The document discusses autonomous urban agents and a Santa Fe approach to modeling cities. It describes using complexity theory and autonomous agent modeling to simulate urban dynamics and crowds. It provides examples of using these techniques to model crowd evacuations, pedestrian flows, and traffic patterns. The approach aims to capture both the stable structural elements of cities as well as the more dynamic human activities to build a model of urban "reality."
The document discusses concepts related to stationary and non-stationary time series data. It provides examples of time series data that are non-stationary, exhibiting changing means and non-zero correlation over time, as well as examples of stationary time series with constant means and zero correlation as time increases. The document also discusses techniques for identifying non-stationary processes, such as examining correlograms, and formal unit root tests to establish the stationarity of time series data.
This document summarizes the promises and pitfalls of tier pricing for scientific research journals. It discusses how online publishing requires a different pricing model than print due to varying usage levels across institutions. Tier pricing aims to reduce costs for smaller institutions but poses challenges, such as disproportionately increasing prices for top institutions or requiring complex administration. Transparency is important to ensure tier pricing is not used simply to increase overall revenue. Overall, tier pricing systems must balance fairness across institution sizes with maintaining affordability.
Large data sets comprising multiple correlating attributes may include phenomena hard to identify and understand using traditional data analysis and visualization methods. HeatMiner is a new visual data mining technology which visualizes the data as three-dimensional heatmaps. Even complex patterns missed by other methods are easy to recognize from 3D-heatmaps with a single glance. Go and try HeatMiner with your own data at the Cloud’N’Sci.fi Algorithms-as-a-Service marketplace!
1. The document provides an overview of PT. Sarijaya Permana Sekuritas, a securities company in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It discusses how the stock market works, price behavior, and buying and selling of stocks.
2. Technical analysis charts and indicators are presented for several stocks, including daily price and volume data. Common chart patterns like double tops, head and shoulders, and triangles are also explained.
3. Trading strategies are outlined for identifying buy and sell signals based on trend analysis, price breaks, and the use of moving averages and oscillators.
Tutorial for Energy Systems Week - Cambridge 2010Sean Meyn
The document discusses several issues related to dynamic power systems including:
1) Political mandates for renewable energy are changing rapidly and coupled generators and consumers can lead to instability.
2) Power systems are complex interconnected networks that require reliable operation while market power poses risks.
3) Balancing supply and demand is challenging with intermittent renewable resources like wind.
4) Power flow is subject to physical constraints that create friction in the system.
Parker is the world's leading manufacturer of motion and control technologies. In 2006, Parker achieved record financial results including $9.4 billion in sales, a 16.3% increase over 2005. Net income increased 19.7% to $638.3 million. Cash flow from operations reached a record $954.6 million. Parker's diversification across hundreds of markets, 57,000 employees, and 417,000 customers helps drive consistent growth and mitigate risks from economic cycles.
The document discusses autonomous urban agents and a Santa Fe approach to modeling cities. It describes using complexity theory and autonomous agent modeling to simulate urban dynamics and crowds. It provides examples of using these techniques to model crowd evacuations, pedestrian flows, and traffic patterns. The approach aims to capture both the stable structural elements of cities as well as the more dynamic human activities to build a model of urban "reality."
The document discusses concepts related to stationary and non-stationary time series data. It provides examples of time series data that are non-stationary, exhibiting changing means and non-zero correlation over time, as well as examples of stationary time series with constant means and zero correlation as time increases. The document also discusses techniques for identifying non-stationary processes, such as examining correlograms, and formal unit root tests to establish the stationarity of time series data.
This document summarizes the promises and pitfalls of tier pricing for scientific research journals. It discusses how online publishing requires a different pricing model than print due to varying usage levels across institutions. Tier pricing aims to reduce costs for smaller institutions but poses challenges, such as disproportionately increasing prices for top institutions or requiring complex administration. Transparency is important to ensure tier pricing is not used simply to increase overall revenue. Overall, tier pricing systems must balance fairness across institution sizes with maintaining affordability.
Large data sets comprising multiple correlating attributes may include phenomena hard to identify and understand using traditional data analysis and visualization methods. HeatMiner is a new visual data mining technology which visualizes the data as three-dimensional heatmaps. Even complex patterns missed by other methods are easy to recognize from 3D-heatmaps with a single glance. Go and try HeatMiner with your own data at the Cloud’N’Sci.fi Algorithms-as-a-Service marketplace!
1. The document provides an overview of PT. Sarijaya Permana Sekuritas, a securities company in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It discusses how the stock market works, price behavior, and buying and selling of stocks.
2. Technical analysis charts and indicators are presented for several stocks, including daily price and volume data. Common chart patterns like double tops, head and shoulders, and triangles are also explained.
3. Trading strategies are outlined for identifying buy and sell signals based on trend analysis, price breaks, and the use of moving averages and oscillators.
Tutorial for Energy Systems Week - Cambridge 2010Sean Meyn
The document discusses several issues related to dynamic power systems including:
1) Political mandates for renewable energy are changing rapidly and coupled generators and consumers can lead to instability.
2) Power systems are complex interconnected networks that require reliable operation while market power poses risks.
3) Balancing supply and demand is challenging with intermittent renewable resources like wind.
4) Power flow is subject to physical constraints that create friction in the system.
Parker is the world's leading manufacturer of motion and control technologies. In 2006, Parker achieved record financial results including $9.4 billion in sales, a 16.3% increase over 2005. Net income increased 19.7% to $638.3 million. Cash flow from operations reached a record $954.6 million. Parker's diversification across hundreds of markets, 57,000 employees, and 417,000 customers helps drive consistent growth and mitigate risks from economic cycles.
Detroit Work Project - Short Term Presentationstranflow
The document summarizes two studies conducted as part of the Detroit Works Project to analyze neighborhood conditions across Detroit: a Residential Physical Conditions Analysis and a Market Analysis. It identifies several typologies of neighborhoods based on indicators like household change, vacant land, housing vacancy rates, and housing conditions. The analyses aim to inform short-term strategies tailored to the realities of each neighborhood in order to stabilize housing prices, restore confidence, and attract residents and investment to Detroit.
The document discusses the growing energy demands and carbon emissions from India's telecom sector as the number of mobile towers increases dramatically, and proposes a plan to transition 50% of towers to renewable energy by 2015 and completely phase out diesel by 2020, which would save billions of liters of diesel, prevent millions of tons of carbon emissions, and offer a large market potential for renewable energy investment. Greenpeace is calling on telecom companies to publicly commit to this renewable energy roadmap and play a leadership role in advocating for clean energy policies.
IBM Storwize V7000 Ultimate Performance EngOleg Korol
The IBM Storwize V7000 was able to achieve 53,000 IOPS with an average response time of 11ms in synthetic SPC-1 testing using 240 HDDs. This document examines whether similar real-world performance can be achieved on a Storwize V7000 supporting a production database workload consisting of OLTP and OLAP applications across 208 HDDs, without using SSDs. Charts of disk usage and response times over a day show the Storwize V7000 supporting over 50,000 IOPS and average response times under 5ms.
The document discusses plans to pivot the APStartup social network for entrepreneurs into a new platform called CrowdRound.bz based in Belize. It will facilitate international crowdfunding for startups. CrowdRound.bz will take a 10% equity stake in startups in exchange for helping them raise early funding. It will create a special purpose vehicle (SPV) company in Belize for each startup, issue shares in the SPV to investors, and sell up to 50 shares to crowdfunding investors internationally. This offshore structure is meant to simplify regulations compared to different jurisdictions.
Northern Virginia Fairfax County Housing MarketBetty Plashal
In December 2010:
- Total housing units sold in Fairfax County increased 9% compared to the previous month but decreased 2% compared to December 2009.
- Active housing inventory decreased 16% from December 2009 and 19% from the previous month.
- The median home sale price rose 8% compared to December 2009 to $390,000, and increased 4% from the previous month.
The document contains charts showing residential home sales and the share of real estate owned (REO) sales in various states from 2004 to January-June 2009. It shows that as foreclosure sales increased in recent years, they made up a larger portion of overall home sales in most states. The data comes from a study by LPS Applied Analytics examining the impact of foreclosure sales on home prices.
Seminário Nacional do Benzeno (5 e 6 de dez/12) - Derivação de Limites de Exposição Ocupacional para Substâncias Carcinogênicas e
Mutagênicas - Experiências Internacionais e Nacional
1) The document discusses PPP practices and research in China, given by Prof. Dr. ShouQing Wang from Tsinghua University.
2) It outlines China's rapid economic growth and infrastructure development, the challenges faced in PPP projects in China such as lack of clear laws and guidelines, and PPP research areas like risk allocation and public-private partnerships.
3) A case study is presented on the National Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which faced disputes over construction costs, design changes, and revenue generation.
This document provides an overview of key environmental trends and projections to 2050 according to the OECD Environmental Outlook. It finds that global population and GDP will continue growing significantly by 2050, increasing pressure on natural resources and the environment. Greenhouse gas emissions are projected to rise substantially by 2050 under a business as usual scenario, threatening the goal of limiting global warming to 2°C. Water demand is also expected to increase sharply, exacerbating water stress in many regions. The document examines policy scenarios that could help put the world on a more sustainable path through actions like pricing pollution and improving resource efficiency.
Presented at PodCamp Nashville 2
"Some of the best things in life creep up on you. Kelly Stewart worked a year to break into social networking, build street cred, and to intentionally create buzz around his new media endeavors. However, quietly under the radar (and outside of premeditation) his outdoor club Nashville Hiking Meetup was building at an incredible rate. In summer 2008 he realized this little club had become the connected, energized social network that new media douchebags dream of. Hear lessons learned and the potential pitfalls of calculated (versus accidental) social networks."
1) The study assessed the impact of agricultural activities on groundwater quality in Valikamam area, Jaffna Peninsula.
2) Groundwater samples were collected from domestic, public, and farm wells from January to April 2011 and analyzed for parameters like pH, EC, chloride, nitrate-N, and fluoride.
3) The results found high nitrate-N levels in farm wells, influenced by cropping system. Excess irrigation and inorganic fertilizer application above recommended levels at some farms also contributed to elevated nitrate-N in groundwater.
Road safety is a major public health issue in India. The number of road traffic injuries and deaths has increased substantially over the past few decades as the number of vehicles on the road has grown rapidly. While roads are critical infrastructure, safety has not kept pace. Available data shows high rates of road deaths in many Indian states and cities. Effective interventions include enforcement of traffic laws on helmets and drink driving, improving road engineering for pedestrian safety, increasing road visibility, public education campaigns, strengthening emergency response systems, and improving vehicle safety standards. However, there remains a disconnect between responsibility, leadership and coordination among different agencies and departments regarding road safety in India.
The document discusses NYC Startup The present and Future by George Goda of WEGLO Inc., focusing on why Goda chose to start his company in NYC. It includes charts showing population and population density of major cities around the world, with NYC having the largest population of any city. The document also briefly mentions challenges Goda faced starting during the 2008 financial crisis and how he addressed issues of seed funding, incubation, and co-working space.
Vertical format for trading account, profit and loss account & balance sheetSAITO College Sdn Bhd
1) The document provides a trial balance, adjustments, and additional financial statements for ACE Trading for the year ended 2005.
2) It includes a trial balance, adjustments, trading account, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet.
3) The balance sheet shows total assets of RM122,200 consisting of fixed assets, current assets and closing capital of RM67,500, with current and long term liabilities making up the remaining balance.
18 ноября 2011, Киев – Эксклюзивная встреча для редакторов с Кристофом Риссом, генеральным директором Всемирной ассоциации издателей газет и новостей (WAN-IFRA)
The document discusses updates to the Netherlands' national air quality program, including expanding the use of 80 km/h speed limit zones on highways. It notes some zones have been effective at reducing emissions, while one route faced complications. The document also introduces a variable speed limit system called "Dynamax" that aims to adjust limits based on traffic, weather, and air quality in order to improve air quality and balance traffic flow. It concludes that speed limits can be effective for reducing emissions but depend on road design, communication of the limits, and enforcement, and a dynamic system may achieve a better balance.
The document discusses innovation in the railway industry from a global perspective. It analyzes patent data from various national patent offices classified under the International Patent Classification (IPC) code B61*, which relates to railways. The analysis shows that worldwide patent filings under B61* have grown significantly from 1990 to present, with Japan, Germany, and the United States being the top filers. While Australia was historically a technology importer, the growing number of patents suggests it is becoming more of a technology exporter in the global railway market.
The document discusses JBS's position in the global animal protein market and competitive advantages. It shows that global consumption of animal protein has increased significantly in all regions over the past ten years. Brazil, Australia, and the US continue to lead global beef exports. JBS ranks as the largest global beef and lamb producer and leather processor, the second largest global chicken producer, the third largest dairy producer in Brazil, and third largest pork producer in the US. JBS's strategy focuses on quality, branding, and expanding globally through strategic acquisitions.
This seminar report discusses flexible electronics. It begins with an introduction to flexible electronics, including a brief history. It then describes flexible circuit structures and components such as resistors, capacitors, batteries, and displays. The report outlines the manufacturing process for flexible electronics using thin film transistors. Finally, it discusses the future scope and applications of flexible electronics, highlighting growth in markets. Potential applications include wearable devices, cell phones, and military/space uses. Both advantages like flexibility and disadvantages like high costs are noted.
Autonomic computing aims to reduce human intervention in computer systems by enabling self-managing capabilities. It was developed by IBM based on the human autonomic nervous system and involves techniques like self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection. The goals of autonomic computing include reducing IT costs, simplifying system management, enabling server consolidation, and forming the basis for more effective cloud computing and pervasive computing technologies in the future through greater system automation and adaptability.
The document discusses autonomic computing and its evolution. It describes autonomic computing as systems that are self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting and self-optimizing without direct human intervention. These systems aim to manage complexity and adapt to changing conditions automatically. The document also notes that the increasing complexity of computing systems is overwhelming human administrators and that autonomic computing aims to develop systems capable of self-management to address this problem. It describes how computing systems have evolved from manual management to include increasingly automated functions.
Detroit Work Project - Short Term Presentationstranflow
The document summarizes two studies conducted as part of the Detroit Works Project to analyze neighborhood conditions across Detroit: a Residential Physical Conditions Analysis and a Market Analysis. It identifies several typologies of neighborhoods based on indicators like household change, vacant land, housing vacancy rates, and housing conditions. The analyses aim to inform short-term strategies tailored to the realities of each neighborhood in order to stabilize housing prices, restore confidence, and attract residents and investment to Detroit.
The document discusses the growing energy demands and carbon emissions from India's telecom sector as the number of mobile towers increases dramatically, and proposes a plan to transition 50% of towers to renewable energy by 2015 and completely phase out diesel by 2020, which would save billions of liters of diesel, prevent millions of tons of carbon emissions, and offer a large market potential for renewable energy investment. Greenpeace is calling on telecom companies to publicly commit to this renewable energy roadmap and play a leadership role in advocating for clean energy policies.
IBM Storwize V7000 Ultimate Performance EngOleg Korol
The IBM Storwize V7000 was able to achieve 53,000 IOPS with an average response time of 11ms in synthetic SPC-1 testing using 240 HDDs. This document examines whether similar real-world performance can be achieved on a Storwize V7000 supporting a production database workload consisting of OLTP and OLAP applications across 208 HDDs, without using SSDs. Charts of disk usage and response times over a day show the Storwize V7000 supporting over 50,000 IOPS and average response times under 5ms.
The document discusses plans to pivot the APStartup social network for entrepreneurs into a new platform called CrowdRound.bz based in Belize. It will facilitate international crowdfunding for startups. CrowdRound.bz will take a 10% equity stake in startups in exchange for helping them raise early funding. It will create a special purpose vehicle (SPV) company in Belize for each startup, issue shares in the SPV to investors, and sell up to 50 shares to crowdfunding investors internationally. This offshore structure is meant to simplify regulations compared to different jurisdictions.
Northern Virginia Fairfax County Housing MarketBetty Plashal
In December 2010:
- Total housing units sold in Fairfax County increased 9% compared to the previous month but decreased 2% compared to December 2009.
- Active housing inventory decreased 16% from December 2009 and 19% from the previous month.
- The median home sale price rose 8% compared to December 2009 to $390,000, and increased 4% from the previous month.
The document contains charts showing residential home sales and the share of real estate owned (REO) sales in various states from 2004 to January-June 2009. It shows that as foreclosure sales increased in recent years, they made up a larger portion of overall home sales in most states. The data comes from a study by LPS Applied Analytics examining the impact of foreclosure sales on home prices.
Seminário Nacional do Benzeno (5 e 6 de dez/12) - Derivação de Limites de Exposição Ocupacional para Substâncias Carcinogênicas e
Mutagênicas - Experiências Internacionais e Nacional
1) The document discusses PPP practices and research in China, given by Prof. Dr. ShouQing Wang from Tsinghua University.
2) It outlines China's rapid economic growth and infrastructure development, the challenges faced in PPP projects in China such as lack of clear laws and guidelines, and PPP research areas like risk allocation and public-private partnerships.
3) A case study is presented on the National Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which faced disputes over construction costs, design changes, and revenue generation.
This document provides an overview of key environmental trends and projections to 2050 according to the OECD Environmental Outlook. It finds that global population and GDP will continue growing significantly by 2050, increasing pressure on natural resources and the environment. Greenhouse gas emissions are projected to rise substantially by 2050 under a business as usual scenario, threatening the goal of limiting global warming to 2°C. Water demand is also expected to increase sharply, exacerbating water stress in many regions. The document examines policy scenarios that could help put the world on a more sustainable path through actions like pricing pollution and improving resource efficiency.
Presented at PodCamp Nashville 2
"Some of the best things in life creep up on you. Kelly Stewart worked a year to break into social networking, build street cred, and to intentionally create buzz around his new media endeavors. However, quietly under the radar (and outside of premeditation) his outdoor club Nashville Hiking Meetup was building at an incredible rate. In summer 2008 he realized this little club had become the connected, energized social network that new media douchebags dream of. Hear lessons learned and the potential pitfalls of calculated (versus accidental) social networks."
1) The study assessed the impact of agricultural activities on groundwater quality in Valikamam area, Jaffna Peninsula.
2) Groundwater samples were collected from domestic, public, and farm wells from January to April 2011 and analyzed for parameters like pH, EC, chloride, nitrate-N, and fluoride.
3) The results found high nitrate-N levels in farm wells, influenced by cropping system. Excess irrigation and inorganic fertilizer application above recommended levels at some farms also contributed to elevated nitrate-N in groundwater.
Road safety is a major public health issue in India. The number of road traffic injuries and deaths has increased substantially over the past few decades as the number of vehicles on the road has grown rapidly. While roads are critical infrastructure, safety has not kept pace. Available data shows high rates of road deaths in many Indian states and cities. Effective interventions include enforcement of traffic laws on helmets and drink driving, improving road engineering for pedestrian safety, increasing road visibility, public education campaigns, strengthening emergency response systems, and improving vehicle safety standards. However, there remains a disconnect between responsibility, leadership and coordination among different agencies and departments regarding road safety in India.
The document discusses NYC Startup The present and Future by George Goda of WEGLO Inc., focusing on why Goda chose to start his company in NYC. It includes charts showing population and population density of major cities around the world, with NYC having the largest population of any city. The document also briefly mentions challenges Goda faced starting during the 2008 financial crisis and how he addressed issues of seed funding, incubation, and co-working space.
Vertical format for trading account, profit and loss account & balance sheetSAITO College Sdn Bhd
1) The document provides a trial balance, adjustments, and additional financial statements for ACE Trading for the year ended 2005.
2) It includes a trial balance, adjustments, trading account, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet.
3) The balance sheet shows total assets of RM122,200 consisting of fixed assets, current assets and closing capital of RM67,500, with current and long term liabilities making up the remaining balance.
18 ноября 2011, Киев – Эксклюзивная встреча для редакторов с Кристофом Риссом, генеральным директором Всемирной ассоциации издателей газет и новостей (WAN-IFRA)
The document discusses updates to the Netherlands' national air quality program, including expanding the use of 80 km/h speed limit zones on highways. It notes some zones have been effective at reducing emissions, while one route faced complications. The document also introduces a variable speed limit system called "Dynamax" that aims to adjust limits based on traffic, weather, and air quality in order to improve air quality and balance traffic flow. It concludes that speed limits can be effective for reducing emissions but depend on road design, communication of the limits, and enforcement, and a dynamic system may achieve a better balance.
The document discusses innovation in the railway industry from a global perspective. It analyzes patent data from various national patent offices classified under the International Patent Classification (IPC) code B61*, which relates to railways. The analysis shows that worldwide patent filings under B61* have grown significantly from 1990 to present, with Japan, Germany, and the United States being the top filers. While Australia was historically a technology importer, the growing number of patents suggests it is becoming more of a technology exporter in the global railway market.
The document discusses JBS's position in the global animal protein market and competitive advantages. It shows that global consumption of animal protein has increased significantly in all regions over the past ten years. Brazil, Australia, and the US continue to lead global beef exports. JBS ranks as the largest global beef and lamb producer and leather processor, the second largest global chicken producer, the third largest dairy producer in Brazil, and third largest pork producer in the US. JBS's strategy focuses on quality, branding, and expanding globally through strategic acquisitions.
This seminar report discusses flexible electronics. It begins with an introduction to flexible electronics, including a brief history. It then describes flexible circuit structures and components such as resistors, capacitors, batteries, and displays. The report outlines the manufacturing process for flexible electronics using thin film transistors. Finally, it discusses the future scope and applications of flexible electronics, highlighting growth in markets. Potential applications include wearable devices, cell phones, and military/space uses. Both advantages like flexibility and disadvantages like high costs are noted.
Autonomic computing aims to reduce human intervention in computer systems by enabling self-managing capabilities. It was developed by IBM based on the human autonomic nervous system and involves techniques like self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection. The goals of autonomic computing include reducing IT costs, simplifying system management, enabling server consolidation, and forming the basis for more effective cloud computing and pervasive computing technologies in the future through greater system automation and adaptability.
The document discusses autonomic computing and its evolution. It describes autonomic computing as systems that are self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting and self-optimizing without direct human intervention. These systems aim to manage complexity and adapt to changing conditions automatically. The document also notes that the increasing complexity of computing systems is overwhelming human administrators and that autonomic computing aims to develop systems capable of self-management to address this problem. It describes how computing systems have evolved from manual management to include increasingly automated functions.
Presented for TTI Vanguard "Shift Happens" conference (http://bit.ly/TTIVshifthappens) visit to PARC, this is an overview of an all-printed and therefore low-cost, disposable sensor that conforms to the curvature of a helmet.
Developed for DARPA to monitor soldiers' blast exposure and prevent traumatic brain injury, the technology can be applied to multiple biomedical and other applications.
This document discusses flexible electronics and OLED displays. It begins with an introduction to advances in thin-film materials and flexible electronics. It then covers the basic OLED structure, materials used including substrates and backplane electronics, and technologies for flexible displays. The document discusses fabrication methods like batch and roll-to-roll processing. It outlines applications in areas like healthcare, automotive, and displays. Advantages of flexible electronics are listed as well as limitations that need to be addressed.
This document discusses flexible electronics. It begins with an introduction to advances in thin-film materials and devices that have enabled developments in flexible electronics. It then outlines various materials used in flexible electronics like substrates, backplane electronics, frontplanes and encapsulation. It discusses technologies involved in processing flexible electronics like batch and roll-to-roll fabrication. The document covers applications in various fields like healthcare, displays, energy and more. It concludes by discussing advantages like size/weight reductions and increased circuitry density, while noting limitations like lifetime and manufacturing challenges.
This is the presentation I made for my seminar on the topic Autonomic Computing, which describes the Computing systems that can adjust themselves and adapt to various changes, autonomic-ally.
Sosiaalinen media hotelli ja ravintola-alalla horeca 600 esitysPasi P Tuominen
This document contains mathematical equations and notes about social media followers. It states that the number of Facebook likes for certain brands like McDonalds and Hesburger were not included. It also cites the source as a 2012 paper by P. Tuominen on integrated marketing communication and brand tribes within the hospitality reputation management process.
The document discusses the growth of online video between 2006-2010. It notes that the number of people streaming videos in the US increased from around 120 million in 2006 to over 160 million in 2010. Additionally, the number of videos streamed grew from 63 billion to over 441 billion during this period. The amount spent on online video advertising also increased dramatically, from $324 million in 2006 to $1.44 billion in 2010.
This document discusses NASA's history of missions to collect data, partnerships with other organizations, and innovation exemplified by the creation of ARPANET. It also addresses NASA's mandate to utilize resources effectively, problems like the large number of data centers and fluctuating computing needs, and leadership focused on peaceful and collaborative space exploration. The document questions why cloud computing and open source are beneficial approaches.
Despite the ever expanding forms of digital entertainment and the
emergence of consumer recording facilities, allowing viewers to
time shift their TV viewing habits, there are still certain TV shows
and events that create an audience desire to be part of a mass
shared experience. In the past direct inter-audience interaction of
such events has been restricted to either a shared location at the
time of broadcast or later discussions amongst friends and
colleagues often described as ‘water cooler moments’. With the
advent of online social networks that facilitate status updates these
moments can be instantly shared in real-time using mobile phone
creating a second screen for interaction with TV. In this paper we
investigate the emerging role of mobile phones as the facilitator of
second screen for TV. This is achieved through the analysis of
tweets for a highly popular UK TV show the X Factor and
comparing tweets from this show with other shows from a
different format. The results highlight the rich source of
information that can be extracted in real-time and how audiences
are creating their own parallel narrative of the show through
Twitter. This interaction has enormous potential for broadcasters
and producers both in terms of reinvigorating live TV viewing and
creating new forms of audience interaction.
The document discusses improving I/O scalability in the Xen virtualization platform. It explores optimizations to the virtual network interface (VNIF) and reducing virtual-to-physical device assignment (VT-d) overhead. It also examines using single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) and processing interrupts on a per-CPU vector to improve I/O performance and scalability. Charts are presented showing the benefits of these techniques for network throughput and CPU utilization.
Automatic extraction and manual validation of a hierarchical English-Swedish ...Jody Foo
Several methods can be applied to create a set of validated terms from existing documents. In this paper we describe an automatic bilingual term candidate extraction method, and the validation process used to create a hierarchical patent terminology. The process described was used to extract terms from patent texts, commissioned by the Swedish Patent Office with the purpose of using the terms for machine translation. Information on the correct linguistic inflection patterns and hierarchical partitioning of terms based on their use are of utmost importance.
The process contains six phases, 1) Analysis of the source material and system configuration; 2) Term candidate extraction; 3) Term candidate filtering and initial linguistic validation; 4) Manual validation by domain experts; 5) Final linguistic validation; and 6) Publishing the validated terms.
Input to the extraction process consisted of more than 91.000 patent document pairs in English and Swedish, 565 million words in English and 450 million words in Swedish. The English documents were supplied in EBD SGML format and the Swedish documents were supplied in OCR processed scans of patent documents. After grammatical and statistical analysis, the documents were word aligned. Using the word aligned material, candidate terms were extracted based on linguistic patterns. 750,000 term candidates were extracted and stored in a relational database. The term candidates were processed in 8 months resulting in 181.000 unique validated term pairs which were then exported into several hierarchically organized OLIF files.
This document discusses Amtrak's role in developing partnerships to improve and expand intercity passenger rail service. It outlines Amtrak's expertise and assets it can contribute, including its network, infrastructure, and experience operating passenger rail. The document also summarizes some successful state partnerships and Amtrak's process for working with states on projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It emphasizes that partnerships will be key to Amtrak's future and seizing the opportunities provided by new rail legislation and funding.
This document provides an overview of compressed sensing. It discusses how traditional sampling methods like the Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem require sampling at twice the bandwidth of a signal. Compressed sensing allows for sub-Nyquist sampling by taking linear measurements of sparse signals in a basis like wavelets. These linear measurements can be used to reconstruct the original signal using computational techniques that exploit the signal's sparsity. Compressed sensing provides a new framework for signal acquisition that reduces sampling requirements.
Shortening distances with destination branding inglésÁlvaro Fierro
This study shows using econometric techniques that geographic distance does not influence whether the mark is sufficiently embedded in the collective imagination. We as examples mark places near Bilbao
The document contains charts showing website visits, unique visits, and page views from April 2008 to April 2011. Visits, unique visits, and page views all increased over time, with the highest numbers occurring in late 2010 and early 2011.
Objective Capital Precious Metals, Diamonds and Gemstones Investment Summit
Focus on Gold: Challenges of gold mining in the US – reopening the Drumlummon Mine in Montana
20 May 2010
by David Wilson - Societe Generale
The document summarizes Brazilian beef exports from January to November 2011 and 2012. It shows that total beef exports increased in volume by 12.25% but the average price per ton decreased by 5.25%. The top export markets by volume were Russia, the European Union, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Venezuela. By revenue, the top markets were the European Union, Hong Kong, Egypt, Venezuela, and Chile. Exports to Iran declined significantly in both volume and value over the period.
The document summarizes analyses conducted as part of the Detroit Works Project to understand existing physical and market conditions in Detroit neighborhoods. It identifies three predominant market types - distressed, transitional, and steady - and recommends implementing a neighborhood intervention strategy tailored to each market type. Three demonstration areas containing all three market types will be selected to track the effectiveness of concentrating services based on the neighborhood market conditions.
ACG European Capital Tour: Investing pitfalls / lessons learned and big succe...ACGEU
The document summarizes a presentation by Alvarez & Marsal on opportunities in the European market. It discusses 1) the current state of the European sovereign debt crisis and its impact on private equity and distressed markets, 2) middle market opportunities including financial institutions selling non-performing assets and distressed debt investing, and 3) potential pitfalls for private equity investors to avoid. The presentation also reviews M&A trends and outlook by country and sector. Key takeaways are the availability of portfolio and corporate carve-out deals, and the need for private equity investors to thoroughly understand business fundamentals and have contingencies planned.
Investor Pain Index 11302007 Thru 07072009Jonathan Smith
This document shows two indices that track investor fear and uncertainty - the JSCO Pain Index and the VIX Pain Index - plotted from November 2007 to June 2009 against the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The indices spike sharply higher from late 2008 through early 2009 when the stock market declined significantly, indicating that investor fear and uncertainty were extremely high during the financial crisis and recession.
SNC-Lavalin Engineering and Technology is a partner that can help enterprises achieve exceptional performance through process automation and technologies. They have over 35 years of experience in industries like pharmaceuticals. They provide solutions that deliver rapid return on investment and high quality work. Their personnel have extensive industry knowledge and can quickly understand customers' needs to deliver customized solutions.
The document discusses past and projected growth in the global solar PV market from 2001-2011 and beyond. It notes that the market grew at an average annual rate of 52% from 2001-2010, with particularly rapid growth in 2009-2010. Germany has been the leading country for installed capacity but its market may be nearing saturation. Module prices declined sharply from 2008-2010. The document considers whether the solar PV market will continue growing at similar rates or begin to slow and outlines optimistic and conservative scenarios for market growth through 2020.
This document discusses SolarCity's history and innovations in the solar industry. It summarizes that SolarCity was founded in 2006 and has since grown to employ hundreds and install solar systems for thousands of customers across California, Arizona, and Oregon. It also describes some of SolarCity's key product innovations like the Soleo platform for system design, financing, installation, and monitoring, the SolarLease financing program, and the Canopy mounting system. The document emphasizes SolarCity's focus on continuous improvement, customer feedback, and empowering employees.
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AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
35. Cova, T.J., and Church, R.L. (1997) Modelling community evacuation vulnerability using GIS. International
Journal of Geographical Information Science, 11(8): 763-784
Cova, T.J., and Johnson, J.P. (2002) Microsimulation of neighborhood evacuations in the urban-wildland
interface. Environment and Planning A, 34(12): 2211-2229
Cova, T.J., and Johnson, J.P. (2003) A network flow model for lane-based evacuation routing.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 37(7): 579-604
Cova, T.J. (2005) Public safety in the urban-wildland interface: Should fire-prone communities have a
maximum occupancy? Natural Hazards Review, 6(3): 99-108
Cova, T.J., Dennison, P.E., Kim, T.H., and Moritz, M.A. (2005) Setting wildfire evacuation trigger-points using
fire spread modeling and GIS. Transactions in GIS, 9(4): 603-617
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65. Do all agents cycle to work?
“a thermodynamic limit cycle can
be advanced as the basic unit of
action of physically autonomous
systems”
Kugler, Kelso &Turvey, 1980, 1982
66. Perform at least one thermodynamic work cycle
Work is the constrained release of energy
Perform work to construct constraints
67. quot;The general struggle for existence of animate beings
is therefore not a struggle for raw materials -
these, for organisms, are air, water and soil, all
abundantly available - nor for energy which exists in
plenty in any body in the form of heat (albeit
unfortunately not transformable), but a struggle for
entropy, which becomes available through the
transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold
earth.quot;
Boltzmann, 1886
68. quot;the only way a living system stays alive, away from
maximum entropy or death is to be continually
drawing from its environment negative entropy. Thus
the devise by which an organism maintains itself
stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly
low level of entropy) really consists in continually
sucking orderliness from its environment.“
Schrödinger,1944
69. “Steam Engines have taught us more about
thermodynamics than thermodynamics has taught
us about steam engines”
- Harold Morowitz