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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywarn%20Europe
Skywarn Europe is a network of volunteer storm spotters throughout Europe based on the U.S. Skywarn program (a similar program, Canwarn operates in Canada). Its members attend severe weather training courses and deliver real-time observations of current weather conditions that may be used to warn the public. Its posti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hillside%20Group
The Hillside Group is an educational nonprofit organization founded in August 1993 to help software developers analyze and document common development and design problems as software design patterns. The Hillside Group supports the patterns community through sponsorship of the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedosov%20manifold
In mathematics, a Fedosov manifold is a symplectic manifold with a compatible torsion-free connection, that is, a triple (M, ω, ∇), where (M, ω) is a symplectic manifold (that is, is a symplectic form, a non-degenerate closed exterior 2-form, on a -manifold M), and ∇ is a symplectic torsion-free connection on (A conn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsinoid
Capsinoids are alkaloid substances naturally present in chili peppers. Although they are structurally similar to capsaicin, the substance that causes pungency in hot peppers, they largely lack that characteristic. Capsinoids have an estimated "hot taste threshold" which is about 1/1000 that of capsaicin. Capsinoids wer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIDA%20%28cognitive%20architecture%29
The LIDA (Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent) cognitive architecture is an integrated artificial cognitive system that attempts to model a broad spectrum of cognition in biological systems, from low-level perception/action to high-level reasoning. Developed primarily by Stan Franklin and colleagues at the Universi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC-8
The MARC-8 charset is a MARC standard used in MARC-21 library records. The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form, and they are frequently used in library database systems. The character encoding now known as MARC-8 was intro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subring
In mathematics, a subring of R is a subset of a ring that is itself a ring when binary operations of addition and multiplication on R are restricted to the subset, and which shares the same multiplicative identity as R. For those who define rings without requiring the existence of a multiplicative identity, a subring o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmNovia%20Technologies
omNovia Technologies is a software company, founded by Shahin (Shawn) Shadfar in 2004 that provides web conferencing platform for realtime, rich-media online meetings, webinars, webcasts and eLearning sessions with two to 5,000 interactive participants. The company's headquarters is located in Houston, Texas. According...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s%20Optics
Optics (), is a work on the geometry of vision written by the Greek mathematician Euclid around 300 BC. The earliest surviving manuscript of Optics is in Greek and dates from the 10th century AD. The work deals almost entirely with the geometry of vision, with little reference to either the physical or psychological ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20Abstracts
Genetics Abstracts is a database produced by CSA Illumina. It includes abstracts from articles from 954 peer-reviewed scientific journals in the field of genetics published since 1982. The database is updated monthly, with approximately 1600 new records added. As of October 2009, it contains over 535,623 records. Refe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematical logic, a witness is a specific value t to be substituted for variable x of an existential statement of the form ∃x φ(x) such that φ(t) is true. Examples For example, a theory T of arithmetic is said to be inconsistent if there exists a proof in T of the formula "0 = 1". The formula I(T), which says ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20estimator
A Civil estimator is a construction professional who bids on civil projects that have gone to tender. Civil estimators typically have a background in civil engineering, construction project management, or construction supervision. Estimators are responsible for obtaining tenders, obtaining of material costs, calculatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface%20segregation%20principle
In the field of software engineering, the interface segregation principle (ISP) states that no code should be forced to depend on methods it does not use. ISP splits interfaces that are very large into smaller and more specific ones so that clients will only have to know about the methods that are of interest to them. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20restoration%20by%20artificial%20intelligence
Image restoration is the operation of taking a corrupt/noisy image and estimating the clean, original image. Corruption may come in many forms such as motion blur, noise and camera mis-focus. Image restoration is performed by reversing the process that blurred the image and such is performed by imaging a point source a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20Attribute%20Modulation%20Protocol
Security Attribute Modulation Protocol (SAMP) is a protocol used to encode role-based and user-based access control attributes for transmission over a network, typically embedded in a TCP/IP or UDP/IP packet, with an application layer payload trailing afterwards. Sun Microsystems makes a brief mention of SAMP in their...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxesis%20%28biology%29
Auxesis (from the Greek word meaning increase; grow) refers to growth from an increase in cell size rather than an increase in the number of cells. Auxetic growth occurs in certain tissues, such as muscle, of the higher animals as well as in some organisms, such as nematodes, tunicates, and rotifers. In plant physio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term%20%28logic%29
In mathematical logic, a term denotes a mathematical object while a formula denotes a mathematical fact. In particular, terms appear as components of a formula. This is analogous to natural language, where a noun phrase refers to an object and a whole sentence refers to a fact. A first-order term is recursively constr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-1
Tianhe-I, Tianhe-1, or TH-1 (, ; Sky River Number One) is a supercomputer capable of an Rmax (maximum range) of 2.5 peta FLOPS. Located at the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin, China, it was the fastest computer in the world from October 2010 to June 2011 and was one of the few petascale supercomputers in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20canonical%20model
In the mathematical field of algebraic geometry, the relative canonical model of a singular variety of a mathematical object where is a particular canonical variety that maps to , which simplifies the structure. Description The precise definition is: If is a resolution define the adjunction sequence to be the se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Condor
Red Condor, Inc. is a privately held company that offers anti-spam appliances and a hosted service that block e-mail spam, spyware, and viruses. The company also offers a message archiving service that provides back-up of inbound and outbound email messages. In 2007, Red Condor introduced Vx Technology, which integrat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20of%20Engineering%20%28KNUST%29
The College of Engineering is one of the six colleges of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, Ghana. It was established in October 1952 to prepare students for professional qualifications only. It has since grown and expanded and now as a college runs 15 BSc, 20 MSc, MPhil and PhD programm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILCD
iLCD (Lighting Cell Display) is a device developed by a research team from Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, a MIT educated bioengineer, undergraduate students of the Universidad Politéctica de Valencia and Universitat de València and several members of the faculty and research staff from Universidad de València (Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration%20Objects
Integration Objects is a software development firm created in 2002. The company is a systems integrator and solutions provider for knowledge management, automation and plant process management and decision support applications. It develops OPC software products and knowledge management platforms for manufacturers prima...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20linking
River linking is a project of linking two or more rivers by creating a network of manually created reservoirs and canals, and providing land areas that otherwise does not have river water access and reducing the flow of water to sea using this means. It is based on the assumptions that surplus water in some rivers can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigle%20Networks
Gigle Networks (formerly known as Gigle Semiconductor) was a provider of high performance system-on-a-chip semiconductor devices and intelligent switching technology for home network, IPTV, consumer electronics and smart grid applications. The company was based in Barcelona, Spain, Edinburgh, UK, and Redwood City, Cali...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexSite
LexSite is a comprehensive English-Russian / Russian-English dictionary developed primarily for translators, teachers, researchers and students. Created to facilitate cross-cultural communications, the dictionary contains more than 1.4 million lexical-semantic units. Its search engine captures morphological specifics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BATM
BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. (Baras Advanced Technologies Marom) is a technology company principally engaged in development, production and marketing of data and telecommunication products in the field of local and wide area networks, as well as the development, production and distribution of laboratory diagnostic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20worker
A web worker, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), is a JavaScript script executed from an HTML page that runs in the background, independently of scripts that may also have been executed from the same HTML page. Web workers are often abl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%20in%20ground
A post in ground construction, also called earthfast or hole-set posts, is a type of construction in which vertical, roof-bearing timbers, called posts, are in direct contact with the ground. They may be placed into excavated postholes, driven into the ground, or on sills which are set on the ground without a foundatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliesthesia
Alliesthesia (from – be changed, and (aísthēsis) – sensation, perception; thus "changed sensation"; , ) is a psychophysiological phenomenon (not to be confused with the pathologic symptom of allesthesia) that describes the dependence of perceived pleasure or displeasure of stimuli on the internal state of an organism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semilinear%20map
In linear algebra, particularly projective geometry, a semilinear map between vector spaces V and W over a field K is a function that is a linear map "up to a twist", hence semi-linear, where "twist" means "field automorphism of K". Explicitly, it is a function that is: additive with respect to vector addition: the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20segment
The space segment of an artificial satellite system is one of its three operational components (the others being the user and ground segments). It comprises the satellite or satellite constellation and the uplink and downlink satellite links. The overall design of the payload, satellite, ground segment, and end-to-end...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank%20factorization
In mathematics, given a field , nonnegative integers , and a matrix , a rank decomposition or rank factorization of is a factorization of of the form , where and , where is the rank of . Existence Every finite-dimensional matrix has a rank decomposition: Let be an matrix whose column rank is . Therefore, there ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Development%20Kit
The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a distribution of Java Technology by Oracle Corporation. It implements the Java Language Specification (JLS) and the Java Virtual Machine Specification (JVMS) and provides the Standard Edition (SE) of the Java Application Programming Interface (API). It is derivative of the community d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalmers%20Naval%20Architecture%20Students%27%20Society
The Chalmers Naval Architecture Students' Society (also known as the Föreningen Chalmers Skeppsbyggare or FCS ) is a naval architecture graduate students group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The Society was found in 1887 following the establishment of the Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Departme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal%20mucosa
The nasal mucosa lines the nasal cavity. It is part of the respiratory mucosa, the mucous membrane lining the respiratory tract. The nasal mucosa is intimately adherent to the periosteum or perichondrium of the nasal conchae. It is continuous with the skin through the nostrils, and with the mucous membrane of the nasal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Pustyl%27nikov%20model
The Fermi–Pustyl'nikov model, named after Enrico Fermi and Lev Pustyl'nikov, is a model of the Fermi acceleration mechanism. A point mass falls with a constant acceleration vertically on the infinitely heavy horizontal wall, which moves vertically in accordance with analytic periodic law in time. The point interacts w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroshock
Pyroshock, also known as pyrotechnic shock, is the dynamic structural shock that occurs when an explosion or impact occurs on a structure. Davie and Bateman describe it as: "Pyroshock is the response of a structure to high frequency (thousands of hertz), high-magnitude stress waves that propagate throughout the struct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vflo
Vflo is a commercially available, physics-based distributed hydrologic model generated by Vieux & Associates, Inc. Vflo uses radar rainfall data for hydrologic input to simulate distributed runoff. Vflo employs GIS maps for parameterization via a desktop interface. The model is suited for distributed hydrologic forec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20T.%20S%C3%B3s
Vera Turán Sós (11 September 1930 – 22 March 2023) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in number theory and combinatorics. She was a student and close collaborator of both Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi. She also collaborated frequently with her husband Pál Turán, an analyst, number theorist, and combinatorist. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species%20distribution%20modelling
Species distribution modelling (SDM), also known as environmental (or ecological) niche modelling (ENM), habitat modelling, predictive habitat distribution modelling, and range mapping uses computer algorithms to predict the distribution of a species across geographic space and time using environmental data. The enviro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow
OpenFlow is a communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network. Description OpenFlow enables network controllers to determine the path of network packets across a network of switches. The controllers are distinct from the switches. This separation of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based%20one-time%20password
Time-based one-time password (TOTP) is a computer algorithm that generates a one-time password (OTP) that uses the current time as a source of uniqueness. As an extension of the HMAC-based one-time password algorithm (HOTP), it has been adopted as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard . TOTP is the cornersto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-growing%20hierarchy
In computability theory, computational complexity theory and proof theory, a fast-growing hierarchy (also called an extended Grzegorczyk hierarchy, or a Schwichtenberg-Wainer hierarchy) is an ordinal-indexed family of rapidly increasing functions fα: N → N (where N is the set of natural numbers {0, 1, ...}, and α range...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagitta%20%28geometry%29
In geometry, the sagitta (sometimes abbreviated as sag) of a circular arc is the distance from the midpoint of the arc to the midpoint of its chord. It is used extensively in architecture when calculating the arc necessary to span a certain height and distance and also in optics where it is used to find the depth of a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krogh%20length
The Krogh Length, , is the distance between capillaries at which nutrients diffuse to based on cellular consumption of the nutrients. It can be described as: where is the diffusion constant of the solute in the substrate, is the concentration in the channel, and is the consumption by the cells. Units are in terms ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-Purpose%20Serial%20Interface
General-Purpose Serial Interface, also known as GPSI, 7-wire interface, or 7WS, is a 7 wire communications interface. It is used as an interface between Ethernet MAC and PHY blocks. Data is received and transmitted using separate data paths (TXD, RXD) and separate data clocks (TXCLK, RXCLK). Other signals consist of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscale%20thermophoresis
Microscale thermophoresis (MST) is a technology for the biophysical analysis of interactions between biomolecules. Microscale thermophoresis is based on the detection of a temperature-induced change in fluorescence of a target as a function of the concentration of a non-fluorescent ligand. The observed change in fluore...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%E2%80%93cell%20interaction
Cell–cell interaction refers to the direct interactions between cell surfaces that play a crucial role in the development and function of multicellular organisms. These interactions allow cells to communicate with each other in response to changes in their microenvironment. This ability to send and receive signals is e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20product%20model%20transformation
In mathematics, the tensor product (TP) model transformation was proposed by Baranyi and Yam as key concept for higher-order singular value decomposition of functions. It transforms a function (which can be given via closed formulas or neural networks, fuzzy logic, etc.) into TP function form if such a transformation i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoaML
SoaML (Service-oriented architecture Modeling Language ) is an open source specification project from the Object Management Group (OMG), describing a UML profile and metamodel for the modeling and design of services within a service-oriented architecture. Description SoaML has been created to support the following mod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20stuttering
__notoc__ Micro stuttering is a term used in computing to describe a quality defect that manifests as irregular delays between frames rendered by the GPU(s), causing the instantaneous frame rate of the longest delay to be significantly lower than the frame rate reported by benchmarking applications, such as 3DMark, as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20turboexpander-generator
A hydrogen turboexpander-generator or generator-loaded expander for hydrogen gas is an axial flow turbine or radial expander for energy recovery through which a high pressure hydrogen gas is expanded to produce work used to drive an electrical generator. It replaces the control valve or regulator where the pressure dro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWire%20%28library%29
OpenWire is an open-source dataflow programming library that extends the functionality of Embarcadero Delphi and C++ Builder by providing pin type component properties. The properties can be connected to each other. The connections can be used to deliver data or state information between the pins, simulating the funct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20encoding%20of%20APL%20symbols
The programming language APL uses a number of symbols, rather than words from natural language, to identify operations, similarly to mathematical symbols. Prior to the wide adoption of Unicode, a number of special-purpose EBCDIC and non-EBCDIC code pages were used to represent the symbols required for writing APL. Cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching%20polynomial
In the mathematical fields of graph theory and combinatorics, a matching polynomial (sometimes called an acyclic polynomial) is a generating function of the numbers of matchings of various sizes in a graph. It is one of several graph polynomials studied in algebraic graph theory. Definition Several different types of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquaMaps
AquaMaps is a collaborative project with the aim of producing computer-generated (and ultimately, expert reviewed) predicted global distribution maps for marine species on a 0.5 x 0.5 degree grid of the oceans based on data available through online species databases such as FishBase and SeaLifeBase and species occurren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis
Redis (; Remote Dictionary Server) is an open-source in-memory storage, used as a distributed, in-memory key–value database, cache and message broker, with optional durability. Because it holds all data in memory and because of its design, Redis offers low-latency reads and writes, making it particularly suitable for u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20testing
In statistics and combinatorial mathematics, group testing is any procedure that breaks up the task of identifying certain objects into tests on groups of items, rather than on individual ones. First studied by Robert Dorfman in 1943, group testing is a relatively new field of applied mathematics that can be applied to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Engineers
The International Association of Engineers (IAENG) is a non-profit international association for engineers and computer scientists. IAENG was founded by a group of engineers and computer scientists in 1968, originally as a private club network for its founding members. Nowadays, IAENG has its secretariat office in Hong...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B6schl%E2%80%93Teller%20potential
In mathematical physics, a Pöschl–Teller potential, named after the physicists Herta Pöschl (credited as G. Pöschl) and Edward Teller, is a special class of potentials for which the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation can be solved in terms of special functions. Definition In its symmetric form is explicitly given b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProVerif
ProVerif is a software tool for automated reasoning about the security properties found in cryptographic protocols. The tool has been developed by Bruno Blanchet. Support is provided for cryptographic primitives including: symmetric & asymmetric cryptography; digital signatures; hash functions; bit-commitment; and sig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator%20messaging
Operator Messaging is the term, similar to Text Messaging and Voice Messaging, applying to an answering service call center who focuses on one specific scripting style that has grown out of the alphanumeric pager history. Early history In the 1970s and early 1980s, the cost of making a phone call decreased and more b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB
MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O%20virtualization
In virtualization, input/output virtualization (I/O virtualization) is a methodology to simplify management, lower costs and improve performance of servers in enterprise environments. I/O virtualization environments are created by abstracting the upper layer protocols from the physical connections. The technology enab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScicosLab
ScicosLab is a software package providing a multi-platform environment for scientific computation. It is based on the official Scilab 4.x (BUILD4) distribution, and includes the modeling and simulation tool Scicos and a number of other toolboxes. The latest stable version of ScicosLab is ScicosLab 4.4.2. It is possib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20law%20in%20Denmark
Privacy law in Denmark is supervised and enforced by the independent agency Datatilsynet (The Danish Data Protection Agency) based mainly upon the Act on Processing of Personal Data. History of Danish Privacy Law Privacy law in Denmark was originally determined by 2 acts: the Private Registers Act of 1978, and the Pub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20RTR
HP Reliable Transaction Router (RTR) is a transactional middleware for computer software, marketed by Hewlett Packard. RTR is used to integrate with applications that require reliable transaction services. Description RTR manages the messages which are sent between client-server to provide node and network fail-over ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far%20East%20Combined%20Bureau
The Far East Combined Bureau, an outstation of the British Government Code and Cypher School, was set up in Hong Kong in March 1935, to monitor Japanese, and also Chinese and Russian (Soviet) intelligence and radio traffic. Later it moved to Singapore, Colombo (Ceylon), Kilindini (Kenya), then returned to Colombo. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-based%20evolution
RNA-based evolution is a theory that posits that RNA is not merely an intermediate between Watson and Crick model of the DNA molecule and proteins, but rather a far more dynamic and independent role-player in determining phenotype. By regulating the transcription in DNA sequences, the stability of RNA, and the capabili...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20carrier
In analogue TV technology, residual carrier is the ratio of carrier level which is modulated by the maximum video signal to the unmodulated carrier level. Video signal Video signal (VF) or more formally composite video signal (CVS) is the signal which carries the video information as well as some auxiliary signals f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20symbol
In mathematics, the radical symbol, radical sign, root symbol, radix, or surd is a symbol for the square root or higher-order root of a number. The square root of a number is written as while the th root of is written as It is also used for other meanings in more advanced mathematics, such as the radical of an idea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal%20common%20divisor
In abstract algebra, particularly ring theory, maximal common divisors are an abstraction of the number theory concept of greatest common divisor (GCD). This definition is slightly more general than GCDs, and may exist in rings in which GCDs do not. Halter-Koch (1998) provides the following definition. is a maximal c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20code%20sequence%20and%20jump
Linear code sequence and jump (LCSAJ), in the broad sense, is a software analysis method used to identify structural units in code under test. Its primary use is with dynamic software analysis to help answer the question "How much testing is enough?". Dynamic software analysis is used to measure the quality and effic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20genetic%20resistance%20to%20malaria
Human genetic resistance to malaria refers to inherited changes in the DNA of humans which increase resistance to malaria and result in increased survival of individuals with those genetic changes. The existence of these genotypes is likely due to evolutionary pressure exerted by parasites of the genus Plasmodium which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TO-18
In electronics, TO-18 is a designation for a style of transistor metal case. The case is more expensive than the similarly sized plastic TO-92 package. The name is from JEDEC, signifying Transistor Outline Package, Case Style 18. Construction and orientation The typical TO-18 metal can package has a base diameter of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoAccel
NeoAccel is a multinational company that sells computer network security products direct to the end-user and through OEM relationships. The company is best known for its SSL VPN-Plus product and related ICAA & TSSL technology. In Jan 2011 NeoAccel was purchased by VMware. Company profile NeoAccel was founded in 2004 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20pinch
Hydrogen pinch analysis (HPA) is a hydrogen management method that originates from the concept of heat pinch analysis. HPA is a systematic technique for reducing hydrogen consumption and hydrogen generation through integration of hydrogen-using activities or processes in the petrochemical industry, petroleum refineries...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Technology%20Associates
Global Technology Associates, Inc. (GTA) is a developer and pioneer of Internet firewalls. The company is privately held with its headquarters, development and support facilities based in Orlando, Florida. History GTA was founded by a group of software engineers in 1992, and in 1994 was one of the first companies to i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20theft
In bioethics and law, gene theft or DNA theft is the act of acquiring the genetic material of another individual, usually from public places, without his or her permission. The DNA may be harvested from a wide variety of common objects such as discarded cigarettes, used condoms, coffee cups, and hairbrushes. In additio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20baggage
Evolutionary baggage is the part of the genome of a population that was advantageous in past individuals but is disadvantageous under the pressures exerted by natural selection today. Origin Genes that may have been advantageous in the past may be critically unfit for individuals in today's environment. Natural select...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-DOS
Z-DOS is a discontinued OEM version of Microsoft's MS-DOS specifically adapted to run on the hardware of the Zenith Z-100 personal computer. Overview The Z-100 used a 8086-family microprocessor, (the Intel 8088), but otherwise had a completely different internal architecture from the IBM PC. At the time Microsoft's M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsud%C5%8D%20Shashin
, sometimes called the Matsumoto fragment, is a Japanese animated filmstrip from the Meiji era that is the oldest known work of animation from Japan. Its creator is unknown. Evidence suggests it was made somewhere between 1907 and 1912, so it may predate the earliest displays of Western animated films in Japan. It was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20education
Statistics education is the practice of teaching and learning of statistics, along with the associated scholarly research. Statistics is both a formal science and a practical theory of scientific inquiry, and both aspects are considered in statistics education. Education in statistics has similar concerns as does educ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Hippocampus%20Question
The Great Hippocampus Question was a 19th-century scientific controversy about the anatomy of ape and human uniqueness. The dispute between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen became central to the scientific debate on human evolution that followed Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species. The name com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Internet%20Preservation%20Consortium
The International Internet Preservation Consortium is an international organization of libraries and other organizations established to coordinate efforts to preserve internet content for the future. It was founded in July 2003 by 12 participating institutions, and had grown to 35 members by January 2010. As of Januar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20multinomial%20distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the negative multinomial distribution is a generalization of the negative binomial distribution (NB(x0, p)) to more than two outcomes. As with the univariate negative binomial distribution, if the parameter is a positive integer, the negative multinomial distribution has an urn m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20orientation%20parameters
In geodesy and astrometry, earth orientation parameters (EOP) describe irregularities in the rotation of planet Earth. EOP provide the rotational transform from the International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) to the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), or vice versa, as a function of time. Earth's ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVG%20PC%20TuneUp
AVG TuneUp, previously called AVG PC Tuneup, and TuneUp Utilities, is a utility software suite for Microsoft Windows designed to help manage, maintain, optimize, configure, and troubleshoot a computer system. It was produced and developed by TuneUp Software GmbH. TuneUp Software was headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20art
Internet art (also known as net art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance of the physical gallery and museum system. In many cases, the viewer is drawn into some kind of interaction with the work of art. Artists working in this manner are someti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging
In computer programming and software development, debugging is the process of finding and resolving bugs (defects or problems that prevent correct operation) within computer programs, software, or systems. Debugging tactics can involve interactive debugging, control flow analysis, unit testing, integration testing, lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20flag
A Boolean flag, truth bit or truth flag in computer science is a Boolean value represented as one or more bits, which encodes a state variable with two possible values. Memory usage A single byte can contain up to 8 separate Boolean flags by mapping one Boolean flag to each bit, making it a very economical and dense m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20map%20projections
This is a summary of map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable. Because there is no limit to the number of possible map projections, there can be no comprehensive list. Table of projections *The first known popularizer/user and not necessarily the creator. Key Type o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX4ht
TeX4ht is a configurable converter capable of translating TeX and LaTeX documents to HTML and certain XML formats. Most notably, TeX4ht serves for converting (La)TeX documents to formats used by word processors. It was developed by Eitan M. Gurari. The program is published under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pungency
Pungency () refers to the taste of food commonly referred to as spiciness, hotness or heat, found in foods such as chili peppers. Highly pungent tastes may be experienced as unpleasant. The term piquancy () is sometimes applied to foods with a lower degree of pungency that are "agreeably stimulating to the palate". Exa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLife
MyLife is an American information brokerage scam. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Tinsley in 2002 as Reunion.com and changed names following the 2008 merger with Wink.com. MyLife gathers personal information through public records and other sources to automatically generate a "MyLife Public Page" for each person. A My...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%20HD%206000%20series
The Northern Islands series is a family of GPUs developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) forming part of its Radeon-brand, based on the 40 nm process. Some models are based on TeraScale 2 (VLIW5), some on the new TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) introduced with them. Starting with this family, the former ATI brand was officially ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20botany
The history of botany examines the human effort to understand life on Earth by tracing the historical development of the discipline of botany—that part of natural science dealing with organisms traditionally treated as plants. Rudimentary botanical science began with empirically based plant lore passed from generation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer%20dimer
A primer dimer (PD) is a potential by-product in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a common biotechnological method. As its name implies, a PD consists of two primer molecules that have attached (hybridized) to each other because of strings of complementary bases in the primers. As a result, the DNA polymerase ampli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20%28Unix%29
host is a simple utility for performing Domain Name System lookups. Origin It was developed by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), and is released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Modes When applied to a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) the host command will return information associated with that name such...