Schema

The word schema comes from the Greek word σχήμα (skhēma), which means shape, or more generally, plan. The plural is σχήματα (skhēmata). In English, both schemas and schemata are used as plural forms.

Schema may refer to:

Computer science

Database schema

Schema (genetic algorithms), a set of programs or bit strings that have some genotypic similarity; usually specified by a template

Schema.org, a web markup vocabulary designed to support interoperability of structured data for search and discovery

Interface (computing), the protocol for communicating to software components

URI protocol schema, the type of protocol (rules) used to communicate in the internet (i.e. http://, ftp://, etc.)

XML schema, a way to define the structure, content, and to some extent, the semantics of XML documents

Mathematics

Axiom schema, a finite description of infinitely many axioms in formal logic

Science

Schema (Kant), in philosophy the referencing of a category to a sense impression through time

Schema (psychology), a mental set or representation

There's a fascinating new theory about why the world plummets into ice ages every 100,000 years

Edit The Independent 27 Oct 2016

For the past million years or so, the Earth has gone through an ice age every 100,000 years. Nobody knows precisely why. Before that, colder summers occurred about every 40,000 years until the Earth entered a phase called the middle Pleistocene transition where the intervals became over twice as long. Researchers at Cardiff University have just put forward their new theory — — about why this cycle changed so dramatically ... Read more. ....

photo: Via YouTube

Afghan girl from iconic National Geographic cover arrested in Pakistan

Edit DNA India 27 Oct 2016

--> Thu, 27 Oct 2016-09.34am , Peshawar , PTI. If convicted, Sharbat Gula, who was depicted on the cover of the magazine in 1984, could face 14 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Sharbat Gula, the famed green-eyed Afghan girl who was immortalised in 1985 when the National Geographic magazine published her haunting picture on its cover, was arrested on Wednesday for staying in Pakistan with fake identity documents ... ....

photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba

[VIDEO]: Texas College Student In Trouble After Topless Selfie, Striking Police Car

Edit WorldNews.com 27 Oct 2016

Miranda Rader, a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student is in hot water after she took a topless selfie while driving and smashed into the rear of a stopped police car and was arrested, Reuters reported Thursday.Rader also had an open bottle of wine in a cup holder next to her, Bryan Police Department officials said.Wednesday’s accident near the university even caused the airbag to deploy ... ....

photo: Creative Commons / T. Hiivanainen

[VIDEO] U.S. Charges 61 In Indian Call Center Scam

Edit WorldNews.com 27 Oct 2016

In a first-of-its kind nationwide takedown, the U.S. Justice Department announced charges Thursday against 61 defendants in the United States and abroad in connection with call center operations based in India, The Associated Press reported.As agents fanned out across the country to make arrests, officials in Washington said they wanted to alert the public that the calls are all part of a criminal fraud ... U.S ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....

photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovic

An Iraqi Federal Police vehicle passes through a checkpoint in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016.

U.N. preparing for possible chemical attack in Iraq's Mosul

Edit The Washington Times 27 Oct 2016

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.N.'s public health agency said Thursday it has trained 90 Iraqi medics in "mass casualty management," with a special focus on chemical attacks, as part of its preparations for Iraq's operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group. The extremist group, which has ruled Iraq's ... ....

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ESMA issues MiFIR reporting instructions (ESMA - European Securities and Markets Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Oct 2016

(Source. ESMA - European Securities and Markets Authority). MiFID - Secondary Markets. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued detailed reporting introductions and XML schemas under its Financial Instruments Reference Data System (FIRDS) ... (noodl. 36020411) ....

Dispatches from the frontline: Bernard-Henri Lévy on the road to Mosul

Edit New Statesman 27 Oct 2016

The French's philosopher's documentary, Peshmerga, followed the Kurds fighting Islamic State in northern Iraq. Now, he and his team are back in Iraqi Kurdistan ... Return to Kurdistan ... Nothing has changed ... *** ... “You shouldn’t be here!” ... Such an explanation may not be too absurd to ascribe to allied powers locked into their old sovereign schemas — ready to please one newly rehabilitated power (Iran) and preserve another pseudo-nation (Iraq)....

CME Group (CME) Q3 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Edit Seeking Alpha 27 Oct 2016

CME Group, Inc. (NASDAQ.CME). Q3 2016 Earnings Call. October 27, 2016 8.30 am ET. Executives. John C. Peschier - CME Group, Inc. Phupinder S. Gill - CME Group, Inc. John W. Pietrowicz - CME Group, Inc. Terrence A. Duffy - CME Group, Inc. Kimberly S. Taylor - CME Group, Inc. Sean Tully - CME Group, Inc. Derek L ... Bryan T ... Analysts ... So we believe our current pricing schema does not fully capture the value Alex described to these different user segments ... ....