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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subthreshold%20conduction | Subthreshold conduction or subthreshold leakage or subthreshold drain current is the current between the source and drain of a MOSFET when the transistor is in subthreshold region, or weak-inversion region, that is, for gate-to-source voltages below the threshold voltage.
The amount of subthreshold conduction in a tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathlete | A mathlete is a person who competes in mathematics competitions at any level or any age. More specifically, a Mathlete is a student who participates in any of the MATHCOUNTS programs, as Mathlete is a registered trademark of the MATHCOUNTS Foundation in the United States. The term is a portmanteau of the words mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20radiation | An evolutionary radiation is an increase in taxonomic diversity that is caused by elevated rates of speciation, that may or may not be associated with an increase in morphological disparity. A significantly large and diverse radiation within a relatively short geologic time scale (e.g. a period or epoch) is often refer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20rule%20checking | In electronic design automation, a design rule is a geometric constraint imposed on circuit board, semiconductor device, and integrated circuit (IC) designers to ensure their designs function properly, reliably, and can be produced with acceptable yield. Design rules for production are developed by process engineers ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20reduced%20hybrid | Radiation reduced hybrid is procedure in discovering the location of genetic markers relative to one another. The relative location of these markers can be combined into a physical map or a genetic map. The radiation hybrid technique begins as another way to amplify and purify DNA, the first step in any sequencing pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20signalling | Differential signalling is a method for electrically transmitting information using two complementary signals. The technique sends the same electrical signal as a differential pair of signals, each in its own conductor. The pair of conductors can be wires in a twisted-pair or ribbon cable or traces on a printed circuit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20interning | In computer science, string interning is a method of storing only one copy of each distinct string value, which must be immutable. Interning strings makes some string processing tasks more time- or space-efficient at the cost of requiring more time when the string is created or interned. The distinct values are stored ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer%20fabrication | Wafer fabrication is a procedure composed of many repeated sequential processes to produce complete electrical or photonic circuits on semiconductor wafers in semiconductor device fabrication process. Examples include production of radio frequency (RF) amplifiers, LEDs, optical computer components, and microprocessors ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holos%20%28software%29 | Holos was an influential OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) product of the 1990s. Developed by Holistic Systems in 1987, the product remained in use until around 2004.
The core of the Holos Server was a business intelligence (BI) virtual machine. The Holos Language was a very broad language in that it covered a wide ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict%20escalation | Conflict escalation is the process by which conflicts grow in severity or scale over time. That may refer to conflicts between individuals or groups in interpersonal relationships, or it may refer to the escalation of hostilities in a political or military context. In systems theory, the process of conflict escalation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%20genetics | Forward genetics is a molecular genetics approach of determining the genetic basis responsible for a phenotype. Forward genetics provides an unbiased approach because it relies heavily on identifying the genes or genetic factors that cause a particular phenotype or trait of interest.
This was initially done by using n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20space%20form%20conjecture | In geometric topology, the spherical space form conjecture (now a theorem) states that a finite group acting on the 3-sphere is conjugate to a group of isometries of the 3-sphere.
History
The conjecture was posed by Heinz Hopf in 1926 after determining the fundamental groups of three-dimensional spherical space forms ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis%20viva | Vis viva (from the Latin for "living force") is a historical term used to describe a quantity similar to kinetic energy in an early formulation of the principle of conservation of energy.
Overview
Proposed by Gottfried Leibniz over the period 1676–1689, the theory was controversial as it seemed to oppose the theory of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In software engineering, coupling is the degree of interdependence between software modules; a measure of how closely connected two routines or modules are; the strength of the relationships between modules.
Coupling is usually contrasted with cohesion. Low coupling often correlates with high cohesion, and vice versa.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA%20TK-40/41 | The RCA TK-40 is considered to be the first practical color television camera, initially used for special broadcasts in late 1953, and with the follow-on TK-40A actually becoming the first to be produced in quantity in March 1954. The TK-40 was produced by RCA Broadcast to showcase the new compatible color system for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulkerson%20Prize | The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at each (triennial) International Symposium of the MOS. Originally, the prizes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20identifier | Unix-like operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier (GID) and other access control criteria, is used to determine which system resources a user can access. The password file maps textual user names to UIDs. UIDs a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20document | In computing, a here document (here-document, here-text, heredoc, hereis, here-string or here-script) is a file literal or input stream literal: it is a section of a source code file that is treated as if it were a separate file. The term is also used for a form of multiline string literals that use similar syntax, pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman%20code | Chapman codes are a set of 3-letter codes used in genealogy to identify the administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Use
They were created by the historian, Dr. Colin R Chapman, in the late 1970s, and as intended, provide a widely used shorthand in genealogy whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorange | The pseudorange (from pseudo- and range) is the pseudo distance between a satellite and a navigation satellite receiver (see GNSS positioning calculation), for instance Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers.
To determine its position, a satellite navigation receiver will determine the ranges to (at least) four s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox | Rockbox is a free and open-source software replacement for the OEM firmware in various forms of digital audio players (DAPs) with an original kernel. It offers an alternative to the player's operating system, in many cases without removing the original firmware, which provides a plug-in architecture for adding various ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20transfer%20protocols | This article lists communication protocols that are designed for file transfer over a telecommunications network.
Protocols for shared file systems—such as 9P and the Network File System—are beyond the scope of this article, as are file synchronization protocols.
Protocols for packet-switched networks
A packet-switch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochrony | In evolutionary developmental biology, heterochrony is any genetically controlled difference in the timing, rate, or duration of a developmental process in an organism compared to its ancestors or other organisms. This leads to changes in the size, shape, characteristics and even presence of certain organs and features... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitascope | Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins' patented Phantoscope, which cast images via film and electric light onto a wall or screen. The Vitascope is a large electrically-powered projector that uses light to cast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLMSSP | NTLMSSP (NT LAN Manager (NTLM) Security Support Provider) is a binary messaging protocol used by the Microsoft Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) to facilitate NTLM challenge-response authentication and to negotiate integrity and confidentiality options. NTLMSSP is used wherever SSPI authentication is used incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Schoolmaster%27s%20Assistant%2C%20Being%20a%20Compendium%20of%20Arithmetic%20Both%20Practical%20and%20Theoretical | The Schoolmaster's Assistant, Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical was an early and popular English arithmetic textbook, written by Thomas Dilworth and first published in England in 1743. An American edition was published in 1769; by 1786 it had reached 23 editions, and through 1800 it was th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built-in%20self-test | A built-in self-test (BIST) or built-in test (BIT) is a mechanism that permits a machine to test itself. Engineers design BISTs to meet requirements such as:
high reliability
lower repair cycle times
or constraints such as:
limited technician accessibility
cost of testing during manufacture
The main purpose of BI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage%20display | Phage display is a laboratory technique for the study of protein–protein, protein–peptide, and protein–DNA interactions that uses bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) to connect proteins with the genetic information that encodes them. In this technique, a gene encoding a protein of interest is inserted into a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsometer | A hypsometer is an instrument for measuring height or elevation. Two different principles may be used: trigonometry and atmospheric pressure.
Etymology
The English word hypsometer originates from the Ancient Greek words ὕψος (húpsos, "height") and μέτρον (métron, "measure").
Scale hypsometer
A simple scale hypsomet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipolar%20encoding | Unipolar encoding is a line code. A positive voltage represents a binary 1, and zero volts indicates a binary 0. It is the simplest line code, directly encoding the bitstream, and is analogous to on-off keying in modulation.
Its drawbacks are that it is not self-clocking and it has a significant DC component, which ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20theory | In mathematics and mathematical physics, potential theory is the study of harmonic functions.
The term "potential theory" was coined in 19th-century physics when it was realized that two fundamental forces of nature known at the time, namely gravity and the electrostatic force, could be modeled using functions called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar%20encoding | In telecommunication, bipolar encoding is a type of return-to-zero (RZ) line code, where two nonzero values are used, so that the three values are +, −, and zero. Such a signal is called a duobinary signal. Standard bipolar encodings are designed to be DC-balanced, spending equal amounts of time in the + and − states. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate-reducing%20microorganism | Sulfate-reducing microorganisms (SRM) or sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) are a group composed of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfate-reducing archaea (SRA), both of which can perform anaerobic respiration utilizing sulfate () as terminal electron acceptor, reducing it to hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Therefore, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, the mode is the value that appears most often in a set of data values. If is a discrete random variable, the mode is the value at which the probability mass function takes its maximum value (i.e, ). In other words, it is the value that is most likely to be sampled.
Like the statistical mean and median... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumel | EUMEL (pronounced oimel for Extendable Multi User Microprocessor ELAN System and also known as L2 for Liedtke 2) is an operating system (OS) which began as a runtime system (environment) for the programming language ELAN. It was created in 1979 by Jochen Liedtke at the Bielefeld University. EUMEL initially ran on the 8... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Benacerraf | Paul Joseph Salomon Benacerraf (; born 26 March 1931) is a French-born American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mathematics who taught at Princeton University his entire career, from 1960 until his retirement in 2007. He was appointed Stuart Professor of Philosophy in 1974, and retired as the Jam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental%20pathology | Experimental pathology, also known as investigative pathology, is the scientific study of disease processes through the microscopic or molecular examination of organs, tissues, cells, or body fluids from diseased organisms. It is closely related, both historically and in modern academic settings, to the medical field o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz%20lemma | In mathematics, the Schwarz lemma, named after Hermann Amandus Schwarz, is a result in complex analysis about holomorphic functions from the open unit disk to itself. The lemma is less celebrated than deeper theorems, such as the Riemann mapping theorem, which it helps to prove. It is, however, one of the simplest resu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice%20function | A choice function (selector, selection) is a mathematical function f that is defined on some collection X of nonempty sets and assigns some element of each set S in that collection to S by f(S); f(S) maps S to some element of S. In other words, f is a choice function for X if and only if it belongs to the direct produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodesulfobacteriota | The Thermodesulfobacteriota are a phylum of thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria.
A pathogenic intracellular thermodesulfobacteriote has recently been identified.
Phylogeny
The phylogeny is based on phylogenomic analysis:
See also
List of bacterial orders
List of bacteria genera
References
Bergey's volume ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Kruskal | Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. (; January 29, 1928 – September 19, 2010) was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician.
Personal life
Kruskal was born to a Jewish family in New York City to a successful fur wholesaler, Joseph B. Kruskal, Sr. His mother, Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeology | Biogeology is the study of the interactions between the Earth's biosphere and the lithosphere.
Biogeology examines biotic, hydrologic, and terrestrial systems in relation to each other, to help understand the Earth's climate, oceans, and other effects on geologic systems.
For example, bacteria are responsible for the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galling | Galling is a form of wear caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces. When a material galls, some of it is pulled with the contacting surface, especially if there is a large amount of force compressing the surfaces together. Galling is caused by a combination of friction and adhesion between the surfaces, followed by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20script | A test script in software testing is a set of instructions that will be performed on the system under test to test that the system functions as expected.
Types of test scripts
There are various means for executing test scripts. These last two types are also done in manual testing.
Manual testing. These are more comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harnack%27s%20principle | In the mathematical field of partial differential equations, Harnack's principle or Harnack's theorem is a corollary of Harnack's inequality which deals with the convergence of sequences of harmonic functions.
Given a sequence of harmonic functions on an open connected subset of the Euclidean space , which are point... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopsephy | Isopsephy (; isos meaning "equal" and psephos meaning "pebble") or isopsephism is the practice of adding up the number values of the letters in a word to form a single number. The total number is then used as a metaphorical bridge to other words evaluating the equal number, which satisfies isos or "equal" in the term... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20vocoder | A phase vocoder is a type of vocoder-purposed algorithm which can interpolate information present in the frequency and time domains of audio signals by using phase information extracted from a frequency transform. The computer algorithm allows frequency-domain modifications to a digital sound file (typically time expa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy%20%28game%20theory%29 | In game theory, a player's strategy is any of the options which they choose in a setting where the optimal outcome depends not only on their own actions but on the actions of others. The discipline mainly concerns the action of a player in a game affecting the behavior or actions of other players. Some examples of "gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoregressive%20model | In statistics, econometrics, and signal processing, an autoregressive (AR) model is a representation of a type of random process; as such, it is used to describe certain time-varying processes in nature, economics, behavior, etc. The autoregressive model specifies that the output variable depends linearly on its own pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20mask | In telecommunications, a spectral mask, also known as a channel mask or transmission mask, is a mathematically-defined set of lines applied to the levels of radio (or optical) transmissions. The spectral mask is generally intended to reduce adjacent-channel interference by limiting excessive radiation at frequencies b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentyl%20pentanoate | Pentyl pentanoate (C4H9COOC5H11) is an ester used in dilute solution to replicate the scent or flavour of apple, and sometimes pineapple. It is referred to as pentyl valerate or amyl pentanoate using classical nomenclature. it can be used for a variety of chemical uses, such as in the production of flavoured products, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADO.NET | ADO.NET is a data access technology from the Microsoft .NET Framework that provides communication between relational and non-relational systems through a common set of components.
ADO.NET is a set of computer software components that programmers can use to access data and data services from a database. It is a part of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20principle | In the mathematical fields of partial differential equations and geometric analysis, the maximum principle is any of a collection of results and techniques of fundamental importance in the study of elliptic and parabolic differential equations.
In the simplest case, consider a function of two variables such that
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voigt%20notation | In mathematics, Voigt notation or Voigt form in multilinear algebra is a way to represent a symmetric tensor by reducing its order. There are a few variants and associated names for this idea: Mandel notation, Mandel–Voigt notation and Nye notation are others found. Kelvin notation is a revival by Helbig of old ideas o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20%28electronics%29 | A terminal is the point at which a conductor from a component, device or network comes to an end. Terminal may also refer to an electrical connector at this endpoint, acting as the reusable interface to a conductor and creating a point where external circuits can be connected. A terminal may simply be the end of a wire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal%20germ | The germ of a cereal grain is the part that develops into a plant;
it is the seed embryo. Along with bran, germ is often a by-product of the milling that produces refined grain products. Cereal grains and their components, such as wheat germ oil, rice bran oil, and maize bran, may be used as a source from which veget... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity-addition%20formula | In relativistic physics, a velocity-addition formula is an equation that specifies how to combine the velocities of objects in a way that is consistent with the requirement that no object's speed can exceed the speed of light. Such formulas apply to successive Lorentz transformations, so they also relate different fram... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-pointing%20chariot | The south-pointing chariot (or carriage) was an ancient Chinese two-wheeled vehicle that carried a movable pointer to indicate the south, no matter how the chariot turned. Usually, the pointer took the form of a doll or figure with an outstretched arm. The chariot was supposedly used as a compass for navigation and may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-neutrophil%20cytoplasmic%20antibody | Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) are a group of autoantibodies, mainly of the IgG type, against antigens in the cytoplasm of neutrophils (the most common type of white blood cell) and monocytes. They are detected as a blood test in a number of autoimmune disorders, but are particularly associated with sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20of%20curvature | Degree of curve or degree of curvature is a measure of curvature of a circular arc used in civil engineering for its easy use in layout surveying.
Definition
The degree of curvature is defined as the central angle to the ends of an agreed length of either an arc or a chord; various lengths are commonly used in differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/134%20%28number%29 | 134 (one hundred [and] thirty-four) is the natural number following 133 and preceding 135.
In mathematics
134 is a nontotient since there is no integer with exactly 134 coprimes below it. And it is a noncototient since there is no integer with 134 integers with common factors below it.
134 is .
In Roman numerals, 13... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric%20passport | A biometric passport (also known as an electronic passport, e-passport or a digital passport) is a traditional passport that has an embedded electronic microprocessor chip, which contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of the passport holder. It uses contactless smart card technolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR | PowerVR is a division of Imagination Technologies (formerly VideoLogic) that develops hardware and software for 2D and 3D rendering, and for video encoding, decoding, associated image processing and DirectX, OpenGL ES, OpenVG, and OpenCL acceleration. PowerVR also develops AI accelerators called Neural Network Accelera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial%20Action%20Coding%20System | The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a system to taxonomize human facial movements by their appearance on the face, based on a system originally developed by a Swedish anatomist named Carl-Herman Hjortsjö. It was later adopted by Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen, and published in 1978. Ekman, Friesen, and Joseph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCWN | WCWN (channel 45) is a television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CBS affiliate WRGB (channel 6, also licensed to Schenectady). Both stations share studios on Balltown Road in Niskayuna, N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-cooperative%20game%20theory | A non-cooperative game is a form of game under the topic of game theory. Non-cooperative games are used in situations where there are competition between the players of the game. In this model, there are no external rules that enforces the cooperation of the players therefore it is typically used to model a competitive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Internet%20Security | Norton Internet Security, developed by Symantec Corporation, is a discontinued computer program that provides malware protection and removal during a subscription period. It uses signatures and heuristics to identify viruses. Other features include a personal firewall, email spam filtering, and phishing protection. Wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20polynomial | In mathematics, a symmetric polynomial is a polynomial in variables, such that if any of the variables are interchanged, one obtains the same polynomial. Formally, is a symmetric polynomial if for any permutation of the subscripts one has .
Symmetric polynomials arise naturally in the study of the relation betwee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnage | Dunnage is inexpensive or waste material used to load and secure cargo during transportation; more loosely, it refers to miscellaneous baggage, brought along during travel. The term can also refer to low-priority cargo used to fill out transport capacity which would otherwise ship underweight.
In the context of shipp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20symmetric%20polynomial | In mathematics, specifically in commutative algebra, the elementary symmetric polynomials are one type of basic building block for symmetric polynomials, in the sense that any symmetric polynomial can be expressed as a polynomial in elementary symmetric polynomials. That is, any symmetric polynomial is given by an ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic%20invariant | A property of a physical system, such as the entropy of a gas, that stays approximately constant when changes occur slowly is called an adiabatic invariant. By this it is meant that if a system is varied between two end points, as the time for the variation between the end points is increased to infinity, the variation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation%20%28topology%29 | In mathematics, triangulation describes the replacement of topological spaces by piecewise linear spaces, i.e. the choice of a homeomorphism in a suitable simplicial complex. Spaces being homeomorphic to a simplicial complex are called triangulable. Triangulation has various uses in different branches of mathematics, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex | Mondex was a smart card electronic cash system, implemented as a stored-value card and owned by Mastercard.
Pioneered by two bankers from NatWest in 1990, it was spun-off to a separate consortium later on, then sold to Mastercard.
Mondex allowed users to use its electronic card as they would with cash, enabling pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa%20Cash | Visa Cash is a smart card electronic cash system, implemented as a stored-value card owned by Visa.
Trialled in various locations worldwide (including Leeds, UK in 1997), the system works via a 'chip' embedded in a bank card, and looks similar to the so-called 'Chip and PIN' cards issued, among other countries, in Eur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Leiden | Wireless Leiden is a wireless community network in Leiden, Netherlands.
History
The Wireless Leiden Foundation (founded in 2002) set up a Wi-Fi wireless network in Leiden, the Netherlands, only with the help of volunteers, with some financial support by sponsors. The network is maintained completely by volunteers.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft%20call%20signs | Spacecraft call signs are radio call signs used for communication in crewed spaceflight. These are not formalized or regulated to the same degree as other equivalent forms of transportation, like aircraft. The three nations currently launching crewed space missions use different methods to identify the ground and space... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-3/SSS | The Cray-3/SSS (Super Scalable System) was a pioneering massively parallel supercomputer project that bonded a two-processor Cray-3 to a new SIMD processing unit based entirely in the computer's main memory. It was later considered as an add-on for the Cray T90 series in the form of the T94/SSS, but there is no evidenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium%20point%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, specifically in differential equations, an equilibrium point is a constant solution to a differential equation.
Formal definition
The point is an equilibrium point for the differential equation
if for all .
Similarly, the point is an equilibrium point (or fixed point) for the difference equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1553 | MIL-STD-1553 is a military standard published by the United States Department of Defense that defines the mechanical, electrical, and functional characteristics of a serial data bus. It was originally designed as an avionic data bus for use with military avionics, but has also become commonly used in spacecraft on-boar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics%20pipeline | The computer graphics pipeline, also known as the rendering pipeline or graphics pipeline, is a framework within computer graphics that outlines the necessary procedures for transforming a three-dimensional (3D) scene into a two-dimensional (2D) representation on a screen. Once a 3D model is generated, whether it's for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20database | An XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be specified, and sometimes stored, in XML format. This data can be queried, transformed, exported and returned to a calling system. XML databases are a flavor of document-oriented databases which are in turn a category of NoSQL database.
Ration... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpose%20of%20a%20linear%20map | In linear algebra, the transpose of a linear map between two vector spaces, defined over the same field, is an induced map between the dual spaces of the two vector spaces.
The transpose or algebraic adjoint of a linear map is often used to study the original linear map. This concept is generalised by adjoint functors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20conjugate%20of%20a%20vector%20space | In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex vector space is a complex vector space , which has the same elements and additive group structure as but whose scalar multiplication involves conjugation of the scalars. In other words, the scalar multiplication of satisfies
where is the scalar multiplication of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20homology | Sequence homology is the biological homology between DNA, RNA, or protein sequences, defined in terms of shared ancestry in the evolutionary history of life. Two segments of DNA can have shared ancestry because of three phenomena: either a speciation event (orthologs), or a duplication event (paralogs), or else a horiz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintran | Sintran (a portmanteau of SINTEF and Fortran; stylized as SINTRAN) is a range of operating systems (OS) for Norsk Data's line of minicomputers. The original version of Sintran, was written in the programming language Fortran, released in 1968, and developed by the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Bayer | David Allen Bayer (born November 29, 1955) is an American mathematician known for his contributions in algebra and symbolic computation and for his consulting work in the movie industry. He is a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Education and career
Bayer was educated at Swarthmore Coll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20vortex | A circumpolar vortex, or simply polar vortex, is a large region of cold, rotating air that encircles both of Earth's polar regions. Polar vortices also exist on other rotating, low-obliquity planetary bodies. The term polar vortex can be used to describe two distinct phenomena; the stratospheric polar vortex, and the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20One | Executive One is the call sign designated for any United States civil aircraft when the president of the United States is on board. Typically, the president flies in military aircraft that are under the command of the Presidential Airlift Group, which include Air Force One, Marine One, Army One, Navy One and Coast Guar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Draves | Scott Draves is the inventor of fractal flames and the leader of the distributed computing project Electric Sheep. He also invented patch-based texture synthesis and published the first implementation of this class of algorithms. He is also a video artist and accomplished VJ.
In summer 2010, Draves' work was exhibite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBASIC | FreeBASIC is a free and open source multiplatform compiler and programming language based on BASIC licensed under the GNU GPL for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode MS-DOS (DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox. The Xbox version is no longer maintained.
According to its official website, FreeBASIC provides syntax co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized%20Resource%20Identifier | The Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) is an internet protocol standard which builds on the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol by greatly expanding the set of permitted characters. It was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 2005 in RFC 3987. While URIs are limited to a subset of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally-X | is a maze chase arcade video game developed in Japan and Germany by Namco and released in 1980. In North America, it was distributed by Midway Manufacturing and in Europe by Karateco. Players drive a blue Formula One race car through a multidirectional scrolling maze to collect yellow flags. Boulders block some paths a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20programming | Extensible programming is a term used in computer science to describe a style of computer programming that focuses on mechanisms to extend the programming language, compiler and runtime environment. Extensible programming languages, supporting this style of programming, were an active area of work in the 1960s, but th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog%20Z8 | The Zilog Z8 is a microcontroller architecture, originally introduced in 1979, which today also includes the Z8 Encore!, eZ8 Encore!, eZ8 Encore! XP, and eZ8 Encore! MC families.
Signifying features of the architecture are up to 4,096 fast on-chip registers which may be used as accumulators, pointers, or as ordinary r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive%20navigation%20system | An automotive navigation system is part of the automobile controls or a third party add-on used to find direction in an automobile. It typically uses a satellite navigation device to get its position data which is then correlated to a position on a road. When directions are needed routing can be calculated. On the fly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr%20Savchenko%20%28writer%29 | Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko (; ) was a Soviet Ukrainian science fiction writer and engineer.
Born on February 15, 1933, in Poltava, he studied at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and was an electronics engineer. Savchenko, who wrote in Russian , published his first short stories in the late 1950s, and his first... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20emulation | Network emulation is a technique for testing the performance of real applications over a virtual network. This is different from network simulation where virtual models of traffic, network models, channels, and protocols are applied. The aim is to assess performance, predict the impact of change, or otherwise optimize ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20gradient | A temperature gradient is a physical quantity that describes in which direction and at what rate the temperature changes the most rapidly around a particular location. The temperature gradient is a dimensional quantity expressed in units of degrees (on a particular temperature scale) per unit length. The SI unit is kel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20simulation | In computer network research, network simulation is a technique whereby a software program replicates the behavior of a real network. This is achieved by calculating the interactions between the different network entities such as routers, switches, nodes, access points, links, etc. Most simulators use discrete event si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Biosciences%20and%20Technology | The Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT), a component of Texas A&M Health, and The Texas A&M University System, is located in the world's largest medical center, the Texas Medical Center, in Houston, Texas. The institute provides a bridge between Texas A&M University System scientists and other insti... |
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