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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20progression%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a harmonic progression (or harmonic sequence) is a progression formed by taking the reciprocals of an arithmetic progression.
Equivalently, a sequence is a harmonic progression when each term is the harmonic mean of the neighboring terms.
As a third equivalent characterization, it is an infinite seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic%20recombination | Somatic recombination, as opposed to the genetic recombination that occurs in meiosis, is an alteration of the DNA of a somatic cell that is inherited by its daughter cells. The term is usually reserved for large-scale alterations of DNA such as chromosomal translocations and deletions and not applied to point mutation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromogenic%20in%20situ%20hybridization | Chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) is a cytogenetic technique that combines the chromogenic signal detection method of immunohistochemistry (IHC) techniques with in situ hybridization. It was developed around the year 2000 as an alternative to fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for detection of HER-2/neu o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerBlock | PeerBlock is a free and open-source personal firewall that blocks packets coming from, or going to, a maintained list of black listed hosts. PeerBlock is the Windows successor to the software PeerGuardian (which is currently maintained only for Linux). It blocks incoming and outgoing connections to IP addresses that ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mn%C3%ABv%27s%20universality%20theorem | In algebraic geometry, Mnëv's universality theorem is a result which can be used to represent algebraic (or semi algebraic) varieties as realizations of oriented matroids, a notion of combinatorics.
Oriented matroids
For the purposes of Mnëv's universality, an oriented matroid of a finite subset is a list of all part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Clough%27s%20Football%20Fortunes | Brian Clough's Football Fortunes is a video game featuring Brian Clough, released in 1987 for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore 64, DOS, Acorn Electron, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
Reception
Paul Rixon for Page 6 said "C'mon CDS, you can do better... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yupana | A yupana (from Quechua: yupay 'count') is a counting board used to perform arithmetic operations, dating back to the time of the Incas. Very little documentation exists concerning its precise physical form or how it was used.
Types
The term yupana refers to two distinct classes of objects:
Table Yupana (or archaeol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoworx | Echoworx, an email encryption software company, is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with offices in the USA and UK. As a certificate authority, Echoworx is a member of both the Microsoft Root Certificate Program and Apple Root Certificate Program. Echoworx operates several data centers, including locations in the Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil%20%28software%29 | Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp.
Features
Fossil is a cross-platform DVCS that runs on Linux, BSD derivatives, Mac and Windows. It is capable of performing distributed version control, bug tracking, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta%20di%20Siracusa%20on%20Biodiversity | The "Carta di Siracusa on Biodiversity" is a political document agreed at the G8 Environmental Ministers Meeting, held in Syracuse (Sicily) from 22 to 24 April 2009.
Title and organization of the document
The document is organized in a preamble and four sections. The common decision to leave part of the official title... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamebook | Lamebook is a blog that re-posts 'everything lame and funny' from the social networking site Facebook. Users send in screenshots of unusual or amusing Facebook posts, which are re-posted on the site every weekday.
History
Jonathan Standefer and Matthew Genitempo, graphic designers from Austin, Texas, launched the web ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response%20reactions | The theory of response reactions (RERs) was elaborated for systems in which several physico-chemical processes run simultaneously in mutual interaction, with local thermodynamic equilibrium, and in which state variables called extents of reaction are allowed, but thermodynamic equilibrium proper is not required. It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linode | Linode, LLC () was an American cloud hosting provider that focused on providing Linux-based virtual machines, cloud infrastructure, and managed services.
In 2003, at the time of its launch, Linode was one of few companies that provided virtual private server (VPS) hosting. It had grown over the years into a multinati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiway%20switching | In building wiring, multiway switching is the interconnection of two or more electrical switches to control an electrical load from more than one location. A common application is in lighting, where it allows the control of lamps from multiple locations, for example in a hallway, stairwell, or large room.
In contrast ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20of%20penicillin | Ancient societies used moulds to treat infections, and in the following centuries many people observed the inhibition of bacterial growth by moulds. While working at St Mary's Hospital in London in 1928, Scottish physician Alexander Fleming was the first to experimentally determine that a Penicillium mould secretes an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs%20of%20convergence%20of%20random%20variables | This article is supplemental for “Convergence of random variables” and provides proofs for selected results.
Several results will be established using the portmanteau lemma: A sequence {Xn} converges in distribution to X if and only if any of the following conditions are met:
<li> for all bounded, continuous functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL | WebGL (short for Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated usage of physics, image processing, and effects in the HTML canvas. WebGL el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu%20Wind%20Farm | The Gansu Wind Farm Project or Jiuquan Wind Power Base is a group of large wind farms under construction in western Gansu province in China. The Gansu Wind Farm Project is located in desert areas near the city of Jiuquan in two localities of Guazhou County and also near Yumen City, in the northwest province of Gansu, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johansen%20test | In statistics, the Johansen test, named after Søren Johansen, is a procedure for testing cointegration of several, say k, I(1) time series. This test permits more than one cointegrating relationship so is more generally applicable than the Engle–Granger test which is based on the Dickey–Fuller (or the augmented) test ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meco-Moore%20Cutter%20Loader | The Meco-Moore cutter loader was an early twentieth-century British mining machine. It was invented by Mr M. Moore, and developed by the Mining Engineering Company (MECO) of Worcester. It was a heavy machine (120 hp / 89.5 kW) and was first used in a coal mine in Lancashire, England 1934. The design was such that it w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aseptic%20sampling | Aseptic sampling is the process of aseptically withdrawing materials used in biopharmaceutical processes for analysis so as not contaminate or alter the sample or the source of the sample. Aseptic samples are drawn throughout the entire biopharmaceutical process (cell culture/fermentation, buffer & media prep, purific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimo%20tube | Nimo was the trademark of a family of small cathode-ray tube (CRTs) used for numerical displays. They were manufactured by Industrial Electronic Engineers (IEE) around the mid-1960s. The tube had ten electron guns with stencils that shaped the electron beam as digits.
Details
The Nimo tube operated on a similar princi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoolbase | A spoolbase is a shore-based facility used to facilitate continuous pipe laying for offshore oil and gas production. The facility allows the welding of single or double joints (40' or 80') of steel pipe of 4" to 18" diameter, into predetermined lengths for spooling onto a reel lay vessel.
Shore based spoolbases serve ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton%20Shearer%20Loader | The Anderton Shearer Loader is a coal cutting machine which was used in the UK coal industry after 1953. The Anderton Power Loader with its cutting drum up to five feet in diameter was patented in 1953. It was successfully used throughout the British coalfields and by 1966 cut half the coal produced and by 1977 it prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVA%20Consultants | GVA Consultants was a Swedish marine and offshore engineering company specialising in the design of offshore structures, and semi-submersible platforms.
History
The experience of GVA as a marine engineering company stretches back more than 25 years. There is an even longer history of building ships of various types, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20B.%20Schneider | Fred Barry Schneider (born December 7, 1953) is an American computer scientist, based at Cornell University, where he is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science. He has published in numerous areas including science policy, cybersecurity, and distributed systems. His research is in the area of concurrent and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeyondTrust | BeyondTrust (formerly Symark) is an American company that develops, markets, and supports a family of privileged identity management / access management (PIM/PAM), privileged remote access, and vulnerability management products for UNIX, Linux, Windows and macOS operating systems.
BeyondTrust was founded in 2006 and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20matrix%20hypothesis | In the development of vertebrate animals, the functional matrix hypothesis is a phenomenological description of bone growth. It proposes that "the origin, development and maintenance of all skeletal units are secondary, compensatory and mechanically obligatory responses to temporally and operationally prior demands of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioTapestry | BioTapestry is an open source software application for modeling and visualizing gene regulatory networks (GRNs).
History
BioTapestry was created at the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle, in collaboration with the Davidson Lab at the California Institute of Technology. The project was initiated to support the o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20displacement%20pipette | Piston-driven air displacement pipettes are a type of micropipette, which are tools to handle volumes of liquid in the microliter scale. They are more commonly used in biology and biochemistry, and less commonly in chemistry; the equipment is susceptible to damage from many organic solvents.
Operation
These pipettes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-moment | In statistics, L-moments are a sequence of statistics used to summarize the shape of a probability distribution. They are linear combinations of order statistics (L-statistics) analogous to conventional moments, and can be used to calculate quantities analogous to standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis, termed the L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLeratorDB | XLeratorDB is a suite of database function libraries that enable Microsoft SQL Server to perform a wide range of additional (non-native) business intelligence and ad hoc analytics. The libraries, which are embedded and run centrally on the database, include more than 450 individual functions similar to those found in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apptek | Applications Technology (AppTek) is a U.S. company headquartered in McLean, Virginia that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning for human language technologies. The company provides both managed and professional services for natural language processing (NLP) technologies including automatic speech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasoft%20DTP | Parasoft DTP (formerly Parasoft Concerto) is a development testing solution from Parasoft that acts as a centralized hub for managing software quality and application security. DTP provides a wide range of traditional software reports from normal software development activities, such as coding and testing, and is also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMIDEC%201100 | The EMIDEC 1100 computer (became the ICT 1101 in 1962) was produced by the Computing Services Division of EMI Laboratories in the UK under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield in 1958, (first delivered in 1959) after one year's development. It used magnetic core memory and transistor technologies and it is claimed to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20digit-to-digit%20invariant | In number theory, a perfect digit-to-digit invariant (PDDI; also known as a Munchausen number) is a natural number in a given number base that is equal to the sum of its digits each raised to the power of itself. An example in base 10 is 3435, because . The term "Munchausen number" was coined by Dutch mathematician an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCller-Breslau%27s%20principle | The Müller-Breslau principle is a method to determine influence lines. The principle states that the influence lines of an action (force or moment) assumes the scaled form of the deflection displacement.
OR,
This principle states that "ordinate of ILD for a reactive force is given by ordinate of elastic curve if a unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20testing | Tree testing is a usability technique for evaluating the findability of topics in a website. It is also known as reverse card sorting or card-based classification.
A large website is typically organized into a hierarchy (a "tree") of topics and subtopics. Tree testing provides a way to measure how well users can find ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the friendship graph (or Dutch windmill graph or -fan) is a planar, undirected graph with vertices and edges.
The friendship graph can be constructed by joining copies of the cycle graph with a common vertex, which becomes a universal vertex for the graph.
By construct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dprobes | dprobes (Dynamic Probes) is a Linux kernel analysis framework created in 2004, which features the ability to insert software probes dynamically into running code. It is based on kprobes.
History
First versions was released at June, 2004.
dprobes was first introduced in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), but since 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20heat | Sigma heat, denoted , is a measure of the specific energy of humid air. It is used in the field of mining engineering for calculations relating to the temperature regulation of mine air. Sigma heat is sometimes called total heat, although total heat may instead mean enthalpy.
Definition
Sigma heat is the energy whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-based%20authentication | Knowledge-based authentication, commonly referred to as KBA, is a method of authentication which seeks to prove the identity of someone accessing a service such as a financial institution or website. As the name suggests, KBA requires the knowledge of private information from the individual to prove that the person pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20square | The thermodynamic square (also known as the thermodynamic wheel, Guggenheim scheme or Born square) is a mnemonic diagram attributed to Max Born and used to help determine thermodynamic relations. Born presented the thermodynamic square in a 1929 lecture. The symmetry of thermodynamics appears in a paper by F.O. Koenig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory%20Committee%20for%20Aeronautics | The Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (ACA) was a UK agency founded on 30 April 1909, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. In 1919 it was renamed the Aeronautical Research Committee, later becoming the Aeronautical Research Council.
Following the establishment of this committee, other co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20display | A text display is an electronic alphanumeric display device that is mainly or only capable of showing text, or extremely limited graphic characters. This includes electromechanical split-flap displays, vane displays, and flip-disc displays; all-electronic liquid-crystal displays, incandescent eggcrate displays, LED di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-up%20satellite%20archival%20tag | Pop-up satellite archival tags (PSATs) are used to track movements of (usually large, migratory) marine animals. A PSAT (also commonly referred to as a PAT tag) is an archival tag (or data logger) that is equipped with a means to transmit the collected data via the Argos satellite system. Though the data are physicall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20systemic%20pressure | In medicine, the mean systemic pressure (mean systemic filling pressure (MSFP)) is defined as the mean pressure that exists in the circulatory system when there is no blood motion. A similar term, mean circulatory filling pressure, (MCFP) is defined as the mean pressure that exists in the combined circulatory system & ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidinfo | Fluidinfo, formerly named FluidDB until early 2011, is an online cloud data store based on an attribute-value centric data model. Fluidinfo is written in Python and characterized by a publicly writeable schema-less database that provides a query language, a fine-grained permissions model and promotes data sharing, bot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20and%20Social%20Data%20Service | The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data archiving and dissemination service that was founded in January 2003. It is funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Jisc. In July 2012, the ESRC announced it will become a partner in the UK Data Service, to be established as of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20router%20firmware%20projects | List of software created and maintained by people other than the manufacturer of the product. The extent of support for (and testing on) particular hardware varies from project to project.
Embedded
Notable custom-firmware projects for wireless routers.
Many of these will run on various brands such as Linksys, Asus, Ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinokitiol | Hinokitiol (β-thujaplicin) is a natural monoterpenoid found in the wood of trees in the family Cupressaceae. It is a tropolone derivative and one of the thujaplicins. Hinokitiol is used in oral and skin care products, and is a food additive used in Japan.
History
Hinokitiol was discovered by a Japanese chemist Tetsuo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubblization | Rubblization is a construction and engineering technique that involves saving time and transportation costs by reducing existing concrete into rubble at its current location rather than hauling it to another location. Rubblization has two primary applications: creating a base for new roadways and decommissioning nuclea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude%20Neumark | Gertrude Fanny Neumark, also known as Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, (April 29, 1927 – November 11, 2010) was an American physicist, most noted for her work in material science and physics of semiconductors with emphasis on optical and electrical properties of wide-bandgap semiconductors and their light-emitting devices.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless%20computer | A headless computer is a computer system or device that has been configured to operate without a monitor (the missing "head"), keyboard, and mouse. A headless system is typically controlled over a network connection, although some headless system devices require a serial connection to be made over RS-232 for administra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heerema%20Marine%20Contractors | Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is a contractor headquartered in the Netherlands most notable for operation of three of the largest crane vessels in the offshore industry.
History
Heerema Marine Contractors was formed in 1948 by Pieter Schelte Heerema as a small construction company providing oilfield platforms in Ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20light%20scanner | A white light scanner (WLS) is a device for performing surface height measurements of an object using coherence scanning interferometry (CSI) with spectrally-broadband, "white light" illumination. Different configurations of scanning interferometer may be used to measure macroscopic objects with surface profiles measur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20rule%20%28probability%29 | In probability theory, the chain rule (also called the general product rule) describes how to calculate the probability of the intersection of, not necessarily independent, events or the joint distribution of random variables respectively, using conditional probabilities. The rule is notably used in the context of disc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20B.%20Purdy | George Barry Purdy (20 February 1944 – 30 December 2017) was a mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory.
Purdy received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972, officially under the supervision of Paul T. Bateman, but h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Blu-ray%20player%20manufacturers | This aims to be a complete list of Blu-ray manufacturers.
This list is not necessarily complete or up to date - if you see a manufacturer that should be here but is not (or one that should not be here but is), please update the page accordingly.
A
American Recordable Media
Ayankaran International
Acu-disc
C
Cam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEX%20file | A MEX file is a type of computer file that provides an interface between MATLAB or Octave and functions written in C, C++ or Fortran. It stands for "MATLAB executable".
When compiled, MEX files are dynamically loaded and allow external functions to be invoked from within MATLAB or Octave as if they were built-in funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque%20Center%20for%20Applied%20Mathematics | The Basque Center of Applied Mathematics (BCAM) is a research center on applied mathematics, created with the support of the Basque Government and the University of the Basque Country. The BCAM headquarters are in Alda. Mazarredo, 14 in Bilbao, the capital of the province of Biscay in the Basque Country of northern S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytophaga | Cytophaga is a genus of Gram-negative, gliding, rod-shaped bacteria. This bacterium is commonly found in soil, rapidly digests crystalline cellulose C. hutchinsonii is able to use its gliding motility to move quickly over surfaces. Although the mechanism for this is not known, there is a belief that the flagellum is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESDS%20Government | ESDS Government is a national data service which provides large-scale government surveys, such as the General Household Survey and the Labour Force Survey, as well as other key data resources for understanding population structure and change in the UK and its constituent countries. It is jointly funded by the Economic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESDS%20Longitudinal | ESDS Longitudinal is a specialist service of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), led by the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex and the ESRC United Kingdom Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC), jointly funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica%20Society%20of%20Energy%20Engineers | The Jamaica Society of Energy Engineers (JSEE) is a newly formed public non-profit organization with a mandate to promote the conscientious utilization of energy resources in Jamaica. The JSEE formation was initially spurred by the need for a professional entity to provide and oversee local training and certification o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20LAN%20controller | A wireless LAN controller (WLC) is a network device used to monitor and manage wireless access points in an organization. WLCs are connected to routers and allow devices from across the organization to connect to the router via access points. WLCs are generally used in combination with the Lightweight Access Point Prot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipogenesis | Adipogenesis is the formation of adipocytes (fat cells) from stem cells. It involves 2 phases, determination, and terminal differentiation. Determination is mesenchymal stem cells committing to the adipocyte precursor cells, also known as preadipocytes which lose the potential to differentiate to other types of cells s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneeze%20%28video%20game%29 | Sneeze is a 2009 browser game created in Adobe Flash. In every level, the player can sneeze only once and is awarded points based on how many people they are able to infect.
Sneeze was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and Channel 4 to subversively teach children the importance of healthy practices. During the 2009 s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20rheology | Food rheology is the study of the rheological properties of food, that is, the consistency and flow of food under tightly specified conditions. The consistency, degree of fluidity, and other mechanical properties are important in understanding how long food can be stored, how stable it will remain, and in determini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based%20specification | Model-based specification is an approach to formal specification where the system specification is expressed as a system state model. This state model is constructed using well-understood mathematical entities such as sets and functions. System operations are specified by defining how they affect the state of the syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobiota%20of%20the%20Yixian%20Formation | The Yixian Formation () is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans about 1.6 million years during the early Cretaceous period (Barremian-Aptian stage). It is known for its fossils, listed below.
The Yixian Formation is divided into the following subunits: (ages from Zhong et... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Geelen | Jim Geelen is a professor at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization in the faculty of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial optimization. He is known for his work on Matroid theory and the extension of the Graph Minors Project to representable mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%E2%80%93Reisner%20ring | In mathematics, a Stanley–Reisner ring, or face ring, is a quotient of a polynomial algebra over a field by a square-free monomial ideal. Such ideals are described more geometrically in terms of finite simplicial complexes. The Stanley–Reisner ring construction is a basic tool within algebraic combinatorics and combin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato%20grafting | Tomato grafting is a horticulture technique that has been utilized in Asia and Europe for greenhouse and high tunnel production and is gaining popularity in the United States. Typically, stock or rootstock are selected for their ability to resist infection by certain soilborne pathogens or their ability to increase vig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report%20generator | A report generator is a computer program whose purpose is to take data from a source such as a database, XML stream or a spreadsheet, and use it to produce a document in a format which satisfies a particular human readership.
Report generation functionality is almost always present in database systems, where the sourc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20Fiction%20Lives%20in%20Fiction | When Fiction Lives in Fiction is the title of a significant narrative essay written in 1939 by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. Weighing in at something less than three pages in length, Borges explores the teleological nature of metadocuments in fiction, for example, false documents.
Amongst the works examine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet%20of%20the%20Apes | Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control. The franchise is based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des singes, translated into English... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species%20description | A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper. Its purpose is to give a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differs from species that have been described previously or are related. To be considered valid,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly | Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapheap%20Challenge | Scrapheap Challenge is a British television show where teams of contestants build a working machine that can perform a specific task, using materials available in a scrapyard. The series features teams of four or five members who are given ten hours (based around sunset) to build vehicles or machines to complete a spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible%20tank | Flexible tanks (also flexi-bags, flexibags and flexi-tanks) are a kind of storage equipment for liquids such as water or oil. Compared to steel tanks, flexible tanks have many advantages, including lighter weight and being rustproof, foldable, and quicker and easier to set up. With the same capacity, an empty flexible... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel%20doc | A gel doc, also known as a gel documentation system, gel image system or gel imager, refers to equipment widely used in molecular biology laboratories for the imaging and documentation of nucleic acid and protein suspended within polyacrylamide or agarose gels. Genetic information is stored in DNA. Polyacrylamide or ag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help%20a%20Reporter%20Out | Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is an online service for journalists to obtain feedback from the public. It enables journalists to connect with experts in issues relevant to their reporting. It was founded as a Facebook group in 2008 by Peter Shankman and was later turned into a mailing list claiming over 800,000 sources an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Science%20in%20Human%20Biology | Several universities have designed interdisciplinary courses with a focus on human biology at the undergraduate level. There is a wide variation in emphasis ranging from business, social studies, public policy, healthcare and pharmaceutical research.
Americas
Human Biology major at Stanford University, Palo Alto (sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Instruments%20signing%20key%20controversy | The Texas Instruments signing key controversy resulted from Texas Instruments' (TI) response to a project to factorize the 512-bit RSA cryptographic keys needed to write custom firmware to TI devices.
Project
In July 2009, Benjamin Moody, a United-TI forum user, published the factors of a 512-bit RSA key used to sign ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20oxidation | Alpha oxidation (α-oxidation) is a process by which certain branched-chain fatty acids are broken down by removal of a single carbon from the carboxyl end. In humans, alpha-oxidation is used in peroxisomes to break down dietary phytanic acid, which cannot undergo beta-oxidation due to its β-methyl branch, into pristani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotransplant | Immunotransplant is a maneuver used to make vaccines more powerful. It refers to the process of infusing vaccine-primed T lymphocytes into lymphodepleted recipients for the purpose of enhancing the proliferation and function of those T cells and increasing immune protection induced by that vaccine.
The concept takes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAPO%20Codebits | SAPO Codebits, also known simply as Codebits, was a (computing) conference held in Lisbon from 2007 to 2014. It was organized by SAPO which, besides a news media brand, was also an internet-focused R&D division of Portugal Telecom at the time. Initially inspired by Yahoo! Hack Day, the event lasted for three non-stop d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatocrit | Steatocrit or acid steatocrit is a simple, rapid gravimetric method to determine steatorrhea. The test is simple, rapid, inexpensive, and reliable. It is a qualitative test that can be used when other methods are impractical.
Elevated steatocrit
An elevated steatocrit is indicative of fat malabsorption resulting in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation%20of%20information | In probability theory and information theory, the variation of information or shared information distance is a measure of the distance between two clusterings (partitions of elements). It is closely related to mutual information; indeed, it is a simple linear expression involving the mutual information. Unlike the mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller%20mill | Roller mills are mills that use cylindrical rollers, either in opposing pairs or against flat plates, to crush or grind various materials, such as grain, ore, gravel, plastic, and others. Roller grain mills are an alternative to traditional millstone arrangements in gristmills. Roller mills for rock complement other ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne%20S%C3%B8lvberg | Arne Sølvberg (born 13 February 1940) is a Norwegian computer scientist, professor in computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, and an expert in the field of information modelling.
Career
Sølvberg was born at Klepp in southwestern Norway. He was the eldest of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker%20substitution | Kronecker substitution is a technique named after Leopold Kronecker for determining the coefficients of an unknown polynomial by evaluating it at a single value. If p(x) is a polynomial with integer coefficients, and x is chosen to be both a power of two and larger in magnitude than any of the coefficients of p, then t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperley%20transporter | A Temperley transporter is an early form of overhead crane invented by John Ridley Temperley in 1892. They were manufactured by the Temperley Transporter Company of London.
Relevant patents
GB0021170 issued in the United Kingdom in 1892
References
Engineering vehicles
Cranes (machines)
Port infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20for%20Devices | Web Services for Devices or Web Services on Devices (WSD) is a Microsoft API to enable programming connections to web service enabled devices, such as printers, scanners and file shares. Such devices conform to the Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS). It is an extensible framework that serves as a replacement for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-voltage%20detect | A low-voltage detect (LVD) is a microcontroller or microprocessor peripheral that generates a reset signal when the Vcc supply voltage falls below Vref. Sometimes is combined with power-on reset (POR) and then it is called POR-LVD.
See also
Power-on reset
Embedded systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV.link | AV.link, also known under the trade names nexTViewLink, SmartLink, Q-Link, EasyLink, etc., is a protocol to carry control information between audio-visual devices connected via the SCART (EIA Multiport) connector.
It is standardised as CENELEC EN 50157-1.
The Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) communication channel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT6235 | The MT6235 is a processor used in many Chinese cellular phones (eg. ZTE). It is a member of the MT62xx series of processors by MediaTek.
MediaTek-based Chinese cell phones often come with features not common to North American phones, such as analog television viewing and recording. While these phones have vastly diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioproduct | Bioproducts or bio-based products are materials, chemicals and energy derived from renewable biological material.
Bioresources
Biological resources include agriculture, forestry, and biologically derived waste, and there are many other renewable bioresource examples.
Example
One of the examples of renewable bioresou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS | Tahoe-LAFS (Tahoe Least-Authority File Store) is a free and open, secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, distributed data store and distributed file system. It can be used as an online backup system, or to serve as a file or Web host similar to Freenet, depending on the front-end used to insert and access files in the ... |
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