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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrifty%20phenotype | Thrifty phenotype refers to the correlation between low birth weight of neonates and the increased risk of developing metabolic syndromes later in life, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Although early life undernutrition is thought to be the key driving factor to the hypothesis, other environmenta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballyhoo%20%28video%20game%29 | Ballyhoo is an interactive fiction video game designed by Jeff O'Neill and published by Infocom in 1985. The circus-themed game was released for ten systems, including DOS, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. Ballyhoo was labeled as "Standard" difficulty. It is Infocom's nineteenth game.
Plot
The player's character is bedazzl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropolis%20Corporation | Micropolis Corporation (styled as MICROPΩLIS) was a disk drive company located in Chatsworth, California and founded in 1976. Micropolis initially manufactured high capacity (for the time) hard-sectored 5.25-inch floppy drives and controllers, later manufacturing hard drives using SCSI and ESDI interfaces.
History
Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Management%20BIOS | In computing, the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification defines data structures (and access methods) that can be used to read management information produced by the BIOS of a computer. This eliminates the need for the operating system to probe hardware directly to discover what devices are present in the comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent%E2%80%93offspring%20conflict | Parent–offspring conflict (POC) is an expression coined in 1974 by Robert Trivers. It is used to describe the evolutionary conflict arising from differences in optimal parental investment (PI) in an offspring from the standpoint of the parent and the offspring. PI is any investment by the parent in an individual offspr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen | SCIgen is a paper generator that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers. Its original data source was a collection of computer science papers downloaded from CiteSeer. All elements of the papers are formed, including graphs, diagrams, and citations. Creat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Prolog | Visual Prolog, previously known as PDC Prolog and Turbo Prolog, is a strongly typed object-oriented extension of Prolog. As Turbo Prolog, it was marketed by Borland but it is now developed and marketed by the Danish firm PDC that originally created it. Visual Prolog can build Microsoft Windows GUI-applications, consol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20equivalence | In the systems sciences system equivalence is the behavior of a parameter or component of a system in a way similar to a parameter or component of a different system. Similarity means that mathematically the parameters and components will be indistinguishable from each other. Equivalence can be very useful in understa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2 | Acid2 is a webpage that test web browsers' functionality in displaying aspects of HTML markup, CSS 2.1 styling, PNG images, and data URIs. The test page was released on 13 April 2005 by the Web Standards Project. The Acid2 test page will be displayed correctly in any application that follows the World Wide Web Consorti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20of%20parallelism | The degree of parallelism (DOP) is a metric which indicates how many operations can be or are being simultaneously executed by a computer. It is used as an indicator of the complexity of algorithms, and is especially useful for describing the performance of parallel programs and multi-processor systems.
A program runn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent%20series | In mathematics, a series is the sum of the terms of an infinite sequence of numbers. More precisely, an infinite sequence defines a series that is denoted
The th partial sum is the sum of the first terms of the sequence; that is,
A series is convergent (or converges) if the sequence of its partial sums tends t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20analysis%20of%20gene%20expression | Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) is a transcriptomic technique used by molecular biologists to produce a snapshot of the messenger RNA population in a sample of interest in the form of small tags that correspond to fragments of those transcripts. Several variants have been developed since, most notably a more ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy%20computing | The term Trustworthy Computing (TwC) has been applied to computing systems that are inherently secure, available, and reliable. It is particularly associated with the Microsoft initiative of the same name, launched in 2002.
History
Until 1995, there were restrictions on commercial traffic over the Internet.
On, May ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch%20gelatinization | Starch gelatinization is a process of breaking down of intermolecular bonds of starch molecules in the presence of water and heat, allowing the hydrogen bonding sites (the hydroxyl hydrogen and oxygen) to engage more water. This irreversibly dissolves the starch granule in water. Water acts as a plasticizer.
Gelatiniz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection%20ecology | "Resurrection ecology" is an evolutionary biology technique whereby researchers hatch dormant eggs from lake sediments to study animals as they existed decades ago. It is a new approach that might allow scientists to observe evolution as it occurred, by comparing the animal forms hatched from older eggs with their exta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground%20storage%20tank | An underground storage tank (UST) is, according to United States federal regulations, a storage tank, including any underground piping connected to the tank, that has at least 10 percent of its volume underground.
Definition & Regulation in U.S. federal law
"Underground storage tank" or "UST" means any one or combinat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping | In physical systems, damping is the loss of energy of an oscillating system by dissipation. Damping is an influence within or upon an oscillatory system that has the effect of reducing or preventing its oscillation. Examples of damping include viscous damping in a fluid (see viscous drag), surface friction, radiation, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20length%20method | The Transfer Length Method or the "Transmission Line Model" (both abbreviated as TLM) is a technique used in semiconductor physics and engineering to determine the specific contact resistivity between a metal and a semiconductor. TLM has been developed because with the ongoing device shrinkage in microelectronics the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma%20modulation | Delta-sigma (ΔΣ; or sigma-delta, ΣΔ) modulation is an oversampling method for encoding signals into low bit depth digital signals at a very high sample-frequency as part of the process of delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). Delta-sigma modulation achieves high qualit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20choice%20theory | Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some sense. Whereas choice theory is concerned with individuals making choices based on their preferences, social choice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigrid%20method | In numerical analysis, a multigrid method (MG method) is an algorithm for solving differential equations using a hierarchy of discretizations. They are an example of a class of techniques called multiresolution methods, very useful in problems exhibiting multiple scales of behavior. For example, many basic relaxation m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity-based%20structure | A gravity-based structure (GBS) is a support structure held in place by gravity, most notably offshore oil platforms. These structures are often constructed in fjords due to their protected area and sufficient depth.
Offshore oil platforms
Prior to deployment, a study of the seabed must be done to ensure it can withs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharming%20%28genetics%29 | Pharming, a portmanteau of "farming" and "pharmaceutical", refers to the use of genetic engineering to insert genes that code for useful pharmaceuticals into host animals or plants that would otherwise not express those genes, thus creating a genetically modified organism (GMO). Pharming is also known as molecular farm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental%20investment | Parental investment, in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, is any parental expenditure (e.g. time, energy, resources) that benefits offspring. Parental investment may be performed by both males and females (biparental care), females alone (exclusive maternal care) or males alone (exclusive paternal care)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-4 | The PDP-4 was the successor to the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-1.
History
This 18-bit machine, first shipped in 1962, was a compromise: "with slower memory and different packaging" than the PDP-1, but priced at $65,000 - less than half the price of its predecessor. All later 18-bit PDP machines (7, 9 and 15)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-9 | The PDP-9, the fourth of the five 18-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation, was introduced in 1966. A total of 445 PDP-9 systems were produced, of which 40 were the compact, low-cost PDP-9/L units.
History
The 18-bit PDP systems preceding the PDP-9 were the PDP-1, PDP-4 and PDP-7. Its successor w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-5 | The PDP-5 was Digital Equipment Corporation's first 12-bit computer, introduced in 1963.
History
An earlier 12-bit computer, named LINC has been described as the first minicomputer and also "the first modern personal computer." It had 2,048 12-bit words, and the first LINC was built in 1962.
DEC's founder, Ken Olse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-15 | The PDP-15 was the fifth and last of the 18-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. The PDP-1 was first delivered in December 1959 and the first PDP-15 was delivered in February 1970. More than 400 of these successors to the PDP-9 (and 9/L) were ordered within the first eight months.
In addition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20of%20World%20Problems%20and%20Human%20Potential | The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (EWPHP) is a research work published by the Union of International Associations (UIA). It is available online since 2000, and was previously available as a CD-ROM and as a three-volume book.
The EWPHP began under the direction of Anthony Judge in 1972 and eventual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20finite%20simple%20groups | In mathematics, the classification of finite simple groups states that every finite simple group is cyclic, or alternating, or in one of 16 families of groups of Lie type, or one of 26 sporadic groups.
The list below gives all finite simple groups, together with their order, the size of the Schur multiplier, the size ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-chance%20function | In software engineering, a double-chance function is a software design pattern with a strong application in cross-platform and scalable development.
Examples
Computer graphics
Consider a graphics API with functions to DrawPoint, DrawLine, and DrawSquare. It is easy to see that DrawLine can be implemented solely in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Compiled%20HTML%20Help | Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, consisting of a collection of HTML pages, an index and other navigation tools. The files are compressed and deployed in a binary format with the extension .CHM, for Compiled HTML. The format is often used for software documentation.
It was int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinHelp | Microsoft WinHelp is a proprietary format for online help files that can be displayed by the Microsoft Help browser winhelp.exe or winhlp32.exe. The file format is based on Rich Text Format (RTF). It remained a popular Help platform from Windows 3.0 through Windows XP. WinHelp was removed in Windows Vista purportedly t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20staining | In pathology, silver staining is the use of silver to selectively alter the appearance of a target in microscopy of histological sections; in temperature gradient gel electrophoresis; and in polyacrylamide gels.
In traditional stained glass, silver stain is a technique to produce yellow to orange or brown shades (or g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublinear%20function | In linear algebra, a sublinear function (or functional as is more often used in functional analysis), also called a quasi-seminorm or a Banach functional, on a vector space is a real-valued function with only some of the properties of a seminorm. Unlike seminorms, a sublinear function does not have to be nonnegative-v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed%20code | Managed code is computer program code that requires and will execute only under the management of a Common Language Infrastructure (CLI); Virtual Execution System (VES); virtual machine, e.g. .NET, CoreFX, or .NET Framework; Common Language Runtime (CLR); or Mono. The term was coined by Microsoft.
Managed code is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoogeography | Zoogeography is the branch of the science of biogeography that is concerned with geographic distribution (present and past) of animal species.
As a multifaceted field of study, zoogeography incorporates methods of molecular biology, genetics, morphology, phylogenetics, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to delin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carvone | Carvone is a member of a family of chemicals called terpenoids. Carvone is found naturally in many essential oils, but is most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway (Carum carvi), spearmint (Mentha spicata), and dill.
Uses
Both carvones are used in the food and flavor industry. R-(−)-Carvone is also used for air... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3%20Savage | Savage was a product-line of PC graphics chipsets designed by S3.
Graphics Processors
Savage 3D
At the 1998 E3 Expo S3 introduced the first Savage product, Savage3D. Compared to its ViRGE-derived predecessor (Trio3D), Savage3D was a technological leap forward. Its innovative feature-set included the following:
"fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocipher | VideoCipher is a brand name of analog scrambling and de-scrambling equipment for cable and satellite television invented primarily to enforce Television receive-only (TVRO) satellite equipment to only receive TV programming on a subscription basis.
The second version of Videocipher, Videocipher II, was the primary enc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20ecosystem | Human ecosystems are human-dominated ecosystems of the anthropocene era that are viewed as complex cybernetic systems by conceptual models that are increasingly used by ecological anthropologists and other scholars to examine the ecological aspects of human communities in a way that integrates multiple factors as econo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugae | In anatomy, rugae are a series of ridges produced by folding of the wall of an organ. Most commonly rugae refers to the gastric rugae of the internal surface of the stomach.
Function
A purpose of the gastric rugae is to allow for expansion of the stomach after the consumption of foods and liquids. This expansion incr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov%20Sinai | Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (; born September 21, 1935) is a Russian–American mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems. He contributed to the modern metric theory of dynamical systems and connected the world of deterministic (dynamical) systems with the world of probabilistic (stochastic) systems. He has al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20views%20on%20cloning | Christians take multiple positions in the debate on the morality of human cloning. Since Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned on 5 July 1996, and the possibility of cloning humans became a reality, Christian leaders have been pressed to take an ethical stance on its morality. While many Christians tend to disagree w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20card | Cue cards, also known as note cards, are cards with words written on them that help actors and speakers remember what they have to say. They are typically used in television productions where they can be held off-camera and are unseen by the audience. Cue cards are still currently being used on many late night talk sho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/143%20%28number%29 | 143 (one hundred [and] forty-three) is the natural number following 142 and preceding 144.
In mathematics
143 is the sum of seven consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31). But this number is never the sum of an integer and its base 10 digits, making it a self number. It is also the product of a twin prime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universality%20%28dynamical%20systems%29 | In statistical mechanics, universality is the observation that there are properties for a large class of systems that are independent of the dynamical details of the system. Systems display universality in a scaling limit, when a large number of interacting parts come together. The modern meaning of the term was introd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen%20Moser | Jürgen Kurt Moser (July 4, 1928 – December 17, 1999) was a German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over four decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.
Life
Moser's mother Ilse Strehlke was a niece of the violinist and composer Louis Spohr. His father was the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contractible%20space | In mathematics, a topological space X is contractible if the identity map on X is null-homotopic, i.e. if it is homotopic to some constant map. Intuitively, a contractible space is one that can be continuously shrunk to a point within that space.
Properties
A contractible space is precisely one with the homotopy type ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current-mode%20logic | Current mode logic (CML), or source-coupled logic (SCL), is a digital design style used both for logic gates and for board-level digital signaling of digital data.
The basic principle of CML is that current from a constant current generator is steered between two alternate paths depending on whether a logic zero or lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20device%20manufacturer | An integrated device manufacturer (IDM) is a semiconductor company which designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuit (IC) products.
IDM is often used to refer to a company which handles semiconductor manufacturing in-house, compared to a fabless semiconductor company, which outsources production to a third-par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s%20second%20law | Rock's law or Moore's second law, named for Arthur Rock or Gordon Moore, says that the cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years. As of 2015, the price had already reached about 14 billion US dollars.
Rock's law can be seen as the economic flip side to Moore's (first) law – that the numbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s%20algorithm | Nagle's algorithm is a means of improving the efficiency of TCP/IP networks by reducing the number of packets that need to be sent over the network. It was defined by John Nagle while working for Ford Aerospace. It was published in 1984 as a Request for Comments (RFC) with title Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetwo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assembled%20monolayer | Self-assembled monolayers (SAM) of organic molecules are molecular assemblies formed spontaneously on surfaces by adsorption and are organized into more or less large ordered domains. In some cases molecules that form the monolayer do not interact strongly with the substrate. This is the case for instance of the two-di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose%20%28file%20system%29 | In computing, rubberhose (also known by its development codename Marutukku) is a deniable encryption archive containing multiple file systems whose existence can only be verified using the appropriate cryptographic key.
Name and history
The project was originally named Rubberhose, as it was designed to be resistant t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile%20manufacturing | Agile manufacturing is a term applied to an organization that has created the processes, tools, and training to enable it to respond quickly to customer needs and market changes while still controlling costs and quality. It is mostly related to lean manufacturing.
An enabling factor in becoming an agile manufacturer h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift%20mining | Drift mining is either the mining of an ore deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed. A drift mine is an underground mine in which the entry or access is above water level and generally on the slope of a hill, driven horizontally int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20backup%20service | A remote, online, or managed backup service, sometimes marketed as cloud backup or backup-as-a-service, is a service that provides users with a system for the backup, storage, and recovery of computer files. Online backup providers are companies that provide this type of service to end users (or clients). Such backup s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDonkey%20network | The eDonkey Network (also known as the eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a decentralized, mostly server-based, peer-to-peer file sharing network created in 2000 by US developers Jed McCaleb and Sam Yagan that is best suited to share big files among users, and to provide long term availability of files. Like most sharing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20display%20technology | This is a comparison of various properties of different display technologies.
General characteristics
Major technologies are CRT, LCD and its derivatives (Quantum dot display, LED backlit LCD, WLCD, OLCD), Plasma, and OLED and its derivatives (Transparent OLED, PMOLED, AMOLED). An emerging technology is Micro LED an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/66%20block | A 66 block is a type of punch-down block used to connect sets of wires in a telephone system. They have been manufactured in four common configurations, A, B, E and M. A and B styles have the clip rows on 0.25" centers while E and M have the clip rows on 0.20" centers. The A blocks have 25 slotted holes on the left s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110%20block | A 110 block is a type of punch-down block used to terminate runs of on-premises wiring in a structured cabling system. The designation 110 is also used to describe a type of insulation displacement contact (IDC) connector used to terminate twisted pair cables, which uses a punch-down tool similar to the type used for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex%20vivo | Ex vivo (Latin: "out of the living") literally means that which takes place outside an organism. In science, ex vivo refers to experimentation or measurements done in or on tissue from an organism in an external environment with minimal alteration of natural conditions.
A primary advantage of using ex vivo tissues is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20entomology%20journals | The following is a list of entomological journals and magazines:
References
Lists of academic journals
Zoology-related lists
Entomology journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual%20consistency | Eventual consistency is a consistency model used in distributed computing to achieve high availability that informally guarantees that, if no new updates are made to a given data item, eventually all accesses to that item will return the last updated value. Eventual consistency, also called optimistic replication, is w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20hydraulics | Thermal hydraulics (also called thermohydraulics) is the study of hydraulic flow in thermal fluids. The area can be mainly divided into three parts: thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer, but they are often closely linked to each other. A common example is steam generation in power plants and the associate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kad%20network | The Kad network is a peer-to-peer (P2P) network which implements the Kademlia P2P overlay protocol. The majority of users on the Kad Network are also connected to servers on the eDonkey network, and Kad Network clients typically query known nodes on the eDonkey network in order to find an initial node on the Kad networ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelorus%20%28instrument%29 | In marine navigation, a pelorus is a reference tool for maintaining bearing of a vessel at sea. It is a "simplified compass" without a directive element, suitably mounted and provided with vanes to permit observation of relative bearings.
The instrument was named for one Pelorus, said to have been the pilot for Hannib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat%20%28software%29 | Copycat is a model of analogy making and human cognition based on the concept of the parallel terraced scan, developed in 1988 by Douglas Hofstadter, Melanie Mitchell, and others at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University Bloomington. The original Copycat was written in Common Lisp and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Corriher | Shirley O. Corriher (born February 23, 1935) is an American biochemist and author of CookWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking, winner of a James Beard Foundation award, and BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking. CookWise shows how scientific insights can be applied to traditional cooking, while Bake... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20semigroup | In group theory, an inverse semigroup (occasionally called an inversion semigroup) S is a semigroup in which every element x in S has a unique inverse y in S in the sense that and , i.e. a regular semigroup in which every element has a unique inverse. Inverse semigroups appear in a range of contexts; for example, they... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20trimming | Laser trimming is the manufacturing process of using a laser to adjust the operating parameters of an electronic circuit.
One of the most common applications uses a laser to burn away small portions of resistors, raising their resistance value. The burning operation can be conducted while the circuit is being tested b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics%20encoding | A semantics encoding is a translation between formal languages. For programmers, the most familiar form of encoding is the compilation of a programming language into machine code or byte-code. Conversion between document formats are also forms of encoding. Compilation of TeX or LaTeX documents to PostScript are also c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20Adaptation%20Layer%205 | ATM Adaptation Layer 5 (AAL5) is an ATM adaptation layer used to send variable-length packets up to 65,535 octets in size across an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network.
Unlike most network frames, which place control information in the header, AAL5 places control information in an 8-octet trailer at the end of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superabundant%20number | In mathematics, a superabundant number is a certain kind of natural number. A natural number is called superabundant precisely when, for all :
where denotes the sum-of-divisors function (i.e., the sum of all positive divisors of , including itself). The first few superabundant numbers are . For example, the number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossally%20abundant%20number | In number theory, a colossally abundant number (sometimes abbreviated as CA) is a natural number that, in a particular, rigorous sense, has many divisors. Particularly, it is defined by a ratio between the sum of an integer's divisors and that integer raised to a power higher than one. For any such exponent, whichever ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20abundant%20number | In number theory, a highly abundant number is a natural number with the property that the sum of its divisors (including itself) is greater than the sum of the divisors of any smaller natural number.
Highly abundant numbers and several similar classes of numbers were first introduced by , and early work on the subject... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20highly%20composite%20number | In number theory, a superior highly composite number is a natural number which, in a particular rigorous sense, has many divisors. Particularly, it is defined by a ratio between the number of divisors an integer has and that integer raised to some positive power. For any possible exponent, whichever integer has the hig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TippingPoint | TippingPoint Technologies was an American computer hardware and software company active between 1999 and 2015. Its focus was on network security products, particularly intrusion prevention systems for networks. In 2015, it was acquired by Trend Micro.
History
The company was founded in January 1999 under the name Shba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-based%20language | The term object-based language may be used in a technical sense to describe any programming language that uses the idea of encapsulating state and operations inside objects. Object-based languages need not support inheritance or subtyping, but those that do are also termed object-oriented. Object-based languages that d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fat%20Duck | The Fat Duck is a fine dining restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, England, owned by the chef Heston Blumenthal. Housed in a 16th-century building, the Fat Duck opened on 16 August 1995. Although it originally served food similar to a French bistro, it soon acquired a reputation for precision and invention, and has been at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20mean%20square%20error | In statistics and signal processing, a minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimator is an estimation method which minimizes the mean square error (MSE), which is a common measure of estimator quality, of the fitted values of a dependent variable. In the Bayesian setting, the term MMSE more specifically refers to estimati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic%20cylinder%20function | In mathematics, the parabolic cylinder functions are special functions defined as solutions to the differential equation
This equation is found when the technique of separation of variables is used on Laplace's equation when expressed in parabolic cylindrical coordinates.
The above equation may be brought into two di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biostimulation | Biostimulation involves the modification of the environment to stimulate existing bacteria capable of bioremediation. This can be done by addition of various forms of rate limiting nutrients and electron acceptors, such as phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, or carbon (e.g. in the form of molasses). Alternatively, remediat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcend%20Information | Transcend Information, Inc. () is a Taiwanese company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan that manufactures and distributes memory products. Transcend deals in over 2,000 products including memory modules, flash memory cards, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, multimedia products, solid-state drives, dashcams, body ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaminx | The Megaminx or Mégaminx (, ) is a dodecahedron-shaped puzzle similar to the Rubik's Cube. It has a total of 50 movable pieces to rearrange, compared to the 20 movable pieces of the Rubik's Cube.
History
The Megaminx, or Magic Dodecahedron, was invented by several people independently and produced by several differen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehog | Wirehog was a friend-to-friend file sharing program that was linked to Facebook and allowed people to transfer files directly between computers.
History
Wirehog was created by Andrew McCollum, Mark Zuckerberg, Adam D'Angelo, and Sean Parker during their development of the Facebook social networking website in Palo A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20luminescence | Negative luminescence is a physical phenomenon by which an electronic device emits less thermal radiation when an electric current is passed through it than it does in thermal equilibrium (current off). When viewed by a thermal camera, an operating negative luminescent device looks colder than its environment.
Physics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20Tumbler%20Puzzle | The Nintendo Tumbler Puzzle, also known as the Ten Billion Barrel in English and originally in Japanese, is a mathematical and mechanical puzzle. It is one of many mechanical toys invented by Gunpei Yokoi at Nintendo. It was released in 1980 under . The patent expired in March 1995 due to non-payment of a maintenance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revetment | A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water and protect it from erosion. River or coastal revetments are usually built ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20genetics | The history of genetics dates from the classical era with contributions by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, and others. Modern genetics began with the work of the Augustinian friar Gregor Johann Mendel. His work on pea plants, published in 1866, provided the initial evidence that, on its rediscovery in 190... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%E2%80%93Beltrami%20operator | In differential geometry, the Laplace–Beltrami operator is a generalization of the Laplace operator to functions defined on submanifolds in Euclidean space and, even more generally, on Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. It is named after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Eugenio Beltrami.
For any twice-differentiable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20density | In differential geometry, a tensor density or relative tensor is a generalization of the tensor field concept. A tensor density transforms as a tensor field when passing from one coordinate system to another (see tensor field), except that it is additionally multiplied or weighted by a power W of the Jacobian determin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCM%20adaptor | A PCM adaptor is a device that encodes digital audio as video for recording on a videocassette recorder. The adapter also has the ability to decode a video signal back to digital audio for playback. This digital audio system was used for mastering early compact discs.
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High-quality pulse-code modulation (PCM)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20Java | Embedded Java refers to versions of the Java program language that are designed for embedded systems. Since 2010 embedded Java implementations have come closer to standard Java, and are now virtually identical to the Java Standard Edition. Since Java 9 customization of the Java Runtime through modularization removes th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication%20control%20unit | A telecommunication control unit (TCU), line control unit, or terminal control unit (although terminal control unit may also refer to a terminal cluster controller) is a Front-end processor for mainframes and some minicomputers which supports attachment of one or more telecommunication lines. TCUs free processors from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brutus | Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States where it was used in coal strip mining operations. The shovel was designed to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidum%20Systems | Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1997. The company developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices. Some of their devices could be found in systems which supported 10 Gbit/s interfaces.
Solidum was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Steuer | Jonathan Steuer (born December 3, 1965, in Wisconsin) is a pioneer in online publishing.
Steuer led the launch teams of a number of early and influential online publishing ventures, including Cyborganic, a pioneering online/offline community, HotWired, the first ad-supported web magazine, and c|net's online operations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyswitch | A keyswitch is a type of small switch used for keys on keyboards.
Key switch is also used to describe a switch operated by a key, usually used in burglar alarm circuits. A car ignition is also a switch of this type.
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