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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%27s%20Triple%20Threat | Bobby's Triple Threat is a television series featuring chef Bobby Flay on the Food Network, in the United States.
Format
Bobby Flay invites a chef to his club to compete in three culinary rounds against his handpicked titans: Brooke Williamson, Michael Voltaggio and Tiffany Derry. For each round, the challenger picks the titan of their choosing to cook against. In the first two rounds, Bobby Flay provides two ingredients for the chefs to cook with to make two dishes in 40 minutes. In the final round, the challenger picks the two ingredients they and the final titan will cook with for one dish in 45 minutes. Each round is judged in a blind taste test by one judge, with the first two rounds worth 10 points each and the final round worth 20 points. If the challenger has a higher final score than the titans, they win $25,000 in cash and a locker at the club with their name plastered on, allowing them to return to the club whenever they want to.
The presentation of Bobby's Triple Threat has many elements of an exclusive club, with the set having a bar and bartender and the audience watching the matches at tables while having drinks. The challenger enters the club through a hidden door disguised as one enormous painting after giving Flay a password, which is always a certain food. If the challenger wins the game, they are given the cash prize by Flay in a duffel bag and enjoy a drink with him and his titans. If the challenger loses, they leave and the titans drink with Flay to celebrate their victory.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
References
2020s American cooking television series
2022 American television series debuts
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201963%20%28Peru%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Peru in 1963, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by the Peruvian newspaper, La Prensa.
See also
1963 in music
References
1963 in Peru
1963 record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201962%20%28Peru%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Peru in 1962, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by the Peruvian newspaper, La Prensa.
See also
1962 in music
References
1962 in Peru
1962 record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Organization%20for%20Passive%20Defense | The National Organization for Passive Defense is an Iranian government bureau for civil defense. It was approved in August 2023. It will arm and defend the infrastructure from biologic, cyber, nuclear, electronic, chemical warfare and the CBRNE threat.
It works mainly with Iranian corporations and government departments and Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Industry, and Iranian Armed Forces.
It consists of a high commission council and is financed by both the government and private corporations.
Chart
Timeline
In 2022 it introduced SOC, SCADA- EMS DDOS mitigation.
In 2023 it requested boycotting Europe diplomatically over Quran burning.
References
External links
پایداری ملی
Economy of Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20named%20nature%20reserves%20of%20Western%20Australia | Western Australia, as of 2022, has 1,233 nature reserves, of which 826 are named and 407 unnamed. At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, of land in Western Australia was covered by nature reserves, which is 13.23 percent of all protected areas in the state and 3.99 percent of the state overall. Overall, just over 30 percent of Western Australia is covered by protected areas.
Nature reserves list
Notes
Investigator Island Nature Reserve is located off the coast of the Esperance Plains bioregion.
Whalebone Island Nature Reserve is located off the coast of the Carnarvon xeric shrublands bioregion.
Key for IBRA
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia:
AVW: Avon Wheatbelt
CAR: Carnarvon xeric shrublands
CEK: Central Kimberley
COO: Coolgardie bioregion
DAL: Dampierland
ESP: Esperance Plains
GAS: Gascoyne bioregion
GES: Geraldton Sandplains
GID: Gibson Desert
GSD: Great Sandy Desert
GVD: Great Victoria Desert
HAM: Hampton bioregion
ITI: Indian Tropical Islands
JAF: Jarrah Forest
LSD: Little Sandy Desert
MAL: Mallee bioregion
MUR: Murchison (Western Australia)
NOK: Northern Kimberley
NUL: Nullarbor Plain
OVP: Ord Victoria Plain
PIL: Pilbara shrublands
SWA: Swan Coastal Plain
VIB: Victoria Bonaparte
WAR: Warren bioregion
YAL: Yalgoo bioregion
See also
List of unnamed nature reserves of Western Australia
List of national parks of Western Australia
List of conservation parks of Western Australia
List of Indigenous Protected Areas of Western Australia
References
External links
Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD): protected area data
Australian Protected Areas Dashboard
Nature reserves
Nature reserves of Western Australia
Nature reserves named |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20of%20War%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | State of War is a closed-end, computer-moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) wargame. It was published by Game Systems, Inc.
History and development
State of War was a computer moderated PBM game published by Game Systems, Inc. After three years of development, the game launched in January 1987. In 1988, KJC Games launched the game in the United Kingdom with a limited run of 500 available positions. The game was moderately complex.
Gameplay
The game is closed-ended with players striving for the most victory points. The setting is a futuristic North America. Gameplay takes place in a crisis period after nuclear war in Europe. Twenty players led states with gameplay occurring on a hex map. Combat, diplomacy, and economics were elements of gameplay. Victory points could be achieved through a variety of methods. One player compared it to the game Earthwood. Victory could come individually (the most victory points) or through an alliance by meeting multiple conditions.
Reception
Stewart Wieck reviewed the game in a 1998 issue of White Wolf, stating that it was a, "good, solid, and well-programmed game," and "A good game on which to cut your PBM teeth." He rated it a 7 of 10 for Materials and Game Moderation, an 8 for Diplomacy, and a 9 for Strategy. Overall he rated the game at 8 of 10 points. Tim Sullivan reviewed the game in a 1988 issue of The D2 Report, calling it a "high-energy, modern day wargame".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1980s
Grand strategy wargames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20System%20700 | The Honeywell System 700 is a family of discontinued 16-bit minicomputers from Honeywell, Inc..
The System 700 was introduced in 1972 and was intended for use as "key elements in a complete functional system rather than as small 'bare bones' central processors."
As announced, the line comprises eight systems. Two systems use the older Honeywell 316 processor, and either the OP-16 or the BOS operating systems. The remaining six systems use the newer 716 processor, and the OS/700 operating system, which can be either disk- or memory-resident, or OP-16 or BOS. Systems came pre-configured as "a terminal control system, a peripheral control system, a multi-purpose system, a batch processing system, two sensor-based systems, a remote line concentrator and a remote message concentrator." A minimal system had a monthly rental as low as $1000 per month (), or could be purchased for $30,000 ().
"Both hardware and software place emphasis on the real-time processing required for process control, data collection, and data communications environments."
Processor
The 716 processor in the System 700 is backwards-compatible with the 316 and 516 processors, but adds features unavailable in these older processors. It is 20% faster than the DDP-516 and more than twice as fast as the H316.
Users
The System 700 was the standard remote terminal for the US military's Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) systems, which were built around Honeywell 6000 series mainframe systems.
References
External links
1972 introductions
Honeywell computers
Minicomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Lockemann | Peter Christian Lockemann (born November 17, 1935) is a professor of computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and was director at the FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe (FZI). He retired in March 2004.
Lockemann is considered a pioneer of business information systems and is involved in the development of databases and information systems. He has published textbooks and over 100 scientific articles.
Life
Lockemann studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and finished his doctoral studies in 1963 under the supervision of Hans Piloty. He was subsequently a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Since 1972, the founding year of the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, he has been a professor there, from 1979 to 1981 dean, and until his retirement he headed the group for Information Management Systems.
In 1985, together with several colleagues, he founded the FZI Research Centre for Computer Science in Karlsruhe.
He has also held several guest professorships in the USA, including at the California Institute of Technology and at the MIT, and has held advisory positions with industry and ministries.
In 2003, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Franfunt am Main awarded him an honorary doctorate for his achievements in research and as a promoter of knowledge transfer into business practice. In 2005 he received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
References
1935 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology fellows
German computer scientists
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom%20%28game%29 | Venom is a closed-end, computer-moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) wargame. It was published by Game Systems, Inc. in 1989. Twenty players role-played demigods battling for supremacyby developing their position and winning a final battle. Demigod characters were highly customizable in the manner of spaceships for space-based PBM games. The game received generally poor reviews before the publisher revised the game in 1990 which improved the game according to one reviewer.
History and development
Venom was a closed-ended, computer moderated PBM game. Originally published by Comstar, Game Systems Inc. acquired and republished it in 1988. In the May 1990 issue of Flagship, the publisher stated that it was making eleven game improvements based on feedback. By 1992, the game revisions were implemented.
Gameplay
Venom was a fantasy wargame fought among 20 players. It had an "unusual and interesting premise" where players act as demigods struggling for domination. Games comprised three phases, the first included developing one's position through "spells, miracles and combat between armies of angels, spirits, ghosts and shadows". The second phase involves players preparing for the final battle in phase three which determines the game's winner. Losing all life points could cause defeat before the final battle.
Gameplay occurred on a 54 × 40 grid square map with a cloud layer and a second ground layer with various population areas. The game also had a "Ninth Dimension" arena for combat. Demigods were customizable with nine variable body part types. For example, ten different arm options were available. Various magic items were available, providing different spell options. This was a fantasy corollary of science fiction PBM games which allowed players to customize spaceships.
Reception
Vickie Lloyd reviewed the game in the May–June 1989 issue of Paper Mayhem. She stated, "I feel that Venom is a waste of money and wouldn't recommend it to anyone." J. W. Akers-Sassaman reviewed the original version of the game in a 1990 issue of Flagship. He stated that "It has all the earmarks of a successful game: interesting premise, lots of atmosphere, reliable moderation and customer service, and an affordable price." He noted various design flaws and pointed to objections to occult topics in the period as a potential issue for players.
Van Norton reviewed the game in 1992 after publisher revisions. He noted that the general outline of the game was unchanged but it was "easier to play and more balanced" than the 1990 version.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
20th-century role-playing games
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Role-playing games introduced in 1989
Speculative fiction role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smita%20Krishnaswamy | Smita Krishnaswamy is an American scientist and associate professor in
Genetics and Computer Science at Yale University. She specializes in the development of machine learning techniques to analyze high-dimensional high-throughput biomedical data with
applications in immunology, immunotherapy, cancer, neuroscience, developmental biology and health outcomes. Krishnaswamy organized the Open Problems in Single-Cell Biology effort with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and remains a scientific advisor for the project.
Education and early career
Krishnaswamy obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan in 2008. She then joined IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center as a scientist in the systems division, where she researched formal methods for automated error detection. Her Deltasyn algorithm was utilized in
IBM System p and IBM System z high-performance server chips.
Krishnaswamy switched her research efforts to biology and completed postdoctoral training in 2015 at Columbia University in the Department of Systems Biology, where she focused on learning computational models of cellular signaling from single-cell mass cytometry data.
Awards and honors
In 2022, Krishnaswamy's research, teaching and community work were honored by a FASEB Excellence in Science Award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) funded by Eli Lilly and Company.
In 2009, Krishnaswamy was the recipient of the EDAA (European Design Automation Association) Outstanding Dissertation Award in the category "new directions in circuit and system test".
In 2005, Krishnaswamy received a best-paper award from the Design Automation and Test in Europe conference for the paper where she was the lead author.
Publications
Krishnaswamy coauthored a book published by Springer Verlag and over 50 peer-reviewed publications, including journal papers in Nature Biotechnology, Nature Protocols, Nature Methods Science, Cell and conference papers in International Conference on Machine Learning.
References
External links
Open Problems in Single-Cell Biology
Living people
American women scientists
Yale School of Medicine faculty
American electrical engineers
University of Michigan alumni
IBM employees
People from Kalamazoo, Michigan
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201966%20%28Peru%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Peru in 1966, according to Billboard magazine with data provided by the Peruvian newspaper, La Prensa.
See also
1966 in music
References
1966 in Peru
1966 record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowcountry%20Digital%20Library | Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) is a digital library project hosted by the College of Charleston in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Part of the Digital Library of America network, the Lowcountry Digital Library hosts about 200 collections of primary sources drawn from organizations including the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston Library Society, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Huguenot Society of South Carolina, the Citadel, Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, three county library systems, and a number of other historic sites, research centers and archives in the geographical and culturally distinct South Carolina Lowcountry region.
Background
Established in 2014, LCDL hosts a number of unique materials significant to the slave trade in the United States, including the Hutson Lee Papers collection of broadsides from 1858 to 1865 slave auctions held in Charleston, and the account book of slave trader Alonzo J. White. The site also hosts a number of first-person narrative sources that contrast with the 20th-century marketing of Charleston, which "churned out mostly whitewashed and often blatantly false historical narratives." Recent grant funding has allowed for an increased quantity of oral history materials. According to professor B. J. Wood, "To an academic historian, putting three hundred years of disparate materials together in this way might seem to risk assuming ahistorical continuities. But attachments to place often make history more engaging to popular audiences, and few places in the United States have a more interesting or distinctive history than the Carolina low-country." In addition to the primary sources the site hosts a number of curated online exhibits.
References
Digital library projects
History of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201964%20%28Brazil%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Brazil in 1964, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics.
See also
1964 in music
List of number-one hits of 1965 (Brazil)
List of number-one hits of 1966 (Brazil)
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1964 in Brazil
1964 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20Buchan | Iain Edward Buchan is a public health physician, data scientist and academic. He holds the W.H. Duncan Chair of Public Health Systems and is Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Innovation at the University of Liverpool.
Buchan's research focuses on health data science and informatics to enable better prevention, early intervention, and value of care for patients and populations. He has written 337 articles and his work has been cited of 26000 times according to Google Scholar. He is most known for leading the world's first evaluation of mass rapid antigen testing, and the first realistic risk-mitigated reopening of mass events during the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He also developed the Civic Data Cooperative, which resulted in the Combined Intelligence for Population Health Action (CIPHA) system during the pandemic. He is the recipient of HTN Health Tech Award, Alwyn-Smith Medal, and Florence Nightingale Award.
Buchan is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, the American College of Medical Informatics, British Computer Society and the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. He has also been an advisor to UK, European and international health policy groups, AstraZeneca) and research organizations including UKRI, Wellcome Trust and the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), for which he is a Senior Investigator.
Education and early career
In the 1980s, Buchan pursued medical training alongside studies in pharmacology and statistical software development. As an undergraduate, he published the first version of a statistical package called "StatsDirect." During the 1990s, as a junior doctor, he researched care pathways, health system dynamics, and care inequities. Later, he trained as a public health consultant while conducting research in medical informatics and pursuing doctoral studies in computational statistics.
Career
Buchan began his academic career in 1992 as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He then served as a Research Associate in Medical Informatics at the University of Cambridge in 1996 and Senior Research Fellow in Medical Informatics at Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1997, before training as a Consultant in Public Health. In 2003, he joined the University of Manchester as a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Intelligence and was promoted in 2008 to Clinical Professor in Public Health Informatics. There, from 2003 to 2017, he founded Health eResearch Centre and co-directed the Farr Institute. In the E-Science movement of the early 2000s he conceived e-Labs and Research Objects, leading to today's Trusted Research Environments and applications in healthcare. At Manchester, he also invented the FARSITE system, helping spin out NW eHealth, and started the #DataSavesLives movement and the Connected Health Cities project.
Subsequently, Buchan served as Director of Healthcare Research at Microsoft Research Cambridge in 2017–2018, producing two patents and furthering the health |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20Revolutionary%20Guards%20Corps%20Cyber%20Security%20Command | The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Cyber Security Command is a command of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for cyber warfare and cyber security. It was founded in 2006(1386), its command was established in 2015(1393).
In 2022 identities of its members were hacked and leaked. It has conducted a number of cyber attacks against infrastructure.
Previously it was called Center of organized crime inspection.
They contract or "rent" hackers to breach accounts of dissidents.
In 2009-10 protests and 2022-2023 protests it asked for tips.
Introduction
Its official introduction claims it is allowed on basis of Iranian Constitution article 150.
In its organization news bulletin website its stated mission include counter
Cultural social media impact
lifestyle change
Western espionage
Security threat and cyber attack and sabotage
Internet illegal access through internet censorship circumvention tools
Help digital diplomacy
It also targets modelling pages and agencies.
It was headed by Brigadier Commander General Mostafa Izadi in 1395.
Timeline history
It has run several operations against websites /admins
Mozzellin (Enemies)
Mersad (Ambush)
Darkoob (Woodpecker)
Spider
In 1397 propaganda accounts, social media handles and pages and channels related to the organization were reported on the internet.
Sanction
British government put sanction on the organization in 2023 for human rights regression concern and threat reason. United States has sanctioned it for human rights repression and election interference.
See also
Intelligence organization Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
References
External links
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Iranian security organisations
All articles with unsourced statements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201965%20%28Brazil%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Brazil in 1965, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics.
See also
List of number-one hits of 1964 (Brazil)
1965 in music
List of number-one hits of 1966 (Brazil)
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1965 in Brazil
1965 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201966%20%28Brazil%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Brazil in 1966, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics.
See also
List of number-one hits of 1964 (Brazil)
List of number-one hits of 1965 (Brazil)
1966 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1966 in Brazil
1966 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Volkskammer%20members%20%288th%20election%20period%29 | This list provides an overview of all members of the People's Chamber of the GDR in the 8th legislative period (1981–1986).
Composition
According to official data, in the 1981 People's Chamber election, 99.86% of voters cast their votes for the nomination proposed by the National Front.
The election did not impact the strength of the factions; their sizes were predetermined. The right column of the above table reflects the party affiliations of the members within the FDGB, DFD, FDJ, and Kulturbund factions.
Presidium
President of the People's ChamberHorst Sindermann (SED)
Deputy President of the People's ChamberGerald Götting (CDU)
Members of the Presidium:Willi-Peter Konzok (LDPD)Rudolf Agsten (LDPD) from 1983Wolfgang Heyl (CDU)Erich Mückenberger (SED)Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (DFD)Heinz Eichler (SED)Karl-Heinz Schulmeister (Kulturbund)Ernst Mecklenburg (DBD)Rudi Rothe (DBD) from 1982Werner Heilemann (FDGB)Eberhard Aurich (FDJ)Wolfgang Rösser (NDPD)
Faction Leaders
SED FactionErich Mückenberger
DBD FactionLeonhard Helmschrott
CDU FactionWolfgang Heyl
LDPD FactionRudolf Agsten
NDPD FactionSiegfried Dallmann
FDGB FactionHans Jendretzky
DFD FactionKatharina KernEva Rohmann (from 1984)
FDJ FactionGünter Böhme (until 1982)Hans-Joachim Willerding (from 1982)
KB FactionKarl-Heinz Schulmeister, Kulturbund
MPs
Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at :de:Liste der Mitglieder der Volkskammer der DDR (8. Wahlperiode); see its history for attribution.
References
Volkskammer members
Government of East Germany
List
Volk
Volk
Lists of national legislators
1981 in East Germany
Volkskammer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Moerkotte | Guido Moerkotte is full professor of computer science at the University of Mannheim and known for his research on query optimization within database systems.
Life
Moerkotte started studying computer science at the University of Dortmund in 1981 and finished his doctoral studies under the supervision of Peter Lockemann at the Universität Karlsruhe in 1990. After positions as guest researcher at IBM and visiting researcher at Microsoft, he joined the University of Aachen as associate professor in January 1994.
Since January 1996, he holds the chair of Practical Computer Science III as a full professor at the University of Mannheim.
Research
With more than 200 publications including three books, Moerkotte's research focuses on database systems, especially query optimization. In his early years, he conducted research on deductive databases and together with Alfons Kemper he worked on object-oriented databases when he was employed in Karlsruhe.
Nowadays he is giving courses on query optimization and working on query compilers.
Books
Konstruktion von Anfrageoptimierern für Objektbanken. Verlag Shaker, Aachen 1995, ISBN 3-8265-0869-6, 1994
with Alfons Kemper: Object-Oriented Database Management: Applications in Engineering and Computer Science. Prentice-Hall 1994, ISBN 0-13-629239-9
Building Query Compilers
References
External links
Homepage of Guido Moerkotte
dblp
Academic staff of the University of Mannheim
German computer scientists
University of Mannheim alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnendu%20Chaudhury | Krishnendu Chaudhury is an American Technology leader (deep learning, computer vision), inventor, and author. He is the co-founder of Drishti Technologies in Palo Alto, CA. Currently, he is serving as the Chief Technology officer (CTO) of the company. Chaudhury is also the author of the book Mathematics and Architectures of Deep Learning. He has 34 patents to his name and several publications in the field of computer vision and deep learning. Over the course of his career, he has worked at Adobe Systems, Google, and Flipkart.
Early life and education
In 1994, he completed his Ph.D. in computer science in computer vision and image processing from the University of Kentucky.
Career
In 1995, Chaudhury started working for Adobe Systems as a senior computer scientist. He worked with Adobe for ten years working on Advanced Technology Group and Postscript Core Technology, working in different locations, including San Francisco and San Jose.
In 2005, he joined Google. He worked on image processing and computer vision projects. He worked on several projects that revolved around machine learning and computer vision, including Google's newspaper search feature, which was launched in 2008 on Google's 10th birthday. The product allows readers to go through newspaper archives from hundreds of newspapers and thousands of issues from the 1800s and early 1900s. Chaudhury also managed Google's version of image compression called "WebP," which was launched in October 2010. He worked on the auto-rectification of photos at Google Photos, devising a complex mathematical way to restore parallelism of lines inside an image. He also worked on an early version of a face recognition-based login for Android. After 10 years of service, he left Google and joined Flipkart.
In 2015, Chaudhury joined Flipkart as a Principal Scientist and Head of Image Sciences, handling projects related to computer vision and deep learning. He worked on deep learning in the e-commerce visual search and recommendation systems. Chaudhury led the computer vision and image processing technology team across Flipkart's platforms. His team led the first visual recommendation engine, which would recommend visually similar products. His notable works for Flipkart include Deep Learning based Visually Similar recommendations for Flipkart: A new Convolutional Neural Net (CNN) architecture for visual feature embeddings, and Region CNN-based e-commerce product localization on wild images: Identifying Flipkart apparel similar to the ones worn by models/celebrities/friends in wild images.
In 2017, he co-founded Drishti Technologies in Palo Alto, CA, with Prasad Akella and serial entrepreneur Ashish Gupta. Drishti Technologies works on AI-powered video analytics and video traceability. Drishti is a Silicon Valley AI startup funded by VCs including Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital, and Benhamou Global Ventures. Chaudhury is also on the Technical Advisory Committee of Benhamou Global Ventures since 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan%20Public%20Transportation | The public transportation system in Yerevan, Armenia consists of buses, minibuses, trolleybuses, and a metro. Different modes (buses, minibuses, trolleybuses) act as different networks.
As of 2023, the fare for one ride is 100AMD (around €0.25) on buses, minibuses, and metro. For trolleybuses, the fare is 50AMD (around €0.12). There is no universal card and ticket system; payments are accepted only in cash to drivers at the start of a journey in new vehicles, or at the end of a trip in old vehicles. Transfers between lines are paid. The metro uses tokens that can be bought at stations.
There are currently no stop announcements in buses, minibuses, or trolleybuses. The metro, however, has announcements in Armenian and English.
As of 2023, there are approximately 870 public transport stops in Yerevan. Around 390 of them have shelters, the others have only signs and occasionally benches. There are currently is no route information or schedules at stops, however, there are mobile apps with route information for each stop. At metro stations, however, signage is available in Armenian, English, and Russian.
The metro, buses, and minibuses operate between 07:00 and 23:00. Trolleybuses operate from 07:00 to 21:00.
Buses
Yerevan is served by 63 bus routes operated by "Yerevan Bus" CJSC and 12 other companies. Bus fleet vehicles include CNG-powered low-floor MAN Lion's City 12G 12-metre, 3-door buses, and 8.5-metre, 2-door Zhongtong LCK6860HGN. Older models include high-floor Higer, Hyundai County, and PAZ buses.
Minibuses
As of August 2023, all old GAZelle minibuses were replaced by buses or new low-floor GAZelle City minibuses. The new minibuses are operated by "Yerevan Bus" CJSC. The network consists of 11 routes.
Trolleybuses
Yerevan has 5 trolleybus lines that use older, mostly high-floor LiAZ trolleybuses and new battery-extended, low-floor Yutong trolleybuses. The new trolleybuses allowed the network to expand using the capability of travelling without contact wires.
Metro
The Yerevan metro consists of 10 stations on 1 line and a branch. The trains used are modernized Metrovagonmash 81-717/81-714 models. Three of the ten stations are on-ground, while the rest are underground. Stations are old (the newest one built in 1996) and do not have accessibility features.
References
Public transport in Armenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha%20%28writer%29 | Misha Nogha Chocholak (born April 1955) is an American science fiction writer. Of Métis background, she is known for her 1990 cyberpunk novel Red Spider White Web.
Biography
Misha Nogha Chocholak, of Métis and Norwegian ancestry, was born in April 1955 in Saint Paul, Minnesota and studied at Eastern Washington University, Portland State University, and Eastern Oregon University. In 1986, she published the short story "The Wishing Well" in the May issue of New Pathways. In 1989, she published Prayers of Steel, a story collection with poetry.
In 1990, Misha published Red Spider White Web, a cyberpunk/romantic novel about a Native American artist turned human–wolverine hybrid struggling in a Japan-dominated United States damaged by the climate crisis. Stina Attebery described Misha "as an important figure for both Indigenous futurisms and Indigenous cyberpunk", citing the novel's "ecological and feminist themes" in contrast to the masculinity of first-wave cyberpunk. She won the 1991 Readercon novel award for Red Spider, White Web. She was also shortlisted for the 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award for the book, but lost to Colin Greenland's Take Back Plenty.
Misha was an editor at science fiction magazine New Pathways; John Clute later described her as "influential". In 1993, she published Ke-Qua-Hawk-As, another story collection with poetry, and Dr. Ihoka's Cure, a non-fiction title. She is also a musician.
In 2007, Misha published another poetry book Magpies & Tigers. She also began working on another novel, Yellowjacket.
As of 2008, Misha and her husband, composer Michael Chocholak, lived in Cove, Oregon.
Works
Prayers of Steel (1989)
Red Spider White Web (1990)
Dr. Ihoka's Cure (1993)
Ke-Qua-Hawk-As (1993)
Magpies & Tigers (2007)
References
1955 births
Living people
American Métis people
Métis writers
20th-century Native American writers
Native American women writers
Native American novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American poets
21st-century American poets
American women poets
Writers from Saint Paul, Minnesota
People from Cove, Oregon
Writers from Oregon
Cyberpunk writers
American women editors
American magazine editors
Eastern Washington University alumni
Portland State University alumni
Eastern Oregon University alumni
American people of Norwegian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201967%20%28Brazil%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Brazil in 1967, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics.
See also
1967 in music
List of number-one hits of 1964 (Brazil)
List of number-one hits of 1965 (Brazil)
List of number-one hits of 1966 (Brazil)
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1967 in Brazil
1967 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectophasiopsis | Ectophasiopsis is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
Ectophasiopsis arcuata (Bigot, 1876)
Ectophasiopsis gradata (Wiedemann, 1830)
Ectophasiopsis ypiranga Dios & Nihei, 2017
References
Tachinidae
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend
Diptera of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habronattus%20paratus | Habronattus paratus is a species of jumping spider. It is found in Central America and Paraguay.
References
External links
Habronattus paratus at Worldwide database of jumping spiders
Salticidae
Spiders described in 1896 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201963%20%28Brazil%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Brazil in 1963, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics.
See also
1963 in music
List of number-one hits of 1964 (Brazil)
List of number-one hits of 1965 (Brazil)
List of number-one hits of 1966 (Brazil)
List of number-one hits of 1967 (Brazil)
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1963 in Brazil
1963 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-to-image%20personalization | Text-to-Image personalization is a task in deep learning for computer graphics that augments pre-trained text-to-image generative models. In this task, a generative model that was trained on large-scale data (usually a foundation model), is adapted such that it can generate images of novel, user-provided concepts. These concepts are typically unseen during training, and may represent specific objects (such as the user's pet) or more abstract categories (new artistic style or object relations).
Text-to-Image personalization methods typically bind the novel (personal) concept to new words in the vocabulary of the model. These words can then be used in future prompts to invoke the concept for subject-driven generation, inpainting, style transfer and even to correct biases in the model. To do so, models either optimize word-embeddings, fine-tune the generative model itself, or employ a mixture of both approaches.
Technology
Text-to-Image personalization was first proposed during August 2022 by two concurrent works, Textual Inversion and DreamBooth.
In both cases, a user provides a few images (typically 3–5) of a concept, like their own dog, together with a coarse descriptor of the concept class (like the word "dog"). The model then learns to represent the subject through a reconstruction based objective, where prompts referring to the subject are expected to reconstruct images from the training set.
In Textual Inversion, the personalized concepts are introduced into the text-to-image model by adding new words to the vocabulary of the model. Typical text-to-image models represent words (and sometimes parts-of-words) as tokens, or indices in a predefined dictionary. During generation, an input prompt is converted into such tokens, each of which is converted into a ‘word-embedding’: a continuous vector representation which is learned for each token as part of the model's training. Textual Inversion proposes to optimize a new word-embedding vector for representing the novel concept. This new embedding vector can then be assigned to a user-chosen string, and invoked whenever the user's prompt contains this string.
In DreamBooth, rather than optimizing a new word vector, the full generative model itself is fine-tuned. The user first selects an existing token, typically one which rarely appears in prompts. The subject itself is then represented by a string containing this token, followed by a coarse descriptor of the subject's class. A prompt describing the subject will then take the form: "A photo of <token> <class>" (e.g. "a photo of sks cat" when learning to represent a specific cat). The text-to-image model is then tuned so that prompts of this form will generate images of the subject.
Textual Inversion
The key idea in textual inversion is to add a new term to the vocabulary of the diffusion model that corresponds to the new (personalized) concept. Textual inversion optimizes the vector embedding of that new term such that using it as an input |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanap | Fanap () is an Iranian information technology corporation owned by semi public Pasargad bank financial group. It's facial recognition source code database used by Iranian FARAJA law enforcement police was hacked in a 20 GiB dump August 2023.
An IPO is expected for Fanap.
Timeline
In 2023 the company made a deal for a data center for Tebyan owned by Iranian government Islamic Development organization.
It offered education grant for top 5000 students ranking nationally in Iranian university entrance exam to study in private college Khatam University.
August 2023 it's Surveillance software product used by Iranian government was released after breach in a 20GB file.
Sub Divisions
Neshan maps a Pod integrated communication product
Podro or Padro - delivery and postal mail corporation
Behnama - facial recognition
Fanap tech: It also runs an innovation factory in Arvand, Khuzestan.
Abr Arvan (ArvanCloud)
Fanap payment
Pasargad Electronic Payment a PSP
Zitel ISP
Dotin a programming firm
Baran telecom
WePod the banking app
Trigup accelerator (fintechtrigup)
Fundorun crowdfunding/crowdsourcing
health tech
Shahreketab book shopping
References
External links
Information technology companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20railway%20cyberattack | The Polish railway cyberattack is a series of suspected sabotage attempts in August 2023 aimed at the Polish State Railways.
Method
The "radio stop" command system has a vulnerability - when a certain three tonal signal is transmitted through the railway radio network, trains stop automatically.
Events
Friday 25 August
At 9:23 on two sections of line near Szczecin a stop signal was broadcast by an unknown person. It affected more than 20 trains and freight traffic was stopped as a precaution. Services were restored within hours.
Saturday 26 August
Around 6pm near Gdynia a second incident took place - a freight train was also affected later that evening.
Sunday 27 August
Trains near Białystok were affected by fake stop signals. Five passenger trains and one freight train were stopped. Two men were arrested in connection with the disruption near Białystok. One suspect is a police officer. Prosecutors opened an investigation.
Monday 28 August
Police in Białystok announced they had begun a dismissal procedure against the officer arrested on Sunday. Sixteen people have been arrested as suspects in spying for Russia.
Investigation
The disruptions are being investigated both by police and intelligence organisations, including the Internal Security Agency.
Some of the disruptive signals included the Russian anthem and part of a speech by Vladimir Putin.
References
2023 in Poland
2023 in rail transport
Cyberattacks
Crime in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans%20Am%20%28EP%29 | Trans Am is a studio EP by American new wave band The Network, a side project of the American punk rock band Green Day, released on November 20, 2020.
Background
After releasing their debut album Money Money 2020 in 2003, and opening for some dates during a Green Day tour in 2005, the band went on a 15-year hiatus. Mike Dirnt subsequently confirmed in 2013 that Green Day were in fact The Network. In 2020, the band became active again, posting to their social media profiles a music video for their song "The Prophecy".
Release and promotion
The release of the EP came with the announcement of the second album, as well as a music video for the title track, with videos for the songs "Ivankkka Is a Nazi" being released beforehand, and "Flat Earth" and "Fentanyl" released afterwards.
Track listing
Personnel
Fink - vocals on "Fentanyl" and "Ivankkka Is A Nazi", lead guitar
Van Gough - vocals on "Trans Am", bass guitar
The Snoo - drums, vocals on "Flat Earth"
Balducci - rhythm guitar
Z - keyboards, keytar, backing vocals
Captain Underpants - keyboards
References
2020 EPs
The Network albums
Warner Records EPs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Television/Radio | Independent Television/Radio is a Nigerian private broadcast network that began transmitting on 27 March 1997. It was founded by Sir Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, the Esama of Benin Kingdom.
History
Independent Television (ITV) received its broadcasting license on 26 June 1993, making it the first privately owned broadcasting station in Nigeria under the parent organization IBW Enterprises. Full transmission began on 27 March 1997.
Expansion and radio arm
In 1998, Independent Radio was launched on 92.3 Mega Hertz FM as a complementary platform to ITV. The radio station was inaugurated by the Oba of Benin, Omo 'N' Oba Nedo, Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Erediawa, on 7 November 1998.
Achievements
Independent Television/Radio received approval from the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to transmit on Channel 42 UHF in the Federal Capital Territory. ITV Abuja commenced transmission on 1 September 2007. The network contributed content to international platforms such as Cable News Network (CNN).
In December 2009, Independent Television/Radio obtained a license for digital satellite broadcasting, allowing global broadcasting of its programs.
References
External links
Broadcasting in Nigeria
1997 establishments in Nigeria
Television in Nigeria
Radio in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Green%20Entertainment | This is a list of Original (Local) and International programming broadcast on the television channel Green Entertainment, which is broadcast in Pakistan and around the world.
Current programming
Comedy
101 Talaqain
Jeevan Nagar
Drama
Jindo
Kabuli Pulao
Working Women
Gumn
Horror
Siyaah
Romance
Idiot
Tumhare Husn Ke Naam
Spiritual
Fatima Feng
Sports
22 Qadam
Upcoming programming
Shikaar
Akhara
Breaking News
Grey
Serial Killer
Gentleman
Former broadcast
Coming-of-Age
College Gate
Drama
Apne Hee Tou Hain
Daurr
Honey Moon
Nauroz
Shanaas
Wonderland
References
Green Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorcon%20Wars | Vorcon Wars is an closed-ended, computer moderated, space-based play-by-mail game. It was published by Vorcon Games and running as early as 1981. 16 players vie for control of the planet Vorcon. Gameplay occurred on a hex map with over 1,000 hexes of varying types and resources. Players strived for expansion through combat and other means. By 1986, the publisher launched an additional version for play called Super Vorcon Wars. In 1989, Vorcon Wars placed second in the non-fantasy wargames section of Flagship's Spring 1989 Award Winners.
Publication history
The game was running as early as 1981. It was published by Vorcon Games. John Nicholson of Vorcon Games created the game. The game shares some similarities with Starlord, but with added options. The game was computer moderated.
Super Vorcon Wars
By 1986, Vorcon Games published an updated version called Super Vorcon Wars while ran alongside the original game. It was "a more complicated version which involves infectious diseases destroying food supplies, multi-commander player positions, more aggressive native Vorcons and other such wonders" according to reviewer Brendon Kavanagh in Crash.
Gameplay
16 players vie for control of the planet Vorcon following its leader's death. Gameplay occurred on a hex map with over 1,000 hexes of varying types and resources. Players see their hex and 18 surrounding hexes per turn as they strive for expansion through combat and other means.
Reception
Tim Lewis and Williams McCarthy reviewed Vorcon Wars in the Spring 1984 issue of Flagship. They generally felt positively about the game, noting drawbacks in the lack of awareness outside of the hex maps provided per turn and the time needed at the outset to meet other players. In 1989, Vorcon Wars placed second in the non-fantasy wargames section of Flagship's Spring 1989 Award Winners (after Domination).
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in 1981
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Strategy games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLUORETH-LAD | FLUORETH-LAD is a lysergamide derivative. It was first proposed by Alexander and Ann Shulgin in their book TiHKAL, but was never synthesised by Shulgin. Synthesis and activity data for the compound were first reported in a 2022 patent by Matthias Grill, in which pharmacological testing showed it to have similar affinity to LSD at some targets such as the 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A serotonin receptors, but much lower affinity at other targets such as 5-HT2C and at dopamine receptors, giving it comparatively greater selectivity compared to LSD.
See also
AL-LAD
ETH-LAD
PRO-LAD
References
Lysergamides
Serotonin receptor agonists
Fluorocarbons
Diethylamino compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Smullin | Frank Mayer Smullin (10 March 1943 - 14 November 1983) was an American sculptor known for pioneering computer-aided methods in art and for his large welded tubular sculptures.
Biography
Frank Smullin was born on 10 March 1943 to Ruth Smullin and to MIT electrical engineer Louis Smullin. A native of Cambridge, MA, Smullin graduated from Watertown schools and the Cambridge School of Weston before going on to earn a bachelor's in biology at Harvard University and a Master of Fine Arts at Queens College in 1972. He was a Fellow from 1979 to 1980 at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, which helped enable him to make large-scale works.
Smullin married Ruth Ann Spivak and had twin daughters, and went on to teach design and art at Duke University, where his interdisciplinary course "Structures" was co-taught by Smullin together with the zoologist Steve Wainwright and engineer George Pearsall. Smullin passed away following a cerebral aneurism in his studio on 14 November 1983 at the age of 40.
Sculptures
Smullin's art, which he referred to as Analytic Constructivism, includes massive sheet metal sculptures found around university campuses on the East Coast, including Boston University, Columbia University, and MIT. Three pieces are also held at the Smithsonian Institute.
In 1981, Smullin gave a keynote lecture about his tubular sculptures and techniques at a design conference in Nashville, paying particular attention to the granny-knot, which he found to have "an artistically much more interesting, 3-dimensional structure than the functionally preferred, but much flatter square-knot." Smullin had written a computer programme called SCULPT to assist with the vector analysis in his design process, implemented on a Tektronix 4052. He was calculating the elliptic intersections and producing computer-generated outlines of his sculptures which he would color by hand; he would then use a pen-plotter to produce a scale cardboard model, before finally cutting a rolling the final sheet-metal version; his techniques left a lasting influence on computer scientist Carlo Séquin, who was in the audience.
References
1943 births
1983 deaths
20th-century American sculptors
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology fellows
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
Harvard College alumni
Duke University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neshan | Neshan () is an Iranian maps and navigation mobile application.
It is a product of Fanap holding backed Razhman Data Structures. It also supports voice commands. It also shows the most fastest possibly route in Iranian cities. It has more than 10 million users. During 2019-2020 pandemic it showed crowded locations.
It shows highway exits as well.
It has radio player by Beeptunes.During Iranian internet blackout in 2022-2023 it ran into technical difficulties though they were temporary problems.
Features
Traffic
Displaying ETA approximately given drive time
360° degrees Panorama street view
Farsi
Vaccination guide
References
External links
Mobile route-planning software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault%20Breaker | Assault Breaker was a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program begun in 1978 to integrate a number of technologies including lasers, electro-optical sensors, microelectronics, data processors and radars important for precision guided munitions (PGMs).
Assault Breaker was conceived to attack moving, rear echelon armor massed deep behind enemy lines. At the time the program commenced the only means for attacking these targets was by the use of manned, penetrating aircraft. The perceived advantage of Assault Breaker was that it would permit attacking these targets with standoff weapons. Assault Breaker was conceived to obtain a uniquely high kill rate at a much smaller risk and cost than existing tactics permitted. United States Department of Defense officials believed that Assault Breaker's fire rate could destroy in a few hours sufficient vehicles in Warsaw Pact reinforcement divisions to prevent their exploiting a breakthrough at the forward edge of battle area. Two modes of delivering Assault Breaker munitions were considered, ground-launched
and air-launched missiles. Assault Breaker involved the use of an airborne radar, airborne or surface launchers, strike missiles with submunition dispensers, self-guided submunitions that are dispensed over the target and a communications, command and control
network to link the target acquisition, data transmission and strike functions.
The program had four phases:
The first phase involved a focussed effort on the component technologies - verifying that they really were available and that their performance estimates added up to a feasible overall concept.
The second phase involved testing most of the critical component technologies in parallel and making further developments as necessary. At least two contractors were involved in all the tests and developments. Thus, there were two different approaches, by Hughes Aircraft Company and Norden Systems, to the Pave Mover radar system and for the related ground processing stations; two "missile bus" contractors, Martin Marietta for the Patriot (T16) and Ling-Temco-Vought for the Lance (T22) missile; and two subminitions contractors, General Dynamics for the TGSM and AVCO for the SKEET. Submunitions components were tested individually, with emphasis on the required dispensing and homing properties.
In the third phase gradually more complex degrees of system integration were tested. Missile flight tests were conducted, first with inertial guidance only: the T-16 used a Stellar-sight gyro update and the T-22 used an Army-developed optical laser gyro. Later, radar guidance, ground and airborne, was used to steer the missile. Both missiles qualified successfully, achieving the desired accuracies. After this, tests were made including integration of the submunitions with the missile, along with increased complexity in the command signals directing the time, location, and characteristics of submunitions release.
In the last phase of the program, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20diffraction%20computed%20tomography | X-ray diffraction computed tomography is an experimental technique that combines X-ray diffraction with the computed tomography data acquisition approach. X-ray diffraction (XRD) computed tomography (CT) was first introduced in 1987 by Harding et al. using a laboratory diffractometer and a monochromatic X-ray pencil beam. The first implementation of the technique at synchrotron facilities was performed in 1998 by Kleuker et al.
X-ray diffraction computed tomography can be divided into two main categories depending on how the XRD data are being treated, specifically the XRD data can be treated either as powder diffraction or single crystal diffraction data and this depends on the sample properties. If the sample contains small and randomly oriented crystals, then it generates smooth powder diffraction "rings" when using a 2D area detector. If the sample contains large crystals, then it generates "spotty" 2D diffraction patterns. The latter can be performed using also a letterbox, cone and parallel X-ray beam and yields 2D or 3D images corresponding to maps of the crystallites or "grains" present in the sample and their properties, such as stress or strain. There exist several variations of this approach including 3DXRD, X-ray diffraction contrast tomography (DCT) and high energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (HEDM)
X-ray diffraction computed tomography, often abbreviated as XRD-CT, typically refers to the technique invented by Harding et al. which assumes that the acquired data are powder diffraction data. For this reason, it has also been mentioned as powder diffraction computed tomography and diffraction scattering computed tomography (DSCT), however they both refer to the same method.
Data acquisition
XRD-CT employs a monochromatic pencil beam scanning approach and captures the diffraction signal in transmission geometry, producing a diffraction projection dataset. In this setup, the sample moves along an axis perpendicular to the beam's direction. It is illuminated with a monochromatic finely collimated or focused "pencil" X-ray beam. A 2D area detector then records the scattered X-rays, optimizing for best counting statistics and speed. Typically, the translational scan's size surpasses the sample's diameter, ensuring its full coverage at all assessed angles. The size of the translation step is commonly aligned with the X-ray beam's horizontal size. In a perfect scenario for any pencil-beam scanning tomographic method, the measured angles should match the number of translation steps multiplied by π/2, adhering to the Nyquist sampling theorem. However, this number can often be reduced in practice be equal to the number of translation steps without substantially compromising the quality of reconstructed images. The usual angular range spans from 0 to π.
Data reconstruction
In most studies, the predominant data reconstruction approach is the 'reverse analysis' introduced by Bleuet et al. where each sinogram is treated independently yieldin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scruffy%20dome | A scruffy dome is a steel grille that is placed over the inlet of a manhole, and is usually dome shaped. They function as a way for stormwater to enter the pipe network without allowing larger debris in, such as people or animals. Scruffy domes are usually placed in parks and wetlands, and are usually made with galvanised steel.
References
Civil engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20moving%20asymptotes | The Method of Moving Asymptotes (MMA) is an optimization algorithm developed by Krister Svanberg in the 1980s. It's primarily used for solving non-linear programming problems, particularly those related to structural design and topology optimization.
History
MMA was introduced by Krister Svanberg in a 1987 paper titled, "The method of moving asymptotes—a new method for structural optimization." The method was proposed as an alternative to traditional optimization methods, offering an approach that could handle large-scale problems, especially in the realm of structural design. Another paper was published in 1993 by Scanberg which added some extensions to the method, including mini-max formulations and first and second order dual methods to solve subproblems. Another version that is globally convergent was proposed by Zillober.
Algorithm overview
The Method of Moving Asymptotes functions as an iterative scheme. The key idea behind MMA is to approximate the original non-linear constraints and objective function with a simpler, convex approximation. This approximation is represented by linear constraints and a convex objective function.
Starting from an initial guess, each iteration consists of the following steps:
Step I
Given an iteration point , calculate and the gradients for .
Step II
Generate a subproblem by replacing, in , the (usually implicit) functions by approximating explicit functions , based on the calculations from Step I.
Step III
Solve and let the optimal solution of this subproblem be the next iteration point . Let and return to Step I until convergence.
The moving asymptotes serve as an adaptive mechanism. They shift and change with each iteration, progressively closing in on the optimal solution. This ensures that the approximations become increasingly accurate as the algorithm progresses.
Applications
The Method of Moving Asymptotes has been widely applied in various fields including:
Structural optimization: Design of truss structures, beams, plates, and shells.
Aeroelastic optimization: Design of aircraft wings and other components to reduce drag, weight, and ensure structural integrity.
Material design: Topology optimization for designing materials with desired mechanical properties.
Mechanical component design: Optimization of machine parts for weight reduction, durability, and performance.
See also
Sequential quadratic programming
Topology optimization
References
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201981%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1981, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers.
See also
1981 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1981 in Argentina
1981 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201982%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1982, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers.
See also
1982 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1982 in Argentina
1982 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201983%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1983, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers.
See also
1983 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1983 in Argentina
1983 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201984%20%28Argentina%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Argentina in 1984, according to Cashbox magazine with data provided by the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers.
See also
1984 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Cashbox magazine.
References
1984 in Argentina
1984 record charts
Lists of number-one songs in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest%20eligible%20virtual%20deadline%20first%20scheduling | Earliest eligible virtual deadline first (EEVDF) is a dynamic priority proportional share scheduling algorithm for soft real-time systems.
Algorithm
EEVDF was first described in the 1995 paper "Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First : A Flexible and Accurate Mechanism for Proportional Share Resource Allocation" by Ion Stoica and Hussein Abdel-Wahab. It uses notions of virtual time, eligible time, virtual requests and virtual deadlines for determining scheduling priority. It has the property that when a job keeps requesting service, the amount of service obtained is always within the maximum quantum size of what it is entitled.
Linux kernel scheduler
In 2023, Peter Zijlstra proposed replacing the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) in the Linux kernel with an EEVDF process scheduler. The aim was to remove the need for CFS "latency nice" patches. The EEVDF scheduler replaced CFS in version 6.6 of the Linux kernel.
See also
Brain Fuck Scheduler
Earliest deadline first scheduling (EDF)
nice (Unix)
SCHED_DEADLINE
References
Processor scheduling algorithms
Real-time computing
Linux kernel process schedulers
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXN%20White%20%28German%20TV%20channel%29 | AXN White (formerly Sony Channel) is a German pay cable and satellite channel owned by High View Group, based in Munich. The network was formerly wholly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
History
Broadcasting started at 11:11 on 22 April 2013. During its first years of broadcast, the channel was exclusively available for Deutsche Telekom until March 2016, when it became widespread among different providers such as Kabel Deutschland, Unitymedia, Kabelkiosk and Magine TV.
The managing directors were John O. Fukunaga, Andrew Jay Kaplan and Karen Elisabeth Marsh, whose headquarters are in Landshut.
On December 15, 2016, the channel was renamed into Sony Channel and it later expanded its availability to Austria. On 19 September 2019, Sony Channel has adopted a new logo.
In July 2023, two Sony cable television channels were sold and managed under an independent media company, High View Group after the closing its deal. On 1 September 2023, Sony AXN and Sony Channel were renamed under the AXN branded names: AXN Black and AXN White.
Programming
1993 (1993 - Jede Revolution hat ihren Preis) (2018–present)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (2016–present)
Anna Karenina (2014–present)
Anna Pihl (Anna Pihl - Auf Streife in Kopenhagen) (2013–2016)
Baron Noir (2017–present)
Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent) (2017–present)
Clan (2014–2016)
Cranford (2015–present)
D'Artagnan et les Trois Mousquetaires (2005) (Die drei Musketiere) (2013–2015)
Downton Abbey (2014–present)
Emma (2016–present)
Frikjent (Lifjord - Der Freispruch) (2016–present)
Gran Hotel (2013–present)
John Rabe (2015–present)
La Cenerentola (Cenerentola: Ein italienisches Märchen) (2014–2016)
Little Dorrit (Klein Dorrit) (2017–present)
Lost Girl (2013-2016)
Malcolm in the Middle (Malcolm mittendrin) (2013–2016)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (Miss Fishers mysteriöse Mordfälle) (2014–present)
Murdoch Mysteries (Murdoch Mysteries – Auf den Spuren mysteriöser Mordfälle) (2021–present)
Mr Selfridge (2014–present)
Mustat lesket (Black Widows - Rache auf Finnisch) (2015–present)
Napoléon (Napoleon) (2013–2015)
National Treasure (2017–present)
Partners in Crime (2017–present)
Poldark (2016–present)
Rome (2014)
Scott & Bailey (2015–present)
Solsidan (The Sunny Side) (2018–present)
Spin (Spin - Paris im Schatten der Macht) (2014–present)
Spiral (Engrenages - Im Fadenkreuz der Justiz) (2015–present)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Tess) (2016–present)
The Bletchley Circle (2014–present)
The Borgias (Borgia) (2013–present)
The Great Train Robbery (Der große Eisenbahnraub) (2014–present)
The Honourable Woman (2015–present)
The Mob Doctor (Mob Doctor) (2013, 2015–2016)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Das Geheimnis des Edwin Drood) (2016–present)
The Tunnel (The Tunnel - Mord kennt keine Grenzen) (2014–present)
Un village français (Un village français - Überleben unter deutscher Besatzung) (2014–present)
Velvet (2015–present)
References
External links
AXN
Television channels and stations established in 2004
2004 establ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senai%20%28disambiguation%29 | Senai a town in Kulai District, Johor, Malaysia.
Senai may also refer to:
SENAI (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial), a Brazilian network of secondary schools
, later Empire Seabreeze, a ship
Senai International Airport, Malaysia
Senai (federal constituency), in Malaysia
Senai (state constituency), in Malaysia
See also
Sinai (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20SkillsBuild | IBM SkillsBuild (previously, IBM Academic Initiative) is an American online educational website and initiative product of IBM established in 2005. It offers free digital training in STEM, computer study, cyber, information technology and other sciences through various courses. It hosts soft skills training courses as well.
It has partnership with several universities in US. In October 2022 partnered with Hispanic Heritage Foundation to boost diversity. IBM has partnership with VA Dept. on veterans training through Skillbridge Program.
IBM SkillsBuild works with Indian government Directorate General of Training under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) as well.
Selected courses
It has four foundation courses: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals, Data Fundamentals, Information Technology Fundamentals.
References
External links
IBM
American educational websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Bonaceto | Andrea Bonaceto is an Italian digital artist.
Selected works
ARTificial Intelligence
Bonaceto collaborated with artificial intelligence robot Sophia and created digital portraits of Sophia and her creators. The digital portraits were then processed by Sophia's neural network.
Bonaceto then created a series of video loops documenting the evolution of the artworks from the human representation to the robot interpretation. The cornerstone piece of the release "Sophia Instantiation" that shows Bonaceto's portrait of Sophia evolving into her digital painting was auctioned on Nifty Gateway in March 2021 for $688,888.
The Moon Landing
Bonaceto was commissioned by Corriere della Sera to reinterpret the first page of the newspaper from 1969 announcing that “Man is on the moon”. The artwork is programmable and will transform to its final state once humans go back to the moon. The artwork was auctioned in 10 unique editions on Nifty Gateway in September 2021 for a total of $100,700.
AB INFINITE 1
AB INFINITE 1 is a digital interactive tapestry representing a collaboration between artist and viewer. By way of a specially designed AI mechanism, viewers of the work have been able to contribute to its appearance, using the hashtag #abinfinite1 on Instagram and Twitter. Images uploaded under the hashtag were translated with Bonaceto's AI technology, thereafter incorporated within the work's distinct visual vocabulary. Through the same process, any text posted under the hashtag became part of an evolving poem displayed within the work. AB INFINITE 1 was auctioned at Christie's "20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale" in October 2022 for £151,200.
TEMPUS FUGIT
TEMPUS FUGIT is a digital artwork that revolves around the portrayal of an old clock belonging to Bonaceto's grandmother, said to have stopped at the moment of his grandfather's passing over three decades ago. The piece narrates a tale of life and death and possesses the ability to transform into a metaverse compatible 3D avatar. The artwork was auctioned during a standalone auction at Phillips in June 2023 for £127,000.
Exhibitions
2023
Are You Physical or Digital?, Maison Bosi, Rome, IT
At First Glance, Musée des Art Décoratifs, Louvre Palace, Paris, FR
Crypto Art: A New Possibility, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
TEMPUS FUGIT, Phillips, London, UK
Art In Space, Dubai, UAE
AB INFINITE 1, MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, IT
2022
NFT.NYC Art Gallery, New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, NY
NFT.NYC2022 Community Artist Showcase, Big Kahuna, Times Square, New York City, NY
AB INFINITE 1, W1 Curates, Flannels, London, UK
Christie's 20th-21st Century Evening Sale exhibition, Christie's Headquarters, London, UK
Decentral Art Pavilion, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice, Italy
DART 2121 2nd Edition, Museo Della Permanente, Milan, Italy
2021
DART 2121 1stEdition, Museo Della Permanente, Milan, Italy
Dreamverse, Dreamverse Gallery, New York City, NY
Awards and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20management%20system%20%28building%20management%29 | An Energy Management System is, in the context of energy conservation, a computer system which is designed specifically for the automated control and monitoring of those electromechanical facilities in a building which yield significant energy consumption such as heating, ventilation and lighting installations. The scope may span from a single building to a group of buildings such as university campuses, office buildings, retail stores networks or factories. Most of these energy management systems also provide facilities for the reading of electricity, gas and water meters. The data obtained from these can then be used to perform self-diagnostic and optimization routines on a frequent basis and to produce trend analysis and annual consumption forecasts.
Energy management systems are also often commonly used by individual commercial entities to monitor, measure, and control their electrical building loads. Energy management systems can be used to centrally control devices like HVAC units and lighting systems across multiple locations, such as retail, grocery and restaurant sites. Energy management systems can also provide metering, submetering, and monitoring functions that allow facility and building managers to gather data and insight that allows them to make more informed decisions about energy activities across their sites.
As electric vehicle (EV) charging becomes more popular smaller residential devices that manage when an EV can charge based on the total load vs total capacity of an electrical service are becoming popular. The global energy management system market is projected to grow exponentially over the next 10–15 years.
Protocols
In residential settings, the S2 Standard was developed in 2010. The S2 Standard provides a standard communication protocol, enabling communication between smart devices and an EMS. It is an open source protocol for the energy management of energy intensive devices found in the build environment, such as photovoltaic (PV) systems, electric vehicle (EV) chargers, batteries, (hybrid) heat pumps and white goods. It is built in such a way that it can work with any flexible device from any manufacturer, and that it would work for any energy management use case. The standard was ratified as a European standard by the European Electrotechnical Committee for Standardization (CENELEC) in 2018, in the form of the EN 50491–12 series.
An EMS can provide energy efficiency through process optimization by reporting on granular energy use by individual pieces of equipment. Newer, cloud-based energy management systems provide the ability to remotely control HVAC and other energy-consuming equipment; gather detailed, real-time data for each piece of equipment; and generate intelligent, specific, real-time guidance on finding and capturing the most compelling savings opportunities.
See also
Energy accounting
Energy conservation measure
Energy management
Energy management software, software to monitor and optimize energ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20CW%20affiliation%20realignment | On September 1, 2023, a series of network affiliation changes took place in nine television markets throughout the United States involving The CW Television Network. These changes were initiated after Nexstar Media Group, which owned multiple key affiliates in the network, acquired a 75 percent stake in the network on October 3, 2022. The CW's co-founders, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global, held ownership of the remaining 25 percent, split evenly between the two companies.
Under Nexstar, The CW agreed to a three-year broadcast deal in January 2023 with LIV Golf, a professional golf tour financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, marking the first-ever national sports broadcasting contract for both the network and the tour. On February 14, 2023, the network said their LIV Golf coverage would be available in 100 percent of media markets in the United States, but encountered numerous affiliates that declined carriage of the tour, including all owned by Paramount Global's CBS News and Stations subsidiary. Consequently, LIV coverage in those affected markets aired on Nexstar-owned stations or subchannels, or on other stations via secondary affiliation agreements.
As part of the sale, Paramount Global was granted the right to withdraw their eight affiliates from the network—in Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle and the Tampa Bay area—which was exercised on May 5, 2023, effective September 1. In the Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Tampa Bay markets, Nexstar-owned MyNetworkTV stations (WPHL-TV, KRON-TV and WTTA, respectively) were announced as replacements for WPSG, KBCW and WTOG. Adell Broadcasting-owned WADL, Detroit's existing MyNetworkTV affiliate, replaced WKBD-TV; Mission Broadcasting, a closely related company to Nexstar, also filed to buy WADL, with Nexstar to provide services.
The remainder of the affected markets were addressed through new affiliation agreements with group owners Hearst Television, Gray Television and Sinclair Broadcast Group, each of which already owned multiple CW affiliates. Hearst's renewal included KQCA as the new CW Sacramento affiliate in place of KMAX-TV, while the Gray Television renewal included WPCH-TV in Atlanta, replacing WUPA. Sinclair included WPNT in Pittsburgh and a subchannel of Seattle's ABC affiliate KOMO-TV as replacements for WPCW and KSTW, respectively. As part of the Sinclair agreement, The CW moved from Sinclair's KOCB to Nexstar's KAUT-TV in Oklahoma City. Additionally, Nexstar took back the CW affiliation in Billings, Montana, when the statewide Montana Television Network ceased airing The CW on a subchannel of its stations.
Stations
See also
1989 South Florida television affiliation switch
1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment
2001 Vancouver TV realignment
2006 United States broadcast television realignment
2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment
References
C
C
C
C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCX | GCX or Gcx can refer to:
Global Cloud Xchange, a networking company from 2014 to 2022
Gaochang District, a district in Turpan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China; see List of administrative divisions of Xinjiang
Global Challenges Index, which the company Aurubis is listed in
Gorceixite, a mineral; see List of mineral symbols
Ghana Commodity Exchange, an agricultural commodity exchange based in Accra, Ghana; see List of commodities exchanges
Alltank Equipment Corporation, a company whose reporting mark on rail networks is "GCX"; see List of reporting marks: G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20%28game%29 | Power (also Power+) is a closed-end, computer-moderated, play-by-mail space-based game of intrigue. It was published by Entertainment Concepts Inc. (ECI). By late 1985, an updated version of the game, Power+, had replaced Power. Gameplay involved 40 players vying for rulership of a space empire comprising 35 planets. Players could interact with hundreds of non-player forces including dozens of organization types and individuals. Each turn, players chose from a menu of available actions, many related to intrigue.
History and development
Power was published by Entertainment Concepts Inc. (ECI). The medium complexity game was computer moderated and closed-ended. By late 1985, an updated version of the game, Power+, had replaced Power.
Gameplay
40 players per game vie for rulership of a space empire comprising 35 planets. 585 non-player forces (NPFs) were in play, ranging from military and government organizations to civilian groups and individuals of various types. Victory conditions varied by player. They generally required 16 turns controlling the throne and many NPFs, although eliminating all other players also worked. To be coronated ruler, players required "popularity, wealth, and Senate approval".
NPFs included Anti-Government Groups, Armies, Assassins, Bodyguards, Churches, Courts, Diplomats, Entertainers, Industries, Mercenaries, News Services, Organization Executives, PR Men, Police, Population Segments, Reporters, Research Centres, Reserves, Royal Guards, Royal Servants, Saboteurs, Secret Service, Senate, Spies, Special Forces, Starfleets, Station One (telecommunications center), Terrorists, and Unions.
Players chose up to twenty actions per turn from a menu. These included "investigation, movement, investment, propaganda, hiring NPFs ... slander, theft, blackmail, bribe ... assassination, [and] military combat". The game was in a separate category of games with Illuminati in that "almost everything happens through manipulation of third parties rather than direct physical involvement".
Reception
Bob McLain reviewed the game in a 1984 issue of Gaming Universal, stating, "This is ECI's first attempt at a totally computer moderated game, but they seem to have done an excellent job."
See also
Illuminati
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Role-playing games introduced in 1980
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subramaniam%20Hariharan%20Iyer | SH Iyer is a human rights lawyer practicing at Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad. He has been associated with Human Rights Law Network and Jan Sangharsh Manch.
Cases
Iyer has represented the poor and the marginalized of the society in various cases over decades.
On behalf of hutment and slum dwellers
Iyer has fought on behalf of hutment and slum dwellers on several occasions, leading either to rehabilitation of those evicted or to court granting stay against demolition drives.
On behalf of manual scavengers
After Gujarat government claimed that there was no manual scavenging in the state, Iyer took up the cause of those who had died in sewers. Subsequently, the Gujarat High Court passed an order that the civic chiefs will be liable for any future sewer deaths related to manual scavenging.
On behalf of glass industry workers
Iyer represented glass industry workers who suffered from silicosis as a result of their work. The workers and their families received a favorable judgement and were subsequently compensated for their suffering and loss.
On behalf of minorities
Iyer represented Muslims after the 2002 Gujarat riots in several high profile cases including the one involving Maya Kodnani.
Against state corruption
Iyer filed a PIL that resulted in Gujarat High Court directing the state government to properly investigate Panchmahal Public Distribution System scam of more than one hundred crore rupees. The scam had adversely affected the poor.
On behalf of fishermen and vegetable vendors
Iyer has represented poor fishermen and vegetable vendors in litigation that helped them continue activities to earn their livelihoods.
Works
Carving out foreign territory in India, by SH Iyer. In, Writings on Human Rights, Law and Society in India: A Combat Law Anthology. Selections from Combat Law, 2002-2010.
Analysis of the structure and the practice of the legal machinery with reference to labour of SEZs, by SH Iyer. In, Labour File (Special Economic Zones: Their Impact on Labour).
References
Human rights lawyers
Living people
Indian lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholmsk%C3%A4llan | Stockholmskällan is a database with over 30 000 archive items related to history of Stockholm, made available as a website since 2006 and freely accessible to the public. The main purpose is to present Stockholm's history to students and teachers and to offer primary sources to use in teaching.
Organization
Stockholmskällan is run by the City of Stockholm and primarily handled by the city's education administration, in cooperation with Stockholm City Archives, Stockholm City Library, Stockholm City Museum and the Museum of Medieval Stockholm. These organizations collaborate with National Archives of Sweden, Spårvägsmuseet, Föreningen Stockholms Företagsminnen ("Stockholm Business History Association"), the National Library of Sweden and The Unstraight Museum. In the past, the Stockholm City Investigation and Statistics Office has also contributed material. The institutions contribute and publish a selection from their collections of different types of archive material on the Stockholmskällan website. An editorial team based at the Education Administration in the City of Stockholm coordinates and organizes the work and is responsible for the educational work directed at schools.
History
In 2001, the Education Administration and the City Archives began a cooperation called "the historical laboratory". In 2003, the City Museum, the City Archives, the City Library and the Education Administration decided to create a common website for publishing source material on the Internet. During the years 2003-2006, the cooperation with schools in the city of Stockholm continued and a large part of the material in Stockholmskällan was entered at the direct request of the teachers and students involved. The Stockholmskällan website went public in February 2006. During 2016, work was underway to renew the Stockholmskällan website and to make it responsive so that the website will work better on mobile phones and tablets.
In 2017, Stockholmskällan received the international 'Heritage in Motion Award 2017' in the category 'website and online content' at the European Museum Academy conference in Skopje.
Contents
Stockholmskällan's contents comes from the institutions that cooperate and collaborate on the website. Each institution is responsible for the contents published on the website. The contents includes more than 30 000 photographs, archive documents, printed documents, maps, works of art, reading suggestions, films, audio files, objects, drawings and other content that in some way informs about life in Stockholm through the centuries. A large number of publications can be read in full text.
Target audience
The website is primarily aimed at teachers and students, where the material is intended to be used in teaching. The website contains lesson suggestions and examples of how Stockholmskällan's primary sources and other contents can be used in schools. The website is also aimed at anyone interested in the history of Stockholm.
Gallery of examples
Ext |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maging%20Sino%20Ka%20Man | Maging Sino Ka Man may refer to:
Maging Sino Ka Man (film), a 1991 Philippine drama film
Maging Sino Ka Man (2023 TV series), a 2023 Philippine television series broadcast on GMA Network; television adaptation of the 1991 film
Te Amo, Maging Sino Ka Man, a 2004 Philippine television series aired on GMA Network
Maging Sino Ka Man (2006 TV series), a 2006 Philippine television series aired on ABS-CBN
Maging Sino Ka Man: Ang Pagbabalik, a 2007 Philippine television series aired on ABS-CBN; the sequel to the 2006 series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%2013%29 | The thirteenth season of the Australian competitive cooking competition show My Kitchen Rules premiered on the Seven Network on 4 September 2023.
In October 2022, the series was renewed for a 13th season. In April 2023, it was announced Colin Fassnidge will become a main judge and co-host alongside Manu Feildel, with Nigella Lawson returning as a judge after the instant restaurants.
The start date for the season was confirmed as 4 September 2023.
Teams
Elimination history
Competition details
Instant Restaurants
During the Instant Restaurant rounds, each team hosts a three-course dinner for judges and fellow teams in their allocated group. They are scored and ranked among their group. The highest scoring team at the end of the round will advance directly to the Semi Final, while the lowest scoring team will be eliminated.
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 6
Airdate — 4 to 13 September
Description — The first of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1. The highest scoring team at the end of the round will advance directly to the Semi Final, while the second highest advances to the Quarter Final. The lowest scoring team will be eliminated whilst the remaining teams head into the second instant restaurant.
Round 2
Episodes 7 to 12
Airdate — 18 to 27 September
Description — The remaining three teams from the first instant restaurant return along with three new “gatecrashers” for the second instant restaurant. The highest scoring team at the end of the round will advance directly to the Semi Final. The lowest scoring team will be eliminated.
Quarter-final
Episode 13
Airdate — 1 October
Description — Five teams competed in the Quarter Final with Nigella Lawson joining Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge as judges. The challenge was over two rounds; in round one teams had to create a dish with a key ingredient, and the team with the least liked dish was eliminated. In round 2 each team had to create a dessert within 60 minutes, and the two teams with the least liked dishes were eliminated, whilst the remaining two went to the Semi-final.
Semi-final
Episodes 14
Airdate — 2 October
Description — The four remaining teams enter the semi-final. The challenge is over two rounds; in round one the teams must each create an Amuse-bouche, the team with the least liked dish is eliminated. In round two the teams must prepare a main and a dessert, again the team with the least liked dish is eliminated and the two remaining teams will advance to the Grand Final.
Grand Finale
Episodes 15
Airdate — 3 October
Description — Nick & Christian take on Radha & Prabha in this Grand Final. They had to cook a four-course meal for the judges, the eliminated teams and their family and friends, 25 plates per course. The judges including Manu, Colin and Nigella scored each set of 4 meals out of 10 for the final verdict.
Ratings
Colour Key:
– Highest Rating
– Lowest Rating
– Elimination Episode
– Finals Week
Notes
Refe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Agency%20for%20the%20Supervision%20of%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (, AESIA) is an autonomous agency of the Spanish Department of Economy responsible for the oversight, counseling, awareness and training regarding the proper use and development of artificial intelligence systems, more specifically, algorithms. In addition, the Agency has also responsibilities of inspection, verification and sanction.
Thus, the ultimate goal of this Agency is the minimization of the risks that the use of this new technology may entail, the adequate development and enhancement of artificial intelligence systems.
History
With the formation of the second government of Pedro Sánchez in January 2020, the areas related to new technologies that, since 2018, were in the Ministry of Economy, were strengthened. Thus, in 2020 the Secretariat of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (SEDIA) was created. From this higher body, the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2020) was developed, which already provided for actions concerning the governance of artificial intelligence and the ethical standards that should govern its use. This project was also included within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (2021).
During 2021, the Government revealed that these ideas would be developed through a new government agency, and the General State Budget for 2022 authorized its creation and allocated five million euros for its development.
The Council of Ministers, at its meeting on 13 September 2022, began the process for the election of the AESIA headquarters. 16 Spanish provinces presented candidatures, with the Government opting for La Coruña, which proposed the La Terraza building.
On 22 August 2023, the Government approved the internal regulations of the Agency. With this, Spain became the first European country with an agency dedicated to the supervision of AI, anticipating the entry into force of the future European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence, which establishes the need for Member States to have with a supervisory authority in this matter.
Organization
The Agency is structured as follows:
The President. The presidency is assumed by the head of the Secretariat of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence.
The Governing Council. It is the collective governing body of the Agency, made up of its president and director, as well as representatives of the ministries of Economy, Finance, and Industry. Also, there will be an expert member on the subject, appointed at the proposal of the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council and the Standing Commission on the Digitalization of the Economy, Administration and Citizenship.
The Director. The director is the executive body of the Agency, on which the rest of the administrative departments depend.
The Deputy Directorate for Reports and Testing Infrastructures.
The Department for Innovation of Artificial Intelligence Systems.
The Department for Artificial Intelligence Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20G.%20Aghdam | Amir G. Aghdam is an electrical engineer and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Concordia University, Montreal. He is a fellow of the IEEE and the Engineering Institute of Canada.
Education
In 2000, Aghdam obtained his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto.
Career
Aghdam is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Concordia University and additionally serves as associate dean of graduate studies at the university's Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. He chairs the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Medals Council, as well as being editor-in-chief of the IEEE Systems Journal. Previously, he served on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ECE Evaluation Group (2014–2016) and served as the president of IEEE Canada from (2014–2015). During his time as president, he served on the IEEE's awards board. Aghdam was also a member of the IEEE's Medal of Honor committee. Aghdam was a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2015) and was an associate of the university's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2015–2016).
Honours
IEEE MGA Achievement Award (2009)
Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (2014)
IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award (2020)
Fellow of the IEEE "for research leadership in distributed control of large-scale interconnected systems" (2023)
References
External links
Personal page at Concordia University
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
Academic staff of Concordia University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail-Joon%20Ahn | Gail-Joon Ahn is an electrical engineer and professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University. He is a fellow of the IEEE.
Education
Ahn received his PhD in information technology from George Mason University in 2000.
Career
Ahn is professor of computer science and engineering at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University. He is the founder of the university's Security Engineering for Future Computing laboratory and served as its first director. Ahn has contributed to over 200 research papers and holds 10 United States patents. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security and a member of the editorial board of Computers & Security. Before joining Arizona State University, Ahn was an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's College of Computing and Informatics and director of their Center for Digital Identity and Cyber Defense Research.
Honours
Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association Educator of the Year Award (2004)
Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (2007)
Arizona State University Most Outstanding Research Award (2013)
Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (2015)
Fellow of the IEEE "for development of applications of information and systems security" (2023)
References
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Arizona State University faculty
George Mason University alumni
Electrical engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadram%20Quadcolor | The Quadram Quadcolor is a graphics card for IBM PC computers by Quadram Corporation, first sold in 1983. It is a superset of the then-current CGA standard, using the same monitor standard (4-bit digital TTL RGBI monitor or NTSC composite video) and providing the same pixel resolutions.
Description
The Quadcolor has twice the memory of a standard CGA board (32k, compared to 16k). The additional memory can be used in graphics modes to double the color depth, giving two additional graphics modes — 136 colors at resolution, or 16 colors at resolution.
Models
Quadram Quadcolor I
Quadram Quadcolor II
Output capabilities
CGA compatible modes:
in 4 colors from a 16 color hardware palette.
In addition to the CGA modes, it offers:
with 136 colors
with 16 colors
See also
Tandy Graphics Adapter, a graphics hardware system with similar capabilities.
Plantronics Colorplus
Hercules InColor Card
Orchid Graphics Adapter
References
External links
Quadram Quadcolor I and II Drivers
Quadram Quadcolor I – Operation Manual
Quadram Quadcolor II – Operation Manual
Quadram Quadjet manual
Meet the "Super CGA" Cards
Computer display standards
Graphics cards
Computer-related introductions in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Grand%20Ship%20In%20Nagoya%202023 | NOAH Grand Ship In Nagoya 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on September 24, 2023, in Nagoya, Japan, at the Nagoya Congress Center. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Eleven matches were contested at the event, including three on the pre-show, and all five of Noah's championships were on the line. The main event saw Jake Lee defeat Go Shiozaki to retain the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Other top matches included Los Golpeadores (Dragon Bane and Alpha Wolf) defeating Ninja Mack and Alejandro to win the vacant GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, and Good Looking Guys (Jack Morris and Anthony Greene) defeated Real (Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley) to win the GHC Tag Team Championship.
Background
Storylines
The event featured eleven professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The preshow included three bouts which were broadcast live on Noah's YouTube channel. In the first one, Daichi Ozawa, Stallion Rogers, Atsushi Kotoge and Akitoshi Saito defeated Yu Owada, Hi69, Daiki Inaba and Muhammad Yone in eight-man tag team action. Next up, Yo-Hey and Tadasuke picked up a victory over Hajime Ohara and Shuji Kondo. In the third preshow match, Takashi Sugiura, Manabu Soya and Masa Kitamiya defeated Kazuyuki Fujita, Hideki Suzuki) and Shuhei Taniguchi in six-man tag team action. In the first main card bout, Daga defeated Junta Miyawaki in singles competition. Next up, Kenoh and Lance Anoa'i defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima and Adam Brooks. In the sixth match, Kaito Kiyomiya, Ryohei Oiwa and Eita picked up a win over Naomichi Marufuji, Yoshinari Ogawa and Leona by disqualification. Next up, Jack Morris and Anthony Greene defeated Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley to win the GHC Tag Team Championship, ending the latter team's reign on their second defense attempt. Next up, Dragon Bane and Alpha Wolf defeated Ninja Mack and Alejandro to win the vacant GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Next up, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. defeated Psycho Clown to secure the sixth consecutive defense of the GHC National Championship in that respective reign. In the semi main event, Hayata defeated Seiki Yoshioka to secure the fourth consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign. After the bout concluded, Daga attacked Hayata and layed a challenge for the title.
In the main event, Jake Lee defeated 2023 N-1 Victory winner Go Shiozaki to secure his fourth consecutive defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Lee appointed Kenoh as his next challenger after the bout concluded.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official websit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspire%20TV | Aspire TV may refer to:
Aspire TV (American TV network), an American pay television network
Aspire TV (Australian TV channel), a former home shopping datacasting television channel in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starglobe | Starglobe (also StarGlobe, Starglobe+, or Starglobe Plus) is a space-based play-by-mail (PBM) role-playing game. It was open-ended and both computer and human moderated. Time Patterns began publishing the game in the United Kingdom in 1983. U.S. licensees included Superior Simulations and Dragonbyte. Time Patterns stopped publishing in 2000. The game's setting is a cluster of 2,000 stars. Gameplay begins at the player's homeworld called Monde. Expansion to other worlds and systems is central, led by the ambitious, morally questionable, Monde-based "Company". Players have a variety of roles they can play as starship captains. Lacking a rulebook or list of orders, players had significant leeway in gameplay and could obtain further game information through text modules obtained during gameplay. The game adhered closely to the theory of relativity, limiting the speed of travel and other aspects of gameplay.
History and development
Starglobe was a space-based play-by-mail game. The game was open-ended and mixed moderated. It was similar to Universe II. Starglobe was designed and run in the United Kingdom by Time Patterns, owned by Ken and Carol Mulholland, the editors of Flagship. It began running in 1983. Superior Simulations ran the game in the United States under license. After it went out of business, Dragonbyte offered the game for play in the U.S.
By 1989, the editors of Flagship stated that Starglobe, "one of PBM's oldest games", was newly updated to include Active Aliens, which were non-player characters operating on the periphery of the star cluster. In the February 1989 issue of GM, the editors reported that the third game had finished and its remaining players were becoming Active Aliens in Starglobe 7. By 1995, Time Patterns was running the game as Starglobe+. In the November–December 2000 issue of Flagship, the Editors announced that Time Patterns had stopped running the game.
Gameplay
The game's setting is a cluster of 2,000 stars. Gameplay begins at the player's homeworld called Monde. Expansion to other worlds and systems is central, led by the ambitious, morally-questionable Monde-based "Company". Players can role-play for the company or separately as Bounty Hunters, Empire Builders, Explorers, Merchants, Pirates, and Xenobiologists. As starship captains, players can increase skills in "navigation, computer adjustment, colony control, weaponry, communications and crew management" by accomplishing tasks.
The publisher did not provide a rulebook or list of orders. Players could make non-standard orders which equated to "special requests" in the manner of The Tribes of Crane and Universe II. Significant leeway was available in play ranging from "blowing up stars, to terraforming planets, to conducting psychic research". Various text modules could be acquired through gameplay which provided more information on the game.
The game adhered closely to the theory of relativity related to travel, time dilation, communications, and span of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Charles | Mickey Charles (born Charles Tucker; November 1935 – December 28, 2018) was an American businessman and sports radio personality, who founded Dial Sports "976" scorephone network, one of the earliest pay-per-call services that provided frequent score updates on games. Additionally, he founded the The Sports Network, an international wire service providing sports information. One of the first voices for sports gambling, Charles also wrote a gambling column for The Philadelphia Inquirer and hosted a gambling-oriented sports talk show on the weekends on WCAU and ESPN.
A standout athlete, Charles played college basketball at Columbia for two years before transferring to Kalamazoo College.
Early life
Mickey Charles (born as Charles Tucker) was born in November 1935 and raised in the Bronx, New York. Charles graduated high school at 15-years-old and attended Columbia University where he played on the basketball team. After two years, he transferred to Division III Kalamazoo College and was the captain of their basketball team during his senior season in 1956. Charles then received a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
Career
After graduating from law school, Charles worked as a stock broker and then as a divorce lawyer. However, he did not believe he was destined to work in either industry. In the early 1960s, Charles attempted to work as a standup comedian. He moved to Philadelphia to be an English professor at St. Joseph's University and to write as a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Beginning in the late 1970s, Charles hosted a sports-gambling oriented show on WCAU. He would frequently feature Las Vegas-based sportsbook executives and handicappers on his show. The show ran for four hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays. As the show grew in popularity, it was eventually sponsored by Caesars Atlantic City and produced in Atlantic City as a variety show. After two years on the radio, the show was moved to Las Vegas and produced as a television show and broadcast on ESPN. However, the commute from Philadelphia to Las Vegas became taxing for Charles and he gave up the show after about a year.
In 1983, Charles founded Dial Sports "976" scorephone network. Dial Sports was one of the earliest pay-per-call services in the nation and provided score updates to sporting events almost entirely to gamblers. At its peak, Dial Sports was receiving 20 million phone calls a month. Dial Sports' operation was run out of Charles' garage at his home in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. In the mid-1980s, Dial Sports expanded to include multiple regional locations.
With the advent of the internet, Dial Sports evolved into the Computer Information Network and eventually the The Sports Network, an international wire service providing sports information. The Sports Network was sold to STATS in 2015.
In 1987, Charles and The Sports Network created the FCS Awards - including the Eddie Robinson Award and Jerry Rice Award - given to the best players in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiko%20Gono | Akiko Gono (; born 1954 or 1955) is a Japanese trade unionist.
Born in Yokohama, Gono studied at the Tokyo University of Science before becoming a computer programmer. In her spare time, she studied English, and on the suggestion of a teacher at the language school, she found work with the Zensendomei trade union. She rose to become director of the union's international affairs bureau, and from 1998 was secretary of the Textile Workers' Asian Regional Organization.
In 2016, Gono was elected as the vice-president of the Japanese Federation of Textile, Chemical, Commerce, Food and General Services Workers' Unions, successor of Zensendomei. She also became general secretary of the IndustriAll Japan Liaison Council. In 2017, she became a member of the workers' group of the governing body of the International Labour Organization, while in 2022 she became an international representative of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation.
In 2022, Gono was elected as president of the International Trade Union Confederation, the first Japanese person to hold the post.
References
1950s births
Living people
Japanese trade union leaders
Leaders of the International Trade Union Confederation
People from Yokohama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Nations%20Broadcasting%20Australia | First Nations Broadcasting Australia (officially known as First Nations Broadcasting Australia Ltd and formerly Aboriginal Broadcasting Australia) is an Australian television and radio network, based in Darwin. The network is owned and controlled by Indigenous Australians.
The network currently broadcasts eight different television channels, including four radio simulcasts.
History and programming
First Nations Broadcasting currently airs four open narrowcast stations. They are First Nations TV (stylised as FiRST NATiONS TV), Darwin TV, First Nations Tourism TV (stylised as FiRST NATiONS TOURiSM TV) and Business TV.
Business TV replaced Education TV around 2023, while TVNT went off-air around the same time.
The broadcaster also has four radio stations - First Nations Radio, Darwin FM, First Nations Radio National and Palmerston FM88 - which are all simulcast on television.
The stations air a mix of locally produced content, with some programming tailored to Indigenous Australians.
List of television stations
References
Television stations in Darwin, Northern Territory
Indigenous Australian television
English-language television stations in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932012%20killing%20of%20CIA%20sources%20in%20China | Between 2010 and 2012, intelligence networks of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were dismantled by Chinese intelligence authorities in an intelligence breach. Intelligence gathering there was crippled for years afterward.
A large number of informants were killed, with one informant reportedly being shot in front of his colleagues at a courtyard of a government building, while many others were imprisoned.
It was initially estimated that between 18 and 20 sources were killed; later estimates concluded that at least 30 sources were lost. The incident was considered one of the worst intelligence breaches of the CIA in decades. According to American officials, the number of sources lost during this period rivaled the number lost in the Soviet Union as a result of the betrayals of Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.
Background
Causes for breach
The causes of the security breach leading to the destruction of the network were widely disputed in the ensuing investigation by U.S. intelligence.
Mole
Some investigators suspected that a traitor in the CIA had leaked the identities of informants. In January 2018, a former CIA officer named Jerry Chun Shing Lee was arrested and would eventually plead guilty on suspicion of helping dismantle the network.
Communications hack
Foreign Policy reported that the CIA had botched the communications system, which was brought over from its operations in the Middle East, that was used to contact its informants in China. The internet-based system was imported under the assumption that it made the CIA "invincible".
Aftermath
The CIA has struggled to rebuild its intelligence network in China; the effort has been described by officials as expensive and time-consuming. The cause of the leak that killed the agents was disputed by investigators, with some believing a mole was responsible, others believed the CIA comms system was hacked.
In 2023, CIA director William Burns stated that the agency had "made progress" in rebuilding its intelligence networks in China.
References
China–United States relations
CIA activities in Asia
History of the foreign relations of China
2010s in American politics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjergji%20Kasneci | Gjergji Kasneci is a German computer scientist known for his contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence, specifically, knowledge base construction, semantic search, and data science. He is a full professor and heads the chair for Responsible Data Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and is a core member of the Munich Data Science Institute. Before his current appointment, Kasneci has held multiple positions in academia and industry, including the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Schufa Holding AG and an honorary professorship at the University of Tübingen.
Education and career
Kasneci completed his studies in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Marburg. In 2006, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, earning his PhD from the University of Saarland in 2009. Together with his co-authors Fabian Suchanek and Gerhard Weikum, Kasneci has contributed to research on the YAGO (database), one of the first large-scale knowledge bases automatically assembled from multiple web sources, and semantic search over large knowledge bases. These contributions have set the foundation for many fact-based reasoning and semantic search methodologies in Artificial Intelligence, and the development of so-called knowledge graphs for structured information retrieval. The work on the YAGO knowledge base was awarded the Seoul Test of Time Award of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee.
Upon receiving his PhD in 2009, Kasneci moved to the United Kingdom to join Microsoft Research Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2011, he was appointed as Senior Researcher in Information Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.
In 2014, Kasneci transitioned into industry, taking up a position at Schufa Holding AG as the head of Innovation and Strategic Analysis. In 2017, he took over the role of the company's Chief Technology Officer, a position he held until 2023. Concurrently, from 2018 to 2023, as an honorary professor, Kasneci led the Data Science and Analytics Research Group at the University of Tübingen. During this period, he also served as a core member of Cyber Valley.
Research work
Kasneci's research interests span across various facets of Artificial Intelligence, currently emphasizing transparency, efficiency, accountability, and thus the responsible application of AI-based technologies. His current work explores explainability of AI models, fairness and ethical implications of AI, and the effectiveness of strategies for evaluating large AI models on challenging datasets.
References
External links
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
German computer scientists
Living people
University of Marburg alumni
Saarland University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Akbar%20Jalali | Ali Akbar Jalali (), born on November 22, 1954, in Damghan, Iran, is a computer scientist, university lecturer and researcher of Iranian information technology sciences. He is one of the first people who played a role in the development of the Internet in the villages of Iran, and for this reason, he is also called the "father of information technology in Iran".
References
External links
Ali Akbar Jalali in Iran University of Science and Technology
Ali Akbar Jalali in IEEE
Ali Akbar Jalali in ACM Digital Library
Ali Akbar Jalali in Researchgate
20th-century Iranian people
20th-century scientists
21st-century Iranian people
21st-century scientists
Living people
Iranian computer scientists
Computer science award winners
1954 births
People from Semnan Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCIS%3A%20Sydney | NCIS: Sydney is an upcoming Australian military action television series which will be released on 10 November 2023 on Paramount+ Australia and is set to premiere on Network 10 in late 2023. The series is the first international spin-off for the NCIS franchise and features local Australian actors and producers.
Premise
NCIS: Sydney is a spin-off of NCIS and its franchise, which follows a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigating crimes. The series is set in Sydney, Australia.
Although the show is set in Sydney, the closest real-life NCIS field office in Australia is actually located in Perth, which is away.
Cast
Olivia Swann as Michelle Mackey, NCIS Special Agent-in-Charge
Todd Lasance as Jim "JD" Dempsey, Australian Federal Police (AFP) Second-in-Command
Sean Sagar as DeShawn Jackson, NCIS Special Agent (SA)
Tuuli Narkle as Constable Evie Cooper, AFP Liaison Officer
Mavournee Hazel as Bluebird "Blue" Gleeson, AFP forensic scientist
William McInnes as Roy Penrose, AFP forensic pathologist
Production
On 16 February 2022, it was reported that a spin-off set in Sydney, Australia, was in the works. NCIS: Los Angeles producer Shane Brennan was attached to the project.
The series was created by Morgan O'Neill. It was executive produced by O'Neill, Sara Richardson and Sue Seeary and produced by Michele Bennett. It began filming in May 2023.
Episodes
International broadcast
In the United States, the series will premiere on the franchise's parent network CBS on 14 November 2023 as part of 2023 Hollywood labor disputes replacement programming. It will be distributed internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution and be available for streaming on Paramount+ in selected territories internationally.
In Canada, the series will premiere on Global and will be simulcast alongside the CBS broadcast, also premiering on 14 November 2023.
References
External links
Production website
NCIS: Sydney at CBS.com (US)
NCIS: Sydney at GlobalTV.com (Canada)
Upcoming television series
NCIS (franchise)
Australian television spin-offs
Australian television series based on American television series
Paramount+ original programming
Network 10 original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television shows filmed in Australia
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australothele%20bicuspidata | Australothele bicuspidata is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Euagridae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1984 by Australian arachnologist Robert Raven.
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in north-eastern New South Wales. The type locality is closed forest at Point Lookout in the New England National Park.
Behaviour
The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators.
References
Euagridae
Spiders of Australia
Endemic fauna of Australia
Arthropods of New South Wales
Spiders described in 1984
Taxa named by Robert Raven |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Networking%20Academy | Cisco Networking Academy or NetAcad is an online global educational program product of American Cisco Systems. It started in California in 1997.
References
External links
Cisco products
American educational websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar%20Rescue%20%281988%20video%20game%29 | Lunar Rescue is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up Lunar Lander game developed by Practical Computer Applications, Inc. and released for Macintosh in 1988 by XOR Corporation. It was written by Richard Nygord with art and animations by Mike Saenz.
Overview
The game is set in a science fiction future where the moon is populated by 26 domed colonies connected to each other by canyons that function as supply routes. An automated system called ICE (Independent Computerized Ecosystem) controls the living environments, canyon defense system and trade stations for each colony. Raiders have stolen the five ICE controlling crystals, causing the defense system to go haywire. The raiders hid the crystals throughout the canyons before being destroyed by the out-of-control canyon defenses. Anything passing through the canyons is now being attacked, and each settlement is now sealed off from the supply network.
The player travels through the canyons in a side-scrolling shoot 'em up action game, trading supplies between colonies to earn credits and delay the colonies' real-time decay. The player must land in the canyons using Lunar Lander-style controls to search bases and ruins for the stolen ICE crystals.
Reception
MacUser gave Lunar Rescue four and a half out of five mice, praising the game's controls and uncluttered interface. For MacUser, the game separated itself from other arcade games with its strategy game elements: the player can profit by paying attention to the economic situation. To win the game, the player must "develop a pattern of play, alternating between exploring the canyons for valuables and the ICE and returning to the cities for repairs and trading." The player must balance conservative play, which causes the moon's deterioration to accelerate, with adventurous play that risks losing ships and running out of money.
A Macworld review commended the game's "humanitarian goals" with killing "limited to machines" and combat secondary to moving essential goods to dying cities. Success depends upon making trading decisions based on changing commodity needs, weighing the challenges in traveling to different destinations, and becoming skilled enough to pilot a craft overloaded with cargo while searching for the missing ICE crystals.
References
1988 video games
Action games
Classic Mac OS games
Classic Mac OS-only games
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Trade simulation games
Video games developed in the United States
XOR Corporation games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URDF | URDF, Unified Robot Description Format is an XML format for representing a robot model.
URDF is commonly used in Robot Operating System(ROS) tools such as rviz (Robit Visualization tool) and Gazebo simulator. The model consists of links and joints motion.
See also
Robotics simulator
Robot Operating System
XML
Xacro
sdformat
Open Robotics
References
External links
URDF XML Specifications
What is the Unified Robotics Description Format (URDF)?
Repository for URDF parsing code, github.com
Open-source robots
Robot operating systems
Cross-platform software
XML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Dish%20Television | Deep Dish Television was the first public access television distribution network in the United States. Created in 1986 by Paper Tiger Television and based in New York City, the network was committed to exploring new and democratic ways of promoting video artwork and reporting. Their programs connected artists, independent videomakers, programmers, and social activists, and covered political topics such as the environmental movement, U.S. healthcare, and the Iraq War.
History
Deep Dish Television was launched in 1986 by the ongoing production collective Paper Tiger Television. DeeDee Halleck was a founding member of both organizations. Starting with their Opening Series in 1986 and ending with We Interrupt This Program in 2018, Deep Dish Television distributed the work of independent videomakers, filmmakers, and activists in curated series on a variety of political topics.
In 2005, Deep Dish Television broadcast the series Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation investigating the impact of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The series was later featured at the Whitney Museum's 2006 Biennial Exhibition and the Museum of Modern Art's "Theater of Operations: Gulf Wars 1991-2011" exhibition from 2019 to 2020. Deep Dish TV became known for their criticism of the Iraq War, and later produced extensive coverage of the World Tribunal on Iraq, the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity of the Bush Administration, and the Winter Soldier Eyewitness Accounts of the Iraq and Afghanistan Occupations.
In addition to their television programming, Deep Dish Television frequently organized and participated in film festivals, conferences, screenings, panel discussions, exhibitions, and speaking tours across the United States. They also had a history of advocacy for public access media and collaboration with other independent media organizations, including Democracy Now!, Free Speech TV, Indymedia, and DIVA TV.
Programming
Deep Dish Television's archives are held at Fales Library. Many of their productions have also been uploaded to their YouTube and Vimeo platforms. The hundreds of programs distributed by Deep Dish Television were packaged in the following series:
The Opening Series, 1986
Deep Dish Cooks Up a Second Series, 1988
Fearless TV for the 90s, 1990
Public Access: Spigot for Bigots or Channels for Change?, 1990
DIVA TV: Collections from this Activist Collective, 1990
...Will be Televised: Video Documents from Asia, 1990
News You Can Use, 1990
Green Screen: Grassroots Views of the Environmental Crisis, 1990
The Gulf Crisis Project, 1990-1991
The Lannan Foundation Presents: Writers Uncensored, 1991
Ideas and Power, 1991
Behind Censorship: The Assault on Civil Liberties, 1991
Celebrating 20 Years of Public Access Television, 1991
ROAR! A Paper Tiger TV Mini Retrospective, 1991
Unheard Voices, 1992
Beyond the Browning of America, 1992
Siempre Trabajando: Latinos and Labor, 1992
Rock the Boat, 19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly%20Yue | Lilly Qinli Yue is a US government statististician, known for her work on "real-world evidence" on health care from non-clinical sources such as billing data and product registries. She is deputy director of the Division of Biostatistics in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the Food and Drug Administration.
Education and career
Yue has a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree in stochastic operations research, and a master's degree in mathematical statistics. She completed a Ph.D. at Texas A&M University in 1996, with the dissertation Chemometric Calibration and Partial Least Squares supervised by Michael Longnecker.
She was a senior statistician at Eli Lilly and Company before moving to the Food and Drug Administration in 1998.
Recognition
Yue was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2014. In 2020, as part of the RWE Methods Group at the FDA, she was a recipient of the FDA's Excellence in Data Science Group Award, "for extraordinary achievements in the timely development and active promotion of novel statistical methods for leveraging real-world evidence to support regulatory decision-making".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
American women statisticians
Texas A&M University alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakri%2C%20Punjab | Rakri is a census town in Mukerian tahsil of Hoshiarpur district, Punjab. It contains the site of Datarpur, capital of the former Datarpur State. As of 2011, it has a population of 5,722, in 1,196 households.
History
Rakri contains the site of Datarpur, which was capital of the former Datarpur State. Datarpur is said to have been founded around the year 1500.
Rakri was first reclassified as a non-statutory census town for the 2011 census (previously it had been designated as a village).
Demographics
As of 2011, Rakri had a population of 5,722, in 1,196 households. This population was 50.8% male (2,908) and 49.2% female (2,814). The 0-6 age group numbered 566 (286 male and 280 female), or 9.9% of the total population. 1,265 residents were members of Scheduled Castes, or 22.1% of the total.
The 1981 census recorded Rakri as having a population of 4,270 people (2,813 male and 2,087 female), in 710 households and 710 physical houses.
The 1961 census recorded Rakri (as "Rakri maruf Datarpur") with a total population of 3,029 people (1,548 male and 1,481 female), in 577 households and 577 physical houses. It then had 2 hospitals and a post office.
Economy
Among the most important commodities produced in Rakri are shoes and wooden products. As of 2009, Rakri had 1 nationalised bank, 0 private commercial banks, 1 cooperative bank, and 1 agricultural credit society.
Infrastructure
As of 2011, Rakri has 1 hospital with 8 beds, 5 medicine shops, 10 schools teaching at the primary level and 3 teaching at the secondary level, and 1 public library. Water is stored in overhead tank(s), with a total capacity of 500 kilolitres. The town does not have a local fire department; the nearest one is at Talwara, 10 km away.
References
Cities and towns in Hoshiarpur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20D.%20F.%20Wong | Martin Ding Fat Wong is an American and Chinese computer scientist, electrical engineer, and university administrator. He is
the Provost of the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). Wong is known for his contributions to computer-aided design of integrated circuits.
University career
Wong received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1987 advised by Chung Laung Liu. Between 1987 and 2002, he was a Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He returned to UIUC in 2002 as the Edward C. Jordan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2012, he became the Executive Associate Dean of the College of Engineering. In 2018, he moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he became the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. In 2023, Wong became the Provost of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and a Chair Professor of Computer Science there. He has published over 450 scholarly papers and graduated 51 Ph.D. students in EDA
Technical contributions
Many of Wong's technical contributions are in algorithms for physical design of integrated circuits. He developed the use of simulated annealing in
floorplan (microelectronics) design as well as algorithms for wire routing and circuit partitioning. Wong also worked on FPGA design and efficient GPU implementations of classical algorithms, such as breadth-first search.
Awards
Wong was named an IEEE Fellow in 2006 "for contributions to algorithmic aspects of computer-aided design (CAD) of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits and systems." He was named an ACM Fellow in 2017 "for contributions to the algorithmic aspects of electronic design automation (EDA)".
In 2000, Wong shared a IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award for the paper on simultaneous buffer insertion and sizing and wire sizing.
References
External links
Living people
Chinese academics
American academics of Chinese descent
American electrical engineers
American computer scientists
University of Texas at Austin faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Electronic design automation people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKX%20%28disambiguation%29 | AKX often refers to Air Nippon Network (ICAO airline code AKX), a Japanese airline.
AKX may also refer to:
Aktobe International Airport (IATA airport code AKX), Aktobe, Kazakhstan
Aka-Kede language (ISO 639 language code akx), an extinct Great Andamanese language of Middle Andeman
Akaflieg Karlsruhe AK-X glider
See also
AK 10 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Trepal | George James Trepal (born January 23, 1949) is an American former chemist and computer programmer who was convicted in February 1991 of murdering his neighbor, Peggy Carr, and attempting to murder her family. He was convicted of poisoning the Carr family, who lived in Alturas, Florida, by adding thallium to multiple bottles of Coca-Cola, and was subsequently sentenced to death by circuit judge Dennis Maloney. As of 2011, Trepal has continued to deny his involvement in Carr's death. After his conviction, Trepal filed numerous appeals, all of which were denied; these culminated in an appeal of his conviction that he filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which was denied in 2012.
See also
List of death row inmates in the United States
References
American murderers
1949 births
Living people
American prisoners sentenced to death
Prisoners sentenced to death by Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%20character | In computer science, an illegal character is a character that is not allowed by a certain programming language, protocol, or program. To avoid illegal characters, some languages may use an escape character which is a backslash followed by another character.
Examples
Windows
In the Windows operating system, illegal characters in file and folder names include colons, brackets, question marks, and null characters.
References
Character encoding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyacoglanis | Rhyacoglanis is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Pseudopimelodidae.
Species
There are 9 species in the database, and the other 3 haven't been described, so they won't be included.
Rhyacoglanis pulcher
Rhyacoglanis variolosus
Rhyacoglanis annulatus
Rhyacoglanis epiblepsis
Rhyacoglanis paranensis
Rhyacoglanis seminiger
Rhyacoglanis rapppydanielae
Rhyacoglanis beninei
Rhyacoglanis varii
Identification
Rhyacoglanis is distinguished from other Pseudopimelodidae by three synapomorphies: the presence of a light blotch on the cheek; a connection between the middle of the dark caudal-fin stripe and the dark caudal-peduncle pigmentation; and 30–35 total vertebrae.
Distribution
Rhyacoglanis genus is widely distributed in the cis-Andean portions of South America, mainly in the Amazon, Orinoco, Paraná, Paraguay, and lower rio Tocantins basins.
References
Catfish genera
Pseudopimelodidae
Fish described in 1887 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan%20Sijzi | Amir Hasan Ala Sijzi Dehlavi (; 12421325) was an Indian Muslim poet, scholar and Sufi living in the Delhi Sultanate. He was a disciple of the Chishti master Nizamuddin Auliya, and the compiler of the Persian Sufi manual Fawa'id al Fu'ad (Morals for the Heart) in which the discourses of Nizamuddin have been recorded.
He was a contempary of the Sufi poet Amir Khusrau and is regarded as the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal. He is buried in the Khuldabad near Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
References
Indian Sufi saints
13th-century Indian Muslims
13th-century Indian scholars
Chishtis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roto%20Force | Roto Force is a twin-stick shooter video game developed by Accidently Awesome. PID Games and East2West published it for mobile devices and personal computers in 2023.
Gameplay
Players progress through levels that consist of small, enclosed spaces in which they are restricted to staying within the edges. Players can attack their enemies using twin-stick shooter controls and must must avoid enemy waves of enemy attacks, as in bullet hell games. To avoid attacks, players can dash around the level, essentially teleporting to the opposite side. New weapons are unlocked on each level, and dying returns players to a checkpoint.
Development
Austrian developer Anton Klinger initially made Roto Force as an entry in a game jam for Game Boy-style games. PID Games and East2West Games released it for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS on Jul 18, 2023.
Reception
Eurogamer praised its gameplay, which they said make it feel "new and weird" in a good way. TouchArcade called it one of the polished games on iOS and praised the "slick controls, excellent haptics, [...] amazing gameplay [...] and memorable writing". TechRadar included it in their list of the best Android games, calling it "claustrophobic and intense".
Roto Force won the jury award for best mobile game at the 2022 Game Development World Championship.
References
2021 video games
Bullet hell video games
East2West Games games
Indie games
MacOS games
PID Games games
Retro-style video games
Single-player video games
Twin-stick shooters
Video games developed in Austria
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutristor | A neutristor is a mostly solid-state device, resembling a computer chip, invented at Sandia National Laboratories.
See also
Neutron generator
References
Electrical components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statman | Statman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andy Statman (born 1950), American musician
Mark Statman (born 1958), American writer
Richard Statman (born 1946), American computer scientist
Tamara Statman (born 1956), Israeli softball player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin-Shan%20Lee | Lin-Shan Lee (; born 23 September 1952) is a Taiwanese computer scientist.
Lee earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1974, and pursued a doctorate in the same subject at Stanford University, graduating in 1977. He subsequently returned to Taiwan and joined the NTU faculty in 1982.
Lee is a 1993 fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, recognized "[f]or contributions to computer voice input/output techniques for Mandarin Chinese and to engineering education." The International Speech Communication Association elevated him to fellow status in 2010 "[f]or his contributions to Chinese spoken language processing and speech information retrieval, and his service to the speech language community." In 2016, Lee was elected a member of Academia Sinica.
References
1952 births
Living people
Taiwanese computer scientists
Members of Academia Sinica
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the International Speech Communication Association
Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Taiwanese expatriates in the United States
20th-century Taiwanese scientists
21st-century Taiwanese scientists
Natural language processing researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20conservation%20parks%20of%20Western%20Australia | Western Australia, as of 2022, has 72 conservation parks, of which 40 are named and 32 unnamed. At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, of land in Western Australia was covered by conservation parks, which is 1.66 percent of all protected areas in the state and 0.5 percent of the state overall. Overall, just over 30 percent of Western Australia is covered by protected areas.
Conservation parks list
Key for IBRA
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia:
AVW: Avon Wheatbelt
CAR: Carnarvon xeric shrublands
CEK: Central Kimberley
COO: Coolgardie bioregion
DAL: Dampierland
ESP: Esperance Plains
GAS: Gascoyne bioregion
GES: Geraldton Sandplains
GID: Gibson Desert
GSD: Great Sandy Desert
GVD: Great Victoria Desert
HAM: Hampton bioregion
ITI: Indian Tropical Islands
JAF: Jarrah Forest
LSD: Little Sandy Desert
MAL: Mallee bioregion
MUR: Murchison (Western Australia)
NOK: Northern Kimberley
NUL: Nullarbor Plain
OVP: Ord Victoria Plain
PIL: Pilbara shrublands
SWA: Swan Coastal Plain
VIB: Victoria Bonaparte
WAR: Warren bioregion
YAL: Yalgoo bioregion
See also
List of national parks of Western Australia
List of named nature reserves of Western Australia
List of unnamed nature reserves of Western Australia
List of Indigenous Protected Areas of Western Australia
References
External links
Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD): protected area data
Australian Protected Areas Dashboard
Nature reserves
Conservation parks of Western Australia
Conservation parks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%A9nh%20Long%20Radio%20-%20Television%20Station | Vĩnh Long Radio - Television Station (THVL; ) is a Vietnamese television network owned by the People's Committee of Vĩnh Long Province. It is the largest station in the Southwest region and is in the top 3 television networks with the highest rating index in the country besides VTV and HTV.
Operations
THVL has 4 channels:
Services
THVL has:
Sóng FM, a radio station, broadcasts on FM 90.2 Mhz.
THVLi, a streaming service that streams all channels from THVL and its programming for 24 hours, 7 days a week.
THVL Audio, an audio service that you can listen to radio stations from THVL.
Controveries
Some news and reportage programs of Vinh Long Radio and Television Station have repeatedly presented information that is biased, one-sided and false.
The program "Lời cảnh báo" episode 385 aired on THVL1 in August 2017 talked about a series of negative sides of anime, the ecchi aspect was exploited quite strongly. But when giving an example of ecchi in anime, Dai put an entire hentai series on the screen and equated it to an anime. Just a few hours after the video was posted, a series of anime fans and Facebook users launched a general attack on Dai's Facebook with the purpose of forcing Dai to apologize to a series of anime fans in Vietnam. In addition, due to too much spam in the comments section, the station had to turn off the review feature due to receiving too many 1-star reviews. After that, the station deleted the above video.
The program "Câu chuyện cuộc sống" with the theme "Robbery and murder mission game - Entertainment or promoting crime" broadcast on THVL1 on August 2, 2018, said that the survival video games, including PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (also known as PUBG) and Minecraft are "violently inclined". After the video aired, it received a lot of criticism from the gaming community. After that, Radio itself deleted the video. However, in May 2019, Dai posted another video with the title "Online game addiction is more difficult to overcome than drug addiction". This video was also deleted after receiving a large number of dislikes on YouTube.
See also
Vietnam Television
Television and mass media in Vietnam
References
External links
YouTube channel:
Truyen Hinh Vinh Long
Vĩnh Long Radio - Television Station
Mass media in Vĩnh Long province
Television companies of Vietnam
Television channels and stations established in 1977
State media
Publicly funded broadcasters
Government-owned companies of Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unnamed%20nature%20reserves%20of%20Western%20Australia | Western Australia, as of 2022, has 1,233 nature reserves, of which 826 are named and 407 unnamed. At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, of land in Western Australia was covered by nature reserves, which is 13.23 percent of all protected areas in the state and 3.99 percent of the state overall. Overall, just over 30 percent of Western Australia is covered by protected areas.
Nature reserves list
Notes
Unnamed WA14567 Nature Reserve is a strip of land along the Vasse Highway located in the locality of Yoongarillup.
Unnamed WA28710 Nature Reserve is a strip of land along the Midland Railway located south of Moora.
Unnamed WA43903 Nature Reserve is a spit located off the coast of the coast of Safety Bay which is part of the Swan Coastal Plain bioregion.
Unnamed WA48858 Nature Reserve is a rock located off the coast of the Wanagarren Nature Reserve in the Swan Coastal Plain bioregion.
Key for IBRA
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia:
AVW: Avon Wheatbelt
CAR: Carnarvon xeric shrublands
CEK: Central Kimberley
COO: Coolgardie bioregion
DAL: Dampierland
ESP: Esperance Plains
GAS: Gascoyne bioregion
GES: Geraldton Sandplains
GID: Gibson Desert
GSD: Great Sandy Desert
GVD: Great Victoria Desert
HAM: Hampton bioregion
ITI: Indian Tropical Islands
JAF: Jarrah Forest
LSD: Little Sandy Desert
MAL: Mallee bioregion
MUR: Murchison (Western Australia)
NOK: Northern Kimberley
NUL: Nullarbor Plain
OVP: Ord Victoria Plain
PIL: Pilbara shrublands
SWA: Swan Coastal Plain
VIB: Victoria Bonaparte
WAR: Warren bioregion
YAL: Yalgoo bioregion
See also
List of named nature reserves of Western Australia
List of national parks of Western Australia
List of conservation parks of Western Australia
List of Indigenous Protected Areas of Western Australia
References
External links
Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD): protected area data
Australian Protected Areas Dashboard
Nature reserves
Nature reserves of Western Australia
Nature reserves unnamed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceFX | FaceFX is a Facial animation software developed by OC3 Entertainment. It was designed to create realistic Lip synchronization from audio files in computer games. It was used in Bethesda games such as the Elder Scrolls series and Fallout.
Description
The central component of the program is the face graph. It combines bone poses and morph targets to a single target which is driven by animation curves. These are created by a speech recognition system but can also be manually edited. The facial animation is then outputted to the game engine either as bone transformation or morph target frame by frame.
To create a realistic animation curve, the program recognizes 42 phonemes and tries to take co-articulation rules into account. It also tries to create head movement, blinks, and eyebrow raises from emphasis points in the audio file.
See also
3D computer graphics
References
Computer animation
Animation software
Audio to video synchronization
Anatomical simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indigenous%20Protected%20Areas%20of%20Western%20Australia | Western Australia, as of 2022, has 18 Indigenous Protected Areas. At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, of land in Western Australia was covered by Indigenous Protected Areas, which is 66.87 percent of all protected areas in the state and 20.15 percent of the state overall. Overall, just over 30 percent of Western Australia is covered by protected areas.
Indigenous Protected Areas list
Key for IBRA
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia:
AVW: Avon Wheatbelt
CAR: Carnarvon xeric shrublands
CEK: Central Kimberley
COO: Coolgardie bioregion
DAL: Dampierland
ESP: Esperance Plains
GAS: Gascoyne bioregion
GES: Geraldton Sandplains
GID: Gibson Desert
GSD: Great Sandy Desert
GVD: Great Victoria Desert
HAM: Hampton bioregion
ITI: Indian Tropical Islands
JAF: Jarrah Forest
LSD: Little Sandy Desert
MAL: Mallee bioregion
MUR: Murchison (Western Australia)
NOK: Northern Kimberley
NUL: Nullarbor Plain
OVP: Ord Victoria Plain
PIL: Pilbara shrublands
SWA: Swan Coastal Plain
TAN: Tanami bioregion
VIB: Victoria Bonaparte
WAR: Warren bioregion
YAL: Yalgoo bioregion
See also
List of national parks of Western Australia
List of conservation parks of Western Australia
List of named nature reserves of Western Australia
List of unnamed nature reserves of Western Australia
References
External links
Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD): protected area data
Australian Protected Areas Dashboard
Indigenous Protected Areas of Western Australia
Indigenous Protected Areas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oost-Java%20Stoomtram%20Maatschappij | Oost-Java Stoomtram Maatschappij (OJS) () is the name of a private railway company which once operated in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. The network had 46 stops with a total of near 66 miles (107 km) track; prior to its demise, it operated between the cities of Surabaya and Sidoarjo, Mojokerto Regency and Jombang Regency, on a mixture of former railway lines and urban on-street running.
Currently all OJS railway lines are assets of Kereta Api Indonesia.
History
The history of the Oost-Java Stoomtram Maatschappij originated in 1886 when the OJS received a concession permit from the Dutch East Indies Colonial Government. OJS then builtsteam locomotive lines around the industrial areas of Surabaya and Sidoarjo. Initially the company had planned out 3 capital sectors, Ujung–Sepanjang–Krian, Mojokerto–Gemekan–Ngoro, and Gemekan–Dinoyo.
On 14 May 1890, OJS opened a new station in Wonokromo, Surabaya, called Wonokromo OJS Station or Wonokromo Kota (not to be confused with Staatsspoorwegen's Wonokromo Station). With intermodal interaction between Staatsspoorwegen and OJS becoming increasingly satisfactory, tram usage in Surabaya increased.
In 1911, OJS expanded its network to cover almost the entire city of Surabaya. OJS then introduced electric powered tram when its track length had just reached 36 km and began operation on 15 May 1923. With more and more people using the city's tramline, the main line was getting completely overhauled with route that previously passed along the banks of Mas River finally diverted through the city center, passing Pasar Turi and Sawahan, which follows the main road at the city center, Jalan Pangeran Diponegoro. The old route was removed only as far as Groedo Station.
To support operations , a tram depot and electric power station were built in Sawahan. The power station was used to provide currents to electric trams around Surabaya and was built in 1925 with 2 Siemens Suckert & Walschke motor generators, each of which had a power of 500 KW - 600 volts DC. This 600 volt DC overhead power network covered the Tanjung Perak–Jembatan Merah–Genteng Besar–Sawahan–Gubeng–Wonokromo Kota route.
As of 1927, it was recorded that 11.4 million passengers were transported by electric tram and 5.2 million people were transported by the OJS steam tram.
Construction History
In its history, OJS has been recorded to have operated its trams in Mojokerto and Surabaya.
Lines in Surabaya
First Period (Steam locomotive)
Second Period (Electric powered tram)
Lines in Mojokerto
Post-Independence
In 1959, President Sukarno issued a Government Regulation No. 40 of 1959, which included, the nationalisation of all railway lines and steam locomotives which were previously operated by Dutch-owned companies, whose operations were handed over to the Djawatan Kereta Api Republik Indonesia (DKA), which included the ex-OJS route.
In 1968–1969, electric trams were discontinued and overhead power cable covering the tram line were removed with s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houman%20Owhadi | Houman Owhadi is a professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Control and Dynamical Systems in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in statistical numerical approximation, kernel learning, and uncertainty quantification.
Academic biography
Owhadi studied at the École polytechnique where he received a M.S. in Mathematics and Physics in 1994 and was a civil servant in the Corps des ponts in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2001, studying under Gérard Ben Arous. He was a CNRS Research Fellow between 2001 and 2004. He joined the California Institute of Technology in 2004 and became Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Control & Dynamical Systems in 2011.
Research
Owhadi is noted for his work in the field of statistical numerical approximation, which explores the interplay between numerical approximation and statistical inference,. His work has influenced the field of probabilistic numerics which combines approaches from machine learning and applied mathematics.
He has done extensive work in uncertainty quantification and has been editor of the Handbook of Uncertainty Quantification and the SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.
He has also worked on Gaussian processes and kernel methods, the problem of kernel learning, and numerical homogenization.
Awards and honors
Owhadi won the EPFL doctorate award for his thesis in 2001. He was an invited lecturer at the SIAM conference on Computational Science and Engineering in 2015 and a plenary speaker at the XVI International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems. In 2019, he received the SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize. He was elected a SIAM fellow in 2022 for "outstanding contributions in statistical numerical approximation, kernel learning, and uncertainty quantification".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Against%20Corruption%20and%20Trafficking | Network Against Corruption and Trafficking (NACAT) is a Nigerian civil society organization focused on addressing corruption, financial crimes, terrorism, economic sabotage, human trafficking, and drug trafficking.
Activities
NACAT also promotes governance, transparency, the rule of law, and the security and well-being of Nigerians in the pursuit of nation-building.
The organization collaborated with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to conduct sensitization campaigns against drug abuse, human trafficking, and corruption.
Whistle-blowing and advocacy
NACAT engaged in whistle-blowing and advocacy to expose corruption cases involving Nigerian politicians. The organization petitioned law enforcement agencies and pursued legal action against the accused to promote justice and transparency.
Charity work
In 2022, the organization conducted charity programs in Abuja as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, extending support to the local community.
References
Non-governmental organizations
Organizations based in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20Arm%20%28game%29 | Spiral Arm (also Spiral Arm I or Spiral Arm II) is a closed-end, computer-moderated, space-based play-by-mail (PBM) game. Designed in 1983 and launched afterward by Kevin Flynn of Australian Wizard, the game was also offered for play by Graaf Simulations in the United States and Canada and Spellbinder Games in the United Kingdom. 50 positions, one run by computer, began in a spiral-shaped galaxy with up to 49 players per game vying for control of more than half of the galaxy's industrial wealth. Combat, economics, diplomacy, and technological advancement were elements of gameplay. The game received generally positive reviews in Flagship in the 1980s. Over time, publishers began running an improved Version II which outscored Version I in the 1989 Flagship Ratings.
History and development
Kevin Flynn of Australia designed the game after its conceptual beginnings in 1983. Flynn launched the game about six months later, with the aid of programmer Graham Rawlings—through his new company, Australian Wizard. According to Flynn, Spiral Arm drew from the games Imperium and Reach for the Stars as well as science fiction literature.
The editors of Flagship announced Spiral Arm as a new game in its Winter 1984 issue. Game No. 2 began at the end of 1985. The original game was Version I. By 1986, there were three games running, all Version II. The difference between versions centered around mitigating issues of conquest of populated worlds. Additionally, Sloth Games had modified the game from the original version. The game was also offered by Graaf Simulations. In the United Kingdom, it was run by Spellbinder Games. By 1996, PBM Games of Karlsruhe, Germany and The Game Collection in the Netherlands was offering the game for play. As of 2002, Flagship still included Spiral Arm in its Galactic View list of published games.
Gameplay
Spiral Arm is a closed-end, play-by-mail game. The game was computer-moderated. 50 positions are available at the start, with 49 player positions and the last run by computer. Players start in a homeworld in a spiral-shaped galaxy with 658 numbered stars. A player wins after "controlling over 50% of the industrial wealth of the galaxy". Combat, economics, diplomacy, and technological advancement were elements of gameplay.
Reception
Lee Simpson reviewed the game in the Spring 1986 issue of Flagship. He thought that the game would "be about for a long time and I would recommend to anyone who enjoys a good wargame which will tax their organisational, military and diplomatic skills". Nicky Palmer, editor of Flagship reviewed the game in a 1988 issue. He stated that, "Overall, Spiral Arm remains a neatly packaged, easy-to-play space drama of low-to-moderate complexity. It's one of the only two games which I'm playing more than one of: orders don't take more than an hour to do, and even if Spiral Arm isn't the deepest game in the world it offers cheap, agreeable thrills, with a little more depth than is immediately apparent."
In the A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20trick | The median trick is a generic approach that increases the chances of a probabilistic algorithm to succeed. Apparently first used in 1986 by Jerrum et al. for approximate counting algorithms, the technique was later applied to a broad selection of classification and regression problems.
The idea of median trick is very simple: run the randomized algorithm with numeric output multiple times, and use the median of the obtained results as a final answer. For example, for sublinear in time algorithms the same algorithm can be run repeatedly (or in parallel) over random subsets of input data, and, per Chernoff inequality, the median of the results will converge to solution very fast. For the algorithms that are sublinear in space (e.g., counting the distinct elements of a stream), different randomizations of the algorithm (say, with different hash functions) should be used for repeated runs over the same data.
References
Sources
Statistical randomness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonus%20Mobile | Fonus Mobile is an American mobile virtual network operator on AT&T's network.
History
Fonus Mobile was founded by Simon Tian in 2019 and is based in Santa Monica, California. Fonus offers a single monthly prepaid plan, providing users with up to 5G speeds of unlimited data, unlimited calls and texts to over 50 countries worldwide, and free roaming in the United States, Canada and Mexico at $30 per month. The data operates on AT&T's cellular network in the United States, whereas the calls and texts are provided through Fonus' proprietary voice over IP (VoIP) application. As of April 2021, Fonus is one of the top 10 best-rated mobile network operators worldwide on Trustpilot.
References
External links
Mobile virtual network operators
2019 establishments in California
Companies based in Santa Monica, California
Internet service providers of the United States
Mobile phone companies of the United States
Telecommunications companies established in 2019
AT&T
Privately held companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20The%20CW%20television%20affiliates | The CW is an American broadcast television network that originated in September 2006. Throughout its history, the network has had many owned-and-operated and affiliated stations.
This article is a table listing of former The CW stations, arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license as well as its Designated Market Area; it is also accompanied by footnotes regarding the present network affiliation of the former The CW-affiliated station (if the station remains operational) and the current The CW affiliates in each of the listed markets, as well as any other notes including the reasons behind each station's disaffiliation from the network. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming, and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their virtual channel (PSIP) number, which may match the channel allocation that the station originally broadcast on during its prior affiliation with the network.
References
Lists of American television network affiliates
The CW |
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