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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20coding%20theory
Common coding theory is a cognitive psychology theory describing how perceptual representations (e.g. of things we can see and hear) and motor representations (e.g. of hand actions) are linked. The theory claims that there is a shared representation (a common code) for both perception and action. More important, seei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealityEngine
RealityEngine is a 3D graphics hardware architecture and a family of graphics systems which was developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics during the early to mid 1990s. RealityEngine was positioned as the company's high-end visualization hardware for its MIPS/IRIX platform. RealityEngine is designed for deployment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephonoscope
A telephonoscope was an early concept of videophone and television, conceptualized in the late 1870s through the 1890s. It was mentioned in various early science fiction works such as Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (The Twentieth Century: The Electrical Life) and other works written by Albert Robida. It was a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%20Tsun%20Wu
Tai Tsun Wu (, September 1, 1933) is a Chinese-born American physicist and writer well known for his contributions to high-energy nuclear physics and statistical mechanics. Life Born in Shanghai, he studied electrical engineering at University of Minnesota and became a William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20longitude
Solar longitude, commonly abbreviated as Ls, is the ecliptic longitude of the Sun, i.e. the position of the Sun on the celestial sphere along the ecliptic. It is also an effective measure of the position of the Earth (or any other Sun-orbiting body) in its orbit around the Sun, usually taken as zero at the moment of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20primitive
In computing, language primitives are the simplest elements available in a programming language. A primitive is the smallest 'unit of processing' available to a programmer of a given machine, or can be an atomic element of an expression in a language. Primitives are units with a meaning, i.e., a semantic value in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric%20liquid%20crystal%20display
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Display (FLCD) is a display technology based on the ferroelectric properties of chiral smectic liquid crystals as proposed in 1980 by Clark and Lagerwall. Reportedly discovered in 1975, several companies pursued the development of FLCD technologies, notably Canon and Central Research Labora...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PADICAT
PADICAT acronym for Patrimoni Digital de Catalunya, in Catalan; or Digital Heritage of Catalonia, in English, is the Web Archive of Catalonia. Created in 2005 by the Biblioteca de Catalunya, the public institution responsible for collecting, preserving and distributing the bibliographic heritage, and the digital herit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Ginzburg
Carlos Ginzburg is a conceptual artist and theoretician born in 1946 in La Plata, Argentina. He studied philosophy and social theory. Biography Germano Celant, when writing about Arte Povera, invited Ginzburg by letter to join his movement. As a conceptual artist interested in digital art, fractals chaos and fractal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20balance%20equation
Population balance equations (PBEs) have been introduced in several branches of modern science, mainly in Chemical Engineering, to describe the evolution of a population of particles. This includes topics like crystallization, leaching (metallurgy), liquid–liquid extraction, gas-liquid dispersions like water electrolys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level%20synthesis
High-level synthesis (HLS), sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that takes an abstract behavioral specification of a digital system and finds a register-transfer level structure that realizes the gi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20phylogenetic%20tree%20visualization%20software
This list of phylogenetic tree viewing software is a compilation of software tools and web portals used in visualizing phylogenetic trees. Online software Desktop software 1 "All" refers to Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX and Linux; L=Linux, M=Apple Mac, W=Microsoft Windows Libraries See also List of phylogenetic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot%20Service%20Discovery%20Protocol
Boot Service Discovery Protocol (BSDP) is an Apple-developed, standards-conforming extension of DHCP. It allows Macintosh computers to boot from bootable images on a network instead of local storage media such as CD, DVD, or hard disk. The DHCP options used are the "vendor-specific information" option (number 43) an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20for%20Nutrition
The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) is an American society for professional researchers and practitioners in the field of nutrition. ASN publishes four journals in the field of nutrition. It has been criticized for its financial ties to the food and beverage industry. History In 1928 a group of United States bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20cancellation%20theory
In the mathematical subject of group theory, small cancellation theory studies groups given by group presentations satisfying small cancellation conditions, that is where defining relations have "small overlaps" with each other. Small cancellation conditions imply algebraic, geometric and algorithmic properties of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX%207000%20and%20VAX%2010000
The VAX 7000 and VAX 10000 are a discontinued family of high-end multiprocessor minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), introduced in July 1992. These systems use NVAX microprocessors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture, and run the OpenVMS operating system. They ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXft
The VAXft was a family of fault-tolerant minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using processors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA). "VAXft" stood for "Virtual Address Extension, fault tolerant". These systems ran the OpenVMS operating system, and were first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20software%20engineering
Social software engineering (SSE) is a branch of software engineering that is concerned with the social aspects of software development and the developed software. SSE focuses on the socialness of both software engineering and developed software. On the one hand, the consideration of social factors in software enginee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indium%20gallium%20zinc%20oxide
Indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) is a semiconducting material, consisting of indium (In), gallium (Ga), zinc (Zn) and oxygen (O). IGZO thin-film transistors (TFT) are used in the TFT backplane of flat-panel displays (FPDs). IGZO-TFT was developed by Hideo Hosono's group at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Japan Scienc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvia
Microvias are used as the interconnects between layers in high density interconnect (HDI) substrates and printed circuit boards (PCBs) to accommodate the high input/output (I/O) density of advanced packages. Driven by portability and wireless communications, the electronics industry strives to produce affordable, light...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20/%20ATA%20Translation
SCSI / ATA Translation (SAT) is a set of standards developed by the T10 subcommittee, defining how to communicate with ATA devices through a SCSI application layer. The standard attempts to be consistent with the SCSI architectural model, the SCSI Primary Commands, and the SCSI Block Commands standards. The standard ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiccation%20tolerance
Desiccation tolerance refers to the ability of an organism to withstand or endure extreme dryness, or drought-like conditions. Plants and animals living in arid or periodically arid environments such as temporary streams or ponds may face the challenge of desiccation, therefore physiological or behavioral adaptations t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20immunoassay
Magnetic immunoassay (MIA) is a type of diagnostic immunoassay using magnetic beads as labels in lieu of conventional enzymes (ELISA), radioisotopes (RIA) or fluorescent moieties (fluorescent immunoassays) to detect a specified analyte. MIA involves the specific binding of an antibody to its antigen, where a magnetic l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20logic%20network
A probabilistic logic network (PLN) is a conceptual, mathematical and computational approach to uncertain inference; inspired by logic programming, but using probabilities in place of crisp (true/false) truth values, and fractional uncertainty in place of crisp known/unknown values. In order to carry out effective reas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20relevance
In master locksmithing, key relevance is the measurable difference between an original key and a copy made of that key, either from a wax impression or directly from the original, and how similar the two keys are in size and shape. It can also refer to the measurable difference between a key and the size required to fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Rock%20Miner%27s%20Handbook
The Hard Rock Miner's Handbook is a reference book that deals with the underground hard-rock mining industry. It was written by engineer Jack de la Vergne as a non-profit publication. The first edition was published in 2000 by McIntosh Engineering, a mining engineering consulting company. It is currently in its third p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%20conjecture
In mathematics, the Dyson conjecture is a conjecture about the constant term of certain Laurent polynomials, proved independently in 1962 by Wilson and Gunson. Andrews generalized it to the q-Dyson conjecture, proved by Zeilberger and Bressoud and sometimes called the Zeilberger–Bressoud theorem. Macdonald generalized...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdfvue
PDFVue is an online PDF viewer and editor. Features included viewing, commenting, annotations, page deletion or rotation, and adding fillable form fields to a PDF. Supported browsers included Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. A Firefox extension redirects the PDF, enabling viewing and annotation within the browse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgeted%20cost%20of%20work%20performed
Budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP) also called earned value (EV), is the budgeted cost of work that has actually been performed in carrying out a scheduled task during a specific time period. The BCWP is the sum of the budgets for completed work packages and completed portions of open work packages, plus the appli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20speed%20serial%20link
High Speed Serial Link (HSSL) is a proprietary communications protocol and was primarily developed by Alcatel. It is now owned by Alcatel-Lucent. Capable of transmitting data at rates up to 10 Gbit/s, HSSL is chiefly used in electronic system backplanes for inter-board communication. Xilinx, among other integrated c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%20%28electronics%29
A layer is the deposition of molecules on a substrate or base (glass, ceramic, semiconductor, or plastic/bioplastic). High temperature substrates includes stainless steel and polyimide film (expensive) and PET (cheap). A depth of less than one micrometre is generally called a thin film while a depth greater than o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed%20geodesic
In differential geometry and dynamical systems, a closed geodesic on a Riemannian manifold is a geodesic that returns to its starting point with the same tangent direction. It may be formalized as the projection of a closed orbit of the geodesic flow on the tangent space of the manifold. Definition In a Riemannian man...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinemeccanica
Cinemeccanica is a motion picture equipment company specializing in cinema projectors. The company was formed in 1920 in Milan, Italy. Currently they have two film projectors available, the Victoria 5 (introduced in 1975) and the Victoria 8 (introduced in 1961). A new digital projector, the CMC3 D2 is also available. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS%20%28programming%20language%29
ATS (Applied Type System) is a programming language designed to unify programming with formal specification. ATS has support for combining theorem proving with practical programming through the use of advanced type systems. A past version of The Computer Language Benchmarks Game has demonstrated that the performance o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20design%20kit
A process design kit (PDK) is a set of files used within the semiconductor industry to model a fabrication process for the design tools used to design an integrated circuit. The PDK is created by the foundry defining a certain technology variation for their processes. It is then passed to their customers to use in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.O.L.%3A%20Lack%20of%20Love
L.O.L: Lack Of Love is an evolutionary life simulation game developed by Love-de-Lic and published by ASCII Corporation for the Sega Dreamcast. The game was released only in Japan on November 2, 2000. The game was never exported to the West but it received a fan translation in 2020. Gameplay The gameplay of L.O.L.: L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole%E2%80%93Frenkel%20effect
In solid-state physics, the Poole–Frenkel effect (also known as Frenkel-Poole emission) is a model describing the mechanism of trap-assisted electron transport in an electrical insulator. It is named after Yakov Frenkel, who published on it in 1938, extending the theory previously developed by H. H. Poole. Electrons c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20dominant%20balance
In mathematics, the method of dominant balance is used to determine the asymptotic behavior of solutions to an ordinary differential equation without fully solving the equation. The process is iterative, in that the result obtained by performing the method once can be used as input when the method is repeated, to obtai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solace%20Corporation
Solace (formerly Solace Systems) is a middleware company based in Kanata / Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that manufactures and sells message-oriented middleware appliances and software that routes information between applications, devices and user interfaces. Solace was founded in 2001 by Craig Betts, with the idea of embe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20passive%20devices
Integrated passive devices (IPDs), also known as integrated passive components (IPCs) or embedded passive components (EPC), are electronic components where resistors (R), capacitors (C), inductors (L)/coils/chokes, microstriplines, impedance matching elements, baluns or any combinations of them are integrated in the sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic%20acid
Acetic acid , systematically named ethanoic acid , is an acidic, colourless liquid and organic compound with the chemical formula (also written as , , or ). Vinegar is at least 4% acetic acid by volume, making acetic acid the main component of vinegar apart from water and other trace elements. Acetic acid is the seco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20%28chemistry%29
In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron. With some exceptions, these unpaired electrons make radicals highly chemically reactive. Many radicals spontaneously dimerize. Most organic radicals have short lifetimes. A notable exa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegol
Pegol is a term used in generic names for pharmaceutical drugs to indicate the presence of a polyethylene glycol attachment (pegylation). The term is used for monoclonal antibodies and engineered proteins as well as for small molecules. The purpose of the pegylation is to extend the half-life of the drug. Examples inc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precambrian%20rabbit
"Precambrian rabbits" or "fossil rabbits in the Precambrian" are reported to have been among responses given by the biologist J. B. S. Haldane when asked what evidence could destroy his confidence in the theory of evolution and the field of study. The answers became popular imagery in debates about evolution and the sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous%20action%20selection
Simultaneous action selection, or SAS, is a game mechanic that occurs when players of a game take action (such as moving their pieces) at the same time. Examples of games that use this type of movement include rock–paper–scissors and Diplomacy. Typically, a "secret yet binding" method of committing to one's move is nec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilled%20water
Chilled water is a commodity often used to cool a building's air and equipment, especially in situations where many individual rooms must be controlled separately, such as a hotel. The chilled water can be supplied by a vendor, such as a public utility, or created at the location of the building that will use it, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropodology
Arthropodology (from Greek - arthron, "joint", and , gen.: - pous, podos, "foot", which together mean "jointed feet") is a biological discipline concerned with the study of arthropods, a phylum of animals that include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others that are characterized by the possession of jointed l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordem%20dos%20Bi%C3%B3logos
The Ordem dos Biólogos (OdB) is a professional body for biologists, primarily those working in Portugal. The Ordem dos Biólogos is headquartered in Lisbon, and has regional branches in several other cities across Portugal. It was founded on 4 July 1998 by the Decree-Law 183/98. Any citizen with accredited degree and pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEC%20Le%20Mans
WEC Le Mans, known as in Japan, is a racing simulation video game released in arcades by Konami in 1986. It was the first racing video game to depict the 24 Hours of Le Mans World Endurance Championship (WEC). The Lap of Le Mans is split up into three sections, during which the time of day changes from day to dusk, du...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwIPe%20%28protocol%29
The swIPe IP Security Protocol (swIPe) is an experimental Internet Protocol (IP) security protocol that was specified in 1993. It operates at the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite. Purpose swIPe provides confidentiality, integrity, and authentication of network traffic, and can be used to provide both end-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20automaton
Mobile automaton (plural: mobile automata) within theoretical computer science, is a class of automata similar to cellular automata but which have a single "active" cell instead of updating all cells in parallel. In a mobile automaton, the evolution rules apply only to the active cell, and also specify how the active c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homothallism
Homothallic refers to the possession, within a single organism, of the resources to reproduce sexually; i.e., having male and female reproductive structures on the same thallus. The opposite sexual functions are performed by different cells of a single mycelium. It can be contrasted to heterothallic. It is often use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20PC%20Checkup
Norton PC Checkup was a program downloaded either separately or as a bundle with updates to Adobe Flash, provided to enable users to perform a system checkup of their Microsoft Windows based personal computers. It was launched by Symantec in October 2008. The program has since been succeeded by Norton Live. Criticism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20climate%20change%20on%20plant%20biodiversity
The history of life on Earth is closely associated with environmental change on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Whetstone%20of%20Witte
The Whetstone of Witte is the shortened title of Robert Recorde's mathematics book published in 1557, the full title being The whetstone of , is the : The Coßike practise, with the rule of Equation: and the of Surde Nombers. The book covers topics including whole numbers, the extraction of roots and irrational number...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanica
Mechanica (; 1736) is a two-volume work published by mathematician Leonhard Euler which describes analytically the mathematics governing movement. Euler both developed the techniques of analysis and applied them to numerous problems in mechanics, notably in later publications the calculus of variations. Euler's laws ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIP%20%28software%29
The uIP is an open-source implementation of the TCP/IP network protocol stack intended for use with tiny 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers. It was initially developed by Adam Dunkels of the Networked Embedded Systems group at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, licensed under a BSD style license, and further develo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Food%20Research%20Institute
The Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (also known as Nofima), is a food science research institute in Norway. The head office is located in Tromsø, with research activities in Bergen, Stavanger, Sunndalsøra, Tromsø and Ås. Nofima was established on 1 January 2008, following a political de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20image%20processing
In electrical engineering and computer science, analog image processing is any image processing task conducted on two-dimensional analog signals by analog means (as opposed to digital image processing). Basically any data can be represented in two types named as 1.Analog 2.Digital if the pictorial representation of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterophile%20antigen
Heterophile antigens are antigens of similar nature, if not identical, that are present in different tissues in different biological species, classes, or kingdoms. Usually different species have different antigen sets, but the hetereophile antigen is shared by different species. Other heterophile antigens are responsib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahler%27s%20inequality
In mathematics, Mahler's inequality, named after Kurt Mahler, states that the geometric mean of the term-by-term sum of two finite sequences of positive numbers is greater than or equal to the sum of their two separate geometric means: when xk, yk > 0 for all k. Proof By the inequality of arithmetic and geometric me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fields%20of%20application%20of%20statistics
Statistics is the mathematical science involving the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. A number of specialties have evolved to apply statistical and methods to various disciplines. Certain topics have "statistical" in their name but relate to manipulations of probability distributions rather than to stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth%E2%80%93slope%20product
The depth–slope product is used to calculate the shear stress at the bed of an open channel containing fluid that is undergoing steady, uniform flow. It is widely used in river engineering, stream restoration, sedimentology, and fluvial geomorphology. It is the product of the water depth and the mean bed slope, along w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merise
Merise () is a general-purpose modeling methodology in the field of information systems development, software engineering and project management. First introduced in the early 1980s, it was widely used in France, and was developed and refined to the point where most large French governmental, commercial and industrial ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Nekhoroshev
Nikolai Nikolaevich Nekhoroshev (; 2 October 1946 – 18 October 2008) was a prominent Soviet Russian mathematician specializing in classical mechanics and dynamical systems. His research concerned Hamiltonian mechanics, perturbation theory, celestial mechanics, integrable systems, dynamical systems, the quasiclassical a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closest%20string
In theoretical computer science, the closest string is an NP-hard computational problem, which tries to find the geometrical center of a set of input strings. To understand the word "center", it is necessary to define a distance between two strings. Usually, this problem is studied with the Hamming distance in mind. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20DOS%20operating%20systems
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of 16-bit x86 DOS-family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS" are not part of the scope of this timeline. Also presented is a timeline of events in the history of the 8-bit 8080-based and 16-bit x86-based CP/M oper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering%20number
In mathematics, a covering number is the number of spherical balls of a given size needed to completely cover a given space, with possible overlaps. Two related concepts are the packing number, the number of disjoint balls that fit in a space, and the metric entropy, the number of points that fit in a space when constr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptol
Scriptol is an object-oriented programming language that allows users to declare an XML document as a class. The language is universal and allows users to create dynamic web pages, as well as create scripts and binary applications. References External links Programming languages XML-based programming languages O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami%20UDP%20Protocol
The Tsunami UDP Protocol is a UDP-based protocol that was developed for high-speed file transfer over network paths that have a high bandwidth-delay product. Such protocols are needed because standard TCP does not perform well over paths with high bandwidth-delay products. Tsunami was developed at the Advanced Network...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks
ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems. It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended. On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmonic%20nanolithography
Plasmonic nanolithography (also known as plasmonic lithography or plasmonic photolithography) is a nanolithographic process that utilizes surface plasmon excitations such as surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) to fabricate nanoscale structures. SPPs, which are surface waves that propagate in between planar dielectric-met...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation%20box
In cryptography, a permutation box (or P-box) is a method of bit-shuffling used to permute or transpose bits across S-boxes inputs, retaining diffusion while transposing. In block ciphers, the S-boxes and P-boxes are used to make the relation between the plaintext and the ciphertext difficult to understand (see Shanno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Azure
Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure (/ˈæʒər, ˈeɪʒər/ AZH-ər, AY-zhər, UK also /ˈæzjʊər, ˈeɪzjʊər/ AZ-ure, AY-zure), is a cloud computing platform run by Microsoft. It offers access, management, and the development of applications and services through global data centers. It also provides a range of capabilities...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20SaaS
If a software product is offered as Hybrid SaaS or Hybrid Cloud, it means that it combines elements of both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premises software deployment models. In the case of a hybrid model, the software product offers a combination of cloud-based SaaS functionality and on-premises capabilities. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArrayFire
ArrayFire is an American software company that develops programming tools for parallel computing and graphics on graphics processing unit (GPU) chipsets. Its products are particularly popular in the defense industry. Products The company's first major product was Jacket, a library that extends MATLAB with GPGPU capabi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris%20folding
Iris folding is a paper craft technique that involves folding strips of colored paper in such a way to form a design. The center of the design forms an iris—a shape reminiscent of the iris diaphragm of a camera lens. History Iris folding originated in 20th-century Holland, where early craft people made their designs u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20system%20power
Total system power is a term often used in audio electronics to rate the power of an audio system. Total system power refers to the total power consumption of the unit, rather than the power handling of the speakers or the power output of the amplifier. This can be viewed as a somewhat deceptive marketing ploy, as the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20cartography
Computer cartography (also called digital cartography) is the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer. This technology represents a paradigm shift in how maps are produced, but is still fundamentally a subset of traditional cartography. The primary function of this technology is to produce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%E2%80%93Van%20Leeuwen%20theorem
The Bohr–Van Leeuwen theorem states that when statistical mechanics and classical mechanics are applied consistently, the thermal average of the magnetization is always zero. This makes magnetism in solids solely a quantum mechanical effect and means that classical physics cannot account for paramagnetism, diamagnetism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netmums
Netmums is a website for parents in the United Kingdom, established in 2000. It operates as a network of local sites, and offers information to both mothers and fathers about parenting. The Coffee House web forum launched in 2004 for mothers to chat, make friends and exchange advice online. As of 2012 the site include...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestComplete
TestComplete is a functional automated testing platform developed by SmartBear Software. TestComplete gives testers the ability to create automated tests for Microsoft Windows, Web, Android (operating system), and iOS applications. Tests can be recorded, scripted or manually created with keyword driven operations and u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage%20optimisation
Voltage optimisation is a term given to the systematic controlled reduction in the voltages received by an energy consumer to reduce energy use, power demand and reactive power demand. While some voltage 'optimisation' devices have a fixed voltage adjustment, others electronically regulate the voltage automatically. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20statistics%20journals
This is a list of scientific journals published in the field of statistics. Introductory and outreach The American Statistician Significance General theory and methodology Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Annals of Statistics AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv Biometrika The Canadian...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vargulin
Vargulin, also called Cypridinid luciferin, Cypridina luciferin, or Vargula luciferin, is the luciferin found in the ostracod Cypridina hilgendorfii, also named Vargula hilgendorfii. These bottom dwelling ostracods emit a light stream into water when disturbed presumably to deter predation. Vargulin is also used by the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Dyer%20%28engineer%29
Chris Dyer (born 12 February 1968) is the former head of Vehicle Performance Group at Renault Sport Formula 1 Team and the former race engineer of Michael Schumacher and Kimi Räikkönen at the Ferrari Formula One team. Early career Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Dyer worked with the top V8 Supercar outfit, the Tom Walkinsh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Marine%20Contractors%20Association
International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) is a leading international trade association for the marine contracting industry. It is a not for profit organisation with members representing the majority of worldwide marine contractors in the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. IMCA was formed following...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE-400%20series
The GE-400 series were time-sharing Information Systems computers by General Electric introduced in 1964 and shipped until 1968. System description The GE-400 series (Compatibles/400) came in models: 415, 425, 435 (1964), 455 and 465. GE-400 systems had a word length of 24 bits which could contain binary data, four si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Fighter%20V
Street Fighter V is a 2.5D fighting game developed by Capcom and Dimps and published by Capcom for PlayStation 4 and Windows in 2016. An arcade version exclusive to Japan was released by Taito in 2019. Similar to the previous games in the Street Fighter series, Street Fighter V features a side-scrolling fighting gamep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise%20and%20Resurrection%20of%20the%20American%20Programmer
Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1996. It is the sequel to Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. In the original, written at the beginning of the 1990s, Yourdon warned American programmers that their business was not sustainable against foreign competition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Reader%201000
The Digital Reader 1000 (DR1000) was an e-Book reading device produced by iRex in the Netherlands. Production ceased in 2010, when iRex filed for bankruptcy. The DR1000 was produced with a 10.2-inch (25.9 cm) e-ink display. Versions Three different versions were planned: DR1000 (without touchscreen) DR1000S (with to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Video%20Bitstream%20Acceleration
X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA), designed by AMD Graphics for its Radeon GPU and APU, is an arbitrary extension of the X video extension (Xv) for the X Window System on Linux operating-systems. XvBA API allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process to the GPU video-hardware. Currently, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed%20file
An indexed file is a computer file with an index that allows easy random access to any record given its file key. The key must be such that it uniquely identifies a record. If more than one index is present the other ones are called alternate indexes. The indexes are created with the file and maintained by the system....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%207
Some of the new features included in Windows 7 are advancements in touch, speech and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and kernel improvements. Shell and user interface Windows 7 retain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20locomotion%20in%20living%20systems
Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion. However, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of certain flagella, which work like corkscrews). Biologists have offered several explanations for the appa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREEAM
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), first published by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) in 1990, is the world's longest established method of assessing, rating, and certifying the sustainability of buildings. More than 550,000 buildings have been 'BREEAM-certified' and ov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered%20Institution%20of%20Civil%20Engineering%20Surveyors
The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors or CICES is a professional association in the field of civil engineering surveying, headquartered in the United Kingdom. CICES members consist mainly of commercial managers, quantity surveyors, and geospatial engineers working and studying within civil engineerin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container%20%28type%20theory%29
In type theory, containers are abstractions which permit various "collection types", such as lists and trees, to be represented in a uniform way. A (unary) container is defined by a type of shapes S and a type family of positions P, indexed by S. The extension of a container is a family of dependent pairs consisting of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular%20Reactive%20Routing%20protocol
Vehicular Reactive Routing protocol (VRR) is a reactive routing protocol with geographical features which is specifically designed for Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment (WAVE) standard in Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs). The protocol takes advantages of the multichannel scheme defined in WAVE and uses th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapleSim
MapleSim is a Modelica-based, multi-domain modeling and simulation tool developed by Maplesoft. MapleSim generates model equations, runs simulations, and performs analyses using the symbolic and numeric mathematical engine of Maple. Models are created by dragging-and-dropping components from a library into a central wo...