More recently, Spotilia ( 2004 ) estimated that the global population of annual nesting females has been reduced to approximately 2 million, and Abreu-Gabrois and Plotkin ( 2008 ) estimated that number to have been further reduced to 852 550.

Plotkin has developed many vaccines, including the rubella vaccine, RA27 / 3 strain, developed during his time at Wistar and now exclusively used in the United States and throughout the world.

Plotkin took the occasion to note that while circulation has increased, income was down due to more readers purchasing the newspaper from merchants, who take a 25 % cut.

Four years ago, David Mitchell sold the Light to Robert Plotkin ; since that time, the newspaper has continued to struggle with limited resources and reduced staffing.

The Plotkin powertheory ( after Gordon Plotkin ) has one sort, X, and the following axioms:

Plotkin also used a Church – Rosser theorem to prove that the evaluation of functional programs ( for both lazy evaluation and eager evaluation ) is a function from programs to values ( a subset of the lambda terms ).

Andrew Plotkin ( born May 15, 1970 ), also known as Zarf, is a central figure in the modern interactive fiction community.

Plotkin was also featured prominently in the 2010 interactive fiction documentary, GET LAMP.

Plotkin also announced expanded coverage to Fairfax, a town bordering but outside West Marin.

Plotkin made numerous prototype mixes, delivering each one on cassette dub over to Dylan at Rundown Studios.

He is one of a very small number of individuals ( such as Andrew Plotkin ) who are celebrated both for their creative and their technical contributions to the homebrew IF scene.

Having both written a number of award-winning games and developed a range of new file formats, interpreters, and other utilities for the design, production, and running of IF games, Plotkin is widely recognised for both his creative and his technical contributions to the homebrew IF scene.

Plotkin was one of the earliest writers to use Graham Nelson's Inform development system, and one of the first since Infocom's heyday to explore the boundaries of interactive fiction as an artistic medium.

Plotkin appears as a character in Being Andrew Plotkin, an interactive fiction game by J. Robinson Wheeler somewhat based on the film Being John Malkovich.

Glk is a portable application programming interface ( API ) created by Andrew Plotkin for use by programs with a text interface ; these programs mostly include interactive fiction ( IF ) interpreters for Z-machine, TADS, Glulx, and Hugo games, and IF games written in more obscure file formats such as those used by Level 9 Computing and Magnetic Scrolls.

So Far is an interactive fiction game written in 1996 by Andrew Plotkin.

System's Twilight: An Abstract Fairy Tale is a graphical interactive fiction computer game created by Andrew Plotkin in 1993.

Spider and Web is a piece of interactive fiction written by Andrew Plotkin.

The Dreamhold is an interactive fiction game by Andrew Plotkin released in 2004.

It was designed by Andrew Plotkin to relieve some of the restrictions in the venerable Z-machine format.

The format was devised by Andrew Plotkin and is used in both the Z-machine and Glulx virtual machines, as well as by the Glk library.

* Jerry Plotkin, 45 — civilian businessman visiting Tehran ( Died 6 / 6 / 1996 )

* Dave Plotkin ( former Production Director-now Production Director at CBS Radio / WINS-AM, New York and WLIR. FM )

* Robert and / or Lys Plotkin 2005-mid-2010

Others who joined or remained on the production staff for several seasons included Paula A. Roth ( who eventually became a principal showrunner in the seventh season alongside the senior executive producers ), Alan Plotkin, Terry Hart, James O ' Keefe, and the team of Barry O ' Brien & Cheryl Alu.

Within a year after Perfect Strangers finished production, many of its existing production staff ( namely O ' Brien & Alu, Plotkin, co-producer Michael J. Morris and executive story consultant Scott Spencer Gorden ) were all assigned to sister series Getting By at the start of its second season ( 1993 – 94 ).

Among these transfers were Alan Plotkin as a general producer, the team of Barry O ' Brien and Cheryl Alu as co-executive producers, co-producer Michael J. Morris, and Scott Spencer Gorden, who had been executive story consultant during Perfect Strangers final two seasons, and whom continued in the same role on Getting By.

** Inform category: A Change in the Weather by Andrew Plotkin

However, it was not until Orleans was heard at Max's Kansas City, then produced, by Chuck Plotkin, then head of A & R for Asylum Records, that the band scored its first Billboard Hot 100 charting with " Let There Be Music "(# 55 ), taken from their third album, Let There Be Music, released in March 1975.

Joe Smith, under whose leadership resulted in the biggest market share and gross revenues Elektra Asylum was to have, inherited the A & R services of Chuck Plotkin, famed later for producing many of Bruce Springsteen's greatest records, followed up by George Daly, who is credited as bringing in seminal New Wave band The Cars, setting Elektra, again, on another artist direction.

During those four years, she concentrated on her music career and in 1983, released the album No Frills, produced by Chuck Plotkin, who was best known for his work with Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

, Plotkin holds two XYZZY Award-related records: for most XYZZYs won in one year ( 5, with Spider and Web ) and for most XYZZYs won in total: 18.

In May 1990 TinyWar 1. 1. 4 was released by Leo Plotkin which was based on TinyTalk 1. 0 and added support for event-driven programming.

For the general case, the following Plotkin bounds holds for any with distance:

" Plotkin spent another month mixing and overdubbing over the nine songs selected for Shot of Love.

However, as an attempt to make it more appealing for seasoned IF players, Plotkin added an " expert mode ", which can be activated early in the game and makes certain puzzles harder.

In late 2005, Dave Mitchell sold the Light to Bolinas resident Robert Plotkin for $ 500, 000.

Plotkin initially relied on a succession of interns recruited from journalism schools for much of the paper's reporting.

" The only way to get the right esprit de corps — the people directed to a higher calling — is to invite students to join the Round Table and go on a quest for the chalice ," Plotkin told a Los Angeles Times reporter.

In June 2006, Plotkin wrote editorial apologies for two items: a photo of young teens dancing in a manner that some saw as suggestive and for coverage that seemed to dismiss efforts by local merchants to encourage local shopping.

Author Jonathan Rowe, a station host at KWMR, described the struggles of the Light under Plotkin, including Plotkin's reliance on unpaid interns, perceived lack of coverage of local civic matters, and house style that, Rowe argued, appears written more for an outside audience than for the community.

While the numbers under negotiation were not disclosed, Plotkin wrote that in 2005, he had purchased the Light and a sister publication, The Coastal Traveler, for $ 500, 000.