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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20control%20matrix | In computer science, an access control matrix or access matrix is an abstract, formal security model of protection state in computer systems, that characterizes the rights of each subject with respect to every object in the system. It was first introduced by Butler W. Lampson in 1971.
An access matrix can be envisione... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebML | WebML (Web Modeling Language) is a visual notation and a methodology for designing complex data-intensive Web applications. It provides graphical, yet formal, specifications, embodied in a complete design process, which can be assisted by visual design tools.
In 2013 WebML has been extended to cover a wider spectrum o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20fertilization | Ocean fertilization or ocean nourishment is a type of technology for carbon dioxide removal from the ocean based on the purposeful introduction of plant nutrients to the upper ocean to increase marine food production and to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ocean nutrient fertilization, for example iron fertil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazend | Pazend () or Pazand (; ) is one of the writing systems used for the Middle Persian language. It was based on the Avestan alphabet, a phonetic alphabet originally used to write Avestan, the language of the Avesta, the primary sacred texts of Zoroastrianism.
Pazend's principal use was for writing the commentaries (Zend)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20biotechnology%20articles |
Biotechnology is a technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine.
Of the many different definitions available, the one formulated by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is one of the broadest:
"Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shridhar%20Chillal | Shridhar Chillal (born 29 January 1937) is an Indian man from the city of Pune, who held the world record for the longest fingernails ever reached on a single hand, with a combined length of 909.6 centimeters (358.1 inches). Chillal's longest single nail is his thumbnail, measuring 197.8 centimeters (77.87 inches). He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20%28telephone%29 | In residential telephony, an extension telephone is an additional telephone wired to the same telephone line as another. In middle 20th century telephone jargon, the first telephone on a line was a "Main Station" and subsequent ones "Extensions" or even called as intercom. Such extension phones allow making or receiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicomplex%20number | In abstract algebra, a bicomplex number is a pair of complex numbers constructed by the Cayley–Dickson process that defines the bicomplex conjugate , and the product of two bicomplex numbers as
Then the bicomplex norm is given by
a quadratic form in the first component.
The bicomplex numbers form a commutative alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20testing | Structural testing is the evaluation of an object (which might be an assembly of objects) to ascertain its characteristics of physical strength. Testing includes evaluating compressive strength, shear strength, tensile strength, all of which may be conducted to failure or to some satisfactory margin of safety. Evalua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-Pin%20Protocol | The Sony 9-Pin Protocol or P1 protocol is a two-way communications protocol to control advanced video recorders. Sony introduced this protocol to control reel-to-reel type C video tape recorders (VTR) as well as videocassette recorders (VCR). It uses an DE-9 D-Sub connector with 9 pins (hence the name), where bi-direc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20ray | An external ray is a curve that runs from infinity toward a Julia or Mandelbrot set.
Although this curve is only rarely a half-line (ray) it is called a ray because it is an image of a ray.
External rays are used in complex analysis, particularly in complex dynamics and geometric function theory.
History
External ray... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontenelle%20Reservoir | Fontenelle Reservoir is an artificial reservoir located in southwest Wyoming. It lies almost entirely within Lincoln County, although the east end of the Fontenelle Dam and a tiny portion of the reservoir are actually in northwestern Sweetwater County. Impounded by Fontenelle Dam, the reservoir acts primarily as a stor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetica%20Universalis | Arithmetica Universalis ("Universal Arithmetic") is a mathematics text by Isaac Newton. Written in Latin, it was edited and published by William Whiston, Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. The Arithmetica was based on Newton's lecture notes.
Whiston's original editi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20M.%20Gordon | Deborah M. Gordon (born December 30, 1955) is a biologist, appointed as a professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University.
Major research
Gordon studies ant colony behavior and ecology, with a particular focus on red harvester ants. She focuses on the developing behavior of colonies, even as individual ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20backmasked%20messages | The following is an incomplete list of backmasked messages in music.
See also
Backmasking
Phonetic reversal
Hidden message
Subliminal message
References
External links
Backmask Online — clips and analysis of various alleged and actual backmasked messages
Jeff Milner's Backmasking Page — a Flash player which al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20predicate | In formal theories of truth, a truth predicate is a fundamental concept based on the sentences of a formal language as interpreted logically. That is, it formalizes the concept that is normally expressed by saying that a sentence, statement or idea "is true."
Languages which allow a truth predicate
Based on "Chomsky ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20ecology | Soil ecology is the study of the interactions among soil organisms, and between biotic and abiotic aspects of the soil environment. It is particularly concerned with the cycling of nutrients, formation and stabilization of the pore structure, the spread and vitality of pathogens, and the biodiversity of this rich biolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXmate | VAXmate was an IBM PC/AT compatible personal computer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in September, 1986. The replacement to the Rainbow 100, in its standard form it was the first commercial diskless personal computer.
OS and files
The operating system and files could be served from a VAX/VMS server runnin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JXplorer | JXplorer is a free, open-source client for browsing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers and LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) files. It is released under an Apache-equivalent license. JXplorer is written in Java and is platform independent, configurable, and has been translated into a number of langu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Device%20Control%20Protocol | Network Device Control Protocol (NDCP) was designed by Laurent Grumbach who at the time was an engineer with Harris Broadcast. Previous to that he had worked for Louth Automation which was acquired by Harris. NDCP was designed to be a network based protocol instead of the traditional serial connection protocols to Br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil%27s%20Well | Oil's Well (a pun on "all's well") is a video game published by Sierra On-Line in 1983. The game was written for the Atari 8-bit family by Thomas J. Mitchell. Oil's Well is similar to the 1982 arcade game Anteater, re-themed to be about drilling for oil instead of a hungry insectivore. Ports were released in 1983 for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20grid | A Gaussian grid is used in the earth sciences as a gridded horizontal coordinate system for scientific modeling on a sphere (i.e., the approximate shape of the Earth). The grid is rectangular, with a set number of orthogonal coordinates (usually latitude and longitude).
At a given latitude (or parallel), the gridpoin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Blaster%20Live%21 | Sound Blaster Live! is a PCI add-on sound card from Creative Technology Limited for PCs. Moving from ISA to PCI allowed the card to dispense with onboard memory, storing digital samples in the computer's main memory and then accessing them in real time over the bus. This allowed for a much wider selection of, and longe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Blaster%20Audigy | Sound Blaster Audigy is a product line of sound cards from Creative Technology. The flagship model of the Audigy family used the EMU10K2 audio DSP, an improved version of the SB-Live's EMU10K1, while the value/SE editions were built with a less-expensive audio controller.
The Audigy family is available for PCs with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Blaster%2016 | The Sound Blaster 16 is a series of sound cards by Creative Technology, first released in June 1992 for PCs with an ISA or PCI slot. It was the successor to the Sound Blaster Pro series of sound cards and introduced CD-quality digital audio to the Sound Blaster line. For optional wavetable synthesis, the Sound Blaster ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Blaster%20AWE64 | Sound Blaster Advanced Wave Effects 64 ISA sound card from Creative Technology. It is an add-on board for PCs. The card was launched in November 1996.
Overview
The Sound Blaster AWE64 is significantly smaller than its predecessor, the Sound Blaster AWE32. It offers a similar feature set, but also has a few notable im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Blaster%20AWE32 | The Sound Blaster AWE32 is an ISA sound card from Creative Technology. It is an expansion board for PCs and is part of the Sound Blaster family of products. The Sound Blaster AWE32, introduced in March 1994, was a near full-length ISA sound card, measuring 14 inches (356 mm) in length, due to the number of features inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20flow%20controller | A mass flow controller (MFC) is a device used to measure and control the flow of liquids and gases. A mass flow controller is designed and calibrated to control a specific type of liquid or gas at a particular range of flow rates. The MFC can be given a setpoint from 0 to 100% of its full scale range but is typically o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skypix | Skypix is the name of a markup language used to encode graphics content such as changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound to bulletin board system. The system was written by Michael Cox on the Amiga in 1987, and first hosted on the Atredes BBS system, which was later renamed Skyline. Skypix allow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20permutation | In combinatorial mathematics, an alternating permutation (or zigzag permutation) of the set {1, 2, 3, ..., n} is a permutation (arrangement) of those numbers so that each entry is alternately greater or less than the preceding entry. For example, the five alternating permutations of {1, 2, 3, 4} are:
1, 3, 2, 4 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%20screw | A ball screw (or ballscrew) is a mechanical linear actuator that translates rotational motion to linear motion with little friction. A threaded shaft provides a helical raceway for ball bearings which act as a precision screw. As well as being able to apply or withstand high thrust loads, they can do so with minimum i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20load%20balancing | Network load balancing is the ability to balance traffic across two or more WAN links without using complex routing protocols like BGP.
This capability balances network sessions like Web, email, etc. over multiple connections in order to spread out the amount of bandwidth used by each LAN user, thus increasing the to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microinjection | Microinjection is the use of a glass micropipette to inject a liquid substance at a microscopic or borderline macroscopic level. The target is often a living cell but may also include intercellular space. Microinjection is a simple mechanical process usually involving an inverted microscope with a magnification power ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20of%20Life%20Web%20Project | The Tree of Life Web Project is an Internet project providing information about the diversity and phylogeny of life on Earth.
This collaborative peer reviewed project began in 1995, and is written by biologists from around the world. The site has not been updated since 2011, however the pages are still accessible.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously%20recurring%20template%20pattern | The curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP) is an idiom, originally in C++, in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as a template argument. More generally it is known as F-bound polymorphism, and it is a form of F-bounded quantification.
History
The technique was formalized in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20time%20%28manufacturing%29 | In industrial engineering, the standard time is the time required by an average skilled operator, working at
a normal pace, to perform a specified task using a prescribed method. It includes appropriate allowances to allow the person to recover from fatigue and, where necessary, an additional allowance to cover conting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstone%20%28cryptography%29 | Capstone is a United States government long-term project to develop cryptography standards for public and government use. Capstone was authorized by the Computer Security Act of 1987, driven by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA); the project began in 1993.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSVP-TE | Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) is an extension of the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for traffic engineering. It supports the reservation of resources across an IP network. Applications running on IP end systems can use RSVP to indicate to other nodes the nature (bandwidth, jitter, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-peak%20detector | A quasi-peak detector is a type of electronic detector or rectifier. Quasi-peak detectors for specific purposes have usually been standardized with mathematically precisely defined dynamic characteristics of attack time, integration time, and decay time or fall-back time.
Quasi-peak detectors play an important role in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexans | Nexans S.A. is a global company in the cable and optical fibre industry headquartered in Paris, France.
The group is active in four main business areas: buildings and territories (construction, local infrastructure, smart cities / grids, e-mobility), high voltage and projects (offshore wind farms, subsea interconnecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Europe%3A%20Path%20to%20Victory | Operation Europe: Path to Victory, released in Japan as , is a combat strategy video game for multiple platforms where one or two players can compete in World War II action. The MS-DOS version of the game was only released to North America.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to fulfill any one of the military objectiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Untouchables%20%28video%20game%29 | The Untouchables is a video game released by Ocean Software in 1989 on ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, Atari ST, Amiga, DOS, NES, and SNES. It is based on the film The Untouchables.
Gameplay
A side-scrolling based loosely on the movie, the game plays out some of the more significant parts of the film. Set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-log%20plot | In science and engineering, a semi-log plot/graph or semi-logarithmic plot/graph has one axis on a logarithmic scale, the other on a linear scale. It is useful for data with exponential relationships, where one variable covers a large range of values, or to zoom in and visualize that - what seems to be a straight line ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront%20coding | In optics and signal processing, wavefront coding refers to the use of a phase modulating element in conjunction with deconvolution to extend the depth of field of a digital imaging system such as a video camera.
Wavefront coding falls under the broad category of computational photography as a technique to enhance the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20operator | In abstract algebraic logic, a branch of mathematical logic, the Leibniz operator is a tool used to classify deductive systems, which have a precise technical definition and capture a large number of logics. The Leibniz operator was introduced by Wim Blok and Don Pigozzi, two of the founders of the field, as a means to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%20Prize | The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after the American computer scientist Donald E. Knuth.
History
The Knuth Prize has been awarded since 1996 and includes an award of US$5,000. The prize is awarded by ACM SIGACT and by IEEE Computer Society'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUICE%20%28software%29 | JUICE is a widely used non-commercial software package for editing and analysing phytosociological data.
It was developed at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic in 1998, and is fully described in English manual. It makes use of the previously-developed TURBOVEG software for entering and storing such data)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%20Mummy | Oh Mummy is a video game for the Amstrad CPC models of home computer. It was developed by Gem Software and published by Amsoft in 1984. It was often included in the free bundles of software that came with the computer. The gameplay is similar to that of the 1981 arcade game Amidar.
Gameplay
The object of the game is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOP-TV | KCOP-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KTTV (channel 11). Both stations share studios at the Fox Television Center located in West Los Angeles, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20logic%20gate | A molecular logic gate is a molecule that performs a logical operation based on one or more physical or chemical inputs and a single output. The field has advanced from simple logic systems based on a single chemical or physical input to molecules capable of combinatorial and sequential operations such as arithmetic op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20indicator | Ecological indicators are used to communicate information about ecosystems and the impact human activity has on ecosystems to groups such as the public or government policy makers. Ecosystems are complex and ecological indicators can help describe them in simpler terms that can be understood and used by non-scientists ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMP-16 | The IMP-16, by National Semiconductor, was the first multi-chip 16-bit microprocessor, released in 1973. It consisted of five PMOS integrated circuits: four identical RALU chips, short for register and ALU, providing the data path, and one CROM, Control and ROM, providing control sequencing and microcode storage. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20leased%20line | Virtual leased lines (VLL), also referred to as virtual private wire service (VPWS) or EoMPLS (Ethernet over MPLS), is a way to provide Ethernet-based point to point communication over Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) or Internet Protocol networks. VLL uses the pseudo-wire encapsulation for transporting Ethernet tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%20subgroup | In the theory of algebraic groups, a Cartan subgroup of a connected linear algebraic group over a (not necessarily algebraically closed) field is the centralizer of a maximal torus. Cartan subgroups are smooth (equivalently reduced), connected and nilpotent. If is algebraically closed, they are all conjugate to each... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation%20%28evolution%29 | In evolution, cooperation is the process where groups of organisms work or act together for common or mutual benefits. It is commonly defined as any adaptation that has evolved, at least in part, to increase the reproductive success of the actor's social partners. For example, territorial choruses by male lions discour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3%20Chrome | S3 Graphics' Chrome series of graphics accelerators arrived in 2004 with the DeltaChrome line of chips. They were supplied as discrete, mobile, or integrated graphics.
Overview
In 2004 after the S3 Graphics company spun off their joint-venture with VIA, VIA attempted to re-launch the S3 Graphics brand with a new line... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-automated%20bonding | Tape-automated bonding (TAB) is a process that places bare semiconductor chips (dies) like integrated circuits onto a flexible circuit board (FPC) by attaching them to fine conductors in a polyamide or polyimide (like trade names Kapton or UPILEX) film carrier. This FPC with the die(s) (TAB inner lead bonding, ILB) can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex%20receiver | A reflex radio receiver, occasionally called a reflectional receiver, is a radio receiver design in which the same amplifier is used to amplify the high-frequency radio signal (RF) and low-frequency audio (sound) signal (AF). It was first invented in 1914 by German scientists Wilhelm Schloemilch and Otto von Bronk, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20operations%20management | Behavioral operations management (often called behavioral operations) examines and takes into consideration human behaviors and emotions when facing complex decision problems. It relates to the behavioral aspects of the use of operations research and operations management. In particular, it focuses on understanding beh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Professional%20Association | Established in 1991, the non-profit Network Professional Association (NPA) is a professional association for computer network professionals.
The NPA offers a Certified Network Professional CNP credential and provides advocacy for workers in the field. Members receive a certificate of membership, quarterly journal publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitism | Infinitism is the view that knowledge may be justified by an infinite chain of reasons. It belongs to epistemology, the branch of philosophy that considers the possibility, nature, and means of knowledge.
Epistemological infinitism
Since Gettier, "knowledge" is no longer widely accepted as meaning "justified true bel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Protein%20Reference%20Database | The Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) is a protein database accessible through the Internet. It is closely associated with the premier Indian Non-Profit research organisation Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore, India. This database is a collaborative output of IOB and the Pandey Lab of Johns Hopkins Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Pask | Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (28 June 1928 – 29 March 1996) was a British cybernetician, inventor and polymath who made during his lifetime multiple contributions to cybernetics, educational psychology, educational technology, epistemology, chemical computing, architecture, and the performing arts. During his life he gai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameleon%20%28protein%29 | Cameleon is an engineered protein based on variant of green fluorescent protein used to visualize calcium levels in living cells. It is a genetically encoded calcium sensor created by Roger Y. Tsien and coworkers. The name is a conflation of CaM (the common abbreviation of calmodulin) and chameleon to indicate the fact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable%20UML | Executable UML (xtUML or xUML) is both a software development method and a highly abstract software language. It was described for the first time in 2002 in the book "Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture". The language "combines a subset of the UML (Unified Modeling Language) graphical notation wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20tiling | In geometry, a pentagonal tiling is a tiling of the plane where each individual piece is in the shape of a pentagon.
A regular pentagonal tiling on the Euclidean plane is impossible because the internal angle of a regular pentagon, 108°, is not a divisor of 360°, the angle measure of a whole turn. However, regular pen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsh | In computing, netsh, or network shell, is a command-line utility included in Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems beginning with Windows 2000. It allows local or remote configuration of network devices such as the interface.
Overview
A common use of netsh is to reset the TCP/IP stack to default, known-good... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchfork%20bifurcation | In bifurcation theory, a field within mathematics, a pitchfork bifurcation is a particular type of local bifurcation where the system transitions from one fixed point to three fixed points. Pitchfork bifurcations, like Hopf bifurcations, have two types – supercritical and subcritical.
In continuous dynamical systems ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a centre (British English) or center (American English) () of an object is a point in some sense in the middle of the object. According to the specific definition of centre taken into consideration, an object might have no centre. If geometry is regarded as the study of isometry groups, then a centre is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negroponte%20switch | The Negroponte Switch is an idea developed by Nicholas Negroponte in the 1980s, while at the Media Lab at MIT. He suggested that due to the accidents of engineering history we had ended up with static devices – such as televisions – receiving their content via signals travelling over the airways, while devices that cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%27s%20principle | In physics, Hamilton's principle is William Rowan Hamilton's formulation of the principle of stationary action. It states that the dynamics of a physical system are determined by a variational problem for a functional based on a single function, the Lagrangian, which may contain all physical information concerning the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive%20lens | An explosive lens—as used, for example, in nuclear weapons—is a highly specialized shaped charge. In general, it is a device composed of several explosive charges. These charges are arranged and formed with the intent to control the shape of the detonation wave passing through them. The explosive lens is conceptually ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KM3 | KM3 or Kernel Meta Meta Model is a neutral computer language to write metamodels and to define Domain Specific Languages. KM3 has been defined at INRIA and is available under the Eclipse platform.
References
KM3: a DSL for Metamodel Specification Jouault, F, and Bézivin, J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire%20Science%20and%20Technology | Tire Science and Technology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research and reviews on experimental, analytical, and computational aspects of tires. Since 1978, the Tire Society has published the journal. The current editor-in-chief is Michael Kaliske (Dresden University of Technolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%20code | Wolfram code is a widely used numbering system for one-dimensional cellular automaton rules, introduced by Stephen Wolfram in a 1983 paper and popularized in his book A New Kind of Science.
The code is based on the observation that a table specifying the new state of each cell in the automaton, as a function of the st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay%20Professional | Replay Professional was a sound sampling product for the Atari ST. This was released in 1988.
It consisted of a cartridge which interfaced an analog to digital converter (with 10, 12 and 14 bit variants) and software.
It included a suite of offline DSP functions Fast Fourier transform, a range of filters, so called f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannie%20Heineman%20Prize%20for%20Mathematical%20Physics | Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by the American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics. It is established by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman. As of 2010, the prize consists of US$10,000 and a certificate citing the contributi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20geographic%20information%20systems%20software | This is a comparison of notable GIS software. To be included on this list, the software must have a linked existing article.
License, source, & operating system support
Pure server
Map servers
Map caches
Pure web client
Libraries
See also
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
Geographic information system ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest%20frame | In special relativity, the rest frame of a particle is the frame of reference (a coordinate system attached to physical markers) in which the particle is at rest.
The rest frame of compound objects (such as a fluid, or a solid made of many vibrating atoms) is taken to be the frame of reference in which the average mom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milnor%27s%20sphere | In mathematics, specifically differential and algebraic topology, during the mid 1950's John Milnorpg 14 was trying to understand the structure of -connected manifolds of dimension (since -connected -manifolds are homeomorphic to spheres, this is the first non-trivial case after) and found an example of a space which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack%20%28password%20software%29 | Crack is a Unix password cracking program designed to allow system administrators to locate users who may have weak passwords vulnerable to a dictionary attack. Crack was the first standalone password cracker for Unix systems and the first to introduce programmable dictionary generation as well.
Crack began in 1990 w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20of%20Mathematics%20%28Glasgow%29 | The Chair of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow in Scotland was established in 1691. Previously, under James VI's Nova Erectio, the teaching of Mathematics had been the responsibility of the Regents.
List of Mathematics Professors
George Sinclair MA (1691-1696)
Robert Sinclair MA MD (1699)
Robert Simson MA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20YM2151 | The Yamaha YM2151, also known as OPM (FM Operator Type-M) is an eight-channel, four-operator sound chip. It was Yamaha's first single-chip FM synthesis implementation, being created originally for some of the Yamaha DX series of keyboards (DX21, DX27, and DX100). Yamaha also used it in some of their budget-priced elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20number | In mathematics, specifically in number theory, a binomial number is an integer which can be obtained by evaluating a homogeneous polynomial containing two terms. It is a generalization of a Cunningham number.
Definition
A binomial number is an integer obtained by evaluating a homogeneous polynomial containing two te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCOR | ALCOR (ALGOL Converter, acronym) is an early computer language definition created by the ALCOR Group, a consortium of universities, research institutions and manufacturers in Europe and the United States which was founded in 1959 and which had 60 members in 1966. The group had the aim of a common compiler specification... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20process | A ''unit process'' is one or more grouped operations in a manufacturing system that can be defined and separated from others.
In life-cycle assessment (LCA) and ISO 14040, a unit process is defined as "smallest element considered in the life cycle inventory analysis for which input and output data are quantified".
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite%27s%20identity | In mathematics, Hermite's identity, named after Charles Hermite, gives the value of a summation involving the floor function. It states that for every real number x and for every positive integer n the following identity holds:
Proofs
Proof by algebraic manipulation
Split into its integer part and fractional part, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing%20Metro | The Nanjing Metro is a rapid transit system serving the urban and suburban districts of Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province in the People's Republic of China.
Proposals for a metro system serving Nanjing first began in 1984, with approval by the State Planning Commission granted in 1994. Construction began o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20logarithm | In mathematics, a complex logarithm is a generalization of the natural logarithm to nonzero complex numbers. The term refers to one of the following, which are strongly related:
A complex logarithm of a nonzero complex number , defined to be any complex number for which . Such a number is denoted by . If is given... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnits%20standards | The Gnits standards are a collection of standards and recommendations for programming, maintaining, and distributing software. They are published by a group of GNU project maintainers who call themselves "Gnits", which is short for "GNU nit-pickers". As such, they represent advice, not Free Software Foundation or GNU... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycide | Polycide is a silicide formed over polysilicon. Widely used in DRAMs. In a polycide MOSFET transistor process, the silicide is formed only over the polysilicon film as formation occurs prior to any polysilicon etch. Polycide processes contrast with salicide processes in which silicide is formed after the polysilicon et... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20phosphatase | Acid phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.2, systematic name phosphate-monoester phosphohydrolase (acid optimum)) is an enzyme that frees attached phosphoryl groups from other molecules during digestion. It can be further classified as a phosphomonoesterase. It is stored in lysosomes and functions when these fuse with endosomes, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE | UniVBE (short for Universal VESA BIOS Extensions) is a software driver that allows DOS applications written to the VESA BIOS standard to run on almost any display device made in the last 15 years or so.
The UniVBE driver was written by SciTech Software and is also available in their product called SciTech Display Doct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20art | Algorithmic art or algorithm art is art, mostly visual art, in which the design is generated by an algorithm. Algorithmic artists are sometimes called algorists.
Overview
Algorithmic art, also known as computer-generated art, is a subset of generative art (generated by an autonomous system) and is related to systems ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant%20Stubby | Sergeant Stubby (1916 – March 16, 1926) was a dog and the unofficial mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment and was assigned to the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I. He served for 18 months and participated in 17 battles and four offensives on the Western Front. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISCUS | DISCUS, or distributed source coding using syndromes, is a method for distributed source coding. It is a compression algorithm used to compress correlated data sources. The method is designed to achieve the Slepian–Wolf bound by using channel codes.
History
DISCUS was invented by researchers S. S. Pradhan and K. Ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20stress | In materials science the flow stress, typically denoted as Yf (or ), is defined as the instantaneous value of stress required to continue plastically deforming a material - to keep it flowing. It is most commonly, though not exclusively, used in reference to metals. On a stress-strain curve, the flow stress can be foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Larcom | Major-General Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom, Bart, PC FRS (22 April 1801 – 15 June 1879) was a leading official in the early Irish Ordnance Survey. He later became a poor law commissioner, census commissioner and finally executive head of the British administration in Ireland as under-secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw%20%28projector%29 | In video projection terminology, throw is the distance between a video projector lens and the screen on which it shines. It is given as a ratio (called throw ratio), which describes the relationship between the distance to the screen and the width of the screen (assuming the image is to fill the screen fully). Throw ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoani | Kaoani comes from the Japanese and . Kaoanis are small animated smilies that usually bounce up and down to look like they are floating. Kaoani originate in Japan and are also known as puffs, anime blobs, anikaos or anime emoticons.
Kaoani can take the form of animals, foodstuffs such as rice balls, colorful blobs, c... |
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