Yardstick

A yardstick is a tool used to physically measure lengths of up to three feet (a yard/0.9144 metres).

Most yardsticks are flat wooden boards with black markings at regular intervals and metal tips. Many new yardsticks have imperial units markings on one side (three feet with inch and fractional inch) and metric units on the other side (one meter with centimeter and millimeter).

Yardsticks may be used as pointing devices for posters and projections.

The term “yardstick” may also be used informally or metaphorically in reference to anything which serves as a test or standard of measurement, comparison or judgement (also see benchmark and litmus test).

Sparta XML

Sparta XML is a piece of software known as a parser. It is a fast and small open-source SAX and DOM Java XML parser that also includes an XPath subset.

It comes in two forms:

  1. A core package that parses XML into a simplified DOM and is smaller and easier to program than the standard Java XML DOM. It also allows an XPath subset for doing database-like queries.
  2. A wrapper package, dubbed Thermopylae, that implements the standard Java XML API’s for SAX and DOM parsers.


External links

  • Sparta XML home page

Z Format

The Z format is an open, and freely available document and typesetting language, coded by David H. Kristensen and Dan Ponte from the Z Initiative.

Z is loosely based on XML and SGML standards, and inspired by TeX, but with a focus on preserving the ease of use without compromising functionality.

Z supports CSS through the implementation of formatting areas, although z2html is currently the only one of the tools to recognize that support.


Example Syntax

<title>Document Title</title>
<header>Document Header</header>
<text>
Example Document Text <bold>in bold</bold> and <italic>italic</italic>
<fg:red>Red text</fg>
</text>


Z utilities

  • z2html, which translates Z to XHTML 1.1
  • z2rtf, which translates Z to RTF
  • MoZaiC, a console Z browser.


See also

  • List of document markup languages
  • Comparison of document markup languages
  • SGML
  • XML


External links

  • The official Z site

System identifier

A system identifier is a document processing construct introduced in the HyTime markup language as a supplement to SGML. It was subsequently incorporated into the HTML and XML markup languages.

In HyTime, there are two kinds of system identifier: formal system identifier (FSI) and simple system identifier.

In HTML and XML, a system identifier is a fragmentless URI reference. It typically occurs in a Document Type Declaration. In this context, it is intended to identify a document type which is used exclusively in one application, whereas a public identifier is meant to identify a document type that may span more than one application.

In the following example, the system identifier is the text contained within quotes:

<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

1 E-24 m

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths shorter than 10-23 m (10 ym).

This series on orders of magnitude does not have a range of shorter distances

  • 1.6 × 10−35 metres = the Planck length (lengths smaller than this do not make any physical sense, according to current theories of physics)
  • 1 ym = 1 yoctometre, the smallest named subdivision of the metre in the SI base unit of length.

Distances longer than 10 ym


See also

  • Yoctometre
  • Orders of magnitude (length)

World Fantasy Award for Best Artist

This World Fantasy Award is given to the artist voted best in the fantasy field by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.


Award winners and finalists


2004

WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges were John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt.

  • Winner: Donato Giancola
  • Winner: Jason Van Hollander
  • John Jude Palencar
  • John Picacio


2005

WFC 2005 was held in Madison, Wisconsin, and was chaired by Meg Turville-Heitz. Judges are Alis Rasmussen (Kate Elliott), Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

  • Winner: John Picacio
  • Caniglia
  • Kinuko Y. Craft
  • John Jude Palencar
  • Charles Vess


See also

  • World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
  • World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
  • World Fantasy Award
  • World Fantasy Convention
  • World Fantasy Convention Award
  • World Fantasy Special Award: Professional
  • World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional


External links

  • World Fantasy Convention

Document examiner

Document examiner may refer to:

  • In Forensic Science:

    • a Questioned Document Examiner
    • a Forensic Document Examiner
  • The Symbolics Document Examiner software program.

Logit analysis in marketing

Logit analysis is a statistical technique used by marketers to assess the scope of customer acceptance of a product, particularly a new product. It attempts to determine the intensity or magnitude of customers’ purchase intentions and translates that into a measure of actual buying behaviour. Logit analysis assumes that an unmet need in the marketplace has already been detected, and that the product has been designed to meet that need. The purpose of logit analysis is to quantify the potential sales of that product. It takes survey data on consumers purchase intentions and converts it into actual purchase probabilities.

Logit analysis defines the functional relationship between stated purchase intentions and preferences, and the actual probability of purchase. A preference regression is performed on the survey data. This is then modified with actual historical observations of purchase behavior. The resultant functional relationship defines purchase probability.

This is the most useful of the purchase intention/rating translations because explicit measures of confidence level and statistical significance can be calculated. Other purchase intention/rating translations include the preference-rank translation and the intent scale translation. The main disadvantage is that the software is not easy to find.


See also

  • marketing research
  • New Product Development
  • marketing
  • preference regression
  • logit

AAP DTD

In computing, AAP DTD is a Document Type Definition for a standard SGML document type for scientific documents, defined by the Association of American Publishers.

The AAP DTD has been succeeded by ISO 12083.


References

PowerShare

PowerShare may refer to:

  • The mail server from AOCE
  • A P2P feature for managing the upload priority of the shared files. Files that have powershare activated will be uploaded a 100% of the time, if there are people trying to download them, bypassing thus the usual queue.

Australian Transport Network Limited

The former Tasmanian Government Railways lines, which had been incorporated into Australian National as TasRail, were sold to the Australian Transport Network Limited, a partnership of Tranz Rail and Wisconsin Central Railway, when the Australian National Railways Commission was broken up in November 1997. Australian Transport Network was acquired by Pacific National in 2004, following the takeover of Tranz Rail by Toll Holdings.

Planck voltage

The Planck voltage is the unit of voltage, denoted by VP, in the system of natural units known as Planck units.

<math>V_P = \frac{E_P}{q_P} = \sqrt{\frac{c^4}{G 4 \pi \epsilon_0}} \approx</math> 1.04295 × 1027 V

where

<math>E_P</math> is the Planck energy

<math>q_P</math> is the Planck charge

<math>c</math> is the speed of light in a vacuum

<math>G</math> is the gravitational constant


See also

  • Planck’s constant
  • Natural units
  • SI UNITS CONVERSION TABLE HOW TO READ THIS TABLE: The table provides conversion factors to SI units. These factors can be considered as unity multipliers. For example:
  • WWW Unit Converter Converts area, density, energy, force, length, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature and volume, bits and bytes.
  • Google AdSense Help Center What kinds of ads will appear in the video unit? How will my users interact with the video unit? What languages do you support for video units?
  • Units NCA is comprised of several types of units that represent the substantive, professional, and representative interests of its members.
  • Metric conversions, metric conversion chart & table - online Metric conversions and US customary units - use the online metric converter and tables for unit measurements including temperature, weight, volume, area,
  • MOVING UNITS || HEXES FOR EXES out October 9th!!! Oct 6 2007 LA Weekly Detour Festival - Los Angeles Oct 11 2007 Popscene - SF San Francisco Nov 12 2007 Black Cat - Washington, DC Nov 13 2007
  • NIST Technology Services Page not found.
  • units MAN Page Convert units from one scale to another. The units are defined in an external data file. You can use the extensive data file that comes with this program,
  • EngNet Engineering Units Converter Online calculator provides conversions between a number of common (and not so common) units.
  • eFunda: Units and Constants The index page for units, fundamental constants, and currencies.

Smith criterion

The Smith criterion (sometimes generalized Condorcet criterion, but this can have other meanings) is a voting systems criterion defined such that its satisfaction by a voting system occurs when the system always picks the winner from the Smith set, the smallest set of candidates such that every member of the set is pairwise preferred to every candidate not in the set. One candidate is pairwise preferred over another candidate if, in a one-on-one competition, more voters prefer the first candidate than prefer the other candidate. The Smith set is named for mathematician John H Smith, whose version of the Condorcet criterion is actually stronger than that defined above for social welfare functions. Benjamin Ward was probably the first to write about this set, which he called the “majority set”.

The Smith set can be calculated with the Floyd-Warshall algorithm in time Θ(n3).


Other criteria

Any election method that complies with the Smith criterion also complies with the Condorcet criterion, since if there is a Condorcet winner, then that winner is the only member of the Smith set. Obviously, this means that failing the Condorcet criterion automatically implies the non-compliance with the Smith criterion as well. Additionally, such sets comply with the Condorcet loser criterion. This is notable, because even some Condorcet methods do not (Minimax). It also implies the mutual majority criterion, since the Smith set is a subset of the MMC set.

The Smith set and Schwartz set are sometimes confused in the literature. Miller (1977, p. 775) lists GOCHA as an alternate name for the Smith set, but it actually refers to the Schwartz set. The Schwartz set is actually a subset of the Smith set (and equal to it if there are no ties between members of the Smith set).


Complying methods

Schulze, Nanson’s method, and Ranked Pairs comply with the Smith Criterion. Compliance with the Smith criterion can be “forced” by explicitly applying a voting system to the Smith set. For example, Smith/Minimax is the application of Minimax to only the candidates inside the Smith set.

Methods failing the Condorcet criterion never comply with the Smith criterion, and many Condorcet methods also fail the Smith criterion.


References

  1. J. H. Smith, “Aggregation of preferences with variable electorate”, Econometrica, vol. 41, pp. 1027–1041, 1973.
  2. Benjamin Ward, “Majority Rule and Allocation”, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 5, No. 4. (1961), pp. 379–389.

Hping

hping is a free packet generator and analyzer for the TCP/IP protocol distributed by Salvatore Sanfilippo (also known as Antirez).
Hping is one of the de facto tools for security auditing and testing of firewalls and networks, and was used to exploit the idle scan scanning technique (also invented by the hping author), and now implemented in the Nmap Security Scanner. The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the Tcl language and implements an engine for string based, human readable description of TCP/IP packets, so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level TCP/IP packet manipulation and analysis in very short time.

Like most tools used in computer security, hping is useful to both system administrators and crackers (or script kiddies).


See also

  • Nmap Security Scanner: Nmap and hping are often considered complementary to one another.


External links

  • The Hping Website
  • The Hping Wiki
  • Idle Scanning, paper by Fyodor, the Nmap author.
  • Hping 2 Fixed for Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2)

Self-authenticating documents

  1. redirectSelf-authenticating document

Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington

Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, (born 24 November 1949) is a landowner and cross-bench member of the House of Lords.

Educated at Harrow School and at Oxford University, where he studied modern history, he has been manager of the Dillington Estate in Somerset since 1971. He was national president of the Country Land and Business Association from 1995 to 1997 and was a member of the UK Government’s Round Table for Sustainable Development from 1997 until 2000, when it was abolished to create the Sustainable Development Commission. He was Chair of the Countryside Agency from 1999 to 2004 and was the UK Government’s rural advocate for England from 2000 to 2004. He was raised to a life peerage as Baron Cameron of Dillington, of Dillington in the County of Somerset on 29 June 2004, having been knighted the previous year.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and of the Royal Agricultural Societies.

Megaverse

  1. Megaverse can refer to a term used to classify multiple universes.
  2. Megaverse is the term used to refer to the multiple universes of the many RPGs produced by Palladium Books.

M55

M55 or M-55 may refer to:

  • Messier 55 (M55), a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius
  • M55 motorway, a motorway in England
  • Myasishchev M-55, a Soviet reconnaissance aircraft

Dissipation factor

In physics, the dissipation factor (DF) is a measure of loss-rate of power of a mechanical mode, such as an oscillation, in a dissipative system.

For example, electric power is lost in all dielectric materials, usually in the form of heat. DF is expressed as the ratio of the resistive power loss to the capacitive power, and is equal to the tangent of the loss angle.

It is also referenced as the loss tangent

tan d,

and approximate power factor.

In capacitors, DF is the ratio of a capacitor’s equivalent series resistance (R) to its capacitive reactance (Xc). DF is usually expressed
as a percentage.

    DF = (R/Xc) × 100% = R/(1/ωC) × 100% = ωRC × 100%

where ω is the angular frequency (2πf).

DF will vary depending on the dielectric material. In low dielectric constant (K), temperature compensating, ceramics DF of 0.1 to 0.2% is typical. In high dielectic constant ceramics, DF can be 1 to 2%. However, lower DF is usually an indication of quality capacitors when comparing similar dielectric material.

Waterline length

Waterline length or length, waterline (abbreviated to LWL) is a sailboat term for the length of a boat at the point where it sits in the water. It excludes the total length of the boat, such as features that are out of the water. Most boats rise outwards at the bow and stern, so a boat maybe quite a bit longer than its waterline length.

This measure is essential in determining a lot of properties of a boat, such as how much water it displaces, where the bow and stern waves are, how much bottom-paint you need, etc.

Document examiner

Document examiner may refer to:

  • In Forensic Science:

    • a Questioned Document Examiner
    • a Forensic Document Examiner
  • The Symbolics Document Examiner software program.

ISO 3166-2:CU

ISO 3166-2:CU
is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to
Cuba.


Codes

Sorted by Code
CU-01 Pinar del Río
CU-02 La Habana
CU-03 Ciudad de La Habana
CU-04 Matanzas
CU-05 Villa Clara
CU-06 Cienfuegos
CU-07 Sancti Spíritus
CU-08 Ciego de Ávila
CU-09 Camagüey
CU-10 Las Tunas
CU-11 Holguín
CU-12 Granma
CU-13 Santiago de Cuba
CU-14 Guantánamo
CU-99 Isla de la Juventud
Sorted by Name
Provinces
Camagüey CU-09
Ciego de Ávila CU-08
Cienfuegos CU-06
Ciudad de La Habana CU-03
Granma CU-12
Guantánamo CU-14
Holguín CU-11
La Habana CU-02
Las Tunas CU-10
Matanzas CU-04
Pinar del Río CU-01
Sancti Spíritus CU-07
Santiago de Cuba CU-13
Villa Clara CU-05
Special Municipality
Isla de la Juventud CU-99


See also

  • ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
  • ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the Internet.
  • Provinc