Calderbank is a village outside the town of Airdrie North Lanarkshire , Scotland , The village lies 13 miles east of Glasgow city centre and around 34 miles west of Edinburgh.Other major towns include Airdrie 2.5 miles Coatbridge 4 miles, Bellshill 4 miles and Motherwell 5 miles. Etymology The village s name is of a doubtful etymology. The first part of the name refers to the river Calder that flows through the village however the second element is unknown. Some sources suggest the second element is from Old English language Old English benc Bench furniture bench . A record of the name from 1182 as Celdrebec suggests this. History The village is famous for being the birthplace of the Vulcan barge Vulcan , the world s first iron boat, which sailed from Calderbanks Iron Works to the River Clyde and plied the Scottish canals first with passengers and then with cargoes of iron and coal. Iron from the Calderbanks works was used to build the RMS Queen Mary Queen Mary cruise liner. The Monkland Canal was extended to the west of the village in the late 18th century and was used as a route to transport coal to Port Dundas in Glasgow 12 miles away. This part of the canal has been preserved between the village and Sikeside on the outskirts of Coatbridge.And other parts of the canal can be seen in Coatbridge town centre and Drumpelier country park,however much of the canal was covered in the 1950s and 1960s by the M8 motorway which actually runs with the meanders of what was the canal yet under the motorway large pipes still run water which feed the Forth and Clyde canal today . Calderbank was the site of early Christian settlement, by monks from Newbattle Abbey in the Scottish Borders Borders . This gave the local area the name of Monklands Scotland Monklands . External links http airdrie.merryston.co.uk Airdrie Museum http www.monklands.co.uk calderbank Monklands Online Story of Calderbank ... Category Villages in North Lanarkshire NorthLanarkshire geo stub br Calderbank ... more details
Cleanup rewrite date March 2011 Leonard Calderbank 1809 1864 , was a Catholic priest and canon of Clifton. Calderbank was the nephew of James Calderbank , and son of Richard and Jane Calderbank, was born on 3 June 1809 at Standish, near Wigan, Lancashire. He was educated first at a school in his native village, and afterwards became a student at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. In December 1829 he removed from study of the questions of civil and spiritual Ampleforth to Prior Park, near Bath. A few years after this Calderbank went to complete his theological studies at Rome, where, on 11 Nov. 1832, he was ordained to the priesthood. Returning to England in 1833 he went at once upon a mission in the western district. He was placed successively at Trelawny, Tawstock, Weobley, Poole, and Cannington. In April 1839 he was appointed chaplain of the convent of the Immaculate Conception, in Sion House, at Spetisbury, near Blandford, in Dorsetshire. On 9 Nov. 1849 he was recalled to Prior Park by Bishop Hendren, then vicar apostolic of the western district. For nearly a year he held at Prior Park the double position of vice president and professor of theology at St. Paul s College. On 9 Oct. 1850 he was again, however, sent upon the mission, being appointed to the charge of the catholic congregation of St. Peter s in the city of Gloucester. Under the then newly created hierarchy he was not long afterwards installed a canon of Clifton. As missionary rector at Gloucester he contrived by his zealous exertions to build up an entirely new church and presbytery, the former 01 which was solemnly opened in March 1860. Calderbank died suddenly of heart disease on 24 June 1864. References reflist DNB wstitle Calderbank, Leonard Use dmy dates date March 2011 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Calderbank, Leonard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1809 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1864 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Calderbank, Leonard Category 1809 births Category ... more details
Anthony Calderbank is an English translator of contemporary Arabic literature . ref http www.banipal.co.uk contributors 595 anthony calderbank Profile on Banipal website ref He was educated at Manchester University where he studied Arabic and Persian. He lived in Egypt for several years in the mid 1980s, making his home in the Cairo neighbourhood of Shubra . From 1987 to 1990, he lived in England teaching Arabic at Salford University , before he finally moved back again to Egypt, taking up a teaching post at the American University in Cairo . From 2000, Calderbank worked for the British Council in Saudi Arabia , living in Khobar and Riyadh. ref http eaifl.com archive2011 anthonycalderbank Profile on Emirate Airline Festival of Literature website ref Most recently, Calderbank became Country Director of the British Council in the new state of South Sudan . ref http blog.britishcouncil.org 2011 11 south sudan out of bounds Calderbank in South Sudan ref Calderbank has translated a number of works from the Arabic literary canon into English. ref http www.aucpress.com search.aspx?SearchTerm calderbank Translations published by AUC Press ref These include Blue Aubergine by Miral Al Tahawy Gazelle Tracks by Miral Al Tahawy The Tent by Miral Al Tahawy Nights of Musk by Haggag Hassan Oddoul Munira s Bottle by Yousef Al Mohaimeed Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al Mohaimeed alternate title The Lure of Scent nominated for the 2010 Jan Michalski Prize Rhadopis of Nubia by Naguib Mahfouz Zaat by Sonallah Ibrahim Land of Thyme and Stone , a collection of Palestinian people Palestinian short stories edited by Nur and Abdelwahab El Messiri His work has appeared in several issues of Banipal magazine. References reflist See also List of Arabic English translators Category English translators Category Arabic English translators Category Living people literature stub ... more details
File Robert Calderbank.jpg thumb Robert Calderbank in 1986 br photo from MFO A. Robert Calderbank is the dean of Natural Sciences and professor of Computer Science , Electrical Engineering , and Mathematics at Duke University, and a professor of Electrical Engineering , Mathematics and Applied mathematics Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University . He received a BSc degree from University of Warwick in 1975, an MSc degree from University of Oxford in 1976, England, and a PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology , all in mathematics. He became a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs in 1980. Over the next 23 years, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming vice president for research and Internet and computer network network systems at AT&T Labs . In 2003, he retired from his AT&T Labs position to join Princeton University . He has made numerous contributions to the fields of coding theory coding and information theory , and he is a two time winner of the IEEE Information Theory Prize Paper award. While at Bell Labs , he was part of a team which discovered space time code space time coding . He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005. He is married to Ingrid Daubechies . See also MathGenealogy id 10427 http trinity.duke.edu dean natural sciences Dean Profile at Duke. http www.ee.princeton.edu people Calderbank.php Faculty Profile at Princeton. http www.informatik.uni trier.de ley db indices a tree c Calderbank A Robert.html Publications on the DBLP . http www.arxiv.org find cs 1 au Calderbank A 0 1 0 all 0 1 Publications from the Arxiv . http scholar.google.com scholar?as q &num 10&btnG Search Scholar&as epq ... Persondata . NAME Calderbank, Robert ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Calderbank, Robert Category Year of birth missing ... faculty Category Duke University faculty US engineer stub US mathematician stub ht Robert Calderbank ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 A settlement offer or offer to settle is a term used in a civil action civil lawsuit to describe a communication from one party to the other suggesting a settlement law settlement an agreement to end the lawsuit before a judgment is rendered. Lawyer Attorneys typically negotiate terms of a settlement on behalf of their clients, so a settlement offer is usually conveyed by one party s attorney directly to the other party s attorney. In the English Law, Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules governs this area. In the US, evidence law evidence of settlement discussions generally, and of settlement offers specifically, is generally inadmissible in court. This is a policy based exclusion, intended to encourage the settlement of cases out of court, thus freeing up the resources of the court system. In Australia and the United Kingdom, offers of settlement may be called Calderbank Offers , Calderbank Letters and Offers of Compromise and often have a major impact on the allocation, by courts, of legal costs between parties. See also tort reform offer of judgment DEFAULTSORT Settlement Offer Category Civil procedure Law stub ... more details
Context date May 2009 Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Twelve Ways to Count Type Album Artist The Miserable Rich Cover Released 24 November 2008 Re Released Recorded Genre Chamber Pop Length Label Humble Soul UK & Hazlewood Vinyl Plastics Germany Producer James DeMalpaquet and William Calderbank Reviews Last album This album Twelve Ways to Count br 2008 Next album Covers br 2009 Twelve Ways to Count is the debut album by British chamber pop band The Miserable Rich . It was released on 24 November 2008. Some of the songs contained were previously performed by James DeMalpaquet under the pseudonym James Grape while in the band The Grape Authority with fellow Miserable Rich member, Will Calderbank. Track listing Early Mourning Pisshead Boat Song The Knife Throwers Hand Monkey Muswell North Villas The Time That s Mine The Barmaids Cannon Poodle Merry Go Round Button My Lip Lullaby Of Death Secret Track Over And Over Hot Chip Cover iTunes Version Only Personnel The Miserable Rich William Calderbank Cello Mike Siddell Violin Jim Briffet Guitar James DeMalpaquet Vocals Guests Shaun Young Guitar Lindsey Oliver Double Bass Beatrice Sanjust Di Teulada Vocals Jacob Richardson Guitar Vocal Alistair Straghan Trumpets Flugal Horn Doon Macdonald Clarinet Tom Cowan Resonator Magnus Williams Double Bass Damian Fearns Vocal Sam Hewitt Vocal Sam Crombie Drums Adrian Walker Drums Vernon Aubrey Beatbox Category 2008 albums Category Albums by British artists 2000s indie pop album stub ... more details
Year in rail transport prev 1799 curr 1800 next 1801 decade 1800 Events Legbrannock Waggonway opened by William Dixon senior to move coal from Legbrannock colliery on the Woodhall Estate to the Monkland Canal at Calderbank , an early example of a railway in Scotland . ref cite web url http www.jhowie.f9.co.uk monklands.htm title Coatbridge & Airdrie accessdate 2009 12 15 ref Births March births March 10 George Hudson , England English railway financier, The Railway King d. 1871 . ref cite book author Peacock, A. J. title George Hudson 1800 1971 the Railway King, vol. 1 publisher author location York year 1988 isbn 0 9513280 1 8 ref Deaths Empty section date July 2010 References references fr 1800 dans les chemins de fer ... more details
Rhadopis of Nubia is an early novel by the Egyptians Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz . ref http www.complete review.com reviews mahfouzn rhadopis.htm Book page at Complete Reviews ref It was originally published in Arabic language Arabic in 1943. An English language English translation by Anthony Calderbank appeared in 2003. The novel is one of several that Mahfouz wrote at the beginning of his career, with Pharaonic Egypt as their setting. Others in this series of novels include Khufu s Wisdom 1939 and Thebes at War 1944 . All have been translated into English and appeared in one volume under the title Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Everyman s Library , 2007 . References reflist Category Egyptian novels Category Arabic language novels Category Novels by Naguib Mahfouz Category 1943 novels Category Novels set in Ancient Egypt 1940s novel stub Hist novel stub ... more details
Space time trellis codes STTCs are a type of space time code used in multiple input multiple output multiple antenna wireless wireless communications . This scheme transmits multiple, redundancy information theory redundant copies of a convolutional code trellis or convolutional code distributed over time and a number of antenna radio antennas space . These multiple, diverse copies of the data are used by the receiver to attempt to reconstruct the actual transmitted data. For an STC to be used, there must necessarily be multiple transmit antennas, but only a single receive antennas is required nevertheless multiple receive antennas are often used since the performance of the system is improved by so doing. In contrast to space time block code s STBCs , they are able to provide both coding gain and diversity gain and have a better bit error rate bit error rate performance. However, being based on convolutional code trellis codes , they are more complex than STBCs to encode and decode they rely on a Viterbi algorithm Viterbi decoder at the receiver where STBCs need only linear processing. STTCs were discovered by Vahid Tarokh et al. in 1998 . ref name construction cite journal author Vahid Tarokh, Nambi Seshadri, and A. R. Calderbank title Space time codes for high data rate wireless communication Performance analysis and code construction journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory pages 744 765 volume 44 issue 2 date March 1998 doi 10.1109 18.661517 ref ref name performance cite journal author Vahid Tarokh, Ayman Naguib, Nambi Seshadri and A. Robert Calderbank title Space&ndash time codes for high data rate wireless communication performance criteria in the presence of channel estimation errors, mobility, and multiple paths journal IEEE Transactions on Communications pages 199 207 volume 47 issue 2 date February 1999 doi 10.1109 26.752125 ref References references Category Wireless wireless stub ... more details
by Anthony Calderbank The Blue Aubergine , translated by Anthony Calderbank Gazelle Tracks , translated by Anthony Calderbank Brooklyn Heights , translated by Samah Selim References reflist Persondata ... more details
Vahid Tarokh, Nambi Seshadri, and A. R. Calderbank title Space time codes for high data rate wireless ... cite journal author Vahid Tarokh, Ayman Naguib, Nambi Seshadri and A. Robert Calderbank title Space ... author Vahid Tarokh, Ayman Naguib, Nambi Seshadri and A. Robert Calderbank title Combined array processing ..., Hamid Jafarkhani, and A. R. Calderbank title Space time block codes from orthogonal designs journal ... more details
The Steane code is a tool in quantum error correction introduced by Andrew Steane in 1996. It is a Hamming bound Perfect codes perfect CSS code Calderbank Shor Steane , using the classical binary self dual 7,4,3 Hamming code to correct for qubit flip errors X errors and the dual of the Hamming code, the 7,3,3 code, to correct for phase flip errors Z errors . The Steane code is able to correct arbitrary single qubit errors. In the stabilizer formalism , the Steane code has 6 generators, and the check matrix in standard form is math begin bmatrix H & 0 0 & H end bmatrix math where H is the parity check matrix of the Hamming code and is given by math H begin bmatrix 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 1 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 end bmatrix . math References cite journal last Steane first Andrew authorlink Andrew Steane title Multiple Particle Interference and Quantum Error Correction journal Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A volume 452 year 1996 url http www.citebase.org cgi bin citations?id oai arXiv.org quant ph 9601029 pages 2551 2577 doi 10.1098 rspa.1996.0136 issue 1954 Category Quantum information science math stub ... more details
at the Summerlee Heritage Park . ref http www.monklands.co.uk calderbank Monklands Online Story of Calderbank ref Notes nowiki See http en.wikipedia.org wiki Wikipedia Footnotes for an explanation ... more details
Infobox musical artist name Sons of Noel and Adrian image caption image size background group or band alias origin Brighton , England instrument genre Alternative music Alternative , Folk music folk , Experimental music experimental occupation years active 2008 present label Broken Sound, Willkommen Collective Willkommen Records , OIB Records, Shelsmusic website associated acts The Leisure Society , The Miserable Rich , Lightspeed Champion , Hope of the States current members Jacob Richardson, Tom Cowan, Mike Siddell, William Calderbank, Marcus Hamblett, Daniel Green, Helen Whitaker, Nick Hemming , Jo White, Rowan Coupland, Alistair Strachan, Cathy Cardin past members Sons of Noel and Adrian is a twelve piece experimental folk band based in Brighton , England . It features Nick Hemming from The Leisure Society , Mike Siddell from Hope of the States and Lightspeed Champion , Will Calderbank from The Miserable Rich , Marcus Hamblett from Laura Marling s band and many other musicians from the Willkommen Collective . The band s first single The Wreck is Not a Boat is released by Californian label Shelsmusic in April 2009 and has received airplay on BBC Radio 1 ref http www.bbc.co.uk radio1 robdabank tracklistingarchive.shtml?090216 ref and BBC 6 Music ref http www.bbc.co.uk 6music shows gideon coe tracklisting.shtml?y 2009&d 20090218 ref from Rob Da Bank , Gideon Coe and more. The band s album was released worldwide in April 2010 distributed by Shellshock , coinciding with a seven date tour of Germany and ten date tour of the UK. ref http www.myspace.com sonsofnoelandadrian Dates and venues at MySpace ref The band have gigged extensively, performing with the likes of David Grubbs , Peggy sue and the pirates Peggy Sue , Red Sparowes , Rothko band Rothko , David Thomas Broughton , Alessi s Ark and many more. The band have toured the UK twice with friends Mumford & Sons . In 2009 the band played several high profile London shows the Royal Festival Hall with Laura Marling , ... more details
Infobox football biography playername Tom Reid image caption fullname Thomas Reid dateofbirth c. 1901 cityofbirth Calderbank countryofbirth Scotland dateofdeath cityofdeath countryofdeath height position Forward association football Forward youthyears1 youthclubs1 North Stevenson United years1 clubs1 Ayr United F.C. Ayr United caps1 goals1 years2 1922 1927 clubs2 Port Vale F.C. Port Vale caps2 25 goals2 3 years3 clubs3 Leyton Orient F.C. Clapton Orient caps3 goals3 years4 clubs4 Northwich Victoria F.C. Northwich Victoria caps4 goals4 years5 clubs5 New Brighton A.F.C. New Brighton caps5 goals5 totalcaps 25 totalgoals 3 Thomas Tom Reid c. 1901 unknown was a Scottish people Scottish Association football footballer . Playing career Reid played for North Stevenson United and Ayr United F.C. Ayr United , also having trials with Clyde F.C. Clyde , Albion Rovers F.C. Albion Rovers and Dundee F.C. Dundee before joining Port Vale F.C. Port Vale in August 1922. His debut came on 2 April 1923 in a 3 0 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. Wolverhampton Wanderers , he was hardly used thereafter and was sold on to Leyton Orient F.C. Clapton Orient for 230 in January 1927. He later played for Northwich Victoria F.C. Northwich Victoria and New Brighton A.F.C. New Brighton . ref cite book last Kent first Jeff title Port Vale Personalities publisher Witan Books page 247 year 1996 isbn 0952915200 url http www.amazon.ca Port Vale Personalities Jeff Kent dp 0952915200 ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Reid, Tom ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomas Reid SHORT DESCRIPTION Footballer DATE OF BIRTH 1901 PLACE OF BIRTH Calderbank , Scotland DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Reid, Tom Category 1901 births Category Year of death missing Category People from North Lanarkshire Category Scottish footballers Category Association football forwards Category Ayr United F.C. players Category The Football League players Category Port Vale F.C. players Category Leyto ... more details
Infobox television show name Country Joy image show name 2 caption genre soap opera format creator developer writer director creative director presenter starring Howard Dallin br Judith Mabey judges voices narrated theme music composer opentheme endtheme composer country CAN language English language English channel CBC Television first run first aired 19 November 1979 last aired 4 January 1980 num seasons 1 num episodes status list episodes executive producer producer Mark Schoenburg editor location cinematography camera runtime 30 minutes company distributor picture format audio format preceded by followed by related website production website Use dmy dates date August 2010 Country Joy is a Television in Canada Canadian soap opera television series which aired on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980. ref Mary Jane Miller, Turn Up the Contrast CBC Television Drama Since 1952 . University of British Columbia Press , 1987. ref Premise This series was produced in Edmonton . Its plot features Dick Brugencate Howard Dallin , a real estate agent in the fictitious Alberta community of Coronet, lost his wife in an automobile crash. He campaigns to build a modern medical centre for the community believing that this could have prevented his wife s death. In the process, he meets and soon marries medical executive Joy Burnham Judith Maby . Dick s mother Helen Vernis McQuaig and his teenaged children Pam Debra Au Coin and Bob Jim Calderbank object to his relationship with Joy. ref name CCF cite web url http www.broadcasting history.ca programming television programming popup.php?id 1077 first John last Corcelli date August 2005 title Country Joy publisher Canadian Communications Foundation accessdate 7 May 2010 ref Scheduling This half hour series was broadcast on weekdays at 12 30 p.m. Eastern from 19 November 1979 to 4 January 1980. Cast Howard Dallin as Dick Brugencate Judith Mabey as Joy Burnham Debra Au Coin as Pam Brugencate Jim Calderbank as Rob Brugencate Vernis McQuaig as ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name The Miserable Rich image The Miserable Rich Rail smash crop.jpg origin Brighton , England genre Alternative rock br Baroque pop Chamber pop br Classical music Classical years active 2007&ndash present label Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics br Humble Soul associated acts Shoreline band Shoreline , Hope Of The States , Lightspeed Champion website http www.themiserablerich.co.uk The Miserable Rich current members Will Calderbank br James de Malplaquet br Mike Siddell br Ricky Pritchard br Rhys Lovell background group or band The Miserable Rich are a Baroque pop chamber pop band, formed in 2007 and based in Brighton , England . The band is known for its distinctive, chamber orchestra sound, created using cello and violin as the primary lead instruments, augmented by double bass , acoustic guitar and occasionally piano . They have released three album s, Twelve Ways To Count 2008 , Of Flight & Fury 2010 and Miss You In The Days 2011 . The band s name comes from an experience Will Calderbank and James de Malplaquet had at the wedding of two rich aristocrats. ref name forfolkssake1 cite web url http www.forfolkssake.com interviews 1867 interview the miserable rich title Interview The Miserable Rich & 124 For Folk s Sake publisher Forfolkssake.com date accessdate 2010 02 05 ref History In 2006, Will Calderbank cello joined James de Malplaquet vocals to form the band Grape Authority, a live band playing the songs de Malplaquet had written under the pseudonym James Grape. The pair were playing in Brighton folk music folk band Shoreline band Shoreline , and the more traditional instrumentation used in this band was taken on board, with inspiration derived from the ex Zombie Colin Blunstone s Say You Don t Mind and The Balanescu Quartet s Kraftwerk covers. Citation needed date January 2011 Together with Mike Siddell formerly Hope of the States on violin, Jim Briffett of Clearlake band Clearlake on guitar and Rhys Lovell pl ... more details
Other persons James Aitken James Macrae Aitken 27 October 1908, Calderbank , Lanarkshire , Scotland 3 December 1983, Cheltenham was a Scotland Scottish chess player. In 1938 he received a PhD from Edinburgh University on the topic of The Trial of George Buchanan Before the Lisbon Inquisition . ref cite book last Aitken first James M. title The Trial of George Buchanan Before the Lisbon Inquisition publisher Oliver and Boyd location Edinburgh, London year 1939 ref He was Scottish Chess Championship Scottish champion in 1935, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961 and 1965, the latter jointly with PM Jamieson . He was also London Champion in 1950. He represented Scotland in four chess Olympiads 1937, 1958, 1964, and 1972 . In 1946, he participated in the http www.amici.iccf.com issues Issue 07 issue 07 the radio match grb urss 1946.html radio match between the United Kingdom and the USSR. He lost his match with Igor Bondarevsky on board 8. During World War II , Aitken worked in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park on solving German Enigma cipher Enigma machine s Taunt, 2001, pp. 81 82 . He died in Cheltenham in 1983, aged 75. References Derek Taunt, Breaking German Naval Enigma , pp. 77 93 in Action this Day , edited by Ralph Erskine and Michael Smith, 2001, ISBN 0 593 04982 9. Notes reflist External links chessgames player id 47707 Persondata NAME Aitken, James Macrae ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Chess player DATE OF BIRTH 27 October 1908 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 3 December 1983 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Aitken, James Macrae Category 1908 births Category 1983 deaths Category People associated with Bletchley Park Category People from Cheltenham Category People from North Lanarkshire Category Scottish chess players Category Chess Olympiad competitors Scotland sportbio stub UK chess bio stub br James Macrae Aitken fr James Macrae Aitken ru , ... more details
BLP sources date March 2010 Haggag Hassan Oddoul b. 1944 is an Egyptian writer of Nubia n descent, and campaigner for the rights of the Nubian people. ref cite news title Right of return url http weekly.ahram.org.eg 2006 788 eg9.htm work Al Ahram Weekly date 30 March 2006 accessdate 13 March 2011 ref Life and work He was born in Alexandria of Nubian parents who had left their impoverished native village. From 1963 to 1967 he was a construction worker on the Aswan High Dam . Later, he served in the Egyptian army, where he saw action in both the War of Attrition and the October 1973 War . He didn t begin writing until the age of forty. His works have received several Egyptian literary awards and he obtained government grants for the years 1996 98 and 2002 03, to complete his novels. Most of his work attempts to preserve various aspects of the gradually disappearing Nubian culture and language. He is often regarded as one of a group of contemporary Nubian authors, the others being Idris Ali , Hasan Nur and Yehya Mukhtar . In translation Nights of Musk Stories from Old Nubia , translated by Anthony Calderbank , American University in Cairo Press 2005 ISBN 9789774248948 My Uncle Is On Labor , translated by Ahmed Fathy , Al Hadara Publishing 2008 ISBN 9789775429940 ref cite news title Man Gets Pregnant, Shames Village in Fable About Drowned Nubia url http www.bloomberg.com apps news?pid newsarchive&sid aTshenFeuHjo&refer home work Bloomberg Television Bloomberg date 7 January 2009 accessdate 13 March 2011 ref References reflist Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1944 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category 1944 births Category Egyptian writers Category Living people Category Nubian people Egypt writer stub ... more details
Orphan date October 2011 In quantum error correction , CSS codes , named after their inventors, A. R. Calderbank , Peter Shor and Andrew Steane , are a special type of Stabilizer code s constructed from classical codes with some special properties. Construction Let tag math C 1 and tag math C 2 be two classical tag math n,k 1 , tag math n,k 2 codes such, that tag math C 2 subset C 1 and tag math C 1 , C 2 perp both have Minimum distance minimal distance tag math geq 2t 1 , where tag math C 2 perp is the code Dual code dual to tag math C 2 . Then define tag math text CSS C 1,C 2 , the CSS code of tag math C 1 over tag math C 2 as an tag math n,k 1 k 2, d code, with tag math d geq 2t 1 as follows Define for tag math x in C 1 x C 2 rangle tag math 1 sqrt C 2 tag math sum y in C 2 x y rangle , where tag math is bitwise addition modulo 2. Then tag math text CSS C 1,C 2 is defined as tag math x C 2 rangle mid x in C 1 . References See Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang 2010 . Quantum Computation and Quantum Information 10. Anniversary Edition . Cambridge University Press. External links Category Linear algebra Category Quantum information science Quantum stub ... more details
Image space time code.jpg thumb right Space Time Code diagram A space&ndash time code STC is a method employed to improve the reliability of data transmission telecommunications transmission in wireless wireless communication systems using multiple transmit antenna radio antennas . STCs rely on transmitting multiple, redundancy information theory redundant copies of a data stream to the receiver radio receiver in the hope that at least some of them may survive the transmission medium physical path between transmission and reception in a good enough state to allow reliable decoding. Space time codes may be split into two main types Space time trellis code s STTCs ref name construction cite journal author Vahid Tarokh, Nambi Seshadri, and A. R. Calderbank title Space&ndash time codes for high data rate wireless communication Performance analysis and code construction journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory pages 744&ndash 765 volume 44 issue 2 month March year 1998 doi 10.1109 18.661517 ref distribute a convolutional code trellis code over multiple antennas and multiple time slots and provide both coding gain and diversity reception diversity gain . Space time block code s STBCs ref name alamouti cite journal author S.M. Alamouti title A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications journal IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications pages 1451&ndash 1458 volume 16 issue 8 month October year 1998 doi 10.1109 49.730453 ref ref name orthog cite journal author Vahid Tarokh, Hamid Jafarkhani, and A. R. Calderbank title Space&ndash time block codes from orthogonal designs journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory pages 1456&ndash 1467 volume 45 issue 5 month July year 1999 url http www.mast.queensu.ca math800 W03 papers TrkhJafarkCldb IT99.pdf doi 10.1109 18.771146 ref act on a block of data at once similarly to block code s and provide only diversity gain, but are much less complex in implementation terms than STTCs. STC may be further ... more details
to authorise the joining of the two canals near Port Dundas and the extension of the canal to Calderbank ... ft 29.3m , but the extension to Calderbank resulted in two more locks being constructed at Sheepford ... started at Calderbank, where there was a feeder from the North Calder Water, and passed through ... it arrived at the Townhead basin. PoIgb start type collapsed PoIgb Calderbank Basin 55.841 3.973 ... more details
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