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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-logical%20symbol
In logic, the formal languages used to create expressions consist of symbols, which can be broadly divided into constants and variables. The constants of a language can further be divided into logical symbols and non-logical symbols (sometimes also called logical and non-logical constants). The non-logical symbols of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Sommerville%20%28software%20engineer%29
Ian F. Sommerville (born 23 February 1951), is a British academic. He is the author of a popular student textbook on software engineering, as well as a number of other books and papers. He worked as a professor of software engineering at the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2014 and is a prominent researcher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA%20display
mRNA display is a display technique used for in vitro protein, and/or peptide evolution to create molecules that can bind to a desired target. The process results in translated peptides or proteins that are associated with their mRNA progenitor via a puromycin linkage. The complex then binds to an immobilized target i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAP%20gateway
A WAP gateway sits between mobile devices using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the World Wide Web, passing pages from one to the other much like a proxy. This translates pages into a form suitable for the mobiles, for instance using the Wireless Markup Language (WML). This process is hidden from the phone,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal%20%28mathematical%20logic%29
In mathematical logic, a literal is an atomic formula (also known as an atom or prime formula) or its negation. The definition mostly appears in proof theory (of classical logic), e.g. in conjunctive normal form and the method of resolution. Literals can be divided into two types: A positive literal is just an atom (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Building%20XML
The Green Building XML schema (gbXML) is an open schema developed to facilitate transfer of building data stored in Building Information Models (BIMs) to engineering analysis tools. It enables interoperability between BIM and building performance simulation, which is relevant to sustainable building design and operati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsort
Spreadsort is a sorting algorithm invented by Steven J. Ross in 2002. It combines concepts from distribution-based sorts, such as radix sort and bucket sort, with partitioning concepts from comparison sorts such as quicksort and mergesort. In experimental results it was shown to be highly efficient, often outperforming...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20simplification
Text simplification is an operation used in natural language processing to change, enhance, classify, or otherwise process an existing body of human-readable text so its grammar and structure is greatly simplified while the underlying meaning and information remain the same. Text simplification is an important area of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20precompensation
Write precompensation (abbreviated WPcom in the literature) is a technical aspect of the design of hard disks, floppy disks and other digital magnetic recording devices. It is the modification of the analog write signal, shifting transitions somewhat in time, in such a way as to ensure that the signal that will later b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20band
An Internet band, also called an online band, is a musical group whose members collaborate online through broadband by utilizing a content management system and local digital audio workstations. The work is sometimes released under a Creative Commons license, so musicians can share their "samples" to create collaborati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelike%20simply%20connected
Suppose a Lorentzian manifold contains a closed timelike curve (CTC). No CTC can be continuously deformed as a CTC (is timelike homotopic) to a point, as that point would not be causally well behaved. Therefore, any Lorentzian manifold containing a CTC is said to be timelike multiply connected. A Lorentzian manifold th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensmeter
A lensmeter or lensometer (sometimes even known as focimeter or vertometer), is an ophthalmic instrument. It is mainly used by optometrists and opticians to measure the back or front vertex power of a spectacle lens and verify the correct prescription in a pair of eyeglasses, to properly orient and mark uncut lenses, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20photovoltage
Surface photovoltage (SPV) measurements are a widely used method to determine the minority carrier diffusion length of semiconductors. Since the transport of minority carriers determines the behavior of the p-n junctions that are ubiquitous in semiconductor devices, surface photovoltage data can be very helpful in und...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered%20user
A registered user is a user of a website, program, or other systems who has previously registered. Registered users normally provide some sort of credentials (such as a username or e-mail address, and a password) to the system in order to prove their identity: this is known as logging in. Systems intended for use by th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Kirkman
Thomas Penyngton Kirkman FRS (31 March 1806 – 3 February 1895) was a British mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England. Despite being primarily a churchman, he maintained an active interest in research-level mathematics, and was listed by Alexander Macfarlane as one of ten leading 19th-century Britis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description%20number
Description numbers are numbers that arise in the theory of Turing machines. They are very similar to Gödel numbers, and are also occasionally called "Gödel numbers" in the literature. Given some universal Turing machine, every Turing machine can, given its encoding on that machine, be assigned a number. This is the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty5%20retrotransposon
The Ty5 is a type of retrotransposon native to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae organism. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae retrotransposon Ty5 Ty5 is one of five endogenous retrotransposons native to the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae, all of which target integration to gene poor regions. Endogenous retrotransposons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayScale
Payscale is an American compensation software and data company which helps employers manage employee compensation and employees understand their worth in the job market. History The website was launched on January 1, 2002. It was founded by Joe Giordano and John Gaffney. Mike Metzger served as CEO from 2004 to 2019. S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg%20hypothesis
The Warburg hypothesis (), sometimes known as the Warburg theory of cancer, postulates that the driver of tumorigenesis is an insufficient cellular respiration caused by insult to mitochondria. The term Warburg effect in oncology describes the observation that cancer cells, and many cells grown in vitro, exhibit gluco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basu%27s%20theorem
In statistics, Basu's theorem states that any boundedly complete minimal sufficient statistic is independent of any ancillary statistic. This is a 1955 result of Debabrata Basu. It is often used in statistics as a tool to prove independence of two statistics, by first demonstrating one is complete sufficient and the o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Error%20Reporting
Windows Error Reporting (WER) (codenamed Watson) is a crash reporting technology introduced by Microsoft with Windows XP and included in later Windows versions and Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0. Not to be confused with the Dr. Watson debugging tool which left the memory dump on the user's local machine, Windows Error Repo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceNet
DeviceNet is a network protocol used in the automation industry to interconnect control devices for data exchange. It utilizes the Common Industrial Protocol over a Controller Area Network media layer and defines an application layer to cover a range of device profiles. Typical applications include information exchang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20immunity
In immunology, passive immunity is the transfer of active humoral immunity of ready-made antibodies. Passive immunity can occur naturally, when maternal antibodies are transferred to the fetus through the placenta, and it can also be induced artificially, when high levels of antibodies specific to a pathogen or toxin (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20solution
In chemistry, a regular solution is a solution whose entropy of mixing is equal to that of an ideal solution with the same composition, but is non-ideal due to a nonzero enthalpy of mixing. Such a solution is formed by random mixing of components of similar molar volume and without strong specific interactions, and its...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20Sturmfels
Bernd Sturmfels (born March 28, 1962 in Kassel, West Germany) is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig since 2017. Education and career He received his PhD in 1987 from the Unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical%20set
In set theory, a paradoxical set is a set that has a paradoxical decomposition. A paradoxical decomposition of a set is two families of disjoint subsets, along with appropriate group actions that act on some universe (of which the set in question is a subset), such that each partition can be mapped back onto the entire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20form
Primary form is used in surface metrology to refer to the over-all shape of a surface which can be measured quantitatively. References Metrology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20and%20life
Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910, American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teache...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostway
Hostway is a global web hosting and technology infrastructure company headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. It provides hosting services to individuals, small to medium-sized businesses, and large corporations with web sites, databases, business applications, and managed web hosting. Hostway Services Inc. merg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20optical%20inspection
Automated optical inspection (AOI) is an automated visual inspection of printed circuit board (PCB) (or LCD, transistor) manufacture where a camera autonomously scans the device under test for both catastrophic failure (e.g. missing component) and quality defects (e.g. fillet size or shape or component skew). It is com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package-merge%20algorithm
The package-merge algorithm is an O(nL)-time algorithm for finding an optimal length-limited Huffman code for a given distribution on a given alphabet of size n, where no code word is longer than L. It is a greedy algorithm, and a generalization of Huffman's original algorithm. Package-merge works by reducing the cod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin%2029
Interleukin-29 (IL-29) is a cytokine and it belongs to type III interferons group, also termed interferons λ (IFN-λ). IL-29 (alternative name IFNλ1) plays an important role in the immune response against pathogenes and especially against viruses by mechanisms similar to type I interferons, but targeting primarily cells...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-charge
Pre-charge of the powerline voltages in a high voltage DC application is a preliminary mode which limits the inrush current during the power up procedure. A high-voltage system with a large capacitive load can be exposed to high electric current during initial turn-on. This current, if not limited, can cause considera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20Surface%20Exploration
Mars Surface Exploration (MSE) is a systems engineering tool for the design of rover missions originally developed in 2003 by the Space Systems Engineering graduate class at MIT. It has since been further enhanced by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory with the support of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The tool is i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice%20name
In set theory, a nice name is used in forcing to impose an upper bound on the number of subsets in the generic model. It is used in the context of forcing to prove independence results in set theory such as Easton's theorem. Formal definition Let ZFC be transitive, a forcing notion in , and suppose is generic over...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal%20pair
In computer science, a maximal pair within a string is a pair of matching substrings that are maximal, where "maximal" means that it is not possible to make a longer matching pair by extending the range of both substrings to the left or right. Example For example, in this table, the substrings at indices 2 to 4 (in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent%20fault
An intermittent fault, often called simply an "intermittent", (or anecdotally "interfailing") is a malfunction of a device or system that occurs at intervals, usually irregular, in a device or system that functions normally at other times. Intermittent faults are common to all branches of technology, including computer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20reach%20excavator
A long reach excavator is a type of excavator where the arm has been extended to reach farther than a normal excavator would. It is often used in demolition of buildings, but it can also be used in other applications. History The term long reach excavator was probably first coined by Richard Melhuish, the Chairman of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF-Test
QF-Test from Quality First Software is a cross-platform software tool for the GUI test automation specialized on Java/Swing, SWT, Eclipse plug-ins and RCP applications, Java applets, Java Web Start, ULC and cross-browser test automation of static and dynamic web-based applications (HTML and AJAX frameworks like ExtJS, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipschitz%20domain
In mathematics, a Lipschitz domain (or domain with Lipschitz boundary) is a domain in Euclidean space whose boundary is "sufficiently regular" in the sense that it can be thought of as locally being the graph of a Lipschitz continuous function. The term is named after the German mathematician Rudolf Lipschitz. Definit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
Jugaaḍ (or "Jugaaṛ") is a colloquial word in Indo-Aryan languages, which refers to a non-conventional, frugal innovation, often termed a "hack". It could also refer to an innovative fix or a simple work-around, a solution that bends the rules, or a resource that can be used in such a way. It is also often used to signi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BKM%20algorithm
The BKM algorithm is a shift-and-add algorithm for computing elementary functions, first published in 1994 by Jean-Claude Bajard, Sylvanus Kla, and Jean-Michel Muller. BKM is based on computing complex logarithms (L-mode) and exponentials (E-mode) using a method similar to the algorithm Henry Briggs used to compute log...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV-1
The MTV-1 Micro TV was the second model of a near pocket-sized television. The first was the Panasonic IC model TR-001 introduced in 1970. The MTV-1 was developed by Clive Sinclair (Sinclair Radionics Ltd). It was shown to the public at trade shows in London and Chicago in January, 1977, and released for sale in 1978. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%ADlvio%20Meira
Sílvio Romero de Lemos Meira (Taperoá, Paraíba, 2 February 1955) is a Brazilian computer scientist, professor and entrepreneur in the area of software engineering and innovation. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at the Centre of Informatics of the Federal University of Pernambuco. Additionally, he also is the cha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-in-the-loop%20simulation
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, HWIL, or HITL, is a technique that is used in the development and testing of complex real-time embedded systems. HIL simulation provides an effective testing platform by adding the complexity of the process-actuator system, known as a plant, to the test platform. The complexity o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive%20skin%20%28electronic%20device%29
Sensitive skin, also known as sensate skin or electronic skin (e-skin), is an electronic sensing skin placed on the surface of a machine such as a robotic arm. The goal of the skin is to sense important environmental parameters—such as proximity to objects, heat, moisture, and direct touch sensations. Examples of a sen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20bundle
In mathematics, the dual bundle is an operation on vector bundles extending the operation of duality for vector spaces. Definition The dual bundle of a vector bundle is the vector bundle whose fibers are the dual spaces to the fibers of . Equivalently, can be defined as the Hom bundle that is, the vector bundle ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-based%20mathematics%20education
Computer-based mathematics education (CBME) is an approach to teaching mathematics that emphasizes the use of computers. Computers in math education Computers are used in education in a number of ways, such as interactive tutorials, hypermedia, simulations and educational games. Tutorials are types of software that p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante%20%28video%20game%29
is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Irem in Japan and Europe, and published in North America by Data East. It is considered as a spiritual sequel to Irem's earlier Kung-Fu Master (1984). Plot The game takes place in downtown New York City. The game's plot involves a lone, professional ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20open-source%20health%20software
The following is a list of notable software packages and applications licensed under an open-source license or in the public domain for use in the health care industry. Public health and biosurveillance Epi Info is public domain statistical software for epidemiology developed by Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20program%20insertion
Digital program insertion (DPI) allows cable headends and broadcast affiliates to insert locally generated commercials and short programs into remotely distributed regional programs before they are delivered to home viewers. Digital program insertion also refers to a specific technology which allows an MPEG transport ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Nemenman
Mark Nemenman (, ) (6 November 1936, Minsk, Belarus - 20 September 2022, San Mateo, California) was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language research. He was one of the main developers of the AKI language (in Russian АКИ - АвтоКод ИНЖЕНЕР - Engineer's Autocode) i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandi%27s%20series
In mathematics, the infinite series , also written is sometimes called Grandi's series, after Italian mathematician, philosopher, and priest Guido Grandi, who gave a memorable treatment of the series in 1703. It is a divergent series, meaning that it does not have a sum. However, it can be manipulated to yield a numb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Trace%20Toolkit
The Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) is a set of tools that is designed to log program execution details from a patched Linux kernel and then perform various analyses on them, using console-based and graphical tools. LTT has been mostly superseded by its successor LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation). LTT allows the u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%20matrix
In mathematics, particularly matrix theory and combinatorics, a Pascal matrix is a matrix (possibly infinite) containing the binomial coefficients as its elements. It is thus an encoding of Pascal's triangle in matrix form. There are three natural ways to achieve this: as a lower-triangular matrix, an upper-triangular ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantal%20response%20equilibrium
Quantal response equilibrium (QRE) is a solution concept in game theory. First introduced by Richard McKelvey and Thomas Palfrey, it provides an equilibrium notion with bounded rationality. QRE is not an equilibrium refinement, and it can give significantly different results from Nash equilibrium. QRE is only defined f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20explosion
In mathematics, a combinatorial explosion is the rapid growth of the complexity of a problem due to how the combinatorics of the problem is affected by the input, constraints, and bounds of the problem. Combinatorial explosion is sometimes used to justify the intractability of certain problems. Examples of such problem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-matrix%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, the class of Z-matrices are those matrices whose off-diagonal entries are less than or equal to zero; that is, the matrices of the form: Note that this definition coincides precisely with that of a negated Metzler matrix or quasipositive matrix, thus the term quasinegative matrix appears from time to t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20equivalence
In linear algebra, two rectangular m-by-n matrices A and B are called equivalent if for some invertible n-by-n matrix P and some invertible m-by-m matrix Q. Equivalent matrices represent the same linear transformation V → W under two different choices of a pair of bases of V and W, with P and Q being the change of ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSMO
WSMO or Web Service Modeling Ontology is a conceptual model for relevant aspects related to Semantic Web Services. It provides an ontology based framework, which supports the deployment and interoperability of Semantic Web Services. The WSMO has four main components: Goals - The client's objectives when consulting a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Ocean%20Ecosystem%20Dynamics
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) is the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) core project responsible for understanding how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations. The programme was initiated by SCOR and the IOC of UNESCO in 1991, to understand ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injective%20metric%20space
In metric geometry, an injective metric space, or equivalently a hyperconvex metric space, is a metric space with certain properties generalizing those of the real line and of L∞ distances in higher-dimensional vector spaces. These properties can be defined in two seemingly different ways: hyperconvexity involves the i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminoallyl%20nucleotide
Aminoallyl nucleotide is a nucleotide with a modified base containing an allylamine. They are used in post-labeling of nucleic acids by fluorescence detection in microarray. They are reactive with N-Hydroxysuccinimide ester group which helps attach a fluorescent dye to the primary amino group on the nucleotide. These n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20television%20adapter
A digital television adapter (DTA), commonly known as a converter box or decoder box, is a television tuner that receives a digital television (DTV) transmission, and converts the digital signal into an analog signal that can be received and displayed on an analog television set. Some also have an HDMI output since som...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20level-index%20arithmetic
The level-index (LI) representation of numbers, and its algorithms for arithmetic operations, were introduced by Charles Clenshaw and Frank Olver in 1984. The symmetric form of the LI system and its arithmetic operations were presented by Clenshaw and Peter Turner in 1987. Michael Anuta, Daniel Lozier, Nicolas Schaba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartness%20relation
In constructive mathematics, an apartness relation is a constructive form of inequality, and is often taken to be more basic than equality. It is often written as (⧣ in unicode) to distinguish from the negation of equality (the denial inequality) which is weaker. Description An apartness relation is a symmetric irr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-of-momentum%20frame
In physics, the center-of-momentum frame (COM frame), also known as zero-momentum frame, is the inertial frame in which the total momentum of the system vanishes. It is unique up to velocity, but not origin. The center of momentum of a system is not a location, but a collection of relative momenta/velocities: a refere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst%20exponent
The Hurst exponent is used as a measure of long-term memory of time series. It relates to the autocorrelations of the time series, and the rate at which these decrease as the lag between pairs of values increases. Studies involving the Hurst exponent were originally developed in hydrology for the practical matter of de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking%20antibody
A blocking antibody is an antibody that does not have a reaction when combined with an antigen, but prevents other antibodies from combining with that antigen. This function of blocking antibodies has had a variety of clinical and experimental uses. The term can also be used for inhibiting antibody, prozone phenomenon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-strand%20conformation%20polymorphism
Single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP), or single-strand chain polymorphism, is defined as a conformational difference of single-stranded nucleotide sequences of identical length as induced by differences in the sequences under certain experimental conditions. This property allows sequences to be distinguished...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20matrix
In mathematics, a polynomial matrix or matrix of polynomials is a matrix whose elements are univariate or multivariate polynomials. Equivalently, a polynomial matrix is a polynomial whose coefficients are matrices. A univariate polynomial matrix P of degree p is defined as: where denotes a matrix of constant coeffic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20matrix
In mathematics, a Hamiltonian matrix is a -by- matrix such that is symmetric, where is the skew-symmetric matrix and is the -by- identity matrix. In other words, is Hamiltonian if and only if where denotes the transpose. Properties Suppose that the -by- matrix is written as the block matrix where , , , and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindric%20algebra
In mathematics, the notion of cylindric algebra, invented by Alfred Tarski, arises naturally in the algebraization of first-order logic with equality. This is comparable to the role Boolean algebras play for propositional logic. Cylindric algebras are Boolean algebras equipped with additional cylindrification operation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinBuilder
WinBuilder is a free application designed to build and customize boot disks (Live CDs) based on Microsoft Windows (WinPE). Scripts Scripts are the building blocks of Live CD compiled with Winbuilder, and are used to build the core components of the Live CD for adding applications, and for configuration of a specific p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu%20transformation
The Mathieu transformations make up a subgroup of canonical transformations preserving the differential form The transformation is named after the French mathematician Émile Léonard Mathieu. Details In order to have this invariance, there should exist at least one relation between and only (without any involved)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20trap
In psychology, a social trap is a conflict of interest or perverse incentive where individuals or a group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole. Social traps are the cause of countless environmental issues, including overfishing, energy "brow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Powerline%20Association
The Universal Powerline Association (UPA) was a trade association that covered power line communication (PLC) markets and applications. The UPA promoted and certified power line communication technology from 2004 to 2010. History An interest group for the UPA was established by the founding members in May 2004. A memo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphodiesterase%203
PDE3 is a phosphodiesterase. The PDEs belong to at least eleven related gene families, which are different in their primary structure, substrate affinity, responses to effectors, and regulation mechanism. Most of the PDE families are composed of more than one gene. PDE3 is clinically significant because of its role in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info%20%28Unix%29
Info is a software utility which forms a hypertextual, multipage documentation and help viewer working on a command-line interface. Info reads info files generated by the texinfo program and presents the documentation as a tree with simple commands to traverse the tree and to follow cross references. For instance, pre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20resource%20management
Radio resource management (RRM) is the system level management of co-channel interference, radio resources, and other radio transmission characteristics in wireless communication systems, for example cellular networks, wireless local area networks, wireless sensor systems, and radio broadcasting networks. RRM involves ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newick%20format
In mathematics, Newick tree format (or Newick notation or New Hampshire tree format) is a way of representing graph-theoretical trees with edge lengths using parentheses and commas. It was adopted by James Archie, William H. E. Day, Joseph Felsenstein, Wayne Maddison, Christopher Meacham, F. James Rohlf, and David Swo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly%20o-minimal%20structure
In model theory, a weakly o-minimal structure is a model-theoretic structure whose definable sets in the domain are just finite unions of convex sets. Definition A linearly ordered structure, M, with language L including an ordering relation <, is called weakly o-minimal if every parametrically definable subset of M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20differentiation%20in%20humans
Sexual differentiation in humans is the process of development of sex differences in humans. It is defined as the development of phenotypic structures consequent to the action of hormones produced following gonadal determination. Sexual differentiation includes development of different genitalia and the internal genita...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20air%20volume
Constant air volume (CAV) is a type of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. In a simple CAV system, the supply air flow rate is constant, but the supply air temperature is varied to meet the thermal loads of a space. Most CAV systems are small, and serve a single thermal zone. However, variation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift%20matrix
In mathematics, a shift matrix is a binary matrix with ones only on the superdiagonal or subdiagonal, and zeroes elsewhere. A shift matrix U with ones on the superdiagonal is an upper shift matrix. The alternative subdiagonal matrix L is unsurprisingly known as a lower shift matrix. The (i,j):th component of U and L a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%27s%20function%20%28many-body%20theory%29
In many-body theory, the term Green's function (or Green function) is sometimes used interchangeably with correlation function, but refers specifically to correlators of field operators or creation and annihilation operators. The name comes from the Green's functions used to solve inhomogeneous differential equations,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congruent%20melting
Congruent melting occurs during melting of a compound when the composition of the liquid that forms is the same as the composition of the solid. It can be contrasted with incongruent melting. This generally happens in two-component systems. To take a general case, let A and B be the two components and AB a stable solid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjoint%20filter
In signal processing, the adjoint filter mask of a filter mask is reversed in time and the elements are complex conjugated. Its name is derived from the fact that the convolution with the adjoint filter is the adjoint operator of the original filter, with respect to the Hilbert space of the sequences in which the i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional%20model%20theory
This page is about the concept in mathematical logic. For the concepts in sociology, see Institutional theory and Institutional logic. In mathematical logic, institutional model theory generalizes a large portion of first-order model theory to an arbitrary logical system. Overview The notion of "logical system" here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20software
Almost all radio stations today use some form of broadcast automation. Although some only use small scripts in audio players, a more robust solution is using a full radio automation suite. There are many commercial and free radio automation packages available. Radio software history Radio software allows AM and FM bro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20logic
In mathematical logic, algebraic logic is the reasoning obtained by manipulating equations with free variables. What is now usually called classical algebraic logic focuses on the identification and algebraic description of models appropriate for the study of various logics (in the form of classes of algebras that con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphase%20matrix
In signal processing, a polyphase matrix is a matrix whose elements are filter masks. It represents a filter bank as it is used in sub-band coders alias discrete wavelet transforms. If are two filters, then one level the traditional wavelet transform maps an input signal to two output signals , each of the half len...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastico%20%28web%20hosting%29
Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website. Fantastico scripts are executed from the administration area of a website control panel such as cPanel. Fantastico's web site claims that they are installed on ten thousand servers, with a million users worldwide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telectroscope
The telectroscope (also referred to as 'electroscope') was the first conceptual model of a television or videophone system. The term was used in the 19th century to describe science-based systems of distant seeing. The name and its concept came into being not long after the telephone was patented in 1876, and its ori...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%20Encounter
Highway Encounter is a video game published for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 64, Sharp MZ, and Tatung Einstein by Vortex Software in 1985. It was written by Costa Panayi who also coded Android, Android Two, TLL, Cyclone, and Revolution. Summary Highway Encounter is a strategy/action game played from a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread%20of%20a%20matrix
In mathematics, and more specifically matrix theory, the spread of a matrix is the largest distance in the complex plane between any two eigenvalues of the matrix. Definition Let be a square matrix with eigenvalues . That is, these values are the complex numbers such that there exists a vector on which acts by sca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizio
Vizio Inc. (stylized VIZIO) is an American publicly traded company that designs and sells televisions, sound bars, viewer data, and advertising. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Irvine, California. History The company was founded in 2002 as V Inc. by entrepreneur William Wang and two founding employees....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degradation%20%28telecommunications%29
In telecommunication, degradation is the loss of quality of an electronic signal, which may be categorized as either "graceful" or "catastrophic", and has the following meanings: The deterioration in quality, level, or standard of performance of a functional unit. In communications, a condition in which one or more ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-aligned%20gate
In semiconductor electronics fabrication technology, a self-aligned gate is a transistor manufacturing approach whereby the gate electrode of a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) is used as a mask for the doping of the source and drain regions. This technique ensures that the gate is naturally...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenESB
OpenESB is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It can be used as a platform for both enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture. OpenESB allows developers to integrate legacy systems, external and internal partners and new development in business processes. It supports a multitud...