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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraview | A tetraview is an attempt to graph a complex function of a complex variable, by a method invented by Davide P. Cervone.
A graph of a real function of a real variable is the set of ordered pairs (x,y) such that y = f(x). This is the ordinary two-dimensional Cartesian graph studied in school algebra.
Every complex num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Notification%20Protocol | Microsoft Notification Protocol (MSNP, also known as the Mobile Status Notification Protocol) is an instant messaging protocol developed by Microsoft for use by the Microsoft Messenger service and the instant messaging clients that connect to it, such as Skype since 2014, and the earlier Windows Live Messenger, MSN Mes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkback%20%28recording%29 | In sound recording, a talkback system is the intercom used in recording studios and production control rooms (PCRs) in television studios to enable personnel to communicate with people in the recording area or booth. While the control room can hear the person in the booth over the studio microphones, the person in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant%20degradation | Elegant degradation is a term used in engineering to describe what occurs to machines which are subject to constant, repetitive stress.
Externally, such a machine maintains the same appearance to the user, appearing to function properly. Internally, the machine slowly weakens over time. Eventually, unable to withstand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20requirements%20document | The user requirement(s) document (URD) or user requirement(s) specification (URS) is a document usually used in software engineering that specifies what the user expects the software to be able to do.
Once the required information is completely gathered it is documented in a URD, which is meant to spell out exactly wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peetre%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Peetre's inequality, named after Jaak Peetre, says that for any real number and any vectors and in the following inequality holds:
The inequality was proved by J. Peetre in 1959 and has founds applications in functional analysis and Sobolev spaces.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-orientable%20wormhole | In wormhole theory, a non-orientable wormhole is a wormhole connection that appears to reverse the chirality of anything passed through it. It is related to the "twisted" connections normally used to construct a Möbius strip or Klein bottle.
In topology, this sort of connection is referred to as an Alice handle.
Theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20for%20Control%20Networks | Architecture for Control Networks (ACN) is a suite of network protocols for control of entertainment technology equipment, particularly as used in live performance or large-scale installations. For example, lighting, audio or special effects equipment. ACN is maintained by Entertainment Services and Technology Associat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astalavista.box.sk | astalavista.box.sk was founded in 1994 as one of the first search engines for computer security information. In practice it turned out to be used as a search engine for security exploits, software for hacking, cracking and different keygenerators and software cracks.
In the early 1990s and 2000s, the site was popular... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception%20chaining | Exception chaining, or exception wrapping, is an object-oriented programming technique of handling exceptions by re-throwing a caught exception after wrapping it inside a new exception. The original exception is saved as a property (such as cause) of the new exception. The idea is that a method should throw exceptions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainstore%20paradox | The chainstore paradox is an apparent game theory paradox involving the chain store game, where a "deterrence strategy" appears optimal instead of the backward induction strategy of standard game theory reasoning.
The chain store game
A monopolist (Player A) has branches in 20 towns. He faces 20 potential competitors,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset%20dish%20antenna | An offset dish antenna or off-axis dish antenna is a type of parabolic antenna. It is so called because the antenna feed is offset to the side of the reflector, in contrast to the common "front-feed" parabolic antenna where the feed antenna is suspended in front of the dish, on its axis. As in a front-fed parabolic d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Daniel%20Mote%20Jr. | Clayton Daniel Mote Jr. (born February 5, 1937) is the President Emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering. He served as the president of the NAE from July 2013 to June 2019. He also served as President of the University of Maryland, College Park from September 1998 until August 2010. From 1967 to 1991, Mote was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astron%20Belt | Astron Belt (アストロンベルト) is a LaserDisc video game in the form of a third-person, space combat rail shooter, released in arcades in 1983 by Sega in Japan, and licensed to Bally Midway for release in North America. Developed in 1982, it was the first major arcade laserdisc video game. The game combines full-motion video (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myhill%20isomorphism%20theorem | In computability theory the Myhill isomorphism theorem, named after John Myhill, provides a characterization for two numberings to induce the same notion of computability on a set.
Theorem
Definitions
Sets A and B of natural numbers are said to be recursively isomorphic if there is a total computable bijective funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20and%20manufacturing%20information | Product and manufacturing information, also abbreviated PMI, conveys non-geometric attributes in 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and Collaborative Product Development systems necessary for manufacturing product components and assemblies. PMI may include geometric dimensions and tolerances, 3D annotation (text) and dime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaging%20pattern | In software architecture, a messaging pattern is an architectural pattern which describes how two different parts of an application, or different systems connect and communicate with each other. There are many aspects to the concept of messaging which can be divided in the following categories: hardware device messagin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost%20convergent%20sequence | A bounded real sequence is said to be almost convergent to if each Banach limit assigns
the same value to the sequence .
Lorentz proved that is almost convergent if and only if
uniformly in .
The above limit can be rewritten in detail as
Almost convergence is studied in summability theory. It is an example of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented%20analysis%20and%20design | Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application, system, or business by applying object-oriented programming, as well as using visual modeling throughout the software development process to guide stakeholder communication and product quality.
OOAD in modern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20RMS%20converter | For the measurement of an alternating current the signal is often converted into a direct current of equivalent value, the root mean square (RMS). Simple instrumentation and signal converters carry out this conversion by filtering the signal into an average rectified value and applying a correction factor. The value of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Business%20Cloud | The Business Cloud is an API enabled self-service platform, developed by Domo, that provides an array of services like data connection and data visualization.
History
Domo, Inc. was founded in 2010 by Josh James who also co-founded the web analytics software company Omniture in 1996, which he took public in 2006.
Dom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasPar | MasPar Computer Corporation was a minisupercomputer vendor that was founded in 1987 by Jeff Kalb. The company was based in Sunnyvale, California.
History
While Kalb was the vice-president of the division of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that built integrated circuits, some researchers in that division were bui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20network | An Omega network is a network configuration often used in parallel computing architectures. It is an indirect topology that relies on the perfect shuffle interconnection algorithm.
Connection architecture
An 8x8 Omega network is a multistage interconnection network, meaning that processing elements (PEs) are connected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole%20figure | A pole figure is a graphical representation of the orientation of objects in space. For example, pole figures in the form of stereographic projections are used to represent the orientation distribution of crystallographic lattice planes in crystallography and texture analysis in materials science.
Definition
Consider... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drillship | A drillship is a merchant vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes. In recent years the vessels have been used in deepwater and ultra-deepwater applications, equipped with the latest and most advanced dynamic positioning systems.
History
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Woods%20number | In number theory, a positive integer is said to be an Erdős–Woods number if it has the following property:
there exists a positive integer such that in the sequence of consecutive integers, each of the elements has a non-trivial common factor with one of the endpoints. In other words, is an Erdős–Woods number if t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montonen%E2%80%93Olive%20duality | Montonen–Olive duality or electric–magnetic duality is the oldest known example of strong–weak duality or S-duality according to current terminology. It generalizes the electro-magnetic symmetry of Maxwell's equations by stating that magnetic monopoles, which are usually viewed as emergent quasiparticles that are "comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%E2%80%93Olesen%20vortex | In theoretical physics, a Nielsen–Olesen vortex is a point-like object localized in two spatial dimensions or, equivalently, a classical solution of field theory with the same property. This particular solution occurs if the configuration space of scalar fields contains non-contractible circles. A circle surrounding th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MotoMagx | MotoMagx was a Linux kernel-based mobile operating system developed and launched in 2007 by Motorola to run on their mid-to-high-end mobile phones. The system was based on MontaVista's Mobilinux. Originally intended for 60% of their upcoming devices, it was soon dropped in favor of Android and Windows Mobile operating ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-LOC | g-force induced loss of consciousness (abbreviated as G-LOC, pronounced "JEE-lock") is a term generally used in aerospace physiology to describe a loss of consciousness occurring from excessive and sustained g-forces draining blood away from the brain causing cerebral hypoxia. The condition is most likely to affect pi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20FirePro | AMD FirePro was AMD's brand of graphics cards designed for use in workstations and servers running professional Computer-aided design (CAD), Computer-generated imagery (CGI), Digital content creation (DCC), and High-performance computing/GPGPU applications. The GPU chips on FirePro-branded graphics cards are identical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve%20Anti-Cheat | Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002.
When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. It may kick players from the gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithful%20representation | In mathematics, especially in an area of abstract algebra known as representation theory, a faithful representation ρ of a group on a vector space is a linear representation in which different elements of are represented by distinct linear mappings .
In more abstract language, this means that the group homomorphism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20instanton | In mathematical physics and differential geometry, a gravitational instanton is a four-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold satisfying the vacuum Einstein equations. They are so named because they are analogues in quantum theories of gravity of instantons in Yang–Mills theory. In accordance with this analogy with s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20Submission%20Description%20Language | Job Submission Description Language is an extensible XML specification from the Global Grid Forum for the description of simple tasks to non-interactive computer execution systems. Currently at version 1.0 (released November 7, 2005), the specification focuses on the description of computational task submissions to tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate-measuring%20machine | A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is a device that measures the geometry of physical objects by sensing discrete points on the surface of the object with a probe. Various types of probes are used in CMMs, the most common being mechanical and laser sensors, though optical and white light sensor do exist. Depending on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionic%20strength | The ionic strength of a solution is a measure of the concentration of ions in that solution. Ionic compounds, when dissolved in water, dissociate into ions. The total electrolyte concentration in solution will affect important properties such as the dissociation constant or the solubility of different salts. One of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a flow formalizes the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid. Flows are ubiquitous in science, including engineering and physics. The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations. Informally, a flow may be viewed as a continuous motion of points over time. More formally, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional%20convergence | In mathematics, specifically functional analysis, a series is unconditionally convergent if all reorderings of the series converge to the same value. In contrast, a series is conditionally convergent if it converges but different orderings do not all converge to that same value. Unconditional convergence is equivalent ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20Environment%20Federation | The Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization of more than 34,000 individual members and 75 Member Associations (MAs) representing water quality professionals around the world. WEF, which was formerly known as the Federation of Sewage Works Associations and later as t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Ball%20function | The Crystal Ball function, named after the Crystal Ball Collaboration (hence the capitalized initial letters), is a probability density function commonly used to model various lossy processes in high-energy physics. It consists of a Gaussian core portion and a power-law low-end tail, below a certain threshold. The func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theil%20index | The Theil index is a statistic primarily used to measure economic inequality and other economic phenomena, though it has also been used to measure racial segregation.
The Theil index TT is the same as redundancy in information theory which is the maximum possible entropy of the data minus the observed entropy. It is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radisys | Radisys Corporation is an American technology company located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States that makes technology used by telecommunications companies in mobile networks. Founded in 1987 in Oregon by former employees of Intel, the company went public in 1995. The company's products are used in mobile network appl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20plants | Artificial plants are imitations of natural plants used for commercial or residential decoration. They are sometimes made for scientific purposes (the collection of glass flowers at Harvard University, for example, illustrates the flora of the United States). Artificial plants vary widely from mass-produced varieties t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Console | The Virtual Console is a line of downloadable video games for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U home video game consoles and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
The Virtual Console lineup consisted of titles originally released on past home and handheld consoles. These titles were run in their original forms through software e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabbling | Scabbling—also called scappling—is the process of reducing stone or concrete. In masonry, it refers to shaping a stone to a rough square by use of an axe or hammer. In Kent, rag-stone masons call this "knobbling". It was similarly used to shape grindstones.
In modern construction, scabbling is a mechanical process of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20browser | A network browser is a tool used to browse a computer network. An example of this is My Network Places (or Network Neighborhood in earlier versions of Microsoft Windows). An actual program called Network Browser is offered in Mac OS 9.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Network%20Places | My Network Places (formerly Network Neighborhood) is the network browser feature in Windows Explorer. It was first introduced in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and was renamed My Network Places in Windows 2000 and later, before being replaced in Windows Vista.
My Network Places maintains an automatically updated histor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20gastronomy | Molecular gastronomy is the scientific approach of cuisine from primarily the perspective of chemistry. The composition (molecular structure), properties (mass, viscosity, etc) and transformations (chemical reactions, reactant products) of an ingredient are addressed and utilized in the preparation and appreciation of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanum%20gallium%20silicate | Lanthanum gallium silicate (referred to as LGS in this article), also known as langasite, has a chemical formula of the form A3BC3D2O14, where A, B, C and D indicate particular cation sites. A is a decahedral (Thomson cube) site coordinated by 8 oxygen atoms. B is octahedral site coordinated by 6 oxygen atoms, and C an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy-disk%20controller | A floppy-disk controller (FDC) has evolved from a discrete set of components on one or more circuit boards to a special-purpose integrated circuit (IC or "chip") or a component thereof. An FDC directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive (FDD). The FDC is responsible for reading data ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B | DO-178B, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification is a guideline dealing with the safety of safety-critical software used in certain airborne systems. It was jointly developed by the safety-critical working group RTCA SC-167 of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) and WG-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon%20number | A person's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring academic papers between that person and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the person is separated from Am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calie%20Pistorius | Carl Wilhelm Irene ("Calie") Pistorius (born 9 August 1958) is a South African academic who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. He announced, on 1 August 2016, that he would be stepping down from this role at the end of January 2017. His successor at Hull was Profe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberfeminism | Cyberfeminism is a feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. It can be used to refer to a philosophy, methodology or community. The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, exploring and re-mak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20River | Digital River is a private company that provides global e-commerce, payments and marketing services. In 2013, Digital River processed more than $30 billion in online transactions. Digital River is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Company operations
Digital River has a history of acquiring other companies in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent%20planning | In computer science multi-agent planning involves coordinating the resources and activities of multiple agents.
NASA says, "multiagent planning is concerned with planning by (and for) multiple agents. It can involve agents planning for a common goal, an agent coordinating the plans (plan merging) or planning of others... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Actor%20model | In computer science, the Actor model, first published in 1973, is a mathematical model of concurrent computation.
Event orderings versus global state
A fundamental challenge in defining the Actor model is that it did not provide for global states so that a computational step could not be defined as going from one glob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphericity | Sphericity is a measure of how closely the shape of an object resembles that of a perfect sphere. For example, the sphericity of the balls inside a ball bearing determines the quality of the bearing, such as the load it can bear or the speed at which it can turn without failing. Sphericity is a specific example of a co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Enterprise%20Server | Open Enterprise Server (OES) is a server operating system published by Novell in March 2005 to succeed their NetWare product.
Unlike NetWare, Novell OES is a Linux distribution—specifically, one based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The first major release of Open Enterprise Server (OES 1) could run either with a Lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20scheme | In algebraic geometry, an algebraic variety or scheme X is normal if it is normal at every point, meaning that the local ring at the point is an integrally closed domain. An affine variety X (understood to be irreducible) is normal if and only if the ring O(X) of regular functions on X is an integrally closed domain. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20connector | The feature connector was an internal connector found mostly in some older ISA, VESA Local Bus, and PCI graphics cards, but also on some early AGP ones. It was intended for use by devices which needed to exchange large amounts of data with the graphics card without hogging a computer system's CPU or data bus, such as T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNP3 | Distributed Network Protocol 3 (DNP3) is a set of communications protocols used between components in process automation systems. Its main use is in utilities such as electric and water companies. Usage in other industries is not common. It was developed for communications between various types of data acquisition and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightface%20analytic%20game | In descriptive set theory, a lightface analytic game is a game whose payoff set A is a subset of Baire space; that is, there is a tree T on which is a computable subset of , such that A is the projection of the set of all branches of T.
The determinacy of all lightface analytic games is equivalent to the existence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock%20%28game%20theory%29 | In game theory, Deadlock is a game where the action that is mutually most beneficial is also dominant. This provides a contrast to the Prisoner's Dilemma where the mutually most beneficial action is dominated. This makes Deadlock of rather less interest, since there is no conflict between self-interest and mutual bene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20counseling | Online counseling is a form of professional mental health counseling that is generally performed through the internet. Computer aided technologies are used by the trained professional counselors and individuals seeking counseling services to communicate rather than conventional face-to-face interactions. Online counsel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20tearing | Screen tearing is a visual artifact in video display where a display device shows information from multiple frames in a single screen draw.
The artifact occurs when the video feed to the device is not synchronized with the display's refresh rate. That can be caused by non-matching refresh rates, and the tear line then... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Macleod%20Ferrers | Norman Macleod Ferrers (11 August 1829 – 31 January 1903) was a British mathematician and university administrator and editor of a mathematical journal.
Career and research
Ferrers was educated at Eton College before studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler in 1851. He was appoi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20200 | The Honeywell 200 was a character-oriented two-address commercial computer introduced by Honeywell in December 1963, the basis of later models in Honeywell 200 Series, including 1200, 1250, 2200, 3200, 4200 and others, and the character processor of the Honeywell 8200 (1968).
Introduced to compete with IBM's 1401, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20aerospace%20engineering%20articles | This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to aerospace engineering. For a broad overview of engineering, see List of engineering topics. For biographies, see List of engineers.
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Advanced Space Vision System —
Aeroacoustics —
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20for%20testing | Design for testing or design for testability (DFT) consists of IC design techniques that add testability features to a hardware product design. The added features make it easier to develop and apply manufacturing tests to the designed hardware. The purpose of manufacturing tests is to validate that the product hardwar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20ballast | An electrical ballast is a device placed in series with a load to limit the amount of current in an electrical circuit.
A familiar and widely used example is the inductive ballast used in fluorescent lamps to limit the current through the tube, which would otherwise rise to a destructive level due to the negative dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Food%20Policy%20Research%20Institute | The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is an international agricultural research center founded in 1975 to improve the understanding of national agricultural and food policies to promote the adoption of innovations in agricultural technology. Additionally, IFPRI was meant to shed more light on the rol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20assay | Enzyme assays are laboratory methods for measuring enzymatic activity. They are vital for the study of enzyme kinetics and enzyme inhibition.
Enzyme units
The quantity or concentration of an enzyme can be expressed in molar amounts, as with any other chemical, or in terms of activity in enzyme units.
Enzyme activity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demister%20%28vapor%29 | A demister is a device often fitted to vapor–liquid separator vessels to enhance the removal of liquid droplets entrained in a vapor stream. Demisters may be a mesh-type coalescer, vane pack or other structure intended to aggregate the mist into droplets that are heavy enough to separate from the vapor stream.
Demiste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20mechanical%20engineering%20articles | This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to mechanical engineering. For a broad overview of engineering, please see List of engineering topics. For biographies please see List of engineers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20abstract%20syntax | In computer science, higher-order abstract syntax (abbreviated HOAS) is a technique for the representation of abstract syntax trees for languages with variable binders.
Relation to first-order abstract syntax
An abstract syntax is abstract because it is represented by mathematical objects that have certain structure ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%ABpuka | A kīpuka is an area of land surrounded by one or more younger lava flows. A kīpuka forms when lava flows on either side of a hill, ridge, or older lava dome as it moves downslope or spreads from its source. Older and more weathered than their surroundings, kīpukas often appear to be like islands within a sea of lava fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrometer | A macrometer is an instrument for measuring the size and distance of distant objects. Distant in this sense means a length that can not be readily measured by a calibrated length. The optical version of this instrument used two mirrors on a common sextant. By aligning the object on the mirrors using a precise vernier, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password%20psychology | Living in the intersection of cryptography and psychology, password psychology is the study of what makes passwords or cryptographic keys easy to remember or guess.
In order for a password to work successfully and provide security to its user, it must be kept secret and un-guessable; this also requires the user to mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute%20Force%3A%20Cracking%20the%20Data%20Encryption%20Standard | Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard (2005, Copernicus Books ) is a book by Matt Curtin about cryptography.
In this book, the author accounts his involvement in the DESCHALL Project, mobilizing thousands of personal computers in 1997 in order to meet the challenge to crack a single message encrypted with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaWeblog | The MetaWeblog API is an application programming interface created by software developer Dave Winer that enables weblog entries to be written, edited, and deleted using web services.
The API is implemented as an XML-RPC web service with three methods whose names describe their function: metaweblog.newPost(), metaweblo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20Finder%20Interchange%20Format | People Finder Interchange Format (PFIF) is a widely used open data standard for information about missing or displaced people. PFIF was designed to enable information sharing among governments, relief organizations, and other survivor registries to help people find and contact their family and friends after a disaster.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo%20Skytree | , is a broadcasting and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 and reached its full height of in March 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, displacing the Canton Tower, and the third tallest structure in the world after the Merdeka 118 () and the Burj Khalifa (8... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHRR | KHRR (channel 40) is a television station in Tucson, Arizona, United States, serving as the market's outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station maintains studios on North Stone Avenue in downtown Tucson, and its transmitter is located ato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational-dynamic%20game | Organizational-dynamic games are Serious games that teach and reflect the dynamics of organizations at the following 3 levels:
individual behavior (specific attitudes towards collaboration or knowledge sharing, competencies, character traits, motivation, change readiness, etc.)
group and network dynamics (power and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20ice%20%28aviation%29 | In aviation, blue ice is frozen sewage material that has leaked mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste systems. It is a mixture of human biowaste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant. Airlines are not allowed to dump their waste tanks ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter%20from%20the%20Storm%3A%20A%20Concert%20for%20the%20Gulf%20Coast | Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast was a one-hour, commercial-free benefit concert television special that aired simulcast worldwide on September 9, 2005, at 8 p.m. ET/CT live (with a 30-second tape delay) from New York City and Los Angeles and tape delayed in the Mountain Time Zone and Pacific Time Z... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20dependency | In software engineering, a circular dependency is a relation between two or more modules which either directly or indirectly depend on each other to function properly. Such modules are also known as mutually recursive.
Overview
Circular dependencies are natural in many domain models where certain objects of the same d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20Design%20Language | Program Design Language (or PDL, for short) is a method for designing and documenting methods and procedures in software. It is related to pseudocode, but unlike pseudocode, it is written in plain language without any terms that could suggest the use of any programming language or library.
PDL was originally developed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namesco | Namesco Ltd (names.co.uk) provides professional online services for individuals and businesses including domain name registration, web hosting, website building tools, email services, ecommerce solutions and a range of managed and unmanaged servers.
History
Namesco was founded by Richard and Rachel Suthering as a sma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoload | In computer programming, autoloading is the capability of loading and linking portions of a program from mass storage automatically when needed, so that the programmer is not required to define or include those portions of the program explicitly. Many high-level programming languages include autoload capabilities, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20%28programming%29 | In the context of computer programming, magic is an informal term for abstraction; it is used to describe code that handles complex tasks while hiding that complexity to present a simple interface. The term is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and often carries bad connotations, implying that the true behavior of the code is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20physics | Applied physics is the application of physics to solve scientific or engineering problems. It is usually considered a bridge or a connection between physics and engineering.
"Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination of factors, such as the motivation and attitude of researchers and the nature of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem%20of%20Apollonius | In Euclidean plane geometry, Apollonius's problem is to construct circles that are tangent to three given circles in a plane (Figure 1). Apollonius of Perga (c. 262 190 BC) posed and solved this famous problem in his work (, "Tangencies"); this work has been lost, but a 4th-century AD report of his results by Pappus ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum%20%22L%22%20filter | The Optimum "L" filter (also known as a Legendre–Papoulis filter) was proposed by Athanasios Papoulis in 1958. It has the maximum roll off rate for a given filter order while maintaining a monotonic frequency response. It provides a compromise between the Butterworth filter which is monotonic but has a slower roll off ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare%20Core%20Protocol | The NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) is a network protocol used in some products from Novell, Inc. It is usually associated with the client-server operating system Novell NetWare which originally supported primarily MS-DOS client stations, but later support for other platforms such as Microsoft Windows, the classic Mac OS, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Ruthless | Operation Ruthless was the name of a deception operation devised by Ian Fleming in the British Admiralty during World War II, in an attempt to gain access to German Naval Enigma codebooks.
Background
With the help of their Polish allies, British codebreakers at Bletchley Park had considerable success in decoding the E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody%20testing | Antibody testing may refer to:
Serological testing, tests that detect specific antibodies in the blood
Immunoassay, tests that use antibodies to detect substances
Antibody titer, tests that measure the amount of a specific antibody in a sample
Antibodies
Biological techniques and tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive%20site | In web archiving, an archive site is a website that stores information on webpages from the past for anyone to view.
Common techniques
Two common techniques for archiving websites are using a web crawler or soliciting user submissions:
Using a web crawler: By using a web crawler (e.g., the Internet Archive) the serv... |
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