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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana | Gondwana () was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent. It was formed by the accretion of several cratons (a large stable block of the Earth's crust), beginning with the East African Orogeny, the collision of India and Madagascar with East Africa, and was completed with the overlapping Brasilia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-Link | TP-Link Technologies Co., Ltd. (), is a global manufacturer of computer networking products based in Shenzhen, China.
History
TP-Link was founded in 1996 by two brothers, Zhao Jianjun ( Zhào Jiànjūn) and Zhao Jiaxing ( Zhào Jiāxīng), to produce and market a network card they had developed. The company name was based ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20quantum%20mechanics | In physics, relativistic quantum mechanics (RQM) is any Poincaré covariant formulation of quantum mechanics (QM). This theory is applicable to massive particles propagating at all velocities up to those comparable to the speed of light c, and can accommodate massless particles. The theory has application in high energy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Affiliate%20Network | The Google Affiliate Network was the affiliate marketing company, specifically affiliate network, formerly known as Doubleclick Performics, which was bought by Google in 2007. On April 16, 2013, Google announced the closure of the Google Affiliate Network.
History
DoubleClick announced the acquisition of DoubleClick ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium%28II%29%20selenide | Gallium(II) selenide (GaSe) is a chemical compound. It has a hexagonal layer structure, similar to that of GaS. It is a photoconductor, a second harmonic generation crystal in nonlinear optics, and has been used as a far-infrared conversion material at 14–31 THz and above.
Uses
It is said to have potential for optical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20pathology | The history of pathology can be traced to the earliest application of the scientific method to the field of medicine, a development which occurred in the Middle East during the Islamic Golden Age and in Western Europe during the Italian Renaissance.
Early systematic human dissections were carried out by the Ancient Gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20transfer%20function | The signal transfer function (SiTF) is a measure of the signal output versus the signal input of a system such as an infrared system or sensor. There are many general applications of the SiTF. Specifically, in the field of image analysis, it gives a measure of the noise of an imaging system, and thus yields one assessm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20representation%20theory%20topics | This is a list of representation theory topics, by Wikipedia page. See also list of harmonic analysis topics, which is more directed towards the mathematical analysis aspects of representation theory.
See also: Glossary of representation theory
General representation theory
Linear representation
Unitary representati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable%20multicast | A reliable multicast is any computer networking protocol that provides a reliable sequence of packets to multiple recipients simultaneously, making it suitable for applications such as multi-receiver file transfer.
Overview
Multicast is a network addressing method for the delivery of information to a group of destinat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actions%20Semiconductor | Actions Semiconductor Co. Ltd. () is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. The company has about 600 employees and designs SoCs for tablets, digital audio players, photo viewers and related products.
Products
The following is a list of system-on-chips ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmeum | The Arithmeum is a mathematics museum owned by the Forschungsinstitut für Diskrete Mathematik (Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics) at the University of Bonn.
It was founded in 2008 by the director of the institute, Bernhard Korte, who contributed his private collection of calculating machines.
The building's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic%20representation | In mathematical field of representation theory, a symplectic representation is a representation of a group or a Lie algebra on a symplectic vector space (V, ω) which preserves the symplectic form ω. Here ω is a nondegenerate skew symmetric bilinear form
where F is the field of scalars. A representation of a group G pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Systems%20International | Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) is an automation software company headquartered in Medina, Minnesota, with international offices in Canada, Colombia, Spain, India, Dubai, Australia, Singapore, and China. Founded in 1992, OSI is privately held and employee-owned. The company's systems are used for the real-time m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyspire | Moneyspire (formerly Fortora Fresh Finance) is personal finance software and small business accounting software developed by Moneyspire Inc. The software is available in two versions, one for Windows and another for macOS. The software tracks accounts, loans, bills, investments and budgets. Professional looking invoice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20character | In mathematics, a multiplicative character (or linear character, or simply character) on a group G is a group homomorphism from G to the multiplicative group of a field , usually the field of complex numbers. If G is any group, then the set Ch(G) of these morphisms forms an abelian group under pointwise multiplication... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20Nino | The Philips Nino is a so-called Palm-size PC, a predecessor to the Pocket PC platform. It was a PDA-style device with a stylus-operated touch screen. The Nino 200 and Nino 300 models had a monochrome screen while the Nino 500 had a color display. The Nino featured a Voice Control Software and Tegic T9.
See also
Phili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20absolute-convergence | In mathematics, uniform absolute-convergence is a type of convergence for series of functions. Like absolute-convergence, it has the useful property that it is preserved when the order of summation is changed.
Motivation
A convergent series of numbers can often be reordered in such a way that the new series diverge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20volume%20ratio | Fiber volume ratio is an important mathematical element in composite engineering. Fiber volume ratio, or fiber volume fraction, is the percentage of fiber volume in the entire volume of a fiber-reinforced composite material. When manufacturing polymer composites, fibers are impregnated with resin. The amount of resin t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB%20flash%20drive%20security | Secure USB flash drives protect the data stored on them from access by unauthorized users. USB flash drive products have been on the market since 2000, and their use is increasing exponentially. As both consumers and businesses have increased demand for these drives, manufacturers are producing faster devices with grea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniPro%20protocol%20stack | In mobile-telephone technology, the UniPro protocol stack follows the architecture of the classical OSI Reference Model. In UniPro, the OSI Physical Layer is split into two sublayers: Layer 1 (the actual physical layer) and Layer 1.5 (the PHY Adapter layer) which abstracts from differences between alternative Layer 1 t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsivi | Satsivi (, ; also known as chicken in walnut sauce) is a Georgian dish. It is made using poultry (such as chicken or turkey) mixed into a walnut sauce, typically seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic, fenugreek, coriander and cinnamon. The term satsivi is also used as a generic name for a variety of poultry made with the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniPro | UniPro (or Unified Protocol) is a high-speed interface technology for interconnecting integrated circuits in mobile and mobile-influenced electronics. The various versions of the UniPro protocol are created within the MIPI Alliance (Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance), an organization that defines specificati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtrabeculae | In cell biology, microtrabeculae were a hypothesised fourth element of the cytoskeleton (the other three being microfilaments, microtubules and intermediate filaments), proposed by Keith Porter based on images obtained from high-voltage electron microscopy of whole cells in the 1970s. The images showed short, filamento... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20model | In systems engineering, software engineering, and computer science, a function model or functional model is a structured representation of the functions (activities, actions, processes, operations) within the modeled system or subject area.
A function model, similar with the activity model or process model, is a grap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9%20Dagron | René Prudent Patrice Dagron (17 March 1817 – 13 June 1900) was a French photographer and inventor. He was born in Aillières-Beauvoir, Sarthe, France.
On 21 June 1859, Dagron was granted the first microfilm patent in history. Dagron is also considered the inventor of the miniature photographic jewels () known as Stanho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%20quaternion%20order | The Hurwitz quaternion order is a specific order in a quaternion algebra over a suitable number field. The order is of particular importance in Riemann surface theory, in connection with surfaces with maximal symmetry, namely the Hurwitz surfaces. The Hurwitz quaternion order was studied in 1967 by Goro Shimura, but ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWebNet | OpenWebNet is a communications protocol developed by Bticino since 2000.
The OpenWebNet protocol allows a "high-level" interaction between a remote unit and Bus SCS of MyHome domotic system. The latest protocol evolution has been improved to allow interaction with well-known home automation systems like KNX and DMX512... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softonic | Softonic.com is a web portal based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was founded in June 1997 and is owned by Softonic International.
History
Softonic started in 1996 as a file-oriented download service called Shareware Intercom, at Intercom Online (Grupo Intercom), a provider of Internet services in Cerdanyola del ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaxtr |
Jaxtr was a social communications company that melds together global calling, SMS, and social networking. Founded by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang in October 2005, jaxtr uses Voice over Internet Protocol to offer competitive rates as well as free international and long distance calling. Some key differentiators for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20dispersal | Oceanic dispersal is a type of biological dispersal that occurs when terrestrial organisms transfer from one land mass to another by way of a sea crossing. Island hopping is the crossing of an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly to the destination. Often this o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband%20audio | Wideband audio, also known as wideband voice or HD voice, is high definition voice quality for telephony audio, contrasted with standard digital telephony "toll quality". It extends the frequency range of audio signals transmitted over telephone lines, resulting in higher quality speech. The range of the human voice ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole%20and%20polar | In geometry, a pole and polar are respectively a point and a line that have a unique reciprocal relationship with respect to a given conic section.
Polar reciprocation in a given circle is the transformation of each point in the plane into its polar line and each line in the plane into its pole.
Properties
Pole a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20game%20bot%20Turing%20test | The computer game bot Turing test is a variant of the Turing test, where a human judge viewing and interacting with a virtual world must distinguish between other humans and video game bots, both interacting with the same virtual world. This variant was first proposed in 2008 by Associate Professor Philip Hingston of E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20object | A mathematical object is an abstract concept arising in mathematics.
In the usual language of mathematics, an object is anything that has been (or could be) formally defined, and with which one may do deductive reasoning and mathematical proofs. Typically, a mathematical object can be a value that can be assigned to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian%20Business | Arabian Business (AB) is a weekly business magazine published in Dubai and focusing on global and regional news analysis. The brand is aimed at the English and Arabic-speaking communities and is published in both languages.
Its circulation figures for October–December 2007 were given as 20,468 copies. The audited circ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-resistance%20network | A constant-resistance network in electrical engineering is a network whose input resistance does not change with frequency when correctly terminated. Examples of constant resistance networks include:
Zobel network
Lattice phase equaliser
Boucherot cell
Bridged T delay equaliser
Electrical engineering
Physics-rela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention%20through%20design | Prevention through design (PtD), also called safety by design usually in Europe, is the concept of applying methods to minimize occupational hazards early in the design process, with an emphasis on optimizing employee health and safety throughout the life cycle of materials and processes. It is a concept and movement ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiota | Microbiota are the range of microorganisms that may be commensal, mutualistic, or pathogenic found in and on all multicellular organisms, including plants. Microbiota include bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, and viruses, and have been found to be crucial for immunologic, hormonal, and metabolic homeostasis of their ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-distance%20estimation | Minimum-distance estimation (MDE) is a conceptual method for fitting a statistical model to data, usually the empirical distribution. Often-used estimators such as ordinary least squares can be thought of as special cases of minimum-distance estimation.
While consistent and asymptotically normal, minimum-distance esti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald%20efficiency%20number | The Oswald efficiency, similar to the span efficiency, is a correction factor that represents the change in drag with lift of a three-dimensional wing or airplane, as compared with an ideal wing having the same aspect ratio and an elliptical lift distribution.
Definition
The Oswald efficiency is defined for the cases ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosser%27s%20trick | In mathematical logic, Rosser's trick is a method for proving a variant of Gödel's incompleteness theorems not relying on the assumption that the theory being considered is ω-consistent (Smorynski 1977, p. 840; Mendelson 1977, p. 160). This method was introduced by J. Barkley Rosser in 1936, as an improvement of Gödel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porosity | Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%. Strictly speaking, some tests measure the "accessible void", the total amount of void space accessible from the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship%20learning | In artificial intelligence, apprenticeship learning (or learning from demonstration or imitation learning) is the process of learning by observing an expert. It can be viewed as a form of supervised learning, where the training dataset consists of task executions by a demonstration teacher.
Mapping function approach
M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20limit%20theorem | In probability theory, the law of rare events or Poisson limit theorem states that the Poisson distribution may be used as an approximation to the binomial distribution, under certain conditions. The theorem was named after Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840). A generalization of this theorem is Le Cam's theorem.
Theorem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Virtu | SGI Virtu is a computer product line from Silicon Graphics dedicated to visualization, announced in April 2008. It represents a return of Silicon Graphics to the visualization market after several years of focus on high-performance computing.
SGI Virtu workstations effectively replaced the SGI Fuel, SGI Tezro and SG... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard%20%28database%20architecture%29 | A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard is held on a separate database server instance, to spread load.
Some data within a database remains present in all shards, but some appear only in a single shard. Each shard (or server) acts as the single ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbilaterian | The urbilaterian (from German ur- 'original') is the hypothetical last common ancestor of the bilaterian clade, i.e., all animals having a bilateral symmetry.
Appearance
Its appearance is a matter of debate, for no representative has been (or may or may not ever be) identified in the fossil record. Two reconstructed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune%20disease | An autoimmune disease is a condition that results from an anomalous response of the adaptive immune system, wherein it mistakenly targets and attacks healthy, functioning parts of the body as if they were foreign organisms. It is estimated that there are more than 80 recognized autoimmune diseases, with recent scientif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCUS | LOCUS is a discontinued distributed operating system developed at UCLA during the 1980s. It was notable for providing an early implementation of the single-system image idea, where a cluster of machines appeared to be one larger machine.
A desire to commercialize the technologies developed for LOCUS inspired the crea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20calculus | The fundamental theorem of calculus is a theorem that links the concept of differentiating a function (calculating its slopes, or rate of change at each time) with the concept of integrating a function (calculating the area under its graph, or the cumulative effect of small contributions). The two operations are invers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance%20of%20nature | The balance of nature, also known as ecological balance, is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis, which is to say that a small change (the size of a particular population, for example) will be corrected by some negative feedback that will bring the parameter ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSTA | OpenSTA is a feature-rich GUI-based web server benchmarking utility that can perform scripted HTTP and HTTPS heavy load tests with performance measurements. It is freely available and distributable under the open source GNU General Public License. OpenSTA currently only runs on Microsoft Windows-based operating system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely.
A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero dimensions), a line (one dimension) and three-dimensional space.
When working exclusively in two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, so the Euc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureXML | pureXML is the native XML storage feature in the IBM Db2 data server. pureXML provides query languages, storage technologies, indexing technologies, and other features to support XML data. The word pure in pureXML was chosen to indicate that Db2 natively stores and natively processes XML data in its inherent hierarch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo%20Nakamura | is a Japanese web designer. Yugo studied engineering, architecture and landscape design. He is one of the authors of New Masters Of Flash (2003). Yugo has exhibited and lectured in Asia, United States, and Europe. His artwork has been shown at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Vienna Künstlerhaus in Vienna, and the Design Muse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensation%20point | In mathematics, a condensation point p of a subset S of a topological space is any point p such that every neighborhood of p contains uncountably many points of S. Thus "condensation point" is synonymous with "-accumulation point".
Examples
If S = (0,1) is the open unit interval, a subset of the real numbers, then 0 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20circle%20problem | In mathematics, the Gauss circle problem is the problem of determining how many integer lattice points there are in a circle centered at the origin and with radius . This number is approximated by the area of the circle, so the real problem is to accurately bound the error term describing how the number of points diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA%20subscriber%20identity%20module | A CDMA subscriber identity module (CSIM) is an application to support CDMA2000 phones that runs on a UICC, with a file structure derived from the R-UIM card. By porting the application to the UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card), a card with CSIM, SIM, and USIM can operate with all major cellular technologies world... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah%20Math | Cheetah Math: Learning about Division from Baby Cheetahs is a math book published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2007. Cheetah Math was designed to help students understand division. Ann Whitehead Nagda wrote the book with the cooperation of the San Diego Zoo. The book follows the lives of two baby cheetahs, Majani and Kubal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20boundary%20condition | In image processing, the free boundary condition is the convention used when applying a convolution kernel to a digital image in which pixel locations that lie outside the image boundaries are interpreted as having a value of zero. The question of what value to assign out-of-bounds pixels may arise, for instance, when ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes%20%28software%29 | Malwarebytes (formerly Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, abbreviated as MBAM) is an anti-malware software for Microsoft Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Android, and iOS that finds and removes malware. Made by Malwarebytes Corporation, it was first released in January 2006. It is available in a free version, which scans for and remo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox | Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a startup company, with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology%20of%20depression | Scientific studies have found that different brain areas show altered activity in humans with major depressive disorder (MDD), and this has encouraged advocates of various theories that seek to identify a biochemical origin of the disease, as opposed to theories that emphasize psychological or situational causes. Facto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronux | Chronux is an open-source software package developed for the loading, visualization and analysis of a variety of modalities / formats of neurobiological time series data. Usage of this tool enables neuroscientists to perform a variety of analysis on multichannel electrophysiological data such as LFP (local field poten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20cosines | In trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles. For a triangle with sides and opposite respective angles and (see Fig. 1), the law of cosines states:
The law of cosines generalizes the Pythago... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20structure%20code | The color structure code (CSC) is a color segmentation method that can operate on multiple processors.
References
External links
Introduction to the Color Structure Code and its Implementation by Lutz Priese and Patrick Sturm
Color Image Segmentation
Webbased Image Processing, Online application providing live-ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%27s%20totient%20function | In number theory, Jordan's totient function, denoted as , where is a positive integer, is a function of a positive integer, , that equals the number of -tuples of positive integers that are less than or equal to and that together with form a coprime set of integers
Jordan's totient function is a generalization of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Systems%20VPN%20Client | Cisco Systems VPN Client is a software application for connecting to virtual private networks based on Internet Key Exchange version 1.
On July 29, 2011, Cisco announced the end of life of the product. No further product updates were released after July 30, 2012, and support ceased on July 29, 2014. The Support page w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent%20lines%20to%20circles | In Euclidean plane geometry, a tangent line to a circle is a line that touches the circle at exactly one point, never entering the circle's interior. Tangent lines to circles form the subject of several theorems, and play an important role in many geometrical constructions and proofs. Since the tangent line to a circl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Tiles | Mary Tiles (born 1946) is a philosopher and historian of mathematics and science. From 2006 until 2009, she served as chair of the philosophy department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She retired in 2009.
Life
At Bristol University, Tiles obtained her B.A. in philosophy and mathematics in 1967, and her Ph.D. i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Electric%20System%204 | The English Electric (later ICL) System 4 was a mainframe computer announced in 1965. It was derived from the RCA Spectra 70 range, itself a variant of the IBM System 360 architecture.
The models in the range included the System 4-10 (cancelled), 4-30 (1967), 4-50 (1967, practically the same as the RCA 70/45), 4-70 (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIT%20School%20of%20Electronic%20and%20Communications%20Engineering | The School of Electronic and Communications Engineering (SECE) at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) is one of the oldest schools of communications and electronic engineering in Ireland, with the first courses in wireless telegraphy inaugurated in 1911.
Other courses in Radio Communications were established prio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20shogi | Computer shogi is a field of artificial intelligence concerned with the creation of computer programs which can play shogi. The research and development of shogi software has been carried out mainly by freelance programmers, university research groups and private companies. By 2017, the strongest programs were outperfo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Leonard%20Hamblin | Charles Leonard Hamblin (20 November 1922 – 14 May 1985) was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer, as well as a professor of philosophy at the New South Wales University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales) in Sydney.
Among his most well-known achievements in the area of computer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGENE | UGENE is computer software for bioinformatics. It works on personal computer operating systems such as Windows, macOS, or Linux. It is released as free and open-source software, under a GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
UGENE helps biologists to analyze various biological genetics data, such as sequences, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Independent%20Game%20Developers%27%20Association | The Independent Game Developers' Association (TIGA) is a trade association representing the business and commercial interests of some video and computer game developers in the UK and Europe.
TIGA aims to strengthen the games development and digital publishing sector by advocating for the industry, championing it in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibrot%20set | In mathematics, a Multibrot set is the set of values in the complex plane whose absolute value remains below some finite value throughout iterations by a member of the general monic univariate polynomial family of recursions. The name is a portmanteau of multiple and Mandelbrot set. The same can be applied to the Julia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20polarization | A beam of light has radial polarization if at every position in the beam the polarization (electric field) vector points towards the center of the beam. In practice, an array of waveplates may be used to provide an approximation to a radially polarized beam. In this case the beam is divided into segments (eight, for e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydra-5 | The Cydra-5 departmental supercomputer is the first minisupercomputer designed by Cydrome. It was completed in 1987. At that time Cydra-5 cost from $0.5 million to $1 million but achieved one-half the performance of contemporary supercomputers which cost around 10 times as much, $10 million to $20 million.
The Cydra-5... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syledis | Syledis (SYstem LEger pour mesure la DIStance) was a terrestrial radio navigation and locating system. The system operated in the UHF segment of 420-450 MHz. It was manufactured in France by Sercel S.A., headquarters Carquefou, and was operational during the 1980s and until about 1995, providing positioning and navigat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCMOS | HCMOS ("high-speed CMOS") is the set of specifications for electrical ratings and characteristics, forming the 74HC00 family, a part of the 7400 series of integrated circuits.
The 74HC00 family followed, and improved upon, the 74C00 series (which provided an alternative CMOS logic family to the 4000 series but retaine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-dimensional%20algebra | In mathematics, especially (higher) category theory, higher-dimensional algebra is the study of categorified structures. It has applications in nonabelian algebraic topology, and generalizes abstract algebra.
Higher-dimensional categories
A first step towards defining higher dimensional algebras is the concept of 2-c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation%20hypothesis | The Escalation Hypothesis is an evolutionary theory in biology put forward by Geerat J. Vermeij. It states that organisms are in constant conflict with one another and therefore devote many resources to thwarting the adaptations evolution brings to all competing organisms as time advances. This is in contrast to adapt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%20pair | In mathematics, a Bailey pair is a pair of sequences satisfying certain relations, and a Bailey chain is a sequence of Bailey pairs. Bailey pairs were introduced by while studying the second proof Rogers 1917 of the Rogers–Ramanujan identities, and Bailey chains were introduced by .
Definition
The q-Pochhammer symbol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-in%20rate | The term All-in rate is used in both Construction and the Financial sector. It essentially just means "full costs charged for a service".
Financial Definition
In general finance terminology, an all-in rate is the rate that a financial institution uses in charging customers for accepting bankers' acceptances, consisti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20system | Smart systems incorporate functions of sensing, actuation, and control in order to describe and analyze a situation, and make decisions based on the available data in a predictive or adaptive manner, thereby performing smart actions. In most cases the “smartness” of the system can be attributed to autonomous operation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNA%20Technology%20Investments%20Holdings | HNA Technology Investments Holdings Limited formerly known as Advanced Card Systems Holdings Limited is a Cayman Islands-incorporated offshore holding company. Its subsidiary, Advanced Card Systems Limited, was incorporated in British Hong Kong in 1995 by Denny Wong. In 2017, HNA Group, via HNA EcoTech Group and HNA Ec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board-to-board%20connector | Board-to-board (BTB) connectors are used to connect printed circuit boards (PCB), electronic components that contain a conductive pattern printed on the surface of the insulating base in an accurate and repeatable manner. Each terminal on a BTB connector is connected to a PCB.
A BTB connector includes housing and a spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34%CE%B2E12 | 34βE12, often written as 34betaE12 and also known as CK34βE12 and keratin 903 (CK903), is an antibody specific for high molecular weight cytokeratins 1, 5, 10 and 14.
It is sometimes, less precisely, referred to as high-molecular weight keratin (HMWK) and high-molecular weight cytokeratin (HMWCK).
Utility
It is used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Moderator | Google Moderator was a Google service that used crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions and ideas. It was launched on September 25, 2008 and shut down on June 30, 2015. The service allowed the management of feedback from a large number of people, who could vote for questions they thought should be p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix%20hex%20format | Tektronix hex format (TEK HEX) and Extended Tektronix hex format (EXT TEK HEX or XTEK) / Extended Tektronix Object Format are ASCII-based hexadecimal file formats, created by Tektronix, for conveying binary information for applications like programming microcontrollers, EPROMs, and other kinds of chips.
Each line of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmoprotectant | Osmoprotectants or compatible solutes are small organic molecules with neutral charge and low toxicity at high concentrations that act as osmolytes and help organisms survive extreme osmotic stress. Osmoprotectants can be placed in three chemical classes: betaines and associated molecules, sugars and polyols, and amino... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Watch%20Foundation | The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a global registered charity based in Cambridge, England. It states that its remit is "to minimise the availability of online sexual abuse content, specifically child sexual abuse images and videos hosted anywhere in the world and non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flippin%E2%80%93Lodge%20angle | The Flippin–Lodge angle is one of two angles used by organic and biological chemists studying the relationship between a molecule's chemical structure and ways that it reacts, for reactions involving "attack" of an electron-rich reacting species, the nucleophile, on an electron-poor reacting species, the electrophile. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra%20tile | Algebra tiles are mathematical manipulatives that allow students to better understand ways of algebraic thinking and the concepts of algebra. These tiles have proven to provide concrete models for elementary school, middle school, high school, and college-level introductory algebra students. They have also been used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhosHere | WhosHere is a social proximity networking app created by WhosHere founders Bryant Harris and Stephen Smith launched in July 2008. WhosHere utilizes GPS location capabilities combined with a social networking platform that allows users to interact with other people based on compatible geographical location. The app all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TokBox | TokBox was a PaaS (Platform as a Service) company that provided hosted infrastructure, APIs and tools required to deliver enterprise-grade WebRTC capabilities. It did so primarily through its proprietary OpenTok video platform for commercial application.
TokBox was founded by Serge Faguet and Ron Hose. Headquartered i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabiola%20Candosin | Fabiola Chiara Candosin Marchetti (31 March 1970 - 27 February 2019) was a Venezuelan Civil Engineer (Universidad Santa Maria 1995, Colegio de Ingenieros de Venezuela 1995), who also participated in her country's national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela as Miss Distrito Federal, obtaining the title of "Miss World Venezue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinelling | Brinelling is the permanent indentation of a hard surface. It is named after the Brinell scale of hardness, in which a small ball is pushed against a hard surface at a preset level of force, and the depth and diameter of the mark indicates the Brinell hardness of the surface. Brinelling is permanent plastic deformatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Samelson | Klaus Samelson (21 December 1918 – 25 May 1980) was a German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation and push-pop stack algorithms for sequential formula translation on computers.
Early life
He was born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, and he lived in Breslau in h... |
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