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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuser%20%28sewage%29
An air diffuser or membrane diffuser is an aeration device typically in the shape of a disc, tube or plate, which is used to transfer air and with that oxygen into the sewage or industrial wastewater. Oxygen is required by microorganisms/bacteria residents in the water to break down the pollutants. Diffusers use either...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urediniospore
Urediniospores (or uredospores) are thin-walled spores produced by the uredium, a stage in the life-cycle of rusts. Development Urediniospores develop in the uredium, generally on a leaf's under surface. Morphology Urediniospores usually have two dikaryote nuclei within one cell. In mass they are usually pale brown i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenMAPP
GenMAPP (Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler) is a free, open-source bioinformatics software tool designed to visualize and analyze genomic data in the context of pathways (metabolic, signaling), connecting gene-level datasets to biological processes and disease. First created in 2000, GenMAPP is developed by an op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CacheFS
CacheFS is the name used for several similar software technologies designed to speed up distributed file system file access for networked computers. These technologies operate by storing (cached) copies of files on secondary memory, typically a local hard disk, so that if a file is accessed again, it can be done locall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COinS
ContextObjects in Spans (COinS) is a method to embed bibliographic metadata in the HTML code of web pages. This allows bibliographic software to publish machine-readable bibliographic items and client reference management software to retrieve bibliographic metadata. The metadata can also be sent to an OpenURL resolver...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treviso%20Arithmetic
The Treviso Arithmetic, or Arte dell'Abbaco, is an anonymous textbook in commercial arithmetic written in vernacular Venetian and published in Treviso, Italy, in 1478. The author explains the motivation for writing this textbook: The Treviso Arithmetic is the earliest known printed mathematics book in the West, and o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoregulation
Autoregulation is a process within many biological systems, resulting from an internal adaptive mechanism that works to adjust (or mitigate) that system's response to stimuli. While most systems of the body show some degree of autoregulation, it is most clearly observed in the kidney, the heart, and the brain. Perfusi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infortrend
Infortrend Technology () is a Taiwanese technology company specializing in SAN and NAS storage systems. The company is headquartered in the Zhonghe District of New Taipei, Taiwan, and has regional headquarters in Tokyo, Sunnyvale, California, Beijing, Munich, and Basingstoke, UK. History Infortrend was founded in 199...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracellular%20transport
Paracellular transport refers to the transfer of substances across an epithelium by passing through the intercellular space between the cells. It is in contrast to transcellular transport, where the substances travel through the cell, passing through both the apical membrane and basolateral membrane. The distinction h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehn%E2%80%93Sommerville%20equations
In mathematics, the Dehn–Sommerville equations are a complete set of linear relations between the numbers of faces of different dimension of a simplicial polytope. For polytopes of dimension 4 and 5, they were found by Max Dehn in 1905. Their general form was established by Duncan Sommerville in 1927. The Dehn–Sommerv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Sommerville
Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville (1879–1934) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. He was a co-founder and the firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20multipole%20method
The fast multipole method (FMM) is a numerical technique that was developed to speed up the calculation of long-ranged forces in the n-body problem. It does this by expanding the system Green's function using a multipole expansion, which allows one to group sources that lie close together and treat them as if they are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20animals%20by%20number%20of%20neurons
The following are two lists of animals ordered by the size of their nervous system. The first list shows number of neurons in their entire nervous system, indicating their overall neural complexity. The second list shows the number of neurons in the structure that has been found to be representative of animal intelli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity%20puzzle
The Eternity puzzle is a tiling puzzle created by Christopher Monckton and launched by the Ertl Company in June 1999. It was marketed as being practically unsolvable, with a £1 million prize on offer for whoever could solve it within four years. The prize was paid out in October 2000 for a winning solution arrived at b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by different na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20film%20%28technology%29
Carbon films are thin film coatings which consist predominantly of the chemical element carbon. They include plasma polymer films, amorphous carbon films (diamond-like carbon, DLC), CVD diamond films as well as graphite films. Carbon films are produced by deposition using gas-phase deposition processes, in most cases ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban%20number
In recreational mathematics, a ban number is a number that does not contain a particular letter when spelled out in English; in other words, the letter is "banned." Ban numbers are not precisely defined, since some large numbers do not follow the standards of number names (such as googol and googolplex). There are sev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADES%20%28software%29
HADES (Haskins Analysis Display and Experiment System) refers to a family of signal processing computer programs that was developed in the 1980s at Haskins Laboratories by Philip Rubin and colleagues to provide for the display and analysis of multiple channel physiological, speech, and other sampled data in an experime...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored%20music%20notation
Colored music notation is a technique used to facilitate enhanced learning in young music students by adding visual color to written musical notation. It is based upon the concept that color can affect the observer in various ways, and combines this with standard learning of basic notation. Basis Viewing color has be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20fate%20determination
Within the field of developmental biology, one goal is to understand how a particular cell develops into a final cell type, known as fate determination. Within an embryo, several processes play out at the cellular and tissue level to create an organism. These processes include cell proliferation, differentiation, cellu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20algorithm
An adaptive algorithm is an algorithm that changes its behavior at the time it is run, based on information available and on a priori defined reward mechanism (or criterion). Such information could be the story of recently received data, information on the available computational resources, or other run-time acquired (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20root
The digital root (also repeated digital sum) of a natural number in a given radix is the (single digit) value obtained by an iterative process of summing digits, on each iteration using the result from the previous iteration to compute a digit sum. The process continues until a single-digit number is reached. For examp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin%20Adventure%20III%3A%20The%20Hunt%20for%20the%20Unknown
Pumpkin Adventure III: The Hunt for the Unknown is a video game for the MSX2, created by Umax and released in 1995 by Sunrise Foundation. It is a role-playing game with a turn-based fighting system. Synopsis Los Angeles is under attack by strange creatures. Nobody knows where these creatures are from or who sent them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20imaging
Chemical imaging (as quantitative – chemical mapping) is the analytical capability to create a visual image of components distribution from simultaneous measurement of spectra and spatial, time information. Hyperspectral imaging measures contiguous spectral bands, as opposed to multispectral imaging which measures spa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20differentiation
In the field of developmental biology, regional differentiation is the process by which different areas are identified in the development of the early embryo. The process by which the cells become specified differs between organisms. Cell fate determination In terms of developmental commitment, a cell can either be s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20%28UML%29
In the Unified Modeling Language, an action is a named element that is the fundamental unit of executable functionality. Actions take a set of inputs, which may be empty, and convert them to a set of outputs, which in turn may also be empty. The execution of an action represents some transformation or processing in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDS%20matrix
An MDS matrix (maximum distance separable) is a matrix representing a function with certain diffusion properties that have useful applications in cryptography. Technically, an matrix over a finite field is an MDS matrix if it is the transformation matrix of a linear transformation from to such that no two differe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Illustrated%20Science%20and%20Invention%20Encyclopedia
The Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia of books originally published in parts in the United Kingdom under the title How It Works, by Marshall Cavendish Limited, and republished in the United States in 1974 by H.S. Stuttman Publishers in Westport, Connecticut, in 21 volumes (OCLC 3643238)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl%20Meister%20Greengard%20Prize
The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize is an award for women scientists in biology given annually by the Rockefeller University. The Prize was founded by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard and his wife Ursula von Rydingsvard in honor of Greengard's mother, Pearl Meister Greengard, who died giving birth to him. Greengard began f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20ordering
Memory ordering describes the order of accesses to computer memory by a CPU. The term can refer either to the memory ordering generated by the compiler during compile time, or to the memory ordering generated by a CPU during runtime. In modern microprocessors, memory ordering characterizes the CPU's ability to reorder...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smale%27s%20problems
Smale's problems are a list of eighteen unsolved problems in mathematics proposed by Steve Smale in 1998 and republished in 1999. Smale composed this list in reply to a request from Vladimir Arnold, then vice-president of the International Mathematical Union, who asked several mathematicians to propose a list of proble...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20comic
A mobile comic is a digital comic or cartoon strip that can be purchased, downloaded, read and sometimes edited or shared with friends via mobile phones. Overview Increasingly the line between digital comics, animation and games is blurring and the same applies to their mobile counterparts as mobile comics become mul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei-Hwa%20Huang
Wei-Hwa Huang (born August 4, 1975 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American puzzler, member of the US Team for the World Puzzle Championship, and game designer. Huang was a member of the United States International Math Olympiad team in 1992 and 1993, where he was awarded a Silver Medal both years. He was a Putnam Fellow in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Protocol%20Device%20Control
Internet Protocol Device Control (IPDC) is a 1998 specification of a communications protocol for voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony, developed by Level 3 Communications. IPDC divides the operation of telephony gateways between intelligent call routers in an Internet Protocol (IP) network and simple media ga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septin
Septins are a group of GTP-binding proteins expressed in all eukaryotic cells except plants. Different septins form protein complexes with each other. These complexes can further assemble into filaments, rings and gauzes. Assembled as such, septins function in cells by localizing other proteins, either by providing a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobe%20%28anatomy%29
In anatomy, a lobe is a clear anatomical division or extension of an organ (as seen for example in the brain, lung, liver, or kidney) that can be determined without the use of a microscope at the gross anatomy level. This is in contrast to the much smaller lobule, which is a clear division only visible under the micros...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraharmonic%20mean
In mathematics, a contraharmonic mean is a function complementary to the harmonic mean. The contraharmonic mean is a special case of the Lehmer mean, , where p = 2. Definition The contraharmonic mean of a set of positive numbers is defined as the arithmetic mean of the squares of the numbers divided by the arithmet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiskMetrics
The RiskMetrics variance model (also known as exponential smoother) was first established in 1989, when Sir Dennis Weatherstone, the new chairman of J.P. Morgan, asked for a daily report measuring and explaining the risks of his firm. Nearly four years later in 1992, J.P. Morgan launched the RiskMetrics methodology to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica%3A%20A%20World%20of%20Numbers...%20and%20Beyond
Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond is a kinetic and static exhibition of mathematical concepts designed by Charles and Ray Eames, originally debuted at the California Museum of Science and Industry in 1961. Duplicates have since been made, and they (as well as the original) have been moved to other instituti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative%20multithreading
Thread Level Speculation (TLS), also known as Speculative Multithreading, or Speculative Parallelization, is a technique to speculatively execute a section of computer code that is anticipated to be executed later in parallel with the normal execution on a separate independent thread. Such a speculative thread may nee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20culture%20assay
A cell culture assay is any method used to assess the cytotoxicity of a material. This refers to the in vitro assessment of a material to determine whether it releases toxic chemicals in the cell. It also determines if the quantity is sufficient to kill cells, either directly or indirectly, through the inhibition of c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screened%20subnet
In network security a screened subnet refers to the use of one or more logical screening routers as a firewall to define three separate subnets: an external router (sometimes called an access router), that separates the external network from a perimeter network, and an internal router (sometimes called a choke router) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected%20shortfall
Expected shortfall (ES) is a risk measure—a concept used in the field of financial risk measurement to evaluate the market risk or credit risk of a portfolio. The "expected shortfall at q% level" is the expected return on the portfolio in the worst of cases. ES is an alternative to value at risk that is more sensitive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination%20number
In chemistry, crystallography, and materials science, the coordination number, also called ligancy, of a central atom in a molecule or crystal is the number of atoms, molecules or ions bonded to it. The ion/molecule/atom surrounding the central ion/molecule/atom is called a ligand. This number is determined somewhat di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is an email authentication protocol. It is designed to give email domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorized use, commonly known as email spoofing. The purpose and primary outcome of implementing DMARC is to protect a domain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual%20Evaluation%20of%20Audio%20Quality
Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality (PEAQ) is a standardized algorithm for objectively measuring perceived audio quality, developed in 1994-1998 by a joint venture of experts within Task Group 6Q of the International Telecommunication Union's Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R). It was originally released as ITU-R Rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubb%20hall
A Rubb Hall is a commercial name for particularly large, relocatable tent-like structure often used in situations of emergency (e.g. humanitarian) and temporary industry (e.g. construction projects). The name derives from Rubb Building Systems, and Hall Engineering of Bergen Norway, manufacturers of this kind of struc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20SafetyPIN%20software
ATM SafetyPIN software is a software application that would allow users of automated teller machines (ATMs) to alert law enforcement of a forced cash withdrawal (such as in robbery) by entering their personal identification number (PIN) in reverse order. The system was patented by Illinois lawyer Joseph Zingher (). S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Junger
Peter D. Junger (1933 – November 2006) was a computer law professor and Internet activist, most famous for having fought against the U.S. government's regulations of and export controls on encryption software. The case, Junger v. Daley (6th Cir. 2000), held that computer source code is protected by the First Amendment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel%20rhomb
A Fresnel rhomb is an optical prism that introduces a 90° phase difference between two perpendicular components of polarization, by means of two total internal reflections. If the incident beam is linearly polarized at 45° to the plane of incidence and reflection, the emerging beam is circularly polarized, and vice ver...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian%20House
Cambrian House began as a crowdsourcing community that pioneered the technology to tap crowds for the best software ideas. To power open innovation in other businesses, they developed a crowdsourcing platform Chaordix – the technology to harness a crowd for breakthrough ideas. Results Launched in 2006, the original Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20theorem
In Boolean algebra, the consensus theorem or rule of consensus is the identity: The consensus or resolvent of the terms and is . It is the conjunction of all the unique literals of the terms, excluding the literal that appears unnegated in one term and negated in the other. If includes a term which is negated in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense-in-itself
In general topology, a subset of a topological space is said to be dense-in-itself or crowded if has no isolated point. Equivalently, is dense-in-itself if every point of is a limit point of . Thus is dense-in-itself if and only if , where is the derived set of . A dense-in-itself closed set is called a perfect ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substrate%20%28biology%29
In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives. A substrate can include biotic or abiotic materials and animals. For example, encrusting algae that lives on a rock (its substrate) can be itself a substrate for an animal that lives on top of the algae. Inert substr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207080
The IBM 7080 was a variable word length BCD transistor computer in the IBM 700/7000 series commercial architecture line, introduced in August 1961, that provided an upgrade path from the vacuum tube IBM 705 computer. The 7080 weighed about . After the introduction of the IBM 7070, in June 1960, as an upgrade path for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-process%20view
The three-process view is a psychological term coined by Janet E. Davidson and Robert Sternberg. According to this concept, there are three kinds of insight: selective-encoding, selective-comparison, and selective-combination. Selective-encoding insight – Distinguishing what is important in a problem and what is irre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing-filament%20pyrometer
The disappearing-filament pyrometer is an optical pyrometer, in which the temperature of a glowing incandescent object is measured by comparing it to the light of a heated filament. Invented independently in 1901 by Ludwig Holborn and Ferdinand Kurlbaum in Germany and Everett Fleet Morse in the United States, it was t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunohaematology
Immunohematology is a branch of hematology and transfusion medicine which studies antigen-antibody reactions and analogous phenomena as they relate to the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of blood disorders. A person employed in this field is referred to as an immunohematologist. Their day-to-day duties inclu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-short%20baseline%20acoustic%20positioning%20system
USBL (ultra-short baseline, also known as SSBL for super short base line) is a method of underwater acoustic positioning. A USBL system consists of a transceiver, which is mounted on a pole under a ship, and a transponder or responder on the seafloor, on a towfish, or on an ROV. A computer, or "topside unit", is used t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%20Welding%20Institute
EWI, previously known as Edison Welding Institute, is a nonprofit engineering and technology organization dedicated to developing, testing, and implementing advanced manufacturing technologies for industry. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, EWI offers applied research, manufacturing support, and strategic services ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20%28anatomy%29
In anatomy, a canal (or canalis in Latin) is a tubular passage or channel which connects different regions of the body. Examples include: Cranial Region Alveolar canals Carotid canal Facial canal Greater palatine canal Incisive canals Infraorbital canal Mandibular canal Optic canal Palatovaginal canal Pter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Orton%20Jr.
Professor Edward Orton Jr. (October 8, 1863 in Chester, New York, United States – February 10, 1932 in Columbus, Ohio, USA) was an American academic administrator, businessman, ceramic engineer, geologist, and philanthropist. Early years Orton Jr. is the son of Dr Edward Orton Sr., a Harvard educated geologist, and Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20jet%20cooling
Steam jet cooling uses a high-pressure jet of steam to cool water or other fluid media. Typical uses include industrial sites, where a suitable steam supply already exists for other purposes or, historically, for air conditioning on passenger trains which use steam for heating. Steam jet cooling experienced a wave of p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20wild
An urban wild is a remnant of a natural ecosystem found in the midst of an otherwise highly developed urban area. Utility Urban wilds, particularly those of several acres or more, are often intact ecological systems that can provide essential ecosystem functions such as the filtering of urban run-off, the storing and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsite
A townsite is a legal subdivision of land for the development of a town or community. In the historical development of the United States, Canada, and other former British colonial nations, the filing of a townsite plat (United States) or plan (Canada) was often the first legal act in the establishment of a new town or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematic%20operators
In mathematics, an operator or transform is a function from one space of functions to another. Operators occur commonly in engineering, physics and mathematics. Many are integral operators and differential operators. In the following L is an operator which takes a function to another function . Here, and are some ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N.
The Better Approach to Mobile Ad-hoc Networking (B.A.T.M.A.N.) is a routing protocol for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks which is under development by the German "Freifunk" community and intended to replace the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR). B.A.T.M.A.N.'s crucial point is the decentralization of knowl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem%20studies
Postmortem studies are a type of neurobiological research, which provides information to researchers and individuals who will have to make medical decisions in the future. Postmortem researchers conduct a longitudinal study of the brain of an individual, who has some sort of phenomenological condition (i.e. cannot spea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing%20system%20evolution
This article covers the evolution of time-sharing systems, providing links to major early time-sharing operating systems, showing their subsequent evolution. The meaning of the term time-sharing has shifted from its original usage. From 1949 to 1960, time-sharing was used to refer to multiprogramming; it evolved to me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-stream%20mapping
Value-stream mapping, also known as material- and information-flow mapping, is a lean-management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the customer. A value stream map is a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangular%20coordinates
In mathematics, biangular coordinates are a coordinate system for the plane where and are two fixed points, and the position of a point P not on the line is determined by the angles and The sine rule can be used to convert from biangular coordinates to two-center bipolar coordinates. Applications Biangular coord...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liability-driven%20investment%20strategy
Liability-driven investment policies and asset management decisions are those largely determined by the sum of current and future liabilities attached to the investor, be it a household or an institution. As it purports to associate constantly both sides of the balance sheet in the investment process, it has been calle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20S-expressions
A Canonical S-expression (or csexp) is a binary encoding form of a subset of general S-expression (or sexp). It was designed for use in SPKI to retain the power of S-expressions and ensure canonical form for applications such as digital signatures while achieving the compactness of a binary form and maximizing the spe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hani%20Azer
Hani Azer (, ; born 1948) is an Egyptian civil engineer and a naturalized German citizen. He was born in Tanta, Egypt to a Coptic family and moved to Cairo for high school and university. In 1973, after earning a BSc(Engg) degree from the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, he moved to Germany to study for hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactivity%20in%20the%20life%20sciences
Radioactivity is generally used in life sciences for highly sensitive and direct measurements of biological phenomena, and for visualizing the location of biomolecules radiolabelled with a radioisotope. All atoms exist as stable or unstable isotopes and the latter decay at a given half-life ranging from attoseconds to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20encryption%20gateway
An enterprise encryption gateway (EEG) is a layer 2 encryption device, similar to VPN, that allows for strong authentication and encryption for data across a wireless medium. Unlike a residential gateway, an enterprise gateway typically has both an LAN and WLAN interface, where the EEG acts a bridge between the two. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematikum
The Mathematikum is a science museum, located in Gießen, Germany, which offers a huge variety of mathematical hands-on exhibits. It was founded by Albrecht Beutelspacher, a German mathematician. The Mathematikum opened its doors to visitors on 19 November 2002. It was inaugurated by the German president Johannes Rau....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20systems%20theory
Developmental systems theory (DST) is an overarching theoretical perspective on biological development, heredity, and evolution. It emphasizes the shared contributions of genes, environment, and epigenetic factors on developmental processes. DST, unlike conventional scientific theories, is not directly used to help mak...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve%20%28tonality%29
In image editing, a curve is a remapping of image tonality, specified as a function from input level to output level, used as a way to emphasize colours or other elements in a picture. Curves can usually be applied to all channels together in an image, or to each channel individually. Applying a curve to all channels...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Diamond
Fred Irvin Diamond (born November 19, 1964) is a mathematician, known for his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. His research interest is in modular forms and Galois representations. Life Diamond received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1984, and received his Ph.D. in mathematics f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20temperature%20sensors
Mechanical temperature sensors Thermometer Therm Electrical temperature sensors Thermistor- Thermistors are thermally sensitive resistors whose prime function is to exhibit a large, predictable and precise change in electrical resistance when subjected to a corresponding change in body temperature. Negative Tempe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiwix
Fiwix is an operating system kernel based on the UNIX architecture and fully focused on being POSIX compatible. It is designed and developed mainly as a hobbyist operating system, but it also serves for educational purposes. It runs on the i386 hardware platform and is compatible with a good base of existing GNU applic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Grammar%20School
Mathematical Grammar School (, abbr. "MG" or "MGB"), is a special school for gifted and talented students of mathematics, physics and informatics located in Belgrade, Serbia. It is ranked number one at International Science Olympiads by the number of medals won by its students (more than 400). The School has developed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle%20scan
An idle scan is a TCP port scan method for determining what services are open on a target computer without leaving traces pointing back at oneself. This is accomplished by using packet spoofing to impersonate another computer (called a "zombie") so that the target believes it's being accessed by the zombie. The target ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit%20%28biology%29
Habit, equivalent to habitus in some applications in biology, refers variously to aspects of behaviour or structure, as follows: In zoology (particularly in ethology), habit usually refers to aspects of more or less predictable behaviour, instinctive or otherwise, though it also has broader application. Habitus refers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20triakis%20tetrahedron
In geometry, the truncated triakis tetrahedron, or more precisely an order-6 truncated triakis tetrahedron, is a convex polyhedron with 16 faces: 4 sets of 3 pentagons arranged in a tetrahedral arrangement, with 4 hexagons in the gaps. Construction It is constructed from a triakis tetrahedron by truncating the order-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullary%20constructor
In computer programming, a nullary constructor is a constructor that takes no arguments. Also known as a 0-argument constructor, no-argument constructors or default constructor. Object-oriented constructors In object-oriented programming, a constructor is code that is run when an object is created. Default constructor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20Layer%20Topology%20Discovery
Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) is a proprietary link layer protocol for network topology discovery and quality of service diagnostics. Microsoft developed it as part of the Windows Rally set of technologies. The LLTD protocol operates over both wired (such as Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) or power line communication) as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTK%20Toolkit
PTK is a 2D rendering engine and SDK developed by Phelios, Inc., that allows computer programmers create downloadable games in C++ that are portable to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is currently used by about 60 downloadable games It is mainly known for powering breakaway casual hits from funpause and Big Fish Ga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-center%20bipolar%20coordinates
In mathematics, two-center bipolar coordinates is a coordinate system based on two coordinates which give distances from two fixed centers and . This system is very useful in some scientific applications (e.g. calculating the electric field of a dipole on a plane). Transformation to Cartesian coordinates When the cen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28verification%20language%29
e is a hardware verification language (HVL) which is tailored to implementing highly flexible and reusable verification testbenches. History e was first developed in 1992 in Israel by Yoav Hollander for his Specman software. In 1995 he founded a company, InSpec (later renamed Verisity), to commercialize the software...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-or-none%20law
In physiology, the all-or-none law (sometimes the all-or-none principle or all-or-nothing law) is the principle that if a single nerve fibre is stimulated, it will always give a maximal response and produce an electrical impulse of a single amplitude. If the intensity or duration of the stimulus is increased, the heigh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%20numbering%20for%20sequences
In mathematics, a Gödel numbering for sequences provides an effective way to represent each finite sequence of natural numbers as a single natural number. While a set theoretical embedding is surely possible, the emphasis is on the effectiveness of the functions manipulating such representations of sequences: the opera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTC%20Corporation
SMTC Corporation (Surface Mount Technology Centre), founded in 1985, is a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS) including PCBA production, systems integration and comprehensive testing services, enclosure fabrication, as well as product design, sustaining engineering and supply chain ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20routing
Fuzzy routing is the application of fuzzy logic to routing protocols, particularly in the context of ad-hoc wireless networks and in networks supporting multiple quality of service classes. It is currently the subject of research. See also Dynamic routing List of ad hoc routing protocols External links Hui Liu e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod%20size
Cephalopods, which include squids and octopuses, vary enormously in size. The smallest are only about long and weigh less than at maturity, while the giant squid can exceed in length and the colossal squid weighs close to half a tonne (), making them the largest living invertebrates. Living species range in mass mor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOMAC
Low Water-Mark Mandatory Access Control (LOMAC) is a Mandatory Access Control model which protects the integrity of system objects and subjects by means of an information flow policy coupled with the subject demotion via floating labels. In LOMAC, all system subjects and objects are assigned integrity labels, made up ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20BSD%20operating%20systems
There are a number of Unix-like operating systems under active development, descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants developed (originally by Bill Joy) at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. there were four major BSD ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copying%20mechanism
In the study of scale-free networks, a copying mechanism is a process by which such a network can form and grow, by means of repeated steps in which nodes are duplicated with mutations from existing nodes. Several variations have been studied. In the general copying model, a growing network starts as a small initial gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20of%20Molecular%20Motions
The Database of Macromolecular Motions is a bioinformatics database and software-as-a-service tool that attempts to categorize macromolecular motions, sometimes also known as conformational change. It was originally developed by Mark B. Gerstein, Werner Krebs, and Nat Echols in the Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry D...