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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20usability%20scale | In systems engineering, the system usability scale (SUS) is a simple, ten-item attitude Likert scale giving a global view of subjective assessments of usability. It was developed by John Brooke at Digital Equipment Corporation in the UK in 1986 as a tool to be used in usability engineering of electronic office systems.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DermAtlas | DermAtlas is an open-access website devoted to dermatology that is hosted by Johns Hopkins University's Bernard A. Cohen and Christoph U. Lehmann. Its goal is to build a large-high-quality dermatologic atlas, a database of images of skin conditions, and it encourages its users to submit their dermatology images and li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerbrey%20equation | The Sauerbrey equation was developed by the German Günter Sauerbrey in 1959, while working on his doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. It is a method for correlating changes in the oscillation frequency of a piezoelectric crystal with the mass deposited on it. He simultaneously developed a me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefactoring | Prefactoring is the application of experience to the creation of new software systems. Its relationship to its namesake refactoring is that lessons learned from refactoring are part of that experience.
Experience is captured in guidelines that can be applied to a development process. The guidelines have come from a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93Turing%20machine | A Post–Turing machine is a "program formulation" of a type of Turing machine, comprising a variant of Emil Post's Turing-equivalent model of computation. Post's model and Turing's model, though very similar to one another, were developed independently. Turing's paper was received for publication in May 1936, followed b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive%20Image%20%28software%29 | Drive Image (PQDI) is a software disk cloning package for Intel-based computers. The software was developed and distributed by the former PowerQuest Corporation. Drive Image version 7 became the basis for Norton Ghost 9.0, which was released to retail markets in August 2004. Ghost was a competing product, developed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20closure | Design Closure is a part of the digital electronic design automation workflow by which an integrated circuit (i.e. VLSI) design is modified from its initial description to meet a growing list of design constraints and objectives.
Every step in the IC design (such as static timing analysis, placement, routing, and so o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20mode | In computing, legacy mode is a state in which a computer system, component, or software application behaves in a way that is different from its standard operation in order to support older software, data, or expected behavior. It differs from backward compatibility in that an item in legacy mode will often sacrifice ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein-fragment%20complementation%20assay | Within the field of molecular biology, a protein-fragment complementation assay, or PCA, is a method for the identification and quantification of protein–protein interactions. In the PCA, the proteins of interest ("bait" and "prey") are each covalently linked to fragments of a third protein (e.g. DHFR, which acts as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20Display%20Mounting%20Interface | The Flat Display Mounting Interface (FDMI), also known as VESA Mounting Interface Standard (MIS) or colloquially as VESA mount, is a family of standards defined by the Video Electronics Standards Association for mounting flat panel monitors, televisions, and other displays to stands or wall mounts. It is implemented on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20first-order%20theories | In first-order logic, a first-order theory is given by a set of axioms in some
language. This entry lists some of the more common examples used in model theory and some of their properties.
Preliminaries
For every natural mathematical structure there is a signature σ listing the constants, functions, and relations ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI1 | MI1 or British Military Intelligence, Section 1 was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was set up during World War I. It contained "C&C", which was responsible for code breaking.
Its subsections in World War I were:
MI1a: Distribution of reports, intelligence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s%20effect | The Eötvös effect is the change in measured Earth's gravity caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration resulting from eastbound or westbound velocity. When moving eastbound, the object's angular velocity is increased (in addition to Earth's rotation), and thus the centrifugal force also increases, causing a perce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20Research%20Center%20for%20Wireless%20Integrated%20Microsystems | The NSF Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (ERC WIMS) was formed in 2000 in Michigan — through the collaboration of the University of Michigan (UM), Michigan State University (MSU), and Michigan Technological University.
The center is funded by the National Science Foundation. Additional ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifidobacterium%20animalis | Bifidobacterium animalis is a gram-positive, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium of the Bifidobacterium genus which can be found in the large intestines of most mammals, including humans.
Bifidobacterium animalis and Bifidobacterium lactis were previously described as two distinct species. Presently, both are considered B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wythoff%20symbol | In geometry, the Wythoff symbol is a notation representing a Wythoff construction of a uniform polyhedron or plane tiling within a Schwarz triangle. It was first used by Coxeter, Longuet-Higgins and Miller in their enumeration of the uniform polyhedra. Later the Coxeter diagram was developed to mark uniform polytopes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion%20sequence | Insertion element (also known as an IS, an insertion sequence element, or an IS element) is a short DNA sequence that acts as a simple transposable element. Insertion sequences have two major characteristics: they are small relative to other transposable elements (generally around 700 to 2500 bp in length) and only cod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAME%20project | The KAME project, a sub-project of the WIDE Project, was a joint effort of six organizations in Japan which aimed to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack implementation for variants of the BSD Unix computer operating-system. The project began in 1998 and on November 7, 2005 it was anno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Life%20Sciences%20Corridor | The Michigan Life Sciences Corridor (MLSC) is a $1 billion biotechnology initiative in the U.S. state of Michigan.
The MLSC invests in biotech research at four Michigan institutions: the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Michigan State University in East Lansing; Wayne State University in Detroit; and the Van Ande... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20capsule | In anatomy, a joint capsule or articular capsule is an envelope surrounding a synovial joint. Each joint capsule has two parts: an outer fibrous layer or membrane, and an inner synovial layer or membrane.
Membranes
Each capsule consists of two layers or membranes:
an outer (fibrous membrane, fibrous stratum) composed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat%20extract | Meat extract is highly concentrated meat stock, usually made from beef or chicken. It is used to add meat flavor in cooking, and to make broth for soups and other liquid-based foods.
Meat extract was invented by Baron Justus von Liebig, a German 19th-century organic chemist. Liebig specialised in chemistry and the cla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo%20algebraically%20closed%20field | In mathematics, a field is pseudo algebraically closed if it satisfies certain properties which hold for algebraically closed fields. The concept was introduced by James Ax in 1967.
Formulation
A field K is pseudo algebraically closed (usually abbreviated by PAC) if one of the following equivalent conditions holds:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-discharger | A self-discharger (or self-unloader) is a ship that is able to discharge its cargo using its own gear. The most common discharge method for bulk cargo is to use an excavator that is fitted on a traverse running over the vessel's entire hatch, and that is able to move sideways as well. Lake freighters on the Great Lakes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bird%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Richard Simpson Bird (4 February 1943 – 4 April 2022) was an English computer scientist.
Posts
He was a Supernumerary Fellow of Computation at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, in Oxford England, and former director of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Department of Computer Science, University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20critical%20infrastructure%20protection | In the U.S., critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is a concept that relates to the preparedness and response to serious incidents that involve the critical infrastructure of a region or the nation.
The American Presidential directive PDD-63 of May 1998 set up a national program of "Critical Infrastructure Protectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93Intel%20architecture | The Apple–Intel architecture, or Mactel, is an unofficial name used for Macintosh personal computers developed and manufactured by Apple Inc. that use Intel x86 processors, rather than the PowerPC and Motorola 68000 ("68k") series processors used in their predecessors or the ARM-based Apple silicon SoCs used in their s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settling%20time | In control theory the settling time of a dynamical system such as an amplifier or other output device is the time elapsed from the application of an ideal instantaneous step input to the time at which the amplifier output has entered and remained within a specified error band.
Settling time includes a propagation del... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20phase%20converter | A rotary phase converter, abbreviated RPC, is an electrical machine that converts power from one polyphase system to another, converting through rotary motion. Typically, single-phase electric power is used to produce three-phase electric power locally to run three-phase loads in premises where only single-phase is ava... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20hyperactivation | X hyperactivation refers to the process in Drosophila by which genes on the X chromosome in male flies become twice as active as genes on the X chromosome in female flies.
Because male flies have a single X chromosome and female flies have two X chromosomes, the higher level of activation in males ensures that X chrom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%3AA%20ratio | The X:A ratio is the ratio between the number of X chromosomes and the number of sets of autosomes in an organism. This ratio is used primarily for determining the sex of some species, such as drosophila flies and the C. elegans nematode. The first use of this ratio for sex determination is ascribed to Victor M. Nigon.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20data%20type | Inductive data type may refer to:
Algebraic data type, a datatype each of whose values is data from other datatypes wrapped in one of the constructors of the datatype
Inductive family, a family of inductive data types indexed by another type or value
Recursive data type, a data type for values that may contain othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a homonym is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon.
The rule in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is that the first such name to be published is the senior homonym and is to be used (it is "valid"); any others are junior ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead%20theory | The bead theory is a disproved hypothesis that genes are arranged on the chromosome like beads on a necklace. This theory was first proposed by Thomas Hunt Morgan after discovering genes through his work with breeding red and white eyed fruit flies. According to this theory, the existence of a gene as a unit of inherit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introitus | An introitus is an entrance into a canal or hollow organ. The vaginal introitus is the opening that leads to the vaginal canal.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum%20map | In mathematics, specifically in symplectic geometry, the momentum map (or, by false etymology, moment map) is a tool associated with a Hamiltonian action of a Lie group on a symplectic manifold, used to construct conserved quantities for the action. The momentum map generalizes the classical notions of linear and angul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20hosting%20service | A DNS hosting service is a service that runs Domain Name System (DNS) servers. Most, but not all, domain name registrars include DNS hosting service with registration. Free DNS hosting services also exist. Many third-party DNS hosting services provide dynamic DNS.
DNS hosting service is optimal when the provider ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20hosting%20service | An Internet hosting service is a service that runs servers connected to the Internet, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content or host services connected to the Internet.
A common kind of hosting is web hosting. Most hosting providers offer a combination of services e-mail hosting, website hosting, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20hosting%20service | An email hosting service is an Internet hosting service that operates email servers.
Features
Email hosting services usually offer premium email as opposed to advertisement-supported free email or free webmail. Email hosting services thus differ from typical end-user email providers such as webmail sites. They cater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20comparison%20tools | This article compares computer software tools which are used for accomplishing comparisons of files of various types. The file types addressed by individual file comparison apps varies, but may include text, symbols, images, audio, or video. This category of software tool is often called "file comparison" or "diff tool... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantlet | A plantlet is a young or small plant, produced on the leaf margins or the aerial stems of another plant.
Many plants such as spider plants naturally create stolons with plantlets on the ends as a form of asexual reproduction. Vegetative propagules or clippings of mature plants may form plantlets.
An example is mother ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20diversity | In ecology, alpha diversity (α-diversity) is the mean species diversity in a site at a local scale. The term was introduced by R. H. Whittaker together with the terms beta diversity (β-diversity) and gamma diversity (γ-diversity). Whittaker's idea was that the total species diversity in a landscape (gamma diversity) is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronuclear%20single%20quantum%20coherence%20spectroscopy | The heteronuclear single quantum coherence or heteronuclear single quantum correlation experiment, normally abbreviated as HSQC, is used frequently in NMR spectroscopy of organic molecules and is of particular significance in the field of protein NMR. The experiment was first described by Geoffrey Bodenhausen and D. J.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20widget%20engines | This is a comparison of widget engines. This article is not about widget toolkits that are used in computer programming to build graphical user interfaces.
General
Operating system support
Technical
Languages
Which programming languages the engines support. Most engines rely upon interpreted languages.
Formats an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homopolar%20generator | A homopolar generator is a DC electrical generator comprising an electrically conductive disc or cylinder rotating in a plane perpendicular to a uniform static magnetic field. A potential difference is created between the center of the disc and the rim (or ends of the cylinder) with an electrical polarity that depends ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Advertising | Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) is an online advertising platform developed by Microsoft, where advertisers bid to display brief ads, service offers, product listings and videos to web users, it provides pay per click advertising on search engines Bing, Yahoo! and DuckDuckGo, as well as on other websites, mob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D%20Secure | 3-D Secure is a protocol designed to be an additional security layer for online credit and debit card transactions. The name refers to the "three domains" which interact using the protocol: the merchant/acquirer domain, the issuer domain, and the interoperability domain.
Originally developed in the autumn of 1999 by C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMI%20cryptograph | The OMI cryptograph was a rotor cipher machine produced and sold by Italian firm Ottico Meccanica Italiana (OMI) in Rome.
The machine had seven rotors, including a reflecting rotor. The rotors stepped regularly. Each rotor could be assembled from two sections with different wiring: one section consisted of a "frame" c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20impossibility | In mathematics, a proof of impossibility is a proof that demonstrates that a particular problem cannot be solved as described in the claim, or that a particular set of problems cannot be solved in general. Such a case is also known as a negative proof, proof of an impossibility theorem, or negative result. Proofs of im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braking%20action | Braking action in aviation is a description of how easily an aircraft can stop after landing on a runway. Either pilots or airport management can report the braking action according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
When reporting braking action, any of the following terms may be used: Good; Medium; Poor; N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20analyst | In a software development team, a software analyst is the person who monitors the software development process, performs configuration management, identifies safety, performance, and compliance issues, and prepares software requirements and specification (Software Requirements Specification) documents. The software an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20predicate | Continuous predicate is a term coined by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) to describe a special type of relational predicate that results as the limit of a recursive process of hypostatic abstraction.
Here is one of Peirce's definitive discussions of the concept:
When we have analyzed a proposition so as to throw i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETCONF | The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) is a network management protocol developed and standardized by the IETF. It was developed in the NETCONF working group and published in December 2006 as RFC 4741 and later revised in June 2011 and published as RFC 6241. The NETCONF protocol specification is an Internet Stand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render%20output%20unit | In computer graphics, the render output unit (ROP) or raster operations pipeline is a hardware component in modern graphics processing units (GPUs) and one of the final steps in the rendering process of modern graphics cards. The pixel pipelines take pixel (each pixel is a dimensionless point) and texel information and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%20Holberton | Frances Elizabeth Holberton (March 7, 1917 – December 8, 2001) was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC. The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Franc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Block | Steven M. Block (born 1952) is an American biophysicist and Professor at Stanford University with a joint appointment in the departments of Biology and Applied Physics. In addition, he is a member of the scientific advisory group JASON, a senior fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantellated%20tesseract | In four-dimensional geometry, a cantellated tesseract is a convex uniform 4-polytope, being a cantellation (a 2nd order truncation) of the regular tesseract.
There are four degrees of cantellations of the tesseract including with permutations truncations. Two are also derived from the 24-cell family.
Cantellated tess... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20Phased%20Array%20Radar | [[File:APAR.jpg|right|thumb|APAR mounted on top of the German Navy Sachsen class frigate Hamburgs superstructure.]]Active Phased Array Radar (APAR''') is a shipborne active electronically scanned array multifunction 3D radar (MFR) developed and manufactured by Thales Nederland. The radar receiver modules are developed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20streaming%20media%20systems | This is a list of streaming media systems. A more detailed comparison of streaming media systems is also available.
Servers
Ampache – GPL/LGPL Audio streaming
Ant Media Server – Real-Time media streaming
atmosph3re – responsive web-based streaming audio server for personal music collection
Darwin Streaming Server – A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoof%E2%80%93Elkies%E2%80%93Atkin%20algorithm | The Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm (SEA) is an algorithm used for finding the order of or calculating the number of points on an elliptic curve over a finite field. Its primary application is in elliptic curve cryptography. The algorithm is an extension of Schoof's algorithm by Noam Elkies and A. O. L. Atkin to signific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor | AppArmor ("Application Armor") is a Linux kernel security module that allows the system administrator to restrict programs' capabilities with per-program profiles. Profiles can allow capabilities like network access, raw socket access, and the permission to read, write, or execute files on matching paths. AppArmor supp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysical%20Society | The Biophysical Society is an international scientific society whose purpose is to lead the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. Founded in 1958, the Society currently consists of over 7,500 members in academia, government, and industry. Although the Society is based in the United States, it is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational%E2%80%93vibrational%20coupling | In physics, rotational–vibrational coupling occurs when the rotation frequency of a system is close to or identical to a natural internal vibration frequency. The animation on the right shows ideal motion, with the force exerted by the spring and the distance from the center of rotation increasing together linearly wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ase | The suffix -ase is used in biochemistry to form names of enzymes. The most common way to name enzymes is to add this suffix onto the end of the substrate, e.g. an enzyme that breaks down peroxides may be called peroxidase; the enzyme that produces telomeres is called telomerase. Sometimes enzymes are named for the func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20networking | Active networking is a communication pattern that allows packets flowing through a telecommunications network to dynamically modify the operation of the network.
Active network architecture is composed of execution environments (similar to a unix shell that can execute active packets), a node operating system capable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical%20Number%20Theory | Typographical Number Theory (TNT) is a formal axiomatic system describing the natural numbers that appears in Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach. It is an implementation of Peano arithmetic that Hofstadter uses to help explain Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Like any system implementing the Peano axioms, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuities%20in%20the%20European%20Union | Under European Union law, an annuity is a financial contract which provides an income stream in return for an initial payment with specific parameters. It is the opposite of a settlement funding. A Swiss annuity is not considered a European annuity for tax reasons.
Immediate annuity
An immediate annuity is an annuity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDeeN | CoDeeN is a proxy server system created at Princeton University in 2003 and deployed for general use on PlanetLab.
It operates as per the following:
Users set their internet caches to a nearby high bandwidth proxy that participates in the system.
Requests to that proxy are then forwarded to an appropriate member of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRMAA | Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) is a high-level Open Grid Forum (OGF) API specification for the submission and control of jobs to a distributed resource management (DRM) system, such as a cluster or grid computing infrastructure. The scope of the API covers all the high level functionality requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDLM | CDDLM (Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Specification) is a Global Grid Forum standard for the management, deployment and configuration of Grid Service lifecycles or inter-organization resources.
Structure
The specification is based on component documents;
Document that describes funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlanetLab | PlanetLab was a group of computers available as a testbed for computer networking and distributed systems research. It was established in 2002 by Prof. Larry L. Peterson and Prof. David Culler, and as of June 2010, it was composed of 1090 nodes at 507 sites worldwide. Each research project had a "slice", or virtual ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden%20subgroup%20problem | The hidden subgroup problem (HSP) is a topic of research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The framework captures problems such as factoring, discrete logarithm, graph isomorphism, and the shortest vector problem. This makes it especially important in the theory of quantum computing because Shor's algori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20disc%20recording%20technologies | Optical disc authoring requires a number of different optical disc recorder technologies working in tandem, from the optical disc media to the firmware to the control electronics of the optical disc drive.
Types of recordable optical disc
There are numerous formats of recordable optical direct to disk on the market, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a variable (from Latin variabilis, "changeable") is a symbol that represents a mathematical object. A variable may represent a number, a vector, a matrix, a function, the argument of a function, a set, or an element of a set.
Algebraic computations with variables as if they were explicit numbers solve ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20disc%20recording%20modes | In optical disc authoring, there are multiple modes for recording, including Disc-At-Once, Track-At-Once, and Session-At-Once.
CD Disc-At-Once
Disc-At-Once (DAO) for CD-R media is a mode that masters the disc contents in one pass, rather than a track at a time as in Track At Once. DAO mode, unlike TAO mode, allows ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20calculation | In mathematical logic, a formal calculation, or formal operation, is a calculation that is systematic but without a rigorous justification. It involves manipulating symbols in an expression using a generic substitution without proving that the necessary conditions hold. Essentially, it involves the form of an expressio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPnotebook | GPnotebook is a British medical database for general practitioners (GPs). It is an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides an immediate reference resource for clinicians worldwide. The database consists of over 30,000 index terms and over two million words of information. GPnotebook is provided online by Oxbridg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20steel | Structural steel is a category of steel used for making construction materials in a variety of shapes. Many structural steel shapes take the form of an elongated beam having a profile of a specific cross section. Structural steel shapes, sizes, chemical composition, mechanical properties such as strengths, storage prac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault%20coverage | Fault coverage refers to the percentage of some type of fault that can be detected during the test of any engineered system. High fault coverage is particularly valuable during manufacturing test, and techniques such as Design For Test (DFT) and automatic test pattern generation are used to increase it.
In electronic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%20%28number%29 | 501 (five hundred [and] one) is the natural number following 500 and preceding 502.
501 is the sum of the first eighteen primes.
There are 501 degree-8 polynomials with integer coefficients, all of whose roots are in the unit disk.
There are 501 ways of partitioning the digits from 0 to 9 into two sets, each of which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocast | An endocast is the internal cast of a hollow object, often referring to the cranial vault in the study of brain development in humans and other organisms. Endocasts can be artificially made for examining the properties of a hollow, inaccessible space, or they may occur naturally through fossilization.
Cranial endocas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20honeycomb | The cubic honeycomb or cubic cellulation is the only proper regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space made up of cubic cells. It has 4 cubes around every edge, and 8 cubes around each vertex. Its vertex figure is a regular octahedron. It is a self-dual tessellation with Schläfli symbol {4,3... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20OpenBSD | Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid is a comprehensive guide to the OpenBSD operating system by Michael W. Lucas, author of Absolute FreeBSD and Cisco Routers for the Desperate. The book assumes basic knowledge of the design, commands, and user permissions of Unix-like operating systems. The book contains... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20comprehension | Program comprehension (also program understanding or [source] code comprehension) is a domain of computer science concerned with the ways software engineers maintain existing source code. The cognitive and other processes involved are identified and studied. The results are used to develop tools and training.
Sof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Open%20Directory | Apple Open Directory is the LDAP directory service model implementation from Apple Inc. A directory service is software which stores and organizes information about a computer network's users and network resources and which allows network administrators to manage users' access to the resources.
In the context of macOS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupillary%20distance | Pupillary distance (PD), more correctly known as interpupillary distance (IPD) is the distance in millimeters between the centers of each pupil.
Interpupillary Distance Classifications
Distance PD is the separation between the visual axes of the eyes in their primary position, as the subject fixates on an infinitely d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution%20%28equation%29 | Dilution is the process of decreasing the concentration of a solute in a solution, usually simply by mixing with more solvent like adding more water to the solution. To dilute a solution means to add more solvent without the addition of more solute. The resulting solution is thoroughly mixed so as to ensure that all p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome%20%28game%20theory%29 | In game theory, the outcome of a game is the ultimate result of a strategic interaction with one or more people, dependant on the choices made by all participants in a certain exchange. It represents the final payoff resulting from a set of actions that individuals can take within the context of the game. Outcomes are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol%20precipitation | Ethanol precipitation is a method used to purify and/or concentrate RNA, DNA, and polysaccharides such as pectin and xyloglucan from aqueous solutions by adding ethanol as an antisolvent.
DNA precipitation
Theory
DNA is polar due to its highly charged phosphate backbone. Its polarity makes it water-soluble (water i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20neural%20network | Quantum neural networks are computational neural network models which are based on the principles of quantum mechanics. The first ideas on quantum neural computation were published independently in 1995 by Subhash Kak and Ron Chrisley, engaging with the theory of quantum mind, which posits that quantum effects play a r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nameplate | A nameplate identifies and displays a person or product's name. Nameplates are usually shaped as rectangles but are also seen in other shapes, sometimes taking on the shape of someone's written name. Nameplates primarily serve an informative function (as in an office environment, where nameplates mounted on doors or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20symbolism | Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meaning to the rose, though these are seldom understood in-depth. Examples of deeper meanings lie within the language of flowers, and how a rose may have a different meaning in arrangements. Examples of common meanings of different coloured roses are: true love (red... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun%20%282007%20video%20game%29 | Shadowrun is a first-person shooter video game, developed by FASA Studio for Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. The game features a buying system which is inspired by the game Counter-Strike. The game is also inspired by the role-playing game of the same name.
Gameplay
Shadowrun'''s multiplayer consists wholly of a first pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure%20mode%2C%20effects%2C%20and%20criticality%20analysis | Failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) is an extension of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).
FMEA is a bottom-up, inductive analytical method which may be performed at either the functional or piece-part level. FMECA extends FMEA by including a criticality analysis, which is used to chart the pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%20Vista | Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are very numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including additional management features, new aspects of security and safety, new I/O technologies, new networking features, and new technical features. Windows Vista al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%27s%20proof | Turing's proof is a proof by Alan Turing, first published in January 1937 with the title "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the ". It was the second proof (after Church's theorem) of the negation of Hilbert's ; that is, the conjecture that some purely mathematical yes–no questions can never be answered by c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Planet%3A%20Extreme%20Condition | Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3. The game was released in Japan in December 2006 and worldwide in January 2007. Originally intended to be an Xbox 360 exclusive, it was later ported and released for Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20operating%20system%20kernels | A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. A comparison of system kernels can provide insight into the design and architectural choices made by the developers of particular operating systems.
Comparison criteria
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of widely used a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20kernel%20oops | In computing, an oops is a serious but non-fatal error in the Linux kernel. An oops may precede a kernel panic, but it may also allow continued operation with compromised reliability. The term does not stand for anything, other than that it is a simple mistake.
Functioning
When the kernel detects a problem, it kills a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%20Charles%20Dreyer | Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, (8 January 1878 – 11 December 1956) was an officer of the Royal Navy. A gunnery expert, he developed a fire control system for British warships, and served as flag captain to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe at the Battle of Jutland. He retired with the rank of admiral in 1943, having ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-ratio%20transmission | A close-ratio transmission describes a motor vehicle transmission with a smaller than average difference between the gear ratios. They are most often used on sports cars in order to keep the engine in the power band. There is no industry standard as to what constitutes a close-ratio transmission, a transmission that on... |
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