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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnerIQ
ownerIQ is a media technology company that provides online advertising solutions and marketing channels for brands, retailers, and manufacturers. The company was founded by Jay Habegger and has offices in Boston, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto. History Habegger founded OwnerIQ in 2007 after...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbor%20Networks
Arbor Networks is a software company founded in 2000 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States, which sells network security and network monitoring software, used – according to the company's claims – by over 90% of all Internet service providers. The company's products are used to protect networks from den...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%207200
ISO 7200, titled Technical product documentation - Data fields in title blocks and document headers, is an international technical standard defined by ISO which describes title block formats to be used in technical drawings. Revisions ISO 7200:1984 ISO 7200:2004 Other ISO standard related to technical drawing IS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbox
In mathematics, the mandelbox is a fractal with a boxlike shape found by Tom Lowe in 2010. It is defined in a similar way to the famous Mandelbrot set as the values of a parameter such that the origin does not escape to infinity under iteration of certain geometrical transformations. The mandelbox is defined as a map o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugit
In mathematical finance, fugit is the expected (or optimal) date to exercise an American- or Bermudan option. It is useful for hedging purposes here; see Greeks (finance) and . The term was first introduced by Mark Garman in an article "Semper tempus fugit" published in 1989. The Latin term "tempus fugit" means "time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20of%20Recorded%20Sound
The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound is a reference work that, among other things, describes the history of sound recordings, from November 1877 when Edison developed the first model of a cylinder phonograph, and earlier, in 1857, when Léon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph. The first edition – Guy Anthony ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sustainability
Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a person or an organization needs little or no help from, or interaction with, others. Self-sufficiency entails the self being enough (to fulfill needs), and a self-sustaining entity can maintain self-sufficiency indefinitely. These state...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyd%20cover
In the mathematical discipline of category theory, the Freyd cover or scone category is a construction that yields a set-like construction out of a given category. The only requirement is that the original category has a terminal object. The scone category inherits almost any categorical construct the original catego...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf%20angle
In masonry veneer building construction, a shelf angle or masonry support is a steel angle which supports the weight of brick or stone veneer and transfers that weight onto the main structure of the building so that a gap or space can be created beneath to allow building movements to occur. Background Traditional maso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy-trace%20theory
Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT) is a theory of cognition originally proposed by Valerie F. Reyna and Charles Brainerd that draws upon dual-trace conceptions to predict and explain cognitive phenomena, particularly in memory and reasoning. The theory has been used in areas such as cognitive psychology, human development, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante%20Janson
Carl Svante Janson (born 21 May 1955) is a Swedish mathematician. A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1994, Janson has been the chaired professor of mathematics at Uppsala University since 1987. In mathematical analysis, Janson has publications in functional analysis (especially harmonic analysis) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson%20de%20Castro
Edson de Castro (born 1938) is a computer engineer and businessman, perhaps best known for designing the Data General Nova series of computers. De Castro was founder and CEO of Data General Corporation throughout the 1970s, the 1980s and into the 1990s when he was replaced by Ronald L Skates, a former Price Waterhouse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus
Disqus () is an American blog comment hosting service for websites and online communities that use a networked platform. The company's platform includes various features, such as social integration, social networking, user profiles, spam and moderation tools, analytics, email notifications, and mobile commenting. It wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABISMO
ABISMO (Automatic Bottom Inspection and Sampling Mobile) is a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) built by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for exploration of the deep sea. It is the only remaining ROV rated to 11,000-meters (after Nereus, built and operated by the Woods Hole Oc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols%20for%20zero
The modern numerical digit 0 is usually written as a circle, an ellipse or a rounded square or rectangle. Glyphs In most modern typefaces, the height of the 0 character is the same as the other digits. However, in typefaces with text figures, the character is often shorter (x-height). Traditionally, many print typef...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirni
Pirni Pro is a discontinued network security tool designed for iOS, and specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. It is capable of intercepting traffic on a wireless network segment, capturing passwords, and regular expressions entered by the user. The core system of Pirni, written in C, is open-source software,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20divergence
Functional divergence is the process by which genes, after gene duplication, shift in function from an ancestral function. Functional divergence can result in either subfunctionalization, where a paralog specializes one of several ancestral functions, or neofunctionalization, where a totally new functional capability e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom%20Networks
Mushroom Networks, Inc. is a telecommunications company in San Diego, California. Mushroom Networks was founded in 2004, by electrical and computer engineers Rene L. Cruz, Cahit Akin, and Rajesh Mishra. It was spun off from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and got support from the von Liebig Center. Mush...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Science%20and%20Technology%20Database
The Energy Science and Technology Database (EDB) is a multidisciplinary file containing worldwide references to basic and applied scientific and technical research literature. The information is collected for use by (United States) government managers, researchers at the national laboratories, and other research effort...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20storage%20gateway
A cloud storage gateway is a hybrid cloud storage device, implemented in hardware or software, which resides at the customer premises and translates cloud storage APIs such as SOAP or REST to block-based storage protocols such as iSCSI or Fibre Channel or file-based interfaces such as NFS or SMB. According to a 2011 r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA%20Observing%20System%20Architecture
The NOAA Observing System Architecture (NOSA) is a collection of over 100 of the environmental datasets of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) . It was established to develop an observational architecture that helps NOAA to design observing systems that support NOAA's mission, avoid duplication o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon%20Schulte
Egon Schulte (born January 7, 1955 in Heggen (Kreis Olpe), Germany) is a mathematician and a professor of Mathematics at Northeastern University in Boston. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Technical University of Dortmund; his doctoral dissertation was on Regular Incidence Complexes (abstract regular polytopes). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDBaseT
HDBaseT is a consumer electronic (CE) and commercial connectivity standard for transmission of uncompressed ultra-high-definition video, digital audio, DC power, Ethernet, USB 2.0, and other control communication (such as RS-232 and Consumer IR) over a single category cable (Cat 5e or better) up to 100 m (328 ft) in le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20antenna
A spiral antenna is a type of radio frequency antenna shaped as a spiral, first described in 1956. Archimedean spiral antennas are the most popular, while logarithmic spiral antennas are independent of frequency: the driving point impedance, radiation pattern and polarization of such antennas remain unchanged over a l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect%20%28organization%29
Connect is a non-profit serving the San Diego and Southern California region. Connect elevates innovators and entrepreneurs throughout their growth journey by providing educational programming, mentorship, networking events, and access to capital. The current CEO is Mike Krenn. Background Founded at the University o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zariski%20ring
In commutative algebra, a Zariski ring is a commutative Noetherian topological ring A whose topology is defined by an ideal contained in the Jacobson radical, the intersection of all maximal ideals. They were introduced by under the name "semi-local ring" which now means something different, and named "Zariski rings"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DasBoot
DasBoot is a software utility produced by SubRosaSoft.com Inc. It allows the user to create a bootable Mac OS X USB device for Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier. It is a freeware product. This live USB device can be used for diagnostic, repair, and recovery of Mac OS X systems. It won a Macworld UK Editor's Choice 5 star...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zariski%E2%80%93Riemann%20space
In algebraic geometry, a Zariski–Riemann space or Zariski space of a subring k of a field K is a locally ringed space whose points are valuation rings containing k and contained in K. They generalize the Riemann surface of a complex curve. Zariski–Riemann spaces were introduced by who (rather confusingly) called the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%27s%20taxonomy
Duncan's taxonomy is a classification of computer architectures, proposed by Ralph Duncan in 1990. Duncan suggested modifications to Flynn's taxonomy to include pipelined vector processes. Taxonomy The taxonomy was developed during 1988-1990 and was first published in 1990. Its original categories are indicated below....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zariski%20space
In algebraic geometry, a Zariski space, named for Oscar Zariski, has several different meanings: A topological space that is Noetherian (every open set is quasicompact) A topological space that is Noetherian and also sober (every nonempty closed irreducible subset is the closure of a unique point). The spectrum of any ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20vehicle%20warning%20sounds
Electric vehicle warning sounds are sounds designed to alert pedestrians to the presence of electric drive vehicles such as hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) travelling at low speeds. Warning sound devices were deemed necessary by some govern...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaryland
Diaryland is an Internet journal service created by Canadian programmer Andrew Smales in 1999. It is an early example of a social networking and microblogging service. References External links Diaryland Social networking services Microblogging services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetancodontamorpha
Cetancodontamorpha is a total clade of artiodactyls defined, according to Spaulding et al., as Whippomorpha "plus all extinct taxa more closely related to extant members of Whippomorpha than to any other living species". Attempts have been made to rename the clade Whippomorpha to Cetancodonta, but the former maintains ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20physiology
Applied Physiology is the study of biological systems and steps into practice. It involves the application of the knowledge of physiological properties to restore core stability and joint stability. It differs from clinical practice. See also Physiology References External links Journal of Applied Physiology Appl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite-dimensional%20vector%20function
An infinite-dimensional vector function is a function whose values lie in an infinite-dimensional topological vector space, such as a Hilbert space or a Banach space. Such functions are applied in most sciences including physics. Example Set for every positive integer and every real number Then the function defi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobson%27s%20functions%20of%20language
Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. Each of the functions has an associated factor. For this work, Jakobson was influenced by Karl Bühler's organon model, to which he added the poetic, phatic and met...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly%20measurable%20function
Strong measurability has a number of different meanings, some of which are explained below. Values in Banach spaces For a function f with values in a Banach space (or Fréchet space), strong measurability usually means Bochner measurability. However, if the values of f lie in the space of continuous linear operators ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLGA%20%28technology%29
OLGA is a modelling tool for transportation of oil, natural gas and water in the same pipeline, so-called multiphase transportation. The name is short for "oil and gas simulator". The main challenge with multiphase fluid flow is the formation of slugs (plugs of oil and water) in the pipelines, which causes large proble...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire%20%28magazine%29
Inspire is an English-language online magazine published by the organization al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The magazine is one of the many ways AQAP uses the Internet to reach its audience. Numerous international and domestic extremists motivated by radical interpretations of Islam have been influenced by t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style%20Jukebox
Style Jukebox was a hi-fi high-resolution audio cloud music streaming and storage player for the Windows, iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms. A Web Player was also available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Style Jukebox allowed users to upload their personal music collection from their computer to Style Jukebox serv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StorSimple
StorSimple was a privately held company based in Santa Clara, California, marketing cloud storage. History StorSimple was funded by venture capital from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Mayfield Fund for a total of $31.5 million. It was founded in 2009 by former Cisco Systems and Brocade Commu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20to%20Internet%20access
The right to Internet access, also known as the right to broadband or freedom to connect, is the view that all people must be able to access the Internet in order to exercise and enjoy their rights to freedom of expression and opinion and other fundamental human rights, that states have a responsibility to ensure that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20sum%20model
In decision theory, the weighted sum model (WSM), also called weighted linear combination (WLC) or simple additive weighting (SAW), is the best known and simplest multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) / multi-criteria decision making method for evaluating a number of alternatives in terms of a number of decision crit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameSpy%20Technology
GameSpy Technology (also known as GameSpy Industries, Inc.), a division of Glu Mobile, was the developer of the GameSpy Technology product, a suite of middleware tools, software, and services for use in the video game industry. Gamespy Technology was acquired by Glu Mobile in 2012. The company and service were shut do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PassWindow
PassWindow is a technique of producing one-time passwords and facilitating transaction verification that is used as an online second-factor authentication method. The system works by encoding digits into a segment matrix similar to the seven-segment matrices used in digital displays. The matrix is then divided into tw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroTiles
MicroTiles are discontinued modular rear projection cube units designed, developed and marketed by Christie Digital. The building-block nature of the system made the configuration of the overall screen area and shape flexible. This allowed for simple traditional rectangular displays, and more complex non-standard shape...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctioned%20name
In mycology, a sanctioned name is a name that was adopted (but not necessarily coined) in certain works of Christiaan Hendrik Persoon or Elias Magnus Fries, which are considered major points in fungal taxonomy. Definition and effects Sanctioned names are those, regardless of their authorship, that were used by Persoon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers%20of%20Sweden
Engineers of Sweden, Sveriges ingenjörer, is a trade union and professional association in Sweden, gathering 160,000 members. It was created in 2007 by merger of Sveriges Civilingenjörsförbund, which also used the name Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers in English, with the smaller Ingenjörsförbundet; in 2022 t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turingery
Turingery or Turing's method (playfully dubbed Turingismus by Peter Ericsson, Peter Hilton and Donald Michie) was a manual codebreaking method devised in July 1942 by the mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing at the British Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during World War II. It was for use in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202365%20Processor%20Storage
The IBM 2365 Processor Storage is a magnetic-core memory storage unit that is a component of the IBM System/360 models 65, 67, 75 and 85 computers, which were released between 1965 and 1968. Storage is implemented using magnetic cores with a storage width of 72 bits, which comprise 64 data bits (8 bytes, or one doubl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202361%20Large%20Capacity%20Storage
The IBM 2361 Large Capacity Storage (LCS) is an optional component of the IBM System/360 models 50, 65 (when not being used as a multiprocessor), and 75 computers. Storage is implemented using magnetic cores; the cycle time is 8 microseconds and the access time is 3.6 microseconds. This component is also called IBM 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20rate%20control
Frame rate control (FRC) or temporal dithering is a method for achieving greater color depth in TFT LCD displays. Older, cheaper, faster LCDs, especially those using TN, often represent colors using only 6 bits per RGB color, or 18 bit in total, and were unable to display the 16.78 million color shades (24-bit truecol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20server-side%20JavaScript%20implementations
This is a list of server-side JavaScript implementations. Server-side JavaScript use Other common server-side programming languages are JavaServer Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages (ASP), Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ColdFusion, and others. See also References External links The Server-Side JavaScript Google Group ded...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet%20paper%20orientation
Some toilet roll holders or dispensers allow the toilet paper to hang in front of (over) or behind (under) the roll when it is placed parallel to the wall. This divides opinions about which orientation is better. Arguments range from aesthetics, hospitality, ease of access, and cleanliness, to paper conservation, ease ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological%20effects%20of%20Internet%20use
Various researchers have undertaken efforts to examine the psychological effects of Internet use. Some research employs studying brain functions in Internet users. Some studies assert that these changes are harmful, while others argue that asserted changes are beneficial. Assertions American writer Nicholas Carr asser...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioVIS
RadioVIS is a protocol for sideband signalling of images and text messages for a broadcast audio service to provide a richer visual experience. It is an application and sub-project of RadioDNS, which allows radio consumption devices to look up an IP-based service based on the parameters of the currently tuned broadcas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayID
DisplayID is a VESA standard for metadata describing display device capabilities to the video source. It is designed to replace E-EDID standard and EDID structure v1.4. The DisplayID standard was initially released in December 2007. Version 1.1 was released in March 2009 and was followed by version 1.2 released in Aug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20%28truth%29
A proof is sufficient evidence or a sufficient argument for the truth of a proposition. The concept applies in a variety of disciplines, with both the nature of the evidence or justification and the criteria for sufficiency being area-dependent. In the area of oral and written communication such as conversation, dial...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20image%20compositing
Deep image compositing is a way of compositing and rendering digital images that emerged in the mid-2010s. In addition to the usual color and opacity channels a notion of spatial depth is created. This allows multiple samples in the depth of the image to make up the final resulting color. This technique produces high q...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20optimization
Engineering optimization is the subject which uses optimization techniques to achieve design goals in engineering. It is sometimes referred to as design optimization. Topics structural design (including pressure vessel design and welded beam design) shape optimization topology optimization (including airfoils) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOF%20Model%20to%20Text%20Transformation%20Language
MOF Model to Text Transformation Language (Mof2Text or MOFM2T) is an Object Management Group (OMG) specification for a model transformation language. Specifically, it can be used to express transformations which transform a model into text (M2T), for example a platform-specific model into source code or documentation. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer%20capacitor
A polymer capacitor, or more accurately a polymer electrolytic capacitor, is an electrolytic capacitor (e-cap) with a solid conductive polymer electrolyte. There are four different types: Polymer tantalum electrolytic capacitor (Polymer Ta-e-cap) Polymer aluminium electrolytic capacitor (Polymer Al-e-cap) Hybrid pol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20bitrate%20streaming
Adaptive bitrate streaming is a technique used in streaming multimedia over computer networks. While in the past most video or audio streaming technologies utilized streaming protocols such as RTP with RTSP, today's adaptive streaming technologies are based almost exclusively on HTTP, and are designed to work efficient...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency%20sweep
Radio frequency sweep or frequency sweep or RF sweep apply to scanning a radio frequency band for detecting signals being transmitted there. A radio receiver with an adjustable receiving frequency is used to do this. A display shows the strength of the signals received at each frequency as the receiver's frequency is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic%20oscillation
Parasitic oscillation is an undesirable electronic oscillation (cyclic variation in output voltage or current) in an electronic or digital device. It is often caused by feedback in an amplifying device. The problem occurs notably in RF, audio, and other electronic amplifiers as well as in digital signal processing. It...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling%2010.5%20axle
The Sterling 10.5 axle is an automotive axle manufactured by Ford Motor Company at the Sterling Axle Plant in Sterling Heights, MI. It was first used in model year 1985 Ford trucks. The axle was developed to replace the Dana 60 and Dana 70. The Sterling 10.5 axle is currently only made as a full floating axle. Ge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20product%20model
The weighted product model (WPM) is a popular multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) / multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method. It is similar to the weighted sum model (WSM). The main difference is that instead of addition in the main mathematical operation, there is multiplication. Description As with all MCD...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%20problem
In differential geometry, the Minkowski problem, named after Hermann Minkowski, asks for the construction of a strictly convex compact surface S whose Gaussian curvature is specified. More precisely, the input to the problem is a strictly positive real function ƒ defined on a sphere, and the surface that is to be const...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20matroid
In mathematics, a uniform matroid is a matroid in which the independent sets are exactly the sets containing at most r elements, for some fixed integer r. An alternative definition is that every permutation of the elements is a symmetry. Definition The uniform matroid is defined over a set of elements. A subset of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QMCF%20Technology
QMCF Technology is an episomal protein production system that uses genetically modified mammalian cells and specially designed plasmids. QMCF plasmids carry a combination of regulatory sequences from mouse polyomavirus (Py) DNA replication origin which in combination with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) EBNA-1 protein binding...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDXL%20Sharp
EDXL Sharp is a C# / .NET 3.5 implementation of the OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) family of standards. The purpose of these libraries is to allow developers to: Parse EDXL Messages from a string or underlying stream Programmatically create EDXL messages Validate EDXL Messages to the schema Validate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunogold%20labelling
Immunogold labeling or Immunogold staining (IGS) is a staining technique used in electron microscopy. This staining technique is an equivalent of the indirect immunofluorescence technique for visible light. Colloidal gold particles are most often attached to secondary antibodies which are in turn attached to primary an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braking%20chopper
Braking choppers, sometimes also referred to as braking units, are used in the DC voltage intermediate circuits of frequency converters to control voltage when the load feeds energy back to the intermediate circuit. This arises, for example, when a magnetized motor is being rotated by an overhauling load and so functio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroscopic%20traffic%20flow%20model
A macroscopic traffic flow model is a mathematical traffic model that formulates the relationships among traffic flow characteristics like density, flow, mean speed of a traffic stream, etc.. Such models are conventionally arrived at by integrating microscopic traffic flow models and converting the single-entity level ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junaio
Junaio was an augmented reality browser designed for 3G and 4G mobile devices. It was developed by Munich-based company Metaio GmbH. It provided a Creator application and an API for developers and content providers to generate mobile Augmented Reality experiences for end-users. The smartphone app, for Android and iPhon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legumes. After being harvested, dry grains are more durable than other staple foods...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20static%20checking
Extended static checking (ESC) is a collective name in computer science for a range of techniques for statically checking the correctness of various program constraints. ESC can be thought of as an extended form of type checking. As with type checking, ESC is performed automatically at compile time (i.e. without human ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagonal%20tiling
In geometry, the octagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It is represented by Schläfli symbol of {8,3}, having three regular octagons around each vertex. It also has a construction as a truncated order-8 square tiling, t{4,8}. Uniform colorings Like the hexagonal tiling of the Euclidean plane, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20cost%20management
Project Cost Management (PCM) is the dimension of project management which aims to ensure that a project is completed within its approved budget. It encompasses several specific project management activities including estimating, job controls, field data collection, scheduling, accounting and design, and uses technolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Highlands%20%28Madagascar%29
The Central Highlands, Central High Plateau, or Hauts-Plateaux are a mountainous biogeographical region in central Madagascar. They include the contiguous part of the island's interior above 800 m (2,600 ft) altitude. The Central Highlands are separated from the Northern Highlands of the northern tip of Madagascar by a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Clockwork%20Origin
"A Clockwork Origin" is the ninth episode in the sixth season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 97th episode of the series overall. It aired on Comedy Central on August 12, 2010. In the episode, Professor Farnsworth leaves Earth after being frustrated by anti-evolutionists' belief in "Creat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjectural%20variation
In oligopoly theory, conjectural variation is the belief that one firm has an idea about the way its competitors may react if it varies its output or price. The firm forms a conjecture about the variation in the other firm's output that will accompany any change in its own output. For example, in the classic Cournot mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access%20Turing%20machine
In computational complexity, a field of computer science, random-access Turing machines are an extension of Turing machines used to speak about small complexity classes, especially for classes using logarithmic time, like DLOGTIME and the logarithmic hierarchy. Definition On a random-access Turing machine, there is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLL%20multibit
A PLL multibit or multibit PLL is a phase-locked loop (PLL) which achieves improved performance compared to a unibit PLL by using more bits. Unibit PLLs use only the most significant bit (MSB) of each counter's output bus to measure the phase, while multibit PLLs use more bits. PLLs are an essential component in teleco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot%20Lot
is a multiplatform puzzle video game developed and published by Irem. Tokuma Shoten published the game on home platforms, including the Famicom. The player controls one arrow and has to move some pellets (which resemble pachinko balls) from the upper cells (with a four-second delay) to the lower ones without having to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAPOR%20%28software%29
VAPOR (Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers) is a software package developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in collaboration with U.C. Davis and Ohio State University. It can produce images and movies from very large mesh-based datasets, such as wind velocity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHAPE%20Services
SHAPE.AG (formerly SHAPE Services) is a cross-platform independent software vendor and web-based services provider. The company develops instant messaging, social networking, productivity, entertainment, games, media and location-based applications for Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, BlackBerry, Windows Phone/Window...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20roller%20mill
Vertical roller mill is a type of grinder used to grind materials into extremely fine powder for use in mineral dressing processes, paints, pyrotechnics, cements and ceramics. It is an energy efficient alternative for a ball mill. Overview The vertical roller mill is a kind of grinding machine for cement, raw materia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall%20protection
Fall protection is the use of controls designed to protect personnel from falling or in the event they do fall, to stop them without causing severe injury. Typically, fall protection is implemented when working at height, but may be relevant when working near any edge, such as near a pit or hole, or performing work on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity%20stream
An activity stream is a list of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single website. For example, Facebook's News Feed is an activity stream. Since the introduction of the News Feed on September 6, 2006, other major websites have introduced similar implementations for their own users. Since the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPIO%20Dio
The TOPIO Dio is a robot designed to serve in a restaurant or coffee shop, or as a cocktail bartender, which is manufactured by Vietnam-based company, Tosy. TOPIO Dio has a 3-wheel moving platform, 28 degrees of freedom and is operated remotely with a built-in camera and an obstacle detector. It is 125 cm high and weig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20integrated%20development%20environment
A Game Engine (game environment) is a specialized development environment for creating video games. The features one provides depends on the type and the granularity of control allowed by the underlying framework. Some may provide diagrams, a windowing environment and debugging facilities. Users build the game with the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newscoop
Newscoop (formerly Campsite) is a free and open source multilingual content management system for news websites. Its localizable user interface was built with journalists, editors and publishers in mind, rather than computer experts, and it can be configured to suit different profiles of end users. Newscoop follows a n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending
Double-spending is a fundamental flaw in a digital cash protocol in which the same single digital token can be spent more than once. Due to the nature of information space, in comparison to physical space (as in: valuable physical resources), a digital token (like a file) is inherently almost infinitely duplicable or f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20monitoring%20and%20control
Remote monitoring and control (M&C) systems are designed to control large or complex facilities such as factories, power plants, network operations centers, airports, and spacecraft, with some degree of automation. M&C systems may receive data from sensors, telemetry streams, user inputs, and pre-programmed procedures...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Performance%20Computing%20Wales
High Performance Computing Wales (HPC Wales) was a £44million five-year project (2010–2015) to provide Wales with a world class facility in High Performance Computing, accessible to both academic and commercial organisations based in Wales. The project aimed to give Wales a supercomputing capacity and network at a scal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecode
Protecode was a private company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that provided open source license and security management software used for software development license compliance. It was acquired by Synopsys in November 2015 for undisclosed terms. Products Protecode Enterprise System is a suite of tools for managin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic%20decidual%20vasculopathy
In pathology, hypertrophic decidual vasculopathy, abbreviated HDV, is the histomorphologic correlate of gestational hypertension, as may be seen in intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and HELLP syndrome. The name of the condition describes its appearance under the microscope; the smooth muscle of the decidual (or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erenlai
eRenlai is a monthly internet magazine concentrating on the cultural, social and spiritual concerns of contemporary Asia and throughout the world. published in English, and traditional Chinese. eRenlai is also a network of readers and project builders who share insights, stories and resources as part of the Pan-Asian c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%27s%20irreducibility%20theorem
In mathematics, Abel's irreducibility theorem, a field theory result described in 1829 by Niels Henrik Abel, asserts that if ƒ(x) is a polynomial over a field F that shares a root with a polynomial g(x) that is irreducible over F, then every root of g(x) is a root of ƒ(x). Equivalently, if ƒ(x) shares at least one roo...