Astro

Astro may refer to:

Entertainment and media

Satellites

Parmalat Canada

Parmalat Canada is a Toronto, Ontario based company that sells dairy products. It is owned by Parmalat SpA of Italy.

The Canadian unit was established in 1997 with the purchase of Beatrice Foods Canada and Ault Foods. It was not affected by financial problems of the parent company and continues to operate in Canada.

Retailers

A list of retailers selling Beatrice products:

Products

Product lines of Parmalat Canada:

See also

References

Astro (television)

All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator (or better known as Astro) is a Malaysian direct broadcast satellite (DBS) Pay TV service. It transmits digital satellite television and radio to households in Malaysia and Brunei and has operations at the All Asia Broadcast Centre located in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur and MEASAT in Cyberjaya. Astro was granted an exclusive license as a sole Pay TV provider by the Malaysia federal government until 2022. Until then, it will be the only DBS provider in Malaysia. Its only with their allies is HyppTV, a IPTV service by TM who carry their 5 Astro channels. As of September 2014, astro provided services to over four million subscribers.

Astro is a wholly owned subsidiary of Astro All Asia Networks plc. and operated by MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems Sdn. Bhd. This company was de-listed from the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad on 14 June 2010, following a successful take-over offer by Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd, a company owned by Tegas Sdn Bhd and its affiliates and Khazanah Nasional Berhad.

GGA

GGA or Gga may refer to:

94.7 The Pulse

Coordinates: 38°09′00″S 144°21′45″E / 38.149998°S 144.362395°E / -38.149998; 144.362395

94.7 The Pulse (callsign: 3PLS), is a community radio station which broadcasts to the Geelong, Victoria region in Australia.

History

The Pulse had been previously known as 3YYR, broadcasting on 100.3 MHz FM before becoming known as Geelong Community Radio on the same frequency. In 2001, frequency 100.3Mhz was issued to then new commercial station Nova 100 in Melbourne and the station was moved to its current frequency of 94.7 MHz FM and changed names to 94.7 The Pulse. Its studios which are based in 68-70 Lt Ryrie St, Geelong at the Geelong Media Education Centre is also a training facility for other forms of media.

The Geelong Media Co-operative - the then operators of 3YYR - operated the radio station for some period of time in conjunction with Diversitat, the operational arm of the Geelong Ethnic Communities Council, representing the ethnic broadcasters. The full-time licence then held by the GCRC was surrendered to the Australian Communications and Media Authority. The licence then passed to Diversitat, who have since maintained the mix of ethnic and broader community programming. The station is now run by a board drawn from the volunteer operators and has a representative on the GECC executive.

PLS3

Plastin-3 is a highly conserved protein that in humans is encoded by the PLS3 gene on the X chromosome.

Function

Plastins are a family of actin-binding proteins that are conserved throughout eukaryote evolution and expressed in most tissues of higher eukaryotes. In humans, two ubiquitous plastin isoforms (L and T) have been identified. Plastin 1 (otherwise known as Fimbrin) is a third distinct plastin isoform which is specifically expressed at high levels in the small intestine. The L isoform is expressed only in hemopoietic cell lineages, while the T isoform has been found in all other normal cells of solid tissues that have replicative potential (fibroblasts, endothelial cells, epithelial cells, melanocytes, etc.). The C-terminal 570 amino acids of the T-plastin and L-plastin proteins are 83% identical. It contains a potential calcium-binding site near the N-terminus.

Clinical significance

Defects in PLS3 are associated with osteoporosis and bone fracture in humans and in knockout zebrafish.

PLS (complexity)

In computational complexity theory, Polynomial Local Search (PLS) is a complexity class that models the difficulty of finding a locally optimal solution to an optimization problem.

A PLS problem has a set of instances which are encoded using strings over a finite alphabet . For each instance there exists a finite solution set . Each solution has a non negative integer cost given by a function and a neighborhood . Additionally, the existence of the following three polynomial time algorithms is required:

Algorithm produces some solution .

Algorithm determines the value of .

Algorithm maps a solution to an element such that if such an element exists. Otherwise reports that no such element exists.

An instance has the structure of an implicit graph, the vertices being the solutions with two solutions connected by a directed arc iff . The most interesting computational problem is the following:

Given some instance of a PLS problem , find a local optimum of , i.e. a solution such that for all