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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samira%20Siahrostami | Samira Siahrostami () is an Iranian computational chemist who is an associate professor at the University of Calgary. She designs new materials for catalysis, and develops computer simulations to understand electrochemical reactions. She was awarded the 2023 Canadian Society for Chemistry Tom Zeigler Award.
Early life and education
Siahrostami grew up in Iran, where she completed her undergraduate and graduate degree in physical chemistry. She moved to the Technical University of Denmark for a postdoctoral position at the Center for Atomic-scale Material Design. After two years in Denmark, she joined Stanford University, where she worked with Jens Nørskov and started working on computational catalysis.
Research and career
Siahrostami joined the University of Calgary as an assistant professor in 2018, and was promoted to associate professor in 2022. Her research involves computational chemistry for the design of new catalyst materials. Specifically, she studies the oxygen reduction reaction and the carbon dioxide reduction reaction. The oxygen reduction reaction limits the efficiency of fuel cells. Siahrostami hopes that her simulations can provide insight about the active sites for oxygen reduction, helping to develop new, more efficient cathode materials. The carbon dioxide reduction reaction offers hope for carbon dioxide mitigation, as well as providing a new strategy to produce chemicals and fuels. Siahrostami makes use of carbon-based nanomaterials for carbon dioxide reduction reaction catalysis. Some of the catalysts that she has predicted computationally have since been commercialised.
Alongside reduction reactions, Siahrostami is interested in hydrogen: both the synthesis of hydrogen peroxide for water purification and the production of clean hydrogen.
Awards and honours
2021 Royal Society of Chemistry John Jeyes Award
2023 Canadian Society for Chemistry Tom Ziegler Award
2023 ACS Energy Letters Women at the Forefront of Energy
Selected publications
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Iranian women chemists
21st-century chemists
21st-century women scientists
Iranian chemists
Computational chemists
Technical University of Denmark alumni
Stanford University people
Academic staff of the University of Calgary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20Jorge | Team Jorge is the name given to an outfit of Israeli contractors specialized in the use of malign cyber activities including hacking, sabotage and bot farm-run social media disinformation campaigns to manipulate the outcomes of elections. One of the organization's primary tools is a software package called Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims.
The group was exposed in February 2023 after an award-winning undercover operation by journalists from Israel and France as part of consortium of investigative journalists coordinated by Forbidden Stories. The organization has been active since at least 2015 and boasts of having manipulated 33 presidential elections worldwide, many of them in Africa, and in 27 cases with successful results.
Their activities were revealed following a 2022 sting operation in Tel Aviv, carried out by three undercover journalists, who posed as prospective clients and filmed their interactions with Tal Hanan — the group's leader and former Israeli special forces operative — in which he explained the inner workings of the organization. Tal Hanan used the pseudonym "Jorge" when working with the hacking and disinformation group, which inspired the Team Jorge name.
Background
According to Tal Hanan, the group's leader, Team Jorge has existed for more than two decades, and has been engaged in propaganda and disinformation activities in more than 30 countries. However, its first documented activity dates to 2015. Their services have been available to government intelligence agencies, political campaigns, and private companies that wished to covertly manipulate public opinion.
One of the organization's primary tools is a software package called Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims. The software automates centralized control of thousands of fake social media profiles on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Telegram, TikTok and others. A number of these profiles also have Amazon and Airbnb accounts, along with credit cards and bitcoin wallets. The group also employs hacking techniques to brute force accounts of potential victims.
Investigation and exposure
Team Jorge's activities were revealed after a sting operation by three undercover journalists, Gur Megiddo of TheMarker, Frédéric Métézeau of Radio France and Omer Benjakob of Haaretz, posing as prospective clients filmed interactions with Tal Hanan in Tel Aviv in 2022 in which he explained the inner workings of the organization. In the conversations, Hanan boasted of having interfered in 33 presidential-level campaigns, 27 of which had positive results for the faction that hired them.
Hanan claimed responsibility for a 2019 cyberattack against the central elections committee of Indonesia made to look like it had come from China for political reasons. Media outlets including Bloomberg reported on the attack in March 2019, noting the probable "Chinese-Russian" origin of the interference, while an investigation by The Guardian noted that it was more likely the work of other hacker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jogja-NETPAC%20Asian%20Film%20Festival | The Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (JAFF) is an annual film festival held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The festival has partnered with the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) since its inaugural edition in 2006. It aims to introduce Asian cinema to a wider audience and provides a space for arts, culture, and tourism.
The 17th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival was held from 26 November to 3 December 2022.
History
Several Indonesian filmmakers, Garin Nugroho, Ifa Isfansyah, Budi Irawanto, Yosep Anggi Noen, Ajish Dibyo, Dyna Herlina and Ismail Basbeth along with NETPAC curator Philip Cheah, initiated the festival.
The first edition of the festival was held from 7 to 12 August 2006, about three months after the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake. Kompas noted that the inaugural edition marked the recovery of Yogyakarta post-earthquake. Meanwhile, Eric Sasono of Tempo noted that the festival created a new film market to develop the Asian cinema even further.
Programs
As of 2022, the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival is organized in various sections:
Main Competition: feature films compete for Hanoman Awards and NETPAC Award, the most prestigious awards of the festival.
Light of Asia: short films compete for Blencong Award, screened in compilations
Indonesian Screen Awards: Indonesian feature films compete for five categories.
Panorama: selection of feature films screened during the international film festivals previously.
Asian Perspectives: encapsulates feature films which showcase different Asian perspectives.
Indonesian Film Showcase: showcases Indonesian feature films out of competition.
Classic: revisiting the history by showcasing films by certain notable directors
Emerging: presentation of films by directors whose work shown at JAFF for the first time
JAFF-Series: showcases series
Community Screen (): screenings and discussions with several film communities
Whisper Cinema (): film screenings where blind and visually impaired people are guided by volunteers that verbally describe a film sequence.
JFA Showcase: showcases the work of the Jogja Film Academy students.
Awards
The most prestigious award given at JAFF is the Golden Hanoman Award for best film. As of 2022, the festival has presented the following awards:
Competition
Golden Hanoman Award – best film
Silver Hanoman Award – runner-up of best film
NETPAC Award – rewards to best first or second feature of Asian directors, chosen by Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema
Geber Award – rewards to best first or second feature of Asian directors, chosen by film communities around Indonesia
Indonesian Screen Awards – rewards to best work on Indonesian feature films
Best Film
Best Director
Best Storytelling
Best Cinematography
Best Performance
Shorts
Blencong Award – best short film
Student Award – best short film, chosen by representatives of film students in Yogyakarta
References
Awards established in 2006
Recurring events established in 2006
2006 establishments in Indonesia
Annua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitchcoin | Bitchcoin is a non-fungible token (NFT) on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was launched in early 2015 as a fork of Bitcoin, several months before the launch of Ethereum. Bitchcoin was originally backed by the artist Sarah Meyohas' photography at a fixed rate of one token to 25 square-inches of one of the artist's photographs. This was one of the first instances of a physical work of art being put on a blockchain.
Background
In 2014, the artist Sarah Meyohas created a series of photographs, titled Speculations, that would be fixed to tokens called Bitchcoin. The project began with researching ideas of value, valuation, and the nature of speculation. Photographs from the series were backed by Bitchcoin at a fixed rate of one Bitchcoin to 25 square-inches of a print effectively letting anyone in possession of 25 Bitchcoins to exchange them for an entire photograph.
The artist printed eight editions of the first Speculation photograph, each of which measured , and thus produced 200 coins that were released at $100.00 each to back the prints. The prints were stored in a vault, and anyone who purchased Bitchcoin received a physical certificate called a "paper wallet" which recorded the relevant private and public keys for one's wallet.
In 2023, the Centre Pompidou announced the institution had acquired two Bitchcoins to join 17 other NFT's to add to the contemporary art museums collection of new-media works.
Cloud of Petals project
In 2017, Meyohas created the Cloud of Petals project which had sixteen workers gather to archive 100,000 rose petals. The data set compiled was used to map out an artificial intelligence algorithm that learned to generate petals through a series of virtual worlds. Additionally, each worker set aside one petal per rose which they found to be the most beautiful and those 3,291 chosen petals were then pressed onto archival paper. Documenting this performance on 16mm film, Cloud of Petals, traces beauty and subjectivity through systems of automation and artificial intelligence.
Migration
Since its inception, each Bitchcoin is minted as an ERC-1155 token and is now backed by one of the 3,291 pressed rose petals from Meyohas' 2017 performance, Cloud of Petals. Meyohas eventually migrated the currency to the Ethereum blockchain. Previous owners of Bitchcoin could receive an equivalent amount of the new token. Once the tokens were migrated to Ethereum they were offered during an auction at Phillips in May 2021.
References
Cryptocurrency projects
Non-fungible tokens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroprogramming | In computer science, macroprogramming is a programming paradigm
aimed at expressing the macroscopic, global behaviour of an entire system of agents or computing devices.
In macroprogramming, the local programs for the individual components of a distributed system are compiled or interpreted from a macro-program typically expressed by a system-level perspective or in terms of the intended global goal.
The aim of macroprogramming approaches is to support expressing the macroscopic interactive behaviour of a whole distributed system of computing devices or agents in a single program.
It has not to be confused with macros, the mechanism often found in programming languages (like C or Scala) to express substitution rules for program pieces.
Macroprogramming originated in the context of wireless sensor network programming
and found renewed interest in the context of the Internet of Things and swarm robotics.
Macroprogramming shares similar goals (related to programming a system by a global perspective) with multitier programming, choreographic programming, and aggregate computing.
Context and motivation
Programming distributed systems, multi-agent systems, and collectives of software agents (e.g., robotic swarms) is difficult, for many issues (like communication, concurrency, and failure) have to be properly considered. In particular, a general recurrent problem is how to induce the intended global behaviour by defining the behaviour of the individual components or agents involved. The problem can be addressed through learning approaches, such as multi-agent reinforcement learning, or by manually defining the control program driving each component. However, addressing the problem by a fully individual (or (single-node) perspective may be error-prone, because it is generally difficult to foresee the overall behaviour emerging from complex networks of activities and interactions (cf. complex systems and emergence. Therefore, researchers have started investigated ways to raise the abstraction level, promoting programming of distributed systems by a more global perspective or in terms of the overall goal to be collectively attained.
Examples
ScaFi
The following program in the ScaFi aggregate programming language defines the loop control logic needed to compute a channel (a Boolean field where the devices yielding true are those connecting, through a hop-by-hop path, a source device to a target device) across a large set of situated devices interacting with neighbours.
class SelfContainedChannel extends AggregateProgram with SensorDefinitions {
def isObstacle = sense[Boolean]("obstacle")
def isSource = sense[Boolean]("source")
def isDestination = sense[Boolean]("target")
override def main(): Boolean =
branch(isObstacle){ false }{ channel(isSource, isDestination, 5) }
def channel(src: Boolean, dest: Boolean, width: Double): Boolean =
dilate(distanceTo(src) + distanceTo(dest) <= distanceBetween(src,dest), width)
type OB[ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Enhanced%20Speech | Adobe Enhanced Speech is an online artificial intelligence software tool by Adobe that aims to significantly improve the quality of recorded speech that may be badly muffled, reverberated, full of artifacts, tinny, etc. and convert it to a studio-grade, professional level, regardless of the initial input's clarity. Users may upload mp3 or wav files up to an hour long and a gigabyte in size to the site to convert them relatively quickly, then being free to listen to the converted version, toggle back-and-forth and alternate between it and the original as it plays, and download it. Currently in beta and free to the public, it has been used in the restoration of old movies and the creation of professional-quality podcasts, narrations, etc. by those without sufficient microphones.
Although the model still has some current limitations, such as not being compatible with singing and occasional issues with excessively muffled source audio resulting in a light lisp in the improved version, it is otherwise noted as incredibly effective and efficient in its purpose. Utilizing advanced machine learning algorithms to distinguish between speech and background sounds, it enhances the quality of the speech by filtering out the noise and artifacts, adjusting the pitch and volume levels, and normalizing the audio. This is accomplished by the network having been trained on a large dataset of speech samples from a diverse range of sources and then being fine-tuned to optimize the output.
References
Enhanced Search
Audio software
Artificial intelligence
Deep learning software applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Tensor informally refers in machine learning to two different concepts that organize and represent data. Data may be organized in a multidimensional array (M-way array) that is informally referred to as a "data tensor"; however in the strict mathematical sense, a tensor is a multilinear mapping over a set of domain vector spaces to a range vector space. Observations, such as images, movies, volumes, sounds, and relationships among words and concepts, stored in an M-way array ("data tensor") may be analyzed either by artificial neural networks or tensor methods.
Tensor decomposition can factorize data tensors into smaller tensors. Operations on data tensors can be expressed in terms of matrix multiplication and the Kronecker product. The computation of gradients, an important aspect of the backpropagation algorithm, can be performed using PyTorch and TensorFlow.
Computations are often performed on graphics processing units (GPUs) using CUDA and on dedicated hardware such as Google's Tensor Processing Unit or Nvidia's Tensor core. These developments have greatly accelerated neural network architectures and increased the size and complexity of models that can be trained.
History
A tensor is by definition a multilinear map. In mathematics, this may express a multilinear relationship between sets of algebraic objects. In physics, tensor fields, considered as tensors at each point in space, are useful in expressing mechanics such as stress or elasticity. In machine learning, the exact use of tensors depends on the statistical approach being used.
In 2001, the field of signal processing and statistics were making use of tensor methods. Pierre Comon surveys the early adoption of tensor methods in the fields of telecommunications, radio surveillance, chemometrics and sensor processing. Linear tensor rank methods (such as, Parafac/CANDECOMP) analyzed M-way arrays ("data tensors") composed of higher order statistics that were employed in blind source separation problems to compute a linear model of the data. He noted several early limitations in determining the tensor rank and efficient tensor rank decomposition.
In the early 2000s, multilinear tensor methods crossed over into computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning with papers by Vasilescu or in collaboration with Terzopoulos, such as Human Motion Signatures, TensorFaces TensorTexures and Multilinear Projection. Multilinear algebra, the algebra of higher-order tensors, is a suitable and transparent framework for analyzing the multifactor structure of an ensemble of observations and for addressing the difficult problem of disentangling the causal factors based on second order or higher order statistics associated with each causal factor.
Tensor (multilinear) factor analysis disentangles and reduces the influence of different causal factors with multilinear subspace learning.
When treating an image or a video as a 2- or 3-way array, i.e., "data matrix/tensor", tensor methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%20Group%20activities%20in%20Ukraine | The Wagner Group, also known as PMC Wagner, a Russian paramilitary organization also described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, and a de facto unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, has conducted operations in Ukraine since early 2014.
Crimea and the Donbas (2014–15)
Wagner PMCs were first active in February 2014 in Crimea during Russia's 2014 annexation of the peninsula where they operated in line with regular Russian army units, disarmed the Ukrainian Army and took control over facilities. The takeover of Crimea was almost bloodless. The PMCs, along with the regular soldiers, were called "polite people" at the time due to their well-mannered behavior. They kept to themselves, carried weapons that were not loaded, and mostly made no effort to interfere with civilian life. Another name for them was "little green men" since they were masked, wearing unmarked green army uniforms and their origin was initially unknown.
After the takeover of Crimea, some 300 PMCs went to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine where a conflict started between Ukrainian government and pro-Russian forces. With their help, the pro-Russian forces were able to destabilize government security forces in the region, immobilize operations of local government institutions, seize ammunition stores and take control of towns. The PMCs conducted sneak attacks, reconnaissance, intelligence-gathering and accompanied VIPs. In October 2017, the Ukrainian SBU claimed it had established the involvement of the Wagner Group in the June 2014 Il-76 airplane shoot-down at Luhansk International Airport that killed 40 Ukrainian paratroopers, as well as a crew of nine. Russian and Serbian "mercenaries" were already reported being involved in the summer 2014 battle for the airport, although it was not stated if they were linked to Wagner back then.
According to the SBU, Wagner PMCs were initially deployed to eastern Ukraine on 21 May 2014, and the service was planning to file charges on Dmitry Utkin, the alleged founder of the Wagner Group, to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The PMCs also participated in the early 2015 Battle of Debaltseve, which involved one of the heaviest artillery bombardments in recent history, as well as reportedly hundreds of regular Russian soldiers. The PMCs were supported by several KAMAZ-43269 "Vystrel" MRAPs. During fighting near the town, their logistics platoon was reported to had extracted several destroyed KAMAZ-43269 "Dozor" MRAPs belonging to the Russian military, during which the platoon's commander was wounded. Several PMCs were killed during the clashes. The battle for Debaltseve ended in a decisive victory over Ukrainian forces. According to a Wagner PMC, Dmitry Utkin himself was wounded during the deployment to Ukraine, getting a splinter in his liver.
Following the end of major combat operations, the PMCs were reportedly given the assignment to kill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOWN%20Global%20Forum | The IOWN Global Forum is a trade association that develops technical standards for an all-photonics telecommunications network.
Introduction
The IOWN Global Forum focuses on collaboration within its multiple committees and working groups to create Proof of Reference (PoC) documents as well as white papers, use cases, and fact sheets on the advancement of communication infrastructure. The Forum has a goal of achieving lower power consumption, higher transmission capacity, lower latency, and more in its technology by 2030 which it calls its Vision 2030 goal.
History
Innovative Optical and Wireless Networks (IOWN) is an NTT led project developing IT infrastructure for networking and information processing.
Formed in 2020 by founding members NTT, Intel and Sony, the IOWN forum focuses on two key technologies to improve communication infrastructure. First, it focuses on photonics networks. An All-Photonics Network (APN) is an end-to-end optical communication system.
Standards and Resources
In 2022 the forum released the functional architecture of the open All Photonics Network (APN) which the aim of creating high speed communication networks together with radio communication systems.
Use Cases
The purpose of the IOWN Global Forum's use cases is to identify the requirements of various applications that could use the contemplated next-generation optical network that the Forum is investigating. Current use cases available for the public included topics such as AI integration and cyber-physical systems.
Membership
The founding members are the organizations that created the Forum in 2019 were Intel, NTT and Sony.
As of 2023, sponsor members included Red Hat, KDDI, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Samsung and Toyota.
References
Organizations established in 2020
2020 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Vauquois | Bernard Vauquois ( — ) was a French mathematician and computer scientist. He was a pioneer of computer science and machine translation (MT) in France. An astronomer-turned-computer scientist, he is known for his work on the programming language ALGOL 60, and later for extensive work on the theoretical and practical problems of MT, of which the eponymous Vauquois triangle is one of the most widely-known contributions.
He was a professor at what would become the Grenoble Alpes University.
Biography
Bernard Vauquois was initially a researcher at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) from 1952 to 1958 at the Astrophysics Institute of the Meudon Observatory, after completing studies in mathematics, physics, and astronomy. Since 1957, his research program has also focused on methods applied to physics from the perspective of electronic computers, and he has taught programming to physicists. This double interest in astrophysics and electronic computers is reflected in the subject of his thesis and that of the complementary thesis in physical sciences that he defended in 1958.
In 1960, at 31 years old, he was appointed professor of computer science at the Grenoble University where, with professors Jean Kuntzmann and Noël Gastinel, he began activities in computer science. At that time, he was also working on the definition of the language ALGOL 60.
Also in 1960, he founded the Centre d'Étude pour la Traduction Automatique (CETA), later renamed as Groupe d'Étude pour la Traduction Automatique (GETA) and currently known as GETALP, a team at the Laboratoire d'informatique de Grenoble, and soon showed his gift for rapid understanding, synthesis, and innovation, and his taste for personal communication across linguistic borders and barriers.
After visiting a number of centers, mainly in the United States, where machine translation research was conducted, he analyzed the shortcomings of the "first-generation" approach and evaluated the potential of a new generation based on grammar and formal language theory, and proposed a new approach based on a representational "pivot" and the use of (declarative) rule systems that transform a sequential sentence from one level of representation to another. He led the GETA in constructing the first large second-generation system, applied to Russian–French, from 1962 to 1971.
At the end of this period, the accumulated experience led him to correct some defects of the "pure" declarative and interlingual approach, and to use heuristic programming methods, implemented with procedural grammars written in LSPLs ("specialized languages for linguistic programming", langages spécialisés pour la programmation linguistique) that were developed under his direction, and integrated into the ARIANE-78 machine translation system.
In 1974, when he cofounded the Leibniz laboratory, he proposed "multilevel structure descriptors" (descripteurs de structures multiniveaux) for units larger than sentence translation. This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiling%20Chen | Yiling Chen is a Chinese-American computer scientist who studies computational economics, social computing, algorithmic game theory, prediction markets, and algorithmic fairness in machine learning. She is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Education and career
Chen was an undergraduate at the Renmin University of China, where she earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1996, specializing in commodity science. She continued her studies in economics with a master's degree at Tsinghua University in 1999, and began doctoral work at Iowa State University in 2000. However, in 2001 she moved to the program in information sciences and technology at Pennsylvania State University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2005.
After a short assistant professorship at Framingham State College and postdoctoral research at Yahoo! Research, she joined Harvard University as an assistant professor of computer science in 2008. She was promoted to associate professor in 2012, named as the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences in 2013, and promoted to full professor as Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in 2015.
Recognition
The Pennsylvania State University alumni gave Chen their Graduate School Alumni Society (GSAS) Early Career Award in 2016.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Renmin University of China alumni
Tsinghua University alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Framingham State University faculty
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20Aspera | Per Aspera is a city-building game developed by Tlön Industries and published by Raw Fury for Windows on December 3, 2020. The player takes the role of AMI, an artificial intelligence with the objective of terraforming Mars for human colonization.
Gameplay
The game features a branching nonlinear story and multiple endings.
Release
Per Aspera was announced in June 2019 at the PC Gaming Show. An expansion pack, Green Mars, was released on October 21, 2021. A second expansion, Blue Mars, was released on May 2, 2022. A third expansion, Home, was released on January 23, 2023. The game was released on Meta Quest 2 on February 9, 2023.
Reception
Per Aspera received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic.
Davide Pessach of Italian Eurogamer said that "Per Aspera is a very interesting colony builder narrative game that has a stellar esthetic, a very engaging story and a super cast of actors. The gameplay is fluid, rewarding and rich of surprises and references to cool tech (both fictional and kinda realistic). If you like the genre and the setting you will have a blast."
Jonathan Bolding of PC Gamer summarized: "Per Aspera's novel adaptation of nonlinear narrative to fit a strategy game goes over surprisingly well. Combined with a novel terraforming mechanic, slick aesthetics, hard science chops, and classic genre gameplay, this one is definitely worth the time."
Martynas Klimas of PC Invasion said that "Per Aspera reaches for lofty heights, but I could never shake the impression that the difficulties I encountered were more because of the game breaking down rather than Mars being a hostile place. But who knows, patches do wonders these days."
References
External links
Per Aspera at Tlön Industries
2020 video games
City-building games
Hard science fiction video games
Indie games
Meta Quest games
Raw Fury games
Single-player video games
Terraforming in fiction
Video games developed in Argentina
Video games set on Mars
Video games with expansion packs
Video games with Steam Workshop support
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buses%20in%20Malm%C3%B6 | The Malmö city bus network serves the city of Malmö and its surrounding area with 16 routes. City buses have operated in Malmö since 1927, supplementing and eventually supplanting the city's tram network. Buses continue to serve as the primary means of transport within the city, despite an expansion of intracity train services during the 2010s.
The system is part of the Skånetrafiken transit authority, which contracts Nobina to provide drivers and vehicles.
History
City buses in Malmö were originally operated by City of Malmö's Tramways (MSS), who acquired their first bus in 1927. With the closure of the last sections of tram network in the early 1970s, responsibility for and operation of city buses were moved to the municipal agency Malmö Lokaltrafik (ML). In 1993 the right-wing municipal government sold ML to Linjebuss, which was then contracted by Länstrafiken Malmöhus to operate city bus services. When Skånetrafiken was formed from the traffic operators of Malmöhus and Kristianstad counties following their mergers into Skåne County, city buses in Malmö became part of Skånetrafiken, with the "ML Green" becoming the colour of city buses throughout Skåne.
On December 9, 2018 the first fully electric buses began operating services in Malmö, when Line 7 received new battery-powered vehicles. In 2021 electric service was further expanded, with larger battery-powered buses being introduced on more lines. Skånetrafiken has set a goal for every bus in Malmö to be electric by 2030.
Routes
Skånetrafiken also operate some specialised routes within Malmö. On days where Malmö FF are playing home games buses are operated as number 84 to Stadion from Klagshamn, Segevång, Riseberga, Nydala and Västra hamnen. A bus service within the Skåne University Hospital area in Malmö is also operated as number 99.
Malmöexpressen
Malmöexpressen (MEX, stylized as MalmöExpressen) is the name used by Skånetrafiken for bus rapid transit services within Malmö. Currently two lines, 5 and 8, are operated as Malmöexpressen, with another three (2, 4 and 10) planned to be converted to an MEX standard. Malmöexpressen is operated with gas-electric hybrid buses on Line 5 and fully electric buses on Line 8.
Malmöexpressen Line 5 was the first BRT line to be introduced in Sweden when the first regular service ran on June 1, 2014. Line 5 was originally intended as a stop-gap measure, with the busways built enabling a construction of the future tramway being planned at the time. However, political issues resulted in these plans being shelved.
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Transport in Malmö |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20North%20American%20countries%20by%20life%20expectancy | This is a list of North American countries by life expectancy at birth.
World Bank Group (2021)
Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2021. The data is filtered according to the list of countries in North America. The values in the World Bank Group tables are rounded. All calculations are based on raw data; so due to the nuances of rounding, in some places illusory inconsistencies of indicators arose, with a size of 0.01 year.
United Nations (2021)
Estimation of the analytical agency of the UN for 2019 and 2021. By default, the list is sorted by 2021.
WHO (2019)
Estimation of the World Health Organization for 2019.
Charts
See also
References
Life expectancy
North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit%20on%20Responsible%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20in%20the%20Military%20Domain | The Summit on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain, also known as REAIM 2023, was a diplomatic conference held in 2023 regarding military uses of artificial intelligence. It was held in the World Forum in The Hague on 15–16 February 2023.
The summit concluded with the production of a "call to action" document, endorsed by representatives from 60 countries.
References
Diplomatic conferences
Artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike%20Meier%20Yang | Ulrike Meier Yang (born 1959) is a German-American applied mathematician and computer scientist specializing in numerical algorithms for scientific computing. She directs the Mathematical Algorithms & Computing group in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and is one of the developers of the Hypre library of parallel methods for solving linear systems.
Education and career
Meier Yang did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, and worked in the Central Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany from 1983 to 1985 and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1985 to 1995. She completed her doctorate through the University of Illinois in 1995 with the dissertation A Family of Preconditioned Iterative Solvers for Sparse Linear Systems, supervised by Kyle Gallivan.
She joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research staff in 1998.
As of January 1st, 2023 Yang took office as a member of the SIAM Board of Trustees.
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1959 births
Living people
German mathematicians
German women mathematicians
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Applied mathematicians
Ruhr University Bochum alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Cochrane%20%28journalist%29 | David Cochrane is a Canadian television journalist, who was named the host of CBC News Network's daily show Power & Politics in February 2023.
Previously a reporter for network affiliate CBNT-DT in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, he won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Local News Reportage at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for his report on a major police drug smuggling investigation in the province. He joined the network's national parliamentary bureau in Ottawa as a reporter in 2016, and was sometimes seen as a fill-in host of Power & Politics prior to being named the show's permanent host in 2023.
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1973 births
Canadian television news anchors
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
CBC Television people
Canadian Screen Award winning journalists
Journalists from Newfoundland and Labrador
People from Mount Pearl
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical%20Drop%20III | is a 1997 puzzle video game developed and published by Data East for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms. It was later ported to Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Game Boy Color, Windows, and Zeebo. It is the third entry in the Magical Drop series. In the game, the player takes control of one of several characters, battling against computer-controlled opponents. Gameplay is similar to previous entries albeit with further additions; the objective is to clear the screen of constantly advancing colored 'drops' via a character placed at the bottom of the playfield, which can grab drops and make them disappear by putting drops as a column of three or more of the same color. The player can also participate in a board-style adventure mode, while two players can play against each other in a competitive versus mode.
Magical Drop III was produced by Naomi Susa, with Shungo Katagiri acting as the game's planner, while the soundtrack was scored by Gamadelic. It proved popular among players, with the Saturn and PlayStation versions selling over 10,392 and 8,286 copies in their first week on the Japanese market respectively, garnering favorable reception from critics and retrospective reviewers. The game has since been re-released through download services for various consoles and on compilations. It was followed by Magical Drop F: Daibōken Mo Rakujyanai! (1999).
Gameplay
Like its predecessors, Magical Drop III is a puzzle game where the player takes control of one of several characters named after a tarot card, battling against computer-controlled opponents. Gameplay is similar to Magical Drop (1995) and Magical Drop II (1996), albeit with further additions; the objective is to clear the screen from a stack of constantly advancing colored 'drops' that descend from the top of the playfield. Drops can be picked up and dropped by the player's character, which is placed at the bottom of the screen, and they disappear when three or more of the same color are put together on a single column. Chains are formed either when a single drop caused a chain reaction or when more than one group of drops are cleared in quick succession. Forming chains cause the opponent's stack to descend faster.
One notable gameplay addition is the introduction of a third button, which allows players to add rows to their field at any time. It is also possible to grab normal and special pieces at the same time. Two players can also participate in a competitive versus mode (one may be a computer opponent), featuring attack patterns that sends lines to the opponent in non-even rows that vary by character. An adventure mode called "Magical Journey" is also introduced, which is a board game that challenges players to reach Empress before computer-controlled rivals by participating in minigames. The game is over once a player is defeated when the stack of drops hits the bottom.
Characters
The original cast from Magical Drop and Magical Drop II returns. In addition, the game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mergers%20and%20acquisitions%20by%20CA%20Technologies | CA Technologies, Inc., formerly Computer Associates International and CA, Inc., was an American multinational software company that developed and published enterprise software. Active from 1976 to 2018, the company was co-founded by Charles B. Wang and Russell Artzt. The pair incorporated CA to capitalize on the emerging market of third-party mainframe software. It grew its portfolio and became successful through acquiring many companies in disparate fields, including system monitoring and management, ID management, security, and anti-virus, among others. In 2018, CA itself was acquired by Broadcom Inc. for nearly US$19 billion in cash.
Acquisitions
Stakes
Divestitures
References
CA Technologies
Mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth%20Mullins | Garth Mullins is a Canadian radio producer, activist, methadone user, and musician. He is the host of the Crackdown podcast and a board member of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
His podcast won the The Canadian Hillman Prize in 2020.
Early life
Mullins grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in the 1970s.
He was bullied in school about his albinism. During high school he worked in banking and construction; after high school he worked in a mine in Northwest Territories. Being blind was a barrier to employment opportunities, prompting him to return to studies at the University of Victoria. While studying, he hosted a radio show called The War Measures Act and took heroin for the first time at the age of 19. After graduating from the University of Victoria, he studied political sociology at the London School of Economics, while writing articles for the Vancouver Sun.
Later life and views
Mullins has hosted the monthly Crackdown podcast since 2019. His team won the The Canadian Hillman Prize in 2020.
A previous intravenous user of heroin, Mullins is a user of methadone. He speaks about his own use of drugs on the Crackdown podcast hoping to inprove public education. He serves on the board of directors of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. Mullins describes how he sees the war on drugs as still affecting people in contemporary times. He is an advocate for the legalisation of street drugs, and has campaigned against the planned expansion in scope of Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying permissibility to include people with disabilities.
Mullins performs as a musician in the band Legally Blind.
References
External links
Official website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Victoria alumni
Alumni of the London School of Economics
People from Yellowknife
Journalists from British Columbia
People from Vancouver
Canadian podcasts
Activists from British Columbia
Canadian disability rights activists
Canadian health activists
Canadian human rights activists
Canadian blind people
People with albinism
Drug policy reform activists
Blind activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen%20Life%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Stolen Life is an upcoming Philippine television drama series to be broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jerry Sineneng, it stars Carla Abellana, Beauty Gonzalez and Gabby Concepcion. It is set to premiere on November 13, 2023, on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Magandang Dilag.
Premise
When a criminal performs astral projection to switch physical body with her cousin, a life will be stolen and forced to be prisoned. The cousin will plan to regain her family and life.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Carla Abellana as Lucy Morales-Rigor / Farrah Dela Cruz
Beauty Gonzalez as Farrah Dela Cruz / Lucy Morales-Rigor
Gabby Concepcion as Darius Rigor
Supporting cast
Celia Rodriguez as Azon Rigor
Divine Aucina as Joyce Ilagan
Anjo Damiles as Vince Ramirez
Lovely Rivero as Belen Morales
Bing Loyzaga as Agatha Rigor-Dela Cruz
William Lorenzo as Ernesto Morales
Production
Principal photography commenced in February 2023. Filming concluded in August 2023.
References
External links
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines
Upcoming drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peipei%20Ping | Peipei Ping is an academic specializing in cardiac physiology, system biology and data science.
Education
Peipei Ping received a BS in biomedical engineering at Zhejiang University in 1985, and a PhD in cardiovascular physiology at University of Arizona in 1990, under the direction of Paul C. Johnson. She completed post-doctoral research at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1991-1992) and at University of California San Diego (1992-1994).
Career
Ping began her academic career as assistant professor at University of Louisville in 1996, and was promoted to associate professor in 2000. She became a full professor in physiology, medicine and bioinformatics when she moved to the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. She conducts research in proteomics, systems biology and data science, particularly in advancing cardiac physiology. She co-authored the article on Guidelines for experimental models of myocardial ischemia and infarction, which won the American Physiological Society Best Paper for Review Article in 2019.
She is a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society, a Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research, and a Fellow of the American Heart Association. She was part of the leadership team of the National Institute of Health Big Data to Knowledge Program (BD2K). She was principal investigator of Heart BD2K, one of BD2K Centers of Excellence; and program director of the BD2K Centers Coordinating Center.
Ping serves on the editorial board of Circulation, Clinical Proteomics, and Proteomics, and on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Proteome Research. She served as president of the North American Section of the International Society of Heart Research, and as chair of the Publication Committee and secretary general of the Human Proteome Organization. She is currently serving on the board of directors of U.S. Human Proteome Organization.
Awards
2021 U.S. Human Proteome Organization Donald F. Hunt Distinguished Contribution in Proteomics Award
2018 Human Proteome Organization Clinical & Translational Proteomics Award
2017 Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences Ken Bowman Research Achievement
2015 American Physiological Society Robert M. Berne Distinguished Lectureship
2013 Human Proteome Organization Distinguished Service Award
2012 American Heart Association Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture
2010 National Institute of Health Method To Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award NIH-R37–63901
2000-2001 University of Louisville Provost's Awards for Exemplary Advising
References
Living people
Proteomics
American women scientists
University of Arizona alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Zhejiang University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Boyar | Joan Faye Boyar (born 1955, also published as Joan Boyar Plumstead) is an American and Danish computer scientist whose research interests include online algorithms, cryptology, and the computational complexity of the Boolean functions used in cryptology. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark.
Early life and education
Boyar was born in Chicago on 18 April 1955, and majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1977. She went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1981 and completing her Ph.D. in 1983. Her doctoral dissertation, Inferring Sequences Produced by Pseudo-Random Number Generators, was supervised by Manuel Blum.
Career and later life
After completing her doctorate, Boyar returned to the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of computer science in 1983. Her students there included Danish computer scientist Carsten Lund, jointly advised with Lance Fortnow and László Babai.
From 1989 to 1992, Boyar began a sequence of short-term and visiting positions, at Aarhus University in Denmark, Loyola University Chicago, and Odense University in Denmark, before obtaining a position as lektor (associate professor) at the University of Southern Denmark in 1992. She was promoted to full professor in 2017. She is married to Kim Skak Larsen, also a professor of computer science at the University of Southern Denmark, and is a Danish citizen.
References
External links
Home page
1955 births
Living people
Academics from Chicago
American emigrants to Denmark
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Danish computer scientists
Danish women computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Southern Denmark
University of Chicago alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Chicago faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyar%20%28surname%29 | Boyar is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Burt Boyar (1927–2018), American voice actor and theatre writer
Joan Boyar (born 1955), American-Danish computer scientist
Lombardo Boyar (born 1973), American television and voice actor
Monica Boyar (1920–2013), Dominican-American nightclub singer
Robert M. Boyar (1937–1978), American physician and endocrinologist
Sully Boyar (1923–2001), American film and television actor
See also
Boyer
Boyars (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Junior%20%28European%20TV%20network%29 | The British-based Disney Junior channels in the EMEA are originally owned by The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East & Africa, based in the U.S. counterpart. Targeted to preschoolers 2 to 7 years old. Began in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2011, and later expanded into several countries throughout the year.
Most EMEA feeds (except for the Israeli feed) are synced in the same schedule also based in the United Kingdom, despite the UK feed loss.
Availability
Current
France
Originally launched as Playhouse Disney on 2 November 2002, along with Disney Channel +1 and Toon Disney; later rebranded as Disney Junior on 28 May 2011 in both SD and HD. Available through France and its overseas territories, Francophone Africa, Haiti, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
A pan-regional feed available through Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Romania, Turkey with the Middle East (except, Iran, Israel, and Syria), most of Africa, The Baltics, The Nordics, and the Balkan countries. Launched on 1 June 2011, while 1 March 2012 in Romania. The Polish and Romanian transmissions airs local advertisements. Since 2016, it began broadcasting in Arabic. In the Czech Republic, it only aired with Czech subtitles. In Turkey, it is the only Disney-branded TV channel since April 2022.
Spain
Disney Junior launched on 11 June 2011, replacing Playhouse Disney (which was launched on 16 November 2001) with a Spanish language track. It is also available in Andorra.
Israel
Launched on 18 July 2011 on Yes satellite and on 27 November 2013 on HOT Cable, under The Walt Disney Company Israel. The programming' not synced with the other EMEA feeds.
Belgium
Launched on 10 September 2011, available in Dutch.
Portugal
The Portuguese version of the channel launched on 1 November 2012, replacing Disney Cinemagic. An HD version of the channel debuted in March 2021. It is also available in Angola and Mozambique via Zap and DStv packages.
Defunct
Hungary
Initially available between 1 July 2015 to December 2017 with a Hungarian language audio track.
Netherlands
Initially available between 10 September 2011 to 1 April 2019. Selected programs moved to Disney Channel in 2020.
Italy
Rebranded on 14 May 2011 and closed on 1 May 2020, after the launch of Disney+.
UK and Ireland
It was the first Disney Junior to launch in the EMEA; originally launched as Playhouse Disney on 29 September 2000. Later rebranded as Disney Junior on 7 May 2011. It ceases broadcast on 1 October 2020 with programs moving to Disney+.
Germany
It was available across Germany, Austria and Switzerland between 14 July 2011 to 30 September 2021. Programs continues to air morningly on Disney Channel.
Scandinavia and Baltic
Launched on 10 September 2011, available through Nordic and Baltic countries. Available with the Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian and Swedish languages; airing local advertisements in selected Nordic countries. The channel closed on Allente on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage%20computer | A vintage computer is an older computer system that is largely regarded as obsolete.
The personal computer has been around since approximately 1971. But in that time, numerous technological revolutions have left generations of obsolete computing equipment on the junk heap. Nevertheless, in that time, these otherwise useless computers have spawned a sub-culture of vintage computer collectors, who often spend large sums to acquire the rarest of these items, not only to display but restore to their fully functioning glory, including active software development and adaptation to modern uses. This often includes homebrew developers and hackers who add on, update and create hybrid composites from new and old computers for uses for which they were otherwise never intended. Ethernet interfaces have been designed for many vintage 8-bit machines to allow limited connectivity to the Internet; where users can access user groups, bulletin boards, and databases of software. Most of this hobby centers on those computers manufactured after 1960, though some collectors specialize in pre-1960 computers as well.
The Vintage Computer Festival, an event held by the Vintage Computer Federation for the exhibition and celebration of vintage computers, has been held annually since 1997 and has expanded internationally.
By platform
MITS Inc.
Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) produced the Altair 8800 in 1975. According to Harry Garland, the Altair 8800 was the product that catalyzed the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s.
IMSAI
IMSAI produced a machine similar to the Altair 8800. It was introduced in 1975, first as a kit, and later as an assembled system. The list price was $591 () for a kit, and $931 () assembled.
Processor Technology
Processor Technology produced the Sol-20. This was one of the first machines to have a case that included a keyboard; a design feature copied by many of later "home computers".
SWTPC
Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC) produced the 8-bit SWTPC 6800 and later the 16-bit SWTPC 6809 kits that employed the Motorola 68xx series microprocessors.
Apple Inc.
The earliest Apple Inc. personal computers, using the MOS Technology 6502 processors, are among some of the most collectible. They are relatively easy to maintain in an operational state thanks to Apple's use of readily available off-the-shelf parts.
Apple I (1976): The Apple-1 was Apple's first product and has brought some of the highest prices ever paid for a microcomputer at auction.
Apple II (1977): The Apple II series of computers are some of the easiest to adapt, thanks to the original expansion architecture designed for them. New peripheral cards are still being designed by an avid thriving community, thanks to the longevity of this platform, manufactured from 1977 through 1993. Numerous websites exist to support not only legacy users but new adopters who weren't even born when the Apple II was discontinued by Apple.
Macintosh (1984): Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Donor%20Deferral%20Registry | The National Donor Deferral Registry, also known as the (NDDR) is a database of individuals who have tested "reactive" for viral agents like human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV), Hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) and are permanently prohibited from donating plasma. NDDR is a registered trademark of the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association. U.S. regulations require organizations that collect plasma screens for viruses and flag donors and keep a list. The NDDR was established in 1993. This is to help plasma donation centers notify other centers of a donor who has tested positive for one of the listed viruses.
Government Regulations
The NDDR is a confidential database that is used in North America and the United States to help provide the collection of safe plasma donation through plasmapheresis. When identifying information is matched in the registry, the donation center should not accept a person donation. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lists the requirements for donor federal in 21 CFR § 610.41
In November 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reviewed a Section 510(k) premarket notification of a cloud-based version of the NDDR by Headspring Healthcare, Inc.
The new web-based systems would allow
Allow blood and plasma collection facilities to retrieve recent dates of a donor's donations of blood or blood components (including Source Plasma) via the web, or through an electronic interface, for the purpose of determining if the frequency of an individual's donations is in compliance with Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association's (PPTA's) standards and applicable regulatory requirements
Allow blood and plasma collection facilities to retrieve basic underlying information about a donor to aid and assist in the determination of a donor's eligibility to donate blood or plasma.
Allow donor deferral information to be added, updated and deleted via a web page.
Each donation center is responsible for checking the NDDR prior to donation and uploading any positive or reactive tests for each donor. An International Quality Plasma Program (IQPP) facility is a lab that has agreed to the voluntary standards program of the PPTA.
The personally identifiable information (PII) that is collected is "individual's donor ID, first and last name, middle initial birthdate and gender. The donor's social security number or INDS number."
Requalification of previously deferred donors
The FDA has established rules under how a previously deferred donor may be able to requalify. There are two methods which the FDA has adopted.
The previous deferral was for a defined period of time and that time period has passed, or the deferral was otherwise temporary, such as a deferral based on eligibility criteria
or
A deferred donor subsequently may be found to be eligible as a donor of blood or blood components by a requalification method or process found acceptable for such purposes by FDA. Such a donor is considered no longer deferred.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata%20Narayanan | Lata Narayanan (born 1966) is an Indian-Canadian computer scientist whose research concerns distributed algorithms and wireless ad hoc networks. She is a professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal.
Early life and education
Narayanan is originally from Chennai, where she was born in 1966.
She went to high school in New Delhi, and is a 1987 graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, majoring in computer science.
Next, she traveled to the University of Rochester in the US for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1989 and completing her Ph.D. in 1992. Her dissertation, Selection, Sorting, and Routing on Mesh-Connected Processor Arrays, was supervised by Danny Krizanc.
Career
After postdoctoral research at the University of Manitoba, Narayanan joined the Concordia University faculty in 1993.
Before taking her current role as department chair, she was associate dean for academic programs in the Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, stepping down in 2012.
References
External links
Home page
1966 births
Living people
Scientists from Chennai
Indian computer scientists
Indian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni
University of Rochester alumni
Academic staff of Concordia University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20J.%20Mayhew | Deborah J. Mayhew is an American educator and consultant in the field of software usability, usability engineering, and human–computer interaction. She participated in the founding of SIGCHI and was a volunteer organizer at the first CHI conference in 1983.
Work
Mayhew has published multiple books on usability, including The Usability Engineering Lifecycle.
In 1994, Mayhew co-edited Cost-justifying Usability with Randolph Bias, which was included on professor Gerald J. Alred's list of "essential works" on documentation and usability and described as "famous" by SIGCHI.
In 2023, Mayhew received SIGCHI's Lifetime Practice Award.
References
Human–computer interaction researchers
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20of%20Me%20%28TV%20special%29 | The Best of Me is a concert television special by Filipino singer Regine Velasquez. It originally aired on April 27, 2008, in the Philippines on GMA Network. A celebration of Velasquez's 38th birthday, the program consisted of solo performances and select duets. Filmed at Velasquez's Ayala Hillside Estates residence in Quezon City, the two-hour special was directed by Louie Ignacio, while Raul Mitra served as the music director. The program featured guest stars Ogie Alcasid, Jay R, and Kyla, and a special performance with the singer's parents.
The stage was set up on the infinity pool, with musicians, background vocalists and a string section. Velasquez performed a selection of cover songs from rock bands, such as the Eagles and U2, as well as music from Colbie Caillat, David Foster, Josh Groban, and Kenny Loggins. In it, she also premiered the soundtrack of the animated film Urduja (2008), for which she voiced the eponymous title character.
Background
In April 2008, a two-hour television special entitled The Best of Me was conceived to celebrate Filipino recording artist Regine Velasquez's 38th birthday. The singer stated that when the idea of a birthday special was presented to her, she wanted the show to be a complete 180 from her usual repertoire. Also, she did not want it to be the typical concert showcase. The special was described in a press release as "a totally different facet of Asia's Songbird", which would feature songs the singer has been "itching to perform onstage but never really got a chance because it is not what the audience expects". According to The Philippine Star, Velasquez will perform an Italian song titled "Per te" and the Academy Award-winning indie folk song "Falling Slowly". A promotional tie-in with the special was the premiere performance of the movie theme "Babae", from the animated film Urduja (2008), for which the eponymous title character was voiced by Velasquez.
Principal photography took place at Velasquez's Ayala Hillside Estates residence in Quezon City, which was completed in November 2007. During an interview with the Philippine Entertainment Portal, she shared that her production team had challenges finding a concert venue, so she took inspiration from Barbra Streisand's benefit concert special One Voice, which was filmed at Streisand's Malibu home. When asked about the concept and design for the show, Velasquez revealed that she suggested having the stage set up by the infinity pool for the performances. She added that the special was filmed to coincide at twilight.
GMA Network partnered with Velasquez to premiere the program. It was produced by Aria Productions, with Perry Lansigan serving as executive producer. Louie Ignacio directed it, while Darling de Jesus was the supervising producer. Rannel David served as the line producer, and Archie Riola was in charge of floor production. Juel Balbon was co-executive producer and Wilma V. Galvante was in charge of the executive production. Raul Mitra was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice%20League%20x%20RWBY%3A%20Super%20Heroes%20%26%20Huntsmen | Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen is a 2023 two-part American direct-to-video anime-influenced computer animated superhero crossover fantasy film loosely based on the limited crossover comic book series RWBY x Justice League and DC/RWBY written by Marguerite Bennett. A co-production of Rooster Teeth Productions, DC Studios, and Warner Bros. Animation, the film centers on several members of the Justice League mysteriously turned into teenagers and teleported to Remnant while teaming up with Team RWBY to defeat a superpowered Grimm.
Part One first premiered at WonderCon in March 2023 before being released a month later on April 25, 2023. Part Two was released on October 17, 2023.
Plot
Part One
Clark Kent awakens in the Emerald Forest near Beacon Academy on the world of Remnant, where Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long are fighting against a pack of Grimm. On Remnant, Superman has gained a semblance that only works in sunlight, making him realize he's much weaker then he normally is and that there are some of his powers he can't use. The two sisters notice that the Grimm can absorb dust and fire lasers, which is unusual. In Menagerie, Blake Belladonna meets Diana Prince while Weiss Schnee meets Bruce Wayne in Atlas, who has also gained a semblance and is a bat faunus. Inside Beacon Academy, Ruby, Yang and Clark unite with Blake and Diana and later find members of Team JNPR Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren with Mari McCabe, Victor Stone, Barry Allen and Jessica Cruz from the Justice league.
The Justice League, who have all become teenagers, put what they remember together and deduce that they were fighting something mechanical before, while also realizing that while in Remnant, the semblance powers they have gained make them much weaker then they normally would be on Earth. Barry being much slower and having lower stamina, Diana's powers coming from her weapons instead of within, Victor's technology matching Remnant's era and therefore much inferior to his usual tech, and Mari and Jessica not even having their respective totem necklace and Green Lantern ring that give them their powers. Meanwhile teams RWBY and JNPR deduce that events such as the Fall of Beacon have apparently not happened, making them suspicious if this is the real Remnant.
Blake, Yang, and Diana set out to find Bruce and Weiss who ultimately come to the conclusion that this is a digital simulation of Remnant, Jaune remains with Jessica to help her find her ring while the others set out to find the cause of their current predicament. The third team comes into conflict with the Grimm, with a Wyvern amongst them and a fatal blow only causes a Leviathan to appear beside it. Jessica and Jaune are suddenly trapped in a white space with a Seer Grimm which, unlike many other things, was real and after getting out are lured into another trap by a simulated Pyrrha Nikos.
Blake, Yang and Diana along with Bruce and Weiss join Ruby, Clark, Nora, Ren, Mari, Victor and Barry with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Seed%20of%20Love | The Seed of Love is a 2023 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Ricky Davao, it stars Glaiza de Castro. It premiered on May 8, 2023 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Underage. The series concluded on August 25, 2023 with a total of 79 episodes. It was replaced by The Missing Husband in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
A husband and wife tackle the challenges of going through the process of an In-vitro fertilization.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Glaiza de Castro as Eileen Collantes-Jurado
Supporting cast
Mike Tan as Robert Nelson "Bobby" P. Jurado Jr.
Valerie Concepcion as Alexandra "Alexa" Cardinal
Allan Paule as Robert "Nelson" Jurado Sr.
Boy2 Quizon as Peter Castillano
Tina Paner as Ludivina "Ludy" Collantes
Bernadette Allyson-Estrada as Ginny Pelaez-Jurado
Ervic Vijandre as Mandy Cruzado
Yana Asistio as Ramona "Mona" Barrientos
Ashley Rivera as Frieda Pelayo
Ethan Harriot as Robert Nelson "Thirdy" C. Jurado III
Episodes
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Production
Principal photography commenced in March 2020 in Banaue, Ifugao. Filming was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming was continued in September 2022.
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television productions postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Missing%20Husband | The Missing Husband is a 2023 Philippine television drama mystery series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes, it stars Rocco Nacino in the title role and Yasmien Kurdi. It premiered on August 28, 2023 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing The Seed of Love.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
A husband who is dealing with financial problems, goes missing. His wife searches for him and will discover information that will challenge their marriage, when she finds out that her husband vanished on purpose.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Rocco Nacino as Antonino "Anton" Rosales
Yasmien Kurdi as Millicent "Millie" Rosales
Supporting cast
Nadine Samonte as Winona "Nona" Villafuerte vda. de Lazaro
Jak Roberto as John Edward "Joed" Enriquez Lazaro
Sophie Albert as Victoria "Ria" Angeles
Joross Gamboa as Brendan Salazar
Shamaine Buencamino as Sharon Rosales
Max Eigenmann as Leilani "Leila" Rosales-Gopez
Michael Flores as Bayani "Banong" Gopez
Bryce Eusebio as Norman Rosales Gopez
Patricia Coma as Arianna "Arya" Villafuerte Lazaro
Cai Cortez as Glenndolyn "Glenn" Feliciano
Jenzel Angeles as Jodalie "Joda"
Guest cast
Mark Herras as Nicandro "Nick" Enriquez Lazaro
Episodes
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Production
Principal photography commenced in February 2023.
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine mystery television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperproperty | In computer science, hyperproperties are a formalism for describing properties of computational systems. Hyperproperties generalize safety and liveness properties, and can express properties such as non-interference and observational determinism.
Elaborating on the example of non-interference: Non-interference can't be represented as a "property" in the formal sense because there's no inclusion-test that could be applied to a single program trace; non-interference is an assertion about how neighboring traces are similar to each other and it does no good to look at one trace at a time. "Hyperproperties" are the extension from properties as predicates on traces to properties as relations between traces.
Definitions
Traces and systems
Hyperproperties are defined in terms of traces of a computational system. A trace is a sequence of states; a system is a set of traces. Intuitively, a program corresponds to the set of all of its possible execution traces, given any inputs. Formally, the set of traces over a set of states is .
This representation is expressive enough to encompass several computational models, including labeled transition systems and state machines.
Hyperproperties
A trace property is a set of traces. Safety and liveness properties are trace properties. Formally, a trace property is an element of , where is the powerset operator. A hyperproperty is a set of trace properties, that is, an element of .
Trace properties may be divided into safety properties (intuitively, properties that ensure "bad things don't happen") and liveness properties ("good things do happen"), and every trace property is the intersection of a safety property and a liveness property. Analogously, hyperproperties may be divided into hypersafety and hyperliveness hyperproperties, and every hyperproperty is an intersection of a safety hyperproperty and a liveness hyperproperty.
-safety properties are safety hyperproperties such that every violation of the property can be witnessed by a set of at most traces.
Examples
Every safety property can be lifted to a 1-safety hyperproperty that expresses the same condition.
-safety hyperproperties:
(lifts of safety properties):
false, defined to be the set containing the empty set. Formally, . This hyperproperty is not satisfied by any system.
true, defined to be the set of all traces. Formally, . This hyperproperty is satisfied by all systems.
Access control
:
Monotonicity
Injectivity
Symmetry, anti-symmetry, and asymmetry
Observational determinism
Noninterference
Transitivity
Associativity
Properties
Since hyperproperties are exactly the elements of the power set , they are closed under intersection and union.
The lower Vietoris topology of a standard topology on trace properties yields a topology on the set of hyperproperties.
Applications
Several program logics have been developed for checking that a program conforms to a hyperproperty.
HyperLTL and some model checking algorithms have |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Write%20One | The Write One is a 2023 Philippine television drama romance fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by King Mark Baco, it stars Ruru Madrid and Bianca Umali. It premiered on March 20, 2023, on the network's Telebabad lineup. The series concluded on May 25, 2023 with a total of 39 episodes. It was replaced by Unbreak My Heart in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Ruru Madrid as William "Liam" B. Herrera
Bianca Umali as Joycelyn "Joyce" Trinidad-Herrera / Savana Trinidad
Supporting cast
Mikee Quintos as Victoria "Via" dela Peña
Paul Salas as Hans Arevalo
Lotlot de Leon as Teresita "Tess" Buenaventura-Herrera
Ramon Christopher as Danilo Herrera
Mon Confiado as Ramon dela Peña
Art Acuña as Edmond Trinidad
Alma Concepcion as Joanne Trinidad
Kokoy de Santos as Intoy
Andrew Schimmer as Lando Nakpil
Royce Cabrera as Vergil Herrera
Kaloy Tingcungco as Borj
Euwenn Mikaell as Dexter "Dex" T. Herrera / Stefano "Sep" Lualhati
Analyn Barro as Megan
Yvette Sanchez as Deedee
Migs Villasis as Leroy
Karenina Haniel as Odette
Eva Le Queen as Queenie
Guest cast
Kian Co as young William Herrera
Francis Mata as Nestor
Rere Madrid as Maxine
Shanelle Agustin as Chanel
Gardo Versoza
Thea Tolentino
Gil Cuerva
Buboy Villar
Mikoy Morales
Phil Noble
Marnie Lapus
Production
Principal photography commenced on February 1, 2023.
Episodes
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallavi%20Tiwari | Pallavi Tiwari is an Indian American biomedical engineer who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research considers the development of computer algorithms to accelerate the diagnosis and treatment of disease. She was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Early life and education
Tiwari is from India. She said that her parents always encouraged her to study science, and valued higher education. She attended the Kendriya Vidyalaya high school, and moved to the Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science for undergraduate studies. She became inspired by biomedical engineering whilst she was at college, developing wearable technologies to help people with visible impairments. She moved to Rutgers University for her doctoral research, where she worked with a surgeon to analyze human error in surgery.
Research and career
At Case Western Reserve University, Tiwari built machine learning algorithms that could accelerate the diagnosis of disease from medical images. In particular, Tiwari creates artificial intelligence tools to assess magnetic resonance imaging data and determine whether body tissue contains malignancies. At Case Western, she served as Director of the Brain Image Computing (BrIC) Laboratory.
Tiwari joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022, where she was made co-director of the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
Awards and honors
2018 Crain's Business Cleveland Forty Under 40
2020 Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Scholars Award
2021 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine
2023 Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Selected publications
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
American biomedical engineers
American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
21st-century women engineers
Rutgers University alumni
Case Western Reserve University faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20of%20Glory | Field of Glory is a series of turn-based strategy games published by British company Slitherine Software for personal computers. The series is based on a 2008 miniature wargame.
Board game
Field of Glory is a 2008 miniature wargame for creating ancient and medieval tabletop battles. It was designed by Richard Bodley Scott and published by Slitherine Software and Osprey Publishing. The release of the game and two companion books (Rise of Rome and Storm of Arrows) were announced on December 20, 2007, for February 2008. A third edition was released on October 17, 2017.
Wargamer gave the game a positive review: "On a 1 to 10 scale I’d give Field of Glory a skosh over 9, but only for intermediate or advanced players. Given that most players who already compete in ancients tourneys are at this level anyway, this should not be a problem, but beginners will likely get lost in the complexity if not nurtured."
In 2017, Wargamer reviewed the third edition and gave it a positive review: "For current Field of Glory players this strongly recommended, but for everyone else it's optional."
Video games
Field of Glory
Field of Glory is the first game in the series, a digital version of the board game. It was released on November 19, 2009, for Windows and developed by British studio Hexwar. An OS X port was released on June 30, 2010. It was ported by Freeverse Inc. Four expansion packs were released in 2010: Rise of Rome, Storm of Arrows, Immortal Fire, and Swords & Scimitars. Three expansions packs were released in 2011: Legions Triumphant, Eternal Empire, and Decline and Fall. Two expansion packs were released in 2016: Oath of Fealty and Wolves from the Sea. Alongside the last two expansions, the game was remade for the Unity game engine.
Armchair General gave the game a rating of 88% and said: "Overall, Field of Glory continues Slitherene’s tradition of fine-tuned, fast-playing games. FoG is easy to play and learn but more difficult to master." Digitally Downloaded gave the game four out of five stars and called it a "hugely entertaining game". Roberto Bertoni of Eurogamer Italy gave the game six out of ten and said: "Field of Glory is nothing more than an electronic board game. All is pretty tasteless but also very functional. Some flaws in the AI make the game more enjoyable in multiplayer rather than in single player."
Field of Glory II
Field of Glory II was released on October 12, 2017, developed by Byzantine Games. It uses the same game engine as Byzantine's previous games: Sengoku Jidai and Pike and Shot. Several DLC packs were released: Immortal Fire in 2017, Legions Triumphant, Age of Belisarius, and Rise of Persia in 2018, Wolves at the Gate in 2019, and Swifter than Eagles in 2023.
Field of Glory II received generally favorable reviews upon its release. It holds an average of 84/100 on aggregate website Metacritic.
Tim Stone of Rock Paper Shotgun wrote about the beta version: "Like its forerunners, FoGII produces gripping battle after gripping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20maximum%20animal%20lifespans%20in%20captivity | This is a list of maximum recorded animal lifespans in captivity. Only animals from the classes of the Chordata phylum are included. On average, captive animals (especially mammals) live longer than wild animals. This may be due to the fact that zoos provide refuge against diseases, competition with others of the same species and predators. Most notably, animals with shorter lifespans and faster growth rates benefit more from zoos than animals with higher longevities and slow growth rates.
List
See also
List of longest-living organisms
Longevity
Life expectancy
References
External links
https://genomics.senescence.info/species/index.html
Longevity
Captivity
Oldest organisms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Gardent | Claire Gardent is a French computer scientist and linguist specializing in natural language processing, including natural language generation and machine translation. She is a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, affiliated with the (LORIA), She is also past chair of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and former editor-in-chief of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (Revue TAL).
Education and career
Gardent was a linguistics student at the University of Toulouse, graduating in 1986. She went to the UK for graduate study, earning a master's degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Essex in 1987 and a PhD in cognitive science from the University of Edinburgh in 1991. Her doctoral dissertation, Gapping and VP ellipsis in a unification-based grammar, was jointly supervised by Ewan Klein and Robin Cooper.
After ten years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Netherlands and Germany, she joined CNRS and LORIA as a researcher in 2000. She has headed a research group on computational, formal, and field linguistics since 2019.
Books
Gardent is the coauthor of books including:
Techniques d'analyse et de génération pour la langue naturelle (with Karine Baschung, Editions Adosa, 1995)
Deep Learning Approaches to Text Production (with Shashi Narayan, Morgan & Claypool, 2020).
Recognition
In 2022 she won the CNRS Silver Medal.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists
Linguists from France
Natural language processing researchers
University of Toulouse alumni
Alumni of the University of Essex
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardent | Gardent is a French surname. Notable people with the name include:
Claire Gardent, French computer scientist and linguist
Philippe Gardent (handballer) (born 1964), French handball player
Philippe Gardent (rugby league) (born 1979), French rugby league player and former American football player
French-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20Clarence | Service Clarence (1939/40 -1945) (or the Clarence network; in French: Le Réseau Clarence)
was one of the most successful MI6 networks in Belgium during the Second World War.
Name and leadership
It was led by Hector Demarque (1903-1975) and Walthère Dewé. Dewé had earlier played a leading role in 'La Dame Blanche.' He used the experience of the Dame Blanche network to start a new network, codenamed Clarence.
The network was named 'Clarence' after the pseudonym of Hector Demarque. As Walthère Dewé was targeted for his activities in the First World War, he went into hiding, but behind the scenes he remained the top leader. He adopted the pseudonym 'Cleveland'.
Function and success
Throughout the war, Service Clarence provided valuable information on a wide range of enemy activity, including coastal defenses, the effects of Allied bombing and the location of German units.
The Service Clarence network was a source of high quality and detailed intelligence on enemy troop movements, German order of battle, and Nazi secret weapons.
It was the "most successful Belgian network."
Furthermore, Claude Dansey, who controlled SIS operations in occupied Europe for most of the war, "later said that, in terms of the quality and quantity of its reports,"occupied first place among the military intelligence networks operating in occupied Europe."
Members
Service Clarence was made up of one sector per Belgian province, a road sector and a French sector. In 1940, the network could only rely on short-range radio transmitters and failed to contact London. Attempts to establish contact with London via France and Spain by land courier were not crowned with the expected success. The relationship with London was established when Jean Lamy parachuted into the Manhay region with a two-way radio.
Several former members of Dame Blanche belonged to Service Clarence. One of its agents, since the summer of 1942, was Henri Roth; his son Leon-Henri Roth was a forced labourer at Peenemunde who passed vital information about the secret German rocket development to him, and via another Service Clarence agent Adolphe Godart to the British (SIS). The info was used in Operation Hydra.
Belgian Albert Van den Berg, who saved hundreds of Jews and was honored in 1995 by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, was also a Clarence member.
Marcel Verhamme, codenamed Fortuné, was caught in 1943 and was executed in November of that year.
At the end of the war, 1,547 resistance fighters were officially recognized as having served in this intelligence network.
Among them, stands out for her courage and efficiency as a liaison officer. She obtained the status of first class auxiliary agent at the proposal of the head of the network, Hector Demarque, in June 1946.
The Brabant section had two sectors, directed by Dr. Antoine Goethals and Franz Leemans.
Dewé's end
Walthère Dewé was shot and killed while trying to avoid capture by the Germans in 1944.
The organizati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20effect | The shadow effect is a phenomenon seen in genetic studies that use noninvasive genetic data collection methods. It occurs when there are not enough loci and/or loci that have low variance of alleles within the population. As a result, researchers can capture two separate individuals and mistakenly label them as the same individual. This can create a negative bias in the data and portray a population as smaller and less genetically diverse than it is. This is most commonly seen in collection methods that rely on environmental DNA (eDNA) which is collected directly from the environment (such as feces or hair removed from the ground). The accuracy of non-invasive collection data can be increased by increasing the amount of loci being examined during the study.
Background
There are several types of rarefaction methods that can be used to estimate the size of a hard monitor species. The study of population size and density falls under demography, the study of populations of any kind of organism.
Mark and recapture is a common form of data collection involving species with large populations. Being able to capture and mark a species in a noninvasive way allows for accurate readings of the population's size, both total and effective over several rounds of recapture. However, for species that are difficult to capture or view directly such as endangered species, it can be near impossible to use the mark-recapture method to obtain genetic samples.
Another method for population size estimation is a real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). qPCR is a molecular approach that measures the amplification of DNA over time rather than just at the end of the reaction. This method is useful because it can rely on eDNA to give an estimate of how abundant a species is in a given habitat.
Noninvasive forms of data collection can be achieved through the collection of fur, feces or other fragments of DNA-rich material left behind (eDNA). Once considered costly, modern advancements have allowed for non-invasive data collection to become easier and provide more genetic information about a population. DNA-Barcoding is a method of species identification that uses eDNA to determine the unique genetic makeup of individuals and their species. This method is that it requires a balancing act: Maintaining enough loci markers in the genetic data, and remaining cost-effective.
Probability of Identity (PIAV) is the probability of a randomly selected sample from a population producing the same genotype twice if not enough loci are used during the study. Should loci with little genetic variation or few loci are selected, it is likely that multiple individuals will be identified as too genetically similar, with individuals being excluded from the data set. This creates a negative statistical bias, pushing the results towards a smaller, less genetically diverse mean than is accurate to the population. This is known as the shadow effect.
Applications
The Cabrera vole (Microtus ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots%20to%20Riches | Roots to Riches is an autobiographical documentary concert special by Filipino singer Regine Velasquez. It originally aired on May 24, 2009, in the Philippines on GMA Network. The special follows Velasquez's early childhood beginnings as an aspiring singer competing on talent shows to the influential entertainer she is today, while providing an insight into her journey with stardom and detailing various aspects of her professional and personal life. It is interspersed with a series of flashback portraying significant events in her life and career. The program includes a compilation of interviews with key people that have been instrumental to the trajectory of her success over the course of several years.
A celebration of Velasquez's 39th birthday, the two-hour special is spliced with musical performances filmed at the Centro Escolar University in Velasquez's hometown of Malolos, Bulacan. It was directed by Louie Ignacio and produced by Aria Productions. Raul Mitra served as the music director, with guests appearances from Pilita Corrales, Jose Mari Chan, Dingdong Dantes, Pops Fernandez, and Dennis Trillo and a special appearance by her former competition rival Eva Castillo.
Background
Regine Velasquez started singing at age six, and had unorthodox voice training with her father, where she was immersed neck-deep in the sea and would go through vocal runs. She credits this method for strengthening her core and stomach muscles, and developing her lung capacity. When Velasquez was nine, her family moved to Bulacan, where she started competing in talent shows. In 1984, aged fourteen, she auditioned for the reality television series Ang Bagong Kampeon and won. Her career began with a record deal with OctoArts International and the release of her single "Love Me Again" in 1986. After an appearance in the variety show The Penthouse Live!, she caught the attention of Ronnie Henares, a producer and talent manager who signed her to a management deal.
In May 2009, GMA Network announced a television special for the singer entitled Roots to Riches. It was the second birthday showcase on GMA by Velasquez, after The Best of Me in 2008. A blend of documentary and musical production, the title of the special is borrowed from the phrase rags-to-riches, a parallel of Velasquez's life and career trajectory. It depicted the singer's childhood beginnings as an amateur singer competing in various talent shows in her hometown of Bulacan through a series of biographical flashback re-enactments, camera footage, and a compilation of interviews. In it, key people that have been significant in her career were interviewed, including individuals that have supported her during the early years of competing in talent shows. "[It was] research[ed]... I mean, everyone knows my story. But not this... [a lot] of untold stories", Velasquez said about the special.
Roots to Riches featured performances from a concert filmed at the Centro Escolar University in Malolos, Bulacan, whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble%20%28social%20network%29 | Pebble (formerly T2) was an American social media platform founded by former Twitter employees Sarah Oh and Gabor Cselle. It provided an authenticated network where users could make posts and interact in communities before shutting down on 1 November 2023.
Background
Prior to founding T2, Cselle oversaw the incubation of new consumer products in Google’s since-shuttered Area 120 incubator. Cselle had also been a Group Product Manager at Twitter from 2014 to 2016, where he worked on the consumer product, and relaunched Twitter’s logged-out homepage and mobile trends. Sarah Oh had previously worked as an executive in Trust and Safety at Twitter and Facebook. On the day Oh was laid off from twitter, Cselle called her to offer his condolences, and to offer Oh a position at T2 to aid in creating a new social media platform.
Cselle announced the development of T2 in November 2022.
In early 2023, T2 hired former Discord Senior Director of Engineering Michael Greer as its chief technology officer.
On 15 September 2023, the platform was rebranded as Pebble.
On 24 October 2023, the platform announced its shutdown on 1 November 2023, approximately one year since it started.
Platform
Pebble is one of several social media platforms conceived as an alternative to X (formerly Twitter) after its takeover by Elon Musk. The platform allows 280 characters on user posts. Cselle has expressed a desire to keep the platform as similar to the original Twitter platform as possible. It also emphasizes security and safety features such as user authentication.
Pebble's moderation is planned to make use of both human review and artificial intelligence features.
On 25 April 2023, the platform's invite system launched, allowing its current community of around 1,000 users to invite their friends to the service instead of requiring users to join a waitlist. Each member of the platform has been allowed up to 5 invites with the ability to request more invites if required. Currently, the platform is a web-based app only.
Pebble offers checkmark verification, similar to X. Verification is done through Persona and a $5 charge is invoiced to offset the cost of verification. Unlike rival X Blue, the payment is one-time.
External links
Official website
References
American social networking mobile apps
American social networking websites
Real-time web
Text messaging
Microblogging services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Miller%20%28academic%29 | Dale Miller is an American computer scientist and author. He is a Director of Research at Inria Saclay and one of the designers of the λProlog programming language and the Abella theorem prover.
Miller is most known for his research on topics in computational logic, including proof theory, automated reasoning, and formalized meta-theory. He has co-authored the book Programming with Higher-order Logic.
Miller is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has been a two-term Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic from 2009 to 2015 and holds an editorial appointment on the Journal of Automated Reasoning.
Early life and education
In 1973, while a senior at the Annville-Cleona High School, Miller published an Advanced Problem (Problem H-237) in the Fibonacci Quarterly, where his name was misread as “D. A. Millin”. The subject of that problem is now known as the Millin Series. He graduated with a B.S. in mathematics from Lebanon Valley College in 1978 and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1983 under the supervision of Peter B. Andrews.
Career
Following his Ph.D., Miller started his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and was promoted to associate professor in 1989. From 1997 to 2001, he was the Department Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He was a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique from 2002 to 2006.
Having moved to France in 2002, he is currently a Director of Research at Inria Saclay and was the scientific leader of the Parsifal team at Inria Saclay for 12 years.
Research
Miller's research spans the area of computational logic and focuses on proof theory, automated reasoning, unification theory, operational semantics, and logic programming. He is best known as one of the designers of the λProlog programming language and the Abella theorem prover. In addition to other honors, he has received two LICS Test-of-Time awards and an ERC Advanced Grant.
Logic programming and formalized meta-theory
Miller and Gopalan Nadathur co-developed the logic programming language λProlog, which is based on higher-order intuitionistic logic and was the first programming language to directly support λ-tree syntax (also known as higher-order abstract syntax). Since the language's introduction in 1985, various implementations have been made, including ELPI and Teyjus.
With Alwen Tiu, Miller extended the proof theory for fixed points and first-order quantification to incorporate λ-tree syntax. Their analysis showed that negation-as-failure forces a distinction between generic and universal quantification. They introduced the ∇-quantifier to capture the generic quantifier. Their extended logical system could directly capture many model-checking and meta-theoretical aspects of the π-calculus.
Working with Nadathur, Tiu, Andrew Gacek, and Kaustuv Chaudhuri, Miller helped design the Abella interactive theorem prover. Sin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree-Rips%20bifiltration | The degree-Rips bifiltration is a simplicial filtration used in topological data analysis for analyzing the shape of point cloud data. It is a multiparameter extension of the Vietoris–Rips filtration that possesses greater stability to data outliers than single-parameter filtrations, and which is more amenable to practical computation than other multiparameter constructions. Introduced in 2015 by Lesnick and Wright, the degree-Rips bifiltration is a parameter-free and density-sensitive vehicle for performing persistent homology computations on point cloud data.
Definition
It is standard practice in topological data analysis (TDA) to associate a sequence of nested simplicial complexes to a finite data set in order to detect the persistence of topological features over a range of scale parameters. One way to do this is by considering the sequence of Vietoris–Rips complexes of a finite set in a metric space indexed over all scale parameters.
If is a finite set in a metric space, then this construction is known as the Vietoris–Rips (or simply "Rips") filtration on , commonly denoted or . The Rips filtration can be expressed as a functor from the real numbers (viewed as a poset category) to the category of simplicial complexes and simplicial maps, a subcategory of the category of topological spaces and continuous maps via the geometric realization functor.
The Rips filtration is indexed over a single parameter, but we can capture more information (e.g., density) about the underlying data set by considering multiparameter filtrations. A filtration indexed by the product of two totally-ordered sets is known as a bifiltration, first introduced by Gunnar Carlsson and Afra Zomorodian in 2009.
The degree-Rips bifiltration filters each simplicial complex in the Rips filtration by the degree of each vertex in the graph isomorphic to the 1-skeleton at each index. More formally, let be an element of and define to be the subgraph of the 1-skeleton of containing all vertices whose degree is at least . Subsequently building the maximal simplicial complex possible on this 1-skeleton, we obtain a complex . By doing this for all possible vertex degrees, and across all scale parameters in the Rips filtration, we extend the Rips construction to a bifiltration .
Note that since the size of each complex will decrease as increases, we should identify the indexing set with , where is the opposite poset category of . Therefore the degree-Rips bifiltration can be viewed as a functor .
The idea behind the degree-Rips bifiltration is that vertices of higher degree will correspond to higher density regions of the underlying data set. However, since degree-Rips does not depend on an arbitrary choice of a parameter (such as a pre-selected density parameter, which is a priori difficult to determine), it is a convenient tool for analyzing data.
Applications to Data Analysis
The degree-Rips bifiltration possesses several properties that make it a useful tool in d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarya%20of%20the%20Dawn | Zarya of the Dawn is a short comic book written by Kris Kashtanova and illustrated using Midjourney. It is illustrated entirely using artificial intelligence, which resulted in a copyright dispute.
Plot
Zarya awakens in an abandoned New York City with no memories. A postcard from a person named Rusty falls out of their pocket, allowing them to remember their name and home address. After returning home and getting new clothes, Zarya meets Raya, their "inter-world assistant", who tells Zarya that a mental health crisis in 2023 led to the almost complete destruction of life on earth. Raya then takes Zarya to Zatura World, the world of acceptance. There, Zarya meets a mysterious woman and learns to accept their feelings. When they return to Central Park, it is covered in greenhouses. Zarya remarks that "acceptance is the first step of letting go".
Copyright dispute
In September 2022, Kashtanova applied for the comic's copyright protection with the United States Copyright Office, but they did not disclose that the illustrations were created using Midjourney, an artificial intelligence image generator. The comic was granted copyright protection, but the Copyright Office initiated a proceeding to revoke the protection of the artwork after discovering the fact. The artwork's copyright protection was revoked in February 2023, and the Copyright Office explained that only human-created works can receive protection. Although the images themselves are not protected by copyright, the arrangement of the images and the text and story of the book are, as they are the creative work of Kashtanova and not the artificial intelligence.
See also
Artificial intelligence and copyright
Artificial intelligence art
Alice and Sparkle
References
External links
Zarya of the Dawn at AIcomicbooks
2022 comics debuts
Artificial intelligence art
Text-to-image generation
Copyright law
LGBT-related comics
Comics set in New York City
Public domain comics
Comics controversies
2020s webcomic debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandaker%20senter%20tram%20stop | Sandaker senter is a tram stop on the Grünerløkka–Torshov Line of the Oslo Tramway network. It is located in the borough of Sagene in Oslo, Norway. Sandaker senter is right next to the mall (the namesake of the tram stop itself; Sandaker senter.) It is also located near Sagene Fire Station and a mill called Bjølsen Valsemølle. This mill was part of the former Grain Tram system, in which special trams transported grain from the silos at Vippetangen. They stopped transporting grain in 1967, after running for 49 years.
Facilities
The tram stop has two platforms located beside Sandakerveien. There are two waiting shelters, one on each platform and are infitted with dot-matrix displays. They also have route maps of the system and timetables. SL79, SL95 and SL18 trams currently serve the stop. The areas nearby also have grassed track.
Service
The stop is served by Line 11, Line 12 and Line 18, each with a 10 to 15 minute headway. Torshov is the preceding tram stop and Grefsenveien is succeeding tram stop, when travelling north towards Storo. The stop is also served by two night bus services (11N and 12N) during the night period, but at a different platform located a few metres away.
History
Trams operated by Kristiania Sporveisselskab begun running through the area where the stop is located, since the 2nd of October 1901. In 1994, the Sandaker senter tram stop was established and replaced the former tram stops called Sandaker and Åsengata. In 2003, the tram stop was upgraded to prevent the passengers' danger. As a safety measure for passengers crossing Sandakerveien when disembarking, the platforms were laid right next to the tracks. As a result of this, private vehicles (like cars) had to wait for the tram to depart first.As part of the "Grefsenveien nedre" project of the Fremtidens Byreise programme, the infrastructure was upgraded and this also lead to closures of the tram stop.
References
Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Oslo Tramway stations
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Concerned%20Historians | The Network of Concerned Historians (NCH) is an organization created to act as a bridge between human-rights organisations campaigning for censored
or persecuted historians and others concerned with the past on the one hand and the global
community of historians on the other.
The Network of Concerned Historians became affiliated with the International Students of History Association in April 2013, became an affiliated member of Scholars at Risk (SAR), located at New York University, in February 2007, and became a founding member for the Network for Education and Academic Rights in June 2011.
History
The Network of Concerned Historians was created in 1995 by Antoon De Baets, in the History Department of the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands.
Campaigns
The NCH produces Annual Reports about the domain where history and human rights intersect. In addition, the NCH collects codes of ethics of Historians and workers in related fields, such as Archivists, and Archaeologists from all over the world.
The Annual Reports have been published since 1995, and are all available in the organization's website.
The last Report was published in 2022, and covers 100 countries, including Afghanistan, Brazil. China, India, Russia and the United States.
External links
Official website
Around the World, Censorship of Historians is Tied to Attacks on Democracy
Regimes Around the World are Manipulating History and Threatening Historians
References
History organizations based in the United States
Historical societies of the United States
Professional associations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer%20Corps%20%28video%20game%29 | Panzer Corps: Wehrmacht is a computer wargame developed by Lordz Games Studio and Flashback Games, and published by Slitherine Software for Windows, iOS, and macOS. A sequel, Panzer Corps 2, was released in March 2020.
Gameplay
Panzer Corps is a turn-based strategic wargame played on a hex grid. It covers World War II from the German perspective.
Release
Before Panzer Corps, lead designer Alex Shargin made a Panzer General fan remake, Panzer General Forever. Panzer Corps was announced on 2 December 2010. It was described as similar to Panzer General series. An iPad version was scheluded for third quarter of 2012 but it was delayed to December 2013. Panzer Corps Gold was released on 6 October 2016. It includes the main game and 17 expansion packs. A macOS port was released on 4 May 2017.
Reception
The PC and iOS versions received "favourable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Many compared the PC version to the Panzer General series. 4Players gave it a favorable review while it was still in development.
Daniel Shannon of GameSpot summarized: "Panzer Corps is a great turn-based strategic wargame that captures Panzer General's deep and involving classic gameplay." Tim Stone of PC Gamer UK said that the only negative aspect of the game was the steep price since there was "free fan-made versions of Panzer General 2 available". Luke Plunkett of Kotaku called it "one of the best strategy games you can get on the PC" in 2014.
See also
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon, Slitherine's 2014 game that uses the engine from Panzer Corps
References
External links
(archived)
Panzer Corps at The Lordz Games Studio (archived)
Panzer Corps at Flashback Games
2011 video games
Computer wargames
Flashback Games games
IOS games
MacOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Multiplayer hotseat games
Play-by-email video games
Slitherine Software games
Top-down video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games with expansion packs
Windows games
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer%20Corps%202 | Panzer Corps 2 is a computer wargame developed by Flashback Games and published by Slitherine Software for Windows on March 19, 2020. It is a sequel to Panzer Corps.
Gameplay
Panzer Corps 2 is a World War II turn-based strategic wargame played on a hex grid. It features a 60-mission branching campaign from the German perspective. New features in the sequel are 3D graphics and an undo system. There is co-op and player versus player multiplayer, either via online, hotseat, or play-by-mail methods.
Release
Panzer Corps 2 was announced on March 8, 2017. Seven downloadable content (DLC) packs have been released.
Reception
Panzer Corps received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Many compared the game to the Panzer General series.
Jonathan Bolding of PC Gamer summarized: "Panzer Corps 2 is ultimately a fun, robust, and quite pretty wargame. It has a lot to recommend it, but it truly excels in no particular category. Despite all this work it still falls into the complexity-over-substance trap of so many wargames in the past 20 years."
Luke Plunkett of Kotaku said the game has "[a] fantastic mix of puzzle-like engagements with spacious strategic manoeuvring" but called the final missions "bullshit" and the encirclement system "kinda broken".
Tim Stone of Rock Paper Shotgun gave a negative review and said: " [...] loyalty to its predecessors means most of the time it feels more like a tough military puzzle game than an insightful simulation of mid-20th Century warfare."
Bill Gray of Wargamer gave a positive review, saying: "If you liked Panzer General and the original Panzer Corps, then PC2 is a must buy." Joe Fonseca reviewed the Axis Operations 1941 expansion also for Wargamer: "Staying true to Panzer Corps 2's tried-and-tested formula, Axis Operations 1941 brings unique scenarios and a refreshing setting to the WW2 wargame, making it a no-brainer for fans of the series."
References
External links
Panzer Corps 2 at Flashback Games
2020 video games
Computer wargames
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Multiplayer hotseat games
Multiplayer online games
Play-by-email video games
Slitherine Software games
Turn-based strategy video games
Unreal Engine games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games with expansion packs
Video games with Steam Workshop support
Windows games
Windows-only games
World War II video games
Flashback Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Berger%20%28media%20executive%29 | Eric Berger is an American media executive. He co-founded and is the CEO of Common Sense Networks, the for-profit arm of Common Sense Media.
Career
Berger joined Time Warner as a corporate vice president of strategic planning where he was responsible for wireless initiatives and the creation of business growth. In 2006, Berger joined Sony Pictures as a vice president of mobile entertainment and digital networks, running the mobile publishing and distribution business. In May 2008, he became the general manager of Crackle (formerly known as Grouper), Sony's ad-supported video streaming service.
In 2017, Berger was named Chief Digital Officer for Sony Pictures Television Networks, and in 2018, he became the head of Sony's Direct-To-Consumer Unit, which included oversight of Funimation, Crackle, Film1 OTT and Animax.
In 2020, Berger left Sony for Common Sense Media, where he co-founded Common Sense Networks and became its CEO. In December 2020, he launched Sensical TV, a free streaming service for children aged 2 to 10.
Recognition
In 2015, Berger was named one of Varietys 30 Digital Entertainment Execs to Watch. In 2016, he was included in the The Hollywood Reporters Silicon Beach 25 list of Los Angeles digital players.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American media executives
Sony Pictures Television employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20and%20Sparkle | Alice and Sparkle is a 2022 children's book published by Ammaar Reshi. Reshi created the book using artificial intelligence in one weekend, which sparked controversy among artists.
Plot
A girl named Alice discovers artificial intelligence. She knows that artificial intelligence is powerful, and that it has the power to do good and evil depending on how it is used. One day, she creates her own artificial intelligence and names it Sparkle. Sparkle helps Alice with her homework and plays with her, and they quickly become good friends. However, Sparkle soon grows more powerful and begins to make its own decisions, which makes Alice both proud and scared. She knows that it is her responsibility to guide Sparkle to do good, not evil. Together, Alice and Sparkle use their knowledge to make the world a better place and to teach people about the power of artificial intelligence. The two live happily ever after.
Creation
Ammaar Reshi was inspired to write a children's book when reading to his friend's daughter, but had no experience with creative writing or illustration. To circumvent this, he used the chatbot ChatGPT to write the story for him and used the image generation software Midjourney to illustrate it. On December 4, 2022, 72 hours after having the idea for the book, he published it on Amazon's digital bookstore, and published a paperback version the following day. Within ten days it had sold around 70 copies.
Controversy
On December 9, 2022, Reshi made a thread on Twitter about his experience publishing the book, which soon went viral. Reshi received heavy backlash from artists with concerns over the ethics of art generated by artificial intelligence. He also received death threats and messages encouraging self-harm because of his publication. Many writers and illustrators criticized both the creation process and the product itself, claiming that if artificial intelligence programs such as Midjourney are trained on existing illustrations, then the original artists should be financially compensated for derivative works such as Alice and Sparkle. The book was temporarily removed from Amazon in January 2023 because of "suspicious review activity", caused by a high volume of both five-star and one-star reviews.
See also
Artificial intelligence art
Zarya of the Dawn
References
2022 children's books
Artificial intelligence art
Text-to-image generation
Literature controversies
Books involved in plagiarism controversies
Fiction about robots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coquand | Coquand is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Henri Coquand (1813–1881), French geologist and paleontologist
Thierry Coquand (born 1961), French computer scientist and mathematician
French-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset%20filtration | The offset filtration (also called the "union-of-balls" or "union-of-disks" filtration) is a growing sequence of metric balls used to detect the size and scale of topological features of a data set. The offset filtration commonly arises in persistent homology and the field of topological data analysis. Utilizing a union of balls to approximate the shape of geometric objects was first suggested by Frosini in 1992 in the context of submanifolds of Euclidean space. The construction was independently explored by Robins in 1998, and expanded to considering the collection of offsets indexed over a series of increasing scale parameters (i.e., a growing sequence of balls), in order to observe the stability of topological features with respect to attractors. Homological persistence as introduced in these papers by Frosini and Robins was subsequently formalized by Edelsbrunner et al. in their seminal 2002 paper Topological Persistence and Simplification. Since then, the offset filtration has become a primary example in the study of computational topology and data analysis.
Definition
Let be a finite set in a metric space , and for any let be the closed ball of radius centered at . Then the union is known as the offset of with respect to the parameter (or simply the -offset of ).
By considering the collection of offsets over all we get a family of spaces where whenever . So is a family of nested topological spaces indexed over , which defines a filtration known as the offset filtration on .
Note that it is also possible to view the offset filtration as a functor from the poset category of non-negative real numbers to the category of topological spaces and continuous maps. There are some advantages to the categorical viewpoint, as explored by Bubenik and others.
Properties
A standard application of the nerve theorem shows that the union of balls has the same homotopy type as its nerve, since closed balls are convex and the intersection of convex sets is convex. The nerve of the union of balls is also known as the Čech complex, which is a subcomplex of the Vietoris-Rips complex. Therefore the offset filtration is weakly equivalent to the Čech filtration (defined as the nerve of each offset across all scale parameters), so their homology groups are isomorphic.
Although the Vietoris-Rips filtration is not identical to the Čech filtration in general, it is an approximation in a sense. In particular, for a set we have a chain of inclusions between the Rips and Čech complexes on whenever . In general metric spaces, we have that for all , implying that the Rips and Cech filtrations are 2-interleaved with respect to the interleaving distance as introduced by Chazal et al. in 2009.
It is a well-known result of Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger that given a sufficiently dense random point cloud sample of a smooth submanifold in Euclidean space, the union of balls of a certain radius recovers the homology of the object via a deformation retraction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone%20%28disambiguation%29 | A smartphone is a mobile phone with computer-like capabilities.
Smartphone, smartphones, etc. may also refer to:
"Smartphone" (Cory Marks song)
"SmartPhones" (Trey Songz song) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ocean%20Frontier%20Institute | The Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) is a non-profit research and higher education organization dedicated to ocean-based research and data. Established in 2016, the institute focuses its research on achieving net zero, protecting ocean biodiversity and sustaining ocean bioresources. OFI is based at Dalhousie University in the Ocean Sciences Building in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
History
OFI was established in 2016 by Dalhousie University with partnerships in Memorial University of Newfoundland, and University of Prince Edward Island.
The Institution also partners with international ocean research institutes, other Canadian universities, governments, Indigenous communities, and industry ranging from local small businesses to international corporations.
In announcing the creation of OFI, Dalhousie University noted that it was set to become “one of the world’s most significant international ocean science collaborations.”
The initial funding for the organization included a $93.7 million commitment from the Canadian government through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). At the time of the announcement, it was the largest research grant in the history of Dalhousie University.
An additional $125 million in cash and in kind contributions was also provided by provincial governments and partners, most notably a $25 million gift from business leader and philanthropist John Risley.
The Institute administers the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, The Safe and Sustainable Development of the Ocean Frontier; Ocean School; and the North Atlantic Carbon Observatory (NACO); and hosts the Canadian project office of the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) program.
OFI's first CEO was Wendy Watson-Wright, who served in the role until December 2019. During this period, OFI saw more than sixteen ocean focused research projects reviewed by internal and external experts which included scientific analysis of the changing ocean ecosystems as well as studies to strengthen marine safety, ocean data and technology and the fishing and aquaculture industries. A further six large-scale research projects were launched in 2020 focused on the North Atlantic Ocean Climate and Coastal Communities and the Ocean.
In March 2018 OFI launched its first round of Seed Funding in partnership with Canada's Ocean Supercluster and Innovacorp, providing financial support to ideas with the potential for advancing research, commercial or social concepts relating to the ocean. The Seed Fund has supported over 100 ocean related research projects ranging from studies on Non-Toxic Marine Anti-fouling Paint, to 4D Ocean Sensing Strategy, to collaboration efforts on the blending of Indigenous and Western knowledge.
In 2018 OFI and Dalhousie University also invested over 2 million dollars for the creation of DeepSense, a partnership between industry, academia and government focused on using ocean related data and artificial intelligence to better support |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refocusing%20%28semantics%29 | In computer science, refocusing is a program transformation used to implement a reduction semantics -- i.e., a small-step operational semantics with an explicit representation of the reduction context -- more efficiently. It is a step towards implementing a deterministic semantics as a deterministic abstract machine.
A small-step operational semantics defines the meaning of a given program as a sequence of one-step reductions that starts with and continues with a sequence of reducts , where :
A one-step reduction from to is achieved by
locating the smallest potentially reducible term (potential redex) using a given reduction strategy, if this potential redex exists in (otherwise is irreducible); and
contracting this potential redex using given contraction rules if it is an actual one (otherwise is stuck).
A reduction semantics is a small-step operational semantics with an explicit representation of the context of each potential redex.
Writing for such context, the sequence of one-step reductions above reads:
where
is first decomposed into the context and a potential redex ,
is contracted into the contractum ,
is then recomposed around and then decomposed into the context and a potential redex ,
etc.
This succession of decompositions, contractions, and recomposition is depicted as follows:
contract contract contract
o--------->o o--------->o o--------->o
/ \ / \ / \
/ recompose \ / recompose \ / recompose \
/ \ / \ / \
/ decompose \ / decompose \ / decompose \
/ \ / \ / \
o--------------------->o--------------------->o--------------------->o
reduce reduce reduce
Refocusing is a deforestation of the successive reducts:
contract refocus contract refocus contract
o--------->o---------->o--------->o---------->o--------->o------
/ \ / \ / \
/ recompose \ / recompose \ / recompose \
/ \ / \ / \
/ decompose \ / decompose \ / decompose \
/ \ / \ / \
o o o o
After the initial decomposition, the succession of contractions and refocusings has the structure of a deterministic abstract machine.
Background
The semantics of a programming language defines the meaning of the programs written in this programming language.
Plotkin's Structural Operational Semantics is a small-step semantics where the meaning of a program is defined step |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shehab%20News%20Agency | Shehab News Agency (), is a Palestinian news agency affiliated with Hamas. It was established in January 2007 in Gaza. Its part of the al-Aqsa Media Network. Its website is blocked by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Facebook blocked its accounts in 2021.
References
External links
News agencies based in Palestine
Palestinian news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias%20D.%20Cattaneo | Matias Damian Cattaneo (born May 16, 1978) is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. His research focuses on statistics, econometrics, data science and decision science, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference. He is best known for his work on Regression Discontinuity Designs.
Cattaneo is a co-editor of Econometric Theory and an associate editor with the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica, and Operations Research.
Education and academic career
Cattaneo received his Licentiate from UBA in 2000, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, under supervision of James L. Powell. From 2008 to 2019, Cattaneo taught at the University of Michigan. In 2019, Cattaneo joined Princeton University as a Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
Honors and awards
Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2023.
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2022.
Fellow, International Association for Applied Econometrics, 2022.
Stata Journal Editors’ Prize, 2019.
Publications
References
External links
Cattaneo's faculty page at Princeton University
Cattaneo's Google Scholar profile
1978 births
Living people
Princeton University faculty
University of Buenos Aires alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Operations researchers
Econometricians
Scientists from Buenos Aires
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souffl%C3%A9%20%28programming%20language%29 | Soufflé is an open source parallel logic programming language, influenced by Datalog. Soufflé includes both an interpreter and a compiler that targets parallel C++. Soufflé has been used to build static analyzers, disassemblers, and tools for binary reverse engineering. Soufflé is considered by academic researchers to be high-performance and "state of the art," and is often used in benchmarks in academic papers.
Programming examples
Given a set of edges in a graph, the following program computes the set of (directed) paths between any two nodes. This is also known as the transitive closure of the edge relation.
.decl edge(x:number, y:number)
.input edge
.decl path(x:number, y:number)
.output path
path(x, y) :- edge(x, y).
path(x, y) :- path(x, z), edge(z, y).
Features
An interpreter and a compiler that targets parallel C++ (C++ that uses OpenMP). Both the interpreter and compiler use semi-naïve evaluation.
Stratified negation
Aggregation
Automatic index selection
Specialized parallel data structures, including disjoint-sets, B-trees, and tries.
Static typing
Records and algebraic data types
A foreign function interface
Related tools
In addition to a compiler and an interpreter, the Soufflé project also publishes:
a profiler,
a "provenance"-based debugger,
an "auto-scheduler" (also called a "join optimizer") that chooses efficient query plans based on a profile, as in profile-guided optimization.
Applications
Soufflé has been used to build static analyzers, including:
A pointer analysis for Java
A control-flow analysis for Scheme
Various analyses for smart contract languages
It has also been used to build tools for binary analysis, including reverse engineering, and disassemblers.
References
Sources
External links
Project homepage
Logic programming languages
High-level programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDKit | RDKit is open-source toolkit for cheminformatics. It was developed by Greg Landrum with numerous additional contributions from the RDKit open source community. It has an application programming interface (API) for Python, Java, C++, and C#.
References
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Computational chemistry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%20explosion | In computer science, path explosion is a fundamental problem that limits the scalability and/or completeness of certain kinds of program analyses, including fuzzing, symbolic execution, and path-sensitive static analysis. Path explosion refers to the fact that the number of control-flow paths in a program grows exponentially ("explodes") with an increase in program size and can even be infinite in the case of programs with unbounded loop iterations. Therefore, any program analysis that attempts to explore control-flow paths through a program will either have exponential runtime in the length of the program (or potentially even failure to terminate on certain inputs), or will have to choose to analyze only a subset of all possible paths. When an analysis only explores a subset of all paths, the decision of which paths to analyze is often made heuristically.
References
Program analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxua%20L%C3%B3pez | Uxua López Flamarique (Tafalla, 1983) is a Spanish telecommunications engineer and environmental activist, expert in renewable energy, and a member of an international network of women leaders aiming to build a global collaboration of 10,000 women with backgrounds in STEMM by 2036, an initiative of Homeward Bound.
Biography
López has a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA).
She works for Acciona as a telecommunications engineer, in the center which controls approximately 400 renewable energy stations. Having graduated from a program in cyber security, her specialty is managing industrial control systems.
In 2018, López participated in Homeward Bound's Antarctic expedition, an initiative focused on the leadership and empowerment of women in the scientific field, being one of its first Spanish representatives, along with Ana Payo Payo, Alicia Pérez-Porro, and Alexandra Dubini.
Awards and honours
In 2018, she was awarded the (Gold Medal of the Spanish Red Cross) for her participation in the Homeward Bound expedition, and with the (Cross of Carlos III the Noble of Navarra) for her contribution to the promotion and development of solutions to the effects of global warming from scientific research and with a gender perspective.
References
1983 births
Living people
Telecommunications engineers
Spanish environmentalists
Public University of Navarre alumni
People from Tafalla (comarca)
Spanish women engineers
Spanish women activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 50th Daytime Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), will honor the best in U.S. daytime television programming in 2022. The award ceremony was originally planned to be held on June 16, 2023, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, but has been postponed indefinitely due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.
The full list of nominations were announced on April 26, 2023, with some key categories unveiled on April 25 on programs such as Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Extra and E! News. ABC series General Hospital led the nominations with fourteen main nominations plus five creative arts nominations. After the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike began on May 2, the NATAS announced the postponement of the ceremony on May 16. Then after the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14, NATAS president Adam Sharp stated on July 24 that they do not plan to reschedule the ceremony until both strikes end.
CBS holds the U.S. rights to broadcast the ceremony and stream it on Paramount+.
Category and rule changes
Following a realignment between the Daytime Emmy Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards for the 2022 ceremonies, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced in August 2022 that all categories for game shows would move to the primetime ceremony.
The maximum age limit for those eligible for Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series has been lowered officially to 18.
The separate categories for "entertainment" and "informative" talk shows, and "entertainment" and "informative" talk show host, have been merged back into single talk show and talk show host categories, respectively. The categories have thus been re-named to Outstanding Daytime Talk Series and Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host.
Nominees
The complete list of nominations for both the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards and the Creative Arts & Lifestyle Daytime Emmy Awards were announced on April 26, 2023.
Programming
Acting
Hosting
Directing/Writing
Lifetime Achievement Awards
The NATAS announced the following recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Awards on June 16, 2023:
Susan Lucci, long-running actress on All My Children who played Erica Kane from 1970 till the series cancellation in 2011.
Maury Povich, host of the tabloid talk show Maury, airing from 1991 to 2022.
References
Notes
050
2023 in American television
2023 television awards
2023 in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Emmy%20Awards | 2023 Emmy Awards may refer to:
44th Sports Emmy Awards, held on May 22, 2023, honoring sports programming.
44th News and Documentary Emmy Awards, scheduled for September 27–28, 2023, honoring news and documentary programming.
51st International Emmy Awards, scheduled for November 20, 2023, honoring international programming.
2023 Emmy Awards may also refer to the following ceremonies that were postponed due to Hollywood labor strikes:
50th Daytime Emmy Awards, originally scheduled to be held in June 2023 to honor daytime programming. , they have not yet been rescheduled.
50th Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards, the separate Daytime Emmys ceremony to honor artistic and technical achievements in daytime programming, has also yet to be rescheduled.
75th Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring primetime programming, was moved from September 2023 to January 15, 2024.
75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the separate Primetime Emmys ceremony to honor artistic and technical achievements in primetime programming, was also pushed to January 2024.
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette%20Charron-Bost | Bernadette Charron-Bost is a French computer scientist specializing in distributed computing. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Formerly affiliated with the École polytechnique, she recently moved to the École normale supérieure (Paris).
Charron-Bost was the 2019 winner of the of the French Academy of Sciences.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelia%20Dromgold%20Emig | Lelia Dromgold Emig (, Dromgold; January 21, 1872 – September 2, 1957) was an American genealogist. She was the author and compiler of the Hench and Dromgold Records, which was a genealogy of the original families of Nicholas Ickes, John Hench, Zachariah A. Rice, John Hartman, Thomas Dromgold, and kindred families who had settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania prior to the American Revolutionary War, in which they fought. Through defective titles, these pioneers lost their lands, and it was thus that Perry County, Pennsylvania became the haven of those men and women, and whose descendants became a substantial part of the citizenship of Perry County. Early in life, Emig became interested in philanthropic and club work and held many positions of responsibility in the various organizations to which she belonged, including the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Rubinstein Club, and Women's City Club of Washington, D.C..
Early life and education
Lelia Alice Dromgold was born near Saville Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1872. She was the daughter of Walker A. and Martha Ellen (Shull) Dromgold. When she was nine years of age, her mother died. She had attended the public schools here, but two years after her mother's death, with a brother, she went to York, Pennsylvania, where her father, of the firm of Hench & Dromgold, was engaged in the manufacturing business.
There she continued her studies in the public schools, in the Collegiate Institute of York, and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. In 1890, she accompanied members of the Young W.C.T.U. on a Flower Mission visit to the county jail and became interested in temperance reform.
Career
On January 17, 1894, she married Clayton Ely Emig (1862–1940), an attorney-at-law, of Washington, D.C., and thereafter resided in the National Capital, their home at Dupont Circle being the center of a large and influential circle of friends.
Here she immediately became associated with the District W.C.T.U. and served as a local president, general secretary of work, and state corresponding secretary. She wrote several temperance leaflets.
Emig was known as an organizer and was the founder and organizing regent of a large D.A.R. chapter named in honor of her ancestor, Abigail Hartman Rice, a nurse of Revolutionary days. Emig traced her ancestry to the following patriots of the Revolutionary War: John Hench, Jacob Hartman, Zachariah A. Rice, Nicholas Ickes, John Hartman, Frederick Shull, Thomas Donally, and Abigail Hartman Rice, of Pennsylvania.
In 1909, she organized a Society of Children of the American Revolution (NSCAR), which was named by Helen Herron Taft in honor of her ancestor, Thomas Welles, the fourth colonial governor of Connecticut. The society had 100 members and included many of the official families of Washington, D.C.. This society from its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence%20module | A persistence module is a mathematical structure in persistent homology and topological data analysis that formally captures the persistence of topological features of an object across a range of scale parameters. A persistence module often consists of a collection of homology groups (or vector spaces if using field coefficients) corresponding to a filtration of topological spaces, and a collection of linear maps induced by the inclusions of the filtration. The concept of a persistence module was first introduced in 2005 as an application of graded modules over polynomial rings, thus importing well-developed algebraic ideas from classical commutative algebra theory to the setting of persistent homology. Since then, persistence modules have been one of the primary algebraic structures studied in the field of applied topology.
Definition
Single Parameter Persistence Modules
Let be a totally ordered set and let be a field. The set is sometimes called the indexing set. Then a single-parameter persistence module is a functor from the poset category of to the category of vector spaces over and linear maps. A single-parameter persistence module indexed by a discrete poset such as the integers can be represented intuitively as a diagram of spaces: To emphasize the indexing set being used, a persistence module indexed by is sometimes called a -persistence module, or simply a -module. Common choices of indexing sets include , etc.
One can alternatively use a set-theoretic definition of a persistence module that is equivalent to the categorical viewpoint: A persistence module is a pair where is a collection of -vector spaces and is a collection of linear maps where for each , such that for any (i.e., all the maps commute).
Multiparameter Persistence Modules
Let be a product of totally ordered sets, i.e., for some totally ordered sets . Then by endowing with the product partial order given by only if for all , we can define a multiparameter persistence module indexed by as a functor . This is a generalization of single-parameter persistence modules, and in particular, this agrees with the single-parameter definition when .
In this case, a -persistence module is referred to as an -dimensional or -parameter persistence module, or simply a multiparameter or multidimensional module if the number of parameters is already clear from context.
Multidimensional persistence modules were first introduced in 2009 by Carlsson and Zomorodian. Since then, there has been a significant amount of research into the theory and practice of working with multidimensional modules, since they provide more structure for studying the shape of data. Namely, multiparameter modules can have greater density sensitivity and robustness to outliers than single-parameter modules, making them a potentially useful tool for data analysis.
One downside of multiparameter persistence is its inherent complexity. This makes performing computations related to multipara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20B.%20Lucy | Leon B. Lucy (1938–2018) was a British-American astrophysicist, best known for his contribution to the Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm and spearheading the development of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics methods.
External links
Columbia University faculty
1938 births
2018 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement%202023 | was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on March 21, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. It was the twenty-seventh event under the Judgement name and the eleventh to take place at the Korakuen Hall. The event will air domestically on Fighting TV Samurai and globally on CyberFight's video-on-demand service Wrestle Universe.
Sixteen matches were contested at the event, including one on the pre-show, and five of DDT's eight championships were on the line. In the main event, Yuji Hino defeated Yukio Naya to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship. Other prominent matches saw ShunMao (Mao and Shunma Katsumata) defeat Harimau (Kazusada Higuchi and Ryota Nakatsu in a Falls count anywhere match to retain the KO-D Tag Team Championship, Tetsuya Endo defeated Naruki Doi to win the DDT Universal Championship, Jun Akiyama successfully defended the DDT Extreme Championship against Kotaro Suzuki, and Makoto Oishi won a three-way match to win the vacant O-40 Championship.
Production
Background
Judgement is an event held annually around March by DDT Pro-Wrestling since 1997. It has been marking the anniversary of the promotion since the very first official event produced by DDT on March 25, 1997. Over the years, Judgement would become the biggest show of the year until 2009 when Peter Pan became the flagship event series.
Storylines
Judgement 2023 featured 16 professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
On February 26, at Into The Fight, Yukio Naya defeated Harashima to become the #1 contender to Yuji Hino's KO-D Openweight Championship.
Event
The preshow included three matches and was broadcast on DDT's YouTube channel. In the first one, "DDTeeen" division competitors Ilusion and Munetatsu Nakamura defeated El Unicorn and Raimu Imai. El Unicorn unmasked after the bout concluded. In the second one, Yuya Koroku and Yuki Ishida outmatched Toui Kojima and Kazuma Sumi in tag team action. In the third bout, Keisuke Ishii and Soma Takao picked up a victory over Kazuki Hirata and Yoshihiko.
Results
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
2023 in professional wrestling
2023
DDT Pro-Wrestling
March 2023 events in Japan
Professional wrestling anniversary shows
Professional wrestling in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-enumeration%20Portal | Self-enumeration Portal (SEP) is a nation-wide digital census's data collection process and management platform initially launched by the Government of Pakistan. Self-enumeration Portal is the first digital initiative taken by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) to make it possible for Pakistani residents to take part in the digital census from the convenience of their own homes.
The portal is one of the innovation and convenience in digital census that has brought in Statistical System of Pakistan, through Self Enumeration portal, it is easy to enter household information. Pakistan become the first nation in South Asia to provide the option of self-enumeration after it reaches this milestone.
History
The portal is a joint accomplishment of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Pakistani provincial governments, the military forces of Pakistan, and the National Telecom Corporation (NTC). The Self-enumeration Portal for the population and housing census 2023, was launched by Federal Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT & Telecom) Syed Aminul Haque in February 2023.
See also
Pakistan Citizen's Portal
2023 Census of Pakistan
References
External links
Censuses in Pakistan
Pakistani websites
Government of Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer%2040%2C000%3A%20Armageddon | Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon is a computer wargame developed by Flashback Games and The Lordz Games Studio, and published by Slitherine Software for Windows on 26 November 2014. It is based on Games Workshop's tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000.
Gameplay
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon is a turn-based strategy wargame played on a hex grid, set on a polluted hive world where Imperium armies have to defend from ork hordes. It uses Panzer Corps game engine. There is co-op and player versus player multiplayer, either via online, hotseat, or play-by-mail methods.
Release
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon was announced on 21 May 2013. The game was released on 26 November 2014. An iOS port was released on 19 June 2015. A macOS port was released on 20 June 2017. Several downloadable content (DLC) packs were released: Untold Battles, Vulkan's Wrath, Angels of Death, Glory of Macragge, and Ork Hunters in 2015, and Golgotha in 2016.
Reception
The iOS and PC versions received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Several critics called the game very similar to Panzer Corps, Slitherine's game from 2011.
Richie Shoemaker of Eurogamer said of the PC version: "[a]t the core of Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon there is a very good strategy game, unfortunately too much of it is either obscured, poorly explained or needs attention before it can be given a recommendation." Adam Smith of Rock Paper Shotgun said that "[i]t's an accessible wargame and a good place to start for those familiar with the fiction and looking to make the jump to hex-based warfare."
References
External links
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon at Flashback Games
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon at The Lordz Games Studio (archived)
2014 video games
Computer wargames
IOS games
MacOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Multiplayer hotseat games
Multiplayer online games
Play-by-email video games
Slitherine Software games
Top-down video games
Armageddon
Windows games
Flashback Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Adverse%20Drug%20Event%20Report%20database | The Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database is a spontaneous reporting system of drug adverse events which is managed by the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) in Japan. It has been available since 2012.
See also
Pharmacovigilance
FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)
References
Government databases in Japan
Pharmacovigilance databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmacovigilancia%20Espa%C3%B1ola%2C%20Datos%20de%20Reacciones%20Adversas | The Farmacovigilancia Española, Datos de Reacciones Adversas (FEDRA), also known as the Spanish Pharmacovigilance Datatabase or Spanish Pharmacovigilance System, is a pharmacovigilance database in Spain which was developed in 1982.
See also
Pharmacovigilance
FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)
References
External links
https://www.notificaram.es/
Pharmacovigilance databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Mariupol | The Mariupol Tram is a tram network in the city of Mariupol, Ukraine. The Mariupol Tram network began operating on May 1, 1933. The total length of tram network 116 km with 8 regular and 4 peak routes.
History
Discussion regarding the construction of a tram in Mariupol began in 1904. For twenty years efforts were made to finance construction of a tram line though were unsuccessful. In 1925, the city council approved financing for the construction of a tram line connecting the town of Mariupol to the adjacent Azovstal Iron and Steel Works across the Kalmius River.
On 1 September 1931 a tram construction office was established by a joint decision between the city party committee and the city council. During construction, the city newspaper "Pryazovsky Proletar" often wrote about the progress of the works: difficulties with building materials and shortages of unskilled labor. Employees of the Ilyich plant and four construction teams provided significant material assistance for the timely completion of the construction of the electric tram. Service on the first tram line began on May 1, 1933, in time for May Day. The first tram line connected Schmidt Harbor to the city center via Franka Street. Tram service was interrupted during World War II in the years 1942 to 1945.
In subsequent years 16 additional routes were added to the tram network. Before the breakout of the Siege of Mariupol the tram network had 12 routes (8 regular and 4 rush hour) and serviced 161 stops. A campaign to modernize the system with improved vehicles and more modern announcement abilities began in 2017.
On March 2, 2022, tram operations were suspended due to threats to personnel and riders during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent Siege of Mariupol. In the course of the fighting and eventual takeover by the Russian Army, the infrastructure of the city suffered significant destruction. Post-war assessments are that approximately 90% of the network is beyond repair. Restoration is estimated to cost several hundred million rubles and take three years to complete. On 2 May 2023, the tram system opened again.
Routes
The Mariupol Tram had 16 routes at its peak operation and 8 operational routes before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some cancelled lines are as a result of consolidations while others have been physically been shuttered and removed. On March 27, 2017, tram traffic to the Azovstal Smelter was ceased. On December 1, 2018, route Route 3 was changed and the route was extended to Livoberezhny District. Route 4 to City Hospital and Route 2 to Livoberezhny District were created. There were also changes in the schedules of tram routes No. 5, 6, 9 and 11 and the canceled route No. 15. On February 10, 2022, an official application for smartphones was launched in Mariupol, in which you can see the movement of public transport in real time. All routes were rendered inoperable during the Siege of Mariupol and service had not resumed until 2 May 2023.
Depots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fling%20%28social%20network%29 | Fling was a social media app available for IOS and Android. It was founded in 2014 by Marco Nardone and was taken offline in August 2016.
Overview
In 2012, Marco Nardone founded the startup Unii and launched Unii.com, a social network intended for students in the UK. While working on this service, Nardone had the idea for a messaging service where pictures could be sent to strangers in January 2014. The app Fling was then developed and released between March and July 2014. After a month, it already had 375,000 downloads and 180,000 active users on iOS.
Users were able to take pictures inside the app and send them to 50 random people all over the world. The recipient could then choose to answer via chat or reply by sending a picture themselves.
The app was used by many users as a medium to exchange sexually explicit pictures and for sexting with strangers. This led to the app being removed from the App Store in June 2015.
In the 19 days that followed, flings developers rewrote the App almost completely from scratch, working around the clock. The feature to message random strangers was removed, and the app was readmitted into the App Store as a messenger App resembling Snapchat.
But the redesigned Application did not have the success of its predecessor. The funding ran out and the parent company Unii went bankrupt. The company was not able to pay their content moderation team anymore, leading to a new surge of pornographic content on the App.
Shortly after that, the Social Network was taken offline in August 2016. It has been inactive since.
During the 2 years Fling was online, $21 million was raised from investors while generating no revenue at all. Of this $21 million (£16.5m), £5 million came from Nardone's father.
Allegations against CEO
Former employees made multiple allegations against Marco Nardone, the Founder and CEO of Unii and Fling. According to these claims, he behaved erratic and abusive, throwing "things across the office".
He hired his girlfriend as the head of human resources to handle issues between him and his staff. Employees who left the company often had "some part of their pay held back".
According to the reports, he also spent the money raised from investors irresponsibly, having no clear concept of a budget. Some of that money was used on expensive restaurants in London, a luxurious office for CEO Nardone and advertisements for Fling on Twitter and Facebook.
Nardone also spent time partying in Ibiza with two employees, while the developer team in London frantically tried to get Fling back online after it being removed from the App Store.
In December 2017 he pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend at a domestic violence court.
References
Social media
Defunct social networking services
Mobile applications
Instant messaging clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20news | Weather news, Weather News, Weathernews, and WeatherNews may refer to:
The Weather Channel
AccuWeather Network
Sky News Weather Channel
WeatherNation TV
Weathernews LiVE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20American%20Joke%20Off | The Great American Joke Off is an American comedy panel game show that premiered on March 31, 2023 on The CW. The series is created by Dan Patterson — co-creator of the network's long-running improv comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway? — and hosted by Dulcé Sloan.
Format
Two teams, each consisting of three stand-up comedians, compete against each other over several rounds involving telling as many jokes as possible, whether pertaining to subjects as prompted by host Sloan, using texts on an audience member's phone, or in response to the comedians' own jokes. Sloan chooses the comedian or team of comedians she personally deemed to be the funniest in each round, and declares an overall winning team at the end of each episode.
Episodes
Reception
Critical response
References
External links
2020s American comedy game shows
2023 American television series debuts
American panel games
The CW original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Interrupt%20This%20Broadcast%20%28TV%20series%29 | We Interrupt This Broadcast is an Australian sketch show produced by Helium for the Seven Network and premiered on 28 February 2023. The series aims at parodying Australia's current popular and unpopular TV series.
Episodes
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Australian television sketch shows
Seven Network original programming
2023 Australian television series debuts
2023 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Parody television series
Television series about television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannerless | Bannerless is a 2017 post-apocalyptic novel by Carrie Vaughn. It takes place in the future, within the fictional society of the Coast Road, a network of agrarian communities that arises in California after natural disasters caused a societal collapse.
Synopsis
After climate change causes a series of natural catastrophes, the United States collapses in the Fall. A series of agrarian settlements in California form a new society called the Coast Road. The people of the Coast Road were able to maintain records of life before the Fall as well as basic medical and agricultural knowledge, but have lost most modern technologies.
While socially progressive and egalitarian, the Coast Road implements a number of rules to prevent their society from being overtaxed. Birth control is mandatory and residents must receive permission to reproduce, and causing environmental damage is also prohibited. Rule violations are sought out and punished by investigators, who maintain the rules in the Coast Road. Investigators Enid and Tomas are sent to the small town of Pasadan where a mysterious death has occurred.
Publication
The novel is based on a short story which appeared in Lightspeed.
Reception
The novel received mostly positive reviews from critics. Clay Bonneyman Evans of Colorado Arts and Sciences described it as "a mélange of murder mystery, post-apocalyptic world-building and a serious argument in favor of sustainability and responsible social policy."
Critics praised the novel's premise and worldbuilding for subverting post-apocalyptic tropes which typically feature more cynical characters and dystopian societies. Adrienne Martini of Locus and Liz Bourke of Tor.com praised the characterization of Enid, and the overall community of characters in the book. Martini and Bourke praised the use of flash backs to explore Enid's backstory, while Publishers Weekly felt that "the numerous flashbacks rob the story of its urgency, making this less powerful than it could have been."
The book won the 2018 Philip K. Dick Award.
References
2017 science fiction novels
Post-apocalyptic novels
Novels set in California
Mariner Books books
Houghton Mifflin books
Philip K. Dick Award-winning works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiefbeen%20en%20Zoon | Stiefbeen en zoon is a Dutch sitcom television series that ran on the NCRV television network from January 14, 1963, to March 25, 1977. It is based on the British sitcom Steptoe and Son, which initially aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1974. The series was awarded the very first Golden Televizier Ring in 1964.
References
External links
1963 Dutch television series debuts
1971 Dutch television series endings
Dutch-language television shows
Black-and-white Dutch television shows
Television shows set in the Netherlands
Dutch comedy television series
Dutch television series based on British television series
Steptoe and Son |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Flyer%20%28company%29 | High-Flyer () is a Hangzhou-based hedge fund and artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2015. It is one of the largest quantitative funds in China.
History
High-Flyer was founded in 2015 by three engineers from Zhejiang University. They generated ideas of algorithmic trading as students during the 2007–2008 financial crisis. The company has two AMAC regulated subsidiaries, Zhejiang High-Flyer Asset Management Co.,Ltd. and Ningbo High-Flyer Quant Investment Management Partnership LLP which were established in 2015 and 2016 respectively. The two subsidiaries have over 450 investment products.
In 2016 the firm experimented with a deep learning algorithmic model to take stock positions and began testing in trading the following year.
In 2019, the company established High-Flyer AI which was dedicated to research on AI algorithms and its basic applications. In the same year the company set up a SFC regulated subsidiary in Hong Kong named High-Flyer Capital Management (Hong Kong) Limited. It was approved as a Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor one year later.
In 2020, the company established Fire-Flyer I, a supercomputer that focuses on AI deep learning. It cost approximately 200 million Yuan.
In 2021, Fire-Flyer I was retired and was replaced by Fire-Flyer II which cost 1 billion Yuan.
At the end of 2021, High-Flyer put out a public statement on WeChat apologizing for its losses in assets due to poor performance. The performance of over 100 of its investment products declined by over 10%. High-Flyer stated that its AI models did not time trades well although its stock selection was fine in terms of long-term value. The models would take on higher risk during marker fluctuations which deepened the decline. In addition the company stated it had expanded its assets too quickly leading to similar trading strategies that made operations more difficult. Up until this point, High-Flyer produced returns that were 20%-50% more than stock-market benchmarks in the past few years. Higher
In 2022, the company donated 221 million Yuan to charity as the Chinese government pushed firms to do more in the name of "common prosperity".
In March 2023, it was reported that High-Flyer was being sued by Shanghai Ruitian Investment LLC for hiring one of its employees. The rival firm stated the former employee possessed quantitative strategy codes that are considered "core commercial secrets" and sought 5 million Yuan in compensation for anti-competitive practices.
Background
High-Flyer's investment and research team had 160 members as of 2021 which include Olympiad Gold medalists, internet giant experts and senior researchers. It has been trying to recruit deep learning scientists by offering annual salaries of up to 2 million Yuan.
See also
Hedge fund industry in China
References
External links
Chinese companies established in 2015
Companies based in Hangzhou
Financial services companies established in 2015
Hedge funds
Investment manage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20for%20Africa | Code for Africa is a technology and data journalism nonprofit based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Background
Code for Africa was founded by Justin Arenstein in 2012 to develop resources to make data more accessible. Code for Africa creates projects and training to enable data journalism and make fact-checking and forensic data analysis tools accessible to journalists and citizens. Code for Africa also organizes trainings for data journalism.
In 2015, Code for Africa received $4.7m from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund data projects in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania on health and development journalism.
In 2016, Code for Africa launched impactAFRICA Data Journalism Fund worth $500,000 with the International Center for Journalists, and funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank.
In 2017, Google announced a training in collaboration with Code for Africa and World Bank for data journalism. In 2019, the Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics worked with Code for Africa in the publication of data as open data. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Deutsche Welle partnered with Code for Africa to set up fact-checking in various Kenyan media houses.
See also
Code for America
Civic technology companies
Civic technology
References
Politics and technology
Open government
Data journalism
Technology companies of Kenya
Kenyan companies established in 2012
Non-profit organisations based in Kenya
Organisations based in Nairobi
African journalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EleutherAI | EleutherAI () is a grass-roots non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research group. The group, considered an open-source version of OpenAI, was formed in a Discord server in July 2020 to organize a replication of GPT-3. In early 2023, it formally incorporated as the EleutherAI Foundation, a non-profit research institute.
History
EleutherAI began as a Discord server on July 7, 2020 under the tentative name "LibreAI" before rebranding to "EleutherAI" later that month, in reference to eleutheria, an ancient greek term for liberty.
On December 30, 2020, EleutherAI released The Pile, a curated dataset of diverse text for training large language models. While the paper referenced the existence of the GPT-Neo models, the models themselves were not released until March 21, 2021. According to a retrospective written several months later, the authors did not anticipate that "people would care so much about our 'small models.'" On June 9, 2021, EleutherAI followed this up with GPT-J-6B, a six billion parameter language model that was again the largest open-source GPT-3-like model in the world. These language models were released under the Apache 2.0 free software license and are considered to have "fueled an entirely new wave of startups".
While EleutherAI initially turned down funding offers, preferring to use Google's TPU Research Cloud Program to source their compute, by early 2021 they had accepted funding from CoreWeave (a small cloud computing company) and SpellML (a cloud infrastructure company) in the form of access to powerful GPU clusters that are necessary for large scale machine learning research. On Feb 10, 2022 they released GPT-NeoX-20B, a model similar to their prior work but scaled up thanks to the resources CoreWeave provided.
In 2022, many EleutherAI members participated in the BigScience Research Workshop, working on projects including multitask finetuning, training BLOOM, and designing evaluation libraries. Engineers at EleutherAI, Stability AI, and NVIDIA joined forces with biologists lead by Columbia University and Harvard University
to train OpenFold, an open-source replication of DeepMind's AlphaFold2.
In early 2023, EleutherAI incorporated as a non-profit research institute run by Stella Biderman, Curtis Huebner, and Shivanshu Purohit. This announcement came with the statement that EleutherAI's shift of focus away from training larger language models was part of a deliberate push towards doing work in interpretability, alignment, and scientific research. While EleutherAI is still committed to promoting access to AI technologies, they feel that "there is substantially more interest in training and releasing LLMs than there once was," enabling them to focus on other projects.
Research
According to their website, EleutherAI is a "decentralized grassroots collective of volunteer researchers, engineers, and developers focused on AI alignment, scaling, and open-source AI research". While they do not sell any of their technol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardroom%20%28company%29 | Boardroom is an American media network for sports, entertainment and culture. It was founded in 2019 by Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman.
History
On September 24, 2018, ESPN and Durant announced plans for The Boardroom, a six-episode series hosted by Kleiman and Jay Williams. The show premiered on February 11, 2019, with guests including LeBron James, P. J. Tucker, Maverick Carter, Andre Iguodala, Jack Dorsey, CJ McCollum and Breanna Stewart.
By 2019, Boardroom became a standalone media network and expanded in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, which Kleiman told Forbes was a "pivotal moment" for the company. A second season of "The Boardroom" premiered on ESPN+ on February 12, 2020. Later that year, Boardroom announced the launch of two podcasts, "Out of Office with Rich Kleiman" and "The ETCs with Kevin Durant".
As of June 2022, The Athletic reported that Boardroom was a 25-person company with digital news media, podcasts, video and social content. The network has partnerships with brands such as Weedmaps, Coinbase and FanDuel. In partnership with Showtime, Boardroom produced a documentary, NYC Point Gods, that premiered on July 29, 2022.
References
Internet properties established in 2019
American sport websites
Mass media companies established in 2019
Video production companies
American companies established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20language%20design%20and%20implementation | Programming languages are typically created by designing a form of representation of a computer program, and writing an implementation for the developed concept, usually an interpreter or compiler. Interpreters are designed to read programs, usually in some variation of a text format, and perform actions based on what it reads, whereas compilers convert code to lower level.
Design
In programming language design, there are a wide variety of factors to consider. Some factors may be mutually exclusive (e.g. security versus speed). It may be necessary to consider whether a programming language will perform better interpreted, or compiled, if a language should be dynamically or statically typed, if inheritance will be in a language, and the general syntax of the language. Many factors involved with the design of a language can be decided on by the goals behind the language. It's important to consider the target audience of a language, its unique features and its purpose. It is good practice to look at what existing languages lack, or make difficult, to make sure a language serves a purpose.
Various experts have suggested useful design principles:
As the last paragraph of an article published in 1972, Tony Hoare has provided some general advice for any software project:
“So my advice to the designers and implementer of software of the future is in a nutshell:
do not decide exactly what you are going to do until you know how to do it;
and do not decide how to do it until you have evaluated your plan against all the desired criteria of quality.
And if you cannot do that, simplify your design until you can.”
At a SIGPLAN symposium in 1973, Tony Hoare discussed various language aspects in some detail. He also identifies a number of shortcomings in (then) current programming languages.
“a programming language is a tool which should assist the programmer in the most difficult aspects of his art,
namely program design, documentation, and debugging.”
“objective criteria for good language design may be summarized in five catch phrases:
simplicity, security, fast translation, efficient object code, and readability.”
"It is absurd to make elaborate security checks on debugging runs, when no trust is put in the results, and then remove them in production runs, when an erroneous result could be expensive or disastrous. What would we think of a sailing enthusiast who wears his life-jacket when training on dry land but takes it off as soon as he goes to sea?"
At IFIP Congress 1974, Niklaus Wirth, designer of Pascal, presented a paper "On the design of programming languages”. Wirth listed a number of conflicting suggestions, most notably that a language should be easy to learn and use, it should be usable without new features being added, the compiler should generate efficient code, a compiler should be fast, and that a language should be compatible with libraries, the system it is running on, and programs written in other languages.
Implementation
Interprete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-U%20Fukushima | , also known as TUF, is a television network headquartered in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
History
TUF is the fourth commercial television broadcaster in Fukushima Prefecture, it was started broadcasting in 1983. TUF is affiliated with JNN, TBS Holdings is the biggest shareholder of TUF.
On June 1 2006, TUF started broadcasting digital terrestrial television. Due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, TUF postpone its schedule to end analogue television broadcasting on March 31 2012.
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Fukushima Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Japan News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-U%20Yamagata | , also known as TUY, is a television network headquartered in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. TUY is the third commercial television broadcaster in Yamagata Prefecture, it was started broadcasting in 1989. TUY is affiliated with JNN. TBS Holdings is the biggest shareholder of TUY, hold 18% of TUY's stock share.
In December 2005, TUY started broadcasting digital terrestrial television.
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Yamagata Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Japan News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20original%20shows%20by%20%C3%93%C4%8Dko | The following is a list of original programs of Óčko network.
Series
Single Lady
Other shows
DJ divák
Drive
Hitrádio Desítka
Inbox
Mixxxer Extra
Mixxxer Feed
Mixxxer Live
Limuzína
Naked Attraction
Ne***telní
Noční chat
Óčko Black List
Óčko Black Spotify Czech List
Óčko Chart
Óčko hity
Ranní fresh
TOP 10
YouTube Chart
References
Óčko |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquant | Ubiquant () is a Beijing-based hedge fund and artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2012. It is one of the largest quantitative funds in China.
Background
Ubiquant was founded in 2012 by Wang Chen and Yao Qicong, former WorldQuant researchers. When Ubiquant first started it was mainly a self-operated commodity trading advisor.
In 2014, Ubiquant completed its registration with the Asset Management Association of China.
In 2016, Ubiquant launched its full asset management business which featured a wider product line including enhanced indexing and quantitative long/short equity strategies.
In 2018, Ubiquant started moving toward using AI methods under big data to drive transactions.
From 2019 to early 2020, Ubiquant established its own AI laboratory called AI LAB and built a technical team to research the use of AI to come up with new trading strategies and products. It has also built a data laboratory.
In November 2021, a SFC regulated subsidiary named Ubiquant Asset Management Co., Limited was established in Hong Kong.
In January 2022, the Ubiquant Asia Pacific Quantitative Hedge Fund fell 39% although it rebounded with more than a 20% gain in February.
Ubiquant is stationed near Tsinghua University. It has additional offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen which were established in 2017 and 2020 respectively.
Hiring process
According to Bloomberg News, Ubiquant has offered annual salaries of up to $300,000 to attract recent graduates from the fields of artificial intelligence and computer science. Ubiquant has offered more experienced candidates annual salaries of $1 million. Extra incentives are given such as one time bonuses or profit sharing from trading strategies. The hiring process is vigorous and selective where candidates are tested on many areas such as coding and statistics and their academic research papers are also examined. In 2020, ten fresh graduates were hired by the company.
See also
Hedge fund industry in China
References
External links
Chinese companies established in 2012
Companies based in Beijing
Financial services companies established in 2012
Hedge funds
Investment management companies of China
Technology companies established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSPA%20%28disambiguation%29 | DSPA is an acronym for the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals
DSPA may also refer to:
Science
Data Science and Predictive Analytics, a textbook authored by Ivo D. Dinov
DNA Specimen Provenance Assignment
a type of synthetic phospholipid derivative
Desmodus rotundus salivary plasminogen activator, basis for Desmoteplase
Organizations
Pyotr Alexeyev' Resistance Movement (DSPA), a former left-wing political organization in Russia
Deadly Serious Party of Australia, a former political party
Danish School of Public Administration, a civil organization partnered with School of Senior Civil Service
Drone Service Providers Alliance, an organization associated with the Drone Federalism Act of 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Great%20Voyage%20in%20Yokohama%202023 | NOAH Great Voyage in Yokohama 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on March 19, 2023, in Yokohama, Japan, at the Yokohama Budokan. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Ten matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show, and three of Noah's five championships were on the line. The main event saw Jake Lee defeat Kaito Kiyomiya to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the first time. Other top matches included Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita successfully defending the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Stinger (Hayata and Chris Ridgeway), and Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba defeated Kongo (Kenoh and Manabu Soya) to retain the GHC Tag Team Championship.
Storylines
The event featured ten professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
Following the events from Great Voyage in Osaka from February 12, 2023, it was revealed that Jake Lee was set to be the next number one contender for Kiyomiya's Heavyweight Championship.
The event started with two preshow matches broadcast on Noah's YouTube channel. In the first one, Yasutaka Yano picked up a victory over Daishi Ozawa in singles competition. In the next one, Atsushi Kotoge, Yo-Hey, Seiki Yoshioka and Alejandro overcame the team of Shuji Kondo, Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara and Hi69. In the first main card match, Katsuhiko Nakajima defeated Kinya Okada in singles competition. Next up, Hideki Suzuki and Saxon Huxley outmatched Mohammed Yone and Yoshiki Inamura. In the fifth bout, Shuhei Taniguchi defeated Takashi Sugiura. In the sixth bout, Good Looking Guys (Jack Morris and Anthony Greene) defeated Naomichi Marufuji and El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.. Next, Extreme Tiger and Lanzeloth defeated GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Amakusa and Ninja Mack in tag team action. In the eighth bout, Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba defended the GHC Tag Team Championship for the first time against Kongo (Kenoh and Manabu Soya). After the match concluded, All Japan Pro Wrestling's Kento Miyahara stepped up to challenge Kitamiya for "Dream Power Series" on March 21, 2023. In the semi main event, Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita retained the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the second time consecutively in that respective reign against Hayata and Chris Ridgeway. After the bout concluded, Ogawa slapped Eita and shook hands with Hayata and Ridgeway, reminding him that he was still part of Stinger as he left Eita behind in the ring.
In the main event, Jake Lee defeated Kaito Kiyomiya to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Tadasuke was also shown wearing a "Good Looking Guys" shirt befre the match, hinti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilt%20%28company%29 | LILT is an American company based in Emeryville, California that provides computer-assisted translation software employing artificial intelligence, in more than 70 languages.
History
LILT was founded in 2015 by Spence Green and John DeNero. The company executes text, digital, audio, and video translations. Unlike other translation platforms and software, LILT uses a "human-in-the-loop" system, where a human translator can modify a word when he/she encounters it.
It helped for translation and early warning during Hurricane Fiona and Hurricane Ian. In addition, LILT intends to extend its services for early warning products related to disaster management and early warning systems.
References
External links
Official website
Translation software
Companies based in Emeryville, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Star%20Navigation%202023 | NOAH Star Navigation 2023 was a two-night professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on February 5 and March 9, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event aired CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Storylines
The event featured a total of seventeen professional wrestling matches (eight in the first night and nine in the second) that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Night 1
Preliminary matches
The first night of the event which took place on February 5, started with the confrontation between Tadasuke and Hi69 and Kinya Okada and Daishi Ozawa which solded with the victory of the preceding team. The second bout saw Super Crazy getting a victory over Yasutaka Yano in singles competition. Next up, Timothy Thatcher and Hideki Suzuki of Sugiura-gun defeated Masaaki Mochizuki and Shuhei Taniguchi in tag team action. The fourth bout saw the team of Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Shuji Kondo and Hajime Ohara outmatching Daiki Inaba, Yoshiki Inamura, Ninja Mack and Atsushi Kotoge. In the fifth match, one half of the GHC Tag Team Champions Satoshi Kojima defeated Masa Kitamiya in singles action. Next, Kaito Kiyomiya, Naomichi Marafuji and Takashi Sugiura defeated the team of Jack Morris, Jake Lee and Anthony Greene, bout after Kiyomiya fired up his short-term feud with Morris which eventually concluded with their clash for the GHC Heavyweight Championship seven days later at Great Voyage in Osaka. In the semi main event, GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita alongside Nosawa Rongai, Chris Ridgeway and Daga defeated Amakusa, Junta Miyawaki, Alejandro, Yo-Hey and Seiki Yoshioka in an elimination tag team match from which Miwayaki was last eliminated.
Main event
In the main event, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. defeated Manabu Soya to secure his second consecutive defense of the GHC National Championship.
Night 2
The second night from March 9 show concentrated on the retirement match of Daisuke Harada. On March 2, 2023, Pro Wrestling Noah announced that he was forced to end his career due to sustaining serious injuries.
Preliminary matches
Two preshow matches have been broadcast on Noah's YouTube channel. In the first one, Shuji Kondo, Tadasuke and Hajime Ohara picked up a win over Kinya Okada, Yasutaka Yano and Daishi Ozawa in six-man tag team action. The second one portraited the confrontation between Super Crazy, Extreme Tiger and Lanzeloth, and Yo-Hey, Seiki Yoshioka and Alejandro, bout solded with the victory of the preceding team. The first match of the main card saw a one-minute exhibition match which represented Daisuke Harada's retirement match in which he went into a draw against his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Digital%20Corporation | Advanced Digital Corporation (ADC) was a privately owned American computer company based in California, active from the 1980s to the 1990s. The company was founded by 1980 by a group of engineers, in order to market their single-user and multi-user expansion cards and peripherals for S-100–based computers.
In 1983, ADC introduced a pair of their own S-100 computers, the Super Six and the Super Star. In 1984, they made the pivot to production of expansion cards for the IBM Personal Computer, with one (the PC II, co-produced by Link Technologies of Fremont) allowing the IBM PC to be used as a multi-user platform, with as many as 32 concurrent users. Toward the late 1980s, they introduced their own 386SX-based PC compatible systems under the PowerLite name, to critical acclaim in the tech press. ADC was initially based in Garden Grove, California, employing 35 by mid-1983. In late 1983, they moved to Huntington Beach. By April 1984, their employee headcount reached 75. Its president was Hossein Asadi (born 1961, also known as Hossein Asadibagheri). The company entered bankruptcy in 1990.
Their Huntington Beach headquarters were the subject of an armed robbery in September 1988, with Asadi being bound and gagged while various merchandise was stolen. Asadi sustained no physical injuries.
References
External links
Advanced Digital Corporation history at S100Computers.com
American companies established in 1980
American companies disestablished in 1990
Computer companies established in 1980
Computer companies disestablished in 1990
Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Defunct computer companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue%20University%20Department%20of%20Computer%20Science | The Purdue University Department of Computer Science is an academic department within Purdue University specializing in computer science. It was the first computer science department established in an American university. As of 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked the department's undergraduate program 16th and graduate program 20th overall.
History
The first computer Purdue installed was an IBM card-programmed electronic calculator in 1952 for Carl Kossack's statistical laboratory. In October 1954, Alan Perlis proposed and acquired a more powerful Datatron 204. It was used to create the Purdue Datatron compiler, one of the first algebraic compilers created. In December 1960, Purdue Research Foundation and Remington Rand came to an agreement to install a Univac Solid State 80 allowing Purdue to be the first university to schedule its students' courses by a computer. Two years later it was replaced with an IBM 1401 and a planned complementary IBM 7044 was superseded by an IBM 7090. On October 24, 1962, Purdue's board of trustees approved splitting the college's Division of Mathematical Sciences into three academic departments: mathematics, statistics, and computer science. This ratification establishes Purdue as the first computer science department in a US university. The Computer Sciences Center, which had been split from Kossack's original laboratory, would assist with computing services for the entire university and teach programming for machines.
Samuel Conte served as head of the Computer Sciences Center and lead the newly formed computer science department. The department started with seven instructors including Conte. M.S. and Ph.D. programs were initially the only degrees offered with B.S. degrees added in fall 1968. Prospective graduate students were required to take ten courses including three from each of the main areas of the department: numerical methods, programming systems, and theoretical computer science. Numeric analysis and theory had well-established foundations for Ph.D. programs to build on while programming systems was more nebulous with Saul Rosen's experience helping evaluate theses.
From 1970 to 1980, the number of regular faculty increased from 15 to 22 but the department still lacked sufficient instructors relying on graduate teaching assistants. During this time period, the department was rated in the top ten computer science departments but lacked scientific respectability from their science and engineering peers. Several courses required overhauls which improved courses but professors lacked manpower to keep classes current. In 1979, Conte stepped down as department head succeeded by Peter J. Denning.
Student enrollment increased dramatically entering the 1980s from 350 students in fall 1980 to 550 the next year. The university's administration opposed limiting incoming computer science freshmen but lacked the computing resources to support the courses. Denning resigned in 1983 with John Rice taking over as ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive%20Datalog | Disjunctive Datalog is an extension of the logic programming language Datalog that allows disjunctions in the heads of rules. This extension enables disjunctive Datalog to express several NP-hard problems that are not known to be expressable in plain Datalog. Disjunctive Datalog has been applied in the context of reasoning about ontologies in the semantic web. DLV is an implementation of disjunctive Datalog.
Syntax
A disjunctive Datalog program is a collection of rules. A is a clause of the form:
where , ..., may be negated, and may include (in)equality constraints.
Semantics
There are at least three ways to define the semantics of disjunctive Datalog:
Minimal model semantics
Perfect model semantics
Disjunctive stable model semantics, which generalizes the stable model semantics
Expressivity
Disjunctive Datalog can express several NP-complete and NP-hard problems, including the travelling salesman problem, graph coloring, maximum clique problem, and minimal vertex cover. These problems are only expressible in Datalog if the polynomial hierarchy collapses.
Implementations
The DLV (DataLog with Disjunction, where the logical disjunction symbol V is used) system implements the disjunctive stable model semantics.
See also
Syntax and semantics of logic programming
Sources
Notes
References
Logic programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima%20Television | , also known as FTV, is a television network headquartered in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Fukushima Television is the first commercial television broadcaster in Fukushima Prefecture, it was founded in 1962, and started broadcasting in 1963. In 2023, Fukushima Television celebrated its 60th anniversary.
On June 1 2006, FTV started broadcasting digital terrestrial television. Due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, FTV postpone its schedule to end analogue television broadcasting on March 31 2012.
FTV is affiliated with FNN and FNS. The government of Fukushima prefecture hold half stock share of FTV. In 2020, FTV moved into its new headquarter.
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Fukushima Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Fuji News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1962 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuranbo%20Television | , also known as SAY, is a television network headquartered in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. SAY is the fourth commercial television broadcaster in Yamagata Prefecture, it was started broadcasting in 1997.
Sakuranbo Television is affiliated with FNN and FNS. Yamagata Television System (YTS) was the affiliated station of FNN/FNS in Yamagata prefecture. However, in 1993, YTS shifted to All-Nippon News Network (ANN). As a relief measure, Fuji TV established Sakuranbo Television to broadcast its program in Yamagata prefecture.
In June 2006, Sakuranbo Television started broadcasting digital terrestrial television.
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Yamagata Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Fuji News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Japan |
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