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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Russel%20Dudley | William Russel Dudley (March 1, 1849 – June 4, 1911) was an American botanist. He headed the botany department at Stanford University from 1892 to 1911. His collection built at Stanford is considered to be one of the most important contributions to knowledge of the flora of California. This became the nucleus of what w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-standard%20television | Multi-standard television sets were made for use in the television industry, so that one TV set or monitor could show video content from other television systems. Multistandard is only used with analogue television. In digital television, there are different standards, like DVB, ISDB, and ATSC. However digital multista... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20management%20tool | Test management tools are used to store information on how testing is to be done, plan testing activities and report the status of quality assurance activities. The tools have different approaches to testing and thus have different sets of features. Generally they are used to maintain and plan manual testing, run or ga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20agitator | Industrial agitators are machines used to stir or mix fluids in industries that process products in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Their uses include:
mixing liquids together
promote the reactions of chemical substances
keeping homogeneous liquid bulk during storage
increase heat transf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit%20%28software%29 | Gerrit ( ) is a free, web-based team code collaboration tool. Software developers in a team can review each other's modifications on their source code using a Web browser and approve or reject those changes. It integrates closely with Git, a distributed version control system.
Gerrit is a fork of Rietveld, a code revi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review%20Board | Review Board is a web-based collaborative code review tool, available as free software under the MIT License.
An alternative to Rietveld and Gerrit, Review Board integrates with Bazaar, ClearCase, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, and Subversion.
Review Board can be installed on any server running Apache or lighttpd and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20%28automata%20theory%29 | In automata theory, a tree is a particular way of representing a tree structure as sequences of natural numbers.
For example, each node of the tree is a word over set of natural numbers (), which helps this definition to be used in automata theory.
A tree is a set T ⊆ * such that if t.c ∈ T, with t ∈ * and c ∈ , the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland%20Customs%20Line | The Inland Customs Line, incorporating the Great Hedge of India (or Indian Salt Hedge), was a customs barrier built by the British colonial rulers of India to prevent smuggling of salt from coastal regions in order to avoid the substantial salt tax.
The customs line was begun under the East India Company and continued... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasochromism | Gasochromism is closely related to electrochromism. The process involves the interaction of an electrochrome, usually a metal oxide, such as tungsten oxide, with an oxidizing or reducing gas, commonly oxygen and hydrogen, producing reversible color changes. The gasochromic technology is used commercially in reversible... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapochromism | In chemistry, Vapochromism strongly overlaps with solvatochromism since vapochromic systems are ones in which dyes change colour in response to the vapour of an organic compound or gas. Vapochromic devices are the optical branch of electronic noses. The main applications are in sensors for detecting volatile organic co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDC-I | DDC-I, Inc. is a privately held company providing software development of real-time operating systems, software development tools, and software services for safety-critical embedded applications, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. It was first created in 1985 as the Danish firm DDC International A/S (also known as DDC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20loop | The work loop technique is used in muscle physiology to evaluate the mechanical work and power output of skeletal or cardiac muscle contractions via in vitro muscle testing of whole muscles, fiber bundles or single muscle fibers. This technique is primarily used for cyclical contractions such as cockroach walking., th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICA200 | PICA200 is a graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a Japanese GPU design startup company, for use in embedded devices such as vehicle systems, mobile phones, cameras, and game consoles. The PICA200 is an IP Core which can be licensed to other companies to incorporate into t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanochromism | The change of colour which occurs when chemicals are put under stress in the solid state by mechanical grinding, crushing and milling; by friction and rubbing; or in the solid or solution state by high pressure or sonication is covered by the generic term mechanochromism. Specifically colour change under pressure is kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolayer%20doping | Monolayer doping (MLD) in semiconductor production is a well controlled, wafer-scale surface doping technique first developed at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. This work is aimed for attaining controlled doping of semiconductor materials with atomic accuracy, especially at nanoscale, which is not easi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratien%20Le%20P%C3%A8re | Gratien Le Père (Versailles, 2 June 1769 – Poitiers, 1 August 1826) was a French civil engineer.
A former classmate of Bonaparte at Brienne, he became an engineer of 'Ponts et Chaussées' (bridges and roads). He and his brother Jacques-Marie Le Père both joined the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria and were both leadi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular%20configuration%20automation | Granular configuration automation (GCA) is a specialized area in the field of configuration management which focuses on visibility and control of an IT environment's configuration and bill-of-material at the most granular level. This framework focuses on improving the stability of IT environments by analyzing granular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20levelling%20of%20France | The General Levelling of France (niveau général de la France or NGF)
forms a network of benchmarks in mainland France and Corsica, now overseen by the Institut Géographique National. It is now the official levelling network in mainland France. It is made up of two networks:
NGF - IGN69 for mainland France, with the 'z... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%20computer | A keyboard computer is a computer which contains all of the regular components of a personal computer, except for a screen, in the same housing as the keyboard. The power supply is typically external and connects to the computer via an adapter cable. The motherboard is specially designed to fit inside, and the device i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpcrypt | In computer networking, tcpcrypt is a transport layer communication encryption protocol. Unlike prior protocols like TLS (SSL), tcpcrypt is implemented as a TCP extension. It was designed by a team of six security and networking experts: Andrea Bittau, Mike Hamburg, Mark Handley, David Mazières, Dan Boneh and Quinn Sla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%202600%20homebrew | The first hobbyist-developed game for the Atari 2600 video game console was written in 1995, and more than 100 have been released since then. The majority of games are unlicensed clones of games for other platforms, and there are some also original games and ROM hacks. With only 128 bytes of RAM, no frame buffer, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTRAY2000 | ULTRAY2000 is a concept chip for 3D graphics processing designed by Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a Japanese GPU design company. It was used for real-time 3D graphics. It was produced in 0.13µm TSMC manufacturing process and contained more than 100 million CMOS transistors, with GPU core clock running at 200M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi%20Hardware | Qi Hardware is an organization which produces copyleft hardware and software, in an attempt to apply the Free Software Foundation's GNU GPL concept of copylefting software to the hardware layer by using the CC BY-SA license for schematics, bill of materials and PCB layout data. The project has been both a community of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Coherence | In computing, Oracle Coherence (originally Tangosol Coherence) is a Java-based distributed cache and in-memory data grid. It is claimed to be intended for systems that require high availability, high scalability and low latency, particularly in cases when traditional relational database management systems provide insuf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paping | Paping (pronounced pah ping) is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network and to measure the time it takes to connect to a specified port. The name is a play on the word ping, another computer network administration utility.
Because ICMP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethic%20botnet | The Lethic Botnet (initially discovered around 2008) is a botnet consisting of an estimated 210 000 - 310 000 individual machines which are mainly involved in pharmaceutical and replica spam.
The botnet was most prevalent in Europe, India and Southeast Asia.
Dismantling and revival
Around early January 2010 the bot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20glasses%20puzzle | The four glasses puzzle, also known as the blind bartender's problem, is a logic puzzle first publicised by Martin Gardner in his "Mathematical Games" column in the February 1979 edition of Scientific American.
Puzzle
Four glasses or tumblers are placed on the corners of a square Lazy Susan. Some of the glasses are up... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20pad | The T pad is a specific type of attenuator circuit in electronics whereby the topology of the circuit is formed in the shape of the letter "T".
Attenuators are used in electronics to reduce the level of a signal. They are also referred to as pads due to their effect of padding down a signal by analogy with acoustics.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought%20deciduous | Drought deciduous, or drought semi-deciduous plants refers to plants that shed their leaves during periods of drought or in the dry season. This phenomenon is a natural process of plants and is caused due to the limitation of water around the environment where the plant is situated. In the spectrum of botany, deciduous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung-on-a-chip | The lung-on-a-chip is a complex, three-dimensional model of a living, breathing human lung on a microchip. The device is made using human lung and blood vessel cells and it can predict absorption of airborne nanoparticles and mimic the inflammatory response triggered by microbial pathogens. It can be used to test the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular%20array | In mathematics and computing, a triangular array of numbers, polynomials, or the like, is a doubly indexed sequence in which each row is only as long as the row's own index. That is, the ith row contains only i elements.
Examples
Notable particular examples include these:
The Bell triangle, whose numbers count the par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viability%20assay | A viability assay is an assay that is created to determine the ability of organs, cells or tissues to maintain or recover a state of survival. Viability can be distinguished from the all-or-nothing states of life and death by the use of a quantifiable index that ranges between the integers of 0 and 1 or, if more easily... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20CX1000 | The Cray CX1000 is a family of high-performance computers which is manufactured by Cray Inc., and consists of two individual groups of computer systems. The first group is intended for scale-up symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), and consists of the CX1000-SM and CX1000-SC nodes. The second group is meant for scale-out cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20binomial%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson binomial distribution is the discrete probability distribution of a sum of independent Bernoulli trials that are not necessarily identically distributed. The concept is named after Siméon Denis Poisson.
In other words, it is the probability distribution of the
number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-layer%20interferometry | Bio-layer interferometry (BLI) is an optical biosensing technology that analyzes biomolecular interactions in real-time without the need for fluorescent labeling. Alongside Surface Plasmon Resonance, BLI is one of few widely available label-free biosensing technologies, a detection style that yields more information in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M86%20Security | M86 Security was a privately owned Internet threat protection company that specialized in Web and email security products and content filtering appliances. The company's international headquarters were located in Basingstoke, with development centers located in California, Israel and New Zealand.
History
1995-2008
Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamori%E2%80%93McAloon%20theorem | In mathematical logic, the Kanamori–McAloon theorem, due to , gives an example of an incompleteness in Peano arithmetic, similar to that of the Paris–Harrington theorem. They showed that a certain finitistic theorem in Ramsey theory is not provable in Peano arithmetic (PA).
Statement
Given a set of non-negative integ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-function%20structure | A multi-function material is a composite material. The traditional approach to the development of structures is to address the load-carrying function and other functional requirements separately. Recently, however, there has been increased interest in the development of load-bearing materials and structures which have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-scan%20laser%20Doppler%20vibrometry | Continuous-scan laser Doppler vibrometry (CSLDV) is a method of using a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) in which the laser beam is swept across the surface of a test subject to capture the motion of a surface at many points simultaneously. This is different from scanning laser vibrometry (SLDV) in which the laser beam ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-e-App | One-e-App is a Web-based system that lets families and individuals apply for multiple health, social service and other support programs from one location. One-e-App is used by consumers themselves or by staff who assist families and individuals at community clinics, hospitals, state and county agencies, food banks and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDox | TestDox is a documentation generator for Java to create an overview of test case methods written for the JUnit unit testing framework presented as full sentences.
Created by Chris Stevenson in 2003, to date versions exist for .net, PHP and Ruby.
The term testdox format refers to the naming convention used for the test ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20Nigger%20Association%20of%20America | The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) was an internet trolling group. They targeted several prominent websites and internet personalities including Slashdot, Wikipedia, CNN, Barack Obama, Alex Jones, and prominent members of the blogosphere. They also released software products, and leaked screenshots and inform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Time-Sharing%20System | The Universal Time-Sharing System (UTS) is a discontinued operating system for the XDS Sigma series of computers, succeeding Batch Processing Monitor (BPM)/Batch Time-Sharing Monitor (BTM). UTS was announced in 1966, but because of delays did not actually ship until 1971. It was designed to provide multi-programming ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPlay | AirPlay is a proprietary wireless communication protocol stack/suite developed by Apple Inc. that allows streaming between devices of audio, video, device screens, and photos, together with related metadata. Originally implemented only in Apple's software and devices, it was called AirTunes and used for audio only. App... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xively | Xively (formerly known as Cosm and Pachube) is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform owned by Google. Xively offers product companies a way to connect products, manage connected devices and the data they produce, and integrate that data into other systems. It is pronounced "zively" (rhymes with lively).
History
In 2007... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz%20crystal%20microbalance%20with%20dissipation%20monitoring | Within surface science, a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) is a type of quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) based on the ring-down technique. It is used in interfacial acoustic sensing. Its most common application is the determination of a film thickness in a liquid environment (such as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20cryptography | Quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform cryptographic tasks. The best known example of quantum cryptography is quantum key distribution, which offers an information-theoretically secure solution to the key exchange problem. The advantage of quantum cryptography lies in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svenska%20Spindlar | The book or (Swedish and Latin, respectively, for "Swedish spiders") is one of the major works of the Swedish arachnologist and entomologist Carl Alexander Clerck and was first published in Stockholm in the year 1757. It was the first comprehensive book on the spiders of Sweden and one of the first regional monograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarVOX | WarVOX was a free, open-source VOIP-based war dialing tool for exploring, classifying, and auditing phone systems. WarVOX processed audio from each call by using signal processing techniques and without the need of modems. WarVOX used VoIP providers over the Internet instead of modems used by other war dialers. It comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-integrable%20function | In mathematics, a square-integrable function, also called a quadratically integrable function or function or square-summable function, is a real- or complex-valued measurable function for which the integral of the square of the absolute value is finite. Thus, square-integrability on the real line is defined as follow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction%20collaboration%20technology | Construction collaboration technology refers to software applications used to enable effective sharing of project-related information between geographically dispersed members of a construction project team, often through use of a web-based software as a service platform.
History
The terms "construction collaboration" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill%20pill | In computing, a kill pill is a mechanism or a technology designed to render systems useless either by user command, or under a predefined set of circumstances. Kill pill technology is most commonly used to disable lost or stolen devices for security purposes, but can also be used for the enforcement of rules and contra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Online%20Week | Get Online Week is an annual campaign that takes place in the UK and Europe.
UK
In 2007, UK online centres first marked out a date in October to bring digital inclusion to national attention. Since then the campaign has grown into a week-long annual celebration, with thousands of events taking place each year in cent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbler%20cylinder | A Bubbler cylinder is a component of a unit for the metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). They are devices that are used for conveying electronic grade metalorganic compounds from a liquid or solid precursor into a usable vapor.
Apparatus
The container of the Bubblers is similar to the construction of a ga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral%20physics | Mineral physics is the science of materials that compose the interior of planets, particularly the Earth. It overlaps with petrophysics, which focuses on whole-rock properties. It provides information that allows interpretation of surface measurements of seismic waves, gravity anomalies, geomagnetic fields and electrom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Linux%20distributions%20that%20run%20from%20RAM | This is a list of Linux distributions that can be run entirely from a computer's RAM, meaning that once the OS has been loaded to the RAM, the media it was loaded from can be completely removed, and the distribution will run the PC through the RAM only. This ability allows them to be very fast, since reading and writin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-top%20media%20service | An over-the-top (OTT) media service (also known as streaming platforms) is a media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms—the types of companies that have traditionally acted as controllers or distributors of such content. It has also been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilchrist%E2%80%93Thomas%20process | The Gilchrist–Thomas process or Thomas process is a historical process for refining pig iron, derived from the Bessemer converter. It is named after its inventors who patented it in 1877: Percy Carlyle Gilchrist and his cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas . By allowing the exploitation of phosphorous iron ore, the most abun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkes%20Ocean%20Technologies | Hawkes Ocean Technologies is a marine engineering firm that specializes in consumer submarines, founded by Graham Hawkes. It is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
Hawkes Remotes
Hawkes Remotes is a subsidiary that builds ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), unmanned robotic submarines.
DeepFlight
Hawkes builds the D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMPUS%20%28database%29 | CAMPUS (acronym for Computer Aided Material Preselection by Uniform Standards) is a multilingual database for the properties of plastics. It is considered worldwide as a leader in regard to the level of standardization and therefore, ease of comparison, of plastics properties. It also supports diagrams to a large exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wald%27s%20maximin%20model | In decision theory and game theory, Wald's maximin model is a non-probabilistic decision-making model according to which decisions are ranked on the basis of their worst-case outcomes – the optimal decision is one with the least bad worst outcome. It is one of the most important models in robust decision making in gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20swap | In computer science, the standard swap or three point turn is a programming paradigm that exchanges the values of two variables.
By using a third variable, whose value is otherwise of no concern, to hold the value of the first, and then assigning the second's to the first, and the third's back to the second, the value... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Operating%20System | The Xerox Operating System (XOS) was an operating system for the XDS Sigma series of computers "optimized for direct replacement of IBM DOS/360 installations" and to provide real-time and timesharing support.
The system was developed, beginning in 1969, for Xerox by the French firm CII (now Bull).
XOS was more succes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Shader | Bryan Lynn Shader (born 17 December 1961) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wyoming. He received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990, his advisor was Professor Richard Brualdi. Shader is the Editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra. He is also Associate Editor of o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashir%20Rameev | Bashir Iskandarovich Rameev (; formerly "Rameyev" in English; 1 May 1918 – 16 May 1994) was a Soviet inventor and scientist, one of the founders of Soviet computing, author of 23 patents, including the first patent in the field of electronic computers officially registered in the USSR—a patent for the Automatic Electro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2062304 | IEC 62304 – medical device software – software life cycle processes is an international standard published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The standard specifies life cycle requirements for the development of medical software and software within medical devices. It has been adopted as national s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20topology | String topology, a branch of mathematics, is the study of algebraic structures on the homology of free loop spaces. The field was started by .
Motivation
While the singular cohomology of a space has always a product structure, this is not true for the singular homology of a space. Nevertheless, it is possible to const... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone%20hacking | Phone hacking is the practice of exploring a mobile device often using computer exploits to analyze everything from the lowest memory and central processing unit levels up to the highest file system and process levels. Modern open source tooling has become fairly sophisticated as to be able to "hook" into individual fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20B%C3%BCchi%20automaton | In automata theory, a generalized Büchi automaton is a variant of a Büchi automaton. The difference with the Büchi automaton is the accepting condition, which is determined by a set of sets of states. A run is accepted by the automaton if it visits at least one state of every set of the accepting condition infinitely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalia%20Paradoxa | (Latin for "contradictory animals"; cf. paradox) are the mythical, magical or otherwise suspect animals mentioned in the first five editions of Carl Linnaeus's seminal work under the header "Paradoxa". It lists fantastic creatures found in medieval bestiaries and some animals reported by explorers from abroad and expl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcellular%20transport | Transcellular transport involves the transportation of solutes by a cell through a cell. Transcellular transport can occur in three different ways active transport, passive transport, and transcytosis.
Active Transport
Main article: Active transport
Active transport is the process of moving molecules from an area of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20shell | In geometry, a spherical shell is a generalization of an annulus to three dimensions. It is the region of a ball between two concentric spheres of differing radii.
Volume
The volume of a spherical shell is the difference between the enclosed volume of the outer sphere and the enclosed volume of the inner sphere:
whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%20code%20%28communications%29 | In telecommunication, a commercial code is a code once used to save on cablegram costs. Telegraph (and telex) charged per word sent, so companies which sent large volumes of telegrams developed codes to save money on tolls. Elaborate commercial codes which encoded complete phrases into single words were developed and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/360%20architecture | The IBM System/360 architecture is the model independent architecture for the entire S/360 line of mainframe computers, including but not limited to the instruction set architecture. The elements of the architecture are documented in the IBM System/360 Principles of Operation and the IBM System/360 I/O Interface Channe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package%20development%20process | A software package development process is a system for developing software packages. Packages are used to reuse and share code, e.g., via a software repository, a formal system for package checking that usually expose bugs, thereby potentially making it easier to produce trustworthy software (Chambers' prime directive)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-me%20area%20network | A near-me area network is a logical grouping of communication devices that are in close physical proximity to each other, but not necessarily connected to the same communication network infrastructure. Thus, two smartphones connected via different mobile carriers may form a near-me area network.
Near-me area network a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuix | Nuix Ltd is an Australian technology company that produces investigative analytics and intelligence software for extracting knowledge from unstructured data. The applications of the company's technology reportedly include digital forensics, financial crime, insider investigations, data privacy, data governance, eDiscov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Challenge | The AI Challenge was an international artificial intelligence programming contest started by the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club.
Initially the contest was for University of Waterloo students only. In 2010, the contest gained sponsorship from Google and allowed it to extend to international students and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/3%E2%80%932/3%20conjecture | In order theory, a branch of mathematics, the 1/3–2/3 conjecture states that, if one is comparison sorting a set of items then, no matter what comparisons may have already been performed, it is always possible to choose the next comparison in such a way that it will reduce the number of possible sorted orders by a fact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apacer | Apacer Technology Inc. () is a Taiwanese multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, memory modules and digital storage hardware and software. Founded in 1997 as a DRAM module supplier, in 1999, Apacer Technology expanded its product range to include mobile storage covering flash and USB pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathology | Telepathology is the practice of pathology at a distance. It uses telecommunications technology to facilitate the transfer of image-rich pathology data between distant locations for the purposes of diagnosis, education, and research. Performance of telepathology requires that a pathologist selects the video images for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffman%E2%80%93Delbr%C3%BCck%20model | The Saffman–Delbrück model describes a lipid membrane as a thin layer of viscous fluid, surrounded by a less viscous bulk liquid. This picture was originally proposed to determine the diffusion coefficient of membrane proteins, but has also been used to describe the dynamics of fluid domains within lipid membranes. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supporting%20line | In geometry, a supporting line L of a curve C in the plane is a line that contains a point of C, but does not separate any two points of C. In other words, C lies completely in one of the two closed half-planes defined by L and has at least one point on L.
Properties
There can be many supporting lines for a curve at a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B | {{DISPLAYTITLE:TLA+}}
TLA+ is a formal specification language developed by Leslie Lamport. It is used for designing, modelling, documentation, and verification of programs, especially concurrent systems and distributed systems. TLA+ is considered to be exhaustively-testable pseudocode, and its use likened to drawing b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlusCal | PlusCal (formerly called +CAL) is a formal specification language created by Leslie Lamport, which transpiles to TLA+. In contrast to TLA+'s action-oriented focus on distributed systems, PlusCal most resembles an imperative programming language and is better-suited when specifying sequential algorithms. PlusCal was des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers%20v.%20Baystate%20Technologies%2C%20Inc. | Bowers v. Baystate Technologies, 320 F.3d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2003), was a U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit case involving Harold L. Bowers (doing business as HLB Technology) and Baystate Technologies over patent infringement, copyright infringement, and breach of contract. In the case, the court found that Baystate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nati%20Linial | Nathan (Nati) Linial (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, a professor in the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an ISI highly cited researcher.
Linial did his undergraduate studies at the Technion, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment%20redistribution | Moment redistribution refers to the behavior of statically indeterminate structures that are not completely elastic, but have some reserve plastic capacity. When one location first yields, further application of load to the structure causes the bending moment to redistribute differently from what a purely elastic anal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-5 | Nord-5 was Norsk Data's first 32-bit minicomputer and is believed to be the first 32-bit minicomputer. Introduced in 1972, the Nord-5 was categorised as a "superminicomputer", described retrospectively as a "technological success but a commercial disaster", eventually being superseded in 1983 by the ND-500 family. Init... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic%20exponential%20function | In mathematics, particularly p-adic analysis, the p-adic exponential function is a p-adic analogue of the usual exponential function on the complex numbers. As in the complex case, it has an inverse function, named the p-adic logarithm.
Definition
The usual exponential function on C is defined by the infinite series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengenlehreuhr | The Mengenlehreuhr (German for "Set Theory Clock") or Berlin-Uhr ("Berlin Clock") is the first public clock in the world that tells the time by means of illuminated, coloured fields, for which it entered the Guinness Book of Records upon its installation on 17 June 1975. Commissioned by the Senate of Berlin and designe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20line | In a 2-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, with x representing the abscissa and y the ordinate, the identity line or line of equality is the y = x line. The line, sometimes called the 1:1 line, has a slope of 1. When the abscissa and ordinate are on the same scale, the identity line forms a 45° angle with the absc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation%20informatics | Irrigation informatics is a newly emerging academic field that is a cross-disciplinary science using informatics to study the information flows and data management related to irrigation. The field is one of many new informatics sub-specialities that uses the science of information, the practice of information processin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoSMS | GeoSMS is a specification for geotagging SMS messages.
It works by embedding locations in the message text, where the locations are formatted as 'geo' URIs as defined in RFC 5870.
It was developed in 2010 by Matthew Kwan, a PhD Candidate at the RMIT School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences and should not be conf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabiliser%20%28food%29 | A stabiliser is an additive to food which helps to preserve its structure. Typical uses include preventing oil-water emulsions from separating in products such as salad dressing; preventing ice crystals from forming in frozen food such as ice cream; and preventing fruit from settling in products such as jam, yogurt an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiorder | In order theory, a branch of mathematics, a semiorder is a type of ordering for items with numerical scores, where items with widely differing scores are compared by their scores and where scores within a given margin of error are deemed incomparable. Semiorders were introduced and applied in mathematical psychology by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schering%20bridge | The Schering bridge is an electrical circuit used for measuring the insulating properties of electrical cables and equipment. It is an AC bridge circuit, developed by Harald Schering. It has the advantage that the balance equation is independent of frequency.
The connections of the Schering bridge under balance cond... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Industry%20Business%20Communications%20Council | The Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC) is a primary standard-setting and educational organization for healthcare bar coding in the United States. It provides publications, trade shows, educational resources, conferences and training programs.
History
The Health Industry Business Communications C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary%20unit | In science and technology, an arbitrary unit (abbreviated arb. unit, see below)
or procedure defined unit (p.d.u.)
is a relative unit of measurement to show the ratio of amount of substance, intensity, or other quantities, to a predetermined reference measurement. The reference measurement is typically defined by the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotfile | Hotfile was a one-click file hosting website founded by Hotfile Corp in 2006 in Panama City, Panama. On December 4, 2013, Hotfile ceased all operations, the same day as signing a $4 million settlement with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA); the settlement had previously been misreported as $80 million.
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