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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepp%E2%80%93Logan%20phantom
The Shepp–Logan phantom is a standard test image created by Larry Shepp and Benjamin F. Logan for their 1974 paper The Fourier Reconstruction of a Head Section. It serves as the model of a human head in the development and testing of image reconstruction algorithms. Definition The function describing the phantom is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20quotient
In algebraic geometry, a geometric quotient of an algebraic variety X with the action of an algebraic group G is a morphism of varieties such that (i) For each y in Y, the fiber is an orbit of G. (ii) The topology of Y is the quotient topology: a subset is open if and only if is open. (iii) For any open subset , i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tor%20onion%20services
This is a categorized list of notable onion services (formerly, hidden services) accessible through the Tor anonymity network. Defunct services and those accessed by deprecated V2 addresses are marked. Archive and Index archive.today - Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand Demon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing%20teeth
Growing teeth is a bioengineering technology with the ultimate goal to create new full molars in a person or an animal. Chronology 2002 – British scientists have learned how to grow almost whole, but feeble teeth from single cells. 2007 – Japanese scientists have bred mice almost full new teeth, but without a root...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestack
In algebraic geometry, a prestack F over a category C equipped with some Grothendieck topology is a category together with a functor p: F → C satisfying a certain lifting condition and such that (when the fibers are groupoids) locally isomorphic objects are isomorphic. A stack is a prestack with effective descents, mea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term%20graph
A term graph is a representation of an expression in a formal language as a generalized graph whose vertices are . Term graphs are a more powerful form of representation than expression trees because they can represent not only common subexpressions (i.e. they can take the structure of a directed acyclic graph) but als...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forssman%20antigen
The Forssman antigen is a glycolipid heterophil protein and a type of heterogenetic antigen found in certain animals like dogs, horses, cats, turtles and sheep, and enteric organisms such as pneumococci. In sheep, it is found on erythrocytes but not on tissue and organs, unlike hamsters and guinea pigs whose organ cell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship%20of%20the%20iTunes%20Store
Censorship of the iTunes Store refers to external attempts at blocking access to digital content distributed through the iTunes Store. Australia In 2010, the Australian Labor Party announced its intent to subject the 220,000 mobile apps available on the Australia App Store to Australian Classification Board regulatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse%20derivative
In mathematics, the Hasse derivative is a generalisation of the derivative which allows the formulation of Taylor's theorem in coordinate rings of algebraic varieties. Definition Let k[X] be a polynomial ring over a field k. The r-th Hasse derivative of Xn is if n ≥ r and zero otherwise. In characteristic zero we h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept%20image%20and%20concept%20definition
In mathematics education, concept image and concept definition are two ways of understanding a mathematical concept. The terms were introduced by . They define a concept image as such: "We shall use the term concept image to describe the total cognitive structure that is associated with the concept, which includes all...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20C.%20Florman
Samuel C. Florman (born January 19, 1925) is an American civil engineer, general contractor and author. He is best known for his writings and speeches about engineering, technology and the general culture. The most widely distributed of his seven books is The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, published in 1976, se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES31
AES31 is a standard developed by the Audio Engineering Society for the interchange of digital audio projects between different systems. The primary purpose of the standard is to allow exchange of audio editing projects between digital audio workstations (DAWs). The standard is divided into three parts, the most critica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six%20operations
In mathematics, Grothendieck's six operations, named after Alexander Grothendieck, is a formalism in homological algebra, also known as the six-functor formalism. It originally sprang from the relations in étale cohomology that arise from a morphism of schemes . The basic insight was that many of the elementary facts ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical%20quotient
In algebraic geometry, given a category C, a categorical quotient of an object X with action of a group G is a morphism that (i) is invariant; i.e., where is the given group action and p2 is the projection. (ii) satisfies the universal property: any morphism satisfying (i) uniquely factors through . One of the main...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental%20anatomy
Transcendental anatomy, also known as philosophical anatomy, was a form of comparative anatomy that sought to find ideal patterns and structures common to all organisms in nature. The term originated from naturalist philosophy in the German provinces, and culminated in Britain especially by scholars Robert Knox and Ric...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%20Standardization%20Office
The NATO Standardization Office (NSO) (former NATO Standardization Agency, NSA; French: Bureau OTAN de normalisation) is a NATO agency created in 1951 to handle standardization activities for NATO. The NSA was formed through the merger of the Military Agency for Standardization and the Office for NATO Standardization. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20open-source%20software%20for%20mathematics
This is a list of open-source software to be used for high-order mathematical calculations. This software has played an important role in the field of mathematics. Open-source software in mathematics has become pivotal in education because of the high cost of textbooks. Computer algebra systems A computer algebra s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20entropy
Transfer entropy is a non-parametric statistic measuring the amount of directed (time-asymmetric) transfer of information between two random processes. Transfer entropy from a process X to another process Y is the amount of uncertainty reduced in future values of Y by knowing the past values of X given past values of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20European%20manufacturing%20companies%20by%20revenue
The following is a list of the largest European manufacturing companies, ordered by revenue in billions of US dollars, . Largest European manufacturing companies by revenue See also List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue List of largest European companies by revenue List of European financial services...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baited%20remote%20underwater%20video
Baited remote underwater video (BRUV) is a system used in marine biology research. By attracting fish into the field of view of a remotely controlled camera, the technique records fish diversity, abundance and behaviour of species. Sites are sampled by video recording the region surrounding a baited canister which is l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socolar%E2%80%93Taylor%20tile
The Socolar–Taylor tile is a single non-connected tile which is aperiodic on the Euclidean plane, meaning that it admits only non-periodic tilings of the plane (due to the Sierpinski's triangle-like tiling that occurs), with rotations and reflections of the tile allowed. It is the first known example of a single aperio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202012%20R2
Windows Server 2012 R2, codenamed "Windows Server Blue", is the seventh version of the Windows Server operating system by Microsoft, as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was unveiled on June 3, 2013, at TechEd North America, and released on October 18 of the same year. It is the successor to Windo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediated%20communication
Mediated communication or mediated interaction (less often, mediated discourse) refers to communication carried out by the use of information communication technology and can be contrasted to face-to-face communication. While nowadays the technology we use is often related to computers, giving rise to the popular term ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20in%20quantum%20mechanics
Symmetries in quantum mechanics describe features of spacetime and particles which are unchanged under some transformation, in the context of quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and with applications in the mathematical formulation of the standard model and condensed matter physi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Willard
Dan Edward Willard (died January 21, 2023) was an American computer scientist and logician, and a professor of computer science at the University at Albany. Education and career Willard did his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Stony Brook University, graduating in 1970. He went on to graduate studies in mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tale%20homotopy%20type
In mathematics, especially in algebraic geometry, the étale homotopy type is an analogue of the homotopy type of topological spaces for algebraic varieties. Roughly speaking, for a variety or scheme X, the idea is to consider étale coverings and to replace each connected component of U and the higher "intersections",...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex%3A%20Shards%20of%20Fate
HEX: Shards of Fate (Hex, Hex TCG or Hex: Card Clash) was a massively multiplayer online trading card game (MMOTCG) by Cryptozoic Entertainment. It is the first game in the MMOTCG genre. It was funded via Kickstarter, and raised while its campaign was active. As of October 28, 2013, Hex was the 11th most-funded video ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Museum%20of%20the%20Palatinate
The Historical Museum of the Palatinate () is a museum in the city of Speyer in the Palatinate region of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is situated across the square from the Speyer Cathedral. The museum's focus is on the History of the Palatinate; it has a collection of about 1 million artifacts, the old...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20compact%20finite%20difference%20scheme
High-order compact finite difference schemes are used for solving third-order differential equations created during the study of obstacle boundary value problems. They have been shown to be highly accurate and efficient. They are constructed by modifying the second-order scheme that was developed by Noor and Al-Said in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzon%20Datum%20of%201911
The Luzon Datum of 1911 was the base for the first modern survey of the Philippine Islands. The execution of the triangulation of the Philippine Islands extended over almost as long a time as the history of the American occupation in the Philippines. The plan of the government to survey the islands began in March 1900 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20sequence
In mathematics, a multiplicative sequence or m-sequence is a sequence of polynomials associated with a formal group structure. They have application in the cobordism ring in algebraic topology. Definition Let Kn be polynomials over a ring A in indeterminates p1, ... weighted so that pi has weight i (with p0 = 1) and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20mobile%20CRM%20systems
This article is a comparison of notable mobile CRM systems. ERP systems are considered a superset of CRM systems. Introduction The market for mobile CRM applications is currently seeing record growth as new products and services around mobile CRM are being developed. The benefits of mobile CRM application have been ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20bearing
A bridge bearing is a component of a bridge which typically provides a resting surface between bridge piers and the bridge deck. The purpose of a bearing is to allow controlled movement and thereby reduce the stresses involved. Possible causes of movement are thermal expansion and contraction, creep, shrinkage, or fati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracompact%20uniform%20honeycombs
In geometry, uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space are tessellations of convex uniform polyhedron cells. In 3-dimensional hyperbolic space there are 23 Coxeter group families of paracompact uniform honeycombs, generated as Wythoff constructions, and represented by ring permutations of the Coxeter diagrams for each fam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavator%20%28microarchitecture%29
AMD Excavator Family 15h is a microarchitecture developed by AMD to succeed Steamroller Family 15h for use in AMD APU processors and normal CPUs. On October 12, 2011, AMD revealed Excavator to be the code name for the fourth-generation Bulldozer-derived core. The Excavator-based APU for mainstream applications is call...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telematic%20control%20unit
A telematic control unit (TCU) in the automobile industry is the embedded system on board a vehicle that wirelessly connects the vehicle to cloud services or other vehicles via V2X standards over a cellular network. The TCU collects telemetry data from the vehicle, such as position, speed, engine data, connectivity qua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-generation%20matrix
In epidemiology, the next-generation matrix is used to derive the basic reproduction number, for a compartmental model of the spread of infectious diseases. In population dynamics it is used to compute the basic reproduction number for structured population models. It is also used in multi-type branching models for an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parshin%27s%20conjecture
In mathematics, more specifically in algebraic geometry, Parshin's conjecture (also referred to as the Beilinson–Parshin conjecture) states that for any smooth projective variety X defined over a finite field, the higher algebraic K-groups vanish up to torsion: It is named after Aleksei Nikolaevich Parshin and Alexand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20surface%20acoustic%20wave%20%28SAW%29%20sensor
Spherical surface acoustic wave sensors use a type of surface acoustic wave (SAW) that travels along the surface of a medium exhibiting elasticity with exponentially decaying amplitude along depth. MEMS-IDT technology allows the use of SAW waves to sense various gases. Sensitivity up to 10 ppm of hydrogen using a spher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Poor
Harold Vincent Poor FRS FREng is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he is also the Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a specialist in wireless telecommunications, signal processing and information theory. He has recei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey%20Stakhov
Alexey Petrovich Stakhov ( ; May 7, 1939 – January 25, 2021) is a Ukrainian mathematician, inventor and engineer, who has made contributions to the theory of Fibonacci numbers and the "Golden Section" and their applications in computer science and measurement theory and technology. Doctor of computer science (1972), p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT%20Activity%20Designator
A SIGINT Activity Designator (or SIGAD) identifies a signals intelligence (SIGINT) line of collection activity associated with a signals collection station, such as a base or a ship. For example, the SIGAD for Menwith Hill in the UK is USD1000. SIGADs are used by the signals intelligence agencies of the United States, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivateCore
PrivateCore is a venture-backed startup located in Palo Alto, California that develops software to secure server data through server attestation and memory encryption. The company's attestation and memory encryption technology fills a gap that exists between “data in motion” encryption (TLS, email encryption) and “data...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrianus%20de%20Hoop
Adrianus Teunis (Aad) de Hoop (born 24 December 1927) is a Dutch electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist, and professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology. De Hoop's research interests are in the broad area of wavefield modeling in acoustics, electromagnetics, and elastodynamics. Other research includ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-order%20system
In the fields of dynamical systems and control theory, a fractional-order system is a dynamical system that can be modeled by a fractional differential equation containing derivatives of non-integer order. Such systems are said to have fractional dynamics. Derivatives and integrals of fractional orders are used to desc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%208284
The Intel 8284 is a clock oscillator chip developed primarily for supplying clock signals for the Intel-8086/8087/8088/8089 series of processors. The commercial variant of the chip comes in 18-pin DIL and 20-pin PLCC packages, and originally was priced at $4.90 USD. The industrial version, rated for the temperatures ra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile%20X-associated%20primary%20ovarian%20insufficiency
Fragile X-associated Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (FXPOI) is the most common genetic cause of premature ovarian failure in women with a normal karyotype 46, XX. The expansion of a CGG repeat in the 5' untranslated region of the FMR1 gene from the normal range of 5-45 repeats to the premutation range of 55-199 CGGs lea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeya
Obeya (from Japanese Ōbeya 大部屋 "large room") originated from a long history of learning & improving. The earliest notion of which is believed to be the Analects of Confucius nearly 2500 years ago (China, 206 BC–220 AD). The roots of what is now a valuable management practice can be found across continents with many dis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Genetics%20Education%20Project
The Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) aims to engage and inform a worldwide audience about the benefits of knowing one's genome as well as the ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) and dimensions of personal genetics. pgEd was founded in 2006, is housed in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical Schoo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20pathological%20epidemiology
Molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE, also molecular pathologic epidemiology) is a discipline combining epidemiology and pathology. It is defined as "epidemiology of molecular pathology and heterogeneity of disease". Pathology and epidemiology share the same goal of elucidating etiology of disease, and MPE aims to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xojo
The Xojo programming environment and programming language is developed and commercially marketed by Xojo, Inc. of Austin, Texas for software development targeting macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, the Web and Raspberry Pi. Xojo uses a proprietary object-oriented language. History In 1996 FYI Software, fou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20powerline%20sensor
A Wireless powerline sensor hangs from an overhead power line and sends measurements to a data collection system. Because the sensor does not contact anything but a single live conductor, no high-voltage isolation is needed. The sensor, installed simply by clamping it around a conductor, powers itself from energy scav...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPRM%20College%20of%20Engineering
The UPRM College of Engineering is one of four colleges of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. This school is also the largest of its kind in Puerto Rico, with an enrollment of about 5,000 undergraduate students and about 400 graduates. It is the main producer of Hispanic engineers in the United States of Americ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Independent%20Data%20Format
The System Independent Data Format (SIDF) is a file system specification for removable media that was designed to achieve storage interoperability and to allow data interchange among software and hardware platforms. The data format was originally developed in 1990 by Tom Bogart while at Novell. In 1992, the System Ind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planimetr%C3%ADa%20General%20de%20Madrid
The Planimetría General de Madrid (sometimes referred to as the Planimetría General de la Villa or the Visita General) or the General Survey of Madrid was a cadastral survey and registering of urban land carried out in the city of Madrid in the eighteenth century, between 1749 and 1759 The cadastre collected informatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20Earth%20projection
The Natural Earth projection is a pseudocylindrical map projection designed by Tom Patterson and introduced in 2008. It is neither conformal nor equal-area, but a compromise between the two. In its original presentation, the projection's origin is described as "The impetus for creating the Natural Earth projection was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect%20immunoperoxidase%20assay
Indirect immunoperoxidase assay (IPA) is a laboratory technique used to detect and titrate viruses that do not cause measurable cytopathic effects and cannot be measured by classical plaque assays. These viruses include human coronavirus 229E and OC43. Methodology Susceptible cells are inoculated with serial logarithm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assembly%20of%20nanoparticles
Nanoparticles are classified as having at least one of its dimensions in the range of 1-100 nanometers (nm). The small size of nanoparticles allows them to have unique characteristics which may not be possible on the macro-scale. Self-assembly is the spontaneous organization of smaller subunits to form larger, well-org...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20Instinct%20%282013%20video%20game%29
Killer Instinct is a fighting game, the third in the Killer Instinct series, originally developed by Double Helix Games, followed by Iron Galaxy, under supervision of Ken Lobb and Rare, and published by Microsoft Studios, released as a free-to-play launch game for the Xbox One in 2013. The game is a reboot of the serie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Holliday%20Stewart
Hannah Holliday Stewart (January 25, 1924 – February 23, 2010) was an American abstract sculptor who was a prominent member of the Houston art scene and exhibited across the United States, including at the Smithsonian Institution. She was part of a generation of second-wave feminist artists who incorporated ancient myt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20music%20streaming%20services
The following is a list of on-demand music streaming services. These services offer streaming of full-length content via the Internet as a part of their service, without the listener necessarily having to purchase a file for download. This type of service is somewhat similar to Internet radio. Many of these sites have ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore%20geotechnical%20engineering
Offshore geotechnical engineering is a sub-field of geotechnical engineering. It is concerned with foundation design, construction, maintenance and decommissioning for human-made structures in the sea. Oil platforms, artificial islands and submarine pipelines are examples of such structures. The seabed has to be able ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV-TEST
AV-TEST is an independent organization which evaluates and rates antivirus and security suite software for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Android operating systems, according to a variety of criteria. The organisation is based in Magdeburg, Germany. Every other month, the researchers publish the results of their testing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULN2003A
The ULN2003A is an integrated circuit produced by Texas Instruments. It consists of an array of seven NPN Darlington transistors capable of 500 mA, 50 V output. It features common-cathode flyback diodes for switching inductive loads (such as servomotors). It can come in PDIP, SOIC, SOP or TSSOP packaging. In the same f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz-violating%20electrodynamics
Searches for Lorentz violation involving photons provide one possible test of relativity. Examples range from modern versions of the classic Michelson–Morley experiment that utilize highly stable electromagnetic resonant cavities to searches for tiny deviations from c in the speed of light emitted by distant astrophysi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapcode
The mapcode system is an open-source geocode system consisting of two groups of letters and digits, separated by a dot. It represents a location on the surface of the Earth, within the context of a separately specified country or territory. For example, the entrance to the elevator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is “Fran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrrhis%20marina
Oxyrrhis marina is a species of heterotrophic dinoflagellate with flagella that is widely distributed in the world's oceans. Description This protozoan species has an asymmetrical oval shape to its single-celled body. It has been likened to a rugby ball. The cell usually measures between 20 and 30 micrometers, but it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing%20software%20development
Crowdsourcing software development or software crowdsourcing is an emerging area of software engineering. It is an open call for participation in any task of software development, including documentation, design, coding and testing. These tasks are normally conducted by either members of a software enterprise or people...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20color%20measurement
The color measurement of a liquid is the evaluation of that liquid's color properties. This is usually done through visual means, but can also be done by through automated means. The former provides approximate data, while the latter can provide objective data on the color properties of any given liquid. Measurement ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorestoration
Mycorestoration is the use of fungi to restore degraded environments. It is a multi-method approach to restore damaged habitats such as oil spill sites and logging roads, while also restoring the health of targeted forest sites that have been compromised in development. Mycorestoration is also used to control insect po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powernode%209080
The PowerNode 9080 was a dual processor 32-bit Superminicomputer produced by Fort Lauderdale, Florida based electronics company Gould Electronics in the 1980s. Its UTX/32 4.3BSD Berkeley Unix-based operating system was one of the first multi-processor shared memory implementations of Unix, although the processors opera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling%20bed%20dryer
Rolling bed dryers are used for efficiently processing large amounts of material that need their respective moisture levels reduced. Rolling bed dryers are most often used for drying wood chips and organic residues and are most often utilized in the biomass, waste/recycling, wood particle board, pellet, and biofuel ind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN%20blocking
VPN blocking is a technique used to block the encrypted protocol tunneling communications methods used by virtual private network (VPN) systems. Often used by large organizations such as national governments or corporations, it can act as a tool for computer security or Internet censorship by preventing the use of VPNs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hironaka%27s%20example
In geometry, Hironaka's example is a non-Kähler complex manifold that is a deformation of Kähler manifolds found by . Hironaka's example can be used to show that several other plausible statements holding for smooth varieties of dimension at most 2 fail for smooth varieties of dimension at least 3. Hironaka's example ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20dryer
Industrial dryers are used to efficiently process large quantities of bulk materials that need reduced moisture levels. Depending on the amount and the makeup of material needing to be dried, industrial dryers come in many different models constructed specifically for the type and quantity of material to be processed. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor%20burden
Labor burden is the actual cost of a company to have an employee, aside from the salary the employee earns. Labor burden costs include benefits that a company must, or chooses to, pay for employees included on their payroll. These costs include but are not limited to payroll taxes, pension costs, health insurance, dent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean%20fauna
Subterranean fauna refers to animal species that are adapted to live in an underground environment. Troglofauna and stygofauna are the two types of subterranean fauna. Both are associated with hypogean habitats – troglofauna is associated with terrestrial subterranean environment (caves and underground spaces above the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistritz%20stability%20criterion
In signal processing and control theory, the Bistritz criterion is a simple method to determine whether a discrete linear time invariant (LTI) system is stable proposed by Yuval Bistritz. Stability of a discrete LTI system requires that its characteristic polynomial (obtained from its difference equation, its dynamic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20basis
In pure and applied mathematics, particularly quantum mechanics and computer graphics and their applications, a spherical basis is the basis used to express spherical tensors. The spherical basis closely relates to the description of angular momentum in quantum mechanics and spherical harmonic functions. While spheri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA-directed%20RNA%20interference
DNA detailed study DNA-directed RNA interference (DRNAI) is a gene-silencing technique that utilizes DNA constructs to activate an animal cell's endogenous RNA interference (RNAI) pathways. DNA constructs are designed to express self-complementary double-stranded RNAs, typically short-hairpin RNAs, that bring about th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20operator
In pure and applied mathematics, quantum mechanics and computer graphics, a tensor operator generalizes the notion of operators which are scalars and vectors. A special class of these are spherical tensor operators which apply the notion of the spherical basis and spherical harmonics. The spherical basis closely relate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilinson%20regulator
In mathematics, especially in algebraic geometry, the Beilinson regulator is the Chern class map from algebraic K-theory to Deligne cohomology: Here, X is a complex smooth projective variety, for example. It is named after Alexander Beilinson. The Beilinson regulator features in Beilinson's conjecture on special value...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Mydek%20hoax%20letter
The Jessica Mydek hoax was a popular chain letter, circulated by hoaxsters, to play on the sympathy of credulous readers, and get them to respond, so as to build a sucker list. The letter was first observed in 1997. The hoax The letter represented itself as a letter from a seven-year-old girl with terminal brain canc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timer%20coalescing
Timer coalescing is a computer system energy-saving technique that reduces central processing unit (CPU) power consumption by reducing the precision of software timers used for synchronization of process wake-ups, minimizing the number of times the CPU is forced to perform the relatively power-costly operation of enter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt%20coalescing
Interrupt coalescing, also known as interrupt moderation, is a technique in which events which would normally trigger a hardware interrupt are held back, either until a certain amount of work is pending, or a timeout timer triggers. Used correctly, this technique can reduce interrupt load by up to an order of magnitude...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20reset
A hardware reset or hard reset of a computer system is a hardware operation that re-initializes the core hardware components of the system, thus ending all current software operations in the system. This is typically, but not always, followed by booting of the system into firmware that re-initializes the rest of the sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingleton%27s%20inequality
In mathematics, Ingleton's inequality is an inequality that is satisfied by the rank function of any representable matroid. In this sense it is a necessary condition for representability of a matroid over a finite field. Let M be a matroid and let ρ be its rank function, Ingleton's inequality states that for any subse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherinder
In four-dimensional geometry, the spherinder, or spherical cylinder or spherical prism, is a geometric object, defined as the Cartesian product of a 3-ball (or solid 2-sphere) of radius r1 and a line segment of length 2r2: Like the duocylinder, it is also analogous to a cylinder in 3-space, which is the Cartesian prod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Marine%20Inspection%20Document
The Common Marine Inspection Document (CMID) (IMCA M 149) is a free to use marine inspection format provided by the International Marine Contractors Association for the inspection and audit of marine vessels involved in the offshore industry. The inspection's purpose is to establish that a particular vessel is safe to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosser%27s%20equation
In economics, Rosser's equation (named after J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.) calculates future US Social Security Administration Trust Fund balances and payments as the ratio of benefit payments in real terms for a given income level to be received the year after the Trust Fund would be exhausted, to those of the same income l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity%20take-off
Quantity take-offs (QTO) are a detailed measurement of materials and labor needed to complete a construction project. They are developed by an estimator during the pre-construction phase. This process includes breaking the project down into smaller and more manageable units that are easier to measure or estimate. The l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol-Explorer
Phenol-Explorer is a comprehensive database on natural phenols and polyphenols including food composition, food processing, and polyphenol metabolites in human and experimental animals. See also Food composition data References External links Phenol-Explorer Polyphenols Natural phenols Food databases Biological...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Radford%20Young
John Radford Young (born 8 April 1799, in Southwark – 5 March 1885, in Peckham) was an English mathematician, professor and author, who was almost entirely self-educated. He was born of humble parents in London. At an early age he became acquainted with Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, who perceived his mathematical ability a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosser%27s%20equation%20%28physics%29
In physics, Rosser's equation aids in understanding the role of displacement current in Maxwell's equations, given that there is no aether in empty space as initially assumed by Maxwell. Due originally to William G.V. Rosser, the equation was labeled by Selvan: Equation Rosser's Equation is given by the following: ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20Chemistry%20%26%20High%20Throughput%20Screening
Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers combinatorial chemistry. It was established in 1998 and is published by Bentham Science Publishers. The editor-in-chief is Gerald H. Lushington (LiS Consulting, Lawrence, KS, USA). The journal has 5 sections: Combinato...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNAP%20Systems
QNAP Systems, Inc. () is a Taiwanese corporation that specializes in network-attached storage (NAS) appliances used for file sharing, virtualization, storage management and surveillance applications. Headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, QNAP has offices in 16 countries and employs over 1000 people ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isonym
An isonym, in botanical taxonomy, is a name of a taxon that is identical to another designation, and based on the same type, but published at a different time by different authors. Citation from that source follows: That is, the later isonyms are to be discarded (they are not botanical names), and only the first one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acyclic%20dependencies%20principle
The acyclic dependencies principle (ADP) is a software design principle defined by Robert C. Martin that states that "the dependency graph of packages or components should have no cycles". This implies that the dependencies form a directed acyclic graph. Example In this UML package diagram, package A depends on pac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20Studio
Progress Telerik Test Studio is a Windows-based software test automation tool for web and desktop that supports functional testing, software performance testing, load testing and RESTful API testing developed by Telerik. The tool ships with a plugin for Visual Studio and a standalone app that use the same repositories...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20literacy
Data literacy is the ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information. Much like literacy as a general concept, data literacy focuses on the competencies involved in working with data. It is, however, not similar to the ability to read text since it requires certain skills involving reading and ...