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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisor%20topology | In mathematics, more specifically general topology, the divisor topology is a specific topology on the set of positive integers greater than or equal to two. The divisor topology is the poset topology for the partial order relation of divisibility of integers on .
Construction
The sets for form a basis for the di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changhong | Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., Ltd., doing business as Changhong () domestically and CHiQ internationally, is a Chinese consumer electronics company based in Mianyang, Sichuan, founded in October 1958. It is the second-largest manufacturer of televisions in China. In 2004, 90 percent of the television sets exported fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norvaline | Norvaline (abbreviated as Nva) is an amino acid with the formula CH3(CH2)2CH(NH2)CO2H. The compound is a structural analog of valeric acid and also an isomer of the more common amino acid valine. Like most other α-amino acids, norvaline is chiral. It is a white, water-soluble solid.
Occurrence
Norvaline is a non-prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswitch%2C%20Inc. | Ipswitch is an IT management software developer for small and medium sized businesses. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts and has operations in Atlanta (Alpharetta) and Augusta, Georgia, American Fork, Utah, Madison, Wisconsin and Galway, Ireland. Ipswitch sells its produc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20archaeology | Software archaeology or source code archeology is the study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of software maintenance. Software archaeology, named by analogy with archaeology, includes the reverse engineering of software modules, and the application of a variety of tools and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gras%20conjecture | In algebraic number theory, the Gras conjecture relates the p-parts of the Galois eigenspaces of an ideal class group to the group of global units modulo cyclotomic units. It was proved by as a corollary of their work on the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory. later gave a simpler proof using Euler systems.
Referenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceworthiness | Spaceworthiness, or aerospaceworthiness, is a property, or ability of a spacecraft to perform to its design objectives and navigate successfully through both the space environment and the atmosphere as a part of a journey to or from space.
As in airworthiness, the spaceworthiness of a spacecraft depends on at least th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determination%20%28biology%29 | In biology, determination is the process of matching a specimen of an organism to a known taxon, for example identifying a plant. The term is also used in cellular biology, where it means the act of the differentiation of stem cells becoming fixed. Various methods are used, for example single or multi-access identifica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20and%20Brown%20Books | The Blue and Brown Books are two sets of notes taken during lectures conducted by Ludwig Wittgenstein from 1933 to 1935. They were mimeographed as two separate books, and a few copies were circulated in a restricted circle during Wittgenstein's lifetime. The lecture notes from 1933–1934 were bound in blue cloth, and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant%20Array%20of%20Inexpensive%20Servers | A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers (RAIS) or Redundant Array of Independent Nodes (RAIN) is the use of multiple servers to maintain service if one server fails. This is similar in concept to how RAID turns a cluster of ordinary disks into a single block device. RAIS was designed to provide the benefits of a symm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development%2C%20testing%2C%20acceptance%20and%20production | Development, testing, acceptance and production (DTAP) is a phased approach to software testing and deployment. The four letters in DTAP denote the following common steps:
Development: The program or component is developed on a development system. This development environment might have no testing capabilities.
Testi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listing%20number | In mathematics, a Listing number of a topological space is one of several topological invariants introduced by the 19th-century mathematician Johann Benedict Listing and later given this name by Charles Sanders Peirce. Unlike the later invariants given by Bernhard Riemann, the Listing numbers do not form a complete set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacity%20%28mineralogy%29 | In mineralogy, tenacity is a mineral's behavior when deformed or broken.
Common terms
Brittleness
The mineral breaks or powders easily. Most ionic-bonded minerals are brittle.
Malleability
The mineral may be pounded out into thin sheets. Metallic-bonded minerals are usually malleable.
Ductility
The mineral may b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realized%20variance | Realized variance or realised variance (RV, see spelling differences) is the sum of squared returns. For instance the RV can be the sum of squared daily returns for a particular month, which would yield a measure of price variation over this month. More commonly, the realized variance is computed as the sum of squared ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realized%20kernel | The realized kernel (RK) is an estimator of volatility. The estimator is typically computed with high frequency return data, such as second-by-second returns. Unlike the realized variance, the realized kernel is a robust estimator of volatility, in the sense that the realized kernel estimates the appropriate volatility... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organelle%20biogenesis | Organelle biogenesis is the biogenesis, or creation, of cellular organelles in cells. Organelle biogenesis includes the process by which cellular organelles are split between daughter cells during mitosis; this process is called organelle inheritance.
Discovery
Following the discovery of cellular organelles in the ni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadfast%20Networks | Steadfast Networks is a Chicago, Illinois-based Internet Service Provider primarily focused on Cloud Computing, Dedicated Servers and Colocation. It is a division of Nozone, Inc., a company founded in 1998 by then high-school student Karl Zimmerman in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and incorporated in 2000. In 2008 it was name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont%20Charcoal%20Kilns%20State%20Historic%20Site | The Piedmont Charcoal Kilns in Piedmont, Wyoming, are a remnant of a once-extensive charcoal-making industry in southwestern Wyoming. The kilns were built by Moses Byrne around 1869 near the Piedmont Station along the Union Pacific Railroad. The three surviving beehive-shaped kilns were built of local sandstone about ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid-mediated%20resistance | Plasmid-mediated resistance is the transfer of antibiotic resistance genes which are carried on plasmids. Plasmids possess mechanisms that ensure their independent replication as well as those that regulate their replication number and guarantee stable inheritance during cell division. By the conjugation process, they ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20course%20immune%20induction%20therapy | Short Course Immune Induction Therapy or SCIIT, is a therapeutic strategy employing rapid, specific, short term-modulation of the immune system using a therapeutic agent to induce T-cell non-responsiveness, also known as operational tolerance. As an alternative strategy to immunosuppression and antigen-specific toleran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20destratification | Thermal destratification is the process of mixing the internal air in a building to eliminate stratified layers and achieve temperature equalization throughout the building envelope.
Thermal stratification in buildings
Destratification is the reverse of the natural process of thermal stratification, which is the laye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s%20Disease%20Neuroimaging%20Initiative | Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a multisite study that aims to improve clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This cooperative study combines expertise and funding from the private and public sector to study subjects with AD, as well as those who may develop ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerUP%20%28accelerator%29 | PowerUP boards were dual-processor accelerator boards designed by Phase5 Digital Products for Amiga computers. They had two different processors, a Motorola 68000 series (68k) and a PowerPC, working in parallel, sharing the complete address space of the Amiga computer system.
History
In 1995, Amiga Technologies GmbH a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20evolution%20of%20integrals | Within differential calculus, in many applications, one needs to calculate the rate of change of a volume or surface integral whose domain of integration, as well as the integrand, are functions of a particular parameter. In physical applications, that parameter is frequently time t.
Introduction
The rate of change of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20fluid%20film%20equations | Fluid films, such as soap films, are commonly encountered in everyday experience. A soap film can be formed by dipping a closed contour wire into a soapy solution as in the figure on the right. Alternatively, a catenoid can be formed by dipping two rings in the soapy solution and subsequently separating them while main... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus%20of%20moving%20surfaces | The calculus of moving surfaces (CMS) is an extension of the classical tensor calculus to deforming manifolds. Central to the CMS is the Tensorial Time Derivative whose original definition was put forth by Jacques Hadamard. It plays the role analogous to that of the covariant derivative on differential manifolds in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postediting | Post-editing (or postediting) is the process whereby humans amend machine-generated translation to achieve an acceptable final product. A person who post-edits is called a post-editor. The concept of post-editing is linked to that of pre-editing. In the process of translating a text via machine translation, best result... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couchbase%20Server | Couchbase Server, originally known as Membase, is a source-available, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package optimized for interactive applications. These applications may serve many concurrent users by creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-flake | An n-flake, polyflake, or Sierpinski n-gon, is a fractal constructed starting from an n-gon. This n-gon is replaced by a flake of smaller n-gons, such that the scaled polygons are placed at the vertices, and sometimes in the center. This process is repeated recursively to result in the fractal. Typically, there is also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphoepithelial%20lesion | In pathology, lymphoepithelial lesion refers to a discrete abnormality that consists of lymphoid cells and epithelium, which may or may not be benign.
It may refer to a benign lymphoepithelial lesion of the parotid gland or benign lymphoepithelial lesion of the lacrimal gland, or may refer to the infiltration of mal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8K%20resolution | 8K resolution refers to an image or display resolution with a width of approximately 8,000 pixels. 8K UHD () is the highest resolution defined in the Rec. 2020 (UHDTV) standard.
8K display resolution is the successor to 4K resolution. TV manufacturers pushed to make 4K a new standard by 2017. At CES 2019, the first 8K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K%20resolution | 2K resolution is a generic term for display devices or content having a horizontal resolution of approximately 2,000 pixels. In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives is the dominant standard for 2K output and defines a 2K format with a resolution of . For television and consumer media, is the most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6K%20resolution | 6K resolution refers to display formats with a horizontal resolution of around 6,000 pixels. But the exact number may vary depending on the aspect ratio and pixel shape. 6K resolution is higher than 4K resolution, which has about 4,000 pixels horizontally, and lower than 8K resolution, which has about 8,000 pixels hori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon%20Lindenstrauss | Elon Lindenstrauss (, born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.
Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed to Professor at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University.
Biography
Lindenstrauss was born into a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%20sky%20model | The Rayleigh sky model describes the observed polarization pattern of the daytime sky. Within the atmosphere, Rayleigh scattering of light by air molecules, water, dust, and aerosols causes the sky's light to have a defined polarization pattern. The same elastic scattering processes cause the sky to be blue. The polari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20opening | A flood opening or flood vent (also styled floodvent) is an orifice in an enclosed structure intended to allow the free passage of water between the interior and exterior.
United States
In the United States, flood openings are used to provide for the automatic equalization of hydrostatic pressure on either side of a w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20Engineers%20Association%20of%20Northern%20California | The Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) is a structural engineering association established in 1930. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. Initially a club for structural engineers to exchange technical information, it evolved into a professional organization advising on the de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoll | epoll is a Linux kernel system call for a scalable I/O event notification mechanism, first introduced in version 2.5.44 of the Linux kernel. Its function is to monitor multiple file descriptors to see whether I/O is possible on any of them. It is meant to replace the older POSIX select(2) and poll(2) system calls, to a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Developers%20Session | The Game Developers Session (GDS) is an annual Czech conference on video game development.
It is the oldest conference dedicated to game development, technologies, businesses, and marketing in Central Europe. It has been organized annually since 2003, most being held in Prague of the Czech Republic. It is notable for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20stroke%20testing | Partial stroke testing (or PST) is a technique used in a control system to allow the user to test a percentage of the possible failure modes of a shut down valve without the need to physically close the valve. PST is used to assist in determining that the safety function will operate on demand. PST is most often used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerfeld%20tracking | Sommerfeld tracking, named after German expatriate engineer, Kurt Joachim Sommerfeld, then living in Cambridge, England, it was a lightweight wire mesh type of prefabricated airfield surface. First put into use by the British in 1941, it consisted of wire netting stiffened laterally by steel rods. This gave it load-car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padonkaffsky%20jargon | Padonkaffsky jargon (), also known as Olbanian (), is a slang developed by a Runet subculture called padonki (). It started as an Internet slang language originally used in the Russian Internet community. It is comparable to the English-based Leet. Padonkaffsky jargon became so popular that Dmitry Medvedev jokingly sug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeeGFS | BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel file system, developed and optimized for high-performance computing. BeeGFS includes a distributed metadata architecture for scalability and flexibility reasons. Its most used and widely known aspect is data throughput.
BeeGFS was originally developed at the Fraunhofer Center for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATAp | In computing, eSATAp (also known as Power over eSATA, Power eSATA, eSATA/USB Combo, eSATA USB Hybrid Port/EUHP) is a combination connection for external storage devices. An eSATA or USB device can be plugged into an eSATAp port. The socket has keyed cutouts for both types of device to ensure that a connector can only ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrig | The penrig is a unit of tumescence, specifically for the tumescence of the human penis. It is defined as the tumescence that will raise 100 grams of penile tissue through one millimetre. The word is formed from PENis RIGidity.
References
Urology
Units of measurement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spare%20part | A spare part, spare, service part, repair part, or replacement part, is an interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or refurbishment of defective equipment/units. Spare parts are an important feature of logistics engineering and supply chain management, often comprising dedicated spare ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%202146 | ISO 2146 is an ISO standard defining an information model for "registry services for libraries and related organisations". Operating at a higher level than item-level standards such as MARC, it takes as principal elements parties (people or organisations), collections (of books, data, etc.), services and activities (gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%20group | Albert Einstein, in searching for the transformation group for his unified field theory, wrote:
Every attempt to establish a unified field theory must start, in my opinion, from a group of transformations which is no less general than that of the continuous transformations of the four coordinates. For we should hardl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9olophore | The Pyréolophore () was an early internal combustion engine and the first made to power a boat. It was invented in the early 19th century in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, by the Niépce brothers: Nicéphore (who went on to invent photography) and Claude. In 1807 the brothers ran a prototype internal combustion engine, and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Service%20Descriptor%20Table | The System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) is an internal dispatch table within Microsoft Windows.
Function
The SSDT maps syscalls to kernel function addresses.
When a syscall is issued by a user space application, it contains the service index as parameter to indicate which syscall is called. The SSDT is then used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishida%20%28company%29 | is a Japanese multinational company which manufactures food packing machinery. It has been in business since 1893 and is a privately owned family business. It invented the multihead weigher, for which it enjoys a global market share of 70%. The company also makes weighing, packing and inspection equipment and packing l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3af | w3af (Web Application Attack and Audit Framework) is an open-source web application security scanner. The project provides a vulnerability scanner and exploitation tool for Web applications. It provides information about security vulnerabilities for use in penetration testing engagements. The scanner offers a graphical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes%20Hands%20Foundation | Diabetes Hands Foundation was a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California, founded in 2008. It was funded through sponsorship income, donations, grants, and earned income. Diabetes Hands Foundation closed in June 2017, nine years from its founding, handing the administration of its online communit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20System%20of%20Electrical%20and%20Magnetic%20Units | The International System of Electrical and Magnetic Units is an obsolete system of units used for measuring electrical and magnetic quantities. It was proposed as a system of practical international units (e.g., the international ampere, the international ohm, the international volt) by unanimous recommendation at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20Equation%20Solver | Engineering Equation Solver (EES) is a commercial software package used for solution of systems of simultaneous non-linear equations. It provides many useful specialized functions and equations for the solution of thermodynamics and heat transfer problems, making it a useful and widely used program for mechanical engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Processing%20Iran%20Co. | Data Processing Iran Company (DPI) (, Dadheperdazi-ye Iran) is a computer, technology and IT Consulting corporation headquartered in Tehran, Iran. DPI is currently the largest technology provider in Iran
DPI manufactures and sells computer hardware and software (with a focus on the latter), and offers infrastructure s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Liberian%20national%20forests | This is a list of all the national forests in Liberia.
Forests
See also
Cape Mount Nature Conservation Unit
Wonegizi Nature Conservation Unit
References
External links
National forestry policy and implementation strategy
General Report on National Forest Inventory in Liberia: 1968
Protected areas of Liberia
Nation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20quadrant | A galactic quadrant, or quadrant of the Galaxy, is one of four circular sectors in the division of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Quadrants in the galactic coordinate system
In actual astronomical practice, the delineation of the galactic quadrants is based upon the galactic coordinate system, which places the Sun as the pole ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytkeev%20space | In mathematics, and especially topology, a Pytkeev space is a topological space that satisfies qualities more subtle than a convergence of a sequence. They are named after E. G. Pytkeev, who proved in 1983 that sequential spaces have this property.
Definitions
Let X be a topological space. For a subset S of X let S ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Centre%20for%20Nature%20Conservation | The European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC) was a Dutch non-profit foundation which was active in the field of European nature and biodiversity policy between 1993 and 2017. It was set up as a network of university departments, expert centres and government agencies and operated as a European biodiversity expert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20odorant | A key odorant is a volatile compound that is present in concentrations higher than their specific flavor threshold.
Key odorants are these compounds that can be effectively smelled. Food products contain a lot of different volatile compounds, odorants. Some of them are present in such small concentrations that they ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle%20oven | A bottle oven or bottle kiln is a type of kiln. The word 'bottle' refers to the shape of the structure and not to the kiln's products, which are usually pottery, not glass.
Bottle kilns were typical of the industrial landscape of Stoke-on-Trent, where nearly 50 are preserved as listed buildings. They were mostly buil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projector | A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers. A virtual r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft%20%28civil%20engineering%29 | In civil engineering a shaft is an underground vertical or inclined passageway. Shafts are often entered through a manhole and closed by a manhole cover. They are constructed for a number of reasons including:
For the construction of a tunnel
For ventilation of a tunnel or underground structure, aka ventilation shaf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%20middleware | RT-middleware (Robotics Technology Middleware) is a common computing platform technical standard for robots based on distributed object technology. RT-middleware supports the construction of various networked robotic systems by integrating various network-enabled robotic elements named RT-Components, which specificatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20and%20starboard | Port and starboard are nautical terms for watercraft, aircraft and spacecraft, referring respectively to the left and right sides of the vessel, when aboard and facing the bow (front).
Vessels with bilateral symmetry have left and right halves which are mirror images of each other. One asymmetric feature is where acce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inerter%20%28mechanical%20networks%29 | In the study of mechanical networks in control theory, an inerter is a two-terminal device in which the forces applied at the terminals are equal, opposite, and proportional to relative acceleration between the nodes. Under the name of J-damper the concept has been used in Formula 1 racing car suspension systems.
It c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse%20Electronics | Westinghouse Electronics LLC is a Chinese-owned American company that manufactures LCD televisions located in Diamond Bar, California.
It is a licensee of the Westinghouse Licensing Corporation, commonly known as Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
History
In 2010, Westinghouse Digital stated on its LinkedIn page that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction%20of%20summands | Reduction of summands is an algorithm for fast binary multiplication of non-signed binary integers. It is performed in three steps: production of summands, reduction of summands, and summation.
Steps
Production of summands
In binary multiplication, each row of the summands will be either zero or one of the numbers t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange%2C%20Euler%2C%20and%20Kovalevskaya%20tops | In classical mechanics, the rotation of a rigid body such as a spinning top under the influence of gravity is not, in general, an integrable problem. There are however three famous cases that are integrable, the Euler, the Lagrange, and the Kovalevskaya top, which are in fact the only integrable cases when the system i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20of%20Fisheries%20and%20Ocean%20Sciences | The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, or CFOS, is part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. CFOS offers a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of science in fisheries, master’s and doctoral degrees in oceanography, fisheries and marine biology, and a minor in marine science.
The college was established by the Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comminution | Comminution is the reduction of solid materials from one average particle size to a smaller average particle size, by crushing, grinding, cutting, vibrating, or other processes. In geology, it occurs naturally during faulting in the upper part of the Earth's crust. In industry, it is an important unit operation in mine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameKey | GameKeys are expansion modules made by Jakks Pacific for the purpose of adding games to GameKey-ready entries in their Plug It In & Play TV Games product line.
History
The GameKey was first announced at the 2005 International Toy Fair, and the first products were released in July 2005.
GameKeys were mainly marketed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20law | Engineering law is the study of how engineering ethics and legal frameworks are adopted to ensure public safety surrounding the practice of engineering.
California law defines engineering as "the professional practice of rendering service or creative work requiring education, training and experience in engineering sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC | Linux Containers (LXC) is an operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a control host using a single Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel provides the cgroups functionality that allows limitation and prioritization of resources (CPU, memory, block I/O, network, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical%20failure%20analysis | Metallurgical failure analysis is the process to determine the mechanism that has caused a metal component to fail. It can identify the cause of failure, providing insight into the root cause and potential solutions to prevent similar failures in the future, as well as culpability, which is important in legal cases. Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirly%20tube | The whirly tube, corrugaphone, or bloogle resonator, also sold as Free-Ka in the 1960s-1970s, is an experimental musical instrument which consists of a corrugated (ribbed) plastic tube or hose (hollow flexible cylinder), open at both ends and possibly wider at one end (bell), the thinner of which is rotated in a circle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Herman%20%28mathematician%29 | Michael Robert Herman (6 November 1942 – 2 November 2000) was a French American mathematician. He was one of the leading experts on the theory of dynamical systems.
Born in New York City, he was educated in France. He was a student at École polytechnique before being one of the first members of the Centre de Mathémati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STD%20Bus | The STD Bus is a computer bus that was used primarily for industrial control systems, but has also found applications in computing. The STD Bus has also been designated as STD-80, referring to its relation to the Zilog Z80 series microprocessors. The term STD is in reference to "standard", but several marketing terms w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20girdling%20Earth | String girdling Earth is a mathematical puzzle with a counterintuitive solution. In a version of this puzzle, string is tightly wrapped around the equator of a perfectly spherical Earth. If the string should be raised off the ground, all the way along the equator, how much longer would the string be?
Alternatively, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuderi%20cycle | A Scuderi cycle is a thermodynamic cycle that is constructed out of the following series of thermodynamic processes:
A-B and C-D (TOP and BOTTOM of the loop): a pair of quasi-parallel adiabatic processes
D-A (LEFT side of the loop): a positively sloped, increasing pressure, increasing volume process
B-C (RIGHT side... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20same-page%20merging | In computing, kernel same-page merging (KSM), also known as kernel shared memory, memory merging, memory deduplication, and page deduplication is a kernel feature that makes it possible for a hypervisor system to share memory pages that have identical contents between multiple processes or virtualized guests. While not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%20controller%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a keyboard controller is a device that interfaces a keyboard to a computer. Its main function is to inform the computer when a key is pressed or released. When data from the keyboard arrives, the controller raises an interrupt (a keyboard interrupt) to allow the CPU to handle the input.
If a keyboard is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapil%20Dev%20Sharma | Kapil Dev Sharma (1920-2006) born in Gujaranwala (now in Pakistan) was an Indian scientist and technologist who specialized as a glass technologist.
Education
Sharma successfully completed his BSc degree at Panjab University, a BSc (Glass Tech.) at Banaras Hindu University; and an MSc (Technology) from Sheffield.
Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuilleumier%20cycle | The Vuilleumier cycle was patented by a Swiss-American engineer named Rudolph Vuilleumier in 1918. The purpose of Vuilleumier's machine was to create a heat pump that would use heat at high temperature as energy input. The Vuilleumier cycle...utilize[s] working gas expansion and compression at three variable volume spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Arthur%20Jr. | John R. Arthur Jr. is a notable American materials scientist best known as a pioneer of molecular beam epitaxy.
Together with Alfred Y. Cho, Arthur pioneered molecular beam epitaxy at Bell Laboratories, where he published a paper in July 1968 that described construction of epitaxial gallium arsenide layers using molec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon%20skipping | In molecular biology, exon skipping is a form of RNA splicing used to cause cells to “skip” over faulty or misaligned sections (exons) of genetic code, leading to a truncated but still functional protein despite the genetic mutation.
Mechanism
Exon skipping is used to restore the reading frame within a gene. Genes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20Building%20Challenge | The Living Building Challenge is an international sustainable building certification program created in 2006 by the non-profit International Living Future Institute. It is described by the Institute as a philosophy, advocacy tool and certification program that promotes the measurement of sustainability in the built env... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtinger%20derivatives | In complex analysis of one and several complex variables, Wirtinger derivatives (sometimes also called Wirtinger operators), named after Wilhelm Wirtinger who introduced them in 1927 in the course of his studies on the theory of functions of several complex variables, are partial differential operators of the first ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witsenhausen%27s%20counterexample | Witsenhausen's counterexample, shown in the figure below, is a deceptively simple toy problem in decentralized stochastic control. It was formulated by Hans Witsenhausen in 1968. It is a counterexample to a natural conjecture that one can generalize a key result of centralized linear–quadratic–Gaussian control systems—... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCache | NetCache is a former web cache software product which was owned and developed by NetApp between 1997 and 2006, and a hardware product family incorporating the NetCache software.
History
The NetCache software started as a commercial fork of the Harvest Object Cache developed by Internet Middleware Corporation (IMC), wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective%20haptics | Affective haptics is the emerging area of research which focuses on the study and design of devices and systems that can elicit, enhance, or influence the emotional state of a human by means of sense of touch. The research field is originated with the Dzmitry Tsetserukou and Alena Neviarouskaya papers on affective hapt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MainConcept | MainConcept GmbH is a software company founded in Germany by Markus Moenig and Thomas Zabel. They specialize in developing video/audio codecs and also applications and plug-ins related to video/audio encoding. They are a subsidiary of Endeavor Streaming, with employees in Germany, Russia, United States and Japan.
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal%20equation | In Euclidean geometry, for a plane curve and a given fixed point , the pedal equation of the curve is a relation between and where is the distance from to a point on and is the perpendicular distance from to the tangent line to at the point. The point is called the pedal point and the values and are sometim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared%20open-path%20detector | Infrared open-path gas detectors send out a beam of infrared light, detecting gas anywhere along the path of the beam. This linear 'sensor' is typically a few metres up to a few hundred metres in length. Open-path detectors can be contrasted with infrared point sensors.
They are widely used in the petroleum and petroc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SendThisFile | SendThisFile is a file transfer service operated by SendThisFile, Inc., which uses cloud computing and 128-bit TLS encryption to enable users to securely send and receive large data files through the Internet. The company was co-founded in 2003 by CEO Aaron Freeman and his father CFO Michael Freeman.
SendThisFile has a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQX | MQX (Message Queue eXecutive) is a real-time operating system (RTOS) developed by Precise Software Technologies, Inc., and currently sold by Synopsys, Embedded Access, Inc., and NXP Semiconductors.
Like most RTOSs, MQX includes a multitasking kernel with pre-emptive scheduling and fast interrupt response, extensive in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Kuta | Charles Stanley "Herb" Kuta (born 1956) is an American electronics engineer and software engineer who was a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, a major graphics workstation manufacturer.
Biography
Charles Kuta was brought up in Pennsylvania, United States. He attended Atlantic College in Wales and then University College,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalight | Datalight was a privately held software company specializing in power failsafe and high performance software for preserving data integrity in embedded systems. The company was founded in 1983 by Roy Sherrill, and is headquartered in Bothell, Washington. As of 2019 the company is a subsidiary of Tuxera under the name of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosatellite%20program | NASA's Biosatellite program was a series of three uncrewed artificial satellites to assess the effects of spaceflight, especially radiation and weightlessness, on living organisms. Each was designed to reenter Earth's atmosphere and be recovered at the end of its mission.
Its primary goal was to determine the effects ... |
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