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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostBar | PostBar, also known as CPC 4-State, is the black-ink barcode system used by Canada Post in its automated mail sorting and delivery operations. It is similar to other 4 State barcode systems used by Australia Post and the United Kingdom's Royal Mail (from which it derives), but uses an obscured structure and encoding s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vismon | Vismon was the Bell Labs system which displayed authors' faces on one of their internal e-mail systems. The name was a pun on the sysmon program used at Bell to show the load on computer systems. It can also be interpreted as "visual monitor". The system inspired Rich Burridge to develop the similar but more widesprea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20RT%20PC | The IBM RT PC (RISC Technology Personal Computer) is a family of workstation computers from IBM introduced in 1986. These were the first commercial computers from IBM that were based on a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture. The RT PC uses IBM's proprietary ROMP microprocessor, which commercialized tec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental%20analysis | Elemental analysis is a process where a sample of some material (e.g., soil, waste or drinking water, bodily fluids, minerals, chemical compounds) is analyzed for its elemental and sometimes isotopic composition. Elemental analysis can be qualitative (determining what elements are present), and it can be quantitative (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20sum | In geometric topology, a band sum of two n-dimensional knots K1 and K2 along an (n + 1)-dimensional 1-handle h called a band is an n-dimensional knot K such that:
There is an (n + 1)-dimensional 1-handle h connected to (K1, K2) embedded in Sn+2.
There are points and such that is attached to along .
K is the n-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor%20%28synchronization%29 | In concurrent programming, a monitor is a synchronization construct that allows threads to have both mutual exclusion and the ability to wait (block) for a certain condition to become false. Monitors also have a mechanism for signaling other threads that their condition has been met. A monitor consists of a mutex (loc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet%20%28software%29 | Kismet is a network detector, packet sniffer, and intrusion detection system for 802.11 wireless LANs. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring mode, and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic. The program runs under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS. The client c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronos%20%28computer%29 | Kronos is a series of 32-bit processor equipped printed circuit board systems, and the workstations based thereon, of a proprietary hardware architecture developed in the mid-1980s in Akademgorodok, a research city in Siberia, by the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Siberian branch, Novosibirsk Computing Center... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20C%20videotape | 1–inch Type C (designated Type C by SMPTE) is a professional reel-to-reel analog recording helical scan videotape format co-developed and introduced by Ampex and Sony in 1976. It became the replacement in the professional video and broadcast television industries for the then-incumbent 2–inch quadruplex videotape (2–in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20omega%20coding | Elias ω coding or Elias omega coding is a universal code encoding the positive integers developed by Peter Elias. Like Elias gamma coding and Elias delta coding, it works by prefixing the positive integer with a representation of its order of magnitude in a universal code. Unlike those other two codes, however, Elias o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergetics | Bioenergetics is a field in biochemistry and cell biology that concerns energy flow through living systems. This is an active area of biological research that includes the study of the transformation of energy in living organisms and the study of thousands of different cellular processes such as cellular respiration an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching%20pennies | Matching pennies is the name for a simple game used in game theory. It is played between two players, Even and Odd. Each player has a penny and must secretly turn the penny to heads or tails. The players then reveal their choices simultaneously. If the pennies match (both heads or both tails), then Even keeps both p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundel | A roundel is a circular disc used as a symbol. The term is used in heraldry, but also commonly used to refer to a type of national insignia used on military aircraft, generally circular in shape and usually comprising concentric rings of different colours. Other symbols also often use round shapes.
Heraldry
In herald... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Strategy%20to%20Secure%20Cyberspace | In the United States government, the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, is a component of the larger National Strategy for Homeland Security. The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace was drafted by the Department of Homeland Security in reaction to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Released on February 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpySubtract | SpySubtract was the name of an Anti-Spyware application for Microsoft Windows developed by InterMute. It was maintained by Trend Micro under the new name of Trend Micro Anti-Spyware, which came into effect from version 3.0. Previous versions did not have the Trend Micro branding.
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware was later dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Defender%20Antivirus | Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender) is an antivirus software component of Microsoft Windows. It was first released as a downloadable free anti-spyware program for Windows XP and was shipped with Windows Vista and Windows 7. It has evolved into a full antivirus program, replacing Microsoft Security ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity%20%28operating%20system%29 | INTEGRITY and INTEGRITY-178B are real-time operating systems (RTOSes) produced and marketed by Green Hills Software.
INTEGRITY
INTEGRITY is POSIX-certified and intended for use in embedded systems of 32-bits or 64-bits. Supported computer architectures include variants of: ARM, Blackfin, ColdFire, MIPS, PowerPC, XScal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20slang | Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIPRNet | The Non-classified Internet Protocol (IP) Router Network (NIPRNet) is an IP network used to exchange unclassified information, including information subject to controls on distribution, among the private network's users. The NIPRNet also provides its users access to the Internet.
It is one of the United States Departm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JurisPedia | JurisPedia is a wiki-based online encyclopedia of academic law in many languages, currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclopedia Libre (University of Seville). JurisPedia runs on the MediaWiki softwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware | Diceware is a method for creating passphrases, passwords, and other cryptographic variables using ordinary dice as a hardware random number generator. For each word in the passphrase, five rolls of a six-sided die are required. The numbers from 1 to 6 that come up in the rolls are assembled as a five-digit number, e.g.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Kloss | Henry Kloss (February 21, 1929 – January 31, 2002) was a prominent American audio engineer and entrepreneur who helped advance high fidelity loudspeaker and radio receiver technology beginning in the 1950s. Kloss (pronounced with a long o, like "close") was an undergraduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenable%20number | An amenable number is a positive integer for which there exists a multiset of as many integers as the original number that both add up to the original number and when multiplied together give the original number. To put it algebraically, for a positive integer n, there is a multiset of n integers {a1, ..., an}, for whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole%20Prize | The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of twenty-two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory. The prize is named after Frank Nelson Cole, who served the So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20cototient%20number | In number theory, a branch of mathematics, a highly cototient number is a positive integer which is above 1 and has more solutions to the equation
than any other integer below and above 1. Here, is Euler's totient function. There are infinitely many solutions to the equation for
= 1
so this value is excluded ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20machinery | Hydraulic machines use liquid fluid power to perform work. Heavy construction vehicles are a common example. In this type of machine, hydraulic fluid is pumped to various hydraulic motors and hydraulic cylinders throughout the machine and becomes pressurized according to the resistance present. The fluid is controlled ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Petroski | Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942 – June 14, 2023) was an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he was also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20symmetry | In mathematics and geometry, a discrete symmetry is a symmetry that describes non-continuous changes in a system. For example, a square possesses discrete rotational symmetry, as only rotations by multiples of right angles will preserve the square's original appearance. Discrete symmetries sometimes involve some type o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20invariance | In theoretical physics, modular invariance is the invariance under the group such as SL(2,Z) of large diffeomorphisms of the torus. The name comes from the classical name modular group of this group, as in modular form theory.
In string theory, modular invariance is an additional requirement for one-loop diagrams. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20SUSY%20breaking | In theoretical physics, soft SUSY breaking is type of supersymmetry breaking that does not cause ultraviolet divergences to appear in scalar masses.
Overview
These terms are relevant operators—i.e. operators whose coefficients have a positive dimension of mass—though there are some exceptions.
A model with soft SUSY... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen%20Metro | The Shenzhen Metro () is the rapid transit system for the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, China. Extensions opened on 28 December 2022 put the network at of trackage, operating on 16 lines with 369 stations.
Shenzhen Metro is the 4th longest metro system in China and 4th longest in the world as of that date de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbuscular%20mycorrhiza | An arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) (plural mycorrhizae) is a type of mycorrhiza in which the symbiont fungus (AM fungi, or AMF) penetrates the cortical cells of the roots of a vascular plant forming arbuscules. Arbuscular mycorrhiza is a type of endomycorrhiza along with ericoid mycorrhiza and orchid mycorrhiza (not to be c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20smoke | Liquid smoke is a water-soluble yellow to red liquid used as a flavoring as a substitute for cooking with wood smoke while retaining a similar flavor. It can be used to flavor any meat or vegetable. It is available as pure condensed smoke from various types of wood, and as derivative formulas containing additives.
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20automaton | A continuous automaton can be described as a cellular automaton extended so the valid states a cell can take are not just discrete (for example, the states consist of integers between 0 and 3), but continuous, for example, the real number range [0,1]. The cells however remain discretely separated from each other. One e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME%20Storage | GNOME Storage was a project to replace the traditional file system with a new document store. Storage was part of a larger design for a new desktop environment that was still under development. The current implementation includes natural language access and network transparency.
Storage is no longer being developed; i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiboreal | Hemiboreal means halfway between the temperate and subarctic (or boreal) zones. The term is most frequently used in the context of climates and ecosystems.
Botany
A hemiboreal forest has some characteristics of a boreal forest to the north, and also shares features with temperate-zone forests to the south. Coniferous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Portable | The Compaq Portable is an early portable computer which was one of the first IBM PC compatible systems. It was Compaq Computer Corporation's first product, to be followed by others in the Compaq Portable series and later Compaq Deskpro series. It was not simply an 8088-CPU computer that ran a Microsoft DOS as a PC "w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20%28graph%20theory%29 | In graph theory, the degree (or valency) of a vertex of a graph is the number of edges that are incident to the vertex; in a multigraph, a loop contributes 2 to a vertex's degree, for the two ends of the edge. The degree of a vertex is denoted or . The maximum degree of a graph , denoted by , and the minimum degree o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames | RealNames was a company founded in 1997 by Keith Teare. Its goal was to create a multilingual keyword-based naming system for the Internet that would translate keywords typed into the address bar of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to Uniform Resource Identifiers, based on the existing Domain Name System, that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20molecular%20biology%20articles | This is a list of topics in molecular biology. See also index of biochemistry articles.
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2-amino-4-deoxychorismate dehydrogenase - 2-dehydropantolactone reductase (B-specific) - 2-methylacyl-CoA dehydrogenase - 2-nitropropane dioxygenase - 2-oxobutyrate synthase - (2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)adenylate synthase - 2,4-Dih... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20polynomial | In mathematics, the additive polynomials are an important topic in classical algebraic number theory.
Definition
Let k be a field of prime characteristic p. A polynomial P(x) with coefficients in k is called an additive polynomial, or a Frobenius polynomial, if
as polynomials in a and b. It is equivalent to assume ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20HTTP%20server | An embedded HTTP server is an HTTP server used in an embedded system.
The HTTP server is usually implemented as a software component of an application (embedded) system that controls and/or monitors a machine with mechanical and/or electrical parts.
The HTTP server implements the HTTP protocol in order to allow commu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workspace | Workspace is a term used in various branches of engineering and economic development.
Business development
Workspace refers to small premises provided, often by local authorities or economic development agencies, to help new businesses to establish themselves. These typically provide not only physical space and utilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoassay | An immunoassay (IA) is a biochemical test that measures the presence or concentration of a macromolecule or a small molecule in a solution through the use of an antibody (usually) or an antigen (sometimes). The molecule detected by the immunoassay is often referred to as an "analyte" and is in many cases a protein, alt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDXF | SDXF (Structured Data eXchange Format) is a data serialization format defined by RFC 3072. It allows arbitrary structured data of different types to be assembled in one file for exchanging between arbitrary computers.
The ability to arbitrarily serialize data into a self-describing format is reminiscent of XML, but SD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20identification%20and%20data%20capture | Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) refers to the methods of automatically identifying objects, collecting data about them, and entering them directly into computer systems, without human involvement. Technologies typically considered as part of AIDC include QR codes, bar codes, radio frequency identificat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom | is a Japanese company headquartered in Kazo, Saitama, Japan, that specializes in manufacturing graphics tablets and related products.
Headquarters locations
The main headquarters are located in Kazo, Saitama, Japan. Its office in the USA is currently located in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. The European hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20counter-countermeasure | Electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) is a part of electronic warfare which includes a variety of practices which attempt to reduce or eliminate the effect of electronic countermeasures (ECM) on electronic sensors aboard vehicles, ships and aircraft and weapons such as missiles. ECCM is also known as electronic pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28programming%20language%29 | E is an object-oriented programming language for secure distributed computing, created by Mark S. Miller, Dan Bornstein, Douglas Crockford, Chip Morningstar and others at Electric Communities in 1997. E is mainly descended from the concurrent language Joule and from Original-E, a set of extensions to Java for secure di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimorphism | In biology, trimorphism is the existence in certain plants and animals of three distinct forms, especially in connection with the reproductive organs.
In trimorphic plants there are three forms, differing in the lengths of their pistils and stamens, in size and color of their pollen grains, and in some other respects;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragm%C3%A9n%E2%80%93Lindel%C3%B6f%20principle | In complex analysis, the Phragmén–Lindelöf principle (or method), first formulated by Lars Edvard Phragmén (1863–1937) and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870–1946) in 1908, is a technique which employs an auxiliary, parameterized function to prove the boundedness of a holomorphic function (i.e, ) on an unbounded domain whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochia | In the field of obstetrics, lochia is the vaginal discharge after giving birth, containing blood, mucus, and uterine tissue. Lochia discharge typically continues for four to eight weeks after childbirth, a time known as the postpartum period or puerperium. A 2016 review ties this "lochial period" to worldwide customs o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeckendorf%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Zeckendorf's theorem, named after Belgian amateur mathematician Edouard Zeckendorf, is a theorem about the representation of integers as sums of Fibonacci numbers.
Zeckendorf's theorem states that every positive integer can be represented uniquely as the sum of one or more distinct Fibonacci numbers in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium%20F00F%20bug | The Pentium F00F bug is a design flaw in the majority of Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX, and Pentium OverDrive processors (all in the P5 microarchitecture). Discovered in 1997, it can result in the processor ceasing to function until the computer is physically rebooted. The bug has been circumvented through operating syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Vendor%20Integration%20Protocol | The Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol (MVIP) is a hardware bus for computer telephony integration (Audiotex) equipment, a PCM data highway for interconnecting expansion boards inside a PC. It was invented and brought to market by Natural Microsystems Inc (now BPQ Communicationser).
Used to build call center equipment ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker%20%28metallurgy%29 | Metal whiskering is a phenomenon that occurs in electrical devices when metals form long whisker-like projections over time. Tin whiskers were noticed and documented in the vacuum tube era of electronics early in the 20th century in equipment that used pure, or almost pure, tin solder in their production. It was notice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20grease | Vacuum grease is a lubricant with low volatility and is used for applications in low pressure environments. Lubricants with higher volatility would evaporate, causing two problems:
They would not be present to provide lubrication.
They would make lowering the pressure below their vapor pressure difficult.
As well a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.1Q | IEEE 802.1Q, often referred to as Dot1q, is the networking standard that supports virtual local area networking (VLANs) on an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet network. The standard defines a system of VLAN tagging for Ethernet frames and the accompanying procedures to be used by bridges and switches in handling such frames. The sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linalool | Linalool () refers to two enantiomers of a naturally occurring terpene alcohol found in many flowers and spice plants. Linalool has multiple commercial applications, the majority of which are based on its pleasant scent (floral, with a touch of spiciness). A colorless oil, linalool is classified as an acyclic monoterpe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Gustav%20Hempel | Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Horizons%20Survival | Science Horizons Survival is a ZX Spectrum video game developed by Five Ways Software. It was published by Sinclair Research in association with Macmillan Education in 1984. It is an educational game in which the player takes on the role of one of a series of animals, and had to find food to survive while avoiding pred... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest%20access%20authentication | Digest access authentication is one of the agreed-upon methods a web server can use to negotiate credentials, such as username or password, with a user's web browser. This can be used to confirm the identity of a user before sending sensitive information, such as online banking transaction history. It applies a hash fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.22 | IEEE 802.22, is a standard for wireless regional area network (WRAN) using white spaces in the television (TV) frequency spectrum.
The development of the IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard is aimed at using cognitive radio (CR) techniques to allow sharing of geographically unused spectrum allocated to the television broadcast s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20coastal%20weather%20stations%20in%20the%20British%20Isles | Reports from these coastal stations and automatic weather logging stations in the British Isles are included in the extended Shipping Forecasts on BBC Radio 4 at 0048 and 0520 local time each day.
The stations are listed in the order they are read in the forecast, the numbers in brackets refer to the map on the right.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20transformation | In linear algebra, an orthogonal transformation is a linear transformation T : V → V on a real inner product space V, that preserves the inner product. That is, for each pair of elements of V, we have
Since the lengths of vectors and the angles between them are defined through the inner product, orthogonal transfo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Wall%20of%20Gorgan | The Great Wall of Gorgan is a Sasanian-era defense system located near modern Gorgan in the Golestān Province of northeastern Iran, at the southeastern corner of the Caspian Sea. The western, Caspian Sea, end of the wall is near the remains of the fort at: ; the eastern end of the wall, near the town of Pishkamar, is n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20time-invariant%20system | In system analysis, among other fields of study, a linear time-invariant (LTI) system is a system that produces an output signal from any input signal subject to the constraints of linearity and time-invariance; these terms are briefly defined below. These properties apply (exactly or approximately) to many important p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger%20name%20record | A passenger name record (PNR) is a record in the database of a computer reservation system (CRS) that contains the itinerary for a passenger or a group of passengers travelling together. The concept of a PNR was first introduced by airlines that needed to exchange reservation information in case passengers required fli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20group | In mathematics, a character group is the group of representations of a group by complex-valued functions. These functions can be thought of as one-dimensional matrix representations and so are special cases of the group characters that arise in the related context of character theory. Whenever a group is represented b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coopetition | Coopetition or co-opetition (sometimes spelled "coopertition" or "co-opertition") is a neologism coined to describe cooperative competition. Coopetition is a portmanteau of cooperation and competition. Basic principles of co-opetitive structures have been described in game theory, a scientific field that received more ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap%20talk | In game theory, cheap talk is communication between players that does not directly affect the payoffs of the game. Providing and receiving information is free. This is in contrast to signaling in which sending certain messages may be costly for the sender depending on the state of the world.
This basic setting set by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneo | Moneo, sometimes branded as mon€o, is an electronic purse system available on French bank cards to allow small purchases to be made without cash and used from 1999 to 2015.
The system is aimed at small retailers such as bakeries and cafés and intended for purchases of less than €30.
The card is inserted into a handhe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI-8 | KOI-8 (КОИ-8) is an 8-bit character set standardized in GOST 19768-74. It is an extension of KOI-7 which allows the use of the Latin alphabet along with the Russian alphabet, both the upper and lower case letters; however, the letter Ёё and the uppercase Ъ are missed, the latter to avoid conflicts with the delete chara... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20plating | Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold onto the surface of another metal, most often copper or silver (to make silver-gilt), by chemical or electrochemical plating. This article covers plating methods used in the modern electronics industry; for more traditional methods, often used for much larger ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWork | iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple for its macOS, iPadOS, and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website.
iWork includes the presentation application Keynote, the word-processing and desktop-publishing application Pages, and the spreadsheet application Nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s%20Clock | Rubik's Clock is a mechanical puzzle invented and patented by Christopher C. Wiggs and Christopher J. Taylor. The Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik bought the patent from them to market the product under his name. It was first marketed in 1988.
Rubik's Clock is a two-sided puzzle, each side ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realized%20niche%20width | Realized niche width is a phrase relating to ecology, is defined by the actual space that an organism inhabits and the resources it can access as a result of limiting pressures from other species (e.g. superior competitors). An organism's ecological niche is determined by the biotic and abiotic factors that make up tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20of%20Lie%20groups | This article gives a table of some common Lie groups and their associated Lie algebras.
The following are noted: the topological properties of the group (dimension; connectedness; compactness; the nature of the fundamental group; and whether or not they are simply connected) as well as on their algebraic properties (a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarText | StarText was an online ASCII-based computer service run by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Tandy Corporation and marketed in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex newspaper circulation area from May 3, 1982 until March 3, 1997. Its name was derived from Star (representing the newspaper which would provide the content) a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybridization%20probe | In molecular biology, a hybridization probe (HP) is a fragment of DNA or RNA of usually 15–10000 nucleotide long which can be radioactively or fluorescently labeled. HP can be used to detect the presence of nucleotide sequences in analyzed RNA or DNA that are complementary to the sequence in the probe. The labeled pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiBro | WiBro (wireless broadband) is a wireless broadband Internet technology developed by the South Korean telecoms industry. WiBro is the South Korean service name for IEEE 802.16e (mobile WiMAX) international standard. By the end of 2012, the Korean Communications Commission intends to increase WiBro broadband connection s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos%20%28satellite%20system%29 | Argos is a global satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates (spreads, distributes) environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms around the world. The worldwide tracking and environmental monitoring system is the results from Franco-American cooperation. In addition to satellite data collec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irradiation | Irradiation is the process by which an object is exposed to radiation. An irradiator is a device used to expose an object to radiation, notably gamma radiation, for a variety of purposes. Irradiators may be used for sterilizing medical and pharmaceutical supplies, preserving foodstuffs, alteration of gemstone colors, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only%20software | Crash-only software refers to computer programs that handle failures by simply restarting, without attempting any sophisticated recovery. Correctly written components of crash-only software can microreboot to a known-good state without the help of a user. Since failure-handling and normal startup use the same methods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSP%20model%202%20architecture | JSP Model 2 is a complex design pattern used in the design of Java Web applications which separates the display of content from the logic used to obtain and manipulate the content. Since Model 2 drives a separation between logic and display, it is usually associated with the model–view–controller (MVC) paradigm. While ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent%20process | The opponent process is a color theory that states that the human visual system interprets information about color by processing signals from photoreceptor cells in an antagonistic manner. The opponent-process theory suggests that there are three opponent channels, each comprising an opposing color pair: red versus gre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang-On | is an arcade racing game released by Sega in 1985 and later ported to the Master System. In the game, the player controls a motorcycle against time and other computer-controlled bikes. It was one of the first arcade games to use 16-bit graphics and uses the Super Scaler arcade system board, created with design input f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive%20by%20wire | Drive by wire or DbW technology in the automotive industry is the use of electronic or electro-mechanical systems in place of mechanical linkages that control driving functions. The concept is similar to fly-by-wire in the aviation industry. Drive-by-wire may refer to just the propulsion of the vehicle through electron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticular%20cell | A reticular cell is a type of fibroblast that synthesizes collagen alpha-1(III) and uses it to produce reticular fibers. The cell surrounds the fibers with its cytoplasm, isolating them from other tissue components and cells. Reticular cells provide structural support, since they produce and maintain the thin networks ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20symmetry | In mathematics, reflection symmetry, line symmetry, mirror symmetry, or mirror-image symmetry is symmetry with respect to a reflection. That is, a figure which does not change upon undergoing a reflection has reflectional symmetry.
In 2D there is a line/axis of symmetry, in 3D a plane of symmetry. An object or figure ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBBM-TV | WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's CBS network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington Street in the Loop, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iiyama%20%28company%29 | iiyama is a brand name of . It produces liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors and LED display panels. It was previously an independent Japanese computer electronics company called with its headquarters in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Iiyama was founded in 1972 by Kazuro Katsuyama, named after the city of Iiyama in Nagano Prefec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unsolved%20problems%20in%20neuroscience | There are yet unsolved problems in neuroscience, although some of these problems have evidence supporting a hypothesized solution, and the field is rapidly evolving. One major problem is even enumerating what would belong on a list such as this. However, these problems include:
Consciousness
Consciousness:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary%20Internet | The interplanetary Internet is a conceived computer network in space, consisting of a set of network nodes that can communicate with each other. These nodes are the planet's orbiters and landers, and the Earth ground stations. For example, the orbiters collect the scientific data from the Curiosity rover on Mars throug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientation%20%28vector%20space%29 | The orientation of a real vector space or simply orientation of a vector space is the arbitrary choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented. In the three-dimensional Euclidean space, right-handed bases are typically declared to be positively oriented, but the choice is ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nob%20Yoshigahara | Nobuyuki Yoshigahara ( Yoshigahara Nobuyuki, commonly known as "Nob"; May 27, 1936 – June 19, 2004) was perhaps Japan's most celebrated inventor, collector, solver, and communicator of puzzles.
Nob graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in applied chemistry. After becoming disenchanted with his career in hig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catagenesis%20%28biology%29 | Catagenesis is a somewhat archaic term from evolutionary biology referring to evolutionary directions that were considered "retrogressive." It was a term used in contrast to anagenesis, which in present usage denotes the evolution of a single population into a new form without branching lines of descent.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiefel%20manifold | In mathematics, the Stiefel manifold is the set of all orthonormal k-frames in That is, it is the set of ordered orthonormal k-tuples of vectors in It is named after Swiss mathematician Eduard Stiefel. Likewise one can define the complex Stiefel manifold of orthonormal k-frames in and the quaternionic Stiefel mani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20DOS | Atari DOS is the disk operating system used with the Atari 8-bit family of computers. Operating system extensions loaded into memory were required in order for an Atari computer to manage files stored on a disk drive. These extensions to the operating system added the disk handler and other file management features.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC | ILLIAC (Illinois Automatic Computer) was a series of supercomputers built at a variety of locations, some at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In all, five computers were built in this series between 1951 and 1974. Some more modern projects also use the name.
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