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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC%20converter%20station | An HVDC converter station (or simply converter station) is a specialised type of substation which forms the terminal equipment for a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line. It converts direct current to alternating current or the reverse. In addition to the converter, the station usually contains:
thr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS%20acceleration | TLS acceleration (formerly known as SSL acceleration) is a method of offloading processor-intensive public-key encryption for Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to a hardware accelerator.
Typically this means having a separate card that plugs into a PCI slot in a computer tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%20track%20%28mathematics%29 | In the mathematical area of topology, a train track is a family of curves embedded on a surface, meeting the following conditions:
The curves meet at a finite set of vertices called switches.
Away from the switches, the curves are smooth and do not touch each other.
At each switch, three curves meet with the same tange... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacker | A stacker is a large machine used in bulk material handling. Its function is to pile bulk material such as limestone, ores, coal and cereals on to a stockpile. A reclaimer can be used to recover the material.
Gold dredges in Alaska had a stacker that was a fixed part of the dredge. It carried over-size material to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermogravimetric%20analysis | Thermogravimetric analysis or thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) is a method of thermal analysis in which the mass of a sample is measured over time as the temperature changes. This measurement provides information about physical phenomena, such as phase transitions, absorption, adsorption and desorption; as well as ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ%20%28call%29 | CQ is a station code used by wireless operators derived from long established telegraphic practice on undersea cables and landlines, particularly used by those communicating in Morse code, (), but also by voice operators, to make a general call (called a CQ call). Transmitting the letters CQ on a particular radio frequ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Related%20rates | In differential calculus, related rates problems involve finding a rate at which a quantity changes by relating that quantity to other quantities whose rates of change are known. The rate of change is usually with respect to time. Because science and engineering often relate quantities to each other, the methods of r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20grid | A semantic grid is an approach to grid computing in which information, computing resources and services are described using the semantic data model. In this model, the data and metadata are expressed through facts (small sentences), becoming directly understandable for humans. This makes it easier for resources to be d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20radar | The history of radar (where radar stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. This possibility was suggested in James Clerk Maxwell's seminal work on electromagnetism. However, it was not unt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20of%20Mel | The Story of Mel is an archetypical piece of computer programming folklore. Its subject, Melvin Kaye, is an exemplary "Real Programmer" whose subtle techniques fascinate his colleagues.
Story
Ed Nather's The Story of Mel details the extraordinary programming prowess of a former colleague of his, "Mel", at Royal McBee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500%20kHz | From early in the 20th century, the radio frequency of 500 kilohertz (500 kHz) was an international calling and distress frequency for Morse code maritime communication. For much of its early history, this frequency was referred to by its equivalent wavelength, 600 meters, or, using the earlier frequency unit name, 500... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexanderson%20alternator | An Alexanderson alternator is a rotating machine invented by Ernst Alexanderson in 1904 for the generation of high-frequency alternating current for use as a radio transmitter. It was one of the first devices capable of generating the continuous radio waves needed for transmission of amplitude modulated signals by rad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20syzygy%20theorem | In mathematics, Hilbert's syzygy theorem is one of the three fundamental theorems about polynomial rings over fields, first proved by David Hilbert in 1890, which were introduced for solving important open questions in invariant theory, and are at the basis of modern algebraic geometry. The two other theorems are Hilbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother%20Industries | is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Its products include printers, multifunction printers, desktop computers, consumer and industrial sewing machines, large machine tools, label printers, typewriters, fax machines, and other computer-related electroni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance%20thermometer | Resistance thermometers, also called resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), are sensors used to measure temperature. Many RTD elements consist of a length of fine wire wrapped around a heat-resistant ceramic or glass core but other constructions are also used. The RTD wire is a pure material, typically platinum (Pt)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20signal-to-noise%20ratio | Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is an engineering term for the ratio between the maximum possible power of a signal and the power of corrupting noise that affects the fidelity of its representation. Because many signals have a very wide dynamic range, PSNR is usually expressed as a logarithmic quantity using the deci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underpinning | In construction or renovation, underpinning is the process of strengthening the foundation of an existing building or other structure. Underpinning may be necessary for a variety of reasons:
The original foundation isn't strong or stable enough.
The usage of the structure has changed.
The properties of the soil sup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20instruction%20set | In computer engineering, an orthogonal instruction set is an instruction set architecture where all instruction types can use all addressing modes. It is "orthogonal" in the sense that the instruction type and the addressing mode vary independently. An orthogonal instruction set does not impose a limitation that requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarzynski%20equality | The Jarzynski equality (JE) is an equation in statistical mechanics that relates free energy differences between two states and the irreversible work along an ensemble of trajectories joining the same states. It is named after the physicist Christopher Jarzynski (then at the University of Washington and Los Alamos Nati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%20%28programming%20language%29 | F is a modular, compiled, numeric programming language, designed for scientific programming and scientific computation. F was developed as a modern Fortran, thus making it a subset of Fortran 95. It combines both numerical and data abstraction features from these languages. F is also backwards compatible with Fortran 7... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthant | In geometry, an orthant or hyperoctant is the analogue in n-dimensional Euclidean space of a quadrant in the plane or an octant in three dimensions.
In general an orthant in n-dimensions can be considered the intersection of n mutually orthogonal half-spaces. By independent selections of half-space signs, there are 2n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20WAN | Wireless wide area network (WWAN), is a form of wireless network.
The larger size of a wide area network compared to a local area network requires differences in technology.
Wireless networks of different sizes deliver data in the form of telephone calls, web pages, and video streaming.
A WWAN often differs from wire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20class | In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, an elementary class (or axiomatizable class) is a class consisting of all structures satisfying a fixed first-order theory.
Definition
A class K of structures of a signature σ is called an elementary class if there is a first-order theory T of signature σ, such that K ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun%20%26%20Bradstreet | The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation is an American company that provides commercial data, analytics, and insights for businesses. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the company offers a wide range of products and services for risk and financial analysis, operations and supply, and sales and marketing professionals, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemagglutination%20assay | The hemagglutination assay or haemagglutination assay (HA) and the hemagglutination inhibition assay (HI or HAI) were developed in 1941–42 by American virologist George Hirst as methods for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria, or antibodies.
HA and HAI apply the process of hemagglutination, in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esterel | Esterel is a synchronous programming language for the development of complex reactive systems. The imperative programming style of Esterel allows the simple expression of parallelism and preemption. As a consequence, it is well suited for control-dominated model designs.
The development of the language started in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-escalation | De-escalation is a human behavior that is intended to prevent the escalation of conflicts. It may also refer to approaches in conflict resolution. People may become committed to behaviors that tend to escalate conflict, so specific measures must be taken to avoid such escalation.
Overview
Verbal de-escalation in psyc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picketing | Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called pickets or picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause. Picket... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20template | A geometry template is a piece of clear plastic with cut-out shapes for use in mathematics and other subjects in primary school through secondary school. It also has various measurements on its sides to be used like a ruler. In Australia, popular brands include Mathomat and MathAid.
Brands
Mathomat and Mathaid
Matho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgame | In game theory, a subgame is any part (a subset) of a game that meets the following criteria (the following terms allude to a game described in extensive form):
It has a single initial node that is the only member of that node's information set (i.e. the initial node is in a singleton information set).
If a node is co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability%20Maturity%20Model%20Integration | Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process level improvement training and appraisal program. Administered by the CMMI Institute, a subsidiary of ISACA, it was developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It is required by many U.S. Government contracts, especially in software development. CMU claims CM... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stueckelberg%20action | In field theory, the Stueckelberg action (named after Ernst Stueckelberg) describes a massive spin-1 field as an R (the real numbers are the Lie algebra of U(1)) Yang–Mills theory coupled to a real scalar field . This scalar field takes on values in a real 1D affine representation of R with as the coupling strength.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20metric | In group theory, a word metric on a discrete group is a way to measure distance between any two elements of . As the name suggests, the word metric is a metric on , assigning to any two elements , of a distance that measures how efficiently their difference can be expressed as a word whose letters come from a gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISH%20%28cipher%29 | The FISH (FIbonacci SHrinking) stream cipher is a fast software based stream cipher using Lagged Fibonacci generators, plus a concept from the shrinking generator cipher. It was published by Siemens in 1993. FISH is quite fast in software and has a huge key length. However, in the same paper where he proposed Pike, Ros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20function | In computer programming, a nested function (or nested procedure or subroutine) is a function which is defined within another function, the enclosing function. Due to simple recursive scope rules, a nested function is itself invisible outside of its immediately enclosing function, but can see (access) all local objects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD | CableCARD is a special-use PC Card device that allows consumers in the United States to view and record digital cable television channels on digital video recorders, personal computers and television sets on equipment such as a set-top box not provided by a cable television company. The card is usually provided by the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20correlation | Phase correlation is an approach to estimate the relative translative offset between two similar images (digital image correlation) or other data sets. It is commonly used in image registration and relies on a frequency-domain representation of the data, usually calculated by fast Fourier transforms. The term is applie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20Made%20Easy | Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You is a 2004 book by Deborah J. Bennett published by W.W. Norton & Company (). Its theme is the analysis of what common words such as "some", "all", and "not" mean, and how logic relates to speech and writing. It discusses eliminating problems such as ambiguity and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax%20motor | A wax motor is a linear actuator device that converts thermal energy into mechanical energy by exploiting the phase-change behaviour of waxes. During melting, wax typically expands in volume by 5–20% .
A wide range of waxes can be used in wax motors, ranging from highly refined hydrocarbons to waxes extracted from veg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20rupture | A steam rupture occurs within a pressurized system of super critical water when the pressure exceeds the design plus safety margin specification. A steam rupture can occur in any high temperature pressurized system, including, but not limited to: automobile cooling systems, stationary power plants, mobile power plant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20phase | In signal processing, linear phase is a property of a filter where the phase response of the filter is a linear function of frequency. The result is that all frequency components of the input signal are shifted in time (usually delayed) by the same constant amount (the slope of the linear function), which is referred t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICL%20Distributed%20Array%20Processor | The Distributed Array Processor (DAP) produced by
International Computers Limited (ICL) was the world's first commercial
massively parallel computer. The original paper study was
complete in 1972 and building of the prototype began in 1974.
The first machine was delivered to
Queen Mary College in 1979.
Development
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-invariant%20system | In control theory, a time-invariant (TI) system has a time-dependent system function that is not a direct function of time. Such systems are regarded as a class of systems in the field of system analysis. The time-dependent system function is a function of the time-dependent input function. If this function depends onl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing%20the%20wheel | To reinvent the wheel is to attempt to duplicate—most likely with inferior results—a basic method that has already previously been created or optimized by others.
The inspiration for this idiomatic metaphor is that the wheel is an ancient archetype of human ingenuity (one so profound that it continues to underlie muc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-variant%20system | A time-variant system is a system whose output response depends on moment of observation as well as moment of input signal application. In other words, a time delay or time advance of input not only shifts the output signal in time but also changes other parameters and behavior. Time variant systems respond differently... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsh%20matrix | In mathematics, a Walsh matrix is a specific square matrix of dimensions 2, where n is some particular natural number. The entries of the matrix are either +1 or −1 and its rows as well as columns are orthogonal, i.e. dot product is zero. The Walsh matrix was proposed by Joseph L. Walsh in 1923. Each row of a Walsh ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCL%20Technology | TCL Technology (originally an abbreviation for Telephone Communication Limited) is a Chinese partially state-owned electronics company headquartered in Huizhou, Guangdong Province. It designs, develops, manufactures, and sells consumer products including television sets, mobile phones, air conditioners, washing machine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive%20Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra%20equations | The competitive Lotka–Volterra equations are a simple model of the population dynamics of species competing for some common resource. They can be further generalised to the Generalized Lotka–Volterra equation to include trophic interactions.
Overview
The form is similar to the Lotka–Volterra equations for predation i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox%20%28computer%20security%29 | In computer security, a sandbox is a security mechanism for separating running programs, usually in an effort to mitigate system failures and/or software vulnerabilities from spreading. The isolation metaphor is taken from the idea of children who do not play well together, so each is given their own sandbox to play in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing%20filter | An anti-aliasing filter (AAF) is a filter used before a signal sampler to restrict the bandwidth of a signal to satisfy the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem over the band of interest. Since the theorem states that unambiguous reconstruction of the signal from its samples is possible when the power of frequencies above ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20field%20theory | A classical field theory is a physical theory that predicts how one or more physical fields interact with matter through field equations, without considering effects of quantization; theories that incorporate quantum mechanics are called quantum field theories. In most contexts, 'classical field theory' is specifically... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property%20P%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Property P conjecture is a statement about 3-manifolds obtained by Dehn surgery on a knot in the 3-sphere. A knot in the 3-sphere is said to have Property P if every 3-manifold obtained by performing (non-trivial) Dehn surgery on the knot is not simply-connected. The conjecture states that all knots... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular%20biogeography | Insular biogeography or island biogeography is a field within biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species richness and diversification of isolated natural communities. The theory was originally developed to explain the pattern of the species–area relationship occurring in oceanic islands. Under eithe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-fed%20engine | The pressure-fed engine is a class of rocket engine designs. A separate gas supply, usually helium, pressurizes the propellant tanks to force fuel and oxidizer to the combustion chamber. To maintain adequate flow, the tank pressures must exceed the combustion chamber pressure.
Pressure fed engines have simple plumbing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven%20finite-state%20machine | In computation, a finite-state machine (FSM) is event driven if the transition from one state to another is triggered by an event or a message. This is in contrast to the parsing-theory origins of the term finite-state machine where the machine is described as consuming characters or tokens.
Often these machines are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20finite-state%20machine | A virtual finite-state machine (VFSM) is a finite-state machine (FSM) defined in a Virtual Environment. The VFSM concept provides a software specification method to describe the behaviour of a control system using assigned names of input control properties and output actions.
The VFSM method introduces an execution mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media-independent%20interface | The media-independent interface (MII) was originally defined as a standard interface to connect a Fast Ethernet (i.e., ) media access control (MAC) block to a PHY chip. The MII is standardized by IEEE 802.3u and connects different types of PHYs to MACs. Being media independent means that different types of PHY devices ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Components%20for%20Unicode | International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open-source project of mature C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization, and software globalization. ICU is widely portable to many operating systems and environments. It gives applications the same results on all platforms and between C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20oleate | Ethyl oleate is a fatty acid ester formed by the condensation of oleic acid and ethanol. It is a colorless oil although degraded samples can appear yellow.
Use and occurrence
Additive
Ethyl oleate is used by compounding pharmacies as a vehicle for intramuscular drug delivery, in some cases to prepare the daily doses... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3zsa%20P%C3%A9ter | Rózsa Péter, born Rózsa Politzer, (17 February 1905 – 16 February 1977) was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory".
Early life and education
Péter was born in Budapest, Hungary, as Rózsa Politzer (Hungarian: Politzer Rózsa). She attended Pázmány Péter Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20free%20lunch%20theorem | In mathematical folklore, the "no free lunch" (NFL) theorem (sometimes pluralized) of David Wolpert and William Macready, alludes to the saying "no such thing as a free lunch", that is, there are no easy shortcuts to success. It appeared in the 1997 "No Free Lunch Theorems for Optimization". Wolpert had previously deri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20free%20lunch%20in%20search%20and%20optimization | In computational complexity and optimization the no free lunch theorem is a result that states that for certain types of mathematical problems, the computational cost of finding a solution, averaged over all problems in the class, is the same for any solution method. The name alludes to the saying "no such thing as a f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20%28machine%20learning%29 | In machine learning and pattern recognition, a feature is an individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon. Choosing informative, discriminating and independent features is a crucial element of effective algorithms in pattern recognition, classification and regression. Features are usually numeric, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20identification%20in%20the%20limit | Language identification in the limit is a formal model for inductive inference of formal languages, mainly by computers (see machine learning and induction of regular languages). It was introduced by E. Mark Gold in a technical report and a journal article with the same title.
In this model, a teacher provides to a le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibus | The Unibus was the earliest of several computer bus and backplane designs used with PDP-11 and early VAX systems manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts. The Unibus was developed around 1969 by Gordon Bell and student Harold McFarland while at Carnegie Mellon University.
The n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Bus | The Q-bus, also known as the LSI-11 Bus, is one of several bus technologies used with PDP and MicroVAX computer systems previously manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts.
The Q-bus is a less expensive version of Unibus using multiplexing so that address and data signals share the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fock%20matrix | In the Hartree–Fock method of quantum mechanics, the Fock matrix is a matrix approximating the single-electron energy operator of a given quantum system in a given set of basis vectors.
It is most often formed in computational chemistry when attempting to solve the Roothaan equations for an atomic or molecular system. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiflow | Multiflow Computer, Inc., founded in April, 1984 near New Haven, Connecticut, USA, was a manufacturer and seller of minisupercomputer hardware and software embodying the VLIW design style. Multiflow, incorporated in Delaware, ended operations in March, 1990, after selling about 125 VLIW minisupercomputers in the United... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimentin | Vimentin is a structural protein that in humans is encoded by the VIM gene. Its name comes from the Latin vimentum which refers to an array of flexible rods.
Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein that is expressed in mesenchymal cells. IF proteins are found in all animal cells as well as bacteria. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanine%20aminopeptidase | Membrane alanyl aminopeptidase () also known as alanyl aminopeptidase (AAP) or aminopeptidase N (AP-N) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ANPEP gene.
Function
Aminopeptidase N is located in the small-intestinal and renal microvillar membrane, and also in other plasma membranes. In the small intestine amin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt%20notation | Physics often deals with classical models where the dynamical variables are a collection of functions
{φα}α over a d-dimensional space/spacetime manifold M where α is the "flavor" index. This involves functionals over the φs, functional derivatives, functional integrals, etc. From a functional point of view this is eq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-port%20network | In electronics, a two-port network (a kind of four-terminal network or quadripole) is an electrical network (i.e. a circuit) or device with two pairs of terminals to connect to external circuits. Two terminals constitute a port if the currents applied to them satisfy the essential requirement known as the port conditio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20assignment | Augmented assignment (or compound assignment) is the name given to certain
assignment operators in certain programming languages (especially those derived from C). An augmented assignment is generally used to replace a statement where an operator takes a variable as one of its arguments and then assigns the result bac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20formula%20for%20%CF%80 | In mathematics, the Leibniz formula for , named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, states that
an alternating series. It is sometimes called the Madhava–Leibniz series as it was first discovered by the Indian mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama or his followers in the 14th–15th century (see Madhava series), and was la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis%20product | In mathematics, the Wallis product for , published in 1656 by John Wallis, states that
Proof using integration
Wallis derived this infinite product using interpolation, though his method is not regarded as rigorous. A modern derivation can be found by examining for even and odd values of , and noting that for large... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20universal%20common%20ancestor | The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is mostly hypothesized to have been a common ancestral cell from which the three domains of life, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eukarya originated. It is suggested to have been a "cellular organism that had a lipid bilayer and used DNA, RNA, and protein". The LUCA has also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20quality | In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions:
Software's functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specifications. That attribute can also be described as the fitness for purpose of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20equalizer | An adaptive equalizer is an equalizer that automatically adapts to time-varying properties of the communication channel. It is frequently used with coherent modulations such as phase-shift keying, mitigating the effects of multipath propagation and Doppler spreading.
Adaptive equalizers are a subclass of adaptive fil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20services%20protocol%20stack | A web service protocol stack is a protocol stack (a stack of computer networking protocols) that is used to define, locate, implement, and make Web services interact with each other. A web service protocol stack typically stacks four protocols:
(Service) Transport Protocol: responsible for transporting messages betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20acetate | Ethyl acetate (systematically ethyl ethanoate, commonly abbreviated EtOAc, ETAC or EA) is the organic compound with the formula , simplified to . This colorless liquid has a characteristic sweet smell (similar to pear drops) and is used in glues, nail polish removers, and in the decaffeination process of tea and coffee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicky | is a platform game developed by Sega and released as an arcade video game in May 1984. It was licensed to Bally Midway for distribution in the United States. In Flicky, the player controls the eponymous blue bird and must gather all the small birds called Chirps in each round and bring them safely to the exit. There ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostriction | In electromagnetism, electrostriction is a property of all electrical non-conductors, or dielectrics, that causes them to change their shape under the application of an electric field. It is the dual property to magnetostriction.
Explanation
Electrostriction is a property of all dielectric materials, and is caused by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan-Line%20Interleave | Scan-Line Interleave (SLI) is a multi-GPU method developed by 3dfx for linking two (or more) video cards or chips together to produce a single output. It is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics.
3dfx's SLI technology was first introd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20noise | In science, Brownian noise, also known as Brown noise or red noise, is the type of signal noise produced by Brownian motion, hence its alternative name of random walk noise. The term "Brown noise" does not come from the color, but after Robert Brown, who documented the erratic motion for multiple types of inanimate par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog | A vlog (), also known as a video blog or video log, is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. The vlog category is popular on the video-sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Multimedia%20Extensions | Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), also known as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), is a Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification, based on the IEEE 802.11e standard. It provides basic Quality of service (QoS) features to IEEE 802.11 networks. WMM prioritizes traffic according to four Access Categories (AC): voice (AC_VO)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomp | Chomp is a two-player strategy game played on a rectangular grid made up of smaller square cells, which can be thought of as the blocks of a chocolate bar. The players take it in turns to choose one block and "eat it" (remove from the board), together with those that are below it and to its right. The top left block is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Remote%20Password%20protocol | The Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) is an augmented password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol, specifically designed to work around existing patents.
Like all PAKE protocols, an eavesdropper or man in the middle cannot obtain enough information to be able to brute-force guess a password or apply a dict... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang%20factor | The Lang Factor is an estimated ratio of the total cost of creating a process within a plant, to the cost of all major technical components. It is widely used in industrial engineering to calculate the capital and operating costs of a plant.
The factors were introduced by H. J. Lang and Dr Micheal Bird in Chemical Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-width%20encoding | A variable-width encoding is a type of character encoding scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode a character set (a repertoire of symbols) for representation, usually in a computer. Most common variable-width encodings are multibyte encodings, which use varying numbers of bytes (octets) to encode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale%20test%20car | A scale test car is a type of railroad car in maintenance of way service. Its purpose is to calibrate the weighing scales used to weigh loaded railroad cars. Scale test cars are of a precisely known weight so that the track scale can be calibrated against them.
Purposes
Cars are weighed for various purposes. These i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, mixing is an abstract concept originating from physics: the attempt to describe the irreversible thermodynamic process of mixing in the everyday world: e.g. mixing paint, mixing drinks, industrial mixing.
The concept appears in ergodic theory—the study of stochastic processes and measure-preserving dyn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone | TV-B-Gone is a universal remote control device for turning off various brands of television sets. Released in 2015, its inventor referred to it as "an environmental management device". Although it can require up to 72 seconds for the device to find the proper code for a particular television receiver, the most popular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%20system | For the computer p-System, see UCSD p-System.
A P system is a computational model in the field of computer science that performs calculations using a biologically inspired process. They are based upon the structure of biological cells, abstracting from the way in which chemicals interact and cross cell membranes. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20thickness | In formal language theory, in particular in algorithmic learning theory, a class C of languages has finite thickness if every string is contained in at most finitely many languages in C. This condition was introduced by Dana Angluin as a sufficient condition for C being identifiable in the limit.
The related notion of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%28II%2CIII%29%20oxide | Iron(II,III) oxide, or black iron oxide, is the chemical compound with formula Fe3O4. It occurs in nature as the mineral magnetite. It is one of a number of iron oxides, the others being iron(II) oxide (FeO), which is rare, and iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3) which also occurs naturally as the mineral hematite. It contains bot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XE8000 | The XE8000 series is a low-power microcontroller family from XEMICS (now a business unit of Semtech). Advanced analog features are combined with a proprietary RISC CPU named CoolRISC on all XE8000 devices. The CPU has 8-bits data bus and 22 bits instruction bus. All instructions (including 8*8 bit multiplication) are e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20prototype | In computer programming, a function prototype or function interface is a declaration of a function that specifies the function’s name and type signature (arity, data types of parameters, and return type), but omits the function body. While a function definition specifies how the function does what it does (the "impleme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2S | I²S (Inter-IC Sound, pronounced "eye-squared-ess"), is an electrical serial bus interface standard used for connecting digital audio devices together. It is used to communicate PCM audio data between integrated circuits in an electronic device. The I²S bus separates clock and serial data signals, resulting in simpler r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiele/Small%20parameters | Thiele/Small parameters (commonly abbreviated T/S parameters, or TSP) are a set of electromechanical parameters that define the specified low frequency performance of a loudspeaker driver. These parameters are published in specification sheets by driver manufacturers so that designers have a guide in selecting off-the-... |
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