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LAGOS — There are indications that the country's labour market has taken a major hit with worsening unemployment recorded in the second quarter (Q2) of 2015. About 1, 317,700 Nigerians lost their jobs within the period.
On the other hand, the number of underemployed increased significantly with new hire of about 1,362,274 citizens in this category of employment during the period.
Within the same period, the number of unemployed in the labour force increased to 6,063,500, a significant 9.6 per cent from 5,533,600 recorded in first quarter (Q1), resulting in an increase in unemployment rate to 8.2 per cent in Q2, 2015 from 7.5 per cent in Q1. This represents a third consecutive rise in the unemployment rate since third quarter 2014.
Accordingly, there were a total of 19.6 million people between ages 15 and 65 either unemployed or underemployed in the labour force in Q2, 2015, compared to 17.7 million in Q1 2015.
Amidst this development, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in its latest labour market report, said economically active population or working age population (persons within ages 15-64) increased to 103.5 million in Q2, 2015 from 102.8 million in Q1.
Also, the report shows that in Q2, 2015, the labour force population (those within the working age population willing, able and actively looking for work) increased to 74 million from 73.4 million in Q1 2015, representing an increase of 0.81per cent. This means 574,498 economically active persons within ages 15 and 64 entered the labour force within the period.
According to NBS, the drop in the number of full employment (those working less than 40 hours per week) despite a rise in the labour force can be attributed more to job losses or previously fully employed persons choosing or being forced to work part time or in underemployment.
The NBS report also indicated that unemployment and underemployment was higher for women than men in Q2 2015.
While 9.6 per cent of women in the labour force (those between 15 65 willing, able and actively working or searching for work) were unemployed in Q2 2015, another 21.6 per cent of them in the labour force were underemployed during the period under review. On the other hand, 6.9 per cent of males were unemployed in Q2 2015, while another 15.4 per cent of males in the labour force were underemployed.
Employment, underemployment and unemployment, according to NBS, are treated as a function of a person's involvement or otherwise in economic activity even if that activity is aimed at making ends meet. The suitability of wages is covered under other quality of living standards indicators such as poverty etc and not in determining whether one is employed, unemployed or underemployed which is a function of economic engagement..
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"The Storm Cellar: A Compass on the Homesteads of Rural Arkansas," 1983
This collection contains a copy of "The Storm Cellar: A Compass on the Homesteads of Rural Arkansas," presented by Sarah Brown.
Sarah Brown, of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program presented "The Storm Cellar: A Compass on the Homesteads of Rural Arkansas," at the annual meeting of the Pioneers American Society, Macomb, Illinois in 1983.
Document, 8.5" x 11"
Arkansas; Macomb, Illinois
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"The Storm Cellar: A Compass on the Homesteads of Rural Arkansas," SMC.037.054
"The Storm Cellar: A Compass on the Homesteads of Rural Arkansas," Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.

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This study considers chemical compounds that can exert their activity by interacting with a target protein or other molecular receptor. Our aim is to develop machine learning models that can predict if a chemical compound will be active in a particular test/assay. We will use data from assays that are present in the PubChem knowledge base, specifically in its segment called BioAssays which reports the results of many high-throughput screening experiments. PubChem BioAssays is a valuable resource that contains information from a large number of experiments. In one assay, sometimes many hundreds or even many thousands of chemicals are tested. Data from these experimental assays contain information about chemicals that are active as well as chemicals that are not active in an assay. These represent an interesting resource of experimental data that are well suited for classification purposes. We will approach the problem by evaluating different ways that chemical compounds can be numerically described by means of so-called fingerprints, and then apply different machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models to classify active and inactive chemicals for a number of assays. In this study, we will make comprehensive comparisons of the types of ML /DL models and types of fingerprint features that describe chemicals, and evaluate combinations of models and fingerprints that work best for the problem in question. Our focus is on finding those combinations which are useful for distinguishing active from inactive compounds in single PubChem assays. We will evaluate the methods across 10 assays and will examine the effects of 11 types of fingerprints. For example, PubChem fingerprints and MACCS keys fingerprints. For the evaluation, up to now we performed 88 experiments for each dataset and 968 in total for all 10 PubChem assays. These experiments involved approximately 6000 interactions between chemicals and their targets. The implementation of this project has been done using MATLAB toolbox. Based on these and additional experiments, we will be in a position to propose which combination of fingerprints and ML/DL models works best in the above-mentioned task. Such modeling will be useful to predict activity for chemicals that are not tested.
Elaf Jameel Islam is a Master Student in Computer Science. She joint Knowledge Mining Laboratory in 2017. She was a teaching assistant at Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia. Her interests are bioinformatics, Data mining, Machine Learning, Deep Learning. Her researches focus on applying machine learning classifiers to predict drug activities, and evaluation of deep learning methods in recognition of genomic signals.


I'm going to leave this up as a remembrance of my life before PTSD. Things have changed a lot for me. I don't work any more. I struggle to sew. I struggle to knit. I go to therapy twice a week. I've lost friends. Some have announced they are "not comfortable" with me any more, some have just drifted away as I have stopped doing my old activities.
But all is not lost. I have the support of a wonderful husband and my teenage sons have shown what good men they are going to be. I am training a PTSD service dog with the help of a specialized trainer and not only has that gotten me the courage to go out in public more it has been rewarding and fun! I have found an art therapy group and made some new friends there and learned more about art making. I slowly make progress. The future exists for me now. I'll finish with a quote. "Be kind for everyone is fighting a hard battle".
Hi, Laura, I am so sorry to learn that you have suffered so. From here, I can do little more than send you hugs across the air. But know that I also am cheering you on as you find ways to cope.
I am very sorry to hear of your troubles. I have missed you in the blogosphere. My sincere best wishes for continued healing.
Hoping that the service dog helps. Hang in there.


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Murder accused denies smiling in selfie and tells jury 'false teeth were falling out'
A man on trial for the murder of a mum who was burned alive in her abandoned car has denied smiling in a "selfie" taken after the killing and claimed his false teeth were simply falling out when he took the picture.
Monday, 19 March, 2018, 13:07
Quyen Ngoc Nguyen. Picture issued by Northumbria Police
Stephen Unwin and William McFall, who are both already convicted murderers and met while serving life sentences, are accused of killing Quyen Nguyen after keeping her captive at a house for four hours where she was raped and forced to hand over bank details.Miss Nguyen's body was found in her Audi A4 which was dumped and set on fire on a dirt track in Shiney Row.The 28-year-old nail salon worker may have been still alive when the blaze was started and could only be identified through dental records.Unwin, 40, of St. Oswald's Terrace, Houghton, and McFall, 51, of Waterloo Road, Blackpool, both deny rape and murder.During the trial, jurors at Newcastle Crown Court have seen a "selfie" photograph taken by McFall, in Unwin's car, after the killing last August.Prosecutors say the image, which appears to show McFall smiling in the foreground while Unwin is driving in the background, was taken after the men dumped Miss Nguyen's body and went back to Unwin's house on foot, where they collected his vehicle.On his second day of giving evidence, McFall has told jurors he was not smiling in the photograph.He said from the witness box: "I am not smiling."For the benefit of the jury, I have false teeth and they are falling out, you will see that."McFall added; "They are falling out at the time when I am sending a selfie."McFall made the false teeth claim while he was being cross examined by Unwin's barrister Dapinder Singh QC.Jurors, who had been shown the "selfie" earlier in the trial have been shown the image again.McFall told them; "It is most certainly not a happy smile."
Both men have told the jury they have received threats from their co-accused after they were arrested.Unwin has told jurors he left McFall, known as John, alone with the victim at his home while he went to the shop for cigarettes and that she looked 'dead' when he got back.McFall has told jurors it was Unwin who carried out the killing last August and "laughed" as he did it.Jurors have heard Unwin was given a life sentence in 1999 for murder after he broke into a 73-year-old man's home in Houghton-le-Spring on Christmas Day in 1998 and attacked then stabbed him in the chest before starting three fires.He was released in 2012.The court heard McFall was jailed for life at Belfast Crown Court in April 1997 after he had broken into the home of 86-year-old Martha Gilmore, who had mobility problems, at Station Road, Greencastle and repeatedly hit her with a hammer in May 1996.McFall was released on licence in 2010.Both men deny the murder and rape of Miss Nguyen.The trial continues.


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FG to build 10 new Airports across Nigeria — Hadi Sirika
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FG to build 10 new Airports across Nigeria The Federal Government says 10 new airports will be constructed across the country to boost civil aviation. The...


SINGAPORE - Four adults and three children were taken to hospital after a four-car chain collision took place in Sheares Avenue on Saturday evening (June 2).
A black Audi car flipped over and was found overturned on its back just before an Electronic Road Pricing gantry in Sheares Avenue, next to Marina Bay Sands hotel.
A silver car was also damaged on one side, with its left front tyre punctured. A group of young adults was seen waiting by the side of the road.
The police said they were alerted to an accident involving four cars in Sheares Avenue, in the direction of Central Boulevard, at about 7.30pm.
Four adults, aged between 24 and 30, were taken to Singapore General Hospital and three children, aged four and six, were taken to KK Women's and Children's Hospital.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), who was alerted to a call for ambulance assistance around the same time, said that all of them were conscious and in stable condition.
The Straits Times understands that the silver car, a Toyota, was attempting to change lanes at the time when it was hit by the black Audi from the side.


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USS John J. Powers (DE-528) Areas With Asbestos Exposure
The USS John J. Powers (DE-528) was an Evarts-class destroyer escort laid down on September 25, 1943, and launched on November 2, the same year. It was commissioned on February 29, 1944, under Lt. Cmdr. E. W. Loew's command as DE-528, and served in the U.S. Navy for one year until it was decommissioned on October 16, 1945. During its activities, the ship carried a complement of 198 people on board and had its main missions in Bermuda, Charleston, Boston, New York, Halifax, Casablanca, Casco Bay, Miami, and Mers El Kebir. After the decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Navy List on November 1, 1945, and sold for scrapping in 1946. If asbestos particles are inhaled or ingested, the fibers can become lodged in the lining around the lungs or other internal organs. Over time, those tiny fibers cause chronic inflammation and scarring, which can lead to the formation of cancer cells. Once fibers cause biological damage, the stage is set for a 10 to 40 year latency period for malignant mesothelioma to develop. If you or a loved one served in the U.S. Navy and now experience symptoms such as shortness of breath, persistent cough, and tightness in your chest, talk to your doctor as soon as possible.
Everyone who served on the USS John J. Powers (DE-528) inhaled the asbestos fibers and is at risk for developing lung disease
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Description	 When a TComboBox is DroppedDown, moving the mouse over TJvLabel causes it to close up.
This is due to the MouseCapture code in TJvCustomLabel.MouseEnter & MouseLeave. The attached patch file removes this code.
I haven't committed the changes, as I can't see why this code was put there in the first place. If there are no objections within the next week, I'll commit it.
I think it has to do with the Drag and Drop modes. Please investigate in this area.
It was introduced in v1.77 along with the implementation of IJvHotTrack, which you committed for Dejoy Den (Mantis 0003107).
I don't know much about drag & drop, but if MouseCapture is needed for that then shouldn't it be set/unset in MouseDown/MouseUp, not in MouseEnter/MouseLeave?
From what I can see (in D7 on Win2k) removing this code actually improves the HotTrack handling when dragging occurs. With the code (current in CVS) if you drag the label and drop somewhere else on the form, then move the mouse back over the label, it doesn't hottrack. Removing the code (as per the patch) fixes this behaviour.


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KollaJell is the company's freeze-dried jellyfish collagen powder.
Certified Nutraceuticals, Inc. has filed for patent protection for its newest invention of invertebrate freeze dry collagen protein bound to natural minerals. KollaJell is the culmination of years of research and development under the management of the original inventor of Hydrolyzed Collagen Type II.
KollaJell supplies special the nutrients of collagen and minerals found in edible jellyfish. KollaJell is composed of multiple types of collagen, naturally bound with essential minerals. The health benefits of edible jellyfish collagen are supported by in vivo studies, according to the company. Studies have shown the consumption of jellyfish collagen yields positive results for healthy aging.
Certified Nutraceuticals specializes in collagen and anti-aging polyphenols for healthy connective tissue and cellular longevity. Among other products and ingredients, Certified is known for kollaGen II-xs 100% Hydrolyzed Chicken Sternum Collagen Type II; Revers♥e-vine grapevine extract featuring the Newly Discovered Trans-e-Viniferin, which is considered to have more antioxidant effects beyond resveratrol; H.A.95 Natural Rooster Comb Hyaluronic Acid for Extracellular Matrix Support; Olea25 25% Hydroxytyrosol extracted from organic olive leaf with the highest ORAC value of any phytochemical discovered to date; TendoGuard Collagen Type I, II, V, X, and naturally occurring mucopolysaccharides for musculoskeletal health; and Telos95.
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All children enjoy messy fun and one of the best ways you can facilitate this type of sensory play is with a Mud Kitchen.
The children can access all the utensils you would find within a normal kitchen. They can explore the use of these utensils with mud and water. This creates opportunities for weighing, measuring, exploring capacity, exploring textures and consistencies etc.


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Serenity and Tranquility Exposed in the Los Limoneros in Marbella, Spain
Privacy is a big word for people who always want to have a peaceful and quiet place to live in. Today, we will share to you another private residence built in Marbella, Spain. This house was successfully completed last year. With an area of 585 square meters this residential house maintains its private areas away from the other houses.
The plot is specifically located in a suburban urbanization of private villas next to a golf court near Marbella, Spain. The house program is specifically intended for the entire family with their kids and guests. The interior has an area of 480 square meters. The designer said that there was an existing house which is typically designed for their fascinating garden. Scroll down the page and see how the designer conceptualized the design of this private residential home through the images below.
Take a look at the white themed building of this house that seems to display its well-organized and private interiors.
See the lush vegetation in the surroundings that underlines its geometric forms and figure.
Tall trees and well-trimmed plants complements with the white painted buildings of the house.
Spacious and neat exterior maintains the privacy and the strong connection to interior.
Flawless and clean texture of the walls and floor in the entrance ensures the privacy in the house.
White walls, ceilings and floors of this interior is highlighted with the sustainable light here.
The designer minimized the furniture in the living space to make this more spacious.
Curves and straight lines seen from the chairs complements with the edifice underscore the modern concept in the house.
Combination of rough and smooth texture is well displayed in the walls and floors of this house.
Comfort and great style is specially offered for the clients and its guests.
The client may still enjoy the sight of the tall trees and panoramic views from this terrace.
Forms and lines are also well-illustrated in the interior of this house which also proves its neatness and charm.
LED lights installed in the interior underlines its luxurious and fascinating effect to its details.
Sustainable light is accessible in this area while the client is unwinding from the stressful work.
The clean lines and smooth textures of the floor is maintained in this area.
Large swimming pool installed in the exterior completes the private and comfortable experience in the house.
The serenity and tranquility of the swimming pool area explains the idea and concept of the privacy and comfort.
Bruno Helbing effectively illustrated the details of the interiors and exteriors of this house through the selected photographs he took. Actually the idea of the designer was to create a huge garden with huge covered outside spaces which provide some shades whenever it is needed. For the family, they consider this as their perfect spot where they can catch the twilight, sunrise and sunset with their friends and family while enjoying with some Spanish wines and foods as well. Indeed, this house is successfully designed by the Gus Wüstemann Architects. We hope that you catch some inspirational ideas and ways on how you may achieve the best private and intimate areas in the house.
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Home › News & Blog › I owe my recovery to CareOne at Teaneck.
I wanted to write you so that you can read, first-hand, from someone who owes his recovery to you and your superlative staff.
When I transferred to CareOne at Teaneck, I could not have imagined progressing to where I am today. After an entire summer of life-saving surgeries, I had lost the ability to walk. I required expert wound care, medical supervision, dietary counseling and aggressive physical therapy, if I were ever going to return to a meaningful existence. After over 20 years in medical practice, the thought of being a patient, much less a debilitated in-patient, was terrible for me.
I write this from my beautiful new office, on my first week back to work. Like many at CareOne, I have dedicated my entire life to treating my patients, and thanks in very large part to the phenomenal people at CareOne, my reason for being has been restored. I am back where I belong – seeing patients, helping those in need and running my business.
There are many CareOne at Teaneck staff members to thank for this most precious gift of restored health, vitality and productivity, too many to mention by name. The admissions department made my transfer seamless. The nurses and aides, (all shifts), were keenly attentive to my needs and rendered the most expert and compassionate care I have ever experienced.
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Under the expert and motivated care of your physical therapy department, I went from something unrecognizable to myself, to the man writing you this very instant. A man who has regained his reason for being, and now views life through a much more humanistic lens. I have all of you to thank for this.
I would also urge any patients to take this letter to heart as proof, that they too can and will make great strides in their own lives under the care of the amazing people at CareOne at Teaneck.
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Robert Kenneth Meyer (27 May 1932 – 6 May 2009) was a logician and Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University.

First trained to be a minister at the Union Congregational Church by the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1956, he completed his graduate studies in philosophy and logic at the University of Pittsburgh. He moved to Australia and joined the Australian National University in 1974. He worked on the semantics of relevant logic.

He was the Maximum Leader for the Logicians Liberation League, and drafted its manifesto.

Meyer died of lung cancer on 6 May 2009, aged 76, in Canberra, Australia.

Was married to peace activist Barbara (Bobi) Lee Meyer.

Survived by Children: Nancy, Judy, Gail, Bob Junior, Carl, Jay, Vandy, Dorothy, Billy, Maria and Gisela.

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TBA21–Academy's Ocean Week is timed to coincide with the first ever United Nations Ocean Conference, held in New York on June 5–9, 2017 to support the implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG14) – to "conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development".
SDG14's successful implementation depends upon new kinds of platforms that engage people at all levels. Art has always been on the frontline of revolutions; it builds communities while moving us to shift perspectives and see things anew. While art does not claim to be the solution, it can draw us closer to one as part of its creative process. It is a connective force that can weave exploration, science, law, ancient knowledge and other spheres together to rekindle our relationship with the ocean.
The ocean is a giant interconnected ecosystem on which we depend for so many things and it is vital that we feel compelled to act in aid of it, and that we believe we have the agency to do so. TBA21–Academy's Ocean Week draws together some of the brightest minds from across the disciplines of art, exploration and science to open up our curiosity about this largely unknown entity, and to encourage action rather than words.
During the first two days of the UN Ocean Conference, some of the world's leading figures from the worlds of art, science, exploration and conservation will transform the Explorers Club into a space of inspiration and collaboration; using immersive elements, storytelling and performance to discuss many of today's big ocean-related issues. Find out more here.
Commissioned by TBA21–Academy for World Oceans Day 2017, Laura Anderson Barbata's work Ocean Calling charts the physical and emotional relationship to life in our ocean and the urgent need for collective transformation. This storied performance will take place in the plaza in front of the United Nations Headquarters. Find out more here.
The ocean is larger than all our nations combined. What can you do for our Earth's blue heart?


I have had the same office space for a long time now, and I feel it needs a change. First thing that comes to mind of course is a new desk and a new chair. I will be making a wishlist soon that will include some of my choices, however don't be surprised if I end up changing the room altogether as well. I moved the office upstairs so that it would have more light, but I miss a more private space to work, so I might move it back downstairs now that I am renovating the second bedroom. With the right paint on the wall and the right ambient light, even a small room with a small window can look great, and with winter still around I think a cozy office space will not be a bad idea at all. In the meantime I am gathering ideas on my Pinterest board Home – Office. You are welcome to stop by and see where I get my inspiration from.


In this webinar, Robert Frampton, solicitor at Herrington Carmichael LLP, will be guiding you through TUPE with a particular emphasis on service provision changes and factors to be considered as a new service provider.
Herrington Carmichael is a full service law firm with offices in London, Berkshire and Surrey.
Robert specialises in company reorganisations and, in particular, TUPE transfers. Robert has worked on a number of outsourcings and regularly advises clients on TUPE. Robert always aims to provide practical and understandable advice on complex areas of law.


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Mr Ashok Sundaram
LL.M., Solicitor & Advocate
Email: as@ktslegal.com
Ashok is a Solicitor admitted to the roll in 2010 and Advocate enrolled in India in the year 2002. He specialises in public and human rights law with an emphasis on UK Immigration and Nationality law. His expertise extends to matters relating to Contracts, Intellectual property rights, Possession of property at County Courts and drafting Wills.
QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
To enhance his professional career he earned a Master's degree in Law from a reputed University from Scotland with specialisation in International Commercial Law, Dispute resolution and international human rights Law. He is also a qualified Advocate in India and is a member of the Indian Bar Council since 2002.
Ashok has been providing affordable legal advice and representation to both EU and non-EU individuals, family and companies in the UK. He advises clients across a range of immigration matters, including entry clearance applications, in country leave to remain applications, administrative reviews, appeals against Home Office refusal decisions, permanent residency and naturalisation applications.
His expertise covers all aspects of corporate immigration law including applications under various tiers (Tier 1, 2, 4 & 5) of the Points-Based System, entry clearance applications. He has advised extensively on all aspects of immigration for UK employers who are licensed sponsors under Tier 2, 4 and 5 of the PBS and also on objections/appeal against the Notice of civil penalties. His corporate immigration expertise includes assisting employers to manage their Sponsor management System, in view of prevention of illegal working and risk management strategies he regularly conducts compliance audit visits and provides strategic advice on their sponsorship licence in line with the Home Office guidance on sponsor compliance and duties, action plans, license re-rating, right-to-work checks and also assists on the recruitment of individuals or transfer of employees both from within UK and abroad. He further assists with sponsorship following acquisition of companies and the transfer of their employees under TUPE regulations.
Ashok has had notable success in advising high net worth immigration clients on a number of complex initial and extension applications under Tier 1 (Entrepreneur, Investor and exceptional talent) clients and applications for accelerated settlement under these routes.
Kumar has acted in the acquisition of a commercial freehold property for £1.2 million which also involves franchises from WHSmith, Post Office & a reputable retail business.
Ashok acts for a broad range of clients in the UK and overseas from private clients to MNCs, business & management consultancies, software/ IT contractors, logistics industries, oil & gas companies, construction companies, food industries, NHS trust recruitment agencies, GP practices, telecommunication companies, pharmacies, Care Homes, religious/charitable organisations, clothing wholesale companies, export & import, jewelleries and also retail businesses. Ashok also advises clients on Indian Laws relating to transfer of property, Power of Attorney, Business Agreements for Indian investors in the UK business.
He continues to update knowledge in his areas of practise in order to ensure competency in the profession. He attends annual conferences, seminars by notable Barristers including Queen's Counsels, interactive master classes and also regularly interacts with industry experts.
Ashok is dual qualified having enrolled as an Advocate in Bar Council of India and practised in that jurisdiction both on Contentious & Non- Contentious matters.
He has been a member of Law society of England & Wales, Bar council of India and Society of Asian Lawyers.
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Ashok advises clients on judicial review matters challenging Secretary of State's unlawful decisions, including decision of Revocation of sponsor licence, at the Upper Tribunal and Admin Court division of the Royal Courts of justice. He has also sought interim relief on urgent consideration basis and successfully obtained interim relief for clients. He has experience in instructing junior/senior Counsels and QCs on many notable cases in relation to revocation of sponsor licence by secretary of state for the home department.
Ashok has handled numerous number of complex cases in the Immigration appeal proceedings at the First Tier and Upper Tribunals, Judicial Review claims, both in the Upper Tribunal and the Administrative Court, and cases in the Court of Appeal. With significant experience in immigration, he is active in resolving post-conviction removal/deportation cases, bail applications, adult dependent relative appeals, cases under Appendix FM as well as Article 8 of European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), European Economic Area (EEA) appeals for both family and extended family member.
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Q: Where to publish a new proof of an old theorem? A few months ago I came up with a proof for an old theorem. After being excited for a moment, I then tried to find my proof in the literature. Since I did not find it, then I started to wonder if it was worth publishing it.
I asked a few people about journals that could publish something like this, and they gave me two recommendations:
(1) The Mathematical Gazette, http://www.m-a.org.uk/the-mathematical-gazette
(2)The Plus Magazine, https://plus.maths.org/content/about-plus
First I submitted to the Mathematical Gazette, and my article was rejected because according to the reviewer I was trying to prove something very simple using something much more complex (although I just used undergraduate level math).
Then I submitted to Plus, and it was also rejected by the editors (it probably doesn't fit well with their magazine).
Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.

A: A new proof of an old theorem, especially using modern machinery, could well be within the scope of the Graduate Journal of Mathematics, which seeks to publish work either by graduate students or that would be of interest to graduate students. From their website:

The Graduate Journal of Mathematics is an electronic journal that publishes original work as well as expository work of general mathematical interest which add to the literature, have pedagogical value and help make more widely accessible significant mathematical ideas, constructions or theorems...One main aim of our journal is to help researchers in mathematics in general, and graduate students in particular, gain access to important ideas and communicate interesting mathematics.

Full disclosure: I am on the editorial board. And I'd be happy to receive a submission with a new proof of an old theorem.

A: This question, as stated cannot be answered. Everything depends on the theorem and on the proof, and this information you did not state.
For example, at least one Fields medal was awarded for a "new proof of an old theorem" (Selberg, 1950). A new proof can be published in principle in
any mainstream journal, if the theorem is important and the proof gives an important new insight.

A: If the old theorem is something commonly seen in an undergraduate math class (with the old demonstration), then this might be appropriate as a "Note" in the American Mathematical Monthly.
What could happen if you submit it?  They may publish it.  The referee may give you a reference for it.  They may respond in the same way as the Gazette.
What if the old theorem is not commonly seen in an undergraduate math course?  When you write a textbook on that area of math, you can include your new proof.  But if you think it unlikely you will write a textbook on this, then probably there is little prospect for publishing this.  Maybe if you make it known to the experts* then some day one of them may include it in their new textbook.
*Perhaps by posting somewhere on-line...

A: Alternately, when you write a paper on a related topic (ie, which already develops the necessary machinery), you could perhaps include it somewhere in that paper?  I've seen this done numerous times.

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The Community Foundation of New Jersey (CFNJ) today announced that Barbara Lawrence, Executive Director of The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation (HMTF), has joined its Board of Directors.
Created in 1967 as a means for Mr. and Mrs. Taub to give back to the community, HMTF today makes grants to pre-selected organizations working in early childhood, aging in place, and medical research. Henry Taub was the founder of Automatic Payrolls, now called ADP, one of the largest providers of business outsourcing solutions, serving businesses in over 125 countries.
As HMTF's executive director, Lawrence works in partnership with the Taub family to increase the effectiveness and impact of the Foundation's grantmaking. A continuing focus of the Foundation is on local communities in New Jersey's Bergen and Passaic counties, in areas with the greatest needs, including Henry's home town of Paterson. The Foundation also makes grants in Israel through existing partnerships.
Prior to joining HMTF, Lawrence worked on public policy issues in New Jersey for more than two decades. She was a co-founder and executive director of New Jersey Future, a research and advocacy organization working for smart growth – namely more livable places and open spaces. Prior to that, Lawrence was Senior Vice President of the Regional Plan Association and Associate Director of the Governor's Commission on Science and Technology.
Lawrence chaired the Waterfront Commission in her then home town of Hoboken and led the successful effort to create a redevelopment plan of the waterfront that resulted in award-winning open space, walkways, and major new commercial and residential buildings. She received her undergraduate education from the University of California at Berkeley and her Masters Degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.
Since 1979, individuals and businesses have opened charitable funds at the Community Foundation of New Jersey to fulfill their charitable goals and craft their philanthropic legacies. These Legacy Funds and Donor Advised Funds have granted on average more than $30 million each year, and enabled the Foundation to launch its own Changemaker Projects that are improving New Jersey and its dynamic communities. The Foundation's funds currently hold over $380 million in charitable assets and made over 5,000 grants last year to charitable work in New Jersey and across the world.


Shareholders in Bear Stearns have been all but wiped out despite the rescue bid from the Federal Reserve and JP Morgan Chase, prompting comparisons to the collapse of Enron. CNBC has been airing videos of old interviews with former Enron CEO Ken Lay, which fell apart almost seven years ago destroying a great deal of shareholder value. Far more shareholder value, in fact, than at Bear Stearns.
Those comparisons are apt, Tom Kirkendall points out, but not for the reasons many would suspect. There's a tendency among some—especially plaintiff lawyers and some in the media—to suspect criminal wrong-doing when a company collapses. How could so much value be destroyed without serious wrong-doing? But these suspicions are often wrong-headed, and may even be counter-productive if they encourage shareholders and regulators to concentrate on investigations or misguided regulations.
Kirkendall says that the risk of collapse from a loss of investor and customer confidence is inherent in the kind of businesses that both Enron and Bear Stearns ran.
The fact of the matter is that Enron was -- and Bear Stearns and AIG are -- trust-based businesses that fundamentally depend on the trust of the markets to sustain their value. Once that trust is lost, such companies lose value quickly and dramatically (a case in point -- JP Morgan Chase's proposed $236 million purchase price for Bear Stearns comes just hours after Bear's market cap was $3.5 billion this past Friday and $20 billion as of January, 2007) Although unfortunate for the owners of such companies, such a dramatic loss of wealth does not necessarily mean that any criminal conduct caused or was even involved in the loss. Rather, such loss is simply one of the risks of investing in a company based on a trust-based business model. The sooner we all recognize and understand this risk -- and avoid the mainstream media's promotion of myths about them -- the quicker we can put a stop to injustices such as this while advancing the discussion of how best to hedge the risk of such potential losses.


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Top 100 Artificial Intelligence Companies 2020 – Eye Opening.
These leading artificial intelligence companies are advancing this emerging tech using a dazzling array of AI technology, from machine learning to smart algorithms.
As artificial intelligence has become a growing force in business, today's top AI companies are leaders in this emerging technology.
Often leveraging cloud computing, AI companies mix and match myriad technologies. Foremost among these is machine learning, but today's AI leading firms tech ranging from predictive analytics to business intelligence to data warehouse tools to deep learning.
Entire industries are being reshaped by AI. RPA companies have completely shifted their platforms. AI in healthcare is changing patient care in numerous – and major – ways.
AI companies are attracting massive investment from venture capitalist firms and giant firms like Microsoft and Google. Academic AI research is growing, as are AI job openings across a multitude of industries. All of this is documented in the AI Index, produced by Stanford University's Human-Centered AI Institute.
Consulting giant Accenture believes AI has the potential to boost rates of profitability by an average of 38 percentage points and could lead to an economic boost of $14 trillion in additional gross value added (GVA) by 2035.
In truth, artificial intelligence holds not just possibilities, but a plethora of risks. "It will have a huge economic impact but also change society, and it's hard to make strong predictions, but clearly job markets will be affected," said Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal, and head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms.
To keep up with the AI market, we have updated our list of top AI companies playing a key role in shaping the future of AI. We feature artificial intelligence companies that are commercially successful as well as those that have invested significantly in artificial intelligence.
Top AI Companies: The Leaders
Top AI Companies: Notable Vendors
Top AI Companies: Important Pioneers
AI companies in the years ahead are forecast to see exponential growth in deep learning, machine learning and natural language processing.
The AI vendors are leading the market by providing AI and ML through their popular cloud platforms, enabling companies to incorporate AI into applications and systems without the expense of developing it in-house.
1) Amazon Web Services
Clearly the leader in cloud computing, AWS offers both consumer and business-oriented AI products and services and many of its professional AI services are built on consumer products. Amazon Echo brings artificial intelligence into the home through the intelligent voice server, Alexa. For AWS, the company's primary AI services include Lex, a business version of Alexa; Polly, which turns text to speech; and Rekognition, an image recognition service.
2) Google Cloud Platform
Google, a leader in AI and data analytics, is on a massive AI acquisition binge, having acquired myriad AI startups in the last several years. Google is deeply invested in furthering artificial intelligence capabilities. In addition to using AI to improve its services, Google Cloud sells a number of AI and machine learning services to business. It has an industry-leading software project in TensorFlow as well as its own Tensor AI chip project.
3) IBM Cloud
IBM has been a leader in the field of artificial intelligence since the 1950s. Its efforts in recent years are around IBM Watson, including an a AI-based cognitive service, AI software as a service, and scale-out systems designed for delivering cloud-based analytics and AI services. It has been acquisitive, purchasing a number of AI startups over several years. It benefits from having a strong cloud platform.
4) Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has a mix of consumer-facing and business/IT AI projects. On the consumer side it has Cortana, the digital assistant that comes with Windows and now is available for smartphones other than Windows Phone, and the chatbot Zo that talks like a teenager. On its Azure cloud service, Microsoft sells AI services such as bot services, machine learning and cognitive services.
5) Alibaba Cloud
The leading cloud computing platform in Asia, Alibaba offers clients a sophisticated Machine Learning Platform for AI. Significantly, the platform offers a visual interface for ease of use, so companies can drag and drop various components into a canvas to assemble their AI functionality. Also included in the platform are scores of algorithm components that can handle any number of chores, enabling customers to use pre-built solutions. Expect huge AI growth from Alibaba.
These top AI providers are demonstrating that artificial intelligence can be used in a dazzling number of ways, across virtually every industry sector.
6) Anduril Industries
Palmer Luckey is one of the most intriguing figures in today's emerging tech. He co-founded Oculus, which Facebook bought for a cool $2 billion. Post Facebook, at the ripe age of 27, he's launched Anduril, which adds sophisticated sensors and vehicles and drones to create a threat protection zone. Products include Sentry Tower (autonomous awareness), Ghost sUAS (unmanned ISR) and Anvil (precision kinetic intercept).
7) Sift
Formerly known as Sift Science, the company provides multiple fraud management services in one platform. Sift mines thousands of data points from around the web to train in detecting fraud patterns. Its machine learning tools, bolstered by data analytics, seek insight on fraud before it happens.
8) Nauto
Nauto offers an AI-powered driver behaviour learning platform. So instead of self-driving cars, Nauto is an AI-technology designed to improve the safety of commercial fleets today as well as autonomous fleets by assessing how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions.
9) Tempus
Tempus – "data-driven precision medicine" – uses AI to fight disease and bolster patient outcomes. It gathers and analyzes massive pools of medical and clinical data at scale to provide precision medicine that personalizes and optimizes treatments to each individual's specific health needs. Applications include neurology, psychiatry and oncology.
10) Salesforce
In recent years, Salesforce has acquired a handful of AI companies and unveiled Salesforce Einstein, their artificial intelligence service. Their latest initiative, which includes an extensive team of data scientists, uses machine learning to help employees more efficiently perform tasks by simplifying and speeding them up. In addition to Salesforce's own employees, Einstein will be available for customers who can build their own applications.
11) Automation Anywhere
A dominant vendor in the small but growing Robotic Process Automation market – it actually coined the term RPA – Automation Anywhere makes great use of AI. Its applications included "attended" RPA, which helps office works do mundane, repetitive tasks much more efficiently, employing the power of machine learning. A vendor to watch.
12) SenSat
SenSat builds digital copies of physical environments and applies AI modelling to help understand the parameters of that environment and provide valuable feedback. For example, it can give spatial and volume statistics about a roadway that is about to undergo repair work. Boosting its fortunes, in October 2019, Tencent led a $10 million in SenSat.
13) Phrasee
Phrasee specializes in natural language generation for marketing copy. Its natural language generation system can generate millions of human-sounding variants of marketing at the touch of a button, allowing customers to tailor their copy to targeted customers. Retail/marketing and AI is a combination on a rapid growth curve in the AI sector.
14) Defined Crowd
Using a combination of human freelancers and a system built with machine learning automation, Defined Crowd provides a data set that companies can leverage to improve the performance of their algorithms. This union of the human with AI is a brilliant stroke – expect many more startups with this combo.
15) Pymetrics
Based in New York City, Pymetrics leverages AI to help companies hire the optimal candidates, by examining more than a resume scan. Customers have their best employees fill out the Pymetrics assessment, which then creates a model for what future ideal candidates should be like. In essence, the AI-based system is attempting to find more new staff that will fit in well with the existing top staff.
16) Siemens
Siemens, the famed legacy German multinational, focuses on areas like energy, electrification, digitization, and automation, as well as resource-saving and energy efficient technologies and a leading provider of devices and systems for medical diagnosis, power generation, and transmission. Yes, the Siemens web site actually makes reference to "AI in the beer garden."
17) Socure
Given how lucrative it is for hackers, will identity theft ever go away? Unlikely, but New York City-based Socure is using AI to fight it. Its AI-enable system monitors and checks the quality of countless data sources – far more than a human, of course, but more importantly, far more than a legacy system that doesn't have the speed and flexibility and insight of AI. Its motto is to "identify more real people in real-time."
18) AEye
AEye builds the vision algorithms, software and hardware used to guide autonomous vehicles. Its LiDAR technology focuses on the most important information in a vehicle's sightline, such as people, other cars and animals, while putting less emphasis on things like the sky, buildings and surrounding vegetation.
19) Rev.com
In a world with a vast ocean of podcasts and videos to transcribe, Rev uses AI to find its market. An AI-powered – but human-assisted – transcription provider, the company also sells access to developers, so tech-savvy folks can use its speech recognition technology. But the key part here is the combination of human with AI, which is a sweet spot in the effective use cases for artificial intelligence.
20) Suki.ai
It's not enough that Suki offers an AI-powered software solution that assists doctors as they make voice notes on a busy day. Suki's aim – using the power of AI to learn over time – is to mold and adapt to users with repeated use, so the solution becomes ever more of a time saver and efficiency booster for physicians and healthcare workers. In a sign of the times, Suki is delivered with COVID-19 data and templates to speed this critically important process.
21) Verkada
In the future, everything will be tracked by intelligent cameras. Verkada is working to create that future by offering a network of AI-assisted cameras that can handle sophisticated movement monitoring. Given all the uses for such cameras (which employ the cloud), it's no surprise that the company's clients range from schools to shopping malls.
22) DataVisor
DataVisor uses machine learning to detect fraud and financial crime detection, utilizing unsupervised machine learning to identify attack campaigns before they conduct any damage. DataVisor protects companies from attacks such as account takeovers, fake account creation, money laundering, fake social posts, fraudulent transactions and more.
23) People.ai
Founded in 2016, People.ai's goal is to streamline the life of salespeople, assisting them in putting the reams of small details into the relevant CRM systems, chiefly Salesforce. Think of all those pesky info bits from texting, your calendar, endless Slack conversations – People.ai aims to help you with all that. Plus: the system attempts to coach sales reps on the most effective methods to spend their time.
24) AlphaSense
AlphaSense is an AI-powered search engine designed for investment firms, banks, and Fortune 500 companies focused on searching for important information within earnings call transcripts, SEC filings, news, and research. The technology uses artificial intelligence to expand keyword searches for relevant content.
25) Icertis
The remarkable truth about AI is that it keeps moving up the food chain in terms of the sophisticated tasks it can handle. Taking a big step up from simple automation, Icertis – with a decade under its belt – handles millions of business contracts. Leveraging the cloud, the company's solution automates certain tasks and scans previous contract details. The company has gained some big clients, including Microsoft.
26) Casetext
Casetext is an AI-powered legal search engine specializing in legal documents, with a database of more than 10 million statutes, cases, and regulations. A recent study comparing legal research platforms found that attorneys using Casetext's CARA AI finished their research more than 20 per cent faster, required 4.4 times fewer searches to accomplish the same research task, and rated the cases they found as significantly more relevant than those found with a legacy research tool.
27) Blue River Tech
Blue River Tech is a subsidiary of Deere & Co. that combines artificial intelligence and computer vision to build smart farm tech – clearly a growing need, given population growth. The company's See & Spray technology can detect individual plants and apply herbicide to the weeds only. This reduces the number of chemicals sprayed by up to 90% over traditional methods.
28) Nvidia
Nvidia's emergence as an AI leader was hardly overnight. It has been promoting its CUDA GPU programming language for nearly two decades. AI developers have come to see the value in the GPU's massively parallel processing design and embraced Nvidia GPUs for machine learning and artificial intelligence. One area Nvidia is making a big push is in self-driving cars, but it is one of many efforts.
29) Bright Machines
Automation in factories has been progressing for years, even decades, but Bright Machines hopes to push it a quantum leap forward. Based in San Francisco, the AI company is leveraging advances in robotics like machine learning and facial recognition. Its solutions can accomplish any number of fine-grain tasks that might previously have required the exactitude of a skilled human.
30) Orbital Insight
Orbital Insight uses satellite geospatial imagery and artificial intelligence to gain insights not visible to the human eye. It uses data from satellites, drones, balloons and other aircraft to look for answers or insight on things related to the agriculture and energy industries that normally wouldn't be visible. The company touts itself as "the leader in geospatial analytics."
31) Brighterion
Once a stand-alone company and now a division of MasterCard, Brighterion offers AI for the financial services industry, specifically designed to block fraud rates. The company's AI Express is a fast-to-market solution – within 6-8 weeks – that is custom designed for customers. Its solution is used by most of the 100 largest banks.
32) H2O
H2O.ai provides an open-source machine learning platform that makes it easy to build smart applications. Used by many thousands of data scientists across a large community of organizations worldwide, H2O claims to be "the world's leading open-source deep learning platform." H20.ai provides solutions for insurance, healthcare, telecom, marketing, financial service, retail, and manufacturing.
33) Intel
With a long legacy as the top chipmaker, Intel has both hardware and software AI initiatives in the works. Its Nervana processor is a deep learning processor while Movidius is geared toward neural networks and visual recognition. Intel is also working on natural language processing and deep learning through software and hardware. In a sign of the times, one of the company's slogan is "accelerate your AI journey with Intel."
34) Clarifai
Clarifai is an image recognition platform that helps users organize, filter, and search their image database. Images and videos are tagged, teaching the technology to find similarities in images. Its AI solution is offered via mobile, on-premise or API. Image recognition is a huge growth area for AI.
35) X.ai
Geared for busy users, X.ai's intelligent virtual assistant "Amy" helps users schedule meetings. The concept is simple — if you receive a meeting request but don't have time to work out logistics, you copy Amy onto the email and she handles it. Through machine learning and natural language processing, Amy schedules the best time and location for your meeting based on your preferences and schedule. We all need a helper like this in our lives.
36) Zebra Medical Vision
Zebra Medical Systems is an Israeli company that applies deep learning techniques to the field of radiology. It claims it can predict multiple diseases with better-than-human accuracy by examining a huge library of medical images and specialised examination technology. It recently moved its algorithms to Google Cloud to help it scale. It offers inexpensive medical scans.
37) Iris AI
Iris AI helps researchers sort through scientific work and research to find the relevant information, and as it is used, it learns how to make better searchers. Since its launch, countless people have tried the service, some becoming regular users. Its Iris.ai release includes the Focus tool, an intelligent mechanism to refine and collate a reading list of research literature, cutting out a huge amount of manual effort.
38) Freenome
Freenome uses artificial intelligence to conduct cancer screenings and diagnostic tests to spot signs of cancer earlier than possible with traditional testing methods. It uses non-invasive blood tests to recognize disease-associated patterns. The company's solution has trained on cancer-positive blood samples, which enable it to detect problems using specific biomarkers.
39) Neurala
Neurala claims that it helps users improve visual inspection problem using AI. It develops The Neurala Brain, a deep learning neural network software that makes devices like cameras, phones and drones smarter and easier to use. AI tends to be power-hungry but The Neurala Brain uses audio and visual input in low-power settings to make simple devices more intelligent.
40) Graphcore
Graphcore makes what it calls the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor specifically for machine learning, used to build high-performance machines. The IPU's unique architecture allows developers to run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster and undertake entirely new types of work not possible with current technologies.
41) CognitiveScale
CognitiveScale builds customer service AI apps for the healthcare, insurance, financial services and digital commerce industries. Its products are built on its Cortex augmented intelligence platform for companies to design, development, delivery, and manage enterprise-grade AI systems. It also has an AI marketplace, an online AI collaboration system for business experts, researchers, data scientists, and developers to solve problems.
42) iCarbonX
iCarbonX is a Chinese biotech startup that uses artificial intelligence to provide personalized health analyses and health index predictions. It has formed an alliance with seven technology companies from around the world that specialize in gathering different types of health-care data, and will use algorithms to analyze genomic, physiological and behavioral data and provide customized health and medical advice.
43) OneModel
Human Resources can be a bifurcated place, with different apps for each task HR handles. OneModel is a talent analytics accelerator that helps HR departments handle employees, career pathing, recruiting, succession, exits, engagement, surveys, HR effectiveness, payrolls, planning, and others, all in one place and in one uniform way. The company's core goal is to equip HR pros with machine learning smarts.
44) Lobster
AI meets social media. Lobster is an AI-powered platform that helps brands, advertisers and media outlets find and license user-generated social media content by scanning major social networks and several cloud storage providers for images and video, using AI-tagging and machine learning algorithms to identify the most relevant content. It then provides those images to clients for a fee.
45) Next IT
Next IT, now part of Verint, is one of the pioneers in customer service chatbots. It develops conversational AI for customer engagement and workforce support on any endpoint. The company's Alme platform powers natural language business products that are continually enhanced through A.I.-powered tools that empower human trainers to assess performance and end-user satisfaction.
46) Pointr
Pointr is an indoor positioning and navigation company with analytics and messaging features to help people navigate busy locations, like train stations and airport terminals. Its modules include indoor navigation, contextual notifications, location-based analytics and location tracking. Its Bluetook beacons use customer phones to help orient them around the building.
47) Tencent
One of the largest social media companies to come out of China, Tencent has an advanced AI lab which developed tools to process information across its ecosystem, including natural language processing, news aggregators and facial recognition. They also have one of China's top video streaming platforms, Tencent Music. A giant in the field, they also fund AI efforts.
48) Xnor.ai
AI applications are massive consumers of computing resources, hence the special chips required for AI. Xnor is working to alleviate the strain that AI puts on infrastructure by building a solution that allows heavy-duty algorithms to be powered by everyday hardware. This is a key challenge in the move to democratize AI, to make it useable by anyone; it also ties into the trend toward edge computing. Apple acquired the company in early 2020.
49) Twilio
Twilio is a cloud communications platform as a service (PaaS) company that allows software developers to integrate text messages, phone calls, and video calls into applications through the use of various APIs. Twilio's services are accessed over HTTP and are billed based on usage. The Twilio Autopilot offering allows companies to build and train AI-driven chatbots.
50) ViSenze
ViSenze's artificial intelligence visual recognition technology works by recommending visually similar items to users when shopping online. Its advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising by recommending visually similar items to online shoppers.
51) SenseTime
Based on Asia, SenseTime develops facial recognition technology that can be applied to payment and picture analysis. It is used in banks and security systems. Its valuation is impressive, racking several billion dollars in recent years. Specializes in deep learning, education and fintech.
52) Flatiron Health
Using machine learning to mine health data for cancer research, Flatiron finds cancer research information in near real time, drawing on a variety of sources. The company raised more than $175 million in Series C funding before being acquired earlier by cancer research giant Roache.
53) Deep 6
Deep 6 uses AI to, in its own words, "find more patients in minutes, not months." The patients in this sense are participants in clinical trials – a critical part of the research process in developing new medicine; certainly one of the challenging issues finding a vaccine for COVID-19 is finding a community of appropriate candidates. Deep 6 accomplishes this by using a AI-powered system to scan through medical records, with the ability to understand patterns in human health.
54) Directly
Considered one of the best AI-driven customer support tools out there, Directly counts Microsoft as a customer. It helps its customers by intelligently routing their questions to chatbots to answer their questions personally or to customer support personnel. It prides itself on"intelligent automation."
55) Element AI
Based on Montreal, Element AI provides a platform for companies to build AI-powered solutions, firms that may not have the talent in-house to do it. Element AI says it supports building apps for predictive modelling, forecasting modelling, conversational AI and natural language processing, image recognition and automatic tagging of attributes based on images. Founded in 2016.
56) Pony.ai
Pony.ai develops software for self-driving cars – it was created by ex-Google and Baidu engineers who felt the big companies are moving too slow. It has already made its first fully autonomous driving demonstration. It now operates a self-driving ride-sharing fleet in Guangzhou, China, using cars from a local automaker. The company raised $400 million from Toyota.
57) C3.ai
Focusing on enterprise AI, C3.ai offers a wide array of pre-built applications, along with a PaaS solution, to enable the development of enterprise-level AI, IoT applications and analytics software. These AI-fueled applications serve a wide array of sectors and industry verticals, from supply chains to healthcare to anti-fraud efforts. The goal is to speed and optimize the process of digital transformation.
58) Big Panda
Some of the best applications of AI "look into the future" to prevent a future problem. Such is the goal with BigPanda, which leverages AI to lessen or stop IT outages prior to when they take down a full business, an eCommerce operation or a mission-critical application. In essence, this company's goal is the magic of AIOps, using AI to improve admin and IT operations. A major growth area.
59) Banjo
Banjo offers an AI-powered "event-detection engine" that draws on geolocated public posts made from mobile devices to tell you what is going on in your immediate area. It draws upon more than a dozen major social networks to give a live digital capture of everything that's happening in the world and near you in real-time.
60) Stem
Stem is a veteran energy storage firm that has adopted AI to help automate energy management by using AI to determine when to charge energy storage systems and when to draw on them. Focused on energy forecasting and automated control.
61) Bossa Nova Robotics
The robots imagined by1950s futurists were tin men that could walk and talk – and probably become masters of the human race. It hasn't turned out that way (fortunately) but Bossa Nova Robotics is using AI to make today's robots more effective. Indeed, modern robots are rarely shaped like humans; Bossa Nova's resemble a tall vacuum cleaner. Ironically, Bossa Nova started as a robotic toymaker, but now has full-scale robots in retailers like Walmart. The robots roll up and down the shelves, spotting inventory problems – and allowing cost savings on human workers.
62) Tamr
In a world run by data, in many cases, someone – or some system – has to prep that data so that it's useable. Data prep is unglamorous but absolutely essential. Tamr combines machine learning and human tech staff to help customers optimize and integrate the highest value datasets into its operations. Referred to as an enterprise-scale data unification company. Significantly, Tamr enables cloud-native, on-premise or hybrid scenarios – truly a good fit for today's data-driven, multi-cloud world.
63) Xant
Formerly known as InsideSales.com, Xant underwent a major rebrand and is now focusing on the enterprise market. It is a sales acceleration platform that is a predictive and prescriptive self-learning engine by helping assist in a sale and providing guidance to the salesperson to help close the deal. At its core is machine learning.
64) Dataminr
Dataminr is a global real-time information discovery company that monitors news feeds for high impact events and critical breaking news far faster than your Google Newsfeed. It cuts through the clutter of non-news or irrelevant news to specific industries and only gives them highly relevant news when it happens. For news sensitive vendors, its goal is to detect early risks from media coverage.
65) K Health
There's a grey area in our lives in terms of healthcare; we ask ourselves, does this problem I'm having really require making a doctor's appointment, or could a major dose of simple information be enough? K Health's AI solution operates in this area. Users can text with a doctor or find similar cases near them (useful for COVID-19). And, using a model built from a vast store of anonymous health records, its system offers help based on how a users complaint correlates with this vast history of other patients. Think of K Health as the advanced edge of telemedicine.
66) Qualcomm
Driving the AI revolution with the highly capable smartphone chips it makes, Qualcomm leverages a signal processor for image and sound capabilities. Given its market size and power, it's likely that Qualcomm will continue to be a key driver of AI functionality in the all-important consumer device market.
67) HyperScience
HyperScience is designed to cut down on the tedium of mundane tasks, like filling out forms or data entry of hand-written forms. It also processes the relevant information from forms rather than requiring that a human read through the whole form. It touts itself as "intelligent document processing."
68) Vivint
Vivint's Smart Home is a highly popular smart home service in North America, with features like security cameras, heating and cooling management, door and window security and a remote speaker to talk to people at the door. All of this is monitored by AI, which learns the residents' behavioural patterns and adjusts management accordingly.
69) Anki
Not to be confused with the spaced repetition flashcard teaching program with the same name, Anki specializes in entertainment robotics for kids (or kids at heart). It uses a mixture of computer-vision, advanced robotics, and a set of machine-learning algorithms that Anki calls the "emotional engine" to make its robots have a personality. Motto: "We create robots that move you."
70) Ayasdi
Ayasdi is a machine intelligence software company that offers intelligent applications to its clients around the world for using Big Data and complex data analytics problems. Its goal is to help customers automate what would be the manual processes of using their own unique data. Very much focused on the enterprise AI sector.
iCarbonX is a China-based AI platform for health care designed to build an ecosystem of digital life based on the combination of consumers' life data, internet and artificial intelligence. The idea is that the individual will lead a healthy life through the digital life ecosystem and that by collecting data from of millions of participants, new methods of health care can be found through data mining and machine learning.
72) CrowdStrike
This cloud-based SaaS firm focuses on endpoint security. Leveraging AI, CrowdStrike's Falcon platform enables it to identify what it calls active indicators of attack to detect malicious activity before a breach actually happens. It presents the network administrators with actionable intelligence of real-time findings for them to take necessary action.
73) Cylance
Cylance develops security apps that prevent – instead of reactively detecting – viruses and other malware. Using a mathematical learning process, Cylance identifies what is safe and what is a threat rather than operating from a blacklist or whitelist. The company claims its machine learning has an understanding of a hacker's mentality to predict their behaviour.
74) Tetra
Tetra uses AI to take notes on phone calls, so people working in call centres can focus on discussions with the callers. It uses AI to generate a detailed script of dialogues using its speech recognition technology. Given the large market for call centres – and the need to make them more effective at low cost – this is a big market for AI.
75) Nuro
Nuro makes very small self-driving electric delivery trucks designed for local deliveries, such as groceries or takeout. Its founders previously worked on Google's Waymo self-driving car project. Overall the company's goal is to boost the value of robotics in daily life.
76) SoundHound started as a Shazam-like song recognition app called Midomi, but it has expanded to answering complex voice prompts like Siri and Cortana. But instead of converting language into text like most virtual assistants, the app's AI combines voice recognition and language understanding into a single step.
77) Zoox
Acquired in a $1.2 billion high profile deal by Amazon, Zoox is focused on self-driving cars, or, in the larger sense, a self-driving fleet (hence Amazon's interest). Their AI-based vehicle is geared for the robo-taxi market.
78) Zymergen
Founded in 2013, AI biotech company Zymergen describes itself as a "biofactories." One of their offerings is called Hyline, a bio-based polyimide film. Their work includes applications for pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial uses. Based in Emeryville, California.
Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is cost-effective, scalable, and accessible to any enterprise. It specializes in using AI to connect and integrate diverse data at scale, quickly and cost-effectively. Clients include Reuters, Toyota and GSK.
80) DJI
Based on China, DJI is a big player in the rapidly growing drone market. It's leveraging AI and image recognition to track and monitor the landscape. It's expected that the company will play a role in the self-driving car market. Impressively, DJI has partnered with Microsoft for a drone initiative.
81) HiSilicon
Running AI is exceptionally data-intensive – the more data the better – and so today's chipmakers (like Intel and Nvidia) are star players. Add to that list HiSilicon. The company fabricated the first AI chip for mobile units. Impressively, the chip accomplishes tasks like high-speed language translation and facial recognition.
82) Insitro
Insitro operates at "the convergence of human biology and machine learning." More specifically, it uses artificial intelligence to build models of various human illnesses, using those model to forecast previously unknown solutions – far beyond human intuition. These models use the power of ML to improve drug discovery and development. Founded by Daphne Koller, Insitro has drawn investment from an exhaustive array of VC and financial firms.
83) Blue Prism
A leading RPA company, Blue Prism uses AI-fueled automation to do an array of repetitive, manual software tasks, which frees human staff up to focus on more meaningful work. The company's AI laboratory that researches automated document reading and software vision. To further boost its AI functionality, Blue Prism bought Thoughtonomy, which has a AI-based in the cloud.
84) Rulai
You have surely encountered the limited conversational elan of a chatbot; a few stock phrases delivered in a monotone. Rulai is working to change this using the flexibility and adaptability of AI. The company claims it's level 3 AI dialogue manager can create "multi-round" conversation, without requiring code from customers. Clearly a major growth area.
Think of these forward-looking AI companies as taking a particularly inventive approach to machine learning and AI.
85) OpenAI
OpenAI is a non-profit research firm that operates under an open-source type of model to allow other institutions and researchers to freely collaborate, making its patents and research open to the public. The founders say they are motivated in part by concerns about existential risk from artificial general intelligence
86) Vicarious
With backing by some real heavyweights – Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg – Vicarious's goal is nothing less than to develop a robot brain that can think like a human. It hasn't been particularly forthcoming with details, but its AI robots, geared for industrial automation, are known to "learn" as they do more tasks.
87) Ubiquity6
Arguably the coolest application of AI on this entire list, Ubiquity6 has built a mobile app that enables augmented reality for several people at once. Users see and interact with objects presented by fully dimensioned visual world of the Ubiquity app, immersing themselves in a creative or educational environment. The company's website is itself worth visiting for its visual creativity and wonderment.
88) AIBrain
AIBrain is an artificial intelligence company that builds AI solutions for smartphones and robotics applications. Its products include AICoRE, the AI agent; iRSP, an intelligent robot software platform; and Futurable, a future simulation AI game where every character is a fully autonomous AI. The focus of their work is to develop artificial intelligence infused with the human skill set of problem solving, learning and memory.
89) CloudMinds
One of the better known AI vendors, CloudMinds develops the Human Augmented Robotics Intelligence (HARI) platform for robots, for what it calls an end-to-end cloud intelligence (CI) system. CI combines the machine with humans, allowing the robot to be controlled by human beings if need be. In essence, it's a cloud-based solution for intelligent robots.
90) DataRobot
A high profile emerging AI company, DataRobot provides data scientists with a platform for building and deploying machine learning models. The software helps business analysts build predictive analytics with no knowledge of Machine Learning or programming and uses automated ML to build and deploy accurate predictive models quickly.
91) Affectiva
Arguably, the two "final frontiers" in artificial intelligence are ethics and emotion. Can software decide between right and wrong, in a moral sense? And can software "feel" emotions. Affectiva is dealing with this latter issue by using AI to help the system understand the emotions in a human face and conversation. Founded by Rosalind Picard and Rana el Kaliouby, the firm was launched from an MIT Media Lab and has venture backing by some of the biggest names in VC.
92) UiPath
Arguably the top vendor in the robotic process automation sector, UiPath makes an enterprise software platform that includes tools for robot licensing, provisioning, scheduling, monitoring and alerting. Its robots do the mundane work of communication between legacy apps so developers can focus on new AI-oriented apps. In short, robots can make our lives better.
93) Algorithmia
Is there a better name for an AI company than Algorithmia? Based in Seattle, Algorithmia's goal is to help data scientists find and use algorithms. It was initially an exchange for algorithms on a one-off, single-user basis. As it has grown, it has trained its sights on the enterprise market – certainly a more lucrative market.
94) Deepmind
Acquired by Google in 2014, Deepmind is a research firm that focuses on AI research, covering everything from climate change to health care and finance. It's goal is to build "safe" AI that evolve in their abilities to solve problems. The firm is based in London and recruits heavily from Oxford and Cambridge, which are leading universities in Europe for AI and ML research.
95) Domino Data Lab
Certainly an AI company with a certain "buzz" about it, Domino is a SaaS solution that helps tech and data professionals program and test AI models. Think of it as a gathering place, an aggregation of sorts, for the AI community. Expect Domino to grow rapidly in the years ahead. Based on San Francisco, the company touts itself as "The Most Powerful Platform for Data Science."
96) Narrative Science
Narrative Science creates natural language generation technology to translate data from multiple silos into what it calls stories. AI highlights only the most relevant and interesting information, to turn data into easy-to-understand reports, transforms statistics into stories, and converts numbers into knowledge. To be sure, "data storytelling" is a key trend to watch.
97) Sherpa.ai
Sherpa is a virtual personal assistant that works with a user's entire array of devices, inferring and predicting their needs that allow the assistant to learn about the users and anticipate their needs before they ask. It works with a number of consumer devices and any accessory that could use some kind of intelligence. Tapping a growth market, Sherpa sells white label digital assistants for consumer applications.
98) Swim.ai
Swim.ai's goal is to enable businesses to mine continuously streaming data into actionable information. Leveraging machine learning, the company's "open core platform" (the SwimOS is open source) augment the decision-making process by providing streaming data, and contextualizing data sources. Founded in 2015.
99) Xanadu
Based in Canada, Xanadu is a quantum hardware and technology outfit that is developing a type of quantum computer based on photonic technology. Instead of transmitting energy via electrons, Xanadu's system employs laser light to move data. That means no more energy-hungry, overheating electric machines, among other advantages. A player in the new field of quantum machine learning.
100) Butterfly Network
In an effort to use AI to make healthcare more affordable and accessible, Butterfly Network provides a handheld medical diagnostic device that connects with a user's smartphone. This device – powered by Butterfly iQ – allows an ultrasound examination of the entire body, at a far lower cost than legacy systems. This is especially helpful for poor communities where healthcare resources are scarce.
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This series of case studies forms part of the Business Integrity Initiative, an online hub that signposts companies to anticorruption and human rights guidance and provides support to SMEs on anti-bribery and corruption compliance and prevention. The goal is to encourage companies to put integrity at the heart of their business strategies and practices. This in turn will help developing countries to attract long-term, sustainable investment while reducing the supply of bribes and human rights abuses by UK companies. The case studies include a number of companies that are benefiting from doing business with integrity; Forensic Pathways, Dints, MLM, and Coltraco Ultrasonics, all of whom are enjoying significant commercial success in frontier markets by putting integrity at the heart of their business model and relationships with commercial partners.


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KW-IRS will continue to collaborate with ICAN Ilorin and District Society – Omoniyi Affirms.
October 25, 2019 in Articles
The Executive Chairman (EC), Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS), Mrs. Shade Omoniyi has assured members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Ilorin and District Society that the Service will continue to encourage the smooth relationship between both bodies for an even development across board.
Mrs. Omoniyi, gave the assurance on Thursday, 24th October, 2019 at the KW-IRS's Head Office in Ilorin during a courtesy visit paid by the State's ICAN Executive Chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Baba Ibrahim. Also present was the Assistant Director Internal Audit (KW-IRS), Mrs. Omolara Ojulari and other members of ICAN.
In his address during the courtesy visit, the Chairman, ICAN, Ilorin and District Society, Alhaji Mohammed Baba Ibrahim congratulated the Executive Chairman of KW-IRS on her well-deserved appointment and urged her to continue to lead the Service to an enviable position. Alhaji Ibrahim said ICAN remains one of the leading Professional bodies in the country with a core mandate of regulating the accountancy profession and protecting public interest. He also expressed assurance of the State's branch to continue to render needed support in order to foster a more productive relationship between both bodies. Alhaji Ibrahim also prayed that the administration of the Executive Chairman prosper. He stated that ICAN as a professional body will be of assistance by giving professional advice to the Service to solve technical problems when needed.
The Kwara State ICAN Chairman requested that KW-IRS continue through its engagement and placement of its members in the relevant departments for efficiency, sponsorship of KW-IRS staff for MPCE programmes and annual conferences and essentially the construction of a secretariat for the organization.
The KW-IRS EC responded that the Service will continue to partner with ICAN in the State by rendering necessary support for its activities such as conferences and subscription of staff of the Service to ICAN programmes on periodic basis just as it has been done for other professional bodies in the State since inception of the Revenue House. She said based on the fact that some Management Staff of the Service are also members of ICAN, the Service will liaise with the State Government and streamline means of assisting the organization with the construction of a dedicated Secretariat for its activities.
In her closing remark, Mrs. Omolara Ojulari, who also doubles as an Executive member of ICAN, Ilorin and District Society appreciated the Executive Chairman KW-IRS for honoring members of the professional body despite the short notice of their visit and pleaded that the Service continue to render assistance. She said ICAN will always be ready to work closely with the Service.
Independent Petroleum Marketers' Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) Pays Courtesy Visit to KW-IRS


Novak Djokovic and Gilles Muller meet Wednesday in the round of 32 at the 2016 Rogers Cup.
Novak Djokovic is playing in his first match since losing in the third round of the Wimbledon. Djokovic is still the top player in the world and has won 15 of his last 17 matches overall. Djokovic could have used the much needed rest as he looked like a guy who was worn out due to all the tennis he's played and spent a few of his last matches coming back from dropping a set. When healthy and in great form, few can even compete with Djokovic, and he looks for his fourth career Rogers Cup title. Djokovic has won 14 straight matches on hard court.
Gilles Muller looks for another win after beating Dmitry Tursunov in the first round in straight sets. Muller has been a top-40 player for about a year now and hopes to put together some consistent success. Muller has made two final appearances this season but has yet to win a career title. If Muller is serving well and limiting unforced errors, he can compete and is capable of a surprise or two. Muller has seven wins over top-10 players, with the most recent coming against Gilles Simon in 2015. Muller has split his last eight matches on hard court.
These two have played twice and Djokovic has won both meetings in straight sets. The most recent match was in the 2015 French Open. This will be the second match on hard court.
The only thing worse than playing Djokovic is playing him when he's well rested. Muller didn't have anything for Djokovic before and that's not changing now.


The fire danger indicator is updated every day so you can know about the risks of fire on the trail. Campfires are allowed in specific locations (see the FAQ), when the indicator is low (Bas) or moderate (Modéré). The International Appalachian Trail Crosses three sectors on the SOPFEU Fire Danger Map.
Matane, Chic-Chocs: most of the Matapedia Valley section, the Matane Wild Life Reserve section, the Gaspesie National Park, the Upper Gaspe section and a part of Gaspe Coast are covered.
Baie-des-Chaleurs: the southern portion of the Matapedia Valley is covered.
Gaspe: most of the Gaspe Coast section and the Forillon Canada National Park are covered.
The SOPFEU (Société de protection des forêts contre le feu: lit. Forest Protection Against Fire Society) is dedicated to "Optimize the protection of forests against fire in a cost-effective manner so that forest-related resources can be sustained and continue to benefit all communities." Their Internet site is full of prevention tips.


The Studio Frame By Frame out of the land of Blonde (Amsterdam) in conjunction with the Discovery Channel teamed up with Mr. Harder to Rock Lobster. Fortunately I have the hook ups and 411 where the Lobster Men hang. And they were kind enough to let me interview them and capture a typical daily routine.