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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Digital%20Library | The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997. Under the leadership of then UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the CDL's original mission was to forge a better system for scholarly information management and improved support for teaching and research. In collaboration with the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20group | In mathematics, an automatic group is a finitely generated group equipped with several finite-state automata. These automata represent the Cayley graph of the group. That is, they can tell if a given word representation of a group element is in a "canonical form" and can tell if two elements given in canonical words d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20webmail%20providers | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable webmail providers who offer a web interface in English.
The list does not include web hosting providers who may offer email server and/or client software as a part of hosting package, or telecommunication providers (mobile network o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Windows%20XP | Criticism of Windows XP deals with issues with security, performance and the presence of product activation errors that are specific to the Microsoft operating system Windows XP.
Security issues
Windows XP has been criticized for its vulnerabilities due to buffer overflows and its susceptibility to malware such as vir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Ethylmaleimide | N-Ethylmaleimide (NEM) is an organic compound that is derived from maleic acid. It contains the amide functional group, but more importantly it is an alkene that is reactive toward thiols and is commonly used to modify cysteine residues in proteins and peptides.
Organic chemistry
NEM is a Michael acceptor in the Mich... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docstring | In programming, a docstring is a string literal specified in source code that is used, like a comment, to document a specific segment of code. Unlike conventional source code comments, or even specifically formatted comments like docblocks, docstrings are not stripped from the source tree when it is parsed and are reta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20collector | Open collector, open drain, open emitter, and open source refer to integrated circuit (IC) output pin configurations that process the IC's internal function though a transistor with an exposed terminal that is internally unconnected (i.e. "open"). One of the IC's internal high or low voltage rails typically connects to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20splitting | In mathematics, binary splitting is a technique for speeding up numerical evaluation of many types of series with rational terms. In particular, it can be used to evaluate hypergeometric series at rational points.
Method
Given a series
where pn and qn are integers, the goal of binary splitting is to compute integers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus%20IT%20Group | Amadeus IT Group, S.A. () is a major Spanish multinational technology company that provides software solutions for the global travel and tourism industry. It is the world's leading provider of travel technology that focus on developing software for airlines, hotels, travel agencies, and other travel-related businesses ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgins%20project | Higgins is an open-source project dedicated to giving individuals more control over their personal identity, profile and social network data.
The project is organized into three main areas:
Active Clients — An active client integrates with a browser and runs on a computer or mobile device.
Higgins 1. X: the active cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konka%20Group | Konka Group Co., Ltd. () is a Chinese manufacturer of electronics products headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong and listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
History
It was founded in 1980 as Shenzhen Konka Electronic Group Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Konka Group Co., Ltd. in 1995.
The company is an electronics manufa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20reviewing%20software | Code reviewing software is computer software that helps humans find flaws in program source code.
It can be divided into two categories:
Automated code review software checks source code against a predefined set of rules and produces reports.
Different types of browsers visualise software structure and help humans be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20code%20review | Automated code review software checks source code for compliance with a predefined set of rules or best practices. The use of analytical methods to inspect and review source code to detect bugs or security issues has been a standard development practice in both Open Source and commercial software domains. This process ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background%20Intelligent%20Transfer%20Service | Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a component of Microsoft Windows XP and later iterations of the operating systems, which facilitates asynchronous, prioritized, and throttled transfer of files between machines using idle network bandwidth. It is most commonly used by recent versions of Windows Update, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20National%20Grid | The United States National Grid (USNG) is a multi-purpose location system of grid references used in the United States. It provides a nationally consistent "language of location", optimized for local applications, in a compact, user friendly format. It is similar in design to the national grid reference systems used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Fairchild | Lydia Fairchild (born 1976) is an American woman who exhibits chimerism, having two distinct populations of DNA among the cells of her body. She was pregnant with her third child when she and the father of her children, Jamie Townsend, separated. When Fairchild applied for enforcement of child support in 2002, providi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband%20materials | Wideband material refers to material that can convey Microwave signals (light/sound) over a variety of wavelengths. These materials possess exemplary attenuation and dielectric constants, and are excellent dielectrics for semiconductor gates. Examples of such material include gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s%20Snake | A Rubik's Snake (also Rubik's Twist, Rubik's Transformable Snake, Rubik’s Snake Puzzle) is a toy with 24 wedges that are right isosceles triangular prisms. The wedges are connected by spring bolts, so that they can be twisted, but not separated. By being twisted, the Rubik's Snake can be made to resemble a wide variety... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megastructures%20%28TV%20series%29 | Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia.
Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20etching | Plasma etching is a form of plasma processing used to fabricate integrated circuits. It involves a high-speed stream of glow discharge (plasma) of an appropriate gas mixture being shot (in pulses) at a sample. The plasma source, known as etch species, can be either charged (ions) or neutral (atoms and radicals). During... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuator%20%28electronics%29 | An attenuator is an electronic device that reduces the power of a signal without appreciably distorting its waveform.
An attenuator is effectively the opposite of an amplifier, though the two work by different methods. While an amplifier provides gain, an attenuator provides loss, or gain less than 1.
Construction an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedleian%20Professor%20of%20Natural%20Philosophy | The Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy is the name of a chair at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.
Overview
The Sedleian Chair was founded by Sir William Sedley who, by his will dated 20 October 1618, left the sum of £2,000 to the University of Oxford for purchase of lands for its endowment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trakhtenbrot%27s%20theorem | In logic, finite model theory, and computability theory, Trakhtenbrot's theorem (due to Boris Trakhtenbrot) states that the problem of validity in first-order logic on the class of all finite models is undecidable. In fact, the class of valid sentences over finite models is not recursively enumerable (though it is co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Live%20OneCare%20Safety%20Scanner | Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner (formerly Windows Live Safety Center and codenamed Vegas) was an online scanning, PC cleanup, and diagnosis service to help remove of viruses, spyware/adware, and other malware. It was a free web service that was part of Windows Live.
On November 18, 2008, Microsoft announced the di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20Fra%C3%AFss%C3%A9 | Roland Fraïssé (; 12 March 1920 – 30 March 2008) was a French mathematical logician.
Life
Fraïssé received his doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1953. In his thesis, Fraïssé used the back-and-forth method to determine whether two model-theoretic structures were elementarily equivalent. This method of det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Calculus | Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus (also known as AP Calc, Calc AB / Calc BC or simply AB / BC) is a set of two distinct Advanced Placement calculus courses and exams offered by the American nonprofit organization College Board. AP Calculus AB covers basic introductions to limits, derivatives, and integrals. AP Calculus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20tartrate | Sodium tartrate (Na2C4H4O6) is a salt used as an emulsifier and a binding agent in food products such as jellies, margarine, and sausage casings. As a food additive, it is known by the E number E335.
Because its crystal structure captures a very precise amount of water, it is also a common primary standard for Karl F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia%20Perlman | Radia Joy Perlman (; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet. She is most famous for her invention of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamorphism | In category theory, the concept of catamorphism (from the Ancient Greek: "downwards" and "form, shape") denotes the unique homomorphism from an initial algebra into some other algebra.
In functional programming, catamorphisms provide generalizations of folds of lists to arbitrary algebraic data types, which can be d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry%20loop | A dry loop is an unconditioned leased pair of telephone line from a telephone company. The pair does not provide dial tone or battery (continuous electric potential), as opposed to a wet pair, a line usually without dial tone but with battery.
A dry pair was originally used with a security system but more recently may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurline | The spurline is a type of radio-frequency and microwave distributed element filter with band-stop (notch) characteristics, most commonly used with microstrip transmission lines. Spurlines usually exhibit moderate to narrow-band rejection, at about 10% around the central frequency.
Spurline filters are very convenient ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated%20fluorescence%20process%20algorithm | The Simulated Fluorescence Process (SFP) is a computing algorithm used for scientific visualization of 3D data from, for example, fluorescence microscopes. By modeling a physical light/matter interaction process, an image can be computed which shows the data as it would have appeared in reality when viewed under these ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particular%20values%20of%20the%20gamma%20function | The gamma function is an important special function in mathematics. Its particular values can be expressed in closed form for integer and half-integer arguments, but no simple expressions are known for the values at rational points in general. Other fractional arguments can be approximated through efficient infinite pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20extender | An Ethernet extender (also network extender or LAN extender) is any device used to extend an Ethernet or network segment beyond its inherent distance limitation which is approximately for most common forms of twisted pair Ethernet. These devices employ a variety of transmission technologies and physical media (wireles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Information%20Assurance%20Certification%20and%20Accreditation%20Process | The National Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (NIACAP) formerly was the minimum-standard process for the certification and accreditation of computer and telecommunications systems that handle U.S. national-security information. NIACAP was derived from the Department of Defense Certification... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted%20sa%20Radyo | Wanted sa Radyo () is a public affairs show that airs on Monday to Friday from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (PST) on 92.3 Radyo5 True FM (DWFM) with simulcast on television via One PH and online via livestreaming on the "Raffy Tulfo in Action" YouTube channel and Facebook page. It also replays on Tuesday to Friday from 2:30 to 4:30... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author%20Domain%20Signing%20Practices | In computing, Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP)
is an optional extension to the DKIM E-mail authentication
scheme, whereby a domain can publish the signing practices it adopts when relaying mail on behalf of associated authors.
ADSP was adopted as a standards track RFC 5617 in August 2009, but declared "Historic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melzer%27s%20reagent | Melzer's reagent (also known as Melzer's iodine reagent, Melzer's solution or informally as Melzer's) is a chemical reagent used by mycologists to assist with the identification of fungi, and by phytopathologists for fungi that are plant pathogens.
Composition
Melzer's reagent is an aqueous solution of chloral hydrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20telluride | Silver telluride (Ag2Te) is a chemical compound, a telluride of silver, also known as disilver telluride or silver(I) telluride. It forms a monoclinic crystal. In a wider sense, silver telluride can be used to denote AgTe (silver(II) telluride, a metastable compound) or Ag5Te3.
Silver(I) telluride occurs naturally as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20architecture | Cellular architecture is a type of computer architecture prominent in parallel computing. Cellular architectures are relatively new, with IBM's Cell microprocessor being the first one to reach the market. Cellular architecture takes multi-core architecture design to its logical conclusion, by giving the programmer the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s%20law | In computer architecture, Gustafson's law (or Gustafson–Barsis's law) gives the speedup in the execution time of a task that theoretically gains from parallel computing, using a hypothetical run of the task on a single-core machine as the baseline. To put it another way, it is the theoretical "slowdown" of an already p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Graphics%20Project | The Open Graphics Project (OGP) was founded with the goal to design an open-source hardware / open architecture and standard for graphics cards, primarily targeting free software / open-source operating systems. The project created a reprogrammable development and prototyping board and had aimed to eventually produce a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel-C | Handel-C is a high-level programming language which targets low-level hardware, most commonly used in the programming of FPGAs. It is a rich subset of C, with non-standard extensions to control hardware instantiation with an emphasis on parallelism. Handel-C is to hardware design what the first high-level programming ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODMRP | In wireless networking, On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol is a protocol for routing multicast and unicast traffic throughout Ad hoc wireless mesh networks.
ODMRP creates routes on demand, rather than proactively creating routes as OLSR does. This suffers from a route acquisition delay, although it helps reduce netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Spencer | Joel Spencer (born April 20, 1946) is an American mathematician. He is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on Ramsey theory. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, under the supervision of Andrew Gleason. He is currently () a professor at the Courant Insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playout | In broadcasting, channel playout is the generation of the source signal of a radio or television channel produced by a broadcaster, coupled with the transmission of this signal for primary distribution or direct-to-audience distribution via any network. Such radio or television distribution networks include terrestrial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20M.%20Gleason | Andrew Mattei Gleason (November 4, 1921October 17, 2008) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in teaching at all levels.<ref
name="mactutor"></ref> Gleason's t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20spreadsheet%20software | The following is a list of spreadsheets.
Free and open-source software
Cloud and on-line spreadsheets
Collabora Online Calc — Enterprise-ready LibreOffice.
EtherCalc (successor to SocialCalc, which is based on wikiCalc)
LibreOffice Online Calc
ONLYOFFICE - Community Server Edition
Sheetster – "Community Edition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Virginia%20Broadband | West Virginia Broadband is a Wireless community network located in Braxton County, West Virginia operated by local volunteers and coordinated by the Gilmer-Braxton Research Zone. The effort gained recent attention by a National Public Radio story and MuniWireless and SmartMobs bloggers detailing how modified off-the-sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20system-level%20design%20and%20verification | Electronic system level (ESL) design and verification is an electronic design methodology, focused on higher abstraction level concerns. The term Electronic System Level or ESL Design was first defined by Gartner Dataquest, an EDA-industry-analysis firm, on February 1, 2001. It is defined in ESL Design and Verificatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20publishing | CD publishing is the use of CD duplication systems to create a large number of unique discs. For instance, storing a unique serial number on each copy of a software application disc would be considered CD publishing.
The term CD publishing is believed to have been coined by the Rimage Corporation as part of a marketi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insyde%20Software | Insyde Software () is a company that specializes in UEFI system firmware and engineering support services, primarily for OEM and ODM computer and component device manufacturers. They are listed on the Gre Tai Market of Taiwan and headquartered in Taipei, with offices in Westborough, Massachusetts, and Portland, Oregon.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress%20PSoC | PSoC (programmable system on a chip) is a family of microcontroller integrated circuits by Cypress Semiconductor. These chips include a CPU core and mixed-signal arrays of configurable integrated analog and digital peripherals.
History
In 2002, Cypress began shipping commercial quantities of the PSoC 1. To promote t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20Haskell | Concurrent Haskell extends Haskell 98 with explicit concurrency. Its two main underlying concepts are:
A primitive type MVar α implementing a bounded/single-place asynchronous channel, which is either empty or holds a value of type α.
The ability to spawn a concurrent thread via the forkIO primitive.
Built atop thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketMail | PocketMail was a very small and inexpensive mobile computer, with a built-in acoustic coupler, developed by PocketScience.
History
PocketMail was developed by the company PocketScience and used technology developed by NASA. This was the first ever mass-market mobile email. The hardware cost around US$100 and the se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene | In biology, the word gene (from , ; meaning generation or birth or gender) can have several different meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity and the molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is transcribed to produce a functional RNA. There are two types of molecular genes: protein-codin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona%20%28user%20experience%29 | A persona (also user persona, customer persona, buyer persona) in user-centered design and marketing is a personalized fictional character created to represent a user type that might use a site, brand, or product in a similar way. Personas represent the similarities of consumer groups or segments. They are based on de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20ascorbate | Sodium ascorbate is one of a number of mineral salts of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). The molecular formula of this chemical compound is C6H7NaO6. As the sodium salt of ascorbic acid, it is known as a mineral ascorbate. It has not been demonstrated to be more bioavailable than any other form of vitamin C supplement.
Sodi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20ascorbate | Potassium ascorbate is a compound with formula KC6H7O6. It is the potassium salt of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and a mineral ascorbate. As a food additive, it has E number E303, INS number 303. Although it is not a permitted food additive in the UK, USA and the EU, it is approved for use in Australia and New Zealand. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive%20sequence | A disjunctive sequence is an infinite sequence (over a finite alphabet of characters) in which every finite string appears as a substring. For instance, the binary Champernowne sequence
formed by concatenating all binary strings in shortlex order, clearly contains all the binary strings and so is disjunctive. (The spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overflow%20flag | In computer processors, the overflow flag (sometimes called the V flag) is usually a single bit in a system status register used to indicate when an arithmetic overflow has occurred in an operation, indicating that the signed two's-complement result would not fit in the number of bits used for the result. Some architec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20%28number%20format%29 | The Q notation is a way to specify the parameters of a binary fixed point number format. For example, in Q notation, the number format denoted by Q8.8 means that the fixed point numbers in this format have 8 bits for the integer part and 8 bits for the fraction part.
A number of other notations have been used for the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20web | The mobile web comprises mobile browser-based World Wide Web services accessed from handheld mobile devices, such as smartphones or feature phones, through a mobile or other wireless network.
History and development
Traditionally, the World Wide Web has been accessed via fixed-line services on laptops and desktop co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20subscript%20notation | In engineering, double-subscript notation is notation used to indicate some variable between two points (each point being represented by one of the subscripts). In electronics, the notation is usually used to indicate the direction of current or voltage, while in mechanical engineering it is sometimes used to describe ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Academy%20of%20Engineering | The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are often referred to together as the "Two Academies". Its current president ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FO4 | In digital electronics, Fan-out of 4 is a measure of time used in digital CMOS technologies: the gate delay of a component with a fan-out of 4.
Fan out = Cload / Cin, where
Cload = total MOS gate capacitance driven by the logic gate under consideration
Cin = the MOS gate capacitance of the logic gate under considerat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorography | Chorography (from χῶρος khōros, "place" and γράφειν graphein, "to write") is the art of describing or mapping a region or district, and by extension such a description or map. This term derives from the writings of the ancient geographer Pomponius Mela and Ptolemy, where it meant the geographical description of region... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense | pfSense is a firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. The open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) and pfSense Plus is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval%20%28projective%20plane%29 | In projective geometry an oval is a point set in a plane that is defined by incidence properties. The standard examples are the nondegenerate conics. However, a conic is only defined in a pappian plane, whereas an oval may exist in any type of projective plane. In the literature, there are many criteria which imply t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20constraint%20optimization | Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP or DisCOP) is the distributed analogue to constraint optimization. A DCOP is a problem in which a group of agents must distributedly choose values for a set of variables such that the cost of a set of constraints over the variables is minimized.
Distributed Constraint Satisfa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games%20People%20Play%20%28book%29 | Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships is a 1964 book by psychiatrist Eric Berne. The book was a bestseller at the time of its publication, despite drawing academic criticism for some of the psychoanalytic theories it presented. It popularized Berne's model of transactional analysis among a wide audie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20application%20virtualization%20software | Application virtualization software refers to both application virtual machines and software responsible for implementing them. Application virtual machines are typically used to allow application bytecode to run portably on many different computer architectures and operating systems. The application is usually run on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denjoy%27s%20theorem%20on%20rotation%20number | In mathematics, the Denjoy theorem gives a sufficient condition for a diffeomorphism of the circle to be topologically conjugate to a diffeomorphism of a special kind, namely an irrational rotation. proved the theorem in the course of his topological classification of homeomorphisms of the circle. He also gave an exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%27s%20density%20theorem | In mathematics, Lebesgue's density theorem states that for any Lebesgue measurable set , the "density" of A is 0 or 1 at almost every point in . Additionally, the "density" of A is 1 at almost every point in A. Intuitively, this means that the "edge" of A, the set of points in A whose "neighborhood" is partially in A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20integrable%20function | In mathematics, a locally integrable function (sometimes also called locally summable function) is a function which is integrable (so its integral is finite) on every compact subset of its domain of definition. The importance of such functions lies in the fact that their function space is similar to spaces, but its me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard%20%28logic%29 | In digital logic, a hazard is an undesirable effect caused by either a deficiency in the system or external influences in both synchronous and asynchronous circuits. Logic hazards are manifestations of a problem in which changes in the input variables do not change the output correctly due to some form of delay caused ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.PC | X.PC is a deprecated communications protocol developed by McDonnell-Douglas for connecting a personal computer to its Tymnet packet-switched public data telecommunications network. It is a subset of X.25, a CCITT standard for packet-switched networks. It is a full-duplex, asynchronous and error-correcting network proto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPDL | The XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) is a format standardized by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) to interchange business process definitions between different workflow products, i.e. between different modeling tools and management suites.
XPDL defines an XML schema for specifying the declarative part of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20sort | A sorting algorithm falls into the adaptive sort family if it takes advantage of existing order in its input. It benefits from the presortedness in the input sequence – or a limited amount of disorder for various definitions of measures of disorder – and sorts faster. Adaptive sorting is usually performed by modifyin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball%20statistics | Statistics in basketball are kept to evaluate a player's or a team's performance.
Examples
Examples of basketball statistics include:
GM, GP; GS: games played; games started
PTS: points
FGM, FGA, FG%: field goals made, attempted and percentage
FTM, FTA, FT%: free throws made, attempted and percentage
3FGM, 3FGA,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan%20Birney | John Frederick William Birney (known as Ewan Birney) (born 6 December 1972) is joint director of EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). He also serves as non-executive director of Genomics England,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20diagrams | Thermodynamic diagrams are diagrams used to represent the thermodynamic states of a material (typically fluid) and the consequences of manipulating this material. For instance, a temperature–entropy diagram (T–s diagram) may be used to demonstrate the behavior of a fluid as it is changed by a compressor.
Overview
Es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning%20Ship%20fractal | The Burning Ship fractal, first described and created by Michael Michelitsch and Otto E. Rössler in 1992, is generated by iterating the function:
in the complex plane which will either escape or remain bounded. The difference between this calculation and that for the Mandelbrot set is that the real and imaginary c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovoid%20%28projective%20geometry%29 | In projective geometry an ovoid is a sphere like pointset (surface) in a projective space of dimension . Simple examples in a real projective space are hyperspheres (quadrics). The essential geometric properties of an ovoid are:
Any line intersects in at most 2 points,
The tangents at a point cover a hyperplane (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-valued%20morphism | In mathematics, a 2-valued morphism is a homomorphism that sends a Boolean algebra B onto the two-element Boolean algebra 2 = {0,1}. It is essentially the same thing as an ultrafilter on B, and, in a different way, also the same things as a maximal ideal of B. 2-valued morphisms have also been proposed as a tool for un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20old-growth%20forests | This is a list of areas of existing old-growth forest which include at least of old growth. Ecoregion information from "Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World".
(NB: The terms "old growth" and "virgin" may have various definitions and meanings throughout the world. See old-growth forest for more information.)
Africa
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI%20Avivo | ATI Avivo is a set of hardware and low level software features present on the ATI Radeon R520 family of GPUs and all later ATI Radeon products. ATI Avivo was designed to offload video decoding, encoding, and post-processing from a computer's CPU to a compatible GPU. ATI Avivo compatible GPUs have lower CPU usage when a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groff%20%28software%29 | groff ( ) (also called GNU troff) is a typesetting system that creates formatted output when given plain text mixed with formatting commands. It is the GNU replacement for the troff and nroff text formatters.
Groff contains a large number of helper programs, preprocessors, and postprocessors including eqn, tbl, pic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20matched%20asymptotic%20expansions | In mathematics, the method of matched asymptotic expansions is a common approach to finding an accurate approximation to the solution to an equation, or system of equations. It is particularly used when solving singularly perturbed differential equations. It involves finding several different approximate solutions, eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20stretching | In cryptography, key stretching techniques are used to make a possibly weak key, typically a password or passphrase, more secure against a brute-force attack by increasing the resources (time and possibly space) it takes to test each possible key. Passwords or passphrases created by humans are often short or predictab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Signaled%20Interrupts | Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) are a method of signaling interrupts, using special in-band messages to replace traditional out-of-band signals on dedicated interrupt lines. While message signaled interrupts are more complex to implement in a device, they have some significant advantages over pin-based out-of-band in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable%20of%20the%20Workers%20in%20the%20Vineyard |
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (also called the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard or the Parable of the Generous Employer) is a parable of Jesus which appears in chapter 20 of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It is not included in the other canonical gospels. It has been described as a di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balsam%20of%20Peru | Balsam of Peru or Peru balsam, also known and marketed by many other names, is a balsam derived from a tree known as Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae; it is found in El Salvador, where it is an endemic species.
Balsam of Peru is used in food and drink for flavoring, in perfumes and toiletries for fragrance, and in med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20point%20%28optics%29 | In Gaussian optics, the cardinal points consist of three pairs of points located on the optical axis of a rotationally symmetric, focal, optical system. These are the focal points, the principal points, and the nodal points; there are two of each. For ideal systems, the basic imaging properties such as image size, loca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20bath | A sand bath is a common piece of laboratory equipment made from a container filled with heated sand. It is used to evenly heat another container, most often during a chemical reaction.
A sand bath is most commonly used in conjunction with a hot plate or heating mantle. A beaker is filled with sand or metal pellets (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmark%20manager | A bookmark manager is any software program or feature designed to store, organize, and display web bookmarks. The bookmarks feature included in each major web browser is a rudimentary bookmark manager. More capable bookmark managers are available online as web apps, mobile apps, or browser extensions, and may display b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable%20space%20structures | Inflatable space structures are structures which use pressurized air to maintain shape and rigidity. The technological approach has been employed from the early days of the space program with satellites such as Echo, to impact attenuation system that enabled the successful landing of the Pathfinder satellite and rover ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Kidd%20Jump%20Challenge | Eddie Kidd Jump Challenge is a stunt bike video game released for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MSX and ZX Spectrum first released in 1984, licensed by British stunt performer, Eddie Kidd.
Gameplay
The player takes the role of Eddie Kidd and must make a series of jumps. Like the real Kidd, the player m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripline | In electronics, stripline is a transverse electromagnetic (TEM) transmission line medium invented by Robert M. Barrett of the Air Force Cambridge Research Centre in the 1950s. Stripline is the earliest form of planar transmission line.
Description
A stripline circuit uses a flat strip of metal which is sandwiched b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation%20%28networking%29 | Encapsulation is the computer-networking process of concatenating layer-specific headers or trailers with a service data unit (i.e. a payload) for transmitting information over computer networks. Deencapsulation (or de-encapsulation) is the reverse computer-networking process for receiving information; it removes from ... |
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