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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeechCycle
SpeechCycle was a company located in New York City that developed technology that enabled Rich Phone Applications (RPA). RPA is a category of customer interaction solutions that orchestrate and extend enterprise systems to the end customer through a natural language interface that is accessible over multiple channels i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo%20URI%20scheme
The geo URI scheme is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC 5870 (published 8 June 2010) as: a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for geographic locations using the 'geo' scheme name. A 'geo' URI identifies a physical location in a two- or three-dimensional coo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermo-dielectric%20effect
The thermo-dielectric effect is the production of electric currents and charge separation during phase transition. This interesting effect was discovered by Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro in 1944. The Brazilian physicist observed that solidification and melting of many dielectrics are accompanied by charge separation. A the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kejian%20Group
Shenzhen Kejian Group Co., Ltd. (), better known as Kejian (), was a Chinese telecommunications company. During the 2002–03 FA Premier League season, the company sponsored Everton F.C. Kejian was responsible for the club's signing of Chinese international players Li Tie and Li Weifeng. The company went bankrupt in 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20Fix
Bernd Fix (born 19 March 1962 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German hacker and computer security expert. Biography After final secondary-school examination from Gymnasium Hankensbüttel in 1981, Bernd Fix studied Astrophysics and Philosophy at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg. He received his diplom for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20dispensing%20cabinet
An automated dispensing cabinet (ADC), also called a unit-based cabinet (UBC), automated dispensing device (ADD), or automated dispensing machine (ADM), is a computerized medicine cabinet for hospitals and healthcare settings. ADCs allow medications to be stored and dispensed near the point of care while controlling an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Working%20Group%20%E2%80%93%20Imaging%20Technology
The Scientific Working Group on Imaging Technology was convened by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1997 to provide guidance to law enforcement agencies and others in the criminal justice system regarding the best practices for photography, videography, and video and image analysis. This group was terminated in 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Rhodes%20%28sculptor%29
Richard Rhodes (born 1961) is an American sculptor, stonemason, entrepreneur, and scholar of stonework worldwide. Life and career Born in California, Rhodes studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1981. Through his study of medieval ritual and research, Rhodes apprenticed as a stonemason in S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete%20number
A concrete number or numerus numeratus is a number associated with the things being counted, in contrast to an abstract number or numerus numerans which is a number as a single entity. For example, "five apples" and "half of a pie" are concrete numbers, while "five" and "one half" are abstract numbers. In mathematics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulpian%27s%20life%20table
Ulpian's life table is an ancient Roman annuities table. It is known through a passage, originating from the jurist Aemilius Macer, preserved in edited form in Justinian's Digest. The table appears to provide a rough outline of ancient Roman life expectancy. Although it is not clear what population the table refers to,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Workplace%20Safety%20and%20Health%20Conference
The Singapore Workplace Safety and Health Conference (SWSHC) is a biennial conference for the promotion of workplace safety and health (WSH, OH&S) thought and practice in Singapore and the region. Organised by the Workplace Safety & Health Council (WSH Council) in partnership with Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower, the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meertens%20number
In number theory and mathematical logic, a Meertens number in a given number base is a natural number that is its own Gödel number. It was named after Lambert Meertens by Richard S. Bird as a present during the celebration of his 25 years at the CWI, Amsterdam. Definition Let be a natural number. We define the Meer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packaging%20Machinery%20Manufacturers%20Institute
The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (formerly Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute) is a trade association representing more than 900 North American manufacturers and suppliers of equipment, components and materials as well as providers of related equipment and services to the packaging and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble%20averaging%20%28machine%20learning%29
In machine learning, particularly in the creation of artificial neural networks, ensemble averaging is the process of creating multiple models and combining them to produce a desired output, as opposed to creating just one model. Frequently an ensemble of models performs better than any individual model, because the va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packaging%20Machinery%20Technology
Packaging Machinery Technology (ISSN-1556-1658) was a trade publication and web site owned by PMMI for packaging and packaging machinery manufacturers and packaging engineers in the United States and Canada. Circulation was about 35,000 copies per issue. The editorial director was Sean Riley, with the editorial office...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal%20Research%20Institute%20of%20the%20Polish%20Academy%20of%20Sciences
The Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (MRI PAS) () is a research institution located in the heart of Europe’s best preserved lowland forest, Białowieża Primeval Forest in Poland. The mission of the Institute is to acquire, advance, and disseminate knowledge of mammalian biology. The Institute ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20UPS%20Tools
Network UPS Tools (NUT) is a suite of software component designed to monitor power devices, such as uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, solar controllers and servers power supply units. Many brands and models are supported and exposed via a network protocol and standardized interface. It follows ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxanography
Auxanography is the study of the effects of changes in environment on the growth of microorganisms, by means of auxanograms. It was first devised by Beijerinck for testing the effect of various nutrient media upon bacteria. The bacteria are plated out in a medium known to be poorly adapted for their nourishment, and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20signs%20in%20the%20Middle%20East
Call signs in the Middle East are unique identifiers for telecommunications and broadcasting in the Middle East. Call signs are regulated internationally by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and nationally by local government and international agencies in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, The Palestinian Au...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial%20patch
An unofficial patch is a patch for a piece of software, created by a third party such as a user community without the involvement of the original developer. Similar to an ordinary patch, it alleviates bugs or shortcomings. Unofficial patches do not usually change the intended usage of the software, in contrast to other...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate%20Party
Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity, use of free a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20layout
In manufacturing engineering, process layout is a design for the floor plan of a plant which aims to improve efficiency by arranging equipment according to its function. The production line should ideally be designed to eliminate waste in material flows, inventory handling and management. In process layout, the work s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sr%C4%91an%20Ognjanovi%C4%87
Srđan Ognjanović (, English alternatives: Srdjan Ognjanovic, and Srdan Ognjanovic) is a Serbian mathematician. He was a principal of Mathematical Grammar School in Belgrade. Career He received his degrees in the field of Mathematical Sciences from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Belgrad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Ghezzi
Carlo Ghezzi is an emeritus professor and former chair of software engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and an adjunct professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. At the Politecnico, he has been the Rector's Delegate for research, department chair, head of the PhD program, and me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20ontology
In philosophy, a process ontology refers to a universal model of the structure of the world as an ordered wholeness. Such ontologies are fundamental ontologies, in contrast to the so-called applied ontologies. Fundamental ontologies do not claim to be accessible to any empirical proof in itself but to be a structural d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20M%20method
In operations research, the Big M method is a method of solving linear programming problems using the simplex algorithm. The Big M method extends the simplex algorithm to problems that contain "greater-than" constraints. It does so by associating the constraints with large negative constants which would not be part of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmut%20Fritzsche
Hellmut Fritzsche (20 February 1927 – June 17, 2018) was an American physicist. He came to the US on a one-year Smith-Mundt fellowship in 1950/51. After receiving his Diplom in physics from the University of Göttingen in 1952 he returned to the US. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1954 where in the same y...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure%20Scotland
Disclosure Scotland () is an executive agency of the Scottish Government, providing criminal records disclosure services for employers and voluntary sector organisations. Disclosure Scotland currently offers a range of products, starting with Basic Disclosures but continuing on to Standard and Enhanced checks (so call...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFTPACK
FFTPACK is a package of Fortran subroutines for the fast Fourier transform. It includes complex, real, sine, cosine, and quarter-wave transforms. It was developed by Paul Swarztrauber of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and is included in the general-purpose mathematical library SLATEC. Much of the packa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20signs%20in%20Argentina
Call signs in Argentina are unique identifiers for communication. Call signs are regulated internationally by the ITU as well as nationally by the Comisión Nacional de Comunicaciones of the Argentine government. Assignments for telecommunications The International Telecommunication Union has assigned Argentina the fol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20pad
Contact pads or bond pads are small, conductive surface areas of a printed circuit board (PCB) or die of an integrated circuit. They are often made of gold, copper, or aluminum and measure mere micrometres wide. Pads are positioned on the edges of die, to facilitate connections without shorting. Contact pads exist to p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapworld
Wapworld was the first commercial mobile internet service to launch in the UK. Conceived and developed by Jingo Communications founder Mark Gibbons, Wapworld provided the first mobile gateway for open internet access to users with WAP-enabled handsets in the UK in 1998. In December 1999 Jingo took its gateway technol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20review
A design review is a milestone within a product development process whereby a design is evaluated against its requirements in order to verify the outcomes of previous activities and identify issues before committing to—and, if need be, to re-prioritise—further work. The ultimate design review, if successful, therefore ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganuclease
Meganucleases are endodeoxyribonucleases characterized by a large recognition site (double-stranded DNA sequences of 12 to 40 base pairs); as a result this site generally occurs only once in any given genome. For example, the 18-base pair sequence recognized by the I-SceI meganuclease would on average require a genome ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20computed%20tomography
Industrial computed tomography (CT) scanning is any computer-aided tomographic process, usually X-ray computed tomography, that uses irradiation to produce three-dimensional internal and external representations of a scanned object. Industrial CT scanning has been used in many areas of industry for internal inspection ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemeroby
Hemeroby, or hemerochora is a term used in botanical and ecological sciences. It is often associated to naturalness as the complementary term, with a high degree of hemeroby equating to a high human influence on a natural environment. However, the two terms are not inversely related. Etymology The term is derived from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20ActiveSync
Exchange ActiveSync (commonly known as EAS) is a proprietary protocol designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a messaging server to a smartphone or other mobile devices. The protocol also provides mobile device management and policy controls. The protocol is based on XML. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivia.net
Perspectivia.net is an international and interdisciplinary online academic publication platform. The platform publishes articles and reviews in the humanities. Perspectivia.net operates as part of the German Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad (Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftlic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST6%20and%20ST7
The ST6 and ST7 are 8-bit microcontroller product lines from STMicroelectronics. They are commonly used in small embedded applications like washing machines. Although they use similar peripherals and are marketed as part of the same product line, the two architectures are actually quite different. Both have an 8-bit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonesoft%20Corporation
Stonesoft Corporation was a public company that developed and sold network security solutions based in Helsinki, Finland. It was publicly owned until 2013 when it was acquired by Intel's subsidiary McAfee. Stonesoft does business globally, with a regional headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and sales offi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%20Institute%20of%20Statistics
Institut de Statistiques de l'Université de Paris (ISUP, roughly translated as "Paris Institute of Statistics" or literally to "Institute of Statistics of the University of Paris") is a graduate school of statistics based in Paris, in the fifth arrondissement. It offers specializations in actuarial sciences (finance an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collocation%20%28remote%20sensing%29
Collocation is a procedure used in remote sensing to match measurements from two or more different instruments. This is done for two main reasons: for validation purposes when comparing measurements of the same variable, and to relate measurements of two different variables either for performing retrievals or for p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20reference%20pulse
Zero reference pulse or Zero pulse is an artificially produced pulse in a professional television receiver imitating no radio frequency case for modulation index measurements in analogue TV transmitters. Video signal The composite monochrome video signal (CVS) is composed of a video signal superimposed on an auxilia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference-based%20planning
In artificial intelligence, preference-based planning is a form of automated planning and scheduling which focuses on producing plans that additionally satisfy as many user-specified preferences as possible. In many problem domains, a task can be accomplished by various sequences of actions (also known as plans). These...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathnasium
Mathnasium (also Mathnasium Learning Center) is an American education brand and supplemental math learning franchise consisting of over 1,000 learning centers in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia that provides instruction to students in pre-kindergarten through high school. The curriculum ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth%20Loy
Gareth Loy is an American author, composer, musician and mathematician. Loy is the author of the two volume series about the intersection of music and mathematics titled Musimathics. Loy was an early practitioner of music synthesis at Stanford, and wrote the first software compiler for the Systems Concepts Digital Synt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female%20sperm%20storage
Female sperm storage is a biological process and often a type of sexual selection in which sperm cells transferred to a female during mating are temporarily retained within a specific part of the reproductive tract before the oocyte, or egg, is fertilized. This process takes place in some species of animals, but not in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HostGator
HostGator is a Houston-based provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server, and dedicated web hosting with an additional presence in Austin, Texas. History HostGator was founded in October 2002 by Brent Oxley, who was then a student at Florida Atlantic University. In 2006, the company moved from the original o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Cluster%20Switching
Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) fabric technology is a Layer 2 proprietary Ethernet technology from Brocade Communications Systems, later acquired by Extreme Networks. It is designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability, and simplify the network architecture in virtual...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Citations%20Database
The Energy Citations Database (ECD) was created in 2001 in order to make scientific literature citations, and electronic documents, publicly accessible from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and its predecessor agencies, at no cost to the user. This database also contains all the unclassified materials from Energy Re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuits%20over%20sets%20of%20natural%20numbers
Circuits over natural numbers are a mathematical model used in studying computational complexity theory. They are a special case of circuits. The object is a labeled directed acyclic graph the nodes of which evaluate to sets of natural numbers, the leaves are finite sets, and the gates are set operations or arithmetic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus%20Salam%20Award
The Abdus Salam Award (sometimes called the Salam Prize), is a most prestigious award that is awarded annually to Pakistani nationals to the field of chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology. The award is awarded to the scientists who are resident in Pakistan, below 35 years of age on 31 December of the year for which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durfee%20square
In number theory, a Durfee square is an attribute of an integer partition. A partition of n has a Durfee square of size s if s is the largest number such that the partition contains at least s parts with values ≥ s. An equivalent, but more visual, definition is that the Durfee square is the largest square that is conta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20antenna
An active antenna is an antenna that contains active electronic components such as transistors, as opposed to most antennas which only consist of passive components such as metal rods, capacitors and inductors. Active antenna designs allow antennas of limited size to have a wider frequency range (bandwidth) than passi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20signs%20in%20Russia
Call signs in Russia are unique identifiers for telecommunications and broadcasting. Call signs are regulated internationally by the ITU as well as nationally by Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation. The latter is responsible for providing policy on the allocation of Russia's radio spectr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20roughness
Hydraulic roughness is the measure of the amount of frictional resistance water experiences when passing over land and channel features. One roughness coefficient is Manning's n-value. Manning's n is used extensively around the world to predict the degree of roughness in channels. Flow velocity is strongly dependent o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZFinText
Arizona Financial Text System (AZFinText) is a textual-based quantitative financial prediction system written by Robert P. Schumaker of University of Texas at Tyler and Hsinchun Chen of the University of Arizona. System This system differs from other systems in that it uses financial text as one of its key means of pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20is%20a%20magazine
This is a magazine is an experimental art publication founded in 2002 by Karen ann Donnachie, Andy Simionato & Sons. "One of the best known" flip-book style online magazines it has also published in a variety of formats including a PowerPoint edition, Animated GIF collections as well as video peep-shows and sound-objec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachicom
is a parlor video game released for multiple platforms that is themed around pachinko. It was released in 1985 exclusively to the Japanese market. The game of pachinko is hugely popular in Japan, since it involves playing pinball with an element of slot machines mixed in along with gambling. There are four different g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll%20Morgan%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Charles Carroll Morgan (born 1952) is an American computer scientist who moved to Australia in his early teens. He completed his education there (high school, university, several years in industry), including a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Sydney, and then moved to the United Kingdom in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VINITI%20Database%20RAS
VINITI Database RAS is a database provided by the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI). The database is devoted to scientific publications. It is described as a large abstracting database. In general, it is indexed for the natural sciences, exact sciences, and technical sciences. Inc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20position%20representation
A position representation is a set of parameters used to express a position relative to a reference. When representing positions relative to the Earth, it is often most convenient to represent vertical position (height or depth) separately, and to use some other parameters to represent horizontal position. There are a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse%20food%20reaction
An adverse food reaction is an adverse response by the body to food or a specific type of food. The most common adverse reaction is a food allergy, which is an adverse immune response to either a specific type or a range of food proteins. However, other adverse responses to food are not allergies. These reactions in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuruPlug
GuruPlug is a compact and low power plug computer running Linux. It is intended to be a device that could act as a web server, a print server or any other network service. It has local storage in NAND Flash, but also offers USB ports and a Serial ATA port to connect external hard disks. The first versions of the GuruP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TakaTuka
TakaTuka is a Java virtual machine (JVM) mainly focused on wireless sensor network devices. The VM focussed on supporting small devices with at least 4 KiB of RAM and greater than 48 KiB of flash memory. TakaTuka currently offers CLDC compatible library support. TakaTuka was developed by University of Freiburg and fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability%20Seamless%20Redundancy
High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) is a network protocol for Ethernet that provides seamless failover against failure of any single network component. PRP and HSR are independent of the application-protocol and can be used by most Industrial Ethernet protocols in the IEC 61784 suite. HSR does not cover the fai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials%20Science%20Citation%20Index
The Materials Science Citation Index is a citation index, established in 1992, by Thomson ISI (Thomson Reuters). Its overall focus is cited reference searching of the notable and significant journal literature in materials science. The database makes accessible the various properties, behaviors, and materials in the ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202321%20Data%20Cell
The IBM 2321 Data Cell is a discontinued direct access storage device (DASD) for the IBM System/360. It was announced with System/360 in April, 1964. It holds up to 400 megabytes of data, with an access time of 95 milliseconds to 600 milliseconds, depending on the addressed strip position and data arrangement in each...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphodiesterase%204
At least four types of the enzyme phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) are known: PDE4A PDE4B PDE4C PDE4D See also 3',5'-cyclic-AMP phosphodiesterase Phosphodiesterase (PDE) PDE4 inhibitor Molecular biology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-polar%20coordinates
In mathematics, log-polar coordinates (or logarithmic polar coordinates) is a coordinate system in two dimensions, where a point is identified by two numbers, one for the logarithm of the distance to a certain point, and one for an angle. Log-polar coordinates are closely connected to polar coordinates, which are usual...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTC%20Integrity
PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager (formerly MKS Integrity) is a software system lifecycle management (SSLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) platform developed by MKS Inc. and was first released in 2001. The software is client/server, with both desktop (java/swing) and web client interfaces. It provides softwar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowler%20Communications%20System
The Bowler Communications System is an open protocol developed by Neuron Robotics for simplified communications between components in cyber-physical systems. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20140527071007/http://neuronrobotics.github.io/Protocol/ Robotics Computer-mediated communication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20%28ALM%29
Pulse is now Secure Delivery Center 2014, a proprietary application lifecycle management (ALM) technology developed and maintained by Genuitec, a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation. Pulse is built on top of the Eclipse Equinox (OSGi)/p2 platform, and integrates both proprietary and open source so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain%20per%20gallon
The grain per gallon (gpg) is a unit of water hardness defined as 1 grain (64.8 milligrams) of calcium carbonate dissolved in 1 US gallon of water (3.785412 L). It translates into 1 part in about 58,000 parts of water or 17.1 parts per million (ppm). Also called Clark degree (in terms of an imperial gallon). Usage Cal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wlan%20slovenija
The wlan slovenija open wireless network of Slovenia is an initiative for deployment of open and free community wireless network across all Slovenia through collaboration and with use of off-the-shelf widely available equipment. The main idea is that if everyone deploys a node of the open network in their home and shar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Redundancy%20Protocol
Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) is a network protocol standard for Ethernet that provides seamless failover against failure of any network component. This redundancy is invisible to the application. PRP nodes have two ports and are attached to two separated networks of similar topology. PRP can be implemented entir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20reality-based%20testing
Augmented reality-based testing (ARBT) is a test method that combines augmented reality and software testing to enhance testing by inserting an additional dimension into the testers field of view. For example, a tester wearing a head-mounted display (HMD) or Augmented reality contact lenses that places images of both ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege%20system
In proof complexity, a Frege system is a propositional proof system whose proofs are sequences of formulas derived using a finite set of sound and implicationally complete inference rules. Frege systems (more often known as Hilbert systems in general proof theory) are named after Gottlob Frege. Formal definition Let K...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Floyd%20Ferris
Gordon Floyd Ferris (January 2, 1893, in Bayard, Kansas – May 21, 1958) was an American entomologist who served as professor of biology at Stanford University from 1912 to 1958 and earned a reputation for his teaching. He founded and edited the journal Microentomology, preferring to work on insects that could only be e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20matrix
In mathematics, a balanced matrix is a 0-1 matrix (a matrix where every entry is either zero or one) that does not contain any square submatrix of odd order having all row sums and all column sums equal to 2. Balanced matrices are studied in linear programming. The importance of balanced matrices comes from the fact t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Booth
Kathleen Hylda Valerie Booth ( Britten, 9 July 1922 – 29 September 2022) was a British computer scientist and mathematician who wrote the first assembly language and designed the assembler and autocode for the first computer systems at Birkbeck College, University of London. She helped design three different machines i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCR/Blu-ray%20combo
A VCR/Blu-ray combo is a multiplex or converged device, convenient for consumers who wish to use both VHS tapes and the newer high-definition Blu-ray Disc technology. When Blu-ray Disc players went on the market in mid-2006, the final major Hollywood motion picture on VHS (David Cronenberg's A History of Violence) had...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20circuit
In computational complexity theory, an integer circuit is a circuit model of computation in which inputs to the circuit are sets of integers and each gate of the circuit computes either a set operation or an arithmetic operation on its input sets. As an algorithmic problem, the possible questions are to find if a give...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon%20farm
Ribbon farms (also known as strip farms, long-lot farms, or just long lots) are long, narrow land divisions for farming, usually lined up along a waterway. In some instances, they line a road. Background Ribbon or strip farms were prevalent in diverse areas of the world along rivers; locations where these farms appea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20and%20Forecast%20Metadata%20Conventions
The Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions are conventions for the description of Earth sciences data, intended to promote the processing and sharing of data files. The metadata defined by the CF conventions are generally included in the same file as the data, thus making the file "self-describing". The conve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy%20and%20charging%20rules%20function
Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) is the software node designated in real-time to determine policy rules in a multimedia network. As a policy tool, the PCRF plays a central role in next-generation networks. Unlike earlier policy engines that were added onto an existing network to enforce policy, the PCRF is a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus%20Development
Plus Development Corporation was a majority-owned subsidiary of Quantum Corporation. The company invented the Hardcard, a hard disk drive on an expansion card, which started a wave of companies producing similar products in the 1980s. History Quantum Corporation specialized in making sophisticated and expensive hard d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
{{Infobox video game | title = Minecraft | image = Minecraft cover.png | alt = The default player skin, Steve, running across a grassy plain while carrying an Iron pickaxe. Alongside him is a tame wolf. In the background, there is a pig, a chicken, a cow, a skeleton, a zombie, and a creeper. Mountains and cliffs fill t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20forests%20in%20Denmark
This is a list of forests in Denmark. Overview In the year 2000, Denmark had 4860 km², corresponding to 11% of the Danish territory. Of this, 69% was located in Jutland while 31% was located on the islands. 63% was coniferous forest while 37% was broadleaf forest. The 10 largest forests in Denmark In 2004 the Danish ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-LAN
Q-LAN is the audio over IP audio networking technology component of the Q-Sys platform from QSC Audio Products. References External links Q-Sys Integrated system platform Digital audio Audio network protocols Ethernet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism%20on%20the%20Internet
Racist rhetoric is distributed through computer-mediated means and includes some or all of the following characteristics: ideas of racial uniqueness, racist attitudes towards specific social categories, racist stereotypes, hate-speech, nationalism and common destiny, racial supremacy, superiority and separation, concep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotech%20%28company%29
Eurotech is a company dedicated to the research, development, production and marketing of miniature computers (NanoPCs) and high performance computers (HPCs). Description Created in 1992, Eurotech is a global company that operates in multiple countries. It follows the technological paradigm of Pervasive Computing. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%E2%80%93parasite%20coevolution
Host–parasite coevolution is a special case of coevolution, where a host and a parasite continually adapt to each other. This can create an evolutionary arms race between them. A more benign possibility is of an evolutionary trade-off between transmission and virulence in the parasite, as if it kills its host too quick...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid%20transformation
In mathematics, a rigid transformation (also called Euclidean transformation or Euclidean isometry) is a geometric transformation of a Euclidean space that preserves the Euclidean distance between every pair of points. The rigid transformations include rotations, translations, reflections, or any sequence of these. R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20natural%20language%20processing
The history of natural language processing describes the advances of natural language processing (Outline of natural language processing). There is some overlap with the history of machine translation, the history of speech recognition, and the history of artificial intelligence. Research and development The history...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPANET
EPANET (Environmental Protection Agency Network Evaluation Tool) is a public domain, water distribution system modeling software package developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Water Supply and Water Resources Division. It performs extended-period simulation of hydraulic and water-quality...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy%E2%80%93entropy%20chart
An enthalpy–entropy chart, also known as the H–S chart or Mollier diagram, plots the total heat against entropy, describing the enthalpy of a thermodynamic system. A typical chart covers a pressure range of 0.01–1000 bar, and temperatures up to 800 degrees Celsius. It shows enthalpy in terms of internal energy , pres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20Stream%20Encapsulation
Generic Stream Encapsulation, or GSE for short, is a Data link layer protocol defined by DVB. GSE provides means to carry packet oriented protocols such as IP on top of uni-directional physical layers such as DVB-S2, DVB-T2 and DVB-C2. GSE provides additional features beyond the pure carriage of IP datagrams that incr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vukajlija
Vukajlija is a popular Serbia-based web site very similar to Urban Dictionary in content. As such, the site mainly consists of often humorous definitions, observations and (not rarely vulgar) explanations of slang terms from a more local point of view that the one on Urban Dictionary. The name Vukajlija is itself a wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20nitrogen
Reactive nitrogen ("Nr"), also known as fixed nitrogen, refers to all forms of nitrogen present in the environment except for molecular nitrogen (). While nitrogen is an essential element for life on Earth, molecular nitrogen is comparatively unreactive, and must be converted to other chemical forms via nitrogen fixat...