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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tameness%20theorem | In mathematics, the tameness theorem states that every complete hyperbolic 3-manifold with finitely generated fundamental group is topologically tame, in other words homeomorphic to the interior of a compact 3-manifold.
The tameness theorem was conjectured by . It was proved by and, independently, by Danny Calegari a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20landscape | An energy landscape is a mapping of possible states of a system. The concept is frequently used in physics, chemistry, and biochemistry, e.g. to describe all possible conformations of a molecular entity, or the spatial positions of interacting molecules in a system, or parameters and their corresponding energy levels, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20matrix | In applied mathematics, the transfer matrix is a formulation in terms of a block-Toeplitz matrix of the two-scale equation, which characterizes refinable functions. Refinable functions play an important role in wavelet theory and finite element theory.
For the mask , which is a vector with component indexes from to ,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%27s%20rule | Anderson's rule is used for the construction of energy band diagrams of the heterojunction between two semiconductor materials. Anderson's rule states that when constructing an energy band diagram, the vacuum levels of the two semiconductors on either side of the heterojunction should be aligned (at the same energy).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brace%20notation | In several programming languages, such as Perl, brace notation is a faster way to extract bytes from a string variable.
In pseudocode
An example of brace notation using pseudocode which would extract the 82nd character from the string is:
a_byte = a_string{82}
The equivalent of this using a hypothetical function 'MID... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pile%20driver | A pile driver is a heavy-duty tool used to drive piles into soil to build piers, bridges, cofferdams, and other "pole" supported structures, and patterns of pilings as part of permanent deep foundations for buildings or other structures. Pilings may be made of wood, solid steel, or tubular steel (often later filled w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTQ%20tree | CTQ trees (critical-to-quality trees) are the key measurable characteristics of a product or process whose performance standards or specification limits must be met in order to satisfy the customer. They align improvement or design efforts with customer requirements.
CTQs are used to decompose broad customer requireme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery%20and%20XPath%20Data%20Model | The XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM) is the data model shared by the XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery, and XForms programming languages. It is defined in a W3C recommendation. Originally, it was based on the XPath 1.0 data model which in turn is based on the XML Information Set.
The XDM consists of flat sequences of zero ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Olney | Grant Olney Passmore (born October 18, 1983) is a singer-songwriter who has recorded on the Asian Man Records label. He is considered part of the New Weird America movement along with David Dondero, Devendra Banhart, Bright Eyes, and CocoRosie. His latest full-length album, Hypnosis for Happiness, was released in July... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity%20marketing | Proximity marketing is the localized wireless distribution of advertising content associated with a particular place. Transmissions can be received by individuals in that location who wish to receive them and have the necessary equipment to do so.
Distribution may be via a traditional localized broadcast, or more com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadge%20hierarchy | In descriptive set theory, within mathematics, Wadge degrees are levels of complexity for sets of reals. Sets are compared by continuous reductions. The Wadge hierarchy is the structure of Wadge degrees. These concepts are named after William W. Wadge.
Wadge degrees
Suppose and are subsets of Baire space ωω. Then ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20whys | Five whys (or 5 whys) is an iterative interrogative technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a defect or problem by repeating the question "Why?" five times. The answer to the fifth why should reveal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20buffer | A write buffer is a type of data buffer that can be used to hold data being written from the cache to main memory or to the next cache in the memory hierarchy to improve performance and reduce latency. It is used in certain CPU cache architectures like Intel's x86 and AMD64. In multi-core systems, write buffers destroy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower | A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). Flowers produce gametophytes, which in flowering plants consist of a few haploid cells which produce gametes. The "male" gametophyte, which produces non-motile sperm, is enclos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20theorem | In mathematics, a classification theorem answers the classification problem "What are the objects of a given type, up to some equivalence?". It gives a non-redundant enumeration: each object is equivalent to exactly one class.
A few issues related to classification are the following.
The equivalence problem is "given... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurix | Plurix is a Unix-like operating system developed in Brazil in the early 1980s.
Overview
Plurix was developed in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), at the Electronic Computing Center (NCE).
The NCE researchers, after returning from postgraduate courses in the USA, attempted to license the UNIX source co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20manufacturing%20and%20testing | Optical manufacturing and testing spans an enormous range of manufacturing procedures and optical test configurations.
The manufacture of a conventional spherical lens typically begins with the generation of the optic's rough shape by grinding a glass blank. This can be done, for example, with ring tools. Next, the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20divisors | In algebra, the elementary divisors of a module over a principal ideal domain (PID) occur in one form of the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain.
If is a PID and a finitely generated -module, then M is isomorphic to a finite sum of the form
where the are nonzero primary i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20modeling |
Geometric modeling is a branch of applied mathematics and computational geometry that studies methods and algorithms for the mathematical description of shapes.
The shapes studied in geometric modeling are mostly two- or three-dimensional (solid figures), although many of its tools and principles can be applied to se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonius%27s%20theorem | In geometry, Apollonius's theorem is a theorem relating the length of a median of a triangle to the lengths of its sides.
It states that "the sum of the squares of any two sides of any triangle equals twice the square on half the third side, together with twice the square on the median bisecting the third side".
Spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20L.%20A.%20van%20de%20Snepscheut | Johannes Lambertus Adriana van de Snepscheut (; 12 September 195323 February 1994) was a computer scientist and educator. He was a student of Martin Rem and Edsger Dijkstra. At the time of his death he was the executive officer of the computer science department at the California Institute of Technology. He was also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20penicillin | The history of penicillin follows observations and discoveries of evidence of antibiotic activity of the mould Penicillium that led to the development of penicillins that became the first widely used antibiotics. Following the production of a relatively pure compound in 1942, penicillin was the first naturally-derived ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20module | A power module or power electronic module provides the physical containment for several power components, usually power semiconductor devices. These power semiconductors (so-called dies) are typically soldered or sintered on a power electronic substrate that carries the power semiconductors, provides electrical and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20site%20survey | A wireless site survey, sometimes called an RF (Radio Frequency) site survey or wireless survey, is the process of planning and designing a wireless network, to provide a wireless solution that will deliver the required wireless coverage, data rates, network capacity, roaming capability and quality of service (QoS). Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless%20smart%20card | A contactless smart card is a contactless credential whose dimensions are credit card size. Its embedded integrated circuits can store (and sometimes process) data and communicate with a terminal via NFC. Commonplace uses include transit tickets, bank cards and passports.
There are two broad categories of contactless ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20energy%20transfer | In dosimetry, linear energy transfer (LET) is the amount of energy that an ionizing particle transfers to the material traversed per unit distance. It describes the action of radiation into matter.
It is identical to the retarding force acting on a charged ionizing particle travelling through the matter. By definitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Physiological%20Human | The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) is a European initiative that focuses on a methodological and technological framework that, once established, will enable collaborative investigation of the human body as a single complex system. The collective framework will make it possible to share resources and observations fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiome | The physiome of an individual's or species' physiological state is the description of its functional behavior. The physiome describes the physiological dynamics of the normal intact organism and is built upon information and
structure (genome, proteome, and morphome). The term comes from "physio-" (nature) and "-ome" (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon%20marker | Retrotransposon markers are components of DNA which are used as cladistic markers. They assist in determining the common ancestry, or not, of related taxa. The "presence" of a given retrotransposon in related taxa suggests their orthologous integration, a derived condition acquired via a common ancestry, while the "abs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20beacon | Molecular beacons, or molecular beacon probes, are oligonucleotide hybridization probes that can report the presence of specific nucleic acids in homogenous solutions. Molecular beacons are hairpin-shaped molecules with an internally quenched fluorophore whose fluorescence is restored when they bind to a target nucleic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CER-200 | CER ( – Digital Electronic Computer) model 200 is an early digital computer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia) in 1966.
See also
CER Computers
Mihajlo Pupin Institute
History of computer hardware in the SFRY
One-of-a-kind computers
CER computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Cloud | Sun Cloud was an on-demand Cloud computing service operated by Sun Microsystems prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation. The Sun Cloud Compute Utility provided access to a substantial computing resource over the Internet for US$1 per CPU-hour. It was launched as Sun Grid in March 2006. It was based on and suppor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRS-100 | HRS-100, ХРС-100, GVS-100 or ГВС-100, (see Ref.#1, #2, #3 and #4) (, , ) was a third generation hybrid computer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia, then SFR Yugoslavia) and engineers from USSR in the period from 1968 to 1971. Three systems HRS-100 were deployed in Academy of Sciences of USSR in Moscow and Nov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIM-100 | The TIM-100 was a PTT teller microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia) in 1985 (Ref.lit. #1). It was based on the Intel microprocessors types 80x86 and VLSI circuitry. RAM had capacity max.8MB, and the external memory were floppy disks of 5.25 or 3.50 inch. (Ref.literature #2, #3 and #4).
Multiuser, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomarker | In biomedical contexts, a biomarker, or biological marker, is a measurable indicator of some biological state or condition. Biomarkers are often measured and evaluated using blood, urine, or soft tissues to examine normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomarker%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine, a biomarker is a measurable indicator of the severity or presence of some disease state. It may be defined as a "cellular, biochemical or molecular alteration in cells, tissues or fluids that can be measured and evaluated to indicate normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacological re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203270%20PC | The IBM 3270 PC (IBM System Unit 5271), released in October 1983, is an IBM PC XT containing additional hardware that, in combination with software, can emulate the behaviour of an IBM 3270 terminal. It can therefore be used both as a standalone computer, and as a terminal to a mainframe.
IBM later released the 3270 A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20error | Human error is an action that has been done but that was "not intended by the actor; not desired by a set of rules or an external observer; or that led the task or system outside its acceptable limits". Human error has been cited as a primary cause contributing factor in disasters and accidents in industries as diverse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-cellular%20life | Non-cellular life, also known as acellular life, is life that exists without a cellular structure for at least part of its life cycle. Historically, most definitions of life postulated that an organism must be composed of one or more cells, but this is no longer considered necessary, and modern criteria allow for forms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20Clearing%20House | Packet Clearing House (PCH) is the international nonprofit organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system. The organization also works in the areas of cybersecurity coordination, regul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INOC-DBA | The INOC-DBA (Inter-Network Operations Center Dial-By-ASN) hotline phone system is a global voice telephony network that connects the network operations centers and security incident response teams of critical Internet infrastructure providers such as backbone carriers, Internet service providers, and Internet exchange... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%27s%20matrix | In mathematics, and in particular ordinary differential equations, a Green's matrix helps to determine a particular solution to a first-order inhomogeneous linear system of ODEs. The concept is named after George Green.
For instance, consider where is a vector and is an matrix function of , which is continuous fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20composition | In physical fitness, body composition refers to quantifying the different components (or "compartments") of a human body. The selection of compartments varies by model but may include fat, bone, water, and muscle. Two people of the same gender, height, and body weight may have completely different body types as a conse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%20increasing%20subsequence | In computer science, the longest increasing subsequence problem aims to find a subsequence of a given sequence in which the subsequence's elements are sorted in an ascending order and in which the subsequence is as long as possible. This subsequence is not necessarily contiguous or unique. The longest increasing subseq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20category | In the mathematical field of category theory, the product of two categories C and D, denoted and called a product category, is an extension of the concept of the Cartesian product of two sets. Product categories are used to define bifunctors and multifunctors.
Definition
The product category has:
as objects:
pairs o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever%20of%20unknown%20origin | Fever of unknown origin (FUO) refers to a condition in which the patient has an elevated temperature (fever) but, despite investigations by a physician, no explanation is found.
If the cause is found it is usually a diagnosis of exclusion, eliminating all possibilities until only the correct explanation remains.
Caus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20AOS | Data General AOS (an abbreviation for Advanced Operating System) was the name of a family of operating systems for Data General 16-bit Eclipse C, M, and S minicomputers, followed by AOS/VS and AOS/RT32 (1980) and later AOS/VS II (1988) for the 32-bit Eclipse MV line.
Overview
AOS/VS exploited the 8-ring protection ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet%20%28Internet%20service%29 | Ricochet was one of the first wireless Internet access services in the United States, before Wi-Fi, 3G, and other technologies were available to the general public. It was developed and first offered by Metricom Incorporated, which shut down in 2001. The service was originally known as the Micro Cellular Data Network, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/182%20%28number%29 | 182 (one hundred [and] eighty-two) is the natural number following 181 and preceding 183.
In mathematics
182 is an even number
182 is a composite number, as it is a positive integer with a positive divisor other than one or itself
182 is a deficient number, as the sum of its proper divisors, 154, is less than 182
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20BladeCenter | The IBM BladeCenter was IBM's blade server architecture, until it was replaced by Flex System in 2012. The x86 division was later sold to Lenovo in 2014.
History
Introduced in 2002, based on engineering work started in 1999, the IBM eServer BladeCenter was relatively late to the blade server market. It differed from p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamic%20center | In aerodynamics, the torques or moments acting on an airfoil moving through a fluid can be accounted for by the net lift and net drag applied at some point on the airfoil, and a separate net pitching moment about that point whose magnitude varies with the choice of where the lift is chosen to be applied. The aerodynam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitching%20moment | In aerodynamics, the pitching moment on an airfoil is the moment (or torque) produced by the aerodynamic force on the airfoil if that aerodynamic force is considered to be applied, not at the center of pressure, but at the aerodynamic center of the airfoil. The pitching moment on the wing of an airplane is part of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboWar | RoboWar is an open-source video game in which the player programs onscreen icon-like robots to battle each other with animation and sound effects. The syntax of the language in which the robots are programmed is a relatively simple stack-based one, based largely on IF, THEN, and simply-defined variables.
25 RoboWar to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20problem | In theoretical computer science, a computational problem is a problem that may be solved by an algorithm. For example, the problem of factoring
"Given a positive integer n, find a nontrivial prime factor of n."
is a computational problem. A computational problem can be viewed as a set of instances or cases together ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%E2%80%93cement%20ratio | The water–cement ratio (w/c ratio, or water-to-cement ratio, sometimes also called the Water-Cement Factor, ) is the ratio of the mass of water () to the mass of cement () used in a concrete mix:
The typical values of this ratio = are generally comprised in the interval 0.40 and 0.60.
The water-cement ratio of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner%E2%80%93Salinas%20braille%20codes | The Gardner–Salinas braille codes are a method of encoding mathematical and scientific notation linearly using braille cells for tactile reading by the visually impaired. The most common form of Gardner–Salinas braille is the 8-cell variety, commonly called GS8. There is also a corresponding 6-cell form called GS6.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/187%20%28number%29 | 187 (one hundred [and] eighty-seven) is the natural number following 186 and preceding 188.
In mathematics
There are 187 ways of forming a sum of positive integers that adds to 11, counting two sums as equivalent when they are cyclic permutations of each other. There are also 187 unordered triples of 5-bit binary numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20fortification | Food fortification or enrichment is the process of adding micronutrients (essential trace elements and vitamins) to food. It can be carried out by food manufacturers, or by governments as a public health policy which aims to reduce the number of people with dietary deficiencies within a population. The predominant diet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV2Me | TV2Me is a device that allows TV viewers to watch their home's cable or satellite television programs on their own computers, mobile phones, television sets and projector screens anywhere in the world. "This technology gives users the ability to shift space, and to watch all the cable or satellite TV channels of any pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20point | The term Fermi point has two applications but refers to the same phenomena (special relativity):
Fermi point (quantum field theory)
Fermi point (nanotechnology)
For both applications count that the symmetry between particles and anti-particles in weak interactions is violated:
At this point the particle energy is zer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Poduska | John William Poduska Sr. is an American engineer and entrepreneur. He was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer, and Stellar Computer. Prior to that he headed the Electronics Research Lab at NASA's Cambridge, Massachusetts, facility and also worked at Honeywell.
Poduska has been involved in a number of other hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Wind%20Institute | The National Wind Institute (NWI) at Texas Tech University (TTU) was established in December 2012, and is intended to serve as Texas Tech University's intellectual hub for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, commercialization and education related to wind science, wind energy, wind engineering and wind ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%20Canham | Leigh Canham is a British scientist who has pioneered the optoelectronic and biomedical applications of porous silicon.
Leigh Canham graduated from University College London in 1979 with a BSc in Physics and completed his PhD at King's College London in 1983.
His early work in this area took place at the Royal Signal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocorrelation%20technique | The autocorrelation technique is a method for estimating the dominating frequency in a complex signal, as well as its variance. Specifically, it calculates the first two moments of the power spectrum, namely the mean and variance. It is also known as the pulse-pair algorithm in radar theory.
The algorithm is both comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MU%20puzzle | The MU puzzle is a puzzle stated by Douglas Hofstadter and found in Gödel, Escher, Bach involving a simple formal system called "MIU". Hofstadter's motivation is to contrast reasoning within a formal system (i.e., deriving theorems) against reasoning about the formal system itself. MIU is an example of a Post canonical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophyte | A zoophyte (animal-plant) is an obsolete term for an organism thought to be intermediate between animals and plants, or an animal with plant-like attributes or appearance. In the 19th century they were reclassified as Radiata which included various taxa, a term superseded by Coelenterata referring more narrowly to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9%20This | Hervé This (; born 5 June 1955 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, sometimes named Hervé This-Benckhard, or Hervé This vo Kientza) is a French physical chemist who works for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique at AgroParisTech, in Paris, France. His main area of scientific research is molecular gastronomy, that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe%20lemma | In homological algebra, the horseshoe lemma, also called the simultaneous resolution theorem, is a statement relating resolutions of two objects and to resolutions of
extensions of by . It says that if an object is an extension of by , then a resolution of can be built up inductively with the nth item in the res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenism | Monogenism or sometimes monogenesis is the theory of human origins which posits a common descent for all human races. The negation of monogenism is polygenism. This issue was hotly debated in the Western world in the nineteenth century, as the assumptions of scientific racism came under scrutiny both from religious gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/188%20%28number%29 | 188 (one hundred [and] eighty-eight) is the natural number following 187 and preceding 189.
In mathematics
There are 188 different four-element semigroups, and 188 ways a chess queen can move from one corner of a board to the opposite corner by a path that always moves closer to its goal. The sides and diagonals of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicrobeLibrary | MicrobeLibrary is a permanent collection of over 1400 original peer-reviewed resources for teaching undergraduate microbiology. It is provided by the American Society for Microbiology, Washington DC, United States.
Contents include curriculum activities; images and animations; reviews of books, websites and other res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutation%20cell | The commutation cell is the basic structure in power electronics. It is composed of two electronic switches (today, a high-power semiconductor, not a mechanical switch). It was traditionally referred to as a chopper, but since switching power supplies became a major form of power conversion, this new term has become mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal%20functor | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the diagonal functor is given by , which maps objects as well as morphisms. This functor can be employed to give a succinct alternate description of the product of objects within the category : a product is a universal arrow from to . The arrow comprises the projection ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall%20plot | Waterfall plots are often used to show how two-dimensional phenomena change over time. A three-dimensional spectral waterfall plot is a plot in which multiple curves of data, typically spectra, are displayed simultaneously. Typically the curves are staggered both across the screen and vertically, with "nearer" curves m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%20Series%2090 | The Univac Series 90 is an obsolete family of mainframe class computer systems from UNIVAC first introduced in 1973. The low end family members included the 90/25, 90/30 and 90/40 that ran the OS/3 operating system. The intermediate members of the family were the 90/60 and 90/70, while the 90/80, announced in 1976, wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson%20ring | In algebra, a Hilbert ring or a Jacobson ring is a ring such that every prime ideal is an intersection of primitive ideals. For commutative rings primitive ideals are the same as maximal ideals so in this case a Jacobson ring is one in which every prime ideal is an intersection of maximal ideals.
Jacobson rings were ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Mathematics%20Competition | The Australian Mathematics Competition is a mathematics competition run by the Australian Maths Trust for students from year 3 up to year 12 in Australia, and their equivalent grades in other countries.
Since its inception in 1976 in the Australian Capital Territory, the participation numbers have increased to around ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20construction | Home construction or residential construction is the process of constructing a house, apartment building, or similar residential building generally referred to as a 'home' when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside there. Beginning with simple pre-historic shelters, home construction techni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Duel%3A%20Test%20Drive%20II | The Duel: Test Drive II is a 1989 racing video game developed by Distinctive Software and published by Accolade for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Sega Genesis and SNES.
Gameplay
Like the original Test Drive, the focus of The Duel is driving exotic cars through danger... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20media | Mobile media has been defined as: "as a personal, interactive, internet-enabled and user-controlled portable platform that provides for the exchange of and sharing of personal and non-personal information among users who are inter-connected." The notion of making media mobile can be traced back to the “first time someo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root%20cellar | A root cellar (American English), fruit cellar (Mid-Western American English) or earth cellar (British English) is a structure, usually underground or partially underground, used for storage of vegetables, fruits, nuts, or other foods. Its name reflects the traditional focus on root crops stored in an underground cella... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20algebraic%20logic | In mathematical logic, abstract algebraic logic is the study of the algebraization of deductive systems
arising as an abstraction of the well-known Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra, and how the resulting algebras are related to logical systems.
History
The archetypal association of this kind, one fundamental to the historica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevestigator | Genevestigator is an application consisting of a gene expression database and tools to analyse the data. It exists in two versions, biomedical and plant, depending on the species of the underlying microarray and RNAseq as well as single-cell RNA-sequencing data. It was started in January 2004 by scientists from ETH Zur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect%3ADirect | Connect:Direct—originally named Network Data Mover (NDM)— is a computer software product that transfers files between mainframe computers and/or midrange computers. It was developed for mainframes, with other platforms being added as the product grew. NDM was renamed to Connect:Direct in 1993, following the acquisitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-learning%20%28computer%20science%29 | Meta learning
is a subfield of machine learning where automatic learning algorithms are applied to metadata about machine learning experiments. As of 2017, the term had not found a standard interpretation, however the main goal is to use such metadata to understand how automatic learning can become flexible in solving ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydride%20vapour-phase%20epitaxy | Hydride vapour-phase epitaxy (HVPE) is an epitaxial growth technique often employed to produce semiconductors such as GaN, GaAs, InP and their related compounds, in which hydrogen chloride is reacted at elevated temperature with the group-III metals to produce gaseous metal chlorides, which then react with ammonia to p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20VoIP%20software | This is a comparison of voice over IP (VoIP) software used to conduct telephone-like voice conversations across Internet Protocol (IP) based networks. For residential markets, voice over IP phone service is often cheaper than traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) service and can remove geographic restric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland%20number | In number theory, a Leyland number is a number of the form
where x and y are integers greater than 1. They are named after the mathematician Paul Leyland. The first few Leyland numbers are
8, 17, 32, 54, 57, 100, 145, 177, 320, 368, 512, 593, 945, 1124 .
The requirement that x and y both be greater than 1 is importa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet | Telenet was an American commercial packet-switched network which went into service in 1975. It was the first FCC-licensed public data network in the United States. Various commercial and government interests paid monthly fees for dedicated lines connecting their computers and local networks to this backbone network. Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenogenesis | Caenogenesis (also variously spelled cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis) is the introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species, as opposed to palingenesis. Notable examples include the addition of the placenta in mammals.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapple%20Monitor | The Zapple Monitor was a firmware-based product developed by Roger Amidon at Technical Design Laboratories (also known as TDL). TDL was based in Princeton, New Jersey, USA in the 1970s and early 1980s.
The Zapple monitor was a primitive operating system which could be expanded and used as a Basic Input/Output Services... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20gradient | An image gradient is a directional change in the intensity or color in an image. The gradient of the image is one of the fundamental building blocks in image processing. For example, the Canny edge detector uses image gradient for edge detection. In graphics software for digital image editing, the term gradient or colo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Memory | Community Memory (CM) was the first public computerized bulletin board system. Established in 1973 in Berkeley, California, it used an SDS 940 timesharing system in San Francisco connected via a 110 baud link to a teleprinter at a record store in Berkeley to let users enter and retrieve messages. Individuals could plac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20Audio%20Corporation | Neural Audio Corporation was an audio research company based in Kirkland, Washington.
The company specialized in high-end audio research. It helped XM Satellite Radio launch their service using the Neural Codec Pre-Conditioner, which was designed to provide higher quality audio at lower bitrates.
History
The company... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portapak | A Portapak is a battery-powered, self-contained video tape analog recording system. Introduced to the market in 1967, it could be carried and operated by one person.
Earlier television cameras were large and heavy, required a specialized vehicle for transportation, and were mounted on a pedestal. The Portapak made it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20response | In electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, a transient response is the response of a system to a change from an equilibrium or a steady state. The transient response is not necessarily tied to abrupt events but to any event that affects the equilibrium of the system. The impulse response and step response ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20longest-living%20organisms | This is a list of the longest-living biological organisms: the individual(s) (or in some instances, clones) of a species with the longest natural maximum life spans. For a given species, such a designation may include:
The oldest known individual(s) that are currently alive, with verified ages.
Verified individual r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal%20analogue%20blanking | Nominal analogue blanking is the outermost part of the overscan of a standard definition digital television image. It consists of a gap of black (or nearly black) pixels at the left and right sides, which correspond to the end and start of the horizontal blanking interval: the front porch at the right side (the end of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretory%20protein | A secretory protein is any protein, whether it be endocrine or exocrine, which is secreted by a cell. Secretory proteins include many hormones, enzymes, toxins, and antimicrobial peptides.
Secretory proteins are synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum.
Production
The production of a secretory protein starts like any ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megget%20Reservoir | Megget Reservoir is an impounding reservoir in the Megget valley in Ettrick Forest, in the Scottish Borders. The reservoir is held back by the largest earth dam in Scotland. The reservoir collects water from the Tweedsmuir Hills, which is then conveyed via underground pipelines and tunnels to Edinburgh. The pipelines... |
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