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GEMS English School
Gems, or gemstones, are polished, cut stones or minerals. Gems or GEMS may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Gems'' (Aerosmith album), 1988 * ''Gems'' (Patti LaBelle album), 1994 * ''Gems'' (Michael Bolton album), 2011 *Gems TV, a jewellery manufacturer and TV shopping network headquartered in Chanthaburi, Thailand ** Gems TV (German TV channel) **Gems TV (UK) **Gems TV (USA) * ''Gems'' (TV series), a British soap opera, 1985–1988 *''Gems & Gemology'', a quarterly scientific journal *''Sonic Gems Collection'', a 2005 compilation of video games Businesses and organisations *GEMS Education, an international education company *GEMS Girls' Clubs, a Christian organization *Gaston Emergency Medical Services, ambulance service in North Carolina, U.S. *Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, a non-profit organization People *David Gems (born 1960), a British geneticist and biogerontologist *Jonathan Gems (born 1952), a British playwright and screenwriter Science and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gems
Gems, or gemstones, are polished, cut stones or minerals. Gems or GEMS may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media *Gems (Aerosmith album), ''Gems'' (Aerosmith album), 1988 *Gems (Patti LaBelle album), ''Gems'' (Patti LaBelle album), 1994 *Gems (Michael Bolton album), ''Gems'' (Michael Bolton album), 2011 *Gems TV, a jewellery manufacturer and TV shopping network headquartered in Chanthaburi, Thailand **Gems TV (German TV channel) **Gems TV (UK) **Gems TV (USA) *Gems (TV series), ''Gems'' (TV series), a British soap opera, 1985–1988 *''Gems & Gemology'', a quarterly scientific journal *''Sonic Gems Collection'', a 2005 compilation of video games Businesses and organisations *GEMS Education, an international education company *GEMS Girls' Clubs, a Christian organization *Gaston Emergency Medical Services, ambulance service in North Carolina, U.S. *Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, a non-profit organization People *David Gems (born 1960), a British geneticist and bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls Educational And Mentoring Services
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) is a non-profit organization that provides services to commercially sexually exploited and domestically trafficked girls and young women, typically underage youth exploited by pimps and traffickers. The organization is based in Harlem, New York City, which is one of the most common places for trafficking and child exploitation. The work of GEMS is the subject of the 2007 documentary ''Very Young Girls''. In 2007, their founder, Rachel Lloyd, wrote her autobiography, entitled ''Girls Like Us'', that presents her personal background and her efforts to establish the GEMS organization. Organizational background GEMS was founded by Rachel Lloyd in 1998, who continues to serve as the organization's executive director. The organization has helped several hundred young girls transition out of the sex industry and get back to their full potential. They also participated in lobbying for passage of the ''Safe Harbor Act for Sexually Exploited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Women's National Under-19 Basketball Team
The Australia women's national under-19 basketball team is the women's basketball team representing Australia for all international under-19, under-18, and under-17 women's basketball competitions, including the U19 Women's World Cup, Asian Championship, and the Oceania Championship. The team is nicknamed the Gems, an abbreviation for the word gemstone. In 1993, the Gems (which won a gold medal) won the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete (team) of the Year.Australian Sports CommissionAIS Timeline. Retrieved 12 February 2015. Competitive record U19 World Cup The first FIBA U19 World Championships were in 1985, and the Gems have participated in every tournament to date. From 1985, the under-19 World Championships were held every four years. From 2005, they are held every two years. Statistics Head coaches * Paul Goriss – 2016 * Deanne Butler – 2018–present See also * Australia men's national basketball team * Australia women's national basketball team * Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemini Observatory
The Gemini Observatory is an astronomical observatory consisting of two 8.1-metre (26.6 ft) telescopes, Gemini North and Gemini South, which are located at two separate sites in Hawaii and Chile, respectively. The twin Gemini telescopes provide almost complete coverage of both the northern and southern skies. They are currently among the largest and most advanced optical/infrared telescopes available to astronomers. ''(See List of largest optical reflecting telescopes)''. The National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States, the National Research Council of Canada, CONICYT of Chile, MCTI of Brazil, and MCTIP of Argentina own and operate the Gemini Observatory. The NSF is currently (2017) the majority partner, contributing approximately 70% of the funding needed to operate and maintain both telescopes. The operations and maintenance of the observatory is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), through a cooperative agreement with NSF. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gravity And Extreme Magnetism SMEX
Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS or SMEX-13) mission was a NASA space observatory mission. The main scientific goal of GEMS was to be the first mission to systematically measure the polarization of X-ray sources. GEMS would have provided data to help scientists study the shape of spacetime that has been distorted by a spinning black hole's gravity and the structure and effects of the magnetic fields around neutron stars. It was cancelled by NASA in June 2012 for potential cost overruns due to delays in developing the technology and never moved into the development phase. GEMS was managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The project was an astrophysics program reporting to NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) in Washington, D.C. Cancelled missions can be reinstated - for example, NuSTAR was cancelled in 2006, but reinstated a year later and launched in June 2012. However, NuSTAR was not cancelled due to project overruns, but rather due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premier Election Solutions
Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (DESI), was a subsidiary of Diebold that made and sold voting machines. In 2009, it was sold to competitor ES&S. In 2010, Dominion Voting Systems purchased the primary assets of Premier, including all intellectual property, software, firmware and hardware for Premier's current and legacy optical scan, central scan, and touch screen voting systems, and all versions of the GEMS election management system from ES&S. At the time ES&S spun off the company due to monopoly charges its systems were in use in 1,400 jurisdictions in 33 states and serving nearly 28 million people. History DESI was run by Bob Urosevich, starting in 1976. In 1979, Bob Urosevich founded, and served as the President (through 1992) of, ''American Information Systems'', now known as Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), becoming a chief competitor to DESI. Todd Urosevich, Bob's brother, was Vice President, Aftermarket Sales, of Election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophysical Monitoring Station
Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect within a particular context. The term insight can have several related meanings: *a piece of information *the act or result of understanding the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively (called noesis in Greek) *an introspection *the power of acute observation and deduction, discernment, and perception, called intellection or noesis *An understanding of cause and effect based on the identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario (see artificial intelligence) An insight that manifests itself suddenly, such as understanding how to solve a difficult problem, is sometimes called by the German word '' Aha-Erlebnis''. The term was coined by the German psychologist and theoretical linguist Karl Bühler. It is also known as an epiphany, eureka moment or (for cross word solvers) the penny dropping moment (PDM). Sudden sickening realisations often identify a problem rather than solving it, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generic Eclipse Modeling System
Generic Eclipse Modeling System (GEMS) is a configurable toolkit for creating domain-specific modeling and program synthesis environments for Eclipse. The project aims to bridge the gap between the communities experienced with visual metamodeling tools like those built around the Eclipse modeling technologies, such as the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF). GEMS helps developers rapidly create a graphical modeling tool from a visual language description or metamodel without any coding in third-generation languages. Graphical modeling tools created with GEMS automatically support complex capabilities, such as remote updating and querying, template creation, styling with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and model linking. The configuration is accomplished through metamodels specifying the modeling paradigm of the application domain, i.e. a domain-specific modeling language (DSML). The modeling paradigm contains all the syntactic, semantic, and pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lipid Rafts
The plasma membranes of cells contain combinations of glycosphingolipids, cholesterol and protein receptors organised in glycolipoprotein lipid microdomains termed lipid rafts. Their existence in cellular membranes remains somewhat controversial. It has been proposed that they are specialized membrane microdomains which compartmentalize cellular processes by serving as organising centers for the assembly of signaling molecules, allowing a closer interaction of protein receptors and their effectors to promote kinetically favorable interactions necessary for the signal transduction. Lipid rafts influence membrane fluidity and membrane protein trafficking, thereby regulating neurotransmission and receptor trafficking. Lipid rafts are more ordered and tightly packed than the surrounding bilayer, but float freely within the membrane bilayer. Although more common in the cell membrane, lipid rafts have also been reported in other parts of the cell, such as the Golgi apparatus and lysosome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conning (company)
Conning is a global investment management firm serving the insurance industry. Conning supports institutional investors, including pension plans, with investment and asset management products, risk modeling software, and industry research. Founded in 1912, Conning has offices in Boston, Cologne, Hartford, Hong Kong, London, New York and Tokyo. Company history Conning & Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1912 by William Smith Conning. Conning was born in Slingerlands, New York, just outside of Albany on September 16, 1877, and moved to Hartford in 1904 to serve as office manager for investment firm Hornblower & Weeks. He founded the firm together with William C. Goeben, a colleague of Conning’s at Hornblower & Weeks. The firm embraced the technology of the day, providing election returns to clients by wire from New York during President Woodrow Wilson’s t narrow, re-election victory in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes. In 1920, Conning & Company installed a bond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Gems
Jonathan Gems (born 1952, London) is a British playwright and screenwriter mostly known for his work on ''Mars Attacks!'' (1996), directed by Tim Burton. He also wrote the film's novelization. His well known work includes a screenplay for an adaptation of George Orwell’s novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984''. The son of the playwright Pam Gems, Gems wrote a number of plays for theatres on the London fringe before gradually turning to screenwriting. As well as ''Mars Attacks!'', Gems did uncredited rewrite work on ''Batman (1989 film), Batman'' (1989). Gems has written unproduced scripts for Burton, including a ''Beetlejuice'' (1988) sequel titled ''Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian'', an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, ''The Hawkline Monster'', a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and ''Go Baby Go'', a beach movie in the style of films by Russ Meyer. Plays *''The Tax Exile'' (produced 1979) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gems
David Gems FRS is a pre-eminent British geneticist who has focused on research into ageing and age-related disease over the last 40 years. He is Professor of Biology of Ageing at University College London where he is also co-founder and Research Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing. His work concerns understanding aging through the genetics of ''C. elegans ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' () is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek ''caeno-'' (recent), ''rhabditis'' (r ...''. accessed November 21, 2010. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
