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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20Linux | Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine.
Cooperative Linux utilizes the concept of a Cooperative Virtual Machine (CVM). In contrast to traditional virtual machines, the CVM shares resources that alr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20proliferation | Cell proliferation is the process by which a cell grows and divides to produce two daughter cells. Cell proliferation leads to an exponential increase in cell number and is therefore a rapid mechanism of tissue growth. Cell proliferation requires both cell growth and cell division to occur at the same time, such that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20copulation | In cryptography, Russian copulation is a method of rearranging plaintext before encryption so as to conceal stereotyped headers, salutations, introductions, endings, signatures, etc. This obscures clues for a cryptanalyst, and can be used to increase cryptanalytic difficulty in naive cryptographic schemes (however, mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README | In software development, a README file contains information about the other files in a directory or archive of computer software. A form of documentation, it is usually a simple plain text file called README, Read Me, READ.ME, README.TXT, README.md (to indicate the use of Markdown), or README.1ST.
The file's name is g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactly%20generated%20group | In mathematics, a compactly generated (topological) group is a topological group G which is algebraically generated by one of its compact subsets. This should not be confused with the unrelated notion (widely used in algebraic topology) of a compactly generated space -- one whose topology is generated (in a suitable se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%205100 | The IBM 5100 Portable Computer is one of the first portable computers, introduced in September 1975, six years before the IBM Personal Computer, and eight before the first successful IBM compatible portable computer, the Compaq Portable. It was the evolution of a prototype called the SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomega | Iomega (later LenovoEMC) produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah, United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. Formerly a public company, it was acquired by EMC Corporation i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20sulfate | Calcium sulfate (or calcium sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the formula CaSO4 and related hydrates. In the form of γ-anhydrite (the anhydrous form), it is used as a desiccant. One particular hydrate is better known as plaster of Paris, and another occurs naturally as the mineral gypsum. It has many uses in in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Energy%20Agency | The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is an intergovernmental agency that is organized under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Originally formed on 1 February 1958 with the name European Nuclear Energy Agency (ENEA)—the United States participated as an Associate Member—the name was changed on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20equation%20%28L-function%29 | In mathematics, the L-functions of number theory are expected to have several characteristic properties, one of which is that they satisfy certain functional equations. There is an elaborate theory of what these equations should be, much of which is still conjectural.
Introduction
A prototypical example, the Riemann... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20kernel%20mailing%20list | The Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) is the main electronic mailing list for Linux kernel development, where the majority of the announcements, discussions, debates, and flame wars over the kernel take place. Many other mailing lists exist to discuss the different subsystems and ports of the Linux kernel, but LKML is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tschirnhaus%20transformation | In mathematics, a Tschirnhaus transformation, also known as Tschirnhausen transformation, is a type of mapping on polynomials developed by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in 1683.
Simply, it is a method for transforming a polynomial equation of degree with some nonzero intermediate coefficients, , such that some o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Daybreak | Xerox Daybreak (also Xerox 6085 PCS, Xerox 1186) is a workstation computer marketed by Xerox from 1985 to 1989.
Overview
Daybreak is the final release in the D* (pronounced D-Star) series of machines, some of which share the Wildflower CPU design by Butler Lampson. Machines in this series include, in order, Dolphin, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20envelope | The cell envelope comprises the inner cell membrane and the cell wall of a bacterium. In gram-negative bacteria an outer membrane is also included. This envelope is not present in the Mollicutes where the cell wall is absent.
Bacterial cell envelopes fall into two major categories: a gram-positive type which stains p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce%206%20series | The GeForce 6 series (codename NV40) is Nvidia's sixth generation of GeForce graphic processing units. Launched on April 14, 2004, the GeForce 6 family introduced PureVideo post-processing for video, SLI technology, and Shader Model 3.0 support (compliant with Microsoft DirectX 9.0c specification and OpenGL 2.0).
GeFo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Templeton | Brad Templeton (born June 1960 near Toronto) is a Canadian software developer, internet entrepreneur, online community pioneer, publisher of news, comedy, science fiction and e-books, writer, photographer, civil rights advocate, futurist, public speaker, educator and self-driving car consultant. He graduated from the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotations%20and%20reflections%20in%20two%20dimensions | In Euclidean geometry, two-dimensional rotations and reflections are two kinds of Euclidean plane isometries which are related to one another.
Process
A rotation in the plane can be formed by composing a pair of reflections. First reflect a point to its image on the other side of line . Then reflect to its image ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20number%20problem | In mathematics, the Gauss class number problem (for imaginary quadratic fields), as usually understood, is to provide for each n ≥ 1 a complete list of imaginary quadratic fields (for negative integers d) having class number n. It is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. It can also be stated in terms of discriminants. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20%28TeX%29 | Omega is an extension of the TeX typesetting system that uses the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode. It was authored by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous after TeX development was frozen in 1991, primarily to enhance TeX's multilingual typesetting abilities. It includes a new 16-bit font encoding for TeX, as well as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20tree | The fat tree network is a universal network for provably efficient communication. It was invented by Charles E. Leiserson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. k-ary n-trees, the type of fat-trees commonly used in most high-performance networks, were initially formalized in 1997.
In a tree data structu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arzel%C3%A0%E2%80%93Ascoli%20theorem | The Arzelà–Ascoli theorem is a fundamental result of mathematical analysis giving necessary and sufficient conditions to decide whether every sequence of a given family of real-valued continuous functions defined on a closed and bounded interval has a uniformly convergent subsequence. The main condition is the equicon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Windows%20Authentication | Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA)
is a term associated with Microsoft products that refers to the SPNEGO, Kerberos, and NTLMSSP authentication protocols with respect to SSPI functionality introduced with Microsoft Windows 2000 and included with later Windows NT-based operating systems. The term is used more commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle-in-cell | In plasma physics, the particle-in-cell (PIC) method refers to a technique used to solve a certain class of partial differential equations. In this method, individual particles (or fluid elements) in a Lagrangian frame are tracked in continuous phase space, whereas moments of the distribution such as densities and cur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthan%20gum | Xanthan gum () is a polysaccharide with many industrial uses, including as a common food additive. It is an effective thickening agent, emulsifier, and stabilizer that prevents ingredients from separating. It can be produced from simple sugars by fermentation and derives its name from the species of bacteria used, Xant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20traversal | In computer science, tree traversal (also known as tree search and walking the tree) is a form of graph traversal and refers to the process of visiting (e.g. retrieving, updating, or deleting) each node in a tree data structure, exactly once. Such traversals are classified by the order in which the nodes are visited. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20segregation | Sex segregation, sex separation, gender segregation or gender separation is the physical, legal, or cultural separation of people according to their biological sex at any age. Sex segregation can refer simply to the physical and spatial separation by sex without any connotation of illegal discrimination. In other circu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial%20theorem | In mathematics, the multinomial theorem describes how to expand a power of a sum in terms of powers of the terms in that sum. It is the generalization of the binomial theorem from binomials to multinomials.
Theorem
For any positive integer and any non-negative integer , the multinomial formula describes how a sum wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20component%20analysis | In signal processing, independent component analysis (ICA) is a computational method for separating a multivariate signal into additive subcomponents. This is done by assuming that at most one subcomponent is Gaussian and that the subcomponents are statistically independent from each other. ICA is a special case of bli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIBOL | DIBOL or Digital's Business Oriented Language is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that was designed for use in Management Information Systems (MIS) software development. It was developed from 1970 to 1993.
DIBOL has a syntax similar to FORTRAN and BASIC, along with BCD arithmetic. It shar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathophysiology | Pathophysiology (or physiopathology) is a branch of study, at the intersection of pathology and physiology, concerning disordered physiological processes that cause, result from, or are otherwise associated with a disease or injury. Pathology is the medical discipline that describes conditions typically observed during... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20site | A cell site, cell phone tower, cell base tower, or cellular base station is a cellular-enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjacent cells, in a cellular network. The raised struct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20K-theory | Algebraic K-theory is a subject area in mathematics with connections to geometry, topology, ring theory, and number theory. Geometric, algebraic, and arithmetic objects are assigned objects called K-groups. These are groups in the sense of abstract algebra. They contain detailed information about the original object... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%E2%80%93Starling%20law | The Frank–Starling law of the heart (also known as Starling's law and the Frank–Starling mechanism) represents the relationship between stroke volume and end diastolic volume. The law states that the stroke volume of the heart increases in response to an increase in the volume of blood in the ventricles, before contrac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Scrambling%20Algorithm | The Common Scrambling Algorithm (CSA) is the encryption algorithm used in the DVB digital television broadcasting for encrypting video streams.
CSA was specified by ETSI and adopted by the DVB consortium in May 1994. It is being succeeded by CSA3, based on a combination of 128-bit AES and a confidential block cipher, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20circuit%20layout | In integrated circuit design, integrated circuit (IC) layout, also known IC mask layout or mask design, is the representation of an integrated circuit in terms of planar geometric shapes which correspond to the patterns of metal, oxide, or semiconductor layers that make up the components of the integrated circuit. Ori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%20information | In mathematical statistics, the Fisher information (sometimes simply called information) is a way of measuring the amount of information that an observable random variable X carries about an unknown parameter θ of a distribution that models X. Formally, it is the variance of the score, or the expected value of the obse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun%20wedding | A shotgun wedding is a wedding arranged in response to pregnancy resulting from premarital sex. The phrase is a primarily U.S. colloquialism, termed as such based on a stereotypical scenario in which the father of the pregnant bride-to-be threatens the reluctant groom with a shotgun in order to ensure that he follows t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20of%20Civil%20Engineers | The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, it is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. Its constitution was based on the older Boston Socie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Historic%20Civil%20Engineering%20Landmarks |
The following is a list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers since it began the program in 1964. The designation is granted to projects, structures, and sites in the United States (National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks) and the rest of the world (Inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil%20rig | An oil rig is any kind of apparatus constructed for oil drilling.
Kinds of oil rig include:
Drilling rig, an apparatus for on-land oil drilling
Drillship, a floating apparatus for offshore oil drilling
Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drilling
Oil well, a boring from which oil is extracted
Petroleum en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage-controlled%20oscillator | A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is an electronic oscillator whose oscillation frequency is controlled by a voltage input. The applied input voltage determines the instantaneous oscillation frequency. Consequently, a VCO can be used for frequency modulation (FM) or phase modulation (PM) by applying a modulating s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF417 | PDF417 is a stacked linear barcode format used in a variety of applications such as transport, identification cards, and inventory management. "PDF" stands for Portable Data File. The "417" signifies that each pattern in the code consists of 4 bars and spaces in a pattern that is 17 units (modules) long. The PDF417 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM%20image | A ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, or used to contain a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board. The term is frequently used in the context of emulation, whereby older games or firmware are copi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyogamy | Karyogamy is the final step in the process of fusing together two haploid eukaryotic cells, and refers specifically to the fusion of the two nuclei. Before karyogamy, each haploid cell has one complete copy of the organism's genome. In order for karyogamy to occur, the cell membrane and cytoplasm of each cell must fuse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%20bias | Observer bias is one of the types of detection bias and is defined as any kind of systematic divergence from accurate facts during observation and the recording of data and information in studies. The definition can be further expanded upon to include the systematic difference between what is observed due to variation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lemmas | This following is a list of lemmas (or, "lemmata", i.e. minor theorems, or sometimes intermediate technical results factored out of proofs). See also list of axioms, list of theorems and list of conjectures.
Algebra
Abhyankar's lemma
Aubin–Lions lemma
Bergman's diamond lemma
Fitting lemma
Injective test lemma
Hua's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20conjectures | This is a list of notable mathematical conjectures.
Open problems
The following conjectures remain open. The (incomplete) column "cites" lists the number of results for a Google Scholar search for the term, in double quotes .
Conjectures now proved (theorems)
The conjecture terminology may persist: theorems often e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status%20register | A status register, flag register, or condition code register (CCR) is a collection of status flag bits for a processor. Examples of such registers include FLAGS register in the x86 architecture, flags in the program status word (PSW) register in the IBM System/360 architecture through z/Architecture, and the applicatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf%20life | Shelf life is the length of time that a commodity may be stored without becoming unfit for use, consumption, or sale. In other words, it might refer to whether a commodity should no longer be on a pantry shelf (unfit for use), or no longer on a supermarket shelf (unfit for sale, but not yet unfit for use). It applies t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20conjecture | In mathematics, the gradient conjecture, due to René Thom (1989), was proved in 2000 by three Polish mathematicians, Krzysztof Kurdyka (University of Savoie, France), Tadeusz Mostowski (Warsaw University, Poland) and Adam Parusiński (University of Angers, France).
The conjecture states that given a real-valued analyti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenario%20planning | Scenario planning, scenario thinking, scenario analysis, scenario prediction and the scenario method all describe a strategic planning method that some organizations use to make flexible long-term plans. It is in large part an adaptation and generalization of classic methods used by military intelligence.
In the most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-space | In mathematics, an H-space is a homotopy-theoretic version of a generalization of the notion of topological group, in which the axioms on associativity and inverses are removed.
Definition
An H-space consists of a topological space , together with an element of and a continuous map , such that and the maps and ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality%20%28order%20theory%29 | In the mathematical area of order theory, every partially ordered set P gives rise to a dual (or opposite) partially ordered set which is often denoted by Pop or Pd. This dual order Pop is defined to be the same set, but with the inverse order, i.e. x ≤ y holds in Pop if and only if y ≤ x holds in P. It is easy to see ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals%20in%20space | Animals in space originally served to test the survivability of spaceflight, before human spaceflights were attempted. Later, other non-human animals were flown to investigate various biological processes and the effects microgravity and space flight might have on them. Bioastronautics is an area of bioengineering rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/32 | The IBM System/32 (IBM 5320) introduced in January 1975 was a midrange computer with built-in display screen, disk drives, printer, and database report software. It was used primarily by small to midsize businesses for accounting applications. RPG II was the primary programming language for the machine.
Overview
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision%20arithmetic | In computer science, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, also called bignum arithmetic, multiple-precision arithmetic, or sometimes infinite-precision arithmetic, indicates that calculations are performed on numbers whose digits of precision are limited only by the available memory of the host system. This contrasts with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%E2%80%93Bouligand%20dimension | In fractal geometry, the Minkowski–Bouligand dimension, also known as Minkowski dimension or box-counting dimension, is a way of determining the fractal dimension of a set in a Euclidean space , or more generally in a metric space . It is named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski and the French mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20inequalities | This article lists Wikipedia articles about named mathematical inequalities.
Inequalities in pure mathematics
Analysis
Agmon's inequality
Askey–Gasper inequality
Babenko–Beckner inequality
Bernoulli's inequality
Bernstein's inequality (mathematical analysis)
Bessel's inequality
Bihari–LaSalle inequality
Bohne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase%20H.Q. | is a vehicular combat racing game, originally released as an arcade video game by Taito in 1988. It is sometimes seen as a spiritual successor to Taito's earlier Full Throttle. The player assumes the role of a police officer named Tony Gibson, member of the "Chase Special Investigation Department". Along with his partn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20theory%20of%20truth | A semantic theory of truth is a theory of truth in the philosophy of language which holds that truth is a property of sentences.
Origin
The semantic conception of truth, which is related in different ways to both the correspondence and deflationary conceptions, is due to work by Polish logician Alfred Tarski. Tarski,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Erd%C5%91s | Paul Erdős ( ; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20resolution | The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, flat-pan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20security%20policy | A network security policy (NSP) is a generic document that outlines rules for computer network access, determines how policies are enforced and lays out some of the basic architecture of the company security/ network security environment. The document itself is usually several pages long and written by a committee.
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20engineering | Process engineering is the understanding and application of the fundamental principles and laws of nature that allow humans to transform raw material and energy into products that are useful to society, at an industrial level. By taking advantage of the driving forces of nature such as pressure, temperature and concent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20%28law%29 | Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a pre-trial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from the other party or parties by means of discovery devices such as interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions and d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreadMarks | TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory system created at Rice University in the 1990s.
References
External links
TreadMarks official site
Distributed computing architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC%20circuit | An LC circuit, also called a resonant circuit, tank circuit, or tuned circuit, is an electric circuit consisting of an inductor, represented by the letter L, and a capacitor, represented by the letter C, connected together. The circuit can act as an electrical resonator, an electrical analogue of a tuning fork, storing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI%208080 | The IMSAI 8080 was an early microcomputer released in late 1975, based on the Intel 8080 and later 8085 and S-100 bus. It was a clone of its main competitor, the earlier MITS Altair 8800. The IMSAI is largely regarded as the first "clone" microcomputer. The IMSAI machine ran a highly modified version of the CP/M operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardening%20%28cryptanalysis%29 | In cryptanalysis, gardening is the act of encouraging a target to use known plaintext in an encrypted message. It was a term used at the British Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, England, during World War II, for schemes to entice the Germans to include particular words, which the British called "cri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20safety | In computer science, type safety and type soundness are the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors. Type safety is sometimes alternatively considered to be a property of facilities of a computer language; that is, some facilities are type-safe and their usage will not result in type ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrifaction | In geology, petrifaction or petrification () is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals. Petrified wood typifies this process, but all organisms, from bacteria to vertebrates, can become petrified (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20processing | Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the making of convenience foods. Some food processing methods play important role... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Dolby | Ray Milton Dolby Hon OBE, HonFREng (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Laboratories.
Early life and education
Dolby was born in Portland, Or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage%20clamp | The voltage clamp is an experimental method used by electrophysiologists to measure the ion currents through the membranes of excitable cells, such as neurons, while holding the membrane voltage at a set level. A basic voltage clamp will iteratively measure the membrane potential, and then change the membrane potential... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20sheaf | In mathematics, especially in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, coherent sheaves are a class of sheaves closely linked to the geometric properties of the underlying space. The definition of coherent sheaves is made with reference to a sheaf of rings that codifies this geometric information.
Coher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20forgery | In cryptography, message forgery is sending a message so to deceive the recipient about the actual sender's identity. A common example is sending a spam or prank e-mail as if it were originated from an address other than the one which was really used.
See also
Authentication
Message authentication code
Stream ciphe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4hler%20differential | In mathematics, Kähler differentials provide an adaptation of differential forms to arbitrary commutative rings or schemes. The notion was introduced by Erich Kähler in the 1930s. It was adopted as standard in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry somewhat later, once the need was felt to adapt methods from calcul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTAI | Real-time application interface (RTAI) is a real-time extension for the Linux kernel, which lets users write applications with strict timing constraints for Linux. Like Linux itself the RTAI software is a community effort. RTAI provides deterministic response to interrupts, POSIX-compliant and native RTAI real-time t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20Domain%20Environment%20for%20Operating%20Systems | Adeos (Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems) is a nanokernel hardware abstraction layer (HAL), or hypervisor, that operates between computer hardware and the operating system (OS) that runs on it. It is distinct from other nanokernels in that it is not only a low level layer for an outer kernel. Instead, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic%20%28genetics%29 | Mosaicism or genetic mosaicism is a condition in which a multicellular organism possesses more than one genetic line as the result of genetic mutation. This means that various genetic lines resulted from a single fertilized egg. Mosaicism is one of several possible causes of chimerism, wherein a single organism is comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%27s%20representation%20theorem%20for%20Boolean%20algebras | In mathematics, Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras states that every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to a certain field of sets. The theorem is fundamental to the deeper understanding of Boolean algebra that emerged in the first half of the 20th century. The theorem was first proved by Marshall H. Stone.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20Act%201998 | The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA, c. 29) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to protect personal data stored on computers or in an organised paper filing system. It enacted provisions from the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive 1995 on the protection, processing, and movement of data.
U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-index%20notation | Multi-index notation is a mathematical notation that simplifies formulas used in multivariable calculus, partial differential equations and the theory of distributions, by generalising the concept of an integer index to an ordered tuple of indices.
Definition and basic properties
An n-dimensional multi-index is an -t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open | X/Open group (also known as the Open Group for Unix Systems and incorporated in 1987 as X/Open Company, Ltd.) was a consortium founded by several European UNIX systems manufacturers in 1984 to identify and promote open standards in the field of information technology. More specifically, the original aim was to define a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TICOM | TICOM (Target Intelligence Committee) was a secret Allied project formed in World War II to find and seize German intelligence assets, particularly in the field of cryptology and signals intelligence.
It operated alongside other Western Allied efforts to extract German scientific and technological information and pers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20systems%20analysis%20and%20design%20method | Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM) is a systems approach to the analysis and design of information systems. SSADM was produced for the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, a UK government office concerned with the use of technology in government, from 1980 onwards.
Overview
SSADM is a wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20function | In logic, a truth function is a function that accepts truth values as input and produces a unique truth value as output. In other words: The input and output of a truth function are all truth values; a truth function will always output exactly one truth value; and inputting the same truth value(s) will always output th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluejacking |
Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers, sending a vCard which typically contains a message in the name field (i.e., for bluedating) to another Bluetooth-enabled device via the OBEX protocol.
Bluetooth has a very... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule%20heating | Joule heating (also known as resistive, resistance, or Ohmic heating) is the process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor produces heat.
Joule's first law (also just Joule's law), also known in countries of the former USSR as the Joule–Lenz law, states that the power of heating generated by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store%20and%20forward | Store and forward is a telecommunications technique in which information is sent to an intermediate station where it is kept and sent at a later time to the final destination or to another intermediate station. The intermediate station, or node in a networking context, verifies the integrity of the message before forwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan | OS-tan is an Internet meme consisting of moe anthropomorphs of popular operating systems, originating on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel. The designs of OS-tan, which were created by various amateur Japanese artists, are typically female; for example, the personifications of Microsoft Windows operating systems a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20Another%20Completely%20Heuristic%20Operating%20System | Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System, or Nachos, is instructional software for teaching undergraduate, and potentially graduate level operating systems courses. It was developed at the University of California, Berkeley, designed by Thomas Anderson, and is used by numerous schools around the world.
Origi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMWIN | The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) is a system for distributing a live stream of weather information in the United States. The backbone of the system is operated via satellite by the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), but data are transmitted over radio repeaters by the NWS, citizens, and oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical%20theory%20of%20aging | The free radical theory of aging states that organisms age because cells accumulate free radical damage over time. A free radical is any atom or molecule that has a single unpaired electron in an outer shell. While a few free radicals such as melanin are not chemically reactive, most biologically relevant free radicals... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20clock | In digital audio electronics, a word clock or wordclock (sometimes sample clock, which can have a broader meaning) is a clock signal used to synchronise other devices, such as digital audio tape machines and compact disc players, which interconnect via digital audio signals. Word clock is so named because it clocks eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espada%20Acequia | The Espada Acequia, or Piedras Creek Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars in 1731 in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was built to supply irrigation water to the lands near Mission San Francisco de la Espada, today part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. The acequia is still in use ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20filter | A media filter is a type of filter that uses a bed of sand, peat, shredded tires, foam, crushed glass, geo-textile fabric, anthracite, crushed granite or other material to filter water for drinking, swimming pools, aquaculture, irrigation, stormwater management, oil and gas operations, and other applications.
Each lay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side%20rule | A computer programming language is said to adhere to the off-side rule of syntax if blocks in that language are expressed by their indentation. The term was coined by Peter Landin, possibly as a pun on the offside rule in association football. This is contrasted with free-form languages, notably curly-bracket programmi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation%20%28typesetting%29 |
In the written form of many languages, an indentation or indent is an empty space at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph. Many computer languages have adopted this technique to designate "paragraphs" or other logical blocks in the program.
For example, the following lines are indented, usin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress | WordPress (also known as WP or WordPress.org) is a web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites, mailing lists and Internet forum, media galleries, membership sites, learning management sy... |
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