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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Galv%C3%A1n | Jorge Galván (born April 1966 in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and engineer. He is best known for his historical novel "El Hierro y la Pólvora" (Iron and Gunpowder), for which he was awarded the First Novel UNAM – Alfaguara Prize in 2006
Galvan graduated as electronics engineer at the Universidad Autónoma Metropol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20function | In mathematics, a function of variables is symmetric if its value is the same no matter the order of its arguments. For example, a function of two arguments is a symmetric function if and only if for all and such that and are in the domain of The most commonly encountered symmetric functions are polynomial func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20integrity | Code integrity is a measurement used in the software delivery lifecycle. It measures how high the source code's quality is when it is passed on to QA, and is affected by how thoroughly the code was processed by correctness-checking processes (whether manual or automatic). Examples for such correctness-checking processe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuxi | Smuxi is a cross-platform IRC client for the GNOME desktop inspired by Irssi. It pioneered the concept of separating the frontend client from the backend engine which manages connections to IRC servers inside a single graphical application.
Architecture
Smuxi is based on the client–server model: The core application e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Ethyl-3-%283-dimethylaminopropyl%29carbodiimide | 1-Ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC, EDAC or EDCI) is a water-soluble carbodiimide usually handled as the hydrochloride.
It is typically employed in the 4.0-6.0 pH range. It is generally used as a carboxyl activating agent for the coupling of primary amines to yield amide bonds. While other carbodiimid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a relation on a set may, or may not, hold between two given set members.
For example, "is less than" is a relation on the set of natural numbers; it holds e.g. between 1 and 3 (denoted as 1<3) , and likewise between 3 and 4 (denoted as 3<4), but neither between 3 and 1 nor between 4 and 4.
As another e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Help%20Viewer | Microsoft Help Viewer (HV) is the offline help system (local help) developed by Microsoft that ships with versions of Microsoft Windows including and subsequent to Windows 8, as well as Visual Studio 2010 and its associated MSDN Library.
Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x supersedes Microsoft Help 2 which is the help system us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-determinant | In linear algebra and statistics, the pseudo-determinant is the product of all non-zero eigenvalues of a square matrix. It coincides with the regular determinant when the matrix is non-singular.
Definition
The pseudo-determinant of a square n-by-n matrix A may be defined as:
where |A| denotes the usual determinant, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Universal%20Digital%20Computer%20M-2 | The M-2 () was a computer developed at the Laboratory of Electrical Systems in the Institute of Energy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The successor to the M-1, it was developed in 1952 by a team of engineers led by I.S. Brook (or Bruk).
The computer was developed and assembled in the period between April and December... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20Digital%20Computer%20M-1 | The project to build the M-1 or Automatic Digital Computer (ADC) M-1 () was completed at the end of 1951, at the Energetics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Overview
In charge of the Laboratory of Electrosystems was Isaak Semenovich Brook (or Bruk), who obtained the first domestic patent with the title "Digi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%203D%20computer%20graphics%20software | This list of 3D graphics software contains software packages related to the development and exploitation of 3D computer graphics. For a comparison, see Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.
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123D is Autodesk's entry into the hobbyist 3D modelling market.
3D-Coat is a digital sculpting program specializin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability%20in%20Europe | The Association Computability in Europe (ACiE) is an international organization of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, theoretical physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and in their underlying significance for the real world. CiE aims to widen understanding and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC%20II | The UltraSPARC II, code-named "Blackbird", is a microprocessor implementation of the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems. Marc Tremblay was the chief architect. Introduced in 1997, it was further development of the UltraSPARC operating at higher clock frequencies of 250 MHz, eventu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binishell | Binishells are reinforced concrete thin-shell structures that are lifted and shaped by air pressure. They were invented in the 1960s by Dante Bini, who built 1,600 of them in 23 countries.
The Binishell method needs expensive and sophisticated equipment but it remains as one of the fastest and cost-effective ways to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Turing%20Year | The Alan Turing Year, 2012, marked the celebration of the life and scientific influence of Alan Turing during the centenary of his birth on 23 June 1912. Turing had an important influence on computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability and mad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble%20game | In mathematics and computer science, a pebble game is a type of mathematical game played by placing "pebbles" or "markers" on a directed acyclic graph according to certain rules:
A given step of the game consists of either placing a pebble on an empty vertex or removing a pebble from a previously pebbled vertex.
A ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Shasha | Dennis Elliot Shasha is an American professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a division of New York University. He is also an associate director of NYU WIRELESS. His current areas of research include work done with biologists on pattern discovery for microarrays, combinatorial d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind%20mill | A whirlwind mill is a beater mill for pulverising and micro-pulverising in process engineering.
Construction
Whirlwind mills essentially consist of a mill base, a mill cover and a rotor. The inner side of the cover is equipped with wear protection elements. The top of the rotor is equipped with precrushing tools, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder%20deaerator | Powder Deaerators (also powder compactor or powder densifier) are working apparatuses for deaerating and compacting of dry, fine-grained powders. The machine removes excess air and open spaces in the powder, leaving it a more solid, compact, material.
Construction
Powder Deaerators consist of two parallel drums – a f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20tester | Memory testers are specialized test equipment used to test and verify memory modules.
Types
Memory module testers can be broadly categorized into two types, hardware memory testers and software diagnostic programs that run in a PC environment. Hardware memory testers have more sophisticated and comprehensive test fea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Life%20Information%20Network | The Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) is an information system for marine biodiversity for Great Britain and Ireland.
MarLIN was established in 1998 by the Marine Biological Association together with the environmental protection agencies and academic institutions in Britain and Ireland.
The MarLIN data acces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping%20food | Camping food is food brought on or designed for camping, hiking, and backpacking trips. The term also encompasses ingredients that can be used to make said foods. The primary differences relate to campers' and backpackers' special needs for foods that have appropriate cooking time, perishability, weight, and nutritiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fastest%20computers | This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were built.
a. An asterisk (*) denotes Rmaxthe highest score measured using the LINPACK benchmarks suite.
See also
History of supercomputing
Timeline of instructi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonite%2C%20Inc. | Carbonite, Inc. is an American company that offers an online backup service, available to Windows and macOS users. In 2019 it was acquired by Canadian software company OpenText. It backs up documents, e-mails, music, photos, and settings. It is named after carbonite, the fictional substance used to freeze Han Solo in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny%20and%20miny | In mathematics, tiny and miny are operators that yield infinitesimal values when applied to numbers in combinatorial game theory. Given a positive number G, tiny G (denoted by ⧾G in many texts) is equal to {0|{0|-G}} for any game G, whereas miny G (analogously denoted ⧿G) is tiny G's negative, or {{G|0}|0}.
Tiny and m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funai | is a Japanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Daitō, Osaka. Apart from producing its own branded electronic products, it is also an OEM providing assembled televisions and video players/recorders to major corporations such as Sharp, Toshiba, Denon, and others. Funai supplies inkjet printer hardware techno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts%20Loom | The Roberts loom was a cast-iron power loom introduced by Richard Roberts in 1830. It was the first loom that was more viable than a hand loom and was easily adjustable and reliable, which led to its widespread use in the Lancashire cotton industry.
Richard Roberts
Roberts was born at Llanymynech, on the border bet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltar | The Deltar (Delta Getij Analogon Rekenmachine, Dutch for Delta Tide Analog Calculator) was an analog computer, used for the design and implementation of the Delta Works from 1960 until 1984. The computer was based on ideas of Johan van Veen; he also constructed the first prototypes used from 1944-1946. After his death ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterpreted%20function | In mathematical logic, an uninterpreted function or function symbol is one that has no other property than its name and n-ary form. Function symbols are used, together with constants and variables, to form terms.
The theory of uninterpreted functions is also sometimes called the free theory, because it is freely gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldBench | WorldBench is a Windows benchmark
tool offered by PC World Labs since 2000. The PC World Test Center uses this same tool every month to test contenders for PC World's Top Desktop PCs and Top Notebook PCs charts. WorldBench is also used in conjunction with other tests to evaluate Top Graphics Boards, Top Hard Drives, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartGeometry%20Group | SmartGeometry (SG) is a non-profit organization focusing on the use of the computer as an intelligent design aid in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). It encourages collaboration between practicing AEC professionals, academics and students using computational and parametric software tools.
Group informa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20translation | Image translation is the machine translation of images of printed text (posters, banners, menus, screenshots etc.). This is done by applying optical character recognition (OCR) technology to an image to extract any text contained in the image, and then have this text translated into a language of their choice, and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake%20low | A wake low, or wake depression, is a mesoscale low-pressure area which trails the mesoscale high following a squall line. Due to the subsiding warm air associated with the system's formation, clearing skies are associated with the wake low. Once difficult to detect in surface weather observations due to their broad spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20instruction%20set%20architectures | An instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model of a computer, also referred to as computer architecture. A realization of an ISA is called an implementation. An ISA permits multiple implementations that may vary in performance, physical size, and monetary cost (among other things); because the ISA serves as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmlook%2C%20Inc. | Filmlook, Inc. is a post-production company based in Burbank, California. Established in 1989, it specializes in a form of image processing used on television programs, commonly known as film look. The company has won an Emmy Award for its technical achievements.
History
In 1987, company founder Robert Faber began d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo | DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an Internet privacy company. DuckDuckGo offers a number of products oriented towards helping people protect their privacy online, most notably, a private search engine, a tracker-blocking browser extension, email protection and app tracking protection.
The company emphasizes privacy and anonymity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly%20determined%20game | In game theory, a strictly determined game is a two-player zero-sum game that has at least one Nash equilibrium with both players using pure strategies. The value of a strictly determined game is equal to the value of the equilibrium outcome. Most finite combinatorial games, like tic-tac-toe, chess, draughts, and go, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downhole%20heat%20exchanger | A downhole heat exchanger, (DHE) also called a borehole heat exchanger, (BHE) is a heat exchanger installed inside a vertical or inclined borehole. It is used to capture or dissipate heat to or from the ground. DHT's are used for geothermal heating, sometimes with the help of a geothermal heat pump. Downhole heat excha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purnell%20equation | The Purnell equation is an equation used in analytical chemistry to calculate the resolution Rs between two peaks in a chromatogram.
where
Rs is the resolution between the two peaks
N2 is the plate number of the second peak
α is the separation factor between the two peaks
k '2 is the retention factor of the second... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-it-yourself%20biology | Do-it-yourself biology (DIY biology, DIY bio) is a biotechnological social movement in which individuals, communities, and small organizations study biology and life science using the same methods as traditional research institutions. DIY biology is primarily undertaken by individuals with limited research training fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl%3A%3ACritic | Perl::Critic is a static code analysis system for the Perl programming language. Perl::Critic is available as a source-code distribution on CPAN. It comes with a commandline tool, perlcritic, which can check Perl source code files and report on the code quality therein. Perl::Critic has an extensible architecture that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20averaging | Signal averaging is a signal processing technique applied in the time domain, intended to increase the strength of a signal relative to noise that is obscuring it. By averaging a set of replicate measurements, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) will be increased, ideally in proportion to the square root of the number of m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20baseline%20acoustic%20positioning%20system | A short baseline (SBL) acoustic positioning system is one of three broad classes of underwater acoustic positioning systems that are used to track underwater vehicles and divers. The other two classes are ultra short baseline systems (USBL) and long baseline systems (LBL). Like USBL systems, SBL systems do not require ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glide%20OS | Glide OS was a cross-platform web desktop developed by Jumptuit. It was notable for operating on both desktop operating systems, like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and its contemporary mobile operating systems like Apple iOS, Google Android and Honeycomb, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry Tablet OS (QNX), webOS, Sym... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle%20time%20variation | Cycle time variation is a metric and philosophy for continuous improvement with the aim of driving down the deviations in the time it takes to produce successive units on a production line. It supports organizations' application of lean manufacturing or lean production by eliminating wasteful expenditure of resources.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20noise | Transient noise pulses consist of a relatively short pulse followed by decaying low frequency oscillations. The initial peak is often due to an impulse interference, and the following oscillations are due to resonance on the channel that received the initial pulse.
The source of these noise pulses is often channel int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatness%20%28manufacturing%29 | In manufacturing and mechanical engineering, flatness is an important geometric condition for workpieces and tools. Flatness is the condition of a surface or derived median plane having all elements in one plane.
In the manufacture of precision parts and assemblies, especially where parts will be required to be connec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender%E2%80%93Knuth%20involution | In algebraic combinatorics, a Bender–Knuth involution is an involution on the set of semistandard tableaux, introduced by in their study of plane partitions.
Definition
The Bender–Knuth involutions σk are defined for integers k, and act on the set of semistandard skew Young tableaux of some fixed shape μ/ν, where μ a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20signaling%20game | In game theory, the Lewis signaling game is a type of signaling game that features perfect common interest between players. It is named for the philosopher David Lewis who was the first to discuss this game in his Ph.D. dissertation, and later book, Convention.
The game
The underlying game has two players, the sende... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20National%20Glory | Project Guoguang (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Kwet-kwong Kè-va̍k; ) was an attempt by the Republic of China (ROC), based in Taiwan, to reconquer mainland China from the People's Republic of China (PRC) by large scale invasion. It was the most elaborate of the ROCs plans or studies to invade the mainland after 1949. Guoguang was ini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Watson | IBM Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's founder and first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson.
The computer system was ini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotbed | A hotbed is a biological term for an area of decaying organic matter that is warmer than its surroundings. The heat gradient is generated by the decomposition of organic substituent within the pile by microorganism metabolization.
A hotbed covered with a small glass cover (also called a hotbox) is used as a small vers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20game | A search game is a two-person zero-sum game which takes place in a set called the search space. The searcher can choose any continuous trajectory subject to a maximal velocity constraint. It is always assumed that neither the searcher nor the hider has any knowledge about the movement of the other player until their di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-repayment%20mortgage | Analogous to continuous compounding, a continuous annuity is an ordinary annuity in which the payment interval is narrowed indefinitely. A (theoretical) continuous repayment mortgage is a mortgage loan paid by means of a continuous annuity.
Mortgages (i.e., mortgage loans) are generally settled over a period of years ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20infrastructure%20management | Remote infrastructure management (RIM) is the remote management of information technology (IT) infrastructure. This can include the management of computer hardware and software, such as workstations (desktops, laptops, notebooks, etc.), servers, network devices, storage devices, IT security devices, etc. of a company.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer%20arm | A ROMER Arm is a term for a portable coordinate measuring machine ROMER, a company Acquired by the Hexagon AB group, and part of the Manufacturing Intelligence division, designed the ROMER arm in the 1980s to solve the problem of how to measure large objects such as airplanes and car bodies without moving them to a ded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instance-based%20learning | In machine learning, instance-based learning (sometimes called memory-based learning) is a family of learning algorithms that, instead of performing explicit generalization, compare new problem instances with instances seen in training, which have been stored in memory. Because computation is postponed until a new inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting%20similarity | Limiting similarity (informally "limsim") is a concept in theoretical ecology and community ecology that proposes the existence of a maximum level of niche overlap between two given species that will allow continued coexistence.
This concept is a corollary of the competitive exclusion principle, which states that, con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20profiling | A thermal profile is a complex set of time-temperature data typically associated with the measurement of thermal temperatures in an oven (ex: reflow oven). The thermal profile is often measured along a variety of dimensions such as slope, soak, time above liquidus (TAL), and peak.
A thermal profile can be ranked on h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure-based%20combinatorial%20protein%20engineering | Structure-based combinatorial protein engineering (SCOPE) is a synthetic biology technique for creating gene libraries (lineages) of defined composition designed from structural and probabilistic constraints of the encoded proteins. The development of this technique was driven by fundamental questions about protein str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSE%20buffer | TSE or Tris/Saline/EDTA, is a buffer solution containing a mixture of Tris base, Sodium chloride and EDTA.
In molecular biology, TSE buffers are often used in procedures involving nucleic acids. Tris-acid solutions are effective buffers for slightly basic conditions, which keep DNA deprotonated and soluble in water. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1176%20Peak%20Limiter | The 1176 Peak Limiter is a dynamic range compressor designed by the American engineer Bill Putnam and introduced by UREI in 1967. Derived from the 175 and 176 tube compressors, it marked the transition from vacuum tubes to solid-state technology.
With its distinctive tone and its wide range of sounds, deriving from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall%20trap | A pitfall trap is a trapping pit for small animals, such as insects, amphibians and reptiles. Pitfall traps are a sampling technique, mainly used for ecology studies and ecologic pest control. Animals that enter a pitfall trap are unable to escape. This is a form of passive collection, as opposed to active collection w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella%20Abbott | Isabella Aiona Abbott (June 20, 1919 – October 28, 2010) was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist from Hawaii.
The first native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science,
she became a leading expert on Pacific marine algae.
Early life
Abbott was born Isabella Kauakea Yau Yung Aiona in Hana, Maui, Territory of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harding%20Professor%20of%20Statistics%20in%20Public%20Life | The Harding Professorship of Statistics in Public Life (formerly known as the Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk) is a professorship within the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. It was established in 2007 in perpetuity by a benefaction of £3.3m from the Winton Charitable Found... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive%20closure | In mathematics, the reflexive closure of a binary relation on a set is the smallest reflexive relation on that contains A relation is called if it relates every element of to itself.
For example, if is a set of distinct numbers and means " is less than ", then the reflexive closure of is the relation " is le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20closure | In mathematics, the symmetric closure of a binary relation on a set is the smallest symmetric relation on that contains
For example, if is a set of airports and means "there is a direct flight from airport to airport ", then the symmetric closure of is the relation "there is a direct flight either from to or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20of%20Mathematical%20Statistics%20%28Cambridge%29 | The Professorship of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge was established in 1961 with the support of the Royal Statistical Society and the aid of donations from various companies and banks. It was the first professorship in the Statistical Laboratory, and the first in Cambridge University explicitly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostka%20number | In mathematics, the Kostka number (depending on two integer partitions and ) is a non-negative integer that is equal to the number of semistandard Young tableaux of shape and weight . They were introduced by the mathematician Carl Kostka in his study of symmetric functions ().
For example, if and , the Kostka num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20abbreviations | This following list features abbreviated names of mathematical functions, function-like operators and other mathematical terminology.
This list is limited to abbreviations of two or more letters (excluding number sets). The capitalization of some of these abbreviations is not standardized – different authors might use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20irrationality | The concept known as rational irrationality was popularized by economist Bryan Caplan in 2001 to reconcile the widespread existence of irrational behavior (particularly in the realms of religion and politics) with the assumption of rationality made by mainstream economics and game theory. The theory, along with its imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Morse%20code | The Russian Morse code approximates the Morse code for the Latin alphabet. It was enacted by the Russian government in 1856.
To memorize the codes, practitioners use mnemonics known as напевы (loosely translated "melodies" or "chants"). The "melody" corresponding to a character is a sung phrase: syllables containing t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semelparity%20and%20iteroparity | Semelparity and iteroparity are two contrasting reproductive strategies available to living organisms. A species is considered semelparous if it is characterized by a single reproductive episode before death, and iteroparous if it is characterized by multiple reproductive cycles over the course of its lifetime. Iterop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEGASUS | PEGASUS is an encryption algorithm used for satellite telemetry, command link and mission data transfers.
According to budget item justification document for FY 2004–2005, this cryptographic algorithm is used for Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Space-Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS), MILSATCOM, and other Special Proje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Mix | Internet Mix or IMIX refers to typical Internet traffic passing some network equipment such as routers, switches or firewalls. When measuring equipment performance using an IMIX of packets the performance is assumed to resemble what can be seen in "real-world" conditions.
Network equipment that performs complex manip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%20Solomon%27s%20Antivirus | Dr Solomon's Antivirus Toolkit is an antivirus suite which incorporates prevention, detection and repair for Microsoft MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows (up to 98), Novell, SCO Unix, Sun Solaris and OS/2. It was written by Alan Solomon of S&S International.
History
Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit was first created in 1988 a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Butterworth | Brian Lewis Butterworth FBA (born 3 January 1944) is emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, England. His research has ranged from speech errors and pauses, short-term memory deficits, reading and the dyslexias both in alphabetic scripts a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20M.%20Wilson | Richard Michael Wilson (23 November 1945) is a mathematician and a professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. Wilson and his PhD supervisor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, solved Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in 1968. Wilson is known for his work in combinatorial mathematics, as well as on historical flutes.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20engineering%20theory | Structural engineering depends upon a detailed knowledge of loads, physics and materials to understand and predict how structures support and resist self-weight and imposed loads. To apply the knowledge successfully structural engineers will need a detailed knowledge of mathematics and of relevant empirical and theoret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose%20instability | The firehose instability (or hose-pipe instability) is a dynamical instability of thin or elongated galaxies. The instability causes the galaxy to buckle or bend in a direction perpendicular to its long axis. After the instability has run its course, the galaxy is less elongated (i.e. rounder) than before. Any suffici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20material | Structural engineering depends on the knowledge of materials and their properties, in order to understand how different materials resist and support loads.
Common structural materials are:
Iron
Wrought iron
Wrought iron is the simplest form of iron, and is almost pure iron (typically less than 0.15% carbon). It usu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans%20Atlantic%20Consumer%20Dialogue | The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue was founded in 1998 as a forum for transatlantic discussions on Intellectual rights, Internet society, and food between and among consumer organizations in the United States and European Union. Members include The European Consumers' Organisation, the American Civil Liberties Union, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20drive | A top drive is a mechanical device on a drilling rig that provides clockwise torque to the drill string to drill a borehole. It is an alternative to the rotary table and kelly drive. It is located at the swivel's place below the traveling block and moves vertically up and down the derrick.
Benefits
The top drive all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20in%20biology | Sodium ions () are necessary in small amounts for some types of plants, but sodium as a nutrient is more generally needed in larger amounts by animals, due to their use of it for generation of nerve impulses and for maintenance of electrolyte balance and fluid balance. In animals, sodium ions are necessary for the afor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosted%20desktop | A hosted desktop is a product set within the larger cloud-computing sphere generally delivered using a combination of technologies including hardware virtualization and some form of remote connection software, Citrix XenApp or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services being two of the most common. Processing takes place within... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limber%20hole | A limber hole is a drain hole through a frame or other structural member of a boat designed to prevent water from accumulating against one side of the frame, and allowing it to drain toward the bilge.
Limber holes are common in the bilges of wooden boats. The term may be extended to cover drain holes in floors. Lim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow%20tie%20%28biology%29 | In the biological sciences, the term bow tie (so called for its shape) is a recent concept that tries to grasp the essence of some operational and functional structures observed in biological organisms and other kinds of complex and self-organizing systems. In general, bow tie architectures refer to ordered and recurre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical%20regularization | In physics and applied mathematics, analytical regularization is a technique used to convert boundary value problems which can be written as Fredholm integral equations of the first kind involving singular operators into equivalent Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. The latter may be easier to solve analyt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey%20Code | Plessey Code is a 1D linear barcode symbology based on pulse-width modulation, developed in 1971 by The Plessey Company plc, a British-based company. It is one of the first barcode symbology, and is still used rarely in some libraries and for shelf tags in retail stores, in part as a solution to their internal requirem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Cyber%20Command | United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It unifies the direction of cyberspace operations, strengthens DoD cyberspace capabilities, and integrates and bolsters DoD's cyber expertise.
USCYBERCOM was established as a Sub-U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herz%E2%80%93Schur%20multiplier | In the mathematical field of representation theory, a Herz–Schur multiplier (named after Carl S. Herz and Issai Schur) is a special kind of mapping from a group to the field of complex numbers.
Definition
Let Ψ be a mapping of a group G to the complex numbers. It is a Herz–Schur multiplier if the induced map Ψ: N(G) →... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Cybernetic%20Building%20Testbed | The Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT) is a whole building emulator located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It is designed with enough flexibility to be capable of reproducibly simulating normal operation and a variety of faulty and hazardous conditions that migh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20broadband%20over%20power%20line%20deployments | It is important to highlight that BPL deployments consist in large scale installations that have been technically approved in a pilot project.
BPL deployments - 2nd Gen (G.hn)
Active BPL deployments
Western Europe:
Germany: In 2017, E.ON initiated its BPL deployment across 100,000 German households by providing 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MORE%20protocol | MORE, which stands for MAC independent Opportunistic Routing, is an opportunistic routing protocol designed for wireless mesh networks. The protocol removes the dependency that other opportunistic routing protocols, such as ExOR and SOAR have on the MAC layer. Both of these protocols make use of a scheduler, to co-ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/TCP%20Packet%20Driver | PC/TCP Packet Driver is a networking API for MS-DOS, PC DOS, and later x86 DOS implementations such as DR-DOS, FreeDOS, etc. It implements the lowest levels of a TCP/IP stack, where the remainder is typically implemented either by terminate-and-stay-resident drivers or as a library linked into an application program. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%281970s%20text%20editor%29 | E is a text editor originally developed at the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s for the WAITS operating system.
E was one of the first WYSIWYG editors. Richard Stallman visited the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1976 and was quite impressed by this technology. Carl Mikkelsen had previously implemented a similar h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimdo | Jimdo is a German website-builder. The company is privately held and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with offices in Munich and Tokyo. Jimdo has two products, Creator and Dolphin, offering free and paid plans.
Jimdo Dolphin is an AI-powered website builder designed for users with basic computer skills and automates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frama-C | Frama-C stands for Framework for Modular Analysis of C programs. Frama-C is a set of interoperable program analyzers for C programs. Frama-C has been developed by the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA-List) and Inria. It has also received funding from the Core Infrastructure Ini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind%E2%80%93Hasse%20norm | In mathematics, in particular the study of abstract algebra, a Dedekind–Hasse norm is a function on an integral domain that generalises the notion of a Euclidean function on Euclidean domains.
Definition
Let R be an integral domain and g : R → Z≥0 be a function from R to the non-negative integers. Denote by 0R the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriek%20map | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, certain unusual functors are denoted and with the exclamation mark used to indicate that they are exceptional in some way. They are thus accordingly sometimes called shriek maps, with "shriek" being slang for an exclamation mark, though other terms are used, depending on c... |
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