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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic%20Wireless%20Service
The Diplomatic Wireless Service (DWS) was the name of the communications system set up for the British Foreign Office by Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry, the first Foreign Office Director of Communications, in the latter part of 1945. It grew out of the Special Communication Units (SCU) which were responsible for comm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20core%20stretch%20wrapper
Extended core stretch wrappers are rolls of stretch film that have their internal core extended beyond their film roll creating a handle by which film can be wrapped. Extended core wrapping is the lowest initial investment stretch wrapping system as no machinery is purchased. This system provides little control ove...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20brake%20stretch%20wrapper
Mechanical brake stretch wrappers are manual stretch wrapping systems which consist of a simple structure supporting a roll of film to be stretched and a mechanical brake which acts on the film roll, creating resistance to turning and stretching the film as it is fed out. The amount of braking is often variable by mea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntable%20stretch%20wrapper
Turntable stretch wrappers are a type of automatic and semi-automatic stretch wrapping system. A load is placed on a turntable, which rotates relative to the film roll, which is housed in a carriage attached to a vertical "mast" on which it may move up and down. Information In the simplest turntable systems, stretch ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital%20stretch%20wrapper
An orbital stretch wrapper is a means of applying stretchable plastic film to a load, consisting of a roll (or rolls) of stretch wrap supported on a vertical rotating ring and a means of passing a load through the ring's eye horizontally. Several designs are available. The item or load can go through the ring on a c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurm%20Workload%20Manager
The Slurm Workload Manager, formerly known as Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), or simply Slurm, is a free and open-source job scheduler for Linux and Unix-like kernels, used by many of the world's supercomputers and computer clusters. It provides three key functions: allocating exclusive and/or n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audimated
Audimated was a social networking website for independent musicians and their fans. Audimated.com, which launched in June 2010, offers a platform in which both artists and fans can sell music and related products to make a profit. The founders of Audimated.com are Lucas Sommer and Andrew Levine, two alumni from the Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIBOX
LIBOX was a free platform that allowed users to access and share their high definition media collections, including video, photos and music, across various devices and with friends. LIBOX offered this service for free thanks to a patent pending combination of peer-to-peer, grid and distributed computing technologies. L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroMQ
ZeroMQ (also spelled ØMQ, 0MQ or ZMQ) is an asynchronous messaging library, aimed at use in distributed or concurrent applications. It provides a message queue, but unlike message-oriented middleware, a ZeroMQ system can run without a dedicated message broker; the zero in the name is for zero broker. The library's API ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20protocol
A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity. The protocol defines the rules, syntax, semantics, and synchronization of communication and possible error recovery methods. Protocols may be implem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automixis
Automixis is the fusion of (typically haploid) nuclei or gametes derived from the same individual. The term covers several reproductive mechanisms, some of which are parthenogenetic. Diploidy might be restored by the doubling of the chromosomes without cell division before meiosis begins or after meiosis is completed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Association%20of%20Geoscientists%20and%20Engineers
The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) is a professional organization for geoscientists and engineers, established in 1951 with a worldwide membership. The association provides a platform for professionals in geophysics, petroleum exploration, geology, reservoir engineering, mining, civil engine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibratory%20stress%20relief
Vibratory Stress Relief, often abbreviated VSR, is a non-thermal stress relief method used by the metal working industry to enhance the dimensional stability and mechanical integrity of castings, forgings, and welded components, chiefly for two categories of these metal workpieces: Precision components, which are mach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitting%20ideal
In commutative algebra, the Fitting ideals of a finitely generated module over a commutative ring describe the obstructions to generating the module by a given number of elements. They were introduced by . Definition If M is a finitely generated module over a commutative ring R generated by elements m1,...,mn with rel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atypon
Atypon Systems, LLC, is an online publishing platform provider for publishers and other providers of scientific, technical, medical, scholarly, professional and government content. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It has been owned by John Wiley & Sons since 2016. Atypon’s flagship product is Literatum...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked%20Objects%20for%20.NET
Naked Objects for .NET or Naked Objects MVC is a software framework that builds upon the ASP.NET MVC framework. As the name suggests, the framework synthesizes two architectural patterns: naked objects and model–view–controller (MVC). These two patterns have been considered as antithetical. However, Trygve Reenskaug ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20function%20arithmetic
In proof theory, a branch of mathematical logic, elementary function arithmetic (EFA), also called elementary arithmetic and exponential function arithmetic, is the system of arithmetic with the usual elementary properties of 0, 1, +, ×, , together with induction for formulas with bounded quantifiers. EFA is a very w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize%20milling
Maize miller is the processing of maize (corn) for safe and palatable consumption as food. Processing can be by machine-milling in either large- or small-scale mills, or by hand-milling in domestic or community settings. The maize is first cleaned and then "conditioned", or "tempered", by soaking the kernels in water....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20grinding
Diamond grinding is a grinding process that can be applied to a variety of surfaces including floors, stones, and engineering ceramics. It takes advantage of the fact that diamond has the highest hardness of any bulk material, and uses diamond tools to smooth out bumps and other irregularities on the surface. See also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Q%26A%20sites
The following is a list of websites that follow a question-and-answer format. The list contains only websites for which an article exists, dedicated either wholly or at least partly to the websites. For the humor "Q&A site" format first popularized by Forum 2000 and The Conversatron, see Q&A comedy website. See also ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s%20intersection%20theorem
Cantor's intersection theorem refers to two closely related theorems in general topology and real analysis, named after Georg Cantor, about intersections of decreasing nested sequences of non-empty compact sets. Topological statement Theorem. Let be a topological space. A decreasing nested sequence of non-empty compa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Envoy
Digital Envoy, Inc., part of Dominion Enterprises, is a media and information services company. It is the parent company of Digital Element and Digital Resolve, whose primary product is the NetAcuity IP location service. Company & History Founded in 1999 by Rob Friedman, Sanjay Parekh and Dennis Maicon, Digital Envoy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwork%20family
In algebraic geometry, a Dwork family is a one-parameter family of hypersurfaces depending on an integer n, studied by Bernard Dwork. Originally considered by Dwork in the context of local zeta-functions, such families have been shown to have relationships with mirror symmetry and extensions of the modularity theorem. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness%20testing
Robustness testing is any quality assurance methodology focused on testing the robustness of software. Robustness testing has also been used to describe the process of verifying the robustness (i.e. correctness) of test cases in a test process. ANSI and IEEE have defined robustness as the degree to which a system or co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20sequence
In mathematics, a sequence of natural numbers is called a complete sequence if every positive integer can be expressed as a sum of values in the sequence, using each value at most once. For example, the sequence of powers of two (1, 2, 4, 8, ...), the basis of the binary numeral system, is a complete sequence; given a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20particle%20analysis
Single particle analysis is a group of related computerized image processing techniques used to analyze images from transmission electron microscopy (TEM). These methods were developed to improve and extend the information obtainable from TEM images of particulate samples, typically proteins or other large biological ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender%27s%20method
In group theory, Bender's method is a method introduced by for simplifying the local group theoretic analysis of the odd order theorem. Shortly afterwards he used it to simplify the Walter theorem on groups with abelian Sylow 2-subgroups , and Gorenstein and Walter's classification of groups with dihedral Sylow 2-subg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20breaker%20design%20pattern
Circuit breaker is a design pattern used in software development. It is used to detect failures and encapsulates the logic of preventing a failure from constantly recurring, during maintenance, temporary external system failure or unexpected system difficulties. Common uses Assume that an application connects to a da...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20network
A mechanical network is an abstract interconnection of mechanical elements along the lines of an electrical circuit diagram. Elements include rigid bodies, springs, dampers, transmissions, and actuators. Network symbols The symbols from left to right are: stiffness element (e.g. spring), mass (rigid body), mechanica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask%20Ontario
Ask Ontario (askON) is a realtime chat and SMS-based research information service that connects students of Ontario, Canada to staff at college libraries across the province, for instant-messaging and SMS-based reference help online. askON's mandate is to help visitors find better information than they can on their own...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20dissection
In numerical analysis, nested dissection is a divide and conquer heuristic for the solution of sparse symmetric systems of linear equations based on graph partitioning. Nested dissection was introduced by ; the name was suggested by Garrett Birkhoff. Nested dissection consists of the following steps: Form an undirecte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic%20Geodetic%20Reference%20System%201987
The Hellenic Geodetic Reference System 1987 or HGRS87 () is a geodetic system commonly used in Greece (SRID=2100). The system specifies a local geodetic datum and a projection system. In some documents it is called Greek Geodetic Reference System 1987 or GGRS87. HGRS87 datum HGRS87 specifies a non-geocentric datum th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollob%C3%A1s%E2%80%93Riordan%20polynomial
The Bollobás–Riordan polynomial can mean a 3-variable invariant polynomial of graphs on orientable surfaces, or a more general 4-variable invariant of ribbon graphs, generalizing the Tutte polynomial. History These polynomials were discovered by . Formal definition The 3-variable Bollobás–Riordan polynomial of a grap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20topology
Quantum topology is a branch of mathematics that connects quantum mechanics with low-dimensional topology. Dirac notation provides a viewpoint of quantum mechanics which becomes amplified into a framework that can embrace the amplitudes associated with topological spaces and the related embedding of one space within a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Technology%20Society
The Marine Technology Society (MTS) is a professional society that serves an international community of approximately 3,800 ocean engineers, technologists, policy-makers, and educators. The goal of the society, which was founded in 1963, is to promote awareness, understanding, advancement and application of marine tech...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAB%20Direct
CAB Direct is a source of references for the applied life sciences It incorporates two bibliographic databases: CAB Abstracts and Global Health. CAB Direct is an access point for multiple bibliographic databases produced by CABI. This database contains over 11 million bibliographic records, which includes 746,000 ful...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20representations%20%28mathematics%20education%29
In mathematics education, a representation is a way of encoding an idea or a relationship, and can be both internal (e.g., mental construct) and external (e.g., graph). Thus multiple representations are ways to symbolize, to describe and to refer to the same mathematical entity. They are used to understand, to develop,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Kennedy%20Award
The Ken Kennedy Award, established in 2009 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society in memory of Ken Kennedy, is awarded annually and recognizes substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and substantial community service or mentoring contributions. The aw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen%20Ark
The Frozen Ark is a charitable frozen zoo project created jointly by the Zoological Society of London, the Natural History Museum and University of Nottingham. The project aims to preserve the DNA and living cells of endangered species to retain the genetic knowledge for the future. The Frozen Ark collects and stores s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian%20Master%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Sciences
The Romanian Master of Mathematics and Sciences (formerly known as the Romanian Masters in Mathematics) is an annual competition for students at the pre-university level, held in Bucharest, Romania. The contestants compete individually, in four different sections: mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate%20Based%20Satellite%20Control%20Protocol
In computer networking, Rate Based Satellite Control Protocol (RBSCP) is a tunneling method proposed by Cisco to improve the performance of satellite network links with high latency and error rates. The problem RBSCP addresses is that the long RTT on the link keeps TCP virtual circuits in slow start for a long time. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trek%202000%20International
Trek 2000 International Limited is a Singaporean technology company that is listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX:TREK). The company claims to be the inventor of the ThumbDrive, a USB data storage device. The company owns a library of more than 600 patents, with 360 granted patents. It has also developed numerous other...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XenClient
XenClient is a discontinued desktop virtualization product developed by Citrix that runs virtual desktops on endpoint devices. The product reached end of-life in December 2016. Desktops are run locally, without hosting applications or the operating system in a datacenter. It consists of a Type-1 Xen client hypervisor a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Surveys%20and%20Monographs
Mathematical Surveys and Monographs is a series of monographs published by the American Mathematical Society. Each volume in the series gives a survey of the subject along with a brief introduction to recent developments and unsolved problems. The series has been known as Mathematical Surveys and Monographs since 198...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic%20feeding%20mechanisms
Aquatic feeding mechanisms face a special difficulty as compared to feeding on land, because the density of water is about the same as that of the prey, so the prey tends to be pushed away when the mouth is closed. This problem was first identified by Robert McNeill Alexander. As a result, underwater predators, especia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography%20of%20Deep-Water%20Chemosynthetic%20Ecosystems
The Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems is a field project of the Census of Marine Life programme (CoML). The main aim of ChEss is to determine the biogeography of deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems at a global scale and to understand the processes driving these ecosystems. ChEss addresses the main ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lov%C3%A1sz%20number
In graph theory, the Lovász number of a graph is a real number that is an upper bound on the Shannon capacity of the graph. It is also known as Lovász theta function and is commonly denoted by , using a script form of the Greek letter theta to contrast with the upright theta used for Shannon capacity. This quantity was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20of%20the%20day
Many computer systems display a message of the day or welcome message when a user first connects to them, logs in to them, or starts them. It is a way of sending a common message to all users, and may include information about system changes, system availability, and so on. More recently, systems have displayed persona...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20application%20management
Internet application management is a term used in the Web Hosting industry to describe services which address scalability and performance issues often arising at the system level during application deployments. Starting in 2009, the DevOps movement began to publicize the importance of cross-departmental integration bet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locallife
Locallife is an on-line directory that represents local communities in multiple countries. Locallife hosts local maps & directions, special coupon offers and hyperlinks to business websites. History and spread Locallife began in the United Kingdom in August 1999. The company continued to expand throughout the UK both ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Include%20directive
Many programming languages and other computer files have a directive, often called include, import, or copy, that causes the contents of the specified file to be inserted into the original file. These included files are called s or copybooks. They are often used to define the physical layout of program data, pieces of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopeptag
Isopeptag is a 16-amino acid peptide tag (TDKDMTITFTNKKDAE) that can be genetically linked to proteins without interfering with protein folding. What makes the isopeptag different from other peptide tags is that it can bind its binding protein through a permanent and irreversible covalent bond. Other peptide tags gener...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egress%20router
An egress router is a label switch router that is an end point (drain) for a given label-switched path (LSP). An egress router may be an ingress router or an intermediate router for any other LSP(s). Hence the role of egress and ingress routers is LSP specific. Usually, the MPLS label is attached with an IP packet at t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum%20Voice
The Plum Group, Inc. (DBA Plum Voice) is a company. Plum is headquartered in New York City with offices in Boston and Denver. History Plum Voice, founded in 2000 as The Plum Group, Inc., was incorporated to create technologies for personalized audio communication. By 2001, Plum had commercialized the open-standard P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20K.%20Wilson
Richard K. Wilson (born March 23, 1959) is a leading American molecular geneticist. He is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He received his A.B. degree (Microbiology) from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4FFF%20N618
4FFF N618 is a discontinued electronic-book reader developed by an Indian Company, Condor Technology Associates, and based on a Linux platform. The device is sold under various brand names worldwide. Features 4FFF N618 provides a 16 levels of grayscale SiPix touchscreen display for viewing digital content. Pages are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Minnesota%20Supercomputing%20Institute
The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota is a core research facility of the University of Minnesota that provides hardware and software resources, as well as technical user support, to faculty and researchers at the university and at other institutions of higher education in Minnesota. MSI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Weinstock
George M. Weinstock (born February 6, 1949) is an American geneticist and microbiologist on the faculty of The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, where he is a professor and the associate director for microbial genomics. Before joining The Jackson Laboratory, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis and se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant%20array%20of%20independent%20memory
A redundant array of independent memory (RAIM) is a design feature found in certain computers' main random access memory. RAIM utilizes additional memory modules and striping algorithms to protect against the failure of any particular module and keep the memory system operating continuously. RAIM is similar in concept ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligado%20Networks
Ligado Networks, formerly known as LightSquared, is an American satellite communications company. After restructuring, emerging from bankruptcy and modifying its network plan, the new company, Ligado Networks, launched in 2016. It operates the SkyTerra 1 satellite. Operations Ligado Networks is based in Reston, Virgi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Business%20Process%20Model%20and%20Notation%20modeling%20tools
This article provides a comparison of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) tools. General References Business process modelling Software comparisons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roshd%20Biological%20Education
Roshd Biological Education is a quarterly science educational magazine covering recent developments in biology and biology education for a biology teacher Persian -speaking audience. Founded in 1985, it is published by The Teaching Aids Publication Bureau, Organization for Educational Planning and Research, Ministry of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamal
Potamal is a technical geographical term of limnology and hydrology of the lower stretches of a stream or river. It describes the overall habitat, stability and ecology of the biomass. Further reading The FILION ., Pienitz R., "Physical Geography: Natural environments" General Documents, Winter 2007, Université Lava...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicing%20tape
Dicing tape is a backing tape used during wafer dicing or some other microelectronic substrate separation, the cutting apart of pieces of semiconductor or other material following wafer or module microfabrication. The tape holds the pieces of the substrate, in case of a wafer called as die, together during the cutting ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeriWave
VeriWave is a company in Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. It was founded in 2002 to design and manufacture specialized testing equipment for Wi-Fi and Ethernet—products primarily of interest to manufacturers of wireless access points and network infrastructure. VeriWave is a privately held company with investors including US ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GADDAG
A GADDAG is a data structure presented by Steven Gordon in 1994, for use in generating moves for Scrabble and other word-generation games where such moves require words that "hook into" existing words. It is often in contrast to move-generation algorithms using a directed acyclic word graph (DAWG) such as the one used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20segregation
Online segregation is the unintentional segregation of people on the Internet, which is often believed to be a democratizing tool used to bring equality among people. For example, popular social network services such as MySpace and Facebook have been argued to magnify social, political, and class divides that already e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20road%20stud
Solar road studs are flashing solar cell powered LED low-maintenance lighting devices that delineate road edges and centrelines. Embedded in the road surface, they are an electronic improvement on the traditional cat's eyes and raised pavement marker in that they may give drivers a larger reaction window. Averaging ab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20first%20human%20settlements
This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern (Age of Sail and mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinator
Akinator is a video game developed by French company Elokence. During gameplay, it attempts to determine what fictional or real-life character, object, or animal the player is thinking of by asking a series of questions (similar to the game Twenty Questions). It uses an artificial intelligence program that learns the b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20Dougherty
Randall Dougherty (born 1961) is an American mathematician. Dougherty has made contributions in widely varying areas of mathematics, including set theory, logic, real analysis, discrete mathematics, computational geometry, information theory, and coding theory. Dougherty is a three-time winner of the U.S.A. Mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Fighter%20X%20Tekken
(pronounced "Street Fighter Cross Tekken") is a crossover fighting game developed and published by Capcom and released in March 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in May for Windows and in October for the PlayStation Vita. The game features characters from both the Street Fighter franchise and Namco's Tekken seri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s%20thermodynamic%20surface
Maxwell’s thermodynamic surface is an 1874 sculpture made by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879). This model provides a three-dimensional space of the various states of a fictitious substance with water-like properties. This plot has coordinates volume (x), entropy (y), and energy (z). It was based on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Elastic%20Block%20Store
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). It is one of the two block-storage options offered by AWS, with the other being the EC2 Instance Store. Amazon EBS provides a range of options for stor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20JTAG
The Open JTAG project is an open source project released under GNU License. It is a complete hardware and software JTAG reference design, based on a simple hardware composed by a FTDI FT245 USB front-end and an Altera EPM570 MAX II CPLD. The capabilities of this hardware configuration make the Open JTAG device able to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based%20Usenet
Usenet, a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system, can be accessed through Web browsers as well as through dedicated news clients. Introduction Usenet newsgroups are traditionally accessed by a newsreader. The user must obtain a news server account and a newsgroup reader. With Web-based Usenet, all of the tec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Mechanics%20Reviews
Applied Mechanics Reviews is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1948 by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The editor-in-chief is Harry Dankowicz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index, Cu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20simulator
A mobile simulator is a software application for a personal computer which creates a virtual machine version of a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, iPhone, other smartphone, or calculator, on the computer. This may sometimes also be termed an emulator. The mobile simulator allows the user to use features and run ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20aperiodic%20sets%20of%20tiles
In geometry, a tiling is a partition of the plane (or any other geometric setting) into closed sets (called tiles), without gaps or overlaps (other than the boundaries of the tiles). A tiling is considered periodic if there exist translations in two independent directions which map the tiling onto itself. Such a tiling...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Tech%20Research%20Institute
The Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) is a research center of Michigan Technological University located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The institute specializes in advancing the state of the art in remote sensing and information technology for a variety of applications. MTRI has its heritage in the branch of the Envir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Mardis
Elaine R. Mardis (born September 28, 1962) is the co-executive director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital, where she also serves as the Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Genomic Medicine. She also is professor of pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Mar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXDP-LD
KXDP-LD, virtual channel 18 (VHF digital channel 6), is a low-power television station licensed to Denver, Colorado, United States. Owned by Mount Pleasant, South Carolina–based Syncom Media Group, it broadcasts a Regional Mexican radio format as "La Invasora 87.7". History Because the station broadcast an analog sign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20farm
A content farm or content mill is a company that employs large numbers of freelance writers or uses automated tools to generate a large amount of textual web content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by search engines, known as SEO (search engine optimization). Their main goal i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary%20ground%20component
A complementary ground component is a terrestrial infill system for a mobile-satellite service that uses terrestrial base stations to provide connectivity in weak signal areas, such as urban areas. According to EU Decision 626/2008/EC: "complementary ground components" of mobile satellite systems shall mean ground-ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20consortium
A microbial consortium or microbial community, is two or more bacterial or microbial groups living symbiotically. Consortiums can be endosymbiotic or ectosymbiotic, or occasionally may be both. The protist Mixotricha paradoxa, itself an endosymbiont of the Mastotermes darwiniensis termite, is always found as a consorti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20LCD
Super LCD (SLCD) is a display technology used by numerous manufacturers for mobile device displays. It is mostly used by HTC, though Super LCD panels are actually produced by S-LCD Corporation. Super LCD differs from a regular LCD in that it does not have an air gap between the outer glass and the display element. Thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNaughton%27s%20theorem
In automata theory, McNaughton's theorem refers to a theorem that asserts that the set of ω-regular languages is identical to the set of languages recognizable by deterministic Muller automata. This theorem is proven by supplying an algorithm to construct a deterministic Muller automaton for any ω-regular language and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformational%20proofreading
Conformational proofreading or conformational selection is a general mechanism of molecular recognition systems, suggested by Yonatan Savir and Tsvi Tlusty, in which introducing an energetic barrier - such as a structural mismatch between a molecular recognizer and its target - enhances the recognition specificity and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20design
In software engineering, test design is the activity of deriving and specifying test cases from test conditions to test software. Definition A test condition is a statement about the test object. Test conditions can be stated for any part of a component or system that could be verified: functions, transactions, feat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcast
Speedcast is a company specializing in communications satellite technology. According to their website, they claim to have "more satellite capacity than any other service provider (C, Ka, Ku, X, L) combined with an extensive multi-technology terrestrial and offshore network (fiber, LTE, microwave)." Speedcast has grown...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyst%27s%20traveling%20salesman%20theorem
The analyst's traveling salesman problem is an analog of the traveling salesman problem in combinatorial optimization. In its simplest and original form, it asks which plane sets are subsets of rectifiable curves of finite length. Whereas the original traveling salesman problem asks for the shortest way to visit every ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia%20Economist
The Namibia Economist is a Namibian newspaper published digitally that focuses on local business and financial topics. It is published exclusively in English, Daniel Steinmann is the editor. First published in 1991 it appeared as a printed monthly newspaper. Namibia Economist published its last printed edition on 25 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20raspberry%20flavor
Blue raspberry is a manufactured flavoring and food coloring for candy, snack foods, syrups, and soft drinks. The flavor and color do not derive from any species of raspberry, but rather the flavor was manufactured using "mostly esters of the banana, cherry, and pineapple variety." Sugar is commonly used to create tast...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20Photonics%20Link
Silicon Photonics Link is a silicon-based optical data connection developed by Intel Corporation which uses silicon photonics and hybrid silicon laser, it provides 50 Gbit/s bandwidth. Intel expected the technology to be in products by 2015. This technology is enabled and well supported by academic and industrial rese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECryptfs
eCryptfs (enterprise cryptographic filesystem) is a package of disk encryption software for Linux. Its implementation is a POSIX-compliant filesystem-level encryption layer, aiming to offer functionality similar to that of GnuPG at the operating system level, and has been part of the Linux kernel since version 2.6.19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinx%20ISE
Xilinx ISE (Integrated Synthesis Environment) is a discontinued software tool from Xilinx for synthesis and analysis of HDL designs, which primarily targets development of embedded firmware for Xilinx FPGA and CPLD integrated circuit (IC) product families. It was succeeded by Xilinx Vivado. Use of the last released edi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariposa%20botnet
The Mariposa botnet, discovered December 2008, is a botnet mainly involved in cyberscamming and denial-of-service attacks. Before the botnet itself was dismantled on 23 December 2009, it consisted of up to 12 million unique IP addresses or up to 1 million individual zombie computers infected with the "Butterfly (maripo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20NEX-5
The Sony α NEX-5 is a digital camera launched on 11 May 2010. It is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera with the body size of a larger model fairly compact point-and-shoot camera with a larger sensor size (APS-C) comparable to that of some digital single-lens reflex cameras. Its major competitors in the market are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIP%20%28model%20theory%29
In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, a complete theory T is said to satisfy NIP ("not the independence property") if none of its formulae satisfy the independence property—that is, if none of its formulae can pick out any given subset of an arbitrarily large finite set. Definition Let T be a complete L-th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSafety
openSAFETY is a communications protocol used to transmit information that is crucial for the safe operation of machinery in manufacturing lines, process plants, or similar industrial environments. Such information may be e.g. an alert signal triggered when someone or something has breached a light curtain on a factory ...