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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveLAN | WaveLAN was a brand name for a family of wireless networking technology sold by NCR, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and Agere Systems as well as being sold by other companies under OEM agreements. The WaveLAN name debuted on the market in 1990 and was in use until 2000, when Agere Systems renamed their products to ORiNOCO.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paley%20graph | In mathematics, Paley graphs are dense undirected graphs constructed from the members of a suitable finite field by connecting pairs of elements that differ by a quadratic residue. The Paley graphs form an infinite family of conference graphs, which yield an infinite family of symmetric conference matrices. Paley graph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20dictionaries | Dictionaries of Lithuanian language have been printed since the first half of the 17th century.
History
The first Lithuanian language dictionary was compiled by Konstantinas Sirvydas and printed in 1629 as a trilingual (Polish–Latin–Lithuanian) dictionary. Five editions of it were printed until 1713, but it was used a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20application%20design | Joint application design (JAD) is a process used in the life cycle area of the dynamic systems development method (DSDM) to collect business requirements while developing new information systems for a company. "The JAD process also includes approaches for enhancing user participation, expediting development, and improv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Wireless | Sierra Wireless (a subsidiary of Semtech Corporation) is a Canadian multinational wireless communications equipment designer, manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It also maintains offices and operations in the United States, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, France, Austra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Machine%20Learning%20Research | The Journal of Machine Learning Research is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering machine learning. It was established in 2000 and the first editor-in-chief was Leslie Kaelbling. The current editors-in-chief are Francis Bach (Inria) and David Blei (Columbia University).
History
The journal was estab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20Learning%20%28journal%29 | Machine Learning is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1986.
In 2001, forty editors and members of the editorial board of Machine Learning resigned in order to support the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), saying that in the era of the internet, it was detrimental for researchers to contin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20temperature%20controlled%20crystal%20oscillator | In physics, an Analog Temperature Controlled Crystal Oscillator or Analogue Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (ATCXO) uses analog sampling techniques to correct the temperature deficiencies of a crystal oscillator circuit, its package and its environment.
Typically the correction techniques involve the physic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POW-R | POW-R (Psychoacoustically Optimized Wordlength Reduction) is a set of commercial dithering and noise shaping algorithms used in digital audio bit-depth reduction.
Developed by a consortium of four companies – The POW-R Consortium – the algorithms were first made available in 1999 in digital audio hardware products.
POW... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos%20%28computer%20science%29 | Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable or fallible processors.
Consensus is the process of agreeing on one result among a group of participants. This problem becomes difficult when the participants or their communications may experience failures.
Consensus protocols are the ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20workplace | A virtual workplace is a work environment where employees can perform their duties remotely, using technology such as laptops, smartphones, and video conferencing tools. A virtual workplace is not located in any one physical space. It is usually a network of several workplaces technologically connected (via a private n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-employment%20theorem | In computer science and mathematics, a full employment theorem is a term used, often humorously, to refer to a theorem which states that no algorithm can optimally perform a particular task done by some class of professionals. The name arises because such a theorem ensures that there is endless scope to keep discoverin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munching%20square | The Munching Square is a display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozuku | Mozuku is a collective term for various types of Japanese brown algae from the family Chordariaceae, which are used as food. These include ito-mozuku (Nemacystus decipiens), Okinawa mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus), ishi-mozuku (Sphaerotrichia divaricata) and futo mozuku (Tinocladia crassa). Occasionally the aquatic flo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup%20site | A backup site or work area recovery site is a location where an organization can relocate following a disaster, such as fire, flood, terrorist threat, or other disruptive event. This is an integral part of the disaster recovery plan and wider business continuity planning of an organization.
A backup, or alternate, sit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20market%20software | In computer software, horizontal market software is a type of application software that is useful in a wide range of industries. This is the opposite of vertical market software, which has a scope of usefulness limited to few industries. Horizontal market software is also known as "productivity software."
Example
Exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaskaracharya%20Pratishthana | Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana is a research and education institute for mathematics in Pune, India, founded by noted Indian-American mathematician professor Shreeram Abhyankar.
The institute is named after the great ancient Indian Mathematician Bhaskaracharya (Born in 1114 A.D.). Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana is a Pune, In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20of%20curves | In geometry, a family of curves is a set of curves, each of which is given by a function or parametrization in which one or more of the parameters is variable. In general, the parameter(s) influence the shape of the curve in a way that is more complicated than a simple linear transformation. Sets of curves given by an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20dimensions%20of%20notations | Cognitive dimensions or cognitive dimensions of notations are design principles for notations, user interfaces and programming languages, described by researcher Thomas R.G. Green and further researched with Marian Petre. The dimensions can be used to evaluate the usability of an existing information artifact, or as h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks%20%28hand%20game%29 | Chopsticks (sometimes called Calculator, or just Sticks) is a hand game for two or more players, in which players extend a number of fingers from each hand and transfer those scores by taking turns to tap one hand against another. Chopsticks is an example of a combinatorial game, and is solved in the sense that with pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauzl%20lead%20block%20test | The Trauzl lead block test, also called the Trauzl test, or just Trauzl, is a test used to measure the strength of explosive materials. It was developed by Isidor Trauzl in 1885.
The test is performed by loading a 10-gram foil-wrapped sample of the explosive into a hole drilled into a lead block with specific dimensio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkyard%20tornado | The junkyard tornado, sometimes known as Hoyle's fallacy, is an argument against abiogenesis, using a calculation of its probability based on false assumptions, as comparable to "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein" and to compare the chance of obtaining even a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Hiele%20model | In mathematics education, the Van Hiele model is a theory that describes how students learn geometry. The theory originated in 1957 in the doctoral dissertations of Dina van Hiele-Geldof and Pierre van Hiele (wife and husband) at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. The Soviets did research on the theory in the 1960... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%27s%20cat%20map | In mathematics, Arnold's cat map is a chaotic map from the torus into itself, named after Vladimir Arnold, who demonstrated its effects in the 1960s using an image of a cat, hence the name.
Thinking of the torus as the quotient space , Arnold's cat map is the transformation given by the formula
Equivalently, in mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceived%20performance | Perceived performance, in computer engineering, refers to how quickly a software feature appears to perform its task. The concept applies mainly to user acceptance aspects.
The amount of time an application takes to start up, or a file to download, is not made faster by showing a startup screen (see Splash screen) or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gingerbreadman%20map | In dynamical systems theory, the Gingerbreadman map is a chaotic two-dimensional map. It is given by the piecewise linear transformation:
See also
List of chaotic maps
References
External links
Chaotic maps
Exactly solvable models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20violation | In computing a storage violation is a hardware or software fault that occurs when a task attempts to access an area of computer storage which it is not permitted to access.
Types of storage violation
Storage violation can, for instance, consist of reading from, writing to, or freeing storage not owned by the task. A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%27s%20theorem | In geometry, Stewart's theorem yields a relation between the lengths of the sides and the length of a cevian in a triangle. Its name is in honour of the Scottish mathematician Matthew Stewart, who published the theorem in 1746.
Statement
Let , , be the lengths of the sides of a triangle. Let be the length of a ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheat%20sheet | A cheat sheet (also cheatsheet) or crib sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. Cheat sheets were historically used by students without an instructor or teacher's knowledge to cheat on a test or exam. In the context of higher education or vocational training, where rote memorization is not as importan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-%20and%20low-level | High-level and low-level, as technical terms, are used to classify, describe and point to specific goals of a systematic operation; and are applied in a wide range of contexts, such as, for instance, in domains as widely varied as computer science and business administration.
High-level describe those operations that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose%20modeling | General-purpose modeling (GPM) is the systematic use of a general-purpose modeling language to represent the various facets of an object or a system. Examples of GPM languages are:
The Unified Modeling Language (UML), an industry standard for modeling software-intensive systems
EXPRESS, a data modeling language for p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangjin%20Kiln%20Sites | Gangjingun Kiln Sites is a tentative World Heritage site listed by the South Korean government at UNESCO. It is a complex of 188 kilns which produced Goryeo ware. The kiln sites are located in Gangjin-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea near the sea. Mountains in the north provided the necessary raw materials such as fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranyl%20acetate | Geranyl acetate is a monoterpene. It is a colorless liquid with a pleasant floral or fruity rose aroma. It is a colorless liquid but commercial samples can appear yellowish. Geranyl acetate is insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents. Several hundred tons are produced annually.
Occurrence and production
Ger... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20modeling | Visual modeling is the graphic representation of objects and systems of interest using graphical languages. Visual modeling is a way for experts and novices to have a common understanding of otherwise complicated ideas. By using visual models complex ideas are not held to human limitations, allowing for greater compl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic%20virus | A mosaic virus is any virus that causes infected plant foliage to have a mottled appearance. Such viruses come from a variety of unrelated lineages and consequently there is no taxon that unites all mosaic viruses.
Examples
Virus species that contained the word 'mosaic' in their English language common name are list... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMA%20Device%20Management | OMA Device Management is a device management protocol specified by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) Working Group and the Data Synchronization (DS) Working Group. The current approved specification of OMA DM is version 1.2.1, the latest modifications to this version released in June 2008. The cand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic%20stress | In continuum mechanics, hydrostatic stress, also known as volumetric stress, is a component of stress which contains uniaxial stresses, but not shear stresses. A specialized case of hydrostatic stress contains isotropic compressive stress, which changes only in volume, but not in shape. Pure hydrostatic stress can be e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark | Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Originally named Ethereal, the project was renamed Wireshark in May 2006 due to trademark issues.
Wireshark is cross-platform, using the Qt widget tool... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle%20mesh | In computer graphics, a triangle mesh is a type of polygon mesh. It comprises a set of triangles (typically in three dimensions) that are connected by their common edges or vertices.
Many graphics software packages and hardware devices can operate more efficiently on triangles that are grouped into meshes than on a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20volatility | In statistics, stochastic volatility models are those in which the variance of a stochastic process is itself randomly distributed. They are used in the field of mathematical finance to evaluate derivative securities, such as options. The name derives from the models' treatment of the underlying security's volatility a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetPC | NetPC is a standard for diskless PCs, developed by Microsoft and Intel as a competing standard to the Network Computer standard, because many NCs did not use Intel CPUs or Microsoft software. Network Computer was launched by Oracle Corporation in the mid-1990s.
References
Diskless workstations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20geometry | An incidence structure consists of points , lines , and flags where a point is said to be incident with a line if . It is a (finite) partial geometry if there are integers such that:
For any pair of distinct points and , there is at most one line incident with both of them.
Each line is incident with points.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraph%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the epigraph or supergraph of a function valued in the extended real numbers is the set, denoted by of all points in the Cartesian product lying on or above its graph. The strict epigraph is the set of points in lying strictly above its graph.
Importantly, although both the graph and epigraph of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20data%20modelling | Enterprise data modelling or enterprise data modeling (EDM) is the practice of creating a graphical model of the data used by an enterprise or company. Typical outputs of this activity include an enterprise data model consisting of entity–relationship diagrams (ERDs), XML schemas (XSD), and an enterprise wide data dict... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc%20%28projective%20geometry%29 | An (simple) arc in finite projective geometry is a set of points which satisfies, in an intuitive way, a feature of curved figures in continuous geometries. Loosely speaking, they are sets of points that are far from "line-like" in a plane or far from "plane-like" in a three-dimensional space. In this finite setting it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN-group | In mathematics, in the area of algebra known as group theory, a more than fifty-year effort was made to answer a conjecture of : are all groups of odd order solvable? Progress was made by showing that CA-groups, groups in which the centralizer of a non-identity element is abelian, of odd order are solvable . Further pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20pressure | Any cause that reduces or increases reproductive success in a portion of a population potentially exerts evolutionary pressure, selective pressure or selection pressure, driving natural selection. It is a quantitative description of the amount of change occurring in processes investigated by evolutionary biology, but t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface%20utilities | Subsurface Utilities are the utility networks generally laid under the ground surface. These utilities include pipeline networks for water supply, sewage disposal, petrochemical liquid transmission, petrochemical gas transmission or cable networks for power transmission, telecom data transmission, any other data or sig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto%20game | A Colonel Blotto game is a type of two-person constant-sum game in which the players (officers) are tasked to simultaneously distribute limited resources over several objects (battlefields).
In the classic version of the game, the player devoting the most resources to a battlefield wins that battlefield, and the gain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%20puzzle | Conway's puzzle, or blocks-in-a-box, is a packing problem using rectangular blocks, named after its inventor, mathematician John Conway. It calls for packing thirteen 1 × 2 × 4 blocks, one 2 × 2 × 2 block, one 1 × 2 × 2 block, and three 1 × 1 × 3 blocks into a 5 × 5 × 5 box.
Solution
The solution of the Conway puzzle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slothouber%E2%80%93Graatsma%20puzzle | The Slothouber–Graatsma puzzle is a packing problem that calls for packing six 1 × 2 × 2 blocks and three 1 × 1 × 1 blocks into a 3 × 3 × 3 box. The solution to this puzzle is unique (up to mirror reflections and rotations). It was named after its inventors Jan Slothouber and William Graatsma.
The puzzle is essentiall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllosphere | In microbiology, the phyllosphere is the total above-ground surface of a plant when viewed as a habitat for microorganisms. The phyllosphere can be further subdivided into the caulosphere (stems), phylloplane (leaves), anthosphere (flowers), and carposphere (fruits). The below-ground microbial habitats (i.e. the thin-v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthBoards | HealthBoards is a long-running social networking support group website. It consists of over 280 Internet message boards for patient to patient health support (also referred to as a virtual community or an online health community). HealthBoards was one of the first stand alone health community websites. Health communiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heronian%20mean | In mathematics, the Heronian mean H of two non-negative real numbers A and B is given by the formula
It is named after Hero of Alexandria.
Properties
Just like all means, the Heronian mean is symmetric (it does not depend on the order in which its two arguments are given) and idempotent (the mean of any number with i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20window%20scale%20option | The TCP window scale option is an option to increase the receive window size allowed in Transmission Control Protocol above its former maximum value of 65,535 bytes. This TCP option, along with several others, is defined in which deals with long fat networks (LFNs).
TCP windows
The throughput of a TCP communication i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCormick%20Tribune%20Freedom%20Museum | The McCormick Freedom Museum was the first museum in the United States dedicated to the First Amendment by the McCormick Foundation. It was open from April 11, 2006, until March 1, 2009. The museum offered visitors an interactive experience focused on first amendment rights which include freedom of speech, freedom of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trencher%20%28machine%29 | A trencher is a piece of construction equipment used to dig trenches, especially for laying pipes or electrical cables, for installing drainage, or in preparation for trench warfare. Trenchers may range in size from walk-behind models, to attachments for a skid loader or tractor, to very heavy tracked heavy equipment.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20encryption | Bus encryption is the use of encrypted program instructions on a data bus in a computer that includes a secure cryptoprocessor for executing the encrypted instructions. Bus encryption is used primarily in electronic systems that require high security, such as automated teller machines, TV set-top boxes, and secure dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-compressed%20speech | Time-compressed speech refers to an audio recording of verbal text in which the text is presented in a much shorter time interval than it would through normally-paced real time speech. The basic purpose is to make recorded speech contain more words in a given time, yet still be understandable. For example: a paragrap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathising%E2%80%93systemising%20theory | The empathising–systemising (E–S) theory is a theory on the psychological basis of autism and male–female neurological differences originally put forward by English clinical psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen. It classifies individuals based on abilities in empathic thinking (E) and systematic thinking (S). It measures ski... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Optimization%20Society | The Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), known as the Mathematical Programming Society until 2010, is an international association of researchers active in optimization. The MOS encourages the research, development, and use of optimization—including mathematical theory, software implementation, and practical appli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasch%27s%20axiom | In geometry, Pasch's axiom is a statement in plane geometry, used implicitly by Euclid, which cannot be derived from the postulates as Euclid gave them. Its essential role was discovered by Moritz Pasch in 1882.
Statement
The axiom states that,
The fact that segments AC and BC are not both intersected by the line i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20Library | Crime Library was a website documenting major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics, and criminal profiling from books. It was founded in 1998 and was most recently owned by truTV, a cable TV network that is part of Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System. In August 2014, Crime Library was no longer being updated. In F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%E2%80%93Hasse%20exponential | In mathematics, the Artin–Hasse exponential, introduced by , is the power series given by
Motivation
One motivation for considering this series to be analogous to the exponential function comes from infinite products. In the ring of formal power series Q[[x]] we have the identity
where μ(n) is the Möbius function. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Industrial%20Security%20Program | The National Industrial Security Program, or NISP, is the nominal authority in the United States for managing the needs of private industry to access classified information.
The NISP was established in 1993 by Executive Order 12829. The National Security Council nominally sets policy for the NISP, while the Director ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabricated%20building | A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication. It consists of factory-made components or units that are transported and assembled on-site to form the complete building. Various materials were combined to create a part of the installation process.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20polynomial | In mathematics, in abstract algebra, a multivariate polynomial over a field such that the Laplacian of is zero is termed a harmonic polynomial.
The harmonic polynomials form a vector subspace of the vector space of polynomials over the field. In fact, they form a graded subspace. For the real field, the harmonic pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20polynomial | In mathematics, in the realm of abstract algebra, a radical polynomial is a multivariate polynomial over a field that can be expressed as a polynomial in the sum of squares of the variables. That is, if
is a polynomial ring, the ring of radical polynomials is the subring generated by the polynomial
Radical polyn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAPC%20%28healthcare%29 | The AAPC, previously known by the full title of the American Academy of Professional Coders, is a professional association for people working in specific areas of administration within healthcare businesses in the United States. AAPC is one of a number of providers who offer services such as certification and training ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayl | A Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh is one of two units of specific acoustic impedance or, equivalently, characteristic acoustic impedance; one an MKS unit, and the other a CGS unit. These have the same dimensions as momentum per volume.
The units are named after John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. They are not to be confus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuoso%20Universal%20Server | Virtuoso Universal Server is a middleware and database engine hybrid that combines the functionality of a traditional relational database management system (RDBMS), object–relational database (ORDBMS), virtual database, RDF, XML, free-text, web application server and file server functionality in a single system. Rather... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20read%20after%20write | Direct read after write is a procedure that compares data recorded onto a medium against the source. A typical example would be CD burning software which reads a CD-ROM once it has been burned onto, effectively ensuring that data written is the same as the data it was copied from.
External links
Smart Computing Dictio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon-induced%20electric%20field%20poling | In physics, photon-induced electric field poling is a phenomenon whereby a pattern of local electric field orientations can be encoded in a suitable ferroelectric material, such as perovskite. The resulting encoded material is conceptually similar to the pattern of magnetic field orientations within the magnetic domain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20electronically%20scanned%20array | A passive electronically scanned array (PESA), also known as passive phased array, is an antenna in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions (that is, a phased array antenna), in which all the antenna elements are connected to a single transmitter (such as a magnetron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palustrine%20wetland | Palustrine wetlands include any inland wetland that contains ocean-derived salts in concentrations of less than 0.5 parts per thousand, and is non-tidal. The word palustrine comes from the Latin word palus or marsh. Wetlands within this category include inland marshes and swamps as well as bogs, fens, pocosins, tundra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20powerline%20bus | Universal Powerline Bus (UPB) is a proprietary software protocol developed by Powerline Control Systems for power-line communication between devices used for home automation. Household electrical wiring is used to send digital data between UPB devices via pulse-position modulation.
Communication is peer to peer, with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStation | AlphaStation is the name given to a series of computer workstations, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP. As the name suggests, the AlphaStations were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaStations comprise Tru64 UNIX (form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaServer | AlphaServer is a series of server computers, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP. AlphaServers were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaServers are Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX), OpenVMS, MEDITECH MAGIC and Windows N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%203000%20AXP | DEC 3000 AXP was the name given to a series of computer workstations and servers, produced from 1992 to around 1995 by Digital Equipment Corporation. The DEC 3000 AXP series formed part of the first generation of computer systems based on the 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture. Supported operating systems for the DEC 3000 A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20genetics | Microbial genetics is a subject area within microbiology and genetic engineering. Microbial genetics studies microorganisms for different purposes. The microorganisms that are observed are bacteria, and archaea. Some fungi and protozoa are also subjects used to study in this field. The studies of microorganisms involve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20and%20Agriculture%20Organization%20Corporate%20Statistical%20Database | The Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) website disseminates statistical data collected and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAOSTAT data are provided as a time-series from 1961 in most domains for 245 countries in English, Spanish and French.
About FAOS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paver%20%28vehicle%29 | A paver (road paver finisher, asphalt finisher, road paving machine) is a piece of construction equipment used to lay asphalt concrete or Portland cement concrete on roads, bridges, parking lots and other such places. It lays the material flat and provides minor compaction. This is typically followed by final compactio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuFW | NuFW is a software package that extends Netfilter, the Linux kernel-internal packet filtering firewall module. NuFW adds authentication to filtering rules. NuFW is also provided as a hardware firewall, in the EdenWall firewalling appliance. NuFW has been restarted by the FFI and renamed into UFWI.
Introduction
NuFW ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20silicon%20etching | Advanced silicon etching (ASE) is a deep reactive-ion etching (DRIE) technique to etch deep and high aspect ratio structures in silicon. ASE was created by Surface Technology Systems Plc (STS) in 1994 in the UK. STS has continued to develop this process with faster etch rates. STS developed and first implemented the sw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%20Pad | The Pepper Pad was a family of Linux-based mobile computers with Internet capability and which doubled as a handheld game console. They also served as a portable multimedia device. The devices used Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies for Internet connection. Pepper Pads are now obsolete, unsupported and the parent compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20divider | A frequency divider, also called a clock divider or scaler or prescaler, is a circuit that takes an input signal of a frequency, , and generates an output signal of a frequency:
where is an integer. Phase-locked loop frequency synthesizers make use of frequency dividers to generate a frequency that is a multiple of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-entropy%20method | The cross-entropy (CE) method is a Monte Carlo method for importance sampling and optimization. It is applicable to both combinatorial and continuous problems, with either a static or noisy objective.
The method approximates the optimal importance sampling estimator by repeating two phases:
Draw a sample from a proba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-deciduous | Semi-deciduous or semi-evergreen is a botanical term which refers to plants that lose their foliage for a very short period, when old leaves fall off and new foliage growth is starting. This phenomenon occurs in tropical and sub-tropical woody species, for example in Dipteryx odorata. Semi-deciduous or semi-evergreen m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20recovery | A carrier recovery system is a circuit used to estimate and compensate for frequency and phase differences between a received signal's carrier wave and the receiver's local oscillator for the purpose of coherent demodulation.
In the transmitter of a communications carrier system, a carrier wave is modulated by a baseb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20television | A handheld television is a portable device for watching television that usually uses a TFT LCD or OLED and CRT color display. Many of these devices resemble handheld transistor radios.
History
In 1970, Panasonic released the first TV which was small enough to fit in a large pocket; called the Panasonic IC TV MODEL T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGrok | OpenGrok is a source code search and cross-reference engine. It helps programmers to search, cross-reference, and navigate source code trees to aid code comprehension.
It can understand various program file formats and version control histories such as Monotone, SCCS, RCS, CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git, Clearcase, P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20NEWS | The Sony NEWS ("Network Engineering Workstation", later "NetWorkStation") is a series of Unix workstations sold during the late 1980s and 1990s. The first NEWS machine was the NWS-800, which originally appeared in Japan in January 1987 and was conceived as a desktop replacement for the VAX series of minicomputers.
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluster | Gluster Inc. (formerly known as Z RESEARCH) was a software company that provided an open source platform for scale-out public and private cloud storage. The company was privately funded and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an engineering center in Bangalore, India. Gluster was funded by Nexus Venture Partne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILiad | The iLiad was an electronic handheld device, or e-Reader, which could be used for document reading and editing. Like the Barnes and Noble nook, Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad made use of an electronic paper display. In 2010, sales of the iLiad ended when its parent company, iRex Technologies, filed for bankru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20%28zoology%29 | Display behaviour is a set of ritualized behaviours that enable an animal to communicate to other animals (typically of the same species) about specific stimuli. Such ritualized behaviours can be visual, but many animals depend on a mixture of visual, audio, tactical and chemical signals. Evolution has tailored these s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthieu%20Brouard | Matthieu Brouard was a French theologian, mathematician, philosopher and historian, who was born in Saint-Denis near Paris in 1520, and died in Geneva on July 15, 1576. He is also known as Matthieu Brouart or Béroalde and (in Latin) as Mattheus Beroaldus. He taught Greek to the young Thomas Bodley and was the father ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes%20of%20Wada | In mathematics, the are three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary. In other words, for any point selected on the boundary of one of the lakes, the other two lakes' boundaries also contain that point.
More than two sets w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Pay%20Send | Google Pay Send, previously known as Google Wallet, was a peer-to-peer payments service developed by Google before its merger into Google Pay. It allowed people to send and receive money from a mobile device or desktop computer.
In 2018, Android Pay and Google Wallet were unified into a single pay system called Google... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20amine-associated%20receptor | Trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs), sometimes referred to as trace amine receptors (TAs or TARs), are a class of G protein-coupled receptors that were discovered in 2001. TAAR1, the first of six functional human TAARs, has gained considerable interest in academic and proprietary pharmaceutical research due to its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projected%20dynamical%20system | Projected dynamical systems is a mathematical theory investigating the behaviour of dynamical systems where solutions are restricted to a constraint set. The discipline shares connections to and applications with both the static world of optimization and equilibrium problems and the dynamical world of ordinary differen... |
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