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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT%20%28energy%29 | kT (also written as kBT) is the product of the Boltzmann constant, k (or kB), and the temperature, T. This product is used in physics as a scale factor for energy values in molecular-scale systems (sometimes it is used as a unit of energy), as the rates and frequencies of many processes and phenomena depend not on thei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseng%20Labs%20ET4000 | The Tseng Labs ET4000 was a line of SVGA graphics controller chips during the early 1990s, commonly found in many 386/486 and compatible systems, with some models, notably the ET4000/W32 and later chips, offering graphics acceleration. Offering above average host interface throughput coupled with a moderate price, Tsen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syslog | In computing, syslog is a standard for message logging. It allows separation of the software that generates messages, the system that stores them, and the software that reports and analyzes them. Each message is labeled with a facility code, indicating the type of system generating the message, and is assigned a sever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiperiodic%20motion | In mathematics and theoretical physics, quasiperiodic motion is in rough terms the type of motion executed by a dynamical system containing a finite number (two or more) of incommensurable frequencies.
That is, if we imagine that the phase space is modelled by a torus T (that is, the variables are periodic like angles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20distinguished%20element | In the mathematical field of enumerative combinatorics, identities are sometimes established by arguments that rely on singling out one "distinguished element" of a set.
Definition
Let be a family of subsets of the set and let be a distinguished element of set . Then suppose there is a predicate that relates a su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kripke%20structure%20%28model%20checking%29 | This article describes Kripke structures as used in model checking. For a more general description, see Kripke semantics.
A Kripke structure is a variation of the transition system, originally proposed by Saul Kripke, used in model checking to represent the behavior of a system.
It consists of a graph whose nodes repr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Cryptography%20Architecture | In computing, the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) is a framework for working with cryptography using the Java programming language. It forms part of the Java security API, and was first introduced in JDK 1.1 in the package.
The JCA uses a "provider"-based architecture and contains a set of APIs for various purp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stressor | A stressor is a chemical or biological agent, environmental condition, external stimulus or an event seen as causing stress to an organism. Psychologically speaking, a stressor can be events or environments that individuals might consider demanding, challenging, and/or threatening individual safety.
Events or objects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatoidal%20bodies | Chromatoidal bodies are aggregations of ribosomes found in cysts of some amoebae including Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba coli. They exist in the cytoplasm and are dark staining. In the early cystic stages of E. histolytica, chromatid bodies arise from aggregation of ribosomes forming polycrystalline masses. As th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dan%20Patrick%20Show | The Dan Patrick Show is a syndicated radio and television sports talk show, hosted by former ESPN personality Dan Patrick. It is currently produced by Patrick and is syndicated to radio stations by Premiere Radio Networks, within and independently of their Fox Sports Radio package. The three-hour program debuted on Oct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20beam | An ion beam is a type of charged particle beam consisting of ions. Ion beams have many uses in electronics manufacturing (principally ion implantation) and other industries. A variety of ion beam sources exists, some derived from the mercury vapor thrusters developed by NASA in the 1960s. The most common ion beams are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20beam%20deposition | Ion beam deposition (IBD) is a process of applying materials to a target through the application of an ion beam.
An ion beam deposition apparatus typically consists of an ion source, ion optics, and the deposition target. Optionally a mass analyzer can be incorporated.
In the ion source source materials in the form o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping | In information visualization and computing, treemapping is a method for displaying hierarchical data using nested figures, usually rectangles.
Treemaps display hierarchical (tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles. Each branch of the tree is given a rectangle, which is then tiled with smaller rectangles re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20NEC%20Display%20Solutions | Sharp NEC Display Solutions (Sharp/NEC; formerly NEC Display Solutions or NDS and NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems or NEC-Mitsubishi or NM Visual) is a manufacturer of computer monitors and large-screen public-information displays, and has sold and marketed products under the NEC brand globally for more than twen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Usenet%20newsreaders | Usenet is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more newsgroups. Users must have access to a news server to use a newsreader. This i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Aleph%20%28short%20story%29 | "The Aleph" (original Spanish title: "El Aleph") is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. First published in September 1945, it was reprinted in the short story collection, The Aleph and Other Stories, in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974.
Plot summary
In Borges' story, the Aleph i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THEOS | THEOS, which translates from Greek as "God", is an operating system which started out as OASIS, a microcomputer operating system for small computers that use the Z80 processor. When the operating system was launched for the IBM Personal Computer/AT in 1982, the decision was taken to change the name from OASIS to THEOS,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess%E2%80%93Zumino%E2%80%93Witten%20model | In theoretical physics and mathematics, a Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) model, also called a Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model, is a type of two-dimensional conformal field theory named after Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Sergei Novikov and Edward Witten. A WZW model is associated to a Lie group (or supergroup), and its symmetr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisture%20sensitivity%20level | Moisture sensitivity level (MSL) is a rating that shows a device's susceptibility to damage due to absorbed moisture when subjected to reflow soldering as defined in J-STD-020.
It relates to the packaging and handling precautions for some semiconductors. The MSL is an electronic standard for the time period in which a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addition%20principle | In combinatorics, the addition principle or rule of sum is a basic counting principle. Stated simply, it is the intuitive idea that if we have A number of ways of doing something and B number of ways of doing another thing and we can not do both at the same time, then there are ways to choose one of the actions. In m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20product | In combinatorics, the rule of product or multiplication principle is a basic counting principle (a.k.a. the fundamental principle of counting). Stated simply, it is the intuitive idea that if there are a ways of doing something and b ways of doing another thing, then there are a · b ways of performing both actions.
E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers%20de%20Topologie%20et%20G%C3%A9om%C3%A9trie%20Diff%C3%A9rentielle%20Cat%C3%A9goriques | The Cahiers de Topologie et Géométrie Différentielle Catégoriques (French: Notebooks of categorical topology and categorical differential geometry) is a French mathematical scientific journal established by Charles Ehresmann in 1957. It concentrates on category theory "and its applications, [e]specially in topology and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20signature%20%28cryptography%29 | In cryptography, a key signature is the result of a third-party applying a cryptographic signature to a representation of a cryptographic key. This is usually done as a form of assurance or verification: If "Alice" has signed "Bob's" key, it can serve as an assurance to another party, say "Eve", that the key actually b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%E2%80%93Dedekind%20axiom | In mathematical logic, the Cantor–Dedekind axiom is the thesis that the real numbers are order-isomorphic to the linear continuum of geometry. In other words, the axiom states that there is a one-to-one correspondence between real numbers and points on a line.
This axiom became a theorem proved by Emil Artin in his bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement%20membrane%20attack%20complex | The membrane attack complex (MAC) or terminal complement complex (TCC) is a complex of proteins typically formed on the surface of pathogen cell membranes as a result of the activation of the host's complement system, and as such is an effector of the immune system. Antibody-mediated complement activation leads to MAC ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat | In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ecological niche. Thus "habitat" is a species-specific term, fundame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20sexes%20%28game%20theory%29 | In game theory, the battle of the sexes is a two-player coordination game that also involves elements of conflict. The game was introduced in 1957 by R. Duncan Luce and Howard Raiffa in their classic book, Games and Decisions. Some authors prefer to avoid assigning sexes to the players and instead use Players 1 and 2, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20procedure | In logic, and in particular proof theory, a proof procedure for a given logic is a systematic method for producing proofs in some proof calculus of (provable) statements.
Types of proof calculi used
There are several types of proof calculi. The most popular are natural deduction, sequent calculi (i.e., Gentzen-type sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPC%20Binary%20Barcode | CPC Binary Barcode is Canada Post's proprietary symbology used in its automated mail sortation operations. This barcode is used on regular-size pieces of mail, especially mail sent using Canada Post's Lettermail service. This barcode is printed on the lower-right-hand corner of each faced envelope, using a unique ult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty | Kleptoplasty or kleptoplastidy is a process in symbiotic relationships whereby plastids, notably chloroplasts from algae, are sequestered by the host. The word is derived from Kleptes (κλέπτης) which is Greek for thief. The alga is eaten normally and partially digested, leaving the plastid intact. The plastids are main... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorification | In mathematics, categorification is the process of replacing set-theoretic theorems with category-theoretic analogues. Categorification, when done successfully, replaces sets with categories, functions with functors, and equations with natural isomorphisms of functors satisfying additional properties. The term was coi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20Home%20Recording%20Act | The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA) amended the United States copyright law by adding Chapter 10, "Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media". The act enabled the release of recordable digital formats such as Sony and Philips' Digital Audio Tape without fear of contributory infringement lawsuits.
The RIAA and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20instant%20messaging%20protocols | The following is a comparison of instant messaging protocols. It contains basic general information about the protocols.
Table of instant messaging protocols
See also
Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients
Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients
Comparison of LAN messengers
Comparison of software an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Literary%20Encyclopedia | The Literary Encyclopedia is an online reference work first published in October 2000. It was founded as an innovative project designed to bring the benefits of information technology to what at the time was still a largely conservative literary field. From its inception it was developed as a not-for-profit publicatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Dispatch%20Protocol | The Media Dispatch Protocol (MDP) was developed by the Pro-MPEG Media Dispatch Group to provide an open standard for secure, automated, and tapeless delivery of audio, video and associated data files. Such files typically range from low-resolution content for the web to HDTV and high-resolution digital intermediate fil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20predictive%20analysis | Linear predictive analysis is a simple form of first-order extrapolation: if it has been changing at this rate then it will probably continue to change at approximately the same rate, at least in the short term. This is equivalent to fitting a tangent to the graph and extending the line.
One use of this is in linear p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickover%20stalk | Pickover stalks are certain kinds of details to be found empirically in the Mandelbrot set, in the study of fractal geometry. They are so named after the researcher Clifford Pickover, whose "epsilon cross" method was instrumental in their discovery. An "epsilon cross" is a cross-shaped orbit trap.
According to Vepstas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit%20sum | In mathematics, the digit sum of a natural number in a given number base is the sum of all its digits. For example, the digit sum of the decimal number would be
Definition
Let be a natural number. We define the digit sum for base , to be the following:
where is one less than the number of digits in the number in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod%20%28web%20hosting%29 | Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the 1990s. As such, Tripod formed part of the first wave of user-generated content. Free webpages are no longer available and hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B | The E6B flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation. It is an instance of an analog calculating device still being used the 21st century.
They are mostly used in flight training, because these flight computers have been replaced with electronic planning tools or software and websites that make th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating%20machine | A self-replicating machine is a type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature. The concept of self-replicating machines has been advanced and examined by Homer Jacobson... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20modelling | Discrete modelling is the discrete analogue of continuous modelling. In discrete modelling, formulae are fit to discrete data—data that could potentially take on only a countable set of values, such as the integers, and which are not infinitely divisible. A common method in this form of modelling is to use recurrence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Meyer | Derrick R. "Dirk" Meyer (born November 24, 1961) is a former Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, serving in the position from July 18, 2008 to January 10, 2011.
Education
He received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master's degree i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20coordinate%20system | The Swiss coordinate system (or Swiss grid) is a geographic coordinate system used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein for maps and surveying by the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (Swisstopo).
A first coordinate system was introduced in 1903 under the name LV03 (Landesvermessung 1903, German for “land survey 1903”), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution%20concept | In game theory, a solution concept is a formal rule for predicting how a game will be played. These predictions are called "solutions", and describe which strategies will be adopted by players and, therefore, the result of the game. The most commonly used solution concepts are equilibrium concepts, most famously Nash e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojiky%C5%8D | (), also known by its full name , is a character encoding scheme. The , which published the character set, also published computer software and TrueType fonts to accompany it. The Mojikyō Institute, chaired by , originally had its character set and related software and data redistributed on CD-ROMs sold in Kinokuniya s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensional%20logic | Intensional logic is an approach to predicate logic that extends first-order logic, which has quantifiers that range over the individuals of a universe (extensions), by additional quantifiers that range over terms that may have such individuals as their value (intensions). The distinction between intensional and exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution%20in%20radicals | A solution in radicals or algebraic solution is a closed-form expression, and more specifically a closed-form algebraic expression, that is the solution of a polynomial equation, and relies only on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to integer powers, and the extraction of th roots (square roots, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20field-effect%20transistor | An organic field-effect transistor (OFET) is a field-effect transistor using an organic semiconductor in its channel. OFETs can be prepared either by vacuum evaporation of small molecules, by solution-casting of polymers or small molecules, or by mechanical transfer of a peeled single-crystalline organic layer onto a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA%20Suite%20B%20Cryptography | NSA Suite B Cryptography was a set of cryptographic algorithms promulgated by the National Security Agency as part of its Cryptographic Modernization Program. It was to serve as an interoperable cryptographic base for both unclassified information and most classified information.
Suite B was announced on 16 February ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensive-form%20game | In game theory, an extensive-form game is a specification of a game allowing (as the name suggests) for the explicit representation of a number of key aspects, like the sequencing of players' possible moves, their choices at every decision point, the (possibly imperfect) information each player has about the other play... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20set%20%28game%20theory%29 | The information set is the basis for decision making in a game, which includes the actions available to both sides and the benefits of each action. The information set is an important concept in non-perfect games. In game theory, an information set is the set of all possible actions in the game for a given player, buil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20information | In economics and game theory, complete information is an economic situation or game in which knowledge about other market participants or players is available to all participants. The utility functions (including risk aversion), payoffs, strategies and "types" of players are thus common knowledge. Complete information ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittag-Leffler%20function | In mathematics, the Mittag-Leffler function is a special function, a complex function which depends on two complex parameters and . It may be defined by the following series when the real part of is strictly positive:
where is the gamma function. When , it is abbreviated as .
For , the series above equals the Tay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20Bayesian%20equilibrium | In game theory, a Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium (PBE) is a solution with Bayesian probability to a turn-based game with incomplete information. More specifically, it is an equilibrium concept that uses Bayesian updating to describe player behavior in dynamic games with incomplete information. Perfect Bayesian equilibria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20cabling | In telecommunications, structured cabling is building or campus cabling infrastructure that consists of a number of standardized smaller elements (hence structured) called subsystems. Structured cabling components include twisted pair and optical cabling, patch panels and patch cables.
Overview
Structured cabling is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrien%20Douady | Adrien Douady (; 25 September 1935 – 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician born in La Tronche, Isère. He was the son of Daniel Douady and Guilhen Douady.
Douady was a student of Henri Cartan at the École normale supérieure, and initially worked in homological algebra. His thesis concerned deformations of complex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt | In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially at table in ground form in dispensers, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as rock salt or halite. Salt is essential for life in general, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20proxy | In computer networks, a reverse proxy is an application that sits in front of back-end applications and forwards client (e.g. browser) requests to those applications. Reverse proxies help increase scalability, performance, resilience and security. The resources returned to the client appear as if they originated from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity%20symbol | The infinity symbol () is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity. This symbol is also called a lemniscate, after the lemniscate curves of a similar shape studied in algebraic geometry, or "lazy eight", in the terminology of livestock branding.
This symbol was first used mathematically by John Walli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20Kosko | Bart Andrew Kosko (born February 7, 1960) is a writer and professor of electrical engineering and law at the University of Southern California (USC). He is a researcher and popularizer of fuzzy logic, neural networks, and noise, and the author of several trade books and textbooks on these and related subjects of machin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20pair%20of%20periods | In mathematics, a fundamental pair of periods is an ordered pair of complex numbers that defines a lattice in the complex plane. This type of lattice is the underlying object with which elliptic functions and modular forms are defined.
Definition
A fundamental pair of periods is a pair of complex numbers such that th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological%20change | Technological change (TC) or technological development is the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes.<ref name="Econ refsdon't" >From [[The New Palgrave Dictionary of technical change" by S. Metcalfe. • "biased and biased technological change" by Peter L. Rousseau. • "skill-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackelberg%20competition | The Stackelberg leadership model is a strategic game in economics in which the leader firm moves first and then the follower firms move sequentially (hence, it is sometimes described as the "leader-follower game"). It is named after the German economist Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg who published Marktform und Glei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel%20%28cryptography%29 | In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits (determined by the machine's initial settings), as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of positions on its periphery. Each position had a "pin", "cam" or "lug" which c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroll%20process | The Kroll process is a pyrometallurgical industrial process used to produce metallic titanium from titanium tetrachloride. The Kroll process replaced the Hunter process for almost all commercial production.
Process
In the Kroll process, the TiCl4 is reduced by liquid magnesium to give titanium metal:
TiCl4 + 2Mg ->[... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor%20Research%20Corporation | Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), commonly known as SRC, is a high-technology research consortium active in the semiconductor industry. It is a leading semiconductor research consortium. Todd Younkin is the incumbent president and chief executive officer of the company.
The consortium comprises more than twent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast%20Guard%20One | Coast Guard One is the call sign of any United States Coast Guard aircraft carrying the president of the United States. Similarly, any Coast Guard aircraft carrying the vice president is designated Coast Guard Two.
, there has never been a Coast Guard One flight. Coast Guard Two was activated on September 25, 2009, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM%20broadcasting | FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. FM broadcasting offers higher fidelity—more accurate repr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ecology | Ecology is a new science and considered as an important branch of biological science, having only become prominent during the second half of the 20th century. Ecological thought is derivative of established currents in philosophy, particularly from ethics and politics.
Its history stems all the way back to the 4th cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimenter%27s%20regress | In science, experimenter's regress refers to a loop of dependence between theory and evidence. In order to judge whether evidence is erroneous we must rely on theory-based expectations, and to judge the value of competing theories we rely on evidence. Cognitive bias affects experiments, and experiments determine which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogamy | Isogamy is a form of sexual reproduction that involves gametes of the same morphology (indistinguishable in shape and size), found in most unicellular eukaryotes. Because both gametes look alike, they generally cannot be classified as male or female. Instead, organisms undergoing isogamy are said to have different mati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJTC | WJTC (channel 44) is an independent television station licensed to Pensacola, Florida, United States, serving northwest Florida and southwest Alabama. It is owned by Deerfield Media alongside Mobile, Alabama–licensed NBC affiliate WPMI-TV (channel 15); Deerfield maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paned%20window%20%28computing%29 | A paned window is a windows (or build-ups) in a graphical user interface that has multiple parts, layers, or sections. Examples of this include a code browser in a typical integrated development environment; a file browser with multiple panels; a tiling window manager; or a web page that contains multiple frames. Simp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtworks | Thoughtworks is a publicly-traded, global technology company with 49 offices in 18 countries. It provides software design and delivery, and tools and consulting services. The company is closely associated with the movement for agile software development, and has contributed to open source products. Thoughtworks' busine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20Labs%20%28software%29 | Phoenix Labs (formerly Methlabs) was a software developing community founded by Tim Leonard and Ken McClelland and best known for PeerGuardian, an open-source software program optimized for use as a personal firewall on file sharing networks.
History
The group was originally organized to work on PeerGuardian, a progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerGuardian | PeerGuardian is a free and open source program developed by Phoenix Labs (software). It is capable of blocking incoming and outgoing connections based on IP blacklists. The aim of its use was to block peers on the same torrent download from any visibility of your own peer connection using IP lists. The system is also c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signedness | In computing, signedness is a property of data types representing numbers in computer programs. A numeric variable is signed if it can represent both positive and negative numbers, and unsigned if it can only represent non-negative numbers (zero or positive numbers).
As signed numbers can represent negative numbers, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%A8te%27s%20formula | In mathematics, Viète's formula is the following infinite product of nested radicals representing twice the reciprocal of the mathematical constant :
It can also be represented as:
The formula is named after François Viète, who published it in 1593. As the first formula of European mathematics to represent an infinit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5040%20%28number%29 | 5040 is a factorial (7!), a superior highly composite number, abundant number, colossally abundant number and the number of permutations of 4 items out of 10 choices (10 × 9 × 8 × 7 = 5040). It is also one less than a square, making (7, 71) a Brown number pair.
Philosophy
Plato mentions in his Laws that 5040 is a conv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-confirmed%20reverse%20DNS | Forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS), also known as full-circle reverse DNS, double-reverse DNS, or iprev, is a networking parameter configuration in which a given IP address has both forward (name-to-address) and reverse (address-to-name) Domain Name System (DNS) entries that match each other. This is the standard c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex%20shedding | In fluid dynamics, vortex shedding is an oscillating flow that takes place when a fluid such as air or water flows past a bluff (as opposed to streamlined) body at certain velocities, depending on the size and shape of the body. In this flow, vortices are created at the back of the body and detach periodically from eit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20density | In physics, energy density is the amount of energy stored in a given system or region of space per unit volume. It is sometimes confused with energy per unit mass which is properly called specific energy or .
Often only the useful or extractable energy is measured, which is to say that inaccessible energy (such as res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfire | Xfire was a proprietary freeware instant messaging service for gamers that also served as a game server browser with various other features. It was available for Microsoft Windows.
Xfire was originally developed by Ultimate Arena based in Menlo Park, California. On January 3, 2014, it had over 24 million registered us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%20%28programming%29 | Ajax (also AJAX ; short for "asynchronous JavaScript and XML") is a set of web development techniques that uses various web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. With Ajax, web applications can send and retrieve data from a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBuilder | PowerBuilder is an integrated development environment owned by SAP since the acquisition of Sybase in 2010. On July 5, 2016, SAP and Appeon entered into an agreement whereby Appeon, an independent company, would be responsible for developing, selling, and supporting PowerBuilder.
Over the years, PowerBuilder has been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20genetics%20articles | Genetics (from Ancient Greek , “genite” and that from , “origin”), a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20protection | Planetary protection is a guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth in the case of sample-return missions. Planetary protection reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/138%20%28number%29 | 138 (one hundred [and] thirty-eight) is the natural number following 137 and preceding 139.
In mathematics
138 is a sphenic number, and the smallest product of three primes such that in base 10, the third prime is a concatenation of the other two: . It is also a one-step palindrome in decimal (138 + 831 = 969).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen-door%20effect | The screen-door effect (SDE) is a visual artifact of displays, where the fine lines separating pixels (or subpixels) become visible in the displayed image. This can be seen in digital projector images and regular displays under magnification or at close range, but the increases in display resolutions have made this muc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperZ | HyperZ is the brand for a set of processing techniques developed by ATI Technologies and later Advanced Micro Devices and implemented in their Radeon-GPUs. HyperZ was announced in November 2000 and was still available in the TeraScale-based Radeon HD 2000 Series and in current Graphics Core Next-based graphics products... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackenbush | Hackenbush is a two-player game invented by mathematician John Horton Conway. It may be played on any configuration of colored line segments connected to one another by their endpoints and to a "ground" line.
Gameplay
The game starts with the players drawing a "ground" line (conventionally, but not necessarily, a hori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20%28computer%20architecture%29 | In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. The number of bits or digits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated%20Naming%20Service | In computing, the Federated Naming Service (FNS) or XFN (X/Open Federated Naming) is a system for uniting various name services under a single interface for the basic naming operations. It is produced by X/Open and included in various Unix operating systems, primarily Solaris versions 2.5 to 9.
The purpose of XFN and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality%20of%20results | Quality of Results (QoR) is a term used in evaluating technological processes. It is generally represented as a vector of components, with the special case of uni-dimensional value as a synthetic measure.
History
The term was coined by the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry in the late 1980s. QoR was meant to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20table | In actuarial science and demography, a life table (also called a mortality table or actuarial table) is a table which shows, for each age, what the probability is that a person of that age will die before their next birthday ("probability of death"). In other words, it represents the survivorship of people from a certa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20and%20the%20Theory%20of%20Games | Evolution and the Theory of Games is a book by the British evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith on evolutionary game theory. The book was initially published in December 1982 by Cambridge University Press.
Overview
In the book, John Maynard Smith summarises work on evolutionary game theory that had developed in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20Yoshizawa | was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books. Yoshizawa acted as an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20consistency%20%28finance%29 | Time consistency in the context of finance is the property of not having mutually contradictory evaluations of risk at different points in time. This property implies that if investment A is considered riskier than B at some future time, then A will also be considered riskier than B at every prior time.
Time consisten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization%20in%20astronomy | Polarization is an important phenomenon in astronomy.
Stars
The polarization of starlight was first observed by the astronomers William Hiltner and John S. Hall in 1949. Subsequently, Jesse Greenstein and Leverett Davis, Jr. developed theories allowing the use of polarization data to trace interstellar magnetic fields... |
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