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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9minaire%20Lotharingien%20de%20Combinatoire
The Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (English: Lotharingian Seminar of Combinatorics) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in combinatorial mathematics, named after Lotharingia. It has existed since 1980 as a regular joint seminar in Combinatorics for the Universities of Bayreuth, Erlangen and Strasb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B6berg%20conjecture
In algebraic geometry, the Fröberg conjecture is a conjecture about the possible Hilbert functions of a set of forms. It is named after Ralf Fröberg, who introduced it in . The Fröberg–Iarrobino conjecture is a generalization introduced by . References Algebraic geometry Conjectures Unsolved problems in geometry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Social%20Networking%20Protocol
The Distributed Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) allows everyone to collaborate to create one social network that is decentralized, like email. It is an open technology that supports private communications in a manner that users of modern social networks have come to expect. The current version of the protocol is 0....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%20case%20diagram
A use case diagram is a graphical depiction of a user's possible interactions with a system. A use case diagram shows various use cases and different types of users the system has and will often be accompanied by other types of diagrams as well. The use cases are represented by either circles or ellipses. The actors ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoradiometric%20assay
Immunoradiometric assay (IRMA) is an assay that uses radiolabeled antibodies. It differs from conventional radioimmunoassay (RIA) in that the compound to be measured combines immediately with the radiolabeled antibodies, rather than displacing another antigen by degrees over some period. Introduction Fluorescent and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platynereis%20dumerilii
Platynereis dumerilii is a species of annelid polychaete worm. It was originally placed into the genus Nereis and later reassigned to the genus Platynereis. Platynereis dumerilii lives in coastal marine waters from temperate to tropical zones. It can be found in a wide range from the Azores, the Mediterranean, in the N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet%20%28poetry%20collection%29
Alphabet is one of the most well-known poems of Inger Christensen, who was broadly considered to be Denmark's most prominent poet. The poem was originally published in 1981 in Danish as . An English language translation by Susanna Nied won the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize in 1982. Structure Alphabet is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denjoy%E2%80%93Koksma%20inequality
In mathematics, the Denjoy–Koksma inequality, introduced by as a combination of work of Arnaud Denjoy and the Koksma–Hlawka inequality of Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma, is a bound for Weyl sums of functions f of bounded variation. Statement Suppose that a map f from the circle T to itself has irrational rotation number ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Euclid
Project Euclid is a collaborative partnership between Cornell University Library and Duke University Press which seeks to advance scholarly communication in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics through partnerships with independent and society publishers. It was created to provide a platform for small pub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex-Bus
The Texas Instruments Hex-Bus interface (sometimes used unhyphenated as Hex Bus and with varying capitalization) was designed in 1982 and intended for commercial release in late 1983. It connects the console to peripherals via a high-speed serial link. Though it was prototypical to today's USB (plug and play, hot-swap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian%20Engineers%20Society
The Caspian Engineers Society (CES) is non-profit organisation. Further aim is to promote engineering awareness among the public that will drive "Be Engineer" movement and spark the interest of young generation in engineering. Main Objectives Develop regional engineering network to share knowledge and experience; Br...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson%E2%80%93Morozov%20theorem
In mathematics, the Jacobson–Morozov theorem is the assertion that nilpotent elements in a semi-simple Lie algebra can be extended to sl2-triples. The theorem is named after , . Statement The statement of Jacobson–Morozov relies on the following preliminary notions: an sl2-triple in a semi-simple Lie algebra (throug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-Security%20based%20products%20and%20services
WS-Security is a flexible and feature-rich extension to SOAP to apply security to web services. It is a member of the WS-* family of web service specifications and was published by OASIS. Closely related to WS-Security is WS-Trust, also a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STANAG%203910
STANAG 3910 High Speed Data Transmission Under STANAG 3838 or Fibre Optic Equivalent Control is a protocol defined in a NATO Standardization Agreement for the transfer of data, principally intended for use in avionic systems. STANAG 3910 allows a 1 Mb/s STANAG 3838 / MIL-STD-1553B / MoD Def Stan 00-18 Pt 2 (3838/1553B)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange%27s%20conjecture
In algebraic geometry, Lange's conjecture is a theorem about stability of vector bundles over curves, introduced by and proved by Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas and Barbara Russo in 1999. Statement Let C be a smooth projective curve of genus greater or equal to 2. For generic vector bundles and on C of ranks and degre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20embedding
In mathematics, the James embedding is an embedding of a real, complex, or hyperbolic projective space into a sphere, introduced by . References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_embedding Algebraic topology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfield%20group
In algebra, a Warfield group, studied by , is a summand of a simply presented abelian group. References Group theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesocrystal
A mesocrystal is a material structure composed of numerous small crystals of similar size and shape, which are arranged in a regular periodic pattern. It is a form of oriented aggregation, where the small crystals have parallel crystallographic alignment but are spatially separated. When the sizes of individual compo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naimark%20equivalence
In mathematical representation theory, two representations of a group on topological vector spaces are called Naimark equivalent (named after Mark Naimark) if there is a closed bijective linear map between dense subspaces preserving the group action. References Representation theory Equivalence (mathematics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Magick
Mathematical Magick (complete title: Mathematical Magick, or, The wonders that may by performed by mechanical geometry.) is a treatise by the English clergyman, natural philosopher, polymath and author John Wilkins (1614 – 1672). It was first published in 1648 in London, another edition was printed in 1680 and further ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amie%20Wilkinson
Amie Wilkinson (born 1968) is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. Her research topics include smooth dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory, and semisimple Lie groups. Wilkinson, in collaboration with Christian Bonatti and Sylvain Crovisier, partially resolved t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TamoGraph%20Site%20Survey
TamoGraph Site Survey is an application for performing Wi-Fi site surveys and RF planning. It supports 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11n, 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g wireless networks. TamoGraph is developed by TamoSoft, a privately held New Zealand company founded in 1998 that specializes in network analysis software. Fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoLumens
NanoLumens Inc. is a private American corporation that designs and manufactures digital LED displays. Since its founding in 2006, it has designed products that target the market gap between consumer flat panel displays and commercial outdoor LED billboards in indoor spaces. It is best known for creating the world's fir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyron
Zyron is a registered trademark for specialty gases marketed to the global electronics industry by DuPont. History Freon was used as the original brand name for electronic gases produced and marketed by DuPont. With the depletion of the ozone layer and the subsequent phase-out of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gas compoun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertens-stable%20equilibrium
In game theory, Mertens stability is a solution concept used to predict the outcome of a non-cooperative game. A tentative definition of stability was proposed by Elon Kohlberg and Jean-François Mertens for games with finite numbers of players and strategies. Later, Mertens proposed a stronger definition that was elabo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennot%27s%20geometric%20construction
In mathematics, Viennot's geometric construction (named after Xavier Gérard Viennot) gives a diagrammatic interpretation of the Robinson–Schensted correspondence in terms of shadow lines. It has a generalization to the Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence, which is known as the matrix-ball construction. The constr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20testing
Random testing is a black-box software testing technique where programs are tested by generating random, independent inputs. Results of the output are compared against software specifications to verify that the test output is pass or fail. In case of absence of specifications the exceptions of the language are used whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud9%20IDE
Cloud9 IDE is an Online IDE (integrated development environment), published as open source from version 2.0, until version 3.0. It supports multiple programming languages, including C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript with Node.js, and Go. It is written almost entirely in JavaScript, and uses Node.js on the ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allorecognition
Allorecognition is the ability of an individual organism to distinguish its own tissues from those of another. It manifests itself in the recognition of antigens expressed on the surface of cells of non-self origin. Allorecognition has been described in nearly all multicellular phyla. This article focuses on alloreco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20replacement
In logic, a rule of replacement is a transformation rule that may be applied to only a particular segment of an expression. A logical system may be constructed so that it uses either axioms, rules of inference, or both as transformation rules for logical expressions in the system. Whereas a rule of inference is always ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%E2%80%93Fahroo%20lemma
Named after I. Michael Ross and F. Fahroo, the Ross–Fahroo lemma is a fundamental result in optimal control theory. It states that dualization and discretization are, in general, non-commutative operations. The operations can be made commutative by an application of the covector mapping principle. Description of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimodal%20thresholding
Unimodal thresholding is an algorithm for automatic image threshold selection in image processing. Most threshold selection algorithms assume that the intensity histogram is multi-modal; typically bimodal. However, some types of images are essentially unimodal since a much larger proportion of just one class of pixels ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity%20triangle
In turbomachinery, a velocity triangle or a velocity diagram is a triangle representing the various components of velocities of the working fluid in a turbomachine. Velocity triangles may be drawn for both the inlet and outlet sections of any turbomachine. The vector nature of velocity is utilized in the triangles, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20CoSSMos
The RNA Characterization of Secondary Structure Motifs database (RNA CoSSMos) is a repository of three-dimensional nucleic acid PDB structures containing secondary structure motifs ( loops, hairpin loops ...). See also Nucleic acid secondary structure References External links https://www.rnacossmos.com/ Biologic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-in-the-loop
User-in-the-Loop (UIL) refers to the notion that a technology (e.g., network) can improve a performance objective by engaging its human users (Layer 8). The idea can be applied in various technological fields. UIL assumes that human users of a network are among the smartest but also most unpredictable units of that net...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarason%20interpolation%20theorem
In mathematics complex analysis, the Sarason interpolation theorem, introduced by , is a generalization of the Caratheodory interpolation theorem and Nevanlinna–Pick interpolation. References Theorems in analysis Interpolation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Scott%20%28computer%20architect%29
Steve Scott is a computer architect who currently serves as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Scott was previously a Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Cray Inc., Principal Engineer at Google and the chief technology officer for Nvidia's Tesla business unit. Scott was employed by Cray Research,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Research%20Institute%20of%20Nutrition
Formerly known as the Scientific Research Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, the Institute of Nutrition is a Federal Russian state-owned budgetary entity. It is currently located in Moscow, Russia. History In 1927, the All-Union Conference on public food service was held in the Russi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling%20%28electronics%29
In electronics, decoupling is the prevention of undesired electrical energy transfer (coupling) between subsystems. A common example is connecting localized decoupling capacitors close to the power leads of integrated circuits to suppress coupling via the power supply connections. These act as a small localized energ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Meteorological%20Data%20Acquisition%20System
AMeDAS (Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System), commonly known in Japanese as "アメダス" (amedasu), is a high-resolution surface observation network developed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) used for gathering regional weather data and verifying forecast performance. The system began operating on 1 Nove...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Topology
The Journal of Topology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes papers of high quality and significance in topology, geometry, and adjacent areas of mathematics. It was established in 2008, when the Editorial Board of Topology resigned due to the increasing costs of Elsevier's subscriptions. The journal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smale%20conjecture
The Smale conjecture, named after Stephen Smale, is the statement that the diffeomorphism group of the 3-sphere has the homotopy-type of its isometry group, the orthogonal group O(4). It was proved in 1983 by Allen Hatcher. Equivalent statements There are several equivalent statements of the Smale conjecture. One i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratingent%20cone
In mathematics, the paratingent cone and contingent cone were introduced by , and are closely related to tangent cones. Definition Let be a nonempty subset of a real normed vector space . Let some be a point in the closure of . An element is called a tangent (or tangent vector) to at , if there is a sequence of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Communications%20Service%20of%20Russia
The Special Communications and Information Service of the Federal Protective Service of the Russian Federation (Spetssvyaz, Spetssvyaz; ) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of The Federal Protective Service of Russia responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyss%20Box
The Abyss Box is a vessel containing of water at the very high pressure of 18 megapascals to simulate the natural underwater environment of bathyal fauna living at about below the surface. It is on display at Oceanopolis aquarium in Brest, France. It was designed by French researcher Bruce Shillito from Pierre and Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema%20migration
In software engineering, a schema migration (also database migration, database change management) refers to the management of version-controlled, incremental and reversible changes to relational database schemas. A schema migration is performed on a database whenever it is necessary to update or revert that database's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard%E2%80%93Lefschetz%20theory
In mathematics, Picard–Lefschetz theory studies the topology of a complex manifold by looking at the critical points of a holomorphic function on the manifold. It was introduced by Émile Picard for complex surfaces in his book , and extended to higher dimensions by . It is a complex analog of Morse theory that studies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite%20compositions%20of%20analytic%20functions
In mathematics, infinite compositions of analytic functions (ICAF) offer alternative formulations of analytic continued fractions, series, products and other infinite expansions, and the theory evolving from such compositions may shed light on the convergence/divergence of these expansions. Some functions can actually ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borjgali
Borjgali (; also Borjgala or Borjgalo; Borçgali in Laz) is a Georgian symbol of the Sun and eternity. The borjgali is often represented with seven rotating wings over the tree of life which can be used to create various shapes and variations and can be considered as a main symbol of Georgian culture. Etymology The te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s%20Pythagorean%20right%20triangle%20proposal
Gauss's Pythagorean right triangle proposal is an idea attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss for a method to signal extraterrestrial beings by constructing an immense right triangle and three squares on the surface of the Earth. The shapes would be a symbolic representation of the Pythagorean theorem, large enough to be s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Downey
Rodney Graham Downey (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand and Australian mathematician and computer scientist, an emeritus professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is known for his work in mathematical logic and computational complexity theory, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioproducts%20engineering
Bioproducts engineering or bioprocess engineering refers to engineering of bio-products from renewable bioresources. This pertains to the design and development of processes and technologies for the sustainable manufacture of bioproducts (materials, chemicals and energy) from renewable biological resources. Bioproduct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verinice
Verinice is a free and open source information security management system (ISMS) application which can help in creating and maintaining systems for information and security management. Verinice was written and is maintained primarily by a German company named SerNet Service Network GmbH. Verinice is licensed under GN...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20structure
In mathematics and computer science, an event structure represents a set of events, some of which can only be performed after another (there is a dependency between the events) and some of which might not be performed together (there is a conflict between the events). Formal definition An event structure consists of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Software%20Foundation%20Tamil%20Nadu
Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu (or FSFTN in short) () is a not-for-profit organisation formed in 2008 as a part of Free Software Movement of India (FSMI). This organisation is a social movement that works towards enlightening the masses with the essence of free software and to liberate knowledge. FSFTN organises d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20Greene
Curtis Greene is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic combinatorics. He is the J. McLain King Professor of Mathematics at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Greene did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, and earned his Ph.D. in 1969 from the California Institute of Technology under the sup...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20microbiological%20risk%20assessment
Quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA) is the process of estimating the risk from exposure to microorganisms. The process involves measuring known microbial pathogens or indicators and running a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the risk of transfer. If a dose-response model is available for the microbe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet. Historically, the term has been used interchangeably to refer to both the aggregation of this information from public databases and social media websites (like Facebook),...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNK%20operating%20system
Compute Node Kernel (CNK) is the node level operating system for the IBM Blue Gene series of supercomputers. Operating system The compute nodes of the IBM Blue Gene family of supercomputers run CNK, a lightweight kernel that runs on each node and supports one application running for one user on that node. To maximize ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerkit
Hammerkit is a company which has developed a platform as a service (PaaS) which allows web formats and repeatable solutions to be created and distributed globally using its CloudStore. History Hammerkit was a piece of software first developed by Jani Vähäsöyrinki, Heikki Luhtala, and Ari Tenhunen between 2002 and 200...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20coil%20index
Random coil index (RCI) predicts protein flexibility by calculating an inverse weighted average of backbone secondary chemical shifts and predicting values of model-free order parameters as well as per-residue RMSD of NMR and molecular dynamics ensembles from this parameter. The key advantages of this protocol over e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfinity%20Streampix
Xfinity Streampix is an online on demand media streaming service offered by Comcast that launched on February 23, 2012, with shows from ABC, NBC, Scripps, Cookie Jar and Lionsgate as well as movies from Sony Pictures, Universal, Snag, Disney and Warner Bros. The service is designed to compete with other online streami...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BleachBit
BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner, privacy manager, and computer system optimizer. The BleachBit source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. History BleachBit was first publicly released on 24 December 2008 for Linux systems. The 0.2.1 release created some controversy b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20AMD%20CPU%20microarchitectures
The following is a list of AMD CPU microarchitectures. Nomenclature Historically, AMD's CPU families were given a "K-number" (which originally stood for Kryptonite, an allusion to the Superman comic book character's fatal weakness) starting with their first internal x86 CPU design, the K5, to represent generational c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20cover
In algebra, a flat cover of a module M over a ring is a surjective homomorphism from a flat module F to M that is in some sense minimal. Any module over a ring has a flat cover that is unique up to (non-unique) isomorphism. Flat covers are in some sense dual to injective hulls, and are related to projective covers and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesam%20%28structural%20analysis%20software%29
Sesam is a software suite for structural and hydrodynamic analysis of ships and offshore structures. It is based on the displacement formulation of the Finite Element Method. The first version of Sesam was developed at NTH, now Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU Trondheim), in the mid-1960s. Sesam wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associazione%20di%20Ingegneria%20OffShore%20e%20Marina
The Associazione di Ingegneria Offshore e Marina (AIOM) is an Italian non-profit association that seeks to further the knowledge and study of marine engineering. The association was founded in Milan in 1982 to create a forum for scientists and engineers involved in maritime professional activities. AIOM organizes congr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benitec%20Biopharma
Benitec Biopharma Ltd () is an Australian biotechnology company founded in 1997. It is engaged in the development of gene-silencing therapies for the treatment of chronic and life-threatening diseases using DNA-directed RNA interference (ddRNAi) technology. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy%20of%20beliefs
Construction by Jean-François Mertens and Zamir implementing with John Harsanyi's proposal to model games with incomplete information by supposing that each player is characterized by a privately known type that describes his feasible strategies and payoffs as well as a probability distribution over other players' typ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20heritability%20problem
The missing heritability problem is the fact that single genetic variations cannot account for much of the heritability of diseases, behaviors, and other phenotypes. This is a problem that has significant implications for medicine, since a person's susceptibility to disease may depend more on the combined effect of all...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-life%20mortality%20deceleration
In gerontology, late-life mortality deceleration is the disputed theory that hazard rate increases at a decreasing rate in late life rather than increasing exponentially as in the Gompertz law. Late-life mortality deceleration is a well-established phenomenon in insects, which often spend much of their lives in a cons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyosome
A karyosome or karyosphere is a dense bundle of chromatin inside the nucleus of a cell within an organism. These bundles are joined together in a limited nuclear volume, but this only happens when the cell is not undergoing meiotic division. Research suggests that within its bundles there is an absence of RNA synthesis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20friction
Boundary friction occurs when a surface is at least partially wet, but not so lubricated that there is no direct friction between two surfaces. The Effect When two consistent, unlubricated surfaces slide against each other, there is a specific, predictable amount of friction that occurs. This amount increases as veloc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChIP-exo
ChIP-exo is a chromatin immunoprecipitation based method for mapping the locations at which a protein of interest (transcription factor) binds to the genome. It is a modification of the ChIP-seq protocol, improving the resolution of binding sites from hundreds of base pairs to almost one base pair. It employs the use o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath%20Project
The Polymath Project is a collaboration among mathematicians to solve important and difficult mathematical problems by coordinating many mathematicians to communicate with each other on finding the best route to the solution. The project began in January 2009 on Timothy Gowers's blog when he posted a problem and asked ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%20complex
In mathematics, the Coxeter complex, named after H. S. M. Coxeter, is a geometrical structure (a simplicial complex) associated to a Coxeter group. Coxeter complexes are the basic objects that allow the construction of buildings; they form the apartments of a building. Construction The canonical linear representation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus%20interconnect
A torus interconnect is a switch-less network topology for connecting processing nodes in a parallel computer system. Introduction In geometry, a torus is created by revolving a circle about an axis coplanar to the circle. While this is a general definition in geometry, the topological properties of this type of shap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labelled%20enumeration%20theorem
In combinatorial mathematics, the labelled enumeration theorem is the counterpart of the Pólya enumeration theorem for the labelled case, where we have a set of labelled objects given by an exponential generating function (EGF) g(z) which are being distributed into n slots and a permutation group G which permutes the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsphere%20%28polyhedra%29
In geometry, the exsphere of a face of a regular polyhedron is the sphere outside the polyhedron which touches the face and the planes defined by extending the adjacent faces outwards. It is tangent to the face externally and tangent to the adjacent faces internally. It is the 3-dimensional equivalent of the excircle....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20shape%20analysis
Spectral shape analysis relies on the spectrum (eigenvalues and/or eigenfunctions) of the Laplace–Beltrami operator to compare and analyze geometric shapes. Since the spectrum of the Laplace–Beltrami operator is invariant under isometries, it is well suited for the analysis or retrieval of non-rigid shapes, i.e. benda...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamount%20%28operating%20system%29
Catamount is an operating system for supercomputers. Catamount is a lightweight kernel that provides basic functionality and aims for efficiency. The roots of Catamount go back to 1991 when SUNMOS was developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico as a lightweight operating system. The Cra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20pattern
The Turing pattern is a concept introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" which describes how patterns in nature, such as stripes and spots, can arise naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state. The pattern arises due to Turing instabi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer%20operating%20system
A supercomputer operating system is an operating system intended for supercomputers. Since the end of the 20th century, supercomputer operating systems have undergone major transformations, as fundamental changes have occurred in supercomputer architecture. While early operating systems were custom tailored to each sup...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Wynn
Karen Wynn is an artist and a Canadian and American Yale University Professor Emerita of psychology and cognitive science. She was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up on the Canadian prairies in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her research explores the cognitive capacities of infants and young children. She directed for over 3 de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endospore%20staining
Endospore staining is a technique used in bacteriology to identify the presence of endospores in a bacterial sample. Within bacteria, endospores are protective structures used to survive extreme conditions, including high temperatures making them highly resistant to chemicals. Endospores contain little or no ATP which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windwatt
A Windwatt is a mudflat exposed as a result of wind action on water. They occur especially in the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park on Germany's Baltic Sea coast. The term is German. Unlike the Wadden Sea along Europe's North Sea coast, the shallow water zones of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20curve%20scheduling
In parallel processing, the Hilbert curve scheduling method turns a multidimensional task allocation problem into a one-dimensional space filling problem using Hilbert curves, assigning related tasks to locations with higher levels of proximity. Other space filling curves may also be used in various computing applicati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRIMEHPC%20FX10
The PRIMEHPC FX10 is a supercomputer designed and manufactured by Fujitsu. Announced on 7 November 2011 at the Supercomputing Conference, the PRIMEHPC FX10 is an improved and commercialized version of the K computer, which was the first supercomputer to obtain more than 10 PFLOPS on the LINPACK benchmark. In its larges...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral%20bus
In computing, a peripheral bus is a computer bus designed to support computer peripherals like printers and hard drives. The term is generally used to refer to systems that offer support for a wide variety of devices, like Universal Serial Bus, as opposed to those that are dedicated to specific types of hardware. Seria...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeed
The Nikon Expeed image/video processors (often styled EXPEED) are media processors for Nikon's digital cameras. They perform a large number of tasks: Bayer filtering, demosaicing, image sensor corrections/dark-frame subtraction, image noise reduction, image sharpening, image scaling, gamma correction, image enhancement...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20G.%20Mezey
Paul G. Mezey is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematical chemist. He was the Canada Research Chair in Scientific Modeling and Simulation in the Department of Chemistry at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He retired from Memorial University in 2018. Biography Mezey earned a Master's degrees in chemistry, a Ph.D. in C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial%20credentialing%20and%20exams
The actuarial credentialing and exam process usually requires passing a rigorous series of professional examinations, most often taking several years in total, before one can become recognized as a credentialed actuary. In some countries, such as Denmark, most study takes place in a university setting. In others, such ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20masonry
Hybrid masonry is a new type of building system that uses engineered, reinforced masonry to brace frame structures. Typically, hybrid masonry is implemented with concrete masonry panels used to brace steel frame structures. The basic concept is to attach a reinforced concrete masonry panel to a structural steel frame s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Bootable%20Image
Network Bootable Image (NBI) is a legacy format that wraps operating system images to makes it possible for Etherboot to load the images directly. NBI format is able to combine kernel, file system and various boot parameters, such as location of remote file system or server IP address, into one bootable file. Referenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WakaWaka
WakaWaka is a global social enterprise that developed and sold portable solar products for people without access to electricity. The company was founded in 2012 by Maurits Groen and Camille van Gestel. WakaWaka means “shine bright” in Swahili. For every WakaWaka purchased, one solar light was donated to a family living...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad-channel%20architecture
Quad-channel computer memory is a memory bus technology used by AMD Socket G34 released on May, 2010, with Opteron 6100-series "Magny-Cours" (45 nm) and later by the Intel X79 chipset released on November, 2011, for LGA2011-based Core i7 CPUs utilizing the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. It is the successor of the tri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Conference%20on%20Computational%20Biology
The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) is a scientific meeting on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology. It covers a wide spectrum of disciplines, including bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, computational structural biology, and systems biology. ECCB is organized annua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRESENT
PRESENT is a lightweight block cipher, developed by the Orange Labs (France), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and the Technical University of Denmark in 2007. PRESENT was designed by Andrey Bogdanov, Lars R. Knudsen, Gregor Leander, Christof Paar, Axel Poschmann, Matthew J. B. Robshaw, Yannick Seurin, and C. Vikkelso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Symposium%20on%20Microarchitecture
The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture® (MICRO) is an annual academic conference on microarchitecture, generally viewed as the top-tier academic conference on computer architecture. It is not to be confused with a micro-conference. Particularly within the domains of microarchitecture and Code generat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Clifford%20algebra
In mathematics, a Generalized Clifford algebra (GCA) is a unital associative algebra that generalizes the Clifford algebra, and goes back to the work of Hermann Weyl, who utilized and formalized these clock-and-shift operators introduced by J. J. Sylvester (1882), and organized by Cartan (1898) and Schwinger. Clo...