BEF (other)
BEF may refer to: * BEF (image format), High Dynamic Range imaging format *B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) *Belgian franc, ISO 4217 currency code for the former currency of Belgium *Benfleet railway station (National Rail station code: BEF) in Essex, England *Bibliothèque des Ecoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome * Binary entropy function *Bluefields Airport (IATA Code: BEF) in Bluefields, Nicaragua *Bonus Expeditionary Force * Bovine ephemeral fever *Brazilian Expeditionary Force *British Equestrian Federation * British Expeditionary Force (World War I) *British Expeditionary Force (World War II) The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the name of the contingent of the British Army sent to France in 1939 after Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany on 3 September, beginning the Second World War. The BEF existed from 2 Sept ...

BEF (image Format)
HDR PhotoStudio is a discontinued high dynamic range (HDR) graphics application developed by Unified Color for the Windows and macOS operating systems. In addition to being a HDR-merge application, HDR PhotoStudio offered a set of image editing operations that worked in its dynamic range (the website showed an example of processing an image with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio), human color range (gamut), and in high precision (32-bit floating point). It also had a Color Integrity feature that enabled preserving an image's color tone during image editing operations — for example changing an image's contrast would not change its chromatic (color tone) data. This problem is usually referred to as "color shift". HDR PhotoStudio implemented an advanced HDR image compression format called ''BEF'', and a plug-in for opening and saving files in Adobe Photoshop was also included with the application. HDR PhotoStudio was discontinued in July 2010. BEF is an HDR image format developed by Unif ...
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Belgian Franc
The Belgian franc ( nl, Belgische frank, french: Franc belge, german: Belgischer Franken) was the currency of the Kingdom of Belgium from 1832 until 2002 when the Euro was introduced. It was subdivided into 100 subunits, each known as a in Dutch, in French or a in German. History The ''gulden'' (guilder) of 20 ''stuivers'' was the currency of present-day Belgium from the 15th to 19th centuries until its replacement in 1832 by the Belgian franc. Its value differed from the Dutch guilder, gulden of the Dutch Republic during the latter's separation from Belgium from 1581 to 1816. Standard coins issued in Belgium include: * From 1618: the :nl:Patagon, ''patagon'' or ''Albertusthaler'' of 24.55 g fine silver, worth 2.4 gulden or 48 stuiver (or 10.23 g fine silver per gulden) * From 1754: the ''kronenthaler'' of 25.71 g fine silver, worth 3.15 gulden ''currency'' or 2.7 ''gulden of exchange'' (9.52 g silver per exchange gulden). The French Écu#Silver écu of 1726, silver écu of 26. ...
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Benfleet Railway Station
Benfleet railway station is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the towns of South Benfleet and Canvey Island, Essex. It is down the main line from London Fenchurch Street via and it is situated between to the west and to the east. Its three-letter station code is BEF. It was opened in 1855. The station and all trains serving it are currently operated by c2c Trenitalia c2c Limited,Companies House extract company no 789726 ...

Bibliothèque Des Ecoles Françaises D'Athènes Et De Rome
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include printed materials and other physical resources in many formats such as DVD, CD and cassette as well as access to information, music or other content held on bibliographic databases. A library, which may vary widely in size, may be organized for use and maintained by a public body such as a government; an institution such as a school or museum; a corporation; or a private individual. In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of librarians who are trained and experts at finding, selecting, circulating and organizing information and at interpreting information needs, navigating and analyzing very large amounts of information with a variety of resources. Li ...
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Binary Entropy Function
In information theory, the binary entropy function, denoted \operatorname H(p) or \operatorname H_\text(p), is defined as the entropy of a Bernoulli process with probability p of one of two values. It is a special case of \Eta(X), the entropy function. Mathematically, the Bernoulli trial is modelled as a random variable X that can take on only two values: 0 and 1, which are mutually exclusive and exhaustive. If \operatorname(X=1) = p, then \operatorname(X=0) = 1-p and the entropy of X (in shannons) is given by :\operatorname H(X) = \operatorname H_\text(p) = -p \log_2 p - (1 - p) \log_2 (1 - p), where 0 \log_2 0 is taken to be 0. The logarithms in this formula are usually taken (as shown in the graph) to the base 2. See ''binary logarithm''. When p=\tfrac 1 2, the binary entropy function attains its maximum value. This is the case of an unbiased coin flip. \operatorname H(p) is distinguished from the entropy function \Eta(X) in that the former takes a single real number ...
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Bluefields Airport
Bluefields International Airport is an airport serving Bluefields, a harbor city in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. It is the busiest airport in the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. A new terminal was opened recently and extension of the runway is planned. Currently, the airport serves only domestic and small international destinations, but plans are to make it international in the future. Taxicab and bus service are available. The airport is just south of the city on the Bluefields Bay shore. North approach and departure are over the water. The runway length includes a displaced threshold on Runway 23. The Bluefields VOR/DME (ident: BLU) is located on the airfield. Airlines and destinations Accidents and incidents *On 10 May 1982, two hijackers demanded a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando of Aeronica to leave its Bluefields-Corn Island route and land in Costa Rica instead. The pilots obeyed and landed at Limón International Airport in Costa Rica, where t ...
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Bonus Army
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.), to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the "Bonus Army" or "Bonus Marchers". The demonstrators were led by Walter W. Waters, a former sergeant. Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment with compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their c ...
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Bovine Ephemeral Fever
Bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) also known as Three Day Sickness is an arthropod vector-borne disease of cattle and is caused by bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV), a member of the genus ''Ephemerovirus'' in the family ''Rhabdoviridae''. Virology BEFV forms a bullet- or cone-shaped virions that consist of a negative, single stranded RNA genome with a lipid envelope and 5 structural proteins. The envelope glycoprotein G contains type-specific and neutralizing antigenic sites. There has been recent evidence which demonstrated that BEFV induces apoptosis in several cell lines. It was however shown that apoptosis could be blocked by the caspase inhibitor (Z-VAD-fmk), indicating that BEFV induces caspase-dependent apoptosis in cultured cells. Location The virus has been found in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and through eastern Australia. It is not found in the Americas, or in Europe (except western parts of Turkey). Transmission The virus is transmitted by an i ...
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Brazilian Expeditionary Force
The Brazilian Expeditionary Force ( pt, Força Expedicionária Brasileira, FEB), nicknamed Cobras Fumantes (literally "the Smoking Snakes"), was a military division of the Brazilian Army and Air Force that fought with Allied forces in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II. It numbered around 51,600 men, including a full infantry division, liaison flight, and fighter squadron.Ibidem Maximiano, Bonalume, Ricardo N. & Bujeiro, 2011. Placed under United States command, Brazilian troops fought primarily in the liberation of Italy from September 1944 to May 1945, while the Brazilian Navy and Air Force participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from mid-1942 until the end of the war. The FEB operated mostly at the platoon level, seeing heavy combat at the arduous Gothic Line and during the 1945 final offensive. By the end of the war, it took 20,573 Axis prisoners, including two generals and close to 900 officers. The division lost 948 men killed in action across all three ...
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British Equestrian Federation
British Equestrian (previously The British Equestrian Federation) founded 1972 is the national governing body of equestrian sport in Great Britain and represents the country at the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). Her Majesty the Queen Consort is the organisation's Patron. Remit As an umbrella body the purpose of the federation is the steering of equestrianism in Britain. Together with the British Horseracing Authority and the Thoroughbred Breeders Association, the BE forms the British Horse Industry Confederation. In 2022 the body has 712 officials, 1043 registered athletes and 2318 registered horses. Leadership The leaderships stands for a period of four years, with a maximum of two terms. The current chairman is Malcom Wharton (Chair, 2020), with previous chairmen including Badminton Horse Trials organiser Hugh Thomas. Membership British Equestrian is formed of eighteen (fifteen full, three associate) independent member bodies who represent the var ...
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British Expeditionary Force (World War I)
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the six-divisions the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War. Planning for a British Expeditionary Force began with the 1906–1912 Haldane reforms of the British Army carried out by the Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane following the Second Boer War (1899–1902). The term ''British Expeditionary Force'' is often used to refer only to the forces present in France prior to the end of the First Battle of Ypres on 22 November 1914. By the end of 1914—after the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, the Aisne and Ypres—the existent BEF had been almost exhausted, although it helped stop the German advance.Chandler (2003), p. 211 An alternative endpoint of the BEF was 26 December 1914, when it was divided into the First and Second Armies (a Third, Fourth and Fifth being created later in the war). "British Expeditionary Force" remained the official name of the British armies in France and Flanders thro ...
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