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Proteus (other)
Proteus is an early Greek water god. Proteus may also refer to: People * Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923), German-American mathematician and electrical engineer * Peregrinus Proteus (died 165), Cynic philosopher, from Parium in Mysia * Proteus (Greek myth), name of multiple mythical characters * Proteus of Egypt, an ancient Egyptian king who was associated with the island of Pharos Characters * Proteus (''The Two Gentlemen of Verona''), a character from William Shakespeare's play ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' * Dr. Paul Proteus, the main character in ''Player Piano'' by Kurt Vonnegut * Prince Proteus of Syracuse, a character in the 2003 DreamWorks Animation film '' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas'' * Proteus, the Prime Minister in ''The Apple Cart'' by George Bernard Shaw * Proteus IV, a villainous supercomputer in the Dean Koontz novel and film ''Demon Seed'' * Proteus, the second monster created by Victor Frankenstein in the TV show Penny Dreadful Characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus
In Greek mythology, Proteus (; Ancient Greek: Πρωτεύς, ''Prōteus'') is an early prophetic sea-god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the " Old Man of the Sea" ''(hálios gérôn)''. Some who ascribe a specific domain to Proteus call him the god of "elusive sea change", which suggests the constantly changing nature of the sea or the liquid quality of water. He can foretell the future, but, in a mytheme familiar to several cultures, will change his shape to avoid doing so; he answers only to those who are capable of capturing him. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, meaning "versatile", "mutable", or "capable of assuming many forms". "Protean" has positive connotations of flexibility, versatility and adaptability. Name origin Proteus' name suggests the "first" (from Greek "πρῶτος" ''prōtos'', "first"), as ''prōtogonos'' (πρωτόγονος) is the "primordial" or the "firstborn". It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus Syndrome
Proteus syndrome is a rare disorder with a genetic background that can cause tissue overgrowth involving all three embryonic lineages. Patients with Proteus syndrome tend to have an increased risk of embryonic tumor development.Freedberg, et al. (2003). ''Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine''. (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill. . The clinical and radiographic symptoms of Proteus syndrome are highly variable, as are its orthopedic manifestations. Only a few more than 200 cases have been confirmed worldwide, with estimates that about 120 people are currently alive with the condition.Woman's 11-stone legs may be lost at BBC As attenuated forms of the disease may exist, there could be many people with Proteus syndrome who remain un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus (2003 Film)
''Proteus'' is a film by Canadian director John Greyson. The film, based on an early 18th century court record from Cape Town, explores the romantic relationship between two prisoners, one black and one white, at Robben Island in South Africa in the 18th century. Although the film premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival, it did not have a general theatrical release until 2005. Plot Set in 18th-century South Africa, the film dramatizes the true story of Claas Blank ( Rouxnet Brown) and Rijkhaart Jacobsz (Neil Sandilands), two prisoners on Robben Island. Herder Claas Blank was serving 10 years for "insulting a Dutch citizen" and Rijkhaart was a Dutch sailor convicted of committing "unnatural acts" with another man. The two men, initially hostile to each other, form a secret relationship, using trips to a private water tank to bond. Their relationship had a racial component, as Jacobsz was a Dutchman, while Blank was a Khoi. Virgil Niven ( Shawn Smyth), a Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Keen
Robert "Bob" Keen is a British film director. Career He has directed eight films, including ''The Lost World'', but he has also written screenplays, as well as working on special, visual and make-up effects. Keen directed the 1995 Canadian made-for-TV movie '' To Catch a Yeti''. The plot involves Hank the Yeti makes friends with an American family (including the young girl) and trying to outwit two hunters, one of them named Big Jake played by Meat Loaf, hired by a New York businessman for his spoiled son. It aired on The Disney Channel January 12, 1995. RiffTrax parodied the film on May 1, 2015. Accolades He has been nominated for six Saturn Award The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films be ...s, all for best make-up, including for his work on '' Hellraiser'' and '' Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Person Of Interest Episodes
''Person of Interest'' is an American science fiction crime drama television series created by Jonathan Nolan, who serves as an executive producer alongside J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Chris Fisher, Greg Plageman, and Denise Thé. The series premiered on CBS on September 22, 2011, and stars Jim Caviezel as John Reese, a former CIA agent who is presumed dead. He is approached by a mysterious billionaire named Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) who is trying to prevent violent crimes before they happen by using an advanced surveillance system dubbed "The Machine" that provides the Social Security number of a person of interest who will be involved in an imminent lethal crime as either a perpetrator or a victim. Their unique brand of vigilante justice attracts the attention of two NYPD officers, Joss Carter (Taraji P. Henson) and Lionel Fusco (Kevin Chapman), whom Reese uses to his advantage as he investigates the person of interest. Reese and Finch are later aided by Samantha "Root" Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus (X-Men Episode)
The ''X-Men'' animated series debuted on October 31, 1992 on the Fox Network as part of the "Fox Kids" Saturday morning lineup. The plot was loosely adapted from famous storylines and events in the X-Men comics, such as the Dark Phoenix Saga, Days of Future Past, the Phalanx Covenant, and the Legacy Virus. The show features a team line-up similar to that of the early 1990s X-Men comic books: the lineup largely resembles that of Cyclops' Blue Team, established in the early issues of the second ''X-Men'' comic series. Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Jean Grey and Professor X were featured as the X-Men. Synopsis The series' first 13 episodes were notable for being possibly the first time that an animated series had a full season of episodes flow one into the next, creating a single continuing narrative, something the series producers fought heavily for. However, starting with season three, most episodes (except for multi-part stories) were shown in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus (play)
The ''Oresteia'' ( grc, Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Erinyes. The trilogy—consisting of ''Agamemnon'' (), '' The Libation Bearers'' (), and ''The Eumenides'' ()—also shows how the Greek gods interacted with the characters and influenced their decisions pertaining to events and disputes. The only extant example of an ancient Greek theatre trilogy, the ''Oresteia'' won first prize at the Dionysia festival in 458 BCE. The principal themes of the trilogy include the contrast between revenge and justice, as well as the transition from personal vendetta to organized litigation. ''Oresteia'' originally included a satyr play, ''Proteus'' (), following the tragic trilogy, but all except a single line of ''Proteus'' has been lost. ''Agam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus Design Suite
The Proteus Design Suite is a proprietary software tool suite used primarily for electronic design automation. The software is used mainly by electronic design engineers and technicians to create schematics and electronic prints for manufacturing printed circuit boards. It was developed in Yorkshire, England by Labcenter Electronics Ltd and is available in English, French, Spanish and Chinese languages. History The first version of what is now the Proteus Design Suite was called PC-B and was written by the company chairman, John Jameson, for DOS in 1988. Schematic Capture support followed in 1990, with a port to the Windows environment shortly thereafter. Mixed mode SPICE Simulation was first integrated into Proteus in 1996 and microcontroller simulation then arrived in Proteus in 1998. Shape based autorouting was added in 2002 and 2006 saw another major product update with 3D Board Visualisation. More recently, a dedicated IDE for simulation was added in 2011 and MCAD impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus (video Game)
''Proteus'' is a 2013 exploration and walking simulator video game designed and created by Ed Key and David Kanaga for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. In the game, the player traverses a procedurally generated environment without prescribed goals. The world's flora and fauna emit unique musical signatures, combinations of which cause dynamic shifts in audio based on the player's surroundings. The game began development in 2008. Key first conceived ''Proteus'' as an open-ended role-playing game akin to '' The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion'' but, because of the work required for such a project, later redesigned it to be "nontraditional and nonviolent". Audio designer and composer David Kanaga joined the project in 2010. Versions for the PlayStation 3 video game console and Vita handheld console were developed by Curve Studios, whose team added new gameplay features to the Vita edition at Sony's request. ''Proteus'' won the prize for Best Audio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus (proteomics Software)
The Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) is an open-source data analysis software for proteomics developed at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) by the Ruedi Aebersold group under the Seattle Proteome Center. The TPP includes PeptideProphet, ProteinProphet, ASAPRatio, XPRESS and Libra. Software Components Probability Assignment and Validation PeptideProphet performs statistical validation of peptide-spectra-matches (PSM) using the results of search engines by estimating a false discovery rate (FDR) on PSM level. The initial PeptideProphet used a fit of a Gaussian distribution for the correct identifications and a fit of a gamma distribution for the incorrect identification. A later modification of the program allowed the usage of a target-decoy approach, using either a variable component mixture model or a semi-parametric mixture model. In the PeptideProphet, specifying a decoy tag will use the variable component mixture model while selecting a non-parametric model will use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteus (programming Language)
Proteus (''PROcessor for TExt Easy to USe'') is a fully functional, procedural programming language created in 1998 by Simone Zanella. Proteus incorporates many functions derived from several other languages: C, BASIC, Assembly, Clipper/dBase; and is especially versatile in dealing with strings, having hundreds of dedicated functions, making it one of the richest languages for text manipulation. Proteus owes its name to a Greek god of the sea (Proteus), who took care of Neptune's crowd and gave responses; he was renowned for being able to transform himself, assuming different shapes. Transforming data from one form to another is the main usage of this language. Introduction Proteus was initially created as a multiplatform (DOS, Windows, Unix) system utility, to manipulate text and binary files and to create CGI scripts. The language was later focused on Windows, by adding hundreds of specialized functions for: network and serial communication, database interrogation, system servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
