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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feferman%E2%80%93Sch%C3%BCtte%20ordinal | In mathematics, the Feferman–Schütte ordinal Γ0 is a large countable ordinal.
It is the proof-theoretic ordinal of several mathematical theories, such as arithmetical transfinite recursion.
It is named after Solomon Feferman and Kurt Schütte, the former of whom suggested the name Γ0.
There is no standard notation for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber%20toughening | Rubber toughening is a process in which rubber nanoparticles are interspersed within a polymer matrix to increase the mechanical robustness, or toughness, of the material. By "toughening" a polymer it is meant that the ability of the polymeric substance to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracture is increa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing%20amplifier | Processing amplifier, commonly called ProcAmp, is used to alter, change or clean video or audio signal components or parameters in realtime.
Form factor
Broadcast professionals prefer to use hardware rack mountable ProcAmps that helps them make video broadcast safe by correcting video inconsistencies. They may also b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Environmental%20Engineering%20Research%20Institute | The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur was originally established in 1958 as the Central Public Health Engineering Research Institute (CPHERI). This renaming reflects the shift of concern from sanitation to wider public health matters. It has been described as the "premier and oldes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory%20Council%20for%20Aeronautics%20Research%20in%20Europe | The Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) is a European advisory body that aims to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of the European Union in the field of aeronautics. It is a public-private partnership between the Directorate-General for Transport and Energy of the European Commissio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological%20code | A hydrological code or hydrologic unit code is a sequence of numbers or letters (a geocode) that identify a hydrological unit or feature, such as a river, river reach, lake, or area like a drainage basin (also called watershed in North America) or catchment.
One system, developed by Arthur Newell Strahler, known as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrust | Entrust Corp., formerly Entrust Datacard, provides software and hardware used to issue financial cards, e-passport production, user authentication for those looking to access secure networks or conduct financial transactions, trust certificated for websites, mobile credentials, and connected devices. The privately-hel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege%20Management%20Infrastructure | In cryptography Privilege Management is the process of managing user authorisations based on the ITU-T Recommendation X.509. The 2001 edition of X.509 specifies most (but not all) of the components of a Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI), based on X.509 attribute certificates (ACs). Later editions of X.509 (200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202008%20R2 | Windows Server 2008 R2, codenamed "Windows Server 7", is the fifth version of the Windows Server operating system produced by Microsoft and released as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009, shortly after... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-casein | Κ-casein, or kappa casein, is a mammalian milk protein involved in several important physiological processes. Chymosin (found in rennet) splits K-casein into an insoluble peptide (para kappa-casein) and water-soluble glycomacropeptide (GMP). GMP is responsible for an increased efficiency of digestion, prevention of n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20human%20microbiota | This article lists some of the species recognized as belonging to the human microbiome. The human body is estimated to have around 39 trillion bacterias, these can be separated into about 10,000 microbial species. about 180 of the most studied is listed below here. However all of these can broadly be put into 3 categor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20programming%20language | In computer programming, a scientific programming language can refer to two degrees of the same concept.
In a wide sense, a scientific programming language is a programming language that is used widely for computational science and computational mathematics. In this sense, C/C++ and Python can be considered scientific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%27s%20O | In set theory and computability theory, Kleene's is a canonical subset of the natural numbers when regarded as ordinal notations. It contains ordinal notations for every computable ordinal, that is, ordinals below Church–Kleene ordinal, . Since is the first ordinal not representable in a computable system of ordinal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian%20arc | In geodesy and navigation, a meridian arc is the curve between two points on the Earth's surface having the same longitude. The term may refer either to a segment of the meridian, or to its length.
The purpose of measuring meridian arcs is to determine a figure of the Earth.
One or more measurements of meridian arcs c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20%28EDA%29 | A cell in the context of electronic design automation (EDA) is an abstract representation of a component within a schematic diagram or physical layout of an electronic circuit in software.
A cell-based design methodology is a technique that enables designers to analyze chip designs at varying levels of abstraction. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel%20ellipsoid | The Bessel ellipsoid (or Bessel 1841) is an important reference ellipsoid of geodesy. It is currently used by several countries for their national geodetic surveys, but will be replaced in the next decades by modern ellipsoids of satellite geodesy.
The Bessel ellipsoid was derived in 1841 by Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroless%20nickel%20immersion%20gold | Electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG or ENi/IAu), also known as immersion gold (Au), chemical Ni/Au or soft gold, is a metal plating process used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards (PCBs), to avoid oxidation and improve the solderability of copper contacts and plated through-holes. It consists of an electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion%20silver%20plating | Immersion silver plating (or IAg plating) is a surface plating process that creates a thin layer of silver over copper objects. It consists in dipping the object briefly into a solution containing silver ions.
Immersion silver plating is used by the electronics industry in manufacture of printed circuit boards (PCBs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Avionics | Universal Avionics Systems Corporation, also known as Universal Avionics, is an international company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona in the United States. It primarily focuses on flight management systems (FMS) and cockpit instrument displays for private, business, and commercial aircraft. The company has domestic of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20Veblen%20ordinal | In mathematics, the small Veblen ordinal is a certain large countable ordinal, named after Oswald Veblen. It is occasionally called the Ackermann ordinal, though the Ackermann ordinal described by is somewhat smaller than the small Veblen ordinal.
There is no standard notation for ordinals beyond the Feferman–Schütt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20Veblen%20ordinal | In mathematics, the large Veblen ordinal is a certain large countable ordinal, named after Oswald Veblen.
There is no standard notation for ordinals beyond the Feferman–Schütte ordinal Γ0. Most systems of notation use symbols such as ψ(α), θ(α), ψα(β), some of which are modifications of the Veblen functions to pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affix%20grammar | An affix grammar is a kind of formal grammar; it is used to describe the syntax of languages, mainly computer languages, using an approach based on how natural language is typically described.
The grammatical rules of an affix grammar are those of a context-free grammar, except that certain parts in the nonterminals (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20ellipsoid | An Earth ellipsoid or Earth spheroid is a mathematical figure approximating the Earth's form, used as a reference frame for computations in geodesy, astronomy, and the geosciences. Various different ellipsoids have been used as approximations.
It is a spheroid (an ellipsoid of revolution) whose minor axis (shorter di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Facebook%20features | Facebook is a social-network service website launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg. The following is a list of software and technology features that can be found on the Facebook website and mobile app and are available to users of the social media site.
Facebook structure
News Feed
The news feed is the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FREELANG%20Dictionary | FREELANG is a bilingual and free dictionary for Microsoft Windows. Founded in 1997 by Beaumont, FREELANG is free to download (freeware) but is under copyright of the authors, and it is collaborative.
History
FREELANG Dictionary has it roots in the Dutch Dictionary Project, started in 1996 by Frits van Zanten and his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciklopedio%20Kalblanda | () was the first online encyclopedia written in the Esperanto language. It was founded on January 11, 1996 by Stephen Kalb, who was the general editor. The encyclopedia contained 139 articles linked to 85 other themes. The text of the encyclopedia (though not the pictures) is under the GFDL.
In December 2001, Kalb don... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend%20modes | Blend modes (alternatively blending modes or mixing modes) in digital image editing and computer graphics are used to determine how two layers are blended with each other. The default blend mode in most applications is simply to obscure the lower layer by covering it with whatever is present in the top layer (see alpha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen%20function | In mathematics, the Veblen functions are a hierarchy of normal functions (continuous strictly increasing functions from ordinals to ordinals), introduced by Oswald Veblen in . If φ0 is any normal function, then for any non-zero ordinal α, φα is the function enumerating the common fixed points of φβ for β<α. These funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20testing | Hybrid testing is what most frameworks evolve/develop into overtime and multiple projects. The most successful automation frameworks generally accommodate both grammar and spelling, as well as information input. This allows information given to be cross-checked against existing and confirmed information. This helps to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute%20meridian | The Ute meridian, also known as the Grand River meridian, was established in 1880 and is a principal meridian of Colorado. The initial point lies inside the boundaries of Grand Junction Regional Airport, Grand Junction, Colorado.
See also
List of principal and guide meridians and base lines of the United States
Refer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann%20ordinal | In mathematics, the Ackermann ordinal is a certain large countable ordinal, named after Wilhelm Ackermann. The term "Ackermann ordinal" is also occasionally used for the small Veblen ordinal, a somewhat larger ordinal.
Unfortunately there is no standard notation for ordinals beyond the Feferman–Schütte ordinal Γ0.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20position | Star position is the apparent angular position of any given star in the sky, which seems fixed onto an arbitrary sphere centered on Earth. The location is defined by a pair of angular coordinates relative to the celestial equator: right ascension () and declination (). This pair based the equatorial coordinate system.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvelet | Curvelets are a non-adaptive technique for multi-scale object representation. Being an extension of the wavelet concept, they are becoming popular in similar fields, namely in image processing and scientific computing.
Wavelets generalize the Fourier transform by using a basis that represents both location and spatial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symantec%20Endpoint%20Protection | Symantec Endpoint Protection, developed by Broadcom Inc., is a security software suite that consists of anti-malware, intrusion prevention and firewall features for server and desktop computers. It has the largest market-share of any product for endpoint security.
Version history
The first release of Symantec Endpoint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit%20instrument | In astronomy, a transit instrument is a small telescope with extremely precisely graduated mount used for the precise observation of star positions. They were previously widely used in astronomical observatories and naval observatories to measure star positions in order to compile nautical almanacs for use by mariners... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntelog | Syntelog: a special case of gene homology where sets of genes are derived from the same ancestral genomic region. This may arise from speciation events, or through whole or partial genome duplication events (e.g. polyploidy). This term is distinct from ortholog, paralog, in-paralog, out-paralog, and xenolog because ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20personal%20computers | The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20One%20Foundation%20Component%20Library | The Base One Foundation Component Library (BFC) is a rapid application development toolkit for building secure, fault-tolerant, database applications on Windows and ASP.NET. In conjunction with Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment, BFC provides a general-purpose web application framework for wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomagnesium%20phosphate | Monomagnesium phosphate is one of the forms of magnesium phosphate. It is a magnesium acid salt of phosphoric acid with the chemical formula Mg(H2PO4)2. Di- and tetrahydrates are known also. It dissolves in water, forming phosphoric acid and depositing a solid precipitate of Mg(HPO4).3H2O, dimagnesium phosphate.
As... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES-2%20Enclosure%20Management | The introduction of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) as the most recent evolution of SCSI required redefining the related standard for enclosure management, called SCSI Enclosure Services. SES-2, or SCSI Enclosure Management 2 first revision, was introduced in 2002 and is now at revision 20.
SES-2 SCSI Enclosure Services (SE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20prime%20ideal | In mathematics, especially in commutative algebra, certain prime ideals called minimal prime ideals play an important role in understanding rings and modules. The notion of height and Krull's principal ideal theorem use minimal primes.
Definition
A prime ideal P is said to be a minimal prime ideal over an ideal I if... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20station | The term fundamental station is used for special observatories which combine several space positioning techniques like VLBI, satellite laser ranging, GPS, Glonass, etc. They are the basis of plate tectonic analysis, allowing the monitoring of continental drift rates with millimetre accuracies. A fundamental point is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructone | Fructone, also known as apple ketal and applinal, is a synthetic aroma compound with a fruity, apple-like smell with pineapple, strawberry, and woody aspects reminiscent of pine trees.
Chemistry
Fructone is usually synthesized from ethyl acetoacetate and ethylene glycol in an acid catalyzed cyclization reaction.
Ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoautograph | The stereoautograph is a complex opto-mechanical measurement instrument for the evaluation of analog or digital photograms. It is based on the stereoscopy effect by using two aero photos or two photograms of the topography or of buildings from different standpoints.
It was invented by Eduard von Orel in 1907.
The ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECpc%20AXP%20150 | The DECpc AXP 150, code-named Jensen, is an entry-level workstation developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation. Introduced on 25 May 1993, the DECpc AXP 150 was the first Alpha-based system to support the Windows NT operating system and the basis for the DEC 2000 AXP entry-level servers. It was discont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device%20fingerprint | A device fingerprint or machine fingerprint is information collected about the software and hardware of a remote computing device for the purpose of identification. The information is usually assimilated into a brief identifier using a fingerprinting algorithm. A browser fingerprint is information collected specificall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOT%20Services | WOT Services is the developer of MyWOT (also known as WOT and Web of Trust), an online reputation and Internet safety service which shows indicators of trust about existing websites. The confidence level is based both on user ratings and on third-party malware, phishing, scam and spam blacklists. The service also provi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%27s%20loxodromic%20sequence%20of%20tangent%20circles | In geometry, Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles is an infinite sequence of circles arranged so that any four consecutive circles in the sequence are pairwise mutually tangent. This means that each circle in the sequence is tangent to the three circles that precede it and also to the three circles that fol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20number%20of%20codons | Effective number of codons (abbreviated as ENC or Nc) is a measure to study the state of codon usage biases in genes and genomes. The way that ENC is computed has obvious similarities to the computation of effective population size in population genetics. Although it is easy to compute ENC values, it has been shown tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS | iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also includes the system software for iPads (predating iPadOS, which was introduced in 2019) as well as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm%20County%20Museum | Stockholm County Museum () is the regional museum of Stockholm County, Sweden.
The museum's head office is currently located at Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality. Previously, the museum was located at Sickla.
The museum serves the inhabitants in the county, especially those living in districts without a local mus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobiTV | MobiTV, Inc. (previously known as Idetic, Inc.) operates as a prominent provider of live and on-demand video delivery solutions, with its headquarters located in Emeryville, California. Founded in 1999 by Paul Scanlan, Phillip Alvelda, and Jeff Annison, MobiTV is a privately held company supported by venture capital. N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra%20game | In mathematics, specifically in graph theory and number theory, a hydra game is a single-player iterative mathematical game played on a mathematical tree called a hydra where, usually, the goal is to cut off the hydra's "heads" while the hydra simultaneously expands itself. Hydra games can be used to generate large num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20Accidents | Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies is a 1984 book by Yale sociologist Charles Perrow, which analyses complex systems from a sociological perspective. Perrow argues that multiple and unexpected failures are built into society's complex and tightly coupled systems, and that accidents are unavoidable and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape%20management%20system | A tape management system (TMS) is computer software that manages the usage and retention of computer backup tapes. This may be done as a stand-alone function or as part of a broader backup software package.
The role of a tape management system
A modern tape management system (TMS) is usually used in conjunction with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing%20%28biology%29 | Homing is the inherent ability of an animal to navigate towards an original location through unfamiliar areas. This location may be either a home territory, or a breeding spot.
Uses
Homing abilities can be used to find the way back to home in a migration. It is often used in reference to going back to a breeding spot ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20installation%20software | The following is a list of applications for building installation programs, organized by platform support.
Cross-platform
Linux
Windows
macOS
AmigaOS
See also
List of software package management systems
References
Installation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divina%20proportione | Divina proportione (15th century Italian for Divine proportion), later also called De divina proportione (converting the Italian title into a Latin one) is a book on mathematics written by Luca Pacioli and illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, completed by February 9th, 1498 in Milan and first printed in 1509. Its subject ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonocyte | Gonocytes are the precursors of spermatogonia that differentiate in the testis from primordial germ cells around week 7 of embryonic development and exist up until the postnatal period, when they become spermatogonia. Despite some uses of the term to refer to the precursors of oogonia, it was generally restricted to ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%20SDK | The iOS SDK (iOS Software Development Kit), formerly the iPhone SDK, is a software development kit (SDK) developed by Apple Inc. The kit allows for the development of mobile apps on Apple's iOS and iPadOS operating systems.
The iOS SDK is a free download for users of Macintosh (or Mac) personal computers. It is not av... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage%20%28service%29 | The N-Gage service (also referred to as N-Gage 2.0) was a mobile gaming platform from Nokia that was available for several Nokia smartphones running on S60 (Symbian). N-Gage combined numerous games with 3D graphics into an application featuring online (via N-Gage Arena) and social features. The service was a successor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20works%20designed%20with%20the%20golden%20ratio | Many works of art are claimed to have been designed using the golden ratio.
However, many of these claims are disputed, or refuted by measurement.
The golden ratio, an irrational number, is approximately 1.618; it is often denoted by the Greek letter φ (phi).
Early history
Various authors have claimed that early mon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey%20sentence | Donkey sentences are sentences that contain a pronoun with clear meaning (it is bound semantically) but whose syntactical role in the sentence poses challenges to grammarians. Such sentences defy straightforward attempts to generate their formal language equivalents. The difficulty is with understanding how English spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Sch%C3%BCtte | Kurt Schütte (14 October 1909, Salzwedel – 18 August 1998, Munich) was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. He was the doctoral advisor of 16 students, including Wolfg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoter%20bashing | Promoter bashing is a technique used in molecular biology to identify how certain regions of a DNA strand, commonly promoters, affect the transcription of downstream genes. Under normal circumstances, proteins bind to the promoter and activate or repress transcription. In a promoter bashing assay, specific point mutati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivation%20of%20the%20Routh%20array | The Routh array is a tabular method permitting one to establish the stability of a system using only the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial. Central to the field of control systems design, the Routh–Hurwitz theorem and Routh array emerge by using the Euclidean algorithm and Sturm's theorem in evaluating Cau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%204000%20AXP | The DEC 4000 AXP is a series of departmental server computers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation introduced on 10 November 1992. These systems formed part of the first generation of systems based on the 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture and at the time of introduction, ran Digital's OpenVMS AXP or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry%20OS | BlackBerry OS is a discontinued proprietary mobile operating system developed by Canadian company BlackBerry Limited for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices. The operating system provides multitasking and supports specialized input devices adopted by BlackBerry for use in its handhelds, particularly the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20noise | Atmospheric noise is radio noise caused by natural atmospheric processes, primarily lightning discharges in thunderstorms. On a worldwide scale, there are about 40 lightning flashes per second – ≈3.5 million lightning discharges per day.
History
In 1925, AT&T Bell Laboratories started investigating the sources of no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s%20formula | In mathematics, Liouville's formula, also known as the Abel-Jacobi-Liouville Identity, is an equation that expresses the determinant of a square-matrix solution of a first-order system of homogeneous linear differential equations in terms of the sum of the diagonal coefficients of the system. The formula is named after... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesting%20%28computing%29 | In computing science and informatics, nesting is where information is organized in layers, or where objects contain other similar objects. It almost always refers to self-similar or recursive structures in some sense.
Terminology
Nesting can mean:
nested calls:
using several levels of subroutines
recursive calls
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esscher%20principle | The Esscher principle is an insurance premium principle. It is given by , where is a strictly positive parameter. This premium is the net premium for a risk , where denotes the moment generating function.
The Esscher principle is a risk measure used in actuarial sciences that derives from the Esscher transform. This... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunction%20property%20of%20Wallman | In mathematics, especially in order theory, a partially ordered set with a unique minimal element 0 has the disjunction property of Wallman when for every pair (a, b) of elements of the poset, either b ≤ a or there exists an element c ≤ b such that c ≠ 0 and c has no nontrivial common predecessor with a. That is, in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDMOS | LDMOS (laterally-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor) is a planar double-diffused MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) used in amplifiers, including microwave power amplifiers, RF power amplifiers and audio power amplifiers. These transistors are often fabricated on p/p+ silicon epitaxial layers. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20EL90 | The Cray EL90 series was an air-cooled vector processor supercomputer first sold by Cray Research in 1993. The EL90 series evolved from the Cray Y-MP EL minisupercomputer, and is compatible with Y-MP software, running the same UNICOS operating system. The range comprised three models:
EL92, with up to two processors ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist%20millionaire%20problem | In cryptography, the socialist millionaire problem is one in which two millionaires want to determine if their wealth is equal without disclosing any information about their riches to each other. It is a variant of the Millionaire's Problem whereby two millionaires wish to compare their riches to determine who has the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20XT5 | The Cray XT5 is an updated version of the Cray XT4 supercomputer, launched on November 6, 2007. It includes a faster version of the XT4's SeaStar2 interconnect router called SeaStar2+, and can be configured either with XT4 compute blades, which have four dual-core AMD Opteron processor sockets, or XT5 blades, with eigh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20zero%20cryptography | In 1998 Gerhard Frey firstly proposed using trace zero varieties for cryptographic purpose. These varieties are subgroups of the divisor class group on a low genus hyperelliptic curve defined over a finite field. These groups can be used to establish asymmetric cryptography using the discrete logarithm problem as crypt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQEP | SQEP is an acronym for suitably qualified and experienced person.
The term is notably used in the UK nuclear power industry, see for example this safety management audit report from the Health and Safety Executive.
In the UK nuclear context, it is a standard requirement for licensed sites that "The licensee shall make... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20XMS | The Cray XMS was a vector processor minisupercomputer sold by Cray Research from 1990 to 1991. The XMS was originally designed by Supertek Computers Inc. as the Supertek S-1, intended to be a low-cost air-cooled clone of the Cray X-MP with a CMOS re-implementation of the X-MP processor architecture, and a VMEbus-based ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertek%20Computers | Supertek Computers Inc. was a computer company founded in Santa Clara, California in 1985 by Mike Fung, an ex-Hewlett-Packard project manager, with the aim of designing and selling low-cost minisupercomputers compatible with those from Cray Research.
Its first product was the Supertek S-1, a compact, air-cooled, CMOS ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant%20canary | A warrant canary is a method by which a communications service provider aims to implicitly inform its users that the provider has been served with a government subpoena despite legal prohibitions on revealing the existence of the subpoena. The warrant canary typically informs users that there has been a court-issued s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodrill%E2%80%93GMR | The Dodrill–GMR machine was the first operational mechanical heart successfully used while performing open heart surgery. It was developed by Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill, a surgeon at Harper University Hospital in Detroit, and General Motors Research.
On July 3, 1952, 41-year-old Henry Opitek suffering from shortness of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20S-MP | The Cray S-MP was a multiprocessor server computer sold by Cray Research from 1992 to 1993. It was based on the Sun SPARC microprocessor architecture and could be configured with up to eight 66 MHz BIT B5000 processors. Optionally, a Cray APP matrix co-processor cluster could be added to an S-MP system.
The S-MP was o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20reconstruction | In computer vision and computer graphics, 3D reconstruction is the process of capturing the shape and appearance of real objects.
This process can be accomplished either by active or passive methods. If the model is allowed to change its shape in time, this is referred to as non-rigid or spatio-temporal reconstruction.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop%20%281988%20video%20game%29 | RoboCop is a beat 'em up / run and gun video game developed and published by Data East for arcades in 1988 based on the 1987 film of the same name. It was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the rights from Orion Pictures at the script stage. Data East and Ocean Software subsequently adapted the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20identifier | In the context of the Microsoft Windows NT line of computer operating systems, the relative identifier (RID) is a variable length number that is assigned to objects at creation and becomes part of the object's Security Identifier (SID) that uniquely identifies an account or group within a domain. The Relative ID Master... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acatech | Acatech (styled acatech), founded in 2002 and established as the German Academy of Science and Engineering () on 1 January 2008, represents the interests of German technical sciences independently, in self-determination and guided by the common good, at home and abroad. acatech is organized as a working academy that ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptotic%20DNA%20fragmentation | Apoptotic DNA fragmentation is a key feature of apoptosis, a type of programmed cell death. Apoptosis is characterized by the activation of endogenous endonucleases, particularly the caspase-3 activated DNase (CAD), with subsequent cleavage of nuclear DNA into internucleosomal fragments of roughly 180 base pairs (bp) a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20APP | The Cray APP (Attached Parallel Processor) was a parallel computer sold by Cray Research from 1992 onwards. It was based on the Intel i860 microprocessor and could be configured with up to 84 processors. The design was based on "computational nodes" of 12 processors interconnected by a shared bus, with multiple nodes c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20bisulfite | Calcium bisulfite (calcium bisulphite or calcium hydrogen sulfite) is an inorganic compound which is the salt of a calcium cation and a bisulfite anion. It may be prepared by treating lime with an excess of sulfur dioxide and water. As a food additive it is used as a preservative under the E number E227. Calcium bisul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleware | Acceleware Ltd. (TSX-V: AXE) is a Canadian innovator of clean-tech oil and gas technologies composed of two business units: Radio Frequency (RF) Enhanced Oil Recovery and Seismic Imaging Software. The company is currently running a commercial-scale, RF XL pilot project at Marwayne, Alberta, Canada, to advance and valid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20code | In coding theory, a polynomial code is a type of linear code whose set of valid code words consists of those polynomials (usually of some fixed length) that are divisible by a given fixed polynomial (of shorter length, called the generator polynomial).
Definition
Fix a finite field , whose elements we call symbols. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience%20Information%20Framework | The Neuroscience Information Framework is a repository of global neuroscience web resources, including experimental, clinical, and translational neuroscience databases, knowledge bases, atlases, and genetic/genomic resources and provides many authoritative links throughout the neuroscience portal of Wikipedia.
Descrip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinorhizal%20plant | Actinorhizal plants are a group of angiosperms characterized by their ability to form a symbiosis with the nitrogen fixing actinomycetota Frankia. This association leads to the formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules.
Classification
Actinorhizal plants are dicotyledons distributed among three angiosperm orders, 8 f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorial%20Mechanics | Vectorial Mechanics (1948) is a book on vector manipulation (i.e., vector methods) by Edward Arthur Milne, a highly decorated (e.g., James Scott Prize Lectureship) British astrophysicist and mathematician. Milne states that the text was due to conversations (circa 1924) with his then-colleague and erstwhile teacher Syd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker%20machine | In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.
The algorithm was f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell-free%20protein%20array | Cell-free protein array technology produces protein microarrays by performing in vitro synthesis of the target proteins from their DNA templates. This method of synthesizing protein microarrays overcomes the many obstacles and challenges faced by traditional methods of protein array production that have prevented wides... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleischmann%27s%20Yeast | Fleischmann's Yeast is an American brand of yeast founded by Hungarian-American businessman Charles Louis Fleischmann. It is currently owned by Associated British Foods and is sold to both consumer and industrial markets in the United States and Canada.
The yeast is available in a number of different forms with variou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RationalWiki | RationalWiki is an online wiki which is written from a scientific skeptic, secular, and progressive perspective. Its stated goals are to "analyze and refute pseudoscience and the anti-science movement, document crank ideas, explore conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism, and analyze how these subject... |
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