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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Point%20Interface | The Multi-Point Interface – Siemens (MPI) is a proprietary interface of the programmable logic controller SIMATIC S7 of the company Siemens.
It is used for connecting the stations programming (PC or personal computer), operator consoles, and other devices in the SIMATIC family. This technology has inspired the develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20setting | Mode setting is a software operation that activates a display mode (screen resolution, color depth, and refresh rate) for a computer's display controller by using VESA BIOS Extensions or UEFI Graphics extensions (on more modern computers).
The display mode is set by the kernel. In user-space mode-setting (UMS), the di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass | LastPass is a password manager application owned by GoTo (formerly LogMeIn Inc.). The standard version of LastPass comes with a web interface, but also includes plugins for various web browsers and apps for many smartphones. It also includes support for bookmarklets.
LastPass suffered significant security incidents be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20hardware | Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the case, central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), monitor, mouse, keyboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, speakers and motherboard.
By contrast, software is the set of instructions that can be stored and run by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crompton%20Loom%20Works | The Crompton Loom Works is an historic industrial complex of the Crompton Corporation at 132-142 Green Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The factory manufactured looms for textile factories. With its original portion dating to 1860, the complex is one of the oldest surviving industrial sites in the city. The facili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Machine%20Image | An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a special type of virtual appliance that is used to create a virtual machine within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2"). It serves as the basic unit of deployment for services delivered using EC2.
Overview
Like all virtual appliances, the main component of an AMI is a read-onl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate%20equivalent | A gate equivalent (GE) stands for a unit of measure which allows specifying manufacturing-technology-independent complexity of digital electronic circuits.
For today's CMOS technologies, the silicon area of a two-input drive-strength-one NAND gate usually constitutes the technology-dependent unit area commonly referred... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Future%20Is%20Wild%20%282007%20TV%20series%29 | The Future is Wild is an animated adventure television series based on Canadian 2003 joint Animal Planet/ORF (Austria) and ZDF (Germany) co-production The Future is Wild, developed by Nelvana, Teletoon and IVL Animation, in association with Discovery Kids and directed by Mike Fallows, with characters and creatures desi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmatron | The Plasmatron, or technically plasma addressed liquid crystal (PALC), is a color television display technology developed by Tektronix and Sony in the 1990s. PALC displays combine rows formed from liquid crystals with columns formed from plasma cells, the latter replacing the transistorized switching in a conventional ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projekt%20Dyabola | Projekt Dyabola (the Dyabola project) is a software for creating and browsing bibliographic data and image collections, specifically targeted to the humanities community. The program is built and maintained by the Biering & Brinkmann company of Germany, and access to a web version is available through subscription. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megakaryocyte%E2%80%93erythroid%20progenitor%20cell | Megakaryocyte–erythroid progenitor cells, among other blood cells, are generated as a result of hematopoiesis, which occurs in the bone marrow. Hematopoietic stem cells can differentiate into one of two progenitor cells: the common lymphoid progenitor and the common myeloid progenitor. MEPs derive from the common myelo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Flaherty | Lauren Flaherty was the chief marketing officer and executive vice president of CA Technologies, an enterprise software firm.
She joined CA in August 2013, after two consecutive CMO roles with Juniper Networks and Nortel Networks and a 25-year marketing career at IBM. In addition to her role at CA, Flaherty serves on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griesmer%20bound | In the mathematics of coding theory, the Griesmer bound, named after James Hugo Griesmer, is a bound on the length of linear binary codes of dimension k and minimum distance d.
There is also a very similar version for non-binary codes.
Statement of the bound
For a binary linear code, the Griesmer bound is:
Proof
L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLR%20grammar | SLR grammars are the class of formal grammars accepted by a Simple LR parser. SLR grammars are a superset of all LR(0) grammars and a subset of all LALR(1) and LR(1) grammars.
When processed by an SLR parser, an SLR grammar is converted into parse tables with no shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts for any combina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurimeter | A plurimeter is a hand-held measuring instrument for determining surface area or relative angles between surfaces. The device uses mechanical action for calculating the result, analogous to a slide rule. In modern technology, these results are computed by calculator or computer rather than by mechanical instrument.
Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat%20culture | A throat culture is a laboratory diagnostic test that evaluates for the presence of a bacterial or fungal infection in the throat. A sample from the throat is collected by swabbing the throat and placing the sample into a special cup (culture) that allows infections to grow. If an organism grows, the culture is positiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism%20%28biology%29 | In biology, metamerism is the phenomenon of having a linear series of body segments fundamentally similar in structure, though not all such structures are entirely alike in any single life form because some of them perform special functions.
In animals, metameric segments are referred to as somites or metameres. In pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop%20diversity | Crop diversity or crop biodiversity is the variety and variability of crops, plants used in agriculture, including their genetic and phenotypic characteristics. It is a subset of and a specific element of agricultural biodiversity. Over the past 50 years, there has been a major decline in two components of crop diversi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20integer | In number theory, quadratic integers are a generalization of the usual integers to quadratic fields. Quadratic integers are algebraic integers of degree two, that is, solutions of equations of the form
with and (usual) integers. When algebraic integers are considered, the usual integers are often called rational ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoblast%20milk%20protein | Osteoblast milk protein (OMP, ) is the name used by Mengniu, a Chinese dairy company, for a milk protein used as a food additive in their Milk Deluxe () since 2005. It is supposed to help the absorption of calcium and promote bone growth in the osteoblasts and prevent osteoporosis.
In February 2009, the safety of OMP ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-prism%20dispersion%20theory | The first description of multiple-prism arrays, and multiple-prism dispersion, was given by Newton in his book Opticks. Prism pair expanders were introduced by Brewster in 1813. A modern mathematical description of the single-prism dispersion was given by Born and Wolf in 1959. The generalized multiple-prism dispersi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20J.%20Rutter | William J. Rutter (born August 28, 1928) is an American biochemist who cofounded the early biotechnology company Chiron Corporation together with Edward Penhoet and Pablo DT Valenzuela. As chairman of the department of biochemistry and biophysics of the University of California, San Francisco, Rutter helped establish ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Welding%20Institute | Originally registered as the Institution of Welding Engineers in 1923, The Welding Institute has grown and changed over the intervening decades, yet maintains a specialisation in welding, joining and allied technologies.
It now encompasses a professional membership institution (‘The Welding Institute’) and an engineer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIMAT | CLIMAT is a code for reporting monthly climatological data assembled at land-based meteorological surface observation sites to data centres. CLIMAT-coded messages contain information on several meteorological variables that are important to monitor characteristics, changes, and variability of climate. Usually these mes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-simulation%20coordinator | MUSIC (Multi-Simulation Coordinator) is software developed and released by the INCF and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) School of Computer Science and Communication in Stockholm, Sweden. MUSIC is designed for interconnecting
large scale neuronal network simulators, either with each other or with other
tools. It all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%20Systems | Epoch Systems Inc., founded in December 1986, was a hardware and software company providing Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) file servers, and distributed storage management and data backup software. The company was founded by Ken Holberger, Chuck Holland, and Gregory Kenley. Holberger and Holland had worked toget... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS%207007%20incident | The AS 7007 incident was a major disruption of the Internet on April 25, 1997, that started with a router operated by autonomous system 7007 (MAI Network Services, although sometimes incorrectly attributed to the Florida Internet Exchange) accidentally leaking a substantial part of its entire routing table to the Inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InStat | InStat Sport is a sports performance analysis company. It was founded in Moscow in 2007, and has international offices and over 900 company representatives. Regional company headquarters are located in Dublin and Philadelphia.
InStat claims that media that use its products include the Russian national sports channel M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS%20Computers | CMS Computers is a manufacturer of desktop, laptop and tablet computers based in Warrington, UK. It primarily trades under the brand Zoostorm. The company was founded in 1993, and acquired by VIP Group in 2011.
In a 2009 press release, CMS Computers cited Microsoft figures placing the company as the fifth largest manu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%2060 | The Dana/Spicer Model 60 is an automotive axle manufactured by Dana Holding Corporation and used in OEM pickup and limited passenger car applications by Chevrolet, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Ford and Land Rover. There are front and rear versions of the Dana 60. It can be readily identified by its straight axle tubes, 10 bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESlick | The eSlick is a discontinued e-book reader, an electronic book (e-book) reading device developed by Foxit Software. It has a 6-inch E Ink screen, 600x800 pixel resolution with 4-level gray scale and a mass of 180 g. The device supports text and PDF format for reading and includes Foxit's PDF Creator and Reader Pro Pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk%20basic%20protein | Milk basic protein (MBP) is a fraction of whey protein found in milk. Separated from milk through the process of fractionation, it is a functional compound and consists of several milk proteins which are biologically active. The composition is approximately 54% lactoferrin and 41% lactoperoxidase, with other active pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20ensemble | In the theory of random matrices, the circular ensembles are measures on spaces of unitary matrices introduced by Freeman Dyson as modifications of the Gaussian matrix ensembles. The three main examples are the circular orthogonal ensemble (COE) on symmetric unitary matrices, the circular unitary ensemble (CUE) on un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger%20conjecture%20%28combinatorial%20geometry%29 | In combinatorial geometry, the Hadwiger conjecture states that any convex body in n-dimensional Euclidean space can be covered by 2n or fewer smaller bodies homothetic with the original body, and that furthermore, the upper bound of 2n is necessary if and only if the body is a parallelepiped. There also exists an equiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20Beauty%20Is%20Truth | Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry is a 2007 book by Ian Stewart.
Overview
Following the life and work of famous mathematicians from antiquity to the present, Stewart traces mathematics' developing handling of the concept of symmetry. One of the first takeaways, established in the preface of this book, is that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor%20and%20Extract%20Manufacturers%20Association | The Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) is a food industry trade group based in the United States. FEMA was founded in 1909 by several flavor firms in response to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Founding members were McCormick & Company, Ulman Driefus & Company, Jones Brothers, Blank... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20C.%20Rose%20Award | The William C. Rose Award given by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology recognizes outstanding contributions to biochemical and molecular biological research and a demonstrated commitment to the training of younger scientists, as epitomized by the late American nutritionist William Cumming Rose. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lune%20of%20Hippocrates | In geometry, the lune of Hippocrates, named after Hippocrates of Chios, is a lune bounded by arcs of two circles, the smaller of which has as its diameter a chord spanning a right angle on the larger circle. Equivalently, it is a non-convex plane region bounded by one 180-degree circular arc and one 90-degree circular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB | MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and current versions are licensed under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) which is considered non-free... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Society%20for%20Aeronautics%20and%20Astronautics | German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR; ) is a German aerospace society. It was founded in 1912 under the name of Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Flugtechnik (WGF). It is the second oldest technical and scientific society in aerospace in the world.
The DGLR published some of the Zeitschrift für Flugt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam-index%20tube | The beam-index tube is a color television cathode ray tube (CRT) design, using phosphor stripes and active-feedback timing, rather than phosphor dots and a beam-shadowing mask as developed by RCA. Beam indexing offered much brighter pictures than shadow-mask CRTs, reducing power consumption, and as they used a single e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological%20rule | A phonological rule is a formal way of expressing a systematic phonological or morphophonological process or diachronic sound change in language. Phonological rules are commonly used in generative phonology as a notation to capture sound-related operations and computations the human brain performs when producing or co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectivization | In mathematics, projectivization is a procedure which associates with a non-zero vector space V a projective space , whose elements are one-dimensional subspaces of V. More generally, any subset S of V closed under scalar multiplication defines a subset of formed by the lines contained in S and is called the projectiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel%20Wifi | DHI Telecom, LLC is a US commercial Internet service provider (ISP) that operates on U.S. and NATO bases in the Middle East including Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. DHI provides wired, fiber-optic cable, mobile Wi-Fi, and wireless commercial Internet access to US, coalition armed forces, direct-hire DoD, Department of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20NMS-1205 | The Philips NMS-1205 was a MSX AUDIO cartridge (without BIOS) using the Yamaha Y8950 chip (released in 1984).
NMS-1205 was only sold in Europe for the MSX Personal Computer.
This cartridge featured FM sound synthesizer, Sound sampler (ADPCM with 32 kB sample RAM), MIDI interface, audio & MIDI I/O connectors, and also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ax%E2%80%93Grothendieck%20theorem | In mathematics, the Ax–Grothendieck theorem is a result about injectivity and surjectivity of polynomials that was proved independently by James Ax and Alexander Grothendieck.
The theorem is often given as this special case: If P is an injective polynomial function from an n-dimensional complex vector space to itself ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapfit | Lapfit is a second screen for laptops introduced by Samsung in February 2009.
These monitors include DisplayLink USB graphics technology to allow a video connection using USB only.
Features
USB Plug & Play monitor, specially designed for laptops
Magic Bright supports one-touch brightness adjustment
16:9 screen
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Pike | Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author.
Life and works
He is best known for his work on the Go programming language and, earlier, at Bell Labswhere he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20interface | In the Java programming language, the constant interface pattern describes the use of an interface solely to define constants, and having classes implement that interface in order to achieve convenient syntactic access to those constants.
However, since constants are very often merely an implementation detail, and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%27s%20transform | Dyson's transform is a fundamental technique in additive number theory. It was developed by Freeman Dyson as part of his proof of Mann's theorem, is used to prove such fundamental results of Additive Number Theory as the Cauchy-Davenport theorem, and was used by Olivier Ramaré in his work on the Goldbach conjecture tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20camera%20system | In 3D video games, a virtual camera system aims at controlling a camera or a set of cameras to display a view of a 3D virtual world. Camera systems are used in video games where their purpose is to show the action at the best possible angle; more generally, they are used in 3D virtual worlds when a third-person view is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachymetric%20anti-aircraft%20fire%20control%20system | A tachymetric anti-aircraft fire control system generates target position, speed, direction, and rate of target range change, by computing these parameters directly from measured data.
The target's range, height and observed bearing data are fed into a computer which uses the measured change in range, height and beari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20sorting | Optical sorting (sometimes called digital sorting) is the automated process of sorting solid products using cameras and/or lasers.
Depending on the types of sensors used and the software-driven intelligence of the image processing system, optical sorters can recognize an object's color, size, shape, structural propert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffness%20matrix | In the finite element method for the numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations, the stiffness matrix is a matrix that represents the system of linear equations that must be solved in order to ascertain an approximate solution to the differential equation.
The stiffness matrix for the Poisson proble... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20Sensor%20Web | The Semantic Sensor Web (SSW) is a marriage of sensor web and semantic Web technologies. The encoding of sensor descriptions and sensor observation data with Semantic Web languages enables more expressive representation, advanced access, and formal analysis of sensor resources. The SSW annotates sensor data with spati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20G%20%28supercomputer%29 | System G is a cluster supercomputer at Virginia Tech consisting of 324 Apple Mac Pro computers with a total of 2592 processing cores. It was finished in November 2008 and ranked 279 in that month's edition of TOP500, running at 16.78 teraflops and peaking at 22.94 teraflops. It now runs at a "sustained (Linpack) perfor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20generation%20in%20integrated%20circuits | The heat dissipation in integrated circuits problem has gained an increasing interest in recent years due to the miniaturization of semiconductor devices. The temperature increase becomes relevant for cases of relatively small-cross-sections wires, because such temperature increase may affect the normal behavior of sem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20simulations%20for%20integrated%20circuits | Miniaturizing components has always been a primary goal in the semiconductor industry because it cuts production cost and lets companies build smaller computers and other devices. Miniaturization, however, has increased dissipated power per unit area and made it a key limiting factor in integrated circuit performance. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetScreen%20Technologies | NetScreen Technologies was an American technology company that was acquired by Juniper Networks for US$4 billion stock for stock in 2004.
NetScreen Technologies developed ASIC-based Internet security systems and appliances that delivered high performance firewall, VPN and traffic shaping functionality to Internet data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes | Malwarebytes Inc. is an American Internet security company that specializes in protecting home computers, smartphones, and companies from malware and other threats. It has offices in Santa Clara, California; Clearwater, Florida; Tallinn, Estonia; Bastia Umbra, Italy; and Cork, Ireland.
Marcin Kleczynski has been the C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swendsen%E2%80%93Wang%20algorithm | The Swendsen–Wang algorithm is the first non-local or cluster algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation for large systems near criticality. It has been introduced by Robert Swendsen and Jian-Sheng Wang in 1987 at Carnegie Mellon.
The original algorithm was designed for the Ising and Potts models, and it was later generaliz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20management | Email management is a specific field of communications management for managing high volumes of inbound electronic mail received by organizations. Today, email management is an essential component of customer service management. Customer service call centers currently employ email response management agents along with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilinear%20polynomial | In algebra, a multilinear polynomial is a multivariate polynomial that is linear (meaning affine) in each of its variables separately, but not necessarily simultaneously. It is a polynomial in which no variable occurs to a power of 2 or higher; that is, each monomial is a constant times a product of distinct variables.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20blot | The eastern blot, or eastern blotting, is a biochemical technique used to analyze protein post-translational modifications including the addition of lipids, phosphates, and glycoconjugates. It is most often used to detect carbohydrate epitopes. Thus, eastern blot can be considered an extension of the biochemical techni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut%20%28earthworks%29 | In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock from a relative rise along a route is removed. The term is also used in river management to speed a waterway's flow by short-cutting a meander.
Cuts are typically used in road, rail, and canal construction to reduce the length and grade of a route. Cut and f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeotic%20gene | Homeotic genes are genes which regulate the development of anatomical structures in various organisms such as echinoderms, insects, mammals, and plants. Homeotic genes often encode transcription factor proteins, and these proteins affect development by regulating downstream gene networks involved in body patterning.
M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20optimizer | A power optimizer is a DC to DC converter technology developed to maximize the energy harvest from solar photovoltaic or wind turbine systems. They do this by individually tuning the performance of the panel or wind turbine through maximum power point tracking, and optionally tuning the output to match the performance ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater%20acoustic%20positioning%20system | An underwater acoustic positioning system is a system for the tracking and navigation of underwater vehicles or divers by means of acoustic distance and/or direction measurements, and subsequent position triangulation. Underwater acoustic positioning systems are commonly used in a wide variety of underwater work, inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-driven%20priority | Time-driven priority (TDP)
is a synchronous packet scheduling technique that implements UTC-based pipeline forwarding
and can be combined with conventional IP routing to achieve the higher flexibility than another pipeline forwarding implementation known as time-driven switching (TDS) or fractional lambda switching (Fλ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20lambda%20switching | Fractional lambda switching (FλS) leverages on time-driven switching (TDS) to realize sub-lambda switching in highly scalable dynamic optical networking, which requires minimum (possibly optical) buffers. Fractional lambda switching implies switching fractions of optical channels as opposed to whole lambda switching w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylighting%20%28tunnels%29 | Daylighting a tunnel is to remove its "roof" of overlying rock and soil, exposing the railway or roadway to daylight and converting it to a railway or roadway cut. Tunnels are often daylighted to improve vertical or horizontal clearances—for example, to accommodate double-stack container trains or electrifying rail lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20differentiation | In calculus, logarithmic differentiation or differentiation by taking logarithms is a method used to differentiate functions by employing the logarithmic derivative of a function ,
The technique is often performed in cases where it is easier to differentiate the logarithm of a function rather than the function itself... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E2open | e2open, LLC is a business-to-business provider of cloud-based, on-demand software for supply chains for computer, telecom and electronics systems, components and services. The company was founded in 2000 as a joint project of 8 major companies: Hitachi, IBM, LG Electronics, Matsushita, Nortel, Seagate, Solectron, and T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20spot%20%28computer%20programming%29 | A hot spot in computer science is most usually defined as a region of a computer program where a high proportion of executed instructions occur or where most time is spent during the program's execution (not necessarily the same thing since some instructions are faster than others).
If a program is interrupted randoml... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WolframAlpha | WolframAlpha ( ) is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It answers factual queries by computing answers from externally sourced data.
WolframAlpha was released on May 18, 2009, and is based on Wolfram's earlier product Wolfram Mathematica, a technical computing platform. WolframAlpha gathers data from acad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation%20SWI | ISWI (Imitation SWItch) is one of the five major DNA chromatin remodeling complex types, or subfamilies, found in most eukaryotic organisms. ISWI remodeling complexes place nucleosomes along segments of DNA at regular intervals. The placement of nucleosomes by ISWI protein complexes typically results in the silencing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber%20duck%20debugging | In software engineering, rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking) is a method of debugging code by articulating a problem in spoken or written natural language. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroglottograph | The electroglottograph, or EGG, (also referred to as a laryngograph) is a device used for the noninvasive measurement of the degree of contact between the vibrating vocal folds during voice production. Though it is difficult to verify the assumption precisely, the aspect of contact being measured by a typical EGG unit ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaeffer%E2%80%93Fulton%20stain | The Schaeffer–Fulton stain is a technique designed to isolate endospores by staining any present endospores green, and any other bacterial bodies red. The primary stain is malachite green, and the counterstain is safranin, which dyes any other bacterial bodies red.
Endospores cannot be stained by normal staining proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarMagic | SolarMagic is a subsidiary brand of Texas Instruments, selling electronics for photovoltaic (PV) systems. It was established in 2008 as a subsidiary brand of National Semiconductor. The brand name was carried through when TI purchased National Semiconductor in 2011.
Products
The original SolarMagic device was a propri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20charger | Universal charger or common charger refers to various projects to standardize the connectors of power supplies, particularly for battery-powered devices.
Since the publication of the USB Power Delivery standard in 2012, and the USB-C connector in 2014, USB-C has become a widespread standard for charging mobile phones.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LumenVox | LumenVox is a privately held speech recognition software company based in San Diego, California. LumenVox has been described as one of the market leaders in the speech recognition software industry.
History
LumenVox was founded in 2001 as subsidiary of Progressive Computing. According to LumenVox CEO Edward Miller, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20radio%20licensing | An Internet radio license is a specific type of broadcast license that allows the licensee to operate an Internet radio station. The licensing authority and number of licenses required varies from country to country, with some countries requiring multiple to cover various areas of a station's operation, and other count... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20orientation | Galactic clusters are gravitationally bound large-scale structures of multiple galaxies. The evolution of these aggregates is determined by time and manner of formation and the process of how their structures and constituents have been changing with time. Gamow (1952) and Weizscker (1951) showed that the observed rotat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta-Color | General Electric's Porta-Color was the first "portable" color television introduced in the United States in 1966.
The Porta-Color set introduced a new variation of the shadow mask display tube. It had the electron guns arranged in an in-line configuration, rather than RCA's delta arrangement. The main benefit of the i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacketFence | PacketFence is an open-source network access control (NAC) system which provides the following features: registration, detection of abnormal network activities, proactive vulnerability scans, isolation of problematic devices, remediation through a captive portal, 802.1X, wireless integration and User-Agent / DHCP finge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20prototyping | Virtual prototyping is a method in the process of product development. It involves using computer-aided design (CAD), computer-automated design (CAutoD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) software to validate a design before committing to making a physical prototype. This is done by creating (usually 3D) computer gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Data%20Record | A Climate Data Record (CDR) is a specific definition of a climate data series, developed by the Committee on Climate Data Records from NOAA Operational Satellites of the National Research Council at the request of NOAA in the context of satellite records. It is defined as "a time series of measurements of sufficient le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson%20matrix | In linear algebra, Wilkinson matrices are symmetric, tridiagonal, order-N matrices with pairs of nearly, but not exactly, equal eigenvalues. It is named after the British mathematician James H. Wilkinson. For N = 7, the Wilkinson matrix is given by
Wilkinson matrices have applications in many fields, including scienti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichm%C3%BCller%E2%80%93Tukey%20lemma | In mathematics, the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma (sometimes named just Tukey's lemma), named after John Tukey and Oswald Teichmüller, is a lemma that states that every nonempty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion. Over Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma is equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillating%20gene | In molecular biology, an oscillating gene is a gene that is expressed in a rhythmic pattern or in periodic cycles. Oscillating genes are usually circadian and can be identified by periodic changes in the state of an organism. Circadian rhythms, controlled by oscillating genes, have a period of approximately 24 hours. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Shiro | Apache Shiro (pronounced "sheeroh", a Japanese word for castle ) is an open source software security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography and session management. Shiro has been designed to be an intuitive and easy-to-use framework while still providing robust security features.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunomodulation | Immunomodulation is modulation (regulatory adjustment) of the immune system. It has natural and human-induced forms, and thus the word can refer to the following:
Homeostasis in the immune system, whereby the system self-regulates to adjust immune responses to adaptive rather than maladaptive levels (using regulatory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20television | Advanced television is an array of features enabled by digital technology that significantly change analog television as it has come to be known during the 20th century. The term "advanced television" was first used at the MIT Media Lab in the early 1990s to explain why high-definition television was only an early step... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20critical%20solution%20temperature | The upper critical solution temperature (UCST) or upper consolute temperature is the critical temperature above which the components of a mixture are miscible in all proportions. The word upper indicates that the UCST is an upper bound to a temperature range of partial miscibility, or miscibility for certain compositio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontenelle%20Dam | Fontenelle Dam was built between 1961 and 1964 on the Green River in southwestern Wyoming. The high zoned earthfill dam impounds the Fontenelle Reservoir. The dam and reservoir are the central features of the Seedskadee Project of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the Fontenelle impoundment primarily as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast-to-noise%20ratio | Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) is a measure used to determine image quality. CNR is similar to the metric signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), but subtracts a term before taking the ratio. This is important when there is a significant bias in an image, such as from haze. As can be seen in the picture at right, the intensity i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smail | Smail-3 is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. It is Free Software and is licensed under the GNU GPL. It aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail and for routing between disparate networks. It is still in use on the Internet, but it has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Fields | Corps Locaux by Jean-Pierre Serre, originally published in 1962 and translated into English as Local Fields by Marvin Jay Greenberg in 1979, is a seminal graduate-level algebraic number theory text covering local fields, ramification, group cohomology, and local class field theory. The book's end goal is to present lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanja%20de%20Alsina | Zanja de Alsina (, Alsina's trench) were a system of trenches and wooden watchtowers (mangrullos) built in the central and southern parts of Buenos Aires Province to defend the territories of the federal government against indigenous Mapuche malones. The -wide trench was reinforced with 80 small strongholds and garriso... |
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