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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrickOS | brickOS is an open-source operating system created by Markus Noga as firmware to operate as an alternative software environment for the Lego Mindstorms Robotic Invention System [14]. brickOS is the first open-source software made for Lego Mindstorms robots. It is embedded with a C/C++-based and a Java-based environment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype%20Verification%20System | The Prototype Verification System (PVS) is a specification language integrated with support tools and an automated theorem prover, developed at the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International in Menlo Park, California.
PVS is based on a kernel consisting of an extension of Church's theory of types with dependent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20sealer | A heat sealer is a machine used to seal products, packaging, and other thermoplastic materials using heat. This can be with uniform thermoplastic monolayers or with materials having several layers, at least one being thermoplastic. Heat sealing can join two similar materials together or can join dissimilar materials, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999... | In mathematics, 0.999... (also written as 0., 0. or 0.(9)) is a notation for the repeating decimal consisting of an unending sequence of 9s after the decimal point. This repeating decimal is a numeral that represents the smallest number no less than every number in the sequence (0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ...); that is, the sup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson%20QX-10 | The Epson QX-10 is a microcomputer running CP/M or TPM-III (CP/M-80 compatible) which was introduced in 1983. It was based on a Zilog Z80 microprocessor, running at 4 MHz, provided up to 256 KB of RAM organized in four switchable banks, and included a separate graphics processor chip (µPD7220) manufactured by NEC to pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20atmosphere | Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is the practice of modifying the composition of the internal atmosphere of a package (commonly food packages, drugs, etc.) in order to improve the shelf life. The need for this technology for food arises from the short shelf life of food products such as meat, fish, poultry, and dair... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosarcoidosis | Neurosarcoidosis (sometimes shortened to neurosarcoid) refers to a type of sarcoidosis, a condition of unknown cause featuring granulomas in various tissues, in this type involving the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Neurosarcoidosis can have many manifestations, but abnormalities of the cranial nerves ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Private%20LAN%20Service | Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is a way to provide Ethernet-based multipoint to multipoint communication over IP or MPLS networks. It allows geographically dispersed sites to share an Ethernet broadcast domain by connecting sites through pseudowires. The term sites includes multiplicities of both servers and client... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyck%20language | In the theory of formal languages of computer science, mathematics, and linguistics, a Dyck word is a balanced string of brackets.
The set of Dyck words forms a Dyck language. The simplest, D1, use just two matching brackets, e.g. ( and ).
Dyck words and language are named after the mathematician Walther von Dyck. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds%20stress | In fluid dynamics, the Reynolds stress is the component of the total stress tensor in a fluid obtained from the averaging operation over the Navier–Stokes equations to account for turbulent fluctuations in fluid momentum.
Definition
The velocity field of a flow can be split into a mean part and a fluctuating part usin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe | LightScribe is an optical disc recording technology that was created by the Hewlett-Packard Company. It uses specially coated recordable CD and DVD media to produce laser-etched labels with text or graphics, as opposed to stick-on labels and printable discs. Although HP is no longer developing the technology, it is sti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Island%20%28video%20game%29 | Hudson's Adventure Island, known as in Japan and also known as Adventure Island, is a side-scrolling platform game produced by Hudson Soft that was released in Japan for the Famicom and MSX on September 12, 1986. Adventure Island was released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988 and in the PA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary%20currency | A complementary currency is a currency or medium of exchange that is not necessarily a national currency, but that is thought of as supplementing or complementing national currencies. Complementary currencies are usually not legal tender and their use is based on agreement between the parties exchanging the currency.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor%20area%20ratio | Floor area ratio (FAR) is the ratio of a building's total floor area (gross floor area) to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built. It is often used as one of the regulations in city planning along with the building-to-land ratio. The terms can also refer to limits imposed on such a ratio through zoning. F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20damage | Water damage describes various possible losses caused by water intruding where it will enable attack of a material or system by destructive processes such as rotting of wood, mold growth, bacteria growth, rusting of steel, swelling of composite woods, de-laminating of materials such as plywood, short-circuiting of elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20conductivity | In science and engineering, hydraulic conductivity (, in SI units of meters per second), is a property of porous materials, soils and rocks,< that describes the ease with which a fluid (usually water) can move through the pore space, or fractures network. It depends on the intrinsic permeability (, unit: m) of the mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20YMF7xx | There have been various families of Yamaha audio controllers labelled as YMF7xx.
OPL3-SA families
YMF701 (OPL3-SA): Incorporates OPL3 and OPL3-L features, 16-bit stereo CODEC, MPU-401-compatible MIDI interface, game port, Plug and Play ISA interface, Windows Sound System (CS4231) and Sound Blaster Pro compatibility.
Y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Signatures%20in%20Global%20and%20National%20Commerce%20Act | The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN, , ) is a United States federal law passed by the U.S. Congress to facilitate the use of electronic records and electronic signatures in interstate and foreign commerce by ensuring the validity and legal effect of contracts entered into electronicall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautological%20one-form | In mathematics, the tautological one-form is a special 1-form defined on the cotangent bundle of a manifold In physics, it is used to create a correspondence between the velocity of a point in a mechanical system and its momentum, thus providing a bridge between Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics (on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture | z/Architecture, initially and briefly called ESA Modal Extensions (ESAME), is IBM's 64-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architecture, implemented by its mainframe computers. IBM introduced its first z/Architecture-based system, the z900, in late 2000. Later z/Architecture systems include the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXSP-CD | WXSP-CD (channel 15) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Grand Rapids–licensed NBC affiliate WOOD-TV (channel 8) and Battle Creek–licensed ABC affiliate WOTV (chan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symlink%20race | A symlink race is a kind of software security vulnerability that results from a program creating files in an insecure manner. A malicious user can create a symbolic link to a file not otherwise accessible to them. When the privileged program creates a file of the same name as the symbolic link, it actually creates the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches%20W%C3%BCrfelspiel | A (German for "musical dice game") was a system for using dice to randomly generate music from precomposed options. These games were quite popular throughout Western Europe in the 18th century. Several different games were devised, some that did not require dice, but merely choosing a random number.
The earliest exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly%20and%20Molly | Polly and Molly (born 1997), two ewes, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell and to be transgenic animals at the same time. This is not to be confused with Dolly the Sheep, the first animal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell where there wasn’t modification ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time%20clock%20alarm | A real time clock alarm is a feature that can be used to allow a computer to 'wake up' after shut down to execute tasks every day or on a certain day. It can sometimes be found in the 'Power Management' section of a motherboard's BIOS/UEFI setup. Wake On LAN, Wake on ring, and IPMI functions could also be used to start... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentences%20of%20Sextus | The Sentences of Sextus, also called the Sayings of Sextus, is a Hellenistic Pythagorean collection of maxims which was popular among Christians and translated into several languages. The identity of the Sextus who originated the collection is unknown.
Transmission
The Sentences was probably compiled in the second cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Microcontroller%20Bus%20Architecture | The Arm Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) is an open-standard, on-chip interconnect specification for the connection and management of functional blocks in system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. It facilitates development of multi-processor designs with large numbers of controllers and components with a bus arc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARexx | ARexx is an implementation of the Rexx language for the Amiga, written in 1987 by William S. Hawes, with a number of Amiga-specific features beyond standard REXX facilities. Like most REXX implementations, ARexx is an interpreted language. Programs written for ARexx are called "scripts", or "macros"; several programs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascular%20endothelial%20growth%20factor | Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF, ), originally known as vascular permeability factor (VPF), is a signal protein produced by many cells that stimulates the formation of blood vessels. To be specific, VEGF is a sub-family of growth factors, the platelet-derived growth factor family of cystine-knot growth factors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsework | Falsework consists of temporary structures used in construction to support a permanent structure until its construction is sufficiently advanced to support itself. For arches, this is specifically called centering. Falsework includes temporary support structures for formwork used to mold concrete in the construction o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tao%20of%20Programming | The Tao of Programming is a book written in 1987 by Geoffrey James. Written in a tongue-in-cheek style spoof of classic Taoist texts such as the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi which belies its serious message, it consists of a series of short anecdotes divided into nine "books":
The Silent Void
The Ancient Masters
Design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioindicator | A bioindicator is any species (an indicator species) or group of species whose function, population, or status can reveal the qualitative status of the environment. The most common indicator species are animals. For example, copepods and other small water crustaceans that are present in many water bodies can be monitor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-in%20amplifier | A lock-in amplifier is a type of amplifier that can extract a signal with a known carrier wave from an extremely noisy environment. Depending on the dynamic reserve of the instrument, signals up to a million times smaller than noise components, potentially fairly close by in frequency, can still be reliably detected. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoid | A toxoid is an inactivated toxin (usually an exotoxin) whose toxicity has been suppressed either by chemical (formalin) or heat treatment, while other properties, typically immunogenicity, are maintained. Toxins are secreted by bacteria, whereas toxoids are altered form of toxins; toxoids are not secreted by bacteria. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPGEnc | TMPGEnc or TSUNAMI MPEG Encoder is a video transcoder software application primarily for encoding video files to VCD and SVCD-compliant MPEG video formats and was developed by Hiroyuki Hori and Pegasys Inc. TMPGEnc can also refer to the family of software video encoders created after the success of the original TMPGEnc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton%20Fadiman | Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career.
Background
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Fadiman was a nephew of the emigree Ukrainian psychologist Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20drawing | Wire drawing is a metalworking process used to reduce the cross-section of a wire by pulling the wire through a single, or series of, drawing die(s). There are many applications for wire drawing, including electrical wiring, cables, tension-loaded structural components, springs, paper clips, spokes for wheels, and str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20W.%20Golomb | Solomon Wolf Golomb (; May 30, 1932 – May 1, 2016) was an American mathematician, engineer, and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known for his works on mathematical games. Most notably, he invented Cheskers (a hybrid between chess and checkers) in 1948. He also fully de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytosterol | Phytosterols are phytosteroids, similar to cholesterol, that serve as structural components of biological membranes of plants. They encompass plant sterols and stanols. More than 250 sterols and related compounds have been identified. Free phytosterols extracted from oils are insoluble in water, relatively insoluble in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20paper | Digital paper, also known as interactive paper, is patterned paper used in conjunction with a digital pen to create handwritten digital documents. The printed dot pattern uniquely identifies the position coordinates on the paper. The digital pen uses this pattern to store handwriting and upload it to a computer.
The p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Data%20Exchange | In computing, Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) is a technology for interprocess communication used in early versions of Microsoft Windows and OS/2. DDE allows programs to manipulate objects provided by other programs, and respond to user actions affecting those objects. DDE was partially superseded by Object Linking and Emb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIS/COBOL | BLIS/COBOL is a discontinued operating system that was written in COBOL. It is the only such system to gain reasonably wide acceptance. It was optimised to compile business applications written in COBOL. BLIS was available on a range of Data General Nova and Data General Eclipse 16-bit minicomputers. It was marketed b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Grid%20Services%20Infrastructure | The Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) was published by the Global Grid Forum (GGF) as a proposed recommendation in June 2003. It was intended to provide an infrastructure layer for the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA). OGSI takes the statelessness issues (along with others) into account by essentially exte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonetDB | MonetDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database management system (RDBMS) originally developed at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands.
It is designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, such as combining tables with hundreds of columns and millio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20mapping | In computing and data management, data mapping is the process of creating data element mappings between two distinct data models. Data mapping is used as a first step for a wide variety of data integration tasks, including:
Data transformation or data mediation between a data source and a destination
Identification... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFOR | GAFOR ("General Aviation Forecast") is a format for reporting weather information for aviation purposes. The GAFOR is used in many European countries. In order to easy transmit and understand GAFOR forecasts, the original (local) names are systematically replaced by a code number. There are two kinds of application:
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX | PhysX is an open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as a part of Nvidia GameWorks software suite.
Initially, video games supporting PhysX were meant to be accelerated by PhysX PPU (expansion cards designed by Ageia). However, after Ageia's acquisition by Nvidia, dedicated PhysX cards hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inosinic%20acid | Inosinic acid or inosine monophosphate (IMP) is a nucleotide (that is, a nucleoside monophosphate). Widely used as a flavor enhancer, it is typically obtained from chicken byproducts or other meat industry waste. Inosinic acid is important in metabolism. It is the ribonucleotide of hypoxanthine and the first nucleotide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROFOR | ROFOR is a format for reporting weather information. ROFOR is an abbreviation for "Route Forecast". As the name suggests is the weather forecast of the route of any aircraft which will be flying through the route. ROFOR contains various information regarding date and time of forecast, direction and speed of the wind,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20game | In game theory, a Bayesian game is a strategic decision-making model which assumes players have incomplete information. Players hold private information relevant to the game, meaning that the payoffs are not common knowledge. Bayesian games model the outcome of player interactions using aspects of Bayesian probability.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal-form%20game | In game theory, normal form is a description of a game. Unlike extensive form, normal-form representations are not graphical per se, but rather represent the game by way of a matrix. While this approach can be of greater use in identifying strictly dominated strategies and Nash equilibria, some information is lost as c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerator%20polynomial | In coding theory, the weight enumerator polynomial of a binary linear code specifies the number of words of each possible Hamming weight.
Let be a binary linear code length . The weight distribution is the sequence of numbers
giving the number of codewords c in C having weight t as t ranges from 0 to n. The weigh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20code | In coding theory, the dual code of a linear code
is the linear code defined by
where
is a scalar product. In linear algebra terms, the dual code is the annihilator of C with respect to the bilinear form . The dimension of C and its dual always add up to the length n:
A generator matrix for the dual code is the par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IL%20%28network%20protocol%29 | The Internet Link protocol or IL is a connection-based transport-layer protocol designed at Bell Labs originally as part of the Plan 9 operating system and is used to carry 9P. It is assigned the Internet Protocol number of 40. It is similar to TCP but much simpler.
Its main features are:
Reliable datagram service
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Rademacher | Hans Adolph Rademacher (; 3 April 1892 – 7 February 1969) was a German-born American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.
Biography
Rademacher received his Ph.D. in 1916 from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Constantin Carathéodory supervised his dissertation. In 1919, he became... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobunaga%27s%20Ambition | is a series of turn-based grand strategy role-playing simulation video games. The original game was one of the first in its genre, being released in March 1983 by the Japanese video game developer Koei. Nobunaga's Ambition takes place during the Sengoku period of feudal Japan. The player is tasked with achieving the ul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent%20tracker | A BitTorrent tracker is a special type of server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol.
In peer-to-peer file sharing, a software client on an end-user PC requests a file, and portions of the requested file residing on peer machines are sent to the client, and then reassembled in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling%20%28economics%29 | In contract theory, signalling (or signaling; see spelling differences) is the idea that one party (the agent) credibly conveys some information about itself to another party (the principal).
Although signalling theory was initially developed by Michael Spence based on observed knowledge gaps between organisations and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet-me%20room | A meet-me room (MMR) is a place within a colocation center (or carrier hotel) where telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data without incurring local loop fees. Services provided across connections in an MMR may be voice circuits, data circuits, or Internet Protocol traffic.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20filter | Electronic filters are a type of signal processing filter in the form of electrical circuits. This article covers those filters consisting of lumped electronic components, as opposed to distributed-element filters. That is, using components and interconnections that, in analysis, can be considered to exist at a singl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Cluster%20Framework | Open Cluster Framework (OCF) is a set of standards for computer clustering.
The project started as a working group of the Free Standards Group, now part of the Linux Foundation. Original supporters included several computing companies and groups, including Compaq, Conectiva, IBM, Linux-HA, MSC Software, the Open Sour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope%20field | A slope field (also called a direction field) is a graphical representation of the solutions to a first-order differential equation of a scalar function. Solutions to a slope field are functions drawn as solid curves. A slope field shows the slope of a differential equation at certain vertical and horizontal intervals ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20code | In coding theory, a linear code is an error-correcting code for which any linear combination of codewords is also a codeword. Linear codes are traditionally partitioned into block codes and convolutional codes, although turbo codes can be seen as a hybrid of these two types. Linear codes allow for more efficient encodi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear%20filter | In signal processing, a nonlinear (or non-linear) filter is a filter whose output is not a linear function of its input. That is, if the filter outputs signals R and S for two input signals r and s separately, but does not always output αR + βS when the input is a linear combination αr + βs.
Both continuous-domain an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20ring | In mathematics, the pluricanonical ring of an algebraic variety V (which is nonsingular), or of a complex manifold, is the graded ring
of sections of powers of the canonical bundle K. Its nth graded component (for ) is:
that is, the space of sections of the n-th tensor product Kn of the canonical bundle K.
The 0th ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffed%20grain | Puffed grains are grains that have been expanded ("puffed") through processing. They have been made for centuries with the simplest methods like popping popcorn. Modern puffed grains are often created using high temperature, pressure, or extrusion.
People eat puffed grains in many ways, but it can be as simple as puff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy%20research | Canopy research is the field of scientific research based upon data collected in the canopy of trees.
Objects
Description of plant and animal species residing in the tree-summits. Mainly ancient forests and tropical forests are studied.
Study of forest ecosystem dynamics, change drivers and other factors that shape ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule%20expansion | The Joule expansion (also called free expansion) is an irreversible process in thermodynamics in which a volume of gas is kept in one side of a thermally isolated container (via a small partition), with the other side of the container being evacuated. The partition between the two parts of the container is then opened,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20sort | A quantum sort is any sorting algorithm that runs on a quantum computer. Any comparison-based quantum sorting algorithm would take at least steps, which is already achievable by classical algorithms. Thus, for this task, quantum computers are no better than classical ones, and should be disregarded when it comes to ti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-browser%20compatibility | Cross-browser compatibility is the ability of a website or web application to function across different browsers and degrade gracefully when browser features are absent or lacking.
History
Background
The history of cross-browser is involved with the history of the "browser wars" in the late 1990s between Netscape Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEmpix | MicroEmpix is the microkernel (much nearer to an exokernel) version of Empix, an operating system (OS) developed at the Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab) of the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the National Technical University of Athens.
Empix began in the late 1980's as the laboratory's effort to w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading%20zero | A leading zero is any 0 digit that comes before the first nonzero digit in a number string in positional notation. For example, James Bond's famous identifier, 007, has two leading zeros. Any zeroes appearing to the left of the first non-zero digit (of any integer or decimal) do not affect its value, and can be omitted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTXH | KTXH (channel 20), branded on-air as My 20 Vision, is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, serving as the local outlet for the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KRIV (channel 26). Both stations share studios on Southwest Freeway (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetrical%20components | In electrical engineering, the method of symmetrical components simplifies analysis of unbalanced three-phase power systems under both normal and abnormal conditions. The basic idea is that an asymmetrical set of N phasors can be expressed as a linear combination of N symmetrical sets of phasors by means of a complex l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLOSS%20debate | The SLOSS debate was a debate in ecology and conservation biology during the 1970's and 1980's as to whether a single large or several small (SLOSS) reserves were a superior means of conserving biodiversity in a fragmented habitat. Since its inception, multiple alternate theories have been proposed. There have been app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume-weighted%20average%20price | In finance, volume-weighted average price (VWAP) is the ratio of the value of a security or financial asset traded to the total volume of transactions during a trading session. It is a measure of the average trading price for the period.
Typically, the indicator is computed for one day, but it can be measured between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMI | SEMI is an industry association comprising companies involved in the electronics design and manufacturing supply chain. They provide equipment, materials and services for the manufacture of semiconductors, photovoltaic panels, LED and flat panel displays, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), printed and flexible ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaser%20%28effect%29 | A phaser is an electronic sound processor used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum. The position of the peaks and troughs of the waveform being affected is typically modulated by an internal low-frequency oscillator so that they vary over time, creating a sweeping effe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigdo | Jigdo (a portmanteau of "Jigsaw" and "download") is a utility typically used for downloading to piece together a large file, most commonly an optical disk image such as a CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD) image, from many smaller individual constituent files. The constituent files may be local and/or retrieved from one or m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT%20%28instant%20messenger%29 | TNT is an open source instant messaging client which is designed to use AIM and uses the AOL TOC protocol. The client is run within Emacs or XEmacs and is written in Emacs Lisp.
The client was originally written for AOL, but the project was abandoned around 1999, along with its other TOC clients, TiK and TAC. Since ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobweb%20plot | A cobweb plot, or Verhulst diagram is a visual tool used in the dynamical systems field of mathematics to investigate the qualitative behaviour of one-dimensional iterated functions, such as the logistic map. Using a cobweb plot, it is possible to infer the long term status of an initial condition under repeated applic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPN-AMI | CPN-AMI is a computer-aided software engineering environment based on Petri Net specifications. It provides the ability to specify the behavior of a distributed system—and to evaluate properties such as invariants (preservation of resources), absence of deadlocks, liveness, or temporal logic properties (relations betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging | Geotagging, or GeoTagging, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though they can also in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnaporthe%20grisea | Magnaporthe grisea, also known as rice blast fungus, rice rotten neck, rice seedling blight, blast of rice, oval leaf spot of graminea, pitting disease, ryegrass blast, Johnson spot, neck blast, wheat blast and , is a plant-pathogenic fungus and model organism that causes a serious disease affecting rice. It is now kno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT180 | The VT180 is a personal computer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts, USA.
Introduced in early 1982, the CP/M-based VT180 was DEC's entry-level microcomputer. "VT180" is the unofficial name for the combination of the VT100 computer terminal and VT18X option. The VT18X includes a 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky%20bit | In computing, the sticky bit is a user ownership access right flag that can be assigned to files and directories on Unix-like systems.
There are two definitions: one for files, one for directories.
For files, particularly executables, superuser could tag these as to be retained in main memory, even when their need en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20100 | The Rainbow 100 is a microcomputer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1982. This desktop unit had a monitor similar to the VT220 and a dual-CPU box with both Zilog Z80 and Intel 8088 CPUs.
The Rainbow 100 was a triple-use machine: VT100 mode (industry standard terminal for interacting with DEC's own... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcentral | Webcentral, formerly known as Melbourne IT Group, is an Australian digital services provider. It is a publicly-traded company that was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange () in December 1999. It provides internet domain registration, email/office applications, cloud hosting, cloud services, 5G networks, manage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20continuum | The term information continuum is used to describe the whole set of all information, in connection with information management. The term may be used in reference to the information or the information infrastructure of a people, a species, a scientific subject or an institution.
Other usages
in biological anthropolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20species | In ecology, the foundation species are species that have a strong role in structuring a community. A foundation species can occupy any trophic level in a food web (i.e., they can be primary producers, herbivores or predators). The term was coined by Paul K. Dayton in 1972, who applied it to certain members of marine i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20mechanics | Rock mechanics is a theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behavior of rocks and rock masses.
Compared to geology, it is the branch of mechanics concerned with the response of rock and rock masses to the force fields of their physical environment.
Background
Rock mechanics is part of a much broader subjec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20cascade | A biochemical cascade, also known as a signaling cascade or signaling pathway, is a series of chemical reactions that occur within a biological cell when initiated by a stimulus. This stimulus, known as a first messenger, acts on a receptor that is transduced to the cell interior through second messengers which amplify... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20ring | In ring theory, a branch of mathematics, the zero ring or trivial ring is the unique ring (up to isomorphism) consisting of one element. (Less commonly, the term "zero ring" is used to refer to any rng of square zero, i.e., a rng in which for all x and y. This article refers to the one-element ring.)
In the category... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet%20Winsock | Trumpet Winsock is a TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.x that implemented the Winsock API, which is an API for network sockets. It was developed by Peter Tattam from Trumpet Software International and distributed as shareware software.
History
The first version, 1.0A, was released in 1994. It rapidly gained reputation as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapher | Grapher is a computer program bundled with macOS since version 10.4 that is able to create 2D and 3D graphs from simple and complex equations. It includes a variety of samples ranging from differential equations to 3D-rendered Toroids and Lorenz attractors. It is also capable of dealing with functions and compositions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20stress | In materials science and solid mechanics, residual stresses are stresses that remain in a solid material after the original cause of the stresses has been removed. Residual stress may be desirable or undesirable. For example, laser peening imparts deep beneficial compressive residual stresses into metal components such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault%20pioneer | An assault pioneer is an infantryman who is responsible for:
The construction of tools for infantry soldiers to cross natural and man-made obstacles as well as breaching of enemy fortifications
Supervising the construction of field defensive works such as bunkers, support weapon firing positions, etc.
The use of de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Keeley | Barbara Mary Keeley (born 26 March 1952) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Worsley and Eccles South, previously Worsley, since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Shadow Minister for Music and Tourism since 2023. She previously served as Deputy Le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%E2%80%93Severi%20group | In algebraic geometry, the Néron–Severi group of a variety is
the group of divisors modulo algebraic equivalence; in other words it is the group of components of the Picard scheme of a variety. Its rank is called the Picard number. It is named after Francesco Severi and André Néron.
Definition
In the cases of most i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virotherapy | Virotherapy is a treatment using biotechnology to convert viruses into therapeutic agents by reprogramming viruses to treat diseases. There are three main branches of virotherapy: anti-cancer oncolytic viruses, viral vectors for gene therapy and viral immunotherapy. These branches use three different types of treatment... |
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