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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%2039%20Clues | The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Go... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-equivalence | In mathematics, -equivalence, or contact equivalence, is an equivalence relation between map germs. It was introduced by John Mather in his seminal work in Singularity theory in the 1960s as a technical tool for studying stable maps. Since then it has proved important in its own right. Roughly speaking, two map germ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFF%20%27N%20PROOF | WFF 'N PROOF is a game of modern logic, developed to teach principles of symbolic logic. It was developed by Layman E. Allen in 1962 a former professor of Yale Law School and the University of Michigan.
Rules
As marketed in the 1960s WFF 'N PROOF was a series of 20 games of increasing complexity, varying with the logi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solver | A solver is a piece of mathematical software, possibly in the form of a stand-alone computer program or as a software library, that 'solves' a mathematical problem. A solver takes problem descriptions in some sort of generic form and calculates their solution. In a solver, the emphasis is on creating a program or libra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzing | Fritzing is an open-source initiative to develop amateur or hobby CAD software for the design of electronics hardware, intended to allow designers and artists to build more permanent circuits from prototypes. It was developed at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Fritzing is free software under the GPL 3.0 or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku | Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. As one of the first cloud platforms, Heroku has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now also supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go. For this reason, H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace%20Cloud | The Rackspace Cloud is a set of cloud computing products and services billed on a utility computing basis from the US-based company Rackspace. Offerings include Cloud Storage ("Cloud Files"), virtual private server ("Cloud Servers"), load balancers, databases, backup, and monitoring.
History
Rackspace Cloud announce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20lens | A magnetic lens is a device for the focusing or deflection of moving charged particles, such as electrons or ions, by use of the magnetic Lorentz force. Its strength can often be varied by usage of electromagnets.
Magnetic lenses are used in diverse applications, from cathode ray tubes over electron microscopy to part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20semigroup | In mathematics, an ordered semigroup is a semigroup (S,•) together with a partial order ≤ that is compatible with the semigroup operation, meaning that x ≤ y implies z•x ≤ z•y and x•z ≤ y•z for all x, y, z in S.
An ordered monoid and an ordered group are, respectively, a monoid or a group that are endowed with a par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold%20Halliday%20Savile | Sir Leopold Halliday Savile, KCB (31 August 1870 – 28 January 1953) was a Scottish civil engineer.
Savile was born at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Walter Savile and Sarah Emma Stoddart. He was a great grandson of the MP Christopher Atkinson (later Savile). He was educated at Marlborou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometric%20stereo | Photometric stereo is a technique in computer vision for estimating the surface normals of objects by observing that object under different lighting conditions (photometry). It is based on the fact that the amount of light reflected by a surface is dependent on the orientation of the surface in relation to the light so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy%20Mobile%20IPv6 | Proxy Mobile IPv6 (or PMIPv6, or PMIP) is a network-based mobility management protocol standardized by IETF and is specified in RFC 5213. It is a protocol for building a common and access technology independent of mobile core networks, accommodating various access technologies such as WiMAX, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and WLAN based ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20connectivity%20access%20network | IP-CAN (or IP connectivity access network) is an access network that provides Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity. The term is usually used in cellular context and usually refers to 3GPP access networks such as GPRS or EDGE, but can be also used to describe wireless LAN (WLAN) or DSL networks. It was introduced in 3GPP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splunk | Splunk Inc. is an American software company based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data via a web-style interface.
Its software helps capture, index and correlate real-time data in a searchable repository, from which it can generate graphs,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20Plankton%20Recorder | The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey is one of the longest running marine biological monitoring programmes in the world. Started in 1931 by Sir Alister Hardy and Sir Cyril Lucas, the Survey provides marine scientists and policy-makers with measures of plankton communities, coupled with ocean physical, biologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Anderson%20%28engineer%29 | Sir David Anderson (6 July 1880–27 March 1953) was a Scottish civil engineer and lawyer.
Anderson was born in 1880 at Leven, Fife, Scotland. In 1921, on his return from Army service, Anderson joined a partnership with fellow engineers Basil Mott and David Hay, forming the company Mott Hay and Anderson. Mott, Hay and A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-HTML | CE-HTML is an XHTML-based standard for designing webpages with remote user interfaces for consumer electronic devices on Universal Plug and Play networks. The standard is intended for defining user interfaces that can gracefully scale on a variety of screen sizes and geometries, including those of mobile devices to hig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burau%20representation | In mathematics the Burau representation is a representation of the braid groups, named after and originally studied by the German mathematician Werner Burau during the 1930s. The Burau representation has two common and near-equivalent formulations, the reduced and unreduced Burau representations.
Definition
Conside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20browsing | Private browsing is a privacy feature in some web browsers. When operating in such a mode, the browser creates a temporary session that is isolated from the browser's main session and user data. Browsing history is not saved, and local data associated with the session, such as Cookies, Web cache, are cleared when the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee%20%28symbol%29 | The tee (⊤, \top in LaTeX), also called down tack (as opposed to the up tack) or verum, is a symbol used to represent:
The top element in lattice theory.
The truth value of being true in logic, or a sentence (e.g., formula in propositional calculus) which is unconditionally true. By definition, every tautology is log... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20part%20function | In nonstandard analysis, the standard part function is a function from the limited (finite) hyperreal numbers to the real numbers. Briefly, the standard part function "rounds off" a finite hyperreal to the nearest real. It associates to every such hyperreal , the unique real infinitely close to it, i.e. is infinite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoHUB | nanoHUB.org is a science and engineering gateway comprising community-contributed resources and geared toward education, professional networking, and interactive simulation tools for nanotechnology. Funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), it is a product of the Network for Computational Nanotech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Came%20from%20Canada%20Archive | The It Came From Canada Archive was an online archive of rare, long-lost, and relatively unknown Canadian music, created by Beau Levitt and Kevin McGowan in 2007.
An independent project, without any corporate or government funding, itcamefromcanada was created as a place for recording artists (or their families) and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumaresq | The Dumaresq is a mechanical calculating device invented around 1902 by Lieutenant John Dumaresq of the Royal Navy. It is a computer that relates vital variables of the fire control problem to the movement of one's own ship and that of a target ship.
It was often used with other devices, such as a Vickers range clock,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect%20GameGuard%20Personal%202007 | nProtect GameGuard Personal 2007 (often referred to as nProtect GGP2007) is an Anti-Virus security suite for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Vista developed by INCA Internet for users playing online computer games. It includes real-time protection from most forms of malware, including viruses, trojans, spyware, worms, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20trap | The term evolutionary trap has retained several definitions associated with different biological disciplines.
Evolutionary biology
Within evolutionary biology, this term has been used sporadically to refer to situations in which an evolved (and presumably well adapted and successful) trait has become obsolete or mala... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involution%20%28medicine%29 | Involution is the shrinking or return of an organ to a former size. At a cellular level, involution is characterized by the process of proteolysis of the basement membrane (basal lamina), leading to epithelial regression and apoptosis, with accompanying stromal fibrosis. The consequent reduction in cell number and reor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniteReality | InfiniteReality refers to a 3D graphics hardware architecture and a family of graphics systems that implemented the aforementioned hardware architecture that was developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics from 1996 to 2005. The InfiniteReality was positioned as Silicon Graphics' high-end visualization hardware for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Maschler | Michael Bahir Maschler (Hebrew: ) (July 22, 1927 – July 20, 2008) was an Israeli mathematician well known for his contributions to the field of game theory. He was a professor in the Einstein Institute of Mathematics and the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. In 2012, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Automata%2C%20Languages%20and%20Combinatorics | The Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics (JALC) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of computer science. It was established in 1965 as the Journal of Information Processing and Cybernetics (German: Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung und Kybernetik) and obtained its current title in 1996 with volume nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20POSIX%20subsystem | Microsoft POSIX subsystem is one of four subsystems shipped with the first versions of Windows NT, the other three being the Win32 subsystem which provided the primary API for Windows NT, plus the OS/2 and security subsystems.
This subsystem implements only the POSIX.1 standard also known as IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 or IS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%27s%20On | Mike's On: Francesa on the FAN was a sports radio talk show airing on New York City station WFAN, hosted by Mike Francesa. The show debuted on September 3, 2008, as the successor to Francesa's previous program, Mike and the Mad Dog, which was broadcast from 1989 to 2008 and made Francesa and his partner Chris Russo the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%20Mathematica%20Contemporanea | Ars Mathematica Contemporanea is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering discrete mathematics in connection with other branches of mathematics. It is published by the University of Primorska together with the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia, the Institute of Mathematics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum-minimums%20identity | In mathematics, the maximum-minimums identity is a relation between the maximum element of a set S of n numbers and the minima of the 2n − 1 non-empty subsets of S.
Let S = {x1, x2, ..., xn}. The identity states that
or conversely
For a probabilistic proof, see the reference.
See also
Inclusion–exclusion princi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus | A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth and are the most numerous type of biological entity. Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villejuif%20leaflet | The Villejuif leaflet, also known as the Villejuif flyer and the Villejuif list, was a pamphlet which enjoyed wide distribution. The leaflet listed a number of safe food additives with their E numbers as alleged carcinogens. The leaflet caused mass panic in Europe in the late 1970s and 1980s. One of the entries on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial%20control%20cycle | The actuarial control cycle is a specific business activity which involves the application of actuarial science to real world business problems. The actuarial control cycle requires a professional within that field (i.e., an actuary) to specify a problem, develop a solution, monitor the consequences thereof, and repeat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machtey%20Award | The Machtey Award is awarded at the annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) to the author(s) of the best student paper(s). A paper qualifies as a student paper if all authors are full-time students at the date of the submission. The award decision is made by the Program Committee.
The award is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Manager%20%281982%20series%29 | Football Manager is a video game series published and developed by Addictive Games, the label set up by the game's creator Kevin Toms. The first game was released in 1982. It was then ported to most home computers during the 1980s and spawned several sequels: Football Manager 2 (1988) and Football Manager World Cup Edi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokaryote | A prokaryote () is a single-celled organism that lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. The word prokaryote comes from the Ancient Greek πρό () 'before' and κάρυον () 'nut, kernel'. In the two-empire system arising from the work of Édouard Chatton, prokaryotes were classified within the empire Prokaryota.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20nonstandard%20analysis | Nonstandard analysis and its offshoot, nonstandard calculus, have been criticized by several authors, notably Errett Bishop, Paul Halmos, and Alain Connes. These criticisms are analyzed below.
Introduction
The evaluation of nonstandard analysis in the literature has varied greatly. Paul Halmos described it as a tech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20Chemistry%20and%20Aerosols%20model | The United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols (UKCA) is a community Chemistry-Aerosol-Climate model which are research runs of the Met Office's operational Unified Model. It runs within the Hadley Centre example with multiple flavours of varying horizontal resolutions and vertical layers.
It is a collaboration of the Met ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20battery | A battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices. When a battery is supplying power, its positive terminal is the cathode and its negative terminal is the anode. The terminal marked negative is the source of electrons that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional%20operator | In mathematics, specifically set theory, a dimensional operator on a set E is a function from the subsets of E to the subsets of E.
Definition
If the power set of E is denoted P(E) then a dimensional operator on E is a map
that satisfies the following properties for S,T ∈ P(E):
S ⊆ d(S);
d(S) = d(d(S)) (d is idemp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochon%20prism | A Rochon prism is a type of polariser. It is made from two prisms of a birefringent material such as calcite, which are cemented together.
The Rochon prism was invented by and is named after Abbé Alexis Marie Rochon. It is in many ways similar to the Wollaston prism, but one ray (the ordinary ray) passes through the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20Assessment%20Center | There are 31 Industrial Assessment Centers in the United States as of June 2021. These centers are located at universities across the US, and are funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to spread ideas relating to industrial energy conservation.
The centers conduct research into energy conservation tech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20mass%20analysis | Double mass analysis is a simple graphical method to evaluate the consistency of hydrological data. The DM approach plots the cumulative data of one variable against the cumulative data of a second variable. A break in the slope of a linear function fit to the data is thought to represent a change in the relation betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9narmont%20prism | The Sénarmont prism is a type of polariser. It is made from two prisms of a birefringent material such as calcite, usually cemented together. The Sénarmont prism is named after Henri Hureau de Sénarmont. It is similar to the Rochon and Wollaston prisms.
In the Sénarmont prism the s-polarized ray (i.e., the ray with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus | A fungus (: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one of the traditional eukaryotic kingdoms, along with Animalia, Plantae and either Protista or Protozoa and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea | Archaea ( ; : archaeon ) is a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes. Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, receiving the name archaebacteria (in the Archaebacteria kingdom), but this term has fallen out of use.
Archaeal cells have unique proper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocell | A protocell (or protobiont) is a self-organized, endogenously ordered, spherical collection of lipids proposed as a stepping stone toward the origin of life. A central question in evolution is how simple protocells first arose and how they could differ in reproductive output, thus enabling the accumulation of novel bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis | In biology, abiogenesis (from Greek ἀ- a- 'not' + βῐ́ος bios 'life' + γένεσις genesis 'origin') or the origin of life is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. The prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beauty%20of%20Fractals | The Beauty of Fractals is a 1986 book by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Peter Richter which publicises the fields of complex dynamics, chaos theory and the concept of fractals. It is lavishly illustrated and as a mathematics book became an unusual success.
The book includes a total of 184 illustrations, including 88 full-colo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Osterwalder | Konrad Osterwalder (born June 3, 1942) is a Swiss mathematician and physicist, former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations, former Rector of the United Nations University (UNU), and Rector Emeritus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He is known for the Osterwalder–Schrader theorem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuala | Wuala was a secure online file storage, file synchronization, versioning and backup service originally developed and run by Caleido Inc. It is now part of LaCie, which is in turn owned by Seagate Technology. The service stores files in data centres that are provided by Wuala in multiple European countries (France, Ger... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransferJet | TransferJet is a close proximity wireless transfer technology initially proposed by Sony and demonstrated publicly in early 2008. By touching (or bringing very close together) two electronic devices, TransferJet allows high speed exchange of data. The concept of TransferJet consists of a touch-activated interface whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLEXIL | PLEXIL (Plan Execution Interchange Language) is an open source technology for automation, created and currently in development by NASA.
Overview
PLEXIL is a programming language for representing plans for automation.
PLEXIL is used in automation technologies such as the NASA K10 rover, Mars Curiosity rover's percuss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud%20Tenenbaum | Ehud "Udi" Tenenbaum (; born August 29, 1979), also known as The Analyzer, is an Israeli hacker.
Biography
Tenenbaum was born in Hod HaSharon in 1979. He became famous in 1998 when he was arrested for hacking computers belonging to NASA, The Pentagon, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the Knesset, MIT, among other h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennie%E2%80%93Morgan%20fold | A Dennie–Morgan fold, also known as a Dennie–Morgan line or an infraorbital fold, is a fold or line in the skin below the lower eyelid. It can simply be an ethnic/genetic trait, but was found in one study to occur in 25% of patients with atopic dermatitis. The presence of Dennie–Morgan folds can be used as a diagnostic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20online%20backup%20services | This is a comparison of online backup services.
Online backup is a special kind of online storage service; however, various products that are designed for file storage may not have features or characteristics that others designed for backup have. Online Backup usually requires a backup client program. A browser-only o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Developer%20Challenge | The Android Developer Challenge (ADC) was launched by Google in 2008, with the aim of providing awards for high-quality mobile applications built on the Android platform. In November 2009, the winners of Android Developers Challenge II were selected after two rounds of scoring by thousands of Android users as well as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi%20Virtual%20Science%20Library | The Iraqi Virtual Science Library is an Iraqi Virtual Library providing Iraqi academics with access to recourses via the internet. The library, launched in May 2006, initially provided access to more than one million articles from 17,000 electronic journals and other resources. Access to this knowledge is considered vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformation%20%28physics%29 | In physics and continuum mechanics, deformation is the change in the shape or size of an object. It has dimension of length with SI unit of metre (m). It is quantified as the residual displacement of particles in a non-rigid body, from an configuration to a configuration, excluding the body's average translation and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness | In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of definite pattern or predictability in information. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps often has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual random events are, by definition, unpredictable, but if the probability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coset%20leader | In coding theory, a coset leader is a word of minimum weight in any particular coset - that is, a word with the lowest amount of non-zero entries. Sometimes there are several words of equal minimum weight in a coset, and in that case, any one of those words may be chosen to be the coset leader.
Coset leaders are used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-wave%20impedance%20transformer | A quarter-wave impedance transformer, often written as λ/4 impedance transformer, is a transmission line or waveguide used in electrical engineering of length one-quarter wavelength (λ), terminated with some known impedance.
It presents at its input the dual of the impedance with which it is terminated.
The relationsh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy%20fiber | In mathematics, especially homotopy theory, the homotopy fiber (sometimes called the mapping fiber) is part of a construction that associates a fibration to an arbitrary continuous function of topological spaces . It acts as a homotopy theoretic kernel of a mapping of topological spaces due to the fact it yields a lon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20modeling%20fields | Neural modeling field (NMF) is a mathematical framework for machine learning which combines ideas from neural networks, fuzzy logic, and model based recognition. It has also been referred to as modeling fields, modeling fields theory (MFT), Maximum likelihood artificial neural networks (MLANS).
This framework has be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicity%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the multiplicity of a member of a multiset is the number of times it appears in the multiset. For example, the number of times a given polynomial has a root at a given point is the multiplicity of that root.
The notion of multiplicity is important to be able to count correctly without specifying excep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NexentaStor | NexentaStor is an OpenSolaris or more recently Illumos distribution optimized for virtualization, storage area networks, network-attached storage, and iSCSI or Fibre Channel applications employing the ZFS file system.
Like OpenSolaris, NexentaStor is a Unix-like operating system. Nexenta Systems started NexentaStor as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate%20detector%20%28radio%29 | In electronics, a plate detector (anode bend detector, grid bias detector) is a vacuum tube circuit in which an amplifying tube having a control grid is operated in a non-linear region of its grid voltage versus plate current transfer characteristic, usually near plate current cutoff, to demodulate amplitude modulated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Transport%20Economics | The Institute of Transport Economics (Transportøkonomisk institutt –TØI) is a national, Norwegian institution for multidisciplinary transport research. Its mission is to develop and disseminate transportation knowledge of scientific quality and practical application. The Institute is an independent, non-profit research... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent%20impedance%20transforms | An equivalent impedance is an equivalent circuit of an electrical network of impedance elements which presents the same impedance between all pairs of terminals as did the given network. This article describes mathematical transformations between some passive, linear impedance networks commonly found in electronic cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotology | Asymptotology has been defined as “the art of dealing with applied mathematical systems in limiting cases” as well as “the science about the synthesis of simplicity and exactness by means of localization".
Principles
The field of asymptotics is normally first encountered in school geometry with the introduction of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonintrusive%20load%20monitoring | Nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM), nonintrusive appliance load monitoring (NIALM), or energy disaggregation is a process for analyzing changes in the voltage and current going into a house and deducing what appliances are used in the house as well as their individual energy consumption. Electric meters with NILM tec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzaldehyde | Benzaldehyde (C6H5CHO) is an organic compound consisting of a benzene ring with a formyl substituent. It is the simplest aromatic aldehyde and one of the most industrially useful.
It is a colorless liquid with a characteristic almond-like odor, and is commonly used in cherry soda. A component of bitter almond oil, ben... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20feature | In software, the term feature has several definitions, which are often distinct from the more general definitions of the term. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defines the term in IEEE 829 (a now-defunct standard for software test documentation) as a "distinguishing characteristic of a softw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Building%20Standards%20Commission | The California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) is authorized by the state of California, through the California Building Standards Law, to manage the many process relating to development, adoption, approval, publication, and implementation of California's building codes. Created in 1953 by the California Building ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentative%20hydrogen%20production | Fermentative hydrogen production is the fermentative conversion of organic substrates to H2. Hydrogen produced in this manner is often called biohydrogen. The conversion is effected by bacteria and protozoa, which employ enzymes. Fermentative hydrogen production is one of several anaerobic conversions.
Dark vs phot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like%20terms | In mathematics, like terms are summands in a sum that differ only by a numerical factor. Like terms can be regrouped by adding their coefficients.
Typically, in a polynomial expression, like terms are those that contain the same variables to the same powers, possibly with different coefficients.
More generally, when... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14%20%28number%29 | 14 (fourteen) is a natural number following 13 and preceding 15.
In relation to the word "four" (4), 14 is spelled "fourteen".
In mathematics
Fourteen is the seventh composite number. It is specifically, the third distinct Semiprime, it also being the 3rd of the form (2.q) , where q is a higher prime.
It has an al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicar%20of%20Bray%20%28scientific%20hypothesis%29 | The "Vicar of Bray" hypothesis (or Fisher-Muller Model) attempts to explain why sexual reproduction might have advantages over asexual reproduction. Reproduction is the process by which organisms give rise to offspring. Asexual reproduction involves a single parent and results in offspring that are genetically identica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20radiation%20experiments | [[File:Joseph Hamilton with radio sodium experiment 97401413.jpeg|thumb|250px|upright|Joseph G. Hamilton was the primary researcher for the human plutonium experiments done at U.C. San Francisco from 1944 to 1947. Hamilton wrote a memo in 1950 discouraging further human experiments because the AEC would be left open "t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu%20%28video%20game%29 | , also known as Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II, is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 1985 for the PC-8801, X1, PC-8001, PC-9801, FM-7 and MSX computers. Enhanced remakes were later released for the Sega Saturn, PC-9801 and Windows platforms. It is the second entry in the Dragon Slayer seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%E2%80%93Krammer%20representation | In mathematics the Lawrence–Krammer representation is a representation of the braid groups. It fits into a family of representations called the Lawrence representations. The first Lawrence representation is the Burau representation and the second is the Lawrence–Krammer representation.
The Lawrence–Krammer represent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vouch%20by%20Reference | Vouch by Reference (VBR) is a protocol used in Internet mail systems for implementing sender certification by third-party entities. Independent certification providers vouch for the reputation of senders by verifying the domain name that is associated with transmitted electronic mail. VBR information can be used by a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film%20lithium-ion%20battery | The thin film lithium-ion battery is a form of solid-state battery. Its development is motivated by the prospect of combining the advantages of solid-state batteries with the advantages of thin-film manufacturing processes.
Thin-film construction could lead to improvements in specific energy, energy density, and power... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed%20facilities-based%20voice%20network | A managed facilities-based voice network (MFVN) is a communications network managed, operated, and maintained by a voice service provider that delivers traditional telephone service via a loop start analog telephone interface. MFVNs are interconnected with the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or other MFVNs and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity | Scantegrity is a security enhancement for optical scan voting systems, providing such systems with end-to-end (E2E) verifiability of election results. It uses confirmation codes to allow a voter to prove to themselves that their ballot is included unmodified in the final tally. The codes are privacy-preserving and offe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romancia | , also known as Dragon Slayer Jr., is an action-adventure game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is the third installment in the Dragon Slayer series, preceded by Xanadu and followed by Dragon Slayer IV.
Romancia is a simpler and brightly colored game in comparison to the other Dragon Slayer titles, hence the name "Drago... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%27s%20curious%20identity | In combinatorics, Sun's curious identity is the following identity involving binomial coefficients, first established by Zhi-Wei Sun in 2002:
Proofs
After Sun's publication of this identity in 2002, five other proofs were obtained by various mathematicians:
Panholzer and Prodinger's proof via generating functions; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Robert%20N.%20Noyce%20Medal | The IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal is a science award presented by the IEEE for outstanding contributions to the microelectronics industry. It is given to individuals who have demonstrated contributions in multiple areas including technology development, business development, industry leadership, development of technology ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20joint%20replacement | Joint replacement of the hand is a procedure that was invented by the Scottish scientist, Mitchell McGuire. The procedure was considered a major breakthrough in the medical field at the time. However, it is now considered an almost standard operation. The first successful surgery of this kind was conducted on 21 Decemb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20pairing | Food pairing (or flavor pairing or food combination) is a method of identifying which foods go well together from a flavor standpoint, often based on individual tastes, popularity, availability of ingredients, and traditional cultural practices.
From a food science perspective, foods may be said to combine well with o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERCOS%20III | Sercos III is the third generation of the Sercos interface, a standardized open digital interface for the communication between industrial controls, motion devices, input/output devices (I/O), and Ethernet nodes, such as PCs. Sercos III applies the hard real-time features of the Sercos interface to Ethernet. It is base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert%20controversy | In a controversy over the foundations of mathematics, in twentieth-century mathematics, L. E. J. Brouwer, a proponent of the constructivist school of intuitionism, opposed David Hilbert, a proponent of formalism. The debate concerned fundamental questions about the consistency of axioms and the role of semantics and sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis%20software%20design%20method | Catalysis is a software design method for the specification and design of component-based computer systems originally developed by Desmond D’Souza and Alan Cameron Wills in their 1999 book.
Catalysis focuses on how to make precise abstractions, and emphasizes the formal specification of use cases using pre- and postc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAN-2 | The EAN-2 is a supplement to the EAN-13 and UPC-A barcodes. It is often used on magazines and periodicals to indicate an issue number.
Encoding
The encoding of EAN-2 characters is very similar to that of the other European Article Numbers. The only difference is that the digits are separated by 01. The EAN-2 always be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromolecular%20crowding | The phenomenon of macromolecular crowding alters the properties of molecules in a solution when high concentrations of macromolecules such as proteins are present. Such conditions occur routinely in living cells; for instance, the cytosol of Escherichia coli contains about 300– of macromolecules. Crowding occurs since ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabres%20Hockey%20Network | The Sabres Hockey Network is the official radio network and production company of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). The network is currently operated jointly by the Sabres (Pegula Sports and Entertainment) and Audacy, Inc.
Rick Jeanneret was the network's primary play-by-play voice and served in ... |
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