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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20resection%20and%20intersection
Position resection and intersection are methods for determining an unknown geographic position (position finding) by measuring angles with respect to known positions. In resection, the one point with unknown coordinates is occupied and sightings are taken to the known points; in intersection, the two points with known ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja%20project
Caja (pronounced ) was a Google project for sanitizing third party HTML, CSS and JavaScript. On January 31, 2021, Google archived the project due to known vulnerabilities and lack of maintenance to keep up with the latest web security research, recommending instead the Closure toolkit. Caja was designed by Google res...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian%20equilibrium
A population is in Malthusian equilibrium when all of its production is used only for subsistence. Malthusian equilibrium is a locally stable and a dynamic equilibrium. See also Thomas Malthus — See this article for further exposition. An Essay on the Principle of Population Malthusian growth model Malthusian trap Pop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileMe
MobileMe (branded iTools between 2000 and 2002; .Mac until 2008) is a discontinued subscription-based collection of online services and software offered by Apple Inc. All services were gradually transitioned to and eventually replaced by the free iCloud, and MobileMe ceased on June 30, 2012, with transfers to iCloud be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20L.%20Patterson
Meredith L. Patterson (born April 30, 1977) is an American technologist, science fiction writer, and journalist. She has spoken at numerous industry conferences on a wide range of topics. She is also a blogger and software developer, and a leading figure in the biopunk movement. Raised in Houston, she pursued an educa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Campbell%20%28biologist%29
Keith Henry Stockman Campbell (23 May 1954 – 5 October 2012) was a British biologist who was a member of the team at Roslin Institute that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. He was Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept%20of%20operations
A concept of operations (abbreviated CONOPS, CONOPs, or ConOps) is a document describing the characteristics of a proposed system from the viewpoint of an individual who will use that system. Examples include business requirements specification or stakeholder requirements specification (StRS). CONOPS is used to communi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviation%20survey
In the oil industry, a deviation survey, or simply a survey, is the measurement of a borehole's departure from the vertical, expressed in degrees (°). When a well plan dictates the drilling of a straight borehole, surveys are periodically taken to ensure that it will hit its target and also to ensure that it does not ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20networking
Visual networking refers to an emerging class of user applications that combine digital video and social networking capabilities. It is based upon the premise that visual literacy, "the ability to interpret, negotiate and make meaning from information presented in the form of a moving image", is a powerful force in how...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacent%20channel%20power%20ratio
Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) is ratio between the total power of adjacent channel (intermodulation signal) to the main channel's power (useful signal). Ratio The ratio between the total power adjacent channel (intermodulation signal) to the main channel's power (useful signal). There are two ways of measuring A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Industrial%20Engineering%20and%20Management
The Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management is a biannual peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers research on all aspects of industrial engineering and management. It was established in 2008. It is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Abstracting and indexing The jou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20bracing
In construction, cross bracing is a system utilized to reinforce building structures in which diagonal supports intersect. Cross bracing is usually seen with two diagonal supports placed in an X-shaped manner. Under lateral force (such as wind or seismic activity) one brace will be under tension while the other is bein...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Control%20Company
Computer Control Company, Inc. (1953–1966), informally known as 3C, was a pioneering minicomputer company known for its DDP-series (Digital Data Processor) computers, notably: DDP-24 24-bit (1963) DDP-224 24-bit (1965) DDP-116 16-bit (1965) DDP-124 24-bit (1966) using monolithic ICs It was founded in 1953 by Dr. Loui...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yass%20%28software%29
YASS (Yet Another Similarity Searcher) is a free software, pairwise sequence alignment software for nucleotide sequences, that is, it can search for similarities between DNA or RNA sequences. YASS accepts nucleotide sequences in either plain text or the FASTA format and the output format includes the BLAST tabular out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. OpenCL...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Game%20Xpo
The Digital Game Xpo (DGXPO) was the Southeast U.S.'s largest game industry conference. The event was organized and hosted by Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. The first event was held in 2005 and it was held annually until 2009. The event comprised an expo, career fair, student showcase, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Insight
Code Insight is the name several software vendors (such as Borland, Embarcadero and Oracle) use for source code autocompletion, similar to Microsoft's IntelliSense. Code Insight can also refer to source code analysis information such as annotation or revision history provided by tools like Atlassian FishEye. Reference...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace%20formula
The shoelace formula, also known as Gauss's area formula and the surveyor's formula, is a mathematical algorithm to determine the area of a simple polygon whose vertices are described by their Cartesian coordinates in the plane. It is called the shoelace formula because of the constant cross-multiplying for the coordin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20medical%20practice%20in%20the%20United%20States
Group medical practices practice medicine by physicians who share resources. There are approximately 230,187 physician practices in the United States. Among the physician practices, 16.5% had only one office-based physician in 2016. Physician group practices with 2-4 physicians make up 22.3% of physician offices in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyraceum
Hyraceum () is the petrified and rock-like excrement composed of both urine and feces of the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) and closely related species. The rock hyrax defecates in the same location over generations, which may be sheltered in caves. These locations form middens that are composed of hyraceum and hyrax ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horticultural%20flora
A horticultural flora, also known as a garden flora, is a plant identification aid structured in the same way as a native plants flora. It serves the same purpose: to facilitate plant identification; however, it only includes plants that are under cultivation as ornamental plants growing within the prescribed climate z...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botan%20%28programming%20library%29
Botan is a BSD-licensed cryptographic and TLS library written in C++11. It provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols, e.g. SSL and TLS. It is used in the Monotone distributed revision control program, the OpenDNSSEC system, and ISC's Kea DHCP server among other projects. The project w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Cambrian%20geochemical%20fluctuations
The start of the Cambrian period is marked by "fluctuations" in a number of geochemical records, including Strontium, Sulfur and Carbon isotopic excursions. While these anomalies are difficult to interpret, a number of possibilities have been put forward. They probably represent changes on a global scale, and as such...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw%20a%20Secret
Draw a Secret (DAS) is a graphical password input scheme developed by Ian Jermyn, Alain Mayer, Fabian Monrose, Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin and presented in a paper at the 8th USENIX Security Symposium in Augusts 1999. The scheme replaces alphanumeric password strings with a picture drawn on a grid. Instead o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBoss%20Tools
JBoss Tools is a set of Eclipse plugins and features designed to help JBoss and JavaEE developers develop applications. It is an umbrella project for the JBoss developed plugins that will make it into JBoss Developer Studio. Modules JBoss Tools includes the following modules: Visual Page Editor (VPE). The visual edi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20type%20system
In the branches of mathematical logic known as proof theory and type theory, a pure type system (PTS), previously known as a generalized type system (GTS), is a form of typed lambda calculus that allows an arbitrary number of sorts and dependencies between any of these. The framework can be seen as a generalisation o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic%20Ramsey%20theory
Ergodic Ramsey theory is a branch of mathematics where problems motivated by additive combinatorics are proven using ergodic theory. History Ergodic Ramsey theory arose shortly after Endre Szemerédi's proof that a set of positive upper density contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions, when Hillel Furstenberg ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20%28oceanography%29
In oceanography, the term spice refers to spatial variations in the temperature and salinity of seawater whose effects on density cancel each other. Such density compensated thermohaline variability is ubiquitous in the upper ocean. Warmer, saltier water is more spicy while cooler, less salty water is more minty. For...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehlers%20group
In mathematical physics, the Ehlers group, named after Jürgen Ehlers, is a finite-dimensional transformation group of stationary vacuum spacetimes which maps solutions of Einstein's field equations to other solutions. It has since found a number of applications, from use as a tool in the discovery of previously unknown...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat
TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network. It provided cryptographically secure text messaging and file transfers. The characteristics of Tor's onion services ensure that all traffic between the clients is encrypted and that it is very difficult to tel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictor%E2%80%93corrector%20method
In numerical analysis, predictor–corrector methods belong to a class of algorithms designed to integrate ordinary differential equationsto find an unknown function that satisfies a given differential equation. All such algorithms proceed in two steps: The initial, "prediction" step, starts from a function fitted to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCAT
xCAT (Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit) is open-source distributed computing management software developed by IBM, used for the deployment and administration of Linux or AIX based clusters. In September 2023 the primary developers of xCAT said that they moved onto other roles and could no longer work on it, asking...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20pathology
Digital pathology is a sub-field of pathology that focuses on data management based on information generated from digitized specimen slides. Through the use of computer-based technology, digital pathology utilizes virtual microscopy. Glass slides are converted into digital slides that can be viewed, managed, shared and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%20code%20for%20non-Latin%20alphabets
This is a summary of the use of Morse code to represent alphabets other than Latin. Greek The Greek Morse code alphabet is very similar to the Latin alphabet. It uses one extra letter for Greek letter and no longer uses the codes for Latin letters "J", "U" and "V". The tonos is not transmitted in Morse code; the rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20data%20room
A virtual data room (sometimes called a VDR or Deal Room) is an online repository of information that is used for the storing and distribution of documents. In many cases, a virtual data room is used to facilitate the due diligence process during an M&A transaction, loan syndication, or private equity and venture capi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keulegan%E2%80%93Carpenter%20number
In fluid dynamics, the Keulegan–Carpenter number, also called the period number, is a dimensionless quantity describing the relative importance of the drag forces over inertia forces for bluff objects in an oscillatory fluid flow. Or similarly, for objects that oscillate in a fluid at rest. For small Keulegan–Carpente...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce%20200%20series
The GeForce 200 series is a series of Tesla-based GeForce graphics processing units developed by Nvidia. Architecture The GeForce 200 Series introduced Nvidia's second generation of Tesla (microarchitecture), Nvidia's unified shader architecture; the first major update to it since introduced with the GeForce 8 Series...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore%20Creature%20Creator
The Spore Creature Creator is a software that allows players to create their own creatures with a standalone version of the Creature Editor from Spore; the software was one of the first aspects of the game to receive focused development, and underwent ten rewrites since the start of development. It was rated E by the E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20XGP
AMD XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) is brand for an external graphics solution for laptops and notebooks by AMD. The technology was announced on June 4, 2008 on Computex 08 trade show, following the announcement of the codenamed Puma notebook platform. Development Originally reported by Hexus.net as a side project to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootare%E2%80%93Prenzlow%20equation
The Rootare-Prenzlow Equation is named for Estonian-American scientist Hillar Rootare and American scientist Carl , first published in their 1967 paper, "Surface Areas from Mercury Porosimetry Measurements," Rootare, H.M., and Prenzlow, C.F., 71 J. Phys. Chem. p. 2733 (1967). The equation first formulated a means to ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20forwarding
Pipeline forwarding (PF) applies to packet forwarding in computer networks the basic concept of pipelining, which has been widely and successfully used in computing — specifically, in the architecture of all major central processing units (CPUs) — and manufacturing — specifically in assembly lines of various industrie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20security%20software
Computer security software or cybersecurity software is any computer program designed to influence information security. This is often taken in the context of defending computer systems or data, yet can incorporate programs designed specifically for subverting computer systems due to their significant overlap, and the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20engineering
Wireless Engineering is the branch of engineering which addresses the design, application, and research of wireless communication systems and technologies. Overview Wireless engineering is an engineering subject dealing with engineering problems using wireless technology such as radio communications and radar, but it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20virtual%20pipe
When realizing pipeline forwarding a predefined schedule for forwarding a pre-allocated amount of bytes during one or more time frames along a path of subsequent switches establishes a synchronous virtual pipe (SVP). The SVP capacity is determined by the total number of bits allocated in every time cycle for the SVP. F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20array
In mathematics, an orthogonal array (more specifically, a fixed-level orthogonal array) is a "table" (array) whose entries come from a fixed finite set of symbols (for example, {1,2,...,v}), arranged in such a way that there is an integer t so that for every selection of t columns of the table, all ordered t-tuples of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating%20circle
Developed from the reflecting circle, the repeating circle is an instrument for geodetic surveying, invented by Etienne Lenoir in 1784, while an assistant of Jean-Charles de Borda, who later improved the instrument. It was notable as being the equal of the great theodolite created by the renowned instrument maker, Jess...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugon
Sugon (), officially Dawning Information Industry Company Limited, is a supercomputer manufacturer based in the People's Republic of China. The company is a spin-off from research done at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and still has close links to it. History The company is a development of work done at the In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20microdomain
Lipid microdomains are formed when lipids undergo lateral phase separations yielding stable coexisting lamellar domains. These phase separations can be induced by changes in temperature, pressure, ionic strength or by the addition of divalent cations or proteins. The question of whether such lipid microdomains observed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction%20cross
The extinction cross is an optical phenomenon that is seen when trying to extinguish a laser beam or non-planar white light using crossed polarizers. Ideally, crossed (90° rotated) polarizers block all light, since light which is polarized along the polarization axis of the first polarizer is perpendicular to the polar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-large-scale%20systems
Ultra-large-scale system (ULSS) is a term used in fields including Computer Science, Software Engineering and Systems Engineering to refer to software intensive systems with unprecedented amounts of hardware, lines of source code, numbers of users, and volumes of data. The scale of these systems gives rise to many prob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun%20surgery
Shotgun surgery is an antipattern in software development and occurs where a developer adds features to an application codebase which span a multiplicity of implementors or implementations in a single change. This is common practice in many programming scenarios, as a great amount of programming effort is usually expen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20timings
Memory timings or RAM timings describe the timing information of a memory module or the onboard LPDDRx. Due to the inherent qualities of VLSI and microelectronics, memory chips require time to fully execute commands. Executing commands too quickly will result in data corruption and results in system instability. With a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahawh%20Hmong
Pahawh Hmong (RPA: Phaj hauj Hmoob , Pahawh: ; known also as Ntawv Pahawh, Ntawv Keeb, Ntawv Caub Fab, Ntawv Soob Lwj) is an indigenous semi-syllabic script, invented in 1959 by Shong Lue Yang, to write two Hmong languages, Hmong Daw (Hmoob Dawb White Miao) and Hmong Njua AKA Hmong Leng (Moob Leeg Green Miao). Termin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overall%20equipment%20effectiveness
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a measure of how well a manufacturing operation is utilized (facilities, time and material) compared to its full potential, during the periods when it is scheduled to run. It identifies the percentage of manufacturing time that is truly productive. An OEE of 100% means that only...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20dependence
In mathematics, a collection of real numbers is rationally independent if none of them can be written as a linear combination of the other numbers in the collection with rational coefficients. A collection of numbers which is not rationally independent is called rationally dependent. For instance we have the following...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20implementation%20conformance%20statement
A protocol implementation conformance statement (PICS) is a structured document which asserts which specific requirements are met by a given implementation of a protocol standard. It is often completed as a record of formal protocol conformance test results, and some automated testing systems machine-author a PICS as o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20flow%20on%20the%20torus
In mathematics, especially in the area of mathematical analysis known as dynamical systems theory, a linear flow on the torus is a flow on the n-dimensional torus which is represented by the following differential equations with respect to the standard angular coordinates The solution of these equations can explicit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Temple
Media Temple was a website hosting and cloud hosting provider, which focused on web designers, developers and creative agencies. The company was founded in 1998 by former CEO Demian Sellfors and John Carey. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Media Temple was acquired by GoDaddy in October 2013, but the tw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting%20board
The counting board is the precursor of the abacus, and the earliest known form of a counting device (excluding fingers and other very simple methods). Counting boards were made of stone or wood, and the counting was done on the board with beads, pebbles etc. Not many boards survive because of the perishable materials u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible%20glass
Flexible glass is an alleged lost invention from the time of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. It may also refer to a form used today in fiber optic cables, though it is unknown if they are the same material. History and mythology Supposedly, the inventor of flexible glass (vitrum flexile) brought a drinking bowl made of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontreponemal%20tests%20for%20syphilis
A nontreponemal test (NTT) is a blood test for diagnosis of infection with syphilis. Nontreponemal tests are an indirect method in that they detect biomarkers that are released during cellular damage that occurs from the syphilis spirochete. In contrast, treponemal tests look for antibodies that are a direct result of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron%20packing
In geometry, tetrahedron packing is the problem of arranging identical regular tetrahedra throughout three-dimensional space so as to fill the maximum possible fraction of space. Currently, the best lower bound achieved on the optimal packing fraction of regular tetrahedra is 85.63%. Tetrahedra do not tile space, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20and%20recursive%20queries%20in%20SQL
A hierarchical query is a type of SQL query that handles hierarchical model data. They are special cases of more general recursive fixpoint queries, which compute transitive closures. In standard SQL:1999 hierarchical queries are implemented by way of recursive common table expressions (CTEs). Unlike Oracle's earlier ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bareiss%20algorithm
In mathematics, the Bareiss algorithm, named after Erwin Bareiss, is an algorithm to calculate the determinant or the echelon form of a matrix with integer entries using only integer arithmetic; any divisions that are performed are guaranteed to be exact (there is no remainder). The method can also be used to compute t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20display%20unit
A Control Display Unit (CDU) is used in remote operated gasfields placed on the seabed. It distributes power, control signals and chemicals arriving through the umbilical and pipelines from land to the other sub-sea structures. The connection point – manifold – in the control distribution unit can be retrieved to the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT%20Highway
BT Highway was a UK retail ISDN2e service from British Telecom which was announced in November 1997 and withdrawn in February 2007. In the domestic market, it was sold as BT Home Highway and for small businesses, BT Business Highway. These names were used simply to differentiate billing schemes; the hardware for both s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittering%20agent
A bittering agent is a flavoring agent added to a food or beverage to impart a bitter taste, possibly in addition to other effects. While many substances are bitter to a greater or lesser degree, a few substances are used specifically for their bitterness, especially to balance other flavors, such as sweetness. Notable...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyadics
In mathematics, specifically multilinear algebra, a dyadic or dyadic tensor is a second order tensor, written in a notation that fits in with vector algebra. There are numerous ways to multiply two Euclidean vectors. The dot product takes in two vectors and returns a scalar, while the cross product returns a pseudovec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder%27s%20law%20of%20initial%20value
Wilder's law of initial value (German "Ausgangswertgesetz", Ausgangswert meaning baseline in modern terms) states that "the direction of response of a body function to any agent depends to a large degree on the initial level of that function", proposed by Joseph Wilder. It is unclear whether it is a real effect or a st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postprandial%20somnolence
Postprandial somnolence (colloquially known as food coma, or after-dinner dip) is a normal state of drowsiness or lassitude following a meal. Postprandial somnolence has two components: a general state of low energy related to activation of the parasympathetic nervous system in response to mass in the gastrointestinal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBM%20%28software%29
BBM, also known by its full name BlackBerry Messenger, was a consumer-oriented proprietary mobile instant messenger and videotelephony application service originally developed by BlackBerry Limited and later briefly by Indonesian company Emtek under licence. Initially it was included and offered on BlackBerry devices b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camunian%20rose
The Camunian rose (Italian: Rosa camuna, Lombard: Rœsa camuna) is the name given to a particular symbol represented among the rock carvings of Camonica Valley (Brescia, Italy). It consists of a meandering closed line that winds around nine cup marks. It can be symmetrical, asymmetrical or form a swastika. Meaning and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthoxypropanediol
Menthoxypropanediol (also known as Cooling agent 10 [tradename of Takasago]), is a synthetic derivative of menthol. While the cooling strength of 3-(l-menthoxy)propane-1,2-diol is accepted as being about 20–25% that of menthol, it is also noted that "in a Vaseline ointment, 3-(l-menthoxy)propane-1,2-diol shows a cool f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20experimental%20design
A glossary of terms used in experimental research. Concerned fields Statistics Experimental design Estimation theory Glossary Alias: When the estimate of an effect also includes the influence of one or more other effects (usually high order interactions) the effects are said to be aliased (see confounding). For ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCPD
dhcpd (an abbreviation for "DHCP daemon") is a DHCP server program that operates as a daemon on a server to provide Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service to a network. This implementation, also known as ISC DHCP, is one of the first and best known, but there are now a number of other DHCP server software i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aortic%20bifurcation
The aortic bifurcation is the point at which the abdominal aorta bifurcates (forks) into the left and right common iliac arteries. The aortic bifurcation is usually seen at the level of L4, just above the junction of the left and right common iliac veins. The right common iliac artery passes in front of the left commo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohit%20Jivanlal%20Parikh
Rohit Jivanlal Parikh (born November 20, 1936) is an Indian-American mathematician, logician, and philosopher who has worked in many areas in traditional logic, including recursion theory and proof theory. He is a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York (CUNY). Research Parikh wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20discrete%20collection
In mathematics, particularly topology, collections of subsets are said to be locally discrete if they look like they have precisely one element from a local point of view. The study of locally discrete collections is worthwhile as Bing's metrization theorem shows. Formal definition Let X be a topological space. A col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-7
The AN/UYK-7 was the standard 32-bit computer of the United States Navy for surface ship and submarine platforms, starting in 1970. It was used in the Navy's NTDS & Aegis combat systems and U.S. Coast Guard, and the navies of U.S. allies. It was also used by the U.S. Army. Technical Built by UNIVAC, it used integrat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC%20identification%20and%20health%20marks
Identification marks and health marks are the oval-shaped markings found on food products of animal origin in the European Community, required by European Union food safety regulations. It identifies the processing establishment that produced and packaged the product and that is therefore responsible for its hygiene st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suken
is a world mathematics certification program and examination established in Japan in 1988. Outline of Suken Each Suken level (Kyu) has two sections. Section 1 is calculation and Section 2 is application. Passing Rate In order to pass the Suken, you must correctly answer approximately 70% of section 1 and approximat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSD%20origami
Feature-oriented programming or feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is a general paradigm for program synthesis in software product lines. The feature-oriented programming page is recommended, it explains how an FOSD model of a domain is a tuple of 0-ary functions (called values) and a set of 1-ary (unary) fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20signal%20processing
Algebraic signal processing (ASP) is an emerging area of theoretical signal processing (SP). In the algebraic theory of signal processing, a set of filters is treated as an (abstract) algebra, a set of signals is treated as a module or vector space, and convolution is treated as an algebra representation. The advantage...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum%20stick
A drum stick (or drumstick) is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit, and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion. Specialized beaters used on some other percussion instruments, such as the metal beater used with a triangle or the ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempner%20series
The Kempner series is a modification of the harmonic series, formed by omitting all terms whose denominator expressed in base 10 contains the digit 9. That is, it is the sum where the prime indicates that n takes only values whose decimal expansion has no nines. The series was first studied by A. J. Kempner in 1914. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSD%20Mixin%20Layers
The key implementation technique of GenVoca is due to Smaragdakis called mixin-layers. Aspectual mixin layers and aspectual feature modules are recent extensions that incorporate aspect-oriented programming. See also Feature-oriented programming References Software design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20North%20America%20%28CEC%29
This list of ecoregions of North America provides an overview of North American ecoregions designated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in its North American Environmental Atlas. It should not be confused with Wikipedia articles based on the classification system developed by the World Wildlife Fund...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20ecoregions
Wikipedia has articles relating to two separate ecoregion classification systems: Ecoregions defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and partner agencies in Canada, Mexico, and the United States: List of ecoregions in North America (CEC) List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA) Ecoregions of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofact%20%28philosophy%29
In philosophy and sociology, a biofact is a being that is both an artifact and living being, or both natural and artificial. This being has been created by purposive human action but exists by processes of growth. The word is a neologism coined from the combination of the words bios and artifact. There are sources who...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofact%20%28biology%29
In biology, a biofact is dead material of a once-living organism. In 1943, the protozoologist Bruno M. Klein of Vienna (1891–1968) coined the term in his article Biofakt und Artefakt in the microscopy journal Mikrokosmos, though at that time it was not adopted by the scientific community. Klein's concept of biofact st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSV-21
The KSV-21 Enhanced Crypto Card is a US National Security Agency-approved PC card that provides Type 1 encryption functions and key storage to the STE secure telephones and other devices. The KSV-21 was originally built by SafeNet but has since been purchased by Raytheon as a tamper-resistant reprogrammable module an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barwise%20compactness%20theorem
In mathematical logic, the Barwise compactness theorem, named after Jon Barwise, is a generalization of the usual compactness theorem for first-order logic to a certain class of infinitary languages. It was stated and proved by Barwise in 1967. Statement Let be a countable admissible set. Let be an -finite relatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20agent-based%20modeling%20software
In the last few years, the agent-based modeling (ABM) community has developed several practical agent based modeling toolkits that enable individuals to develop agent-based applications. More and more such toolkits are coming into existence, and each toolkit has a variety of characteristics. Several individuals have ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP%20redirect%20page
An ISP redirect page is a spoof page served by major ISPs including: Cox Communications, Embarq, Verizon, Rogers, Earthlink, and various others when World Wide Web users enter an invalid DNS name. If a user types in an incorrect Uniform Resource Locator (URL), for example http://wikipedia.orf instead of http://wikiped...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IREDES
IREDES, International Rock Excavation Data Exchange Standard, is an industry standard to unify routines for the data exchange between mining equipment and office computer systems. It defines one "common electronic language" to be talked by the automation systems throughout the mine. In year 2000, IREDES was founded by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt-and-pepper%20chromatin
In pathology, salt-and-pepper chromatin, also salt-and-pepper nuclei and stippled chromatin, refers to cell nuclei that demonstrate granular chromatin (on light microscopy). Salt-and-pepper chromatin is typically seen in endocrine tumours such as medullary thyroid carcinoma, neuroendocrine tumours and pheochromocytoma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minus%20Space
Minus Space is an art gallery located in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. It specializes in abstract art and reductive art. History Minus Space began as an online curatorial and critical project presenting reductive and concept based art. Reductive art includes geometric abstraction, artwork that deals with repetition, monochrome...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20sharing
In computer science, false sharing is a performance-degrading usage pattern that can arise in systems with distributed, coherent caches at the size of the smallest resource block managed by the caching mechanism. When a system participant attempts to periodically access data that is not being altered by another party, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeekYou
PeekYou is a people search engine that indexes people and their links on the web. Founded in April 2006 by Michael Hussey, PeekYou claims that they have indexed over 250 million people, mostly in the United States and Canada. The search results consist of publicly available URLs, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20global%20sustainability%20statistics
Global sustainability statistics are benchmarks for measuring the status of sustainability parameters. The following agencies provide baseline data for sustainability governance. They are just one form of data used for sustainability accounting and are valuable for assessing trends and measuring progress. This list pr...