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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaging%20security
Messaging Security is a program that provides protection for companies' messaging infrastructure. The programs includes IP reputation-based anti-spam, pattern-based anti-spam, administrator defined block/allow lists, mail antivirus, zero-hour malware detection and email intrusion prevention. Six Dimensions of Comprehe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioresource%20Technology
Bioresource Technology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published biweekly by Elsevier, covering the field of bioresource technology. The journal was established in 1979 as Agricultural Wastes and renamed to Biological Wastes in 1987, before obtaining its current title in 1991. It covers all areas concerning bioma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest%20covariance
In general relativity, a manifestly covariant equation is one in which all expressions are tensors. The operations of addition, tensor multiplication, tensor contraction, raising and lowering indices, and covariant differentiation may appear in the equation. Forbidden terms include but are not restricted to partial d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn%20Vulnerable%20Linux
Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is a discontinued Linux distribution geared toward computer security students. It functioned as a tool for observing and studying vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and popular user space software. It was available as a live DVD, and could be run through a virtual machine within the host op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoroll
Autoroll (also Key Autoroll) refers to TV-signal decryption software that automatically updates a video receiver's or DVR/receiver's IDEA keys when the transmitting signal provider changes its block cipher algorithm. Mention of autoroll software often figures in discussions of free-to-air satellite TV receivers, for w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning%20joule%20expansion%20microscopy
In microscopy, scanning joule expansion microscopy (SJEM) is a form of scanning probe microscopy heavily based on atomic force microscopy (AFM) that maps the temperature distribution along a surface. Resolutions down to 10 nm have been achieved and 1 nm resolution is theoretically possible. Thermal measurements at the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XC800%20family
The Infineon XC800 family is an 8-bit microcontroller family, first introduced in 2005, with a dual cycle optimized 8051 "E-Warp" core. The XC800 family is divided into two categories, the A-Family for Automotive and the I-Family for Industrial and multi-market applications. Applications Industrial and multimarket T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-linked%20model
The chain-linked model or Kline model of innovation was introduced by mechanical engineer Stephen J. Kline in 1985, and further described by Kline and economist Nathan Rosenberg in 1986. The chain-linked model is an attempt to describe complexities in the innovation process. The model is regarded as Kline's most signi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20L%20series
The Sony Vaio L series is a range of Vaio all-in-one desktop computers sold by Sony since 2006. Windows 7 models Since the launch of Windows 7, the L series has been a touchscreen PC, featuring a 24" 1920x1080 LCD touchscreen. As of 2013, the L series used the Windows 8 operating system. The Sony Vaio J series is sim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial%20stem%20modification
Introduction Aerial stem modifications are modifications to the aerial stems, vegetative buds and floral buds of plants growing in different conditions and which perform functions such as climbing, protection, support, synthesis of food, or vegetative propagation. Aerial stem structures that undergo modifications to p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Weather
Old Weather is an online weather data project that currently invites members of the public to assist in digitising weather observations recorded in US log books dating from the mid-19th century onwards. It is an example of citizen science that enlists members of the public to help in scientific research. It contribute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gajski%E2%80%93Kuhn%20chart
The Gajski–Kuhn chart (or Y diagram) depicts the different perspectives in VLSI hardware design. Mostly, it is used for the development of integrated circuits. Daniel Gajski and Robert Kuhn developed it in 1983. In 1985, Robert Walker and Donald Thomas refined it. According to this model, the development of hardware ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%20risk-adjusted%20performance
Modigliani risk-adjusted performance (also known as M2, M2, Modigliani–Modigliani measure or RAP) is a measure of the risk-adjusted returns of some investment portfolio. It measures the returns of the portfolio, adjusted for the risk of the portfolio relative to that of some benchmark (e.g., the market). We can interpr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Vigilance%20Park
The United States National Vigilance Park (NVP) was a memorial to the military servicemen who participated in aerial reconnaissance during the Cold War. Dedicated on September 2, 1997, NVP was located just one block from the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. It was previous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Storage%20Platform
Virtual Storage Platform is the brand name for a Hitachi Data Systems line of computer data storage systems for data centers. Model numbers include G200, G400, G600, G800, G1000, G1500 and G5500 History Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, also known as VSP was first introduced in September, 2010. This storage platform...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Data%20Center%20Alliance
opendatacenteralliance.org appears to have been closed down. The Open Data Center Alliance is an independent organization created in Oct. 2010 with the assistance of Intel to coordinate the development of standards for cloud computing. Approximately 100 companies, which account for more than $50bn of IT spending, have...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanobiology
Mechanobiology is an emerging field of science at the interface of biology, engineering, chemistry and physics. It focuses on how physical forces and changes in the mechanical properties of cells and tissues contribute to development, cell differentiation, physiology, and disease. Mechanical forces are experienced an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridging%20Systems%20Interface
Bridging Systems Interface is a standard protocol for communicating with physical interfaces which attach analog or digital voice radios to digital data networks—known as 'Radio over IP'--to make easier the use of remote radios by local users, and the sharing of radios by multiple users, in the service of improving eme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20on%20TPTP
System on TPTP is an online interface to several automated theorem proving systems and other automated reasoning tools. It allows users to run the systems either on problems from the latest releases from the TPTP problem library or on user-supplied problems in the TPTP syntax. The system is maintained by Geoff Sutclif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceibo%20emulator
A ceibo emulator is an in-circuit emulator for microcontrollers and microprocessors. These emulators use bond-out processors, which have internal signals brought out for the purpose of debugging. These signals provide information about the state of the processor that is otherwise unobtainable. Supported microprocesso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Power%20Usage%20Effectiveness
Green Power Usage Effectiveness (GPUE) is a proposed measurement of both how much sustainable energy a computer data center uses, its carbon footprint per usable kilowatt hour (kWh) and it uses its power; specifically, how much of the power is actually used by the computing equipment (in contrast to cooling and other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polavaram%20Project
The Polavaram Project is an under construction multi-purpose irrigation project on the Godavari River in the Eluru District and East Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh. The project has been accorded National project status by the Central Government of India. Its reservoir back water spreads up to the Dummugudem Anicut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornamental%20animal
An ornamental animal is an animal kept for display or curiosity, often in a park. A wide range of mammals, birds and fish have been kept as ornamental animals. Ornamental animals have often formed the basis of introduced populations, sometimes with negative ecological effects, but a history of being kept as ornamenta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentisphaerota
Lentisphaerota is a phylum of bacteria closely related to Chlamydiota and Verrucomicrobiota. It includes two monotypic orders Lentisphaerales and Victivallales. Phylum members can be aerobic or anaerobic and fall under two distinct phenotypes. These phenotypes live within bodies of sea water and were particularly har...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20bioengineering
Soil and Water Bioengineering is a discipline of civil engineering. It pursues technological, ecological, economic as well as design goals and seeks to achieve these primarily by making use of living materials, i.e. seeds, plants, part of plants and plant communities, and employing them in near–natural constructions wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Industrial%20Engineering
Junior Philippine Institute of Industrial Engineers or JPIIE (former name: Society of Industrial Engineering) is an academic organization based in University of Perpetual Help System DALTA - Calamba Campus exclusive for BS Industrial Engineering students, faculty and alumni of the said university. It is one of the seve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce%20500%20series
A refresh of the Fermi based GeForce 400 series, the GeForce 500 series is a series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, first released on November 9, 2010 with the GeForce GTX 580. Its direct competitor was AMD's Radeon HD 6000 Series; they were launched approximately a month apart. Overview The Nvidi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20imbalance
Genetic imbalance is to describe situation when the genome of a cell or organism has more copies of some genes than other genes due to chromosomal rearrangements or aneuploidy. Changes in gene dosage, the number of times a given gene is present in the cell nucleus, can create a genetic imbalance. Effects This imbalan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20programming
In computer programming, symbolic programming is a programming paradigm in which the program can manipulate its own formulas and program components as if they were plain data. Through symbolic programming, complex processes can be developed that build other more intricate processes by combining smaller units of logic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20of%20Natural%20Capital
The Bank of Natural Capital is an educational initiative associated with The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) to communicate natural capital investment and value theory related to what are sometimes called "economic intangibles" to the global public, in particular the direct economic and financial value ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercycle%20%28chemistry%29
In chemistry, a hypercycle is an abstract model of organization of self-replicating molecules connected in a cyclic, autocatalytic manner. It was introduced in an ordinary differential equation (ODE) form by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Manfred Eigen in 1971 and subsequently further extended in collaboration wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkabit
Linkabit was a technology company founded in 1968 by Irwin M. Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Leonard Kleinrock. Linkabit alumni have created a large number of technology companies, most notably, Qualcomm. Linkabit is now a division of L3Harris Technologies and had been part of L-3 Communications, later named L3 Technologi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE
iPXE is an open-source implementation of the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) client software and bootloader, created in 2010 as a fork of gPXE (gPXE was named Etherboot until 2008). It can be used to enable computers without built-in PXE capability to boot from the network, or to provide additional features beyond ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsushita%20JR%20series
The Matsushita JR series was a line of microcomputers produced by Matsushita Electric Industrial (now Panasonic) during the 1980s. Based on the success of the Sharp MZ and NEC PC-8000 series, it was an attempt by Matsushita to enter the personal computer market. The JR series included four computer models: the JR-100,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20and%20Beatrice%20Laufer%20Center%20for%20Physical%20and%20Quantitative%20Biology
The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology (Laufer Center) is a multidisciplinary venue where research from fields such as biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, engineering, genetics, mathematics, and physics come together and target medical and biological problems using bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh%20Leading%20Academy%20of%20Architecture%20and%20Civil%20Engineering
Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering is a top institution among the higher education institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan in fields of Architecture, Design, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Management in Construction. Departments and colleges Department of Arc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise%20generator
A noise generator is a circuit that produces electrical noise (i.e., a random signal). Noise generators are used to test signals for measuring noise figure, frequency response, and other parameters. Noise generators are also used for generating random numbers. Theory There are several circuits used for noise generatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik%20Messenger
Kik Messenger, commonly called Kik, is a freeware instant messaging mobile app from the Canadian company Kik Interactive, available on iOS and Android operating systems. The application uses a smartphone's internet connection to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile web pages, and other conte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtrees
webtrees is a free open source web-based genealogy application intended for collaborative use. It requires a web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is compatible with standard 5.5.1-GEDCOM files. History webtrees is a fork of PhpGedView, it was created in early 2010, when a majority of active PhpGedView de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20States%20Energy%20Board
The Southern States Energy Board (SSEB) is a multi-state regional organization created by an interstate compact approved by sixteen states and two United States territories. The board is committed to promoting economic development and quality of life in the Southern United States through innovations in energy and the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-infinite
In mathematics, semi-infinite objects are objects which are infinite or unbounded in some but not all possible ways. In ordered structures and Euclidean spaces Generally, a semi-infinite set is bounded in one direction, and unbounded in another. For instance, the natural numbers are semi-infinite considered as a sub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Technology%20Council
The Applied Technology Council is a nonprofit research organization based in California which studies the effects of natural hazards on the built environment and how to mitigate these effects, particularly earthquakes. It was founded through the efforts of the Structural Engineers Association of California in 1973. It ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostu
Vostu was the largest social games developer in Brazil and Latin America in the early 2010s. The company was started in 2007 by Daniel Kafie, Mario Schlosser, and Joshua Kushner. The main games developed by Vostu were Topfarm, Café Mania, MegaCity, Mini Fazenda, GolMania, Candy Dash, Riddle Pic, Shaking Vegas, Magic V...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAOL%20table%20book
MAOL tables (, ) is a reference handbook published by MAOL, the Finnish association for teachers of mathematical subjects, and distributed by Otava in both printed and digital forms. It is a book of numeric tables to aid in studying mathematics, chemistry and physics at the gymnasium level. The book includes a list of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov%20vector
In applied mathematics and dynamical system theory, Lyapunov vectors, named after Aleksandr Lyapunov, describe characteristic expanding and contracting directions of a dynamical system. They have been used in predictability analysis and as initial perturbations for ensemble forecasting in numerical weather prediction. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Dietz%20method
The simple Dietz method is a means of measuring historical investment portfolio performance, compensating for external flows into/out of the portfolio during the period. The formula for the simple Dietz return is as follows: where is the portfolio rate of return, is the beginning market value, is the ending mark...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20control
In civil engineering, machine control is used to accurately position earthwork machinery based on 3D design models and GPS systems, and thus aid machine operators to e.g. control the position of a road grader's blade. Many machine control systems utilize the Real Time Kinematic (RTK) system to improve the positioning a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20types%20of%20numbers
Numbers can be classified according to how they are represented or according to the properties that they have. Main types Natural numbers (): The counting numbers {1, 2, 3, ...} are commonly called natural numbers; however, other definitions include 0, so that the non-negative integers {0, 1, 2, 3, ...} are also cal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-weighted%20return
The time-weighted return (TWR) is a method of calculating investment return, where returns over sub-periods are compounded together, with each sub-period weighted according to its duration. The time-weighted method differs (further) from other methods of calculating investment return, in the particular way it compensat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDA%20framework
In game design the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA) framework is a tool used to analyze games. It formalizes the consumption of games by breaking them down into three components: Mechanics, Dynamics and Aesthetics. These three words have been used informally for many years to describe various aspects of games, but t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20audio
Semantic audio is the extraction of meaning from audio signals. The field of semantic audio is primarily based around the analysis of audio to create some meaningful metadata, which can then be used in a variety of different ways. Semantic Analysis Semantic analysis of audio is performed to reveal some deeper understa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad%20cratering
Pad cratering is a mechanically induced fracture in the resin between copper foil and outermost layer of fiberglass of a printed circuit board (PCB). It may be within the resin or at the resin to fiberglass interface. The pad remains connected to the component (usually a Ball Grid Array, BGA) and leaves a "crater" on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Museum%20of%20Language
The National Museum of Language, located in College Park, Maryland, is a cultural institution established in 1997 to "examine the history, impact, and art of language," and remains one of the few institutions designed for this purpose. The museum opened officially on May 3, 2008 in College Park, with an exhibition ent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20life%20zones%20by%20region
The climate and ecology of different locations on the globe naturally separate into life zones, depending on elevation, location, and latitude. The generally strong dependency on elevation is known as altitudinal zonation: the average temperature of a location decreases as the elevation increases. The general effect o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20disclosure%20law
Key disclosure laws, also known as mandatory key disclosure, is legislation that requires individuals to surrender cryptographic keys to law enforcement. The purpose is to allow access to material for confiscation or digital forensics purposes and use it either as evidence in a court of law or to enforce national secur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Switch%20Off
Student Switch Off is a campaign that aims to encourage students to save energy when living in University halls of residence. It is run by the Students Organising for Sustainability UK, a student-led education charity focusing on sustainability. As of March 2022, the campaign currently runs at 18 universities across ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosu%20%28programming%20language%29
Gosu is a statically typed general-purpose programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. Its influences include Java, C#, and ECMAScript. Development of Gosu began in 2002 internally for Guidewire Software, and the language saw its first community release in 2010 under the Apache 2 license. Gosu can ser...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology%20Letters
Biotechnology Letters is a scientific journal of biotechnology published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editors-in-chief are Steven W. Singer and Paula Meleady. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.461. References External links Biotechnology journals Spring...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlasMapper
PlasMapper (Plasmid Mapper) is a freely available web server that automatically generates and annotates high-quality circular plasmid maps. It is a particularly useful online service for molecular biologists wishing to generate plasmid maps without having to purchase or maintain expensive, commercial software. PlasMa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QP%20%28framework%29
QP ("Quantum Platform") is a family of open source real-time embedded frameworks (RTEFs) and runtime environments based on active objects (actors) and hierarchical state machines (UML statecharts). The QP family consists of the lightweight QP/C and QP/C++ frameworks, written in C (C99) and C++ (C++11), respectively. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie%20cookie
A zombie cookie is a piece of data usually used for tracking users, which is created by a web server while a user is browsing a website, and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser, similar to regular HTTP cookies, but with mechanisms in place to prevent the deletion of the data by the u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20design%20metal%20temperature
MDMT is one of the design conditions for pressure vessels engineering calculations, design and manufacturing according to the ASME Boilers and Pressure Vessels Code. Each pressure vessel that conforms to the ASME code has its own MDMT, and this temperature is stamped on the vessel nameplate. The precise definition can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays%20provability%20conditions
In mathematical logic, the Hilbert–Bernays provability conditions, named after David Hilbert and Paul Bernays, are a set of requirements for formalized provability predicates in formal theories of arithmetic (Smith 2007:224). These conditions are used in many proofs of Kurt Gödel's second incompleteness theorem. They ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20Selection%20Toolbox
Feature Selection Toolbox (FST) is software primarily for feature selection in the machine learning domain, written in C++, developed at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA), of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Version 1 The first generation of Feature Selection Toolbox (FST1) was a Windows applicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatocoenosis
Thanatocoenosis (from Greek language thanatos - death and koinos - common) are all the embedded fossils at a single discovery site. This site may be referred to as a "death assemblage". Such groupings are composed of fossils of organisms which may not have been associated during life, often originating from different h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmap%20sort
ProxmapSort, or Proxmap sort, is a sorting algorithm that works by partitioning an array of data items, or keys, into a number of "subarrays" (termed buckets, in similar sorts). The name is short for computing a "proximity map," which indicates for each key K the beginning of a subarray where K will reside in the final...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20Public%20Key%20Infrastructure
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), also known as Resource Certification, is a specialized public key infrastructure (PKI) framework to support improved security for the Internet's BGP routing infrastructure. RPKI provides a way to connect Internet number resource information (such as Autonomous System numbers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metavariable
In logic, a metavariable (also metalinguistic variable or syntactical variable) is a symbol or symbol string which belongs to a metalanguage and stands for elements of some object language. For instance, in the sentence Let A and B be two sentences of a language ℒ the symbols A and B are part of the metalanguage in w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Interchange%20Protocol
The Standard Interchange Protocol is a proprietary standard for communication between library computer systems and self-service circulation terminals. Although owned and controlled by 3M, the protocol is published and is widely used by other vendors. Version 2.0 of the protocol, known as "SIP2", is a de facto standard ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikesh%20Arora
Nikesh Arora (born February 9, 1968) is an Indian-American business executive. Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google. He was the president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. On June 1, 2018, Arora took on the role of CEO and chairman at Palo Alto Networks. Early life Born to an Indian Air For...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s%20right%20triangle%20theorem
Fermat's right triangle theorem is a non-existence proof in number theory, published in 1670 among the works of Pierre de Fermat, soon after his death. It is the only complete proof given by Fermat. It has several equivalent formulations, one of which was stated (but not proved) in 1225 by Fibonacci. In its geometric f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkspurt
In digital telephony, a talkspurt is a continuous segment of speech between silent intervals where only background noise can be heard. Segmenting speech streams into talkspurts allows bandwidth to be conserved by not sending excess data in silent intervals, and also allows synchronization, buffering and other parameter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaseweb
Leaseweb is a Dutch cloud computing and web services company with offices in the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America. Leaseweb is a subsidiary of OCOM, an internet services company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. History Leaseweb was founded in 1997 by Dutch pilots Con Zwinkels and Laurens Ros...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20design%20process
The aircraft design process is a loosely defined method used to balance many competing and demanding requirements to produce an aircraft that is strong, lightweight, economical and can carry an adequate payload while being sufficiently reliable to safely fly for the design life of the aircraft. Similar to, but more exa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Stewards
The e-Stewards Initiative is an electronics waste recycling standard created by the Basel Action Network. The program and the organization that created it grew out of the concern that electronic waste generated in wealthy countries was being dismantled in poor countries, often by underage workers. The young workers we...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20Scale
The Sharp Scale was devised by Henrietta Sharp Cockrell as an objective and scientific way to measure the opacity of paper, particularly of manuscript folios, 'in the field' without specialized equipment. A practical application of the technique could be done in a museum or library setting. To apply the method, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandon%20Corporation
The Tandon Corporation was an American disk drive and PC manufacturer founded in 1975 (incorporated in 1976 as Tandon Magnetics Corp.) by Sirjang Lal Tandon, a former mechanical engineer. The company originally produced magnetic recording read/write heads for the then-burgeoning floppy-drive market. Due to the labor-i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality%20control%20system%20for%20paper%2C%20board%20and%20tissue%20machines
A quality control system (QCS) refers to a system used to measure and control the quality of moving sheet processes on-line as in the paper produced by a paper machine. Generally, a control system is concerned with measurement and control of one or multiple properties in time in a single dimension. A QCS is designed to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20psychotherapy%20journals
This is a list of academic journals pertaining to the field of psychotherapy. American Journal of Psychotherapy Clinical Social Work Journal Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy Psychotherapy Research Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Psychoanalysis Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20distribution
Software distribution is the process of delivering software to the end user. A distro is a collection of software components built, assembled and configured so that it can essentially be used "as is". It is often the closest thing to turnkey form of free software. A distro may take the form of a binary distribution, w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-823/U
The CP-823/U, also known as the Univac 1830, was the first digital airborne 30-bit computer. It was engineered, built and tested as the A-NEW MOD3 prototype computer for the Lockheed P-3 Orion. In 1963, the US Navy Dept., Bureau of Weapons, Naval Air Development Center contracted Univac Defense Systems Division of Spe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotransformation
Cotransformation is the simultaneous transformation of two or more genes. Only genes in the same chromosomal vicinity can be transformed; the closer together the genes lie, the more frequently they will be cotransformed. By contrast, genes sufficiently far apart that they cannot appear together on a fragment of foreig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative%20agent
Deliberative agent (also known as intentional agent) is a sort of software agent used mainly in multi-agent system simulations. According to Wooldridge's definition, a deliberative agent is "one that possesses an explicitly represented, symbolic model of the world, and in which decisions (for example about what actions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20advertising
Virtual advertising is the use of digital technology to insert virtual advertising content into a live or pre-recorded television show, often in sports events. This technique is often used to allow broadcasters to overlay existing physical advertising panels (on the playfield) with virtual content on the screen when br...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%2012%20Network
The Big 12 Network (stylized as the Big XII Network) was a syndicated package featuring live broadcasts of College basketball events from the Big 12 Conference that was broadcast under that branding from 2008 until 2014. It was owned and operated by ESPN Plus, the syndication arm of ESPN, Inc., and was mainly shown in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikroelektronika
MikroElektronika (stylized as MikroE) is a Serbian manufacturer and retailer of hardware and software tools for developing embedded systems. The company headquarters is in Belgrade, Serbia. Its best known software products are mikroC, mikroBasic and mikroPascal compilers for programming microcontrollers. Its flagship ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi%20SR2201
The Hitachi SR2201 was a distributed memory parallel system that was introduced in March 1996 by Hitachi. Its processor, the 150 MHz HARP-1E based on the PA-RISC 1.1 architecture, solved the cache miss penalty by pseudo vector processing (PVP). In PVP, data was loaded by prefetching to a special register bank, bypassin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Teaching%20Collection
The Virtual Teaching Collection (VTC) project at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge within the University of Cambridge, led by Dr Robin Boast, ran from 1994 to 1997 and was part of the Teaching and Learning Technology Project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARP%20%28systolic%20array%29
The Warp machines were a series of increasingly general-purpose systolic array processors, created by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in conjunction with industrial partners G.E., Honeywell and Intel, and funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Warp projects were started in 1984 by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard-planting%20problem
In discrete geometry, the original orchard-planting problem (or the tree-planting problem) asks for the maximum number of 3-point lines attainable by a configuration of a specific number of points in the plane. There are also investigations into how many -point lines there can be. Hallard T. Croft and Paul Erdős proved...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCD%20%28character%20encoding%29
BCD (binary-coded decimal), also called alphanumeric BCD, alphameric BCD, BCD Interchange Code, or BCDIC, is a family of representations of numerals, uppercase Latin letters, and some special and control characters as six-bit character codes. Unlike later encodings such as ASCII, BCD codes were not standardized. Diffe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20VSP%209000%20Series
Avaya Virtual Services Platform 9000 Series or VSP 9000 is a set of modular chassis switches used in enterprise and data center networks, manufactured by Avaya. The VSP 9000 is used by institutions which are suffering from performance limitations, need to simplify their network infrastructure in a virtualized environm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraging%20Agriculture%20for%20Improving%20Nutrition%20and%20Health
Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health is the title of a global policy consultation and international conference to be held in New Delhi, India from 10 to 12 February 2011, which will examine the linkages between work undertaken in the agriculture, nutrition and health sectors. The conference is orga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aversive%20agent
Aversive agents are unpleasantly flavored substances added to poisonous household goods to discourage children and animals from consuming them. Aversive agents are not intended to be harmful, only unpleasant. For example, to prevent children from consuming poisonous anti-freeze, which has a sweet flavor due to the ethy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnite%20Inc
Magnite Inc. (formerly Rubicon Project) is an American online advertising technology firm based in Los Angeles, California. The company was formed following a merger between Rubicon Project and Telaria in 2020. History Rubicon Project was founded in 2007 by Frank Addante, Craig Roah, Duc Chau and Julie Mattern, who ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20metering%20system
The open metering system of the Open Metering System Group e.V. stands for a manufacturer- and media-independent standardization for Meter-Bus (M-Bus) based communication between utility meters (electricity, gas, water, thermal energy), submetering (cold/hot water, thermal energy, heat cost allocators), and systems in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Indian%20Stammering%20Association
The Indian Stammering Association (TISA) is a public charitable trust and self-help movement for people in India who stammer. In India a person who stammers (PWS) faces stigma at home and in public, as often parents chide their children publicly, and social acceptance is not high. Background An estimated 11 to 12 mill...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearer%27s%20inequality
Shearer's inequality or also Shearer's lemma, in mathematics, is an inequality in information theory relating the entropy of a set of variables to the entropies of a collection of subsets. It is named for mathematician James B. Shearer. Concretely, it states that if X1, ..., Xd are random variables and S1, ..., Sn are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skytide
Skytide is a reporting and analytics company whose software applications measure the performance of streaming video. Skytide is notable because its software is facilitating the trend by telecommunications service providers (TSPs) to operate their own content delivery networks (CDNs), in an effort to generate addition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPE%20John%20Franklin%20Carll%20Award
SPE John Franklin Carll Award is one of the Society of Petroleum Engineers' (SPE) highest prizes, established in 1956. It recognizes contributions of applications of engineering practices in petroleum development and recovery. The prize is named in honor of John Franklin Carll, a geologist of the 19th century, who was ...