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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20submission%20agent | A message submission agent (MSA), or mail submission agent, is a computer program or software agent that receives electronic mail messages from a mail user agent (MUA) and cooperates with a mail transfer agent (MTA) for delivery of the mail. It uses ESMTP, a variant of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), as speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20norm | In mathematics, a matrix norm is a vector norm in a vector space whose elements (vectors) are matrices (of given dimensions).
Preliminaries
Given a field of either real or complex numbers, let be the -vector space of matrices with rows and columns and entries in the field . A matrix norm is a norm on .
This ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20response | In signal processing, phase response is the relationship between the phase of a sinusoidal input and the output signal passing through any device that accepts input and produces an output signal, such as an amplifier or a filter.
Amplifiers, filters, and other devices are often categorized by their amplitude and/or ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGARD | The Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) was an agency of NATO that existed from 1952 to 1996.
AGARD was founded as an Agency of the NATO Military Committee. It was set up in May 1952 with headquarters in Neuilly sur Seine, France.
In a mission statement in the 1982 History it published, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisogamy | Anisogamy is a form of sexual reproduction that involves the union or fusion of two gametes that differ in size and/or form. The smaller gamete is male, a sperm cell, whereas the larger gamete is female, typically an egg cell. Anisogamy is predominant among multicellular organisms. In both plants and animals gamete si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCAM | HDCAM is a high-definition video digital recording videocassette version of Digital Betacam introduced in 1997 that uses an 8-bit discrete cosine transform (DCT) compressed 3:1:1 recording, in 1080i-compatible down-sampled resolution of 1440×1080, and adding 24p and 23.976 progressive segmented frame (PsF) modes to lat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA%20problem | In cryptography, the RSA problem summarizes the task of performing an RSA private-key operation given only the public key. The RSA algorithm raises a message to an exponent, modulo a composite number N whose factors are not known. Thus, the task can be neatly described as finding the eth roots of an arbitrary number, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Wijngaarden%20grammar | In computer science, a Van Wijngaarden grammar (also vW-grammar or W-grammar) is a formalism for defining formal languages. The name derives from the formalism invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden
for the purpose of defining the ALGOL 68 programming language.
The resulting specification remains its most notable applicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotype%20frequency | Genetic variation in populations can be analyzed and quantified by the frequency of alleles. Two fundamental calculations are central to population genetics: allele frequencies and genotype frequencies. Genotype frequency in a population is the number of individuals with a given genotype divided by the total number of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20Structure%20Description | Document Structure Description, or DSD, is a schema language for XML, that is, a language for describing valid XML documents. It's an alternative to DTD or the W3C XML Schema.
An example of DSD in its simplest form:
This says that element named "foo" in the XML namespace "http://example.com" may have two attributes, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20matrix | The Leslie matrix is a discrete, age-structured model of population growth that is very popular in population ecology named after Patrick H. Leslie. The Leslie matrix (also called the Leslie model) is one of the most well-known ways to describe the growth of populations (and their projected age distribution), in which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20mobility | Electrical mobility is the ability of charged particles (such as electrons or protons) to move through a medium in response to an electric field that is pulling them. The separation of ions according to their mobility in gas phase is called ion mobility spectrometry, in liquid phase it is called electrophoresis.
Theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX/32V | UNIX/32V is an early version of the Unix operating system from Bell Laboratories, released in June 1979. 32V was a direct port of the Seventh Edition Unix to the DEC VAX architecture.
Overview
Before 32V, Unix had primarily run on DEC PDP-11 computers. The Bell Labs group that developed the operating system was diss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinCustomize | WinCustomize is a website that provides content for users to customize Microsoft Windows. The site hosts thousands of skins, themes, icons, wallpapers, and other graphical content to modify the Windows graphical user interface. There is some premium or paid content, however, the vast majority of the content is free fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPSG | WPSG (channel 57), branded on-air as Philly 57, is an independent television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS station KYW-TV (channel 3). Both stations share studios on Hamilton Street north of Center City Philadelphia, while WPSG's trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare%20File%20System | In computing, a NetWare File System (NWFS) is a file system based on a heavily modified version of FAT. It was used in the Novell NetWare operating system. It is the default and only file system for all volumes in versions 2.x through 4.x, and the default and only file system for the SYS volume continuing through versi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20aerodrome%20forecast | In meteorology and aviation, terminal aerodrome forecast (TAF) is a format for reporting weather forecast information, particularly as it relates to aviation. TAFs are issued at least four times a day, every six hours, for major civil airfields: 0000, 0600, 1200 and 1800 UTC, and generally apply to a 24- or 30-hour pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Reichenbach | Hans Reichenbach (September 26, 1891 – April 9, 1953) was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.mmp | The C.mmp was an early multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) multiprocessor system developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by William Wulf (1971). The notation C.mmp came from the PMS notation of Gordon Bell and Allen Newell, where a central processing unit (CPU) was designated as C, a variant was noted by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventionally%20grown | Conventionally grown is an agriculture term referring to a method of growing edible plants (such as fruit and vegetables) and other products. It is opposite to organic growing methods which attempt to produce without synthetic chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics, hormones) or genetically modified organisms.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive%20possibility | Subjunctive possibility (also called alethic possibility) is a form of modality studied in modal logic. Subjunctive possibilities are the sorts of possibilities considered when conceiving counterfactual situations; subjunctive modalities are modalities that bear on whether a statement might have been or could be true—s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injective%20sheaf | In mathematics, injective sheaves of abelian groups are used to construct the resolutions needed to define sheaf cohomology (and other derived functors, such as sheaf Ext).
There is a further group of related concepts applied to sheaves: flabby (flasque in French), fine, soft (mou in French), acyclic. In the history o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villarceau%20circles | In geometry, Villarceau circles () are a pair of circles produced by cutting a torus obliquely through the center at a special angle.
Given an arbitrary point on a torus, four circles can be drawn through it. One is in a plane parallel to the equatorial plane of the torus and another perpendicular to that plane (thes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20Nature | Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth Mother) is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of the mother.
European tradition history
The word "nature" comes from the Latin word, "natura", meaning birth or character [s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-order%20integrator | A fractional-order integrator or just simply fractional integrator is an integrator device that calculates the fractional-order integral or derivative (usually called a differintegral) of an input. Differentiation or integration is a real or complex parameter. The fractional integrator is useful in fractional-order con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menuconfig | make menuconfig is one of five similar tools that can configure Linux source, a necessary early step needed to compile the source code. make menuconfig, with a menu-driven user interface, allows the user to choose the features of Linux (and other options) that will be compiled. It is normally invoked using the command ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex%20dump | In computing, a hex dump is a textual hexadecimal view (on screen or paper) of (often, but not necessarily binary) computer data, from memory or from a computer file or storage device. Looking at a hex dump of data is usually done in the context of either debugging, reverse engineering or digital forensics.
In a hex d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-order%20control | Fractional-order control (FOC) is a field of control theory that uses the fractional-order integrator as part of the control system design toolkit. The use of fractional calculus (FC) can improve and generalize well-established control methods and strategies.
The fundamental advantage of FOC is that the fractional-or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRDC | WRDC (channel 28) is a television station licensed to Durham, North Carolina, United States, serving the Research Triangle area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Raleigh-licensed CW affiliate WLFL (channel 22). Both stations share studios in the Highwoods Office Park, jus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean%20tilings%20by%20convex%20regular%20polygons | Euclidean plane tilings by convex regular polygons have been widely used since antiquity. The first systematic mathematical treatment was that of Kepler in his Harmonices Mundi (Latin: The Harmony of the World, 1619).
Notation of Euclidean tilings
Euclidean tilings are usually named after Cundy & Rollett’s notation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%20mixer | A vision mixer is a device used to select between several different live video sources and, in some cases, compositing live video sources together to create visual effects.
In most of the world, both the equipment and its operator are called a vision mixer or video mixer; however, in the United States, the equipment i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES47 | AES47 is a standard which describes a method for transporting AES3 professional digital audio streams over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks.
The Audio Engineering Society (AES) published AES47 in 2002. The method described by AES47 is also published by the International Electrotechnical Commission as IEC 6236... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20over%20Heels%20%28video%20game%29 | Head Over Heels is an action-adventure video game released by Ocean Software in 1987 for several 8-bit home computers. It uses an isometric engine that is similar to the Filmation technique first developed by Ultimate Play the Game.
Head Over Heels is the second isometric game by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond, after ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire%20rods | Cuisenaire rods are mathematics learning aids for students that provide an interactive, hands-on way to explore mathematics and learn mathematical concepts, such as the four basic arithmetical operations, working with fractions and finding divisors. In the early 1950s, Caleb Gattegno popularised this set of coloured nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAR | NOTAR ("no tail rotor") is a helicopter system which avoids the use of a tail rotor. It was developed by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (through their acquisition of Hughes Helicopters). The system uses a fan inside the tail boom to build a high volume of low-pressure air, which exits through two slots and create... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20calculus%20algorithm | In computational number theory, the index calculus algorithm is a probabilistic algorithm for computing discrete logarithms.
Dedicated to the discrete logarithm in where is a prime, index calculus leads to a family of algorithms adapted to finite fields and to some families of elliptic curves. The algorithm collects... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/136%20%28number%29 | 136 (one hundred [and] thirty-six) is the natural number following 135 and preceding 137.
In mathematics
136 is itself a factor of the Eddington number. With a total of 8 divisors, 8 among them, 136 is a refactorable number. It is a composite number.
136 is a centered triangular number and a centered nonagonal number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/173%20%28number%29 | 173 (one hundred [and] seventy-three) is the natural number following 172 and preceding 174.
In mathematics
173 is:
an odd number.
a deficient number.
an odious number.
a balanced prime.
an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part.
a Sophie Germain prime.
an inconsummate number.
the sum of 2 squares: 22 + 132.
the sum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API%20gravity | The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity, is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water: if its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks.
API gravity is thus an inverse measure of a petroleum liquid's densit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20stress | Radial stress is stress toward or away from the central axis of a component.
Pressure vessels
The walls of pressure vessels generally undergo triaxial loading. For cylindrical pressure vessels, the normal loads on a wall element are longitudinal stress, circumferential (hoop) stress and radial stress.
The radial stre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20antichain | In order theory, a subset A of a partially ordered set P is a strong downwards antichain if it is an antichain in which no two distinct elements have a common lower bound in P, that is,
In the case where P is ordered by inclusion, and closed under subsets, but does not contain the empty set, this is simply a family of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countable%20chain%20condition | In order theory, a partially ordered set X is said to satisfy the countable chain condition, or to be ccc, if every strong antichain in X is countable.
Overview
There are really two conditions: the upwards and downwards countable chain conditions. These are not equivalent. The countable chain condition means the downw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%27s%20axiom | In the mathematical field of set theory, Martin's axiom, introduced by Donald A. Martin and Robert M. Solovay, is a statement that is independent of the usual axioms of ZFC set theory. It is implied by the continuum hypothesis, but it is consistent with ZFC and the negation of the continuum hypothesis. Informally, it s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20wiki%20software | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software packages.
General information
Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
Target audience
Features 1
Features 2
Installation
See also
Comparison of
wiki farms
notetaking software
text... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20roof | A flat roof is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs. The slope of a roof is properly known as its pitch and flat roofs have up to approximately 10°.
Flat roofs are an ancient form mostly used in arid climates and allow the roof space to be used as a living space or a living roof. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20algorithm | A medical algorithm is any computation, formula, statistical survey, nomogram, or look-up table, useful in healthcare. Medical algorithms include decision tree approaches to healthcare treatment (e.g., if symptoms A, B, and C are evident, then use treatment X) and also less clear-cut tools aimed at reducing or definin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamfer | A chamfer or is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Sometimes defined as a form of bevel, it is often created at a 45° angle between two adjoining right-angled faces.
Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, furniture, concrete formwork, mirrors, and to facilitate assembly of many mecha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector | Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) is an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive.
It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head, a horizontal (or radial) coordinate cylinder, and an angular coordinate sector. Head selects a circular surface: a platter in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposed%20node%20problem | In wireless networks, the exposed node problem occurs when a node is prevented from sending packets to other nodes because of co-channel interference with a neighboring transmitter. Consider an example of four nodes labeled R1, S1, S2, and R2, where the two receivers (R1, R2) are out of range of each other, yet the tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi%20%28online%20service%29 | Delphi Forums is a U.S. online service provider and since the mid-1990s has been a community internet forum site. It started as a nationwide dialup service in 1983. Delphi Forums remains active as of 2023.
History
The company that became Delphi was founded by Wes Kussmaul as Kussmaul Encyclopedia in 1981 and featured... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody%20%28operating%20system%29 | Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s. It is the fifth major release of the Mach-based operating system that was developed at NeXT in the late 1980s, previously called OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP. Rhapsody was targeted to developers for a transition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20production | Video production is the process of producing video content for video. It is the equivalent of filmmaking, but with video recorded either as analog signals on videotape, digitally in video tape or as computer files stored on optical discs, hard drives, SSDs, magnetic tape or memory cards instead of film stock. There are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brianchon%27s%20theorem | In geometry, Brianchon's theorem is a theorem stating that when a hexagon is circumscribed around a conic section, its principal diagonals (those connecting opposite vertices) meet in a single point. It is named after Charles Julien Brianchon (1783–1864).
Formal statement
Let be a hexagon formed by six tangent lines ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20realization | In control theory, given any transfer function, any state-space model that is both controllable and observable and has the same input-output behaviour as the transfer function is said to be a minimal realization of the transfer function. The realization is called "minimal" because it describes the system with the mini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20DSP | The Jazz DSP, by Improv Systems, is a VLIW embedded digital signal processor architecture with a 2-stage instruction pipeline, and single-cycle execution units. The baseline DSP includes one arithmetic logic unit (ALU), dual memory interfaces, and the control unit (instruction decoder, branch control, task control). Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%202.0 | Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.
The term was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999 and l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20insurance | General insurance or non-life insurance policy, including automobile and homeowners policies, provide payments depending on the loss from a particular financial event. General insurance is typically defined as any insurance that is not determined to be life insurance. It is called property and casualty insurance in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workprint | A workprint is a rough version of a motion picture, used by the film editor(s) during the editing process. Such copies generally contain original recorded sound that will later be re-dubbed, stock footage as placeholders for missing shots or special effects, and animation tests for in-production animated shots or seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20response%20curve | A phase response curve (PRC) illustrates the transient change (phase response) in the cycle period of an oscillation induced by a perturbation as a function of the phase at which it is received. PRCs are used in various fields; examples of biological oscillations are the heartbeat, circadian rhythms, and the regular, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator%20game | The dictator game is a popular experimental instrument in social psychology and economics, a derivative of the ultimatum game. The term "game" is a misnomer because it captures a decision by a single player: to send money to another or not. Thus, the dictator has the most power and holds the preferred position in this ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Yanofsky | Charles Yanofsky (April 17, 1925 – March 16, 2018) was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-ring | Wake-on-Ring (WOR), sometimes referred to as Wake-on-Modem (WOM), is a specification that allows supported computers and devices to "wake up" or turn on from a sleeping, hibernating or "soft off" state (e.g. ACPI state G1 or G2), and begin operation.
The basic premise is that a special signal is sent over phone line... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional%20variable | In mathematical logic, a propositional variable (also called a sentential variable or sentential letter) is an input variable (that can either be true or false) of a truth function. Propositional variables are the basic building-blocks of propositional formulas, used in propositional logic and higher-order logics.
Use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20genetics | Conservation genetics is an interdisciplinary subfield of population genetics that aims to understand the dynamics of genes in a population for the purpose of natural resource management and extinction prevention. Researchers involved in conservation genetics come from a variety of fields including population genetics,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Lesk | Michael E. Lesk (born 1945) is an American computer scientist.
Biography
In the 1960s, Michael Lesk worked for the SMART Information Retrieval System project, wrote much of its retrieval code and did many of the retrieval experiments, as well as obtaining a BA degree in Physics and Chemistry from Harvard College in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional%20formula | In propositional logic, a propositional formula is a type of syntactic formula which is well formed and has a truth value. If the values of all variables in a propositional formula are given, it determines a unique truth value. A propositional formula may also be called a propositional expression, a sentence, or a sent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longeron | In engineering, a longeron or stringer is a load-bearing component of a framework.
The term is commonly used in connection with aircraft fuselages and automobile chassis. Longerons are used in conjunction with stringers to form structural frameworks.
Aircraft
In an aircraft fuselage, stringers are attached to fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20Resource%20Framework | Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) is a family of OASIS-published specifications for web services. Major contributors include the Globus Alliance and IBM.
A web service by itself is nominally stateless, i.e., it retains no data between invocations. This limits the things that can be done with web services,
Befor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tierney%20%28journalist%29 | John Marion Tierney (born March 25, 1953) is an American journalist and a contributing editor to City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's quarterly publication. Previously he had been a reporter and columnist at the New York Times for three decades since 1990. A self-described contrarian, Tierney is a critic of aspects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%20scavenger | Oxygen scavengers or oxygen absorbers are added to enclosed packaging to help remove or decrease the level of oxygen in the package. They are used to help maintain product safety and extend shelf life.
There are many types of oxygen absorbers available to cover a wide array of applications.
The components of an oxyge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20wavelet%20transform | The fast wavelet transform is a mathematical algorithm designed to turn a waveform or signal in the time domain into a sequence of coefficients based on an orthogonal basis of small finite waves, or wavelets. The transform can be easily extended to multidimensional signals, such as images, where the time domain is repl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20background%20noise | Internet background noise (IBN, also known as Internet background radiation) consists of data packets on the Internet which are addressed to IP addresses or ports where there is no network device set up to receive them.
These packets often contain unsolicited commercial or network control messages, or are the result o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%208259 | The Intel 8259 is a Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC) designed for the Intel 8085 and Intel 8086 microprocessors. The initial part was 8259, a later A suffix version was upward compatible and usable with the 8086 or 8088 processor. The 8259 combines multiple interrupt input sources into a single interrupt output ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20voice | Secure voice (alternatively secure speech or ciphony) is a term in cryptography for the encryption of voice communication over a range of communication types such as radio, telephone or IP.
History
The implementation of voice encryption dates back to World War II when secure communication was paramount to the US arme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20work | Proof of work (PoW) is a form of cryptographic proof in which one party (the prover) proves to others (the verifiers) that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been expended. Verifiers can subsequently confirm this expenditure with minimal effort on their part. The concept was invented by Moni Naor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20QoS | Quality of service (QoS) mechanism controls the performance, reliability and usability of a telecommunications service. Mobile cellular service providers may offer mobile QoS to customers just as the fixed line PSTN services providers and Internet service providers may offer QoS. QoS mechanisms are always provided for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance%20swap | A variance swap is an over-the-counter financial derivative that allows one to speculate on or hedge risks associated with the magnitude of movement, i.e. volatility, of some underlying product, like an exchange rate, interest rate, or stock index.
One leg of the swap will pay an amount based upon the realized varianc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20membrane | An artificial membrane, or synthetic membrane, is a synthetically created membrane which is usually intended for separation purposes in laboratory or in industry. Synthetic membranes have been successfully used for small and large-scale industrial processes since the middle of twentieth century. A wide variety of synth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20cryptanalysis | Acoustic cryptanalysis is a type of side channel attack that exploits sounds emitted by computers or other devices.
Most of the modern acoustic cryptanalysis focuses on the sounds produced by computer keyboards and internal computer components, but historically it has also been applied to impact printers, and electro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20balance | In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors (typically red, green, and blue primary colors). An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific colors – particularly neutral colors like white or grey – correctly. Hence, the general method is some... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20client | A game client is a network client that connects an individual user to the main game server, used mainly in multiplayer video games. It collects data such as score, player status, position and movement from a single player and send it to the game server, which allows the server to collect each individual's data and show... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statewatch | Statewatch is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 that monitors civil liberties and other issues in the European Union and encourages investigative reporting and research.
The organization has three free databases: a large database of all its news, articles and links since 1991, the Statewatch European Monitorin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles%20and%20Standards%20for%20School%20Mathematics | Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (PSSM) are guidelines produced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in 2000, setting forth recommendations for mathematics educators. They form a national vision for preschool through twelfth grade mathematics education in the US and Canada. It is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Council%20of%20Teachers%20of%20Mathematics | Founded in 1920, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is a professional organization for schoolteachers of mathematics in the United States. One of its goals is to improve the standards of mathematics in education. NCTM holds annual national and regional conferences for teachers and publishes five jou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heesch%27s%20problem | In geometry, the Heesch number of a shape is the maximum number of layers of copies of the same shape that can surround it with no overlaps and no gaps. Heesch's problem is the problem of determining the set of numbers that can be Heesch numbers. Both are named for geometer Heinrich Heesch, who found a tile with Heesch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Randell | Brian Randell DSc FBCS FLSW (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and emeritus professor at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He specialises in research into software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted authority on the early pre-1950 history of computing hardware.
Bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contorsion%20tensor | The contorsion tensor in differential geometry is the difference between a connection with and without torsion in it. It commonly appears in the study of spin connections. Thus, for example, a vielbein together with a spin connection, when subject to the condition of vanishing torsion, gives a description of Einstein ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferran%20Adri%C3%A0 | Fernando Adrià Acosta (; born 14 May 1962) is a Spanish chef. He was the head chef of the El Bulli restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava and is considered one of the best chefs in the world. He has often collaborated with his brother, the renowned pastry chef Albert Adrià.
Career
Ferran Adrià began his culinary care... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekel%20function | The Shekel function is a multidimensional, multimodal, continuous, deterministic function commonly used as a test function for testing optimization techniques.
The mathematical form of a function in dimensions with maxima is:
or, similarly,
Global minima
Numerically certified global minima and the corresponding ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage%20regulator%20module | A voltage regulator module (VRM), sometimes called processor power module (PPM), is a buck converter that provides microprocessor and chipset the appropriate supply voltage, converting , or to lower voltages required by the devices, allowing devices with different supply voltages be mounted on the same motherboard. O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20market%20software | Vertical market software is aimed at addressing the needs of any given business within a discernible vertical market (specific industry or market). While horizontal market software can be useful to a wide array of industries (such as word processors or spreadsheet programs), vertical market software is developed for an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienting%20response | The orienting response (OR), also called orienting reflex, is an organism's immediate response to a change in its environment, when that change is not sudden enough to elicit the startle reflex. The phenomenon was first described by Russian physiologist Ivan Sechenov in his 1863 book Reflexes of the Brain, and the term... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlequest | Castlequest (known in Japan as ) is an adventure/puzzle video game. It was developed and published by ASCII Corporation in 1985 for the FM-7, PC-88, and Sharp X1. Additional versions followed in 1986 for the Famicom and MSX, and was subsequently released in 1989 for the NES in the United States by Nexoft Corporation (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%20Circle | The Berlin Circle () was a group that maintained logical empiricist views about philosophy.
History
Berlin Circle was created in the late 1920s by Hans Reichenbach, Kurt Grelling and Walter Dubislav and composed of philosophers and scientists such as Carl Gustav Hempel, David Hilbert and Richard von Mises. Its origina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag%20hunt | In game theory, the stag hunt, sometimes referred to as the assurance game, trust dilemma or common interest game, describes a conflict between safety and social cooperation. The stag hunt problem originated with philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Discourse on Inequality. In the most common account of this dilemm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Audio%20Access%20Protocol | The Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) is the proprietary protocol introduced by Apple in its iTunes software to share media across a local network.
DAAP addresses the same problems for Apple as the UPnP AV standards address for members of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA).
Description
The DAAP protocol w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20instantiation | In predicate logic, universal instantiation (UI; also called universal specification or universal elimination, and sometimes confused with dictum de omni) is a valid rule of inference from a truth about each member of a class of individuals to the truth about a particular individual of that class. It is generally given... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Kage | is a side-scrolling hack-and-slash game developed and published by Taito in 1985. In this game, the player controls the ninja Kage, with the objective being to get through five stages in order to save the pincess Kirihime. These stages are littered with enemies, however Kage has various skills and weapons on his hands ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic%20shielding | In electrical engineering, electromagnetic shielding is the practice of reducing or redirecting the electromagnetic field (EMF) in a space with barriers made of conductive or magnetic materials. It is typically applied to enclosures, for isolating electrical devices from their surroundings, and to cables to isolate wir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20drug%20resistance | Multiple drug resistance (MDR), multidrug resistance or multiresistance is antimicrobial resistance shown by a species of microorganism to at least one antimicrobial drug in three or more antimicrobial categories. Antimicrobial categories are classifications of antimicrobial agents based on their mode of action and spe... |
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