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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADriam%20Hatibi | Míriam Hatibi (b. Barcelona, 1993) is a data analyst and activist. She has been a spokesperson for the Ibn Battuta Foundation and is an active member of the Muslim community.
Early life
She is the daughter of Moroccan parents. Hatibi was born in Barcelona and raised in Bellpuig. She studied International Business Economics at Pompeu Fabra University and earned a postgraduate degree in Internationalization at the University of Barcelona. She works as an analyst in a communication agency, involved with data mining in social media networks.
Career
Hatibi speaks out about the lack of media representation of women and especially of the daughters of immigrants, advocating for representation, including within Western feminism (which she describes as 'hegemonic'), that does not stereotype Muslim women and that is more pluralistic.
Between December 2014 and June 2020, she has been the spokesperson for the Ibn Battuta Foundation (FIB), an entity created to promote sociocultural exchange and the dissemination of scientific knowledge between Morocco and Spain.
Following the August 2017 terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, Míriam vehemently condemned terrorism at a demonstration in Plaça de Catalunya that brought together hundreds of Muslims. As a spokesperson for the FIB, she was chosen to read a manifesto in the demonstration that took place in Barcelona on August 26 of the same year.
References
Muslim activists
Activists from Catalonia
Spanish women activists
Feminism in Spain
Spanish Muslims
Pompeu Fabra University alumni
University of Barcelona alumni
Spanish people of Moroccan descent
1993 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infysec | infySEC is a company that provides cybersecurity services to medium-sized enterprises and governments across the world located in Chennai, India. It focuses on security technology services, security consulting, security training, and research and development.
History
The company was founded in 2010 by T. Vinod Senthil, an ethical hacker, along with Adhavan Rajadurai. They gathered a team of security professionals and started the company with the objective of providing cybersecurity services and training. Within two years of inception, they had Karthick Vigneshwar, a Risk & Forensics Expert, join them for technical support.
In November 2009, Senthil was the first person in Chennai to demonstrate wardriving, and he assisted the cyber crime department and NDTV Hindu NEWS.
In July 2013, the company conducted an event dubbed "E-HACK", a 24-hour hackathon.
The company presented at ASSOCHAM for two consecutive years on cybersecurity.
In 2016, the company was awarded as a notable startup by That Startup Story.
The company has completed over 200 security projects for various countries including Australia, the Maldives, and Dubai, as well as various governments, and has conducted 1000+ workshops to raise awareness of the issue of cybersecurity.
Products
Its products include Capture The Flag, for cybersecurity enthusiasts to test their skills in the field of cybersecurity; an ad-free Android app called CyberSec Tabloid for cybersecurity news updates; and a free Android app called AndroSentry that helps to monitor Android devices and includes a theft tracker, a call blocker, a virus scanner, and an app locker.
References
External links
DoWebScan website security scanner
Capture the Flag
Cyber Sec Tabloid, Cyber Security News Hub
Andro Sentry, Mobile Security and Antivirus
Companies based in Chennai
Indian companies established in 2010
Computer security companies
2010 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Computer companies established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayans%20M.C.%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the American television drama series Mayans M.C. premiered on September 4, 2018 and concluded on November 6, 2018, after 10 episodes aired on cable network FX. Mayans M.C. is an American crime drama television series created by Kurt Sutter and Elgin James. The show takes place in the same fictional universe as Sons of Anarchy and deals with the Sons' rivals-turned-allies, the Mayans Motorcycle Club.
Plot
Mayans M.C. takes place two and a half years after the events of Sons of Anarchy and is set hundreds of miles away, in the fictional California border town of Santo Padre. The series focuses on the struggles of Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes, a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter. EZ is the gifted son of a proud Mexican family, whose American dream was snuffed out by cartel violence. Now, his need for vengeance drives him toward a life he never intended and can never escape.
Production
Development
On May 11, 2016, it was announced that FX had begun formal script development on a spinoff of the television series Sons of Anarchy. The long-rumored offshoot, entitled Mayans M.C., was created by Kurt Sutter and Elgin James, with James writing the pilot script and both executive producing. Production companies announced as being involved with the series included Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions. On December 1, 2016, FX officially gave the production a pilot order. It was also announced that Sutter would direct the series' pilot episode.
On July 5, 2017, it was announced that the pilot would be undergoing reshoots and Norberto Barba would be replacing Sutter as director of the episode, as Sutter planned to exclusively focus on writing the episode. Additionally, it was reported that various roles would be recast and Barba would also be serving as an executive producer.
On January 5, 2018, FX announced at the annual Television Critics Association's winter press tour that the production had been given a series order for a first season consisting of ten episodes. On June 28, 2018, it was reported that the series would premiere on September 4, 2018. On October 1, 2018, it was announced that FX had renewed the series for a second season.
Casting
In February 2017, it was announced that Edward James Olmos, John Ortiz, J. D. Pardo, and Antonio Jaramillo had been cast in lead roles in the pilot. In March 2017, it was reported that Richard Cabral, Sarah Bolger, Jacqueline Obradors, and Andrea Londo had also been cast. In October 2017, it was announced that Michael Irby and Raoul Trujillo had been cast in series regular roles. In November 2016, it was reported that Emilio Rivera would be reprising his role of Marcus Álvarez from Sons of Anarchy in the series. On April 25, 2017, it was announced that Carla Baratta would be replacing Andrea Londo in the role of Adelita. Additionally, it was reported that Maurice Compte had been cast in a potentially recurring role. On May 1, 2017, it was reported that Efrat Dor would joining the cast in a p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20computing | Voice computing is the discipline that develops hardware or software to process voice inputs.
It spans many other fields including human-computer interaction, conversational computing, linguistics, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, audio engineering, digital signal processing, cloud computing, data science, ethics, law, and information security.
Voice computing has become increasingly significant in modern times, especially with the advent of smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Assistant, a shift towards serverless computing, and improved accuracy of speech recognition and text-to-speech models.
History
Voice computing has a rich history. First, scientists like Wolfgang Kempelen started to build speech machines to produce the earliest synthetic speech sounds. This led to further work by Thomas Edison to record audio with dictation machines and play it back in corporate settings. In the 1950s-1960s there were primitive attempts to build automated speech recognition systems by Bell Labs, IBM, and others. However, it was not until the 1980s that Hidden Markov Models were used to recognize up to 1,000 words that speech recognition systems became relevant.
Around 2011, Siri emerged on Apple iPhones as the first voice assistant accessible to consumers. This innovation led to a dramatic shift to building voice-first computing architectures. PS4 was released by Sony in North America in 2013 (70+ million devices), Amazon released the Amazon Echo in 2014 (30+ million devices), Microsoft released Cortana (2015 - 400 million Windows 10 users), Google released Google Assistant (2016 - 2 billion active monthly users on Android phones), and Apple released HomePod (2018 - 500,000 devices sold and 1 billion devices active with iOS/Siri). These shifts, along with advancements in cloud infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services) and codecs, have solidified the voice computing field and made it widely relevant to the public at large.
Hardware
A voice computer is assembled hardware and software to process voice inputs.
Note that voice computers do not necessarily need a screen, such as in the traditional Amazon Echo. In other embodiments, traditional laptop computers or mobile phones could be used as voice computers. Moreover, there has become increasingly more interfaces for voice computers with the advent of IoT-enabled devices, such as within cars or televisions.
As of September 2018, there are currently over 20,000 types of devices compatible with Amazon Alexa.
Software
Voice computing software can read/write, record, clean, encrypt/decrypt, playback, transcode, transcribe, compress, publish, featurize, model, and visualize voice files.
Here are some popular software packages related to voice computing:
Applications
Voice computing applications span many industries including voice assistants, healthcare, e-Commerce, finance, supply chain, agriculture, text-to-speech, security, marketing, customer suppo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inicijativa%20TV | Inicijativa TV is Bosnian online television channel based in city of Tuzla. It was established in 2012 by
Centers of Civic initiatives. The programming is produced in the Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian language.
References
External links
www.inicijativa.tv
www.cci.ba
Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mass media in Tuzla
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aude%20Oliva | Aude Oliva is a French professor of computer vision, neuroscience, and human-computer interaction at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Education
Oliva has a dual French baccalaureate in mathematics and physics. She then earned a Masters of Science in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience from the Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble and then a doctorate from the same university in 1995. She joined the MIT faculty in 2004 and CSAIL in 2012.
Research
Aude Oliva is MIT director in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and director of strategic industry engagement in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Oliva's group investigates how psychological perception of an image can change based on memorability, content, and limitations of human visual systems. Her most recognizable work is the hybrid image, the classic example of which combines the high-frequency outline and detail of Albert Einstein's face with a blurry, low-frequency image of Marilyn Monroe; the latter becomes focused only when viewed from long distances. Such images have found use in information privacy, time-lapses, marketing, and brainteasers. Another branch of her research deals with object-vs-scene image processing in human brains, where Oliva and others have postulated that part of our visual system focuses on a fast recognition and classification of a familiar scene (birthday party) rather than individual component objects in the scene (cake).
She has most recently used deep learning to teach computers how to recognize locations in an image by a combination of its features. For example, a bed, window, and posters might indicate a bedroom, while a stove, tile, and countertop might indicate a kitchen.
Oliva's work has been used by those in the field of artificial imagination, the concept of building a human-like consciousness from computer algorithms.
Awards
2016 – Vannevar Bush Fellow
2014 – Guggenheim Fellow
2006 – CAREER Award, Cognitive Neuroscience
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer vision researchers
French women computer scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20BBC%20Two | This is a timeline of the history of BBC Two.
1960s
1962
The Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting observed that ITV lacked any culturally relevant programming. It therefore decided that Britain's third television station should be awarded to the BBC.
1963
14 January – Michael Peacock is appointed the first Controller of the BBC's (forthcoming) second television channel. The designation of the new channel as BBC2 is also announced. Peacock is to assume his post on 4 February.
1964
4 January – Test transmissions begin for BBC2.
20 April – BBC2 starts broadcasting at 7:20pm, however, a power cut had affected its launch night.
21 April – The power had been restored to the Television Centre and programming began with Play School, at 11am and the launch schedule postponed from the night before, was successfully shown that evening at 7:20pm, also in reference to the power cut, the transmission opened with a shot of a candle which was then blown out by presenter Denis Tuohy.
22 August – The first Match of the Day airs on BBC2. The following episodes moved to BBC1.
6 December – The channel goes on air in the Midlands and East Anglia, because the Sutton Coldfield transmitter initially could not relay BBC2 beyond an area reception to the Midlands region, resulting in a staggered signal.
16 December – The first episode of The Likely Lads is broadcast.
1965
9 January – Not Only... But Also makes its debut on BBC2.
4 March – David Attenborough becomes the channel's new Controller in succession to Michael Peacock, who becomes Controller of BBC1. Attenborough remains in the post until 1968.
2 May – Sunday Cricket is broadcast for the first time. The programme, which runs throughout the afternoon, features full coverage of a match "played under knock-out rules".
12 September – BBC2 Wales goes on the air. To introduce the service, BBC2 airs a programme titled BBC-2 Comes to Wales, featuring the Secretary of State for Wales James Griffiths, the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, the Deputy Mayor of Newport, Chairman of the Broadcasting Council for Wales Professor Glanmor Williams, David Attenborough, and BBC2 Wales Controller Alun Oldfield-Davies.
31 October – BBC2 in the North of England goes on the air.
1966
1 January – The first edition of Rugby Special is broadcast, showing weekly highlights of rugby union matches.
15 January – BBC2 goes on air in the South and West of England.
5 April – The Money Programme makes its debut on BBC2. It continued to air until 2010.
11 June – BBC2 Northern Ireland goes on the air.
9 July – BBC2 Scotland goes on the air, although much of England and some parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland still cannot receive the channel.
2 October – The four-part drama Talking to a Stranger, by John Hopkins, recounts a weekend's tragic events from the perspectives of each of the four main participants, begins transmission in the Theatre 625 series. Two of the leads were Judi Dench and Maurice Denham.
1967
1 January – Debut of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cain%20at%20Abel%20episodes | Cain at Abel () is a 2018 Philippine television drama action series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes, it stars Dingdong Dantes and Dennis Trillo. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up on November 19, 2018 to February 15, 2019, replacing Victor Magtanggol.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
November 2018
December 2018
January 2019
February 2019
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Antiquities%20Database%20and%20Information%20System | The Jordan Antiquities Database and Information System (JADIS) was a computer database of antiquities in Jordan, the first of its kind in the Arab world. It was established by the Department of Antiquities in 1990, in cooperation with the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman and sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development. JADIS was in use until 2002, when it was superseded by a new system, MEGA-J. Over 10,841 antiquities were registered in the database.
An introduction and printed summary of the database was published by the Department of Antiquities in 1994, edited by Gaetano Palumbo.
References
Archaeology of Jordan
1990 establishments in Jordan
Databases
Jordanian websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20past%20life%20expectancy | This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. Life expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in a given country is expected to live if mortality rates at each age were to remain steady in the future. The life expectancy is shown as the average of males and females.
List of countries 1950 to 2015 (United Nations)
* indicates "Health in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
References
External links
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs – Population Division – World Population Prospects, the 2017 Revision
Our World in Data, Life expectancy
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/history-of-life-expectancy
Life expectancy, past
Life expectancy, past
Past life expectancy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Library%20Service%20of%20Italy | The National Library Service of Italy () is a Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities promoted network of Italian libraries, in collaboration with Regions and Universities, and coordinated by the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information ().
History
The project for the National Library System is born with the goal of overcoming the fragmentation of, and fostering the co-operation among, Italian library structures, on the impulse of the National Conference of Italian Libraries held in Rome from 22 to 24 January 1979. It was designed by Angela Vinay (Director of ICCU) and Michel Boisset (Director of the European University Institute Library), in collaboration with a group of librarians and computer scientists. The planning phase was officially started on 4 April 1980, with the establishment of an experts' commission made up of representatives from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MCHA), the ICCU, the National Central Library of Florence, the European University Institute and the National Research Council.
The final document produced by the Commission proposed the creation of the service, articulated in:
a union catalogue of library resources, produced by the integrated set of local catalogues;
a national bibliographic database, ensuring quality, completeness and consistency of bibliographic description;
a national service for document access.
In 1982 the project was presented by Angela Vinay to the library community on the occasion of the 30th Congress of the Italian Libraries Association held in Giardini-Naxos on 21–24 November 1982. In 1984, MCHA subscribed a protocol of understanding with Regions for the development of the SBN project.
In 1985, the first two Poles were established, those of the National Central Libraries of Rome and Florence. From 1987 to 1990, the project "Library Heritage System" () made it possible to recover the catalogues of the National Italian Bibliography (Bibliografia nazionale italiana, BNI), the Bulletin of Foreign Modern Works (Bollettino delle opere moderne straniere, BOMS) and other catalogues related to music and Southern Italy-theme funds, which came to constitute the first substantial nucleus of the catalogue. In 1992, the protocol of understanding MCHA-Regions was extended to the Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research involving many university libraries in the project. In addition, through the connection of more Poles to the SBN network, the national network was officially activated.
In 1996 a feasibility study was started to create a single database, integrating the previous ones related to modern books, ancient books and music, and enable the management of graphic and cartographic material, also allowing a certain degree of interoperability with programs not developed within SBN.
In 2002, with the startup of the project "Evolution of the SBN Index" (Evoluzione dell'Indice SBN), a restructuring and a ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A%20War%20for%20Cybertron%20Trilogy | Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy is a toyline and transmedia series that is part of the Transformers franchise by Hasbro announced in February 2018.
Toy-line
The toy-line is split into three subline imprints titled "Siege", "Earthrise", and "Kingdom" respectively. All of the designs are based on the Generation 1 and Beast Wars series. Mass retail figures are sold in prices ranging from $5USD to $160USD.
Television series
In 2019, Hasbro's production studio, Allspark and Netflix announced a new animated series titled the War for Cybertron Trilogy The series was produced by Rooster Teeth, alongside Allspark Animation and Polygon Pictures. F. J. DeSanto would return as showrunner while George Krstic, Gavin Hignight and Brandon M. Easton joined as writers. The first season was originally set to be released in June 2020, but was rescheduled to July 30, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second season was released on December 30, 2020. The third and final season was released on July 29, 2021.
Polygon Pictures President and CEO Shuzo John Shiota said "We're thrilled to be working with Rooster Teeth, Netflix and Hasbro to bring this fan-oriented More than Meets the Eye story to life. The Transformers universe has so many rich characters and engaging stories. Getting the opportunity to be part of the team bringing the robots in disguise to life in this new trilogy is unbelievable."
Tom Warner, Senior Vice President for the Transformers franchise for Hasbro, said "The Transformers brand is a global phenomenon with toys, consumer products, films, television shows, and literature, resonating with millions of passionate fans around the world. This brand new Netflix series will add to the incredible slate of Transformers offerings with a truly unique story that will delight both existing fans and those being introduced to the wonder of robots in disguise."
Rooster Teeth co-founder and Chief Content Officer Matt Hullum said "Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy marks the inaugural production for our Rooster Teeth Studios division and we're proud to be partnering with and entrusted by Hasbro and Netflix. As fans of these characters, it's been a joy bringing our storytelling and animation expertise to this project. This teaser trailer is just a taste of what's to come in this series, and we can't wait to see what the fans think, especially our Rooster Teeth community!"
Chapter 1: Siege
Edward Bosco as Ultra Magnus (4 episodes), Soundwave (6 episodes)
Jake Foushee as Optimus Prime (6 episodes)
Todd Haberkorn as Red Alert, Shockwave (6 episodes)
Jason Marnocha as Megatron, Dome Guard (6 episodes)
Georgia Reed as Chromia (6 episodes)
Bill Rogers as Wheeljack (6 episodes)
Linsay Rousseau as Elita-1 (6 episodes)
Keith Silverstein as Jetfire, Omega Supreme (6 episodes)
Frank Todaro as Starscream, Refraktor, Ravage, Sparkless Bot (6 episodes)
Mark Whitten as Sideswipe, Skywarp (6 episodes)
Brook Chalmers as Impactor, Comms Officer, Spark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Data | Alpha Data (formerly, but commonly known as BuzzAngle Music) is a music analytics firm which provides statistics for the music industry, including record sales and music streaming. BuzzAngle partnered with Rolling Stone to provide information for the magazine's music charts.
BuzzAngle was founded in 2013 by Border City Media. It uses big data collected from platforms used by people to listen to music. The website shows total music consumption including album sales, song sales, streaming history, and social media analytics. The data it collects comes from retailers, record stores, radio stations, and music venues. In 2018, BuzzAngle received an investment from Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Rolling Stone. The following year it announced its partnership with Rolling Stone to provide data for the magazine's music charts.
References
External links
Official Website
Major Movez
Companies established in 2013
Penske Media Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buletin%20Indonesia | Buletin Indonesia (Indonesian Bulletin), is one of Indonesia's flagship newscasts that is carried by a private television network. Buletin Indonesia offers material about politics, both home and abroad, economy, culture and crime.
Buletin Indonesia consists of Buletin Indonesia Pagi, Buletin Indonesia Siang, and Buletin Indonesia Malam.
History
The program appeared on 15 January 2005 when Global TV was repositioned into youth and entertainment television. At that time two daily news programs ran, Global Pagi and Global Petang.
On 3 February 2006, Global Pagi ended due to the entry of Nickelodeon on Global TV. In same date, Global Siang was launched, followed by Kilas Global.
By August 2007, Global Petang changed its name to Berita Global. On 21 January 2008 Global Pagi returns, followed by Global Malam.
On 31 July 2009, Global Pagi ended again by Nickelodeon block.
On 29 March 2012, the entire series of Global TV news programs were replaced by the Buletin Indonesia. However, Global Malam still airs until mid-2012 with the "G" logo on its intro replaced by new Global TV logo.
After the Amazing 15 show on 11 October 2017, Kilas Global renamed to short-lived Kilas GTV. On 31 October 2017, Buletin Indonesia was replaced with Buletin iNews in the program Metamorfosa iNews, including Kilas GTV to Kilas iNews.
Segments (during Buletin Indonesia)
Jakarta 12 Jam
Kriminal 12 Jam
Dunia 12 Jam
Miss Monda
Sipir Cantik (Hosted by Prima Alvernia)
References
Indonesian television news shows
Indonesian-language television shows
2012 Indonesian television series debuts
2017 Indonesian television series endings
2010s Indonesian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stallo%20%28disambiguation%29 | A stallo is a large human-like creature in the folklore of the Sami.
Stallo may also refer to:
Stallo (computer), a supercomputer at the University of Tromsø, Norway
Stallo, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Neshoba County, Mississippi
John Stallo (1823–1900), a German-American academic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%204%20Year%20Olds | The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds is an Australian factual television series based on the British show, The Secret Life of 4 and 5 Year Olds. It premiered on Network Ten on Monday, 12 November at 7:30pm and shows once a week at 7:30pm on Mondays and shows an insight into what a four year old experiences in pre-school, over the period of five weeks.
Series overview
References
Network 10 original programming
2018 Australian television series debuts
2018 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Screentime
Television series about children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecel%20Zimbabwe | Telecel Zimbabwe is one of Zimbabwe's mobile telecommunications network service providers. Headquartered in Harare, Telecel Zimbabwe is the third largest mobile telecommunications network service provider in Zimbabwe with the government of Zimbabwe being the major shareholder. Telecel is the first mobile phone network in Zimbabwe to attain ISO 9001: 2000 certification.
History
Telecel Zimbabwe began operating in 1998. It was formed as a partnership between Telecel International, which is a subsidiary of Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Company, a telecommunications company with operations in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America which in turn is owned by telecommunications giant VEON, and the Empowerment Corporation, which is a consortium of Zimbabwean business organisations.
Shareholding
Telecel shareholding consists of James Makamba, through Kestrel Corporation, the Indigenous Business Women Organisation, but the shareholding is personalised through Jane Mutasa's Selporn Investments, Zimbabwe Miners’ Federation, Affirmative Action Group, War Veterans’ Association and Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union. Government of Zimbabwe owns 60% shareholding through ZARnet which it bought from Telecel International.
At one point the regulatory authority, the Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz), cancelled the company's licence because of the failure to reduce the foreign shareholding. However, the company appealed against this. In 2013 its licence was renewed for a further 20 years but on the understanding that steps would be taken to alter the shareholding. The country's Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act also requires foreign ownership of Zimbabwean companies to be limited to a maximum of 49%, with the remaining 51% being in the hands of indigenous Zimbabweans.
The chairman of Telecel Zimbabwe is Dr. James Makamba, who represents the Empowerment Corporation on the board of directors.
Network coverage
Telecel's network coverage covers more than 85% of the country, including all its towns, cities and tourist resorts, as well as many smaller centres and rural areas.
Products and services
Telecel offers voice services as well as 3G data services. Some of the products and services as well as value added services currently on offer include:
Emergency Credit
Teletunes
Telecel Business
Telecel Red
Telecash
Roaming
Data Bundles
Voice Bundles
Airtime transfer
Conference calls
Missed call alert
Call me back
Mega Bonus Reloaded
911 Road Assist
Telecel launched to its subscribers an electronic wallet service called Telecash, a mobile financial service.
Criticisms and controversies
Telecel has come in for criticisms on a number of fronts, mostly due to issues related to its licensing, shareholding structure and use of foreign consultants and suppliers, as well as its slowness in complying with local empowerment legislation. It has also been criticised by one of its competitors for competing in a manner it consid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-fragment%20algorithm | The multi-fragment (MF) algorithm is a heuristic or approximation algorithm for the travelling salesman problem (TSP) (and related problems). This algorithm is also sometimes called the "greedy algorithm" for the TSP.
The algorithm builds a tour for the traveling salesman one edge at a time and thus maintains multiple tour fragments, each of which is a simple path in the complete graph of cities. At each stage, the algorithm selects the edge of minimal cost that either creates a new fragment, extends one of the existing paths or creates a cycle of length equal to the number of cities.
References
Travelling salesman problem
Approximation algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20thread | Digital thread, also known as digital chain, is defined as “the use of digital tools and representations for design, evaluation, and life cycle management.”. It is a data-driven architecture that links data gathered during a Product lifecycle from all involved and distributed manufacturing systems. This data can come from any part of product's lifecycle, its transportation, or its supply chain. Digital thread "enables the collection, transmission, and sharing of data and information between systems across the product lifecycle" to enable real-time decision making, gather data, and iterate on the product.
The term 'digital thread' was first used in the Global Horizons 2013 report by the USAF Global Science and Technology Vision Task Force. Digital thread was further refined in 2018 by Singh and Willcox at MIT in their paper entitled "Engineering with a Digital Thread". In this academic paper the term digital thread is defined as "a data-driven architecture that links together information generated from across the product lifecycle and is envisioned to be the primary or authoritative data and communication platform for a company’s products at any instance of time."
Digital thread enables "data to be integrated into one platform, allowing seamless use of and ease of access to all data".
Applications
Digital twin
Idaho National Laboratories describes Digital Twin as "the merging of integrated and connected data, sensors and instrumentation, artificial intelligence, and online monitoring into a single cohesive unit."
It is a critical capability of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and the foundation for a Digital twin, which is defined as "a digital replica of a physical entity". In fact, digital thread was first described as related to Digital twin in the Global Horizons 2013 report. Digital thread is a means to gather data for use in the development of a Digital twin; "some argue [digital thread] is the backbone of digital twin applications". "digital thread platforms can capture data from different systems, standardize it, and provide a seamless link between the physical process or product and the digital twin". The term digital thread is also used to describe the traceability of the digital twin back to the requirements, parts and control systems that make up the physical asset.
Although digital thread and Digital twin are "every so often understood to be synonymous...they are not the same as Digital Twin relies on real-time data from its physical counterpart". "In short, digital thread describes the process while digital twin symbolizes technology". "Compared to the digital twin, the digital thread can support decision-making by designing and regulating the data interaction and processing instead of high-fidelity system models".
A digital thread enables a Digital twin by ensuring that incoming data is made uniform and easily accessible through the three main data chains:
The Product Innovation chain - Product designs, processes, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bageecha | Bageecha is a 2018 Maldivian 3D computer-animated comedy film directed by Yamin Rasheed. Produced under Cellmin Animation Studio, it marks the first Maldivian 3D animated cartoon film release for cinema. The film revolves around a man's adventure to sustain a happy family with his four wives. It was released on 10 November 2018.
Voice cast
Mohamed Waheed
Inayath Ali
Aishath Shanaz
Aminath Shama
Raniya Mohamed
Kama Najeeb
Development
Story of the film was being written by Yamin Rasheed during 2010, before it was stalled due to the tight schedule of then ongoing animated comedy TV series Maakana Show which is also written and directed by Yamin. After quitting the latter, Yamin resumed the story from where it was left and developed the story to a screenplay before the animation process begins.
Release
The trailer of the film was released on 11 September 2012. It was initially planned to release the film in October 2012, though the release date was later postponed since the cinema was closed for renovation during the time. The film was premiered on 10 November 2018 at Schwack Cinema by then president-elect of Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
References
2018 films
2018 3D films
2018 comedy films
2018 computer-animated films
2010s adventure comedy films
Maldivian comedy films
Animal adventure films
Animated adventure films
Animated comedy films
3D animated films
Dhivehi-language films
Animated films about chickens
Animated films about children
Animated films about families
Anthropomorphic animals
Films set in the Maldives
Films set in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20media%20use%20by%20businesses | Social media use by businesses includes a range of applications. Although social media accessed via desktop computers offer a variety of opportunities for companies in a wide range of business sectors, mobile social media, which users can access when they are "on the go" via tablet computers or smartphones, benefit companies because of the location- and time-sensitive awareness of their users. Mobile social media tools can be used for marketing research, communication, sales promotions/discounts, informal employee learning/organizational development, relationship development/loyalty programs, and e-commerce.
Marketing research: Mobile social media applications provide companies data about offline consumer movements at a level of detail that was previously accessible to online companies only. These applications allow any business to know the exact time a customer who uses social media entered one of its locations, as well as know the social media comments made during the visit.
Communication: Mobile social media communication takes two forms: company-to-consumer (in which a company may establish a connection to a consumer based on its location and provide reviews about locations nearby) and user-generated content. For example, McDonald's offered $5 and $10 gift-cards to 100 users randomly selected among those checking in at one of its restaurants. This promotion increased check-ins by 33% (from 2,146 to 2,865), resulted in over 50 articles and blog posts, and prompted several hundred thousand news feeds and Twitter messages.
Sales promotions and discounts: Although customers have had to use printed coupons in the past, mobile social media allows companies to tailor promotions to specific users at specific times. For example, when launching its California-Cancun service, Virgin America offered users who checked in through Loopt at one of three designated taco trucks in San Francisco or Los Angeles between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on 31 August 2010, two tacos for $1 and two flights to Cancun or Cabo for the price of one. This special promotion was only available to people who were at a certain location at a certain time.
Relationship development and loyalty programs: In order to increase long-term relationships with customers, companies can develop loyalty programs that allow customers who check-in via social media regularly at a location to earn discounts or perks. For example, American Eagle Outfitters remunerates such customers with a tiered 10%, 15%, or 20% discount on their total purchase.
Informal employee learning/organizational development is facilitated by social media. Technologies such as blogs, wiki pages, web forums, social networks and other social media act as technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools, and their users perceive change in organizational structure, culture and knowledge management. The prerequisite for the successful use of social media are motivated employees who want to use the new technologies. It is central for companies t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebes%20Mensa | Hebes Mensa is a large mensa that rises from the floor of Hebes Chasma, one of the chasmata of the Valles Marineris network on Mars. Some researchers have identified this mesa to be an interior layered deposit (ILD), similar to Ganges Mensa, and are named for alternating light-toned and dark-toned layers forming a stair-stepped stratigraphy. The faces of Hebes Mensa are sometimes fluted. It is tall and wide.
Observation history
Hebes Mensa was first named in 1982.
Context
Hebes Mensa is located within the Hebes Chasma of Valles Marineris, within the Coprates quadrangle. To its east is Juventae Dorsa and the larger Lunae Planum, and to its south is Perrotin Crater and the main body of Valles Marineris (specifically Ophir Chasma). To its west are Tithoniae Fossae and Echus Chasma, the latter of which continues north of Hebes Mensa into the Lunae Palus quadrangle. Also to the north is Echus Fossae. As Hebes Mensa is part of Valles Marineris, many features which are common throughout Valles Marineris are common at Hebes Mesa. For example, many recurring slope linneae (dark, thin, seasonal features thought to be caused by modern running water) occur at Hebes Mensa.
Formation theories
Many researchers have proposed a low-energy lacustrine depositional origin tied to continual groundwater feeding interspersed with occasional subaqueous volcanism. Others have contested this hypothesis, noting that Hebes Mensa is so tall that it actually stretches above the canyon walls of Hebes Chasma. Such researchers propose that Hebes Mensa is actually a tuya, modeled on ones observed in Russia's Azas Plateau and in northern Iceland, which are volcanic edifices that form due to the effects of subglacial volcanism.
Another theory of the mensa’s origin ties it to the growth of its surrounding chasm; the chasm was filled by sediments, but then later grew, creating a valley between the original sediment fillings and the chasm walls. The sediments would have arrived there via either a pyroclastic (lava-related) or aeolian (wind-related) process. It has also been suggested that Hebes Mensa is a salt dome. In this theory, deep subsurface brine pools were heated up from below, causing the salt to separate from the water and displace the regolith above. This method of formation would also explain some aspects of Hebes Chasma formation as well. A terrestrial analogue would be Conrad and Thetis Deep at the Red Sea.
Geology
Hebes Mensa is estimated to be the same age as other interior layered deposits in Mars, dating back to the Hesperian period of Mars’ history. It can be split into at least three geological units, the Lower, Upper, and Late interior layered deposit units (ILDs). The Lower and Upper ILDs make up the bulk of the mensa, whereas the Late ILD is located in the valley between Hebes Mensa and the northern wall of the surrounding chasm. The Lower ILD underwent shallow folding. All layers are believed to have been shaped by past glacial activi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodona%20deodata | Dodona deodata or Broad-banded Punch, is a small but striking butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the family Riodinidae. It was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1876.
Subspecies
D. d. deodata southern Yunnan
D. d. anu Corbet, 1937 Peninsular Malaya
D. d. longicaudata de Nicéville, 1881 Assam to Myanmar
D. d. lecerfi Fruhstorfer, [1914] Vietnam
D. d. sakaii Hayashi, 1976 Palawan
References
Dodona (butterfly)
Butterflies described in 1876 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetQoS | NetQoS,
which sells network performance management software and services, was co-founded by Joel Trammell in 1999
and acquired by CA Technologies in 2009.
The company's name refers to Network Quality of Service.
Their ReportAnalyzer provides "real-time visibility into network traffic" and seeks to improve network performance.
Offerings introduced shortly before the company was acquired by CA Technologies include:
Performance Center
Anomaly Detection
Network latency calculator
Earlier offerings include:
SuperAgent
a software/hardware package to identify applications that use excessive bandwidth
Notability
NetQos' products were cited by over 100 articles regarding NetQos patents and prior art.
References
History of software
American companies established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual%20Review%20of%20Biomedical%20Data%20Science | The Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science is an academic journal published by Annual Reviews. In publication since 2018, this journal covers significant developments in the field of health informatics and biomedical data science with an annual volume of review articles. It is edited by Russ Altman. As of 2023, Journal Citation Reports lists the journal's impact factor as 6.
History
The Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science was first published in 2018 by the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews. The journal focuses on biomedical data science, the development of scientific methods to acquire, annotate, organize, analyze, and interpret biomedical data and extract knowledge about life, health, and disease.
The founding co-editors were Russ B. Altman and Michael Levitt. As of 2021, Altman was the lead editor.
Scope and indexing
The Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science is abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and BIOSIS Previews, among others.
Editorial processes
The Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science is helmed by the editor or the co-editors. The editor is assisted by the editorial committee, which includes associate editors, regular members, and occasionally guest editors. Guest members participate at the invitation of the editor, and serve terms of one year. All other members of the editorial committee are appointed by the Annual Reviews board of directors and serve five-year terms. The editorial committee determines which topics should be included in each volume and solicits reviews from qualified authors. Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted. Peer review of accepted manuscripts is undertaken by the editorial committee.
Current editorial board
As of 2023, the editorial committee consists of the editor and the following members:
M. Madan Babu
Søren Brunak
Jianfeng Feng
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou
Maricel Kann
Marylyn D. Ritchie
Cathal Seoighe
Nicholas Tatonetti
Olga Troyanskaya
References
Annual journals
Academic journals established in 2018
English-language journals
Biomedical Data Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBI | SCELBI was an early model of microcomputer based on the Intel 8008 processor. The company SCELBI (derived from SCientific-ELectronics-BIology) Computer Consulting in 1973, by Nat Wadsworth. The SCELBI 8H was marketed in 1974 and was delivered either as an assembled unit or as a kit, with five basic circuit boards and provision for memory expansion to 16 kB (16,384 bytes). The company offered input/output devices including a keyboard, teleprinter interface, alphanumeric oscilloscope interface, and a cassette tape interface for data storage. The basic system only used a front panel with 11 switches and LEDs for input and output.
The company also offered a version of the BASIC programming language called SCELBAL. Optional modules for strings and transcendental functions allowed the system to operate in small memory configurations. SCELBAL was sold in book format, allowing it to be used on any similar 8008 or 8080 based platform.
The initial model 8H was discontinued at the end of 1974 and an improved model 8B was introduced. Fewer than 150 board sets and assembled systems were ever sold. Later in 1975, the availability of systems based on the more flexible 8080 processor reduced demand for the slower 8008-based product. The company discovered that the demand for books on microcomputers was very high and published several books; the publishing business was sold in 1982.
See also
Mark-8
MCM/70
Micral
List of early microcomputers
References
External links
SCELBI Computer Museum
The SCELBI Mini-Computer
Video history of SCELBI Computer Consulting
Early microcomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange%20Inheritance | Strange Inheritance is an American television docu-series which airs on Fox Business Network. The series examines unusual inheritances and the stories behind them. The series is produced by Towers Productions and hosted by Jamie Colby and premiered on 26 January 2015.
The back-to-back premiere of the first two episodes of the series was the highest rating launch in the channel's history at the time, with 289,000 and 315,000 viewers respectively.
Broadcast
The first season debuted on January 26, 2015. The series was renewed for a second season which began on November 11, 2015. A third season premiered on January 20, 2017. A fourth season aired on January 15, 2018.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American television news shows
2015 American television series debuts
Fox Business original programming
English-language television shows
Business-related television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna%20Dinnage | Susanna Dinnage (born 1966/67) is a British businesswoman, who was formerly the current global president of the Animal Planet television network. In November 2018, she became the chief executive-designate of the English Premier League, and was scheduled to succeed Richard Scudamore in early 2019. On 30 December 2018, Dinnage told the organisation she would not be taking up the position.
Career
Dinnage started her career at MTV Networks. She later worked for Channel 5 for more than ten years from its creation in 1997.
In 2009, Dinnage joined Discovery, Inc. and ran its British and Irish operation, including responsibility for Eurosport. During her time at Discovery, Eurosport obtained the European coverage rights to all Summer and Winter Olympic Games from 2018-2024. In November 2017, she was appointed the first global president of the Animal Planet network, which is owned by Discovery, Inc. Dinnage is also the chair of the Commercial Broadcasters Association, and an executive member of the Discovery Women's Network. In 2017, she was a leading contender to become chief executive of Channel 4, although the position was given to Alex Mahon instead.
In November 2018, Dinnage was chosen to succeed Richard Scudamore as chief executive of the English Premier League. She was the Premier League recruitment panel's preferred candidate, and her appointment was voted for by all 20 Premier League teams. Had she taken up the post in early 2019, Dinnage would have become the most senior female leader in major professional sport, the fourth Premier League chief since the formation of the Premier League in 1992, and the first female Premier League chief. On 30 December 2018, Dinnage told the organisation she would not be taking up the position. Dinnage never gave a reason for changing her mind.
In November 2019, it was announced that Dinnage would leave Animal Planet and the Discovery network, following a restructure.
Personal life
Dinnage lives in Putney, London. She is a Fulham season ticket holder.
References
1960s births
Living people
British chief executives
Women chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake%20%28disambiguation%29 | A handshake is a one-on-one, interpersonal greeting ritual.
Handshake may also refer to:
Handshake (computing), a computing term related to automated communication between two computing devices or programs
Handshake deal, a verbal commitment to a transaction
Handshaking lemma, a specific statement in graph theory
See also
Hand Shakers, a Japanese anime television series
Secret Handshake (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Harrington | Heather A. Harrington (born 1984) is an applied mathematician interested in dynamical systems, chemical reaction network theory, topological data analysis, and systems biology. She is professor of mathematics, and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, where she heads the Algebraic Systems Biology group.
Education and career
Harrington went to Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts. As an applied mathematics student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst she won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, and graduated summa cum laude from in 2006. She completed her Ph.D. in 2010 at Imperial College London. Her dissertation, Mathematical models of cellular decisions, was jointly supervised by Jaroslav Stark and Dorothy Buck.
After postdoctoral research in theoretical systems biology at Imperial from 2010 to 2013, she joined the Mathematical Institute at Oxford as Hooke Research Fellow and EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and as Junior Research Fellow at St Cross College, Oxford. In 2017, she became an associate professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow at Oxford. In 2020, she became professor of mathematics.
She is a board member of the EDGE Foundation (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education).
Recognition
In 2018 Harrington was one of the winners of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society. She was a co-winner of the 2019 Adams Prize of the University of Cambridge, which had the topic 'The Mathematics of Networks'. She was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2020 for advances in analysis of noisy data.
References
External links
Home page
1984 births
Living people
Women mathematicians
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Alumni of Imperial College London
Academics of the University of Oxford
Whitehead Prize winners
Philip Leverhulme Prize winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar%20Weber | Ingmar Weber is a German computer scientist known for his research on Computational Social Science in which he uses online data to study population behavior. He was the Research Director for Social Computing at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, and is a Professor at Saarland University. He serves as editor-in-chief for EPJ Data Science. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief for the International Conference on Web and Social Media. Weber is also an ACM Distinguished Member, as well as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. Weber's research has been widely covered in the media.
He has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI.
Research
Weber currently works with international agencies on developing new methodologies for monitoring international migration and digital gender gaps.
Migration
While at Yahoo! Research, Weber pioneered the use of geo-located email login data to study migration and mobility patterns.
He has since also analyzed data from Twitter and Google Plus for similar studies.
He now works with experts at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and International Organization for Migration to use Facebook's advertising audience estimates to obtain timely insights into migration flows.
Digital Gender Gaps
He works with the United Nations Foundation's Data2X initiative to study digital gender gaps, in particular internet access gender gaps.
With support by the Data2X initiative he helped create a website for real-time monitoring of different types of digital gender gaps.
References
Living people
1978 births
German computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly%20Arcand | Kimberly Kowal Arcand (born December 20, 1975) is a data visualizer and science communicator for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. She is also the visualization coordinator for the Aesthetics and Astronomy image response project at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Early life and education
As a child, Arcand wanted to be an astronaut. She studied molecular biology at the University of Rhode Island and also became a developer for the University of Rhode Island Center for Vector-Borne Disease Public Health project. She was awarded a fellowship with the Rhode Island Public Health Partnership to work on Lyme disease. Arcand studied briefly at the Harvard University Department between 2000 and 2002. In 2013 Arcand earned a Master's degree in Public Humanities from Brown University, focusing on image and meaning research. In 2020, Arcand completed her doctorate at the University of Otago in visualization science, under the supervision of Lisa Smith. She worked in the University of Rhode Island Department of Computer Science as an instructor between 1997 and 1999. She joined the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Chandra X-ray Observatory in 1998.
Career
In 2009 Arcand launched From Earth to the Universe with UNESCO. She is the visualization coordinator of the Aesthetics and Astronomy image response project at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. The project launched in 2010 and looks at variations in the presentation of color and scale in astronomical images. The team also studies how people respond to images, and the misconceptions that non-experts have when they view them. The project began when Randall, Jeffrey, and Lisa F. Smith realized that the art would provide astrophysicists a more effective way in conveying the results to a much larger audience. The group explored the public perception of astronomical pictures using a survey linked to the NASA Astronomical Picture of the Day site.
She worked closely with UNESCO to celebrate the International Year of Light, an open-source exhibition that showcased science based on light. The celebration was supported by SPIE. Using NASA data, Arcand developed a way to 3D print a supernova remnant.
In 2016 the White House selected Arcand as a changemaker at the United State of Women Summit. where she wrote about the event for HuffPost. In 2017 Vinita Marwaha Madill's profiled her on Rocket Women. Arcand also serves on the boards of Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art (RIMOSA). and Rhode Island's Tech Collective. In 2019, Arcand collaborated with the Smithsonian Institution to launch the "Journey through an Exploded Star” 3-D Interactive Experience website.
Honors and awards
Arcand has won several awards for her work from NASA and the Smithsonian Institution.
2007 Pirelli International Award for science communication
2010 International Year of Astronomy Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Ou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlmutter%20%28supercomputer%29 | Perlmutter (also known as NERSC-9) is a supercomputer delivered to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center of the United States Department of Energy as the successor to Cori. It is being built by Cray and is based on their Shasta architecture which utilizes Zen 3 based AMD Epyc CPUs ("Milan") and next-generation Nvidia Tesla GPUs. Its intended use-cases are nuclear fusion simulations, climate projections and material and biological research. Phase 1, completed 27 May 2022, reached 70.9 PFLOPS of processing power.
It is named in honour of Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter.
References
Cray products
GPGPU supercomputers
Nvidia
United States Department of Energy facilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple%20Line%20%28Pune%20Metro%29 | Purple Line of the Pune Metro is the first line of the city's mass transit network.
It runs from PCMC Bhavan to Swargate. The line will be elevated till Range Hills with 9 stations and will further go underground up to Swargate with 5 stations.
Route
The line will go via Kasarwadi (Nashik Phata), Khadki and Shivajinagar. The maintenance depot for the Purple Line will be located near the Range Hills station on the land acquired from the College of Agriculture.
Construction
Soil testing and topographical surveys of the concerned areas started in late December 2016. Excavation work for erection of pillars started in early June, 2017. The construction of the first pillar was completed by October 2017 and construction work of up to ten pillars was underway. The first viaduct was completely erected by January 2018. The first batch of tracks were laid between PCMC and Sant Tukaram Nagar in the second week of July 2019.
List of stations
Following is a list of stations on this route-
Infrastructure
Signalling
The Purple Line utilises the Alstom Urbalis 400 communications-based train control (CBTC) signalling system. Alstom was awarded a EUR90 million contract to supply the signalling and telecommunications systems for the Purple and Aqua Lines, as well as Mumbai Metro Line 2 and Line 7.
References
Pune Metro lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua%20Line%20%28Pune%20Metro%29 | Aqua Line of the Pune Metro is the second line of the city's mass transit network. It will run from Ramwadi to Vanaz via Mangalwar Peth and Deccan Gymkhana. The section from Vanaz to Garware College was inaugurated on 6 March 2022 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The section from Garware College to Ruby Hall Clinic was inaugurated on 1 August 2023.
Route
The elevated line will cover a distance of and will have 16 stations. It will connect with the Purple Line and Line 3 at the Civil Court interchange station. The maintenance depot for the Aqua Line will be located near the Vanaz station on the former garbage depot land.
List of stations
Following is a list of stations on this route-
Infrastructure
Signalling
The Aqua Line utilises the Alstom Urbalis 400 communications-based train control (CBTC) signalling system. Alstom was awarded a EUR90 million contract to supply the signalling and telecommunications systems for the Aqua and Purple Lines, as well as Mumbai Metro Line 2 and Line 7.
References
Pune Metro lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%203%20%28Pune%20Metro%29 | Line 3 of the Pune Metro is the third line of the city's under-construction mass transit network. It will run from Civil Court, Pune to Megapolis Pune in Hinjawadi. The line will be completely elevated and will have 23 stations and will align with the MahaMetro lines at the Civil Court interchange station. The construction will be taken up in two phases, the section between Hinjawadi and Balewadi is expected to be taken up first followed by the section between Balewadi and Civil Court, Shivaji Nagar. A metro car shed will be built in Hinjawadi. The MIDC will provide 55 acres of land in Hinjawadi for setting up a Metro rail depot. On 3 August 2018, PMRDA announced the final bidder for the project — the joint venture Tata Realty-Siemens. and Siemens On 3 October 2018, Tata Realty-Siemens were awarded the contract to execute the project on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer model. The formal concession agreement was signed in September 2019 with the construction expected to begin in March 2020. The project is set to be completed in March 2025.
Route
Metropolitan Line will run from Civil Court, Pune to Megapolis Pune in Hinjawadi. The line will be completely elevated and will have 23 stations and will align with the MahaMetro lines at the Civil Court interchange station.
Depot will be located at Maan village. It will be spread across .
List of stations
Following is a list of stations on this route:
Construction
Contract for conducting geotechnical investigation was awarded to Soiltech India Private Limited. Geotechnical investigation commenced on 19 June 2019. However, due to COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent nationwide lockdown, work on several projects had been delayed, including Line 3. Following a gap of nearly 11 months, piling works resumed at multiple locations near Hinjawadi in May 2020.
Extension
PMRDA proposed an extension of Line 3 from Civil Court station towards Hadapsar. In-principle approval for DPR was given by the then CM and PMRDA head Devendra Fadnavis in December 2018. DPR for extension is being prepared by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation under supervision of PMRDA.
As per draft DPR submitted by PMRDA, proposed stations for extension will be Railway Colony, Collector's Office, MG Road, Fashion Street, Mhammadevi Chowk, Race Course, Kaluba Chowk, Vaiduwadi, Hadapsar Phata, Hadapsar Gadital bus stand, Civil Aviation Ground, Phursungi IT Park and Sulabh Garden.
In December 2020, DMRC announced bid to conduct geotechnical investigation works for DPR preparation for Hadapsar-Loni Kalbhor extension. The second extension is expected to increase line 3's length by with 4-5 new stations at various locations.
References
Pune Metro lines
750 V DC railway electrification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20in%20technology%20and%20computing | Significant events that have occurred in 2018 in all fields of technology, including computing, robotics, electronics, as well as any other areas of technology as well, including any machines, devices, or other technological developments, occurrences, and items.
January
1 January – Researchers at Harvard, writing in Nature Nanotechnology, report the first single lens that can focus all colours of the rainbow in the same spot and in high resolution, previously only achievable with multiple lenses.
2 January – Physicists at Cornell University report the creation of "muscle" for shape-changing, cell-sized robots.
3 January
Computer researchers report discovering two major security vulnerabilities, named "Meltdown" and "Spectre," in the microprocessors inside almost all computers in the world.
Scientists in Rome unveil the first bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be worn outside a laboratory.
4 January – MIT researchers devise a new method to create stronger and more resilient nanofibers.
15 January
Artificial intelligence programs developed by Microsoft and Alibaba achieve better average performance on a Stanford University reading and comprehension test than human beings.
October
11 October – The world's fastest camera, able to capture 10 trillion frames per second, is announced by the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Quebec, Canada.
References
Technology and computing
2018 in technology
Technology timelines by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewin%20Tang | Ewin Tang (born 2000) is a computer scientist at the University of Washington. She was named as one of 2019 Science Forbes 30 Under 30 for her work developing algorithms for classical computers to perform calculations that were previously deemed only possible with quantum computers. That research began under the supervision of Scott Aaronson when Tang was only a teenager.
Early life
Tang skipped the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in order to enroll at the University of Texas at Austin at the age of 14. Tang's first experience of research involved working on in vivo imaging for biomedical research such as optical probes to view polarised macrophages during foreign body reactions, bacterial infection, fibrin deposition, and real-time detection of neutrophil responses. In 2014 Tang was awarded an Davidson Fellow Honorable Mention for her work on an optical imaging probe for real-time detection of infection. In 2017 she took a class on quantum information taught by Scott Aaronson, who would soon become her dissertation adviser. Aaronson recognised Tang as an "unusually talented student" and presented her with a range of research projects to choose from; among them was the recommendation problem.
Research
Before Tang's work, the best known classical algorithms solving some linear algebra problems were exponentially slower, under some assumptions, than the best quantum algorithm for the same
problem. Inspired by the quantum solution, based on the HHL algorithm, she found classical algorithms solving these problem in a similar time as the quantum algorithms, under similar assumptions, thus "dequantizing" them and exponentially improving over the best known classical algorithms.
Her first work in quantum computing was her 2018 thesis dissertation titled A quantum-inspired classical algorithm for recommendation systems, supervised by Scott Aaronson, allowing her to complete two undergraduate degrees in computer science and in pure mathematics from the UT Austin. This work details a new algorithm that solves the recommendation problem; for example, how does Amazon or Netflix predict which books or movies a specific consumer will personally enjoy?
A linear algebraic approach of the problem is the following: given m users, and n products, alongside incomplete data about which products the users prefer (organised in a binary tree data structure) where there are not too many ways the users can vary their preferences (called low-rank matrices), what are the products that a given user may want to buy? A common linear algebraic classical strategy to solve this problem is to reconstruct an approximation of the full preference matrix and use it to predict the next preferred product. Such a strategy uses at least a time polynomial in the matrix dimension.
In 2016, Iordanis Kerenidis and Anupam Prakash, found an exponentially faster quantum algorithm; this algorithm uses the HHL algorithm to sample the product directly from an approximation of the preferenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20101%20%281992%29 | The Nokia 101 is an analogue mobile phone from Nokia released in 1992 that has variants for the NMT, AMPS and ETACS cellular networks. The 101 is considered to have been a significant handset for Nokia, one that started the company's major success in the market that decade. It was the first model in the new 3-digit naming strategy for analogue handsets.
It was also Nokia's first in a candybar form as opposed to the previous "bricks" such as Nokia Talkman 600 or Nokia P4000. It weighed 280 grams, with Nokia marketing it as the world's "most portable phone". The 101 was designed by Frank Nuovo, who would go on to design many other Nokia handsets thereafter. It was specially designed to be easy to use, with well spaced keys that also have backlight for use in the dark. As a result, the 101 became popular.
Nokia would that year launch the Nokia 1011 which is a digital GSM phone. The Nokia 121 was aimed for business markets, and the Nokia 100 was a more simple version for consumers. Other similar models were launched too including Nokia 104 and Nokia 116. In 1994 the Nokia 2110 digital phone was launched.
See also
Mobile 101
References
External links
101 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument%20technology | Argument technology is a sub-field of collective intelligence and artificial intelligence that focuses on applying computational techniques to the creation, identification, analysis, navigation, evaluation and visualisation of arguments and debates.
In the 1980s and 1990s, philosophical theories of arguments in general, and argumentation theory in particular, were leveraged to handle key computational challenges, such as modeling non-monotonic and defeasible reasoning and designing robust coordination protocols for multi-agent systems. At the same time, mechanisms for computing semantics of Argumentation frameworks were introduced as a way of providing a calculus of opposition for computing what it is reasonable to believe in the context of conflicting arguments.
With these foundations in place, the area was kick-started by a workshop held in the Scottish Highlands in 2000, the result of which was a book coauthored by philosophers of argument, rhetoricians, legal scholars and AI researchers. Since then, the area has been supported by various dedicated events such as the International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA) which has run annually since 2001; the International Workshop on Argument in Multi Agent Systems (ArgMAS) annually since 2004; the Workshop on Argument Mining, annually since 2014, and the Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), biennially since 2006. Since 2010, the field has also had its own journal, Argument & Computation, which was published by Taylor & Francis until 2016 and since then by IOS Press.
One of the challenges that argument technology faced was a lack of standardisation in the representation and underlying conception of argument in machine readable terms. Many different software tools for manual argument analysis, in particular, developed idiosyncratic and ad hoc ways of representing arguments which reflected differing underlying ways of conceiving of argumentative structure. This lack of standardisation also meant that there was no interchange between tools or between research projects, and little re-use of data resources that were often expensive to create. To tackle this problem, the Argument Interchange Format set out to establish a common standard that captured the minimal common features of argumentation which could then be extended in different settings.
Since about 2018, argument technology has been growing rapidly, with, for example, IBM's Grand Challenge, Project Debater, results for which were published in Nature in March 2021; German research funder, DFG's nationwide research programme on Robust Argumentation Machines, RATIO, begun in 2019; and UK nationwide deployment of The Evidence Toolkit by the BBC in 2019. A 2021 video narrated by Stephen Fry provides a summary of the societal motivations for work in argument technology.
Argument technology has applications in a variety of domains, including education, healthcare, policy making, political science, intell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20v.%20Trump | CNN v. Trump is a lawsuit filed on November 13, 2018, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs are the Cable News Network (CNN) and their chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, and the defendants are members of the Donald Trump administration and United States Secret Service. Citing Sherrill v. Knight, Pursuing America's Greatness v. Federal Election Commission, and Elrod v. Burns, the suit argued that the White House wrongfully revoked Acosta's press credentials in violation of the First Amendment right to freedom of the press and Fifth Amendment right to due process, respectively; and, additionally citing federal regulations (namely, "Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(a) and Local Rule 65.1"), the suit successfully sought immediate relief from damage to CNN and Acosta by way of a temporary restraining order for the return of Acosta's press pass. CNN dropped the suit on November 19.
Background
On November 7, 2018, the day after the midterm elections, President Trump held a press conference at the White House. CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta asked President Trump about his use of the word invasion to describe the Central American migrant caravans. Trump then answered he wants the immigrants to come in legally and argued with Acosta (himself the son of a Cuban American refugee) about his position on the issue. While asking his follow-up question, Trump refused to answer and cut Acosta off, by stating "Honestly, I think you should let me run the country, you run CNN, and if you did it well, your ratings would be much better" before signaling to a White House intern to take the microphone, and calling on someone else. Acosta then refused to give up the mic and tried to ask a question regarding the Special Counsel investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, but Trump repeated "That's enough" three more times before the intern tried to take the microphone from him. Acosta resisted, and Trump followed by telling Acosta to "put down the mic."
After, when the intern took the microphone and gave it to another reporter, Acosta sat down, and Trump said "CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN." Trump then claimed Acosta has mistreated Sarah Sanders in the past. After Trump began taking questions from another reporter who came to Acosta's defense and Trump claimed to not like either, Acosta then stood back up and mentioned that CNN was sent pipe bombs by a Trump supporter, to which Trump replied "When you report fake news, which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people".
Later that day while he attempted to do a live report outside the White House, an unidentified Secret Service agent confiscated Acosta's press pass. Acosta recorded the incident on his cell phone, saying "This is Jim Acosta. I am in front of the White House. Secret Service officer is asking for my hard pass. Obviousl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilen | Ilen may refer to:
River Ilen, County Cork, Ireland
Ilen Rovers GAA, a Gaelic football club in County Cork, Ireland
Ilen School and Network for Wooden Boat Building, a charity in Limerick, Ireland
A. K. Ilen (Auxiliary Ketch Ilen), an Irish ship
Embet Ilen (c. 1801–1851), Eritrean politician
Ilen Church, a church in Trondheim, Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanthedon%20flavicaudata | Synanthedon flavicaudata is a moth of the family Sesiidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1887. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
References
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1887
Sesiidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLOps | MLOps or ML Ops is a paradigm that aims to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production reliably and efficiently. The word is a compound of "machine learning" and the continuous development practice of DevOps in the software field. Machine learning models are tested and developed in isolated experimental systems. When an algorithm is ready to be launched, MLOps is practiced between Data Scientists, DevOps, and Machine Learning engineers to transition the algorithm to production systems. Similar to DevOps or DataOps approaches, MLOps seeks to increase automation and improve the quality of production models, while also focusing on business and regulatory requirements. While MLOps started as a set of best practices, it is slowly evolving into an independent approach to ML lifecycle management. MLOps applies to the entire lifecycle - from integrating with model generation (software development lifecycle, continuous integration/continuous delivery), orchestration, and deployment, to health, diagnostics, governance, and business metrics. According to Gartner, MLOps is a subset of ModelOps. MLOps is focused on the operationalization of ML models, while ModelOps covers the operationalization of all types of AI models.
Definition
MLOps is a paradigm, including aspects like best practices, sets of concepts, as well as a development culture when it comes to the end-to-end conceptualization, implementation, monitoring, deployment, and scalability of machine learning products. Most of all, it is an engineering practice that leverages three contributing disciplines: machine learning, software engineering (especially DevOps), and data engineering. MLOps is aimed at productionizing machine learning systems by bridging the gap between development (Dev) and operations (Ops). Essentially, MLOps aims to facilitate the creation of machine learning products by leveraging these principles: CI/CD automation, workflow orchestration, reproducibility; versioning of data, model, and code; collaboration; continuous ML training and evaluation; ML metadata tracking and logging; continuous monitoring; and feedback loops.
History
The challenges of the ongoing use of machine learning in applications were highlighted in a 2015 paper. The predicted growth in machine learning included an estimated doubling of ML pilots and implementations from 2017 to 2018, and again from 2018 to 2020.
Reports show a majority (up to 88%) of corporate machine learning initiatives are struggling to move beyond test stages. However, those organizations that actually put machine learning into production saw a 3-15% profit margin increases. The MLOps market was estimated at $23.2billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $126 billion by 2025 due to rapid adoption.
Architecture
Machine Learning systems can be categorized in eight different categories: data collection, data processing, feature engineering, data labeling, model design, model training and optimization, endpoint deployment, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A1dio%20Clube%20%28Ponta%20Grossa%29 | Rádio Clube (also known as Rádio Clube Pontagrossense or informally PR-J2) is a Brazilian radio station from Ponta Grossa, Paraná, an affiliate of Bandeirantes Radio Network. The station covers, in addition to Ponta Grossa, municipalities such as Carambeí, Castro, Ipiranga, Palmeira, Jaguariaíva and Telemaco Borba, operating since August 10, 2017 at 94.1 MHz FM. It is the oldest radio station in activity in the Paraná.
History
The station was founded by entrepreneurs Abilio Holzmann and Manoel Machuca (the first to use the microphone) on January 21, 1940, together with former governor Manoel Ribas, the Maneco Falcão. It is the oldest radio in the interior of Paraná and the second oldest in the state. In fact the station had obtained the authorization to operate on September 15, 1939, but officially began its operations a year later. It initially operated with 250 watts on 1250 kHz, with the first studio in the Street Ernesto Vilela, 96, the transmission tower is next. Its original call sign was PRJ2, so to this day it is also called that. Subsequently, other radio stations appeared, forming the Paranaense Network of Broadcasters, with stations in Paraná and Santa Catarina (Paranaguá, Curitiba, Rio Negro, Canoinhas, Lapa, Irati and Londrina). Holzmann besides being in the direction, would accompany the journalistic and sportive team.
In 1982, Machuca and Holzmann sold to a political group. The Holzmann Group stayed with the Central Radio (now Massa FM). Some employees remained during this transition period.
On April 19, 2018, Rogério Serman, who had a leading audience program in the morning, died, the speaker was also vice mayor and programming director of the radio. By the bill (PL) 213/2018 the councilman Sebastião Mainardes (DEM) proposes to pay homage to the former politician and broadcaster giving his name to the Lake of Olarias.
References
External links
Anatel channel report
Signal strength in the coverage region
Radio stations established in 1940
Radio stations in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride%20sharing%20privacy | Ride sharing networks face issues of user privacy like other online platforms do. Concerns surrounding the apps include the security of financial details (which are often required to pay for the service), and privacy of personal details and location. Privacy concerns can also rise during the ride as some drivers choose to use passenger facing cameras for their own security. As the use of ride sharing services become more widespread so do the privacy issues associated with them.
History
Ride-sharing has been a concept since World War II, but it wasn't until around the 1990s when programs started to digitize. Some of the first telephone-based ride-matching programs were Bellevue Smart Traveler from the University of Washington, Los Angeles Smart Traveler from Los Angeles's Commuter Transportation Services, and Rideshare Express from Sacramento Rideshare. However, in these telephone-based programs the operational costs started exceeding their revenues and an alternative, internet and email driven ride-matches, was proposed. This program was tested on a closed campus (it was only available to people associated with the University of Washington), which proved highly successful. Two other programs, ATHENA and MINERVA were both computerized but faced unsuccessful endings. When the internet was created in the 1990s, online ride-matching was created. Websites originally had lists or forums that people could get information for carpooling options from, but the internet provided the ability to develop platforms, which were more dynamic and interactive. This concept didn't take off because the mechanics were not any different than traditional carpooling, only the ability to find them had been made easier. Since carpooling and ride-sharing were not very popular options, the smaller population who did participate already had set agendas, so timing-wise it was not helpful to those who needed transportation outside of a regular workday commute. Larger scale companies started becoming interested in partnering with ride-matching companies in order to spread the ride-sharing platform. They are gaining more traction as availability of mobile technology and thus accessibility not from a stationary point has become more prominent.
User input/privacy with software data
Software
User input features
Ride-sharing applications have several common user input features:
Users can input their pick-up destination.
Users can input their drop-off destination.
Users can save a home or work address.
Users can save unique places if they are visited frequently.
Users can also pinpoint their exact location on a map.
Users can save their credit card information for easy access.
Users can invite their friends which the app pulls from their phone contact information.
Users can create their own profile.
Users can see the profiles of their potential drivers as well as any reviews that come with it.
Ride-sharing companies also have several tracking features that are unclear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic%20Power%20Relations | The Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset identifies all politically relevant ethnic groups, their size, and their access to state power in every country of the world with a population of at least 250,000 from 1946 to 2017. It includes annual data on over 800 groups and codes the degree to which their representatives hold executive-level state power, from total control of the government, power-sharing to overt political discrimination. Also, it provides information on regional autonomy arrangements.
The EPR data is maintained by researchers at the Chair of International Conflict Research at ETH Zurich. The current version of the EPR data is available in research-ready country-year and group-year format from the GROWup Research Front-End data portal.
In contrast to similar datasets, such as Minorities At Risk (MAR), the EPR list includes minority and majority groups. The EPR data is one of the most widely used datasets on ethnic groups in Social Sciences. Google Scholar lists 1035 references to the EPR.
EPR Dataset Family
In addition to ethnic power relations, the EPR dataset family includes information on ethnic groups’ settlement patterns, links to rebel organizations, transborder ethnic kin relations, ethnic refugee groups, and intraethnic cleavages.
Expert survey
The EPR data is composed on the basis of an online expert survey. Nearly one hundred country and regional experts were asked to identify the ethnic categories most salient for national politics in each country.
External links
Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Dataset Family
GROWup - Geographical Research On War, Unified Platform
References
ETH Zurich
Statistical data sets
Social groups
Ethnicity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihag%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: The Silent Thief / ) is a 2019 Philippine television drama crime series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Neal del Rosario, it stars Max Collins. It premiered on April 1, 2019 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Inagaw na Bituin. The series concluded on August 16, 2019 with a total of 98 episodes. It was replaced by Prima Donnas in its timeslot.
Originally titled as Ganti and later Stolen, it was later renamed to Bihag. The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The lives of married couple, Jessie and Brylle will be disturbed after their son is abducted. Jessie is dissonant finding her son, because she cannot believe why someone would hurt her family.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Max Collins as Jessica "Jessie" Medina-Alejandro
Supporting cast
Mark Herras as Larry Pineda
Jason Abalos as Brylle Alejandro
Neil Ryan Sese as Amado Anzures
Sophie Albert as Regina Marie "Reign Marie" Sison
Raphael Landicho as Ethan James M. Alejandro
Glenda Garcia as Emilou Alejandro
Nicole Kim Donesa as Martha Dampit
Biboy Ramirez as Gino "Gene" Chavez
Jade Lopez as Liza Chavez
Guest cast
Celine Juan as Gigi
Andrew Ferrer as Drew
Joseph Izon as Reyes
Luri Vincent Nalus as Boy
Star Orjaliza as Marijoy
Mike Agassi as Nico
Production
Kim Domingo was initially hired for a role, but later backed out during pre-production due to the character's role. Sophie Albert took her role.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, got its highest rating on May 22, 2019 with an 8% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2019 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine crime television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenlife | Screenlife or computer screen film is a genre of visual storytelling where all the events are shown on a computer, tablet or smartphone screen. It became popular in the 2010s with the growing impact of the Internet.
According to Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian-Kazakh director and producer, a computer screen film should take place on one specific screen, never move outside of the screen, the camerawork should resemble the behavior of the device's camera, all the action should take place in real time, without any visible transitions and all the sounds should originate from the computer. There have, however, also been movies that switch between screens and still categorized as screenlife.
After producing one of the first mainstream feature-length computer screen films, Unfriended, in 2014, Bekmambetov popularized screenlife as a narrative device in film.
Features
Screenlife video displays only a desktop of a computer or smartphone and actions of the main character on this device: viewing files, surfing the Internet, Zoom or Skype calls, texting in messengers. Screenlife movies are most often made using screen recording software and simulating the footage of webcams or phone cameras.
Screenlife is not a genre of film, because screenlife movies can be made in different genres: horror, thriller, comedy, etc. It is mostly regarded as a new storytelling format because the computer or smartphone screen is used in journalism and advertising as a visual source. Screenlife takes elements from the pseudo-documentary and found footage formats (eg. The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity).
The name "screenlife" was coined by Russian director Timur Bekbambetov who has directed and produced several films under this genre. The earliest experimentations of a combination of a classic film format and the use of computer screens were made in the 2000s. For example, the horror movie The Collingswood Story shows everything through the web cameras of the main characters. Nonetheless, the 2013 horror film The Den by American director Zachary Donohue is considered to be the first modern feature-length film using computer screens as a medium to depict the events happening in the film.
In 2014, the full-length screenlife film Unfriended was released. It earned $64 million at the box office on a budget of $1 million, and spawned a sequel called Unfriended: Dark Web in 2018.
The most successful screenlife movie is the 2018 thriller Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty. The main roles were played by John Cho and Debra Messing. The film received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and collected in world box office over $75 million with a budget of about $700,000 and received a sequel, Missing, in 2023.
Also in 2018, another screenlife film Open Windows by Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo was released.
In 2018, Bekmambetov first was the director of the screenlife film Profile (in all previous projects, he performed as a producer). Profile is a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift%20Heights%20Preparatory | Uplift Heights Preparatory is a charter school that is located in West Dallas. Uplift Heights serves PK-12. Uplift Heights is part of Uplift Education's Network of Charter Schools.
Uplift Heights is an International Baccalaureate school.
Uplift Heights had its first graduating class in 2017.
References
External links
Private schools in Dallas
2011 establishments in Texas
Educational institutions established in 2011
High schools in Dallas
Middle schools in Dallas
Elementary schools in Dallas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20for%20Cinema%20and%20Media%20Studies | The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) is a non-profit organization founded in Berlin on 10 February 2006. It primarily postulates on fostering innovative film studies research affiliated to European Cinema. The NECS is now domiciliated at the Philipps University of Marburg (German: Philipps-Universität Marburg) located in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. As of 2018, the NECS comprises over 2700 members whose network is organised by 5 committees.
History and founders
The NECS was founded in Berlin on 10 February 2006 at the German Historical Museum (German: Deutsches Historisches Museum) in Berlin-Mitte by Prof. Dr. Malte Hagener (Philipps University of Marburg), Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe University Frankfurt), Prof. Dr. Alexandra Schneider (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) and Prof. Patrick Vonderau (Martin Luther University Halle, Germany).
Steering committee
Among the past Steering Committee members are found:
Dr.Patricia Pisters, Dr.Jaap Kooijman and Dr.Tarja Laine (University of Amsterdam)
Dr. Dorota Ostrowska (Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck University)
Dr. Malin Wahlberg, Dr.Trond Lundemo and Astrid Söderbergh Widding (Stockholm University)
Dr.Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University)
Notable members
Dr. Catherine O'Brien: British film scholar, former Senior lecturer in Film studies and French at Kingston University, London.
International conferences
Vienna (2007)
Budapest (2008)
Lund (2009)
Istanbul (2010)
London (2011)
Lisbon (2012)
Prague (2013)
Milano (2014)
Lodz (2015)
Potsdam (2016)
Paris (2017)
References
External links
European cinema
Film organisations in Germany
German film-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria%20Pettorino | Valeria Pettorino is an Italian physicist working in cosmology, astrophysics and data analysis. She is a CDI Researcher at CosmoStat, CEA Saclay, and she is part of Planck and Euclid ESA/NASA international space missions.
Her work is related to the use of data from ground and space missions to test theoretical models that describe the evolution and content of the Universe. Her work aims to describe the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Career
Pettorino studied physics as an undergraduate and obtained her PhD from the University of Naples in 2005, with a dissertation on "Dark energy in generalized theories of gravity". In 2007 she joined the Euclid space mission and became an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. In 2009 she joined the Planck space mission and became Associate Research Fellow at Columbia University. She completed her PostDoc at SISSA in Trieste.
She works as astrophysicist and research engineer at CEA Paris-Saclay. Pettorino helped complete the final analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope, which mapped the early universe with unprecedented precision.
Pettorino is also on the leadership team for the Worldwide Mentorship Program for Women in Physics. She also helped organize the annual EuroPython conference for users of the Python programming language.
Personal
Pettorino's uncle was physicist Roberto Pettorino (1946-2013), who worked in string theory. As a side project, Pettorino took part into a creative writing group project, where she translated the opening lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy into a geometry problem.
Selected publications
Pettorino, Valeria, La quete de l'origine de l'acceleration cosmique. The Conversation (2019)
with Austin Peel, Florian Lalande, Jean-Luc Starck, Julian Merten, Carlo Giocoli, Massimo Meneghetti, Marco Baldi: Distinguishing standard and modified gravity cosmologies with machine learning (2018)
with Julian Merten, Carlo Giocoli, Marco Baldi, Massimo Meneghetti, Austin Peel, Florian Lalande, Jean-Luc Starck: On the dissection of degenerate cosmologies with machine learning (2018)
with Austin Peel, Valeria Pettorino, Carlo Giocoli, Jean-Luc Starck, Marco Baldi: Breaking degeneracies in modified gravity with higher (than 2nd) order weak-lensing statistics (2018)
with Santiago Casas, Martin Kunz, Matteo Martinelli: Linear and non-linear Modified Gravity forecasts with future surveys (2017)
References
21st-century Italian physicists
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Naples Federico II alumni
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20provinces%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Turkish provinces by GDP and GDP per capita.
List of provinces by GDP
Provinces by GDP in 2021 according to data by the Turkish Statistical Institute.
List of provinces by GDP per capita
Provinces by GDP per capita in 2021 according to data by the Turkish Statistical Institute.
See also
Economy of Turkey
List of Turkish regions by Human Development Index
References
GDP
Provinces by GDP
Gross state product
Ranked lists of country subdivisions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijad%20Madisch | Ijad Madisch (born 7 October 1980 in Wolfsburg, Germany) is a German virologist, founder and CEO of the research network ResearchGate and member of the Digital Council (Digitalrat) of the Cabinet of Germany (Bundesregierung).
Personal life
Ijad Madisch was born in Wolfsburg to a Syrian family who immigrated to Germany. His elder brother is Ahmed Madisch, a professor and chief physician at Siloah hospital in Hannover.
In 2000, Ijad got his Abitur from Gymnasium in Celle.
Ijad Madisch plays Beachvolleyball semi-professionally. His current teammate is the former German national player Finn Dittelbach.
Career
From 2000 to 2007, Ijad Madisch studied medicine at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and worked in the US at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical School. From 2002 to 2008, he studied computer sciences at the University of Hagen, but did not complete this degree.
In 2007, Madisch received his doctorate from the MHH in the field of virology with summa cum laude for his work entitled "Molecular Phylogeny and Bioinformatic Analysis as the basis for the typing of human adenoviruses and for the design of organ-specific gene therapy adenoviral vectors". He received the doctoral prize from MHH for this thesis.
From 2008 to 2010, he went back to Massachusetts General Hospital as a postdoctoral researcher. During this time, Madisch won the Young Investigator Prize of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago for the project "High-resolution volume CT imaging of tissue-engineered bone growth: correlation between imaging, bio-mechanical strength, and protein transcription analysis".
The decisive factor for his move to the United States was the desire to found ResearchGate, the social network which is specifically created for scientists to exchange their research projects and results. Since 2010, he is the head of the digital platform as chief executive officer (CEO) and has raised 87.6M $ from Bill Gates, Benchmark (venture capital firm), Founders Fund, Goldman Sachs, Ashton Kutcher and others.
Time Magazine named Ijad Madisch a Next Generation Leader.
He also is a member of the selection committee for the Breakthrough Prize Junior Challenge founded by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri Milner and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.
After a telephone request from the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ijad Madisch became on 22 August 2018 a member of the 10-member Digital Council of the Cabinet of Germany.
Publications
Ijad Madisch, Gabi Harste, Heidi Pommer, Albert Heim: Phylogenetic analysis of the main neutralization and hemagglutination determinants of all human adenovirus prototypes as a basis for molecular classification and taxonomy. (J Virol. 2005 Dezember;79(24):15265-76.), online
Ijad Madisch, Roman Wölfel, Gabi Harste, Heidi Pommer, Albert Heim: Molecular identification of adenovirus sequences: A rapid scheme for early typing of human adenoviruses in diagnostic samples of imm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranking%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, ranking is the data transformation in which numerical or ordinal values are replaced by their rank when the data are sorted. For example, the numerical data 3.4, 5.1, 2.6, 7.3 are observed, the ranks of these data items would be 2, 3, 1 and 4 respectively. For example, the ordinal data hot, cold, warm would be replaced by 3, 1, 2. In these examples, the ranks are assigned to values in ascending order. (In some other cases, descending ranks are used.) Ranks are related to the indexed list of order statistics, which consists of the original dataset rearranged into ascending order.
Use for testing
Some kinds of statistical tests employ calculations based on ranks. Examples include:
Friedman test
Kruskal–Wallis test
Rank products
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Wilcoxon rank-sum test
Wilcoxon signed-rank test
Van der Waerden test
The distribution of values in decreasing order of rank is often of interest when values vary widely in scale; this is the rank-size distribution (or rank-frequency distribution), for example for city sizes or word frequencies. These often follow a power law.
Some ranks can have non-integer values for tied data values. For example, when there is an even number of copies of the same data value, the above described fractional statistical rank of the tied data ends in ½.
Percentile rank is another type of statistical ranking.
Computation
Microsoft Excel provides two ranking functions, the function which assigns competition ranks ("1224") and the function which assigns fractional ranks ("1 2.5 2.5 4") as described above. The functions have the argument, which is by default is set to descending, i.e. the largest number will have a rank 1. This is generally uncommon for statistics where the ranking is usually in ascending order, where the smallest number has a rank 1.
Comparison of rankings
A rank correlation can be used to compare two rankings for the same set of objects.
For example, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is useful to measure the statistical dependence between the rankings of athletes in two tournaments. And the Kendall rank correlation coefficient is another approach.
Alternatively, intersection/overlap-based approaches offer additional flexibility.
One example is the "Rank–rank hypergeometric overlap" approach, which is designed to compare ranking of the genes that are at the "top" of two ordered lists of differentially expressed genes.
A similar approach is taken by the "Rank Biased Overlap (RBO)", which also implements an adjustable probability, p, to customize the weight assigned at a desired depth of ranking.
These approaches have the advantages of addressing disjoint sets, sets of different sizes, and top-weightedness (taking into account the absolute ranking position, which may be ignored in standard non-weighted rank correlation approaches).
Definition
Let be a set of random variables. By sorting them into order, we have defined their order statistics
If |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Johns | Timothy Francis Johns (1936 – 2009) was a British academic, strongly associated with the origins and development of data-driven learning (DDL), an approach to learning foreign languages which has learners use the output of computer concordancers, either interactively on screen or via paper printouts, to discover grammar rules and facts about word associations and meanings.
Johns was appointed to the fledgling English for Overseas Students Unit (EOSU) of Birmingham University in 1971 and remained there for the rest of his career. During the 1970s he developed remedial English programs for all departments, but also worked with a colleague, Tony Dudley-Evans, on an innovative team-teaching approach involving the staff of two departments, Highway Engineering and Plant Biology. Reports of this work were published by the British Council and were influential outside Birmingham, in particular on work done at the University of Malaysia. In a significant article written with Flo Davies he urged vehemently that students coming to British universities from overseas should work with authentic texts, not with decontextualised sentences or simplified readers.
References
1936 births
2009 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20M.%20White | Richard Manning White (1930 – August 17, 2020) was an electrical engineer and a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and a Co-Founding Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC). He and Richard S. Muller founded the BSAC in 1986. They received 2013 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal for pioneering innovation and leadership in MEMS technology. White is known for inventing the Interdigital Transducer (IDT) and for his surface acoustic wave work, he received the 2003 Rayleigh Award. He received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award in 1986.
He was born in 1930 and grew up in Denver. He attended Harvard University for his B.A. degree in 1951 and A.M. in 1952. He continued on at Harvard, earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1956 with his dissertation on the scattering of sound waves at a cylindrical bore in a solid. He researched microwave devices at General Electric while at Harvard. After Harvard, White worked as a research scientist in the Microwave Division at General Electric. White joined the Electrical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley in 1962 where he invented interdigitated transducers for surface acoustic wave devices.
White received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968 and was made a Fellow of the IEEE in 1972 "for contributions to the discovery and applications of surface elastic waves." He was also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
White was still active in his field when he died on August 17, 2020.
References
Harvard University alumni
American electrical engineers
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
IEEE award recipients
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2020 deaths
1930 births
Engineers from Denver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer%20on%20Turner%20Sports | Soccer on Turner Sports is a number of programs that currently airs soccer matches in the United States. These matches are from International, European, and American competitions.
Programming
UEFA Champions League
In 2017, Turner Sports announced that they had acquired the rights to air all of the matches from the UEFA Champions League live. The contract originally ran from 2018–2021. Tuner later announced that they would air 4 matches per week on TNT and the remainder of the matches on new streaming service B/R Live. All matches will be commentated through world feed. During the 2019-2020 season, Turner Sports opted out from the rest of the contract after airing 12 round of 16 matches, eventually giving up the rights. It eventually moved to CBS Sports where it became the rightsholder for English-language Broadcasts of the UEFA Champions League.
UEFA Europa League
Turner Sports formerly carried the UEFA Europa League through the same contract as the Champions League programming. While it could have aired the UEFA Europa League final, it was later moved to CBS Sports for the remainder of the 2019-2020 season.
UEFA Super Cup
Through their UEFA contract, the UEFA Super Cup has been broadcast by Turner live on TNT.
2019 Liverpool Pre-season Matches
Turner Sports aired all Liverpool F.C. pre-season matches during July. Selected matches are broadcast on TNT while all matches are on B/R Live.
FIFA World Cup
Turner Sports aired the 1990 FIFA World Cup live on TNT in the United States. The tournament was hosted by Ernie Johnson. Bob Neal and Mick Luckhurst served as the lead broadcast team. Meanwhile, JP Dellacamera and Randy Hahn were the other play-by-play announcers with Rick Davis and Ty Keough were the other color commentators. Also, utilized by TNT for the 1990 World Cup was Craig Sager and Paul Ryden.
USSF
Turner Sports will air USMNT and USWNT matches for a 8-year deal from 2023 to 2030, replacing ESPN/ABC and Fox Sports. Luke Wileman will handling play-by-play duties, while Sara Walsh hosting studio coverage and Melissa Ortiz reporting on sideline. Joined them as co-commentator or studio analysts will be Julie Foudy, DaMarcus Beasley, Shannon Boxx and Kyle Martino.
References
External links
TNT Soccer Schedule
CBS Wins U.S. Champions League TV Rights From TNT — Here’s Why This Could Actually Be Bad
American live television series
Turner Sports
Association football television series
TNT (American TV network) original programming
Turner Sports
1990s American television series
2010s American television series
Turner Sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Rieffel | Eleanor Gilbert Rieffel (born 1965) is a mathematician interested in quantum computing, computer vision, and cryptography. She is a senior research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Rieffel earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, Groups Coarse Quasi-Isometric to the Hyperbolic Plane Cross the Real Line, concerned geometric group theory, and was supervised by Geoffrey Mess. After working for FX Palo Alto Laboratory, she joined NASA in 2012. In 2019 she won the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal.
With Wolfgang Polak, Rieffel is the author of the book Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction (MIT Press, 2011).
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
NASA people
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Wong | Eugene Wong (born December 24, 1934 in Nanking, China) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and mathematician. Wong's career has spanned academia, university administration, government and the private sector. Together with Michael Stonebraker and a group of scientists at IBM, Wong is credited with pioneering database research in the 1970s from which software developed by IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle descends.
Wong retired in 1994, since then holding the title of Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley.
The IEEE, as part of an award citation, wrote that Wong "is known for the extraordinary breadth of his accomplishments" and "for leadership in national and international engineering research and technology policy, for pioneering contributions in relational databases."
Ingres
In 1973, Michael Stonebraker and his colleague Eugene Wong, having read Edgar F. Codd's work regarding the relational data model, began their own research into the topic.
When "The Design and Implementation of Ingres" (Interactive graphics and retrieval system) was published in 1976, two other names, Peter Kreps and Gerald Held, were listed as authors. As algorithms were defined and implemented, the list grew: "the Wong-Youssefi algorithm."
Biography
After escaping war-torn mainland China in 1947, Wong and his family settled in New York City. After graduating from Forest Hills High School with highest Honors, Wong enrolled at Princeton University where he received his B.S. (1955), master's (1958) and PhD (1959) in electrical engineering. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Cambridge until 1960 and from 1960 to 1962 a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1962, where he later served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. His research interests are in stochastic systems and database management. He has mentored 21 PhD students, including:
Bruce Hajek, Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair in Engineering at UIUC, known for work in communication networks and random processes,
Yannis Ioannidis, Professor of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Randy Katz, United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley,
R. C. T. Lee, professor at National Chi Nan University and co-author of book Symbolic Logic and Mechanical Theorem Proving, and
Caro Lucas (1949–2010), former professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Tehran known for work in intelligent systems and robotics.
With the late Moshe Zakai, he originated a line of study in stochastic calculus now known as Wong-Zakai theory. Wong was a co-designer of Ingres, one of the first modern database systems and co-author on a major text on stochastic processes.
From 1990 to 1993, Wong served as associate director of the White Hou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20soybean%20production | This is a list of countries by soybean production from 2016 to 2020, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world production for soybeans in 2020 was 353,463,735 metric tonnes, up 5.1% from 336,329,392 tonnes in 2019. Brazil was the largest producer, accounting for 34% of world production, followed by the United States at 32%.
Production by country
>1,000,000 tonnes
100,000–1,000,000 tonnes
10,000–100,000 tonnes
<10,000 tonnes
Production by country per capita
Here's the top 10 country with the highest production of soybean per capita.
Notes
References
Soybean production
Soybean
Soybean production
Production by country
Soybeans
Soybeans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Beery | Janet Lynn Beery is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics who serves as a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Redlands. She also served as the editor-in-chief of mathematics history journal Convergence from 2009 to 2019, and has authored a book on the mathematics of Thomas Harriot.
Education and career
Beery graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 1983, majoring in mathematics and English literature. She went to Dartmouth College for her graduate education in mathematics, earning a master's degree there in 1985 and completing her Ph.D. in 1989. Her dissertation, Transitive Groups of Prime Degree, was in group theory, supervised by Thomas F. Bickel.
While at Dartmouth, she also worked as an instructor at the University of Puget Sound. She has been on the University of Redlands faculty since 1989.
Contributions
With Jackie Stedall, Beery is the editor of Thomas Harriot’s Doctrine of Triangular Numbers: the 'Magisteria Magna' (European Mathematical Society, 2009). She is also an editor of Women in Mathematics – Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America (Springer, 2017), with Sarah J. Greenwald, Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, and Maura Mast.
She has been editor-in-chief of Convergence, a journal of the Mathematical Association of America, since 2009.
She has also been active with the College Board in developing examination questions and instructional material for the AP Calculus exam,
and has been clerk of the Association for Women in Mathematics since 2014.
Recognition
In 2010 the Mathematical Association of America gave Beery their Meritorious Service Award.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
University of Puget Sound alumni
Dartmouth College alumni
University of Puget Sound faculty
University of Redlands faculty
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women educators
20th-century American educators
21st-century American women
20th-century American women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Plus | K-Plus (stylized as K+) is a Southeast Asian pay television channel focused on airing drama series, variety shows, movies and lifestyle programmes in K-pop, beauty & fashion as its main programming genre. It was launched on 17 September 2014 and it is available in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines. It also offers select titles to OTT platforms iflix, LeEco and Tribe. K+ is based in Singapore and is owned by Plus Media Networks, a subsidiary of South Korea-based JJ MediaWorks.
History
The channel was first launched in Indonesia in September 2014 on pay-TV provider K-Vision (now ceased since 2016 due to the carriage agreement, but now available on IndiHome since 2016 and Dens.TV since 2017).
In the Philippines, it was previously available on Easy TV Home (from May 25, 2018 until September 30, 2019), Sky Cable (April 2019 to May 1, 2023) and Cablelink (September 2018 till June 1, 2023) with Cignal being the only pay TV provider in the country to have the channel available since January 4, 2021.
The channel is available on Unifi TV in Malaysia on October 1, 2021.
The channel was launched at Astro on May 18, 2022 (which the channel has previously appeared through their Astro GO app exclusively), while included on their prepaid satellite service NJOI in early June 2022.
Notes and references
External links
Television stations in Singapore
Television channels and stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Singapore
Mass media in Southeast Asia
Korean-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Swedish%20counties%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Swedish Counties by GDP and GDP per capita.
List of Counties by GDP
Counties by GDP in 2015 according to data by the OECD.
List of Counties by GDP per capita
Counties by GDP per capita in 2015 according to data by the OECD.
References
Gross state product
Counties by GDP
GDP
Ranked lists of country subdivisions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hungarian%20counties%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Hungarian Counties by GDP and GDP per capita.
List of Counties by GDP
Counties by GDP in 2016 according to data by the OECD.
List of Counties by GDP per capita
Counties by GDP per capita in 2018 according to data by the OECD.
References
Counties by GDP
GDP
Gross state product
Counties by GDP
Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEO%20compensation%20among%20charities%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | In the UK, CEOs of charities are compensated for their time, and the data of which is available in the public domain. In comparison to the private sector, the compensation of charity CEOs is generally substantially lower. For example Steve Robertson of the privatised Thames Water, which serves water to 10,000,000 people, received a fixed salary of £745,000 in 2018, with potential bonus of £3,750,000 in 2020. For a public-sector comparison, Former UK prime minister David Cameron received a salary of £142,500 in 2015.
The table below outlines financial data - CEO salaries and turnover figures - where available, of a selection of major charities in the United Kingdom, by capital.
Data for 2001 and 2002 is available on The Guardian's website
The below table shows the inflation-adjusted, equivalent value of 100 British pounds in 2017, for previous years. It is sourced from Bank of England website:
References
Charities based in the United Kingdom
Charities based in Scotland
Charities based in Northern Ireland
Charities based in England
Charities based in Wales
Charities based in England and Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20division%20experiments | Various experiments have been made to evaluate various procedures for fair division, the problem of dividing resources among several people. These include case studies, computerized simulations, and lab experiments.
Case studies
Allocating indivisible heirlooms
1. Flood describes a division of a gift containing 5 parcels: whiskey, prunes, eggs, suitcase, etc. The division was done using the Knaster auction. The resulting division was fair, but in retrospect it was found that coalitions could gain from manipulation.
2. When Mary Anna Lee Paine Winsor died at the age of 93, her estate included two trunks of silver, that had to be divided among her 8 grandchildren. It was divided using a decentralized, fair and efficient allocation procedure, which combined market equilibrium and a Vickrey auction. Although most participants did not fully understand the algorithm or the preference information desired, it handled the major considerations well and was regarded as equitable.
Allocating unused classrooms
In California, the law says that public school classrooms should be shared fairly among all public school pupils, including those in charter schools. Schools have dichotomous preferences: each school demands a certain number of classes, it is happy if it got all of them and unhappy otherwise. A new algorithm allocates classrooms to schools using a non-trivial implementation of the randomized leximin mechanism. Unfortunately it was not deployed in practice, but it was tested using computer simulations based on real school data. While the problem is computationally-hard, simulations show that the implementation scales gracefully in terms of running time: even when there are 300 charter schools, it terminates in a few minutes on average. Moreover, while theoretically the algorithm guarantees only 1/4 of the maximum number of allocated classrooms, in the simulations it satisfies on average at least 98% of the maximum number of charter schools that can possibly be satisfied, and allocates on average at least 98% of the maximum number of classrooms that can possibly be allocated.
The partial collaboration with the school district lead to several practical desiderata in deploying fair division solutions in practice. First, the simplicity of the mechanism, and the intuitiveness of the properties of proportionality, envy-freeness, Pareto optimality, and strategyproofness, have made the approach more likely to be adopted. On the other hand, the use of randomization, though absolutely necessary in order to guarantee fairness in allocating indivisible goods such as classrooms, has been a somewhat harder sell: the term "lottery" raised negative connotations and legal objections.
Resolving international conflicts
The adjusted winner procedure is a protocol for simultaneously resolving several issues under conflict, such that the agreement is envy-free, equitable, and Pareto efficient. It has been commercialized through the FairOutcomes website. While there |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical%20distribution%20of%20Polish%20speakers | The article provides details and data regarding the geographical distribution of all Polish speakers, regardless of the legislative status of the countries where it's spoken. The Polish language is the dominant language of Poland and it's spoken in authochtonous minority areas through Europe and in many immigrant communities in all over the world.
Statistics
Native speakers
This table depicts the native speakers of the language, which means that the table includes people who have been exposed to the Polish language from birth and, thus, excludes people who use the language as a L2.
See also
Geolinguistics
Notes
References
Polish language
Polish |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FloraNT | FloraNT is a public access web-based database of the Flora of the Northern Territory of Australia. It provides authoritative scientific information on some 4300 native taxa, including descriptions, maps, images, conservation status, nomenclatural details together with names used by various aboriginal groups. Alien taxa (over 470 species) are also recorded. Users can access fact sheets on species and some details of the specimens held in the Northern Territory Herbarium, (herbaria codes, NT, DNA) together with keys, and some regional factsheets.
In the distribution guides FloraNT uses the IBRA version 5.1 botanical regions.
The conservation act for NT flora (and fauna) is the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976 or TWPCA, and it uses the IUCN criteria and categories.
Herbaria
The Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources is responsible for the Northern Territory Herbarium which has two sites and two index herbariorum codes, DNA, at Palmerston, and NT in Alice Springs.
See also
For other online flora databases see List of electronic Floras.
References
External links
Official NTFlora website — homepage + search.
NT Flora: Threatened Species
Weeds of the Northern Territory
Online botany databases
Botany in the Northern Territory
Biological databases
Databases in Australia
Herbaria in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokala | The wokala (singular: wakil; ) were a networks of agents who were active from Ja'far al-Sadiq's time until the end of the Minor Occultation in 941 CE. The wikalah was responsible for the relations between imams and Shia Islam as well as collecting religious taxes.
Terminology
Wikalah is an Arabic word describing a person who performs duties on behalf of someone else.
It is similar to the English terms agent or power of attorney. A wikalah is a second in command, trusted with acting on behalf of a principal. Wikalah (plural) is used when a person is unable to perform a task directly.
History
Shia imams frequently had to deal with persecution and sometimes - in order to protect themselves - resorted to the practice of taqiya, a form of religious dissimulation. Because of the critical situation of the imams in this era, they were looking for a way to connect with Shia Islam. Often deputies acted secretly on behalf of the Abbasid Caliphs and, in some cases, it was not known that they were imam's deputies.
Formation
The network of agents (Wikalah) was established during the sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq. It peaked in the time of the eleventh Imam, Hasan al-Askari. The network of agents was especially important during the minor occultation, because Imam Mahdi only contacted his followers through the agents. The function of this system is shown in letters of instruction of the Al-Hadi. According to Jassim M. Hussain and Abdulaziz Sachedina, deputies were responsible for managing the society. Jassim M. Hussain said: "Gradually the leadership of the Wikalah became the only authority which could determine and prove the legitimacy of the new Imam."
For example, the ninth Imam, al‑Jawad said to the head of his deputies about installing Al-Hadi as next Imam.
Minor occultation
The Four Deputies or Gates (), in Twelver Shia Islam, were four individuals who served as intermediaries between the community and the twelfth and final Imam upon his entering the Minor Occultation. The deputies are referred to by the Arabic terms Safir (emissary), Na'ib (deputy) or Wakil (advocate).
Twelver tradition holds that four deputies acted in succession to one another from 873 to 941 CE:
Uthman ibn Sa’id al-Asadi († 873–80)
Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Sa’id al-Asadi († 917)
Abul Qasim Husayn ibn Ruh al-Nawbakhti († 938)
Abul Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Samarri († 941)
The Major Occultation began following the death of the last deputy and, according to the Shia doctrine, will continue until the return of the Mahdi.
See also
Ali al-Hadi
Muhammad al-Mahdi
Sayyid Ali Akbar
List of extinct Shia sects
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi
Muhammadite Shia
Imamate (Twelver doctrine)
Ahl Al-Bayt
Jafar ibn Ali al-Hadi
References
Hujjat Allah al-Mahdi
Mahdism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Finnish%20regions%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Finnish regions by GDP and GDP per capita.
List of regions by GDP
Regions by GDP in 2015 according to data by the OECD.
List of regions by GDP per capita
Counties by GDP per capita in 2015 according to data by the OECD.
References
Regions by GDP
Gross state product
GDP
Ranked lists of country subdivisions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Stasny | Elizabeth Ann Stasny is a professor emeritus of statistics at Ohio State University. She is an expert on survey methodology and particularly on missing data in surveys.
Education
Stasny earned her Ph.D. in 1983 at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Estimating Gross Flows in Labor Force Participation Using Data From the Canadian Labour Force Survey, was supervised by Stephen Fienberg.
Contributions
With Dennis K. Pearl, Stasny is the author of Experiments in Statistical Concepts (Kendall Hunt, 1994).
In 2010 she became one of 18 experts named by US Attorney General Eric Holder to found the Science Advisory Board of the Office of Justice Programs.
Recognition
Stasny was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1997.
References
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Ohio State University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Portuguese%20administrative%20divisions%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Portuguese administrative divisions by GDP and GDP per capita.
List of administrative divisions by GDP
Administrative divisions by GDP in 2021 according to data by the National Institute for Statistics (INE).
Regions
Sub-regions
References
Administrative divisions by GDP
Gross state product
Portugal
GDP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Slovak%20regions%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Slovak regions by GDP and GDP per capita.
List of Regions by GDP
Regions by GDP in 2016 according to data by the OECD.
List of Regions by GDP per capita
Regions by GDP per capita in 2016 according to data by the OECD.
References
Prefectures by GDP per capita
Gross state product
Slovakia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bulgarian%20provinces%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Bulgarian provinces and the capital city of Sofia by GDP
List of provinces by GDP
Provinces by GDP in 2020 according to data by Eurostat.
List of provinces by GDP per capita
Provinces by GDP per capita in 2020 according to data by Eurostat.
References
Provinces by GDP
GDP
Gross state product
Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Peru%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Regions of Peru by GDP and GDP per capita.
List of regions by GDP
Regions by GDP in 2015 according to data by the OECD.
List of regions by GDP per capita
Regions by GDP per capita in 2014 according to data by the OECD.
References
Regions by GDP
Gross state product
Peru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgeanne%20R.%20Caughlan | Georgeanne (Jan) Caughlan (née Robertson; 25 October 1916 – 3 January 1994) was an American astrophysicist known for her work on stellar energy generation. Her compilation of experimental data of the rates of nuclear reactions was instrumental in establishing the theory of nucleosynthesis that led to a Nobel Prize for William A. Fowler.
Life
Georgeanne Robertson was born on 25 October 1916, the fourth of five children of George Duncan and Anna (McLeod) Robertson, in Montesano, Washington. She attended the University of Washington where she received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1937.
She married Charles Caughlan, a chemist, in 1936, with whom she had four children. She and Charles divorced in the early 1970s.
After her children grew up, she started her doctoral studies at the University of Washington, receiving her PhD in 1964.
She died on 3 January 1994.
Career
Caughlan joined Montana State University in 1957 as an instructor. Between 1961 and 1963, she was a summer research fellow at Caltech, working with William A. Fowler on stellar energy generation. She became an assistant professor at Montana State University in 1961, proceeding to a full professorship in 1974. Upon her retirement in 1984, she was made Professor Emerita.
Energy and nuclear generation in stars
In the early 1960s, Caughlan began to collect experimental data on stellar nuclear reactions as part of Fowler's researches into energy generation. She transmitted them in handwritten letters to Fowler. Along with Fowler, Caughlan developed a standard format for the presentation of proton, deuteron and alpha particle reaction rates with nuclei from hydrogen to silicon. Fowler, in particular, recognised Caughlan's studies of stellar structure and the theoretical impetus from her that led to his Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.
The compilations of astrophysical nuclear data by Caughlan (along with Barbara Zimmerman and Fowler) were published periodically, and were considered the 'bible' of nuclear astrophysics.
During Caughlan's stint at Caltech, the first computations of the structure and evolution of stars became possible as computers developed to sufficient power. A computer program developed by Robert V. Wagoner to simulate the synthesis of 41 nuclei in stars required astrophysical rates from Caughlan's work.
CNO cycle
The carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle is a process in stellar fusion that converts hydrogen to helium. In 1965, Caughlan computed that if a star exceeds thirty solar masses, the CNO cycle would result in nitrogen atoms outnumbering carbon and oxygen by a factor of 100. The star eta Carinae was determined to be in its final stages of life based on the observation of such nitrogen excess: its spectrum shows nitrogen lines but no oxygen lines.
Selected works
References
Bibliography
1916 births
1994 deaths
American astrophysicists
Montana State University faculty
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
People from Montesan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies%20Be%20Seated | Ladies Be Seated is an American old-time radio game show. It was broadcast on the Blue Network from June 4, 1943, to June 23, 1944, and on ABC from June 26, 1944, to July 21, 1950. At its peak in popularity, it was carried on 198 stations. Two versions were televised: one in 1945 and the other in 1949.
Personnel
Ed East and his wife, Polly, were the original hosts. They were joined by singers Lee Sullivan and Murray Grabhorn.
When the Easts left the program, Johnny Olson and his wife, Penny, became the hosts on June 27, 1944. He wore "a glittering minstrel costume" in his new role. Penny Olson was both co-host and associate producer, responsible for developing stunts, selecting participants, and obtaining prizes for the show — she was known on the program as "Million Dollar Penny". Billy Redford portrayed Professor Schnaaps, and Bob Mauer was the announcer. Al Greiner directed the music. Directors included Redford and Charles Acree. Producers included Redford and Phil Patton.
On September 15, 1947, Tom Moore replaced the Olsons as host of the program. His co-workers included announcers Claude Kirchner and Ed Roberts, producer Tom Hargis, organist Porter Heaps, and director Patton.
Format
Originating from WJZ in New York City, Ladies Be Seated began as a spoof of radio programs that provided household hints for women. It initially featured "blindfold husband-and-wife gags, spaghetti-eating contests, and other forms of audio slapstick". The version hosted by the Olsons included identifying songs, recognizing good deeds, and interviews with children.
Popularity
In addition to the radio audience, approximately 600 people were present for each broadcast in the program's studios. During one month of broadcasts from Chicago, the program received more than 33,000 requests for tickets, some from people as far as away. Many who attended were on honeymoons, on vacations, or at conventions. Thousands more attended personal appearances when the show went on the road to cities across the United States. During the Illinois State Fair in August 1947, "the millionth lady was seated".
Sponsors
On June 18, 1945, Ladies Be Seated began to be sponsored by Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour and Muffets breakfast cereal. By December 1947, Toni home permanents had become a sponsor.
Television
Two versions of Ladies Be Seated were televised. Olson was host of the first version, which was broadcast on WRGB in Schenectady, New York. The February 27, 1945, broadcast was the Blue Network's first venture into television. Moore and Phil Patton were hosts of the second version, which was on ABC from April 22, 1949, until June 17, 1949.
References
External links
Logs
Partial log of episodes of Ladies Be Seated from radioGOLDINdex
Magazine article
"Your ticket to Ladies Be Seated" in Radio and Television Mirror, March 1949, pages 56-57
1943 radio programme debuts
1950 radio programme endings
1940s American radio programs
1950s American radio programs
1945 American televi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumman%20Chowdhury | Rumman Chowdhury (b. 1980) is a Bangladeshi American data scientist, a business founder, and former Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lead at Accenture. She was born in Rockland County, New York.
She traces her roots to Bangladesh and is recognized for her remarkable contributions to the field of data science. Chowdhury's journey into the world of science was inspired by her love for science fiction, a passion that ignited her curiosity, often attributed to the "Dana Scully Effect." This fascination with the intersection of science and fiction laid the foundation for her future endeavors.
Education
Chowdhury completed her undergraduate study in Management Science and Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received a Master's of Science from Columbia University in Statistics and Quantitative methods. She holds a Doctorate Degree in Political Science from University of California, San Diego. She finished her PhD whilst working in Silicon Valley. Her main interest and focus for her career and higher educational studies was how data can be used to understand people's bias and ways to evaluate the impact of technology on humanity From February 2021 to November 2022, she served as Director of Engineering of Twitter's Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team, working to make Twitter's AI algorithm more in line with ethical guidelines.
Career
Early
Chowdhury taught data science at the boot camp Metis and worked at Quotient before joining Accenture in 2017. She leads their work on responsible artificial intelligence. She is concerned about the AI workforce; particularly on retaining researchers. She is also concerned about algorithmic bias. She has spoken openly about the need to define what ethical AI actually means. She works with companies on developing ethical governance and algorithms that explain their decisions transparently. She is determined to use AI to improve diversity in recruitment.
Chowdhury, alongside a team of early career researchers at the Alan Turing Institute, developed a Fairness Tool which scrutinises the data that is input to an algorithm and identifies whether certain genders (such as race or gender) may influence the outcome. The tool both identifies and tries to fix bias, enabling organisations to make more fair decisions.
All.ai, Parity and X Institute
Chowdhury designed All.ai, a language analysis tool that can monitor and improve the gender balance of speakers in meetings.
In 2020 she founded Parity to bridge the translation gap between risk, legal, and data teams.
She launched X Institute, a program which teaches refugees about data science and marketing.
She has given a keynote at Slush, talking about augmenting human capabilities. She delivered a TED talk about humanity in the age of artificial intelligence.
Twitter
From February 2021 till November 2022 Chowdhury was a director for the Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META) team |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Gangster | Australian Gangster is an Australian television miniseries, produced by the Seven Network, which premiered on 13 September 2021. The miniseries is directed by Gregor Jordan and Fadia Abboud and produced by Dan Edwards, John Edwards and Gregor Jordan for Roadshow Rough Diamond.
Production
The series was announced by Seven at their annual upfronts in October 2017 and was originally meant to air sometime in 2018, however due to pending legal cases of some of the characters being depicted, the series was delayed until the cases had closed. After two years without any information regarding the series, on 21 October 2020, Seven announced at their annual upfronts that the series will finally air sometime in 2021.
Synopsis
Drug dealer, gangster, gym-junky, Lamborghini driver, husband, father, . Australian Gangster is a four hour TV series about the life and death of a new breed of Sydney criminal. The kind that doesn't care about playing it safe or keeping a low profile or even getting caught. Our main character is emblematic of the type of modern gangster that only really cares about looking good on Instagram, making a name for himself in a new, wannabe glamorous crime scene, while at the same time trying to manage the pressures of family life.
Cast
Alexander Bertrand as Pasquale Barbaro
Peter Gonis
Louisa Mignone as Melinda, Barbaro's wife
Michael Vice
Rahel Romahn as Mohammed "Little Crazy" Hamzy, Brothers for Life member
Zachary Garred
Karla Tonkich
Ishak Issa
Steve Bastoni
Simon Palomares
Joseph Fala
Federico Gazzilli
Marie Shanahan
Moodi Dennaoui
David Paulsen
Reception
Viewership
The first part had an average rating of 359,000 viewers, and the second part has an average rating of 340,000.
References
2020s Australian drama television series
2020s Australian crime television series
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Sydney
Films about organised crime in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Councils%20for%20the%20Judiciary | The European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ) is the European organization that unites the councils of the judiciary – national bodies in support of the Judiciary. From May 2018 the chairman is the Dutchman Kees Sterk. Presidents change every two years.
The ENCJ opts for cooptation of the judiciary and against the influence of parliamentary representatives in the composition of its ranks. It played an important role in the criticism from the European Union on developments in the control of the judiciary from parliament and executive power in countries such as Holland.
Presidents
Judges who have served as president of the ENCJ.
Notes
External links
Website of the ENCJ
International organizations based in Europe
Political organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Norwegian%20counties%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Norwegian Counties by GDP and GDP per capita.
List of Counties by GDP
Counties by GDP in 2015 according to data by the OECD.
List of Counties by GDP per capita
Counties by GDP per capita (without not regionalised GDP) in 2015 according to data by the OECD.
See also
Economy of Norway
References
Counties by GDP
Gross state product
GDP
Norway, GDP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20prefectures%20by%20GDP%20per%20capita | This is a list of Japanese prefectures by GDP per capita.
List of prefectures by GDP per capita
Prefectures by GDP per capita in 2018 according to data by the OECD.
References
GDP per capita
GDP
GDP
Japan, GDP per capita
Prefectures by GDP per capita |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roobee | Roobee is an international financial technology company organized and existing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, providing an AI-powered blockchain investment service. It is considered to be the first blockchain investment service developed for non-professional and private investors. The service enables its users to invest in loans, IPOs, venture capital, stocks, cryptocurrencies, ETFs and other options.
History
Roobee was founded in 2017 by Co-founder Artem Popov. August 2, 2018, during the pre-seed funding round, an anonymous investor, labeled by Bloomberg as 200M_trader invested $4.5m into Roobee. During the testing period Roobee had been used by over 5,000 people to invest an excess of US$15 million in Ethereum (ETH) into funds, venture, and blockchain projects.
References
Financial technology companies
Companies of the British Virgin Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathwatch%20%28video%20game%29 | Deathwatch is an unreleased run and gun platform video game that was in development by Data Design Interactive and planned to be published by Atari Corporation on a scheduled December 1995 release date exclusively for the Atari Jaguar. It was the only game in development by DDI for the system.
Taking control of an anthropomorphic bug character wielding a gun, players would have needed to traverse through multiple levels while fighting against enemies and avoiding obstacles along the way. Deathwatch was demonstrated during the first Electronic Entertainment Expo held in 1995, featuring a visual style similar to that of Plok on the Super NES.
Atari Corp. halted and terminated development of Deathwatch along with multiple upcoming projects for the platform in March 1996, before merging with JT Storage in a reverse takeover the next month of the same year, while the game's source code has become lost with time.
Gameplay
Deathwatch is a side-scrolling run and gun platform game where players would have taken the role of an anthropomorphic bug character who wields a gun for defensive purposes and capable of making double jumps in order to traverse across various levels, each one featuring their own set of obstacles and thematic, while shooting at enemies to avoid taking damage and collecting items along the way. Players would have also need to collect power-ups in the level to change the character's in-game appearance.
History
Deathwatch was first showcased to the public at Atari Corporation's booth during E3 1995, featuring an artstyle similar to that of Plok, a platform title developed by Software Creations and released for the Super NES two years prior, while French magazine CD Consoles referred it as SwitchDeath. It was listed for a December/Q4 1995 release in magazines, with internal documents from Atari Corp. also revealing that the game was internally known as The Bug.
Though it was kept being advertised in catalogs and magazines for a late 1995 release, Atari halted its development before it was completed, with former DDI president and CEO Stewart Green stating in a 2003 forum post at AtariAge provided by community member panamajoe that the publisher's marketing department wanted to focus on 3D titles instead of 2D ones, in addition of stating that the source code of the game has become lost with time. Atari would also stop production of other upcoming titles for the Jaguar before merging with JT Storage in April 1996, ultimately resulting with the game not being released.
Although a prototype cartridge is rumored to exist, no ROM image of the title has managed to surface online. The only known gameplay footage of the game that exists as of date was shown by Atari Explorer Online on the "AEO at E3 1995" VHS release by Subspace Publishing.
References
1995 video games
Atari games
Cancelled Atari Jaguar games
Data Design Interactive games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Platformers
Run and gun games
Side-scrolling video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs | Bcachefs is a copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux-based operating systems. Its primary developer, Kent Overstreet, first announced it in 2015, and it will be added to the Linux kernel beginning with 6.7. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs, and the speed and performance of ext4 or XFS. It self-describes as "stable", as of December 2022.
Features
Bcachefs is a copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux-based operating systems. Features include caching, full file-system encryption using the ChaCha20 and Poly1305 algorithms, native compression via LZ4, gzip and Zstandard, snapshots, CRC-32C and 64-bit checksumming. It can span block devices, including in RAID configurations.
Earlier versions of Bcachefs provided all the functionality of Bcache, a block-layer cache system for Linux, with which Bcachefs shares about 80% of its code. As of December 2021, the block-layer cache functionality has been removed.
On a data structure level, bcachefs uses B-trees like many other modern file systems, but with an unusually large node size defaulting to 256 KiB. These nodes are internally log-structured, forming a hybrid data structure, reducing the need for rewriting nodes on update. Snapshots are not implemented by cloning a COW tree, but by adding a version number to filesystem objects. The COW feature and the bucket allocator enables a RAID implementation with neither write hole nor IO fragmentation.
History
Primary development has been by Kent Overstreet, the developer of Bcache, which he describes as a "prototype" for the ideas that became Bcachefs. Overstreet intends Bcachefs to replace Bcache. Overstreet has stated that development of Bcachefs began as Bcache's developers realized that its codebase had "been evolving ... into a full blown, general-purpose POSIX filesystem", and that "there was a really clean and elegant design" within it if they took it in that direction. Some time after Bcache was merged in 2013 into the mainline Linux kernel, Overstreet left his job at Google to work full-time on Bcachefs.
After a few years' unfunded development, Overstreet announced Bcachefs in 2015, at which point he called the code "more or less feature complete", and called for testers and contributors. He intended it to be an advanced file system with modern features like those of ZFS or Btrfs, with the speed and performance of file systems such as ext4 and XFS. As of 2017 Overstreet was receiving financial support for the development of Bcachefs via Patreon.
As of mid-2018, the on-disk format had settled. Patches had been submitted for review to have Bcachefs included in the mainline Linux kernel, but had not yet been accepted.
By mid-2019, the desired features of Bcachefs were completed and the associated patches to LKML were submitted for peer review.
In September 2023 the filesystem was merged in linux-next, a development tree of the Linux kernel where new features are tested before inclusion in the mainline tree.
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayi | Dayi may refer to:
Dayi, Daman District, village in Daman District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
Dayi method, a computer input method
South Dayi District, Volta Region, Ghana
North Dayi, one of the constituencies represented by the Parliament of Ghana
Dayi language, spoken by the Indigenous people of the Arnhem Land, Australia
China
Dayi County (大邑县), of Chengdu, Sichuan
Dayi, Yizheng (大仪镇), town in Yizheng City, Jiangsu
Dayi, Juye County (大义镇), town in Juye County, Shandong
Dayi, Leiyang (大义镇), a town of Leiyang City, Hunan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicity%20%28data%20analysis%29 | Unicity () is a risk metric for measuring the re-identifiability of high-dimensional anonymous data. First introduced in 2013, unicity is measured by the number of points p needed to uniquely identify an individual in a data set. The fewer points needed, the more unique the traces are and the easier they would be to re-identify using outside information.
In a high-dimensional, human behavioural data set, such as mobile phone meta-data, for each person, there exists potentially thousands of different records. In the case of mobile phone meta-data, credit card transaction histories and many other types of personal data, this information includes the time and location of an individual.
In research, unicity is widely used to illustrate the re-identifiability of anonymous data sets. In 2013 researchers from the MIT Media Lab showed that only 4 points needed to uniquely identify 95% of individual trajectories in a de-identified data set of 1.5 million mobility trajectories. These points were location-time pairs that appeared with the resolution of 1 hour and 0.15 km² to 15 km². These results were shown to hold true for credit card transaction data as well with 4 points being enough to re-identify 90% of trajectories. Further research studied the unicity of the apps installed by people on their smartphones, the trajectories of vehicles, mobile phone data from Boston and Singapore, and, public transport data in Singapore obtained from smartcards.
Measuring unicity
Unicity () is formally defined as the expected value of the fraction of uniquely identifiable trajectories, given p points selected from those trajectories uniformly at random. A full computation of of a data set requires picking p points uniformly at random from each trajectory , and then checking whether or not any other trajectory also contains those p points. Averaging over all possible sets of p points for each trajectory results in a value for . This is usually prohibitively expensive as it requires considering every possible set of p points for each trajectory in the data set — trajectories that sometimes contain thousands of points.
Instead, unicity is usually estimated using sampling techniques. Specifically, given a data set , the estimated unicity is computed by sampling from a fraction of the trajectories and then checking whether each of the trajectories are unique in given p randomly selected points from each . The fraction of that is uniquely identifiable is then the unicity estimate.
See also
Quasi-identifier
Personally Identifiable Information
References
Anonymity
Data analysis
Privacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logeion | Logeion is an open-access database of Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries. Developed by Josh Goldenberg and Matt Shanahan in 2011, it is hosted by the University of Chicago. Apart from simultaneous search capabilities across different dictionaries and reference works, Logeion offers access to frequency and collocation data from the Perseus Project.
Features
Having started out as an aggregator for Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries, Logeion has implemented multiple new features in its development. These include:
the integration of reference works on antiquity;
frequency and collocation data from the Perseus Project;
corpus examples, equally retrieved from the Perseus Project;
references to relevant chapters in a number of (English-language) textbooks.
Furthermore, an iOS app was developed by Joshua Day in 2013. The app's second version, launched in 2018, is also available for Android devices.
Dictionaries
As of November 2018, Logeion contains the following dictionaries.
Dictionaries with full-text search
Ancient Greek dictionaries
Autenrieth, G. (1891). A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges. New York: Harper and Brothers.
Liddell, H. G., & Scott, R. (1889). An Intermediate Greek Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Liddell, H. G., Scott, R., Jones, H. S., & McKenzie, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Slater, W. L. (1969). Lexicon to Pindar. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Latin dictionaries
Lewis, Ch. T., & Short, Ch. (1879). A Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Lewis, Ch. T. (1890). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York: American Book Company.
Dictionaries without full-text search
Ancient Greek dictionaries
Adrados, F. R., & Somolinos, J. R. (Eds.). Diccionario Griego-Español. Madrid: CSIC.
Muñoz Delgado, L. (2001). Léxico de magia y religión en los papiros mágicos griegos. Madrid: CSIC.
Latin dictionaries
Babeliowsky, J. K. L., den Hengst, D., Holtland, W., van Lakwijk, W., Marcelis, J. Th. K., Pinkster, H., Smolenaars, J. J. L. (1975). Basiswoordenlijst Latijn. Den Haag: Staatsuitgeverij.
Du Cange, Ch. et al. (1883-1887). Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis. Niort: L. Favre.
Frieze, H. S. (1902). Vergil’s Aeneid Books I-XII, with an Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary, revised by Walter Dennison. New York: American Book Company.
Gaffiot, F. (1934). Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français. Paris: Hachette.
Latham, R. E., Howlett, D. R., & Ashdowne, R. K. (1975-2013). The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources. London: British Academy.
Pinkster, H. (Ed.) (2018). Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Reference works
NA (n.d.). The Perseus Encyclopedia. Medford, MA: Tufts University.
Peck, H. Th. (1898). Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York: Harper and Brothers.
Smith, W. (1854). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: Walter and Maberly; John Murray.
Smith, W., Wayte, W., & Marindin, G. E. (1890). Dictionary of Greek and Roman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Mba | David Mba is the Vice-Chancellor Designate of Birmingham City University and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Computing and Engineering at De Montfort University. He was awarded the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Ludwig Mond Prize in 2010 for his contributions to the chemistry industry. He serves on the advisory board of the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK).
Education
Mba studied aerospace engineering at the University of Hertfordshire. He joined Cranfield University for his doctoral studies where he was awarded a PhD in 1998 for research supervised by R. H. Bannister.
Career and research
Mba was awarded the Lord King Norton Gold medal for his thesis. He joined Cranfield University as a lecturer in 2001. Here he led Turbo-machinery group. Mba was made the Dean of School of Engineering at London South Bank University in 2014. He serves on the advisory board of the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK). He collaborated with AFBE-UK to try and improve the representation of black and minority ethnic engineers London South Bank University. He was made the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Computing and Engineering at De Montfort University in August 2017. He works on the gearbox of helicopters and ways to monitor their health. On the 18 July 2023, Birmingham City University announced Mba's appointment as new Vice-Chancellor, replacing Philip Plowden
References
British aerospace engineers
Alumni of Cranfield University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20of%20Latin%20Texts | The Library of Latin Texts (LLT) is a subscription-based database of Latin texts, from antiquity up to the present day. Started in 1991 as the Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT), it continues to be developed by the Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’ and is hosted by Brepols Publishers.
History
In 1991, development of the Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT) started, with the aim of encompassing the entirety of Christian Latin literature. This digital database, initially released as a CD-ROM, was produced by the Cetedoc, led by prof. Paul Tombeur at the Université catholique de Louvain. Since 2001, the activities of Cetedoc have been continued in Turnhout, Belgium by the Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’ (CTLO), still led by Paul Tombeur.
In 2002, it was decided to expand the database's chronological scope beyond medieval and patristic times, its name was changed to Library of Latin Texts. In 2009, a B series (LLT-B) was added to the original LLT (hence known as LLT-A). The LLT-B's scope was to accelerate the growth of the database by directly adopting the text of existing editions, without the intensive research work that is applied to the texts of the LLT-A. This work includes verifying facts related to the text and correcting errors in the printed edition.
Difference between the LLT and similar databases
Unlike similar initiatives, like Corpus Corporum and The Latin Library, the LLT is not an open-access database. This allows for the adoption of copyrighted editions. In fact, while open-access initiatives have to rely on out-of-copyright, possibly outdated editions, the LLT's policy is to select texts that have "been edited according to best contemporary scholarly practice". The texts edited in Brepols' Corpus Christianorum series form the core of the LLT, even though numerically, they are outnumbered by texts edited in other publishers' series and, if no modern edition is available, by out-of-copyright editions. Nevertheless, for scholarly purposes, the LLT should be used in conjunction with the printed editions, as the critical apparatus is not included in the database.
See also
Corpus Corporum
The Latin Library
Database of Latin Dictionaries
References
External links
LLT-A
Library of Latin Texts – Series A (LLT-A)
List of available titles
LLT-B
Library of Latin Texts – Series B (LLT-B)
List of available titles
Computing in classical studies
Online databases
Belgian digital libraries
Latin-language literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excoecaria%20cuspidata | Excoecaria cuspidata is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It was originally described as Excoecaria hialayensis var. cuspidata Müll.Arg. It is native to China and Meghalaya, India.
References
cuspidata
Flora of China
Flora of Meghalaya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltaco | Deltaco is a Swedish computer hardware company founded in Ludvika in 1991, incorporated under the name Swedeltaco AB as well as Dist IT. Originally it mainly imported Taiwanese cables for resale, but came to both produce and sell its own products across a variety of product lines. In 2011, its own products stood for 40% of its revenue. In 2007 it launched across the Nordic countries as DELTACO, and in 2017 it released its own line of gaming peripherals, Deltaco Gaming.
Deltaco has previously advocated against expensive cables, stating that: "when it comes to digital signals, either the signal arrives, or it doesn't", and that there is no need to pay more for cables for audiophiles or video-enthusiasts.
References
Computer hardware companies
Electronics companies of Sweden
Swedish brands
Companies based in Stockholm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwar%3A%20How%20Russian%20Hackers%20and%20Trolls%20Helped%20Elect%20a%20President | Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President — What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know is the sixteenth book by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, published in October 2018 by Oxford University Press. The book concludes that Russia very likely delivered Trump's victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Presuppositions
Jamieson begins with five premises:
Answering former governor Mike Huckabee, it is more likely that Russian trolls changed the election's outcome than that unicorns exist.
Any case for Russian influence would be based on the preponderance of the evidence, as in a legal trial, rather than advanced with certainty like e=mc2.
Donald Trump was, at the time of publication, the duly elected president of the United States.
Trolls did not elect Trump, voters did.
Russians created protests and counterprotests reflecting on the incumbent president and his chosen successor.
Russians changed the course of careers (Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Donna Brazile, and James Comey)
Russians changed public opinion of candidate Hillary Clinton with social media, news and ads.
By releasing hacked materials, Russians framed the news agenda and presidential debates.
Whether or not the Russians swayed enough voters to decide the election, Americans need to know as much as they can about how the Russians influenced the media and the candidates' campaigns.
Overview
Two chapters deal with who did it, why, and why might it matter. Chapter 2 explains that past research indicates that messaging like the Russians' is enough to be able to alter the results of a close election. Then, in five chapters, Jamieson examines the question of whether or not the Russians did what was necessary to affect the election's outcome. Three chapters deal with how the hacked content affected the last month of the campaign. Finally, Jamieson explains what we know, and what we can't know about how effective the Russians were. Regarding what we can't know, Jamieson doesn't claim to be able to identify specific U.S. citizens who changed their votes as a result of Russian interference. There is a short afterword.
Conclusion
In a PBS Newshour interview about the book, the anchor asked Jamieson "Did Russia turn the outcome of the last presidential race?" Jamieson replied, "I believe it's highly probable that they did, not certain, but highly probable."
Reviews and reception
On the whole, reviews were positive. The Guardian offered the only notable criticism; the reviewer thought that Cyberwar was a special plead excusing Clinton's loss. The Guardian did, however, agree to publish an opinion piece by Hall Jamieson. Blurbs were offered by NBC's Andrea Mitchell, Judy Woodruff of PBS, and Robert Jervis of Columbia University. Jane Mayer wrote a feature for The New Yorker based on the book. The Washington Post reported on Jamieson's criticism of the news media. Nature called Jamieson's critique of the press and its readers the book's most important. Kirkus Reviews concludes, "There's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Enright%20Jerger | Natalie Dana Enright Jerger (née Enright) is an American computer scientist known for research in computer science including computer architecture and interconnection networks.
Education and career
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, she attended Kent Place School and received a BS in computer engineering from Purdue University in 2002. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Computer Architecture.
She joined the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2009 as an Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and to Professor in 2017, becoming the Percy Edward Hart Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Enright Jerger co-chairs the ACM Council on Diversity and Inclusion. In 2023, she was promoted as Director of the Division of Engineering Science at the University of Toronto.
Recognition
2014: Young Engineer Medal from Professional Engineers Ontario.
2015: CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award (BECA). 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
2018: Named an ACM Distinguished Member.
2019: Canada Research Chair in Computer Architecture.
2019: University of Toronto McLean Award.
2021: Elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to networks-on-chip for many-core architectures".
Personal life
Enright Jerger is the grand-daughter of professional baseball player Tony Lupien, the great-granddaughter of Ulysses J. Lupien and cousin of professional wrestler and actor John Cena.
References
External links
University of Toronto: Natalie Enright Jerger, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Living people
Kent Place School alumni
Purdue University College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Plainfield, New Jersey
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotchakorn%20Voraakhom | Kotchakorn Voraakhom (, born 1978) is a Thai landscape architect and chief executive officer of Porous City Network, a social enterprise that looks to increase urban resilience in Southeast Asia. She is also the founder of the Koungkuey Design Initiative, which works with communities to rebuild public spaces. She campaigns for more green space in cities and is a 2018 TED fellow.
Education
Voraakhom loved the flooding in Thailand as a child. She studied at Chulalongkorn University. She earned her bachelor's degree in landscape architecture in 2001, when she was awarded a medal for exceptional academic performance. She completed her graduate studies at Harvard University. During graduate school she co-founded the Koungkuey Design Initiative (KDI), a nonprofit design organisation that helps communities develop their neighbourhoods. She returned to Thailand in 2006.
Career
Kotchakorn has taught landscape design at Chulalongkorn University since 2010. She is founder and chief executive at Landprocess, a landscape architecture firm in Bangkok. She has been named one of Thailand's best architects, one who is fostering social change. In 2015 Kotchakorn worked on the Thailand Pavilion at the Milan Expo. The pavilion showcases the role of water in Thai agriculture. She was awarded a fellowship from The Asia Foundation in 2016. She opened the Siam Green Sky roof garden in Siam Square in 2015.
In 2017, she founded the Porous City Network. Bangkok, a city of over eight million people, is only 1.5 metres above sea level. One of her goals is to increase Bangkok's resilience to climate change, especially flooding, and, to this end, she has received fellowships from Echoing Green and the Equity Initiative. In a TED talk on February 11, 2019, on how to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods, Kotchakorn states that this project was not to get rid of flooding but it is to live with flooding as flooding is Thailand's new norm. She won a Chulalongkorn University design competition for a park that increases urban resilience by capturing runoff, the Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park. The park is built on a three degree incline and contains artificial wetlands and underground cisterns that can hold one million gallons (3.8 million litres) of water. Kotchakorn was inspired by King Bhumibol Adulyadej's concept of creating kaem ling, 'monkey cheeks', to capture rainwater runoff for later use. In 2019, she opened a park at Thammasat University. In 2021, Landprocess-designed Chong Nonsi Canal Park opened.
In December 2019, Thammasat University's Rangsit campus opened Asia's largest urban rooftop garden. The 7,000 m2 space designed by Kotchakorn is intended to help offset some of the impacts of climate change, such as flooding.
Accolades
In 2018, Kotchakorn was named a TED fellow. She has written for City Green. She was part of the 2018 Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. In 2019, Kotchakorn was one of three Thais named by Time on its "Time 100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuySpy | GuySpy is a location based online social network, gay dating app. It is available on Android, iOS and via web browser. The app uses location based services like GPS to connect gay, bi and curious men. Through their platform users are able to create profiles with detailed descriptions and with multiple photos. They are able to chat with guys around them and send additional photos, have video messaging and provide their exact location. There is a voice option within the app as well. The app is similar to Grindr, GuySpy also has a map feature that allows the users to search for other guys in other towns and cities. The app was officially launched in 2011 for GayWhistler's WinterPride festival. In 2013 GuySpy launched The PEARL Pride Party app, which was helping users to keep up to date, build and maintain a personal schedule, share information via social networks related to global LGBT pride events and circuit parties.
The app was founded in 2010 originally by Stark Mobile and was purchased by Pink Triangle Press in 2017.
Controversies
GuySpy run into difficulties with Facebook's Community Standards a couple times. In 2012 their Facebook page was blocked for 30 days and later they posted an image of a male and it was taken down within few hours. GuySpy has challenged Facebook's community standards homophobic as they allowed similar images that showed females by other pages.
The app's 2013 billboard campaign in Vancouver received complaints. The complainant alleged that the advertisement offended standards of public decency. The ad was showing two men, one sitting on the other's back with the phrase "Taste the difference" According to the council's opinion the words crossed the line of the acceptability of Clause 14.
See also
List of LGBT social networking services
Homosocialization
Timeline of online dating services
Tinder
References
LGBT social networking services
LGBT online dating services
Geosocial networking
Social networking services
Mobile social software
Online dating services
Online dating services of Canada
Online dating applications
iOS software
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20%28Unix%29 | In Unix, graph is a command-line utility used to draw plots from tabular data.
History
The graph utility, written by Douglas McIlroy, was present in the first version of Unix, and every later version, for instance:
Unix Version 7, released in 1979
SunOS 5.10, the Solaris version released in 2005
Its output is a sequence of commands for the plot utility, which creates plots using ASCII graphics.
This design demonstrates the Unix philosophy: defining the plot (graph) and drawing it (plot) are separate tools, so they can be recombined with other tools. For instance, plot can be substituted with a different utility, that accepts the same plot commands, but creates the plot in a graphics file format, or sends it to a plotter.
Unix v7 also provided device drivers for plotting the results to various graphics devices;
this was announced as now standard.
The GNU plotutils package provides a free non-exact reimplementation, available for Linux and many other systems.
It can create plots in various graphics formats.
Usage
In its simplest use, the graph utility takes a textfile containing pairs of numbers, indicating the points of a line plot.
It outputs the line plot. Several options can be supplied to modify its behavior.
Example (Unix)
These screenshots demonstrate basic operation on SunOS 5.10, on which graph and plot come preinstalled.
The example input is from the first example in the GNU plotutils manual.
Example (GNU plotutils)
These screenshots demonstrate the GNU plotutils version of graph when run in an xterm, exploiting xterm's ability to emulate a Tektronix 4010 plotter.
This demo was run on Ubuntu, which makes GNU plotutils available as an optional package; many other Linux distributions and other Unix-like systems do the same.
References
External links
Command-line software
Unix software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kybernis | Kybernis or Kubernis (ruled 520-480 BCE), also abbreviated KUB on his coins in Lycian, called Cyberniscus son of Sicas by Herodotus, was a dynast of Lycia, at the beginning of the time it was under the domination of the Achaemenid Empire. He is best known through his tomb, the Harpy Tomb, the decorative remains of which are now in the British Museum. According to Melanie Michailidis, though bearing a "Greek appearance", the Harpy Tomb, the Nereid Monument and the Tomb of Payava were built according main Zoroastrian criteria "by being composed of thick stone, raised on plinths off the ground, and having single windowless chambers".
Kybernis is known from Herodotus (Hdt. 7.92, 98) to have served under Xerxes I during the Persian invasion of Greece circa 480 BCE. He came with 50 ships. His men were equipped with cuirasses, felt caps with feathers, and capes made of goat-skin.
It is assumed that Kybernis disappeared at the Battle of Salamis (480 BCE), together with a large part of the Achaemenid fleet.
References
Sources
6th-century BC people
5th-century BC people
Vassals of the Achaemenid Empire
Military leaders of the Achaemenid Empire
People of the Greco-Persian Wars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla%20Cotwright-Williams | Carla Denise Cotwright-Williams (born November 6) is an American mathematician who works as a Technical Director and Data Scientist for the United States Department of Defense. She was the second African-American woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Mississippi.
Early life and education
She is the daughter of a police officer and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. Moving to a better neighborhood in Los Angeles as a teenager. She went to Westchester High School and attended summer enrichment programs for underrepresented students there that included courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a field trip to see the Space Shuttle at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base. She graduated in 1991.
As an undergraduate at California State University, Long Beach, Cotwright-Williams started in engineering. Then, as a math major, she struggled initially and earned low enough grades to be academically disqualified from the university, but worked hard to return as a student in good standing, eventually earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2000. She then earned a master's degree in mathematics from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2002.
Initially intending to follow a science & math Ph.D. track, she was persuaded to shift to pure mathematics under the mentorship of an African-American professor, Stella R. Ashford, who became the supervisor for her master's thesis in number theory, Unique Factorization in Bi-Quadratic Number Fields.
She went on to doctoral studies at the University of Mississippi, where she became president of the Graduate Student Council
and earned a second master's degree there along the way in 2004.
She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Mississippi in 2006. Her dissertation was supervised by T. James Reid and concerned matroid theory.
She was the second African-American woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the university, and was part of a group of four African-Americans who all graduated in the same year.
Career
After completing her doctorate, Cotwright-Williams worked as a tenure-track faculty member in mathematics at Wake Forest University, Hampton University, and Norfolk State University. While working there, in an effort to shift her career to a government track, she began studying public policy and working on collaborative research on Bayesian network based drone control systems with NASA, and on a US Navy project involving measurement uncertainty. In 2010, she completed a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy Analysis at Old Dominion University. She applied for an American Mathematical Society Congressional Fellowship, and was turned down on her first application but succeeded in her second, in 2012.
Cotwright-Williams also became a 2012–2013 Legislative Branch Fellow, under the American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Technology Policy Fellowship program. She also worked as a science and technolo |
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