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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20algebra%20systems | The following tables provide a comparison of computer algebra systems (CAS). A CAS is a package comprising a set of algorithms for performing symbolic manipulations on algebraic objects, a language to implement them, and an environment in which to use the language. A CAS may include a user interface and graphics capabi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic%20energy%20length%20scale | The characteristic energy length scale describes the size of the region from which energy flows to a rapidly moving crack. If material properties change within the characteristic energy length scale, local wave speeds can dominate crack dynamics. This can lead to supersonic fracture.
Materials science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally%20measurable%20set | In mathematics, a subset of a Polish space is universally measurable if it is measurable with respect to every complete probability measure on that measures all Borel subsets of . In particular, a universally measurable set of reals is necessarily Lebesgue measurable (see below).
Every analytic set is universally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution%20ensemble | In cryptography, a distribution ensemble or probability ensemble is a family of distributions or random variables where is a (countable) index set, and each is a random variable, or probability distribution. Often and it is required that each have a certain property for n sufficiently large.
For example, a unifor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom%20ensemble | In cryptography, a pseudorandom ensemble is a family of variables meeting the following criteria:
Let be a uniform ensemble
and be an ensemble. The ensemble is called pseudorandom if and
are indistinguishable in polynomial time.
References
Goldreich, Oded (2001). Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 1, Basic To... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESU-8 | The Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8) is a variant of UTF-8 that is described in Unicode Technical Report #26. A Unicode code point from the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), i.e. a code point in the range U+0000 to U+FFFF, is encoded in the same way as in UTF-8. A Unicode supplementary character... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone%20control%20circuit | Tone control is a type of equalization used to make specific pitches or frequencies in an audio signal softer or louder. It allows a listener to adjust the tone of the sound produced by an audio system to their liking, for example to compensate for inadequate bass response of loudspeakers or earphones, tonal qualities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20hypergeometric%20series | In mathematics, basic hypergeometric series, or q-hypergeometric series, are q-analogue generalizations of generalized hypergeometric series, and are in turn generalized by elliptic hypergeometric series.
A series xn is called hypergeometric if the ratio of successive terms xn+1/xn is a rational function of n. If th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Infoset | Fast Infoset (or FI) is an international standard that specifies a binary encoding format for the XML Information Set (XML Infoset) as an alternative to the XML document format. It aims to provide more efficient serialization than the text-based XML format.
FI is effectively a lossless compression, analogous to gzip, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Rusczyk | Richard Rusczyk (; ; born September 21, 1971) is the founder and chief executive officer of Art of Problem Solving Inc. (as well as the website, which serves as a mathematics forum and place to hold online classes) and a co-author of the Art of Problem Solving textbooks. Rusczyk was a national Mathcounts participant in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercell | Enercell is a battery brand that was sold exclusively by RadioShack at retail stores and online.
In a "battery of the month club" promotion introduced in the 1960s and abandoned in the early 1990s, RadioShack customers were issued a free wallet-sized cardboard card which entitled the bearer to one free battery a month... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrospray | The name electrospray is used for an apparatus that employs electricity to disperse a liquid or for the fine aerosol resulting from this process. High voltage is applied to a liquid supplied through an emitter (usually a glass or metallic capillary). Ideally the liquid reaching the emitter tip forms a Taylor cone, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20office%20suites | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites:
General information
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
OS support
The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation; for the given office suite/OS com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedStep | Enhanced SpeedStep is a series of dynamic frequency scaling technologies (codenamed Geyserville and including SpeedStep, SpeedStep II, and SpeedStep III) built into some Intel microprocessors that allow the clock speed of the processor to be dynamically changed (to different P-states) by software. This allows the proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential%20graph | An existential graph is a type of diagrammatic or visual notation for logical expressions, proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce, who wrote on graphical logic as early as 1882, and continued to develop the method until his death in 1914.
The graphs
Peirce proposed three systems of existential graphs:
alpha, isomorphic t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave%20effect | Octave effect boxes are a type of special effects unit which mix the input signal with a synthesised signal whose musical tone is an octave lower or higher than the original. The synthesised octave signal is derived from the original input signal by halving (octave-down) or doubling (octave-up) the frequency. This is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-channel%20flow | In fluid mechanics and hydraulics, open-channel flow is a type of liquid flow within a conduit with a free surface, known as a channel. The other type of flow within a conduit is pipe flow. These two types of flow are similar in many ways but differ in one important respect: open-channel flow has a free surface, wherea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20properties%20of%20sets%20of%20reals | This article lists some properties of sets of real numbers. The general study of these concepts forms descriptive set theory, which has a rather different emphasis from general topology.
Definability properties
Borel set
Analytic set
C-measurable set
Projective set
Inductive set
Infinity-Borel set
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late%20fee | A late fee, also known as an overdue fine, late fine, or past due fee, is a charge fined against a client by a company or organization for not paying a bill or returning a rented or borrowed item by its due date. Its use is most commonly associated with businesses like creditors, video rental outlets and libraries. Lat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basidiospore | A basidiospore is a reproductive spore produced by Basidiomycete fungi, a grouping that includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts. Basidiospores typically each contain one haploid nucleus that is the product of meiosis, and they are produced by specialized fungal cells called basidia. Typically, four basidiospo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry and physics, cohesion (), also called cohesive attraction or cohesive force, is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive. It is an intrinsic property of a substance that is caused by the shape and structure of its molecules, which makes the distribution of surro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20scheme | The theory of association schemes arose in statistics, in the theory of experimental design for the analysis of variance. In mathematics, association schemes belong to both algebra and combinatorics. In algebraic combinatorics, association schemes provide a unified approach to many topics, for example combinatorial des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfigurability | Reconfigurability denotes the Reconfigurable Computing capability of a system, so that its behavior can be changed by reconfiguration, i. e. by loading different configware code. This static reconfigurability distinguishes between reconfiguration time and run time. Dynamic reconfigurability denotes the capability of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20Technical%20Centre | The Railway Technical Centre (RTC) in London Road, Derby, England, was the technical headquarters of the British Railways Board, and was built in the early 1960s. British Rail described it as the largest railway research complex in the world.
The RTC centralised most of the technical services provided by the regional ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Research%20Division | The British Rail Research Division was a division of the state-owned railway company British Rail (BR). It was charged with conducting research into improving various aspects of Britain's railways, particularly in the areas of reliability and efficiency, including achieving cost reductions and increasing service levels... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20induction%20thyristor | The static induction thyristor (SIT, SITh) is a thyristor with a buried gate structure in which the gate electrodes are placed in n-base region. Since they are normally on-state, gate electrodes must be negatively or anode biased to hold off-state. It has low noise, low distortion, high audio frequency power capability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS%20composite%20static%20induction%20thyristor | MOS composite static induction thyristor (CSMT or MCS) is a combination of a MOS transistor connected in cascode relation to the SI-thyristor.
The SI thyristor (SITh) unit has a gate to which a source of MOS transistor is connected through a voltage regulation element. The low conduction loss and rugged structure MCS ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20screen | A projection screen is an installation consisting of a surface and a support structure used for displaying a projected image for the view of an audience. Projection screens may be permanently installed on a wall, as in a movie theater, mounted to or placed in a ceiling using a rollable projection surface that retracts ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel%20%28computing%29 | In Unix operating systems, the term wheel refers to a user account with a wheel bit, a system setting that provides additional special system privileges that empower a user to execute restricted commands that ordinary user accounts cannot access.
Origins
The term wheel was first applied to computer user privilege lev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20BizTalk%20Server | Microsoft BizTalk Server is an inter-organizational middleware system (IOMS) that automates business processes through the use of adapters which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in an enterprise. Created by Microsoft, it provides enterprise application integration, business process autom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiman%27s%20theorem | In additive combinatorics, Freiman's theorem is a central result which indicates the approximate structure of sets whose sumset is small. It roughly states that if is small, then can be contained in a small generalized arithmetic progression.
Statement
If is a finite subset of with , then is contained in a genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20arithmetic%20progression | In mathematics, a generalized arithmetic progression (or multiple arithmetic progression) is a generalization of an arithmetic progression equipped with multiple common differences – whereas an arithmetic progression is generated by a single common difference, a generalized arithmetic progression can be generated by mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20antenna | A television antenna (TV aerial) is an antenna specifically designed for use with a television receiver (TV) to receive over-the-air broadcast television signals from a television station. Television reception is dependent upon the antenna as well as the transmitter. Terrestrial television is broadcast on frequencies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte%20Corporation | Exabyte Corporation was a manufacturer of magnetic tape data storage products headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Exabyte Corp. is now defunct, but the company's technology is sold by Tandberg Data under both brand names. Prior to the 2006 demise, Exabyte offered tape storage and automation solutions f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20SSH%20clients | An SSH client is a software program which uses the secure shell protocol to connect to a remote computer. This article compares a selection of notable clients.
General
Platform
The operating systems or virtual machines the SSH clients are designed to run on without emulation include several possibilities:
Partia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wavelet-related%20transforms | A list of wavelet related transforms:
Continuous wavelet transform (CWT)
Discrete wavelet transform (DWT)
Multiresolution analysis (MRA)
Lifting scheme
Binomial QMF (BQMF)
Fast wavelet transform (FWT)
Complex wavelet transform
Non or undecimated wavelet transform, the downsampling is omitted
Newland transform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-generation%20wavelet%20transform | In signal processing, the second-generation wavelet transform (SGWT) is a wavelet transform where the filters (or even the represented wavelets) are not designed explicitly, but the transform consists of the application of the Lifting scheme.
Actually, the sequence of lifting steps could be converted to a regular discr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20ferulate | Sodium ferulate, the sodium salt of ferulic acid, is a compound used in traditional Chinese medicine thought to be useful for treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and to prevent thrombosis, although there is no high-quality clinical evidence for such effects. It is found in the root of Angelica sine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecast%20Creator | Stagecast Creator is a visual programming language intended for use in teaching programming to children. It is based on the programming by demonstration
concept, where rules are created by giving examples of what actions should take place in a given situation. It can be used to construct simulations, animations and ga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resinous%20glaze | Resinous glaze is an alcohol-based solution of various types of food-grade shellac. The shellac is derived from the raw material sticklac, which is a resin scraped from the branches of trees left from when the small insect, Kerria lacca (also known as Laccifer lacca), creates a hard, waterproof cocoon. When used in fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20retinal%20display | A virtual retinal display (VRD), also known as a retinal scan display (RSD) or retinal projector (RP), is a display technology that draws a raster display (like a television) directly onto the retina of the eye.
History
In the past similar systems have been made by projecting a defocused image directly in front of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20programming%20model | In computing, a parallel programming model is an abstraction of parallel computer architecture, with which it is convenient to express algorithms and their composition in programs. The value of a programming model can be judged on its generality: how well a range of different problems can be expressed for a variety of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole%20%28architecture%29 | A mole is a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway separating two bodies of water. A mole may have a wooden structure built on top of it that resembles a wooden pier. The defining feature of a mole, however, is that water cannot freely flow underneath it, unlike a true pier. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%E2%80%B2%E2%80%B2 | P′′ (P double prime) is a primitive computer programming language created by Corrado Böhm in 1964 to describe a family of Turing machines.
Definition
(hereinafter written P′′) is formally defined as a set of words on the four-instruction alphabet , as follows:
Syntax
and are words in P′′.
If and are words in P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet%20packet%20decomposition | Originally known as optimal subband tree structuring (SB-TS), also called wavelet packet decomposition (WPD)
(sometimes known as just wavelet packets or subband tree), is a wavelet transform where the discrete-time (sampled) signal is passed through more filters than the discrete wavelet transform (DWT).
Introduction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20Hall%20effect | In solid-state physics, the thermal Hall effect, also known as the Righi–Leduc effect, named after independent co-discoverers Augusto Righi and Sylvestre Anatole Leduc, is the thermal analog of the Hall effect. Given a thermal gradient across a solid, this effect describes the appearance of an orthogonal temperature gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium%20oxide | Titanium oxide may refer to:
Titanium dioxide (titanium(IV) oxide), TiO2
Titanium(II) oxide (titanium monoxide), TiO, a non-stoichiometric oxide
Titanium(III) oxide (dititanium trioxide), Ti2O3
Ti3O
Ti2O
δ-TiOx (x= 0.68–0.75)
TinO2n−1 where n ranges from 3–9 inclusive, e.g. Ti3O5, Ti4O7, etc.
Reduced titanium ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20meter | A peak meter is a type of measuring instrument that visually indicates the instantaneous level of an audio signal that is passing through it (a sound level meter). In sound reproduction, the meter, whether peak or not, is usually meant to correspond to the perceived loudness of a particular signal. The term peak is us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated%20encryption | Authenticated Encryption (AE) is an encryption scheme which simultaneously assures the data confidentiality (also known as privacy: the encrypted message is impossible to understand without the knowledge of a secret key) and authenticity (in other words, it is unforgeable: the encrypted message includes an authenticati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton-second | The newton-second (also newton second; symbol: N⋅s or N s) is the unit of impulse in the International System of Units (SI). It is dimensionally equivalent to the momentum unit kilogram-metre per second (kg⋅m/s). One newton-second corresponds to a one-newton force applied for one second.
It can be used to identify ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDGC | QDGC - Quarter Degree Grid Cells (or QDS - Quarter degree Squares) are a way of dividing the longitude latitude degree square cells into smaller squares, forming in effect a system of geocodes. Historically QDGC has been used in a lot of African atlases. Several African biodiversity projects uses QDGC, among which The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCKSS | The LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") project, under the auspices of Stanford University, is a peer-to-peer network that develops and supports an open source system allowing libraries to collect, preserve and provide their readers with access to material published on the Web. Its main goal is digital preservati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-disc%20display | The flip-disc display (or flip-dot display) is an electromechanical dot matrix display technology used for large outdoor signs, normally those that will be exposed to direct sunlight. Flip-disc technology has been used for destination signs in buses across North America, Europe and Australia, as well as for variable-me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rkhunter | rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of important files with known good ones in online databases, searching for default directories (of rootkits), wrong permissions, hidden files, suspicious strings in kern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification%20and%20Description%20Language | Specification and Description Language (SDL) is a specification language targeted at the unambiguous specification and description of the behaviour of reactive and distributed systems.
Overview
The ITU-T has defined SDL in Recommendations Z.100 to Z.106. SDL originally focused on telecommunication systems; its curre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrostology | Agrostology (from Greek , agrōstis, "type of grass"; and , -logia), sometimes graminology, is the scientific study of the grasses (the family Poaceae, or Gramineae). The grasslike species of the sedge family (Cyperaceae), the rush family (Juncaceae), and the bulrush or cattail family (Typhaceae) are often included with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20theater%20in%20a%20box | A home theater in a box (HTIB) is an integrated home theater package which "bundles" together a combination DVD or Blu-ray player, a multi-channel amplifier (which includes a surround sound decoder, a radio tuner, and other features), speaker wires, connection cables, a remote control, a set of five or more surround s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effluent | Effluent is wastewater from sewers or industrial outfalls that flows directly into surface waters, either untreated or after being treated at a facility. The term has slightly different meanings in certain contexts, and may contain various pollutants depending on the source.
Definition
Effluent is defined by the Unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20state | Range state is a term generally used in zoogeography and conservation biology to refer to any nation that exercises jurisdiction over any part of a range which a particular species, taxon or biotope inhabits, or crosses or overflies at any time on its normal migration route. The term is often expanded to also include,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock%20object | In object-oriented programming, mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behaviour of real objects in controlled ways, most often as part of a software testing initiative. A programmer typically creates a mock object to test the behaviour of some other object, in much the same way that a car designer uses a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade%20PC | A blade PC is a form of client or personal computer (PC). In conjunction with a client access device (usually a thin client) on a user's desk, the supporting blade PC is typically housed in a rack enclosure, usually in a datacenter or specialised environment. Together, they accomplish many of the same functions of a tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yie%20Ar%20Kung-Fu | () is an arcade fighting game developed and published by Konami. It first had a limited Japanese release in October 1984, before having a wide release nationwide in January 1985 and then internationally in March. Along with Karate Champ (1984), which influenced Yie-Ar Kung Fu, it is one of the games that established th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%28R%29 | In set theory, L(R) (pronounced L of R) is the smallest transitive inner model of ZF containing all the ordinals and all the reals.
Construction
It can be constructed in a manner analogous to the construction of L (that is, Gödel's constructible universe), by adding in all the reals at the start, and then iterating th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20Set%20Willy%20II | Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier is a platform game released 1985 by Software Projects as the Amstrad CPC port of Jet Set Willy. It was then rebranded as the sequel and ported other home computers. Jet Set Willy II was developed by Derrick P. Rowson and Steve Wetherill rather than Jet Set Willy programmer Matthew ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCCT-TV | WCCT-TV (channel 20), branded on-air as CW 20, is a television station licensed to Waterbury, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Hartford-licensed Fox affiliate WTIC-TV (channel 61). Both stations share studios on Broad Street... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-three-in-line%20problem | The no-three-in-line problem in discrete geometry asks how many points can be placed in the grid so that no three points lie on the same line. The problem concerns lines of all slopes, not only those aligned with the grid. It was introduced by Henry Dudeney in 1900. Brass, Moser, and Pach call it "one of the oldest an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openwall%20Project | The Openwall Project is a source for various software, including Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl), a security-enhanced Linux distribution designed for servers. Openwall patches and security extensions have been included into many major Linux distributions.
As the name implies, Openwall GNU/*/Linux draws source code and des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructor%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In object-oriented programming, a destructor (sometimes abbreviated dtor) is a method which is invoked mechanically just before the memory of the object is released. It can happen when its lifetime is bound to scope and the execution leaves the scope, when it is embedded in another object whose lifetime ends, or when i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renard%20series | Renard series are a system of preferred numbers dividing an interval from 1 to 10 into 5, 10, 20, or 40 steps. This set of preferred numbers was proposed in 1877 by French army engineer Colonel Charles Renard. His system was adopted by the ISO in 1949 to form the ISO Recommendation R3, first published in 1953 or 1954, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-element | In digital computing, the Muller C-element (C-gate, hysteresis flip-flop, coincident flip-flop, or two-hand safety circuit) is a small binary logic circuit widely used in design of asynchronous circuits and systems. It outputs 0 when all inputs are 0, it outputs 1 when all inputs are 1, and it retains its output state ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20C-element | Asymmetric C-elements are extended C-elements which allow inputs which only effect the operation of the element when transitioning in one of the directions. Asymmetric inputs are attached to either the minus (-) or plus (+) strips of the symbol. The common inputs which effect both the transitions are connected to the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20record | A business record is a document (hard copy or digital) that records an "act, condition, or event" related to business. Business records include meeting minutes, memoranda, employment contracts, and accounting source documents.
It must be retrievable at a later date so that the business dealings can be accurately revie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%20programme%20meter | A peak programme meter (PPM) is an instrument used in professional audio that indicates the level of an audio signal.
Different kinds of PPM fall into broad categories:
True peak programme meter. This shows the peak level of the waveform no matter how brief its duration.
Quasi peak programme meter (QPPM). This only sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervariable | Hypervariable may refer to:
Hypervariable sequence, a segment of a chromosome characterised by considerable variation in the number of tandem repeats at one or more loci
Hypervariable locus, a locus with many alleles; especially those whose variation is due to variable numbers of tandem repeats
Hypervariable region (H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax%20server | A fax server is a system installed in a local area network (LAN) server that allows computer users whose computers are attached to the LAN to send and receive fax messages.
Alternatively the term fax server is sometimes used to describe a program that enables a computer to send and receive fax messages, set of softwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retention%20basin | A retention basin, sometimes called a retention pond, wet detention basin, or storm water management pond (SWMP), is an artificial pond with vegetation around the perimeter and a permanent pool of water in its design. It is used to manage stormwater runoff, for protection against flooding, for erosion control, and to s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic%20marker%20hypothesis | The somatic marker hypothesis, formulated by Antonio Damasio and associated researchers, proposes that emotional processes guide (or bias) behavior, particularly decision-making.
"Somatic markers" are feelings in the body that are associated with emotions, such as the association of rapid heartbeat with anxiety or of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation%20calculus | The situation calculus is a logic formalism designed for representing and reasoning about dynamical domains. It was first introduced by John McCarthy in 1963. The main version of the situational calculus that is presented in this article is based on that introduced by Ray Reiter in 1991. It is followed by sections abou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomberman%20%281983%20video%20game%29 | is a maze video game developed and published by Hudson Soft. The original home computer game was released in July 1983 for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001 mkII, Fujitsu FM-7, Sharp MZ-700, Sharp MZ-2000, Sharp X1 and MSX in Japan, and a graphically modified version for the MSX and ZX Spectrum in Europe as Eric and the Fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Code%20Room | The Code Room is a half-hour-long reality game show produced by Microsoft. The show was conceptualized and executive produced by Paul Murphy and hosted by Jessi Knapp, accompanied by a varying project expert. Each episode consists of a number of MSDN Developer Event attendees who team up to complete a project, with giv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20deepening%20A%2A | Iterative deepening A* (IDA*) is a graph traversal and path search algorithm that can find the shortest path between a designated start node and any member of a set of goal nodes in a weighted graph. It is a variant of iterative deepening depth-first search that borrows the idea to use a heuristic function to conservat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath%20I/O | In computer storage, multipath I/O is a fault-tolerance and performance-enhancement technique that defines more than one physical path between the CPU in a computer system and its mass-storage devices through the buses, controllers, switches, and bridge devices connecting them.
As an example, a SCSI hard disk drive ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor-input%20filter | A capacitor-input filter is a filter circuit in which the first element is a capacitor connected in parallel with the output of the rectifier in a linear power supply. The capacitor increases the DC voltage and decreases the ripple voltage components of the output. The capacitor is often referred to as a smoothing capa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusin%27s%20theorem | In the mathematical field of real analysis, Lusin's theorem (or Luzin's theorem, named for Nikolai Luzin) or Lusin's criterion states that an almost-everywhere finite function is measurable if and only if it is a continuous function on nearly all its domain. In the informal formulation of J. E. Littlewood, "every measu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary%20wavelet%20transform | The Stationary wavelet transform (SWT) is a wavelet transform algorithm designed to overcome the lack of translation-invariance of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Translation-invariance is achieved by removing the downsamplers and upsamplers in the DWT and upsampling the filter coefficients by a factor of in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardock%20Central | Stardock Central was a software content delivery and digital rights management system used by Stardock customers to access components of the Object Desktop, TotalGaming.net and ThinkDesk product lines, as well as products under the WinCustomize brand.
Introduced in 2001 to access games on TotalGaming.net (then known a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUPL | WUPL (channel 54) is a television station licensed to Slidell, Louisiana, United States, serving the New Orleans area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside CBS affiliate WWL-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios on Rampart Street in the historic French Quarter district, while WUPL's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickling | Pickling is the process of preserving or extending the shelf life of food by either anaerobic fermentation in brine or immersion in vinegar. The pickling procedure typically affects the food's texture and flavor. The resulting food is called a pickle, or, to prevent ambiguity, prefaced with pickled. Foods that are pick... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GForge | GForge is a commercial service originally based on the Alexandria software behind SourceForge, a web-based project management and collaboration system which was licensed under the GPL. Open source versions of the GForge code were released from 2002 to 2009, at which point the company behind GForge focused on their prop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20roughness | Surface roughness can be regarded as the quality of a surface of not being smooth and it is hence linked to human (haptic) perception of the surface texture. From a mathematical perspective it is related to the spatial variability structure of surfaces, and inherently it is a multiscale property. It has different inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20Mythica | Encyclopedia Mythica is an online encyclopedia that seeks to cover folklore, mythology, and religion. This encyclopedia was founded in June 1995 as a small site with about 300 entries, and established with its own domain name in March 1996. As of May 2021, it features more than 11000 articles.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide%20and%20choose | Divide and choose (also Cut and choose or I cut, you choose) is a procedure for fair division of a continuous resource, such as a cake, between two parties. It involves a heterogeneous good or resource ("the cake") and two partners who have different preferences over parts of the cake. The protocol proceeds as follows:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective%20numeration | Bijective numeration is any numeral system in which every non-negative integer can be represented in exactly one way using a finite string of digits. The name refers to the bijection (i.e. one-to-one correspondence) that exists in this case between the set of non-negative integers and the set of finite strings using a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign%20of%20the%20horns | The sign of the horns is a hand gesture with a variety of meanings and uses in various cultures. It is formed by extending the index and little fingers while holding the middle and ring fingers down with the thumb.
Religious and superstitious meaning
In Hatha Yoga, a similar hand gesture – with the tips of middle an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20port | In computing, a legacy port is a computer port or connector that is considered by some to be fully or partially superseded. The replacement ports usually provide most of the functionality of the legacy ports with higher speeds, more compact design, or plug and play and hot swap capabilities for greater ease of use. Mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCWF | WCWF (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Suring, Wisconsin, United States, serving the Green Bay area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate WLUK-TV (channel 11). Both stations share studios on Lombardi Avenue (US 41) on the line between Green Bay and Ash... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheometer | A rheometer is a laboratory device used to measure the way in which a viscous fluid (a liquid, suspension or slurry) flows in response to applied forces. It is used for those fluids which cannot be defined by a single value of viscosity and therefore require more parameters to be set and measured than is the case for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20as%20a%20service | Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as on-demand software, web-based software, or web-hosted software.
SaaS is considered to be part of cloud computing, along with several other as a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20limit | In statistical mechanics, the thermodynamic limit or macroscopic limit, of a system is the limit for a large number of particles (e.g., atoms or molecules) where the volume is taken to grow in proportion with the number of particles.
The thermodynamic limit is defined as the limit of a system with a large volume, wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20package%20metrics | Various software package metrics are used in modular programming. They have been mentioned by Robert Cecil Martin in his 2002 book Agile software development: principles, patterns, and practices.
The term software package here refers to a group of related classes in object-oriented programming.
Number of classes an... |
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