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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOASTA | SOASTA, Inc. is an American subsidiary of Akamai Technologies that provides services to test websites and web applications.
It is a provider of cloud-based testing services, and created a browser-based website testing product. Website tests include load testing, software performance testing, functional testing and use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siftable | Siftables are small computers that display graphics on their top surface and sense one another and how they are being moved. Siftables were developed as a platform for hands-on interactions with digital information and media and were the prototype for Sifteo cubes.
Siftables were created by David Merrill and Jeevan Ka... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOA%20Technologies | TOA Technologies is an American software as a service company that develops, markets and sells ETAdirect, a web-based applications solution for companies with small, medium and large mobile workforces across the world.
Headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio, its products include advanced tools for automating and optimising... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydromill%20trench%20cutter | The hydromill trench cutter is a specialized type of construction equipment designed to dig the narrow but deep trenches used in the casting of slurry walls. Typically, it is a cutter attachment mounted on a crawler crane base machine, with different types of hose handling systems. The machine excavates by cutting the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readahead | Readahead is a system call of the Linux kernel that loads a file's contents into the page cache. This prefetches the file so that when it is subsequently accessed, its contents are read from the main memory (RAM) rather than from a hard disk drive (HDD), resulting in much lower file access latencies.
Many Linux distri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack%20problem | A racetrack problem is a specific instance of a type of race condition. A racetrack problem is a flaw in a system or process whereby the output and/or result of the process is unexpectedly and critically dependent on the sequence or timing of other events that run in a circular pattern. This problem is semantically dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntelic | Syntelic attachment occurs when both sister chromosomes are attached to a single spindle pole.
Normal cell division distributes the genome equally between two daughter cells, with each chromosome attaching to an ovoid structure called the spindle. During the division process, errors commonly occur in attaching the chr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom%20network%20protocol%20analyzer | A telecom network protocol analyzer is a protocol analyzer to analyze a switching and signaling telecommunication protocol between different nodes in PSTN or Mobile telephone networks, such as 2G or 3G GSM networks, CDMA networks, WiMAX and so on.
In a mobile telecommunication network it can analyze the traffic betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent%20drawing | A patent application or patent may contain drawings, also called patent drawings, illustrating the invention, some of its embodiments (which are particular implementations or methods of carrying out the invention), or the prior art. The drawings may be required by the law to be in a particular form, and the requirement... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20map%20%28graph%20theory%29 | In mathematics, a regular map is a symmetric tessellation of a closed surface. More precisely, a regular map is a decomposition of a two-dimensional manifold (such as a sphere, torus, or real projective plane) into topological disks such that every flag (an incident vertex-edge-face triple) can be transformed into any ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinmechatronics | Spinmechatronics is neologism referring to an emerging field of research concerned with the exploitation of spin-dependent phenomena and established spintronic methodologies and technologies in conjunction with electro-mechanical, magno-mechanical, acousto-mechanical and opto-mechanical systems. Most especially, spinm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specker%20sequence | In computability theory, a Specker sequence is a computable, monotonically increasing, bounded sequence of rational numbers whose supremum is not a computable real number. The first example of such a sequence was constructed by Ernst Specker (1949).
The existence of Specker sequences has consequences for computable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable%20analysis | In mathematics and computer science, computable analysis is the study of mathematical analysis from the perspective of computability theory. It is concerned with the parts of real analysis and functional analysis that can be carried out in a computable manner. The field is closely related to constructive analysis and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Wentworth-Sheilds | Francis Ernest Wentworth-Sheilds OBE (also spelt Shields; 16 November 1869 – 10 May 1959) was a British civil engineer.
Francis Ernest Sheilds was born in London in 1869, the younger son of engineer Francis Webb Sheilds. Rev. Wentworth Wentworth-Sheilds was his elder brother. The family added the surname Wentworth i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulus%20of%20convergence | In real analysis, a branch of mathematics, a modulus of convergence is a function that tells how quickly a convergent sequence converges. These moduli are often employed in the study of computable analysis and constructive mathematics.
If a sequence of real numbers converges to a real number , then by definition, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance%20of%20the%20Three%20Kingdoms%20%28video%20game%29 | Romance of the Three Kingdoms, known as Sangokushi in Japan, is a 1985 video game published by Koei. It is the first game in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. Originally released on the PC-88, it was ported to numerous platforms, including the PC-98, MSX, Nintendo Entertainment System (1988), Amiga, MS-DOS, FM-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EN%201063 | EN 1063, or CEN 1063, is a security glazing standard created by the European Committee for Standardization for measuring the protective strength of bullet-resistant glass. It is commonly used in conjunction with EN 1522 (Euronorm standard for Bullet Resistance in Windows, Doors, Shutters and Blinds) to form a ballistic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20phenomenon | The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and festivities took place on 21 December 2012 to commemorate the even... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morison%20equation | In fluid dynamics the Morison equation is a semi-empirical equation for the inline force on a body in oscillatory flow. It is sometimes called the MOJS equation after all four authors—Morison, O'Brien, Johnson and Schaaf—of the 1950 paper in which the equation was introduced. The Morison equation is used to estimate th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11%20architecture | The PDP-11 architecture is a 16-bit CISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It is implemented by central processing units (CPUs) and microprocessors used in PDP-11 minicomputers. It was in wide use during the 1970s, but was eventually overshadowed by the more powerful V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20extraction%20in%20LEDs | Light extraction in LEDs involves the set of particular problems that is connected with getting light from the light emitting p-n junction in an LED to the surroundings, such that the light might be useful, for instance for lighting.
The refractive index of most LED semiconductor materials is quite high, so in almost ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20LED%20failure%20modes | The most common way for LEDs (and diode lasers) to fail is the gradual lowering of light output and loss of efficiency. Sudden failures, however rare, can occur as well. Early red LEDs were notable for their short lifetime.
Packaging-related
Epoxy degradation: Some materials of the plastic package tend to yellow when ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe%20Institution%20of%20Engineers | The Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers is the professional organization of engineers in Zimbabwe. It has graded membership, including student, technician, graduate and corporate membership as well as the status of fellow.
See also
Zimbabwe Institute of Management
Zimbabwe Institute of Legal Studies
References
Ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20delay | In VHDL simulations, all assignments to signals (a VHDL concept that represents a net connecting different components together) occur with some infinitesimal delay, known as delta delay, unless a delay is specified. Technically, delta delay is of no measurable unit, but from a digital electronics hardware design persp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae%20Conservation%20Fund | Felidae Conservation Fund (FCF) is a California-based non-profit organization dedicated to preserving wild cats and their habitats. The organization supports and promotes international wild cat research and conservation by collaborating on field research projects, partnering with other environmental organizations, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20of%20Marine%20Animal%20Populations | The Future of Marine Animal Populations (FMAP) project was one of the core projects of the international Census of Marine Life (2000–2010). FMAP's mission was to describe and synthesize globally changing patterns of species abundance, distribution, and diversity, and to model the effects of fishing, climate change and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20studies | Food studies is the critical examination of food and its contexts within science, art, history, society, and other fields. It is distinctive from other food-related areas of study such as nutrition, agriculture, gastronomy, and culinary arts in that it tends to look beyond the consumption, production, and aesthetic ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Ranger%20Chipset | Amiga Ranger is an unreleased prototype personal computer by Commodore which was intended to be the second generation Amiga chipset, prior to ECS. It was designed by the original Los Gatos Amiga team including Jay Miner.
Overview
After the release of the Amiga 1000, Jay Miner began to design its intended successor, be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavlik%20Technologies | Shavlik Technologies was a privately held company founded in 1993 by Mark Shavlik, who was one of the original developers of Windows NT in the late 1980s and early 1990s at Microsoft.
The company provided software and services for network vulnerability assessment and for managing network security patches. Mark Shavlik... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%20%28computer%20security%29 | A principal in computer security is an entity that can be authenticated by a computer system or network. It is referred to as a security principal in Java and Microsoft literature.
Principals can be individual people, computers, services, computational entities such as processes and threads, or any group of such thing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20members%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Engineering | This is a full list of the 2251 current members of the United States National Academy of Engineering, each of whom is affiliated with one of 12 disciplinary sections. This list does not include deceased members. In addition there are 206 foreign associates.
Aerospace Engineering
See List of members of the National... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20business | Software Business is the commercial activity of the software industry, aimed at producing, buying and selling software products or software services. The business of software differs from other businesses, in that its main good is intangible and fixed costs of production are high while variable costs of production are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskra-1030 | The Iskra 1030 () was an Intel 8086 compatible personal computer produced in the USSR. It was designed by Elektronmash () in Leningrad. The main manufacturers were the Iskra factory () in Smolensk and the Shchyotmash factory () in Kursk. The model line consisted of Iskra 1030.11 (basic), Iskra 1030М (modified), Iskra 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%20%28game%29 | Cram is a mathematical game played on a sheet of graph paper. It is the impartial version of Domineering and the only difference in the rules is that players may place their dominoes in either orientation, but it results in a very different game. It has been called by many names, including "plugg" by Geoffrey Mott-Smit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt | bcrypt is a password-hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on the Blowfish cipher and presented at USENIX in 1999. Besides incorporating a salt to protect against rainbow table attacks, bcrypt is an adaptive function: over time, the iteration count can be increased to make it slower, so it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ccrypt | ccrypt is a utility for the secure encryption and decryption of files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard UNIX crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm.
ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cypher, the same cipher used in the AES standard. However, in the AES s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QPACE | QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine) is a massively parallel and scalable supercomputer designed for applications in lattice quantum chromodynamics.
Overview
The QPACE supercomputer is a research project carried out by several academic institutions in collaboration with the IBM Research and Dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equidimensionality | In mathematics, especially in topology, equidimensionality is a property of a space that the local dimension is the same everywhere.
Definition (topology)
A topological space X is said to be equidimensional if for all points p in X, the dimension at p, that is dim p(X), is constant. The Euclidean space is an example o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth%20Low%20Energy | Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE, colloquially BLE, formerly marketed as Bluetooth Smart) is a wireless personal area network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, beacons, security, and home entertainment indus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%20%28system-on-a-chip%29 | Orion is a system-on-a-chip manufactured by Marvell Technology Group and used in network-attached storage. Based on the ARMv5TE architecture, it has on-chip support for Ethernet, SATA and USB, and is used in hardware made by Hewlett-Packard and D-Link among others. It is supported by the Lenny release of Debian GNU/Li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20television | 3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2D-plus-depth, or any other form of 3D display. Most modern 3D television sets use an active shutter 3D system or a polarized 3D system, and some are autostereoscopic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoalarm | Meteoalarm is a website developed by EUMETNET, a network of European national meteorological services. It provides severe weather warnings using maps to show where and which type of dangerous weather events are forecasted to occur. The level of risk is color-coded based on likely damage, disruption, and danger and disp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20hypervisor | An embedded hypervisor is a hypervisor that supports the requirements of embedded systems.
The requirements for an embedded hypervisor are distinct from hypervisors targeting server and desktop applications.
An embedded hypervisor is designed into the embedded device from the outset, rather than loaded subsequent to d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20space | A color space is a specific organization of colors. In combination with color profiling supported by various physical devices, it supports reproducible representations of colorwhether such representation entails an analog or a digital representation. A color space may be arbitrary, i.e. with physically realized colors ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Van%20de%20Sompel | Herbert Van de Sompel is a Belgian librarian, computer scientist, and musician, most known for his role in the development of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and standards such as OpenURL, Object Reuse and Exchange, and the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
Career
Van de Sompel was born March 20, 1957, in Ghent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potocytosis | Potocytosis is a type of receptor-mediated endocytosis in which small molecules are transported across the plasma membrane of a cell. The molecules are transported by caveolae (rather than clathrin-coated vesicles) and are deposited directly into the cytosol.
Like other types of receptor-mediated endocytosis, potocyto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytosis | -Cytosis is a suffix that either refers to certain aspects of cells ie cellular process or phenomenon or sometimes refers to predominance of certain type of cells. It essentially means "of the cell". Sometimes it may be shortened to -osis (necrosis, apoptosis) and may be related to some of the processes ending with -es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone-H | Zone-H is an archive of defaced websites. It was established in Estonia on March 2, 2002. A whois request on the domain shows that it was created on February 14, 2002.
Product
Once a defaced website is submitted to Zone-H, it is mirrored on the Zone-H servers. The website is then moderated by the Zone-H staff to chec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20cycling | Temperature cycling (or temperature cycle) is the process of cycling through two temperature extremes, typically at relatively high rates of change. It is an environmental stress test used in evaluating product reliability as well as in manufacturing to catch early-term, latent defects by inducing failure through therm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%20Still | In distillation, a Rayleigh Still is a separation process where a feed stream is charged and withdrawn batch-wise with a separate stream fed and removed continuously. It is also known as a Rayleigh Distillation. It consists of a single stage distillation where the batch-charged phase is well mixed during operation. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkering | Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships (such fuel is referred to as bunker), including the logistics of loading and distributing the fuel among available shipboard tanks. A person dealing in trade of bunker (fuel) is called a bunker trader.
The term bunkering originated in the days of steamships, when coa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasoft | Parasoft (officially Parasoft Corporation) is an independent software vendor specializing in automated software testing and application security with headquarters in Monrovia, California. It was founded in 1987 by four graduates of the California Institute of Technology who planned to commercialize the parallel computi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentamicin%20protection%20assay | The gentamicin protection assay or survival assay or invasion assay is a method used in microbiology. It is used to quantify the ability of pathogenic bacteria to invade eukaryotic cells.
The assay is based on several observations made in the 1970s, in which the ability of internalized bacteria to avoid killing by ant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea%20hypothesis | The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward for a hypothesis that contests the Gaian hypothesis and proposes that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, may be self-destructive or suicidal.
The metaphor refers to the mythological Medea (representing the Earth), who kills her own child... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition%20signal | A recognition signal is a signal whereby a person, a ship, an airplane or something else is recognized. They can be used during war or can be used to help the police recognize each other during undercover operations. It can also be used in biology to signal that a molecule or chemical is to be bound to another molecule... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley%27s%20theorem | In probability theory, Dudley's theorem is a result relating the expected upper bound and regularity properties of a Gaussian process to its entropy and covariance structure.
History
The result was first stated and proved by V. N. Sudakov, as pointed out in a paper by Richard M. Dudley. Dudley had earlier credited Vol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20peer%20review | In engineering, technical peer review is a well defined review process for finding and correcting defects conducted by a team of peers with assigned roles. Technical peer reviews are carried out by peers representing areas of life cycle affected by material being reviewed (usually limited to 6 or fewer people). Technic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement%20and%20Surveying%20Radar | In open pit mining operations, people and equipment are constantly at the base of a steep, man-made slope (the highwall or pit-wall). Instances where this slope fails resulting in a rock or earthfall can result in loss of life, injuries and damage or destruction of equipment (see mining). It has been found that, over t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20isolation | Process isolation is a set of different hardware and software technologies designed to protect each process from other processes on the operating system. It does so by preventing process A from writing to process B.
Process isolation can be implemented with virtual address space, where process A's address space is dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammability%20diagram | Flammability diagrams show the control of flammability in mixtures of fuel, oxygen and an inert gas, typically nitrogen. Mixtures of the three gasses are usually depicted in a triangular diagram, known as a ternary plot. Such diagrams are available in the speciality literature. The same information can be depicted i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction%20surveying | Construction surveying or building surveying (otherwise known as "staking", "stake-out", "lay-out", "setting-out" or "BS") is to provide dimensional control for all stages of construction work, including the stake out of reference points and markers that will guide the construction of new structures such as roads, rail... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity%20calculus | Quantity calculus is the formal method for describing the mathematical relations between abstract physical quantities.
Its roots can be traced to Fourier's concept of dimensional analysis (1822). The basic axiom of quantity calculus is Maxwell's description of a physical quantity as the product of a "numerical value"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolerance%20analysis | Tolerance analysis is the general term for activities related to the study of accumulated variation in mechanical parts and assemblies. Its methods may be used on other types of systems subject to accumulated variation, such as mechanical and electrical systems. Engineers analyze tolerances for the purpose of evaluatin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon%20synapse | The ribbon synapse is a type of neuronal synapse characterized by the presence of an electron-dense structure, the synaptic ribbon, that holds vesicles close to the active zone. It is characterized by a tight vesicle-calcium channel coupling that promotes rapid neurotransmitter release and sustained signal transmission... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20compatibility%20branch%20and%20bound | Joint compatibility branch and bound (JCBB) is an algorithm in computer vision and robotics commonly used for data association in simultaneous localization and mapping. JCBB measures the joint compatibility of a set of pairings that successfully rejects spurious matchings and is hence known to be robust in complex envi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Health%20and%20Retirement%20Longitudinal%20Study | The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) is a longitudinal survey being conducted by the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University with Professor Yaohui Zhao of Peking University serving as Principal Investigator and Professors John Strauss of the University of Southern California and A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptu%20%28programming%20environment%29 | Impromptu is a Mac OS X programming environment for live coding. Impromptu is built around the Scheme language, which is a member of the Lisp family of languages. The source code of its core has been opened as the Extempore project.
Description
The environment allows to make changes to a program at runtime, so varia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci%20cube | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Fibonacci cubes or Fibonacci networks are a family of undirected graphs with rich recursive properties derived from its origin in number theory. Mathematically they are similar to the hypercube graphs, but with a Fibonacci number of vertices. Fibonacci cubes were first exp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20security | Open security is the use of open source philosophies and methodologies to approach computer security and other information security challenges. Traditional application security is based on the premise that any application or service (whether it is malware or desirable) relies on security through obscurity.
Open source... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20electrophoresis | Affinity electrophoresis is a general name for many analytical methods used in biochemistry and biotechnology. Both qualitative and quantitative information may be obtained through affinity electrophoresis. Cross electrophoresis, the first affinity electrophoresis method, was created by Nakamura et al. Enzyme-substrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersolvable%20arrangement | In mathematics, a supersolvable arrangement is a hyperplane arrangement which has a maximal flag with only modular elements. Equivalently, the intersection semilattice of the arrangement is a
supersolvable lattice, in the sense of Richard P. Stanley. As shown by Hiroaki Terao,
a complex hyperplane arrangement is su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy%20Slyusarchuk | Andriy Tykhonovych Slyusarchuk (, born 10 May 1971) is a Ukrainian mnemonist who has claimed to be a general aviation pilot, a psychotherapist, a Doctor of Science in medicine, a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a neurosurgeon. He performed brain surgery throughout Ukraine in state and municipal hospitals. Slyusarchuk ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoBuddy | CryptoBuddy is a simple software application for the encryption and compression of computer files to make them safe and secure. The application uses a 64-bit block cipher algorithm for encryption and a proprietary compression algorithm. The CryptoBuddy software is also used as part of the CryptoStick encryption device ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20propeller | Marine composite propellers are ship propellers, usually made from fiber composites like glass or carbon-fibers. They are infused with a high-strength resin like epoxy or polyimide. These composites are made from strong, light, high-tech materials. Such composite propellers can be produced in several ways, including va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20lag | Display lag is a phenomenon associated with most types of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) like smartphones and computers and nearly all types of high-definition televisions (HDTVs). It refers to latency, or lag between when the signal is sent to the display and when the display starts to show that signal. This lag time ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreflector | A Photoreflector is a light emitting diode and a phototransistor housed in a compact package that can be used for detection of proximity and colour of objects.
They are a popular component in line following robots and other robotics.
Notes
Diodes
Robotics hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull%20kelp | Bull kelp is a common name for the brown alga Nereocystis luetkeana which is a true kelp in the family Laminariaceae.
Species in the genus Durvillaea are also sometimes called "bull kelp", but this is just a shortening of the common name southern bull kelp. Durvillaea is a genus in the order Fucales and, though super... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation-based%20learning | Explanation-based learning (EBL) is a form of machine learning that exploits a very strong, or even perfect, domain theory (i.e. a formal theory of an application domain akin to a domain model in ontology engineering, not to be confused with Scott's domain theory) in order to make generalizations or form concepts from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a fence, also called a zigzag poset, is a partially ordered set (poset) in which the order relations form a path with alternating orientations:
or
A fence may be finite, or it may be formed by an infinite alternating sequence extending in both directions. The incidence posets of path graphs form examp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus%20theory | In the mathematical theory of games, genus theory in impartial games is a theory by which some games played under the misère play convention can be analysed, to predict the outcome class of games.
Genus theory was first published in the book On Numbers and Games, and later in Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole%20genome%20sequencing | Whole genome sequencing (WGS), also known as full genome sequencing, complete genome sequencing, or entire genome sequencing, is the process of determining the entirety, or nearly the entirety, of the DNA sequence of an organism's genome at a single time. This entails sequencing all of an organism's chromosomal DNA as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indistinguishability%20quotient | In combinatorial game theory, and particularly in the theory of impartial games in misère play, an indistinguishability quotient is a commutative monoid
that generalizes and localizes the Sprague–Grundy theorem for a specific game's rule set.
In the specific case of misere-play impartial games, such commutative monoid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20preemption | In computer operating system design, kernel preemption is a property possessed by some kernels (the cores of operating systems), in which the CPU can be interrupted in the middle of executing kernel code and assigned other tasks (from which it later returns to finish its kernel tasks).
Details
Specifically, the schedu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20framework | A CSS framework is a library allowing for easier, more standards-compliant web design using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Most of these frameworks contain at least a grid. More functional frameworks also come with more features and additional JavaScript based functions, but are mostly design oriented and focused... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-reliant%20species | Conservation-reliant species are animal or plant species that require continuing species-specific wildlife management intervention such as predator control, habitat management and parasite control to survive, even when a self-sustainable recovery in population is achieved.
History
The term "conservation-reliant spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A10%20Networks | A10 Networks is an American public company specializing in the manufacturing of application delivery controllers (software and hardware). Founded in 2004 by Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks, A10 originally serviced just the identity management market with its line of ID Series products. In early 2007, they adde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicatively%20closed%20set | In abstract algebra, a multiplicatively closed set (or multiplicative set) is a subset S of a ring R such that the following two conditions hold:
,
for all .
In other words, S is closed under taking finite products, including the empty product 1.
Equivalently, a multiplicative set is a submonoid of the multiplicativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%20Safety%20Foundation | The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety. FSF brings together aviation professionals to help solve safety problems and bring an international perspective to aviation safety-related issues f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrapper%20library | Wrapper libraries (or library wrappers) consist of a thin layer of code (a "shim") which translates a library's existing interface into a compatible interface. This is done for several reasons:
To refine a poorly designed or complicated interface
Allow code to work together which otherwise cannot (e.g. incompatible ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20and%20artificial%20intelligence | Artificial intelligence and music (AIM) is a common subject in the International Computer Music Conference, the Computing Society Conference and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The first International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) was held in 1974 at Michigan State University. Current ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firetide | Firetide is an American, international provider of wireless mesh network technology. It is a division of UNICOM Global. Based in the Silicon Valley, Firetide designs and sells hardware and software for wireless technology.
Corporate history
Firetide was founded in 2001, under the name Landmark Networks, to provide ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal%20observer%20analysis | Ideal observer analysis is a method for investigating how information is processed in a perceptual system. It is also a basic principle that guides modern research in perception.
The ideal observer is a theoretical system that performs a specific task in an optimal way. If there is uncertainty in the task, then perf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20entrepreneurship | Software entrepreneurship has a different set of developing strategies than other business start-ups. The development of software, a digital "soft" good, involves different business models, product strategy, people management, and development plan compared to the traditional manufacturing and service industries. For ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgenesis | Cisgenesis is a product designation for a category of genetically engineered plants. A variety of classification schemes have been proposed that order genetically modified organisms based on the nature of introduced genotypical changes, rather than the process of genetic engineering.
Cisgenesis (etymology: cis = same ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagging%20of%20Pacific%20Predators | Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) began in 2000 as one of many projects formed by Census of Marine Life, an organization whose goal is to help understand and explain the diversity and abundances of the ocean in the past, present, and future. After they were formed, TOPP began by building a coalition of researchers fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20frame | A synchronous frame is a reference frame in which the time coordinate defines proper time for all co-moving observers. It is built by choosing some constant time hypersurface as an origin, such that has in every point a normal along the time line and a light cone with an apex in that point can be constructed; all inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvency%20ratio | A solvency ratio measures the extent to which assets cover commitments for future payments, the liabilities.
The solvency ratio of an insurance company is the size of its capital relative to all risks it has taken. The solvency ratio is most often defined as:
The solvency ratio is a measure of the risk an insurer fac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta%20Persistence%20Query%20Language | The Jakarta Persistence Query Language (JPQL; formerly Java Persistence Query Language) is a platform-independent object-oriented query language defined as part of the Jakarta Persistence (JPA; formerly Java Persistence API) specification.
JPQL is used to make queries against entities stored in a relational database. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEE%20method | In mathematics, the FEE method, or fast E-function evaluation method, is the method of fast summation of series of a special form. It was constructed in 1990 by Ekaterina Karatsuba and is so-named because it makes fast computations of the Siegel -functions possible, in particular of .
A class of functions, which are "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobility%20model | Mobility models characterize the movements of mobile users with respect to their location, velocity and direction over a period of time. These models play an vital role in the design of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks(MANET). Most of the times simulators play a significant role in testing the features of mobile ad hoc networks... |
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