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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20state%20machine | In computer science, an abstract state machine (ASM) is a state machine operating on states that are arbitrary data structures (structure in the sense of mathematical logic, that is a nonempty set together with a number of functions (operations) and relations over the set).
Overview
The ASM Method is a practical and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duration%20calculus | Duration calculus (DC) is an interval logic for real-time systems. It was originally developed by Zhou Chaochen with the help of Anders P. Ravn and C. A. R. Hoare on the European ESPRIT Basic Research Action (BRA) ProCoS project on Provably Correct Systems.
Duration calculus is mainly useful at the requirements level ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20shift | Blood shift has at least two separate meanings:
In medicine, it is synonymous with left shift
In diving physiology, it is part of the diving reflex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20ending%20problem | In mathematics, the "happy ending problem" (so named by Paul Erdős because it led to the marriage of George Szekeres and Esther Klein) is the following statement:
This was one of the original results that led to the development of Ramsey theory.
The happy ending theorem can be proven by a simple case analysis: if fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-202 | K-202 was a 16-bit minicomputer, created by a team led by Polish scientist Jacek Karpiński between 1970–1973 in cooperation with British companies Data-Loop and M.B. Metals. The machine could perform about 1 million instructions per second, making it highly competitive with the US Data General SuperNOVA and UK CTL Modu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20University%20Institute%20in%20Macau | The United Nations University Institute in Macau, formerly the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST; ; Portuguese: Instituto Internacional para Tecnologia de Programação da Universidade das Nações Unidas) and then United Nations University Institute on Computing and Societ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigorous%20Approach%20to%20Industrial%20Software%20Engineering | Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering (RAISE) was developed as part of the European ESPRIT II LaCoS project in the 1990s, led by Dines Bjørner. It consists of a set of tools designed for a specification language (RSL) for software development. It is especially espoused by UNU-IIST in Macau, who run train... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-replaceable%20unit | A field-replaceable unit (FRU) is a printed circuit board, part, or assembly that can be quickly and easily removed from a computer or other piece of electronic equipment, and replaced by the user or a technician without having to send the entire product or system to a repair facility. FRUs allow a technician lacking i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20design | Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules (such as modular process skids), which can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged with other modules or between different systems.
Overview
A modular design can be characterize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-staging | B-staging is a process that utilizes heat or UV light to remove the majority of solvent from an adhesive, thereby allowing a construction to be “staged”. In between adhesive application, assembly and curing, the product can be held for a period of time, without sacrificing performance.
Attempts to use traditional ep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way%20of%20the%20Tiger | The Way of the Tiger is a series of adventure gamebooks by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, originally published by Knight Books (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton) from 1985. They are set on the fantasy world of Orb. The reader takes the part of a young monk/ninja, named Avenger, initially on a quest to avenge his foster ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%20case%20survey | A use case survey is a list of names and perhaps brief descriptions of use cases associated with a system, component, or other logical or physical entity. This artifact is short and inexpensive to produce, and possibly advantageous over similar software development tools, depending on the needs of the project and analy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou%20Chaochen | Zhou Chaochen (; born 1 November 1937) is a Chinese computer scientist.
Zhou was born in Nanhui, Shanghai, China. He studied as an undergraduate at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Peking University (1954–1958) and as a postgraduate at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction%20sensitivity | Friction sensitivity is an approximation of the amount of friction or rubbing a compound can withstand before prematurely exploding. For instance, nitroglycerin has an extremely high sensitivity to friction, meaning that very little rubbing against it could set off a violent explosion. There is no exact determining the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%20User%20Group | The Z User Group (ZUG) was established in 1992 to promote use and development of the Z notation, a formal specification language for the description of and reasoning about computer-based systems. It was formally constituted on 14 December 1992 during the ZUM'92 Z User Meeting in London, England.
Meetings and conferenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS-FACS | BCS-FACS is the BCS Formal Aspects of Computing Science Specialist Group.
Overview
The FACS group, inaugurated on 16 March 1978, organizes meetings for its members and others on formal methods and related computer science topics. There is an associated journal, Formal Aspects of Computing, published by Springer, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof%20fence | The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits, and other agricultural pests from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral areas.
There are three fences in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAUT-TV | KAUT-TV (channel 43) is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW Television Network. It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, alongside NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios in Oklahoma City's Mc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20Methods%20Europe | Formal Methods Europe (FME) is an organization whose aim is to encourage the research and application of formal methods for the improvement of software and hardware in computer-based systems. The association's members are drawn from academia and industry. It is based in Europe, but is international in scope. FME operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK484 | The MK484 AM radio IC is a fully functional AM radio detector on a chip. It is constructed in a TO-92 case, resembling a small transistor. It replaces the similar ZN414 AM radio IC from the 1970s. The MK484 is favored by many hobbyists. It is advantageous in that it performs well with minimal discrete components, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaerator | A deaerator is a device that is used for the removal of dissolved gases like oxygen from a liquid.
Thermal deaerators are commonly used to remove dissolved gases in feedwater for steam-generating boilers. The deaerator is part of the feedwater heating system. Dissolved oxygen in feedwater will cause serious corrosion... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson%20Bird%20Count | The Tucson Bird Count (TBC) is a community-based program that monitors bird populations in and around the Tucson, Arizona, United States metropolitan area. With nearly 1000 sites monitored annually, the Tucson Bird Count is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world.
Methods
Each spring, TBC p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%20scheme | In mathematics, the Bernoulli scheme or Bernoulli shift is a generalization of the Bernoulli process to more than two possible outcomes. Bernoulli schemes appear naturally in symbolic dynamics, and are thus important in the study of dynamical systems. Many important dynamical systems (such as Axiom A systems) exhibit a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLAE-TV | WLAE-TV (channel 32) is an educational independent television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the Educational Broadcasting Foundation, a partnership between the Willwoods Community (a Catholic-related organization) and the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (operator of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20variable | In mathematics, a function of a motor variable is a function with arguments and values in the split-complex number plane, much as functions of a complex variable involve ordinary complex numbers. William Kingdon Clifford coined the term motor for a kinematic operator in his "Preliminary Sketch of Biquaternions" (1873).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20UNIX | Ancient UNIX is any early release of the Unix code base prior to Unix System III, particularly the Research Unix releases prior to and including Version 7 (the base for UNIX/32V as well as later developments of AT&T Unix).
After the publication of the Lions' book, work was undertaken to release earlier versions of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetIQ%20eDirectory | eDirectory is an X.500-compatible directory service software product from NetIQ. Previously owned by Novell, the product has also been known as Novell Directory Services (NDS) and sometimes referred to as NetWare Directory Services. NDS was initially released by Novell in 1993 for Netware 4, replacing the Netware binde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20computing | Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with one completing before the next starts.
This is a property of a system—whether a program, computer, or a network—where there is a separate execution point or "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20pluralism | Cosmic pluralism, the plurality of worlds, or simply pluralism, describes the belief in numerous "worlds" (planets, dwarf planets or natural satellites) in addition to Earth (possibly an infinite number), which may harbour extraterrestrial life.
The debate over pluralism began as early as the time of Anaximander (c. 6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applix |
Applix Inc. was a computer software company founded in 1983 based in Westborough, Massachusetts that published Applix TM1, a multi-dimensional online analytical processing (MOLAP) database server, and related presentation tools, including Applix Web and Applix Executive Viewer. Together, Applix TM1, Applix Web and App... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal%20point%20%28game%20theory%29 | In game theory, a focal point (or Schelling point) is a solution that people tend to choose by default in the absence of communication. The concept was introduced by the American economist Thomas Schelling in his book The Strategy of Conflict (1960). Schelling states that "(p)eople can often concert their intentions or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Library%20museums%20pages | The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world.
History
The VLmp online directory resource was founded by Jonathan Bowen in 1994, originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom. It has been supported by the International Cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATAR | DATAR, short for Digital Automated Tracking and Resolving, was a pioneering computerized battlefield information system. DATAR combined the data from all of the sensors in a naval task force into a single "overall view" that was then transmitted back to all of the ships and displayed on plan-position indicators similar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confit | Confit (, ) (from the French word confire, literally "to preserve") is any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period as a method of preservation.
Confit, as a cooking term, describes when food is cooked in grease, oil, at a lower temperature, as opposed to deep frying. While deep frying typically takes pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20Aspects%20of%20Computing | Formal Aspects of Computing (FAOC) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media, covering the area of formal methods and associated topics in computer science. The editor-in-chief is Jim Woodcock. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 1.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element%20Boolean%20algebra | In mathematics and abstract algebra, the two-element Boolean algebra is the Boolean algebra whose underlying set (or universe or carrier) B is the Boolean domain. The elements of the Boolean domain are 1 and 0 by convention, so that B = {0, 1}. Paul Halmos's name for this algebra "2" has some following in the literatur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility%20principle | The single-responsibility principle (SRP) is a computer programming principle that states that "A module should be responsible to one, and only one, actor." The term actor refers to a group (consisting of one or more stakeholders or users) that requires a change in the module.
Robert C. Martin, the originator of the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20path | A trusted path or trusted channel is a mechanism that provides confidence that the user is communicating with what the user intended to communicate with, ensuring that attackers can't intercept or modify whatever information is being communicated.
The term was initially introduced by Orange Book. As its security archi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM%20expanded%20band | The extended mediumwave broadcast band, commonly known as the AM expanded band, refers to the broadcast station frequency assignments immediately above the earlier upper limits of 1600 kHz in International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Region 2 (the Americas), and 1602 kHz in ITU Regions 1 (Europe, northern Asia and Af... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20in%20white | Body in white (BIW) is the stage in automobile manufacturing in which a car body's frame has been joined together, that is before painting and before the motor, chassis sub-assemblies, or trim (glass, door locks/handles, seats, upholstery, electronics, etc.) have been integrated into the structure. Assembly involves di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20theorem%20for%20cyclic%20polygons | In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that no matter how one triangulates a cyclic polygon, the sum of inradii of triangles is constant.
Conversely, if the sum of inradii is independent of the triangulation, then the polygon is cyclic. The Japanese theorem follows from Carnot's theorem; it is a Sangaku problem.
Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-specific%20multicast | Source-specific multicast (SSM) is a method of delivering multicast packets in which the only packets that are delivered to a receiver are those originating from a specific source address requested by the receiver. By so limiting the source, SSM reduces demands on the network and improves security.
SSM requires that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast%20Listener%20Discovery | Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) is a component of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) suite. MLD is used by IPv6 routers for discovering multicast listeners on a directly attached link, much like Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used in IPv4. The protocol is embedded in ICMPv6 instead of using a separ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReserVec | ReserVec was a computerized reservation system developed by Ferranti Canada for Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA, today's Air Canada) in the late 1950s. It appears to be the first such system ever developed, predating the more famous SABRE system in the United States by about two years. Although Ferranti had high hopes that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest%20theorem | The Ehrenfest theorem, named after Austrian theoretical physicist Paul Ehrenfest, relates the time derivative of the expectation values of the position and momentum operators x and p to the expectation value of the force on a massive particle moving in a scalar potential ,
The Ehrenfest theorem is a special case of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEBRA%20%28computer%29 | The ZEBRA (Zeer Eenvoudige Binaire Reken Automaat translated Very Simple Binary Automatic Calculator) was one of the first computers to be designed in the Netherlands, (the first one was the "ARRA") and one of the first Dutch computers to be commercially available. It was designed by Willem van der Poel of the Netherla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Software%20Engineering | The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A*' rating in the Rankings of the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education. Furthermore, it is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20fiction | Web fiction is written works of literature available primarily or solely on the Internet. A common type of web fiction is the web serial. The term comes from old serial stories that were once published regularly in newspapers and magazines.
Unlike most modern books, a work of web fiction is often not published as a wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Connectivity%20Establishment | Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) is a technique used in computer networking to find ways for two computers to talk to each other as directly as possible in peer-to-peer networking. This is most commonly used for interactive media such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), peer-to-peer communications, vide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20Wi-Fi%20Connection | Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (WFC) is a discontinued online multiplayer gaming service run by Nintendo to provide free online play in compatible Nintendo DS and Wii games. The service included the company's Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop game download services. It also ran features for the Wii and Nintendo DS systems.
Gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannaka%E2%80%93Krein%20duality | In mathematics, Tannaka–Krein duality theory concerns the interaction of a compact topological group and its category of linear representations. It is a natural extension of Pontryagin duality, between compact and discrete commutative topological groups, to groups that are compact but noncommutative. The theory is name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND%20gate | In digital electronics, a NAND gate (NOT-AND) is a logic gate which produces an output which is false only if all its inputs are true; thus its output is complement to that of an AND gate. A LOW (0) output results only if all the inputs to the gate are HIGH (1); if any input is LOW (0), a HIGH (1) output results. A NAN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence%20correlation%20spectroscopy | Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a statistical analysis, via time correlation, of stationary fluctuations of the fluorescence intensity. Its theoretical underpinning originated from L. Onsager's regression hypothesis. The analysis provides kinetic parameters of the physical processes underlying the fluct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20Popper | Siegfried Popper (5 January 1848, Prague – 19 April 1933, Prague) was an eminent naval architect in late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle Europe.
Biography
Popper was born in Prague to Joachim Popper, a fine goods dealer (Galanteriewarenhandler) and Anna Schulhof. He attended the Nikolander Realschule (T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eizo | is a Japanese visual technology company, founded in March 1968, which manufactures display products and other solutions for markets such as business, healthcare, graphics, air traffic control, and maritime. The company is headquartered in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture.
Name
The name EIZO, pronounced AY-ZO, comes from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20Bayesian%20estimation | In probability theory, statistics, and machine learning, recursive Bayesian estimation, also known as a Bayes filter, is a general probabilistic approach for estimating an unknown probability density function (PDF) recursively over time using incoming measurements and a mathematical process model. The process relies he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20shift%20%28medicine%29 | Left shift or blood shift is an increase in the number of immature cell types among the blood cells in a sample of blood. Many (perhaps most) clinical mentions of left shift refer to the white blood cell lineage, particularly neutrophil-precursor band cells, thus signifying bandemia. Less commonly, left shift may also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20subcellular%20localization%20prediction | Protein subcellular localization prediction (or just protein localization prediction) involves the prediction of where a protein resides in a cell, its subcellular localization.
In general, prediction tools take as input information about a protein, such as a protein sequence of amino acids, and produce a predicted lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla | Joomla (), also spelled Joomla! (with an exclamation mark) and sometimes abbreviated as J!, is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content on websites. Web content applications include discussion forums, photo galleries, e-Commerce and user communities and numerous other web-based... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles%20per%20instruction | In computer architecture, cycles per instruction (aka clock cycles per instruction, clocks per instruction, or CPI) is one aspect of a processor's performance: the average number of clock cycles per instruction for a program or program fragment. It is the multiplicative inverse of instructions per cycle.
Definition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20habitability | Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and maintain environments hospitable to life. Life may be generated directly on a planet or satellite endogenously or be transferred to it from another body, through a hypothetical process known as panspermia. Environments... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Apple%20Inc. | Apple Inc., originally named Apple Computer, Inc., is a multinational corporation that creates and markets consumer electronics and attendant computer software, and is a digital distributor of media content. Apple's core product lines are the iPhone smartphone, iPad tablet computer, and the Macintosh personal computer.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmuir%20%28unit%29 | The langmuir (symbol: L) is a unit of exposure (or dosage) to a surface (e.g. of a crystal) and is used in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) surface physics to study the adsorption of gases. It is a practical unit, and is not dimensionally homogeneous, and so is used only in this field. It is named after American physicist Irvin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS%20stereo%20technique | The Nederlandse Omroep Stitchting (NOS) stereo technique is a method of capturing stereo sound.
The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (English: Dutch Broadcast Foundation) found a stereo main microphone system by a number of practical attempts in the 1960s. This system resulted in a quite even distribution of the phantom s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20assigned%20/8%20IPv4%20address%20blocks | Some large blocks of IPv4 addresses, the former Class A network blocks, are assigned in whole to single organizations or related groups of organizations, either by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), or a regional Internet registry.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierpont%20prime | In number theory, a Pierpont prime is a prime number of the form
for some nonnegative integers and . That is, they are the prime numbers for which is 3-smooth. They are named after the mathematician James Pierpont, who used them to characterize the regular polygons that can be constructed using conic sections. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portevin%E2%80%93Le%20Chatelier%20effect | The Portevin–Le Chatelier (PLC) effect describes a serrated stress–strain curve or jerky flow, which some materials exhibit as they undergo plastic deformation, specifically inhomogeneous deformation. This effect has been long associated with dynamic strain aging or the competition between diffusing solutes pinning dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinacy | Determinacy is a subfield of set theory, a branch of mathematics, that examines the conditions under which one or the other player of a game has a winning strategy, and the consequences of the existence of such strategies. Alternatively and similarly, "determinacy" is the property of a game whereby such a strategy exis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxemia | Hypoxemia is an abnormally low level of oxygen in the blood. More specifically, it is oxygen deficiency in arterial blood. Hypoxemia has many causes, and often causes hypoxia as the blood is not supplying enough oxygen to the tissues of the body.
Definition
Hypoxemia refers to the low level of oxygen in blood, and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDMP | NDMP, or Network Data Management Protocol, is a protocol meant to transport data between network attached storage (NAS) devices and backup devices. This removes the need for transporting the data through the backup server itself, thus enhancing speed and removing load from the backup server. It was originally invented ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo%20plot | In electrical engineering, a shmoo plot is a graphical display of the response of a component or system varying over a range of conditions or inputs.
Origin
The origin of the shmoo plot is unclear. It is referenced in a 1966 IEEE paper. Another early reference is in manuals for IBM 2365 Processor Storage.
The inven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20bromate | Potassium bromate (), is a bromate of potassium and takes the form of white crystals or powder. It is a strong oxidizing agent.
Preparation
Potassium bromate is produced when bromine is passed through a hot solution of potassium hydroxide. This first forms unstable potassium hypobromite, which quickly disproportionate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezira%20Scheme | The Gezira Scheme () is one of the largest irrigation projects in the world. It is centered on the Sudanese state of Gezira, just southeast of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers at the city of Khartoum. The Gezira Scheme was begun by the British while the area was governed as part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian%20solitaire | In mathematics and game theory, Bulgarian solitaire is a card game that was introduced by Martin Gardner.
In the game, a pack of cards is divided into several piles. Then for each pile, remove one card; collect the removed cards together to form a new pile (piles of zero size are ignored).
If is a triangular number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSSSF | The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world.
History
This enterprise, according to its founders, was created i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20%28graph%20theory%29 | In graph theory, a book graph (often written ) may be any of several kinds of graph formed by multiple cycles sharing an edge.
Variations
One kind, which may be called a quadrilateral book, consists of p quadrilaterals sharing a common edge (known as the "spine" or "base" of the book). That is, it is a Cartesian prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet%20to%20E-mail | Alphabet to E-mail: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading () is a book by linguist Dr. Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics at American University, Washington, D.C. It was first published in 2000, published by Routledge Press.
In it, Baron explores the history of the English language in written form, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Lindquist%20coordinates | In the mathematical description of general relativity, the Boyer–Lindquist coordinates are a generalization of the coordinates used for the metric of a Schwarzschild black hole that can be used to express the metric of a Kerr black hole.
The Hamiltonian test for particle motion in Kerr spacetime is separable in Boyer–... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20and%20Physical%20Sciences%20Research%20Council | The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to universities in the United Kingdom. EPSRC research areas include mathematics, physic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20storage | In computing, external storage refers to non-volatile (secondary) data storage outside a computer's own internal hardware, and thus can be readily disconnected and accessed elsewhere. Such storage devices may refer to removable media (e.g. punched paper, magnetic tape, floppy disk and optical disc), compact flash drive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compal%20Electronics | Compal Electronics () is a Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM), handling the production of notebook computers, monitors, tablets and televisions for a variety of clients around the world, including Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc., Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu. It also licenses brands of i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Alexander%20MacMahon | Percy Alexander MacMahon (26 September 1854 – 25 December 1929) was a mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics.
Early life
Percy MacMahon was born in Malta to a British military family. His father was a colonel at the time, retired in the rank of the b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellated%20octahedron | The stellated octahedron is the only stellation of the octahedron. It is also called the stella octangula (Latin for "eight-pointed star"), a name given to it by Johannes Kepler in 1609, though it was known to earlier geometers. It was depicted in Pacioli's De Divina Proportione, 1509.
It is the simplest of five reg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xain%27d%20Sleena | is a two genre platformer and side-scrolling arcade video game produced by Technos in 1986. It was licensed for release outside of Japan by Taito. In the USA, the game was published by Memetron, and the game was renamed to Solar Warrior. The European home computer ports renamed the game to Soldier of Light.
Gameplay
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI%20eXtensions%20for%20Instrumentation | PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation (PXI) is one of several modular electronic instrumentation platforms in current use. These platforms are used as a basis for building electronic test equipment, automation systems, and modular laboratory instruments. PXI is based on industry-standard computer buses and permits flexibi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20oven | A crystal oven is a temperature-controlled chamber used to maintain the quartz crystal in electronic crystal oscillators at a constant temperature, in order to prevent changes in the frequency due to variations in ambient temperature. An oscillator of this type is known as an oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TO-220 | The TO-220 is a style of electronic package used for high-powered, through-hole components with pin spacing. The "TO" designation stands for "transistor outline". TO-220 packages have three leads. Similar packages with two, four, five or seven leads are also manufactured. A notable characteristic is a metal tab with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramie-Poudre%20Tunnel | The Laramie-Poudre Tunnel is an early transmountain tunnel in the U.S. state of Colorado. The tunnel transfers water from the west side of the Laramie River basin, which drains to the North Platte River, to the east side Cache la Poudre River basin that drains to the South Platte River. The tunnel is about long with v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puiseux%20series | In mathematics, Puiseux series are a generalization of power series that allow for negative and fractional exponents of the indeterminate. For example, the series
is a Puiseux series in the indeterminate . Puiseux series were first introduced by Isaac Newton in 1676 and rediscovered by Victor Puiseux in 1850.
The de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%20%28chess%20machine%29 | Belle was a chess computer developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs. In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve master-level play, with a USCF rating of 2250. It won the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship five times and the 1980 World Computer Chess Championship. It was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleste | is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by Compile, originally published by Sega in 1988 for the Master System and then by CP Communications for the MSX2. The Master System version was released outside Japan as Power Strike. The game spawned the Aleste and Power Strike franchises.
Plot
The story of Aleste concerns... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chack%27n%20Pop | is a platform arcade game developed and released by Taito in 1984. In the game, the player controls a small yellow creature, Chack'n, with the objective being to retrieve hearts from a cave, all while avoiding the enemies contained within them. Chack'n also has the ability to deploy bombs, which can kill said enemies, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance%20score | An insurance score – also called an insurance credit score – is a numerical point system based on select credit report characteristics. There is no direct relationship to financial credit scores used in lending decisions, as insurance scores are not intended to measure creditworthiness, but rather to predict risk. Insu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20divisor%20of%20zero | In mathematics, an element of a Banach algebra is called a topological divisor of zero if there exists a sequence of elements of such that
The sequence converges to the zero element, but
The sequence does not converge to the zero element.
If such a sequence exists, then one may assume that for all .
If is no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbrand%20Award | The Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning is an award given by the Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE), Inc., (although it predates the formal incorporation of CADE) to honour persons or groups for important contributions to the field of automated deduction. The award is named after... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20capture%20detector | An electron capture detector (ECD) is a device for detecting atoms and molecules in a gas through the attachment of electrons via electron capture ionization. The device was invented in 1957 by James Lovelock and is used in gas chromatography to detect trace amounts of chemical compounds in a sample.
Gas chromatograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20numbering | In computability theory complete numberings are generalizations of Gödel numbering first introduced by A.I. Mal'tsev in 1963. They are studied because several important results like the Kleene's recursion theorem and Rice's theorem, which were originally proven for the Gödel-numbered set of computable functions, still ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobot | Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is an educational, post apocalyptic real-time strategy video game featuring 3D graphics, created by Swiss developer Epsitec SA. The objective of the game is to find a planet for colonization by the human race by establishing a basic infrastructure on the surface and eliminating any alien li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20exchange%20transformation | In mathematics, an interval exchange transformation is a kind of dynamical system that generalises circle rotation. The phase space consists of the unit interval, and the transformation acts by cutting the interval into several subintervals, and then permuting these subintervals. They arise naturally in the study of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20and%20productive%20sets | In computability theory, productive sets and creative sets are types of sets of natural numbers that have important applications in mathematical logic. They are a standard topic in mathematical logic textbooks such as and .
Definition and example
For the remainder of this article, assume that is an admissible numb... |
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