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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDR-Klein-Computer | The NDR Klein Computer, abbreviated NKC, was a do-it-yourself computer project from the early 1980s developed by (RDK) and Joachim Arendt. In 1984, the computer was featured in the educational television series NDR-Klein-Computer for NDR-Schulfernsehen (NDR School Television). It was also broadcast on the computer tel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Trogoniformes%20by%20population | This is a list of Trogoniformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. For more information on how these estimates were ascertained, see Wikipedia's articles on population biology and population ecology.
This list is not comprehensive, as not all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tinamiformes%20by%20population | This is a list of Tinamiformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. For more information on how these estimates were ascertained, see Wikipedia's articles on population biology and population ecology.
This list is not comprehensive, as not all T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Struthioniformes%20by%20population | This is a list of Struthioniformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. For more information on how these estimates were ascertained, see Wikipedia's articles on population biology and population ecology.
This list is not comprehensive, as not a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecheap | Namecheap is an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company was founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall and has since grown to become one of the largest independent domain registrars in the world, with over 10 million customers and over 17 million domains under m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20substrate | A neural substrate is a term used in neuroscience to indicate the part of the central nervous system (i.e., brain and spinal cord) that underlies a specific behavior, cognitive process, or psychological state. Neural is an adjective relating to "a nerve or the nervous system", while a substrate is an "underlying substa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europoortkering | The Europoortkering or barrier of the Europoort is a program of engineering works in addition to the Delta Plan, designed to protect the maritime access routes from the port of Rotterdam and thus, the entire South Holland against storms and tides.
The original Delta Plan provided no closure of the Western Scheldt and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20microbial%20identifier | The genomic epidemiological database for global identification of microorganisms or global microbial identifier is a platform for storing whole genome sequencing data of microorganisms, for the identification of relevant genes and for the comparison of genomes to detect and track-and-trace infectious disease outbreaks ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliant%20bonding | Compliant bonding is used to connect gold wires to electrical components such as integrated circuit "chips". It was invented by Alexander Coucoulas in the 1960s. The bond is formed well below the melting point of the mating gold surfaces and is therefore referred to as a solid-state type bond. The compliant bond is fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20cleanup | Code cleanup refers to the act of writing code so that it cleans up leftover data structures and other unwanted materials from memory and the filesystem. It is sometimes treated as a synonym of refactoring code, which involves making the source code itself easier to understand, maintain, and modify.
Examples
C++
In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20software%20and%20protocols%20for%20distributed%20social%20networking | Distributed social network projects generally develop software, protocols, or both.
Projects
Dead or stalled projects
Other federated communication or storage solutions
See also
Comparison of instant messaging protocols
References
Social networks
Distributed computing architecture
Peer-to-peer
Distributed socia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20unit | An order unit is an element of an ordered vector space which can be used to bound all elements from above. In this way (as seen in the first example below) the order unit generalizes the unit element in the reals.
According to H. H. Schaefer, "most of the ordered vector spaces occurring in analysis do not have order u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding%20point | In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, a bounding point of a subset of a vector space is a conceptual extension of the boundary of a set.
Definition
Let be a subset of a vector space . Then is a bounding point for if it is neither an internal point for nor its complement.
References
Mathematical anal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20Poly%28A%29%20Test | The extension Poly(A) Test (ePAT) describes a method to determine the poly(A) tail lengths of mRNA molecules. It was developed and described by A. Jänicke et al. in 2012.
The method consists of three separate steps: in the first step, the poly-adenylated RNA is hybridised to a DNA oligonucleotide featuring a poly-deox... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market%20fragmentation | Fragmentation in a technology market happens when a market is composed of multiple highly-incompatible technologies or technology stacks, forcing prospective buyers of a single product to commit to an entire product ecosystem, rather than maintaining free choice of complementary products and services.
Two common varie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance%20time%20method | The endurance time (ET) method is a dynamic structural analysis procedure for seismic assessment of structures. In this procedure, an intensifying dynamic excitation is used as the loading function. Endurance time method is a time-history based dynamic analysis procedure. An estimate of the structural response at diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua%27s%20identity | In algebra, Hua's identity named after Hua Luogeng, states that for any elements a, b in a division ring,
whenever . Replacing with gives another equivalent form of the identity:
Hua's theorem
The identity is used in a proof of Hua's theorem, which states that if is a function between division rings satisfying
th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Houdini | Project Houdini is a computer program used by the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Although it originally had missteps, it has been credited with helping increase Democratic Party turnout over the 2004 election. It has been compared to ORCA, which failed under similar circumstances for the Mitt Romney's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20logic | Magnetic logic is digital logic made using the non-linear properties of wound ferrite cores. Magnetic logic represents 0 and 1 by magnetising cores clockwise or anticlockwise.
Examples of magnetic logic include core memory. Also, AND, OR, NOT and clocked shift logic gates can be constructed using appropriate windings,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milbeaut | The Socionext Milbeaut image/video processors are media processors in multi-processor system on a chip architecture. Started by Fujitsu with the M-1 Series in 2000 each generation (2013: 7th) has several variants regarding included modules and processor-cores, built for mobile phones, digital compact cameras, MILCs and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crabfish | "The Crabfish" is a ribald humorous folk song of the English oral tradition. It dates back to the seventeenth century, appearing in Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript as a song named "The Sea Crabb" based on an earlier tale. The moral of the story is that one should look in the chamber pot before using it.
Owing to the i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviation%20of%20a%20local%20ring | In commutative algebra, the deviations of a local ring R are certain invariants εi(R) that measure how far the ring is from being regular.
Definition
The deviations εn of a local ring R with residue field k are non-negative integers defined in terms of its Poincaré series P(t) by
The zeroth deviation ε0 is the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonize | Protagonize was an online creative writing community based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It was established in late December 2007. It was owned and operated by Taunt Media. The site catered to both amateur and experienced authors interested in online collaborative creative writing, and in 2016, was home to over 43,800 work... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9n%C3%A1rt%20sphere | A Lénárt sphere is a educational manipulative and writing surface for exploring spherical geometry, invented by Hungarian István Lénárt as a modern replacement for a spherical blackboard. It can be used for visualizing the geometry of points, great and small circles, triangles, polygons, conics, and other objects on a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming, a mirror is a reflection mechanism that is completely decoupled from the object whose structure is being introspected. This is as opposed to traditional reflection, for example in Java, where one introspects an object using methods from the object itself (e.g. getClass()).
Mirrors adhere to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100K%20Pathogen%20Genome%20Project | The 100K Pathogen Genome Project was launched in July 2012 by Bart Weimer (UC Davis) as an academic, public, and private partnership. It aims to sequence the genomes of 100,000 infectious microorganisms to create a database of bacterial genome sequences for use in public health, outbreak detection, and bacterial pathog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochster%E2%80%93Roberts%20theorem | In algebra, the Hochster–Roberts theorem, introduced by Melvin Hochster and Joel L. Roberts in 1974, states that rings of invariants of linearly reductive groups acting on regular rings are Cohen–Macaulay.
In other words, if V is a rational representation of a linearly reductive group G over a field k, then there exis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitol%20botnet | The Nitol botnet mostly involved in spreading malware and distributed denial-of-service attacks.
History
The Nitol Botnet was first discovered around December 2012, with analysis of the botnet indicating that the botnet is mostly prevalent in China where an estimate 85% of the infections are detected. In China the bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebe%20Julie | Loebe Julie (December 10, 1920 - June 7, 2015) was an American engineer who has been credited with inventing the first operational amplifier circuit with differential inputs (1943), a topology which allowed much greater versatility in applications circuits and remains in wide use today.
Career
After earning a BSEE fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20Systems | Mercury Systems is a technology company serving the aerospace and defense industry. It designs, develops and manufactures open architecture computer hardware and software products, including secure embedded processing modules and subsystems, avionics mission computers and displays, rugged secure computer servers, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroAccess%20botnet | ZeroAccess is a Trojan horse computer malware that affects Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is used to download other malware on an infected machine from a botnet while remaining hidden using rootkit techniques.
History and propagation
The ZeroAccess botnet was discovered at least around May 2011. The ZeroAcce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowers%20norm | In mathematics, in the field of additive combinatorics, a Gowers norm or uniformity norm is a class of norms on functions on a finite group or group-like object which quantify the amount of structure present, or conversely, the amount of randomness. They are used in the study of arithmetic progressions in the group. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Jewish%20Montreal | The Museum of Jewish Montreal (MJM) ( (MMJ)) is an online and mobile museum that collects, maps, and presents the history and experiences of the Montreal Jewish community through exhibits, walking tours and through online and mobile technology. It is located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 2010 by Zev Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XC2000 | The Infineon XC2000 family is a 16-bit microcontroller that can be found in automotive applications including transmissions, hybrid applications, driver assistant systems and engine management systems.
Key features
The XC2000 family uses the Infineon proprietary C166 16-bit in a version which also contains a 32-bit M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20scheduler | A network scheduler, also called packet scheduler, queueing discipline (qdisc) or queueing algorithm, is an arbiter on a node in a packet switching communication network. It manages the sequence of network packets in the transmit and receive queues of the protocol stack and network interface controller. There are sever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postglacial%20vegetation | Postglacial vegetation refers to plants that colonize the newly exposed substrate after a glacial retreat. The term "postglacial" typically refers to processes and events that occur after the departure of glacial ice or glacial climates.
Climate Influence
Climate change is the main force behind changes in species dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akka%20%28toolkit%29 | Akka is a source-available toolkit and runtime simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed applications on the JVM. Akka supports multiple programming models for concurrency, but it emphasizes actor-based concurrency, with inspiration drawn from Erlang.
Language bindings exist for both Java and Scala. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20for%20Biotechnology%20and%20Genetic%20Engineering | National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering or NIBGE () is one of the main biotechnology institutes operated by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). It was planned under the auspices of PAEC in 1987 and was formally inaugurated in 1994. It is affiliated to Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Appli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeroid%20syndromes | Progeroid syndromes (PS) are a group of rare genetic disorders that mimic physiological aging, making affected individuals appear to be older than they are. The term progeroid syndrome does not necessarily imply progeria (Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome), which is a specific type of progeroid syndrome.
Progeroid ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity%20learning | Similarity learning is an area of supervised machine learning in artificial intelligence. It is closely related to regression and classification, but the goal is to learn a similarity function that measures how similar or related two objects are. It has applications in ranking, in recommendation systems, visual identit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asigra | Asigra Inc. is a company that produces a cloud backup and recovery software platform known as Asigra Cloud Backup. The company is privately held and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
History
The company was founded in 1986 by David Farajun after a hard-drive failure caused the loss of his company's data. He decide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometria | Photometria is a book on the measurement of light by Johann Heinrich Lambert published in 1760. It established a complete system of photometric quantities and principles; using them to measure the optical properties of materials, quantify aspects of vision, and calculate illumination.
Content of Photometria
Written in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCST | SCST is a GPL licensed SCSI target software stack.
The design goals of this software stack are high performance, high reliability, strict conformance to existing SCSI standards, being easy to extend and easy to use. SCST does not only support multiple SCSI protocols (iSCSI, FC, SRP, ...) but also supports multiple loca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug%20shot%20publishing%20industry | The mugshot publishing industry is a niche market of tabloid journalism in the United States. The industry consists of companies that publish mugshots and booking details of individuals arrested by law enforcement agencies. These companies publish the arrest information in tabloids, through local and multi-jurisdiction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20fcrypt | GNU fcrypt was a disk encryption software project intended to offer multiple hidden partitions, "on the fly encryption" (automatic and transparent encryption), and "plausible deniability." The now disbanded project was part of the GNU project. In November 2012 Richard Stallman, dubbed fcrypt as an official GNU project,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20American%20ethnobotany | This is a list of plants used by the indigenous people of North America. For lists pertaining specifically to the Cherokee, Iroquois, Navajo, and Zuni, see Cherokee ethnobotany, Iroquois ethnobotany, Navajo ethnobotany, and Zuni ethnobotany.
A
Abronia fragrans (snowball-sand verbena) Used as both food and medicine. Se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Scheiber | Peter Scheiber was a classically trained musician and audio engineer. He was considered to be the originator of multichannel matrix audio formats, a mathematical formula used to convert four audio channels into two and back again.
Scheiber was also the inventor of the 360-degree spatial decoder. Like Lou Dorren, Sch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf%20Ling%20Bolin | Rolf Ling Bolin (22 March 1901 – 23 August 1973) was an American academic ichthyologist. A genus of lanternfish, Bolinichthys, is named for him.
Biography
Bolin was born on 22 March 1901 in New York City to Scandinavian American parents. He initially pursued a career in graphic arts, but then took courses in marine bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTDOS | PTDOS or Processor Technology Disk Operating System is an operating system created in the late 1970s for computers using the Intel 8080 microprocessor and the Processor Technology Helios II Disk Memory System.
Commands
The following list of commands is supported by PTDOS 1.4.
EDIT
EDT3
ASSM
DEBUG
DO
DISKCOPY
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlis%20duality | In algebra, Matlis duality is a duality between Artinian and Noetherian modules over a complete Noetherian local ring. In the special case when the local ring has a field mapping to the residue field it is closely related to earlier work by Francis Sowerby Macaulay on polynomial rings and is sometimes called Macaulay d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartOS | SmartOS is a free and open-source SVR4 hypervisor based on the UNIX operating system that combines OpenSolaris technology with bhyve and KVM virtualization. Its core kernel contributes to the illumos project. It features several technologies: Crossbow, DTrace, bhyve, KVM, ZFS, and Zones. Unlike other illumos distributi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure%20reference%20system | Pressure reference system (PRS) is an enhancement of the inertial reference system and attitude and heading reference system designed to provide position angles measurements which are stable in time and do not suffer from long term drift caused by the sensor imperfections. The measurement system uses behavior of the In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Fantasy%20XIV | Final Fantasy XIV is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Square Enix. Directed and produced by Naoki Yoshida and released worldwide for PlayStation 3 and Windows in August 2013, it replaced the failed 2010 version, with subsequent support for PlayStation 4, OS X, PlaySta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Tanton | James Stuart Tanton (born August 1, 1966) is a mathematician and math educator. He is a winner of the Kidder Faculty Prize for his teaching at The St. Mark’s Math Institute, scholar at the Mathematical Association of America, author of over ten books on mathematics, curriculum, and education, and creator of videos on m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloned%20enzyme%20donor%20immunoassay | A cloned enzyme donor immunoassay (CEDIA) is a competitive homogenous enzyme immunoassay. This assay makes use of two component fragments of an enzyme which are each individually inactive. Under the right conditions in solution these fragments can spontaneously reassemble to form the active enzyme. For use in biochemic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUHU%20%28software%29 | Weather Underground / HeavyWeather Uploader, commonly WUHU, is a free software package for Microsoft Windows which allows users with Personal Weather Stations to contribute weather data to one of several networks, including:
Weather Underground (wunderground.com)
Citizen Weather Observer Program (also known as CWOP)
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAPC | Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) is a programming contest for students from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It is organized annually by an institution of higher education. From 1991 through 2004, the contest was held under the name NKP (Dutch Programming Championship).
Organisation
Since 2006, B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTFE%20fiber | PTFE fiber is a chemically resistant material. It is used in woven form in certain pump packings as well as in nonwoven form in hot gas bag filters for industries with corrosive exhausts.
Because PTFE is relatively insoluble and has a very high melting point, PTFE fibers can not be fashioned from conventional melt or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parafactorial%20local%20ring | In algebraic geometry, a Noetherian local ring R is called parafactorial if it has depth at least 2 and the Picard group Pic(Spec(R) − m) of its spectrum with the closed point m removed is trivial.
More generally, a scheme X is called parafactorial along a closed subset Z if the subset Z is "too small" for invertible ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20mixtures | In materials science, a general rule of mixtures is a weighted mean used to predict various properties of a composite material . It provides a theoretical upper- and lower-bound on properties such as the elastic modulus, ultimate tensile strength, thermal conductivity, and electrical conductivity. In general there are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeRank | EdgeRank is the name commonly given to the algorithm that Facebook uses to determine what articles should be displayed in a user's News Feed. As of 2011, Facebook has stopped using the EdgeRank system and uses a machine learning algorithm that, as of 2013, takes more than 100,000 factors into account.
EdgeRank was dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20Journals%20Online | Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) is a project started by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) funded by the Department of International Development of the British Government to encourage open access of information.
History
INASP initiated BanglaJOL in June 2007 and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Jacobi%E2%80%93Einstein%20equation | In general relativity, the Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation (HJEE) or Einstein–Hamilton–Jacobi equation (EHJE) is an equation in the Hamiltonian formulation of geometrodynamics in superspace, cast in the "geometrodynamics era" around the 1960s, by Asher Peres in 1962 and others. It is an attempt to reformulate general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20Processing%20Solutions | Speech Processing Solutions is an international electronics company headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets speech processing devices, such as those used in digital dictation and speech recognition. Speech Processing Solutions was formed on 1 July 2012. Philips Speech P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutoplasm | The deutoplasm comprises the food particles stored in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from protoplasm, the yolk substance. Generally, the deutoplasm accumulates about the nucleus and is heavier than the surrounding cytoplasm. In chicken eggs, the cytoplasm and deutoplasm are separate.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck%20puzzle | The Puck puzzle (Hungarian: Kép Korong), also known as Picture Disc, is a combination puzzle invented in 1980 by Hungarian physicist András Végh. The disc shaped puzzle consists of 2 central pieces: the inner disc, and segments forming a ring around the inner disc. The number of segments is an even number, most commonl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20M.%20Diven | John Malvina Diven (April 24, 1852 – January 4, 1925) was a New York and South Carolina superintendent of several water utilities and an important figure in the early history of the American Water Works Association. He was honored by AWWA for his dedicated service with election to honorary membership and selection as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Data%20Protection%20Regulation | The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, abbreviated GDPR) is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and human rights law, in particular Article 8(1) of the Charter ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfgruppe%20100 | Kampfgruppe 100 (KGr 100) was a specialist unit of the Luftwaffe during the early stages of World War II. It is best known as the first unit to use the "pathfinder" concept, with its aircraft being equipped with the latest radio navigation aids to find their targets and then dropping flares on them to mark the target f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20code%20%28coding%20theory%29 | In information theory, a polar code is a linear block error-correcting code. The code construction is based on a multiple recursive concatenation of a short kernel code which transforms the physical channel into virtual outer channels. When the number of recursions becomes large, the virtual channels tend to either hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaySpan | PlaySpan is a payments company whose payments platform handles transactions for digital goods in online games, digital media, and social networks.
Company history
PlaySpan was founded in 2006 by Karl Mehta. In July 2008, PlaySpan acquired Internet Payment Solutions, an alternative payments company, and in April 2009,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20Touch | Ubuntu Touch is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system, being developed by the UBports community. Its user interface is written in Qt, and is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, but the original goal of convergence was intended to bring Ubuntu Touch to la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy%20Chang | Leroy L. Chang (; 20 January 1936 – 10 August 2008) was an experimental physicist and solid state electronics researcher and engineer. Born in China, he studied in Taiwan and then the United States, obtaining his doctorate from Stanford University in 1963. As a research physicist he studied semiconductors for nearly 30... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TradeCard | TradeCard, Inc. was an American software company. Its main product, also called TradeCard, was a SaaS collaboration product that was designed to allow companies to manage their extended supply chains including tracking movement of goods and payments. TradeCard software helped to improve visibility, cash flow and margin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Diaspro | Alberto Diaspro (born April 7, 1959, in Genoa, Italy) is an Italian scientist. He received his doctoral degree in electronic engineering from the university of Genoa, Italy, in 1983. He is full professor in applied physics at university of Genoa. He is research director of Nanoscopy Italian Institute of Technology. Alb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto.io | Proto.io is an application prototyping platform launched in 2011 and developed by PROTOIO Inc. Originally designed to prototype on mobile devices, Proto.io has expanded to allow users to prototype apps for anything with a screen interface, including Smart TVs, digital camera interfaces, cars, airplanes, and gaming cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Bonner%20Medal%20of%20Commendation | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation upon the recommendation of its Scientific and Technical Awards Committee. The medal is awarded with a citation reading "in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy." ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilingyan | Lilingyan () was an ancient irrigation system built in 250 AD during the Three Kingdoms Period to irrigate the Beijing Plain around Jicheng (modern-day Beijing). The irrigation system consisted of Lilingyan, a dam across the Shishui (Yongding River) at the foot of Liangshan (Shijingshan), and the Chexiangqu, a divers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Dredge%20Jr. | James Dredge (29 July 1840 – 15 August 1906) was an English civil engineer and journalist of engineering. He is best known for being co-editor of Engineering, illustrating, photographing and surveying many bridges in Britain in the latter part of the 19th century.
Early years
He was born in Bath to an engineer and arc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagium%20vivum%20fluidum | Contagium vivum fluidum (Latin: "contagious living fluid") was a phrase first used to describe a virus, and underlined its ability to slip through the finest ceramic filters then available, giving it almost liquid properties. Martinus Beijerinck (1851–1931), a Dutch microbiologist and botanist, first used the term when... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septate%20junction | Septate junctions are intercellular junctions found in invertebrate epithelial cells, appearing as ladder-like structures under electron microscopy. They are thought to provide structural strength and a barrier to solute diffusion through the intercellular space. They are considered somewhat analogous to the (vertebrat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20W.%20Gould | Henry Wadsworth Gould (born August 26, 1928) is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at West Virginia University.
Early life and education
Gould was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Between 1945 and 1947, he attended National Radio Institute in Washington D.C. In 1946, he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Ports... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial%20element%20%28algebra%29 | In algebra, a primordial element is a particular kind of a vector in a vector space.
Definition
Let be a vector space over a field and let be an -indexed basis of vectors for
By the definition of a basis, every vector can be expressed uniquely as
for some -indexed family of scalars where all but finitely man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator%20interlock%20kit | A generator interlock kit (or just interlock kit) is a device designed to allow safe powering of a home by a portable generator during a power outage. It is a less-expensive alternative to purchasing and installing a dedicated transfer switch. The kit achieves the same function by adding an external interlock onto an e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLADE%20%28software%29 | BLADE (Block All Drive-by Download Exploits) is a computer program that was developed by Phillip Porras and Vinod Yegneswaran at SRI International; and Long Lu and Wenke Lee at the Georgia Institute of Technology. BLADE is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the United States Army Research Laboratory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes%20OS | Qubes OS is a security-focused desktop operating system that aims to provide security through isolation. Isolation is provided through the use of virtualization technology. This allows the segmentation of applications into secure virtual machines called qubes. Virtualization services in Qubes OS are provided by the Xen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20architecture%20styles%20and%20patterns | Architectural patterns are often documented as software design patterns. An architectural pattern often uses the same description as a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software architecture within a given context.
The separation of what is architectural and what is design is not commonly a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superette%20%28radio%29 | In 1931 RCA introduced a new line of Superette radio receivers. These used the superheterodyne principle but were lower cost than earlier products, in an attempt to maintain sales during the onset of the Great Depression.
Background
Edwin Howard Armstrong invented the superheterodyne receiver in 1918. Armstrong and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjaro | Manjaro ( ) is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system that has a focus on user-friendliness and accessibility. It uses a rolling release update model and Pacman as its package manager. It is developed mainly in Austria, France and Germany.
History
Manjaro was first released ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Stanbol | Apache Stanbol is an open source modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management.
Apache Stanbol components are meant to be accessed over RESTful interfaces to provide semantic services for content management. Thus, one application is to extend traditional content management system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exalcomm | In algebra, Exalcomm is a functor classifying the extensions of a commutative algebra by a module. More precisely, the elements of Exalcommk(R,M) are isomorphism classes of commutative k-algebras E with a homomorphism onto the k-algebra R whose kernel is the R-module M (with all pairs of elements in M having product 0)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20oxygen%20species%20production%20in%20marine%20microalgae | All living cells produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a byproduct of metabolism. ROS are reduced oxygen intermediates that include the superoxide radical (O2−) and the hydroxyl radical (OH•), as well as the non-radical species hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). These ROS are important in the normal functioning of cells, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Security%20Alliance | Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to “promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.”
The CSA has over 80,000 individual members... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20calling | Base calling is the process of assigning nucleobases to chromatogram peaks, light intensity signals, or electrical current changes resulting from nucleotides passing through a nanopore. One computer program for accomplishing this job is Phred, which is a widely used base calling software program by both academic and co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci%20%28software%29 | DaVinci was a development tool used to create HTML5 mobile applications and media content. It includes a jQuery framework, a JavaScript library that can be used by developers and designers to create web applications used on mobile devices with a user experience similar to native applications. Business applications, gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booleo | Booleo (stylized bOOleO) is a strategy card game using boolean logic gates. It was developed by Jonathan Brandt and Chris Kampf with Sean P. Dennis in 2008, and it was first published by Tessera Games LLC in 2009.
Game
The deck consists of 64 cards:
48 “Gate” cards using three Boolean operators AND, OR, and XOR
8 OR ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluon%20field%20strength%20tensor | In theoretical particle physics, the gluon field strength tensor is a second order tensor field characterizing the gluon interaction between quarks.
The strong interaction is one of the fundamental interactions of nature, and the quantum field theory (QFT) to describe it is called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Quarks ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Committee%20on%20Aeronautical%20Fatigue%20and%20Structural%20Integrity | The International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue and Structural Integrity (ICAF) was initiated by Dr. Ir. Frederik Plantema, head of the Structures and Materials Department of the National Aeronautical Research Institute (NLL) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1951. Dr. Plantema proposed international collaboration i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%E2%80%93smart%20device%20interaction | Screen-Smart Device Interaction (SSI) is fairly new technology developed as a sub-branch of Digital Signage.
It differs from the Second screen configuration. The latter typically has the first screen being a big screen and the second screen being the smaller screen of a cellphone. Where the small screen cannot affect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NODE%20%28wireless%20sensor%29 | NODE+ (wireless sensor platform) is a first-generation handheld sensor measuring 1 inch in diameter and 3.75 inches wide that communicates wirelessly through low-energy Bluetooth 4.0 with Apple iOS devices.
NODE+ has been attributed in the media as a “Swiss Army knife of sensors,” similar in appearance to the “tricord... |
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