source stringlengths 31 203 | text stringlengths 28 2k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Military%20Canal | The Royal Military Canal is a canal running for between Seabrook near Folkestone and Cliff End near Hastings, following the old cliff line bordering Romney Marsh, which was constructed as a defence against the possible invasion of England during the Napoleonic Wars.
History
Origin and construction
The canal was conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathleen%20Synge%20Morawetz | Cathleen Synge Morawetz (May 5, 1923 – August 8, 2017) was a Canadian mathematician who spent much of her career in the United States. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow, particularly those of mixed type occurring in transonic flow. She was professor e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20ecology | Applied ecology is a sub-field within ecology that considers the application of the science of ecology to real-world (usually management) questions. It is also described as a scientific field that focuses on the application of concepts, theories, models, or methods of fundamental ecology to environmental problems.
Con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLS%20%28file%20format%29 | PLS is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. It is typically used by media players for streaming media over the Internet, but may also be used for playing local media.
For online streaming, typically the .PLS file would be downloaded just once from the media source—such as from an online radio station—fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20differentiation | In numerical analysis, numerical differentiation algorithms estimate the derivative of a mathematical function or function subroutine using values of the function and perhaps other knowledge about the function.
Finite differences
The simplest method is to use finite difference approximations.
A simple two-point esti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20underflow | The term arithmetic underflow (also floating point underflow, or just underflow) is a condition in a computer program where the result of a calculation is a number of more precise absolute value than the computer can actually represent in memory on its central processing unit (CPU).
Arithmetic underflow can occur when... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%207 | Mode 7 is a graphics mode on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console that allows a background layer to be rotated and scaled on a scanline-by-scanline basis to create many different depth effects. It also supports wrapping effects such as translation and reflection.
The most famous of these effects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMoy | A CMoy is a pocket headphone amplifier originally designed by Pow Chu Moy.
The headphone amplifier is designed around single or dual-channel operational amplifiers (op-amps) such as Burr-Brown's OPA2134 or OPA2132PA, however, a wide variety of op-amps have been successfully implemented. As the op-amp directly drives ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor | In physics and engineering, a phasor (a portmanteau of phase vector) is a complex number representing a sinusoidal function whose amplitude (), angular frequency (), and initial phase () are time-invariant. It is related to a more general concept called analytic representation, which decomposes a sinusoid into the pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie%20restriction | Calorie restriction (caloric restriction or energy restriction) is a dietary regimen that reduces the energy intake from foods and beverages without incurring malnutrition. The possible effect of calorie restriction on body weight management, longevity, and aging-associated diseases has been an active area of research.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password%20policy | A password policy is a set of rules designed to enhance computer security by encouraging users to employ strong passwords and use them properly. A password policy is often part of an organization's official regulations and may be taught as part of security awareness training. Either the password policy is merely adviso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-model | The V-model is a graphical representation of a systems development lifecycle. It is used to produce rigorous development lifecycle models and project management models. The V-model falls into three broad categories, the German V-Modell, a general testing model, and the US government standard.
The V-model summarizes th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%20machine | In mathematics and computer science, Zeno machines (abbreviated ZM, and also called accelerated Turing machine, ATM) are a hypothetical computational model related to Turing machines that are capable of carrying out computations involving a countably infinite number of algorithmic steps. These machines are ruled out i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovision | Stratovision was an airborne television transmission relay system using aircraft flying at high altitudes. In 1945 the Glenn L. Martin Company and Westinghouse Electric Corporation originally proposed television coverage of small towns and rural areas, as well as the large metropolitan centers, by fourteen aircraft tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent%20II | Descent II is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions. For the PlayStation, it is known as Descent Maximum. It is the second installment in the Descent video game series and the sequel to Descent. The base of the gameplay remaining the same, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeorhesis | Homeorhesis, derived from the Greek for "similar flow", is a concept encompassing dynamical systems which return to a trajectory, as opposed to systems which return to a particular state, which is termed homeostasis.
Biology
Homeorhesis is steady flow. Often biological systems are inaccurately described as homeostatic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20coding | Hard coding (also hard-coding or hardcoding) is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to obtaining the data from external sources or generating it at runtime.
Hard-coded data typically can only be modified by editing the so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20bookmarking | Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging". Tagging is a significant feature of social boo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near%E2%80%93far%20problem | The near–far problem or hearability problem is the effect of a strong signal from a near signal source in making it hard for a receiver to hear a weaker signal from a further source due to adjacent-channel interference, co-channel interference, distortion, capture effect, dynamic range limitation, or the like. Such a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20synthesis | In organic chemistry, peptide synthesis is the production of peptides, compounds where multiple amino acids are linked via amide bonds, also known as peptide bonds. Peptides are chemically synthesized by the condensation reaction of the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another. Protecting group st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposase | A transposase is any of a class of enzymes capable of binding to the end of a transposon and catalysing its movement to another part of a genome, typically by a cut-and-paste mechanism or a replicative mechanism, in a process known as transposition. The word "transposase" was first coined by the individuals who cloned ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunship%20%28video%20game%29 | Gunship is a combat flight simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1986. In the game, controlling a simulated AH-64 Apache helicopter, players navigate through missions to attack enemy targets and protect friendly forces. Commercially and critically successful, Gunship was followed by Gunship 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20assistant | In computer science and mathematical logic, a proof assistant or interactive theorem prover is a software tool to assist with the development of formal proofs by human-machine collaboration. This involves some sort of interactive proof editor, or other interface, with which a human can guide the search for proofs, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteprint | Whiteprint describes a document reproduction produced by using the diazo chemical process. It is also known as the blue-line process since the result is blue lines on a white background. It is a contact printing process which accurately reproduces the original in size, but cannot reproduce continuous tones or colors. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS | FTPS (also known as FTP-SSL and FTP Secure) is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that adds support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and, formerly, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL, which is now prohibited by RFC7568) cryptographic protocols.
FTPS should not be confused with the SSH File... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat%20fragmentation | Habitat fragmentation describes the emergence of discontinuities (fragmentation) in an organism's preferred environment (habitat), causing population fragmentation and ecosystem decay. Causes of habitat fragmentation include geological processes that slowly alter the layout of the physical environment (suspected of be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted%20display | A head-mounted display (HMD) is a display device, worn on the head or as part of a helmet (see Helmet-mounted display for aviation applications), that has a small display optic in front of one (monocular HMD) or each eye (binocular HMD). An HMD has many uses including gaming, aviation, engineering, and medicine. Virtua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectogenesis | Ectogenesis (from the Greek ἐκτός, "outside," and genesis) is the growth of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it would normally be found, such as the growth of an embryo or fetus outside the mother's body, or the growth of bacteria outside the body of a host. The term was coined by Brit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS%20interrupt%20call | BIOS implementations provide interrupts that can be invoked by operating systems and application programs to use the facilities of the firmware on IBM PC compatible computers. Traditionally, BIOS calls are mainly used by DOS programs and some other software such as boot loaders (including, mostly historically, relative... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexure | A flexure is a flexible element (or combination of elements) engineered to be compliant in specific degrees of freedom. Flexures are a design feature used by design engineers (usually mechanical engineers) for providing adjustment or compliance in a design.
Flexure types
Most compound flexure designs are composed of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitschrift%20f%C3%BCr%20Angewandte%20Mathematik%20und%20Physik | The Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (English: Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Birkhäuser Verlag. The editor-in-chief is Kaspar Nipp (ETH Zurich). It was established in 1950 and covers the fields of theoretical and applied mechanic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Nunn%20May | Alan Nunn May (sometimes Allan){{refn|May's first name is sometimes spelled Allan, with two l'''s, but both the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Encyclopædia Britannica use Alan.|group=n|name=Latour}} (2 May 1911 – 12 January 2003) was a British physicist and a confessed and convicted Soviet spy who supp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%20tree | Moon trees are trees grown from seeds taken into orbit around the Moon, initially by Apollo 14 in 1971, and later by Artemis 1 in 2022. The idea was first proposed by Edward P. Cliff, then the Chief of the United States Forest Service, who convinced Stuart Roosa, the Command Module Pilot on the Apollo 14 mission, to br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20ecology | Evolutionary ecology lies at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers the evolutionary histories of species and the interactions between them. Conversely, it can be seen as an approach to the study of evolution that incorporates an under... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSAZ-TV | WSAZ-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Huntington, West Virginia, United States, affiliated with NBC. It serves the Charleston–Huntington market, the second-largest television market (in terms of geographical area) east of the Mississippi River; the station's coverage area includes 31 counties in centr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Davis%20%28programmer%29 | Paul Davis (formerly known as Paul Barton-Davis) is a British-American software developer best known for his work on audio software (JACK) for the Linux operating system, and for his role as one of the first two programmers at Amazon.com.
Davis grew up in the English Midlands and in London. After studying molecular bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20trap | In vacuum applications, a cold trap is a device that condenses all vapors except the permanent gases into a liquid or solid. The most common objective is to prevent vapors being evacuated from an experiment from entering a vacuum pump where they would condense and contaminate it. Particularly large cold traps are nec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangular%20function | The rectangular function (also known as the rectangle function, rect function, Pi function, Heaviside Pi function, gate function, unit pulse, or the normalized boxcar function) is defined as
Alternative definitions of the function define to be 0, 1, or undefined.
Its periodic version is called a rectangular wave.
H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-pong%20recording | Ping-pong recording (also called ping-ponging, bouncing tracks, or reduction mixing) is a method of sound recording. It involves combining multiple track stems into one, allowing more room for overdubbing when using tape recorders with a limited set of tracks. It is also used to simplify mixdowns.
The two most common ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesnarfing | Bluesnarfing is the unauthorized access of information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection, often between phones, desktops, laptops, and PDAs (personal digital assistant). This allows access to calendars, contact lists, emails and text messages, and on some phones, users can copy pictures and private ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20coordinates | In mathematics, hyperbolic coordinates are a method of locating points in quadrant I of the Cartesian plane
.
Hyperbolic coordinates take values in the hyperbolic plane defined as:
.
These coordinates in HP are useful for studying logarithmic comparisons of direct proportion in Q and measuring deviations from direc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant%20transformation | Malignant transformation is the process by which cells acquire the properties of cancer. This may occur as a primary process in normal tissue, or secondarily as malignant degeneration of a previously existing benign tumor.
Causes
There are many causes of primary malignant transformation, or tumorigenesis. Most human... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenobiology | Xenobiology (XB) is a subfield of synthetic biology, the study of synthesizing and manipulating biological devices and systems. The name "xenobiology" derives from the Greek word xenos, which means "stranger, alien". Xenobiology is a form of biology that is not (yet) familiar to science and is not found in nature. In p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Derbyshire | John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born American white supremacist political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer. He was noted for being one of the last paleoconservatives in the National Review, until he was fired in 2012 for writing an article for Taki's Magazine that was widely viewe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Obsession | Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003) is a historical book on mathematics by John Derbyshire, detailing the history of the Riemann hypothesis, named for Bernhard Riemann, and some of its applications.
The book was awarded the Mathematical Association of America's in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Megatrends | American Megatrends International, LLC, doing business as AMI, is an international hardware and software company, specializing in PC hardware and firmware. The company was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and Subramonian Shankar. It is headquartered in Building 800 at 3095 Satellite Boulevard in unincorporated Gwinnett Cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20literature | Alternative literature (or alt-lit) is a literary movement strongly influenced by internet culture and online publishing. It includes various forms of prose, poetry, and new media. Alt-lit is characterized by self-publication and a presence on social media networks. Alternative literature brings together people with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20High-Speed%20Rail | California High-Speed Rail (also known as CAHSR or CHSR) is a publicly funded high-speed rail system currently being developed in California in the United States. In 1996, the California Legislature and Governor Pete Wilson established the California High-Speed Rail Authority with the task of creating a plan for the sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systemic%20diseases%20with%20ocular%20manifestations | An ocular manifestation of a systemic disease is an eye condition that directly or indirectly results from a disease process in another part of the body. There are many diseases known to cause ocular or visual changes. Diabetes, for example, is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in those aged 20–74, with ocula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/VM | z/VM is the current version in IBM's VM family of virtual machine operating systems. z/VM was first released in October 2000 and remains in active use and development . It is directly based on technology and concepts dating back to the 1960s, with IBM's CP/CMS on the IBM System/360-67 (see article History of CP/CMS for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20Peripheral%20Interface | Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI) was a server-centric storage interface used in the 1980s and early 1990s with an ISO-9318 standard.
The idea behind IPI is that the disk drives themselves are as simple as possible, containing only the lowest level control circuitry, while the IPI interface card encapsulates most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Organic%20Program | The National Organic Program (NOP) is the federal regulatory framework in the United States of America governing organic food. It is also the name of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) program responsible for administering and enforcing the regulatory framework. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scancode | A scancode (or scan code) is the data that most computer keyboards send to a computer to report which keys have been pressed. A number, or sequence of numbers, is assigned to each key on the keyboard.
Variants
Mapping key positions by row and column requires less complex computer hardware; therefore, in the past, u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor | A hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monitor, VMM, or virtualizer) is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called a host machine, and each virtual machine is called a guest machine. The hy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympatry | In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another. An initially interbreeding population that splits into two or more distinct species sharing a common range exemplifies sympatric speciation. Such speciation may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo%20tunneling | In computer networking, Teredo is a transition technology that gives full IPv6 connectivity for IPv6-capable hosts that are on the IPv4 Internet but have no native connection to an IPv6 network. Unlike similar protocols such as 6to4, it can perform its function even from behind network address translation (NAT) devices... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check%20mark | A check or check mark (American English), checkmark (Philippine English), tickmark (Indian English) or tick (Australian, New Zealand and British English) is a mark (✓, ✔, etc.) used, primarily in the English-speaking world, to indicate the concept "yes" (e.g. "yes; this has been verified", "yes; that is the correct ans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathnet | Mathnet is a segment on the children's television show Square One Television that follows the adventures of pairs of police mathematicians. It is a pastiche of Dragnet.
Premise
Mathnet is a pastiche of Dragnet, in which the main characters are mathematicians who use their mathematical skills to solve various crimes an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20Discovery | Web Services Discovery provides access to software systems over the Internet using standard protocols. In the most basic scenario there is a Web Service Provider that publishes a service and a Web Service Consumer that uses this service. Web Service Discovery is the process of finding suitable web services for a given ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankel%20contour | In mathematics, a Hankel contour is a path in the complex plane which extends from
(+∞,δ), around the origin counter clockwise and back to
(+∞,−δ), where δ is an arbitrarily small positive number. The contour thus remains arbitrarily close to the real axis but without crossing the real axis except for negative values ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose%20computing%20on%20graphics%20processing%20units | General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the central processing unit (CPU). The use of multiple video ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20of%20a%20real%20variable | In mathematical analysis, and applications in geometry, applied mathematics, engineering, and natural sciences, a function of a real variable is a function whose domain is the real numbers , or a subset of that contains an interval of positive length. Most real functions that are considered and studied are differentia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaugmentation | Biological augmentation is the addition of archaea or bacterial cultures required to speed up the rate of degradation of a contaminant. Organisms that originate from contaminated areas may already be able to break down waste, but perhaps inefficiently and slowly.
Bioaugmentation is a type of bioremediation in which it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20engineering | Traditional engineering, also known as sequential engineering, is the process of marketing, engineering design, manufacturing, testing and production where each stage of the development process is carried out separately, and the next stage cannot start until the previous stage is finished. Therefore, the information f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%20chi%20function | In mathematics, the Legendre chi function is a special function whose Taylor series is also a Dirichlet series, given by
As such, it resembles the Dirichlet series for the polylogarithm, and, indeed, is trivially expressible in terms of the polylogarithm as
The Legendre chi function appears as the discrete Fourier tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy | Catallaxy or catallactics is an alternative expression for the word "economy". Whereas the word economy suggests that people in a community possess a common and congruent set of values and goals, catallaxy suggests that the emergent properties of a market (prices, division of labor, growth, etc.) are the outgrowths of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstein%20series | Eisenstein series, named after German mathematician Gotthold Eisenstein, are particular modular forms with infinite series expansions that may be written down directly. Originally defined for the modular group, Eisenstein series can be generalized in the theory of automorphic forms.
Eisenstein series for the modular g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20900 | The Commodore 900 (also known as the C900, Z-8000, and Z-Machine) was a prototype microcomputer originally intended for business computing and, later, as an affordable UNIX workstation. It was to replace the aging PET/CBM families of personal computers that had found success in Europe as business machines. The project ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sottens%20transmitter | The Sottens Transmitter is the nationwide transmitter for French-speaking Switzerland. The transmitter is located at Sottens, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is run on 765 kHz with a power of 600 kilowatts and is easily receivable during the night throughout the whole of Europe. Since 1989 the aerial used has been a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s%20theorem | In the mathematical field of graph theory, Kirchhoff's theorem or Kirchhoff's matrix tree theorem named after Gustav Kirchhoff is a theorem about the number of spanning trees in a graph, showing that this number can be computed in polynomial time from the determinant of a submatrix of the Laplacian matrix of the graph;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-fastness | Acid-fastness is a physical property of certain bacterial and eukaryotic cells, as well as some sub-cellular structures, specifically their resistance to decolorization by acids during laboratory staining procedures. Once stained as part of a sample, these organisms can resist the acid and/or ethanol-based decolorizati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20Addressable%20File%20Store | The Content Addressable File Store (CAFS) was a hardware device developed by International Computers Limited (ICL) that provided a disk storage with built-in search capability. The motivation for the device was the discrepancy between the high speed at which a disk could deliver data, and the much lower speed at which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20optimization | Shape optimization is part of the field of optimal control theory. The typical problem is to find the shape which is optimal in that it minimizes a certain cost functional while satisfying given constraints. In many cases, the functional being solved depends on the solution of a given partial differential equation defi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBBS-PC | RBBS-PC (acronym for Remote Bulletin Board System for the Personal Computer) was a public domain, open-source BBS software program. It was written entirely in BASIC by a large team of people, starting with Russell Lane and then later enhanced by Tom Mack, Ken Goosens and others.
It supported messaging conferences, que... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective%20line%20over%20a%20ring | In mathematics, the projective line over a ring is an extension of the concept of projective line over a field. Given a ring A with 1, the projective line P(A) over A consists of points identified by projective coordinates. Let U be the group of units of A; pairs and from are related when there is a u in U such tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lite-On | Lite-On (also known as LiteOn and LiteON) is a Taiwanese company that primarily manufactures consumer electronics, including LEDs, semiconductors, computer chassis, monitors, motherboards, optical disc drives, and other electronic components. The Lite-On group also consists of some non-electronic companies like a fina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched%20Multi-megabit%20Data%20Service | Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS) was a connectionless service used to connect LANs, MANs and WANs to exchange data, in early 1990s. In Europe, the service was known as Connectionless Broadband Data Service (CBDS).
SMDS was specified by Bellcore, and was based on the IEEE 802.6 metropolitan area network (MAN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Available%20bit%20rate | Available bit rate (ABR) is a service used in ATM networks when source and destination don't need to be synchronized. ABR does not guarantee against delay or data loss. ABR mechanisms allow the network to allocate the available bandwidth fairly over the present ABR sources. ABR is one of five service categories defined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling%20protocol | In computer networks, a tunneling protocol is a communication protocol which allows for the movement of data from one network to another. It involves allowing private network communications to be sent across a public network (such as the Internet) through a process called encapsulation.
Because tunneling involves repa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20device%20radiation%20and%20health | The antennas contained in mobile phones, including smartphones, emit radiofrequency (RF) radiation (non-ionizing "radio waves" such as microwaves); the parts of the head or body nearest to the antenna can absorb this energy and convert it to heat. Since at least the 1990s, scientists have researched whether the now-ubi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20shovel | A steam shovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil. It is the earliest type of power shovel or excavator. Steam shovels played a major role in public works in the 19th and early 20th century, being key to the construction of railroads and the Panama... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-One | The C-One is a single-board computer (SBC) created in 2002 as an enhanced version of the Commodore 64, a home computer popular in the 1980s. Designed by Jeri Ellsworth and Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers, who manufactured the boards themselves, the C-One has been re-engineered to allow cloning of other 8-bit c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20stability | In control theory, a continuous linear time-invariant system (LTI) is exponentially stable if and only if the system has eigenvalues (i.e., the poles of input-to-output systems) with strictly negative real parts. (i.e., in the left half of the complex plane). A discrete-time input-to-output LTI system is exponentially ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Durand | Peter Durand (21 October 1766 – 23 July 1822) was an English merchant who is widely credited with receiving the first patent for the idea of preserving food using tin cans. The patent (No 3372) was granted on August 25, 1810, by King George III of the United Kingdom.
The patent specifies that it was issued to Peter Du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal%20stability | In the theory of dynamical systems and control theory, a linear time-invariant system is marginally stable if it is neither asymptotically stable nor unstable. Roughly speaking, a system is stable if it always returns to and stays near a particular state (called the steady state), and is unstable if it goes farther and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default%20route | In computer networking, the default route is a configuration of the Internet Protocol (IP) that establishes a forwarding rule for packets when no specific address of a next-hop host is available from the routing table or other routing mechanisms.
The default route is generally the address of another router, which trea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacasting | Datacasting (data broadcasting) is the broadcasting of data over a wide area via radio waves. It most often refers to supplemental information sent by television stations along with digital terrestrial television (DTT), but may also be applied to digital signals on analog TV or radio. It generally does not apply to dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20hardening | Cold hardening is the physiological and biochemical process by which an organism prepares for cold weather.
Plants
Plants in temperate and polar regions adapt to winter and sub zero temperatures by relocating nutrients from leaves and shoots to storage organs. Freezing temperatures induce dehydrative stress on plants... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20development | Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of the developed adult brain and cognitive psychology. Qualitative differences between how a child ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional%20Quarterly | Congressional Quarterly, Inc., or CQ, is part of a privately owned publishing company called CQ Roll Call that produces several publications reporting primarily on the United States Congress. CQ was acquired by the Economist Group and combined with Roll Call to form CQ Roll Call in 2009; CQ ceased to exist as a separat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel%20processor | A barrel processor is a CPU that switches between threads of execution on every cycle. This CPU design technique is also known as "interleaved" or "fine-grained" temporal multithreading. Unlike simultaneous multithreading in modern superscalar architectures, it generally does not allow execution of multiple instruction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biovar | A biovar is a variant prokaryotic strain that differs physiologically or biochemically from other strains in a particular species. Morphovars (or morphotypes) are those strains that differ morphologically. Serovars (or serotypes) are those strains that have antigenic properties that differ from other strains.
List of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Mobile | Windows Mobile was a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants.
Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pocket PC 2000 which ran on Pocket PC PDAs. It was renamed "Windows Mobile" in 2003, at whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20A.%20Foster | Michael Anthony Foster (July 2, 1939 – November 14, 2020) was an American science fiction writer from Greensboro, North Carolina. He spent over sixteen years as a Captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force.
"Ler" books
Foster wrote a loosely connected trilogy about an offshoot of humanity called the L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprinting | Microprinting is the production of recognizable patterns or characters in a printed medium at a scale that typically requires magnification to read with the naked eye. To the unaided eye, the text may appear as a solid line. Attempts to reproduce by methods of photocopy, image scanning, or pantograph typically transla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper%20transfer%20function | In control theory, a proper transfer function is a transfer function in which the degree of the numerator does not exceed the degree of the denominator. A strictly proper transfer function is a transfer function where the degree of the numerator is less than the degree of the denominator.
The difference between the de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Roscoe | Andrew William Roscoe is a Scottish computer scientist. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford from 2003 to 2014, and is a Professor of Computer Science. He is also a Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Education and career
Roscoe was born in Dundee, Scotland. He studied for a degre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20network%20protocols%20%28OSI%20model%29 | This article lists protocols, categorized by the nearest layer in the Open Systems Interconnection model. This list is not exclusive to only the OSI protocol family. Many of these protocols are originally based on the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) and other models and they often do not fit neatly into OSI layers.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong%20River%20Commission | The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is an "...inter-governmental organisation that works directly with the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam to jointly manage the shared water resources and the sustainable development of the Mekong River". Its mission is "To promote and coordinate sustainable managemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%20Astrobiology%20Institute | The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) was established in 1998 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) "to develop the field of astrobiology and provide a scientific framework for flight missions." In December 2019 the institute's activities were suspended.
The NAI is a virtual, distributed organiza... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.