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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip%20forming | Slip forming, continuous poured, continuously formed, or slipform construction is a construction method in which concrete is poured into a continuously moving form. Slip forming is used for tall structures (such as bridges, towers, buildings, and dams), as well as horizontal structures, such as roadways. Slipforming en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum-anchor | In large scale oceanic civil engineering, vacuum-anchors are used to anchor gravity-based structures (such as the Troll A Oil Platform) in the soft bottomed muck found on many oil bearing continental shelves and the world's shallower seas.
This design is modeled on how the webbed feet of aquatic animals increase the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipsoid | In mathematics, a superellipsoid (or super-ellipsoid) is a solid whose horizontal sections are superellipses (Lamé curves) with the same squareness parameter , and whose vertical sections through the center are superellipses with the squareness parameter . It is a generalization of an ellipsoid, which is a special case... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworm | An earthworm is a soil-dwelling terrestrial invertebrate that belongs to the phylum Annelida. The term is the common name for the largest members of the class (or subclass, depending on the author) Oligochaeta. In classical systems, they were in the order of Opisthopora since the male pores opened posterior to the fema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20hosting%20services | This is a comparison of file hosting services that are currently active. File hosting services are a particular kind of online file storage; however, various products that are designed for online file storage may not have features or characteristics that others designed for sharing files have.
File hosting services
F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers%20range%20clock | The Vickers Range Clock was a clockwork device used by the Royal Navy for continuously calculating the range to an enemy ship.
Overview
In 1903, Percy Scott described a device he'd invented which was similar to the Vickers clock.
In April 1904, Vickers worked with Scott and patented their device, samples of which we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Widom | Harold Widom (September 23, 1932 – January 20, 2021) was an American mathematician best known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1994.
Education and research... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-poster | A 4-poster or four poster automotive test system is specifically designed for the testing of vehicles (cars, trucks). These test systems consist of 4 hydraulic actuators on top of which the wheels of the vehicle are placed. Movements of the actuators simulate the road surface and forces exerted by the road on the wheel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedral%20combinatorics | Polyhedral combinatorics is a branch of mathematics, within combinatorics and discrete geometry, that studies the problems of counting and describing the faces of convex polyhedra and higher-dimensional convex polytopes.
Research in polyhedral combinatorics falls into two distinct areas. Mathematicians in this area st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis-aligned%20object | In geometry, an axis-aligned object (axis-parallel, axis-oriented) is an object in n-dimensional space whose shape is aligned with the coordinate axes of the space.
Examples are axis-aligned rectangles (or hyperrectangles), the ones with edges parallel to the coordinate axes. Minimum bounding boxes are often implicitl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20network | A tree topology, or star-bus topology, is a hybrid network topology in which star networks are interconnected via bus networks. Tree networks are hierarchical, and each node can have an arbitrary number of child nodes.
Regular tree networks
A regular tree network's topology is characterized by two parameters: the bra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20lactone | Wine lactone is a pleasant smelling compound found naturally in apples, orange juice, grapefruit juice, orange essential oil, clementine peel oil and various grape wines. It was first discovered as an essential oil metabolite in koala urine by Southwell in 1975. It was discovered several years later by Guth in white wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertree%20network | A hypertree network is a network topology that shares some traits with the binary tree network. It is a variation of the fat tree architecture.
A hypertree of degree k depth d may be visualized as a 3-dimensional object whose front view is the top-down complete k-ary tree of depth d and the side view is the bottom-up ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20Kalai | Gil Kalai (born 1955) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Henry and Manya Noskwith Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Professor of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, and adjunct Professor of mathematics and of computer scie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IET%20Mountbatten%20Medal | The IET Mountbatten Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding contribution, or contributions over a period, to the promotion of electronics or information technology and their application. The Medal was established by the National Electronics Council in 1992 and named after Louis Mountbatten, The Earl Mountbatten of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20management%20integrated%20circuit | Power management integrated circuits (power management ICs or PMICs or PMU as unit) are integrated circuits for power management. Although PMIC refers to a wide range of chips (or modules in system-on-a-chip devices), most include several DC/DC converters or their control part. A PMIC is often included in battery-opera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pus | Pus is an exudate, typically white-yellow, yellow, or yellow-brown, formed at the site of inflammation during bacterial or fungal infection. An accumulation of pus in an enclosed tissue space is known as an abscess, whereas a visible collection of pus within or beneath the epidermis is known as a pustule, pimple or spo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold | Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale. This corresponds to on the Celsius scale, on the Fahrenheit s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal-generating%20software | Fractal-generating software is any type of graphics software that generates images of fractals. There are many fractal generating programs available, both free and commercial. Mobile apps are available to play or tinker with fractals. Some programmers create fractal software for themselves because of the novelty and be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20number | In mathematics, a rational number is a number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction of two integers, a numerator and a non-zero denominator . For example, is a rational number, as is every integer (e.g., The set of all rational numbers, also referred to as "the rationals", the field of rationals or the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero%20Controls | Aero Controls, Inc. is an aerospace engineering company founded in October 1984 by John Titus, the CEO and President of the Company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
History
It is a minority-owned, FAA certified repair station. The company overhauls, repairs, sells, exchanges and modifies components of aircraf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20of%20Columbus%20%28tangram%20puzzle%29 | The Egg of Columbus (Ei des Columbus in German) is a dissection puzzle consisting of a flat egg-like shape divided into 9 or 10 pieces by straight cuts. The goal of the puzzle is to rearrange the pieces to form other specific shapes, such as animals (see below).
The earliest known examples were produced by German to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Chudnovsky | Maria Chudnovsky (born January 6, 1977) is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.
Education and career
Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. She grew up in Russia (attended Saint Petersburg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonit | Adonit is a privately owned multinational corporation based in Austin, Texas and Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 2010 with a Kickstarter campaign, the company provides consumer electronics and software, including capacitive styluses, mobile apps and SDKs primarily for the Apple iPad.
In 2012, Adonit launched Jot Touch, its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20of%20Columbus%20%28mechanical%20puzzle%29 | The names Egg of Columbus and Columbus Egg have been used for several mechanical toys and puzzles inspired on the legend of Columbus balancing an egg on its end to drive a point. Typically, these puzzles are egg-shaped objects with internal mechanisms that make the egg stand up, once the user discovers the secret.
Me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proebsting%27s%20paradox | In probability theory, Proebsting's paradox is an argument that appears to show that the Kelly criterion can lead to ruin. Although it can be resolved mathematically, it raises some interesting issues about the practical application of Kelly, especially in investing. It was named and first discussed by Edward O. Thorp ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopanning | Biopanning is an affinity selection technique which selects for peptides that bind to a given target. All peptide sequences obtained from biopanning using combinatorial peptide libraries have been stored in a special freely available database named BDB. This technique is often used for the selection of antibodies too.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophoretic%20color%20marker | An electrophoretic color marker is a chemical used to monitor the progress of agarose gel electrophoresis and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) since DNA, RNA, and most proteins are colourless. The color markers are made up of a mixture of dyes that migrate through the gel matrix alongside the sample of interes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution%20%28algebra%29 | In mathematics, and more specifically in homological algebra, a resolution (or left resolution; dually a coresolution or right resolution) is an exact sequence of modules (or, more generally, of objects of an abelian category), which is used to define invariants characterizing the structure of a specific module or obje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stably%20free%20module | In mathematics, a stably free module is a module which is close to being free.
Definition
A finitely generated module M over a ring R is stably free if there exist free finitely generated modules F and G over R such that
Properties
A projective module is stably free if and only if it possesses a finite free resoluti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20drains | The purpose of a land drain is to allow water in wet or swampy ground to rapidly drain away or to relieve hydrostatic pressure. They are subterranean linear structures which are laid to a fall which should be as steep as practicable. They are used in agriculture and in building construction sites. Modern land drains ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep%20problem | The jeep problem, desert crossing problem or exploration problem is a mathematics problem in which a jeep must maximize the distance it can travel into a desert with a given quantity of fuel. The jeep can only carry a fixed and limited amount of fuel, but it can leave fuel and collect fuel at fuel dumps anywhere in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMSCAN | QEMSCAN is the name for an integrated automated mineralogy and petrography system providing quantitative analysis of minerals, rocks and man-made materials. QEMSCAN is an abbreviation standing for quantitative evaluation of minerals by scanning electron microscopy, and a registered trademark owned by FEI Company since ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE%20%28telecommunication%29 | In telecommunications, long-term evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA standards. It improves on those standards' capacity and speed by using a different radio interface and core network improvements. LTE is the upgr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply%20chain%20attack | A supply chain attack is a cyber-attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less secure elements in the supply chain. A supply chain attack can occur in any industry, from the financial sector, oil industry, to a government sector. A supply chain attack can happen in software or hardware. Cybercriminals t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharos%20network%20coordinates | Pharos is a hierarchical and decentralized network coordinate system. With the help of a simple two-level architecture, it achieves much better prediction accuracy then the representative Vivaldi coordinates, and it is incrementally deployable.
Overview
Network coordinate (NC) systems are an efficient mechanism for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20processing%20unit | A power processing unit (PPU) is a circuit device that convert an electricity input from a utility line into the appropriate voltage and current to be used for the device in question. They serve the same purpose as linear amplifiers, but they are much more efficient, since the use of linear amplifiers results in much ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20American%20Encyclopedia | Academic American Encyclopedia is a 21-volume general English-language encyclopedia published in 1980. It was first produced by Arête Publishing, the American subsidiary of the Dutch publishing company VNU (later acquired by Nielsen Media Research in 1999).
Arête Encyclopedia
The initial product, Arête Encyclopedia, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski%20paradox | The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set-theoretic geometry, which states the following: Given a solid ball in three-dimensional space, there exists a decomposition of the ball into a finite number of disjoint subsets, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the orig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest%20of%20Pangea | Conquest of Pangea is a strategy board game, where players control evolving species battling to control sections of the mega-continent Pangea. It was released by Winning Moves Games USA in 2006 as the second game in its Immortal Eyes line. It has one expansion, Conquest of Pangea: Atlantis, which adds a new piece to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unify%20%28company%29 | Unify is an Mitel company headquartered in Munich, Germany and is present in over 100 countries. It provides software-based enterprise unified communications including voice, Web collaboration, video conferencing and contact center, networking product and services.
Known as Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) unti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapped%20robot%20problem | In robotics, the kidnapped robot problem is the situation where an autonomous robot in operation is carried to an arbitrary location.
The kidnapped robot problem creates significant issues with the robot's localization system, and only a subset of localization algorithms can successfully deal with the uncertainty crea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-up%20robot%20problem | In robotics, the wake-up robot problem refers to a situation where an autonomous robot is carried to an arbitrary location and put to operation, and the robot must localize itself without any prior knowledge.
The wake-up robot problem is closely related to the kidnapped robot problem.
See also
Exploration problem
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinodynamic%20planning | In robotics and motion planning, kinodynamic planning is a class of problems for which velocity, acceleration, and force/torque bounds must be satisfied, together with kinematic constraints such as avoiding obstacles. The term was coined by Bruce Donald, Pat Xavier, John Canny, and John Reif. Donald et al. developed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinitz%27s%20theorem | In polyhedral combinatorics, a branch of mathematics, Steinitz's theorem is a characterization of the undirected graphs formed by the edges and vertices of three-dimensional convex polyhedra: they are exactly the 3-vertex-connected planar graphs. That is, every convex polyhedron forms a 3-connected planar graph, and ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Ellenberg | Jordan Stuart Ellenberg (born October 30, 1971) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research involves arithmetic geometry. He is also an author of both fiction and non-fiction writing.
Early life
Ellenberg was born in Potomac, Maryland. He was a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20frequency%20hopping | One of the key challenges of the cognitive radio based wireless networks, such as IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area networks (WRAN), is to address two apparently conflicting requirements: assuring Quality of Services (QoS) satisfaction for services provided by the cognitive radio networks, while providing reliable spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Operating%20System | Robot Operating System (ROS or ros) is an open-source robotics middleware suite. Although ROS is not an operating system (OS) but a set of software frameworks for robot software development, it provides services designed for a heterogeneous computer cluster such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, imple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting%20lemma%20%28functions%29 | In mathematics, especially in singularity theory, the splitting lemma is a useful result due to René Thom which provides a way of simplifying the local expression of a function usually applied in a neighbourhood of a degenerate critical point.
Formal statement
Let be a smooth function germ, with a critical point at 0... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20H.%20Nayfeh | Ali Hasan Nayfeh () (21 December 1933 27 March 2017) was a Palestinian-Jordanian mathematician, mechanical engineer and physicist. He is regarded as the most influential scholar and scientist in the area of applied nonlinear dynamics in mechanics and engineering. He was the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20Partition%20Mobility | Live Partition Mobility is a chargeable Live migration feature of IBM POWER6, POWER7, POWER8 and POWER9 servers, available since 2007, that allows a running LPAR to be relocated from one system to another. In concept, it is similar to VMware VMotion.
Live Partition Mobility, a component of the PowerVM Enterprise Editi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20basin | A canal basin is (particularly in the United Kingdom) an expanse of waterway alongside or at the end of a canal, and wider than the canal, constructed to allow boats to moor or unload cargo without impeding the progress of other traffic, and to allow room for turning, thus serving as a winding hole. For inland waterway... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%20DisplayPort | The Mini DisplayPort (MiniDP or mDP) is a miniaturized version of the DisplayPort audio-visual digital interface.
It was announced by Apple in October 2008, and by early 2013 all new Apple Macintosh computers had Mini DisplayPort, as did the LED Cinema Display. However, in 2016 Apple began phasing out the port and rep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introductio%20in%20analysin%20infinitorum | Introductio in analysin infinitorum (Latin: Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite) is a two-volume work by Leonhard Euler which lays the foundations of mathematical analysis. Written in Latin and published in 1748, the Introductio contains 18 chapters in the first part and 22 chapters in the second. It has Enest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marantz%20HD77 | HD77 is a model name of Marantz 4-way high-fidelity loudspeakers which were produced during the mid-1970s. They were bass reflex speakers, but came with a cylindrical piece of foam which fit into the bass-reflex port of the enclosure if the listener preferred the more accurate bass response provided by airtight speaker... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutiones%20calculi%20differentialis | Institutiones calculi differentialis (Foundations of differential calculus) is a mathematical work written in 1748 by Leonhard Euler and published in 1755. It lays the groundwork for the differential calculus. It consists of a single volume containing two internal books; there are 9 chapters in book I, and 18 in book I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appell%20series | In mathematics, Appell series are a set of four hypergeometric series F1, F2, F3, F4 of two variables that were introduced by and that generalize Gauss's hypergeometric series 2F1 of one variable. Appell established the set of partial differential equations of which these functions are solutions, and found various red... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliteweb | Elite Answers Inc., formerly named landofweebs, is a Toronto-based company that provides corporations and organisations with email marketing, web site development, search engine optimization and corporate social networking tools. Elite Answers began operations with the launch of the Eliteweb.cc search engine on October... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonifi%20Solutions | SONIFI Solutions, Inc. is a provider of guest-facing entertainment technology in hotels and healthcare settings.
The company's corporate headquarters are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota with offices in Los Angeles, California, Mexico and Canada. SONIFI has over 650 employees. SONIFI's primary customer base is in the Unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20vector%20modulation | Space vector modulation (SVM) is an algorithm for the control of pulse-width modulation (PWM). It is used for the creation of alternating current (AC) waveforms; most commonly to drive 3 phase AC powered motors at varying speeds from DC using multiple class-D amplifiers. There are variations of SVM that result in diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20attack | Correlation attacks are a class of cryptographic known-plaintext attacks for breaking stream ciphers whose keystreams are generated by combining the output of several linear-feedback shift registers (LFSRs) using a Boolean function. Correlation attacks exploit a statistical weakness that arises from the specific Boolea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAD%20%28software%29 | Jad (Java Decompiler) is, , an unmaintained decompiler for the Java programming language.
Jad provides a command-line user interface to extract source code from class files.
See also
Java Decompiler
Mocha
References
External links
JAD Softpedia Mirror
Java decompilers
Disassemblers
Software obfuscation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir%20%28topography%29 | In topography, a nadir is a point on a surface that is lower in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a nadir is a local minimum of elevation. A nadir may be the lowest point of a dry basin or depression, or the deepest point of a body of water or ice. The nadir of a body of water is oft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20cellulose | Ethyl cellulose (or ethylcellulose) is a derivative of cellulose in which some of the hydroxyl groups on the repeating glucose units are converted into ethyl ether groups. The number of ethyl groups can vary depending on the manufacturer.
It is mainly used as a thin-film coating material for coating paper, vitamin an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20current%20%28physics%29 | In physics and in electronic engineering, dark current is the relatively small electric current that flows through photosensitive devices such as a photomultiplier tube, photodiode, or charge-coupled device even when no photons enter the device; it consists of the charges generated in the detector when no outside radia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobiont | Cyanobionts are cyanobacteria that live in symbiosis with a wide range of organisms such as terrestrial or aquatic plants; as well as, algal and fungal species. They can reside within extracellular or intracellular structures of the host. In order for a cyanobacterium to successfully form a symbiotic relationship, it m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colortrak%202000 | Colortrak 2000 was a brand name used for RCA's high-end television models produced from the early-1980s to the early 1990s. Colortrak 2000 was situated above the less expensive Colortrak line, but below the more expensive Dimensia line. As opposed to ColorTrak, ColorTrak 2000 models incorporated a comb filter, which pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20diacetate | Sodium diacetate is a compound with formula . It is a salt of acetic acid. It is a colorless solid that is used in seasonings and as an antimicrobial agent.
Preparation and structure
The salt forms upon half-neutralization of acetic acid followed by evaporation of the solution. It can be viewed as the result of homo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence%20%28routing%29 | Convergence is the state of a set of routers that have the same topological information about the internetwork in which they operate. For a set of routers to have converged, they must have collected all available topology information from each other via the implemented routing protocol, the information they gathered mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley%20face%20curve | A smiley face curve or mid scoop in audio signal processing is a target frequency response curve characterized by boosted low and high frequencies coupled with reduced midrange frequency power. This curve is often attained by users employing a graphic equalizer, which shows a graphic representation of a "smile" using i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FogBugz | FogBugz is an integrated web-based project management system featuring bug and issue tracking, discussion forums, wikis, customer relationship management, and evidence-based scheduling originally developed by Fog Creek Software.
History
FogBugz was re-branded as Manuscript at the end of 2017.
On August 3, 2018 Manus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade | Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ("little water bear"). In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfster | Elfster is a proprietary software application providing social networking features related to "secret Santa" style gift exchanges. It is available, without charge, as software as a service, via a website and via mobile apps for iOS and Android.
The website's features include a universal wishlist, an anonymous Q&A sect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20lettering | Technical lettering is the process of forming letters, numerals, and other characters in technical drawing. It is used to describe, or provide detailed specifications for, an object. With the goals of legibility and uniformity, styles are standardized and lettering ability has little relationship to normal writing abil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham%20%28unit%29 | The buckingham (symbol: B) is a CGS unit of electric quadrupole, named in honour of the chemical physicist A. David Buckingham who was the first to measure a molecular quadrupole moment. It is defined as . This is equivalent to 1 debye-ångström, where 1 debye = is the CGS unit of molecular dipole moment and 1 ångström... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20L.%20Glass | Robert L. (Bob) Glass (born 1932) is an American software engineer and writer, known for his works on software engineering, especially on the measuring of the quality of software design and his studies of the state of the art of software engineering research.
Biography
Glass held his first job in computing in 1954. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect%20of%20record | Architect of record is the architect or architecture firm whose name appears on a building permit issued for a specific project on which that architect or firm performed services. Building permits are issued by a government agency with the authority in a certain jurisdiction to regulate building construction and enforc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity%20coefficient | The rate of a chemical reaction is influenced by many different factors, such as temperature, pH, reactant, and product concentrations and other effectors. The degree to which these factors change the reaction rate is described by the elasticity coefficient. This coefficient is defined as follows:
where denotes th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant | Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll. Exceptions are pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GravitySimulator | gravitySimulator is a novel supercomputer that incorporates special-purpose GRAPE hardware to solve the gravitational n-body problem. It is housed in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) at the Rochester Institute of Technology. It became operational in 2005.
The computer consists of 32 nod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Kirkpatrick | Sir Cyril Reginald Sutton Kirkpatrick (1872–1957) was a British civil engineer.
Cyril Kirkpatrick was born in London in 1872. Kirkpatrick was Chief Engineer for the Port of London and formed the engineering firm of Kirkpatrick and Partners in 1924. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkMarket | DarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum created by Renukanth Subramaniam in London that was shut down in 2008 after FBI agent J. Keith Mularski infiltrated it using the alias Master Splyntr, leading to more than 60 arrests worldwide. Subramaniam, who used the alias JiLsi, admitted conspiracy to def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Plant%20Sciences%2C%20University%20of%20Oxford | The Department of Plant Sciences, at the University of Oxford, England, was a former Oxford department that researched plant and fungal biology. It was part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. From 1 August 2022 its functionality merged with the Department of Zoology to become the Dep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Space%20Station%20programme | The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the Inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Wiggins | Stephen Ray Wiggins (born 1959) is a Cherokee-American applied mathematics researcher and educator, also of British heritage, best known for his contributions in nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory and nonlinear phenomena. His wide contributions include Lagrangian aspects of fluid dynamics and reaction dynamics in theoret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twine%20%28social%20network%29 | Twine was an online, social web service for information storage, authoring and discovery, located at twine.com, that existed from 2007 to 2010. It was created and run by Radar Networks. The service was announced on October 19, 2007 and made open to the public on October 21, 2008. On March 11, 2010, Radar Networks was a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20thinking | Computational thinking (CT) refers to the thought processes involved in formulating problems so their solutions can be represented as computational steps and algorithms. In education, CT is a set of problem-solving methods that involve expressing problems and their solutions in ways that a computer could also execute.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20East%20Asian%20Mathematics%20Competition | The South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) is an annual three-day non-profit mathematics competition for Southeast Asian students at different grade levels. It is a qualifying competition organized by Eunoia Ventures for invitation to the World Mathematics Championships.
Teams have participated from China, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%20evolution | In biology, evolution is the process of change in all forms of life over generations, and evolutionary biology is the study of how evolution occurs. Biological populations evolve through genetic changes that correspond to changes in the organisms' observable traits. Genetic changes include mutations, which are caused b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipulability%20ellipsoid | In robotics, the manipulability ellipsoid is the geometric interpretation of the scaled eigenvectors resulting from the singular value decomposition of the jacobian that describes a robot's motion.
References
Robot control
Geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilov%20center | A center of origin is a geographical area where a group of organisms, either domesticated or wild, first developed its distinctive properties. They are also considered centers of diversity. Centers of origin were first identified in 1924 by Nikolai Vavilov.
Plants
Locating the origin of crop plants is basic to plant b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20Broadcast | Clyde Broadcast is a brand associated with the manufacture and supply of studio equipment for the radio broadcast industry. The name dates back to 'Clyde Electronics' who manufactured a series of analog mixers known as Alpha, Beta, Prima and Presenter.
In 1997 Clyde Broadcast Products Limited was formed as a UK-based... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20space | In mathematics, particularly topology, a cosmic space is any topological space that is a continuous image of some separable metric space. Equivalently (for regular T1 spaces but not in general), a space is cosmic if and only if it has a countable network; namely a countable collection of subsets of the space such that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20Soldier | is a role-playing video game for MSX home computers and is the first game in the Cosmic Soldier series. It was published in 1985 by Kogado Studio. The game was ported to the NEC PC-8801 with an updated interface and graphics.
The game uses a dialog conversation system, where the player can recruit allies by speaking t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201451 | IEEE 1451 is a set of smart transducer interface standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Sensor Technology Technical Committee describing a set of open, common, network-independent communication interfaces for connecting transducers (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtentacle | Microtentacles are microtubule-based membrane protrusions that occur in detached cells. They were discovered by scientists studying metastatic breast cancer cells at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
These novel structures are distinct from classical actin based extensions of adherent cells, persist for days in b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyHDL | MyHDL is a Python-based hardware description language (HDL).
Features of MyHDL include:
The ability to generate VHDL and Verilog code from a MyHDL design.
The ability to generate a testbench (Conversion of test benches) with test vectors in VHDL or Verilog, based on complex computations in Python.
The ability to co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-D%20botnet | The Mega-D, also known by its alias of Ozdok, is a botnet that at its peak was responsible for sending 32% of spam worldwide.
On October 14, 2008, the U.S Federal Trade Commission, in cooperation with Marshal Software, tracked down the owners of the botnet and froze their assets.
On November 6, 2009, security company... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOBO%20%28whale%29 | KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean) is the skeleton of a juvenile blue whale on display at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The whale was accidentally struck and killed by a tanker and brought ashore in Rhode Island in March 1998. It was named by New Bedford sixth-grade student Katie Hallett and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon%27s%20identity | In mathematics, Dixon's identity (or Dixon's theorem or Dixon's formula) is any of several different but closely related identities proved by A. C. Dixon, some involving finite sums of products of three binomial coefficients, and some evaluating a hypergeometric sum. These identities famously follow from the MacMahon ... |
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