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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Instruments%20LPC%20Speech%20Chips | The Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips are a series of speech synthesizer digital signal processor integrated circuits created by Texas Instruments beginning in 1978. They continued to be developed and marketed for many years, though the speech department moved around several times within TI until finally dissolving in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocytosis | In cellular biology, pinocytosis, otherwise known as fluid endocytosis and bulk-phase pinocytosis, is a mode of endocytosis in which small molecules dissolved in extracellular fluid are brought into the cell through an invagination of the cell membrane, resulting in their containment within a small vesicle inside the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire%20Killer | Vampire Killer, known in Japan as is a platform video game developed and published by Konami for the MSX2 in 1986. It is a parallel version of the original Castlevania, which debuted a month earlier for the Famicom Disk System under the same Japanese title. However, the MSX2 version was localized first in Europe and w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogenicity%20island | Pathogenicity islands (PAIs), as termed in 1990, are a distinct class of genomic islands acquired by microorganisms through horizontal gene transfer. Pathogenicity islands are found in both animal and plant pathogens. Additionally, PAIs are found in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. They are transferred th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20experiment | A computer experiment or simulation experiment is an experiment used to study a computer simulation, also referred to as an in silico system. This area includes computational physics, computational chemistry, computational biology and other similar disciplines.
Background
Computer simulations are constructed to emula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applix%201616 | The Applix 1616 was a kit computer with a Motorola 68000 CPU, produced by a small company called Applix in Sydney, Australia, from 1986 to the early 1990s. It ran a custom multitasking multiuser operating system that was resident in ROM. A version of Minix was also ported to the 1616, as was the MGR Window System. Andr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20one%20polynomial | In mathematics, an all one polynomial (AOP) is a polynomial in which all coefficients are one. Over the finite field of order two, conditions for the AOP to be irreducible are known, which allow this polynomial to be used to define efficient algorithms and circuits for multiplication in finite fields of characteristic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equally%20spaced%20polynomial | An equally spaced polynomial (ESP) is a polynomial used in finite fields, specifically GF(2) (binary).
An s-ESP of degree sm can be written as:
for
or
Properties
Over GF(2) the ESP has many interesting properties, including:
The Hamming weight of the ESP is m + 1.
A 1-ESP is known as an all one polynomial and h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture%20Transfer%20Protocol | Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) is a protocol developed by the International Imaging Industry Association to allow the transfer of images from digital cameras to computers and other peripheral devices without the need of additional device drivers. The protocol has been standardized as ISO 15740.
It is further standar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1089%20%28number%29 | 1089 is the integer after 1088 and before 1090. It is a square number (33 squared), a nonagonal number, a 32-gonal number, a 364-gonal number, and a centered octagonal number. 1089 is the first reverse-divisible number. The next is 2178 , and they are the only four-digit numbers that divide their reverse.
In magic
10... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker%20recognition | Speaker recognition is the identification of a person from characteristics of voices. It is used to answer the question "Who is speaking?" The term voice recognition can refer to speaker recognition or speech recognition. Speaker verification (also called speaker authentication) contrasts with identification, and speak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, focuses or foci (; : focus) are special points with reference to which any of a variety of curves is constructed. For example, one or two foci can be used in defining conic sections, the four types of which are the circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola. In addition, two foci are used to define the Cassi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin%20film | A thin film is a layer of material ranging from fractions of a nanometer (monolayer) to several micrometers in thickness. The controlled synthesis of materials as thin films (a process referred to as deposition) is a fundamental step in many applications. A familiar example is the household mirror, which typically has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Wolf | is a light gun shooter arcade game developed by Taito and released in 1987. It was ported to many home systems.
The game was critically and commercially successful, becoming one of the highest-grossing arcade games of 1988 and winning the Golden Joystick Award for Game of the Year. Operation Wolf popularized military-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy%20Linux | {{Infobox OS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeding%20bird%20survey | A breeding bird survey monitors the status and trends of bird populations. Data from the survey are an important source for the range maps found in field guides. The North American Breeding Bird Survey is a joint project of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Canadian Wildlife Service. The UK Breeding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morava%20K-theory | In stable homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics, Morava K-theory is one of a collection of cohomology theories introduced in algebraic topology by Jack Morava in unpublished preprints in the early 1970s. For every prime number p (which is suppressed in the notation), it consists of theories K(n) for each nonnegative... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20cobordism | In mathematics, complex cobordism is a generalized cohomology theory related to cobordism of manifolds. Its spectrum is denoted by MU. It is an exceptionally powerful cohomology theory, but can be quite hard to compute, so often instead of using it directly one uses some slightly weaker theories derived from it, such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, reduction refers to the rewriting of an expression into a simpler form. For example, the process of rewriting a fraction into one with the smallest whole-number denominator possible (while keeping the numerator a whole number) is called "reducing a fraction". Rewriting a radical (or "root") expression w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a strain is a genetic variant, a subtype or a culture within a biological species. Strains are often seen as inherently artificial concepts, characterized by a specific intent for genetic isolation. This is most easily observed in microbiology where strains are derived from a single cell colony and are typi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20recent%20common%20ancestor | In biology and genetic genealogy, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), also known as the last common ancestor (LCA), of a set of organisms is the most recent individual from which all the organisms of the set are descended. The term is also used in reference to the ancestry of groups of genes (haplotypes) rather tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirplet%20transform | In signal processing, the chirplet transform is an inner product of an input signal with a family of analysis primitives called chirplets.
Similar to the wavelet transform, chirplets are usually generated from (or can be expressed as being from) a single mother chirplet (analogous to the so-called mother wavelet of wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20server | A sound server is software that manages the use of and access to audio devices (usually a sound card). It commonly runs as a background process.
Sound server in an operating system
In a Unix-like operating system, a sound server mixes different data streams (usually raw PCM audio) and sends out a single unified audio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast | A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing. Podcasts are primarily an audio medium, with some programs offering a supplemental video ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Planiverse | The Planiverse is a novel by A. K. Dewdney, written in 1984.
Plot
In the spirit of Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland, Dewdney and his computer science students simulate a two-dimensional world with a complex ecosystem. To their surprise, they find their artificial 2D universe has somehow accidentally become a means of co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netatalk | Netatalk (pronounced "ned-uh-talk") is a free, open-source implementation of the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP). It allows Unix-like operating systems to serve as file servers for Macintosh computers running macOS or Classic Mac OS.
Netatalk was originally developed by the Research Systems Unix Group at the University of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneirology | In the field of psychology, the subfield of oneirology (; from Greek ὄνειρον, oneiron, "dream"; and -λογία, -logia, "the study of") is the scientific study of dreams. Current research seeks correlations between dreaming and current knowledge about the functions of the brain, as well as understanding of how the brain w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelling | Levelling or leveling (American English; see spelling differences) is a branch of surveying, the object of which is to establish or verify or measure the height of specified points relative to a datum. It is widely used in geodesy and cartography to measure vertical position with respect to a vertical datum, and in con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20number | In number theory, an n-smooth (or n-friable) number is an integer whose prime factors are all less than or equal to n. For example, a 7-smooth number is a number whose every prime factor is at most 7, so 49 = 72 and 15750 = 2 × 32 × 53 × 7 are both 7-smooth, while 11 and 702 = 2 × 33 × 13 are not 7-smooth. The term see... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20silico | In biology and other experimental sciences, an in silico experiment is one performed on computer or via computer simulation. The phrase is pseudo-Latin for 'in silicon' (correct ), referring to silicon in computer chips. It was coined in 1987 as an allusion to the Latin phrases , , and , which are commonly used in bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiopharmacology | Radiopharmacology is radiochemistry applied to medicine and thus the pharmacology of radiopharmaceuticals (medicinal radiocompounds, that is, pharmaceutical drugs that are radioactive). Radiopharmaceuticals are used in the field of nuclear medicine as radioactive tracers in medical imaging and in therapy for many disea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testbed | A testbed (also spelled test bed) is a platform for conducting rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of scientific theories, computing tools, and new technologies.
The term is used across many disciplines to describe experimental research and new product development platforms and environments. They may vary f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20theory | Sieve theory is a set of general techniques in number theory, designed to count, or more realistically to estimate the size of, sifted sets of integers. The prototypical example of a sifted set is the set of prime numbers up to some prescribed limit X. Correspondingly, the prototypical example of a sieve is the sieve ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20mob%20computing | Flash mob computing or flash mob computer is a temporary ad hoc computer cluster running specific software to coordinate the individual computers into one single supercomputer. A flash mob computer is distinct from other types of computer clusters in that it is set up and broken down on the same day or during a similar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator | A refrigerator, colloquially fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature. Refrigera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20archive%20%28disambiguation%29 | Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Internet archive may also refer to:
Wayback Machine, digital archive of the World Wide Web maintained by Internet Archive
arXiv, a repository of scientific preprints ("e-prints") available online
Web archiving, archiving of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Scientific%20Information | The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956. ISI offered scientometric and bibliographic database services. Its specialty was citation indexing and analysis, a field pioneered by Garfield.
Services
ISI maintained citation databas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1000%20%28publisher%29 | F1000 (formerly "Faculty of 1000") is an open research publisher for scientists, scholars, and clinical researchers. F1000 offers a different research evaluation service from standard academic journals by offering peer-review after, rather than before, publishing a research article. Initially, F1000 was named after the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Broadway%20Database | The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. It was conceived and created by Karen Hauser in 1996 and is operated by the Research Department of The Broadway League, a trade association for the North American commercial theatre community.
History
Karen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/124%20%28number%29 | 124 (one hundred [and] twenty-four) is the natural number following 123 and preceding 125.
In mathematics
124 is an untouchable number, meaning that it is not the sum of proper divisors of any positive number.
It is a stella octangula number, the number of spheres packed in the shape of a stellated octahedron. It is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated%20logarithm | In computer science, the iterated logarithm of , written (usually read "log star"), is the number of times the logarithm function must be iteratively applied before the result is less than or equal to . The simplest formal definition is the result of this recurrence relation:
On the positive real numbers, the conti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20engineering | Planetary engineering is the development and application of technology for the purpose of influencing the environment of a planet. Planetary engineering encompasses a variety of methods such as terraforming, seeding, and geoengineering.
Widely discussed in the scientific community, terraforming refers to the alteratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki%20disease | Kawasaki disease (also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) is a syndrome of unknown cause that results in a fever and mainly affects children under 5 years of age. It is a form of vasculitis, where medium-sized blood vessels become inflamed throughout the body. The fever typically lasts for more than five days ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension-leg%20platform |
A tension-leg platform (TLP) or extended tension leg platform (ETLP) is a vertically moored floating structure normally used for the offshore production of oil or gas, and is particularly suited for water depths greater than 300 metres (about 1000 ft) and less than 1500 metres (about 4900 ft). Use of tension-leg platf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut%20rule | In mathematical logic, the cut rule is an inference rule of sequent calculus. It is a generalisation of the classical modus ponens inference rule. Its meaning is that, if a formula A appears as a conclusion in one proof and a hypothesis in another, then another proof in which the formula A does not appear can be deduc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring%20bloom | The spring bloom is a strong increase in phytoplankton abundance (i.e. stock) that typically occurs in the early spring and lasts until late spring or early summer. This seasonal event is characteristic of temperate North Atlantic, sub-polar, and coastal waters. Phytoplankton blooms occur when growth exceeds losses, ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemC | SystemC is a set of C++ classes and macros which provide an event-driven simulation interface (see also discrete event simulation). These facilities enable a designer to simulate concurrent processes, each described using plain C++ syntax. SystemC processes can communicate in a simulated real-time environment, using s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege%20separation | In computer programming and computer security, privilege separation is one software-based technique for implementing the principle of least privilege. With privilege separation, a program is divided into parts which are limited to the specific privileges they require in order to perform a specific task. This is used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20All-Stars%20to%20the%20Rescue | Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is a 1990 American animated television propaganda film starring many characters from several animated television series at the time of its release. Financed by McDonald's, Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, it was originally simulcast for a limited time on April 21, 1990, on all four ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cope%27s%20rule | Cope's rule, named after American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, postulates that population lineages tend to increase in body size over evolutionary time. It was never actually stated by Cope, although he favoured the occurrence of linear evolutionary trends. It is sometimes also known as the Cope–Depéret rule, be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroma%20compound | An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance or flavoring, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor. For an individual chemical or class of chemical compounds to impart a smell or fragrance, it must be sufficiently volatile for transmission via the air to the olfactory system in the upper part o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional%20drilling | Directional drilling (or slant drilling) is the practice of drilling non-vertical bores. It can be broken down into four main groups: oilfield directional drilling, utility installation directional drilling, directional boring (horizontal directional drilling - HDD), and surface in seam (SIS), which horizontally inters... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOMFLY%20polynomial | In the mathematical field of knot theory, the HOMFLY polynomial or HOMFLYPT polynomial, sometimes called the generalized Jones polynomial, is a 2-variable knot polynomial, i.e. a knot invariant in the form of a polynomial of variables m and l.
A central question in the mathematical theory of knots is whether two kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise%20gate | A noise gate or simply gate is an electronic device or software that is used to control the volume of an audio signal. Comparable to a compressor, which attenuates signals above a threshold, such as loud attacks from the start of musical notes, noise gates attenuate signals that register below the threshold. However, n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent%20half-angle%20formula | In trigonometry, tangent half-angle formulas relate the tangent of half of an angle to trigonometric functions of the entire angle. The tangent of half an angle is the stereographic projection of the circle through the point at angle onto the line through the angles . Among these formulas are the following:
From thes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20satellites%20in%20geosynchronous%20orbit | This is a list of satellites in geosynchronous orbit (GSO). These satellites are commonly used for communication purposes, such as radio and television networks, back-haul, and direct broadcast. Traditional global navigation systems do not use geosynchronous satellites, but some SBAS navigation satellites do. A number ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-3 | The Cray-3 was a vector supercomputer, Seymour Cray's designated successor to the Cray-2. The system was one of the first major applications of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors in computing, using hundreds of custom built ICs packed into a CPU. The design goal was performance around 16 GFLOPS, about 12 times tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Kaufman%20Award | The Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA honors individuals for their impact on electronic design by their contributions to electronic design automation (EDA). It was established in 1994 by the EDA Consortium (now the Electronic System Design Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community). The IEEE Counc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfeucht%E2%80%93Fra%C3%AFss%C3%A9%20game | In the mathematical discipline of model theory, the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game (also called back-and-forth games)
is a technique based on game semantics for determining whether two structures
are elementarily equivalent. The main application of Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé games is in proving the inexpressibility of certain prop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/129%20%28number%29 | 129 (one hundred [and] twenty-nine) is the natural number following 128 and preceding 130.
In mathematics
129 is the sum of the first ten prime numbers. It is the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of three squares in four different ways: , , , and .
129 is the product of only two primes, 3 and 43, making... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperator | A recuperator is a special purpose counter-flow energy recovery heat exchanger positioned within the supply and exhaust air streams of an air handling system, or in the exhaust gases of an industrial process, in order to recover the waste heat. Generally, they are used to extract heat from the exhaust and use it to pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Damadian | Raymond Vahan Damadian (March 16, 1936 – August 3, 2022) was an American physician, medical practitioner, and inventor of the first NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) scanning machine.
Damadian's research into sodium and potassium in living cells led him to his first experiments with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n%20vortex%20street | In fluid dynamics, a Kármán vortex street (or a von Kármán vortex street) is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices, caused by a process known as vortex shedding, which is responsible for the unsteady separation of flow of a fluid around blunt bodies.
It is named after the engineer and fluid dynamicist Theodore von ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab-on-a-chip | A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single integrated circuit (commonly called a "chip") of only millimeters to a few square centimeters to achieve automation and high-throughput screening. LOCs can handle extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico-liters... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row%20%28database%29 | In the context of a relational database, a row—also called a tuple—represents a single, implicitly structured data item in a table. In simple terms, a database table can be thought of as consisting of rows and columns. Each row in a table represents a set of related data, and every row in the table has the same structu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column%20%28database%29 | In a relational database, a column is a set of data values of a particular type, one value for each row of the database. A column may contain text values, numbers, or even pointers to files in the operating system. Columns typically contain simple types, though some relational database systems allow columns to contain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular%20computing | Granular computing is an emerging computing paradigm of information processing that concerns the processing of complex information entities called "information granules", which arise in the process of data abstraction and derivation of knowledge from information or data. Generally speaking, information granules are co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeline%20%28brand%29 | Beeline (), formerly Bee Line GSM () is a telecommunications brand by company PJSC VimpelCom, founded in Russia.
PJSC VimpelCom is Russia's third-largest wireless and second-largest telecommunications operator. Its headquarters is located in Moscow. Since 2009, PJSC VimpelCom has been a subsidiary of VimpelCom Ltd., w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Chen | Peter Pin-Shan Chen (; born 3 January 1947) is a Taiwanese American computer scientist. He is a (retired) distinguished career scientist and faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and Distinguished Chair Professor Emeritus at LSU. He is known for the development of the entity–relationship model in 1976.
Biograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20hardening | Radiation hardening is the process of making electronic components and circuits resistant to damage or malfunction caused by high levels of ionizing radiation (particle radiation and high-energy electromagnetic radiation), especially for environments in outer space (especially beyond the low Earth orbit), around nuclea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Lebedev%20%28scientist%29 | Sergey Alekseyevich Lebedev (; 2 November, 1902 – 3 July, 1974) was a Soviet scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers.
Biography
Lebedev was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire. He graduated from Moscow Highest Technical School in 1928. Fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telehouse%20Europe | Telehouse is a major carrier-neutral colocation, information and communications technology services provider based in Docklands, London. Established in 1988, it operates eight facilities in London, Paris and Frankfurt. Part of the global Telehouse network of data centres, the brand has 45 colocation facilities in 26 ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20aren%27t%20gonna%20need%20it | "You aren't gonna need it" (YAGNI) is a principle which arose from extreme programming (XP) that states a programmer should not add functionality until deemed necessary. Other forms of the phrase include "You aren't going to need it" (YAGTNI) and "You ain't gonna need it".
Ron Jeffries, a co-founder of XP, explained ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20mathematical%20jargon | The language of mathematics has a vast vocabulary of specialist and technical terms. It also has a certain amount of jargon: commonly used phrases which are part of the culture of mathematics, rather than of the subject. Jargon often appears in lectures, and sometimes in print, as informal shorthand for rigorous argume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landline | A landline (land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also referred to as: POTS, Twisted pair, telephone line or public switched telephone network (PSTN).
Landline services are traditionally provided via an analogue copper wire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting%27s%20theorem | In electrodynamics, Poynting's theorem is a statement of conservation of energy for electromagnetic fields developed by British physicist John Henry Poynting. It states that in a given volume, the stored energy changes at a rate given by the work done on the charges within the volume, minus the rate at which energy lea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20station | A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves from astronomical radio sources. Ground stations may be located either on the su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian%20gerbil | The Mongolian gerbil or Mongolian jird (Meriones unguiculatus) is a small rodent belonging to the subfamily Gerbillinae. Their body size is typically , with a tail, and body weight , with adult males larger than females. The animal is used in science and research or kept as a small house pet. Their use in science date... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203790 | The IBM 3790 Communications System was one of the first distributed computing platforms. The 3790 was developed by IBM's Data Processing Division (DPD) and announced in 1974. It preceded the IBM 8100, announced in 1979.
It was designed to be installed in branch offices, stores, subsidiaries, etc., and to be connected ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System%209000 | The System 9000 (S9000) is a family of microcomputers from IBM consisting of the System 9001, 9002, and 9003. The first member of the family, the System 9001 laboratory computer, was introduced in May 1982 as the IBM Instruments Computer System Model 9000. It was renamed to the System 9001 in 1984 when the System 9000 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20Access%20Control%20Facility |
Introduction
RACF, [pronounced Rack-Eff] short for Resource Access Control Facility, is an IBM software product. It is a security system that provides access control and auditing functionality for the z/OS and z/VM operating systems. RACF was introduced in 1976. Originally called RACF it was renamed to z/OS Securit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14 | IEFBR14 is an IBM mainframe utility program. It runs in all IBM mainframe environments derived from OS/360, including z/OS. It is a placeholder that returns the exit status zero, similar to the true command on UNIX-like systems.
Purpose
Allocation (also called Initiation)
On OS/360 and derived mainframe systems, mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20chat%20in%20online%20gaming | Voice chat is telecommunication via voice over IP (VoIP) technologies—especially when those technologies are used as intercoms among players in multiplayer online games. The VoIP functionality can be built into some games, be a system-wide communication system, or a third-party chat software.
History
Voice chat in vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/131%20%28number%29 | 131 (one hundred [and] thirty-one) is the natural number following 130 and preceding 132.
In mathematics
131 is a Sophie Germain prime, an irregular prime, the second 3-digit palindromic prime, and also a permutable prime with 113 and 311. It can be expressed as the sum of three consecutive primes, 131 = 41 + 43 + 47.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20MPFR | The GNU Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library (GNU MPFR) is a GNU portable C library for arbitrary-precision binary floating-point computation with correct rounding, based on GNU Multi-Precision Library.
Library
MPFR's computation is both efficient and has a well-defined semantics: the functions are compl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s%20ballot%20theorem | In combinatorics, Bertrand's ballot problem is the question: "In an election where candidate A receives p votes and candidate B receives q votes with p > q, what is the probability that A will be strictly ahead of B throughout the count?" The answer is
The result was first published by W. A. Whitworth in 1878, but is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity | In excitotoxicity, nerve cells suffer damage or death when the levels of otherwise necessary and safe neurotransmitters such as glutamate become pathologically high, resulting in excessive stimulation of receptors. For example, when glutamate receptors such as the NMDA receptor or AMPA receptor encounter excessive lev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedicine | Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) is a branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice. Biomedicine stresses standardized, evidence-based treatment validated through biological research, with treatment ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC%20times | MAC times are pieces of file system metadata which record when certain events pertaining to a computer file occurred most recently. The events are usually described as "modification" (the data in the file was modified), "access" (some part of the file was read), and "metadata change" (the file's permissions or ownershi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap%20freezing | Snap freezing (or cook-chill or blast freezing) is the process of rapid cooling of a substance for the purpose of preservation. It is widely used in the culinary and scientific industries.
Culinary uses
Cooked meals can be preserved by rapid freezing after cooking is complete. The main target group for these products ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2%80%93maneuverability%20theory | Energy–maneuverability theory is a model of aircraft performance. It was developed by Col. John Boyd, a fighter pilot, and Thomas P. Christie, a mathematician with the United States Air Force, and is useful in describing an aircraft's performance as the total of kinetic and potential energies or aircraft specific energ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20Equations%20and%20Operator%20Theory | Integral Equations and Operator Theory is a journal dedicated to operator theory and its applications to engineering and other mathematical sciences. As some approaches to the study of integral equations (theoretically and numerically) constitute a subfield of operator theory, the journal also deals with the theory of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakout | Krakout is a Breakout clone that was released for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Thomson computers and MSX platforms in 1987. One of the wave of enhanced Breakout variants to emerge in the wake of Arkanoid, its key distinctions are that gameplay is horizontal in layout, and that it allows the pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace%20OS | Workplace OS is IBM's ultimate operating system prototype of the 1990s. It is the product of an exploratory research program in 1991 which yielded a design called the Grand Unifying Theory of Systems (GUTS), proposing to unify the world's systems as generalized personalities cohabitating concurrently upon a universally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb%20filter | In signal processing, a comb filter is a filter implemented by adding a delayed version of a signal to itself, causing constructive and destructive interference. The frequency response of a comb filter consists of a series of regularly spaced notches in between regularly spaced peaks (sometimes called teeth) giving the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brettanomyces | Brettanomyces is a non-spore forming genus of yeast in the family Saccharomycetaceae, and is often colloquially referred to as "Brett". The genus name Dekkera is used interchangeably with Brettanomyces, as it describes the teleomorph or spore forming form of the yeast, but is considered deprecated under the one fungus,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung%20Kwei%20%28algorithm%29 | Chung Kwei is a spam filtering algorithm based on the TEIRESIAS Algorithm for finding coding genes within bulk DNA. It is named after Zhong Kui, a figure in Chinese folklore.
See also
Spam (electronic)
CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
DNSBL
SpamAssassin
External links
Official Report
TEIRESIAS: Sequence Pattern Discovery, from I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20tube | Storage tubes are a class of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) that are designed to hold an image for a long period of time, typically as long as power is supplied to the tube.
A specialized type of storage tube, the Williams tube, was used as a main memory system on a number of early computers, from the late 1940s into the ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landrace | A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, often traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism, and due to isolation from other populations of the species. Landraces are distinct from cultiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial%20distribution | In probability theory, the multinomial distribution is a generalization of the binomial distribution. For example, it models the probability of counts for each side of a k-sided die rolled n times. For n independent trials each of which leads to a success for exactly one of k categories, with each category having a giv... |
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