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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20System%20Assessment%20Tool | The Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) is a module of Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 that is available in the Control Panel under Performance Information and Tools (except in Windows 8.1, Windows 10 & Windows 11). It measures various performance characteristics and capabil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20law | Privacy law is the body of law that deals with the regulating, storing, and using of personally identifiable information, personal healthcare information, and financial information of individuals, which can be collected by governments, public or private organisations, or other individuals. It also applies in the commer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mwave | Mwave was a technology developed by IBM allowing for the combination of telephony and sound card features on a single adapter card. The technology centers around the Mwave digital signal processor (DSP). The technology was used for a time to provide a combination modem and sound card for IBM's Aptiva line and some Thin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathChallengers | MathChallengers is the former Mathcounts in British Columbia. It is open to all grade 8, 9, and 10 students from British Columbia. The major sponsors are the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. (APEGBC), the B.C. Association of Mathematics Teachers (BCAMT), BC Hydro, and IBM Canada.
Rules
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy | Myco-heterotrophy (from Greek μύκης , "fungus", ἕτερος , "another", "different" and τροφή , "nutrition") is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligolecty | The term oligolecty is used in pollination ecology to refer to bees that exhibit a narrow, specialized preference for pollen sources, typically to a single family or genus of flowering plants. The preference may occasionally extend broadly to multiple genera within a single plant family, or be as narrow as a single pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycotroph | A mycotroph is a plant that gets all or part of its carbon, water, or nutrient supply through symbiotic association with fungi. The term can refer to plants that engage in either of two distinct symbioses with fungi:
Many mycotrophs have a mutualistic association with fungi in any of several forms of mycorrhiza. The m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-STAR | D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) is a digital voice and data protocol specification for amateur radio. The system was developed in the late 1990s by the Japan Amateur Radio League and uses minimum-shift keying in its packet-based standard. There are other digital modes that have been adapted for us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Trust%20Institute | The Information Trust Institute (ITI) was founded in 2004 as an interdisciplinary unit designed to approach information security research from a systems perspective. It examines information security by looking at what makes machines, applications, and users trustworthy. Its mission is to create computer systems, softwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20for%20Nuclear%20Auxiliary%20Power | The Systems Nuclear Auxiliary POWER (SNAP) program was a program of experimental radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and space nuclear reactors flown during the 1960s by NASA.
The SNAP program developed as a result of Project Feedback, a Rand Corporation study of reconnaissance satellites completed in 1954. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%20product | In algebraic topology the cap product is a method of adjoining a chain of degree p with a cochain of degree q, such that q ≤ p, to form a composite chain of degree p − q. It was introduced by Eduard Čech in 1936, and independently by Hassler Whitney in 1938.
Definition
Let X be a topological space and R a coefficien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqueness%20theorem%20for%20Poisson%27s%20equation | The uniqueness theorem for Poisson's equation states that, for a large class of boundary conditions, the equation may have many solutions, but the gradient of every solution is the same. In the case of electrostatics, this means that there is a unique electric field derived from a potential function satisfying Poisson'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20key | A cryptographic key is called static if it is intended for use for a relatively long period of time and is typically intended for use in many instances of a cryptographic key establishment scheme. Contrast with an ephemeral key.
See also
Cryptographic key types
Recommendation for Key Management — Part 1: general,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar%20tracker | A radar tracker is a component of a radar system, or an associated command and control (C2) system, that associates consecutive radar observations of the same target into tracks. It is particularly useful when the radar system is reporting data from several different targets or when it is necessary to combine the data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%20CAD | Technology computer-aided design (technology CAD or TCAD) is a branch of electronic design automation that models semiconductor fabrication and semiconductor device operation. The modeling of the fabrication is termed Process TCAD, while the modeling of the device operation is termed Device TCAD. Included are the model... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20Trunked%20Radio | Logic Trunked Radio (LTR) is a radio system developed in the late 1970s by the E. F. Johnson Company.
LTR is distinguished from some other common trunked radio systems in that it does not have a dedicated control channel. Each repeater has its own controller and all of these controllers are coordinated together. Even ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20risk%20measure | In the fields of actuarial science and financial economics there are a number of ways that risk can be defined; to clarify the concept theoreticians have described a number of properties that a risk measure might or might not have. A coherent risk measure is a function that satisfies properties of monotonicity, sub-add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20engineering | Railway engineering is a multi-faceted engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of rail transport systems. It encompasses a wide range of engineering disciplines, including civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20panel%20%28engineering%29 | A control panel is a flat, often vertical, area where control or monitoring instruments are displayed or it is an enclosed unit that is the part of a system that users can access, such as the control panel of a security system (also called control unit).
They are found in factories to monitor and control machines or p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF%20Johnson%20Technologies | EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. is a two-way radio manufacturer founded by its namesake, Edgar Frederick Johnson, in Waseca, Minnesota, United States in 1923. Today it is a wholly owned subsidiary of JVCKenwood of Yokohama, Japan.
EF Johnson Technologies offers a wide range of equipment for use by law enforcement, firef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDN%20Web%20Docs | MDN Web Docs, previously Mozilla Developer Network and formerly Mozilla Developer Center, is a documentation repository and learning resource for web developers. It was started by Mozilla in 2005 as a unified place for documentation about open web standards, Mozilla's own projects, and developer guides.
MDN Web Docs c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Grid%20Infrastructure | European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is a series of efforts to provide access to high-throughput computing resources across Europe using grid computing techniques. The EGI links centres in different European countries to support international research in many scientific disciplines. Following a series of research project... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout%20preventer | A blowout preventer (BOP) (pronounced B-O-P) is a specialized valve or similar mechanical device, used to seal, control and monitor oil and gas wells to prevent blowouts, the uncontrolled release of crude oil or natural gas from a well. They are usually installed in stacks of other valves.
Blowout preventers were dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20analogy | An image analogy is a method of creating an image filter automatically from training data. In an image analogy process, the transformation between two images A and A' is "learned". Later, given a different image B, its "analogy" image B' can be generated based on the learned transformation.
The image analogy method h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20sequence%20chart | A message sequence chart (or MSC) is an interaction diagram from the SDL family standardized by the International Telecommunication Union.
The purpose of recommending MSC (Message Sequence Chart) is to provide a trace language for the specification and description of the communication behaviour of system components an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean%20configuration | Clean configuration is the flight configuration of a fixed-wing aircraft when its external equipment is retracted to minimize drag, and thus maximize airspeed for a given power setting.
For most airplanes, clean configuration means simply that the wing flaps and landing gear are retracted, as these are the cause of dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20bandwidth%20allocation | Dynamic bandwidth allocation is a technique by which traffic bandwidth in a shared telecommunications medium can be allocated on demand and fairly between different users of that bandwidth. This is a form of bandwidth management, and is essentially the same thing as statistical multiplexing. Where the sharing of a link... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong%20Planet | Wrong Planet (sometimes referred to by its URL, wrongplanet.net) is an online community for "individuals (and parents / professionals of those) with Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, PDDs, and other neurological differences". The site was started in 2004 by Dan Grover and Alex Plank and includes a chatroom, a forum, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel%20warfare | Tunnel warfare involves war being conducted in tunnels and other underground cavities. It often includes the construction of underground facilities in order to attack or defend, and the use of existing natural caves and artificial underground facilities for military purposes. Tunnels can be used to undermine fortificat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frey%20curve | In mathematics, a Frey curve or Frey–Hellegouarch curve is the elliptic curve
associated with a (hypothetical) solution of Fermat's equation
The curve is named after Gerhard Frey and (sometimes) .
History
came up with the idea of associating solutions of Fermat's equation with a completely different mathematical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python%20syntax%20and%20semantics | The syntax of the Python programming language is the set of rules that defines how a Python program will be written and interpreted (by both the runtime system and by human readers). The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java. However, there are some definite differences between the languages. It su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocorrelator | A real time interferometric autocorrelator is an electronic tool used to examine the autocorrelation of, among other things, optical beam intensity and spectral components through examination of variable beam path differences. See Optical autocorrelation.
Description
In an interferometric autocorrelator, the input bea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20bench | A test bench or testing workbench is an environment used to verify the correctness or soundness of a design or model.
The term has its roots in the testing of electronic devices, where an engineer would sit at a lab bench with tools for measurement and manipulation, such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, soldering irons,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiostasis | Enantiostasis is the ability of an open system, especially a living organism, to maintain and conserve its metabolic and physiological functions in response to variations in an unstable environment. Estuarine organisms typically undergo enantiostasis in order to survive with constantly changing salt concentrations. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGCW | KGCW (channel 26) is a television station licensed to Burlington, Iowa, United States, serving as the CW network outlet for the Quad Cities area. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside regional CBS affiliate WHBF-TV (channel 4). Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox aff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20control%20%28Unix%29 | In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, job control refers to control of jobs by a shell, especially interactively, where a "job" is a shell's representation for a process group. Basic job control features are the suspending, resuming, or terminating of all processes in the job/process group; more advanced features ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jog%20dial | A jog dial, jog wheel, shuttle dial, or shuttle wheel is a type of knob, ring, wheel, or dial which allows the user to shuttle or jog through audio or video media. It is commonly found on models of CD players which are made for disc jockeys, and on professional video equipment such as video tape recorders. More recen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic%20field%20solver | Electromagnetic field solvers (or sometimes just field solvers) are specialized programs that solve (a subset of) Maxwell's equations directly. They form a part of the field of electronic design automation, or EDA, and are commonly used in the design of integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. They are used when... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDAL | The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats (e.g. shapefile), and is released under the permissive X/MIT style free software license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale%20pricing | Martingale pricing is a pricing approach based on the notions of martingale and risk neutrality. The martingale pricing approach is a cornerstone of modern quantitative finance and can be applied to a variety of derivatives contracts, e.g. options, futures, interest rate derivatives, credit derivatives, etc.
In contra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20coupling | In electronics, direct coupling or DC coupling (also called conductive coupling and galvanic coupling) is the transfer of electrical energy by means of physical contact via a conductive medium, in contrast to inductive coupling and capacitive coupling. It is a way of interconnecting two circuits such that, in addition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%E2%80%93Hook%20coaddition%20method | The Lucy–Hook coaddition method is an image processing technique for combining sub-stepped astronomical image data onto a finer grid. The method allows the option of resolution and contrast enhancement or the choice of a conservative, re-convolved, output.
Tests with very deep Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle%20%28image%20processing%29 | Drizzle (or DRIZZLE) is a digital image processing method for the linear reconstruction of undersampled images. The method is normally used for the combination of astronomical images and was originally developed for the Hubble Deep Field observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The algorithm, known as variable-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20algebra | The term "information algebra" refers to mathematical techniques of information processing. Classical information theory goes back to Claude Shannon. It is a theory of information transmission, looking at communication and storage. However, it has not been considered so far that information comes from different sources... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20geography | Animal geography is a subfield of the nature–society/human–environment branch of geography as well as a part of the larger, interdisciplinary umbrella of human–animal studies (HAS). Animal geography is defined as the study of "the complex entanglings of human–animal relations with space, place, location, environment an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance%20meter | A capacitance meter is a piece of electronic test equipment used to measure capacitance, mainly of discrete capacitors. Depending on the sophistication of the meter, it may display the capacitance only, or it may also measure a number of other parameters such as leakage, equivalent series resistance (ESR), and inductan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimmer%20%28construction%29 | In light-frame construction, a trimmer is a timber or metal beam (joist) used to create an opening around a stairwell, skylight, chimney, and the like. Trimmers are installed parallel to the primary floor or ceiling joists and support headers, which run perpendicular to the primary joists.
It can also refer to a jac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransPAC2 | The TransPAC2 Network was a US National Science Foundation-funded high-speed international computer network circuit connecting national research and education networks in the Asia-Pacific region to those in the US. It was the continuation of the TransPAC project which ran from 2000 through 2005.
History
The first Tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20probe | A test probe is a physical device used to connect electronic test equipment to a device under test (DUT). Test probes range from very simple, robust devices to complex probes that are sophisticated, expensive, and fragile. Specific types include test prods, oscilloscope probes and current probes. A test probe is often ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapLeaf | RapLeaf was a US-based marketing data and software company, which was acquired by email data provider TowerData in 2013.
Company
RapLeaf was founded in San Francisco by Auren Hoffman and Manish Shah in March 2005.
In May 2006 the Founders Fund led a seed round of about $1 million, including angel investors such as Pet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonally%20dominant%20matrix | In mathematics, a square matrix is said to be diagonally dominant if, for every row of the matrix, the magnitude of the diagonal entry in a row is larger than or equal to the sum of the magnitudes of all the other (non-diagonal) entries in that row. More precisely, the matrix A is diagonally dominant if
where aij deno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabi%20conjecture | In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the Calabi conjecture was a conjecture about the existence of certain kinds of Riemannian metrics on certain complex manifolds, made by . It was proved by , who received the Fields Medal and Oswald Veblen Prize in part for his proof. His work, principally an analysis ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP%20VPN | A VoIP VPN combines voice over IP and virtual private network technologies to offer a method for delivering secure voice. Because VoIP transmits digitized voice as a stream of data, the VoIP VPN solution accomplishes voice encryption quite simply, applying standard data-encryption mechanisms inherently available in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective%20by%20Design | Defective by Design (DBD) is a grassroots anti-digital rights management (DRM) initiative by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and CivicActions. Launched in 2006, DBD believes that DRM (which they call "digital restrictions management") makes technology deliberately defective, negatively affects digital freedoms, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike%2BiPod | The Nike+iPod Sports Kit is an activity tracker device, developed by Nike, Inc., which measures and records the distance and pace of a walk or run. The Nike+iPod consists of a small transmitter device attached to or embedded in a shoe, which communicates with either the Nike+ Sportband, a receiver plugged into an iPod ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT1.5 | VT1.5 is a type of virtual tributary in SONET.
SONET bandwidth is defined in multiples of an OC-1/STS-1, each of which can transport up to 51.84 Mbit/s. However, it is frequently desirable to address much smaller portions of bandwidth. To meet this need, sub-STS-1 facilities called Virtual Tributaries have been defi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex%20noise | Simplex noise is the result of an n-dimensional noise function comparable to Perlin noise ("classic" noise) but with fewer directional artifacts and, in higher dimensions, a lower computational overhead. Ken Perlin designed the algorithm in 2001 to address the limitations of his classic noise function, especially in h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s%20functional%20equation | Cauchy's functional equation is the functional equation:
A function that solves this equation is called an additive function. Over the rational numbers, it can be shown using elementary algebra that there is a single family of solutions, namely for any rational constant Over the real numbers, the family of linear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20hiding | In computer programming, error hiding (or error swallowing) is the practice of catching an error or exception, and then continuing without logging, processing, or reporting the error to other parts of the software. Handling errors in this manner is considered bad practice and an anti-pattern in computer programming. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Council%20on%20Systems%20Engineering | The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE; pronounced in-co-see) is a not-for-profit membership organization and professional society in the field of systems engineering with about 17,000 members including individual, corporate, and student members. INCOSE's main activities include conferences, publicati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral%20circulation | Collateral circulation is the alternate circulation around a blocked artery or vein via another path, such as nearby minor vessels. It may occur via preexisting vascular redundancy (analogous to engineered redundancy), as in the circle of Willis in the brain, or it may occur via new branches formed between adjacent blo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20open-source%20operating%20systems | These tables compare free software / open-source operating systems. Where not all of the versions support a feature, the first version which supports it is listed.
General information
Supported architectures
Supported hardware
General
Networking
Network technologies
Supported file systems
Supported file system ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20category%20theory | In mathematics, higher category theory is the part of category theory at a higher order, which means that some equalities are replaced by explicit arrows in order to be able to explicitly study the structure behind those equalities. Higher category theory is often applied in algebraic topology (especially in homotopy t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation%E2%80%93abstraction%E2%80%93control | Presentation–abstraction–control (PAC) is a software architectural pattern. It is an interaction-oriented software architecture, and is somewhat similar to model–view–controller (MVC) in that it separates an interactive system into three types of components responsible for specific aspects of the application's function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon%20gas | In physics, a photon gas is a gas-like collection of photons, which has many of the same properties of a conventional gas like hydrogen or neon – including pressure, temperature, and entropy. The most common example of a photon gas in equilibrium is the black-body radiation.
Photons are part of a family of particles k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20entropy%20function | In information theory, the binary entropy function, denoted or , is defined as the entropy of a Bernoulli process with probability of one of two values. It is a special case of , the entropy function. Mathematically, the Bernoulli trial is modelled as a random variable that can take on only two values: 0 and 1, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor%20process%20simulation | Semiconductor process simulation is the modeling of the fabrication of semiconductor devices such as transistors. It is a branch of electronic design automation, and part of a sub-field known as technology CAD, or TCAD.
The ultimate goal of process simulation is an accurate prediction of the active dopant distributio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20building%20components | Structural building components are specialized structural building products designed, engineered and manufactured under controlled conditions for a specific application. They are incorporated into the overall building structural system by a building designer. Examples are wood or steel roof trusses, floor trusses, floo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Login%20session | In computing, a login session is the period of activity between a user logging in and logging out of a (multi-user) system.
On Unix and Unix-like operating systems, a login session takes one of two main forms:
When a textual user interface is used, a login session is represented as a kernel session — a collection of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20computing | Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. This is expected to improve response times and save bandwidth. Edge computing is an architecture rather than a specific technology, and a topology- and location-sensitive form of distributed comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss%20connector%20plate | A truss connector plate, or gang plate, is a kind of tie. Truss plates are light gauge metal plates used to connect prefabricated light frame wood trusses. They are produced by punching light gauge galvanized steel to create teeth on one side. The teeth are embedded in and hold the wooden frame components to the plate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament%20of%20the%20Towns | The Tournament of the Towns (International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns, Турнир Городов, Международный Математический Турнир Городов) is an international mathematical competition for school students originating in Russia.
The contest was created by mathematician Nikolay Konstantinov and has participants from ov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodococcus%20rhodochrous | Rhodococcus rhodochrous is a bacterium used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture.
It is gram positive, in the shape of rods/cocci, oxidase negative, and catalase positive.
It is industrially produced to catalyse acrylonitrile conversion to acrylamide. It is also used in the industrial production of nic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural%20pattern | An architectural pattern is a general, reusable resolution to a commonly occurring problem in software architecture within a given context. The architectural patterns address various issues in software engineering, such as computer hardware performance limitations, high availability and minimization of a business risk.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalizations%20of%20Pauli%20matrices | In mathematics and physics, in particular quantum information, the term generalized Pauli matrices refers to families of matrices which generalize the (linear algebraic) properties of the Pauli matrices. Here, a few classes of such matrices are summarized.
Multi-qubit Pauli matrices (Hermitian)
This method of general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weili%20Dai | Weili Dai () is a Chinese-born American businesswoman. She is the co-founder, former director, and former president of Marvell Technology Group. Dai is a successful female entrepreneur, and is the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor company. In 2015, she was listed as the 95th richest woman in the world by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamicist | In thermodynamics, a thermodynamicist is someone who studies thermodynamic processes and phenomena, i.e. the physics that deal with mechanical action and relations of heat.
Among the well-known number of famous thermodynamicists, include Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius, Willard Gibbs, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Max Planc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLFilter | SQLFilter is a plugin for OmniPeek that indexes packets and trace files into an SQLite database. The packets can then be searched using SQL queries. The matching packets are loaded directly into OmniPeek and analyzed. The packet database can also be used to build multi-tier data mining and network forensics systems... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20completeness | In logic, a functionally complete set of logical connectives or Boolean operators is one which can be used to express all possible truth tables by combining members of the set into a Boolean expression. A well-known complete set of connectives is { AND, NOT }. Each of the singleton sets { NAND } and { NOR } is function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20HDLC | Cisco HDLC (cHDLC) is an extension to the High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) network protocol, and was created by Cisco Systems, Inc. HDLC is a bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol that was originally developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Often described as being a propr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20telephone%20directory | A reverse telephone directory (also known as a gray pages directory, criss-cross directory or reverse phone lookup) is a collection of telephone numbers and associated customer details. However, unlike a standard telephone directory, where the user uses customer's details (such as name and address) in order to retrieve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20Society | The Biochemical Society is a learned society in the United Kingdom in the field of biochemistry, including all the cellular and molecular biosciences.
Structure
It currently has around 7000 members, two-thirds in the UK. It is affiliated with the European body, Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS). The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional%20object | Many branches of mathematics study objects of a given type and prove a classification theorem. A common theme is that the classification results in a number of series of objects and a finite number of exceptions — often with desirable properties — that do not fit into any series. These are known as exceptional objects.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam%20physical%20vapor%20deposition | Electron-beam physical vapor deposition, or EBPVD, is a form of physical vapor deposition in which a target anode is bombarded with an electron beam given off by a charged tungsten filament under high vacuum. The electron beam causes atoms from the target to transform into the gaseous phase. These atoms then precipitat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys%20I%3A%20Ancient%20Ys%20Vanished | also known as Ys: The Vanished Omens or The Ancient Land of Ys (Japanese title: イース), is a 1987 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is the first installment in the Ys series. Initially developed for the PC-8800 series by Masaya Hashimoto (director, programmer, designer) and Tomoyoshi Miyazaki (scena... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20methodology | A lightweight methodology is a software development method that has only a few rules and practices, or only ones that are easy to follow. In contrast, a complex method with many rules is considered a "heavyweight methodology".
Examples of lightweight methodologies include:
Adaptive Software Development by Jim Highsm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisample%20anti-aliasing | Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) is a type of spatial anti-aliasing, a technique used in computer graphics to remove jaggies.
Definition
The term generally refers to a special case of supersampling. Initial implementations of full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) worked conceptually by simply rendering a scene at a higher ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-radix%20FFT%20algorithm | The split-radix FFT is a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), and was first described in an initially little-appreciated paper by R. Yavne (1968) and subsequently rediscovered simultaneously by various authors in 1984. (The name "split radix" was coined by two of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roud%20Folk%20Song%20Index | The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compile... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variome | The variome is the whole set of genetic variations found in populations of species that have gone through a relatively short evolution change. For example, among humans, about 1 in every 1,200 nucleotide bases differ. The size of human variome in terms of effective population size is claimed to be about 10,000 individ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20drainage%20system | Sustainable drainage systems (also known as SuDS, SUDS, or sustainable urban drainage systems) are a collection of water management practices that aim to align modern drainage systems with natural water processes and are part of a larger green infrastructure strategy. SuDS efforts make urban drainage systems more compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20address | In computing, a physical address (also real address, or binary address), is a memory address that is represented in the form of a binary number on the address bus circuitry in order to enable the data bus to access a particular storage cell of main memory, or a register of memory-mapped I/O device.
Use by central proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadmilling | In molecular biology, treadmilling is a phenomenon observed within protein filaments of the cytoskeletons of many cells, especially in actin filaments and microtubules. It occurs when one end of a filament grows in length while the other end shrinks, resulting in a section of filament seemingly "moving" across a stratu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20HYPO | Station HYPO, also known as Fleet Radio Unit Pacific (FRUPAC), was the United States Navy signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit in Hawaii during World War II. It was one of two major Allied signals intelligence units, called Fleet Radio Units in the Pacific theaters, along with FRUMEL in Melbourne, Aus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20adipate | Potassium adipate is a compound with formula K2C6H8O4. It is a potassium salt and common source ingredient of adipic acid.
It has E number E357.
See also
Sodium adipate
References
Adipates
Food additives
Potassium compounds
Food acidity regulators
E-number additives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20CAST | Station CAST was the United States Navy signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence fleet radio unit at Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, until Cavite was captured by the Japanese forces in 1942, during World War II. It was an important part of the Allied intelligence effort, addressing Japanese communications... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20network%20design%20%28IC%29 | In the design of integrated circuits, power network design is the analysis and design of on-chip conductor networks that distribute electrical power on a chip. As in all engineering, this involves tradeoffs - the network must have adequate performance, be sufficiently reliable, but should not use more resources than re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20controller | A memory controller is a digital circuit that manages the flow of data going to and from a computer's main memory. A memory controller can be a separate chip or integrated into another chip, such as being placed on the same die or as an integral part of a microprocessor; in the latter case, it is usually called an int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIMIT | TIMIT is a corpus of phonemically and lexically transcribed speech of American English speakers of different sexes and dialects. Each transcribed element has been delineated in time.
TIMIT was designed to further acoustic-phonetic knowledge and automatic speech recognition systems. It was commissioned by DARPA and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode-or%20circuit | A diode-OR circuit is used in electronics to isolate two or more voltage sources. There are two typical implementations:
When a DC supply voltage needs to be generated from one of a number of different sources, for example when terminating a parallel SCSI bus, a very simple circuit like this can be used:
In digital ... |
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