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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20K%20%28calculator%29 | The Model K was an early 2-bit binary adder built in 1937 by Bell Labs scientist George Stibitz as a proof of concept, using scrap relays and metal strips from a tin can. The "K" in "Model K" came from "kitchen table", upon which he assembled it.
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American inventions
Calculators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20psychology | Conservation psychology is the scientific study of the reciprocal relationships between humans and the rest of nature, with a particular focus on how to encourage conservation of the natural world. Rather than a specialty area within psychology itself, it is a growing field for scientists, researchers, and practitioner... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20hijacking | DNS hijacking, DNS poisoning, or DNS redirection is the practice of subverting the resolution of Domain Name System (DNS) queries. This can be achieved by malware that overrides a computer's TCP/IP configuration to point at a rogue DNS server under the control of an attacker, or through modifying the behaviour of a tru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted%20Waters%20%28video%20game%29 | Uncharted Waters is a 1990 video game published by Koei.
Gameplay
Uncharted Waters is a game in which player captains seek great trade wind routes and the major currents. The story is set in the early 16th century. It was released on the PC-88 in May, 1990.
Reception
Dave Arneson reviewed the game for Computer Gaming... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneMark | GeneMark is a generic name for a family of ab initio gene prediction programs developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Developed in 1993, original GeneMark was used in 1995 as a primary gene prediction tool for annotation of the first completely sequenced bacterial genome of Haemophilus influenzae, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRTC1 | CREB-regulated transcription coactivator 1 (CRTC1), previously referred to as TORC1 (), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRTC1 gene. It is expressed in a limited number of tissues that include fetal brain and liver and adult heart, skeletal muscles, liver and salivary glands and various regions of the adu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20memory | In computing, deterministic memory is computer memory which contains values that can be depended on from access to access. The term is also used in conjunction with achieving real-time functionality, especially in conjunction with embedded processor applications.
See also
Embedded system
Memory management
Real-ti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Online%20Engineering | The International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) is an international non-profit organization with the objective of encouraging the wider development, distribution and application of Online Engineering (OE) technologies and its influence to the society. The association seeks to foster practices in education an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20ring | In mathematics, a (left) coherent ring is a ring in which every finitely generated left ideal is finitely presented.
Many theorems about finitely generated modules over Noetherian rings can be extended to finitely presented modules over coherent rings.
Every left Noetherian ring is left coherent. The ring of polyno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20food | The geography of food is a field of human geography. It focuses on patterns of food production and consumption on the local to global scale. Tracing these complex patterns helps geographers understand the unequal relationships between developed and developing countries in relation to the innovation, production, transpo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam%20model | A webcam model (colloquially, camgirl, camboy, or cammodel) is a video performer who streams on the Internet with a live webcam broadcast. A webcam model often performs erotic acts online, such as stripping, masturbation, or sex acts in exchange for money, goods, or attention. They may also sell videos of their perform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20engineering | Online engineering (OE; Sometimes also referred to as remote engineering) is a current trend in engineering and science, aiming to allow and organize a shared use of equipment and resources, but also specialized software (such as for example simulators).
Reasons for the growing importance of sharing engineering resour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microthermal%20analysis | Microthermal analysis is a materials characterization technique which combines the thermal analysis principles of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) with high spatial resolution of scanning probe microscopy. The instrument consists of a thermal probe which is basically a fine platinum/rhodium alloy wire (5 micro ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasta%20filtering | RASTA-filtering and Mean Subtraction was introduced to support Perceptual Linear Prediction
(PLP) preprocessing. It uses bandpass filtering in the log spectral domain. Rasta filtering then removes slow channel variations. It has also been applied to cepstrum feature-based preprocessing with both log spectral and cepstr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented%20programming | Service-oriented programming (SOP) is a programming paradigm that uses "services" as the unit of computer work, to design and implement integrated business applications and mission critical software programs. Services can represent steps of business processes and thus one of the main applications of this paradigm is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalSign | GlobalSign is a certificate authority and a provider of internet identity and security products. As of January 2015, Globalsign was the 4th largest certificate authority in the world, according to Netcraft.
History
GlobalSign was founded in Belgium in 1996 and acquired in 2007 by GMO group in Japan (formerly GeoTrust... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20dose%20unit | A Thermal dose unit (TDU) is a unit of measurement used in the oil and gas industry to measure exposure to thermal radiation. It is a function of intensity (power per unit area) and exposure time.
1 TDU = 1 (kW/m2)4/3s.
Results of exposure
References
Units of measurement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BotSeer | BotSeer was a Web-based information system and search tool used for research on Web robots and trends in Robot Exclusion Protocol deployment and adherence. It was created and designed by Yang Sun, Isaac G. Councill, Ziming Zhuang and C. Lee Giles. BotSeer was in operation from 2007 to 2010, approximately.
History
BotS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning%20cone | Spinning cone columns are used in a form of low temperature vacuum steam distillation to gently extract volatile chemicals from liquid foodstuffs while minimising the effect on the taste of the product. For instance, the columns can be used to remove some of the alcohol from wine, 'off' smells from cream, and to captur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%20batch%20calculation | Glass batch calculation or glass batching is used to determine the correct mix of raw materials (batch) for a glass melt.
Principle
The raw materials mixture for glass melting is termed "batch". The batch must be measured properly to achieve a given, desired glass formulation. This batch calculation is based on the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECpower | SPECpower_ssj2008 is the first industry-standard benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class computers. It is available from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). SPECpower_ssj2008 is SPEC's first attempt at defining server power measurement standards. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20decrement | Logarithmic decrement, , is used to find the damping ratio of an underdamped system in the time domain.
The method of logarithmic decrement becomes less and less precise as the damping ratio increases past about 0.5; it does not apply at all for a damping ratio greater than 1.0 because the system is overdamped.
Meth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20loop | Dual-loop is a method of electrical circuit termination used in electronic security applications, particularly modern intruder alarms. It is called 'dual-loop' because two circuits (alarm and anti-tamper) are combined into one using resistors. Its use became widespread in the early 21st century, replacing the basic cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstatistics | Superstatistics is a branch of statistical mechanics or statistical physics devoted to the study of non-linear and non-equilibrium systems. It is characterized by using the superposition of multiple differing statistical models to achieve the desired non-linearity. In terms of ordinary statistical ideas, this is equiva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20non-Dinosauria%20fossil%20trackway%20articles | This is a list of articles relating to fossil trackways that are outside the category of the numerous fossil dinosaur articles – that refer to tracks or trackways.
List of non-Dinosauria fossil trackway articles
Archaeotherium
Arthropleura
Chirotherium; (only a related species known)
Climactichnites
Cruziana
Dromorni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%27s%20algorithm | In the theory of elliptic curves, Tate's algorithm takes as input an integral model of an elliptic curve E over , or more generally an algebraic number field, and a prime or prime ideal p. It returns the exponent fp of p in the conductor of E, the type of reduction at p, the local index
where is the group of -poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominial%20sewerage | Condominial sewerage is the application of simplified sewerage coupled with consultations and ongoing interactions between users and agencies during planning and implementation. The term is used primarily in Latin America, particularly in Brazil, and is derived from the term condominio, which means housing block.
From... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IL36G | Interleukin-36 gamma previously known as interleukin-1 family member 9 (IL1F9) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IL36G gene.
Expression
IL36G is well-expressed in the epithelium of the skin, gut, and lung. In the skin IL36G is predominantly expressed in epidermal granular layer keratinocytes with little t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalee%20Engineers%20Association%20in%20North%20America | Malayalee Engineers Association in North America (MEANA) is a non-profit, non-political fellowship of Malayalee engineers in the United States. The primary objective is to provide a platform for sharing common interests of the engineers with Malayalee origin, find resolution for issues and contribute to the betterment ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a process is an instance of a computer program that is being executed. A process always exists in exactly one process state. A process that is blocked is one that is waiting for some event, such as a resource becoming available or the completion of an I/O operation.
In a multitasking computer system, ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar%20Data%20Systems | Pillar Data Systems, a computer data storage company headquartered in San Jose, California, developed midrange and enterprise network storage systems. Pillar Data employed 325 people and sold its products to organizations in the financial services, healthcare, government and legal industries. Its primary product-offeri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer%20and%20Gio | Boomer and Gio (previously Boomer and Carton from 2007–2017 and The Morning Show with Boomer in 2017) is a morning drive sports radio program on WFAN-AM and WFAN-FM in New York City. It is hosted by former National Football League player Boomer Esiason and radio personality Gregg Giannotti.
The show originated in 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfernrohr%207 | The Carl Zeiss Lotfernrohr 7 (Lot meant "Vertical" and Fernrohr meant "Telescope"), or Lotfe 7, was the primary series of bombsights used in most Luftwaffe level bombers, similar to the United States' Norden bombsight, but much simpler to operate and maintain. Several models were produced and eventually completely repl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFDC2 | WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 2 - also known as Human Epididymis Protein 4 (HE4) - is a protein that in humans is encoded by the WFDC2 gene.
HE4 is a tumor marker of ovarian cancer, with 80% sensitivity at a cut-off of 150 pmol/L.
Function
This gene encodes a protein that is a member of the WFDC domain fam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Bartowski | Charles Irving Bartowski is the title character of the American spy show Chuck on NBC. He is portrayed by Zachary Levi. UGO.com named him one of the best TV nerds.
Character profile
At the outset of the show, Chuck Bartowski is presented as a twenty-something underachiever who lives in the Echo Park neighborhood of L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation%20%28game%20tree%29 | A variation can refer to a specific sequence of successive moves in a turn-based game, often used to specify a hypothetical future state of a game that is being played. Although the term is most commonly used in the context of Chess analysis, it has been applied to other games. It also is a useful term used when descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence%20condition | In mathematics, and particularly category theory, a coherence condition is a collection of conditions requiring that various compositions of elementary morphisms are equal. Typically the elementary morphisms are part of the data of the category. A coherence theorem states that, in order to be assured that all these equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20identity | In mathematics, a trace identity is any equation involving the trace of a matrix.
Properties
Trace identities are invariant under simultaneous conjugation.
Uses
They are frequently used in the invariant theory of matrices to find the generators and relations of the ring of invariants, and therefore are useful in a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylebase%20for%20Eclipse | Stylebase for Eclipse is a free and open-source tool for software architects and designers. The tool is an extension to Eclipse, the most widely used open source integrated development environment. Stylebase is a knowledge base of architectural models, e.g. architectural patterns, design patterns, reference architectur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIC%20fitting | JIC fittings, defined by the SAE J514 and MIL-DTL-18866 standards, are a type of flare fitting machined with a 37-degree flare seating surface. JIC (Joint Industry Council) fittings are widely used in fuel delivery and fluid power applications, especially where high pressure (up to ) is involved. The SAE J514 standar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake%20%28software%29 | Flake or a Vector Shape is a programming library that is used in Calligra Suite and the KOffice 2 series. Flake provides the basic concept of a "shape". To the end user a shape appears as some piece of content such as an image or a text. A shape can be in any form (square, circle, etc.) and contain any kind of media si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segrosome | Segrosomes are protein complexes that ensure accurate segregation (partitioning) of plasmids or chromosomes during bacterial cell division.
Just as higher forms of life have evolved a complex mitotic apparatus to partition duplicated DNA during cell division, bacteria require a specialized apparatus to partition their... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Friedrich%20Hennert | Johann Friedrich Hennert (19 October 1733 – 30 March 1813) was German-born and lectured in mathematics and physics at the University of Utrecht. He was a significant student of Leonhard Euler. He was known for his inclination towards the British school of philosophy.
Work
Hennert held the chair of mathematics at the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Sea%20Dam | The Red Sea Dam is a speculative macro-engineering proposal put forward in 2007 by a group of scientists and engineers. Although the authors' intentions are to explore "the ethical and environmental dilemmas and some of the political implications of macro-engineering", the proposal has attracted both criticism and ridi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina%20Bicchieri | Cristina Bicchieri (born 1950) is an Italian–American philosopher. She is the S.J.P. Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the Philosophy and Psychology Departments at the University of Pennsylvania, professor of Legal Studies in the Wharton School, and director of the Master in Behavioral Decisi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20the%20American%20Statistical%20Association | The president of the American Statistical Association is the head of the American Statistical Association (ASA). According to the association's bylaws, the president is an officer, and a member of the board of directors and of the executive committee. Elections for the position are held annually, in which all full memb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance%20order | In discrete mathematics, dominance order (synonyms: dominance ordering, majorization order, natural ordering) is a partial order on the set of partitions of a positive integer n that plays an important role in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory, especially in the context of symmetric functions and repres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering%20relation | In mathematics, especially order theory, the covering relation of a partially ordered set is the binary relation which holds between comparable elements that are immediate neighbours. The covering relation is commonly used to graphically express the partial order by means of the Hasse diagram.
Definition
Let be a se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20branch | In computer programming, a wild branch is a GOTO instruction where the target address is indeterminate, random or otherwise unintended. It is usually the result of a software bug causing the accidental corruption of a pointer or array index. It is "wild" in the sense that it cannot be predicted to behave consistently. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20finitism | Temporal finitism is the doctrine that time is finite in the past. The philosophy of Aristotle, expressed in such works as his Physics, held that although space was finite, with only void existing beyond the outermost sphere of the heavens, time was infinite. This caused problems for mediaeval Islamic, Jewish, and Chri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20combinatorics | Algebraic combinatorics is an area of mathematics that employs methods of abstract algebra, notably group theory and representation theory, in various combinatorial contexts and, conversely, applies combinatorial techniques to problems in algebra.
History
The term "algebraic combinatorics" was introduced in the late 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Algebraic%20Combinatorics | Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering algebraic combinatorics. It was established in 1992 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Ilias S. Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier University).
In 2017, the journal's four editors-in-chief and editorial b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s%20lattice | In mathematics, Young's lattice is a lattice that is formed by all integer partitions. It is named after Alfred Young, who, in a series of papers On quantitative substitutional analysis, developed the representation theory of the symmetric group. In Young's theory, the objects now called Young diagrams and the partial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMILES%20arbitrary%20target%20specification | SMILES arbitrary target specification (SMARTS) is a language for specifying substructural patterns in molecules. The SMARTS line notation is expressive and allows extremely precise and transparent substructural specification and atom typing.
SMARTS is related to the SMILES line notation that is used to encode molecula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Algebra | Journal of Algebra (ISSN 0021-8693) is an international mathematical research journal in algebra. An imprint of Academic Press, it is published by Elsevier. Journal of Algebra was founded by Graham Higman, who was its editor from 1964 to 1984. From 1985 until 2000, Walter Feit served as its editor-in-chief.
In 2004, J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyphil%20cell%20%28pathology%29 | Oxyphil cells are found in oncocytomas of the kidney, endocrine glands, and salivary glands.
References
External links
Cell biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna%20farm | An antenna farm, satellite dish farm or dish farm is an area dedicated to television or radio telecommunications transmitting or receiving antenna equipment, such as C, Ku or Ka band satellite dish antennas, UHF/VHF/AM/FM transmitter towers or mobile cell towers. The history of the term "antenna farm" is uncertain, but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20phosphorylation | Protein phosphorylation is a reversible post-translational modification of proteins in which an amino acid residue is phosphorylated by a protein kinase by the addition of a covalently bound phosphate group. Phosphorylation alters the structural conformation of a protein, causing it to become either activated or deacti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse%20Antonio%20de%20Sarasa | Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa was a Jesuit mathematician who contributed to the understanding of logarithms, particularly as areas under a hyperbola.
Alphonse de Sarasa was born in 1618, in Nieuwpoort in Flanders. In 1632 he was admitted as a novice in Ghent. It was there that he worked alongside Gregoire de Saint-Vincen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Myers | Eugene Wimberly "Gene" Myers, Jr. (born December 31, 1953) is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician, who is best known for contributing to the early development of the NCBI's BLAST tool for sequence analysis.
Education
Myers received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the California Institute of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore%20Flag%20Signaling%20System | In computer networking, Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) is a humorous proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by semaphores. Semaphore Flag Signaling System was initially described in RFC 4824, an April Fools' Day RFC issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force edited by J. Hofmueller, et al. and rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition%20ring | In mathematics, a composition ring, introduced in , is a commutative ring (R, 0, +, −, ·), possibly without an identity 1 (see non-unital ring), together with an operation
such that, for any three elements one has
It is not generally the case that , nor is it generally the case that (or ) has any algebra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Kaufmann | Matt Kaufmann is a senior research scientist in the department of computer sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. He was a recipient of the 2005 ACM Software System Award along with Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore, for his work on the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interposer | An interposer is an electrical interface routing between one socket or connection to another. The purpose of an interposer is to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute a connection to a different connection.
Interposer comes from the Latin word "interpōnere", meaning "to put between". They are often used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epibiont | An epibiont (from the Ancient Greek meaning "living on top of") is an organism that lives on the surface of another living organism, called the basibiont ("living underneath"). The interaction between the two organisms is called epibiosis. An epibiont is, by definition, harmless to its host. In this sense, the interact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKV%20MOSFET%20model | The EKV Mosfet model is a mathematical model of metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET) which is intended for circuit simulation and analog circuit design. It was developed by Christian C. Enz, François Krummenacher and Eric A. Vittoz (hence the initials EKV) around 1995 based in part on work they h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Gish | Warren Richard Gish is the owner of Advanced Biocomputing LLC. He joined Washington University in St. Louis as a junior faculty member in 1994, and was a Research Associate Professor of Genetics from 2002 to 2007.
Education
After initially studying physics, Gish obtained an A.B. degree in Biochemistry from University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Stolz | Otto Stolz (3 July 1842 – 23 November 1905) was an Austrian mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals. Born in Hall in Tirol, he studied in Innsbruck from 1860 and in Vienna from 1863, receiving his habilitation there in 1867. Two years later he studied in Berlin under Karl Weierstras... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20delay%20variation | In computer networking, packet delay variation (PDV) is the difference in end-to-end one-way delay between selected packets in a flow with any lost packets being ignored. The effect is sometimes referred to as packet jitter, although the definition is an imprecise fit.
Terminology
The term PDV is defined in ITU-T Reco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta-lang | Within computing, the Rosetta system-level specification language is a design language for complex, heterogeneous systems. Specific language design objectives include:
Constraint representation
Heterogeneous system representation and specification composability
Well-defined formal semantics and support for formal a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography%20and%20the%20law | The intellectual property rights on photographs are protected in different jurisdictions by the laws governing copyright and moral rights. In some cases photography may be restricted by civil or criminal law. Publishing certain photographs can be restricted by privacy or other laws. Photography can be generally restric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context%20MBA | Context MBA was the first integrated software application for personal computers, providing five functions in one program: spreadsheet, database, charting, word processing, and communication software. It was first released in 1981 by Context Management Systems for the Apple III computer, but was later ported to the Hew... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20Data%20Grid%20Facility | The Nordic Data Grid Facility, or NDGF, is a common e-Science infrastructure provided by the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland) for scientific computing and data storage. It is the first and so far only internationally distributed WLCG Tier1 center, providing computing and storage services ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPBG | Trophoblast glycoprotein, also known as TPBG, 5T4, Wnt-Activated Inhibitory Factor 1 or WAIF1, is a human protein encoded by a TPBG gene. TPBG is an antagonist of Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway.
Clinical significance
5T4 is an antigen expressed in a number of carcinomas. It is an N-glycosylated transmembrane 72 kD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2060870-6 | IEC 60870 part 6 in electrical engineering and power system automation, is one of the IEC 60870 set of standards which define systems used for telecontrol (supervisory control and data acquisition) in electrical engineering and power system automation applications. The IEC Technical Committee 57 (Working Group 03) have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overburden%20Conveyor%20Bridge%20F60 | F60 is the series designation of five overburden conveyor bridges used in brown coal (lignite) opencast mining in the Lusatian coalfields in Germany. They were built by the former Volkseigener Betrieb TAKRAF in Lauchhammer and are the largest movable technical industrial machines in the world. As overburden conveyor br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Barrett | Alfred Barrett (died 18 July 1849) was born in New England. He was an engineer by training.
In about 1818, Barrett began working on the engineering staff that was constructing the Erie Canal in New York State. He rapidly gained experience and was an accredited engineer by 1821. The project was completed in 1825.
In 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocard%20triangle | In geometry, the Brocard triangle of a triangle is a triangle formed by the intersection of lines from a vertex to its corresponding Brocard point and a line from another vertex to its corresponding Brocard point and the other two points constructed using different combinations of vertices and Brocard points. This tria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal%20dimension | In mathematics, the conformal dimension of a metric space X is the infimum of the Hausdorff dimension over the conformal gauge of X, that is, the class of all metric spaces quasisymmetric to X.
Formal definition
Let X be a metric space and be the collection of all metric spaces that are quasisymmetric to X. The conf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20family%20of%20acceptors | An abstract family of acceptors (AFA) is a grouping of generalized acceptors. Informally, an acceptor is a device with a finite state control, a finite number of input symbols, and an internal store with a read and write function. Each acceptor has a start state and a set of accepting states. The device reads a sequenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20type | In programming languages and type theory, a product of types is another, compounded, type in a structure. The "operands" of the product are types, and the structure of a product type is determined by the fixed order of the operands in the product. An instance of a product type retains the fixed order, but otherwise may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20weighted%20averaging | In applied mathematics, specifically in fuzzy logic, the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators provide a parameterized class of mean type aggregation operators. They were introduced by Ronald R. Yager.
Many notable mean operators such as the max, arithmetic average, median and min, are members of this class. They ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-preservation | Self-preservation is a behavior or set of behaviors that ensures the survival of an organism. It is thought to be universal among all living organisms. For sentient organisms, pain and fear are integral parts of this mechanism. Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged bod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20allowable%20operating%20pressure | Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure or MAOP is a pressure limit set, usually by a government body, which applies to compressed gas pressure vessels, pipelines, and storage tanks. For pipelines, this value is derived from Barlow's Formula, which takes into account wall thickness, diameter, allowable stress (which is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son%20of%20Man%20%28novel%29 | Son of Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in 1971. The book is about Clay, a 20th-century man, who travels billions of years into the future and meets humanity in its future forms. Some of the issues discussed in the book are sexuality, telepathic communication between people... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Bowyer | Adrian Bowyer is an English engineer and mathematician, formerly an academic at the University of Bath.
Born in 1952 in London, Bowyer is the older child of the late Rosemary and John Bowyer; the latter was a writer, painter and one of the founders of Zisman, Bowyer and Partners, consulting engineers. Bowyer was ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20terminal | Battery terminals are the electrical contacts used to connect a load or charger to a single cell or multiple-cell battery. These terminals have a wide variety of designs, sizes, and features that are often not well documented.
Automotive battery terminals
Automotive batteries typically have one of three types of termi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20National%20Academy%20of%20Engineering | The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987, comprises India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines.
The Academy is registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 and is an autonomous institution supported partly through g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20AirStation | Buffalo AirStation is the name given to a series of wireless LAN equipment sold by Buffalo Technology.
Products
Residential gateways
Wireless LAN cards
Use with third party firmware
Many of Buffalo's residential gateways use Broadcom microprocessor chipsets, allowing a variety of third party open source firmware... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComPAN%208 | ComPAN 8 is an 8-bit Polish microcomputer produced in the 1980s at the MERA-ELZAB factory in Zabrze, Poland. ComPAN 8 was designed at the Institute of Industry Automation Systems PAN in Gliwice.
Technical description
Processor: 8080A or 8085 2 MHz
Interrupt controller: 8 levels
Address bus: extended by 5 additional l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Instruments%20AR7 | The Texas Instruments AR7 or TI-AR7 is a fully integrated single-chip ADSL CPE access router solution. The AR7 combines a MIPS32 processor, a DSP-based digital transceiver, and an ADSL analog front end.
Ownership history
In 2007, TI sold its DSL business to Infineon.
In 2009, Infineon Technologies spins off its wire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation%20timestamp | The presentation timestamp (PTS) is a timestamp metadata field in an MPEG transport stream or MPEG program stream that is used to achieve synchronization of programs' separate elementary streams (for example Video, Audio, Subtitles) when presented to the viewer. The PTS is given in units related to a program's overall ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical%20Markup%20Framework | Language resource management Lexical markup framework (LMF; ISO 24613:2008), is the International Organization for Standardization ISO/TC37 standard for natural language processing (NLP) and machine-readable dictionary (MRD) lexicons. The scope is standardization of principles and methods relating to language resource... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADES | CADES (Computer Aided Design and Evaluation System) was a software engineering system produced to support the design and development of the VME/B Operating System for the ICL New Range - subsequently 2900 - computers.
From its earliest days, VME/B was developed with the aid of CADES, which was built for the purpose us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hofstee | Harm Peter Hofstee (born 1962) is a Dutch physicist and computer scientist who currently is a distinguished research staff member at IBM Austin, USA, and a part-time professor in Big Data Systems at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
Heterogeneous computing
Hofstee is best known for his contributions to Hete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIAJ-1 | EIAJ-1 was a standard for video tape recorders (VTRs) developed by the Electronic Industries Association of Japan with the cooperation and assistance of several Japanese electronics manufacturers in 1969. It was the first standardized format for industrial/non-broadcast VTRs using a helical scan system employing open... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%27s%20principle | Markov's principle, named after Andrey Markov Jr, is a conditional existence statement for which there are many equivalent formulations, as discussed below.
The principle is logically valid classically, but not in intuitionistic constructive mathematics. However, many particular instances of it are nevertheless prova... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunatak%20hypothesis | In biogeography, particularly phytogeography, the nunatak hypothesis about the origin of a biota in formerly glaciated areas is the idea that some or many species have survived the inhospitable period on icefree land such as nunataks. Its antithesis is the tabula rasa hypothesis, which posits that all species have immi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume%20contraction | Volume contraction is a decrease in the volume of body fluid, including the dissolved substances that maintain osmotic balance (osmolytes). The loss of the water component of body fluid is specifically termed dehydration.
By body fluid compartment
Volume contraction is more or less a loss of extracellular fluid (ECF) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%20propagation | Expectation propagation (EP) is a technique in Bayesian machine learning.
EP finds approximations to a probability distribution. It uses an iterative approach that uses the factorization structure of the target distribution. It differs from other Bayesian approximation approaches such as variational Bayesian methods.... |
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