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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devicescape | Devicescape is an American developer of client/server software services for wireless networking connectivity, analytics, and context-awareness. Founded in 2001 as Instant802 Networks, the company was renamed to Devicescape in January 2005. Devicescape is a venture backed private company.
Corporate History
Instant802 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostapd | hostapd (host access point daemon) is a user space daemon software enabling a network interface card to act as an access point and authentication server. There are three implementations: Jouni Malinen's hostapd, OpenBSD's hostapd and Devicescape's hostapd.
Jouni Malinen's hostapd
Jouni Malinen's hostapd is a user sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20access%20layer | A data access layer (DAL) in computer software is a layer of a computer program which provides simplified access to data stored in persistent storage of some kind, such as an entity-relational database. This acronym is prevalently used in Microsoft environments.
For example, the DAL might return a reference to an obje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggs%E2%80%93Rauscher%20reaction | The Briggs–Rauscher oscillating reaction is one of a small number of known oscillating chemical reactions. It is especially well suited for demonstration purposes because of its visually striking colour changes: the freshly prepared colourless solution slowly turns an amber colour, then suddenly changes to a very dark ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20random%20number%20generators | Random number generators are important in many kinds of technical applications, including physics, engineering or mathematical computer studies (e.g., Monte Carlo simulations), cryptography and gambling (on game servers).
This list includes many common types, regardless of quality or applicability to a given use case.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float%20switch | A float switch is a type of level sensor, a device used to detect the level of liquid within a tank. The switch may be used to control a pump, as an indicator, an alarm, or to control other devices.
One type of float switch uses a mercury switch inside a hinged float. Another common type is a float that raises a rod t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight%20glass | A sight glass or water gauge is a type of level sensor, a transparent tube through which the operator of a tank or boiler can observe the level of liquid contained within.
Liquid in tanks
Simple sight glasses may be just a plastic or glass tube connected to the bottom of the tank at one end and the top of the tank at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant-based%20programming | Invariant-based programming is a programming methodology where specifications and invariants are written before the actual program statements. Writing down the invariants during the programming process has a number of advantages: it requires the programmer to make their intentions about the program behavior explicit be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20custom | In integrated circuit design, full-custom is a design methodology in which the layout of each individual transistor on the integrated circuit (IC), and the interconnections between them, are specified. Alternatives to full-custom design include various forms of semi-custom design, such as the repetition of small trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20bond%20graph | A hybrid bond graph is a graphical description of a physical dynamic system with discontinuities (i.e., a hybrid dynamical system). Similar to
a regular bond graph, it is an energy-based technique. However, it allows instantaneous switching of the junction structure, which may violate the principle of continuity of po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20of%20Good%20Practice%20for%20Information%20Security | The Standard of Good Practice for Information Security (SOGP), published by the Information Security Forum (ISF), is a business-focused, practical and comprehensive guide to identifying and managing information security risks in organizations and their supply chains.
The most recent edition is 2020, an update of the 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20machine%20vision | The following are common definitions related to the machine vision field.
General related fields
Machine vision
Computer vision
Image processing
Signal processing
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1394. FireWire is Apple Inc.'s brand name for the IEEE 1394 interface. It is also known as i.Link (Sony's name) or IEEE 1394 (although the 1394 st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Buddhist%20Network | The Global Buddhist Network (GBN), previously known as the Dhammakaya Media Channel (DMC) is a Thai online television channel concerned with Buddhism. The channel's taglines were "The secrets of life revealed" and "The only one", but these were later replaced by "Channel for the path to the cessation of suffering and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoamyl%20acetate | Isoamyl acetate, also known as isopentyl acetate, is an organic compound that is the ester formed from isoamyl alcohol and acetic acid, with the molecular formula C7H14O2. It is a colorless liquid that is only slightly soluble in water, but very soluble in most organic solvents. Isoamyl acetate has a strong odor which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutSystems | OutSystems is a Low-code development platform which provides tools for companies to develop, deploy and manage omnichannel enterprise applications.
OutSystems was founded in 2001 in Lisbon, Portugal.
In June 2018 OutSystems secured a $360M round of funding from KKR and Goldman Sachs and reached the status of Unicorn.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supporting%20hyperplane | In geometry, a supporting hyperplane of a set in Euclidean space is a hyperplane that has both of the following two properties:
is entirely contained in one of the two closed half-spaces bounded by the hyperplane,
has at least one boundary-point on the hyperplane.
Here, a closed half-space is the half-space that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20chromatin%20sequence | An active chromatin sequence (ACS) is a region of DNA in a eukaryotic chromosome in which histone modifications such as acetylation lead to exposure of the DNA sequence thus allowing binding of transcription factors and transcription to take place. Active chromatin may also be called euchromatin. ACSs may occur in non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot%20refrigerator | A pot-in-pot refrigerator, clay pot cooler or zeer () is an evaporative cooling refrigeration device which does not use electricity. It uses a porous outer clay pot (lined with wet sand) containing an inner pot (which can be glazed to prevent penetration by the liquid) within which the food is placed. The evaporation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-trip%20translation | Round-trip translation (RTT), also known as back-and-forth translation, recursive translation and bi-directional translation, is the process of translating a word, phrase or text into another language (forward translation), then translating the result back into the original language (back translation), using machine tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavorist | A flavorist, also known as flavor chemist, is someone who uses chemistry to engineer artificial and natural flavors. The tools and materials used by flavorists are almost the same as that used by perfumers with the exception that flavorists seek to mimic or modify both the olfactory and gustatory properties of various ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20cortex | The cell cortex, also known as the actin cortex, cortical cytoskeleton or actomyosin cortex, is a specialized layer of cytoplasmic proteins on the inner face of the cell membrane. It functions as a modulator of membrane behavior and cell surface properties. In most eukaryotic cells lacking a cell wall, the cortex is an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrosion%20fatigue | Corrosion fatigue is fatigue in a corrosive environment. It is the mechanical degradation of a material under the joint action of corrosion and cyclic loading. Nearly all engineering structures experience some form of alternating stress, and are exposed to harmful environments during their service life. The environment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained%20optimization | In mathematical optimization, constrained optimization (in some contexts called constraint optimization) is the process of optimizing an objective function with respect to some variables in the presence of constraints on those variables. The objective function is either a cost function or energy function, which is to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20expansion | In mathematics, an expansion of a product of sums expresses it as a sum of products by using the fact that multiplication distributes over addition. Expansion of a polynomial expression can be obtained by repeatedly replacing subexpressions that multiply two other subexpressions, at least one of which is an addition, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiller%20%28botany%29 | A tiller is a shoot that arises from the base of a grass plant. The term refers to all shoots that grow after the initial parent shoot grows from a seed. Tillers are segmented, each segment possessing its own two-part leaf. They are involved in vegetative propagation and, in some cases, also seed production.
"Tillerin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piczo | Piczo was a social networking and blogging website for teens. It was founded in 2003 by Jim Conning in San Francisco, California. Early investors included Catamount, Sierra Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, and Mangrove Capital Partners.
In March 2009, Piczo was acquired by Stardoll (Stardoll AB with CEO Mattias Miksch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%20diode%20equation | The Shockley diode equation, or the diode law, named after transistor co-inventor William Shockley of Bell Labs, models the exponential current–voltage (I–V) relationship of semiconductor diodes in moderate constant current forward bias or reverse bias:
where
is the diode current,
is the reverse-bias saturation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20management%20%28electronics%29 | All electronic devices and circuitry generate excess heat and thus require thermal management to improve reliability and prevent premature failure. The amount of heat output is equal to the power input, if there are no other energy interactions. There are several techniques for cooling including various styles of heat ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMK%20%28operating%20system%29 | The eXtreme Minimal Kernel (XMK) is a real-time operating system (RTOS) that is designed for minimal RAM/ROM use. It achieves this goal, though it is almost entirely written in the C programming language. As a consequence it can be easily ported to any 8-, 16-, or 32-bit microcontroller.
XMK comes as two independent p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20identity | In mathematics, the additive identity of a set that is equipped with the operation of addition is an element which, when added to any element in the set, yields . One of the most familiar additive identities is the number 0 from elementary mathematics, but additive identities occur in other mathematical structures whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazchem | Hazchem (; from hazardous chemicals) is a warning plate system used in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, India and the United Kingdom for vehicles transporting hazardous substances, and on storage facilities. The top-left section of the plate gives the Emergency Action Code (EAC) telling the fire brigade wha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brettanomyces%20bruxellensis | Brettanomyces bruxellensis (the anamorph of Dekkera bruxellensis) is a yeast associated with the Senne valley near Brussels, Belgium. Despite its Latin species name, B. bruxellensis is found all over the globe. In the wild, it is often found on the skins of fruit.
Beer production
B. bruxellensis plays a key role in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt%20%28Unix%29 | In Unix computing, crypt or enigma is a utility program used for encryption. Due to the ease of breaking it, it is considered to be obsolete.
The program is usually used as a filter, and it has traditionally been implemented using a "rotor machine" algorithm based on the Enigma machine. It is considered to be cryptog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Exchange | PC Exchange was a utility program for Apple Macintosh computers. It was a control panel for the classic Mac OS that lets the operating system mount FAT file systems and mapped file extensions to the user-defined type and creator codes.
It was first made available in 1992 as a commercial software product from Apple, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20tree | A Wallace multiplier is a hardware implementation of a binary multiplier, a digital circuit that multiplies two integers. It uses a selection of full and half adders (the Wallace tree or Wallace reduction) to sum partial products in stages until two numbers are left. Wallace multipliers reduce as much as possible on ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadda%20multiplier | The Dadda multiplier is a hardware binary multiplier design invented by computer scientist Luigi Dadda in 1965. It uses a selection of full and half adders to sum the partial products in stages (the Dadda tree or Dadda reduction) until two numbers are left. The design is similar to the Wallace multiplier, but the diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20hex%20editors | The following is a comparison of notable hex editors.
General
Features
See also
Comparison of HTML editors
Comparison of integrated development environments
Comparison of text editors
Comparison of word processors
Notes
ao: ANSI is the Windows character set, OEM is the DOS character set. Both are based on ASCII.
R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20Preservation%20Society%20of%20Ireland | The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) is a railway preservation group founded in 1964 and operating throughout Ireland. Mainline steam train railtours are operated from Dublin, while short train rides are operated up and down the platform at Whitehead, County Antrim, and as of 2023, the group sometimes ope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet%20computer | A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being computers, have similar capabilities, but lack some input/output (I/O) abilities that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septum%20transversum | The septum transversum is a thick mass of cranial mesenchyme, formed in the embryo, that gives rise to parts of the thoracic diaphragm and the ventral mesentery of the foregut in the developed human being and other mammals.
Origins
The septum transversum originally arises as the most cranial part of the mesenchyme on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed%20Serial%20Interface | The High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) is a differential ECL serial interface standard developed by Cisco Systems and T3plus Networking primarily for use in WAN router connections. It is capable of speeds up to 52 Mbit/s with cables up to in length.
While HSSI uses 50-pin connector physically similar to that used b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform%20Invocation%20Services | Platform Invocation Services, commonly referred to as P/Invoke, is a feature of Common Language Infrastructure implementations, like Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, that enables managed code to call native code.
Managed code, such as C# or VB.NET, provides native access to classes, methods, and types defined with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMDIS | SIMDIS is a software toolset developed by Code 5770 at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The software provides 2D and 3D interactive graphical and video displays of live and postprocessed simulation, test, and operational data. SIMDIS is a portmanteau of simulation and display.
Features
SIMDIS runs on Windows, L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation%20law%20of%20mortality | The compensation law of mortality (or late-life mortality convergence) states that the relative differences in death rates between different populations of the same biological species decrease with age, because the higher initial death rates in disadvantaged populations are compensated by lower pace of mortality increa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetaev%20instability%20theorem | The Chetaev instability theorem for dynamical systems states that if there exists, for the system with an equilibrium point at the origin, a continuously differentiable function V(x) such that
the origin is a boundary point of the set ;
there exists a neighborhood of the origin such that for all
then the origin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoForce | The Nvidia GoForce was a line of chipsets that was used mainly in handheld devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. Nvidia acquired graphics display processor firm MediaQ in 2003, and rebranded the division as GoForce. It has since been replaced by the Nvidia Tegra series of SoCs.
Features
GoForce 2100
Featuring VGA ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-species%20foraging%20flock | A mixed-species feeding flock, also termed a mixed-species foraging flock, mixed hunting party or informally bird wave, is a flock of usually insectivorous birds of different species that join each other and move together while foraging. These are different from feeding aggregations, which are congregations of several ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrondo%27s%20paradox | Parrondo's paradox, a paradox in game theory, has been described as: A combination of losing strategies becomes a winning strategy. It is named after its creator, Juan Parrondo, who discovered the paradox in 1996. A more explanatory description is:
There exist pairs of games, each with a higher probability of losing t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham%20law%20of%20mortality | The Gompertz–Makeham law states that the human death rate is the sum of an age-dependent component (the Gompertz function, named after Benjamin Gompertz), which increases exponentially with age and an age-independent component (the Makeham term, named after William Makeham). In a protected environment where external ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readers%E2%80%93writer%20lock | In computer science, a readers–writer (single-writer lock, a multi-reader lock, a push lock, or an MRSW lock) is a synchronization primitive that solves one of the readers–writers problems. An RW lock allows concurrent access for read-only operations, whereas write operations require exclusive access. This means that m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20benzoate | Ethyl benzoate, C9H10O2, is an ester formed by the condensation of benzoic acid and ethanol. It is a colorless liquid that is almost insoluble in water, but miscible with most organic solvents.
As with many volatile esters, ethyl benzoate has a pleasant odor described as sweet, wintergreen, fruity, medicinal, cherry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20tide | Salt tide is a phenomenon in which the lower course of a river, with its low altitude with respect to the sea level, becomes salty when the discharge of the river is low during dry season, usually worsened by the result of astronomical high tide.
The lower course Xijiang (West River) in Guangdong, China was periodica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%20%28alcoholic%20beverage%29 | Gravity, in the context of fermenting alcoholic beverages, refers to the specific gravity (abbreviated SG), or relative density compared to water, of the wort or must at various stages in the fermentation. The concept is used in the brewing and wine-making industries. Specific gravity is measured by a hydrometer, refra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higman%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Higman's lemma states that the set of finite sequences over a finite alphabet, as partially ordered by the subsequence relation, is well-quasi-ordered. That is, if is an infinite sequence of words over some fixed finite alphabet, then there exist indices such that can be obtained from by deleting so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozani%C4%87%27s%20triangle | Lozanić's triangle (sometimes called Losanitsch's triangle) is a triangular array of binomial coefficients in a manner very similar to that of Pascal's triangle. It is named after the Serbian chemist Sima Lozanić, who researched it in his investigation into the symmetries exhibited by rows of paraffins (archaic term fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocus%20contest%20evolution | Interlocus contest evolution (ICE) is a process of intergenomic conflict by which different loci within a single genome antagonistically coevolve. ICE supposes that the Red Queen process, which is characterized by a never-ending antagonistic evolutionary arms race, does not only apply to species but also to genes withi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/224%20%28number%29 | 224 (two hundred [and] twenty-four) is the natural number following 223 and preceding 225.
In mathematics
224 is a practical number,
and a sum of two positive cubes . It is also , making it one of the smallest numbers to be the sum of distinct positive cubes in more than one way.
224 is the smallest k with λ(k) = 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20ecosystem | River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions of its many parts. River ecosystems are part of larger watershed networks or catchments, where smaller... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%2037xx | IBM 37xx (or 37x5) is a family of IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) programmable communications controllers used mainly in mainframe environments.
All members of the family ran one of three IBM-supplied programs.
Emulation Program (EP) mimicked the operation of the older IBM 270x non-programmable controllers.
Net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnopsychopharmacology | A growing body of research has begun to highlight differences in the way racial and ethnic groups respond to psychiatric medication.
It has been noted that there are "dramatic cross-ethnic and cross-national variations in the dosing practices and side-effect profiles in response to practically all classes of psychotro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitation%20of%20size | In the philosophy of mathematics, specifically the philosophical foundations of set theory, limitation of size is a concept developed by Philip Jourdain and/or Georg Cantor to avoid Cantor's paradox. It identifies certain "inconsistent multiplicities", in Cantor's terminology, that cannot be sets because they are "too ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdispersion | In statistics, overdispersion is the presence of greater variability (statistical dispersion) in a data set than would be expected based on a given statistical model.
A common task in applied statistics is choosing a parametric model to fit a given set of empirical observations. This necessitates an assessment of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytogeography | Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón = "plant" and γεωγραφία, geographía = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species and their influence on the earth's surface. Phytogeography is concerned with all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigo | Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co., Ltd, trading as Aigo (stylized as aigo), is a Chinese consumer electronics company. It is headquartered in the Ideal Plaza () in Haidian District, Beijing.
History
Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co Ltd (北京华旗资讯科技发展有限公司) is a consumer electronics manufactur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth%20wallpaper | For computer network security, stealth wallpaper is a material designed to prevent an indoor Wi-Fi network from extending or "leaking" to the outside of a building, where malicious persons may attempt to eavesdrop or attack a network. While it is simple to prevent all electronic signals from passing through a building... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alor%20Setar%20Tower | Alor Setar Tower (), also known as Kedah Tower is a 4-story, 165.5-meter-tall telecommunication tower in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia, It is Malaysia's third tallest tower, the tallest structure in the state and the tallest structure in the city.
Apart from serving the role of a telecommunication tower, it also caters ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Monkey%20Suit | "The Monkey Suit" is the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 14, 2006. In the episode, Ned Flanders is shocked after seeing a new display at the museum about evolution. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant%20Mine%20and%20Beam%20Engine | Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site. There is also a visitor centre, a short underground tour, and the South West Coast ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc%20converter | The arc converter, sometimes called the arc transmitter, or Poulsen arc after Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen who invented it in 1903, was a variety of spark transmitter used in early wireless telegraphy. The arc converter used an electric arc to convert direct current electricity into radio frequency alternating curr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20index | The fixation index (FST) is a measure of population differentiation due to genetic structure. It is frequently estimated from genetic polymorphism data, such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) or microsatellites. Developed as a special case of Wright's F-statistics, it is one of the most commonly used statistics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Schott | Friedrich Otto Schott (1851–1935) was a German chemist, glass technologist, and the inventor of borosilicate glass. Schott systematically investigated the relationship between the chemical composition of the glass and its properties. In this way, he solved fundamental problems in glass properties, identifying compositi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%28II%29%20gluconate | Iron(II) gluconate, or ferrous gluconate, is a black compound often used as an iron supplement. It is the iron(II) salt of gluconic acid. It is marketed under brand names such as Fergon, Ferralet and Simron.
Uses
Medical
Ferrous gluconate is effectively used in the treatment of hypochromic anemia. The use of this co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20heat%20flux | In the study of heat transfer, critical heat flux (CHF) is the heat flux at which boiling ceases to be an effective form of transferring heat from a solid surface to a liquid.
Description
Boiling systems are those in which liquid coolant absorbs energy from a heated solid surface and undergoes a change in phase. In f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomopathogenic%20nematode | Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) are a group of nematodes (thread worms), that cause death to insects. The term entomopathogenic has a Greek origin, with entomon, meaning insect, and pathogenic, which means causing disease. They are animals that occupy a bio control middle ground between microbial pathogens and predato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%E2%80%93Keldysh%20effect | The Franz–Keldysh effect is a change in optical absorption by a semiconductor when an electric field is applied. The effect is named after the German physicist Walter Franz and Russian physicist Leonid Keldysh.
Karl W. Böer observed first the shift of the optical absorption edge with electric fields during the disco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20haplogroups%20of%20historic%20people | This is a list of haplogroups of historic people. Haplogroups can be determined from the remains of historical figures, or derived from genealogical DNA tests of people who trace their direct maternal or paternal ancestry to a noted historical figure. Some contemporary notable figures have made their test results publi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20engineering | Vacuum engineering is the field of engineering that deals with the practical use of vacuum in industrial and scientific applications. Vacuum may improve the productivity and performance of processes otherwise carried out at normal air pressure, or may make possible processes that could not be done in the presence of ai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaean%20enterprise | The Linnaean enterprise is the task of identifying and describing all living species. It is named after Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, ecologist and physician who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy.
As of 2006, the Linnaean enterprise is considered to be barely begun. There are estimated to be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20angle | In astronomy, position angle (usually abbreviated PA) is the convention for measuring angles on the sky. The International Astronomical Union defines it as the angle measured relative to the north celestial pole (NCP), turning positive into the direction of the right ascension. In the standard (non-flipped) images, thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehn%20plane | In geometry, Max Dehn introduced two examples of planes, a semi-Euclidean geometry and a non-Legendrian geometry, that have infinitely many lines parallel to a given one that pass through a given point, but where the sum of the angles of a triangle is at least . A similar phenomenon occurs in hyperbolic geometry, exce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20cell%20structure | The bacterium, despite its simplicity, contains a well-developed cell structure which is responsible for some of its unique biological structures and pathogenicity. Many structural features are unique to bacteria and are not found among archaea or eukaryotes. Because of the simplicity of bacteria relative to larger org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGA | LIGA is a fabrication technology used to create high-aspect-ratio microstructures. The term is a German acronym for – lithography, electroplating, and molding.
Overview
The LIGA consists of three main processing steps; lithography, electroplating and molding.
There are two main LIGA-fabrication technologies, X-Ray ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self%20defined%20ethnicity | Self defined ethnicity (SDE) codes are a set of codes used by the Home Office in the United Kingdom to classify an individual's ethnicity according to that person's self-definition.
The codes are also called "18 + 1" codes, as there are 18 of them, plus one code (NS) for "not stated". In addition to the previously use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight%20distribution | Weight distribution is the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and trains. Typically, it is written in the form x/y, where x is the percentage of weight in the front, and y is the percentage in the back.
In a vehicle which relies on gravity in some way, weight distribution directly aff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-valued%20logic | In logic, a four-valued logic is any logic with four truth values. Several types of four-valued logic have been advanced.
Belnap
Nuel Belnap considered the challenge of question answering by computer in 1975. Noting human fallibility, he was concerned with the case where two contradictory facts were loaded into memory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious%20George%20%28TV%20series%29 | Curious George is an American children's animated television series based on the children's book series of the same name for PBS Kids which features Jeff Bennett as the voice of Ted Shackelford (credited as "The Man with the Yellow Hat", formerly called that in the original series books and telefilm books). Frank Welke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%20and%20Abel%20%28software%29 | Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) was a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It could recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks.
Cryptanalysis attacks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNSN-TV | KNSN-TV (channel 21) is a primary sports-formatted independent television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, which has a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox affiliate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACP%20131 | ACP-131 is the controlling publication for the listing of and It is published and revised from time to time by the Combined Communications Electronics Board (CCEB) countries: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States. When the meanings of the codes contained in ACP-131 are translated into vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field%20scanning%20optical%20microscope | Near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) or scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) is a microscopy technique for nanostructure investigation that breaks the far field resolution limit by exploiting the properties of evanescent waves. In SNOM, the excitation laser light is focused through an aperture with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyser | An analyser (British English) or analyzer (American English; see spelling differences) is a tool used to analyze data. For example, a gas analyzer tool is used to analyze gases. It examines the given data and tries to find patterns and relationships. An analyser can be a piece of hardware or software.
Autoanalysers ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience%20%28neuroscience%29 | Salience (also called saliency) is that property by which some thing stands out. Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20relation | A spatial relation specifies how some object is located in space in relation to some reference object. When the reference object is much bigger than the object to locate, the latter is often represented by a point. The reference object is often represented by a bounding box.
In Anatomy it might be the case that a spat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon%20%28manufacturing%29 | In manufacturing, andon () is a system which notifies managerial, maintenance, and other workers of a quality or process problem. The alert can be activated manually by a worker using a pullcord or button or may be activated automatically by the production equipment itself. The system may include a means to pause produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Hanawalt | Philip C. Hanawalt (born 1931) is an American biologist who discovered the process of repair replication of damaged DNA in 1963. He is also considered the co-discoverer of the ubiquitous process of DNA excision repair along with his mentor, Richard Setlow, and Paul Howard-Flanders. He holds the Dr. Morris Herzstein Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20processor | A Java processor is the implementation of the Java virtual machine (JVM) in hardware. In other words, the Java bytecode that makes up the instruction set of the abstract machine becomes the instruction set of a concrete machine. These were the most popular form of a high-level language computer architecture, and were "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20capital | In finance, mainly for financial services firms, economic capital (ecap) is the amount of risk capital, assessed on a realistic basis, which a firm requires to cover the risks that it is running or collecting as a going concern, such as market risk, credit risk, legal risk, and operational risk. It is the amount of mon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Point-to-Point%20Encryption | Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) encrypts data in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)-based dial-up connections or Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) virtual private network (VPN) connections. 128-bit key (strong), 56-bit key, and 40-bit key (standard) MPPE encryption schemes are supported. MPPE provides data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncation%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a truncation is an operation in any dimension that cuts polytope vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex. The term originates from Kepler's names for the Archimedean solids.
Uniform truncation
In general any polyhedron (or polytope) can also be truncated with a degree of freedom as to how ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/164%20%28number%29 | 164 (one hundred [and] sixty-four) is the natural number following 163 and preceding 165.
In mathematics
164 is a zero of the Mertens function.
In base 10, 164 is the smallest number that can be expressed as a concatenation of two squares in two different ways: as 1 concatenate 64 or 16 concatenate 4.
In astronomy
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