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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyster%20%28expert%20system%29
SHYSTER is a legal expert system developed at the Australian National University in Canberra in 1993. It was written as the doctoral dissertation of James Popple under the supervision of Robin Stanton, Roger Clarke, Peter Drahos, and Malcolm Newey. A full technical report of the expert system, and a book further deta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Saks%20%28mathematician%29
Michael Ezra Saks is an American mathematician. He is currently the Department Chair of the Mathematics Department at Rutgers University (2017–) and from 2006 until 2010 was director of the Mathematics Graduate Program at Rutgers University. Saks received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINADR
Signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SINADR) is a measurement of the purity of a signal. SINADR is typically used in data converter specifications. SINADR is defined as: where is the average power of the signal, quantization error, random noise and distortion components. SINADR is usually expressed in dB. SINADR is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne-XVP
Ne-XVP was a research project executed between 2006-2008 at NXP Semiconductors. The project undertook a holistic approach to define a next generation multimedia processing architecture for embedded MPSoCs that targets programmability, performance scalability, and silicon efficiency in an evolutionary way. The evolution...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketBook%20International
PocketBook is a multinational company which produces e-book readers based on E Ink technology (an electronic paper technology) under the PocketBook brand. The company was founded in 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine, and its headquarters were shifted to Lugano, Switzerland in 2012. These devices enable users to browse, buy, downlo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20Edward%20Nussbaum
Adolf Edward Nussbaum (10 January 1925 – 31 October 2009) was a German-born American theoretical mathematician who was a professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis for nearly 40 years. He worked with others in 20th-century theoretical physics and mathematics such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and John v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipper%20Dredge%20No.%203
Dipper Dredge No. 3 is a historic dredge located at Lyons in Wayne County, New York. It is a steam-powered floating dredge located at the dry dock of the New York State Barge Canal at Lyons. The dredge consists of a rectangular riveted steel hull built in 1929 and measuring 110 feet in length, 34 feet in beam, and 7 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%20tack
The up tack or falsum (⊥, \bot in LaTeX, U+22A5 in Unicode) is a constant symbol used to represent: The truth value 'false', or a logical constant denoting a proposition in logic that is always false (often called "falsum" or "absurdum"). The bottom element in wheel theory and lattice theory, which also represents a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectrochemical%20process
Photoelectrochemical processes are processes in photoelectrochemistry; they usually involve transforming light into other forms of energy. These processes apply to photochemistry, optically pumped lasers, sensitized solar cells, luminescence, and photochromism. Electron excitation Electron excitation is the movement ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OW2%20Orchestra
OW2 Orchestra is open source software for orchestration of web services. It is WS-BPEL 2.0 compliant. It organizes web services calls following a process description written in the BPEL XML grammar. It has a graphical editor and an administration console. Features Supports WS-BPEL 2.0 specifications Supports severa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco%20System%2010
The Namco System 10 is an arcade system board released by Namco in 2000 based on the Sony PlayStation hardware. It was preceded by the Namco System 23 in 1997 and succeeded by the Namco System 246. System 10 specifications Source: Main CPU: R3000A 32 bit RISC processor, Operating performance - 30 MIPS, Instruction Cac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield%20strength%20anomaly
In materials science, the yield strength anomaly refers to materials wherein the yield strength (i.e., the stress necessary to initiate plastic yielding) increases with temperature. For the majority of materials, the yield strength decreases with increasing temperature. In metals, this decrease in yield strength is du...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractionation%20Research%20Inc.
Fractionation Research Inc. (FRI) is an industry cooperative organization that researches the performance of industrial-scale mass transfer devices such as trays, packings and other column internals. Its objective is to facilitate the design of more economical distillation, absorption and stripping systems. Before the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Internet
Heart Internet is a web hosting company based in Nottingham, England selling domain names, shared hosting, reseller hosting and servers. It has been a subsidiary of UK based hosting and domain registration company Host Europe Group since 2011. Heart Internet is the 2nd largest web-host in the UK for websites hosted. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Security%20Alliance
Internet Security Alliance (ISA) was founded in 2001 as a non-profit collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and Electronic Industries Alliance, a federation of trade associations. The Internet Security Alliance is focused on cyber security, acting as a forum for information sharing and leadership on i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet%20mean
In mathematics and statistics, the Fréchet mean is a generalization of centroids to metric spaces, giving a single representative point or central tendency for a cluster of points. It is named after Maurice Fréchet. Karcher mean is the renaming of the Riemannian Center of Mass construction developed by Karsten Grove an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20Vibe
Novell Vibe is a web-based team collaboration platform developed by Novell. It was initially released by Novell in June 2008 under the name of Novell Teaming. Novell Vibe is a collaboration platform that can serve as a knowledge repository, document management system, project collaboration hub, process automation machi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Adobe%20Flash%20software
The following is a list of notable software for creating, modifying and deploying Adobe Flash and Adobe Shockwave format. Playback Adobe Flash Player Adobe Flash Lite Adobe AIR Gameswf Gnash Lightspark Ruffle Shumway Scaleform GFx Swfdec Authoring "Authoring" in computing, is the act of creating a document,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit%20multi-threading
Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT) is a computer science paradigm for building and programming parallel computers designed around the parallel random-access machine (PRAM) parallel computational model. A more direct explanation of XMT starts with the rudimentary abstraction that made serial computing simple: that any sing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concolic%20testing
Concolic testing (a portmanteau of concrete and symbolic, also known as dynamic symbolic execution) is a hybrid software verification technique that performs symbolic execution, a classical technique that treats program variables as symbolic variables, along a concrete execution (testing on particular inputs) path. Sym...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold%20host%20density
Threshold host density (NT), in the context of wildlife disease ecology, refers to the concentration of a population of a particular organism as it relates to disease. Specifically, the threshold host density (NT) of a species refers to the minimum concentration of individuals necessary to sustain a given disease with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenProject
OpenProject is a web-based project management system for location-independent team collaboration. It is a free open-source application, released under the GNU (General Public License) Version 3 (GPLv3), and is available as a community edition and a chargeable Enterprise Edition. Development is mostly done by OpenProjec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20reaction%20engineering
Chemical reaction engineering (reaction engineering or reactor engineering) is a specialty in chemical engineering or industrial chemistry dealing with chemical reactors. Frequently the term relates specifically to catalytic reaction systems where either a homogeneous or heterogeneous catalyst is present in the reacto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s%20paradox
Gray's Paradox is a paradox posed in 1936 by British zoologist Sir James Gray. The paradox was to figure out how dolphins can obtain such high speeds and accelerations with what appears to be a small muscle mass. Gray made an estimate of the power a dolphin could exert based on its physiology, and concluded the power w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20%28programming%20language%29
Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. It is often referred to as Golang because of its former d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%20circle
In geometry, the director circle of an ellipse or hyperbola (also called the orthoptic circle or Fermat–Apollonius circle) is a circle consisting of all points where two perpendicular tangent lines to the ellipse or hyperbola cross each other. Properties The director circle of an ellipse circumscribes the minimum boun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivo%20Tecnologia
Positivo Tecnologia, known as Positivo, started in 1989 under the name Positivo Informatica until 2017. It is a Brazilian technology company headquartered in Curitiba, Paraná. It is the Information Technology division of Brazilian holding organization Grupo Positivo. Nowadays, the product portfolio includes smartphone...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow%20and%20warp%20of%20semiconductor%20wafers%20and%20substrates
Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates are measures of the flatness of wafers. Definitions Bow is the deviation of the center point of the median surface of a free, un-clamped wafer from the reference plane, where the reference plane is defined by . This definition is based on now obsolete ASTM F534. War...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%27s%20theorem%20%28game%20theory%29
In game theory, Zermelo's theorem is a theorem about finite two-person games of perfect information in which the players move alternately and in which chance does not affect the decision making process. It says that if the game cannot end in a draw, then one of the two players must have a winning strategy (i.e. can for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20to%20rank
Learning to rank or machine-learned ranking (MLR) is the application of machine learning, typically supervised, semi-supervised or reinforcement learning, in the construction of ranking models for information retrieval systems. Training data consists of lists of items with some partial order specified between items in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous%20traffic
In computer networking, promiscuous traffic, or cross-talking, describes situations where a receiver configured to receive a particular data stream receives that data stream and others. Promiscuous traffic should not be confused with the promiscuous mode, which is a network card configuration. In particular, in multic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20point
The operating point is a specific point within the operation characteristic of a technical device. This point will be engaged because of the properties of the system and the outside influences and parameters. In electronic engineering establishing an operating point is called biasing. Wanted and unwanted operating po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalka%20Supercomputing%20facility
The Amalka Supercomputing facility is the largest of the three Czech parallel supercomputers. It is used by Department of Space Physics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The primary task is computation and visualisation in the area of space research for the European Space Ag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outboard%20gear
Musical outboard equipment or outboard gear is used to process or alter a sound signal separately from functionality provided within a mixing console or a digital audio workstation. Outboard effects units can be used either during a live performance or in the recording studio. Overview Some outboard effects units and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Glatzel%20equation
The Simon–Glatzel equation is an empirical correlation describing the pressure dependence of the melting temperature of a solid. The pressure dependence of the melting temperature is small for small pressure changes because the volume change during fusion or melting is rather small. However, at very high pressures high...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20Python%20Programming
Core Python Programming is a textbook on the Python programming language, written by Wesley J. Chun. The first edition of the book was released on December 14, 2000. The second edition was released several years later on September 18, 2006. Core Python Programming is mainly targeted at higher education students and IT ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagstaffe%E2%80%93Le%20Fort%20avulsion%20fracture
Le Fort's fracture of the ankle is a vertical fracture of the antero-medial part of the distal fibula with avulsion of the anterior tibiofibular ligament, opposite to a Tillaux-Chaput avulsion fracture The injury was described by Léon Clément Le Fort in 1886. See also Ankle fracture References External links B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldering
Soldering (; ) is a process of joining two metal surfaces together using a filler metal called solder. The soldering process involves heating the surfaces to be joined and melting the solder, which is then allowed to cool and solidify, creating a strong and durable joint. Soldering is commonly used in the electronics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett%20acceptance%20ratio
The Bennett acceptance ratio method (BAR) is an algorithm for estimating the difference in free energy between two systems (usually the systems will be simulated on the computer). It was suggested by Charles H. Bennett in 1976. Preliminaries Take a system in a certain super (i.e. Gibbs) state. By performing a Metropo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20theorem
The maximum theorem provides conditions for the continuity of an optimized function and the set of its maximizers with respect to its parameters. The statement was first proven by Claude Berge in 1959. The theorem is primarily used in mathematical economics and optimal control. Statement of theorem Maximum Theorem. L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversing%20drum%20mixer
A reversing drum mixer (also commonly called a non-tilting mixer) is a type of concrete mixer that produces concrete in single batches. The entire drum rotates around its axis as materials are loaded through a charge chute at one end of the drum and exit through a discharge chute at the opposite end of the drum. Mixi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Thread%20Execution
Parallel Thread Execution (PTX or NVPTX) is a low-level parallel thread execution virtual machine and instruction set architecture used in Nvidia's CUDA programming environment. The NVCC compiler translates code written in CUDA, a C++-like language, into PTX instructions (an assembly language represented as ASCII text)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian%20coherent%20structure
Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) are distinguished surfaces of trajectories in a dynamical system that exert a major influence on nearby trajectories over a time interval of interest. The type of this influence may vary, but it invariably creates a coherent trajectory pattern for which the underlying LCS serves as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizomucor%20miehei
Rhizomucor miehei (also: Mucor miehei ) is a species of fungus. It is commercially used to produce enzymes which can be used to produce a microbial rennet to curd milk and produce cheese. Under experimental conditions, this species grows particularly well at temperatures between 24 and 55°C, and their growth becomes n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Bangert
Victor Bangert (born 28 November 1950) is Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematisches Institut in Freiburg, Germany. His main interests are differential geometry and dynamical systems theory. He specialises in the theory of closed geodesics, wherein one of his significant results, combined with another one due to Jo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach%20%28mathematics%29
Let X be a subset of Rn. Then the reach of X is defined as Examples Shapes that have reach infinity include a single point, a straight line, a full square, and any convex set. The graph of ƒ(x) = |x| has reach zero. A circle of radius r has reach r. References Geometric measurement Real analysis Topology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotroph
An autotroph is an organism that produces complex organic compounds (such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) using carbon from simple substances such as carbon dioxide, generally using energy from light (photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical reactions (chemosynthesis). They convert an abiotic source of energy (e.g. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpable%20ice%20technology
Pumpable ice technology (PIT) uses thin liquids, with the cooling capacity of ice. Pumpable ice is typically a slurry of ice crystals or particles ranging from 5 micrometers to 1 cm in diameter and transported in brine, seawater, food liquid, or gas bubbles of air, ozone, or carbon dioxide. Terminology Beyond generic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyShot
HyShot is a research project of The University of Queensland, Australia Centre for Hypersonics, to demonstrate the possibility of supersonic combustion under flight conditions using two scramjet engines, one designed by The University of Queensland and one designed by QinetiQ (formerly the MOD's Defence Evaluation & Re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifunctional%20antibody
A trifunctional antibody is a monoclonal antibody with binding sites for two different antigens, typically CD3 and a tumor antigen, making it a type of bispecific monoclonal antibody. In addition, its intact Fc-part can bind to an Fc receptor on accessory cells like conventional monospecific antibodies. The net effect ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg%201000
The Seeburg 1000 Background Music System is a phonograph designed and built by the Seeburg Corporation to play background music from special 16 RPM vinyl records in offices, restaurants, retail businesses, factories and similar locations. Seeburg provided a service similar to that of Muzak. Phonograph The Seeburg 10...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20compressor
A hydraulic compressor is a type of compressor that is designed to convert hydraulic power to pneumatic power. It is used across various industries to improve the efficiency of certain types of machinery. Hydraulic compressors have a hydraulic pump to push air through a pipe, which forces a motor to spin. The motor pow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff%20%28Unix%29
is a mail notification system for Unix. Usage When a new mail message is delivered, the program alerts the recipient so they can read it immediately. The alert is sent to the tty where the recipient is logged in, and contains the Subject, From line, and first few lines of the body of the new message. The alert also ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine%20Toolkit
Vine Toolkit is an open source software framework that is used to create Grid-aware web applications. Usage According to the Vine Toolkit web site: "Vine is a modular, extensible Java library that offers developers an easy-to-use, high-level Application Programmer Interface (API) for Grid-enabling applications. Vine ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%27s%20three-series%20theorem
In probability theory, Kolmogorov's Three-Series Theorem, named after Andrey Kolmogorov, gives a criterion for the almost sure convergence of an infinite series of random variables in terms of the convergence of three different series involving properties of their probability distributions. Kolmogorov's three-series th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Graphics%20Institute
American Graphics Institute, Inc. (AGI) is a company headquartered in the Boston suburb of Woburn, Massachusetts that provides publishing, consulting and technical training. The institute also writes and publishes books about business strategy and design technology. History American Graphics Institute was founded in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinodal
In thermodynamics, the limit of local stability with respect to small fluctuations is clearly defined by the condition that the second derivative of Gibbs free energy is zero. The locus of these points (the inflection point within a G-x or G-c curve, Gibbs free energy as a function of composition) is known as the spin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20mark
Index mark has multiple meanings. In computing, an index mark or index track is a physical impression made on a hard disk drive. Its purpose is to indicate the starting point for each track on the hard disk drive. Usually, an index mark takes the form of a hole, gap, or magnetic strip. It also allows a hard disk drive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20rank
A memory rank is a set of DRAM chips connected to the same chip select, which are therefore accessed simultaneously. In practice all DRAM chips share all of the other command and control signals, and only the chip select pins for each rank are separate (the data pins are shared across ranks). Details The term rank was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20magnetic%20resonance
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are perturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with a frequency characteristic of the magnetic field at the nucleus. This process occur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message-ID
Message-ID is a unique identifier for a digital message, most commonly a globally unique identifier used in email and Usenet newsgroups. Message-IDs are required to have a specific format which is a subset of an email address and be globally unique. No two different messages must ever have the same Message-ID. If two ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overexploitation
Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns. Continued overexploitation can lead to the destruction of the resource, as it will be unable to replenish. The term applies to natural resources such as water aquifers, grazing pastures and fore...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species%20homogeneity
In ecology, species homogeneity is a lack of biodiversity. Species richness is the fundamental unit in which to assess the homogeneity of an environment. Therefore, any reduction in species richness, especially endemic species, could be argued as advocating the production of a homogeneous environment. Monocultures Ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20building%20in%20Israel
Green building in Israel refers to the practice and regulation of green building in Israel. History Israel has had its own voluntary Green Building Standard, for buildings with reduced environmental impact, IS-5281 since 2005. The standard is based on a point rating system, awarding up to 5 stars based on the number o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCE%20Library
ASCE Library is an online full-text civil engineering database providing the contents of peer-reviewed journals, proceedings, e-books, and standards published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Library offers free access to abstracts of Academic journal articles, proceedings papers, e-books, and standards ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratocladistics
Stratocladistics is a technique in phylogenetics of making phylogenetic inferences using both geological and morphobiological data. It follows many of the same rules as cladistics, using Bayesian logic to quantify how good a phylogenetic hypothesis is in terms of debt and parsimony. However, in addition to the morpho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch%20hypothesis
The patriarch hypothesis is a hypothesis that explains the occurrence of menopause in human females and how a long post-fertile period (up to one third of a females life-span) could confer an evolutionary advantage. It is an alternative theory to the grandmother hypothesis which tends to ignore male benefits of continu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%20of%20data%20controllers
The Register of data controllers was a United Kingdom database under the control of the UK Information Commissioner's Office mandated by the Data Protection Act 1998. The Register of fee payers is the new name of an equivalent register under the Data Protection Act 2018, which implements the European Union's General ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20gene
A nested gene is a gene whose entire coding sequence lies within the bounds (between the start codon and the stop codon) of a larger external gene. The coding sequence for a nested gene differs greatly from the coding sequence for its external host gene. Typically, nested genes and their host genes encode functionally ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Frequency%20Data%20Link
High Frequency Data Link (HFDL) is an ACARS communications medium used to exchange data such as Aeronautical Operational Control (AOC) messages, Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) messages and Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) messages between aircraft end-systems and corresponding ground-based HFDL...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCIR%20System%20B
CCIR System B (originally known as the "Gerber Standard") was the 625-line VHF analog broadcast television system which at its peak was adopted by more than one hundred countries, either with PAL or SECAM colour. It usually associated with CCIR System G for UHF broadcasts. System B was the first internationally accep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXIe
AdvancedTCA Extensions for Instrumentation and Test (AXIe) is a modular instrumentation standard created by Aeroflex, Keysight Technologies, and Test Evolution Corporation. (In October 2008, Aeroflex had purchased a 40% shareholding in Test Evolution.) AXIe was targeted for general-purpose instrumentation and semicon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEdge
Global Payments Integrated (formerly OpenEdge Payments, LLC) is an American company providing financial technology services via payment processing integration. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, Global Payments Integrated is a subsidiary of Global Payments whose stock is a component of the S&P 500 stock market index. Busi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20M.%20Durbin
Richard Michael Durbin (born 1960) is a British computational biologist and Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where he was previously a senior group leader. Education Durbin was educated at The Hall School, Ham...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Interoperability%20Framework
The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is a set of recommendations which specify how administrations, businesses and citizens communicate with each other within the European Union and across Member State borders. The EIF 1.0 was issued under the Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion%20chemical%20vapor%20deposition
Combustion chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) is a chemical process by which thin-film coatings are deposited onto substrates in the open atmosphere. History In the 1980s initial attempts were performed to improve the adhesion of metal-plastic composites in dental ceramics using flame-pyrolytically deposited silicon di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcompleteness
Overcompleteness is a concept from linear algebra that is widely used in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and statistics (usually in the form of overcomplete frames). It was introduced by R. J. Duffin and A. C. Schaeffer in 1952. Formally, a subset of the vectors of a Banach space , sometimes called a "sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20cascade%20analysis
Water cascade analysis (WCA) is a technique to calculate the minimum flowrate target for feedwater and wastewater for continuous water-using processes. Principle It is a tabular and numerical alternative to the water surplus diagram in Water Pinch which can be used to identify opportunities for reduction in feedwater ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider%20mill
A cider mill, also known as a cidery, is the location and equipment used to crush apples into apple juice for use in making apple cider, hard cider, applejack, apple wine, pectin and other products derived from apples. More specifically, it refers to a device used to crush or grind apples as part of the overall juice p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-party%20authorization
Multi-party authorization (MPA) is a process to protect a telecommunications network, data center or industrial control system from undesirable acts by a malicious insider or inexperienced technician acting alone. MPA requires that a second authorized user approve an action before it is allowed to take place. This pro-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy%20hierarchy
In set theory and mathematical logic, the Lévy hierarchy, introduced by Azriel Lévy in 1965, is a hierarchy of formulas in the formal language of the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, which is typically called just the language of set theory. This is analogous to the arithmetical hierarchy, which provides a similar classifi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%20Strict%20Transport%20Security
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a policy mechanism that helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. It allows web servers to declare that web browsers (or other complying user agents) should automatically interact with it using only HTTPS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki%20hosting%20service
A wiki hosting service, or wiki farm, is a server or an array of servers that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis. Wiki farms are not to be confused with wiki "families", a more generic term for any group of wikis located on the same server. Prior to wiki farms,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Edelman%20Award%20for%20Achievement%20in%20Operations%20Research%20and%20the%20Management%20Sciences
The Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences recognizes excellence in the execution of operations research on the organizational level. About The award is presented annually by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The international ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response%20to%20sneezing
In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "[God] bless you", or, less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed bless-you origins for use in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palletizer
A palletizer or palletiser is a machine which provides automatic means for stacking cases of goods or products onto a pallet. Manually placing boxes on pallets can be time consuming and expensive; it can also put unusual stress on workers. The first mechanized palletizer was designed, built, and installed in 1948 by a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphanumeric%20grid
An alphanumeric grid (also known as atlas grid) is a simple coordinate system on a grid in which each cell is identified by a combination of a letter and a number. An advantage over numeric coordinates such as easting and northing, which use two numbers instead of a number and a letter to refer to a grid cell, is that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20spectral%20radius
In mathematics, the joint spectral radius is a generalization of the classical notion of spectral radius of a matrix, to sets of matrices. In recent years this notion has found applications in a large number of engineering fields and is still a topic of active research. General description The joint spectral radius o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromiumOS
ChromiumOS (formerly styled as Chromium OS) is a free and open-source operating system designed for running web applications and browsing the World Wide Web. It is the open-source version of ChromeOS, a Linux-based operating system made by Google. Like ChromeOS, ChromiumOS is based on the Linux kernel, but its princip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmgren%27s%20uniqueness%20theorem
In the theory of partial differential equations, Holmgren's uniqueness theorem, or simply Holmgren's theorem, named after the Swedish mathematician Erik Albert Holmgren (1873–1943), is a uniqueness result for linear partial differential equations with real analytic coefficients. Simple form of Holmgren's theorem We w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbulb
The Mandelbulb is a three-dimensional fractal, constructed for the first time in 1997 by Jules Ruis and in 2009 further developed by Daniel White and Paul Nylander using spherical coordinates. A canonical 3-dimensional Mandelbrot set does not exist, since there is no 3-dimensional analogue of the 2-dimensional space o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET%20Framework
The .NET Framework (pronounced as "dot net") is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It was the predominant implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) until being superseded by the cross-platform .NET project. It includes a large class library...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%20converter
The forward converter is a DC/DC converter that uses a transformer to increase or decrease the output voltage (depending on the transformer ratio) and provide galvanic isolation for the load. With multiple output windings, it is possible to provide both higher and lower voltage outputs simultaneously. While it looks s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leconte%20Prize
The Leconte Prize (French: ) is a prize created in 1886 by the French Academy of Sciences to recognize important discoveries in mathematics, physics, chemistry, natural history or medicine. In recent years the prize has been awarded in the specific categories of mathematics, physics, and biology. Scientists and mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20reanalysis
An atmospheric reanalysis (also: meteorological reanalysis and climate reanalysis) is a meteorological and climate data assimilation project which aims to assimilate historical atmospheric observational data spanning an extended period, using a single consistent assimilation (or "analysis") scheme throughout. Operatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured%20hat
Coloured hats or color-coded hats are used in psychology, religions, societies, workplaces, and learning environments, both literally and figuratively. Examples of this can be found on construction sites, in classrooms, and in the Catholic Church. It is also a present theme throughout history. Psychology - the Six Thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenflies%20problem
In mathematics, the Schoenflies problem or Schoenflies theorem, of geometric topology is a sharpening of the Jordan curve theorem by Arthur Schoenflies. For Jordan curves in the plane it is often referred to as the Jordan–Schoenflies theorem. Original formulation The original formulation of the Schoenflies problem sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher%20suite
A cipher suite is a set of algorithms that help secure a network connection. Suites typically use Transport Layer Security (TLS) or its now-deprecated predecessor Secure Socket Layer (SSL). The set of algorithms that cipher suites usually contain include: a key exchange algorithm, a bulk encryption algorithm, and a mes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20diagonalization
In linear algebra, an orthogonal diagonalization of a symmetric matrix is a diagonalization by means of an orthogonal change of coordinates. The following is an orthogonal diagonalization algorithm that diagonalizes a quadratic form q(x) on Rn by means of an orthogonal change of coordinates X = PY. Step 1: find the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grythyttan%20School%20of%20Hospitality%2C%20Culinary%20Arts%20%26%20Meal%20Science
Grythyttan School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts & Meal Science is part of Örebro University and is an important center for Swedish gastronomy. The school is located in Grythyttan, 80 km north of Örebro and one of the main buildings is called Måltidens Hus, which is shown in the picture on the right hand side. The speci...