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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20J.%20Shanefield | Daniel Jay Shanefield (April 29, 1930 – November 13, 2013) was a United States ceramic engineer.
Shanefield was born in Orange, New Jersey, and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Rutgers University in 1956; he went on to graduate studies at the same university, receiving his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction%20design%20pattern | Interaction design patterns are design patterns applied in the context human-computer interaction, describing common designs for graphical user interfaces.
A design pattern is a formal way of documenting a solution to a common design problem. The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander for use in u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20tuberculosis | Latent tuberculosis (LTB), also called latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is when a person is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but does not have active tuberculosis (TB). Active tuberculosis can be contagious while latent tuberculosis is not, and it is therefore not possible to get TB from someone with laten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20handover | Vertical handover or vertical handoff refers to a network node changing the type of connectivity it uses to access a supporting infrastructure, usually to support node mobility. For example, a suitably equipped laptop might be able to use both high-speed wireless LAN and cellular technology for Internet access. Wireles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20logic | In computer science, separation logic is an extension of Hoare logic, a way of reasoning about programs.
It was developed by John C. Reynolds, Peter O'Hearn, Samin Ishtiaq and Hongseok Yang, drawing upon early work by Rod Burstall. The assertion language of separation logic is a special case of the logic of bunched imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bornat | Richard Bornat (born 1944), is a British author and researcher in the field of computer science. He is also professor of Computer programming at Middlesex University. Previously he was at Queen Mary, University of London.
Research
Bornat's research interests includes program proving in separation logic. His focus is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility%20Radio | The Utility Radio or Wartime Civilian Receiver was a valve domestic radio receiver, manufactured in Great Britain during World War II starting in July 1944. It was designed by G.D. Reynolds of Murphy Radio. Both AC and battery-operated versions were made.
History
When war broke out in 1939, British radio manufacturer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping%20Beauty%20problem | The Sleeping Beauty problem is a puzzle in decision theory in which whenever an ideally rational epistemic agent is awoken from sleep, they have no memory of whether they have been awoken before. Upon being told that they have been woken once or twice according to the toss of a coin, once if heads and twice if tails, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20with%20operators | In abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics, the algebraic structure group with operators or Ω-group can be viewed as a group with a set Ω that operates on the elements of the group in a special way.
Groups with operators were extensively studied by Emmy Noether and her school in the 1920s. She employed the concept i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20ring%20of%20fractions | In abstract algebra, the total quotient ring or total ring of fractions is a construction that generalizes the notion of the field of fractions of an integral domain to commutative rings R that may have zero divisors. The construction embeds R in a larger ring, giving every non-zero-divisor of R an inverse in the large... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%20cipher | The Beaufort cipher, created by Sir Francis Beaufort, is a substitution cipher similar to the Vigenère cipher, with a slightly modified enciphering mechanism and tableau. Its most famous application was in a rotor-based cipher machine, the Hagelin M-209. The Beaufort cipher is based on the Beaufort square which is esse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%E2%80%93Weyl%20transform | In quantum mechanics, the Wigner–Weyl transform or Weyl–Wigner transform (after Hermann Weyl and Eugene Wigner) is the invertible mapping between functions in the quantum phase space formulation and Hilbert space operators in the Schrödinger picture.
Often the mapping from functions on phase space to operators is call... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20repeater | A cellular repeater (also known as cell phone signal booster or cell phone signal amplifier) is a type of bi-directional amplifier used to improve cell phone reception. A cellular repeater system commonly consists of a donor antenna that receives and transmits signal from nearby cell towers, coaxial cables, a signal am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken%E2%80%93Taylor%20theorem | In mathematics, the Milliken–Taylor theorem in combinatorics is a generalization of both Ramsey's theorem and Hindman's theorem. It is named after Keith Milliken and Alan D. Taylor.
Let denote the set of finite subsets of , and define a partial order on by α<β if and only if max α<min β. Given a sequence of integers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/166%20%28number%29 | 166 (one hundred [and] sixty-six) is the natural number following 165 and preceding 167.
In mathematics
166 is an even number and a composite number. It is a centered triangular number.
Given 166, the Mertens function returns 0. 166 is a Smith number in base 10.
In astronomy
166 Rhodope is a dark main belt asteroid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20immunity | In mathematics, the correlation immunity of a Boolean function is a measure of the degree to which its outputs are uncorrelated with some subset of its inputs. Specifically, a Boolean function is said to be correlation-immune of order m if every subset of m or fewer variables in is statistically independent of the val... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich%20Technologies | Reich Technologies was one of the UML Partners, a consortium that was instrumental to the development of standards for the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The CEO for the company (Georges-Pierre Reich) represented Reich Technologies on the committee, and was involved in the development of the proposal. The proposal wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chow%20group | In algebraic geometry, the Chow groups (named after Wei-Liang Chow by ) of an algebraic variety over any field are algebro-geometric analogs of the homology of a topological space. The elements of the Chow group are formed out of subvarieties (so-called algebraic cycles) in a similar way to how simplicial or cellular h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE%20292 | SMPTE 292 is a digital video transmission line standard published by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). This technical standard is usually referred to as HD-SDI; it is part of a family of standards that define a Serial Digital Interface based on a coaxial cable, intended to be used for tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20expression | In mathematics, an algebraic expression is an expression built up from constant algebraic numbers, variables, and the algebraic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and exponentiation by an exponent that is a rational number). For example, is an algebraic expression. Since taking the square root... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featural%20writing%20system | In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they represent. The term featural was introduced by Geoffrey Sampson to describe the Korean alphabet and Pitman shorthand.
Joe Martin introduced the term featural notation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-ceramic-to-metal%20seals | A glass-ceramic-to-metal seal is a type of mechanical seal which binds glass-ceramic and metal surfaces. They are related to glass-to-metal seals, and like them are hermetic (airtight).
Properties
Glass-ceramics are polycrystalline ceramic materials prepared by the controlled crystallization of suitable glasses, norma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20ring | In mathematics, a Poisson ring is a commutative ring on which an anticommutative and distributive binary operation satisfying the Jacobi identity and the product rule is defined. Such an operation is then known as the Poisson bracket of the Poisson ring.
Many important operations and results of symplectic geometry an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20logic%20%28digital%20electronics%29 | In integrated circuit design, dynamic logic (or sometimes clocked logic) is a design methodology in combinational logic circuits, particularly those implemented in metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology. It is distinguished from the so-called static logic by exploiting temporary storage of information in stray and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary%20data | Ancillary data is data that has been added to given data and uses the same form of transport. Common examples are cover art images for media files or streams, or digital data added to radio or television broadcasts.
Television
Ancillary data (commonly abbreviated as ANC data), in the context of television systems, re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet%20%28formal%20languages%29 | In formal language theory, an alphabet, sometimes called a vocabulary, is a non-empty set of indivisible symbols/glyphs, typically thought of as representing letters, characters, digits, phonemes, or even words. Alphabets in this technical sense of a set are used in a diverse range of fields including logic, mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharimeter | A saccharimeter is an instrument for measuring the concentration of sugar solutions.
This is commonly achieved using a measurement of refractive index (refractometer) or the angle of rotation of polarization of optically active sugars (polarimeter).
Saccharimeters are used in food processing industries, brewing, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20detector | The magnetic detector or Marconi magnetic detector, sometimes called the "Maggie", was an early radio wave detector used in some of the first radio receivers to receive Morse code messages during the wireless telegraphy era around the turn of the 20th century. Developed in 1902 by radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HelenOS | HelenOS is an operating system based on a multiserver microkernel design. The source code of HelenOS is written in C and published under the BSD-3-Clause license.
The system is described as a “research development open-source operating system”.
Technical overview
The microkernel handles multitasking, memory manageme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20%28simplicial%20complex%29 | The link in a simplicial complex is a generalization of the neighborhood of a vertex in a graph. The link of a vertex encodes information about the local structure of the complex at the vertex.
Link of a vertex
Given an abstract simplicial complex and a vertex in , its link is a set containing every face such tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented%20modeling | Object-oriented modeling (OOM) is an approach to modeling an application that is used at the beginning of the software life cycle when using an object-oriented approach to software development.
The software life cycle is typically divided up into stages going from abstract descriptions of the problem to designs then t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Read%20%28mathematician%29 | Charles John Read (16 February 1958 – 14 August 2015) was a British mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perillaldehyde | Perillaldehyde, perillic aldehyde or perilla aldehyde, is a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.
Perillaldehyde, or volatile oils from perilla that are ri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COGO | COGO is a suite of programs used in civil engineering for modelling horizontal and vertical alignments and solving coordinate geometry problems. Cogo alignments are used as controls for the geometric design of roads, railways, and stream relocations or restorations.
COGO was originally a subsystem of MIT's Integrated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completeness%20%28cryptography%29 | In cryptography, a boolean function is said to be complete if the value of each output bit depends on all input bits.
This is a desirable property to have in an encryption cipher, so that if one bit of the input (plaintext) is changed, every bit of the output (ciphertext) has an average of 50% probability of changing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20noise%20measurement | Audio noise measurement is a process carried out to assess the quality of audio equipment, such as the kind used in recording studios, broadcast engineering, and in-home high fidelity.
In audio equipment noise is a low-level hiss or buzz that intrudes on audio output. Every piece of equipment which the recorded signal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasterscan | Rasterscan is a video game published in 1987 by Mastertronic for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and MSX. It was written by Binary Design based in Parsonage Gardens, Manchester with the C64 version programmed by Phillip Allsopp.
Plot
The Rasterscan, a large damaged spacecraft, is drifting uncontrollably to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne%20Association | The Lindisfarne Association (1972–2012) was a nonprofit foundation and diverse group of intellectuals organized by cultural historian William Irwin Thompson for the "study and realization of a new planetary culture".
It was inspired by the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead's idea of an integral philosophy of organ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory%20quotient | The respiratory quotient (RQ or respiratory coefficient) is a dimensionless number used in calculations of basal metabolic rate (BMR) when estimated from carbon dioxide production. It is calculated from the ratio of carbon dioxide produced by the body to oxygen consumed by the body. Such measurements, like measurements... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%20Audio | Armstrong Audio, originally called Armstrong Wireless and Television Ltd. was a British manufacturer of radios and other audio equipment based in London, England. Founded by Claude Charles Jackson in 1932.
History
Initially created to manufacture portable radios, during World War II their factory was used to manufac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20architectural%20model | The SCSI architectural model provides an abstract view of the way that SCSI devices communicate. It is intended to show how the different SCSI standards are inter-related. The main concepts and terminology of the SCSI architectural model are:
Only the externally observable behavior is defined in SCSI standards.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic%20encryption | Opportunistic encryption (OE) refers to any system that, when connecting to another system, attempts to encrypt communications channels, otherwise falling back to unencrypted communications. This method requires no pre-arrangement between the two systems.
Opportunistic encryption can be used to combat passive wiretapp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal%20rule | In calculus, the reciprocal rule gives the derivative of the reciprocal of a function f in terms of the derivative of f. The reciprocal rule can be used to show that the power rule holds for negative exponents if it has already been established for positive exponents. Also, one can readily deduce the quotient rule from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20dynamic%20recrystallization | Geometric Dynamic Recrystallization (GDR) is a recrystallization mechanism that has been proposed to occur in several alloys, particularly aluminium, at high temperatures and low strain rates. It is a variant of dynamic recrystallization.
The basic mechanism is that during deformation the grains will be increasingly f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain%20growth | In materials science, grain growth is the increase in size of grains (crystallites) in a material at high temperature. This occurs when recovery and recrystallisation are complete and further reduction in the internal energy can only be achieved by reducing the total area of grain boundary. The term is commonly used in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20cave | Wine caves are subterranean structures for the storage and the aging of wine. They are an integral component of the wine industry worldwide. The design and construction of wine caves represents a unique application of underground construction techniques.
The storage of wine in extensive underground space is an extensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunton%20compass | A Brunton compass, properly known as the Brunton Pocket Transit, is a precision compass made by Brunton, Inc. of Riverton, Wyoming. The instrument was patented in 1894 by Canadian-born geologist David W. Brunton. Unlike most modern compasses, the Brunton Pocket Transit utilizes magnetic induction damping rather than fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular%20measure | In mathematics, two positive (or signed or complex) measures and defined on a measurable space are called singular if there exist two disjoint measurable sets whose union is such that is zero on all measurable subsets of while is zero on all measurable subsets of This is denoted by
A refined form of Lebesgue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitudinal%20gradients%20in%20species%20diversity | Species richness, or biodiversity, increases from the poles to the tropics for a wide variety of terrestrial and marine organisms, often referred to as the latitudinal diversity gradient. The latitudinal diversity gradient is one of the most widely recognized patterns in ecology. It has been observed to varying degrees... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20transfer%20object | In the field of programming a data transfer object (DTO) is an object that carries data between processes. The motivation for its use is that communication between processes is usually done resorting to remote interfaces (e.g., web services), where each call is an expensive operation. Because the majority of the cost o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union-closed%20sets%20conjecture | The union-closed sets conjecture, also known as Frankl’s conjecture, is an open problem in combinatorics posed by Péter Frankl in 1979. A family of sets is said to be union-closed if the union of any two sets from the family belongs to the family. The conjecture states: For every finite union-closed family of sets, ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMARP | The Multicast MAnet Routing Protocol (MMARP) aims to provide multicast routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) taking into account interoperation with fixed IP networks with support of IGMP/MLD protocol. This is achieved by the Multicast Internet Gateway (MIG) which is an ad hoc node itself and is responsible for no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile%20transducer | A tactile transducer or "bass shaker" is a device which is made on the principle that low bass frequencies can be felt as well as heard. They can be compared with a common loudspeaker, just that the diaphragm is missing. Instead, another object is used as a diaphragm. A shaker transmits low-frequency vibrations into va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Amiga | The Amiga is a family of home computers that were designed and sold by the Amiga Corporation (and later by Commodore Computing International) from 1985 to 1994.
Amiga Corporation
The Amiga's Original Chip Set, code-named Lorraine, was designed by the Amiga Corporation during the end of the first home video game boom.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refer%20%28software%29 | refer is a program for managing bibliographic references, and citing them in troff, nroff, and groff documents. It is implemented as a preprocessor.
refer was written by Mike Lesk at Bell Laboratories in or before 1978, and is now available as part of most Unix-like operating systems. A free reimplementation exists ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable%20secret%20sharing | In cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is verifiable if auxiliary information is included that allows players to verify their shares as consistent. More formally, verifiable secret sharing ensures that even if the dealer is malicious there is a well-defined secret that the players can later reconstruct. (In standard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory%20Interface%20Network%20Service | FINS, Factory Interface Network Service, is a network protocol used by Omron PLCs, over different physical networks like Ethernet, Controller Link, DeviceNet and RS-232C.
The FINS communications service was developed by Omron to provide a consistent way for PLCs and computers on various networks to communicate. Compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID | In the x86 architecture, the CPUID instruction (identified by a CPUID opcode) is a processor supplementary instruction (its name derived from CPU Identification) allowing software to discover details of the processor. It was introduced by Intel in 1993 with the launch of the Pentium and SL-enhanced 486 processors.
A p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%20conjecture%20on%20arithmetic%20progressions | Erdős' conjecture on arithmetic progressions, often referred to as the Erdős–Turán conjecture, is a conjecture in arithmetic combinatorics (not to be confused with the Erdős–Turán conjecture on additive bases). It states that if the sum of the reciprocals of the members of a set A of positive integers diverges, then A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Math%20and%20Science%20Coaches%20Association | The Texas Math and Science Coaches Association or TMSCA is an organization for coaches of academic University Interscholastic League teams in Texas middle schools and high schools, specifically those that compete in mathematics and science-related tests.
Events
There are four events in the TMSCA at both the middle a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerHouse%20%28programming%20language%29 | PowerHouse is a byte-compiled fourth-generation programming language (or 4GL) originally produced by Quasar Corporation (later renamed Cognos Incorporated) for the Hewlett-Packard HP3000 mini-computer, as well as Data General and DEC VAX/VMS systems. It was initially composed of five components:
QDD, or Quasar Data Di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF%20Administrative%20Support%20Activity | The full name of IETF is "The Internet Engineering Task Force"which is the premier Internet standards body. It develops open standards through collaboration for open processes.
The IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) is an activity housed within the Internet Society (ISOC).
The IASA is described by , an IETF... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS | WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees. These resources include domain names, IP address blocks and autonomous systems, but it is also used for a wider range of other information. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Reconnaissance%20Platoon | The Radio Reconnaissance Platoon is a specially trained Marine Corps Intelligence element of a United States Marine Corps Radio Battalion. A Radio Reconnaissance Team (RRT) was assigned as the tactical signals intelligence collection element for the Marine Corps Special Operations Command, Detachment One. Regular RRTs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%27s%20decomposition%20theorem | In mathematics, more precisely in measure theory, Lebesgue's decomposition theorem states that for every two σ-finite signed measures and on a measurable space there exist two σ-finite signed measures and such that:
(that is, is absolutely continuous with respect to )
(that is, and are singular).
These... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axostyle | An axostyle is a sheet of microtubules found in certain protists. It arises from the bases of the flagella, sometimes projecting beyond the end of the cell, and is often flexible or contractile, and so may be involved in movement and provides support for the cell. Axostyles originate in association with a flagellar m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken%27s%20tree%20theorem | In mathematics, Milliken's tree theorem in combinatorics is a partition theorem generalizing Ramsey's theorem to infinite trees, objects with more structure than sets.
Let T be a finitely splitting rooted tree of height ω, n a positive integer, and the collection of all strongly embedded subtrees of T of height n. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroVAX | The MicroVAX is a discontinued family of low-cost minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The first model, the MicroVAX I, was introduced in 1983. They used processors that implemented the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA) and were succeeded by the VAX 4000. Many members of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20classification | Baltimore classification is a system used to classify viruses based on their manner of messenger RNA (mRNA) synthesis. By organizing viruses based on their manner of mRNA production, it is possible to study viruses that behave similarly as a distinct group. Seven Baltimore groups are described that take into considerat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy%20%28fluid%20dynamics%29 | In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime. The moving fluid creates a space devoid of downstream-flowing fluid on the downstream side of the object. Fluid behind the obstacle flows into the void creating a swirl of fluid on each e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20point | The function point is a "unit of measurement" to express the amount of business functionality an information system (as a product) provides to a user. Function points are used to compute a functional size measurement (FSM) of software. The cost (in dollars or hours) of a single unit is calculated from past projects.
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Year%20of%20Planet%20Earth | The United Nations General Assembly declared 2008 as the International Year of Planet Earth to increase awareness of the importance of Earth sciences for the advancement of sustainable development. UNESCO was designated as the lead agency. The Year's activities spanned the three years 2006–2009.
Goals
The Year aimed t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic%20fieldmeter | An electrostatic fieldmeter, also called a static meter is a tool used in the static control industry. It is used for non-contact measurement of electrostatic charge on an object. It measures the force between the induced charges in a sensor and the charge present on the surface of an object. This force is converted to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill%20device | A fill device or key loader is a module used to load cryptographic keys into electronic encryption machines. Fill devices are usually hand held and electronic ones are battery operated.
Older mechanical encryption systems, such as rotor machines, were keyed by setting the positions of wheels and plugs from a printed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Mosses | Peter David Mosses (born 1948) is a British computer scientist.
Peter Mosses studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, and went on to undertake a DPhil supervised by Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group while at Wolfson College, Oxford in the early 1970s. He was the last stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Watt%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David Anthony Watt (born 5 November 1946) is a British computer scientist.
Watt is a professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. With Peter Mosses he developed action semantics, a combination of denotational semantics, operational and algebraic semantics. He currently teaches a third year programming languages c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%20mercaptan | Grapefruit mercaptan is the common name for a natural organic compound found in grapefruit. It is a monoterpenoid that contains a thiol (also known as a mercaptan) functional group. Structurally a hydroxy group of terpineol is replaced by the thiol in grapefruit mercaptan, so it also called thioterpineol. Volatile thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional%20science | Nutritional science (also nutrition science, sometimes short nutrition, dated trophology) is the science that studies the physiological process of nutrition (primarily human nutrition), interpreting the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20Center | The Geometry Center was a mathematics research and education center at the University of Minnesota. It was established by the National Science Foundation in the late 1980s and closed in 1998. The focus of the center's work was the use of computer graphics and visualization for research and education in pure mathematics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Harel | David Harel (; born 12 April 1950) is a computer scientist, currently serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has been on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980, and holds the William Sussman Professorial Chair of Mathematics. Born in London, England, he ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulkarni%E2%80%93Nomizu%20product | In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the Kulkarni–Nomizu product (named for Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni and Katsumi Nomizu) is defined for two -tensors and gives as a result a -tensor.
Definition
If h and k are symmetric -tensors, then the product is defined via:
where the Xj are tangent vectors and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon%20Networks | Ipsilon Networks was a computer networking company which specialised in IP switching during the 1990s.
The first product called the IP Switch ATM 1600 was announced in March 1996 for US$46,000.
Its switch used Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) hardware combined with Internet Protocol routing.
The company had a role in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtered%20category | In category theory, filtered categories generalize the notion of directed set understood as a category (hence called a directed category; while some use directed category as a synonym for a filtered category). There is a dual notion of cofiltered category, which will be recalled below.
Filtered categories
A category... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakarel%20radio%20transmitter | The Vakarel Transmitter was a large broadcasting facility for long- and medium wave near Vakarel, Bulgaria. The Vakarel Transmitter was inaugurated in 1937. It had one directional antenna consisting of three guyed masts and another consisting of two masts.
The most remarkable mast of the Vakarel Transmitter was the B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20service-oriented%20architecture | A Semantic Service Oriented Architecture (SSOA) is an architecture that allows for scalable and controlled Enterprise Application Integration solutions. SSOA describes an approach to enterprise-scale IT infrastructure. It leverages rich, machine-interpretable descriptions of data, services, and processes to enable soft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20complex | An immune complex, sometimes called an antigen-antibody complex or antigen-bound antibody, is a molecule formed from the binding of multiple antigens to antibodies. The bound antigen and antibody act as a unitary object, effectively an antigen of its own with a specific epitope. After an antigen-antibody reaction, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20neighborhood | In cellular automata, the Moore neighborhood is defined on a two-dimensional square lattice and is composed of a central cell and the eight cells that surround it.
Name
The neighborhood is named after Edward F. Moore, a pioneer of cellular automata theory.
Importance
It is one of the two most commonly used neighborho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OldVersion.com | OldVersion.com is an archive website that stores and distributes older versions of primarily Internet-related IBM PC compatible and Apple Macintosh freeware and shareware application software. Alex Levine and Igor Dolgalev founded the site in 2001.
Levine created the site because "Companies make a lot of new versions.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigDog | BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped military robot that was created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station. It was funded by DARPA, but the project was shelved after the BigDog was deemed too loud for combat.
History
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20engineer | A test engineer is a professional who determines how to create a process that would best test a particular product in manufacturing and related disciplines, in order to assure that the product meets applicable specifications. Test engineers are also responsible for determining the best way a test can be performed in or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hann%20function | The Hann function is named after the Austrian meteorologist Julius von Hann. It is a window function used to perform Hann smoothing. The function, with length and amplitude is given by:
For digital signal processing, the function is sampled symmetrically (with spacing and amplitude ):
which is a sequence of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgem | Dodgem is a simple abstract strategy game invented by Colin Vout in 1972 while he was a mathematics student at the University of Cambridge as described in the book Winning Ways. It is played on an n×n board with n-1 cars for each player—two cars each on a 3×3 board is enough for an interesting game, but larger sizes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Lagarias | Jeffrey Clark Lagarias (born November 16, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is a mathematician and professor at the University of Michigan.
Education
While in high school in 1966, Lagarias studied astronomy at the Summer Science Program.
He completed an S.B. and S.M. in Mathematics at the Massachusett... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProCurve | HP ProCurve was the name of the networking division of Hewlett-Packard from 1998 to 2010 and was associated with the products that it sold. The name of the division was changed to HP Networking in September 2010 after HP bought 3Com Corporation.
History
The HP division that became the HP ProCurve division began in Ros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Q1 | The Samsung Q1 (known as Samsung SENS Q1 in South Korea) was a family of ultra-mobile PCs produced by Samsung Electronics starting in 2007. They had a 7" (18 cm) LCD and were made in several different versions with either Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or Windows Vista Home Premium.
Variations
Q1 series
Samsung Q1
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%27s%20schema%20theorem | Holland's schema theorem, also called the fundamental theorem of genetic algorithms, is an inequality that results from coarse-graining an equation for evolutionary dynamics. The Schema Theorem says that short, low-order schemata with above-average fitness increase exponentially in frequency in successive generations.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20facilitation | Ecological facilitation or probiosis describes species interactions that benefit at least one of the participants and cause harm to neither. Facilitations can be categorized as mutualisms, in which both species benefit, or commensalisms, in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected. This article addresses ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwater%20system | The Atwater system, named after Wilbur Olin Atwater, or derivatives of this system are used for the calculation of the available energy of foods. The system was developed largely from the experimental studies of Atwater and his colleagues in the later part of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th at Wesleyan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPro | InterPro is a database of protein families, protein domains and functional sites in which identifiable features found in known proteins can be applied to new protein sequences in order to functionally characterise them.
The contents of InterPro consist of diagnostic signatures and the proteins that they significantly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone%20monitor | An ozone monitor is electronic equipment that monitors for ozone concentrations in the air. The instrument may be used to monitor ozone values for industrial applications or to determine the amount of ambient ozone at ground level and determine whether these values violate National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)... |
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