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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman%27s%20conjecture
Kalman's conjecture or Kalman problem is a disproved conjecture on absolute stability of nonlinear control system with one scalar nonlinearity, which belongs to the sector of linear stability. Kalman's conjecture is a strengthening of Aizerman's conjecture and is a special case of Markus–Yamabe conjecture. This con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogeny%20%28psychoanalysis%29
Phylogeny in psychoanalysis is the study of the whole family or species of an organism in order to better understand the pre-history of it. It might have an unconscious influence on a patient, according to Sigmund Freud. After the possibilities of ontogeny, which is the development of the whole organism viewed from the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCloud%20Memory
HyperCloud Memory (HCDIMM) is a DDR3 SDRAM dual in-line memory module (DIMM) used in server applications requiring a great deal of memory. It was initially launched in 2009 at the International Supercomputing Conference by Irvine, California, based company, Netlist Inc. It was never a JEDEC standard, and the main serve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric%20Connect
Fabric Connect, in computer networking usage, is the name used by Extreme Networks to market an extended implementation of the IEEE 802.1aq and IEEE 802.1ah-2008 standards. The Fabric Connect technology was originally developed by the Enterprise Solutions R&D department within Nortel Networks. In 2009, Avaya, Inc acq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopharmacology
Autopharmacology relates to the scientific study of the regulation of body functions by the activity of its naturally existent (or endogenous) chemical factors of the tissues. A more restricted definition would consider substances that were first identified as external agents which had a documented action on physiologi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Women%27s%20Archive
The Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to document "Jewish women's stories, elevate their voices, and inspire them to be agents of change." JWA was founded by Gail Twersky Reimer in 1995 in Brookline, Massachusetts with the goal of using the Internet to increase awarene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Krieger
Michel Krieger (born March 4, 1986) is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom, and served as its CTO. Instagram expanded from a few million users to 1 billion monthly active users while Krieger served as CTO. On September 24, 2018, it was announced tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800%20MHz%20frequency%20band
The 800 MHz frequency band is a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, or frequency band, that encompasses 790–862 MHz. Being a part of the spectrum known as "UHF Bands IV and V" (i.e. 470 MHz to 862 MHz) it was allocated by the ITU to Broadcasting as the primary user in Region 1 and was used for analogue television...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability%20of%20K-type%20main-sequence%20star%20systems
K-type main-sequence stars, also known as orange dwarfs, may be candidates for supporting extraterrestrial life. These stars are known as "Goldilocks stars" as they emit enough radiation in the non-UV ray spectrum to provide a temperature that allows liquid water to exist on the surface of a planet; they also remain st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathymodiolus%20thermophilus
Bathymodiolus thermophilus is a species of large, deep water mussel, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae, the true mussels. The species was discovered at abyssal depths when submersible vehicles such as DSV Alvin began exploring the deep ocean. It occurs on the sea bed, often in great numbers, close to hyd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyptogena%20magnifica
Calyptogena magnifica is a species of giant white clam found clustered around hydrothermal vents at abyssal depths in the Pacific Ocean. Description The systematics of the family Vesicomyidae is unclear because of the small number of specimens collected, the variability between specimens of the same species and their ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YADIFA
YADIFA (an acronym for Yet Another DNS Implementation For All) is a lightweight authoritative name server, written in C, with DNSSEC capabilities. It was developed by EURid. See also Comparison of DNS server software References External links EURid Official Website DNS software Free network-related software DNS...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons%E2%80%93Hawking%20space
In mathematical physics, a Gibbons–Hawking space, named after Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking, is essentially a hyperkähler manifold with an extra U(1) symmetry. (In general, Gibbons–Hawking metrics are a subclass of hyperkähler metrics.) Gibbons–Hawking spaces, especially ambipolar ones, find an application in the st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF%20television%20broadcasting
UHF television broadcasting is the use of ultra high frequency (UHF) radio for over-the-air transmission of television signals. UHF frequencies are used for both analog and digital television broadcasts. UHF channels are typically given higher channel numbers, like the US arrangement with VHF channels (initially) 1 to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20RT
Windows RT is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft. It is a version of Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 built for the 32-bit ARM architecture (ARMv7). First unveiled in January 2011 at Consumer Electronics Show, the Windows RT 8 operating system was officially launched alongside Windows 8 on October 26, 2012, with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary%20epidemiological%20reconnaissance
Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance, synonym epidemiological reconnaissance is a literal name of a concept and routine of finding out disease potential on a territory of arrival of major contingent. . This is a kind of medical reconnaissance, process of information gathering on possible infectious diseases' origi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20industry%20in%20Chennai
Chennai is the third largest software exporter in India, next only to Bangalore and Hyderabad. India's largest IT park is housed at Chennai. Software exports from Tamil Nadu during 2017–2018 rose 8.6% per cent to touch 1,11,179 crore, involving a workforce of 780,000, and the city is the hub for deep tech startup compa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Object%20Server
The Media Object Server (MOS) protocol allows newsroom computer systems (NCS) to communicate using a standard protocol with video servers, audio servers, still stores, and character generators for broadcast production. The MOS protocol is based on XML. It enables the exchange of the following types of messages: Desc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate%20%28structure%29
A plate is a structural element which is characterized by a three-dimensional solid whose thickness is very small when compared with other dimensions. The effects of the loads that are expected to be applied on it only generate stresses whose resultants are, in practical terms, exclusively normal to the element's thic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20%28structure%29
A shell is a three-dimensional solid structural element whose thickness is very small compared to its other dimensions. It is characterized in structural terms by mid-plane stress which is both coplanar and normal to the surface. A shell can be derived from a plate in two steps: by initially forming the middle surface ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCB%20Africa%20ASBCB%20Conference%20on%20Bioinformatics
The ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics is a biennial academic conference on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology, organized by the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB). The conference was first held in 2007 as the "ASBCB Conference on the Bioinformatics of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olavius%20algarvensis
Olavius algarvensis is a species of gutless oligochaete worm in the family Tubificidae which depends on symbiotic bacteria for its nutrition. Habitats and research Olavius algarvensis lives in coastal sediments in the Mediterranean. It was first described from the Algarve Coast of Portugal, but has also been found els...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation%20integrator
An automation integrator is a systems integrator—a company or individual—who makes different versions of automation hardware and software work together, generally combining several subsystems to work together as one large system. The title may refer to those who only integrate hardware, although these will often work...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV-Comparatives
AV-Comparatives is an Austrian independent organization that tests and assesses antivirus software, regularly releasing charts and reports that are freely available to the public and the media. Antivirus vendors have to meet various requirements regarding trustworthiness and reliability in order to take part in the tes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yal%C3%A7%C4%B1n%20Ayasl%C4%B1
Yalçın Ayaslı (born 1946) is a Turkish-American business executive. Biography A graduate of the Ankara Atatürk High School, Ayaslı received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University Electrical Engineering Department in 1968. Yalcin Ayasli received his M.S.E.E. and Sc.D. degrees from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20rigidity
In the mathematical field of topology, a manifold M is called topologically rigid if every manifold homotopically equivalent to M is also homeomorphic to M. Motivation A central problem in topology is determining when two spaces are the same i.e. homeomorphic or diffeomorphic. Constructing a morphism explicitly is al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction%20tester
A multifunction tester or MFT is an electronic device used by electricians to test electrical circuits that use the "low" and "extra-low voltages" typically used by consumers in domestic, commercial and agricultural settings. Multifunction testers are able to perform continuity tests (or low ohms resistance tests) an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%20modeling
Orbit modeling is the process of creating mathematical models to simulate motion of a massive body as it moves in orbit around another massive body due to gravity. Other forces such as gravitational attraction from tertiary bodies, air resistance, solar pressure, or thrust from a propulsion system are typically modeled...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability%20goals
Tools, devices or software (as diverse as a TV remote control, the interface of an oven, or a word processor) must be evaluated before their release on the market from different points of view such as their technical properties or their usability. Usability evaluation allows assessing whether the product under evaluat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologists%27%20assistant
A pathologists’ assistant (PA) is a physician extender whose expertise lies in gross examination of surgical specimens as well as performing forensic, medicolegal, and hospital autopsies. General overview PAs work under the indirect or direct supervision of a board certified anatomical pathologist, who ultimately ren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s%20conjecture
In mathematics, Gray's conjecture is a conjecture made by Brayton Gray in 1984 about maps between loop spaces of spheres. It was later proved by John Harper. References Algebraic topology Conjectures that have been proved
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitter%20cell
Glitter cells (also called Sternheimer-Malbin positive cells) are polymorphonuclear leukocyte neutrophils with granules that show a Brownian movement and that are found in the urine, most commonly associated with urinary tract infections or pyelonephritis and especially prevalent under conditions of hypotonic urine (sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Mills%20equations
In physics and mathematics, and especially differential geometry and gauge theory, the Yang–Mills equations are a system of partial differential equations for a connection on a vector bundle or principal bundle. They arise in physics as the Euler–Lagrange equations of the Yang–Mills action functional. They have also fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20morphological%20plasticity
Bacterial morphological plasticity refers to changes in the shape and size that bacterial cells undergo when they encounter stressful environments. Although bacteria have evolved complex molecular strategies to maintain their shape, many are able to alter their shape as a survival strategy in response to protist preda...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Kleinberg
Robert David Kleinberg (also referred to as Bobby Kleinberg) is an American theoretical computer scientist and professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Early life Robert Kleinberg was one of the finalists at the 1989 Mathcounts. He was a member of the 1991 and 1992 USA teams in the International Mathematic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliogenesis
Ciliogenesis is defined as the building of the cell's antenna (primary cilia) or extracellular fluid mediation mechanism (motile cilium). It includes the assembly and disassembly of the cilia during the cell cycle. Cilia are important organelles of cells and are involved in numerous activities such as cell signaling,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise%20%28mathematics%29
A mathematical exercise is a routine application of algebra or other mathematics to a stated challenge. Mathematics teachers assign mathematical exercises to develop the skills of their students. Early exercises deal with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integers. Extensive courses of exercises in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle-sensitive%20pixel
An angle-sensitive pixel (ASP) is a CMOS sensor with a sensitivity to incoming light that is sinusoidal in incident angle. Principles of operation ASPs are typically composed of two gratings (a diffraction grating and an analyzer grating) above a single photodiode. ASPs exploit the moire effect and the Talbot effect ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminal%20RNase
Bovine seminal RNase (BS-RNase) is a member of the ribonuclease superfamily produced by the bovine seminal vesicles. This enzyme can not be differentiated from its members distinctly since there are more features that this enzyme shares with its family members than features that it possess alone. The research on the qu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20of%20congruences
In mathematics, a congruence is an equivalence relation on the integers. The following sections list important or interesting prime-related congruences. Table of congruences characterizing special primes Other prime-related congruences There are other prime-related congruences that provide necessary and sufficient ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blahut%E2%80%93Arimoto%20algorithm
The term Blahut–Arimoto algorithm is often used to refer to a class of algorithms for computing numerically either the information theoretic capacity of a channel, the rate-distortion function of a source or a source encoding (i.e. compression to remove the redundancy). They are iterative algorithms that eventually con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-construction%20services
Pre-construction services are services that are offered to support owners, architects, and engineers in making decisions. They are used in planning a construction project before the actual construction begins. The stage where these services are offered is called pre-construction or "pre-con". Overview In the long-esta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Products%20of%20conception
Products of conception, abbreviated POC, is a medical term used for the tissue derived from the union of an egg and a sperm. It encompasses anembryonic gestation (blighted ovum) which does not have a viable embryo. In the context of tissue from a dilation and curettage, the presence of POC essentially excludes an ecto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt%E2%80%93Kalman%20filter
The Schmidt–Kalman Filter is a modification of the Kalman filter for reducing the dimensionality of the state estimate, while still considering the effects of the additional state in the calculation of the covariance matrix and the Kalman gains. A common application is to account for the effects of nuisance parameters ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive%20data%20structure
In computer science a retroactive data structure is a data structure which supports efficient modifications to a sequence of operations that have been performed on the structure. These modifications can take the form of retroactive insertion, deletion or updating an operation that was performed at some time in the past...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotunda%20%28geometry%29
In geometry, a rotunda is any member of a family of dihedral-symmetric polyhedra. They are similar to a cupola but instead of alternating squares and triangles, it alternates pentagons and triangles around an axis. The pentagonal rotunda is a Johnson solid. Other forms can be generated with dihedral symmetry and disto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenGIS
GenGIS merges geographic, ecological and phylogenetic biodiversity data in a single interactive visualization and analysis environment. A key feature of GenGIS is the testing of geographic axes that can correspond to routes of migration or gradients that influence community similarity. Data can also be explored using g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositional%20domain
A compositional domain in genetics is a region of DNA with a distinct guanine (G) and cytosine (C) G-C and C-G content (collectively GC content). The homogeneity of compositional domains is compared to that of the chromosome on which they reside. As such, compositional domains can be homogeneous or nonhomogeneous domai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20All-Stars%20Battle%20Royale
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a 2012 crossover fighting video game developed by SuperBot Entertainment, in conjunction with Bluepoint Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It features various characters drawn from different PlayStation video game franchises competing against each other in multip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo%20Boo%20%28dog%29
Boo Boo was the world's smallest dog from 2007 to 2013. She stood at a height of 9.65 cm, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Boo Boo was replaced by Milly, another Chihuahua, as the World's Smallest Dog. Other contenders for the record included Beyonce, a Dachshund-Chihuahua mix, and Scooter, a Maltese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofunctionalization
Neofunctionalization, one of the possible outcomes of functional divergence, occurs when one gene copy, or paralog, takes on a totally new function after a gene duplication event. Neofunctionalization is an adaptive mutation process; meaning one of the gene copies must mutate to develop a function that was not present...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrandSafway
BrandSafway is a construction and civil engineering company in the United States. BrandSafway has customers in 30 countries and has annual sales of 5 billion per year. The company provides Safety equipment to businesses around the world. They have 114 locations in the United States and Canada. The company has a total o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing%20just-in-time%20compilation
Tracing just-in-time compilation is a technique used by virtual machines to optimize the execution of a program at runtime. This is done by recording a linear sequence of frequently executed operations, compiling them to native machine code and executing them. This is opposed to traditional just-in-time (JIT) compilers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping%20the%20Practice%20and%20Profession%20of%20Sculpture%20in%20Britain%20and%20Ireland%201851%E2%80%931951
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 (Mapping Sculpture) is an online database of sculptors and their works. It is the result of a three-year research programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. The project was a partnership between...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration%20%28virtualization%29
In the context of virtualization, where a guest simulation of an entire computer is actually merely a software virtual machine (VM) running on a host computer under a hypervisor, migration (also known as teleportation, also known as live migration) is the process by which a running virtual machine is moved from one phy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional%20sampling
In digital signal processing, multidimensional sampling is the process of converting a function of a multidimensional variable into a discrete collection of values of the function measured on a discrete set of points. This article presents the basic result due to Petersen and Middleton on conditions for perfectly recon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%C3%B3filo%20Tabanera
Teófilo Tabanera (1909–1981) was an Argentine engineer and air force officer and an instrumental figure in space exploration. Biography Born in 1909 in the province of Mendoza, Tabanera moved to the capital of the province of Buenos Aires to study at the National University of La Plata, where he graduated in 1936. He...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotin%20PEG2%20amine
Biotin PEG2 amine (biotine PEG2 amine) is a water-soluble pegylated biotin derivative used as linker in biotechnology and molecular biology applications. Uses Biotin PEG2 amine is used as a linker or cross linker. This allows to attach specific compounds to proteins or to antibodies. A common use of biotin PEG2 amin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono-BOC-cystamine
Mono-BOC-cystamine (mono BOC protected cystamine) is a tert-butyloxycarbonyl (BOC) derivative of cystamine used as crosslinker in biotechnology and molecular biology applications. This compound was originally reported by Hansen et al. Uses The disulfide chain allows the mono-BOC-cystamine to be easily cleaved, allowi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20Eater%202
is a video game developed by Shift and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment on November 14, 2013, in Japan for PlayStation Portable. It is a sequel to God Eater. It features a new setting, as well as new protagonists, new monsters, and new weapons. An expansion titled God Eater 2: Rage Burst was released in Japan on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, Vincent's theorem—named after Alexandre Joseph Hidulphe Vincent—is a theorem that isolates the real roots of polynomials with rational coefficients. Even though Vincent's theorem is the basis of the fastest method for the isolation of the real roots of polynomials, it was almost totally forgotten, havi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman%E2%80%93Kolmogorov%20equation
In mathematics, specifically in the theory of Markovian stochastic processes in probability theory, the Chapman–Kolmogorov equation(CKE) is an identity relating the joint probability distributions of different sets of coordinates on a stochastic process. The equation was derived independently by both the British math...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20invariant%20theory
This page is a glossary of terms in invariant theory. For descriptions of particular invariant rings, see invariants of a binary form, symmetric polynomials. For geometric terms used in invariant theory see the glossary of classical algebraic geometry. Definitions of many terms used in invariant theory can be found...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%E2%80%93Edgeworth%20model
In microeconomics, the Bertrand–Edgeworth model of price-setting oligopoly looks at what happens when there is a homogeneous product (i.e. consumers want to buy from the cheapest seller) where there is a limit to the output of firms which are willing and able to sell at a particular price. This differs from the Bertran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20genome
Bacterial genomes are generally smaller and less variant in size among species when compared with genomes of eukaryotes. Bacterial genomes can range in size anywhere from about 130 kbp to over 14 Mbp. A study that included, but was not limited to, 478 bacterial genomes, concluded that as genome size increases, the numb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodictyon
Collodictyon is a genus of single-celled, omnivorous eukaryotes belonging to the collodictyonids, also known as diphylleids. Due to their mix of cellular components, Collodictyonids do not belong to any well-known kingdom-level grouping of that domain and this makes them distinctive from other families. Recent researc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversed%20edges%20per%20second
The number of traversed edges per second (TEPS) that can be performed by a supercomputer cluster is a measure of both the communications capabilities and computational power of the machine. This is in contrast to the more standard metric of floating-point operations per second (FLOPS), which does not give any weight to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ffler%27s%20medium
Löffler's medium is a special substance used to grow diphtheria bacilli to confirm the diagnosis. History In 1887, Friedrich Loeffler devised a culture medium containing horse serum, meat infusion, and dextrose for use in the cultivation of corynebacteria and for differentiating them from other organisms. Perry and P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelihos%20botnet
The Kelihos botnet, also known as Hlux, is a botnet mainly involved in spamming and the theft of bitcoins. History The Kelihos botnet was first discovered around . Researchers originally suspected having found a new version of either the Storm or Waledac botnet, due to similarities in the modus operandi and source co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogamy%20%28biology%29
Homogamy is used in biology in four separate senses: Inbreeding can be referred to as homogamy. Homogamy refers to the maturation of male and female reproductive organs (of plants) at the same time, which is also known as simultaneous or synchronous hermaphrodism and is the antonym of dichogamy. Many flowers appear to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%20envelope
The Snell envelope, used in stochastics and mathematical finance, is the smallest supermartingale dominating a stochastic process. The Snell envelope is named after James Laurie Snell. Definition Given a filtered probability space and an absolutely continuous probability measure then an adapted process is the Sne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20types%20of%20formally%20designated%20forests
This is a list of types of formally designated forests, as institutionalized around the world. It is organized in three sublists: by forest ownership, protection status, and designated use. By ownership Church forests of Ethiopia - protected sacred forests around rural churches Community forest Community forests i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%20electrodynamics
Weber electrodynamics is a historical alternative to Maxwell electrodynamics developed by Wilhelm Eduard Weber. In this theory, Coulomb's Law becomes velocity dependent. Weber electrodynamics does not describe electromagnetic waves and is incompatible with special relativity. Mathematical description According to Web...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification%20and%20validation%20of%20computer%20simulation%20models
Verification and validation of computer simulation models is conducted during the development of a simulation model with the ultimate goal of producing an accurate and credible model. "Simulation models are increasingly being used to solve problems and to aid in decision-making. The developers and users of these model...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns%20in%20nature
Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. These patterns recur in different contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically. Natural patterns include symmetries, trees, spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tessellations, cracks and stripes. Early Greek philosophers studied patter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three.js
Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface (API) used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL. The source code is hosted in a repository on GitHub. Overview Three.js allows the creation of graphical processing unit (GPU)-accelerated 3D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Lake%20%28Alberta%29
Frank Lake is a restored wetland located east of High River, Alberta, south of Calgary, near Blackie. The lake is controlled by Ducks Unlimited Canada for wildlife management purposes, and is an Important Bird Area and Key Biodiversity Area. It is one of four Alberta lakes with the same name. History Survey reports...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuforia%20Augmented%20Reality%20SDK
Vuforia is an augmented reality software development kit (SDK) for mobile devices that enables the creation of augmented reality applications. It uses computer vision technology to recognize and track planar images and 3D objects in real time. This image registration capability enables developers to position and orient...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20E.%20Muller
David Eugene Muller (November 2, 1924 – April 27, 2008) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Illinois (1953–92), after which he became an emeritus professor, and was an adjunct professor of mathematics at the New Mexico State U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensors%20in%20curvilinear%20coordinates
Curvilinear coordinates can be formulated in tensor calculus, with important applications in physics and engineering, particularly for describing transportation of physical quantities and deformation of matter in fluid mechanics and continuum mechanics. Vector and tensor algebra in three-dimensional curvilinear coordi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sat-IP
SAT>IP (or Sat-IP) specifies an IP-based client–server communication protocol for a TV gateway in which SAT>IP servers, connected to one or more DVB broadcast sources, send the program selected and requested by an SAT>IP client over an IP-based local area network in either unicast for the one requesting client or multi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley-fill%20circuit
A valley-fill circuit is a type of passive power-factor correction (PFC) circuit. For purposes of illustration, a basic full-wave diode-bridge rectifier is shown in the first stage, which converts the AC input voltage to a DC voltage. Operation When the AC voltage is applied, the rectified line voltage is applied acro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20blindness%20effects
There are several psychological and physiological effects that cause blindness to some visual stimulus. Banner blindness or ad blindness, consciously or subconsciously ignoring banner-like advertisements at web pages. Change blindness, the inability to detect some changes in busy scenes. Choice blindness, a result i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdMarketplace
adMarketplace is a search advertising marketplace. The privately held company is headquartered in New York City. adMarketplace introduced an algorithmic bidding solution, BidSmart, for their search advertising platform in early 2014. Search advertising marketplaces represent a sizable but often overlooked segment of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folded%20Reed%E2%80%93Solomon%20code
In coding theory, folded Reed–Solomon codes are like Reed–Solomon codes, which are obtained by mapping Reed–Solomon codewords over a larger alphabet by careful bundling of codeword symbols. Folded Reed–Solomon codes are also a special case of Parvaresh–Vardy codes. Using optimal parameters one can decode with a rat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Ganea%20theorem
In mathematics, particularly in homological algebra and algebraic topology, the Eilenberg–Ganea theorem states for every finitely generated group G with certain conditions on its cohomological dimension (namely ), one can construct an aspherical CW complex X of dimension n whose fundamental group is G. The theorem is n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tamper%20software
Anti-tamper software is software which makes it harder for an attacker to modify it. The measures involved can be passive such as obfuscation to make reverse engineering difficult or active tamper-detection techniques which aim to make a program malfunction or not operate at all if modified. It is essentially tamper re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronese%20bell%20ringing
Veronese bell ringing is a style of ringing church bells that developed around Verona, Italy, from the eighteenth century. The bells are rung full circle (mouth uppermost to mouth uppermost), being held up by a rope and wheel until a note is required. History Early history In The History of Verona Ludovico Moscardo ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATVOD
The Authority for Television on Demand (ATVOD) was an industry body designated by Ofcom as the "co-regulator" of television on demand (VOD) in the UK from 2010 until 2015. ATVOD was founded following a European Union directive on the regulation of audiovisual media. It was responsible for regulating on-demand services ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%20Sent%20Brandy
Heaven Sent Brandy is the world's smallest dog by length, measuring 15.2 cm (6 in), according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Brandy was bred by Marlene and Matthew Ritzenthaler. Her sire was an AKC registered Chihuahua, Sevenbark Devil's Gold, a UKC Best in Show winner and AKC Champion producer. Her dam is Cre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foswiki
Foswiki is an enterprise wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge base or document management system. Users can create wiki applications using the Topic Markup Language (TML), and developers can extend its functionality with plugins. The Foswiki project was launched in October 2008 when a disput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20distributive%20law
The generalized distributive law (GDL) is a generalization of the distributive property which gives rise to a general message passing algorithm. It is a synthesis of the work of many authors in the information theory, digital communications, signal processing, statistics, and artificial intelligence communities. The la...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC%20573
ARINC 573 is an avionics data bus standard developed by ARINC. It is mostly used with Flight Data Recorder that use 12bit words in continuous data stream encoded in Harvard biphase. See also ARINC 717, a possible successor to Arinc 573 References ARINC standards Serial buses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20by%20AOL
One by AOL, formerly known as Millennial Media, was an advertising company that places display ads on mobile devices (mobile marketing). History One by AOL was founded as Millennial Media in May 2006 by Paul Palmieri and Chris Brandenburg. The company received $64.8M in funding between 2007 and 2011 from venture cap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guruswami%E2%80%93Sudan%20list%20decoding%20algorithm
In coding theory, list decoding is an alternative to unique decoding of error-correcting codes in the presence of many errors. If a code has relative distance , then it is possible in principle to recover an encoded message when up to fraction of the codeword symbols are corrupted. But when error rate is greater than...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Cooperative%20Biodiversity%20Groups
International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (or ICBG) is a program under National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and USAID established in 1993 to promote collaborative research between American universities and research institutions in countries that harbor unique genetic resource in the form of bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremotroph
An extremotroph (from Latin meaning "extreme" and Greek () meaning "food") is an organism that feeds on matter that is not typically considered to be food to most life on Earth. "These anthropocentric definitions that we make of extremophily and extremotrophy focus on a single environmental extreme but many extremoph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM3914
The LM3914 is an integrated circuit (IC), designed by National Semiconductor in the late 1970s, used to operate displays that visually show the magnitude of an analog signal. It can drive up to 10 LEDs, LCDs, or vacuum fluorescent displays on its outputs. The linear scaling of the output thresholds makes the device us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20extractor
Fuzzy extractors are a method that allows biometric data to be used as inputs to standard cryptographic techniques, to enhance computer security. "Fuzzy", in this context, refers to the fact that the fixed values required for cryptography will be extracted from values close to but not identical to the original key, wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20ICBG%20bioprospecting%20controversy
The Maya ICBG bioprospecting controversy took place in 1999–2000, when the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group led by ethnobiologist Dr. Brent Berlin was accused of engaging in unethical forms of bioprospecting (biopiracy) by several NGOs and indigenous organizations. The ICBG had as its aim to document the bi...