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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology%20Society%20of%20Britain | The Astrobiology Society of Britain (ASB) is a learned society dedicated to the understanding and advancement of astrobiology in the United Kingdom. The organisation is affiliated with NASA.
The society is mainly made up of members from the United Kingdom but also has international members. The society was created in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMMER%20%28file%20system%29 | HAMMER is a high-availability 64-bit file system developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFly BSD using B+ trees. Its major features include infinite NFS-exportable snapshots, master–multislave operation, configurable history retention, fsckless-mount, and checksums to deal with data corruption. HAMMER also supports data ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persister%20cells | Persister cells are subpopulations of cells that resist treatment, and become antimicrobial tolerant by changing to a state of dormancy or quiescence. Persister cells in their dormancy do not divide. The tolerance shown in persister cells differs from antimicrobial resistance in that the tolerance is not inherited and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20World%202.0 | Our World 2.0 is an online magazine created by the United Nations University Media Centre, located in Tokyo, Japan. At launch, it initially focused on climate change, peak oil, biodiversity, and food security. The magazine was affiliated with The Guardian's Environment Network for a number of years.
History and missi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20map | In mathematics, a generalized map is a topological model which allows one to represent and to handle subdivided objects. This model was defined starting from combinatorial maps in order to represent non-orientable and open subdivisions, which is not possible with combinatorial maps. The main advantage of generalized m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcSight | ArcSight, Inc. was an American software company that provided security management and compliance software packages for enterprises and government agencies. The company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2010. When HP split into two companies, HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP's ArcSight subsidiary was tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20spectrum | In stable homotopy theory, a ring spectrum is a spectrum E together with a multiplication map
μ: E ∧ E → E
and a unit map
η: S → E,
where S is the sphere spectrum. These maps have to satisfy associativity and unitality conditions up to homotopy, much in the same way as the multiplication of a ring is associative a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere%20spectrum | In stable homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics, the sphere spectrum S is the monoidal unit in the category of spectra. It is the suspension spectrum of S0, i.e., a set of two points. Explicitly, the nth space in the sphere spectrum is the n-dimensional sphere Sn, and the structure maps from the suspension of Sn to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20L.%20%22Ben%22%20Coates | Clarence Leroy “Ben” Coates (November 5, 1923 – October 25, 2000) was an American computer scientist and engineer known for his work on waveform recognition devices, circuit gates and accumulators.
Early life
He was born November 5, 1923, in Hastings, Nebraska, the son of Clarence Leroy Coates and Mildred Creighton. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar%20777 | The Caterpillar 777 is a 100-ton haul truck, typically used in open pit mining, manufactured by Caterpillar Inc.
The first model of Caterpillar 777 was introduced in 1974. Its diesel engine is capable of putting out . The 777D, introduced in 1996, was powered by a diesel.
References
Dump trucks
Off-road vehicles
M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptum%20Technologies | Aptum Technologies, formerly Cogeco Peer 1, is a provider of services for data centers and cloud computing. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
Peer 1 Network Enterprises was founded in 1996 in Vancover, British Columbia, and funded in 2003.
In 2004, Peer 1 acquired ServerBeach for about... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riboprobe | A Riboprobe, abbreviation of RNA probe, is a segment of labelled RNA that can be used to detect a target mRNA or DNA during in situ hybridization. RNA probes can be produced by in vitro transcription of cloned DNA inserted in a suitable plasmid downstream of a viral promoter. Some bacterial viruses code for their own R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hacker%20and%20the%20Ants | The Hacker and the Ants is a science fiction novel by American writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, published in 1994 by Avon Books. It was written while Rucker was working as a programmer at Autodesk, Inc., of Sausalito, California from 1988 to 1992.
Plot summary
Jerzy Rugby is trying to create truly intelligent r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer%20read-only%20storage | Transformer read-only storage (TROS) was a type of read-only memory (ROM) used in the 1960s and early 1970s before solid-state memory devices were developed.
Overview
TROS was created by IBM as a read-only storage method for storing microcode for IBM computers. TROS used stacks of removable Mylar flexible printed wiri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooflagellate | In some older systems of classification, Zoomastigophora is a phylum (more commonly known as zooflagellates) within the kingdom Protista. Organisms within this group have a spherical, elongated body with a single central nucleus. They are single-celled, heterotrophic eukaryotes and may form symbiotic relationships wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age%20stratification | In sociology, age stratification refers to the hierarchical ranking of people into age groups within a society. Age stratification could also be defined as a system of inequalities linked to age. In Western societies, for example, both the old and the young are perceived and treated as relatively incompetent and exclud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecom | is a Japanese electronics company and founded by Junji Hada in Osaka, Japan in 1986. The company introduced an oval mouse in 1988 that became a global standard design. They manufacture office and other furniture for using with electronics, computer peripherals, gaming peripherals, computer memory and USB flash drives, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo%20Internet%20Security | Comodo Internet Security (CIS) is developed and distributed by Comodo Group, a freemium Internet security suite that includes an antivirus program, personal firewall, sandbox, host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) and website filtering.
Version history
Release 5
In CIS 5.0 cloud antivirus protection and spyw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20segment | A segment of a system variable in computing shows a homogenous status of system dynamics over a time period. Here, a homogenous status of a variable is a state which can be described by a set of coefficients of a formula. For example, of homogenous statuses, we can bring status of constant ('ON' of a switch) and line... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timed%20event%20system | The General System has been described in [Zeigler76] and [ZPK00] with the standpoints to define (1) the time base, (2) the admissible input segments, (3) the system states, (4) the state trajectory with an admissible input segment, (5) the output for a given state.
A Timed Event System defining the state trajectory as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formulas%20for%20generating%20Pythagorean%20triples | Besides Euclid's formula, many other formulas for generating Pythagorean triples have been developed.
Euclid's, Pythagoras', and Plato's formulas
Euclid's, Pythagoras' and Plato's formulas for calculating triples have been described here:
The methods below appear in various sources, often without attribution as to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD | FreeCAD is a general-purpose parametric 3D computer-aided design (CAD) modeler and a building information modeling (BIM) software application with finite element method (FEM) support. It is intended for mechanical engineering product design but also expands to a wider range of uses around engineering, such as architect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria%20gruberi | Naegleria gruberi is a species of Naegleria. It is famous for its ability to change from an amoeba, which lacks a cytoplasmic microtubule cytoskeleton, to a flagellate, which has an elaborate microtubule cytoskeleton, including flagella. This "transformation" includes de novo synthesis of basal bodies (or centrioles).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20Camp | Code Camp is a form of unconference. Originating with the goal of helping developers who could not make it to work during regular hours, the project offers technical presentations and provides access to technical content. Started in Boston by Thom Robbins and a handful of local developer community leaders, Code Camps ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Council%20of%20Academies%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technological%20Sciences | The International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS) is an independent nonpolitical and non-governmental international organization of engineering and technological sciences academies, one member academy per country, that advances the following objectives:
| Provide an independent n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap%20flag | A trap flag permits operation of a processor in single-step mode. If such a flag is available, debuggers can use it to step through the execution of a computer program.
Single-step interrupt
When a system is instructed to single-step, it will execute one instruction and then stop. The contents of registers and memory ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor%20supplementary%20capability | A processor supplementary capability is a feature that has been added to an existing central processing unit (CPU) design after the initial introduction of that design to the marketplace.
A supplementary capability increases the usefulness of the processor design, allowing it to compete more favorably with competitors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent%20%28structural%29 | A bent in American English is a transverse rigid frame (or similar structures such as three-hinged arches). Historically, bents were a common way of making a timber frame; they are still often used for such, and are also seen in small steel-frame buildings, where the term portal frame is more commonly used. The term i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth%20of%20photovoltaics | Between 1992 and 2022, the worldwide usage of photovoltaics (PV) increased exponentially. During this period, it evolved from a niche market of small-scale applications to a mainstream electricity source. From 2016-2022 it has seen an annual capacity and production growth rate of around 26%- doubling approximately ever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20bound%20polyribosome |
Summary
In cell biology, membrane bound polyribosomes are attached to a cell's endoplasmic reticulum. When certain proteins are synthesized by a ribosome they can become "membrane-bound". The newly produced polypeptide chains are inserted directly into the endoplasmic reticulum by the ribosome and are then transpor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41%20%28number%29 | 41 (forty-one) is the natural number following 40 and preceding 42.
In mathematics
the 13th smallest prime number. The next is 43, making both twin primes.
the sum of the first six prime numbers (2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13).
the 12th supersingular prime
a Newman–Shanks–Williams prime.
the smallest Sophie Germain pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20banking | Biodiversity banking, also known as biodiversity trading or conservation banking, biodiversity mitigation banks, compensatory habitat, set-asides, biodiversity offsets, are conservation activities that compensate for the loss of biodiversity with the goal of biodiversity maintenance through a framework which allows bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20layer | In intelligent networks (IN) and cellular networks, service layer is a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture. It aims at providing middleware that serves third-party value-added services and applications at a higher application layer. The service layer provides capability servers owned by a te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-covariance%20matrix | In probability theory and statistics, a cross-covariance matrix is a matrix whose element in the i, j position is the covariance between the i-th element of a random vector and j-th element of another random vector. A random vector is a random variable with multiple dimensions. Each element of the vector is a scalar ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20sequence | In mathematics, the Euler sequence is a particular exact sequence of sheaves on n-dimensional projective space over a ring. It shows that the sheaf of relative differentials is stably isomorphic to an -fold sum of the dual of the Serre twisting sheaf.
The Euler sequence generalizes to that of a projective bundle as we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IoSafe | ioSafe is a manufacturer of disaster protected hard drives and network attached storage (NAS) appliances. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Roseville, California. ioSafe's storage systems are optimized for heat from fire and complete submersion in fresh or saltwater with the ability to recover data locate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparator%20system | A comparator system, or simply comparator, in the fields of biophysics, biology, and neurology is a particular organisation of neurons. Comparators, as their name suggests, compare several inputs of internal or external information, and are important to the field of neural learning. In biological systems, comparators h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20requirements | Software requirements for a system are the description of what the system should do, the service or services that it provides and the constraints on its operation. The IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology defines a requirement as:
A condition or capability needed by a user to solve a problem or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroecology | Astroecology concerns the interactions of biota with space environments. It studies resources for life on planets, asteroids and comets, around various stars, in galaxies, and in the universe. The results allow estimating the future prospects for life, from planetary to galactic and cosmological scales.
Available en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%20gun%20fire-control%20system | Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems, to control targeting of guns against surface ships, aircraft, and shore targets, with either optical or radar sighting. Most US ships that are destroyers or larger... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-2%20fuzzy%20sets%20and%20systems | Type-2 fuzzy sets and systems generalize standard Type-1 fuzzy sets and systems so that more uncertainty can be handled. From the beginning of fuzzy sets, criticism was made about the fact that the membership function of a type-1 fuzzy set has no uncertainty associated with it, something that seems to contradict the wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS%20857 | BS 857:1967 is a currently in-use British Standard specification for flat or curved safety glasses (toughened or laminated) for use in land vehicles, including road vehicles and railway vehicles. The standard specifies the mechanical, safety, impact, and optical requirements as well as sampling and test methods.
Othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20Receiver%20Design | Iterative Receiver Design is a 2007 engineering book by Henk Wymeersch published by Cambridge University Press. The book provides a framework for developing iterative algorithms for digital receivers, exploiting the power of factor graphs.
Chapters
Introduction
Digital communication
Estimation theory and Monte Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20%26%20See | Key & See is a variation of the TV Key service that forms part of the open, standards-based interactive TV services platform provided by Miniweb Interactive. Key & See allows viewers to access the interactive TV content made available by broadcasters and channel owners while leaving quarter of their screen tuned to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Communications | Journal of Communications is a scholarly peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly, focusing on theories, systems, methods, algorithms, and applications in communications. It was initially published by Academy Publisher, based in Oulu, Finland, but since 2013 has been published by Engineering and Technology Pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular%20Linux | Granular, or Granular Linux, is a Linux distribution targeted at the common desktop users. Granular is based on PCLinuxOS and comes as an installable live CD. The CD version of Granular features two desktop environments - KDE and a development version of Enlightenment. Where KDE is a full-featured desktop environment, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Key | A TV Key is a mechanism for any advertiser or content owner to link consumers to specific interactive television destinations, including enhanced TV applications, from media delivered over broadcast or broadband networks TV Keys can be embedded in any video stream and can be used as an on-screen call to action. TV Ke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEN2PHEN | Genotype to Phenotype Databases: a Holistic Approach (GEN2PHEN) is a European project aiming to develop a knowledge web portal integrating information from the genotype to the phenotype in a unifying portal: The Knowledge Centre].
Summary and Objectives
The GEN2PHEN project aims to unify human and model organism genet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEF3 | IDEF3 or Integrated DEFinition for Process Description Capture Method is a business process modelling method complementary to IDEF0. The IDEF3 method is a scenario-driven process flow description capture method intended to capture the knowledge about how a particular system works.
The IDEF3 method provides modes to re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-geoengineering | Bio-geoengineering is a form of climate engineering which seeks to use or modify plants or other living things to modify the Earth's climate.
Bio-energy with carbon storage, afforestation projects, and ocean nourishment (including iron fertilization) could be considered examples of bio-geoengineering.
Biogenic aeroso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar-link%20chain | A bar-link chain, also called a block-and-bar chain or a block chain, is a mechanical drive chain. It is composed of side plates, where each plate straddles one end of a block and is connected to the block with a pin going through a hole at one end of the block.
Overview
Bar-link chains are simple, and often heavier ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20zoology%20journals | This is a list of scientific journals which cover the field of zoology.
A
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica
Acta Zoológica Mexicana
Acta Zoologica: Morphology and Evolution
African Entomology
African Invertebrates
African Journal o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20engineer | An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the "technical aspect of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMD%20LED | The light from white LED lamps and LED strip lights is usually provided by industry standard surface-mounted device LEDs (SMD LEDs). Non-SMD types of LED lighting also exist, such as COB (chip on board) and MCOB (multi-COB).
Surface-mounted device LED modules are described by the dimensions of the LED package. A singl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy99 | Happy99 (also termed Ska or I-Worm) is a computer worm for Microsoft Windows. It first appeared in mid-January 1999, spreading through email and usenet. The worm installs itself and runs in the background of a victim's machine, without their knowledge. It is generally considered the first virus to propagate by email, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variadic%20template | In computer programming, variadic templates are templates that take a variable number of arguments.
Variadic templates are supported by C++ (since the C++11 standard), and the D programming language.
C++
The variadic template feature of C++ was designed by Douglas Gregor and Jaakko Järvi and was later standardized i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Edward%20Jones | Harry Edward Jones (1843 – 24 March 1925) was a British civil engineer.
Jones was born the son of gasworks engineer Robert Jones in Chester in 1843 and educated at the City of London School and Stepney Grammar School.
In 1859 he was apprenticed to Joseph Hamilton Beattie, the locomotive engineer of the London and Sou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRING | In molecular biology, STRING (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins) is a biological database and web resource of known and predicted protein–protein interactions.
The STRING database contains information from numerous sources, including experimental data, computational prediction methods and pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20Core | Darwin Core (often abbreviated to DwC) is an extension of Dublin Core for biodiversity informatics. It is meant to provide a stable standard reference for sharing information on biological diversity (biodiversity). The terms described in this standard are a part of a larger set of vocabularies and technical specificati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20State%20Migration%20Tool | The User State Migration Tool (USMT) is a command line utility program developed by Microsoft that allows users comfortable with scripting languages to transfer files and settings between Windows PCs. This task is also performed by Windows Easy Transfer, which was designed for general users but then discontinued with t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20seas | Polar seas is a collective term for the Arctic Ocean (about 4-5 percent of Earth's oceans) and the southern part of the Southern Ocean (south of Antarctic Convergence, about 10 percent of Earth's oceans). In the coldest years, sea ice can cover around 13 percent of the Earth's total surface at its maximum, but out of p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEF4 | IDEF4, or Integrated DEFinition for Object-Oriented Design, is an object-oriented design modeling language for the design of component-based client/server systems. It has been designed to support smooth transition from the application domain and requirements analysis models to the design and to actual source code gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv6 | xv6 is a modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix in ANSI C for multiprocessor x86 and RISC-V systems. It was created for pedagogical purposes in MIT's Operating System Engineering course in 2006.
Purpose
MIT's Operating System Engineering course formerly used the original V6 source code. xv6 was created as a mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami%20%28software%29 | Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone) is a SIP-compatible distributed peer-to-peer softphone and SIP-based instant messenger for Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.
Jami was developed and maintained by the Canadian company Savoir-faire Linux, and with the help of a global community of users and contributors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulase%20unit | A cellulase unit (CU) is a unit of measurement for the enzyme cellulase. One cellulase unit is that activity that will produce a relative fluidity change of one in 5 minutes in a defined carboxymethylcellulose substrate under the conditions of an assay (50 deg Celsius, pH 4.5). Cellulases enzymatically split cellulose ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buekenhout%20geometry | In mathematics, a Buekenhout geometry or diagram geometry is a generalization of projective spaces, Tits buildings, and several other geometric structures, introduced by .
Definition
A Buekenhout geometry consists of a set X whose elements are called "varieties", with a symmetric reflexive relation on X called "in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component%20%28UML%29 | A component in the Unified Modeling Language represents a modular part of a system that encapsulates the state and behavior of a number of classifiers. Its behavior is defined in terms of provided and required interfaces, is self-contained, and substitutable. A number of UML standard stereotypes exist that apply to com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix%20automation | In music recording, mix automation allows the mixing console to remember the audio engineer's adjustment of faders during the post-production editing process. A timecode is necessary for the synchronization of automation. Modern mixing consoles and digital audio workstations use comprehensive mix automation.
The need... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan%20Packet%20Radio%20Experiment | The Spartan Packet Radio Experiment (SPRE) was an Amateur Radio communications experiment that flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavours STS-72 mission as part of NASA's Spartan/OAST-Flyer spacecraft in January 1996. The experiment was intended to test the tracking of satellites via amateur packet radio (Automatic Packet Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarWinds | SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countrie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS%20199 | FIPS 199 (Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 199, Standards for Security Categorization of Federal Information and Information Systems) is a United States Federal Government standard that establishes security categories of information systems used by the Federal Government, one component of risk assess... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent%20data%20encryption | Transparent Data Encryption (often abbreviated to TDE) is a technology employed by Microsoft, IBM and Oracle to encrypt database files. TDE offers encryption at file level. TDE solves the problem of protecting data at rest, encrypting databases both on the hard drive and consequently on backup media. It does not protec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout%20family | The Roundabout (Robo) family of proteins are single-pass transmembrane receptors that are highly conserved across many branches of the animal kingdom, from C. elegans to humans. They were first discovered in Drosophila, through a mutant screen for genes involved in axon guidance. The Drosophila roundabout mutant was na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiquidHD | LiquidHD technology was an architecture and a set of protocols for networking consumer electronics devices. It was designed to let consumers link their HDTVs, home theater components, PCs, gaming consoles, and mobile devices into local entertainment networks, where they could view high-definition digital content from a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20demethylation | For molecular biology in mammals, DNA demethylation causes replacement of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) in a DNA sequence by cytosine (C) (see figure of 5mC and C). DNA demethylation can occur by an active process at the site of a 5mC in a DNA sequence or, in replicating cells, by preventing addition of methyl groups to DNA s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludv%C3%ADk%20V%C3%A9br | Ludvík Vébr (born 20 April 1960) is a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Ludvík Vébr is also associate professor (docent) at Czech Technical University in Prague. He is expert in the road engineering.
He was born in Prague.
In 1976 he was the coxsw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20von%20Wersin | Wolfgang von Wersin (3 December 188213 June 1976) was a Czech-born designer, painter, architect and author who developed his career in Germany.
Born in Prague, he studied architecture at the Technische University of Munich (19011904) and, in parallel (1902 to 1905), he also studied drawing and painting at the Lehr- un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20Internet | Future Internet is a general term for research activities on new architectures for the Internet.
History
While the technical development of the Internet was an extensive research topic from the beginning, an increased public awareness of several critical shortcomings in terms of performance, reliability, scalability,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive | EtherDrive is a brand name for storage area network devices based upon the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. It was registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2004. The word was invented by Brantley Coile as a portmanteau of the words Ethernet and disk drive. EtherDrive was a trademark by Coraid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20in%20Informatics%20and%20Analysis | Service in Informatics and Analysis (SIA Ltd.) was one of the pioneering time-sharing service bureau companies in the late 1960s, later known as SIA Computer Services. Its head office was located at Lower Belgrave Street, close to Victoria Station in London, and the company had branch offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze%20job | Squeeze job, or squeeze cementing is a term often used in the oilfield to describe the process of injecting cement slurry into a zone, generally for pressure-isolation purposes.
Background
The term probably originated from the concept that enough water is "squeezed" out of the slurry to render it unflowable, so the po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuhlinger%20Medal | The Stuhlinger Medal, whose official name is the "Ernst Stuhlinger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Electric Propulsion", is the highest honor in the field of electric propulsion for spacecraft bestowed by the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society (ERPS), the main professional society in that field, to persons who mad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datakit | Datakit is a virtual circuit switch which was developed by Sandy Fraser at Bell Labs for both local-area and wide-area networks, and in widespread deployment by the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs).
Datakit uses a cell relay protocol similar to Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Datakit is a connection-oriented swit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleforce | Teleforce is a proposed defensive weapon by Nikola Tesla that accelerated pellets or slugs of material to a high velocity inside a vacuum chamber via electrostatic repulsion and then fired them out of aimed nozzles at intended targets. Tesla claimed to have conceived of it after studying the Van de Graaff generator. Te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERNET | The Education and Research Network (ERNET) is an autonomous scientific society of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. ERNET has made a significant contribution to the emergence of networking in the country. It practically brought the Internet to India and has built up national c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellix | Trellix (formerly FireEye and McAfee Enterprise) is a privately held cybersecurity company that was founded in 2022. It has been involved in the detection and prevention of major cybersecurity attacks.
It provides hardware, software, and services to investigate cybersecurity attacks, protect against malicious software,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20coordinates | In geometry, line coordinates are used to specify the position of a line just as point coordinates (or simply coordinates) are used to specify the position of a point.
Lines in the plane
There are several possible ways to specify the position of a line in the plane. A simple way is by the pair where the equation of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%20Loom | The Northrop Loom was a fully automatic power loom marketed by George Draper and Sons, Hopedale, Massachusetts beginning in 1895. It was named after James Henry Northrop who invented the shuttle-charging mechanism.
Background
James Henry Northrop, (8 May 1856 - 12 December 1940) was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwater%20%28topography%29 | A deadwater is that part of an estuary through which there is little to no water flow.
In situations where a river flow is weaker than the marine processes that build sand dunes, the river may be obstructed from flowing into the sea by the formation of a sand dune; that is, a sandbar. In such cases the river will ofte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering%20problem%20of%20Rado | The covering problem of Rado is an unsolved problem in geometry concerning covering planar sets by squares. It was formulated in 1928 by Tibor Radó and has been generalized to more general shapes and higher dimensions by Richard Rado.
Formulation
In a letter to Wacław Sierpiński, motivated by some results of Giuseppe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdate | On Unix-like operating systems, rdate is a tool for querying the current time from a network server and, optionally, setting the system time. Rdate uses the Time Protocol. The Time Protocol is generally considered obsolete and has been replaced by the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
When used to set the local system tim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C2%B7CORE | M·CORE is a low-power, RISC-based microcontroller architecture developed by Motorola (subsequently Freescale, now part of NXP), intended for use in embedded systems. Introduced in late 1997, the architecture combines a 32-bit internal data path with 16-bit instructions, and includes a four-stage instruction pipeline. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGESA | AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture (AGESA) is a procedure library developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), used to perform the Platform Initialization (PI) on mainboards using their AMD64 architecture. As part of the BIOS of such mainboards, AGESA is responsible for the initialization of the CPU cores, ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire%20Loom | The Lancashire Loom was a semi-automatic power loom invented by James Bullough and William Kenworthy in 1842. Although it is self-acting, it has to be stopped to recharge empty shuttles. It was the mainstay of the Lancashire cotton industry for a century.
John Bullough
John Bullough (1800–1868) was from Accrington, o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20%28UML%29 | A node in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a computational resource upon which UML artifacts may be deployed for execution.
There are two types of nodes: device nodes and execution environments.
A device represents hardware devices: a physical computational resource with processing capability upon which UML ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolite%20%28adhesive%29 | Aerolite is a urea-formaldehyde gap filling adhesive which is water- and heat-resistant. It is used in large quantities by the chipboard industry and also by wooden boat builders for its high strength and durability. It is also used in joinery, veneering and general woodwork assembly. Aerolite has also been used for wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Woodward | Dr Martin R. Woodward (28 May 1948 – 27 October 2006) was a British computer scientist who made leading contributions in the field of in software testing.
Martin Woodward was an academic in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool in England. As part of his leading role in software testing, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Testing%2C%20Verification%20%26%20Reliability | Software Testing, Verification, & Reliability is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of software testing, verification, and reliability published by John Wiley & Sons.
STVR was founded in 1991 by Derek Yates. Martin Woodward become editor-in-chief in 1992, and was later joined by Lee White. They were succe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu%20dependence | Roughly speaking, in decision theory, game theory, and rational choice, menu dependence arises when the evaluation of alternatives for choice or the mode of selection guiding choice varies parametrically with what collection of alternatives is available for choice (i.e., with what "menu" or decision problem a decision ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20stress | Surface stress was first defined by Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) as the amount of the reversible work per unit area needed to elastically stretch a pre-existing surface. A suggestion is surface stress define as association with the amount of the reversible work per unit area needed to elastically stretch a pre-ex... |
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