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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostka%20polynomial
In mathematics, Kostka polynomials, named after the mathematician Carl Kostka, are families of polynomials that generalize the Kostka numbers. They are studied primarily in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. The two-variable Kostka polynomials Kλμ(q, t) are known by several names including Kostka–Foul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate%20bloom
Chocolate bloom is either of two types of whitish coating that can appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the sugar. Fat and sugar bloom damage the appearance of chocolate but do not lim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20data%20flow
Distributed data flow (also abbreviated as distributed flow) refers to a set of events in a distributed application or protocol. Distributed data flows serve a purpose analogous to variables or method parameters in programming languages such as Java, in that they can represent state that is stored or communicated by a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20foot%20morphology
Comparative foot morphology involves comparing the form of distal limb structures of a variety of terrestrial vertebrates. Understanding the role that the foot plays for each type of organism must take account of the differences in body type, foot shape, arrangement of structures, loading conditions and other variable...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20segment
In geometry, a line segment is a part of a straight line that is bounded by two distinct end points, and contains every point on the line that is between its endpoints. It is a special case of an arc, with zero curvature. The length of a line segment is given by the Euclidean distance between its endpoints. A closed li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propyl%20benzoate
Propyl benzoate is an organic chemical compound used as a food additive. It is an ester. Uses Propyl benzoate has a nutty odor and sweet fruity or nut-like taste, and as such, it is used as a synthetic flavoring agent in foods. It also has antimicrobial properties and is used as a preservative in cosmetics. It occurs ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20typification
In biological nomenclature, the principle of typification is one of the guiding principles. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature provides that any named taxon in the family group, genus group, or species group have a name-bearing type which allows the name of the taxon to be objectively applied. The type ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramer%27s%20paradox
In mathematics, Cramer's paradox or the Cramer–Euler paradox is the statement that the number of points of intersection of two higher-order curves in the plane can be greater than the number of arbitrary points that are usually needed to define one such curve. It is named after the Genevan mathematician Gabriel Cramer....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven%20SOA
Event-driven SOA is a form of service-oriented architecture (SOA), combining the intelligence and proactiveness of event-driven architecture with the organizational capabilities found in service offerings. Before event-driven SOA, the typical SOA platform orchestrated services centrally, through pre-defined business pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleware%20analyst
Middleware analysts are computer software engineers with a specialization in products that connect two different computer systems together. These products can be open-source or proprietary. As the term implies, the software, tools, and technologies used by Middleware analysts sit "in-the-middle", between two or more sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Audio%20Cable
Virtual Audio Cable is a software product based on WDM multimedia driver that allows a user to transfer audio streams from one application to another. Any application is able to send an audio stream to the input side of a "virtual cable" while a corresponding application can receive this stream from the output side. Si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenbase
Xenbase is a Model Organism Database (MOD), providing informatics resources, as well as genomic and biological data on Xenopus frogs. Xenbase has been available since 1999, and covers both X. laevis and X. tropicalis Xenopus varieties. As of 2013 all of its services are running on virtual machines in a private cloud en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20bus%20interfaces
This is a partial list of expansion bus interfaces, or expansion card slots, for installation of expansion cards. Bus interfaces See also List of interface bit rates References Computer buses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QQ%20Games
QQ Games () is a casual games client, offering only multi-player online games. Games are available through the QQ Games client and are entirely free to play. Partnering with AOL Instant Messenger through the AIM Plugin Gallery, AIM version 6.5 and up came bundled with the English version of QQ Games. While formerly lin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Muchnik
Albert Abramovich Muchnik (2 January 1934 – 14 February 2019) was a Russian mathematician who worked in the field of foundations and mathematical logic. He received his Ph.D. from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1959 under the advisorship of Pyotr Novikov. Muchnik's most significant contribution was on the subj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic%20mutualism
Trophic mutualism is a key type of ecological mutualism. Specifically, "trophic mutualism" refers to the transfer of energy and nutrients between two species. This is also sometimes known as resource-to-resource mutualism. Trophic mutualism often occurs between an autotroph and a heterotroph. Although there are many ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%20scheme
The Hamming scheme, named after Richard Hamming, is also known as the hyper-cubic association scheme, and it is the most important example for coding theory. In this scheme the set of binary vectors of length and two vectors are -th associates if they are Hamming distance apart. Recall that an association scheme i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Mesner%20algebra
In mathematics, a Bose–Mesner algebra is a special set of matrices which arise from a combinatorial structure known as an association scheme, together with the usual set of rules for combining (forming the products of) those matrices, such that they form an associative algebra, or, more precisely, a unitary commutative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%20scheme
In mathematics, the Johnson scheme, named after Selmer M. Johnson, is also known as the triangular association scheme. It consists of the set of all binary vectors X of length ℓ and weight n, such that . Two vectors x, y ∈ X are called ith associates if dist(x, y) = 2i for i = 0, 1, ..., n. The eigenvalues are given b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrop%20formula
In intuitionistic logic, the Harrop formulae, named after Ronald Harrop, are the class of formulae inductively defined as follows: Atomic formulae are Harrop, including falsity (⊥); is Harrop provided and are; is Harrop for any well-formed formula ; is Harrop provided is, and is any well-formed formula; i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed%20algebraic%20topology
In mathematics, directed algebraic topology is a refinement of algebraic topology for directed spaces, topological spaces and their combinatorial counterparts equipped with some notion of direction. Some common examples of directed spaces are spacetimes and simplicial sets. The basic goal is to find algebraic invaria...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/ISO%20C%20Specification%20Language
The ANSI/ISO C Specification Language (ACSL) is a specification language for C programs, using Hoare style pre- and postconditions and invariants, that follows the design by contract paradigm. Specifications are written as C annotation comments to the C program, which hence can be compiled with any C compiler. The cur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20classes%20of%20semigroups
In mathematics, a semigroup is a nonempty set together with an associative binary operation. A special class of semigroups is a class of semigroups satisfying additional properties or conditions. Thus the class of commutative semigroups consists of all those semigroups in which the binary operation satisfies the commu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20nanotube%20actuators
The exceptional electrical and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes have made them alternatives to the traditional electrical actuators for both microscopic and macroscopic applications. Carbon nanotubes are very good conductors of both electricity and heat, and are also very strong and elastic molecules in certai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20usage%20effectiveness
Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a ratio that describes how efficiently a computer data center uses energy; specifically, how much energy is used by the computing equipment (in contrast to cooling and other overhead that supports the equipment). PUE is the ratio of the total amount of energy used by a computer data ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20ring
In the area of abstract algebra known as ring theory, a left perfect ring is a type of ring over which all left modules have projective covers. The right case is defined by analogy, and the condition is not left-right symmetric; that is, there exist rings which are perfect on one side but not the other. Perfect rings w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS%20of%20Finite%20Groups
The ATLAS of Finite Groups, often simply known as the ATLAS, is a group theory book by John Horton Conway, Robert Turner Curtis, Simon Phillips Norton, Richard Alan Parker and Robert Arnott Wilson (with computational assistance from J. G. Thackray), published in December 1985 by Oxford University Press and reprinted wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony%20wall
A pony wall is a short wall. In different circumstances, it may refer to: a half wall that only extends partway from floor to ceiling, without supporting anything. a stem wall, a concrete wall that extends from the foundation slab to the cripple wall or floor joists. a cripple wall, a framed wall that extends from th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Cohen%20%28artist%29
Harold Cohen (1 May 1928 – 27 April 2016) was a British-born artist who was noted as the creator of AARON, a computer program designed to produce art autonomously. His work in the intersection of computer artificial intelligence and art attracted a great deal of attention, leading to exhibitions at many museums, includ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCL%20amplifier
An OCL amplifier (output capacitor-less amplifier) is any audio amplifier with direct-coupled capacitorless output. Typically, OCL amplifiers can be any of several amplifier classes, and typically have a push-pull output stage. Advantages of OCL amplifiers over capacitor-coupled amplifiers include Avoiding the cost a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett%20Communications
Barrett Communications is a specialist manufacturer and supplier of commercial high frequency (HF), tactical HF and very high frequency (VHF) communications equipment. Its head office for design and manufacturing is located in Perth, Western Australia. Barrett was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2022. History Barre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering%20the%20Internet
Mastering the Internet (MTI) is a mass surveillance project led by the British communications intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) budgeted at over £1 billion. According to reports in The Register and The Sunday Times in early May 2009, contracts with a total value of £200m had already been...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completely%20regular%20semigroup
In mathematics, a completely regular semigroup is a semigroup in which every element is in some subgroup of the semigroup. The class of completely regular semigroups forms an important subclass of the class of regular semigroups, the class of inverse semigroups being another such subclass. Alfred H. Clifford was the fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20semigroup
A Clifford semigroup (sometimes also called "inverse Clifford semigroup") is a completely regular inverse semigroup. It is an inverse semigroup with . Examples of Clifford semigroups are groups and commutative inverse semigroups. In a Clifford semigroup, . References Algebraic structures Semigroup theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamwidth
Dreamwidth is an online journal service based on the LiveJournal codebase. It is a code fork of the original service, set up by ex-LiveJournal staff Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith, born out of a desire for a new community based on open access, transparency, freedom and respect. Dreamwidth was announced on 11 June 200...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringel%E2%80%93Hall%20algebra
In mathematics, a Ringel–Hall algebra is a generalization of the Hall algebra, studied by . It has a basis of equivalence classes of objects of an abelian category, and the structure constants for this basis are related to the numbers of extensions of objects in the category. References External links Representation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandstand%20%28game%20manufacturer%29
Grandstand (also known as Grandstand Leisure Products) is a video game console and electronic game manufacturer and distributor. It was based in the United Kingdom and New Zealand and was active in the 1970s and 1980s. Overview The company initially behind the Grandstand label was Adam Imports Ltd., (from 1980 Adam Le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch%20hardness
Scratch hardness refers to the hardness of a material in terms of resistance to scratches and abrasion by a harder material forcefully drawn over its surface. Scratch hardness test or scratch test refers to any of a number of methods of measuring scratch hardness. Resistance to abrasion is less affected by surface vari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateson%E2%80%93Dobzhansky%E2%80%93Muller%20model
The Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller model, also known as Dobzhansky–Muller model, is a model of the evolution of genetic incompatibility, important in understanding the evolution of reproductive isolation during speciation and the role of natural selection in bringing it about. The theory was first described by William Bates...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20depictions%20of%20dwarfism
Dwarfism has been showcased across many types of media. As popular media has become more prevalent, a greater number of works depicting dwarfism have popularized the condition. Literature Several works of literature treat dwarfism as a major theme, with varying degrees of realism: The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) by G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin%E2%80%93Wilf%20tree
In number theory, the Calkin–Wilf tree is a tree in which the vertices correspond one-to-one to the positive rational numbers. The tree is rooted at the number 1, and any rational number expressed in simplest terms as the fraction has as its two children the numbers and . Every positive rational number appears exactl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20flow
Material flow is the description of the transportation of raw materials, pre-fabricates, parts, components, integrated objects and final products as a flow of entities. The term applies mainly to advanced modeling of supply chain management. As industrial material flow can easily become very complex, several different...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20Chambers
Gas Chambers is a fast, hollow and shallow point break type of wave. It is a high performance wave that is well-suited for the average to pro level surfer. Gas Chambers is also a beach located on the North Shore of Oahu about a 1/4 of a mile north of Ehukai Beach Park and 1/2 a mile west of Sunset Beach Park. The easi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigroup%20with%20involution
In mathematics, particularly in abstract algebra, a semigroup with involution or a *-semigroup is a semigroup equipped with an involutive anti-automorphism, which—roughly speaking—brings it closer to a group because this involution, considered as unary operator, exhibits certain fundamental properties of the operation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorica
Combinatorica is an international journal of mathematics, publishing papers in the fields of combinatorics and computer science. It started in 1981, with László Babai and László Lovász as the editors-in-chief with Paul Erdős as honorary editor-in-chief. The current editors-in-chief are Imre Bárány and József Solymosi. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%2088100
The MC88100 is a microprocessor developed by Motorola that implemented 88000 RISC instruction set architecture. Announced in 1988, the MC88100 was the first 88000 implementation. It was succeeded by the MC88110 in the early 1990s. The microprocessor has separate pipelined integer, floating-point add, floating-point mu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPILEX
Upilex is a heat-resistant polyimide film that is the product of the polycondensation reaction between biphenyl tetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA) monomers and a diamine. Its properties include dimensional stability, low water absorption, high chemical resistance and high mechanical properties (up to 550 MPa depending...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Latham%20%28computer%20scientist%29
William Latham (born 1961) is a British computer artist, most known as the creator of the Organic Art product, as well as for creating album covers and artwork for the dance group The Shamen. Latham is the founder of the company Computer Artworks, which released the Organic Art product through Time Warner Interactive. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity%20theory%20%28aging%29
The activity theory of aging, also known as the implicit theory of aging, normal theory of aging, and lay theory of aging, proposes that aging occurs with more positive outcomes when adults stay active and maintain social interactions as they get older. Activity theory suggests that the aging process is slowed or delay...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20highway
Smart highways and smart roads are highways and roads that incorporate electronic technologies. They are used to improve the operation of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), for traffic lights and street lighting, and for monitoring the condition of the road, as well as traffic levels and the speed of vehicles. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20by%20multiple-motor%20proteins
Transport by molecular motor proteins (Kinesin, Dynein and unconventional Myosin) is essential for cell functioning and survival. Studies of multiple motors are inspired by the fact that multiple motors are involved in many biological processes such as intra-cellular transport and mitosis. This increasing interest in m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20tree%20model
In computational complexity the decision tree model is the model of computation in which an algorithm is considered to be basically a decision tree, i.e., a sequence of queries or tests that are done adaptively, so the outcome of previous tests can influence the tests performed next. Typically, these tests have a smal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Meraki
Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in December 2012. History Meraki was founded b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe%20formula
The Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP formula) is a formula for . It was discovered in 1995 by Simon Plouffe and is named after the authors of the article in which it was published, David H. Bailey, Peter Borwein, and Plouffe. Before that, it had been published by Plouffe on his own site. The formula is The BBP form...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASC%20Purple
ASC Purple was a supercomputer installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. The computer was a collaboration between IBM Corporation and Lawrence Livermore Lab. Announced November 19, 2002, it was installed in July 2005 and decommissioned on November 10th, 2010. The contract for th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix%20WhoIs
Prefix WhoIs is an open source project that develops and operates a free whois-compatible framework for stockpiling and querying various routing and registry information. Prefix WhoIs uses global BGP routing data learned from many ISP backbone routers. Other information sources are also supported, such as imported data...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamniotes
The anamniotes are an informal group of craniates comprising all fishes and amphibians, which lay their eggs in aquatic environments. They are distinguished from the amniotes (reptiles, birds and mammals), which can reproduce on dry land either by laying shelled eggs or by carrying fertilized eggs within the female. Ol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardon%20gauge
A Gardon gauge or circular-foil gauge is a heat flux sensor primarily intended for the measurement of high-intensity radiation. It is a sensor that is designed to measure the radiation flux density (in watts per metre squared) from a field of view of 180 degrees. The most common application of Gardon gauges is in expo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portofino%20transmitter
Portofino transmitter is a facility for FM-/AM-/TV-broadcasting near Portofino in Italy. Portofino transmitter uses for the mediumwave transmitter, which works on 1575 kHz with 50 kW a very unusual antenna, which consists of a wire which is fixed on a rope that is spun over a distance of 590 metres between a rock ancho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodium%20hydrochaeri
Plasmodium hydrochaeri is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia. Like all Plasmodium species P. hydrochaeri has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are rodents. Description This species was first described in 2009 by Dos Santos et al. The only known host is the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Consultancy%20and%20Engineering
The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) is a British business association in the field of consultancy and engineering. ACE represents around 400 member companies, large and small, that provide professional engineering expertise in delivering, maintaining and upgrading economic and social infrastructure a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply%20voltage%20supervisor
Supply Voltage Supervisor (SVS, or supply voltage supervisory circuit) circuits are used to monitor the supply voltage to embedded and electronic systems for under voltage conditions. If an under voltage condition is detected then the supervisory circuit will reset the controller and keep it in that state as long as th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20semigroup
In mathematics, a null semigroup (also called a zero semigroup) is a semigroup with an absorbing element, called zero, in which the product of any two elements is zero. If every element of a semigroup is a left zero then the semigroup is called a left zero semigroup; a right zero semigroup is defined analogously. Accor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunebot
Tunebot is a music search engine developed by the Interactive Audio Lab at Northwestern University. Users can search the database by humming or singing a melody into a microphone, playing the melody on a virtual keyboard, or by typing some of the lyrics. This allows users to finally identify that song that was stuck in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore%20Technology%20Conference
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is a series of conferences and exhibitions, focused on the exchanging technical knowledge relevant to the development of offshore energy resources, primarily oil and natural gas. It was founded in 1969. There are four events organized by OTC. The flagship Offshore Technology Confere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-point%20laser%20technology
Point-to-point laser technology (PPLT) refers to a technology that enables a user or surveyor to survey or capture a building's geometry in real time or while on site by translating laser range finder data directly into a Computer-aided design (CAD) or building information models (BIM) work station. Applications Most...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signoff%20%28electronic%20design%20automation%29
In the automated design of integrated circuits, signoff (also written as sign-off) checks is the collective name given to a series of verification steps that the design must pass before it can be taped out. This implies an iterative process involving incremental fixes across the board using one or more check types, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically%20modified%20animal
Genetically modified animals are animals that have been genetically modified for a variety of purposes including producing drugs, enhancing yields, increasing resistance to disease, etc. The vast majority of genetically modified animals are at the research stage while the number close to entering the market remains sma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s%20first%20set%20theory%20article
Cantor's first set theory article contains Georg Cantor's first theorems of transfinite set theory, which studies infinite sets and their properties. One of these theorems is his "revolutionary discovery" that the set of all real numbers is uncountably, rather than countably, infinite. This theorem is proved using Cant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre-reinforced%20plastic%20tanks%20and%20vessels
FRP (Fibreglass Reinforced Plastics, also known as GRP, or Glass Reinforced Plastics) is a modern composite material of construction for chemical plant, pulp and paper mill, and food and pharmaceutical equipment like tanks and vessels. Chemical equipment that range in size from less than a metre to 20 metres are fabri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOP%20instruction%20set
The XOP (eXtended Operations) instruction set, announced by AMD on May 1, 2009, is an extension to the 128-bit SSE core instructions in the x86 and AMD64 instruction set for the Bulldozer processor core, which was released on October 12, 2011. However AMD removed support for XOP from Zen (microarchitecture) onward. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20Action%20Complex
Object-Action Complexes (OACs) are proposed as a universal representation enabling efficient planning and execution of purposeful action at all levels of a cognitive architecture (Kruger 2009, Worgotter 2008, Geib 2006, Piater 2009). OACs combine the representational and computational efficiency for purposes of search ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris%20%28software%29
Osiris Serverless Portal System (usually abbreviated as Osiris sps or Osiris) is a freeware program used to create web portals distributed via peer-to-peer networking (P2P) and autonomous from centralized servers. It is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. Unlike common tools used to publish in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian
In mathematics, a Jacobian, named for Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, may refer to: Jacobian matrix and determinant Jacobian elliptic functions Jacobian variety Intermediate Jacobian Mathematical terminology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20bookmarking
Enterprise bookmarking is a method for Web 2.0 users to tag, organize, store, and search bookmarks of both web pages on the Internet and data resources stored in a distributed database or fileserver. This is done collectively and collaboratively in a process by which users add tag (metadata) and knowledge tags. In ear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain%20%28mechanics%29
In mechanics, strain is defined as relative deformation, compared to a position configuration. Different equivalent choices may be made for the expression of a strain field depending on whether it is defined with respect to the initial or the final configuration of the body and on whether the metric tensor or its dual...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20Time%20Systems
Colorado Time Systems (CTS) is an American company based in Loveland, Colorado that designs, manufactures, sells, and services aquatic timing systems, scoreboards, LED video displays, and related products. History Colorado Time Systems was born in the Test & Measurement division of Hewlett-Packard (HP). HP wanted to e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRB%20constant
The MRB constant is a mathematical constant, with decimal expansion . The constant is named after its discoverer, Marvin Ray Burns, who published his discovery of the constant in 1999. Burns had initially called the constant "rc" for root constant but, at Simon Plouffe's suggestion, the constant was renamed the 'Marvi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological%20optimization
Hydrological optimization applies mathematical optimization techniques (such as dynamic programming, linear programming, integer programming, or quadratic programming) to water-related problems. These problems may be for surface water, groundwater, or the combination. The work is interdisciplinary, and may be done by h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3scale
3scale is an internet technology company that develops API management software. History 3scale was co-founded by Steven Willmott and Martin Tantow in 2007. A public beta began in November 2008. The company's commercial product was released in March 2009. It sells API Management software called 3scale Connect and a pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Operations%20in%20the%20High%20North
Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN, IO High North or IO in the High North) is a unique collaboration project that during a four-year period starting May 2008 is working on designing, implementing and testing a Digital Platform for what in the upstream oil and gas industry is called the next or second generat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion%20current
Diffusion current is a current in a semiconductor caused by the diffusion of charge carriers (electrons and/or electron holes). This is the current which is due to the transport of charges occurring because of non-uniform concentration of charged particles in a semiconductor. The drift current, by contrast, is due to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet-assisted%20transfection
Magnet-assisted transfection is a transfection method which uses magnetic interactions to deliver DNA into target cells. Nucleic acids are associated with magnetic nanoparticles, and magnetic fields drive the nucleic acid-particle complexes into target cells, where the nucleic acids are released. Magnetic Nanoparticle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo-consistency
In computer vision, photo-consistency determines whether a given voxel is occupied. A voxel is considered to be photo consistent when its color appears to be similar to all the cameras that can see it. Most voxel coloring or space carving techniques require using photo consistency as a check condition in Image-based mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred%20Shepherd-Barron
Wilfrid Philip Shepherd-Barron, MC, TD, LlD (1888–1979) was a British civil engineer and army officer. Early life Shepherd-Barron was born Wilfrid Barron in Wick, Caithness, Scotland in 1888. Shepherd-Barron served in the Royal Engineers and received the Military Cross, he was also awarded the Territorial Decoration. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigroup%20with%20two%20elements
In mathematics, a semigroup with two elements is a semigroup for which the cardinality of the underlying set is two. There are exactly five nonisomorphic semigroups having two elements: O2, the null semigroup of order two, LO2, the left zero semigroup of order two, RO2, the right zero semigroup of order two, ({0,1}...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Embedded%20Automotive
Windows Embedded Automotive (formerly Microsoft Auto, Windows CE for Automotive, Windows Automotive, and Windows Mobile for Automotive) is a discontinued operating system subfamily of Windows Embedded based on Windows CE for use on computer systems in automobiles. The operating system is developed by Microsoft through...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%20motor
Wave motors were machines designed and built in the late 19th and early 20th century to harness the power of wave or tidal energy. Many experiments were planned or built in California employing various methods. The earliest wave motors were not intended for the creation of electricity. Prior to 1880, wave motors were ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20sustainability
Computational sustainability is an emerging field that attempts to balance societal, economic, and environmental resources for the future well-being of humanity using methods from mathematics, computer science, and information science fields. Sustainability in this context refers to the world's ability to sustain biol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte%20del%20Diavolo
(Italian for "Devil's bridge") by Martin Ebel is a territorial game (with connective elements similar to Go), in which two players create islands and then add bridges to connect them. It was created by Martin Ebel and published by Hans im Glück in 2007 and by Rio Grande Games in 2008. Games magazine named Ponte del Dia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20governance
Information governance, or IG, is the overall strategy for information at an organization. Information governance balances the risk that information presents with the value that information provides. Information governance helps with legal compliance, operational transparency, and reducing expenditures associated with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geli%20%28software%29
geli is a block device-layer disk encryption system written for FreeBSD, introduced in version 6.0. It uses the GEOM disk framework. It was designed and implemented by Paweł Jakub Dawidek. Design details geli was initially written to protect data on a user's computer in situations of physical theft of hardware, disal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20works%20by%20Nikolay%20Bogolyubov
List of some published works of Nikolay Bogolyubov in chronological order: 1924 N. N. Bogolyubov (1924). On the behavior of solutions of linear differential equations at infinity (). 1934 1937 N. N. Bogoliubov and N. M. Krylov (1937). "La theorie generalie de la mesure dans son application a l'etude de systemes dyna...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heated%20hose
Heated hoses are hoses used for transporting liquids or molten materials where integral heat is needed for temperature control. Heated hoses are used in bonding technology, filling and dosing systems, medical technology, chemical, pharmaceutical and food industry, extruder applications, and research & development. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20search%20problem
In computational complexity theory, the linear search problem is an optimal search problem introduced by Richard E. Bellman and independently considered by Anatole Beck. The problem "An immobile hider is located on the real line according to a known probability distribution. A searcher, whose maximal velocity is one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20pharmacology
Quantitative Pharmacology (QP), or Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP), is an organized approach integrating individuals from different disciplines in a combined effort to develop quantitative models in order to solve specific, complex, and multivariate problems in drug development. QP translates the relationship(s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n%20F%C3%BCredi
Zoltán Füredi (Budapest, Hungary, 21 May 1954) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics, mainly in discrete geometry and extremal combinatorics. He was a student of Gyula O. H. Katona. He is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004). He is a research professor of the Rényi Mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterChip%20USB
InterChip USB (IC-USB), sometimes referred to as USB-IC or Inter-chip USB, is an addendum to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) USB 2.0 specification. IC-USB is intended as a low-power variant of the standard physical USB interface, intended for direct chip-to-chip communications. The IC-USB bus's maximum length of 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20model%20%28motor%20control%29
In the subject area of control theory, an internal model is a process that simulates the response of the system in order to estimate the outcome of a system disturbance. The internal model principle was first articulated in 1976 by B. A. Francis and W. M. Wonham as an explicit formulation of the Conant and Ashby good ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Championship%20of%20Custom%20Bike%20Building
The World Championship of Custom Bike Building is a competition held annually by American Motorcycle Dealer (AMD) magazine. The first competition was held in 2004 as an extension of the AMD ProShow custom engineering competition held in Europe in conjunction with Custom Chrome since 2002, which by some was already unof...