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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download%20Cache
The Download Cache, or downloaded files cache, is a component of Microsoft's .NET Framework that is similar to the Global Assembly Cache except that it caches assemblies that have been downloaded from the Internet. Q. Assemblies are downloaded from the Internet when a specific managed object is requested using the <obj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20mixer
The harmonic mixer and subharmonic mixer are a type of frequency mixer, which is a circuit that changes one signal frequency to another. The ordinary mixer has two input signals and one output signal. If the two input signals are sinewaves at frequencies f1 and f2, then the output signal consists of frequency component...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20alternatives
Various copyright alternatives in an alternative compensation systems (ACS) have been proposed as ways to allow the widespread reproduction of digital copyrighted works while still paying the authors and copyright owners of those works. This article only discusses those proposals which involve some form of government i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20system
A biological system is a complex network which connects several biologically relevant entities. Biological organization spans several scales and are determined based different structures depending on what the system is. Examples of biological systems at the macro scale are populations of organisms. On the organ and tis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitointeractome
Mitointeractome is a mitochondrial protein interactome database. References External links Mitointeractome Molecular biology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API-Calculus
API Calculus is a program that solves calculus problems using operating systems within a device that solves calculus problems. In 1989, the PI- Calculus was created by Robin Milner and was very successful throughout the years. The PI Calculus is an extension of the process algebra CCS, a tool that has algebraic langua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20formulas%20in%20Riemannian%20geometry
This is a list of formulas encountered in Riemannian geometry. Einstein notation is used throughout this article. This article uses the "analyst's" sign convention for Laplacians, except when noted otherwise. Christoffel symbols, covariant derivative In a smooth coordinate chart, the Christoffel symbols of the first ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach%20tensor
In differential geometry and general relativity, the Bach tensor is a trace-free tensor of rank 2 which is conformally invariant in dimension . Before 1968, it was the only known conformally invariant tensor that is algebraically independent of the Weyl tensor. In abstract indices the Bach tensor is given by where is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Plan%209%20applications
This is a list of Plan 9 programs. Many of these programs are very similar to the UNIX programs with the same name, others are to be found only on Plan 9. Others again share only the name, but have a different behaviour. System software General user dd – convert and copy a file date – date and time echo – print a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothe%E2%80%93Hagen%20identity
In mathematics, the Rothe–Hagen identity is a mathematical identity valid for all complex numbers () except where its denominators vanish: It is a generalization of Vandermonde's identity, and is named after Heinrich August Rothe and Johann Georg Hagen. References . . See especially pp. 89–91. . As cited by . . . As ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerche%E2%80%93Newberger%20sum%20rule
The Lerche–Newberger, or Newberger, sum rule, discovered by B. S. Newberger in 1982, finds the sum of certain infinite series involving Bessel functions Jα of the first kind. It states that if μ is any non-integer complex number, , and Re(α + β) > −1, then Newberger's formula generalizes a formula of this type proven...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato%20cyst%20nematode
Potato root nematodes or potato cyst nematodes (PCN) are 1-mm long roundworms belonging to the genus Globodera, which comprises around 12 species. They live on the roots of plants of the family Solanaceae, such as potatoes and tomatoes. PCN cause growth retardation and, at very high population densities, damage to the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20singularity
In engineering, a mechanical singularity is a position or configuration of a mechanism or a machine where the subsequent behaviour cannot be predicted, or the forces or other physical quantities involved become infinite or nondeterministic. When the underlying engineering equations of a mechanism or machine are evalua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%20Accord
The Dublin Accord is an agreement for the international recognition of Engineering Technician qualifications. In May 2002, the national engineering organisations of Ireland, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Canada signed an agreement mutually recognising the qualifications which underpin the granting of Enginee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20Technical%20Research%20Institute
, or , is the technical research company under the Japan Railways group of companies. Overview RTRI was established in its current form in 1986 just before Japanese National Railways (JNR) was privatised and split into separate JR group companies. It conducts research on everything related to trains, railways and thei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20structural%20engineering%20articles
This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to structural engineering. For a broad overview of engineering, please see List of engineering topics. For biographies please see List of engineers. A A-frame – Aerodynamics – Aeroelasticity – Air-supported structure – Airframe – Aluminium – Analytical m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicational%20propositional%20calculus
In mathematical logic, the implicational propositional calculus is a version of classical propositional calculus which uses only one connective, called implication or conditional. In formulas, this binary operation is indicated by "implies", "if ..., then ...", "→", "", etc.. Functional (in)completeness Implication al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20mimicry
Molecular mimicry is the theoretical possibility that sequence similarities between foreign and self-peptides are enough to result in the cross-activation of autoreactive T or B cells by pathogen-derived peptides. Despite the prevalence of several peptide sequences which can be both foreign and self in nature, just a f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20mechanics
Structural mechanics or mechanics of structures is the computation of deformations, deflections, and internal forces or stresses (stress equivalents) within structures, either for design or for performance evaluation of existing structures. It is one subset of structural analysis. Structural mechanics analysis needs in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization-on-demand%20holder%20idiom
In software engineering, the initialization-on-demand holder (design pattern) idiom is a lazy-loaded singleton. In all versions of Java, the idiom enables a safe, highly concurrent lazy initialization of static fields with good performance. public class Something { private Something() {} private static class ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackTrack
BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use. In March 2013, the Offensive Security team rebuilt BackTrack around the Debian distribution and released it under the name Kali Linux. History The BackTrack dist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasitopological%20space
In mathematics, a quasi-topology on a set X is a function that associates to every compact Hausdorff space C a collection of mappings from C to X satisfying certain natural conditions. A set with a quasi-topology is called a quasitopological space. They were introduced by Spanier, who showed that there is a natural qu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sequence%20alignment%20software
This list of sequence alignment software is a compilation of software tools and web portals used in pairwise sequence alignment and multiple sequence alignment. See structural alignment software for structural alignment of proteins. Database search only *Sequence type: protein or nucleotide Pairwise alignment *Sequ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood%20semantics
Neighborhood semantics, also known as Scott–Montague semantics, is a formal semantics for modal logics. It is a generalization, developed independently by Dana Scott and Richard Montague, of the more widely known relational semantics for modal logic. Whereas a relational frame consists of a set W of worlds (or state...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPS/VM
VPS/VM (Virtual Processing System/Virtual Machine) was an operating system that ran on IBM System/370 – IBM 3090 computers at Boston University in general use from 1977 to around 1990, and in limited use until at least 1993. During the 1980s, VPS/VM was the main operating system of Boston University and often ran up t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-game%20advertising
In-game advertising (IGA) is advertising in electronic games. IGA differs from advergames, which refers to games specifically made to advertise a product. The IGA industry is large and growing. In-game advertising generated $34 million in 2004, $56 million in 2005, $80 million in 2006, and $295 million in 2007. In 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volterra%20series
The Volterra series is a model for non-linear behavior similar to the Taylor series. It differs from the Taylor series in its ability to capture "memory" effects. The Taylor series can be used for approximating the response of a nonlinear system to a given input if the output of the system depends strictly on the inpu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20capacitance%20tomography
Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a method for determination of the dielectric permittivity distribution in the interior of an object from external capacitance measurements. It is a close relative of electrical impedance tomography and is proposed as a method for industrial process monitoring. Although capac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20mean
In mathematics, the Riesz mean is a certain mean of the terms in a series. They were introduced by Marcel Riesz in 1911 as an improvement over the Cesàro mean. The Riesz mean should not be confused with the Bochner–Riesz mean or the Strong–Riesz mean. Definition Given a series , the Riesz mean of the series is defined...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiopoietin
Angiopoietin is part of a family of vascular growth factors that play a role in embryonic and postnatal angiogenesis. Angiopoietin signaling most directly corresponds with angiogenesis, the process by which new arteries and veins form from preexisting blood vessels. Angiogenesis proceeds through sprouting, endothelial ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Inferno%20applications
This is a list of Inferno programs. Most of these programs are very similar to the Plan 9 applications or UNIX programs with the same name. System software General user dd – convert and copy a file date – print the date echo – print arguments emu – Inferno emulator mash – programmable shell ns – display current name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20of%20curvature
In geometry, the center of curvature of a curve is found at a point that is at a distance from the curve equal to the radius of curvature lying on the normal vector. It is the point at infinity if the curvature is zero. The osculating circle to the curve is centered at the centre of curvature. Cauchy defined the cen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts%20Manufacturer%20Approval
Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) is an approval granted by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to a manufacturer of aircraft parts. Approval It is generally illegal in the United States to install replacement or modification parts on a certificated aircraft without an airworthiness release such as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic%20function
In mathematics, and more specifically in analysis, a holonomic function is a smooth function of several variables that is a solution of a system of linear homogeneous differential equations with polynomial coefficients and satisfies a suitable dimension condition in terms of D-modules theory. More precisely, a holonom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20eccentricity
Angular eccentricity is one of many parameters which arise in the study of the ellipse or ellipsoid. It is denoted here by α (alpha). It may be defined in terms of the eccentricity, e, or the aspect ratio, b/a (the ratio of the semi-minor axis and the semi-major axis): Angular eccentricity is not currently used in E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acyclic%20object
In mathematics, in the field of homological algebra, given an abelian category having enough injectives and an additive (covariant) functor , an acyclic object with respect to , or simply an -acyclic object, is an object in such that for all , where are the right derived functors of . References Homolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Anthony%20Hall
J. Anthony Hall FREng is a leading British software engineer specializing in the use of formal methods, especially the Z notation. Anthony Hall was educated at the University of Oxford with a BA in chemistry and a DPhil in theoretical chemistry. His subsequent posts have included: ICI Research Fellow, Department of T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenoptosis
Phenoptosis (from pheno: showing or demonstrating; ptosis: programmed death, "falling off") is a conception of the self-programmed death of an organism proposed by Vladimir Skulachev in 1999. In many species, including salmon and marsupial mice, under certain circumstances, especially following reproduction, an organi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinotti%20cell
Martinotti cells are small multipolar neurons with short branching dendrites. They are scattered throughout various layers of the cerebral cortex, sending their axons up to the cortical layer I where they form axonal arborization. The arbors transgress multiple columns in layer VI and make contacts with the distal tuf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows%20of%20the%20Mind
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness is a 1994 book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that serves as a followup to his 1989 book The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics. Penrose hypothesizes that: Human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas/oil%20ratio
When oil is produced to surface temperature and pressure it is usual for some natural gas to come out of solution. The gas/oil ratio (GOR) is the ratio of the volume of gas ("scf") that comes out of solution to the volume of oil — at standard conditions. In reservoir simulation gas/oil ratio is usually abbreviated . ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB (EDB), a privately held company based in Massachusetts, provides software and services based on the open-source database PostgreSQL (also known as Postgres), and is one of the largest contributors to Postgres. EDB develops and integrates performance, security, and manageability enhancements into Postgres t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-healing%20material
Self-healing materials are artificial or synthetically created substances that have the built-in ability to automatically repair damages to themselves without any external diagnosis of the problem or human intervention. Generally, materials will degrade over time due to fatigue, environmental conditions, or damage incu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20quantifier
In the study of formal theories in mathematical logic, bounded quantifiers (a.k.a. restricted quantifiers) are often included in a formal language in addition to the standard quantifiers "∀" and "∃". Bounded quantifiers differ from "∀" and "∃" in that bounded quantifiers restrict the range of the quantified variable. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVVL
DVVL is an acronym for Discrete variable valve lift, a mechanical component of which two types exist: DVVLd, includes dual cam phasing. DVVLi, includes intake valve cam phasing. Valvetrain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Earl%20Baumgartner
James Earl Baumgartner (March 23, 1943 – December 28, 2011) was an American mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology. Baumgartner was born in Wichita, Kansas, began his undergraduate study at the California Institute of Technology in 1960, then transferred to the Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins%20algebra
In abstract algebra, a Robbins algebra is an algebra containing a single binary operation, usually denoted by , and a single unary operation usually denoted by satisfying the following axioms: For all elements a, b, and c: Associativity: Commutativity: Robbins equation: For many years, it was conjectured, but ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decalage
Decalage on a fixed-wing aircraft is a measure of the relative incidences of wing surfaces. Various sources have defined it in multiple ways, depending on context: On a biplane, decalage can refer to the angle difference between the upper and lower wings, i.e. the acute angle contained between the chords of the wings...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious%20Software%20Removal%20Tool
Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a freeware second-opinion malware scanner that Microsoft's Windows Update downloads and runs on Windows computers each month, independent of the install antivirus software. First released on January 13, 2005, MSRT does not offer real-time protection. It scans ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Ostrowski
Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (; ; 25 September 1893, in Kiev, Russian Empire – 20 November 1986, in Montagnola, Lugano, Switzerland) was a mathematician. His father Mark having been a merchant, Alexander Ostrowski attended the Kiev College of Commerce, not a high school, and thus had an insufficient qualification to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction%20theory
Auction theory is an applied branch of economics which deals with how bidders act in auction markets and researches how the features of auction markets incentivise predictable outcomes. Auction theory is a tool used to inform the design of real-world auctions. Sellers use auction theory to raise higher revenues while a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configurable%20modularity
Configurable modularity is a term coined by Raoul de Campo of IBM Research and later expanded on by Nate Edwards of the same organization, denoting the ability to reuse independent components by changing their interconnections, but not their internals. In Edwards' view this characterizes all successful reuse systems, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Institute%20for%20Genomic%20Medicine
The Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) is a research institute of Texas A&M AgriLife Research. It was founded in 2005 under a $50 million award from the Texas Enterprise Fund to accelerate the pace of medical discoveries and foster the development of the biotechnology industry in Texas. TIGM helps resear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis%3A%20The%20Fantasm%20Soldier
is a 1986 action-platform video game originally developed by Wolf Team and published by Telenet Japan for the MSX, PC-8801, X1, FM-7, and PC-9801 home computers. It is the first entry in the Valis series. It stars Yuko Asou, a Japanese teenage schoolgirl chosen as the Valis warrior and wielder of the mystical Valis sw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claranet
Claranet provides network, hosting and managed application services in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands (Benelux), Portugal, Spain, Italy and Brazil. History Charles Nasser founded the ISP in 1996 and by 1999 had 150,000 subscribers. Claranet has grown its business through a number of acquisitions, including...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%20equation
The Abel equation, named after Niels Henrik Abel, is a type of functional equation of the form or . The forms are equivalent when is invertible. or control the iteration of . Equivalence The second equation can be written Taking , the equation can be written For a known function , a problem is to solve the func...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6der%27s%20equation
Schröder's equation, named after Ernst Schröder, is a functional equation with one independent variable: given the function , find the function such that Schröder's equation is an eigenvalue equation for the composition operator that sends a function to . If is a fixed point of , meaning , then either (or ) or ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20box
A memory box is a box containing objects that serve as reminders. Dementia In cases of dementia, a memory box may be used as a form of therapy to remind the patient of their earlier life. Deceased infants Memory boxes are provided by some hospitals in the event of stillbirth, miscarriage, or other problem during or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29
As a subfield in artificial intelligence, diagnosis is concerned with the development of algorithms and techniques that are able to determine whether the behaviour of a system is correct. If the system is not functioning correctly, the algorithm should be able to determine, as accurately as possible, which part of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20bomb
On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a sec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorrelation
Decorrelation is a general term for any process that is used to reduce autocorrelation within a signal, or cross-correlation within a set of signals, while preserving other aspects of the signal. A frequently used method of decorrelation is the use of a matched linear filter to reduce the autocorrelation of a signal as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20Blaster
is an interactive movie video game developed by Data East featuring animation by Toei Animation, originally released exclusively in Japan as a laserdisc-based arcade game in 1985. The player assumes the role of a vigilante who must avenge the death of his wife by pursuing the biker gang responsible for her death in a m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX%20Fonts%20project
The STIX Fonts project or Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX), is a project sponsored by several leading scientific and technical publishers to provide, under royalty-free license, a comprehensive font set of mathematical symbols and alphabets, intended to serve the scientific and engineering community...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod%20%28computer%29
The Nimrod, built in the United Kingdom by Ferranti for the 1951 Festival of Britain, was an early computer custom-built to play Nim, inspired by the earlier Nimatron. The twelve-by-nine-by-five-foot (3.7-by-2.7-by-1.5-meter) computer, designed by John Makepeace Bennett and built by engineer Raymond Stuart-Williams, al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20coupling
In object-oriented programming, sequential coupling (also known as temporal coupling) is a form of coupling where a class requires its methods to be called in a particular sequence. This may be an anti-pattern, depending on context. Methods whose name starts with Init, Begin, Start, etc. may indicate the existence o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical%20function
In mathematics, conical functions or Mehler functions are functions which can be expressed in terms of Legendre functions of the first and second kind, and The functions were introduced by Gustav Ferdinand Mehler, in 1868, when expanding in series the distance of a point on the axis of a cone to a point located on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Distributed%20Computing%20Systems
The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) is the oldest conference in the field of distributed computing systems in the world. It was launched by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) in October 1979, and is sponsored by such committee. It was started...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging%20in%20cats
Aging in cats is the process by which cats change over the course of their natural lifespans. The average lifespan of a domestic cat may range from 10 to 13 years. As cats senesce, they undergo predictable changes in health and behavior. Dental disease and loss of olfaction are common as cats age, affecting eating habi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisection%20bandwidth
In computer networking, if the network is bisected into two equal-sized partitions, the bisection bandwidth of a network topology is the bandwidth available between the two partitions. Bisection should be done in such a way that the bandwidth between two partitions is minimum. Bisection bandwidth gives the true bandwid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety%20instrumented%20system
In functional safety a safety instrumented system (SIS) is an engineered set of hardware and software controls which provides a protection layer that shuts down a chemical, nuclear, electrical, or mechanical system, or part of it, if a hazardous condition is detected. Requirement specification An SIS performs a safet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotropism
Genotropism is defined as the reciprocal attraction between carriers of the same or related latent recessive genes. Developed by the Hungarian psychiatrist Léopold Szondi in the 1930s, the theory concludes that instinct is biological and genetic in origin. Szondi believed that these genes regulated the "possibilities o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS%20Toolkit
MKS Toolkit is a software package produced and maintained by PTC that provides a Unix-like environment for scripting, connectivity and porting Unix and Linux software to Microsoft Windows. It was originally created for MS-DOS, and OS/2 versions were released up to version 4.4. Several editions of each version, such as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pass%20filter
An all-pass filter is a signal processing filter that passes all frequencies equally in gain, but changes the phase relationship among various frequencies. Most types of filter reduce the amplitude (i.e. the magnitude) of the signal applied to it for some values of frequency, whereas the all-pass filter allows all freq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Web%20Credibility%20Project
The Stanford Web Credibility Project, which involves assessments of website credibility conducted by the Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab, is an investigative examination of what leads people to believe in the veracity of content found on the Web. The goal of the project is to enhance website design and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20algebraic%20structures
In mathematics, there are many types of algebraic structures which are studied. Abstract algebra is primarily the study of specific algebraic structures and their properties. Algebraic structures may be viewed in different ways, however the common starting point of algebra texts is that an algebraic object incorporates...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20network-attached%20storage%20series
The Buffalo TeraStation network-attached storage series are network-attached storage devices. The current lineup includes the LinkStation and TeraStation series. These devices have undergone various improvements since they were first produced, and have expanded to include a Windows Storage Server-based operating syste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment%20molecular%20orbital
The fragment molecular orbital method (FMO) is a computational method that can be used to calculate very large molecular systems with thousands of atoms using ab initio quantum-chemical wave functions. History of FMO and related methods The fragment molecular orbital method (FMO) was developed by Kazuo Kitaura and c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20%28algebra%29
In mathematics, a band (also called idempotent semigroup) is a semigroup in which every element is idempotent (in other words equal to its own square). Bands were first studied and named by . The lattice of varieties of bands was described independently in the early 1970s by Biryukov, Fennemore and Gerhard. Semilattic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20interoperability
Web interoperability is producing web pages viewable with nearly every device and browser. There have been various projects to improve web interoperability, for example the Web Standards Project, Mozilla's Technology Evangelism and Web Standards Group, and the Web Essential Conference. History The term was first used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20%28radio%29
In RF engineering, radial has three distinct meanings, both referring to lines which radiate from (or intersect at) a radio antenna, but neither meaning is related to the other. Ground system radial wires When used in the context of antenna construction, radial wires are physical objects: Wires running away from the b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerosumfree%20monoid
In abstract algebra, an additive monoid is said to be zerosumfree, conical, centerless or positive if nonzero elements do not sum to zero. Formally: This means that the only way zero can be expressed as a sum is as . References Semigroup theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20landscape
An evolutionary landscape is a metaphor or a construct used to think about and visualize the processes of evolution (e.g. natural selection and genetic drift) acting on a biological entity (e.g. a gene, protein, population, or species). This entity can be viewed as searching or moving through a search space. For exampl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20T90
The Cray T90 series (code-named Triton during development) was the last of a line of vector processing supercomputers manufactured by Cray Research, Inc, superseding the Cray C90 series. The first machines were shipped in 1995, and featured a 2.2 ns (450 MHz) clock cycle and two-wide vector pipes, for a peak speed of 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20image
In computing, a system image is a serialized copy of the entire state of a computer system stored in some non-volatile form such as a file. A system is said to be capable of using system images if it can be shut down and later restored to exactly the same state. In such cases, system images can be used for backup. Hib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20connection
In algebraic geometry and synthetic differential geometry, a Grothendieck connection is a way of viewing connections in terms of descent data from infinitesimal neighbourhoods of the diagonal. Introduction and motivation The Grothendieck connection is a generalization of the Gauss–Manin connection constructed in a man...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20RS/6000
The RISC System/6000 (RS/6000) is a family of RISC-based Unix servers, workstations and supercomputers made by IBM in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT PC computer platform in February 1990 and was the first computer line to see the use of IBM's POWER and PowerPC based microprocessors. In October 2000, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METEOR
METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering) is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision. It also has several features that are not found in other metrics, such ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20message
In computing, a private message, personal message, or direct message (abbreviated as PM or DM) refers to a private communication sent or received by a user of a private communication channel on any given platform. Unlike public posts, PMs are only viewable by the participants. Though long a function present on IRCs and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Oberheim
Thomas Elroy Oberheim (born July 7, 1936, Manhattan, Kansas), known as Tom Oberheim, is an American audio engineer and electronics engineer best known for designing effects processors, analog synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. He has been the founder of four audio electronics companies, most notably Oberheim ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholestane
Cholestane is a saturated tetracyclic triterpene. This 27-carbon biomarker is produced by diagenesis of cholesterol and is one of the most abundant biomarkers in the rock record. Presence of cholestane, its derivatives and related chemical compounds in environmental samples is commonly interpreted as an indicator of an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppForge
AppForge, Inc. was a software company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, providing mobile application development services as well as CrossFire, a software tool simplifying mobile applications for Symbian, Windows Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, and Palm OS. Crossfire was a software plugin for Visual Basic 6 and for Microsoft ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFiDog%20Captive%20Portal
WiFiDog was an open source embeddable captive portal solution used to build wireless hotspots. It is no longer an active project after not being updated for several years. WiFiDog consists of two components: the gateway and the authentication server. It was written by the technical team of Île Sans Fil and is include...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyckoff%20positions
In crystallography, a Wyckoff position is any point in a set of points whose site symmetry groups (see below) are all conjugate subgroups one of another. Crystallography tables give the Wyckoff positions for different space groups. History The Wyckoff positions are named after Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, an Ameri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Animatograph%20Corporation
The Victor Animatograph Corporation was a maker of projection equipment founded in 1910 in Davenport, Iowa by Swedish-born American inventor Alexander F. Victor. The firm introduced its first 16 mm camera and movie projector on August 12, 1923, the same year Eastman Kodak introduced the Cine-Kodak and Kodascope. Vict...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing%20cycle
In mathematics, vanishing cycles are studied in singularity theory and other parts of algebraic geometry. They are those homology cycles of a smooth fiber in a family which vanish in the singular fiber. For example, in a map from a connected complex surface to the complex projective line, a generic fiber is a smooth R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20mixing
Harmonic mixing or key mixing (also referred to as mixing in key) is a DJ's continuous mix between two pre-recorded tracks that are most often either in the same key, or their keys are relative or in a subdominant or dominant relationship with one another. The primary goal of harmonic mixing is to create a smooth tran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSHRA
MUSHRA stands for Multiple Stimuli with Hidden Reference and Anchor and is a methodology for conducting a codec listening test to evaluate the perceived quality of the output from lossy audio compression algorithms. It is defined by ITU-R recommendation BS.1534-3. The MUSHRA methodology is recommended for assessing "in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20organ%20%28fish%29
In biology, the electric organ is an organ that an electric fish uses to create an electric field. Electric organs are derived from modified muscle or in some cases nerve tissue, and have evolved at least six times among the elasmobranchs and teleosts. These fish use their electric discharges for navigation, communicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS%20%28Portuguese%20company%29
NOS, SGPS S.A. is a Portuguese telecommunications and media company who provides mobile and fixed telephony, cable television, satellite television and internet. The company resulted from the merger in 2013 of two of the country's major telecommunications companies: Zon Multimédia (formerly known as PT Multimédia, a sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Interface%20Adapter
A Virtual Interface Adapter ("VIA") is a network protocol (such as TCP/IP ...). As of July 2006 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 supports it. The specific implementation of VIA will vary from vendor to vendor. In general, it is usually a network kind of interface but is usually a very high-performance, dedicated connection b...