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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Mathematics | A Bachelor of Mathematics (abbreviated B.Math or BMath) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for successfully completing a program of study in mathematics or related disciplines, such as applied mathematics, actuarial science, computational science, data analytics, financial mathematics, mathematical physics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need%20for%20Speed%3A%20Underground | Need for Speed: Underground is a 2003 racing video game and the seventh installment in the Need for Speed series. It was developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. Three different versions of the game were produced: one for consoles and Microsoft Windows, and another for the Game Boy Advance. An arcade... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/512%20%28number%29 | 512 (five hundred [and] twelve) is the natural number following 511 and preceding 513.
In mathematics
512 is a power of two: 29 (2 to the 9th power) and the cube of 8: 83.
It is the eleventh Leyland number.
It is also the third Dudeney number.
It is a self number in base 12.
It is a harshad number in decimal.
It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20integral | In mathematics, an abelian integral, named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, is an integral in the complex plane of the form
where is an arbitrary rational function of the two variables and , which are related by the equation
where is an irreducible polynomial in ,
whose coefficients , are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20of%20the%20first%20kind | In mathematics, differential of the first kind is a traditional term used in the theories of Riemann surfaces (more generally, complex manifolds) and algebraic curves (more generally, algebraic varieties), for everywhere-regular differential 1-forms. Given a complex manifold M, a differential of the first kind ω is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20group | In geometry, a point group is a mathematical group of symmetry operations (isometries in a Euclidean space) that have a fixed point in common. The coordinate origin of the Euclidean space is conventionally taken to be a fixed point, and every point group in dimension d is then a subgroup of the orthogonal group O(d). P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable%20function | Computable functions are the basic objects of study in computability theory. Computable functions are the formalized analogue of the intuitive notion of algorithms, in the sense that a function is computable if there exists an algorithm that can do the job of the function, i.e. given an input of the function domain it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20News | BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television ou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20sector | A hyperbolic sector is a region of the Cartesian plane bounded by a hyperbola and two rays from the origin to it. For example, the two points and on the rectangular hyperbola , or the corresponding region when this hyperbola is re-scaled and its orientation is altered by a rotation leaving the center at the origin, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20angle | In geometry, hyperbolic angle is a real number determined by the area of the corresponding hyperbolic sector of xy = 1 in Quadrant I of the Cartesian plane. The hyperbolic angle parametrises the unit hyperbola, which has hyperbolic functions as coordinates. In mathematics, hyperbolic angle is an invariant measure as it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze%20mapping | In linear algebra, a squeeze mapping, also called a squeeze transformation, is a type of linear map that preserves Euclidean area of regions in the Cartesian plane, but is not a rotation or shear mapping.
For a fixed positive real number , the mapping
is the squeeze mapping with parameter . Since
is a hyperbola, if ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLBT%20Tower | The WLBT Tower was a guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and TV-programs in Raymond, Mississippi, United States, for the Jackson metro area. The mast was constructed in 1966. On October 23, 1997, the mast, which was property of Cosmos Broadcasting (WLBT a local NBC affiliate), collapsed during the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouch%C3%A9%27s%20theorem | Rouché's theorem, named after Eugène Rouché, states that for any two complex-valued functions and holomorphic inside some region with closed contour , if on , then and have the same number of zeros inside , where each zero is counted as many times as its multiplicity. This theorem assumes that the contour is si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence%20%28mathematical%20logic%29 | In mathematical logic, independence is the unprovability of a sentence from other sentences.
A sentence σ is independent of a given first-order theory T if T neither proves nor refutes σ; that is, it is impossible to prove σ from T, and it is also impossible to prove from T that σ is false. Sometimes, σ is said (syno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Haven%20Project | The Free Haven Project was formed in 1999 by a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students with the aim to develop a secure, decentralized system of data storage. The group's work led to a collaboration with the United States Naval Research Laboratory to develop Tor, funded by DARPA.
Distributed anonymous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20Aid | Sport Aid (also known as Sports Aid) was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries. Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosolids | Biosolids are solid organic matter recovered from a sewage treatment process and used as fertilizer. In the past, it was common for farmers to use animal manure to improve their soil fertility. In the 1920s, the farming community began also to use sewage sludge from local wastewater treatment plants. Scientific researc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Horsley | Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley (14 April 1857 – 16 July 1916) was a British scientist and professor.
He was born in Kensington, London. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, he studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin, Germany (1881) and, in the same year, started his career as a house surgeon a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebesphenomegacorona | In geometry, the hebesphenomegacorona is one of the Johnson solids (). It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids. It has 21 faces, 18 triangles and 3 squares, 33 edges, and 14 vertices.
Johnson uses the prefix hebespheno- to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenomegacorona | In geometry, the sphenomegacorona is one of the Johnson solids (). It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
Johnson uses the prefix spheno- to refer to a wedge-like complex formed by two adjacent lunes, a lune being a square... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenocorona | In geometry, the sphenocorona is one of the Johnson solids (). It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
Johnson uses the prefix spheno- to refer to a wedge-like complex formed by two adjacent lunes, a lune being a square wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Information%20Protection%20and%20Electronic%20Documents%20Act | {{Infobox legislation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20Attached%20SCSI | In computing, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a point-to-point serial protocol that moves data to and from computer-storage devices such as hard disk drives and tape drives. SAS replaces the older Parallel SCSI (Parallel Small Computer System Interface, usually pronounced "scuzzy" or "sexy") bus technology that first app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptidomimetic | A peptidomimetic is a small protein-like chain designed to mimic a peptide. They typically arise either from modification of an existing peptide, or by designing similar systems that mimic peptides, such as peptoids and β-peptides. Irrespective of the approach, the altered chemical structure is designed to advantageou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20B%20cell | In immunology, a memory B cell (MBC) is a type of B lymphocyte that forms part of the adaptive immune system. These cells develop within germinal centers of the secondary lymphoid organs. Memory B cells circulate in the blood stream in a quiescent state, sometimes for decades. Their function is to memorize the characte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auramine%E2%80%93rhodamine%20stain | The auramine–rhodamine stain (AR), also known as the Truant auramine–rhodamine stain, is a histological technique used to visualize acid-fast bacilli using fluorescence microscopy, notably species in the Mycobacterium genus. Acid-fast organisms display a reddish-yellow fluorescence. Although the auramine–rhodamine stai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snubber | A snubber is a device used to suppress ("snub") a phenomenon such as voltage transients in electrical systems, pressure transients in fluid systems (caused by for example water hammer) or excess force or rapid movement in mechanical systems.
Electrical systems
Snubbers are frequently used in electrical systems with an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20zirconate%20titanate | Lead zirconate titanate, also called lead zirconium titanate and commonly abbreviated as PZT, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula It is a ceramic perovskite material that shows a marked piezoelectric effect, meaning that the compound changes shape when an electric field is applied. It is used in a numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20identifier | In Unix-like systems, multiple users can be put into groups. POSIX and conventional Unix file system permissions are organized into three classes, user, group, and others. The use of groups allows additional abilities to be delegated in an organized fashion, such as access to disks, printers, and other peripherals. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIBO%20stability | In signal processing, specifically control theory, bounded-input, bounded-output (BIBO) stability is a form of stability for signals and systems that take inputs. If a system is BIBO stable, then the output will be bounded for every input to the system that is bounded.
A signal is bounded if there is a finite value s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20codes | In computer science, online codes are an example of rateless erasure codes. These codes can encode a message into a number of symbols such that knowledge of any fraction of them allows one to recover the original message (with high probability). Rateless codes produce an arbitrarily large number of symbols which can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairing%20function | In mathematics, a pairing function is a process to uniquely encode two natural numbers into a single natural number.
Any pairing function can be used in set theory to prove that integers and rational numbers have the same cardinality as natural numbers.
Definition
A pairing function is a bijection
More generally, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%E2%80%93Carmichael%20number | In mathematics, a Lucas–Carmichael number is a positive composite integer n such that
if p is a prime factor of n, then p + 1 is a factor of n + 1;
n is odd and square-free.
The first condition resembles the Korselt's criterion for Carmichael numbers, where -1 is replaced with +1. The second condition eliminates from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure%20code | In coding theory, an erasure code is a forward error correction (FEC) code under the assumption of bit erasures (rather than bit errors), which transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message (code word) with n symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the n symbols. The fraction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20on%20embedded%20systems | Computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel are used in embedded systems such as consumer electronics (eg. set-top boxes, smart TVs and personal video recorders (PVRs)), in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), networking equipment (such as routers, switches, wireless access points (WAPs) or wireless routers), machine c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesspit | Cesspit, cesspool and soak pit in some contexts are terms with various meanings: they are used to describe either an underground holding tank (sealed at the bottom) or a soak pit (not sealed at the bottom). A cesspit can be used for the temporary collection and storage of feces, excreta or fecal sludge as part of an on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%20matrix | In mathematics, the term Cartan matrix has three meanings. All of these are named after the French mathematician Élie Cartan. Amusingly, the Cartan matrices in the context of Lie algebras were first investigated by Wilhelm Killing, whereas the Killing form is due to Cartan.
Lie algebras
A (symmetrizable) generalize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Engineering%20Development%20Complex | The Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC), Arnold Engineering Development Center before July 2012, is an Air Force Materiel Command facility under the control of the Air Force Test Center (AFTC). Named for General Henry "Hap" Arnold, the father of the U.S. Air Force, AEDC is the most advanced and largest comple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku%20%28programming%20language%29 | Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly known as Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019. Raku introduces elements of many modern and historical languages. Compatibility with Perl was not a goal, though a compatibility mode is part of the specification. The design process for Raku began in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot | The Buddhabrot is the probability distribution over the trajectories of points that escape the Mandelbrot fractal. Its name reflects its pareidolic resemblance to classical depictions of Gautama Buddha, seated in a meditation pose with a forehead mark (tikka), a traditional oval crown (ushnisha), and ringlet of hair.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo%20%28programming%20language%29 | Boo is an object-oriented, statically typed, general-purpose programming language that seeks to make use of the Common Language Infrastructure's support for Unicode, internationalization, and web applications, while using a Python-inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility. Some features... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20yield | The current yield, interest yield, income yield, flat yield, market yield, mark to market yield or running yield is a financial term used in reference to bonds and other fixed-interest securities such as gilts. It is the ratio of the annual interest (coupon) payment and the bond's price:
According to Investopedia,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20backoff | Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of some process, in order to gradually find an acceptable rate. These algorithms find usage in a wide range of systems and processes, with radio networks and computer networks being particularly notable.
Exponential backoff al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20in%20biology | Symmetry in biology refers to the symmetry observed in organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. External symmetry can be easily seen by just looking at an organism. For example, the face of a human being has a plane of symmetry down its centre, or a pine cone displays a clear symmetrical spiral patter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%20numerals | The system of ancient Egyptian numerals was used in Ancient Egypt from around 3000 BCE until the early first millennium CE. It was a system of numeration based on multiples of ten, often rounded off to the higher power, written in hieroglyphs. The Egyptians had no concept of a positional notation such as the decimal sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPK%20algorithm | The TPK algorithm is a simple program introduced by Donald Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo to illustrate the evolution of computer programming languages. In their 1977 work "The Early Development of Programming Languages", Trabb Pardo and Knuth introduced a small program that involved arrays, indexing, mathematical function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20e-readers | An e-reader, also known as an e-book reader, is a portable electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading e-books and periodicals. E-readers have a similar form factor to a tablet and usually refers to devices that use electronic paper resulting in better screen readability, especially in brigh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20converter | A rotary converter is a type of electrical machine which acts as a mechanical rectifier, inverter or frequency converter.
Rotary converters were used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), or DC to AC power, before the advent of chemical or solid state power rectification and inverting. They were... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20tower | In personal computing, a tower is a form factor of desktop computer case whose height is much greater than its width, thus having the appearance of an upstanding tower block, as opposed to a traditional "pizza box" computer case whose width is greater than its height and appears lying flat.
Compared to a pizza box cas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-on | In computing, instant-on is the ability to boot nearly instantly, allowing to go online or to use a specific application without waiting for a PC's traditional operating system to launch. Instant-on technology is today mostly used on laptops, netbooks, and nettops because the user can boot up one program, instead of wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurry | A slurry is a mixture of denser solids suspended in liquid, usually water. The most common use of slurry is as a means of transporting solids or separating minerals, the liquid being a carrier that is pumped on a device such as a centrifugal pump. The size of solid particles may vary from 1 micrometre up to hundreds of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/157%20%28number%29 | 157 (one hundred [and] fifty-seven) is the number following 156 and preceding 158.
In mathematics
157 is:
the 37th prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151.
a balanced prime, because the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157.
an emirp.
a Chen prime.
the largest known prime p which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioimmunoassay | A radioimmunoassay (RIA) is an immunoassay that uses radiolabeled molecules in a stepwise formation of immune complexes. A RIA is a very sensitive in vitro assay technique used to measure concentrations of substances, usually measuring antigen concentrations (for example, hormone levels in blood) by use of antibodies.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus%20II%20Bernoulli | Nicolaus II Bernoulli (also spelled as Niklaus or Nikolaus; 6 February 1695 in Basel – 31 July 1726 in Saint Petersburg) was a Swiss mathematician as were his father Johann Bernoulli and one of his brothers, Daniel Bernoulli. He was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
Work
Nicolaus work... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL%20%28complexity%29 | In computational complexity theory, the complexity class FL is the set of function problems which can be solved by a deterministic Turing machine in a logarithmic amount of memory space. As in the definition of L, the machine reads its input from a read-only tape and writes its output to a write-only tape; the logarith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydimethylsiloxane | Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), also known as dimethylpolysiloxane or dimethicone, is a silicone polymer with a wide variety of uses, from cosmetics to industrial lubrication.
It is particularly known for its unusual rheological (or flow) properties. PDMS is optically clear and, in general, inert, non-toxic, and non-flam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy%20over%20age%2050 | Pregnancy over the age of 50 has become possible for more women due to advances in assisted reproductive technology, in particular egg donation. Typically, a woman's fecundity ends with menopause, which, by definition, is 12 consecutive months without having had any menstrual flow at all. During perimenopause, the mens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys%20WRT54G%20series | The Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi series is a series of Wi-Fi–capable residential gateways marketed by Linksys, a subsidiary of Cisco, from 2003 until acquired by Belkin in 2013. A residential gateway connects a local area network (such as a home network) to a wide area network (such as the Internet).
Models in this series use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admissible%20rule | In logic, a rule of inference is admissible in a formal system if the set of theorems of the system does not change when that rule is added to the existing rules of the system. In other words, every formula that can be derived using that rule is already derivable without that rule, so, in a sense, it is redundant. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex%20Alimentarius | The is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and other recommendations published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations relating to food, food production, food labeling, and food safety.
History and governance
Its name is derived from the Codex Al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20in%20computer%20science | Logic in computer science covers the overlap between the field of logic and that of computer science. The topic can essentially be divided into three main areas:
Theoretical foundations and analysis
Use of computer technology to aid logicians
Use of concepts from logic for computer applications
Theoretical foundati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20Genealogy%20Project | The Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP) is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians. it contained information on 274,575 mathematical scientists who contributed to research-level mathematics. For a typical mathematician, the project entry includes graduation year, thesis title (in its Mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20Multimedia%20Subsystem | The IP Multimedia Subsystem or IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (IMS) is a standardised architectural framework for delivering IP multimedia services. Historically, mobile phones have provided voice call services over a circuit-switched-style network, rather than strictly over an IP packet-switched network. Altern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectiminimax | The expectiminimax algorithm is a variation of the minimax algorithm, for use in artificial intelligence systems that play two-player zero-sum games, such as backgammon, in which the outcome depends on a combination of the player's skill and chance elements such as dice rolls. In addition to "min" and "max" nodes of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPE%20Integrity%20Servers | HPE Integrity Servers is a series of server computers produced by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Hewlett-Packard) since 2003, based on the Itanium processor. The Integrity brand name was inherited by HP from Tandem Computers via Compaq.
In 2015 HP released the Superdome X line of Integrity Servers based on the x... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway%20bus | The Runway bus is a front-side bus developed by Hewlett-Packard for use by its PA-RISC microprocessor family. The Runway bus is a 64-bit wide, split transaction, time multiplexed address and data bus running at 120 MHz. This scheme was chosen by HP as they determined that a bus using separate address and data wires wou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20data%20rate | In computing, double data rate (DDR) describes a computer bus that transfers data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal. This is also known as double pumped, dual-pumped, and double transition. The term toggle mode is used in the context of NAND flash memory.
Overview
The simplest way to design a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planimetrics | Planimetrics is the study of plane measurements, including angles, distances, and areas.
History
To measure planimetrics a planimeter or dot planimeter is used. This rather advanced analog technology is being taken over by simple image measurement software tools like, ImageJ, Adobe Acrobat, Google Earth Pro, Gimp, Pho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIA-608 | EIA-608, also known as "line 21 captions" and "CEA-608", was once the standard for closed captioning for NTSC TV broadcasts in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It was developed by the Electronic Industries Alliance and required by law to be implemented in most television receivers made in the United States.
It sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrosequencing | Pyrosequencing is a method of DNA sequencing (determining the order of nucleotides in DNA) based on the "sequencing by synthesis" principle, in which the sequencing is performed by detecting the nucleotide incorporated by a DNA polymerase. Pyrosequencing relies on light detection based on a chain reaction when pyrophos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemachandra | Hemachandra was a 12th century () Indian Jain saint, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist. Noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries, he gained the title kalikālasarvajña, "the knower of all knowledge in his times" and f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPX%20%28form%20factor%29 | LPX (short for Low Profile eXtension), originally developed by Western Digital, was a loosely defined motherboard format (form factor) widely used in the 1990s.
There was never any official LPX specification, but the design normally featured a motherboard with the main I/O ports mounted on the back (something that wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix-minus | In audio engineering, a mix-minus or clean feed is a particular setup of a mixing console or matrix mixer, such that an output of the mixer contains everything except a designated input. Mix-minus is often used to prevent echoes or feedback in broadcast or sound reinforcement systems.
Examples
A common situation in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX%20Annual%20Technical%20Conference | The USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC, or, canonically, USENIX) is a conference of computing professions sponsored by the USENIX association. The conference includes computing tutorials, and a single track technical session for presenting refereed research papers, SIG meetings, and BoFs.
There have been s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20error | In electronics and computing, a soft error is a type of error where a signal or datum is wrong. Errors may be caused by a defect, usually understood either to be a mistake in design or construction, or a broken component. A soft error is also a signal or datum which is wrong, but is not assumed to imply such a mistake ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Freeman%20%28game%20designer%29 | Jon Freeman is a game designer and co-founder of software developer Automated Simulations, which was later renamed to Epyx and became a major company during the 8-bit era of home computing. He is married to game programmer Anne Westfall, and they work together as Free Fall Associates. Free Fall is best known for Archon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20process%20automation | Business process automation (BPA), also known as business automation, is the technology-enabled automation of business processes. It can streamline a business for simplicity, achieve digital transformation, increase service quality, improve service delivery, or contain costs. BPA consists of integrating applications, r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graded%20category | If is a category, then a -graded category is a category together with a functor
.
Monoids and groups can be thought of as categories with a single object. A monoid-graded or group-graded category is therefore one in which to each morphism is attached an element of a given monoid (resp. group), its grade. This must b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graded%20vector%20space | In mathematics, a graded vector space is a vector space that has the extra structure of a grading or gradation, which is a decomposition of the vector space into a direct sum of vector subspaces, generally indexed by the integers.
For "pure" vector spaces, the concept has been introduced in homological algebra, and it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20reservation%20system | Computer reservation systems, or central reservation systems (CRS), are computerized systems used to store and retrieve information and conduct transactions related to air travel, hotels, car rental, or other activities. Originally designed and operated by airlines, CRSs were later extended for use by travel agencies, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre%20%28travel%20reservation%20system%29 | Sabre Global Distribution System, owned by Sabre Corporation, is a travel reservation system used by travel agents and companies to search, price, book, and ticket travel services provided by airlines, hotels, car rental companies, rail providers and tour
operators. Originally developed by American Airlines under CEO ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre%20Corporation | Sabre Corporation is a travel technology company based in Southlake, Texas. It is the largest global distribution systems provider for air bookings in North America. American Airlines founded the company in 1960, and it was spun off in 2000.
In 2007, Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners acquired what was then ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicode | Varicode is a self-synchronizing code for use in PSK31. It supports all ASCII characters, but the characters used most frequently in English have shorter codes. The space between characters is indicated by a 00 sequence, an implementation of Fibonacci coding. Originally created for speeding up real-time keyboard-to-ke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection%20theory | Detection theory or signal detection theory is a means to measure the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns (called stimulus in living organisms, signal in machines) and random patterns that distract from the information (called noise, consisting of background stimuli and random activity of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilter | Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using a bioreactor containing living material to capture and biologically degrade pollutants. Common uses include processing waste water, capturing harmful chemicals or silt from surface runoff, and microbiotic oxidation of contaminants in air. Industrial biofiltration ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicant | In Boolean logic, the term implicant has either a generic or a particular meaning. In the generic use, it refers to the hypothesis of an implication (implicant). In the particular use, a product term (i.e., a conjunction of literals) P is an implicant of a Boolean function F, denoted , if P implies F (i.e., whenever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20ecology | Population ecology is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment, such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration.
The discipline is important in conservation biology, especially in the development of population vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile%20memory | Volatile memory, in contrast to non-volatile memory, is computer memory that requires power to maintain the stored information; it retains its contents while powered on but when the power is interrupted, the stored data is quickly lost.
Volatile memory has several uses including as primary storage. In addition to usua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K42 | K42 is a discontinued open-source research operating system (OS) for cache-coherent 64-bit multiprocessor systems. It was developed primarily at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in collaboration with the University of Toronto and University of New Mexico. The main focus of this OS is to address performance and scal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX | W^X ("write xor execute", pronounced W xor X) is a security feature in operating systems and virtual machines. It is a memory protection policy whereby every page in a process's or kernel's address space may be either writable or executable, but not both. Without such protection, a program can write (as data "W") CPU i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20medicine | Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease. Modern biomedical research and practice have focused on the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying health and disease, while evolutionary medicine focuses on the question of why ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-signal%20integrated%20circuit | A mixed-signal integrated circuit is any integrated circuit that has both analog circuits and digital circuits on a single semiconductor die. Their usage has grown dramatically with the increased use of cell phones, telecommunications, portable electronics, and automobiles with electronics and digital sensors.
Overvie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depolarization%20ratio | In Raman spectroscopy, the depolarization ratio is the intensity ratio between the perpendicular component and the parallel component of Raman scattered light.
Early work in this field was carried out by George Placzek, who developed the theoretical treatment of bond polarizability.
The Raman scattered light is emitt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20security | Data security means protecting digital data, such as those in a database, from destructive forces and from the unwanted actions of unauthorized users, such as a cyberattack or a data breach.
Technologies
Disk encryption
Disk encryption refers to encryption technology that encrypts data on a hard disk drive. Disk ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse%E2%80%93Weil%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the Hasse–Weil zeta function attached to an algebraic variety V defined over an algebraic number field K is a meromorphic function on the complex plane defined in terms of the number of points on the variety after reducing modulo each prime number p. It is a global L-function defined as an Euler product... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryggve%20Fossum | Tryggve Fossum is a Norwegian computer architect at Intel. He transferred there from DEC, where he was a lead architect of Alpha processors, after working on several VAX processors.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer hardware engineers
Digital Equipment Corporation people
Intel pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingala | Acharya Pingala (; c. 3rd2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the (), also called the Pingala-sutras (), the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody.
The is a work of eight chapters in the late Sūtra style, not fully comprehensible without a commentary. It has been dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer%20f-function | The Mayer f-function is an auxiliary function that often appears in the series expansion of thermodynamic quantities related to classical many-particle systems. It is named after chemist and physicist Joseph Edward Mayer.
Definition
Consider a system of classical particles interacting through a pair-wise potential
wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20sequencing | DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. The advent of rapid DNA sequencing methods has greatly accelerated biological and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20Neutral%20Encapsulation%20Format | Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format or TNEF is a proprietary email attachment format used by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server. An attached file with TNEF encoding is most often named winmail.dat or win.dat, and has a MIME type of Application/MS-TNEF.
The official (IANA) media type, however, is applica... |
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