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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20master%20plan | In the United States Department of Defense, the Integrated Master Plan (IMP) and the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) are important program management tools that provide significant assistance in the planning and scheduling of work efforts in large and complex materiel acquisitions. The IMP is an event-driven plan tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop%20coefficient | Crop coefficients are properties of plants used in predicting evapotranspiration (ET). The most basic crop coefficient, Kc, is simply the ratio of ET observed for the crop studied over that observed for the well calibrated reference crop under the same conditions.
Potential evapotranspiration (PET), is the evaporatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computron%20tube | The Computron was an electron tube designed to perform the parallel addition and multiplication of digital numbers. It was conceived by Richard L. Snyder, Jr., Jan A. Rajchman, Paul Rudnick and the digital computer group at the laboratories of the Radio Corporation of America under the direction of Vladimir Zworykin. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20frequency%20scaling | Dynamic frequency scaling (also known as CPU throttling) is a power management technique in computer architecture whereby the frequency of a microprocessor can be automatically adjusted "on the fly" depending on the actual needs, to conserve power and reduce the amount of heat generated by the chip. Dynamic frequency s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Semiconductor%20Manufacturing | The IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE. It covers research on semiconductor device fabrication, including simulation and modeling from the factory to the detailed process level, defect control, yield analysis and optimization, productio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odfjell%20Drilling | Odfjell Drilling Ltd. is an oil drilling, well service, and engineering company.
Current operations
The company has 3 divisions:
Mobile Offshore Drilling - Owns 6 drillships and operates in Norway, United Kingdom, Angola, Vietnam, and Brazil.
Drilling & Technology - provides platform drilling, project management an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20screencasting%20software | This page provides a comparison of notable screencasting software, used to record activities on the computer screen. This software is commonly used for desktop recording, gameplay recording and video editing. Screencasting software is typically limited to streaming and recording desktop activity alone, in contrast with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estradiol%2017beta-dehydrogenase | In enzymology, an estradiol 17beta-dehydrogenase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
estradiol-17beta + NAD(P)+ estrone + NAD(P)H + H+
The 3 substrates of this enzyme are estradiol-17beta, NAD+, and NADP+, whereas its 4 products are estrone, NADH, NADPH, and H+.
This enzyme belongs to the family of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot-proof | In modern English usage, the informal term idiot-proof or foolproof describes designs that cannot be misused either inherently, or by use of defensive design principles. The implication is that the design is usable even by someone of low intelligence who would not use it properly.
The term "foolproof" originates in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20performance%20analysis%20tools | This is a list of performance analysis tools for use in software development.
General purpose, language independent
The following tools work based on log files that can be generated from various systems.
time (Unix) - can be used to determine the run time of a program, separately counting user time vs. system time, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%27s%202-state%203-symbol%20Turing%20machine | In his book A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram described a universal 2-state 5-symbol Turing machine, and conjectured that a particular 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine (hereinafter (2,3) Turing machine) might be universal as well.
On May 14, 2007, Wolfram announced a $25,000 prize to be won by the first person to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone%2017b-dehydrogenase%20%28NADP%2B%29 | Testosterone 17beta-dehydrogenase (NADP+) (, 17-ketoreductase, NADP-dependent testosterone-17beta-oxidoreductase, testosterone 17beta-dehydrogenase (NADP)) is an enzyme with systematic name 17beta-hydroxysteroid:NADP+ 17-oxidoreductase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
testosterone + NADP+ andro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20problems | The following articles contain lists of problems:
List of undecidable problems
Lists of unsolved problems
List of NP-complete problems
List of PSPACE-complete problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Schreyer | Helmut Theodor Schreyer (4 July 1912 – 12 December 1984) was a German inventor. He is mostly known for his work on the Z3, one of the first personal computers (PC).
Early life
Helmut Schreyer was the son of the minister Paul Schreyer and Martha. When his father started to work in a parish in Mosbach, the young Schrey... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Red%20List | A Regional Red List is a report of the threatened status of species within a certain country or region. It is based on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, an inventory of the conservation status of species on a global scale. Regional Red Lists assess the risk of extinction to species within a political managemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Push | Z-Push (presumably Z is for Zarafa) is a FOSS implementation of the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol which is used to synchronize email, personal contacts and other items between a central server and a mobile device.
Z-Push enables any PHP and non-PHP based groupware package to become fully sync-able with any A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20continuity | The law of continuity is a heuristic principle introduced by Gottfried Leibniz based on earlier work by Nicholas of Cusa and Johannes Kepler. It is the principle that "whatever succeeds for the finite, also succeeds for the infinite". Kepler used the law of continuity to calculate the area of the circle by representing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction%20motor | A friction motor is a simple mechanism to propel toy cars, trucks, trains, action figures and similar toys. The motor consists of a large flywheel which is connected to the drive wheels of the toy via a very low gear ratio, so that the flywheel revolves faster. The flywheel's axis is perpendicular to the direction in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20cent%20mille | A per cent mille or pcm is one one-thousandth of a percent. It can be thought of as a "milli-percent". It is commonly used in epidemiology, and in nuclear reactor engineering as a unit of reactivity.
Epidemiology
Statistics of crime rates, mortality and disease prevalence in a population are often given in
Nuclear Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording%20at%20the%20edge | Recording at the edge is the recording of video and storing it either in camera or to a directly connected storage device instead of transporting it across the network to a centralized recording facility such as a digital video recorder.
Recording at the edge is a distributed or de-centralized approach to storage—the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20phone%20signal | A mobile phone signal (also known as reception and service) is the signal strength (measured in dBm) received by a mobile phone from a cellular network (on the downlink). Depending on various factors, such as proximity to a tower, any obstructions such as buildings or trees, etc. this signal strength will vary. Most mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal%20cloud | A focal cloud is the collection of focal points of an imperfect lens or parabolic reflector whether optical, electrostatic or electromagnetic. This includes parabolic antennas and lens-type reflective antennas of all kinds. The effect is analogous to the circle of confusion in photography.
In a perfect lens or parabo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redalyc | The Redalyc project (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) is a bibliographic database and a digital library of Open Access journals, supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México with the help of numerous other higher education institutions and information systems.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additron%20tube | The Additron was an electron tube designed by Dr. Josef Kates, circa 1950, to replace the several individual electron tubes and support components required to perform the function of a single bit digital full adder. Dr. Kates developed the Additron with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success and reliabil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confronted%20animals | Confronted animals, or confronted-animal as an adjective, where two animals face each other in a symmetrical pose, is an ancient bilateral motif in art and artifacts studied in archaeology and art history. The "anti-confronted animals" is the opposing motif, with the animals back to back.
Bilateral symmetry is a domin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20%26%20Behavior%20Research%20Foundation | The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that funds mental health research. It was originally called the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression or the acronym for that, NARSAD. It received its nonprofit ruling in 1981.
Mission and work
BBRF states tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Phytogeographic%20Excursion | The International Phytogeographic Excursions was a series of international meetings in plant geography that significantly contributed to exchange of scientific ideas across national and linguistic barriers and also to the rise of Anglo-American plant ecology. The initiative was taken by the British botanist Arthur Tans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteromer | A heteromer is something that consists of different parts; the antonym of homomeric. Examples are:
Biology
Spinal neurons that pass over to the opposite side of the spinal cord.
A protein complex that contains two or more different polypeptides.
Pharmacology
Ligand-gated ion channels such as the nicotinic acetylch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro%20of%20Banyoles | The Negro of Banyoles (, or ) was a controversial piece of taxidermy of a San individual, which used to be a major attraction in the Darder Museum of Banyoles (Catalonia, Spain). In 2000, the remains of the man were sent to Botswana for burial.
History
In 1830, the Verreaux brothers stuffed the corpse of a member of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solemyidae | Solemyidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine protobranch bivalve mollusks in the order Solemyida.
Biology
Solemyids are remarkable in that their digestive tract is either extremely small or non-existent, and their feeding appendages are too short to reach outside the shell.
It has been shown that these clams hos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20SX-9 | The SX-9 is a NEC SX supercomputer built by NEC Corporation. The SX-9 Series implements an SMP system in a compact node module and uses an enhanced version of the single chip vector processor that was introduced with the SX-6. The NEC SX-9 processors run at 3.2 GHz, with eight-way replicated vector pipes, each having... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20software%20engineering | Forensic software engineering refers to the discipline of analyzing (and sometimes reconstructing) the functionality of software applications or services that have become defunct; are no longer accompanied by, or previously lacked, documentation; or for which the original engineers are no longer available.
Description... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Nutrition%20and%20Dietetic%20Institute | The Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute (INDI) is the national organisation in Ireland for nutrition and dietetic professionals. The INDI's mission is to encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards in the science and practice of human nutrition and dietetics, to positively influence the nutrition sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Simpson%20%28engineer%29 | James Simpson (1799–1869) was a British civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from January 1853 to January 1855.
James Simpson was the fourth son of Thomas Simpson, engineer of the Chelsea Waterworks. James succeeded his father in both this post and that of engineer of the Lambeth Wat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Hutton%20Gregory | Sir Charles Hutton Gregory (14 October 1817 – 10 January 1898) was an English civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1867 and December 1869.
Charles was the son of Dr Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, a master of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. The chai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20cell%20wall | The secondary cell wall is a structure found in many plant cells, located between the primary cell wall and the plasma membrane. The cell starts producing the secondary cell wall after the primary cell wall is complete and the cell has stopped expanding.
Secondary cell walls provide additional protection to cells and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia%20extension%20connector | A multimedia extension connector (MXC) is a method of connecting video cameras and other video inputs to video capture cards and the like. MXC is based on the 8-pin Mini-DIN connector. It is used by Winnov's range of Videum capture cards.
External links
Videum 1000 Plus Family Quick Start Guide listing on page 9 the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionic%20conductivity%20%28solid%20state%29 | Ionic conductivity (denoted by ) is a measure of a substance's tendency towards ionic conduction. Ionic conduction is the movement of ions. The phenomenon is observed in solids and solutions. Ionic conduction is one mechanism of current.
In crystalline solids
In most solids, ions rigidly occupy fixed positions, stron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20line%20%28electronics%29 | In graphical analysis of nonlinear electronic circuits, a load line is a line drawn on the current–voltage characteristic graph for a nonlinear device like a diode or transistor. It represents the constraint put on the voltage and current in the nonlinear device by the external circuit. The load line, usually a straigh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hut%207 | Hut 7 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park tasked with the solution of Japanese naval codes such as JN4, JN11, JN40, and JN-25. The hut was headed by Hugh Foss who reported to Frank Birch, the head of Bletchley's Naval section.
Hut 7 supplied cryptanalysts and lingui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docosanoid | In biochemistry, docosanoids are signaling molecules made by the metabolism of twenty-two-carbon fatty acids (EFAs), especially the omega-3 fatty acid, Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) (i.e. 4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z-docosahexaenoic acid) by lipoxygenase, cyclooxygenase, and cytochrome P450 enzymes. Other docosanoids are metabol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%20triangle | A Kepler triangle is a special right triangle with edge lengths in geometric progression. The ratio of the progression is where is the golden ratio, and the progression can be written: or approximately . Squares on the edges of this triangle have areas in another geometric progression, . Alternative definitions of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedup | freedup is a program to scan directories or file lists for duplicate files. The file lists may be provided to an input pipe or internally generated using find with provided options. There are more options to specify the search conditions more detailed. Other options influence the performed actions, i.e. whether to disp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181 | The 74181 is a 4-bit slice arithmetic logic unit (ALU), implemented as a 7400 series TTL integrated circuit. Introduced by Texas Instruments in February 1970, it was the first complete ALU on a single chip. It was used as the arithmetic/logic core in the CPUs of many historically significant minicomputers and other dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20theorem%20for%20cyclic%20quadrilaterals | In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that the centers of the incircles of certain triangles inside a cyclic quadrilateral are vertices of a rectangle.
Triangulating an arbitrary cyclic quadrilateral by its diagonals yields four overlapping triangles (each diagonal creates two triangles). The centers of the incircl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DS80C390 | The DS80C390 is a microcontroller, introduced by Dallas Semiconductor (now part of Maxim Integrated Products), whose architecture is derived from that of the Intel 8051 processor series. It contains a code memory address space of twenty-two bits. It also contains two Controller Area Network (CAN) controllers and a 32-b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20robots | The history of robots has its origins in the ancient world. During the industrial revolution, humans developed the structural engineering capability to control electricity so that machines could be powered with small motors. In the early 20th century, the notion of a humanoid machine was developed.
The first uses of m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode%20Island%20Math%20League | The Rhode Island Mathematics League (RIML) competition consists of four meets spanning the entire year. It culminates at the state championship held at Bishop Hendricken High School. Top schools from the state championship are invited to the New England Association of Math Leagues (NEAML) championship.
Format
Each me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20aqueducts | This is a list of aqueducts.
Africa
Botswana
North-South Carrier
Egypt
Aqueduct of the Nile (historic)
Bahr Yussef
Fresh Water Canal
Ibrahimiya Canal
Mahmoudiyah Canal
Sadat Canal (see also New Valley Project)
Sweet Water Canal
Libya
Great Man-Made River
South Africa
Sudan
Gezira Scheme
Tunisia
Zaghouan Aqueduct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazard%27s%20universal%20ring | In mathematics, Lazard's universal ring is a ring introduced by Michel Lazard in over which the universal commutative one-dimensional formal group law is defined.
There is a universal commutative one-dimensional formal group law over a universal commutative ring defined as follows. We let
be
for indeterminates , a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20quality%20control | Software quality control is the set of procedures used by organizations to ensure that a software product will meet its quality goals at the best value to the customer, and to continually improve the organization’s ability to produce software products in the future.
Software quality control refers to specified functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicone | In geometry, a bicone or dicone (from , and Greek: di-, both meaning "two") is the three-dimensional surface of revolution of a rhombus around one of its axes of symmetry. Equivalently, a bicone is the surface created by joining two congruent, right, circular cones at their bases.
A bicone has circular symmetry and or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s%20equation | Hudson's equation, also known as Hudson formula, is an equation used by coastal engineers to calculate the minimum size of riprap (armourstone) required to provide satisfactory stability characteristics for rubble structures such as breakwaters under attack from storm wave conditions.
The equation was developed by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicStation | MusicStation is a music service platform developed by Omnifone. The cloud based platform works across a number of different digital device platforms and is tailored specifically for various partners including rara.com, RIM, Sony, Sony Ericsson, HP, BSkyB, Vodafone, Telenor, Hutchison Telecom and Vodacom.
Services
In F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20addressing | In computer architecture, word addressing means that addresses of memory on a computer uniquely identify words of memory. It is usually used in contrast with byte addressing, where addresses uniquely identify bytes. Almost all modern computer architectures use byte addressing, and word addressing is largely only of h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanostat | The Mechanostat is a term describing the way in which mechanical loading influences bone structure by changing the mass (amount of bone) and architecture (its arrangement) to provide a structure that resists habitual loads with an economical amount of material. As changes in the skeleton are accomplished by the process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20algorithm%20scheduling | The genetic algorithm is an operational research method that may be used to solve scheduling problems in production planning.
Importance of production scheduling
To be competitive, corporations must minimize inefficiencies and maximize productivity. In manufacturing, productivity is inherently linked to how well the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroshell | Zeroshell is a small open-source Linux distribution for servers and embedded systems which aims to provide network services. Its administration relies on a web-based graphical interface; no shell is needed to administer and configure it. Zeroshell is available as Live CD and CompactFlash images, and VMware virtual mach... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotavirus%20translation | Rotavirus translation, the process of translating mRNA into proteins, occurs in a different way in Rotaviruses. Unlike the vast majority of cellular proteins in other organisms, in Rotaviruses the proteins are translated from capped but nonpolyadenylated mRNAs. The viral nonstructural protein NSP3 specifically binds ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Index%20to%20Statistics | The Current Index to Statistics is an online database published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association that contains bibliographic data of articles in statistics, probability, and related fields. It was shut down at the end of 2019.
See also
Web of Science
IEEE Xplore
R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical%20Names%20Board%20of%20Canada | The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada.
History
It was created in December 1897, by Order in Council, as the Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20materialism%20%28anthropology%29 | Cultural materialism is an anthropological research orientation first introduced by Marvin Harris in his 1968 book The Rise of Anthropological Theory, as a theoretical paradigm and research strategy. It is said to be the most enduring achievement of that work. Harris subsequently developed a full elaboration and defens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development%20of%20the%20nervous%20system%20in%20humans | The development of the nervous system in humans, or neural development or neurodevelopment involves the studies of embryology, developmental biology, and neuroscience to describe the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which the complex nervous system forms in humans, develops during prenatal development, and continue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20Senders%20Alliance | The Certified Senders Alliance is an email whitelist service provided by eco and the German Dialogmarketing Association (Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband).
The CSA whitelist is a positive list for email bulk senders. With ISPs and email-providers participating in the whitelist, solicited email does not need to ente... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separating%20set | In mathematics, a set of functions with domain is called a and is said to (or just ) if for any two distinct elements and of there exists a function such that
Separating sets can be used to formulate a version of the Stone–Weierstrass theorem for real-valued functions on a compact Hausdorff space with the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials%20science%20in%20science%20fiction | Materials science in science fiction is the study of how materials science is portrayed in works of science fiction. The accuracy of the materials science portrayed spans a wide range – sometimes it is an extrapolation of existing technology, sometimes it is a physically realistic portrayal of a far-out technology, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20least%20power | In programming, the rule of least power is a design principle that
"suggests choosing the least powerful [computer] language suitable for a given purpose". Stated alternatively, given a choice among computer languages, classes of which range from descriptive (or declarative) to procedural, the less procedural, more de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20metallization%20cell | The programmable metallization cell, or PMC, is a non-volatile computer memory developed at Arizona State University. PMC, a technology developed to replace the widely used flash memory, providing a combination of longer lifetimes, lower power, and better memory density. Infineon Technologies, who licensed the technolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer%20strip | A buffer strip is an area of land maintained in permanent vegetation that helps to control air quality, soil quality, and water quality, along with other environmental problems, dealing primarily on land that is used in agriculture. Buffer strips trap sediment, and enhance filtration of nutrients and pesticides by slow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon%20Baird | Damon S. Baird is a fictional character in the Gears of War franchise. He first appeared in the first and eponymous video game of the series as a supporting character. He has since appeared in every mainline installment of the Gears franchise, and is featured as the main protagonist of the spin-off title, Gears of War:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BE%26K | BE&K, Inc., was a global engineering and construction company based in Birmingham, Alabama.
History
The company was founded in 1972 and named after its founders Peter Bolvig, William Edmonds, and Ted Kennedy. BE&K was acquired by KBR, Inc. in 2008. In 2015, BE&K Building Group (one of BE&K's former subsidiaries) and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata | Interdata, Inc., was a computer company, founded in 1966 by a former Electronic Associates engineer, Daniel Sinnott, and was based in Oceanport, New Jersey. The company produced a line of 16- and 32-bit minicomputers that were loosely based on the IBM 360 instruction set architecture but at a cheaper price. In 1974, it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBPM | jBPM (Java Business Process Model) is an open-source workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0 (or its own process definition language jPDL in earlier versions). jBPM is a toolkit for building business applications to help automate business processes and decisions. It's s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrthoGraph | OrthoGraph I is a building survey and floorplan creation application for iOS and Android mobile operating systems, developed by OrthoGraph, a software developer based in Budapest, Hungary. The software can be used to support building information modeling processes.
Product history
The first version of OrthoGraph was r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continual%20improvement%20process | A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once. Delivery (customer valued) processes are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi%E2%80%93Anger%20expansion | In mathematics, the Jacobi–Anger expansion (or Jacobi–Anger identity) is an expansion of exponentials of trigonometric functions in the basis of their harmonics. It is useful in physics (for example, to convert between plane waves and cylindrical waves), and in signal processing (to describe FM signals). This identity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothelial%20lipase | Endothelial lipase (LIPG) is a form of lipase secreted by vascular endothelial cells in tissues with high metabolic rates and vascularization, such as the liver, lung, kidney, and thyroid gland. The LIPG enzyme is a vital component to many biological processes. These processes include lipoprotein metabolism, cytokine e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral%20microbiology | Oral microbiology is the study of the microorganisms (microbiota) of the oral cavity and their interactions between oral microorganisms or with the host. The environment present in the human mouth is suited to the growth of characteristic microorganisms found there. It provides a source of water and nutrients, as well... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexipedia | Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality built on Vantage Learning's Multilingual ConceptNet. Lexipedia presents words with their semantic relationships displayed in an animated visual word web. Lexipedia contains an expanded version of the English Wordnet and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%20Demonstrations%20Project | The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an organized, open-source collection of small (or medium-sized) interactive programmes called Demonstrations, which are meant to visually and interactively represent ideas from a range of fields. It is hosted by Wolfram Research, whose stated goal is to bring computational explorat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremie | A tremie is a watertight pipe, usually of about 250 mm inside diameter (150 to 300 mm), with a conical hopper at its upper end above the water level. It may have a loose plug or a valve at the bottom end. A tremie is used to pour concrete underwater in a way that avoids washout of cement from the mix due to turbulent w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptor%20theory | Receptor theory is the application of receptor models to explain drug behavior. Pharmacological receptor models preceded accurate knowledge of receptors by many years. John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich introduced the concept that receptors can mediate drug action at the beginning of the 20th century. Alfred Joseph ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Winkler | Peter Mann Winkler is a research mathematician, author of more than 125 research papers in mathematics and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation. His research areas include discrete mathematics, theory of computation and probability theory.
He is currently a prof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%20canonical%20system | A Post canonical system, also known as a Post production system, as created by Emil Post, is a string-manipulation system that starts with finitely-many strings and repeatedly transforms them by applying a finite set j of specified rules of a certain form, thus generating a formal language. Today they are mainly of his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer%20immunology | Cancer immunology is an interdisciplinary branch of biology and a sub-discipline of immunology that is concerned with understanding the role of the immune system in the progression and development of cancer; the most well known application is cancer immunotherapy, which utilises the immune system as a treatment for can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Stirling%20radioisotope%20generator | The advanced Stirling radioisotope generator (ASRG) is a radioisotope power system first developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center. It uses a Stirling power conversion technology to convert radioactive-decay heat into electricity for use on spacecraft. The energy conversion process used by an ASRG is significantly more... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20generator | A packet generator or packet builder is a type of software that generates random packets or allows the user to construct detailed custom packets. Depending on the network medium and operating system, packet generators utilize raw sockets, NDIS function calls, or direct access to the network adapter kernel-mode driver.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial | OpenSocial is a public specification that defines a component hosting environment (container) and a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web applications. Initially, it was designed for social network applications. It was developed by Google along with MySpace and several other social networks. R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20shrink | The term die shrink (sometimes optical shrink or process shrink) refers to the scaling of metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) devices. The act of shrinking a die creates a somewhat identical circuit using a more advanced fabrication process, usually involving an advance of lithographic nodes. This reduces overall costs fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDNA%20%28multi-graphics%29 | The xDNA technology is a technology designed by Diamond Multimedia, allowing motherboards which are not certified for ATI CrossFire (for instance, nForce 500/600 series motherboards designed by Nvidia) to install multiple ATI Radeon video cards (up to four) as a CrossFire setup and operate in rendering modes which are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebelt | The Bluebelt is a large scale system of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) in New York City. The program originated on Staten Island in the early 1990s, but has also been implemented in Queens and the Bronx. The Bluebelt includes structural and nonstructural stormwater management control measures taken to miti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoeriodictyol | Homoeriodictyol is a bitter-masking flavanone extracted from Yerba Santa (Eriodictyon californicum) a plant growing in America.
Homoeriodictyol (3`-methoxy-4`,5,7-trihydroxyflavanone) is one of the 4 flavanones identified by Symrise in this plant eliciting taste-modifying property: homoeriodictyol sodium salt, eriodic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban | Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention software framework. Written in the Python programming language, it is designed to prevent brute-force attacks. It is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally, such as iptables or TCP Wrapper.
Functionality
Fail2ban... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag-of-words%20model | The bag-of-words model is a model of text represented as an unordered collection of words. It is used in natural language processing and information retrieval (IR). It disregards grammar and word order but keeps multiplicity. The bag-of-words model has also been used for computer vision.
The bag-of-words model is comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-loop%20model | In game theory, an open-loop model is the one where players cannot observe the play of their opponents, as opposed to a closed-loop model, where all past play is common knowledge. The solution to an open-loop model is called "open-loop equilibrium".
Open loop models are more tractable, which is why they are sometimes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20electrode%20leadless%20face | Metal electrode leadless face (MELF) is a type of leadless cylindrical electronic surface mount device that is metallized at its ends. MELF devices are usually diodes and resistors.
The EN 140401-803 and JEDEC DO-213 standards describe multiple MELF components.
Handling difficulties
Because of their cylindrical shap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20mining | Audio mining is a technique by which the content of an audio signal can be automatically analyzed and searched. It is most commonly used in the field of automatic speech recognition, where the analysis tries to identify any speech within the audio. The term ‘audio mining’ is sometimes used interchangeably with audio in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-protocol%20exploitation | Inter-protocol exploitation is a class of security vulnerabilities that takes advantage of interactions between two communication protocols, for example the protocols used in the Internet. It is commonly discussed in the context of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This attack uses the potential of the two differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake%20turbulence%20category | Wake turbulence categories and wake turbulence groups are defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization for the purpose of separating aircraft in flight, due to wake turbulence.
Wake turbulence categories
Since 2020, there are four categories, based on maximum certificated take-off mass:
Light (L) — aircr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotoxicity | Ecotoxicity, the subject of study in the field of ecotoxicology (a portmanteau of ecology and toxicology), refers to the biological, chemical or physical stressors that affect ecosystems. Such stressors could occur in the natural environment at densities, concentrations, or levels high enough to disrupt natural biochem... |
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