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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20tongue | Geographic tongue, also known by several other terms, is a condition of the mucous membrane of the tongue, usually on the dorsal surface. It is a common condition, affecting approximately 2–3% of the general population. It is characterized by areas of smooth, red depapillation (loss of lingual papillae) which migrate o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20%28computing%29 | Lola is designed to be a simple hardware description language for describing synchronous, digital circuits. Niklaus Wirth developed the language to teach digital design on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to computer science students while a professor at ETH Zurich.
The purpose of Lola is to statically describe ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20actuarial%20science | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to actuarial science:
Actuarial science – discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries.
What type of thing is actuarial science?
Actuarial science can be described as all of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20design%20up%20front | Big design up front (BDUF) is a software development approach in which the program's design is to be completed and perfected before that program's implementation is started. It is often associated with the waterfall model of software development.
Synonyms for big design up front (BDUF) are big modeling up front (BMUF)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-bodied%20organism | Soft-bodied organisms are animals that lack skeletons. The group roughly corresponds to the group Vermes as proposed by Carl von Linné. All animals have muscles but, since muscles can only pull, never push, a number of animals have developed hard parts that the muscles can pull on, commonly called skeletons. Such skele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore%20extension | In mathematics, especially in the area of algebra known as ring theory, an Ore extension, named after Øystein Ore, is a special type of a ring extension whose properties are relatively well understood. Elements of a Ore extension are called Ore polynomials.
Ore extensions appear in several natural contexts, including... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ%20Affiliate | CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) is an online advertising company owned by Publicis Groupe operating in the affiliate marketing industry, which operates worldwide. The corporate headquarters is in Santa Barbara, California, and there are offices in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY San Francisco, CA We... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20persistence | Image persistence, or image retention, is the LCD and plasma display equivalent of screen burn-in. Unlike screen burn, the effects are usually temporary and often not visible without close inspection. Plasma displays experiencing severe image persistence can result in screen burn-in instead.
Image persistence can occu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Communications%20Act%202000 | The Electronic Communications Act 2000 (c.7) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that:
Had provisions to regulate the provision of cryptographic services in the UK (ss.1-6); and
Confirms the legal status of electronic signatures (ss.7-10).
The United Kingdom government had come to the conclusion that enc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20plating | Ion plating (IP) is a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process that is sometimes called ion assisted deposition (IAD) or ion vapor deposition (IVD) and is a modified version of vacuum deposition. Ion plating uses concurrent or periodic bombardment of the substrate, and deposits film by atomic-sized energetic particles c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20sanitation | Ecological sanitation, commonly abbreviated as ecosan (also spelled eco-san or EcoSan), is an approach to sanitation provision which aims to safely reuse excreta in agriculture. It is an approach, rather than a technology or a device which is characterized by a desire to "close the loop", mainly for the nutrients and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20PI | Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.
Significance
Super PI is popular in the overclockin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state%20laser | A solid-state laser is a laser that uses a gain medium that is a solid, rather than a liquid as in dye lasers or a gas as in gas lasers. Semiconductor-based lasers are also in the solid state, but are generally considered as a separate class from solid-state lasers, called laser diodes.
Solid-state media
Generally, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast | PointCast was a dot-com company founded in 1992 by Christopher R. Hassett in Sunnyvale, California.
PointCast Network
The company's initial product amounted to a screensaver that displayed news and other information, delivered live over the Internet. The PointCast Network used push technology, which was a hot concept ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikeda%20map | In physics and mathematics, the Ikeda map is a discrete-time dynamical system given by the complex map
The original map was proposed first by Kensuke Ikeda as a model of light going around across a nonlinear optical resonator (ring cavity containing a nonlinear dielectric medium) in a more general form. It is reduced ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93robot%20interaction | Human–robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between humans and robots. Human–robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language processing, design, and psychology. A subfield known as physical human–robot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20podcast%20clients | A podcast client, or podcatcher, is a computer program used to stream or download podcasts, usually via an RSS or XML feed.
While podcast clients are best known for streaming and downloading podcasts, many are also capable of downloading video, newsfeeds, text, and pictures. Some of these podcast clients can also auto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritus | In biology, detritus () is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material. Detritus typically includes the bodies or fragments of bodies of dead organisms, and fecal material. Detritus typically hosts communities of microorganisms that colonize and decompose (i.e. remineralize) it. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope%20piezoelectric%20generator | A radioisotope piezoelectric generator (RPG) is a type of radioisotope generator that converts energy stored in radioactive materials into motion, which is used to generate electricity using the repeated deformation of a piezoelectric material. This approach creates a high-impedance source and, unlike chemical batterie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiant%20exitance | In radiometry, radiant exitance or radiant emittance is the radiant flux emitted by a surface per unit area, whereas spectral exitance or spectral emittance is the radiant exitance of a surface per unit frequency or wavelength, depending on whether the spectrum is taken as a function of frequency or of wavelength. This... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobe%20Software | Gobe Software, Inc was a software company founded in 1997 by members of the ClarisWorks development team that developed and published an integrated desktop software suite for BeOS. In later years, it was the distributor of BeOS itself.
History
Gobe was founded in 1997 by members of the ClarisWorks development team a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collinearity | In geometry, collinearity of a set of points is the property of their lying on a single line. A set of points with this property is said to be collinear (sometimes spelled as colinear). In greater generality, the term has been used for aligned objects, that is, things being "in a line" or "in a row".
Points on a line
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20Registration%20Protocol | Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP), which replaced Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP), is a generic registration framework defined by the IEEE 802.1ak amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q standard. MRP allows bridges, switches or other similar devices to register and de-register attribute values, such as VLAN ide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXpressDSP | eXpressDSP is a software package produced by Texas Instruments (TI). This software package is a suite of tools used to develop applications on Texas Instruments digital signal processor line of chips.
It consists of:
An integrated development environment called Code Composer Studio IDE.
DSP/BIOS Real-Time OS kernel
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip%20growth | Tip growth is an extreme form of polarised growth of living cells that results in an elongated cylindrical cell morphology with a rounded tip at which the growth activity takes place. Tip growth occurs in algae (e.g., Acetabularia acetabulum), fungi (hyphae) and plants (e.g. root hairs and pollen tubes).
Tip growth is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraflagellar%20transport | Intraflagellar transport (IFT) is a bidirectional motility along axoneme microtubules that is essential for the formation (ciliogenesis) and maintenance of most eukaryotic cilia and flagella. It is thought to be required to build all cilia that assemble within a membrane projection from the cell surface. Plasmodium fal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDM%20%28lighting%29 | Remote Device Management (RDM) is a protocol enhancement to USITT DMX512 that allows bi-directional communication between a lighting or system controller and attached RDM compliant devices over a standard DMX line. This protocol will allow configuration, status monitoring, and management of these devices in such a way ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring%20radical | In algebra, the Bring radical or ultraradical of a real number a is the unique real root of the polynomial
The Bring radical of a complex number a is either any of the five roots of the above polynomial (it is thus multi-valued), or a specific root, which is usually chosen such that the Bring radical is real-valued fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-factor | The Z-factor is a measure of statistical effect size. It has been proposed for use in high-throughput screening (where it is also known as Z-prime), and commonly written as Z' to judge whether the response in a particular assay is large enough to warrant further attention.
Background
In high-throughput screens, exper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue%20system | A dialogue system, or conversational agent (CA), is a computer system intended to converse with a human. Dialogue systems employed one or more of text, speech, graphics, haptics, gestures, and other modes for communication on both the input and output channel.
The elements of a dialogue system are not defined because ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson%E2%80%93Anson%20effect | The Pearson–Anson effect, discovered in 1922 by Stephen Oswald Pearson and Horatio Saint George Anson, is the phenomenon of an oscillating electric voltage produced by a neon bulb connected across a capacitor, when a direct current is applied through a resistor. This circuit, now called the Pearson-Anson oscillator, n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s%20Radio | Darwin's Radio is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Bear. It won the Nebula Award in 2000 for Best Novel and the 2000 Endeavour Award. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award, Locus and Campbell Awards the same year.
The novel's original tagline was "The next great war will be inside us." It was followed by a sequ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20Plan%20Act | Sense-Plan-Act was the predominant robot control methodology through 1985.
Sense - gather information using the sensors
Plan - create a world model using all the information, and plan the next move
Act
SPA is used in iterations: After the acting phase, the sensing phase, and the entire cycle, is repeated.
see als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping%20lemma%20for%20context-free%20languages | In computer science, in particular in formal language theory, the pumping lemma for context-free languages, also known as the Bar-Hillel lemma, is a lemma that gives a property shared by all context-free languages and generalizes the pumping lemma for regular languages.
The pumping lemma can be used to construct a pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcot%E2%80%93Leyden%20crystals | Charcot–Leyden crystals are microscopic crystals composed of eosinophil protein galectin-10 found in people who have allergic diseases such as asthma or parasitic infections such as parasitic pneumonia or ascariasis.
Appearance
Charcot–Leyden crystals are composed of an eosinophilic lysophospholipase binding protein ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callendar%E2%80%93Van%20Dusen%20equation | The Callendar–Van Dusen equation is an equation that describes the relationship between resistance (R) and temperature (T) of platinum resistance thermometers (RTD).
As commonly used for commercial applications of RTD thermometers, the relationship between resistance and temperature is given by the following equations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatou%E2%80%93Lebesgue%20theorem | In mathematics, the Fatou–Lebesgue theorem establishes a chain of inequalities relating the integrals (in the sense of Lebesgue) of the limit inferior and the limit superior of a sequence of functions to the limit inferior and the limit superior of integrals of these functions. The theorem is named after Pierre Fatou ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Mail%20Consortium | The Internet Mail Consortium (IMC) was an organization between 1996 and 2002 that claimed to be the only international organization focused on cooperatively managing and promoting the rapidly expanding world of electronic mail on the Internet.
Purpose
The goals of the IMC included greatly expanding the role of mail on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping%20interval%20topology | In mathematics, the overlapping interval topology is a topology which is used to illustrate various topological principles.
Definition
Given the closed interval of the real number line, the open sets of the topology are generated from the half-open intervals with and with . The topology therefore consists of inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolp%20radio%20transmitter | Stolp radio transmitter was a broadcasting station close to Rathsdamnitz, Germany ( since 1945: Dębnica Kaszubska, Poland) southeast of Stolp, Germany (since 1945 Słupsk, Poland). The facility, which went in service on December 1, 1938, was designed to explore whether a reduction of fading effects could be achieved via... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle%20Computer | Eagle Computer, Inc., was an early American computer company based in Los Gatos, California. Spun off from Audio-Visual Laboratories (AVL), it first sold a line of popular CP/M computers which were highly praised in the computer magazines of the day. After the IBM PC was launched, Eagle produced the Eagle 1600 series... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20deconvolution | In electrical engineering and applied mathematics, blind deconvolution is deconvolution without explicit knowledge of the impulse response function used in the convolution. This is usually achieved by making appropriate assumptions of the input to estimate the impulse response by analyzing the output. Blind deconvoluti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpath | In computing, rpath designates the run-time search path hard-coded in an executable file or library. Dynamic linking loaders use the rpath to find required libraries.
Specifically, it encodes a path to shared libraries into the header of an executable (or another shared library). This RPATH header value (so named in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts%20Exchange | Experts Exchange (EE) is a website for people in information technology (IT) related jobs to ask each other for tech help, receive instant help via chat, hire freelancers, and browse tech jobs. Controversy has surrounded their policy of providing answers only via paid subscription.
History
Experts Exchange went live ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20model | In cryptanalysis, attack models or attack types are a classification of cryptographic attacks specifying the kind of access a cryptanalyst has to a system under attack when attempting to "break" an encrypted message (also known as ciphertext) generated by the system. The greater the access the cryptanalyst has to the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcritical%20bifurcation | In bifurcation theory, a field within mathematics, a transcritical bifurcation is a particular kind of local bifurcation, meaning that it is characterized by an equilibrium having an eigenvalue whose real part passes through zero.
A transcritical bifurcation is one in which a fixed point exists for all values of a par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle-node%20bifurcation | In the mathematical area of bifurcation theory a saddle-node bifurcation, tangential bifurcation or fold bifurcation is a local bifurcation in which two fixed points (or equilibria) of a dynamical system collide and annihilate each other. The term 'saddle-node bifurcation' is most often used in reference to continuous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20After%20Man | Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future is a 1990 speculative evolution and science fiction book written by Scottish geologist and palaeontologist Dougal Dixon and illustrated by Philip Hood. The book also features a foreword by Brian Aldiss. Man After Man explores a hypothetical future path of human evolution se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%20Electric | was a Japanese consumer electronics company that was established in 1958 in Osaka, Japan. Their devices were branded as "Orion". The company used to be called Orion Electric, until Brain and Capital Holdings, Inc. (Japanese company) acquired it in 2019. From 1984 to their acquisition, their headquarters were based in E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS-X | MIPS-X is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessor and instruction set architecture (ISA) developed as a follow-on project to the MIPS project at Stanford University by the same team that developed MIPS. The project, supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), began in 1984, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragg%20plane | In physics, a Bragg plane is a plane in reciprocal space which bisects a reciprocal lattice vector, , at right angles. The Bragg plane is defined as part of the Von Laue condition for diffraction peaks in x-ray diffraction crystallography.
Considering the adjacent diagram, the arriving x-ray plane wave is defined by:
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoden%20der%20mathematischen%20Physik | Methoden der mathematischen Physik (Methods of Mathematical Physics) is a 1924 book, in two volumes totalling around 1000 pages, published under the names of Richard Courant and David Hilbert. It was a comprehensive treatment of the "methods of mathematical physics" of the time. The second volume is devoted to the theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax%20%28programming%20languages%29 | In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured statements or expressions in that language. This applies both to programming languages, where the document represents source code, and to markup languages, where the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20half-life | Biological half-life (elimination half-life, pharmacological half-life) is the time taken for concentration of a biological substance (such as a medication) to decrease from its maximum concentration (Cmax) to half of Cmax in the blood plasma. It is denoted by the abbreviation .
This is used to measure the removal of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Frontiers%20Georgia | Electronic Frontiers Georgia (EFGA) is a non-profit organization in the US state of Georgia focusing on issues related to cyber law and free speech. It was founded in 1995 by Tom Cross, Robert Costner, Chris Farris, and Robbie Honerkamp, primarily in response to the Communications Decency Act.
One of the organization'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20alternator | A linear alternator is essentially a linear motor used as an electrical generator.
An alternator is a type of alternating current (AC) electrical generator. The devices are often physically equivalent. The principal difference is in how they are used and which direction the energy flows. An alternator converts mechani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viridiplantae | Viridiplantae (literally "green plants") constitute a clade of eukaryotic organisms that comprises approximately 450,000–500,000 species that play important roles in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They include the green algae, which are primarily aquatic, and the land plants (embryophytes), which emerged from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic%20paradigm | In robotics, a robotic paradigm is a mental model of how a robot operates. A robotic paradigm can be described by the relationship between the three basic elements of robotics: Sensing, Planning, and Acting. It can also be described by how sensory data is processed and distributed through the system, and where decisio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versit%20Consortium | The versit Consortium was a multivendor initiative founded by Apple Computer, AT&T, IBM and Siemens in the early 1990s in order to create Personal Data Interchange (PDI) technology, open specifications for exchanging personal data over the Internet, wired and wireless connectivity and Computer Telephony Integration (CT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign%20painting | Sign painting is the craft of painting lettered signs on buildings, billboards or signboards, for promoting, announcing, or identifying products, services and events. Sign painting artisans are signwriters.
History
Signwriters often learned the craft through apprenticeship or trade school, although many early sign pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate%20abstraction | In logic, predicate abstraction is the result of creating a predicate from a formula. If Q is any formula then the predicate abstract formed from that sentence is (λx.Q), where λ is an abstraction operator and in which every occurrence of x that is free in Q is bound by λ in (λx.Q). The resultant predicate (λx.Q(x)) is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL%20filter | A DSL filter (also DSL splitter or microfilter) is an analog low-pass filter installed between analog devices (such as telephones or analog modems) and a plain old telephone service (POTS) line. The DSL filter prevents interference between such devices and a digital subscriber line (DSL) service connected to the same l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fekete%20polynomial | In mathematics, a Fekete polynomial is a polynomial
where is the Legendre symbol modulo some integer p > 1.
These polynomials were known in nineteenth-century studies of Dirichlet L-functions, and indeed to Dirichlet himself. They have acquired the name of Michael Fekete, who observed that the absence of real zeroes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasteroids | Blasteroids is the third official sequel to the 1979 multidirectional shooter video game, Asteroids. It was developed by Atari Games and released in arcades in 1987. Unlike the previous games, Blasteroids uses raster graphics instead of vector graphics, and has power-ups and a boss.
Home computer ports of Blasteroids ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20coordinate%20charts | This article contains a non-exhaustive list of coordinate charts for Riemannian manifolds and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Coordinate charts are mathematical objects of topological manifolds, and they have multiple applications in theoretical and applied mathematics. When a differentiable structure and a metric are def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinian%20puzzle | A Darwinian puzzle is a trait that appears to reduce the fitness of individuals that possess it. Such traits attract the attention of evolutionary biologists. Several human traits pose challenges to evolutionary thinking, as they are relatively prevalent but are associated with lower reproductive success through reduce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACS%20Combinatorial%20Science | ACS Combinatorial Science (usually abbreviated as ACS Comb. Sci.), formerly Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry (1999-2010), was a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1999 by the American Chemical Society. ACS Combinatorial Science publishes articles, reviews, perspectives, accounts and reports in the fiel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX-3SAT | MAX-3SAT is a problem in the computational complexity subfield of computer science. It generalises the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) which is a decision problem considered in complexity theory. It is defined as:
Given a 3-CNF formula Φ (i.e. with at most 3 variables per clause), find an assignment that satisf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%E2%80%93Lorentz%20force | In the physics of electromagnetism, the Abraham–Lorentz force (also known as the Lorentz–Abraham force) is the recoil force (a force of equal magnitude and opposite direction) on an accelerating charged particle caused by the particle emitting electromagnetic radiation by self-interaction. It is also called the radiat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20social%20software | This is a list of notable social software: selected examples of social software products and services that facilitate a variety of forms of social human contact.
Blogs
Apache Roller
Blogger
IBM Lotus Connections
Posterous
Telligent Community
Tumblr
Typepad
WordPress
Xanga
Clipping
Diigo
Evernote
Instant messaging
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice%20%28aggregator%29 | Juice is a podcast aggregator for Windows and OS X used for downloading media files such as ogg and mp3 for playback on the computer or for copying to a digital audio player. Juice lets a user schedule downloading of specific podcasts, and will notify the user when a new show is available. It is free software available... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20biochemistry | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to biochemistry:
Biochemistry – study of chemical processes in living organisms, including living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes.
Applications of biochemistry
Testing
Ames test – salmonella bacteria is expo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology | Anthrozoology, also known as human–nonhuman-animal studies (HAS), is the subset of ethnobiology that deals with interactions between humans and other animals. It is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with other disciplines including anthropology, ethnology, medicine, psychology, social work, veterinary medicine, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LwIP | lwIP (lightweight IP) is a widely used open-source TCP/IP stack designed for embedded systems. lwIP was originally developed by Adam Dunkels at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and is now developed and maintained by a worldwide network of developers.
lwIP is used by many manufacturers of embedded systems, inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20cohomology | In algebraic geometry, local cohomology is an algebraic analogue of relative cohomology. Alexander Grothendieck introduced it in seminars in Harvard in 1961 written up by , and in 1961-2 at IHES written up as SGA2 - , republished as . Given a function (more generally, a section of a quasicoherent sheaf) defined on an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuminaldehyde | Cuminaldehyde (4-isopropylbenzaldehyde) is a natural organic compound with the molecular formula C10H12O. It is a benzaldehyde with an isopropyl group substituted in the 4-position.
Cuminaldehyde is a constituent of the essential oils of eucalyptus, myrrh, cassia, cumin, and others. It has a pleasant smell and contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris%20Multiplexed%20I/O | Solaris Multiplexed I/O (MPxIO), known also as Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager (SSTM, earlier Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager), is multipath I/O software for Solaris/illumos. It enables a storage device to be accessed through multiple host controller interfaces from a single operating system instance. The MPxIO architectur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaiacol | Guaiacol () is an organic compound with the formula C6H4(OH)(OCH3). It is a phenolic compound containing a methoxy functional group. Guaiacol appears as a viscous colorless oil, although aged or impure samples are often yellowish. It occurs widely in nature and is a common product of the pyrolysis of wood.
Occurrence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Listing%20Display | Internet Listing Display (ILD) was a set of rules put forth by the National Association of National Association of Realtors in 2005 to regulate how homes and properties can be displayed on internet sites. The ILD policy was intended to consolidate and replace both the Virtual Office Website (VOW) and Internet Data Exch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz%20reflection%20principle | In mathematics, the Schwarz reflection principle is a way to extend the domain of definition of a complex analytic function, i.e., it is a form of analytic continuation. It states that if an analytic function is defined on the upper half-plane, and has well-defined (non-singular) real values on the real axis, then it c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20hardware | Electronic hardware consists of interconnected electronic components which perform analog or logic operations on received and locally stored information to produce as output or store resulting new information or to provide control for output actuator mechanisms.
Electronic hardware can range from individual chips/circ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20value%20theorem%20%28divided%20differences%29 | In mathematical analysis, the mean value theorem for divided differences generalizes the mean value theorem to higher derivatives.
Statement of the theorem
For any n + 1 pairwise distinct points x0, ..., xn in the domain of an n-times differentiable function f there exists an interior point
where the nth derivat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthone | Menthone is a monoterpene with a minty flavor that occurs naturally in a number of essential oils. l-Menthone (or (2S,5R)-trans-2-isopropyl-5-methylcyclohexanone), shown at right, is the most abundant in nature of the four possible stereoisomers. It is structurally related to menthol, which has a secondary alcohol in p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%20Packaging%20Institute | The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) is the North American trade association for the glass container industry, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Through GPI, glass container manufacturers advocate job preservation and industry standards, and promote sound energy, environmental, and recycling policies.
Organization
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisture%20vapor%20transmission%20rate | Moisture vapor transmission rate (MVTR), also water vapor transmission rate (WVTR), is a measure of the passage of water vapor through a substance. It is a measure of the permeability for vapor barriers.
There are many industries where moisture control is critical. Moisture sensitive foods and pharmaceuticals are p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%20code | A glass code is a method of classifying glasses for optical use, such as the manufacture of lenses and prisms. There are many different types of glass with different compositions and optical properties, and a glass code is used to distinguish between them.
There are several different glass classification schemes in us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond%20meal | Almond meal, almond flour or ground almond is made from ground sweet almonds. Almond flour is usually made with blanched almonds (no skin), whereas almond meal can be made with whole or blanched almonds. The consistency is more like corn meal than wheat flour.
It is used in pastry and confectionery – in the manufactur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond%20paste | Almond paste is made from ground almonds or almond meal and sugar in equal quantities, with small amounts of cooking oil, beaten eggs, heavy cream or corn syrup added as a binder. It is similar to marzipan, but has a coarser texture. Almond paste is used as a filling in pastries, but it can also be found in chocolates.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20states | Surface states are electronic states found at the surface of materials. They are formed due to the sharp transition from solid material that ends with a surface and are found only at the atom layers closest to the surface. The termination of a material with a surface leads to a change of the electronic band structure f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff%20moment%20problem | In mathematics, the Hausdorff moment problem, named after Felix Hausdorff, asks for necessary and sufficient conditions that a given sequence be the sequence of moments
of some Borel measure supported on the closed unit interval . In the case , this is equivalent to the existence of a random variable supported on ,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger%20moment%20problem | In mathematics, the Hamburger moment problem, named after Hans Ludwig Hamburger, is formulated as follows: given a sequence (m0, m1, m2, ...), does there exist a positive Borel measure μ (for instance, the measure determined by the cumulative distribution function of a random variable) on the real line such that
In ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitively%20coupled%20plasma | A capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) is one of the most common types of industrial plasma sources. It essentially consists of two metal electrodes separated by a small distance, placed in a reactor. The gas pressure in the reactor can be lower than atmosphere or it can be atmospheric.
Description
A typical CCP system i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20Online%20Computational%20Resource | The Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) is an online multi-institutional research and education organization. SOCR designs, validates and broadly shares a suite of online tools for statistical computing, and interactive materials for hands-on learning and teaching concepts in data science, statistical analy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAM-MD5 | In cryptography, CRAM-MD5 is a challenge–response authentication mechanism (CRAM) based on the HMAC-MD5 algorithm. As one of the mechanisms supported by the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), it is often used in email software as part of SMTP Authentication and for the authentication of POP and IMAP users... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzyl%20acetate | Benzyl acetate is an organic ester with the molecular formula . It is formed by the condensation of benzyl alcohol and acetic acid.
Similar to most other esters, it possesses a sweet and pleasant aroma, owing to which, it finds applications in personal hygiene and health care products. It is a constituent of jasmin an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mees%27%20lines | Mees' lines or Aldrich–Mees lines, also called leukonychia striata, are white lines of discoloration across the nails of the fingers and toes (leukonychia).
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They are typically white bands traversing the width of the nail. As the nail grows they move towards the end, and finally disappear when trimmed.
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20spare | A hot spare or warm spare or hot standby is used as a failover mechanism to provide reliability in system configurations. The hot spare is active and connected as part of a working system. When a key component fails, the hot spare is switched into operation. More generally, a hot standby can be used to refer to any d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20heritage | Natural heritage refers to the sum total of the elements of biodiversity, including flora and fauna, ecosystems and geological structures. It forms part of our natural resources.
Definition
Heritage is that which is inherited from past generations, maintained in the present, and bestowed to future generations. The te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20structure%20matrix | The design structure matrix (DSM; also referred to as dependency structure matrix, dependency structure method, dependency source matrix, problem solving matrix (PSM), incidence matrix, N2 matrix, interaction matrix, dependency map or design precedence matrix) is a simple, compact and visual representation of a system ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrcene | Myrcene, or β-myrcene, is a monoterpene. A colorless oil, it occurs widely in essential oils. It is produced mainly semi-synthetically from Myrcia, from which it gets its name. It is an intermediate in the production of several fragrances. α-Myrcene is the name for the isomer 2-methyl-6-methylene-1,7-octadiene, which ... |
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