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International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. The International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) is the oldest international conference for researchers and practitioners working on various kinds of user-adaptive computer systems such as Adaptive hypermedia systems, Recommender systems, Adaptive websites, Adaptive learning, Personalized learning and Intelligent tutoring systems and Personalized search systems. All of these systems adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users (i.e., Personalization). 
To achieve this goal, they collect and represent information about users or groups (i.e., User modeling).

The UMAP conferences have historically been organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc., a professional organization of User Modeling researchers. Until 2015, the conference proceedings were published by Springer. In 2016, the UMAP conference series became affiliated with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), where it is supported by ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGCHI.

History 
UMAP is the successor of the biennial conference series on User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia. The User Modeling series started in 1986 as the First International Workshop on User Modeling (UM) at Maria Laach, Germany and was first officially called a conference at the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The last conference in the original series was UM 2007. The International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (abbreviated as AH) started in 2000. The last conference in this original series was AH 2008, held in 2008. For several years between 2000 and 2008, UM and AH ran biennially in alternate years. In 2009, the conference series merged into a single annual series under the UMAP designation. The first UMAP conference was in 2009.

The full list of conferences in the series can be found on the UM Inc. website and in a timeline on the Springer publisher website.

References 

Association for Computing Machinery conferences
Computer science conferences
Artificial intelligence conferences
Computer conferences
Sunnambu Canal. Sunnambu Canal is a water stream canal that runs in Sunnambu Odai place in the northern part of Erode city in India. It was once a celebrated natural channel which supplied water for irrigation of lands in the surrounding areas it runs through. Being one of the minor tributaries to River Kaveri, the canal gets sourced by rain through smaller rivulets and the seepage from LBP Canal.

It starts near Chithode and ends its travel by inflowing into River Kaveri near RN Pudur. It runs for a length of  through the areas of Sottaiyampalayam and Suriyampalayam.

Environmental Issues
In the recent days, a number of Tanneries, dyeing units, textile mills and bleaching units has been established in this zone of Erode Municipal Corporation. The higher industrialization rate in this zone has caused adverse effects to this canal. It faces a lot of hazards and the water turns purple often due to the mix of untreated effluents that gets released into them from the nearby tanneries, dyeing and bleaching units. The Government along with some other civic agencies has taken several measures to control pollution in this canal, by implement some biological and mechanical treatment methodologies with aid from Norway-based companies.

On August 22, 2024 Minster S. Muthusamy Warned industries do not discharge effluents in to water canals in the Erode city limits, and inaugurated desilting works at Sunnambu Odai, and organised to protect environment and water boadies, he inaugurate restoration of water bodies, and water canals around the city that enters River Cauvery,

See also
 Perumpallam Canal
 Pichaikaranpallam Canal
 Nanjai Uthukuli Canal

References

Erode district
Canals in Tamil Nadu
List of computer hardware manufacturers in the Soviet Union. This is a list of computer hardware manufacturers in the Soviet Union:

List
Major Soviet hardware manufacturers and ministry affiliations in 1988:

Ministry of the Electronics Industry
Elka Plant
Leningrad Svetlana Association
Exiton Plant in Pavlovskiy Posad (завод «Экситон»)
Voronezh Elektronika Association (НПО «Электроника»)
Zelenograd Complex

Ministry of Instrument Making
V. I. Lenin Kiev Elektronmash Production Association (Киевское производственное объединение «Электронмаш» им. В. И. Ленина)
Kiev Plant of Computers and Electronic Control Machines (VUM) (Киевский завод вычислительных и управляющих машин - ВУМ)
Kishinev Calculating Machine Plant
Kursk Calculating Machines Plant
Leningrad Electrical Machines Plant (Ленинградский Электромашиностроительный Завод)
Livny Experimental Factory of Computer Graphics (Ливенский завод средств машинной графики)
Moscow Elektronmash Scientific Production Association
Orel Computer Machines Plant
Ryazan Order of Lenin Factory of Calculating Analytical Machinery
Impulse Severodonetsk Scientific Production Association (Северодонецкое научно-производственное объединение «Импульс»)
Smolensk Calculating Machine Factory
Taurage Calculating Machine Assemblies Plant (Tauragės skaičiavimo mašinų elementų gamykla)
Tbilisi Control Computer Works
Lenin Vilnius Computer Factory
Vilnius Sigma Association
Vinnytsia Terminal Plant (Завод «Терминал»)

Ministry of Radio Technology
Kazan Computer Plant (Казанский завод ЭВМ)
Minsk Computer Technology Production Corporation (Минское производственное объединение вычислительной техники)
Moscow Calculating Machines Plant (SAM; Московский завод счётно-аналитических машин)
Moscow Radio Plant (Московский Радиозавод)
Penza Computer Work (Завод вычислительных электронных машин)
Yerevan Electronics Plant (Ереванский завод "Электрон")

See also
 List of computer hardware manufacturers

References

Soviet computer hardware
Soviet computer hardware
Soviet computer hardware
Soviet computer hardware
Computer hardware manufacturers
Computer hardware
Computing in the Soviet Union
Falah Hassan al-Zidan. Falah Hassan al-Zidan Al Luhaibi  (born in Mosul, 1968) (; ) is an Iraqi politician and Minister of Agriculture.

Academic achievement and the places where he worked
 Bachelor of Civil Engineering / Al-Mustansiriya University
 Graduation year / 1996–1997
1 – Worked in the field of specialization in various companies in the private sector from 1998 to 2005 and was the last executive director of Eagle General Contracting Co. Ltd.

2 – Member of the House of Representatives in its first session 2006–2010

3 – Member of the Committee of Services in the House of Representatives in 2006–2007

4 – Member of the Security and Defense Committee in the House of Representatives 2008–2010

5. Member of the House of Representatives at its second session 2010–2014

6 – Member of the Security and Defense Committee in the House of Representatives 2010–2014

7 – Member of the House of Representatives in its third session 2014

8 – Minister of Agriculture in the Government of 2014

References

External links
Official website

Iraqi politicians
People from Mosul
Iraqi Muslims
Living people
1968 births
Al-Mustansiriya University alumni
Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq
Agriculture ministers of Iraq
1929 Jask Imperial Airways de Havilland Hercules crash. On 6 September 1929 a de Havilland Hercules three-engined biplane of Imperial Airways crashed on landing at Jask Airport, near the town of Jask in Iran on the Gulf of Oman. The aircraft was carrying mail from the United Kingdom to India. The pilot, a mechanic and a passenger were killed.

Aircraft
The aircraft was a de Havilland Hercules three-engined biplane, registered in the United Kingdom as G-EBMZ and delivered new to Imperial Airways in 1927. It was named City of Jerusalem by the airline.

Accident
The City of Jerusalem was carrying mail from the United Kingdom to India. While attempting a night landing at Jask the pilot misjudged the aircraft's altitude and it stalled and crashed. The landing gear was destroyed and the port wings were badly damaged. Flares were fitted to the wingtips and had been ignited to provide illumination for the night landing. The port wing had been forced backwards in the crash until it lay alongside the fuselage; the burning flare set fire to fuel spilled from the damaged fuel tanks. The pilot, a mechanic and a passenger were killed, the chief mechanic and wireless operator were seriously injured.

Investigation
The investigation was carried out by the Government of India and the British Air Ministry; the conclusion was that additional precautions were to be adopted, but noted that wing-mounted flares were still regarded as a satisfactory form of emergency landing aid.

Notes

References

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1929
Aviation accidents and incidents in Iran
Imperial Airways accidents and incidents
1929 in Iran
September 1929
Educational Launch of Nanosatellites. Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) is an initiative created by NASA to attract and retain students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. The program is managed by the Launch Services Program (LSP) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA and Firefly Aerospace are planning to launch eight CubeSats as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) 43, targeting no earlier than Wednesday, June 26. 

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket, in a mission dubbed “Noise of Summer,” will lift off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Overview 

The ELaNa initiative has made partnerships with universities in the US to design and launch small research satellites called CubeSats (because of their cube shape). These low-cost CubeSat missions provide NASA with valuable opportunities to test emerging technologies that may be useful in future space missions, while university students get to be involved in all phases of the mission, from instrument and satellite design, to launch and monitoring.

A CubeSat has a cubic shape measuring 10 × 10 × 10 cm (1 unit or 1U), and can be fabricated of multiple cubic units such as 2U, 3U and 6U, and weighing 1.33 kg per unit. Because of the high cost incurred by launching them to orbit, ELaNa's satellites are launched as secondary payload on other missions that have mass and space to spare. Since the launch waiting list has grown considerably, another initiative was launched in 2015 in partnership with the private industry to develop launch vehicles dedicated to CubeSats exclusively. A new company is called Rocket Lab and their launch vehicle is the Electron rocket. This agreement with NASA, enables the company to use NASA resources such as personnel, facilities and equipment for commercial launch efforts. In 2015, NASA contracted two other companies for this purpose: Firefly Space Systems and Virgin Galactic. Nevertheless, NASA CubeSats will continue to hitch rides as secondary payloads in larger rockets whenever possible.

As of August 2017, NASA's ELaNa initiative has selected 151 CubeSat missions, 49 of which have been launched into space.

Missions 

ELaNa mission numbers are based on the order they are manifested; due to the nature of launching, the actual launch order differs from the mission numbers.

Launched missions

Future missions 
List of future missions:

References

External links 

 ELaNa Home page  at NASA
 Past ELaNa missions at NASA
 Upcoming ELaNa missions at NASA
 CubeSat Launch Initiative at NASA

CubeSats
NASA programs
NASA oversight
Nanosatellites
Common Workflow Language. The Common Workflow Language (CWL) is a standard for describing computational data-analysis workflows. Development of CWL is focused particularly on serving the data-intensive sciences, such as bioinformatics, medical imaging, astronomy, physics, and chemistry.

Standard
A key goal of the CWL is to allow the creation of a workflow that is portable and thus may be run reproducibly in different computational environments.

The CWL originated from discussions in 2014 between Peter Amstutz, John Chilton, Nebojša Tijanić, and Michael R. Crusoe (at that time their respective affiliations were: Galaxy, Arvados, Seven Bridges, and Michigan State University) at the Open Bioinformatics Foundation BOSC 2014 codefest.

CWL is supported by multiple analysis runners and platforms such as Apache Airflow (via CWL-Airflow ), Arvados, Rabix, Cromwell workflow engine, Toil, REANA - Reusable Analyses and  CWLEXEC for IBM Spectrum LSF, and was identified in 2017 as one of the future trends for bioinformatics pipeline development. Several additional analysis environments are currently implementing support for CWL including Pegasus and Galaxy.

Availability 
The CWL Project is a multi-stakeholder working group consisting of both organizations and individuals. A member project of Software Freedom Conservancy, it publishes the CWL standards freely available via its GitHub repository under a permissive Apache License 2.0.

References

External links 
 CWL v1.0 specification DOI
 CWL website
 CWL GitHub Repository
 CWL entry in the EU Observatory for ICT Standardisation

Workflow languages
Cloud standards
Computer standards
Data interchange standards
Javelin Networks. Javelin Networks is an Israeli Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cyber security software development organization. The organization develops A.I., obfuscation and advanced forensics methodologies, and has branches in Tel Aviv and Palo Alto (California).

History 

Javelin was founded in 2014 by Roi Abutbul, Guy Franco and Almog Ohayon.

In 2016, Javelin Network was recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor”, and was named a Grand Trophy and Gold Award Winner for the 2017 Info Security Product Guide Excellence Awards. The company also received the 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company and the Gold in the Golden Bridge Award for Endpoint Security Solution Innovations

References

External links 
 Official website

Software companies of Israel
2018 mergers and acquisitions
PAF XT-001 Marko 1. The PAF XT-001 Marko 1 was a basic trainer aircraft developed by the Philippine Air Force Self-Reliance Development Wing (PAFSRDW).

Design and development
It was designed and built by the Self-Reliance Development Wing of the Philippine Air Force in 1975 from locally designed jigs and fixtures. It closely resembles the SIAI-Marchetti SF.260MP trainer, but with modified wingtips and cockpit. The prototype was initially thought to be a modified SF.260MP. Comparison of data with those for the SF.260MP indicates a slight increase in wingspan (though not in gross wing area), a lower empty weight, and (despite a similar powerplant and identical maximum takeoff weight) a slightly reduced performance. The first test flight was on May 21, 1975.

Operators

 Philippine Air Force

Specifications

See also

References

XT-001
1970s Philippine military trainer aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
PAF XT-004 Layang. The PAF XT-004 Layang was a basic trainer aircraft developed by the Philippine Air Force's Air Force Research and Development Center (AFRDC).

Design and development
After an intensified and revitalized self-reliance program in 1996, the XT-004 project, code-named "Layang", was developed by the PAFRDC in Villamor Air Base, Pasay. It is a single-engine aircraft powered by a 350 hp Allison Model 250-B17D turboshaft engine and is constructed from aluminum with a semi-monocoque structure. According to the PAFRDC, the aircraft jigs and fixtures have already been built since 1985, but lack of funds hindered the completion of the project.

Operators

 Philippine Air Force

See also

References

XT-004
1990s Philippine military trainer aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Single-engined turboprop aircraft
Turboshaft-powered aircraft
Walter Reeks. Walter Reeks () was one of the earliest naval architects in Australia and is known for designing yachts, ferries and coastal ships.

He was born in Christchurch, England and migrated to Australia in 1885.

Reeks apprenticed with Alexander Richardson and at shipbuilders George Inman & Sons in England. He became an expert at yacht design and propulsion.

He was active in the Sydney yachting community on arrival in Australia and joined several of the yacht clubs and engineering associations. He was Vice Commodore for the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron from 1906 to 1910. He was president of the NSW Engineering Association in 1914.

He worked for various Sydney ferry companies between 1890 and 1915, a period in which the ferry system saw significant growth. He designed the first double-ended-screw Manly ferry, the Manly (II), and the Kuring-gai, which became the model for Manly ferries of the first half of the 20th century. Other Sydney ferries designed by Reeks, including all but one of the early-20th-century 'Lady' ferries, such as the Lady Denman and Lady Scott, and all of the Watsons Bay ferries, such as the Vaucluse. He also designed the Hobart ferries Derwent and Rosny.

Reeks married Mary Emma Kent in March 1889. They had a daughter, Thelma, and son, Kent. Mary died in 1895 and Reeks married again in 1900. Reeks's son was murdered in England in 1914.

Reeks died in October 1925. Several of his yachts are extant as of 2018, including Boomerang and Ena in Sydney.

References

Australian naval architects
Maritime history of Australia
1861 births
1925 deaths
British emigrants to colonial Australia
Anne McNeil. Anne J. McNeil (born June 17, 1977) is an American chemist who currently works at the University of Michigan, where she holds the position of Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering. In 2017, McNeil was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Biography
McNeil is from Buffalo, New York. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. Her graduate work was with Dave Collum at Cornell University, studying the aggregation kinetics and chemistry of lithium amides and lithium enolates. After earning her PhD in chemistry in 2005, McNeil was a post-doc with Timothy M. Swager at MIT from 2005 to 2007, studying conjugated polymers. She now has two kids and a dog named

She joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 2007 as an assistant professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering. She became an Arthur F. Thurnau professor in September 2013, and a professor for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2014.

Scientific career
McNeil's lab at the University of Michigan is known for providing mechanistic understanding to the catalyst transfer polymerization process, helping to show that the likely intermediate is a catalyst-polymer π-complex, but the lab has a diverse focus.

For her work on conjugated polymers, there has been considerable focus on expanding the use of catalyst transfer polymerization to make polymers of novel or hard-to-reach architectures (such as conjugated gradient copolymers or insulating-conducting block copolymers) and for studying the properties of new conjugated polymers or new blends of known polymers in solar cells to improve their performance.

Another focus has been on molecular gelation; McNeil has published molecular gels as sensors of many harmful or hard to detect compounds. This is with the underlying assumption that it is easier to determine if a gel has formed (since it will go from a flowing solution to a gel that resists flow) rather than alternatives, such as if a solution has changed color (which can be difficult to discern if the analyte is strongly colored). McNeil's lab has produced gel-based sensors for mercury ions, nitrite ions, explosives, enzymes, and lead ions, which gel when the analyte is present. Many of the gels outperform current sensors for the same materials in sensitivity and in accuracy.

Awards
McNeil was one of the first class of Beckman Scholars, receiving an award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation in 1998.  McNeil was also selected for a Beckman Young Investigators Award in 2009.

References 

1977 births
Living people
21st-century American chemists
American women chemists
University of Michigan faculty
Cornell University alumni
College of William & Mary alumni
21st-century American women
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Robot Monk Xian'er. Robot Monk Xian'er () is a humanoid robot based on the cartoon character Xian'er. It was developed by a team of monks, volunteers and AI experts from Beijing Longquan Monastery in Beijing, China.
 He can follow human instructions to make body movements, read scriptures and play Buddhist music. He can chat and respond to people's emotional and spiritual questions with Buddhist wisdom. As a chatbot, Robot Monk Xian'er is available on certain public platforms including WeChat and Facebook. Over the years, master Xuecheng, the abbot of Beijing Longquan Monastery, replied to thousands of questions on Sina Weibo. These questions and their answers become the data source of the chatbot.

References

External links
 Robot Monk Xian’er Facebook Page

Chatbots
Robots
Ethosome. Ethosomes are phospholipid nanovesicles used for dermal and transdermal delivery of molecules. Ethosomes were developed by Touitou et al.,1997, as additional novel lipid carriers composed of ethanol, phospholipids, and water. They are reported to improve the skin delivery of various drugs. Ethanol is an efficient permeation enhancer that is believed to act by affecting the intercellular region of the stratum corneum. Ethosomes are soft malleable vesicles composed mainly of phospholipids, ethanol (relatively high concentration), and water. These soft vesicles represent novel vesicles carriers for enhanced delivery through the skin. The size of the ethosomes vesicles can be modulated from tens of nanometers to microns.

Structure and composition 
Ethosomes are mainly composed of multiple, concentric layers of flexible phospholipid bilayers, with a relative high concentration of ethanol (20-45%), glycols and water. Their overall structure has been confirmed by 31P-NMR, EM and DSC. They have high penetration of the horny layer of the skin, which enhances the permeation of encapsulated drugs. The mechanism of permeation enhancement is attributed to the overall properties of the system.

Applications 
Because of their unique structure, ethosomes are able to efficiently encapsulate and deliver into the skin highly lipophilic molecules such as testosterone, cannabinoids and ibuprofen, as well as hydrophilic drugs such as clindamycin phosphate, buspirone hydrochloride. They have been studied for the transdermal and intradermal delivery of peptides, steroids, antibiotics, prostaglandins, antivirals and anti-pyretics. The components used to make ethosomes are already approved for pharmaceutical and cosmetic use and the formulated vesicles are stable when stored. They can be incorporated in various pharmaceutical formulations such as gels, creams, emulsions and sprays. They're consequently being developed for pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical products. Ethosomal systems compare favourably to alternative carriers for quantity and depth of molecule delivery.

References 

Membrane biology
Drug delivery devices