computer scientist and educator. She is an associate professor of computer science at Spelman College.
Early life and education
Lawrence was born in Asheville, North Carolina. She graduated from Allen High School in 1964 and went on to enroll at Spelman College, before ultimately earning a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Purdue University in 1970. She earned Master of Science in computer science from Atlanta University in 1985, and in 1993, she became the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech.
Career
From 1979 until 1983, before pursuing graduate education, she taught math in Cincinnati Public Schools.
Lawrence has been a faculty member at Spelman College since 1985 and has taught courses on computer science, the theory of programming languages, and computer-human interactions.
In 2018, Lawrence was credited by Juan E. Gilbert, the principal investigator for a National Science Foundation-funded program called "Broadening Participation in Computing", as the reason he finished his own Ph.D. Gilbert said that Lawrence, then chair of the computer science department at Spelman College, motivated him by introducing him to other black computer science doctoral students.
In 2014, Lawrence was awarded the SIGCSE award for Lifetime Service to the computer science education community. The award honors an individual with a long history of dedicated volunteer service to the computer science education community.
References
1946 births
Living people
21st-century African-American academics
21st-century American academics
Georgia Tech alumni
Spelman College faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Religious%20Pastoral%20Support%20Network | The Non-Religious Pastoral Support Network (NRPSN) is an organisation supporting a network of people who work in non-religious pastoral care which also promotes and advocates for non-religious pastoral care provision within the UK in institutions such as the NHS and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), the British Armed Forces and within the British education system.
It was formed in 2016 and the current chair is Lindsay Van Dijk. The current head of pastoral support at Humanists UK is Clare Elcombe Webber, who is responsible for developing the organisation. Six other people make up the governing board within the constitution of the organisation.
History
NRPSN was set up in 2016 as part of Humanists UK under the name Humanist Care. It originated partly in response to a British Social Attitudes Survey which concluded that 53% of people in Britain considered themselves to have no religion, and from what Humanists UK perceived to be a huge demand for trained non-religious people in the field of pastoral care to meet the needs of this demographic, both as recipients and providers of care.
People within the organisation refer to themselves as a "non-religious pastoral carer" rather than the traditional equivalent, chaplain, which is deemed to have religious overtones, and this led to the name Non-Religious Pastoral Support Network. Humanist Care now remains as the website for general enquiry and NRPSN for accredited volunteers and professionals and is headed by Jessica Grace
Non-religious pastoral care in the UK
Following an equality analysis by NHS England, within the NHS pastoral care provision is covered by guidelines drawn up by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to ensure equality and standards of practice are met in the provision of spiritual and religious care in, for example, hospitals and hospices. In 2018, palliative care charity Marie Curie released a report which highlighted some of the deficits in pastoral care provision which included provision for people with learning disabilities, dementia and people with no religion. The three-year project which covered terminal patients in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan summarised, "Many non-religious participants felt that concerns around how we provide spiritual care for the non- religious would be a barrier to their access to care. People said they fear "religious evangelism and attempts to convert during times of extreme emotional stress" or simply a lack of any provision of support for non-religious people based on an assumption that they would not need spiritual support."
The appointment of the first ever humanist pastoral carer and member of NRPSN, Jane Flint, within the chaplaincy at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust took place on 4 January 2016. Flint's post was originally funded by Leicester Hospitals Charity but since January 2017 has been funded by the NHS.
In April 2018 Lindsay van Dijk, quality assurance officer and board member of NRPSN, wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hungarian%20regions%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of NUTS2 statistical regions of Hungary by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Hungary
Hungary
Economy of Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20median%20years%20of%20schooling | This is a list of 189 countries ordered by the median number of years that the people in them go to school. The source data comes from the Human Development Index from the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report. The latest report was released on 14 September 2018 and is based on data collected in 2017.
References
Education lists by country
Schooling, Median years of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianna%20Xu | Yilun Dianna Xu is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research concerns the computational geometry of curves and surfaces, computer vision, and computer graphics. She is a professor of computer science at Bryn Mawr College where she chairs the computer science department.
Education and career
Xu graduated from Smith College in 1996, with a bachelor's degree in computer science. She credits going to a women's college with the nurturing environment that allowed her to become interested in computer science.
She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, Incremental Algorithms for the Design of Triangular-Based Spline Surfaces, was supervised by Jean Gallier. After staying at Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral researcher, she joined the Bryn Mawr faculty in 2004.
Books
With Ira Greenberg and Deepak Kumar, Xu is the author of Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 (Springer, 2013), a tutorial introduction to Processing, an open-source graphical library and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities.
With Jean Gallier, she is the author of A Guide to the Classification Theorem for Compact Surfaces (Springer, 2013).
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American women computer scientists
Smith College alumni
Bryn Mawr College faculty
Researchers in geometric algorithms
21st-century women mathematicians
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Governorates%20of%20Iraq%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Governorates of Iraq by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Economy of Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
Governorates of Iraq by HDI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazegraph | Blazegraph is an open source triplestore and graph database, developed by Systap, which is used in the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint and by other large customers. It is licensed under the GNU GPL (version 2).
Amazon acquired the Blazegraph developers and the Blazegraph open source development was essentially stopped in April 2018.
Early history
The system was first known as Bigdata. Since release of version 1.5 (12 February 2015), it is named Blazegraph.
Prominent users
The Wikimedia Foundation uses Blazegraph for the Wikidata Query Service, which is a SPARQL endpoint.
The Datatourisme project uses Blazegraph as the database platform; however, GraphQL is used as the query language instead of SPARQL.
Notable features
RDF* — an alternative approach to RDF reification, which gives RDF graphs capabilities of graphs;
as the consequence of the previous, ability of querying graphs both in SPARQL and Gremlin;
as an alternative to Gremlin querying, abstraction over RDF graphs support in SPARQL;
The SERVICE syntax of federated queries for functionality extending;
Managed behavior of the query plan generator;
Reusable named subqueries.
Acqui-hiring by Amazon Web Service (AWS)
It was alleged
that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph, as evidenced by:
acquiring of the Blazegraph trademark by AWS;
acquiring of the blazegraph.com domain name by AWS;
transition of many employees (including CEO) to AWS.
References
External links
Page on DB-Engines.com
Graph databases
Triplestores
Semantic Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20Item%20Generation | Automatic Item Generation (AIG), or Automated Item Generation, is a process linking psychometrics with computer programming. It uses a computer algorithm to automatically create test items that are the basic building blocks of a psychological test. The method was first described by John R. Bormuth in the 1960s but was not developed until recently. AIG uses a two-step process: first, a test specialist creates a template called an item model; then, a computer algorithm is developed to generate test items. So, instead of a test specialist writing each individual item, computer algorithms generate families of items from a smaller set of parent item models.
Context
In psychological testing, the responses of the test taker to test items provide objective measurement data for a variety of human characteristics. Some characteristics measured by psychological and educational tests include academic abilities, school performance, intelligence, motivation, etc. and these tests are frequently used to make decisions that have significant consequences on individuals or groups of individuals. Achieving measurement quality standards, such as test validity, is one of the most important objectives for psychologists and educators. AIG is an approach to test development which can be used to maintain and improve test quality economically in the contemporary environment where computerized testing has increased the need for large numbers of test items.
Benefits
AIG reduces the cost of producing standardized tests, as algorithms can generate many more items in a given amount of time than a human test specialist. It can quickly and easily create parallel test forms, which allow for different test takers to be exposed to different groups of test items with the same level of complexity or difficulty, thus enhancing test security. When combined with computerized adaptive testing, AIG can generate new items or select which already-generated items should be administered next based on the test taker's ability during the administration of the test. AIG is also expected to produce items with a wide range of difficulty, fewer errors in construction, and is expected to permit higher comparability of items due to a more systematic definition of the prototypical item model.
Radicals, incidentals and isomorphs
Test development (including AIG) can be enriched if it is based on any cognitive theory. Cognitive processes taken from a given theory are often matched with item features during their construction. The purpose of this is to predetermine a given psychometric parameter, such as item difficulty (from now on: ). Let radicals be those structural elements that significantly affect item parameters and provide the item with certain cognitive requirements. One or more radicals of the item model can be manipulated in order to produce parent item models with different parameters (e.g., ) levels. Each parent can then grow its own family by manipulating other elements that Irvine cal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Hallowaiian | The Legend of Hallowaiian (also known as Hallowaiian: Adventure Hawaii, and Halloween Island) is a 2018 Canadian computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Sean O'Reilly. It was released on DirecTV on September 20, 2018, followed by limited theatrical release in October.
The film was produced by King's Hawaiian's newly formed production company Fresh Baked Films, SC Films International and Arcana Studio.
Plot
Terror arises on the Big Island of Hawaii. Three young friends try to restore peace to their home, after accidentally releasing a mythical monster on Halloween. They must use their wits and courage, and will learn the importance of family, friends and culture.
Cast
Vanessa Williams - Fire Goddess
Tia Carrere - Nana
Mark Dacascos - Pono
Teilor Grubbs - Leilani
Noah Schnapp - Kai
Mark Hamill - Officer Duke
Keifer O'Reilly - Eddie
Page Feldman - Marge
Sean Patrick O'Reilly - Mr. Griffith/Menehune
Erick Dickens - Tom
Dumi Owane - Teenage Girl
Reception
Bobby LePire from Film Threat considered that the film is: ... "cute and offers younger viewers a fun and important message....however, the lack of detail in the backgrounds hurt the atmosphere the screenplay attempts to create."
Common Sense Media reviewed the film, stating: ... "This movie tells a simple and fairly satisfying story that will probably be absorbing for younger kids."
Lavanya from Red Carpet Crash depicts the film as "The movie succeeds in depicting the island in a beautiful way, taking the audience right to the ocean and breathtaking natural elements of Hawaii."
References
External links
2018 animated films
2018 films
Canadian children's fantasy films
2010s children's fantasy films
Films directed by Sean Patrick O'Reilly
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films
Animated films set in Hawaii |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen%20Grauman | Kristen Lorraine Grauman is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin on leave as a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). She works on computer vision and machine learning.
Early life and education
Grauman studied computer science at Boston College, graduating summa cum laude in 2001. She joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her postgraduate studies, earning a Master of Science degree in 2003 followed by a PhD in 2006 supervised by Trevor Darrell. During her PhD Grauman worked as a research intern at Intel and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Career and research
In 2007 Grauman was appointed Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Austin. Her research looks to develop algorithms that can categorise and detect objects. She is interested in how computer vision can solicit information from humans. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2011.
She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. She was awarded an Office of Naval Research young investigator award in 2012. In 2013 she was awarded a Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award. She is working on techniques to get computers to watch and summarise videos for easy viewing. The egocentric films will be used to aid the elderly and those with impaired-memories.
She has developed several patents for machine learning; including pyramid match kernel methods and a technique to efficiently identifying images.
Grauman serves as associate editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. As of May 2018, Grauman is on leave at Facebook AI Research (FAIR).
Awards and honors
Her awards and honors include:
2019 IEEE Elected Fellow
2018 International Association for Pattern Recognition J. K. Aggarwal Prize
2017 University of Texas at Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers
2017 Helmholtz Prize
2015 National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015.
2013 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
2012 University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award
2011 IEEE Intelligent Systems AI's Ten to Watch
References
1979 births
Living people
American women computer scientists
Boston College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
University of Texas at Austin faculty
American computer scientists
American computer programmers
21st-century American scientists
American women academics
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Cricket | Fox Cricket is an Australian subscription television channel dedicated to screening cricket (both domestic and international) matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Pty Limited and is available throughout Australia on Foxtel. The channel was launched on 17 September 2018.
History
Since its launch in 1995 as Premier Sports Network, Fox Sports has been broadcaster to most of Australian international tours despite lacking domestic Australian international rights which has been a mainstay at the Nine Network since 1979. The first major cricket event that was broadcast on PSN was Australia's tour of the West Indies in 1995 which was also the first on pay television in Australia. Nine who up to 1995 had broadcast on free-to-air had tried to keep off PTV under Australia's anti-siphoning rules, which rules that certain events cannot be screened exclusively on pay television. Ultimately a deal was signed with Network Ten to the broadcast series on FTA while also being on PTV with PSN. From 2005/06 to 2012/13 Fox Sports had exclusive rights to domestic cricket in Australia including most or all of the then Ford Ranger One-Day cup and KFC Big Bash T20 matches including the first 2 seasons of the Big Bash League along with the final of the Sheffield Shield, Fox also had highlights of international men's Test, ODI and T20 matches in Australia. In 2013, Fox Sports lost the rights of the BBL to Network Ten and the Ryobi One-Day Cup to the Nine Network for the next 5 years with international cricket in Australia remaining on Nine. Most overseas cricket broadcast stayed on Fox except for Ashes tours of England which Nine had exclusive rights to while the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup which was held in Australia was broadcast on Fox Sports along with Nine.
In April 2018, Fox Sports came to a six-year agreement with Cricket Australia that expanded their previous coverage of cricket on the Foxtel platform. This deal formed a part of Cricket Australia's six year overall coverage deal which also includes free to air coverage by Channel Seven.
In early May, Foxtel announced the upcoming creation of a dedicated channel, Fox Cricket, featuring the entire Australian Summer of international cricket from 2018 and 2019 including tests, one day matches and T20 matches as well as the Big Bash Leagues and World Cups. The channel debuted on 17 September 2018, with the 2018 Caribbean Premier League final being the first live match broadcast.
Programming
Event coverage
Sports programming on Fox Cricket includes the following:
Australian national cricket team
International Test Cricket (shared with Seven Network)
One-day Internationals
Twenty20 Internationals
International Women's Test Cricket (shared with Seven Network)
Women's One-day Internationals (shared with Seven Network)
Women's Twenty20 Internationals (shared with Seven Network)
Australia A tour matches
Australian domestic leagues
Sheffield Shield selected matches including final
Marsh One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20First%20Data%20500 | The 2018 First Data 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on October 28, 2018, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the .526 mile (.847 km) short track (extended from 500 laps), it was the 33rd race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, seventh race of the Playoffs, and first race of the Round of 8.
Report
Background
Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville. At in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series. The track is also one of the first paved oval tracks in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. It is also the only race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948. Along with this, Martinsville is the only NASCAR oval track on the entire NASCAR track circuit to have asphalt surfaces on the straightaways, then concrete to cover the turns.
Entry list
Practice
First practice
Brad Keselowski was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 19.784 seconds and a speed of .
Final practice
Ryan Newman was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 19.785 seconds and a speed of .
Qualifying
Kyle Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 19.673 and a speed of .
Qualifying results
Race
Stage Results
Stage 1
Laps: 130
Stage 2
Laps: 130
Final Stage Results
Stage 3
Laps: 240
Race statistics
Lead changes: 6 among different drivers
Cautions/Laps: 8 for 68
Red flags: 0
Time of race: 3 hours, 29 minutes and 32 seconds
Average speed:
Media
Television
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, 1997 race winner Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and 2014 race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.
Radio
MRN covered the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.
Standings after the race
Manufacturers' Championship standings
Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.
References
First Data 500
First Data 500
NASCAR races at Martinsville Speedway
First Data 500 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20and%20logical%20qubits | In quantum computing, a qubit is a unit of information analogous to a bit (binary digit) in classical computing, but it is affected by quantum mechanical properties such as superposition and entanglement which allow qubits to be in some ways more powerful than classical bits for some tasks. Qubits are used in quantum circuits and quantum algorithms composed of quantum logic gates to solve computational problems, where they are used for input/output and intermediate computations.
A physical qubit is a physical device that behaves as a two-state quantum system, used as a component of a computer system. A logical qubit is a physical or abstract qubit that performs as specified in a quantum algorithm or quantum circuit subject to unitary transformations, has a long enough coherence time to be usable by quantum logic gates (c.f. propagation delay for classical logic gates).
, most technologies used to implement qubits face issues of stability, decoherence, fault tolerance and scalability. Because of this, many physical qubits are needed for the purposes of error-correction to produce an entity which behaves logically as a single qubit would in a quantum circuit or algorithm; this is the subject of quantum error correction. Thus, contemporary logical qubits typically consist of many physical qubits to provide stability, error-correction and fault tolerance needed to perform useful computations.
Overview
1-bit and 2-bit quantum gate operations have been shown to be universal. A quantum algorithm can be instantiated as a quantum circuit.
A logical qubit specifies how a single qubit should behave in a quantum algorithm, subject to quantum logic operations which can be built out of quantum logic gates. However, issues in current technologies preclude single two-state quantum systems, which can be used as physical qubits, from reliably encoding and retaining this information for long enough to be useful. Therefore, current attempts to produce scalable quantum computers require quantum error correction, and multiple (currently many) physical qubits must be used to create a single, error-tolerant logical qubit. Depending on the error-correction scheme used, and the error rates of each physical qubit, a single logical qubit could be formed of up to 1,000 physical qubits.
Topological quantum computing
The approach of topological qubits, which takes advantage of topological effects in quantum mechanics, has been proposed as needing many fewer or even a single physical qubit per logical qubit. Topological qubits rely on a class of particles called anyons which have spin that is neither half-integral (fermions) nor integral (bosons), and therefore obey neither the Fermi–Dirac statistics nor the Bose–Einstein statistics of particle behavior. Anyons exhibit braid symmetry in their world lines, which has desirable properties for the stability of qubits. Notably, anyons must exist in systems constrained to two spatial dimensions or fewer, according to the sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farashgard | Farashgard () also known as Iran Revival, is an Iranian political action network. This organization was founded in September 2018, ten months after the beginning of the 2017–2018 Iranian protests. The organization was founded by 40 Iranian activists across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Iran.
Farashgard advocates for a secular democracy in Iran either through a Republic or a Constitutional monarchy, but states that the exact form of a future political system will be determined by the people of Iran after the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.
The group's slogan is: "We Will Reclaim Iran and Rebuild It". Its original name Farashgard was metaphorically named after the Middle Persian concept Frashokereti.
Activities Inside Iran
The group has a number of supporters within Iran who receive the messages of Iran Revival through Persian language television and radio broadcasts. Supporters of the group in Iran have enacted a civil disobedience campaign inside the country by spray painting calls for a million man march, and slogans against the regime, on buildings, billboards, and storefronts across Iran.
As of September 2021, the group has over 220,000 followers on Instagram, one of the most popular apps in Iran.
Campaigns
Meydan-e Millioni (Million in a square): A social media campaign with the aim of organizing a million people in Tehran. It has a Persian hashtag: #میدان_میلیونی
Posht Be Doshman Roo Be Mihan (Back to the Enemy, Facing Homeland): #پشت_به_دشمن_رو_به_میهن
References
External links
Political parties established in 2018
2018 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Liberal parties in Iran
Banned political parties in Iran
Secularism in Iran
Iran–United States relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivo%20NEX | Vivo Nex is a smartphone that features a different design from traditional smartphones, as it has a mechanical pop-up camera.
References
Android (operating system) devices
Vivo smartphones
Chinese brands
Mobile phones introduced in 2018
Phablets
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
Mobile phones with 4K video recording
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20Computing%20Systems | Theory of Computing Systems is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Verlag.
Published since 1967 as Mathematical Systems Theory and since volume 30 in 1997 under its current title, it is devoted to publishing original research from all areas of theoretical computer science, such as computational complexity, algorithms and data structures, or parallel and distributed algorithms and architectures. It is published 8 times per year since 2018, although the frequency varied in the past.
References
External links
Computer science journals
Theoretical computer science
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
8 times per year journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%20Heninger | Nadia Heninger (born 1982) is an American cryptographer, computer security expert, and computational number theorist at the University of California, San Diego.
Contributions
Heninger is known for her work on freezing powered-down security devices to slow their fading memories and allow their secrets to be recovered via a cold boot attack, for her discovery that weak keys for the RSA cryptosystem are in widespread use by internet routers and other embedded devices, for her research on how failures of forward secrecy in bad implementations of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange may have allowed the National Security Agency to decrypt large amounts of internet traffic via the Logjam vulnerability, and for the DROWN attack, which uses servers supporting old and weak cryptography to decrypt traffic from modern clients to modern servers.
Heninger's other research contributions include a variant of the RSA cryptosystem that would be secure against quantum computers, an attack on implementations of the ANSI X9.31 cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator that use hard-coded seed keys to initialize the generator, and the discovery of a side-channel attack against some versions of the libgcrypt cryptography library.
In 2015, Heninger was part of a team of proponents that included Matt Blaze, Steven M. Bellovin, J. Alex Halderman, and Andrea M. Matwyshyn who successfully proposed a security research exemption to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Education and career
Heninger graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science. She completed her doctorate in 2011 at Princeton University; her dissertation, Error Correction and the Cryptographic Key, was supervised by Bernard Chazelle.
After postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego and Microsoft Research in New England, she became Magerman Term Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. In 2019, she returned to the University of California, San Diego.
Recognition
Heninger's work on weak keys and on forward secrecy of Diffie–Hellman won best paper awards at the conferences at which they were presented, as have several of Heninger's other publications. She is one of the 2016 recipients of the Applied Networking Research Prize of the Internet Research Task Force.
She was an invited speaker at Asiacrypt 2016, speaking on "The reality of cryptographic deployments on the internet".
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
1982 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American cryptographers
American women computer scientists
Public-key cryptographers
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Number theorists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
21st-century women mathematicians
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computing%20in%20South%20America | Computing started in south America in 1957, when the first digital computer arrived in Chile. 1979, the Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática was established in Caracas, Venezuela. During the 1980s, most Latin American universities incorporated computer programs. By the 1990s the research output in computing began to be significant.
20th century
In 1957, the first digital computer arrived in Chile after the CCU purchased a Univac to be delivered to Valparaiso. The machine was one of the first documented cases in the history of computer science in South America. Among the first computers in Latin America was also the system installed in the Venezuelan offices of the Creole Petroleum Corporation, the initiative becoming a launching pad for computer development in the nation state.
In 1972 Brazil implemented a policy innovation strategy to encourage the economic development of the Brazilian computer industry. This policy project served as a blueprint for policy initiatives across the Latin American continent. The Brazilian government established the CAPRE (Comissao de Coordenacao das Atividades de processamento Eletronico) as division of the planning ministry to review the use of all electronic resources by the government. In 1974 CAPRE was constituted as a regulator so that all imports of computers and electronic components were restrained or approved. In the first ten years this strategy showed remarkable success. In 1982 about 67 percent of installed computers in Brazil had been manufactured locally. Brazil's domestic computer industry was able to take significant shares of the local market from IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard. In 1986 the government of Argentina signed an integration treaty with the government of Brazil, were informatics was a paramount branch of cooperation.
Also in the early 1970s, the short-lived administration of Salvador Allende implemented Project Cybersyn in Chile. Cybersyn consisted of a Cybernet, which was a network of 500 telex machines and planned to connect every factory in the nationalized socialist economy. At the heart of Cybersyn were two computers, a IBM System/360 Model 50 and a Burroughs B3500, on which the program Cyberstride was running. Today Project Cybersyn is remembered for its unique implementation of socialism and the futuristic industrial design.
21st century
The Free Software Foundation Latin America exists to promote the use of free software in Latin America. In 2009, FSF founder Richard Stallman visited Buenos Aires during the concurrent Wikimania 2009 conference in order to promote free software. Stallman regularly gives speeches in Spanish and has visited Latin America multiples times since 2009.
In 2005, the Chilean government alongside the private IT sector started a program called "Mi Primer PC", with the idea of bringing low-cost PC to the general population. The program was heavily criticized at the time, mainly due to the fact that the computers offer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%204A%20%28Phnom%20Penh%20Bus%20Rapid%20Transit%29 | Line 4A (ខ្សែទី៤A) is a route of the Phnom Penh City Bus network in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It runs northeast to southwest.
The line is represented in the official Phnom Penh City Bus map by Lavender.
Stations
History
This line used to be represented by the color Purple but switched to Lavender when Line 09 was added in January 2018.
See also
Phnom Penh City Bus
Transport in Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh
References
External links
Phnom Penh Bus Rapid Transit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20Spectroscopy%20In%20Natural%20Sciences%20and%20Engineering | COmputational Spectroscopy In Natural Sciences and Engineering (COSINE) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network in the field of theoretical and computational chemistry, focused on computational spectroscopy. The main goal of the projects is to develop theoretical tools: computational codes based on electronic structure theory for the investigation of organic photochemistry and for simulation of spectroscopic experiments. It is part of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research funding framework.
Objective
The main purpose of COSINE is the development of ab-initio research tools to study optical properties and excited electronic states, which are dominated by electron correlation. This tools are developed for the investigation of organic photochemistry with the aim of accurate simulation of spectroscopic experiments on the computer. To this end a complementary series of tools, rooted in coupled cluster, algebraic diagrammatic construction, density functional theory, as well as selected multi-reference methods, are developed.
Nodes
The project is divided into 8 different nodes:
Node 1, Heidelberg University is the coordinating node, led by Andreas Dreuw
Node 2, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, led by Patrick Norman
Node 3, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, led by Christian Ochsenfeld
Node 4, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, led by Chiara Cappelli
Node 5, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, led by Jacob Kongsted
Node 6, L'École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, led by Ilaria Ciofini
Node 7, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, led by Henrik Koch
Node 8, Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, led by Sonia Coriani
Partner organisations
ELETTRA, Sincotrone Trieste, Italy;
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA, Norway;
EXACT LAB SRL, Italy;
Nvidia GmbH, Germany;
DELL S.P.A., Italy;
Inc., United States;
PDC Center for High-Performance Computing, KTH, Sweden;
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
References
External links
COSINE homepage
ITN Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
CORDIS Community REsearch and Development Information Service
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Computational chemistry
Engineering university associations and consortia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JanusGraph | JanusGraph is an open source, distributed graph database under The Linux Foundation. JanusGraph is available under the Apache License 2.0. The project is supported by IBM, Google, Hortonworks and Grakn Labs.
JanusGraph supports various storage backends (Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Google Cloud Bigtable, Oracle BerkeleyDB, Scylla). Scalability of JanusGraph depends on the underlying technologies, which are used with JanusGraph. For example, by using Apache Cassandra as a storage backend scaling to multiple datacenters is provided out of the box.
JanusGraph supports global graph data analytics, reporting, and ETL through integration with big data platforms (Apache Spark, Apache Giraph, Apache Hadoop).
JanusGraph supports geo, numeric range, and full-text search via external index storages (ElasticSearch, Apache Solr, Apache Lucene).
JanusGraph has native integration with the Apache TinkerPop graph stack (Gremlin graph query language, Gremlin graph server, Gremlin applications).
History
JanusGraph is the fork of TitanDB graph database which is being developed since 2012.
Version 0.1.0 was released on Apr 20, 2017.
Version 0.1.1 was released on May 16, 2017.
Version 0.2.0 was released on Oct 12, 2017.
Version 0.2.1 was released on Jul 10, 2018.
Version 0.2.2 was released on Oct 9, 2018.
Version 0.2.3 was released on May 21, 2019.
Version 0.3.0 was released on Jul 31, 2018.
Version 0.3.1 was released on Oct 2, 2018.
Version 0.3.2 was released on Jun 16, 2019.
Version 0.3.3 was released on Jan 11, 2020.
Version 0.4.0 was released on Jul 1, 2019.
Version 0.4.1 was released on Jan 14, 2020.
Version 0.5.0 was released on Mar 10, 2020.
Version 0.5.1 was released on Mar 25, 2020.
Version 0.5.2 was released on May 3, 2020.
Version 0.5.3 was released on December 24, 2020.
Version 0.6.0 was released on September 3, 2021.
Version 0.6.1 was released on January 18, 2022.
Version 0.6.3 was released on February 18, 2023.
Licensing and contributions
JanusGraph is available under Apache Software License 2.0.
For contributions an individual or an organisation must sign a CLA paper.
Literature
Kelvin R. Lawrence. PRACTICAL GREMLIN An Apache TinkerPop Tutorial. Version 282-preview. - February 2019, pp. 324 – 363.
Publications
Gabriel Campero Durand, Jingy Ma, Marcus Pinnecke, Gunter Saake: Piecing together large puzzles, efficiently: Towards scalable loading into graph database systems, May 2018
Hima Karanam, Sumit Neelam, Udit Sharma, Sumit Bhatia, Srikanta Bedathur, L. Venkata Subramaniam, Maria Chang, Achille Fokoue-Nkoutche, Spyros Kotoulas, Bassem Makni, Mariano Rodriguez Muro, Ryan Musa, Michael Witbrock: Scalable Reasoning Infrastructure for Large Scale Knowledge Bases, October 2018
Gabriel Campero Durand, Anusha Janardhana, Marcus Pinnecke, Yusra Shakeel, Jacob Krüger, Thomas Leich, Gunter Saake: Exploring Large Scholarly Networks with Hermes
Gabriel Tanase, Toyotaro Suzumura, Jinho Lee, Chun-Fu (Richard) Chen, Jason Craw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20use%20regression%20model | A land use regression model (LUR model) is an algorithm often used for analyzing pollution, particularly in densely populated areas.
The model is based on predictable pollution patterns to estimate concentrations in a particular area. This requires some linkage to the environmental characteristics of the area, especially characteristics that influence pollutant emission intensity and dispersion efficiency. LUR modeling is a useful approach for screening studies and can substitute for dispersion models given insufficient input data or dispersion models.
Multiple regression equations are used to describe the relationship between sample locations and environmental variables, often relying on geographic information systems (GIS) to collect measurements. This results in an equation that can predict pollution concentrations at unmeasured locations based on data for the predictor variables in specific locations. A raster graphic image of the area is generated and intersected with area-level population data to formulate the exposure distribution.
Application examples
Health impact assessments
LUR models were originally developed to assess the exposure resulting from air pollution as a result of vehicular traffic, but they have since been expanded to cover air pollution epidemiology. The EPA has an ongoing grant for these types of assessments, where they collect hourly updates across three major U.S. cities to study how pollution concentrations change over time and track health effects reported by those who live there.
Liaoning Province, China
A study incorporating annual satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) observations and five specific canyon indicators (building height, coverage ratio, shape coefficient, floor-area ration, and skyscraper-building ratio) was used to successfully enhance the LUR's modeling accuracy. The area picked for this study had been affected by rapid urbanization which resulted in serious environmental atmospheric pollution and measured a few key pollutants, in particular (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, NOx, CO, and O3).
Ontario, Canada
LUR was used to predict the concentration of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, m/p-xylene, and o-xylene (BTEX) concentrations in Ontario. 39 locations were monitored for 2 weeks to support LUR models to have predictor variables and best estimate BTEX concentrations.
Gothenburg, Sweden
A 20-year study examined urban pollution in Gothenburg (an urban area in Sweden) about the NO2 concentration. The results were accurate in the effects of altitude and traffic intensity on pollution in a certain region. The model was used to estimate outdoor concentrations in urban areas, but not accurate in less populated regions, such as islands or rural areas.
Further development
LUR can be expanded to encapsulate less studied areas with similar characteristics.
Mobile monitoring
Mobile monitoring is an alternative to traditional fixed-site measuring systems. Mobile monitoring enables good spatial coverage eve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi%20Women%20Quarterly | Bi Women Quarterly (BWQ) is a grassroots publication that works in affiliation with the Boston Bisexual Women's Network in Boston, Massachusetts. Started in September 1983, it is the oldest running publication for bisexual women.
The publication seeks to amplify the voices of women who fall under the bisexual+ umbrella. Bi Women Quarterly uses the term bisexual+, coined by GLAAD, in order to encompass identities including but not limited to bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, omnisexual, fluid, and queer. BWQ's definition of womanhood includes transgender women, nonbinary/genderqueer individuals, cisgender women, and other woman-aligned identities.
Bisexual activist Robyn Ochs is the publication's editor.
Publication history
Bi Women's Quarterly started as the newsletter of the Boston Bisexual Women's Network. Now a standalone publication, it is still produced by the same network. It is published four times each year and accepts a variety of submission types including fiction writing, nonfiction writing, poetry, news articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and visual art. The publication is "staffed entirely by volunteers," and is stationed in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in the city of Boston.
Archives
Current editor Robyn Ochs donated "the only complete collection" of BWQ to Harvard University's Schlesinger Library in order to ensure the preservation and digitization of the publication. This digitized collection holds every iteration of BWQ from 1983 to 2010 in an online format.
Earlier publications of BWQ often include sections with redacted names and contact information, in order to protect the privacy of individuals. Thus, many of the publication's original contributors' and editors' names are not known. This group of individuals, originally eight in number, connected through a meeting on bisexuality conducted at the Cambridge Women's Center. With an age range from 23 to 36 years old, these women labeled themselves the BiVocals, and took pride in the diversity of lifestyle and experience among them.
Members of the BiVocals teamed up with other bisexual, lesbian, and women's groups, in order to create the Boston Bisexual Women's Network. The purpose of this network was to synthesize the already existing resources for bisexual women in the area. The BBWN as an organization also helped to cultivate support groups, consciousness-raising meetings, educational resources, and resources for political action. The first goal of this group was to create a visible space for bisexuals in Boston's Lesbian/Gay Pride March 1983.
Publication and content
Each issue of Bi Women Quarterly is curated from a selection of submissions based on previously released prompts. These prompts serve as points of inspiration for writers, artists, and creatives that identify as women under the bisexual+ umbrella. Examples of prompts include coming out stories, bisexuality and disability, mental health, and visibility. Many of these prompts serve as a call to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartels%E2%80%93Stewart%20algorithm | In numerical linear algebra, the Bartels–Stewart algorithm is used to numerically solve the Sylvester matrix equation . Developed by R.H. Bartels and G.W. Stewart in 1971, it was the first numerically stable method that could be systematically applied to solve such equations. The algorithm works by using the real Schur decompositions of and to transform into a triangular system that can then be solved using forward or backward substitution. In 1979, G. Golub, C. Van Loan and S. Nash introduced an improved version of the algorithm, known as the Hessenberg–Schur algorithm. It remains a standard approach for solving Sylvester equations when is of small to moderate size.
The algorithm
Let , and assume that the eigenvalues of are distinct from the eigenvalues of . Then, the matrix equation has a unique solution. The Bartels–Stewart algorithm computes by applying the following steps:
1.Compute the real Schur decompositions
The matrices and are block-upper triangular matrices, with diagonal blocks of size or .
2. Set
3. Solve the simplified system , where . This can be done using forward substitution on the blocks. Specifically, if , then
where is the th column of . When , columns should be concatenated and solved for simultaneously.
4. Set
Computational cost
Using the QR algorithm, the real Schur decompositions in step 1 require approximately flops, so that the overall computational cost is .
Simplifications and special cases
In the special case where and is symmetric, the solution will also be symmetric. This symmetry can be exploited so that is found more efficiently in step 3 of the algorithm.
The Hessenberg–Schur algorithm
The Hessenberg–Schur algorithm replaces the decomposition in step 1 with the decomposition , where is an upper-Hessenberg matrix. This leads to a system of the form that can be solved using forward substitution. The advantage of this approach is that can be found using Householder reflections at a cost of flops, compared to the flops required to compute the real Schur decomposition of .
Software and implementation
The subroutines required for the Hessenberg-Schur variant of the Bartels–Stewart algorithm are implemented in the SLICOT library. These are used in the MATLAB control system toolbox.
Alternative approaches
For large systems, the cost of the Bartels–Stewart algorithm can be prohibitive. When and are sparse or structured, so that linear solves and matrix vector multiplies involving them are efficient, iterative algorithms can potentially perform better. These include projection-based methods, which use Krylov subspace iterations, methods based on the alternating direction implicit (ADI) iteration, and hybridizations that involve both projection and ADI. Iterative methods can also be used to directly construct low rank approximations to when solving .
References
Algorithms
Control theory
Matrices
Numerical linear algebra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuchi | Shuchi is a given name, used as a female name in India and China and as a male name in Japan. It is the name of:
Shuchi Chawla, US-based Indian computer scientist
Shuchi Grover, educator
Shuchi Kothari, New Zealand-based Indian scriptwriter and producer
Shuchi Kubouchi (1920–2020), Japanese professional Go player
Shuchi Thakur, Indian professional rally driver
Yuan Shu-chi (born 1984), Chinese archer
See also
The Bookworm (short story), originally titled "Shuchi" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Mappa | Virtual Mappa (VM) (https://sims2.digitalmappa.org/36) is a collaborative digital humanities project that collects, annotates and networks medieval mappamundi using the Digital Mappa resource. The project is open access, hosted and published by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and in collaboration with the British Library. The project is currently directed by Martin Foys and Heather Wacha, and continues to grow as new contributors join the project and edit new medieval maps.
Maps currently in the project
The project currently includes editions of thirteen mappamundi:
Cotton World Map (BL Cotton Tiberius B.v, f. 56v)
Cotton Zonal Map (BL Cotton Tiberius B.v., f. 29r)
Hereford Map (Hereford Cathedral)
Higden Map (BL Royal 14.C IX, ff. 1v–2r)
Higden Map (BL Royal 14.C IX, f. 2v)
Higden Map (CCCC MS 21, f. 9r)
Peterborough Map (BL Harley 3667, f. 8v)
Psalter World Map (BL Add MS 28681, f. 9r)
Psalter List Map (BL Add MS 28681, f. 9v)
Sawley Map, also known as the Henry of Mainz Map (CCCC 66, Parker Library, p. 2)
Thorney Map, or the St. John's 17 Map (OSJC 17, f. 6r)
Tournai Map of Asia, also known as the Jerome Map (BL Add. MS 10049, f. 64r)
Unfinished Anglo-Saxon Mappa Mundi (CCCC 265, p. 210)
Medieval maps of the world
Traditionally, western European medieval mappaemundi, or world maps, have been divided into two categories: T–O maps and zonal maps. T–O maps are named as such because of their tripartite structure – a T rests inside an O, dividing the world into the three known continents. At the top is Asia, the bottom left quadrant contains areas of Europe, and the bottom right quadrant Africa. The orientation of T–O maps is usually shifted 90 degrees to the left, such that the cardinal direction of east, i.e. paradise, India and parts of Asia for a medieval mind are located at the very top of the map. Zonal maps, however, are usually oriented with north at the top, and the world is divided into four latitudinal zones that represent climate and indicate appropriateness for habitation. Both types of medieval maps are included in the Virtual Mappa project.
Project history and support
The project came out of digital humanities research by project leader Martin Foys of medieval artifacts and media that resisted traditional modes of print-based scholarship. Medieval mappamundi represented a problem of representation and analysis that digital tools and techniques could help address. The digital humanities resource of digital annotation and linking tools that was developed to collect, annotate and network medieval maps was Digital Mappa, which is now its own freely available online workspace and digital publishing platform.
As part of the Digital Mappa (DM) platform, Virtual Mappa has been funded by grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUJO%20AI | CUJO AI is an American network intelligence software company headquartered in El Segundo, California, United States. It provides cybersecurity and device management software for network operators.
History
CUJO AI was founded in 2015 by Yuri Frayman, and Einaras von Gravrock. In January 2018, the company has launched CUJO AI Platform for network operators and secured and enhanced experiences for 200M Devices. In October 2018, the company received series B investment round from KPN Ventures for further expansion and accelerate growth in the international market.
In 2019 January, CUJO AI has received investment from an American telecommunication giant Charter Communications.
Features
CUJO AI offers a SaaS platform for network operators that helps in identification and restricting malicious activity on the home network. It utilizes algorithms powered by machine learning and allows to precisely identify the devices and creates a personalized experience for the end-user. The company's products are used to block malware, protect the home users from remote access and other threats. It also allows the home users to use filters or block certain websites, or just pages of a website.
In 2021 CUJO AI decided to discontinue their home security firewall device named CUJO despite selling “lifetime” licenses and despite stating they would maintain the “lifetime” license in 2019 In return, users got a $250 paper weight.
In 2019, Comcast launched a digital security service called "Xfinity xFi Advanced Security", which was developed by CUJO AI.
Awards and recognition
The Most Innovative Security Strategy award 2019
Vendor to Watch by the Gartner, 2018
Glotel, Security Solution of the Year, 2018
Vodafone IoT challenge 2017 Runner-up
References
External links
Companies based in El Segundo, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unsolved%20problems%20in%20fair%20division | This page lists notable open problems related to fair division - a field in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, political science and economics.
Open problems in fair cake-cutting
Query complexity of envy-free cake-cutting
In the problem of envy-free cake-cutting, there is a cake modeled as an interval, and agents with different value measures over the cake. The value measures are accessible only via queries of the form "evaluate a given piece of cake" or "mark a piece of cake with a given value". With agents, an envy-free division can be found using two queries, via divide and choose. With agents, there are several open problems regarding the number of required queries.
1. First, assume that the entire cake must be allocated (i.e., there is no disposal), and pieces may be disconnected. How many queries are required?
Lower bound: ;
Upper bound: .
2. Next, assume that some cake may be left unallocated (i.e., there is free disposal), but the allocation must be proportional (in addition to envy-free): each agent must get at least of the total cake value. Pieces may still be disconnected. How many queries are required?
Lower bound: not known (theoretically it may be polynomially solvable).
Upper bound: .
3. Next, assume there is free disposal, the allocation must still be proportional, but the pieces must be connected. How many queries are required?
For , there is an algorithm with 54 queries.
For , no finite algorithm is currently known.
4. Next, assume there is free disposal, the pieces must be connected, but the allocation may be only approximately proportional (i.e., some agents may get less than of the total cake value). What value can be guaranteed to each agent using a finite envy-free protocol?
For , there is an algorithm that attains 1/3, which is optimal.
For (the smallest open case), there is an algorithm that attains 1/7.
For any , there is an algorithm that attains .
5. Finally, assume the entire cake must be allocated, and pieces may be disconnected, but the number of cuts (or number of pieces per agent) should be as small as possible. How many cuts do we need in order to find an envy-free allocation in a finite number of queries?
For , a finite algorithm does not exist for cuts (1 piece per agent).
For , Selfridge–Conway procedure solves the problem in finite time with 5 cuts (and at most 2 pieces per agent).
For , the Aziz-Mackenzie procedure solves the problem in finite time, but with many cuts (and many pieces per agent).
Smallest open case: three agents and 3 or 4 cuts; four agents and 2 pieces per agent.
Number of cuts for cake-cutting with different entitlements
When all agents have equal entitlements, a proportional cake-cutting can be implemented using cuts, which is optimal.
How many cuts are required for implementing a proportional cake-cutting among agents with different entitlements?
Lower bound: ;
Upper bound: .
Smallest open case: agents with all different |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIP%20OS | CLIP OS is a Linux-based operating system created by ANSSI, the National Cybersecurity Agency of France. The aim is to produce a hardened operating system to secure sensitive information which meets the needs of the French Administration.
History
CLIP OS has been in development since before 2008. In September 2018, ANSSI released two version of CLIP OS to the public: a stable version 4, and an in-development version 5.
System overview
CLIP OS is based on the Hardened Gentoo variant of Gentoo Linux. The developers have noted that whilst it has similar aims to Qubes OS, the environment isolation mechanism is different. Further, administrators on a CLIP OS system will not be able to access user data, unlike a Qubes-based system.
See also
Security-Enhanced Linux
Gentoo Linux
Qubes OS
References
Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Islamic%20Arab%20trade | Pre-Islamic Arab trade refers to the land- and sea-trade networks used by pre-Islamic Arab nations and traders. Some regions are also known as the incense trade route. Trade has been documented as early as the beginning of the second millennium BCE.
Antiquity
A text from the era of Sargon of Akkad (r. c. 2334-2284 BCE) mentions a shipping industry in Magan, in present-day Oman. Excavations in the cities of Ur and Kish and in Bahrain and other locations along the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula have unearthed goods of Indian origin (including seals). Both indicate that the network of maritime trade was regular, bustling, and well-known as early as 3000 BC. They suggest that Bahrain and other sites along the Persian Gulf were popular docks which would welcome ships arriving from Iraq on their way to and from India.
According to the 2nd-century BCE Greek historian Agatharchides, "It does not appear that there exists a people richer than the Sabaeans and the people of Gerrha who were agents of everything which fell under the name of shipping between Asia and Europe. They made Ptolemaic Syria rich and made Phoenician trade profitable in addition to hundreds of other things." He described them as fierce warriors and skilled seafarers, who sailed large ships to supply their colonies. The Palmyrene Empire built a shipyard in Characene, which facilitated the transport of goods through the Euphrates ports of Dura-Europos and Sura (the present-day village of Al-Hamam, east of the al-Thawra Dam in Syria). Some of the Palmyrenes who owned and sailed ships on the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean were attested by Chinese sailors who visited the region in 97 CE and mentioned the Characene port of Charax Spasinu. Characene surpassed Gerrha in the perfume trade. Despite the lack of direct control by the Nabataean Kingdom in the Persian Gulf, it was reachable by land (where goods would be loaded onto ships). Nabataean writings and manufactured goods (including typical Nabataean white dyes) have been discovered in the village of Thaj near the Persian Gulf, along the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula near Bahrain and as far as the ports of Yemen and Oman. They have also been found in archeological sites along the Incense Route, such as Qaryat al-Faw. Nabataean pottery has been uncovered in India; Nabataean inscriptions are scattered throughout the Mediterranean region, from Tunisia to Rhodes, Kos, Delos, Miletus in the Aegean Sea and in Pozzuoli and Rome. Late Antique to medieval trade amphorae contained different food stuffs including wine and olive oil, perhaps the best known are so-called Aqaba/Ayla vessels from the Red Sea to South Asia.
The Sabaeans had a long history of seafaring and commerce. A Sabaean presence in Africa was noted in antiquity with the founding of the kingdom of Dʿmt in Ethiopia in the 8th century BCE. The 1st-century CE historian Periplus of the Erythraean Sea described how the Arabs controlled the coast of "Ezana" (the East Af |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20ShootOut%20%28video%20game%29 | NBA ShootOut (Known as Total NBA '96 in Europe) is a sports video game developed by SCE Studios Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation. The cover features Sam Cassell of the Houston Rockets.
Gameplay
NBA ShootOut is a game using polygon players and motion-captured animation. The game features rosters from the 1995–96 NBA season.
The demo of the European version of the game, (Total NBA '96) also contains additional hidden characters not available in the final game.
Reception
NBA ShootOut was well received, with the Official UK PlayStation Magazine awarding 9/10 and a Starplayer award. They praised the motion capture and the playability. While he noted sometimes inaccurate controls and glitchy sound effects, Scary Larry of GamePro gave the game a strong recommendation, citing the roster of real players, realistic features, beautiful polygonal graphics, and fluid animation. He commented that the game is much more realistic than NBA Jam, but has an arcade mode to satisfy Jam enthusiasts. The two sports reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game similar scores (8.0 and 7.5 out of 10) but were sharply divided in their opinions. Both agreed that the graphics are impressive, but Dindo Perez argued that "Shootout should have played greater emphasis on gameplay", saying it is not realistic enough, whereas Video Cowboy asserted "the game has solid gameplay and a big-league look." A reviewer for Next Generation shared in the general enthusiasm for the game's graphics and animation, but also noted that they come at the cost of prominent slowdown, detracting from the feel of the game. However, he felt the gameplay was decent and the options and player roster were impressive, and concluded "NBA Shoot Out doesn't unseat NBA Live 96 as the basketball sim champ, but it has definitely raised the stakes for next year's battle." He gave it three out of five stars. In 1996, GamesMaster ranked the game 88th on their "Top 100 Games of All Time."
The first NBA ShootOut (Total NBA ' 96) was a major hit in Europe, and moderately successful in North America.
Notes
References
External links
1996 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
National Basketball Association video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda%20vs.%20Aliens | Panda vs. Aliens is a 2021 computer-animated sci-fi film written, directed and starring Sean Patrick O'Reilly, released on April 9, 2021. The film features The Unknowns, which are characters licensed from POW! Entertainment by Stan Lee who also serves as the executive producer.
Plot
A group of aliens seek to conquer new worlds, and take particular notice of Earth, after seeing satellite broadcasts of TV shows of a powerful panda, Pandy.
Development
The film was announced at Comic-Con. Modern Cinema Group signed on to co-finance the film with Stan Lee serving as an executive producer.
It is produced by China's Yisang Media and Los Angeles-Beijing Studios (LABS).
The movie was initially slated to be released in 2019, but eventually was released on April 9, 2021. The film was completed to "honor Stan Lee's final endeavors".
References
2021 films
Canadian animated feature films
Canadian 3D films
Animated films about giant pandas
Arcana Studio titles
Films directed by Sean Patrick O'Reilly
2020s English-language films
2020s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy%27s%20Gurl | Daddy's Gurl is a Philippine television sitcom series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Chris Martinez, it stars Vic Sotto and Maine Mendoza in the title role. It premiered on October 13, 2018 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up replacing The Clash. The series concluded on May 6, 2023 with a total episodes of 175 episodes. It was replaced by Open 24/7 in its timeslot.
Premise
After the passing of Barak's wife, he decides to live in the condominium unit in Manila of his aspiring city girl daughter, Visitacion, in order to watch and take care of her, much to his daughter's surprise. He barely made a living for them, while he talks to the picture of his wife.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Vic Sotto as Barak Otogan
Maine Mendoza as Visitacion "Stacy" Otogan
Supporting cast
Wally Bayola as Marikit Otogan / Matilda
Angelika Dela Cruz as Oprah Saavedra
Oyo Boy Sotto as Lance Saavedra
Benjie Paras as Tom
Kevin Santos as Daboy
Jelson Bay as Jerry
Chichirita as Beauty
Chamyto as himself
Guest cast
Odette Khan as Espi Rito
Joey Marquez as Jun
Jak Roberto as Jonas
Kiko Estrada as Boji
Martin del Rosario as Romualdo "Waldo" Saavedra
Max Collins as May Amoy
Rodjun Cruz as Bomber
Tuesday Vargas as Hannah Silva
Lovi Poe as Yammy
Glydel Mercado as Fely
Ruffa Gutierrez as Ruffa Mae Mendoza
Ai-Ai delas Alas as Amor Flowers
Kendoll as Jonnaly
Andre Paras as Burnok Onse
Megan Young as Kim
Mikael Daez as Kanny
Ruru Madrid as Anton
Barbie Forteza as Pureza
Jason Francisco as Kevin
Leo Martinez as Rudy
Leah Patricio as Anna
Kyline Alcantara as Elsa dela Cruz / Daisy
Kakai Bautista as Tootsie
Alden Richards as Aldrich Reyes
Janine Gutierrez as Mina
Alma Moreno as Vanessa
Winwyn Marquez as Therese
Paolo Ballesteros as Pabling / Maruya Carey
Sanya Lopez as Cherry Aguinaldo
Clint Bondad as Onak
Boobsie Wonderland as Abat
Pilita Corrales as Oprah
Jackie Lou Blanco as Becky Belat
Ex Battalion as themselves
Jo Berry as Tiny
Solenn Heussaff as Margaux Lu
Mika dela Cruz as Hillary
Paul Salas as Brix
Ken Chan as Kuracho
Baste Benedict as Chukoy
Glaiza de Castro as Grace
Roi Vinzon as Brusko
Sheena Halili as Berna
Dante Gulapa as himself
Gladys Reyes as Malou Manay
Paolo Contis as Jumbo
Sunshine Dizon as Demi Macaspac
Thea Tolentino as Caitlyn
Kristofer Martin as Hung Hang You
André Paras as Burnok
Kiray Celis as Sam
Ed Caluag as himself
Candy Pangilinan as Jujubi
Danica Sotto as Lucille
Joyce Ching as Claire
Joey Paras as Tangerine
Kristofer Martin as Hung Hang Yoo
Sophie Albert as Ella
Super Tekla as Kiko Rukuko / Lala
Yuan Francisco as Bon Jovi
Sunshine Teodoro as Tingting
Caprice Cayetano as Nosbi
Joey Reyes as himself
Buboy Villar as Champaca
Carlo Aquino as Marco
Wendell Ramos as Igme
Jason Abalos as Rudolph
Anjo Damiles as Ipe
Melanie Marquez as Ms. Macupad
Via Antonio as Jingle Belle
Boi Spencer as himself
Ryzza Mae Dizon as Chacha
Ricky Davao as Ceferino Escobar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your.MD | Your.MD also known as Healthily, is a digital healthtech company that uses artificial intelligence to provide users with personalised health information via a chatbot.
It was founded in Oslo, Norway in 2013 by Henrik Pettersen and now has headquarters in London, England. In June 2017, Your.MD raised $10 million in funding from its series A round, bringing total funding to $19 million. Its current investors include: Smedvig Capital AS, Orkla Group and a number of angel investors.
In August 2019, Reckitt Benckiser announced that they were making a strategic investment in and partnership with the company, and in October 2020 it was reported that they had invested €25 million to roll out its “health hubs” concept.
The company reported a 350% increase in the number of users, from 6m users from January to August 2019 to 26 m the same period in 2020, largely attributed to the Your.MD Covid-19 Symptom Mapper. The self-care app was launched in India in September 2020.
Performance
In April 2017, Your.MD was awarded the Unesco/Netexplo Award 2017 for “innovations that can improve society”. The app received the ePrivacy seal, meaning that it fully complies with the European laws on privacy.
It entered into a partnership with BMJ Best Practice in May 2018 to validate the medical data used by its AI algorithms.
In October 2017, Your.MD contributed to the UK Government report “Growing the Artificial Intelligence industry in the UK”, and was featured for its presence in the personal health sector.
It has been compared to Babylon's GP at Hand app and Ada Health. In October 2017, when the three apps were tested with symptoms from asthma, shingles, alcohol-related liver disease, and urinary tract infection it failed to diagnose shingles or UTI. At that stage, the symptom checker was in a beta stage, and has since been upgraded.
In June 2020, it was awarded the CogX People's Choice COVID-19 Innovation for Society. It is one of the apps which is used to collect data to help model the evolving threat of Covid-19 across the UK in the OASIS project, working with researchers from Imperial College London.
See also
Ada Health
Babylon Health
WebMD
References
2013 establishments in Norway
Medical technology companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the London Borough of Camden
Health information technology companies
Private providers of NHS services
Telemedicine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2064 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 64 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Market Harborough () to Lincoln (). The route is in length and is fully open and signed in both directions. There are three sections to the route, NCN 63 and NCN 15 form the links between these sections.
History
Between Cotham and Newark the route uses the track bed of the old Newark to Bottesford railway. From Harby to the outskirts of Lincoln the route is a railway path along the trackbed of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway.
Route
Route 64 starts in Market Harborough at a junction with NCN 6. It heads north through the Leicestershire countryside to Goadby where it is interrupted by NCN Route 63.
It restarts at Owston and Newbold and then passes through the centre of Melton Mowbray. It crosses into Lincolnshire at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir and stops shortly after when it meets NCN 15 on the toepath of the Grantham Canal.
Route 64 reappears at another junction with NCN 15 near Thoroton in Nottinghamshire and travels in a north easterly direction picking up the Newark to Cotham Railway Path, a traffic free route as far as Newark Northgate Station. From there the route follows quite roads to Harby where it joins a railway path to Lincoln, passing through the city centre to end at a junction with NCN 1,
Related NCN routes
Route 64 meets the following routes:
6 at Market Harborough ()
63 at Goadby () and Owston and Newbold ()
15 at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir () and Thoroton ()
647 at Harby ()
1 at Lincoln ()
References
External links
Route 64 on the Sustrans web site
Route 64 on OSM
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmtex%20Portable%20Videogame%20System | The Palmtex Portable Videogame System (PVS), later renamed and released as the Super Micro and distributed under the Home Computer Software name, is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Palmtex, released in 1984.
The system was also referred to as the Palmtex Super Micro, because when the console was re-branded, the Palmtex logo was alongside Super Micro. However, Palmtex dropped its name from the packaging and promotional materials, in favor of its business partner, making its retail name the Home Computer Software Super Micro.
It had a number of quality and design issues. Only three games are known to have been released, it is possible that only one or more factory runs were made, and the existing units were liquidated and later sold through mail order with little to no advertising. As a result, it is now a rare collectible system, although working units are still extremely prone to breaking with normal use.
History
Two different companies were involved with the console: Palmtex, who developed, manufactured and distributed it, and Home Computer Software, who developed its games.
Palmtex Inc. was registered on November 12, 1980 in San Francisco, California.
Home Computer Software Inc. was registered on January 14, 1983, in Sunnyvale, California. It recorded and distributed software on floppy diskettes.
Early operations
The company started with Esmail Amid-Hozour, a businessman that came to the United States in the early 80s. When looking for new business opportunities, he found electronic games, which were becoming popular in Japan, most notably the Game & Watch handhelds manufactured by Nintendo. He later managed to make a deal with Nintendo, who helped him import 300 handhelds to the US for a test market. The response was positive, and the units were sold without much trouble. Seeing this, Amid-Hozour founded Palmtex on March 22, 1982, which became the first company to distribute Nintendo consoles in the US. The handhelds distributed by the company were Fire Attack, Parachute and Turtle Bridge, with a later release adding Octopus, Donkey Kong and Snoopy Tennis.
Seeing the success of the Nintendo handhelds, the company began importing other handhelds like the Tri-Screen Time & Fun series by VTech to the United States. While the Game & Watch handhelds had normal Nintendo branding and packaging, the ones from VTech were re-branded to exclude the company's name from the console and packaging in favor of Palmtex.
At the end of 1982, the demand and sales of electronic handhelds was at its peak, so Palmtex decided to create their own video game system.
Development
On January 30, 1983, Palmtex announced the PVS, meaning "Palmsized Videogame System", making mention of its interchangeable cartridges, 3D effects due to several layers of glass providing depth, color graphics, sound control, and the inclusion of a pause button. The unit retailed for $30, while additional games were $20. It was described as a "dramatic design bre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic%20Fantasy | Heroic Fantasy is a computer-moderated, dungeon crawl play-by-mail game. It has been active since 1982 when it was published by Flying Buffalo. The initial edition involved nine dungeon levels. Flying Buffalo published subsequent editions due to challenging gameplay initially, eventually limiting the game to four dungeon levels with a fifth outdoors level where players can assemble an army and capture one or more castles. The game is open-ended; gameplay continues until players decide to stop.
In the game, players can create a party of up to fifteen characters within certain limits. Various races are available for characters which can be fighters or magic users, the latter having various spells at their disposal. Players can encounter non-player characters (NPCs), fight monsters for experience points, and collect treasure while their party progresses through the dungeon levels.
The game received various reviews in the 1980s, ranging from generally to very positive. In 2011, Heroic Fantasy won the Origins Award for Best Play by Mail or Correspondence Game. As of August 2021, it has been published by Rick Loomis PBM Games and is available for play by postal mail or email.
Play-by-mail genre
Play-by-mail (PBM) games feature a number of differences from tabletop games. The typical PBM game involves many more players than an average tabletop game can support. PBM game lengths are usually longer, depending on a number of factors. Turnaround time is how long a player has to prepare and submit "orders" (moves and changes to make in the game) and the company has to process them and send back turn results. The average turnaround time in the 1980s was two weeks, but some modern PBM games are play-by-email (PBEM) with shorter turnaround times of twice per week or faster. Open ended games allow players to strengthen their positions without end, with players continually entering and leaving the game. Examples include Heroic Fantasy and Monster Island. Conversely, closed end games typically have all players starting on equal terms, with rapid, intense, player vs. player gameplay that ends when a player or group achieves some victory condition or is unopposed. Examples include Hyborian War and It's a Crime. The complexity of PBM games can range from the relatively simple to the PBM game Empyrean Challenge, once described as "the most complex game system on Earth".
Once a player has chosen a game and receives an initial game setup, gameplay begins. This generally involves players filling out order sheets for a game (see example image) and sending them to the gaming company. The company processes the turns and returns the results to the player, who completes a subsequent order sheet. Diplomacy is also frequently an important—sometimes indispensable—part of gameplay. The initial choice of a PBM game requires consideration as there is a wide array of possible roles to play, from pirates to space characters to "previously unknown creatures". Close identificatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xrdp | xrdp is a free and open-source implementation of Microsoft RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) server that enables operating systems other than Microsoft Windows (such as Linux and BSD-style operating systems) to provide a fully functional RDP-compatible remote desktop experience. It works by bridging graphics from the X Window System to the client and relaying controls from the client back to X Window Server.
According to the developers, the protocol works with rdesktop, FreeRDP and Microsoft's own Remote Desktop Client.
Modes of operation
In order to relay the graphics and controls between the X Window System and the user, XRDP can utilize several forwarding modes:
Xvnc: This mode works by using a VNC server installation.
xorgxrdp / X11rdp: In this mode, XRDP can communicate directly with the X server in order to bridge the graphics.
History
The project was started in mid-2004 by Jay Sorg based on the work of rdesktop and FreeRDP that had previously explored implementations of the proprietary Remote Desktop Protocol, including RemoteFX.
The initial versions of the XRDP project relied on a local VNC server installation that had to be present alongside the program, in order to relay the graphics and controls between the user and the server (known as the "VNC forwarding mode"). However, this mode is currently not recommended to use anymore, due to its slow performance.
Due to the slow performance of forwarding to a VNC server, the developers introduced the X11rdp mode – which allowed for direct communication with the X Window Server, resulting in improved draw times and an overall better user experience. In 2019, the XRDP developers announced the xorgxrdp project as the replacement to the X11rdp mode, which is the default mode that XRDP uses in new installations.
See also
Comparison of remote desktop software
References
More reading
External links
Free and open-source software
Remote desktop protocols
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Indonesia | This is a list of radio networks and stations in Indonesia.
Public networks
All networks below are owned by Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI).
Private networks
Name-based (networks with single-name affiliates in more than one city/regency, sorted by ownership)
Owner-based (other networks with all-different affiliate names)
Mercury Media Group (East Java only)
Thomson Radio Network
Mutiara Berlian Group
RB Group (Retjo Buntung FM and MBS FM)
Etnikom Network
Amandit FM Network
La Nugraha Media Network (South Sumatra and Lampung)
Syndicated news network
Indonesia Persada
Jaring Radio Suara Surabaya
Others
Voice of Indonesia (general, shortwave only)
Stations by city
List of radio stations in Banda Aceh
List of radio stations in Bandung
List of radio stations in Jakarta
List of radio stations in Pekanbaru
Notes
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid%203-D | Lucid 3-D was a spreadsheet package that began in the MS-DOS era; Windows support came later.
History
Sam Redman and Michael Stanford incorporated as PCSG corporation (Portable Computer Support Group).
Their Lucid 3-D spreadsheet was marketed by Dac Software of Dallas, Texas.
Features
Lucid 3-D was considered noteworthy at the time for being "the only major memory-resident spreadsheet available for the PC."
The selling point of the product was being "three dimensional. Any cell of the spreadsheet can contain a complete other spreadsheet that you can access with a single keystroke."
Another technical feature was what their ads called "not only minimal recalc, but background recalc"
The Windows versions could display "up to nine overlapping spreadsheet windows."
File extension
Data files were stored using the extension ".lcw" (Dot LCW).
See also
Spreadsheet
References
Proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sariel%20Har-Peled | Sariel Har-Peled (born July 14, 1971, in Jerusalem) is an Israeli–American computer scientist known for his research in computational geometry. He is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Har-Peled was a student at Tel Aviv University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1993, a master's degree in computer science in 1995, and a Ph.D. in 1999. His master's thesis, The Complexity of Many Cells in the Overlay of Many Arrangements, and his doctoral dissertation, Geometric Approximation Algorithms and Randomized Algorithms for Planar Arrangements, were both supervised by Micha Sharir.
After postdoctoral research at Duke University, he joined the University of Illinois in 2000. He was named Willett Professor in 2016.
Har-Peled is the author of a book on approximation algorithms in computational geometry, Geometric approximation algorithms (American Mathematical Society, 2011).
References
External links
Home page
1971 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Tel Aviv University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202005 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2005 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Easttom | William "Chuck" Easttom II (born October 5, 1968) is an American computer scientist specializing in cyber security, cryptography, quantum computing, and systems engineering.
Education
Chuck Easttom holds a B.A. from Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a M.Ed. from Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a master's degree in Applied Computer Science from Northcentral University and a Masters in Systems Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, as well as a D.Sc. Doctor of Science in cyber security from Capitol Technology University dissertation topic "A Comparative Study Of Lattice Based Algorithms For Post Quantum Computing", a Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy in Technology focused on Nanotechnology dissertation topic "The Effects of Complexity on Carbon Nanotube Failures", and a Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from University of Portsmouth dissertation topic "A Systematic Framework for Network Forensics Using Graph Theory".
Professional work
In addition to computer security, Easttom has done work in software engineering., applied mathematics, and other areas. He has authored 37 books on computer security, programming languages, Linux, cyber forensics, quantum computing, computer networks, penetration testing, and cryptography. His books are used as textbooks for both undergraduate and graduate programs at over 60 universities. He is an inventor with 25 patented computer science inventions. He is a frequent speaker at major cybersecurity conferences.
Easttom was part of the team that created the original CompTIA Security+ and CompTIA Linux+ exams. He created the OSFCE (OSForensics Certified Examiner) course and test, the EC Council Certified Encryption Specialist course and certification test, and EC Council CAST Advanced Encryption course as well as working on other EC-Council certifications
Easttom has been involved in numerous IEEE standards. He is currently the Chair of IEEE P3123 - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Terminology and Data Formats Working Group, a member of IEEE 2731 BCI unified terminology working group, a former member (2017 to 2019) of IEEE Software & Systems Engineering Standards Committee. Working on the DevOps 2675, a member of IEEE P2995 - Trial-Use Standard for a Quantum Algorithm Design and Development Standards Group, and Vice Chair IEEE P23026 - Systems and Software Engineering -- Engineering and Management of Websites for Systems, Software, and Services Information
Chuck Easttom has been interviewed regarding cyber security topics by CNN Money and CBS Smart Planet, and other media outlets, and He has been named a Distinguished Speaker of the ACM and a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE. He is also a Senior member of the IEEE and Senior member of the ACM.
Easttom was Editor in Chief for the American Journal of Science and Engineering from 2018 to 2022. He was also the director of the Quantum Computing and Cryptography Lab at Capitol Technology University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgBiotechNet | AgBiotechNet is a searchable online database of scientific literature on topics related to agricultural biotechnology. Its target audience consists of biotechnology researchers and policymakers. Though some features on the site are available for free, others can only be accessed by paid subscribers. First launched in January 1999, AgBiotechNet is run by the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (also known as CABI), which founded it along with Michigan State University's Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 1999
Scientific databases
Biotechnology companies established in 1999
Online databases
Biology websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Markup | The Markup is an American nonprofit news publication focused on the impact of technology on society. Founded in 2018 with the goal of advancing data-driven journalism, the publication launched in February 2020. Nabiha Syed is the current chief executive officer and Sisi Wei is the editor-in-chief.
History
The Markup was co-founded by two former ProPublica journalists Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, and executive and journalist Sue Gardner. The project was announced in April 2018, with an expected launch in early 2019.
In 2018, founder Anguin said the portal planned to collect and create public datasets through public records requests, automated data collection, crowdsourcing information, and creating tools.
In April 2019, Gardner fired Angwin as editor-in-chief. According to Larson and Gardner, the reasons for Angwin's removal included disagreements over the non-journalistic responsibilities of Angwin's role as an executive, such as the organization falling behind in its hiring plans and the launch timeline. Larson was named as her replacement. In a letter to Craig Newmark, The Markups largest donor, Angwin asked him to intervene, claiming she was pushed out after resisting Gardner's attempts to change The Markup'''s mission to "one based on advocacy against the tech companies." Six out of seven journalists on staff resigned following Angwin's ouster. Gardner denied changing the mission, telling The New York Times, "We are, pure and simple, a news outlet, we always have been and always will be. Our goals and purpose haven't changed."
In May 2019, Newmark announced that Gardner and Larson had left The Markup, and there were reports about plans to bring back Angwin as editor-in-chief.
On August 6, 2019, The Markup announced that Angwin would return as editor-in-chief, along with Nabiha Syed as president and much of the original team – but without Larson or Gardner. Syed was previously BuzzFeed's associate general counsel and vice president.
The publication launched in February 2020.
In 2022, Syed hired Sisi Wei, formerly of OpenNews and ProPublica to become editor-in-chief, replacing Angwin.
In February 2023, Angwin left The Markup.
Funding The Markup received a $20 million gift from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. The Markup also raised $2 million from the Knight Foundation and an additional $1 million from the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative.
Coverage and impact
2022 reporting on Meta and tax preparation companies
In November 2022, an investigation by The Markup'' revealed that tax filing companies including H&R Block, TaxSlayer, and TaxAct have shared users' financial information with Facebook parent company Meta. In response, a class action lawsuit was filed by H&R Block customers against Meta, who accused the tech company of violating users' privacy rights. Senator Elizabeth Warren and representatives Katie Porter and Brad Sherman sent letters to the ta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettina%20Speckmann | Bettina Speckmann (born 1972) is a German computer scientist who heads the Applied Geometric Algorithms group in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, Netherlands, where she is a professor.
The main topics of her research are computational geometry and information visualization, especially focusing on the geometry and visualization of objects in motion.
Education and career
Speckmann earned a diploma from the University of Münster in 1996.
She completed her Ph.D. in 2001 at the University of British Columbia under the joint supervision of Jack Snoeyink and David G. Kirkpatrick. Before joining the faculty at TU Eindhoven, she did postdoctoral research with Emo Welzl at ETH Zurich.
She is a member of the Computational Geometry Steering Committee,
and has been program chair for the Symposium on Computational Geometry (2018), International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (2015), and International Symposium on Graph Drawing (2011).
Recognition
In 2011, Speckmann was the first winner of the Netherlands Prize for ICT Research, given by the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, for her work on geographic information systems.
She was a member of the Global Young Academy from 2011 to 2016.
Personal
Speckmann is the daughter of German neuroscientist and artist Erwin-Josef Speckmann.
References
External links
Home page
1972 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch women computer scientists
University of Münster alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Researchers in geometric algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icey | Icey is a 2D side-scrolling hack-and-slash video game developed by FantaBlade Network and published by X.D. Network. It was released for iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 in November 2016, for Android in October 2017, and Nintendo Switch in May 2018. The game involves a female cyborg's mission to defeat a villain named Judas and his robot minions, and can be played in a linear manner from beginning to end like a typical game. Alternately, the player may disobey the narrator's instructions and in doing so break the fourth wall. The game received positive reviews from critics, who commended it as a good video game in its own right, elevated by its unusual meta-commentary.
Plot
The game revolves around Icey, a female cyborg who is on a mission to kill the evil Judas, who has supposedly destroyed the world, for unclear reasons. She fights against various small and large robotic enemies. However, if the player strays outside the directions given to them by the narrator, he becomes frustrated and even angry. At this point the game devolves into a meta-commentary on game development, with the game's developer even talking directly to the player.
Gameplay
The game plays as a 2D hack-and-slash game. The player uses a single weapon, but can perform quick combos with their sword. There is no block, but rather a dash that allows the player to become invulnerable - the player can also refill their shields by killing stunned enemies with a special kill move.
Development
The game initially contained Chinese voice-overs with English subtitles, but English and Japanese-language voice-overs were later added.
Reception
ICEY received an aggregate score of 84/100 for its Windows version on Metacritic. Sawovsky of PLAY! Zine rated the game 8/10, calling the gameplay "excellent" and the meta-story "amusing", but criticizing its short length. Mateusz Zdanowicz of Eurogamer Poland rated the game 9/10 and gave it the Eurogamer Recommended award, calling the game "addictive" and its story "intriguing". Richard Atkinson of Nintendo Life rated the game 8/10, saying that while the game is short, exploring is enjoyable and the storytelling delivery "ingenious", but criticized its "simplistic" approach to battles.
Sales
The game sold over 2 million copies by August 2018.
References
Side-scrolling video games
Hack and slash games
Metafictional_video_games
2016 video games
Android (operating system) games
Art games
Video games developed in China
Single-player video games
Windows games
IOS games
PlayStation 4 games
Nintendo Switch games
Video games about cyborgs
Video games about robots
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games with commentaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastiaan%20Quast | Bastiaan Quast is a Dutch Machine learning researcher. He is the author and lead maintainer of the open-source rnn and transformer deep-learning frameworks in the R programming language, and the datasets.load GUI package, as well as R packages on Global Value Chain decomposition & WIOD and on Regression Discontinuity Design. Quast is a great-great-grandson of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tobias Asser.
Early life and education
Bastiaan Quast graduated from University of Groningen with a bachelor's degree in Economics and bachelor's degree in Theoretical philosophy. He holds a master's degree in Econometrics from the University of St. Gallen He obtained his Ph.D from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies with advisors Richard Baldwin and Jean-Louis Arcand, his work on local languages and internet usage was discussed at the 2017 G20 meeting in Germany.
Career
Quast is an functionary of the United Nations at the International Telecommunication Union, as Secretary of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health and AI for Good.
Bastiaan Quast created the popular machine learning framework rnn in R, which allows native implementations of recurrent neural network architectures, such as LSTM and GRU (>100,000 downloads). While working at UNCTAD, Quast developed the popular package datasets.load, which is part of the top 10% of most downloaded R packages (>100,000). The R packages decompr and wiod have been downloaded >20,000 times.
Bibliography
Kummritz, Victor; Quast, Bastiaan (2017). Global value chains in developing economies. London, United Kingdom: VoxEU.
References
External links
Bastiaan Quast
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Data scientists
Computer programmers
Swiss computer scientists
University of Groningen alumni
University of St. Gallen alumni
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni
Dutch expatriates in Switzerland
R (programming language) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20Call%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Emergency Call is an Australian factual television series on the Seven Network. It follows emergency telephone workers as they field calls and dispatch emergency responders. This series, unlike Ambulance Australia, is based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (police and ambulance) and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (ambulance only). The series is based on the Belgian French series Emergency Call with local versions of the format also produced by Germany's VOX, the Netherlands EO/NPO1, Italy's RAI2 and C8 in France.
Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
See also
Paramedics
Ambulance Australia
Ambulance
References
Seven Network original programming
2018 Australian television series debuts
2018 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series
English-language television shows
Emergency communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20Software | Instant Software was a company that produced game, utility, and education software in the late 1970s and early 1980s primarily for the TRS-80 line of home computers. Instant Software was a subsidiary of Kilobaud Microcomputing, headquartered in Peterborough, New Hampshire and run by Wayne Green.
History
Green said in 1980 that although his company Instant Software had published "hundreds of programs for the TRS-80 [and] want to translate as many as possible for use on the TI-99/4", it could not find anyone among more than 1,000 developers in its network who could port software to the computer, adding "We understand the problems with the system and the efforts Texas Instruments made to make translation difficult".
Games
Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio (1978)
Casino II - Craps (1978)
Dungeon of Death (1979)
Who-Dun-It? (1979)
Wordwatch (1979)
Airmail Pilot (1980)
Cosmic Patrol (1980)
Money Madness (1980)
Danger in Orbit (1981)
Master Reversi (1981)
References
Defunct video game companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Med%20Systems%20Software | Med Systems Software was a company that produced video games for home computers in the early 1980s. In 1983, the company name was changed to Screenplay.
History
Med Systems Software was headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Games
Labyrinth (1980)
Deathmaze 5000 (1980, by Frank Corr)
Asylum (1981)
The Institute (1981)
Laser Defense (1981, by Simon Smith)
The Human Adventure (1981, by William F. Denman, Jr.)
Microworld (1981, by Arti Haroutunian)
Asylum II (1982)
Dunzhin (1982)
Phantom Slayer (1982)
Danger Ranger (1983)
Monkey Kong (1983)
References
Defunct video game companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil%20maid%20attack | An evil maid attack is an attack on an unattended device, in which an attacker with physical access alters it in some undetectable way so that they can later access the device, or the data on it.
The name refers to the scenario where a maid could subvert a device left unattended in a hotel room – but the concept itself also applies to situations such as a device being intercepted while in transit, or taken away temporarily by airport or law enforcement personnel.
Overview
Origin
In a 2009 blog post, security analyst Joanna Rutkowska coined the term "Evil Maid Attack" due to hotel rooms being a common place where devices are left unattended. The post detailed a method for compromising the firmware on an unattended computer via an external USB flash drive – and therefore bypassing TrueCrypt disk encryption.
D. Defreez, a computer security professional, first mentioned the possibility of an evil maid attack on Android smartphones in 2011. He talked about the WhisperCore Android distribution and its ability to provide disk encryption for Androids.
Notability
In 2007, former U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez was allegedly targeted by an evil maid attack during a business trip to China. He left his computer unattended during a trade talk in Beijing, and he suspected that his device had been compromised. Although the allegations have yet to be confirmed or denied, the incident caused the U.S. government to be more wary of physical attacks.
In 2009, Symantec CTO Mark Bregman was advised by several U.S. agencies to leave his devices in the U.S. before travelling to China. He was instructed to buy new ones before leaving and dispose of them when he returned so that any physical attempts to retrieve data would be ineffective.
Methods of attack
Classic evil maid
The attack begins when the victim leaves their device unattended. The attacker can then proceed to tamper with the system. If the victim's device does not have password protection or authentication, an intruder can turn on the computer and immediately access the victim's information. However, if the device is password protected, as with full disk encryption, the firmware of the device needs to be compromised, usually done with an external drive. The compromised firmware then provides the victim with a fake password prompt identical to the original. Once the password is input, the compromised firmware sends the password to the attacker and removes itself after a reboot. In order to successfully complete the attack, the attacker must return to the device once it has been unattended a second time to steal the now-accessible data.
Another method of attack is through a DMA attack in which an attacker accesses the victim's information through hardware devices that connect directly to the physical address space. The attacker simply needs to connect to the hardware device in order to access the information.
Network evil maid
An evil maid attack can also be done by replacing the victim' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20trade-to-GDP%20ratio | The following list sorts countries and territories by their trade-to-GDP ratio according to data by the world bank.
List
Countries sorted by exports, imports and total trade (external trade rate) of goods and services as a share of the gross domestic product of the same year. Since GDP is only the value added domestically, it may happen that small countries export more than is produced in the country and/or import more than is consumed in the country and the external trade rate is thus over 100%. The ratios of import-to-GDP and export-to-GDP are taken from World Bank, and the trade-to-GDP ratio is calculated as their sum.
References
Trade-to-GDP ratio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless%20the%20Harts | Bless the Harts is an American animated sitcom created by Emily Spivey for Fox's Animation Domination programming block. Premiering on September 29, 2019, the series is executive produced by Spivey, Andy Bobrow, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Seth Cohen. The series is a joint production between Fox Entertainment and 20th Television. The animation production is handled by Titmouse, Inc., with overseas animation services by Yearim and Digital eMation in Seoul, South Korea. The show's title is based on the Southern phrase "Bless your heart". Spivey and Bobrow served as co-showrunners for the series.
In April 2021, Fox cancelled the series after two seasons, with the final episode airing on June 20, 2021.
Premise
Bless the Harts follows a working-class family living in North Carolina. The main protagonist, waitress Jenny Hart, struggles to make ends meet, and lives with her artistically talented daughter Violet Hart and mother Betty Hart. Her boyfriend Wayne has dated Jenny since her daughter Violet was a toddler, and acts as a father figure in Violet’s life. Jenny works at “The Last Supper”, a religious themed restaurant, with her best friend since high school, Brenda. The show's creator Emily Spivey has stated that it is based on her life growing up in High Point, North Carolina and is set in the state's Triad region. The name of the show's fictional town, Greenpoint, is a portmanteau of Greensboro and High Point; a map in the episode "The Last Supper" shows Greenpoint in northeast Forsyth County in the region.
Bless the Harts loosely shares a universe with the Fox series King of the Hill, which ran from 1997 to 2010. Spivey cites King of the Hill as her major influence for creating Bless the Harts. The fictional superstore Mega Lo Mart, first introduced in King of the Hill, makes several appearances in Bless the Harts.
Cast
Main
Kristen Wiig as Jenny Hart, a single mother who struggles to make money for her family by working as a waitress at the Last Supper. She ran out on her wedding to local wealthy legend Don Reynolds, but not before she got pregnant with his daughter. Wiig also voices Greenpoint newscaster Maykay Bueller.
Maya Rudolph as Betty Hart, Jenny's widowed mother. In "Jenny Unfiltered" and "Betty's Birthday", her age is revealed to be 53. Even though her husband Ed is dead, he is mentioned multiple times in the series. Rudolph also voices Norma, Greenpoint's mail lady and Dr. Chakrabarti (season 1), Wayne's neighbor.
Jillian Bell as Violet Hart, Jenny's daughter who loves art. Although sarcastic and cynical, she cares deeply about her family. She is either 13 years old (according to her voice actress) or a preteen (according to Betty). Reynolds is her biological father. Bell also voices Cherish, a mom with two teenage sons, as well as various background characters.
Ike Barinholtz as Wayne Edwards, Jenny's boyfriend. Wayne's main goal is to win Violet's approval, though he has fears that he will never live |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20Is%20the%20New%20Brown | Orange is the New Brown is an Australian sketch comedy television series on the Seven Network.
Orange is the New Brown is written by Nazeem Hussain, Joel Slack Smith, Sophie Braham, Richard Thorp, Penny Greenhalgh and Heidi Regan. It is produced by Screentime.
Cast
Nazeem Hussain
Urzila Carlson
Becky Lucas
Matt Okine
Broden Kelly
Aaron Chen
Guests
Kat Stewart
Claudia Karvan
Tim Minchin
Gary Sweet
Firass Dirani
Sigrid Thornton
References
External links
2018 Australian television series debuts
Seven Network original programming
English-language television shows
Australian television sketch shows
Television series by Screentime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawar%20Mohammed | Jawar Mohammed (; ግእዝ፡ ጃዋር መሐመድ born 12 May 1986) is an Ethiopian political analyst and activist. One of the founders of the Oromia Media Network (OMN), Jawar was a leading organizer of the 2014–2016 Oromo protests. He has been credited with toppling the incumbent government in February 2018 and helping Abiy Ahmed to power.
Early life and education
Jawar Mohammed was born on 12 May 1986 in the Dhumuga, Arsi Province bordering Hararghe. His father was Arsi Oromo, of Muslim faith, while his mother an Orthodox Christian; the inter-religious union was novel but gained acceptance within the community.
Jawar began his formal education at a Catholic school in Asella. He attended secondary school in Adama until 2003, when he was awarded a scholarship to study at the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore, from which he graduated in 2005. He described his experience at the UWC as awakening his consciousness to his own Oromo identity. He graduated from Stanford University in 2009 with a degree in political science, and acquired a Master's in human rights from Columbia University, in 2012.
Legal issues
On 30 June 2020, Jawar along with Bekele Gerba, Eskinder Nega and Sintayew Chekol were arrested by government amidst a riot sparked after singer Hachalu Hundessa murder. They were charged with terrorism in context of "inciting violence" at the crackdown. On On 5 February 2021, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Chief Commissioner Daniel Bekele said that "very close supervision is required to prevent any grave threat to their health and life and that reasonably justified demands of the prisoners must be addressed" following reports indicating their health condition deterioration and undergoing hunger strike at prison.
On 7 January 2022, the Ethiopian government announced it would release several political prisoners including Jawar, stating it was "to pave the way for a lasting solution to Ethiopia’s problems in a peaceful, non-violent way" through a “national dialogue”.
References
External links
Official Jawar Mohammed Facebook
1986 births
Living people
People from Oromia Region
Ethiopian journalists
Ethiopian activists
Ethiopian politicians
Stanford University alumni
Columbia University alumni
Hunger strikers
Ethiopian emigrants to the United States
People educated at a United World College
Oromo politicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifly | Unifly is a European software company that provides a platform for drone telematics services for unmanned traffic management. The company provides mapping and location data to connect authorities with pilots for the safe integration of drones into the airspace and unmanned aviation. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of VITO until a corporate spin-off in 2015. Unifly is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium.
History
Unifly was founded in 2015 by aerospace experts Andres Van Swalm, Jurgen Verstaen, Koen Meuleman and Hans Schrauwen. They worked on creating a platform to facilitate unmanned traffic management solutions in the aerospace for drones. The company received $1.2 million in seed funding from PMV and Qbic Fund. Again in 2016, it raised another round of series A funding of $5 million from Terra Drone for the business expansion and development.
In May 2018, Unifly announced that it has partnered with UNICEF to create a UTM drone corridor in Africa. Later in the year the company announced its partnership with the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR) program for New York's UAS Test Site to test drone mission for the proposed corridor. As of 2018, the company has operations in Spain, France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the US, Malawi, China and Japan.
Partnerships
Unifly partnered with HERE Technologies that specialises in digital mapping and location services to enable airspace maps for drones. In 2018, Unifly signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China's Huawei Technologies to cooperate in the field of unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems. In August 2018, Unifly formed a partnership with Integra Aviation Academy, NUAIR and Griffiss International Airport to visualize and manage drone traffic in the low-altitude airspace.
Projects
The company works on European projects for Horizon 2020 including, CORUS, CLASS, SECOPS and PODIUM.
Awards
2018: Infosecurity Tech Startup of the Year
2017: Luciad Geospatial Excellence Awards: Best Aviation Application.
2017: Tech Startup Day: Scale-up of the Year.
2017: EU Drone Awards: Best Emerging Drone Company.
2016: Nacht van de KMO / Night of the SME: Most Promising Company
References
Air traffic management
Regulation of unmanned aerial vehicles
Companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal%20programming | Fetal programming, also known as prenatal programming, is the theory that environmental cues experienced during fetal development play a seminal role in determining health trajectories across the lifespan.
Three main forms of programming that occur due to changes in the maternal environment are:
Changes in development that lead to greater disease risk;
Genetic changes which alter disease risk;
Epigenetic changes which alter disease risk of not only the child but also that of the next generation - i.e. after a famine, grandchildren of women who were pregnant during the famine, are born smaller than the normal size, despite nutritional deficiencies having been fulfilled.
These changes in the maternal environmental can be due to nutritional alteration, hormonal fluctuations or exposure to toxins.
History
Dutch famine 1944–45
In 1944–45, the German blockade of the Netherlands led to a lack of food supplies, causing the Dutch famine of 1944–45. The famine caused severe malnutrition among the population, including women in various stages of pregnancy. The Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study examined the impact of lack of nutrition on children born during or after this famine. It showed that over the course of their life, these children were at greater risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and other non-communicable diseases.
Barker hypothesis
In the 1980s, David Barker began a research study on this topic. The Barker Hypothesis, or Thrifty phenotype, forms the basis for much of the research conducted on fetal programming. This hypothesis states that if the fetus is exposed to low nutrition, it will adapt to that particular environment. Nutrients are diverted towards the development of the heart, brain, and other essential organs of the fetus. The body also undergoes metabolic alterations that ensure survival in spite of low nutrition but may cause problems in situations with normal or high nutrition. This leads to increased risk of metabolic syndrome.
Nutritional status
The developing fetus forms an impression of the world into which it will be born via its mother's nutritional status. Its development is thus modulated to create the best chance of survival. However, excessive or insufficient nutrition in the mother can provoke maladaptive developmental responses in the fetus, which in turn manifest in the form of post-natal diseases. It is possible that this has such a profound effect on the fetus’ adult life that it can even outweigh lifestyle factors.
Excessive nutrition
Body mass index prior to pregnancy and weight gain during pregnancy are both linked to high blood pressure in the offspring during adulthood. Mouse models suggest that this is due to high levels of the fetal hormone leptin, which is present in the blood of individuals that are overweight or obese. There is a theory that this hormone has a negative impact on the regulatory systems of the fetus, and renders it impossible to maintain normal blood pressure levels.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunciran%E2%80%93Serpong%20Toll%20Road | Kunciran–Serpong Toll Road is a toll road, which runs from Kunciran to Serpong in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. This toll road is part of the Jakarta Outer Ring Road 2 network that will connect Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Cilincing. The toll is connected to the Jakarta–Tangerang Toll Road, Cengkareng–Batu Ceper–Kunciran Toll Road, Jakarta–Serpong Toll Road, and Cinere–Serpong Toll Road.
Kunciran-Serpong toll road is long, which consists of two sections. Section 1 runs from Kunciran to Parigi (), and section 2, from Parigi to Serpong (). The toll road was officially inaugurated by President Joko Widodo on 6 December, 2019.
Exits
See also
Trans-Java toll road
References
Toll roads in Banten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Australian%20television%20ratings%20for%202002 | Following an upward trajectory in the past five years; The Seven Network was tipped to have the highest network share in 2002, following a highly publicized corporate shuffle at the Nine Network, which saw its CEO, David Leckie replaced after the network lost 11 out of 40 rating weeks to Channel 7 in the previous year. Under new management, the Nine Network made considerable tweaks to its programming schedule, most notably discontinuing the game show, Sale of the Century after nearly two decades on air.
However, despite the early media buzz, Channel Seven's reining success did not eventuate and the network struggled without the 2002 AFL season (which was now broadcast by the Nine Network), whilst audience numbers for their other offerings dipping significantly. Moreover, The Weakest Link, a ratings hit in 2001, disappeared mysteriously from Seven's schedule by late April. Seven's ‘5-City’ share plummeted to new lows and after just six weeks into the official ratings season they found themselves in third place behind Nine and Channel Ten. Seven's share would recover in the latter half of the year but came nowhere near rivaling Nine for top spot.
Consequently, 2002 was easily Channel Nine's year; losing only three out of the 40 official ratings weeks, with Seven winning the three weeks with Winter Olympics & Commonwealth Games coverage. The network dominated the most watched broadcast lists; with Nine News and A Current Affair consistently beating competition from main rival, Seven. However 2002 also marked the beginning of the rise of the Ten Network which had some significant programming success in this year. Ten scored another news coup; after being the first TV network to begin rolling reportage of the 11 September attacks in 2001 – 2002 saw them with the most watched news bulletin for the year with its ‘First at Five’ service reporting on the Bali Bombings of 13 October.
A notable event occurred on 11 March 2002 where Nine's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? outrated Seven's The Weakest Link: The Mole Special, with 1.51 million viewers compared to 1.312 million. The latter episode saw a record low of $14,100 won, which was rounded up to $15,000 on The Mole. That show never returned to its dominance in 2000 when the show first appeared on Seven, causing the following season to be moved to a later time in 2003.
The following is a list of Australian television ratings for the year 2002.
Most Watched Broadcasts in 2002
See also
Television ratings in Australia
References
2002
2002 in Australian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20for%20astronomy%20research%20and%20education | Listed here are software packages useful for conducting scientific research in astronomy, and for seeing, exploring, and learning about the data used in astronomy.
astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Superpowers | AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order is a 2018 non-fiction book by Kai-Fu Lee, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneer, China expert and venture capitalist. Lee previously held executive positions at Apple, then SGI, Microsoft, and Google before creating his own company, Sinovation Ventures.
AI arms race
According to Kai-Fu Lee, "If data is the new oil, then China is the new Saudi Arabia." Lee advances several arguments for why he thinks the artificial intelligence industry in China will excel in the artificial intelligence arms race:
Training deep learning models requires more of a brute force method than innovation; well suited to China's supposedly higher quantity but lower quality of software engineer compared to the US
China has fewer data protection regulations (e.g., the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe) than other countries, so Chinese software collect more data on users.
Chinese tech startup culture is more "aggressive" than that of other countries', with fewer intellectual property restrictions and fewer barriers to vertical integration
The participation of China's central government in funding and raising the status of the AI industry
AI threat to employment
Lee proposes that knowledge workers are generally under greater threat of unemployment due to advances in AI, in a similar manner to the effect of the Industrial Revolution on physical laborers. The book includes examples of the most and least threatened jobs both in mental and physical labor.
Least threatened cognitive labor jobs include criminal defense attorney, public relations director, concierge, social worker, psychiatrist, and CEO because those jobs are highly social and are based on creativity or strategy. Cognitive jobs with the greatest threat to being made redundant by AI include: basic translator, radiologist, consumer loan officer, consumer tax prep, telemarketer, and customer service rep because those jobs are asocial and optimization-based.
Physical jobs at low risk of irrelevance in the AI era include elder caregiver, physical therapist, hairstylist, and dog trainer because those roles are social and require high dexterity in an unstructured environment. Physical jobs most likely to suffer job losses or extinction include assembly line inspector, fruit harvester, truck driver, dishwasher, clothing factory worker, fast food and restaurant cooks and cashiers because these are asocial jobs in structured environments and don't require dexterity.
Reception
US Senator Mark Warner named AI Superpowers as his recommended book for The 2018 POLITICO 50 Reading List. On the other hand, American magazine Foreign Affairs criticized the book for promoting zero-sum thinking and hyping Chinese state investment in tech ventures that often underperform relative to expectations; for focusing on deep learning to the exclusion of other forms of artificial intelligence; and for overgeneralizing the usefulness of Chinese data sets. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue%20%28software%29 | glue (spelled with a lower-case "g") is an interactive linked-view data visualization package for exploring relationships within and between related datasets.
glue, as working visualization software, was created and realized in 2012, after being described as a work-in-progress in Principles of High-Dimensional Data Visualization in Astronomy.
Using glue, users can create scatter plots, histograms, tables, and images (2D and 3D) of their data. glue is focused on the brushing and linking paradigm, where selections in any graph propagate to all others. glue uses the logical links that exist between different data sets to overlay visualizations of different data, and to propagate selections across data sets. These links are specified by the user, and are arbitrarily flexible. glue is written in Python, and built on top of its standard scientific libraries (i.e., Numpy, Matplotlib, Scipy, Vispy). glue is distributed as part of the Anaconda Python distribution, and is available on MacOS X, Linux, and Windows platforms.
glue offers a high-level of customization, and users can easily integrate their own Python code for data input, export, cleaning, and analysis. Examples of customization include automatically loading and cleaning data before starting glue, writing custom functions to parse files in a preferred file format, writing custom functions to link datasets, or creating custom data viewers.
glue is being used on astronomy data of star forming-clouds, medical data including brain scans, and many other kinds of data. Several plugins exist to extend glue's functionality to a wide range of fields. These include glue-medical to parse medical imaging data (e.g. DICOM files), glue-geospatial for GIS visualization, glue-openspace to interface with the OpenSpace planetarium software, and glue-wwt to support interoperability with the WorldWide Telescope software.
Originally built on the Qt GUI framework for use on the desktop, an entirely browser-based version of glue (glupyter) is being developed for the Project Jupyter ecosystem, including Jupyter notebooks and JupyterLab.
References
External links
2012 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BridgeOS | bridgeOS is an embedded operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. for use exclusively with its hardware. bridgeOS runs on the T series Apple silicon processors and operates the OLED touchscreen strip called the "Touch Bar" as well as multiple other functions, including managing the encrypted data in their Secure Enclave and acting as a gatekeeper and video codec to the device's cameras. bridgeOS is a heavily modified version of Apple's watchOS.
References
Apple Inc. operating systems
2016 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment%20rail | A payment rail is a payment platform or a payment network that moves money from a payer to a payee. Either party could be a consumer or business, and both parties are able to move funds on the network. Credit card rails are the credit card payment system. Blockchain is considered a newer type of payment rail, as are centralized electronic payment systems such as PayPal, Venmo and Zelle. If the transferred funds are available immediately, a payment rail is referred to as a real-time rail.
References
Payment systems
Payment networks
Banking technology
Banking terms
Payment clearing systems
Banking in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OR-Tools | Google OR-Tools is a free and open-source software suite developed by Google for solving linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), constraint programming (CP), vehicle routing (VRP), and related optimization problems.
OR-Tools is a set of components written in C++ but provides wrappers for Java, .NET and Python.
It is distributed under the Apache License 2.0.
History
OR-Tools was created by Laurent Perron in 2011.
In 2014, Google's open source linear programming solver, GLOP, was released as part of OR-Tools.
The CP-SAT solver bundled with OR-Tools won a total of eleven gold medals between 2018 and 2020 in the MiniZinc Challenge, an international constraint programming competition.
Features
The OR-Tools supports a variety of programming languages, including:
Object-oriented interfaces for C++
A Java wrapper package
A .NET and .NET Framework wrapper package
A Python wrapper package
OR-Tools supports a wide range of problem types, among them:
Assignment problem
Linear programming
Mixed-integer programming
Constraint programming
Vehicle routing problem
Network flow algorithms
It supports the FlatZinc modeling language.
See also
COIN-OR
CPLEX
GLPK
SCIP (optimization software)
FICO Xpress
MOSEK
References
Bibliography
External links
Source code
Video introduction to OR-Tools
Mathematical optimization software
Numerical programming languages
Numerical software
Optimization algorithms and methods
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusaNet | MusaNet is a global network of scientists and other stakeholders working on banana (Musa spp.) genetic resources. Founded in 2011 and coordinated by Bioversity International, it has over 100 individual members representing various banana research institutes and organizations.
Vision and Mission
MusaNet aims to optimize the conservation and use of Musa genetic resources by coordinating and strengthening the conservation and related research efforts of a worldwide network of public and private sector stakeholders.
The vision of MusaNet is a world in which Musa genetic diversity is valued, secured and supporting all life.
The mission of MusaNet is To build upon existing strengths in the global, regional and national collections by bringing people to optimize the effort to conserve, add value and promote the use and safe distribution of a wide range of Musa genetic diversity as a foundation for further breeding or direct use by farmers.
MusaNet is committed to overseeing the further development and monitoring of the implementation of The Global Strategy for the Conservation and Use of Musa Genetic Resources (MusaNet 2016) by meeting the following objectives:
Ensure the secured conservation of the entire Musa genepool by assessing the diversity conserved and filling gaps in collections, with an emphasis on threatened material.
Strengthen the capacity of partners for the cost-effective long-term conservation and management of germplasm collections and facilitate access to useful Musa genetic resources in improvement programmes and by other users.
Enhance the value of Musa genetic resources for breeding, through effective collaborative characterization, evaluation and pre-breeding efforts.
Raise awareness with key partners on the importance of Musa genetic resources conservation, documentation, exchange and sharing the benefits arising from their use. Set priorities for research, breeding, and use of Musa genetic resources, ensuring critical links with the four regional banana networks.
Structure
Members of MusaNet belong to one or more of the five thematic research groups focused on the following subjects: Diversity, Conservation, Evaluation, Genomics and Information. Each of these thematic groups has elected a Chair and Co-chair to represent the group at monthly Expert Committee meetings and has developed objectives and a workplan for the next 10 years.
Also present in the Expert Committee are representatives of the four regional banana networks - BAPNET (Asia and the Pacific), BARNESA (Eastern and Southern Africa), Innovate Plantain (Western and Central Africa) and MUSALAC (Latin America and the Caribbean), which geographically cover all the banana producing countries. A representative from the information platform ProMusa is also present at the meetings.
Part of the Diversity Thematic Group, the Taxonomic Advisory Group (TAG) comprises 12 experts that work together on particular projects concerning banana taxonomy, such as developing mor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitor%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Traitor" is the seventh episode of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 24, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Adam Penn, and directed by Jennifer Lynch.
Plot
Voodoo queen Dinah Stevens is seen performing a ritual on a man who is guilty of having extramarital sex. Dinah gets paid by the cheated wife and surprises her with the woman's ripped-out heart which she puts in a blender, together with some other concoctions. After forcing the husband to swallow the potion, Dinah leaves and is confronted outside by Cordelia. The witch reveals she needs Dinah's help with summoning Papa Legba in order to stop Michael.
On the set of a slasher movie, witch actress Bubbles McGee is visited by Madison. The ex-coven member is needed back within the circle in order to use her exceptional telepathic powers on Ariel Augustus and Baldwin Pennypacker. Meanwhile, Cordelia and Dinah summon Papa Legba who is accompanied by the soul of dead witch Nan. Cordelia tells Legba about preparing a trap for Michael: banishing him to Hell forever. Legba demands the souls of all the witches in return but the Supreme refuses and Legba disappears.
At Miss Robichaux's, Coco discovers a new power – she can divine calorie content of meals. While eating a snowball, Coco begins to choke and dies, but Mallory telekinetically opens Coco's throat, removing the snowball and saving her life. Such a feat makes Zoe think it's rather Mallory than Michael who is responsible for Cordelia's powers waning. Bubbles and Myrtle have dinner with Ariel and Baldwin and Bubbles uses her powers to learn about the warlocks' plans to assassinate their fellow John Henry Moore as well all the witches of Robichaux's.
Coco and the coven's bodyguards kidnap the satanist Mead who murdered John Henry. Meanwhile, witches have Mallory go through the trials of the Seven Wonders. Mallory passes all of them, most notably the final one by bringing Moore back to life. Cordelia and Myrtle expose and capture Baldwin and Ariel who were planning to kill the coven with a poisonous chemical. Both warlocks along with Mead are burned at the stake for their crimes.
Reception
"Traitor" was watched by 1.85 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.9 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Traitor" holds an 87% approval rating, based on 15 reviews with an average rating of 6/10. The critical consensus reads, "Tricky table setting doesn't stop "Traitor" from having its cake and eating it too, skillfully returning to campy form with ample gore and a wholly reunited coven."
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a 3/5, saying, "The stylistic choices—especially the 70's style film segment and the voodoo-themed cold opening—work really well. Lynch has a great eye, and she's adept at the house style of American Horror Story, particularly th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate%20sociality | Primate sociality is an area of primatology that aims to study the interactions between three main elements of a primate social network: the social organisation, the social structure and the mating system. The intersection of these three structures describe the socially complex behaviours and relationships occurring among adult males and females of a particular species. Cohesion and stability of groups are maintained through a confluence of factors, including: kinship, willingness to cooperate, frequency of agonistic behaviour, or varying intensities of dominance structures.
Primate social organisation exists along a spectrum, with networks ranging from the solitary neighbourhood systems to the multi-individual units to the complex multilevel societies that are composed of hierarchically-organised social units. The evolution of diverse primate social systems is considered to be a naturally selected anti-predation response. Increased resource detection, cooperation and social learning are also considered as co-benefits of group living.
Emergence of group living
Similar to genetic traits, behavioural characteristics can similarly result from natural selection processes. In opposition to many animal-decision making strategies which encourage individual fitness, group living (or sociality) prioritises an inclusive group fitness. Socioecological factors are thought to influence primate social organisation. For example, the main benefits of group living are hypothesised to be:
Improved predator detection. Predator vigilance (or awareness) and predator defence are thought to increase with group living. More eyes means detection will occur sooner, communication among members will ensure appropriate responses and actions are taken, minimising the primates' susceptibility to predation.
Improved resource (water or food) detection. The hypothesis is that more individuals infer a heightened spatial knowledge and an increased ability to detect resources if more landscape is being covered.
Opportunity for cooperation. Primate sociality and living in close proximity bolsters cooperative behaviours necessary for participating in activities such as hunting, alloparenting, and/or territory or mate defence.
Reduced risk of infanticide. There have been observations from certain baboon populations that suggest a correlation between infant survival and group size: e.g. infants are likelier to survive in larger groups.
Increased opportunity for social learning.
The main constraining factors of social group sizes are related to:
Resource abundance. Because living in groups requires members to share access to essential resources (like food, water, mates, sleeping sites) there are selective costs that constrain group size.
Pathogen transmission. Larger groups increases exposure to pathogens among its members.
Competition and aggression. If intra-group competition becomes too high, the associated stress can potentially impose negative health impacts.
Cognitiv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor%20von%20Bochmann%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Gregor von Bochmann (born 1941 in Schleswig-Holstein) is a German-Canadian computer scientist and emeritus professor of the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa. He is known for his work in the area of protocol engineering and distributed applications.
Biography
Gregor von Bochmann grew up in an artistic family, two of his great-grandfathers being well-known painters (Gregor von Bochmann and Hans Peter Feddersen). From 1952 to 1961, he attended the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Gymnasium in Eutin. Then he studied physics at the universities of Kiel, Tübingen, Grenoble (France) and München. In between, he studied for one year cello and piano at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. He completed his master's in 1968 with a thesis about his participation in the second muon g-2 experiment at CERN. Then he moved to Canada and completed his PhD in 1971 at McGill University in the field of theoretical high-energy physics. With programming experience in machine, assembler and high-level languages obtained during his work on the master and PhD theses, he used a post-doctoral scholarship from the National Research Council of Canada to get familiar with certain fields of computer science. 1972 he became assistant professor in the computer science department of the Université de Montréal.
His first research topic in computer science was related to neural networks. But soon he moved to the field of compiler construction, and wrote a paper on the description of the semantics of programming languages which was much cited. But in 1975 he moved to the very new field of computer networks and concentrated his efforts on the description, verification and implementation of communication protocols. He wrote a seminal paper on finite state description of protocols and proposed the approach of reachability analysis for the verification of the behavior of distributed systems.
He participated also, in the name of the Canadian government, in the international standardization activities on "Formal Description Techniques for communication protocols and services" that took place in ISO and ITU during the 1980s. He spent a sabbatical year in 1979-80 at Stanford University and in 1986-87 with Siemens in München. From 1989 to 1997, he held the "Industrial Research Chair" on testing communication protocols at the Université de Montréal. He was also a scientific director of the from 1990 to 1997. During this period, he organized many collaborative research projects with industry and university colleagues.
In 1998 he moved to the University of Ottawa where he was full professor until 2016. During this time, his research covered several areas, such as software engineering for distributed systems, distributed multimedia applications, peer-to-peer systems, control procedures for optical networks, and Internet security.
Awards and memberships (selection)
1995: Fellow of the IEEE with the citation "For contributions to the formal specification of protocols for data communications". |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrify%20America | Electrify America is an electric vehicle DC fast charging station network in the United States, with more than 840 charging locations and over 3,700 individual charging units with over 100 coming soon . It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, established in late 2016 by the automaker as part of its efforts to offset emissions in the wake of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. In June 2022, Electrify America received its first external investor with a $450 million investment from Siemens for a minority shareholder stake, valuing Electrify America at $2.45 billion. Electrify America supports the CCS connector type as well as CHAdeMO.
History
In 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency accused Volkswagen Group of using defeat devices in its diesel-fueled vehicles in order to hide from regulators that the vehicles exceeded emissions standards. The scandal quickly grew, leading eventually to billions of dollars of penalties and agreements to buy back vehicles, among other consequences.
As part of a consent decree reached with United States officials in 2016, Volkswagen agreed to numerous actions, with in total, to promote electric vehicle use over 10 years to atone for the additional air pollution it caused. One aspect of the program was a pledge to establish a public electric vehicle charging network.
The Electrify America brand was unveiled in January 2017, along with its first phase of station buildout. Its first station opened in May 2018, in Chicopee, Massachusetts. In 2022, Siemens became its first external investor with a minority shareholder stake and a seat on the board.
Electrify America, along with several other charging companies in the U.S., began drawing criticism in 2022 for a high rate of non-working public chargers.
Operations
Electrify America stations are frequently located in parking lots and parking garages of big-box stores and shopping malls. The company has location agreements with Walmart, Target and Simon Property Group, among other companies.
Electrify America stations feature the major nonproprietary standards CCS, CHAdeMO and J1772, allowing nearly all EVs on the road to plug in and charge. Tesla vehicles in the US use a proprietary connector (NACS) and require a special adapter that allows them to use standard CCS or CHAdeMO. Stations are rated to provide a minimum of 50 kilowatts and up to 350 kilowatts, although the actual output is dependent on multiple factors including the vehicle's capabilities.
Electrify America has agreements with various manufacturers for their electric vehicles to use its network of chargers or provide discounted charging rates or free charging, including Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Kia, Hyundai, and Lucid Motors.
Electrify America prices its electricity in most states where it operates based on the energy dispensed, charged by kilowatt-hour. In some states, such as Montana and Wyoming, users are charged by the amount of time their vehicle is plugged in. This is us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peston%20%28TV%20programme%29 | Peston is the flagship political discussion programme on British television network ITV, usually recorded live on Wednesday evenings at 9 pm. It is broadcast live on Twitter (the first terrestrial UK programme to do so) and then played out after the News at Ten at 10.45pm (usually later on STV). It was announced on 5 June 2018 that the show would launch in the autumn of that year as a continuation of Peston on Sunday. The programme is presented by Robert Peston, the Political Editor of ITV News, and features a combination of interviews with politicians and public figures alongside analysis of the major news events of the week.
Format
According to ITV, Peston intends to "provide viewers with a fresh, intelligent and lively perspective on the big matters of the day." Political and cultural guests join Robert Peston in the studio or remotely for interviews, with analysis from Anushka Asthana and 'Screeny', the show's large touchscreen which also features social media interaction.
The show launched on 26 September 2018 with its own emoji on Twitter promoting the launch. The emoji appears when any user tweets #Peston.
Episodes
Run 1
The show launched on 26 September 2018 for its initial run.
Run 2
Peston returned in the New Year to cover the run-up to Britain's scheduled departure from the EU on 29 March.
Run 3
Peston returned after Easter in 2019, covering a period including the Local and European elections and the Conservative Leadership race to replace Theresa May as PM.
Run 4
Peston was back on air after the summer on 4 September 2019, returning with an interview with the PM Boris Johnson and ending with coverage of the snap UK General Election
Run 5
The show returned to air on 15 January 2020 staying on air throughout lockdown to cover the COVID-19 pandemic, including a number of episodes with Robert Peston himself in isolation.
Run 6
Peston returned following the summer break in September 2020 to discuss the ongoing management of the COVID-19 pandemic, UK-EU Free Trade Deal negotiations and the US Presidential Election.
Run 7
The show returned from a Christmas break as the UK returned to Covid lockdown to combat a severe second wave of the virus.
Run 8
The show returned from a summer break in September 2021.
Run 9
The show returned from a Christmas break in January 2022.
Run 10
The show returned from summer recess in September 2023. Across the series Queen Elizabeth II died, Liz Truss became the shortest serving Prime Minister resigning after the results of her mini-budget and subsequently Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister.
Run 11
The show returned after easter recess to cover the local elections, the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and the political issues of the day.
The show returned after summer recess in September 2023 to cover the Conservative and Labour conferences.
References
External links
2018 British television series debuts
2010s British television talk shows
2020s British television tal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20clearing%20house | An automated clearing house (ACH) is a computer-based electronic network for processing transactions, usually domestic low value payments, between participating financial institutions. It may support both credit transfers and direct debits. The ACH system is designed to process batches of payments containing numerous transactions, and it charges fees low enough to encourage its use for low value payments.
History
The first automated clearing house was BACS in the United Kingdom, which started processing payments in April 1968.
In the U.S. in the late 1960s, a group of banks in California sought a replacement for check payments. This led to the first automated clearing house in the US in 1972, operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
BACS operated from the beginning on a net settlement basis. Netting ACH transactions reduces the amount of deposits a bank must hold.
Operation
ACHs process large volumes of credit and debit transactions in batches. ACH credit transfers are initiated by the payer and include payments such as: direct deposits, payrolls, retail payments and vendor payments. ACH direct debit collections are initiated by the payee with pre-authorization from the payer; ACH direct debits include consumer payments such as utility bills, insurance premiums, mortgage loans, and other types of bills. Transactions received by the bank during the day are stored and transmitted in batches to the ACH. ACHs are net settlement systems, so settlement may be delayed for days, and there is some settlement risk. ACHs may allow for the transfer of a limited amount of additional information along with payment instructions.
ACH payments contrast with real-time gross settlement (RTGS) payments which are processed immediately by the central RTGS system and not subject to any waiting period on a one-to-one basis. ACH systems are typically used for low-value, non-urgent transactions while RTGS systems are typically used for high-value, urgent transactions.
Operations
This section describes in a generic way the typical operation of an ACH system. Each ACH system has its own specifics; see, for example, quick facts for the Nacha ACH Network in the United States and its terminology.
The ordering customer makes a transaction initiation, which can be either manually or by sending a file of initiation requests to a bank.
The bank gathers all transaction initiations for an ACH that arrive from different customers (combining manual and file-based).
On a periodic basis, the bank creates a file that it dispatches to the ACH either at the end of day or in cycles throughout the day.
The ACH operator combines the information submitted by the banks within each cycle (generally ACHs have several cycles throughout the day).
The ACH operator informs each bank of the net settlement amount for which they are responsible for the cycle.
The ACH operator ensures that the settlement amounts are received from all participants for the cycle, so that the cy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourn%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Sojourn" is the eighth episode of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 31, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Josh Green, and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
Michael Langdon finds the corpses of the executed Ariel Augustus, Baldwin Pennypacker, and Miriam Mead. He is confronted by Cordelia Goode who declares the victory of the witches, but insists that Michael still has capacity for good. Michael dismisses her, threatening to kill every witch of the coven.
Wandering into wilderness, the distressed Michael begs his Father for guidance and after four days, he receives visions of conflicting angelic and infernal natures. Weakened, he stumbles across a Satanic church where the High Priestess, Hannah, berates her fellow worshippers for their unimpressive feats of sin, believing that the world must become significantly wicked to encourage the arrival of the Antichrist. A member of the congregation, Madelyn, takes pity on Michael, observing that he is malnourished and lost, and takes him to her home where she claims to have everything she wants due to her contract with Satan. Michael mocks her for her views and she attempts to kill him until he presents his Mark of the Beast, proving himself as the Antichrist. Back at the church, just before Hannah performing a human sacrifice, Madelyn interrupts and presents Michael, who confirms his identity and is hailed by the congregation. Michael proceeds to kill the two people offered up for sacrifice.
The congregation hosts a dinner for Michael who admits that he has no plan for bringing about the Apocalypse. Madelyn offers her services to him, but Michael tells her he only desires Mead's resurrection. Madelyn takes Michael to a robotics company run by two cocaine-addicted Satanists, Jeff Pfister and Mutt Nutter and their assistant Wilhemina Venable. Michael is mocked by Jeff and Mutt at first but upon displaying his powers, Jeff and Mutt pledge themselves to him and they are tasked with recreating Mead as an android, which they accomplish.
Reception
"Sojourn" was watched by 1.63 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.7 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received mixed reviews. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Sojourn" holds a 50% approval rating, based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 8/10. The critical consensus reads, "'Sojourn' saves itself from being a completely confusing bridge episode, thanks to a refocus on the existential sadness of Satan's spawn and a killer monologue from Sandra Bernhardt."
Ron Hogan of Den of Geek gave the episode a 3/5, saying, "Michael's trip back into the arms of the Church of Satan is one of the funniest things I've seen on American Horror Story. In true Satanic fashion, the gathering of Satan's flock of goats is essentially a mockery of a standard church service, with an offering plate being passed around and a sermon being delivered |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cengkareng%E2%80%93Batu%20Ceper%E2%80%93Kunciran%20Toll%20Road | Cengkareng-Batu Ceper-Kunciran Toll Road is a toll road, which runs from Cengkareng to Kunciran in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. This toll road is part of the Jakarta Outer Ring Road 2 network that will connect Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Cilincing. The toll road will be connected to the Jakarta-Tangerang Toll Road, Kunciran-Serpong Toll Road, as well as Prof. Dr. Ir. Soedijatmo Toll Road.
History
Cengkareng-Batu Ceper-Kunciran is 14.19 kilometers long, consisting of 4 work sections. The four sections are, section 1 Kunciran – IC of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa for 2.04 km, section 2 IC of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa – on / off ramp of Benteng Betawi along 3.50 km. Then section 3 is the on / off ramp of Benteng Betawi – IC Husein Sastranegara along 6.50 km, and section 4 IC Husein Sastranegara – Benda Junction along 2.15 km. The toll road was expected to be operational by 2019. The toll road was inaugurated in 1 April 2019 along with the first section of Serpong–Cinere Toll Road.
Toll gates
See also
Trans-Java toll road
References
Toll roads in Banten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext%20character%20set | This article covers technical details of the character encoding system defined by ETS 300 706, a standard for World System Teletext, and used for the Viewdata and Teletext variants of Videotex in Europe.
Character sets
The following tables show various Teletext character sets. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent if available. Space and control characters are represented by the abbreviations for their names.
Control characters
Control characters are used to set foreground and background color (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, flash), character height (normal, double width, double height, double), current default character set, and other attributes.
In formats where compatibility with ECMA-48's C0 control codes such as and is not required, these control codes are sometimes mapped transparently to the Unicode C0 control code range (U+0000 through U+001F). Amongst C1 control code sets, the ITU T.101 C1 control codes for "Serial" Data Syntax 2, are mostly a transposition of the Teletext spacing controls, except for the inclusion of at 0x9B.
Latin
G0
G2
Greek
G0
G2
Cyrillic
G0
G2
Arabic
Note that each Arabic contextual/positional character in the tables below is shown with the non-positional Unicode equivalent if available.
G0
G2
Hebrew
Graphics character sets
G1 block mosaics
Same table as above, rendered with bitmaps:
G3 smooth mosaics and line drawing
References
Character sets
Teletext |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munther%20A.%20Dahleh | Munther A. Dahleh (born 1962, Tulkarem, Jordanian-Occupied West Bank ) is the William Coolidge Professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS).
Dahleh is internationally known for his contributions to robust control theory, computational methods for controller design, the interplay between information and control, statistical learning of controlled systems and its relations to model reduction of stochastic systems, the fundamental limits of learning, decisions and risk in networked systems including physical, social, and economic networks with applications to transportation and power networks, and the understanding of the Economics of data and the design of real-time markets for data and digital goods. For his work in these areas, he was awarded the Axelby best paper award four times, the Donald P. Eckman Award for best control engineer under age 35, and the Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) societies. Dahleh is a current member of IEEE.
Education
Dahleh received his BS degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas) in 1983, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University (Houston, Texas) in 1987.
Biographical
Dahleh He was born in city Tulkarem ,West Bank of the Jordan river (then as part of the Hashmite Kingdom of Jordan ) then raised in Amman, and moved to the United States when he was 17 years old to attend Texas A&M. He lived in Texas for seven years while earning his degrees in electrical engineering. Following graduation, in 1987 Dahleh joined MIT as an assistant professor, and achieved multiple teaching, research and leadership roles in academia, industry, and business sectors. He currently resides in Boston, MA with his wife and their three children.
Research and leadership
In the late 1980s, Dahleh solved the L1 optimal control problem — an open problem at the time that addresses robustness in the presence of persistent disturbances — using linear programming techniques. This work pioneered the development of computational approaches for robust controller synthesis. More recently, his work has advanced the development of a foundational theory for information propagation, decisions, and robustness of large dynamic networks arising in transportation, energy, finance, and social networks. On the applied side, Dahleh has developed and patented a methodology for managing both engine and motor switching in hybrid vehicles based on path characteristics; the patent was co-owned by Ford. He also developed a Robust-Hybrid-Automaton architecture for designing autonomous vehicles that combines planning and control.
Dahleh has been the founding director of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) since July 1, 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin%20Khan%20%28Doctor%20Who%29 | | portrayer = Mandip Gill
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| data3 = 2018–2022
| species = Human
| affiliation = Thirteenth Doctor
| home = Earth
| relatives = Hakim Khan (father)Najia Khan (mother)Sonya Khan (younger sister)Umbreen (maternal grandmother)
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Yasmin "Yaz" Khan, is a fictional character created by Chris Chibnall and portrayed by Mandip Gill in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In the show's eleventh series, starting with the first episode, Yasmin serves as a companion of the Thirteenth Doctor, an incarnation of the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (portrayed by Jodie Whittaker); she would part ways with the Doctor in "The Power of the Doctor", the Thirteenth Doctor's final episode, and was the last person with her before she regenerated on her own. She is one of just two full-time companions to be present throughout the entirety of an incarnation's tenure, the other being Rose Tyler who starred alongside Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor.
Appearances
Television
Yasmin Khan is introduced in the eleventh series premiere, "The Woman Who Fell to Earth". Yaz is a 19-year-old probationary police officer from Sheffield, England who is eager to prove herself. She attended primary school with Ryan Sinclair. She continues to live with her family (her parents, Hakim and Najia, and her younger sister, Sonya) in a flat, Park Hill. When she returns to her home in "Arachnids in the UK", she decides she wants to fully join the Doctor on her travels.
In "Demons of the Punjab" she asks the Doctor if she could go back in time to visit and learn about the life of her grandmother, Umbreen (Amita Suman). Thinking she'll meet her grandfather, being given his broken watch, she finds him nowhere. She decides to stay, despite the Doctor's warnings, becoming part of her grandmother's history during the Partition of India, where Umbreen's first husband died.
Yaz struggled with her mental health when she was younger and was forced to have nightmares by the immortal Zellin about the day she ran away from home in "Can You Hear Me?". Three years on Yaz and Sonya mark the event with an anniversary dinner. Yaz was found on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere by a Police Officer after Sonya phoned them out of fear that Yaz would harm herself. The officer, Anita, talks to Yaz and proposes a bet with her about the choice she's making. She located Anita after the Doctor stopped the immortals from plaguing humans with nightmares as a gratuitous way of saying thank you.
In "Revolution of the Daleks" when the Doctor spent ten months (from her companions' perspective) stuck in an alien prison, Yaz is the only one of the trio most focused on the idea that the Doctor will return whereas Graham and Ryan eventually come to accept the idea that they need to move on. But they come to share footage of Robertson having been filmed with a Dalek. When the Doctor eventually returns, thanks to Jack Harkness, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCJ%20%28company%29 | MCJ Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company active in the personal computer, entertainment, information and communication industries. MCJ itself is a holding company, responsible for the management of the group companies. MCJ Group companies include Mouse Computer Co., Ltd, UNIT.COM INC., Tekwind Co., Ltd, iiyama Benelux B.V., R-Logic International Pte Ltd and aprecio Corporation Ltd. R-Logic, which provides repair services for IT products, was converted into a subsidiary in January 2018 when MCJ acquired a 60 percent stake in the company.
References
External links
Official website
Information technology companies of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor%20Forselius | Theodor "Tedde" Mauritz Forselius (born 23 March 1995) is a Swedish computer programmer and internet entrepreneur from Jönköping, Sweden. He is best known as the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Everipedia.
Career
In December 2014, Theodor Forselius co-founded Everipedia. They built the first version of the website in Kazemian's college dormitory room at UCLA.
Since then, Forselius and Everipedia have been internationally recognized in publications such as Wired Magazine. He has also been featured on the front pages of local publications in Sweden such as Veckans Affärer and Dagens Industri.
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1995 births
Swedish computer programmers
21st-century Swedish inventors
Swedish philanthropists
Swedish technology company founders
Businesspeople in software
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Gates | Ali Gates (previously known as Ali Abdullah) is an American programmer and co-founder of Claim it!.
Early life and education
Born in Harlem, Ali got into programming in high school days and received science and technology award. Following that, he took classes at Columbia University and then later MIT.
Career
After dropping out of MIT, Ali interned and worked as a temporary software developer contractor for several companies. He started his career as a software engineer in New York City Department of Education. Later, he resigned and went on to a contract position in a foundation and ended up as being jobless.
Later, he joined Google as software developer and continued to work there until he developed Claim it!. The key idea was to cut out the middle man and thus the expenditures. Gates starred in Apple First TV series ‘Planet of the Apps’ alongside Jessica Alba.
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Living people
1985 births
Businesspeople from New York City
Columbia University alumni
People from Harlem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylaemenes%20%28insect%29 | Pylaemenes is a genus of stick insects in the family Heteropterygidae and subfamily Dataminae. It combines small to medium-sized, often brightly colored Phasmatodea species. Their representatives are found in large parts of Southeast Asia.
Characteristics
The average size of representatives of this genus in the male sex is between and between in the females. All species are always wingless. The basic color of adult animals is usually a light beige or brown, which can be supplemented by almost white, brown or black markings depending on the species and gender. On the forehead, which becomes narrower towards the top, there are clear elevations that are differently designed depending on the type. The antennae are considerably longer than the femura of forelegs. One to three teeth can be found on the outer edge of the first antenna segment. The body surface is mostly covered with tubercles. In contrast to the genus Orestes, the Meso- and Metanotum are flattened or slightly roof-shaped, with a clearly raised central keel and two lateral longitudinal keels. The pronotum is significantly shorter than half the mesonotum. Large elevations arranged in pairs can often be found on the front edge of the mesonotum, which in males can also be formed as spines. The abdomen of the males is slender and, unlike in Orestes, the ninth tergite is strongly widened towards the rear. The abdomen of adult females is severely swollen, especially in the front half. In contrast to Orestes, the last segment (anal segment) is strongly triangularly tapered towards the rear and notched at the end. Depending on the species, especially in males, pairs of spines can be present in certain places on the thorax and abdomen. As with all Dataminae, the females of the genus Pylaemenes have no ovipositor to lay their eggs.
Distribution area
The distribution area of the genus Pylaemenes includes large parts of Southeast Asia. Their representatives can be found in many areas of the Malay Archipelago and here especially on Borneo. There are also species on the Malay Peninsula, in Thailand and in China.
Way of life
The nocturnal animals only come out of their hiding places in the leafy layer of the ground or on or behind the bark when it is dark. They are very lazy during the day. When they are discovered they play dead by stretching their hind legs back, the frore and middle legs forward and close to the body. The eggs can be more arched on the dorsal side and often have short hairs. The micropylar plate has three arms, with one arm pointing towards the lid, while the other two run more or less circularly around the egg. The eggs are usually laid on the ground, clamped in the bark near the ground or attached to plants such as mosses.
Taxonomy
In 1875 Carl Stål established the genus Pylaemenes for some species that were previously listed in the genus Acanthoderus. Of the species originally rearranged by him, only Pylaemenes coronatus remained in the genus. All others have turned out |
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