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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20login | Social login is a form of single sign-on using existing information from a social networking service such as Facebook, Twitter or Google, to login to a third party website instead of creating a new login account specifically for that website. It is designed to simplify logins for end users as well as provide more relia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triggertrap | Triggertrap was a company that created hardware and software products centred on triggering SLR cameras. Products included several Arduino-based camera triggers, along with mobile apps which interfaced with cameras using a device that plugs into the headphone socket of the smartphone or tablet. In May 2012, Triggertrap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20C.%20Twitty | Victor Chandler Twitty (November 5, 1901 — March 22, 1967) was an American biologist and embryologist. Twitty was chair of the biological sciences department, Stanford University, president of the American Society of Zoologists, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WineMaker%20Magazine | WineMaker Magazine is an American magazine, particularly concerned with the process of home winemaking. The magazine is published six times annually from offices in Manchester Village, Vermont. WineMaker was launched in 1999 and each issue includes wine recipes, how-to projects and advice columns. WineMaker magazine al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkana%20Basin | The greater Turkana Basin in East Africa (mainly northwestern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, smaller parts of eastern Uganda and southeastern South Sudan) determines a large endorheic basin, a drainage basin with no outflow centered around the north-southwards directed Gregory Rift system in Kenya and southern Ethiopia. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20impact%20of%20concrete | The environmental impact of concrete, its manufacture, and its applications, are complex, driven in part by direct impacts of construction and infrastructure, as well as by CO2 emissions; between 4-8% of total global CO2 emissions come from concrete. Many depend on circumstances. A major component is cement, which has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20V.%20Eleftheriades | George V. Eleftheriades is a researcher in the field of metamaterials. He has been endowed with a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto and is a professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering there. He has received notable awards for his achievements, is a fellow of the IEEE and the Ro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s%20geometric%20model | Fisher's geometric model (FGM) is an evolutionary model of the effect sizes and effect on fitness of spontaneous mutations proposed by Ronald Fisher to explain the distribution of effects of mutations that could contribute to adaptative evolution.
Conceptualization
Sometimes referred to as the Fisher–Orr model, Fisher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuphus | Kuphus is a genus of shipworms, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Teredinidae. While there are four extinct species in the genus, the only extant species is Kuphus polythalamius (also incorrectly spelled as Kuphus polythalamia). It is the longest bivalve mollusc in the world, where the only known permanent natural... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sality | Sality is the classification for a family of malicious software (malware), which infects Microsoft Windows systems files. Sality was first discovered in 2003 and has advanced to become a dynamic, enduring and full-featured form of malicious code. Systems infected with Sality may communicate over a peer-to-peer (P2P) ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyfill%20%28programming%29 | In software development, a polyfill is code that implements a feature of the development environment that does not natively support the feature. Most often, it refers to a JavaScript library that implements an HTML5 or CSS web standard, either an established standard (supported by some browsers) on older browsers, or a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Framework | Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). It is a keyword-driven testing framework that uses tabular test data syntax.
History
The basic ideas for Robot Framework were shaped in Pekka Klärck's masters thesis in 2005. The first version ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20kappa%20function | In control theory, it is often required to check if a nonautonomous system is stable or not. To cope with this it is necessary to use some special comparison functions. Class functions belong to this family:
Definition: a continuous function is said to belong to class if:
it is strictly increasing;
it is s.t. .
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20kappa-ell%20function | In control theory, it is often required to check if a nonautonomous system is stable or not. To cope with this it is necessary to use some special comparison functions. Class functions belong to this family:
Definition: A continuous function is said to belong to class if:
for each fixed , the function belongs to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-enforcing%20agreement | A self-enforcing agreement is an agreement that is enforced only by the parties to it; no external party can enforce or interfere with the agreement. (In this respect it differs from an enforceable contract.) The agreement will stand so long as the parties believe it is mutually beneficial and it is not breached by a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myokine | A myokine is one of several hundred cytokines or other small proteins (~5–20 kDa) and proteoglycan peptides that are produced and released by skeletal muscle cells (muscle fibers) in response to muscular contractions. They have autocrine, paracrine and/or endocrine effects; their systemic effects occur at picomolar con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT%20NETRA | NETRA is a mobile eye diagnostic device developed at MIT Media Lab consisting of a clip-on eyepiece and a software app for smart phones. The co-inventors include Ramesh Raskar and Vitor Pamplona. It can be seen as the inverse of expensive Shack-Hartmann sensors. NETRA allows for the early, low-cost diagnosis of the mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babtie%2C%20Shaw%20and%20Morton | Babtie, Shaw and Morton was a firm of civil engineers based in Glasgow, Scotland, and noted for its work on bridges, dams and reservoirs.
History
It took its name following the 1906 merger of Babtie & Bonn (a partnership founded by John Babtie and Carl Bonn in 1897) and Shaw & Morton (founded by William Shaw and Hugh ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureEasySetup | SecureEasySetup, or SES is a proprietary technology developed by Broadcom to easily set up wireless LANs with Wi-Fi Protected Access. A user presses a button on the wireless access point, then a button on the device to be set up (printer, etc.) and the wireless network is automatically set up.
This technology has been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasterschl%C3%BCssel%2044 | Rasterschlüssel 44 (abbr. RS 44) was a manual cipher system, used by the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. The cipher was designed by the astronomer and sometime cryptographer Walter Fricke while working as a conscript in Section IIb, of Group 2 of OKW/Chi and introduced in March 1944 and the Allied forces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard%20Ballistics | Backyard Ballistics is a how-to book by William Gurstelle that was published in 2001. It is full of experiments that can be done relatively inexpensively and can be easily executed. It also includes the history and mechanical principles of some of the inventions and projects. From catapults to rockets, this book descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon%20%28desktop%20environment%29 | Cinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating systems, deriving from GNOME 3 but following traditional desktop metaphor conventions.
The development of Cinnamon began by the Linux Mint team as a reaction to the April 2011 release of GNOME 3 in which the conventional desktop m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20members%20of%20the%20U.S.%20Congress%20who%20support%20or%20oppose%20SOPA/PIPA | The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are two proposed draft laws that were being considered by the United States Congress. Their stated goals are to increase the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods, and give th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity%20management | Opportunity management (OM) has been defined as "a process to identify business and community development opportunities that could be implemented to sustain or improve the local economy".
Opportunity management is a collaborative approach for economic and business development. The process focuses on tangible outcomes.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Codec%20Engine | Distributed Codec Engine (DCE) is an API and its implementation as software library ("libdce") by Texas Instruments. The library was released under the Revised BSD License and some additional terms.
It enables and provides remote access to hardware acceleration for audio and video decoding on the IVA-HD in OMAP4-based... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOVO7 | The NOVO7 is a series of Android tablet computers manufactured by the Chinese company Ainol Electronics. The "7" represents the size of the tablet's screen (7 inches); Ainol's other products include the Novo 5 and Novo 8.
History
The first tablets in the Novo 7 line were the Novo 7 Basic and Novo 7 Advanced, released ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Mail%20Restaurant | The Royal Mail Restaurant is a Modern Australian restaurant in rural Dunkeld, Victoria connected to the Royal Mail Hotel. The chef de cuisine is Robin Wickens, who took over from Dan Hunter in 2013. Hunter had previously worked at Mugaritz and is now at Brae.
The restaurant prepares two tasting menus daily—one vegetar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile%20Laboratory%20Aid | The Versatile Laboratory Aid (VELA) is a 4-channel data logging tool that was created as part of a joint venture by Ashley Clarke, Keith Jones and David Binney of Leeds University and Educational Electronics. The VELA was designed to be used as a stand-alone data logger that could be used out in the field and it could ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20acoustic%20sensing | Rayleigh scattering based distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems use fiber optic cables to provide distributed strain sensing. In DAS, the optical fiber cable becomes the sensing element and measurements are made, and in part processed, using an attached optoelectronic device. Such a system allows acoustic frequenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20National%20Irish%20American%20Museum%20of%20Washington%2C%20D.C. | The National Irish American Museum Of Washington, D.C. is a proposed museum to honor Ireland’s legacy in America.
History
The museum was proposed in 2008, but active fundraising was deferred due to the Financial crisis of 2007–08, and in 2015 the Washington Post deemed the museum unlikely to ever open.
Objective
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-tolerant%20electronics | Pressure-tolerant electronics (PTE) are electronic components or assemblies that can operate satisfactorily under high pressure (hyperbaric or hydrostatic, such as oil baths), without the need of a high pressure enclosure.
Typical uses include submarines and oil wells.
Components
References
Electrical components
E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20mosaicing | Document mosaicing is a process that stitches multiple, overlapping snapshot images of a document together to produce one large, high resolution composite. The document is slid under a stationary, over-the-desk camera by hand until all parts of the document are snapshotted by the camera's field of view. As the document... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-orthogonal%20matrix | In linear algebra, a semi-orthogonal matrix is a non-square matrix with real entries where: if the number of columns exceeds the number of rows, then the rows are orthonormal vectors; but if the number of rows exceeds the number of columns, then the columns are orthonormal vectors.
Equivalently, a non-square matrix A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Authenticator | Google Authenticator is a software-based authenticator by Google. It implements multi-factor authentication services using the time-based one-time password (TOTP; specified in RFC 6238) and HMAC-based one-time password (HOTP; specified in RFC 4226), for authenticating users of software applications.
When logging into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohadschia%20argus | Bohadschia argus, the leopard sea cucumber, leopardfish, or tigerfish, is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Holothuriidae.
Description
Bohadschia argus is sausage-shaped with a smooth, tough, leathery skin and can grow to in length. It is a greyish-brown colour, paler below, with distinctive dark eye-sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Information%20Governance%20Board%20for%20Health%20and%20Social%20Care | The National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB) advised the United Kingdom government on information governance between 2008 and 2013.
History
The board was established under section 157 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, with effect from October 2008, with a range of advisory functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Pixton | Aaron C. Pixton (born January 13, 1986) is an American mathematician at the University of Michigan. He works in enumerative geometry, and is also known for his chess playing, where he is a FIDE Master.
Early life and education
Pixton was born in Binghamton, New York; his father, Dennis Pixton, is a retired professor o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkovich%20space | In mathematics, a Berkovich space, introduced by , is a version of an analytic space over a non-Archimedean field (e.g. p-adic field), refining Tate's notion of a rigid analytic space.
Motivation
In the complex case, algebraic geometry begins by defining the complex affine space to be For each we define the ring o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%E2%80%93Fahroo%20pseudospectral%20method | Introduced by I. Michael Ross and F. Fahroo, the Ross–Fahroo pseudospectral methods are a broad collection of pseudospectral methods for optimal control. Examples of the Ross–Fahroo pseudospectral methods are the pseudospectral knotting method, the flat pseudospectral method, the Legendre-Gauss-Radau pseudospectral me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Fox | Jacob Fox (born Jacob Licht in 1984) is an American mathematician. He is a professor at Stanford University. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial number theory, and probabilistic methods in combinatorics.
Fox grew up in West Hartf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitesse%20Semiconductor | Vitesse Semiconductor was a fabless American semiconductor company based in Camarillo, California, which developed high-performance Ethernet integrated circuits solutions for Carrier, Enterprise networks. On March 18, 2015, Microsemi Corporation and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation jointly announced that Microsemi wou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20estimation | In applied statistics, optimal estimation is a regularized matrix inverse method based on Bayes' theorem.
It is used very commonly in the geosciences, particularly for atmospheric sounding.
A matrix inverse problem looks like this:
The essential concept is to transform the matrix, A, into a conditional probability and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20Triangle | It is a triangle contained within the Submandibular triangle. Its boundaries are the Hypoglossal Nerve, and the Anterior and Posterior belly of the Digastric muscle. This triangle was named after a German surgeon named Ladislaus Leon Lesser, who lived from 1846 to 1925
References
Anatomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization%20mixing | In optics, polarization mixing refers to changes in the relative strengths of the Stokes parameters caused by reflection or scattering—see vector radiative transfer—or by changes in the radial orientation of the detector.
Example: A sloping, specular surface
The definition of the four Stokes components
are, in a fixe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographophone | A photographophone is a device, first developed by Ernst Ruhmer of Berlin, Germany in 1900, used to produce and play back audio recordings.
Photographophone recording uses celluloid film. The process is started by speaking into a microphone, connected to a battery pack, whose modulated electrical output produces corre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive%20web%20design | Responsive web design (RWD) or responsive design is an approach to web design that aims to make web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes from minimum to maximum display size to ensure usability and satisfaction.
A responsive design adapts the web-page layout to the viewing environment b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Take%20Back%20Initiative | The National Take Back Initiative is a voluntary program in the United States, encouraging the public to return excess or expired drugs. The take back events occur twice annually, in the spring and in the fall. The program is coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Drug take-back programs are a commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal%20welding | In mathematics, conformal welding (sewing or gluing) is a process in geometric function theory for producing a Riemann surface by joining together two Riemann surfaces, each with a disk removed, along their boundary circles. This problem can be reduced to that of finding univalent holomorphic maps f, g of the unit disk... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin%20Posse | __notoc__
Konstantin Alexandrovich Posse (; September 29, 1847 - August 24, 1928) was a Russian mathematician known for contributions to analysis and in particular approximation theory. Veniamin Kagan and D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi were among his students.
Selected publications
Notes
Further reading
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla%20Persona | Mozilla Persona was a decentralized authentication system for the web, based on the open BrowserID protocol prototyped by Mozilla and standardized by IETF. It was launched in July 2011, but after failing to achieve traction, Mozilla announced in January 2016 plans to decommission the service by the end of the year.
Hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobaLeaks | GlobaLeaks is an open-source, free software intended to enable secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiatives.
History
The project started on 15 December 2010 and the first software prototype was announced on 6 September 2011.
Relevant figures in the first development are Arturo Filastò, Claudio Agosti, Fabio Pietro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20DynamoDB | Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio. DynamoDB offers a fast persistent Key-Value Datastore with built-in support for replication, autoscaling, encryption at rest, and on-demand backup among other features.
Background
Werner Vo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali%20%28processor%29 | The Mali and Immortalis series of graphics processing units (GPUs) and multimedia processors are semiconductor intellectual property cores produced by Arm Holdings for licensing in various ASIC designs by Arm partners.
Mali GPUs were developed by Falanx Microsystems A/S, which was a spin-off of a research project from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5%20Boilerplate | HTML5 Boilerplate is an HTML, CSS and JavaScript template (or boilerplate) for creating HTML5 websites with cross-browser compatibility.
References
External links
HTML5 Boilerplate on GitHub
HTML5
Web development
2011 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20bounds%20analysis | Probability bounds analysis (PBA) is a collection of methods of uncertainty propagation for making qualitative and quantitative calculations in the face of uncertainties of various kinds. It is used to project partial information about random variables and other quantities through mathematical expressions. For instance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Biodiversity%20Action%20Plan | In the United Kingdom a local biodiversity action plan (LBAP, pronounced 'ell-bap') is a plan aimed at conserving the fauna, flora and habitats – collectively referred to as biodiversity – of a defined area, usually along local authority boundary lines.
The development of such plans at a local level is guided by the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta%20Hacker%20Cup | Meta Hacker Cup (formerly known as Facebook Hacker Cup) is an annual international programming competition hosted and administered by Meta Platforms. The competition began in 2011 as a means to identify top engineering talent for potential employment at Meta Platforms. The competition consists of a set of algorithmic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based%20modeling | Rule-based modeling is a modeling approach that uses a set of rules that indirectly specifies a mathematical model. The rule-set can either be translated into a model such as Markov chains or differential equations, or be treated using tools that directly work on the rule-set in place of a translated model, as the latt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6ttcher%27s%20equation | Böttcher's equation, named after Lucjan Böttcher, is the functional equation
where
is a given analytic function with a superattracting fixed point of order at , (that is, in a neighbourhood of ), with n ≥ 2
is a sought function.
The logarithm of this functional equation amounts to Schröder's equation.
Solu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Wireless%20Mesh%20Protocol | The Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP), part of IEEE 802.11s, is a basic routing protocol for a wireless mesh network. It is based on AODV (RFC 3561) and tree-based routing. It relies on a Peer Link Management protocol by which each Mesh Point discovers and tracks neighboring nodes. If any of these are connected t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squelching | Squelching is a biological phenomenon in which a strong transcriptional activator acts to inhibit the expression of another gene. Squelching has been mostly studied in yeast, and most of the ideas regarding its mechanisms have come from research into modes of transcriptional control in yeast. One important study of thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forming%20processes | Some of example of forming processes are:
Forging
Extrusion
Rolling
Sheet metal working
Rotary swaging
Thread rolling
Explosive forming
Electromagnetic forming
Plastic extrusion
Die forming (plastics)#Process
Food extrusion#Process
See also
Pedogenesis - soil forming processes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interruptible%20foldback | Interruptible foldback (IFB), also known as interrupted foldback, interruptible feedback, or interrupt for broadcast, is a monitoring and cueing system used in television, filmmaking, video production, and radio broadcast for one-way communication from the director or assistant director to on-air talent or a remote lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio%20Garuzzo | Giorgio Garuzzo, born in 1938 in Paesana, a small village in the Piedmont Alps near Cuneo, is an Italian electronics engineer, manager and industrialist, who took a central part in some of the most important developments in Italian industry in the past 50 years.
The Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visive (IGAV) is a non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm%20Hexagon | Hexagon is the brand name for a family of digital signal processor (DSP) products by Qualcomm. Hexagon is also known as QDSP6, standing for “sixth generation digital signal processor.” According to Qualcomm, the Hexagon architecture is designed to deliver performance with low power over a variety of applications.
Each... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20optical%20absorption%20spectroscopy | In atmospheric chemistry, differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) is used to measure concentrations of trace gases. When combined with basic optical spectrometers such as prisms or diffraction gratings and automated, ground-based observation platforms, it presents a cheap and powerful means for the measurem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the arithmetic zeta function is a zeta function associated with a scheme of finite type over integers. The arithmetic zeta function generalizes the Riemann zeta function and Dedekind zeta function to higher dimensions. The arithmetic zeta function is one of the most-fundamental objects of number theory.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9el%20relaxation%20theory | Néel relaxation theory is a theory developed by Louis Néel in 1949 to explain time-dependent magnetic phenomena known as magnetic viscosity. It is also called Néel-Arrhenius theory, after the Arrhenius equation, and Néel-Brown theory after a more rigorous derivation by William Fuller Brown, Jr. Néel used his theory to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil%20Gordon | Basil Gordon (December 23, 1931 – January 12, 2012) was a mathematician at UCLA, specializing in number theory and combinatorics. He obtained his Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Tom Apostol. Ken Ono was one of his students.
Gordon is well known for Göllnitz–Gordon identities, gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monod%20equation | The Monod equation is a mathematical model for the growth of microorganisms. It is named for Jacques Monod (1910 – 1976, a French biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965), who proposed using an equation of this form to relate microbial growth rates in an aqueous environment to the concentration of a l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest%20and%20heaviest%20animals | The largest animal currently alive is the blue whale. The maximum recorded weight was 190 tonnes for a specimen measuring , whereas longer ones, up to , have been recorded but not weighed. It is estimated, this individual could have a mass of 250 tonnes. The longest non-colonial animal is the lion's mane jellyfish (36.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-release%20automation | Application-release automation (ARA) refers to the process of packaging and deploying an application or update of an application from development, across various environments, and ultimately to production. ARA solutions must combine the capabilities of deployment automation, environment management and modeling, and rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podospora%20anserina | Podospora anserina is a filamentous ascomycete fungus from the order Sordariales. It is considered a model organism for the study of molecular biology of senescence (aging), prions, sexual reproduction, and meiotic drive. It has an obligate sexual and pseudohomothallic life cycle. It is a non-pathogenic coprophilous fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnodal | Gnodal was a computer networking company headquartered in Bristol, UK. The company designed and sold network switches for datacenter, high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments. Gnodal's products were based on its own Peta ASIC, which was the basis of a family of 1RU and 2RU 10 Gigabit Ethern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20v.%20Fricosu | United States v. Fricosu, 841 F.Supp.2d 1232 (D. Col 2012), is a federal criminal case in Colorado that addressed whether a person can be compelled to reveal his or her encryption passphrase or password, despite the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. On January 23, 2012, judge Ro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew%20gradient | In mathematics, a skew gradient of a harmonic function over a simply connected domain with two real dimensions is a vector field that is everywhere orthogonal to the gradient of the function and that has the same magnitude as the gradient.
Definition
The skew gradient can be defined using complex analysis and the Cauc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost%20%28software%29 | Foremost is a forensic data recovery program for Linux. Foremost is used to recover files using their headers, footers, and data structures through a process known as file carving. Although written for law enforcement use, the program and its source code are freely available and can be used as a general data recovery ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImportGenius | ImportGenius (stylized as ImportGenius.com, sometimes incorrectly credited as Import Genius, and formally known as Trade Data Services, Inc.) is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company that specializes in trade data. It was founded by Michael Kanko, David Petersen, and Ryan Petersen.
The company organizes and maintains a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcasa | Bitcasa, Inc. was an American cloud storage company founded in 2011 in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was later based in Mountain View, California until it shut down in 2017.
Bitcasa provided client software for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Android and web browsers. An iOS client was pending Apple approval. Its former ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj%20Mittra | Raj Mittra (born 1 July 1932) is an Indian-born electrical engineer and academician. He is currently a professor of electrical engineering at University of Central Florida. Previously, he was a faculty member at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Pennsylvania State University, where he was the director of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hidden%20Wiki | The Hidden Wiki was a dark web MediaWiki wiki operating as Tor hidden services that could be anonymously edited after registering on the site. The main page served as a directory of links to other .onion sites.
History
The first Hidden Wiki was operated through the .onion pseudo top-level domain which can be accessed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankyrin-G%20binding%20motif%20of%20KCNQ2-3 | In molecular biology, the ankyrin-G binding motif of KCNQ2-3 is a protein motif found in the potassium channels KCNQ2 and KCNQ3.
Interactions with ankyrin-G (ankyrin-3) are crucial to the localisation of voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) at the axonal initial segment and for neurons to initiate action potentials.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive%20programming | Competitive programming is a mind sport involving participants trying to program according to provided specifications. The contests are usually held over the Internet or a local network. Contestants are referred to as sport programmers. Competitive programming is recognized and supported by several multinational softwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking%20proppants | A proppant is a solid material, typically sand, treated sand or man-made ceramic materials, designed to keep an induced hydraulic fracture open, during or following a fracturing treatment, most commonly for unconventional reservoirs. It is added to a fracking fluid which may vary in composition depending on the type of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Valentine%20Atkinson | Frederick Valentine "Derick" Atkinson (25 January 1916 – 13 November 2002) was a British mathematician, formerly of the University of Toronto, Canada, where he spent most of his career. Atkinson's theorem and Atkinson–Wilcox theorem are named after him. His PhD advisor at Oxford was Edward Charles Titchmarsh.
Early li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Thalheim | Bernhard Karl Thalheim (born 10 March 1952 in Radebeul) is a German computer scientist and professor of information systems engineering at the University of Kiel in Kiel, Germany. He is known for his work on conceptual modeling and its theoretical foundational contributions.
Biography
Born in Radebeul (near Dresden)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose%20phosphate%20broth | Glucose phosphate broth is used to perform methyl red (MR) test and Voges–Proskauer test (VP).
Contents
Glucose – 5 g/L
Dipotassium phosphate – 5 g/L
Proteose Peptone – 5 g/L
Distilled water – 1000 mL
pH – 6.9
Methyl red test
Principle
It is used to determine the ability of an organism to produce mixed acids by fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireMonkey | FireMonkey (abbreviated FMX) is a cross-platform GUI framework developed by Embarcadero Technologies for use in Delphi, C++Builder or Python, using Object Pascal, C++ or Python to build cross platform applications for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. A 3rd party library, FMX Linux, enables the building of FireMonkey a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowding | Crowding (or visual crowding) is a perceptual phenomenon where the recognition of objects presented away from the fovea is impaired by the presence of other neighbouring objects (sometimes called "flankers"). It has been suggested that crowding occurs due to mandatory integration of the crowded objects by a texture-pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20cloaking | Network cloaking is an attempt to provide wireless security by hiding the network name (service set identifier) from being broadcast publicly. Many routers come with this option as a standard feature in the setup menu accessed via a web browser.
Network cloaking may stop inexperienced users from gaining access to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiparty%20communication%20complexity | In theoretical computer science, multiparty communication complexity is the study of communication complexity in the setting where there are more than 2 players.
In the traditional two–party communication game, introduced by , two players, P1 and P2 attempt to compute a Boolean function
Player P1 knows the value ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20analysi%20per%20aequationes%20numero%20terminorum%20infinitas | De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas (or On analysis by infinite series, On Analysis by Equations with an infinite number of terms, or On the Analysis by means of equations of an infinite number of terms) is a mathematical work by Isaac Newton.
Creation
Composed in 1669, during the mid-part of that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezotronics | Piezotronics effect is using the piezoelectric potential (piezopotential) created in materials with piezoelectricity as a “gate” voltage to tune/control the charge carrier transport properties for fabricating new devices.
Neil A Downie showed how simple it was to build simple demonstrations on a macro-scale using a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCALD | The structured computer-aided logic design (SCALD) software was a computer aided design system developed for building the S-1 computer. It used the Stanford University Drawing System (SUDS), and it was developed by Thomas M. McWilliams and Lawrence Curtis Widdoes, Jr. The work led to the start of the Valid Logic System... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara%20Depression%20Project | The Qattara Depression Project, or Qattara Project for short, is a macro-engineering project concept in Egypt. Rivalling the Aswan High Dam in scope, the intention is to develop the hydroelectric potential of the Qattara Depression by creating an artificial lake.
Location
The Qattara depression is a region that lies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20virtualization | In software engineering, service virtualization or service virtualisation is a method to emulate the behavior of specific components in heterogeneous component-based applications such as API-driven applications, cloud-based applications and service-oriented architectures.
It is used to provide software development and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzwater%20Wray | William Fitzwater Wray (1869 – 16 December 1938), who wrote under the pseudonym Kuklos, was a British journalist who was one of the most widely read cycling journalists of his era. He wrote in national newspapers in Britain and in cycling journals. Through his writing ran the conviction that "on every real bicycle the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicast%20flood | In computer networking, a unicast flood is when a switch receives a unicast frame and treats it as a broadcast frame, flooding the frame to all other ports on the switch.
Background
The term unicast refers to a one-to-one transmission from one point in the network to another point. Conventionally, unicast is consider... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTOS | FTOS or Force10 Operating System is the firmware family used on Force10 Ethernet switches. It has a similar functionality as Cisco's NX-OS or Juniper's Junos. FTOS 10 is running on Debian.
As part of a re-branding strategy of Dell FTOS will be renamed to Dell Networking Operating System (DNOS) 9.x or above, while the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic%20self%20epitopes | In immunology, cryptic self epitopes are a source of autoimmunity.
Self epitopes, which are found in high concentration on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in association with its major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are known as dominant epitopes. These are stimulants of negative selection mechanisms ... |
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