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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20contour | In US broadcasting, service contour (or protected contour) refers to the area in which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) predicts coverage.
The FCC calculates FM and TV contours based on effective radiated power (ERP) in a given direction, the radial height above average terrain (HAAT) in a given direction, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterimmunoelectrophoresis | Counterimmunoelectrophoresis is a laboratory technique used to evaluate the binding of an antibody to its antigen, it is similar to immunodiffusion, but with the addition of an applied electrical field across the diffusion medium, usually an agar or polyacrylamide gel. The effect is rapid migration of the antibody and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Perkins%20%28geneticist%29 | David Dexter Perkins (May 2, 1919 – January 2, 2007) was an American geneticist, a member of the faculty of the Department of Biology at Stanford University for more than 58 years, from 1948 until his death in 2007. He received his PhD in Zoology in 1949 from Columbia University. A member of the National Academy of Sci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Marshall%20Gordon | Bernard Marshall Gordon (born 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is considered "the father of high-speed analog-to-digital conversion".
Early life, education, and career
At an early age Gordon developed an interest in electronics. Upon graduatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20virtual%20printer%20software | The following is a list of Wikipedia articles relating to virtual printer software:
Free software
The following are distributed under free software licences:
CC PDF Converter (discontinued) – A Ghostscript-based virtual printer, provided by CogniView.
cups-pdf – An open source Ghostscript-based virtual printer that c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21-Hydroxylase | Steroid 21-hydroxylase (also known as steroid 21-monooxygenase, cytochrome P450C21, 21α-hydroxylase and less commonly 21β-hydroxylase) is an enzyme that hydroxylates steroids at the C21 position and is involved in biosynthesis of aldosterone and cortisol. The enzyme converts progesterone and 17α-hydroxyprogesterone int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid%2011%CE%B2-hydroxylase | Steroid 11β-hydroxylase, also known as steroid 11β-monooxygenase, is a steroid hydroxylase found in the zona glomerulosa and zona fasciculata of the adrenal cortex. Named officially the cytochrome P450 11B1, mitochondrial, it is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CYP11B1 gene. The enzyme is involved in the bios... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steen%20Rasmussen%20%28physicist%29 | Steen Rasmussen (born 7 July 1955) is a Danish physicist mainly working in the areas of artificial life and complex systems. He is currently a professor in physics and a center director at University of Southern Denmark as well as an external research professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His formal training was at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20conductivity | Ground conductivity refers to the electrical conductivity of the subsurface of the earth. In the International System of Units (SI) it is measured in millisiemens per meter (mS/m).
Radio propagation
Ground conductivity is an extremely important factor in determining the field strength and propagation of surface wave ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20sparks | A calcium spark is the microscopic release of calcium (Ca2+) from a store known as the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), located within muscle cells. This release occurs through an ion channel within the membrane of the SR, known as a ryanodine receptor (RyR), which opens upon activation. This process is important as it hel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HELP%20assay | For the purpose of DNA replication, the HpaII tiny fragment Enrichment by Ligation-mediated PCR Assay (HELP Assay) is one of several techniques used for determining whether DNA has been methylated. The technique can be adapted to examine DNA methylation within and around individual genes, or it can be expanded to exami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20bridge | A thermal bridge, also called a cold bridge, heat bridge, or thermal bypass, is an area or component of an object which has higher thermal conductivity than the surrounding materials, creating a path of least resistance for heat transfer. Thermal bridges result in an overall reduction in thermal resistance of the objec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine%20bubble%20diffusers | Fine bubble diffusers are a pollution control technology used to aerate wastewater for sewage treatment.
Description
Fine bubble diffusers produce a plethora of very small air bubbles which rise slowly from the floor of a wastewater treatment plant or sewage treatment plant aeration tank and provide substantial and ef... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigate%20device | A multigate device, multi-gate MOSFET or multi-gate field-effect transistor (MuGFET) refers to a metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) that has more than one gate on a single transistor. The multiple gates may be controlled by a single gate electrode, wherein the multiple gate surfaces act electric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coarse%20bubble%20diffusers | Coarse bubble diffusers are a pollution control technology used to aerate and or mix wastewater for sewage treatment.
Description
Coarse bubble diffusers produce 1/4 to 1/2 inch (6.4 to 13 mm) bubbles which rise rapidly from the floor of a wastewater treatment plant or sewage treatment plant tank. They are typically u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP%20word%20list | The PGP Word List ("Pretty Good Privacy word list", also called a biometric word list for reasons explained below) is a list of words for conveying data bytes in a clear unambiguous way via a voice channel. They are analogous in purpose to the NATO phonetic alphabet used by pilots, except a longer list of words is used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek | The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit. In the past, it had a generally pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson%20power%20cell | The Patterson power cell is an electrolysis device invented by chemist James A. Patterson, which he said created 200 times more energy than it used, and neutralizes radioactivity without emitting any harmful radiation. It is one of several cells that some observers classified as cold fusion; cells which were the subjec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent%20interface | In software engineering, a fluent interface is an object-oriented API whose design relies extensively on method chaining. Its goal is to increase code legibility by creating a domain-specific language (DSL). The term was coined in 2005 by Eric Evans and Martin Fowler.
Implementation
A fluent interface is normally impl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%20Wenninger | Father Magnus J. Wenninger OSB (October 31, 1919– February 17, 2017) was an American mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction.
Early life and education
Born to German immigrants in Park Falls, Wisconsin, Joseph Wenninger always knew he was going to be a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba%20%28mathematics%29 | In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, an amoeba is a set associated with a polynomial in one or more complex variables. Amoebas have applications in algebraic geometry, especially tropical geometry.
Definition
Consider the function
defined on the set of all n-tuples of non-zero complex numbers with value... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Activision%20Decathlon | The Activision Decathlon is a sports game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, and MSX. Up to four players compete in the ten different events of a real-life decathlon, either in sequence or indiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie%20%28cavity%20wall%29 | The tie in a cavity wall is a component used to tie the internal and external walls (or leaves)—constructed of bricks or cement blocks—together, making the two parts to act as a homogeneous unit. It is placed in the cavity wall during construction and spans the cavity. The ends of the tie are designed to lock into the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracaspase | Paracaspases (human: MALT1) are members of the C14 family of cysteine proteases. Paracaspases are proteins related to caspases present in animals and slime mold, in contrast to metacaspases, which are present in plants, fungi, and "protists". The phylogenetic distribution is a bit confusing, since slime mold diverged e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacaspase | Metacaspases are members of the C14 class of cysteine proteases and thus related to caspases, orthocaspases and paracaspases. The metacaspases are arginine/lysine-specific, in contrast to caspases, which are aspartate-specific.
Structure and Phylogenetic distribution
Prokaryotes
In archea and bacteria, there are sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C4%81%20Taonga%20Sound%20%26%20Vision | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (Operating name for The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero.) is an archive that was launched on 31 July 2014, following the completion of a three-year process whereby the New Zealand Film Archive "absorbed" the collections and operations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axenic | In biology, axenic (, ) describes the state of a culture in which only a single species, variety, or strain of organism is present and entirely free of all other contaminating organisms. The earliest axenic cultures were of bacteria or unicellular eukaryotes, but axenic cultures of many multicellular organisms are al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGUANA%20Computing | Independent Group of Unix-Alikes and Networking Activists (IGUANA) are developers of the Wombat system.
IGUANA is also an operating system (OS) personality that provides a set of services for memory management and process protection. Iguana is designed as a base for the provision of operating system services for embed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated%20Identity%20Body | Authenticated Identity Body or AIB is a method allowing parties in a network to share authenticated identity thereby increasing the integrity of their SIP communications. AIBs extend other authentication methods like S/MIME to provide a more specific mechanism to introduce integrity to SIP transmissions. Parties transm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20property | A mathematical object X has the fixed-point property if every suitably well-behaved mapping from X to itself has a fixed point. The term is most commonly used to describe topological spaces on which every continuous mapping has a fixed point. But another use is in order theory, where a partially ordered set P is said ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat%27s%20Dyke | Wat's Dyke () is a linear earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey on the River Dee estuary, passing east of Oswestry and on to Maesbury in Shropshire, England. It runs generally parallel to Offa's Dyke, sometimes within a few yards but never more than away. It now appears insignific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate%20Texts%20in%20Mathematics | Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (UTM) () is a series of undergraduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by Springer-Verlag. The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are small yellow books of a standard size.
The books in this series tend to be written at a more elementary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20transducer | A wind transducer is a device used by sailors to receive a real-time measurement of wind speed and direction. A wind transducer is usually mounted on the masthead of a sailing boat and is occasionally used by power boats too. The wind speed and direction measurements are more critical to sailing boats than to power boa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate%20Studies%20in%20Mathematics | Graduate Studies in Mathematics (GSM) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The books in this series are published in hardcover and e-book formats.
List of books
1 The General Topology of Dynamical Systems, Ethan Akin (1993, )
2 Combinatorial Rig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoornithology | Ethnoornithology (also ethno-ornithology) is the study of the relationship between people and birds (from "ethno-" - relating to people and culture - and "ornithology" - the study of birds). It is a branch of ethnozoology and so of the wider field of ethnobiology. Ethnoornithology is an interdisciplinary subject and co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byteflight | Byteflight is an automotive databus created by BMW and partners Motorola, Elmos Semiconductor and Infineon to address the need for a modernized safety-critical, fault tolerant means of electronic communication between automotive components. It is a message-oriented protocol. As a predecessor to FlexRay, byteflight us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation%20theory | The Interpolation Theory, also known as the Intercalation Theory or the Antithetic Theory, is a theory that attempts to explain the origin of the alternation of generations in plants. The Interpolation Theory suggests that the sporophyte generation progenated from a haploid, green algal thallus in which repeated mitot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20home%20computers%20by%20video%20hardware | This is a list of home computers, sorted alphanumerically, which lists all relevant details of their video hardware.
Home computers are the second generation of desktop computers, entering the market in 1977 and becoming common during the 1980s. A decade later they were generally replaced by IBM PC compatible "PCs", a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20combat%20direction%20system | The Advanced Combat Direction System (ACDS) is a centralized, automated command-and-control system, collecting and correlating combat information. It upgrades the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) for aircraft carriers and large-deck amphibious ships. A core component of non-Aegis combat systems, ACDS provides the capa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkman%27s%20schoolgirl%20problem | Kirkman's schoolgirl problem is a problem in combinatorics proposed by Thomas Penyngton Kirkman in 1850 as Query VI in The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary (pg.48). The problem states:
Fifteen young ladies in a school walk out three abreast for seven days in succession: it is required to arrange them daily so that no two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks | WikiLeaks () is a publisher and media organisation founded in 2006. It operates as a non-profit and is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It was founded by Julian Assange, an Australian editor, publisher, and activist, who is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Scheduling | Hybrid Scheduling is a class of scheduling mechanisms that mix different scheduling criteria or disciplines in one algorithm. For example, scheduling uplink and downlink traffic in a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network, such as IEEE 802.11e) using a single discipline or framework is an instance of hybrid scheduling. Othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20by%20example | In computer science, programming by example (PbE), also termed programming by demonstration or more generally as demonstrational programming, is an end-user development technique for teaching a computer new behavior by demonstrating actions on concrete examples. The system records user actions and infers a generalized ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens%20Award | The Stevens Award is a software engineering lecture award given by the Reengineering Forum, an industry association. The international Stevens Award was created to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature or practice of methods for software and systems development. The first award was given in 1995. The pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGUI | Crazy Eddie's GUI (CEGUI) is a graphical user interface (GUI) library for the programming language C++. It was designed for the needs of video games, but is usable for non-game tasks, such as applications and tools. It is designed for user flexibility in look-and-feel, and to be adaptable to the user's choice in tools ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28PC%20DOS%29 | E is the text editor which was made part of PC DOS with version 6.1 in June 1993, in February 1995 with version 7 and later with PC DOS 2000. In version 6.1, IBM dropped QBASIC, which, in its edit mode, was also the system text editor. It was necessary to provide some sort of editor, so IBM chose to adapt and substant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutler%27s%20bar%20notation | In mathematics, Cutler's bar notation is a notation system for large numbers, introduced by Mark Cutler in 2004. The idea is based on iterated exponentiation in much the same way that exponentiation is iterated multiplication.
Introduction
A regular exponential can be expressed as such:
However, these expressions be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC%E2%80%93PP%20game | The Commonize Costs–Privatize Profits Game (or CC–PP Game) is a concept developed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin to describe a "game" (in the game theory sense) widely played in matters of resource allocation. The concept is Hardin's interpretation of the closely related phenomenon known as the tragedy of the commons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20Domain%20of%20Interpretation | Group Domain of Interpretation or GDOI is a cryptographic protocol for group key management. The GDOI protocol is specified in an IETF Standard, RFC 6407, and is based on Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP), RFC 2408, and Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKE). Whereas IKE is run between... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Hi%20Def | Total Hi Def Disc, also called Total HD or THD, was a planned optical disc format that included both of the rival high-definition optical disc formats, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. It was officially announced January 8, 2007 at the Warner Bros. press conference held at CES 2007. One side was to contain a single or dual-lay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core-and-veneer | Core-and-veneer, brick and rubble, wall and rubble, ashlar and rubble, and emplekton all refer to a building technique where two parallel walls are constructed and the core between them is filled with rubble or other infill, creating one thick wall. Originally, and in later poorly constructed walls, the rubble was not ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-force%20spring | An ideal constant-force spring is a spring for which the force it exerts over its range of motion is a constant, that is, it does not obey Hooke's law. In reality, "constant-force springs" do not provide a truly constant force and are constructed from materials which do obey Hooke's law.
Generally constant-force spring... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20Clay%20Shooting%20System | The Laser Clay Shooting System (レーザークレー射撃システム) is a light gun shooting simulation game created by Nintendo in 1973. The game consisted of an overhead projector which displayed moving targets behind a background; players would fire at the targets with a rifle, in which a mechanism of reflections would determine whether ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20series | In calculus, a function series is a series, where the summands are not just real or complex numbers but functions.
Examples
Examples of function series include power series, Laurent series, Fourier series, etc.
Convergence
There exist many types of convergence for a function series, such as uniform convergence, point... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecmar | Tecmar Inc. was an American manufacturer of personal computer enhancement products based in Solon, Ohio. The company was founded in 1974 by Martin Alpert, M.D., and Carolyn Alpert. The company's first products were computerized medical equipment; the company shortly after pivoted to data acquisition boards for the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeSSI | NeSSI (for New Sampling/Sensor Initiative) is a global and open initiative sponsored by the Center for Process Analysis and Control (CPAC) at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
The NeSSI initiative was begun to simplify the tasks and reduce the overall costs associated with engineering, installing, and maintain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroadhesion | Electroadhesion is the electrostatic effect of astriction between two surfaces subjected to an electrical field. Applications include the retention of paper on plotter surfaces, astrictive robotic prehension (electrostatic grippers) etc. Clamping pressures in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 N/cm2 (0.8 to 2.3 psi) have been cla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment%20card%20industry | The payment card industry (PCI) denotes the debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards and associated businesses.
Overview
The payment card industry consists of all the organizations which store, process and transmit cardholder data, most notably for debit cards and credit cards. The security standards are d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillai%20prime | In number theory, a Pillai prime is a prime number p for which there is an integer n > 0 such that the factorial of n is one less than a multiple of the prime, but the prime is not one more than a multiple of n. To put it algebraically, but . The first few Pillai primes are
23, 29, 59, 61, 67, 71, 79, 83, 109, 137, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committer | A committer is an individual who is permitted to modify the source code of a software project, that will be used in the project's official releases. To contribute source code to most large software projects, one must make modifications and then "commit" those changes to a central version control system, such as Git (or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20totient%20number | In number theory, a perfect totient number is an integer that is equal to the sum of its iterated totients. That is, one applies the totient function to a number n, apply it again to the resulting totient, and so on, until the number 1 is reached, and adds together the resulting sequence of numbers; if the sum equals ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Iron | Virtual Iron Software, was located in Lowell, Massachusetts, sold proprietary software for virtualization and management of a virtual infrastructure. Co-founded by Alex Vasilevsky, Virtual Iron figured among the first companies to offer virtualization software to fully support Intel VT-x and AMD-V hardware-assisted vir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear%20acoustics | Nonlinear acoustics (NLA) is a branch of physics and acoustics dealing with sound waves of sufficiently large amplitudes. Large amplitudes require using full systems of governing equations of fluid dynamics (for sound waves in liquids and gases) and elasticity (for sound waves in solids). These equations are generally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neomura | Neomura is a possible clade composed of the two domains of life of Archaea and Eukaryota. The group was named by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 2002. Its name means "new walls", reflecting his hypothesis that it evolved from Bacteria, and one of the major changes was the replacement of peptidoglycan cell walls with other gly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20range | A home range is the area in which an animal lives and moves on a periodic basis. It is related to the concept of an animal's territory which is the area that is actively defended. The concept of a home range was introduced by W. H. Burt in 1943. He drew maps showing where the animal had been observed at different times... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioCyc%20database%20collection | The BioCyc database collection is an assortment of organism specific Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) that provide reference to genome and metabolic pathway information for thousands of organisms. As of July 2023, there were over 20,040 databases within BioCyc. SRI International, based in Menlo Park, California, mainta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Alan%20Robinson | John Alan Robinson (9 March 1930 – 5 August 2016) was a philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. He was a professor emeritus at Syracuse University.
Alan Robinson's major contribution is to the foundations of automated theorem proving. His unification algorithm eliminated one source of combinatorial explosi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20tomography | Electron tomography (ET) is a tomography technique for obtaining detailed 3D structures of sub-cellular, macro-molecular, or materials specimens. Electron tomography is an extension of traditional transmission electron microscopy and uses a transmission electron microscope to collect the data. In the process, a beam of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20scaling | In computer architecture, frequency scaling (also known as frequency ramping) is the technique of increasing a processor's frequency so as to enhance the performance of the system containing the processor in question. Frequency ramping was the dominant force in commodity processor performance increases from the mid-198... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20COED%20Project | The COED Project, or the COmmunications and EDiting Project, was an innovative software project created by the Computer Division of NOAA, US Department of Commerce in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s. This project was designed, purchased and implemented by the in-house computing staff rather than any official organizatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla | An olla is a ceramic jar, often unglazed, used for cooking stews or soups, for the storage of water or dry foods, or for other purposes like the irrigation of olive trees. Ollas have short wide necks and wider bellies, resembling beanpots or handis.
History
Antiquity
The Latin word olla or aulla (also aula) meant a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%20%28standard%29 | Nexus or IEEE-ISTO 5001-2003 is a standard debugging interface for embedded systems.
Features
The IEEE-ISTO 5001-2003 (Nexus) feature set is modeled on today's on-chip debug implementations, most of which are processor-specific. Its goal is to create a rich debug feature set while minimizing the required pin-count a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporocarp%20%28fungus%29 | The sporocarp (also known as fruiting body, fruit body or fruitbody) of fungi is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne. The fruitbody is part of the sexual phase of a fungal life cycle, while the rest of the life cycle is characterized by vegetative mycelial g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet%20wing | A wet wing (also referred to as integral fuel tanks) is an aerospace engineering technique where an aircraft's wing structure is sealed and used as a fuel tank.
The use of wet wings has become common among civilian designs, from large transport aircraft, such as airliners, to small general aviation aircraft. Several m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caccioppoli%20set | In mathematics, a Caccioppoli set is a set whose boundary is measurable and has (at least locally) a finite measure. A synonym is set of (locally) finite perimeter. Basically, a set is a Caccioppoli set if its characteristic function is a function of bounded variation.
History
The basic concept of a Caccioppoli set w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sill%20plate | A sill plate or sole plate in construction and architecture is the bottom horizontal member of a wall or building to which vertical members are attached. The word "plate" is typically omitted in America and carpenters speak simply of the "sill". Other names are rat sill, ground plate, ground sill, groundsel, night plat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadget%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computational complexity theory, a gadget is a subunit of a problem instance that simulates the behavior of one of the fundamental units of a different computational problem. Gadgets are typically used to construct reductions from one computational problem to another, as part of proofs of NP-completeness or other ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonal%20polynomial | In mathematics, a zonal polynomial is a multivariate symmetric homogeneous polynomial. The zonal polynomials form a basis of the space of symmetric polynomials.
They appear as zonal spherical functions of the Gelfand pairs
(here, is the hyperoctahedral group) and , which means that they describe canonical basis of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20by%20demonstration | In computer science, programming by demonstration (PbD) is an end-user development technique for teaching a computer or a robot new behaviors by demonstrating the task to transfer directly instead of programming it through machine commands.
The terms programming by example (PbE) and programming by demonstration (PbD) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSSEC | OSSEC (Open Source HIDS SECurity) is a free, open-source host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS). It performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. It provides intrusion detection for most operating systems, including Linux, Open... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20maintenance | Aircraft maintenance is the performance of tasks required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft or aircraft part, including overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and the embodiment of modifications, compliance with airworthiness directives and repair.
Regulation
The maintenance of ai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20PowerConnect | The current portfolio of PowerConnect switches are now being offered as part of the Dell Networking brand: information on this page is an overview of all current and past PowerConnect switches as per August 2013, but any updates on current portfolio will be detailed on the Dell Networking page.
PowerConnect was a Dell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative%20system | In mathematics, a conservative system is a dynamical system which stands in contrast to a dissipative system. Roughly speaking, such systems have no friction or other mechanism to dissipate the dynamics, and thus, their phase space does not shrink over time. Precisely speaking, they are those dynamical systems that hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20statistics | Environment statistics is the application of statistical methods to environmental science. It covers procedures for dealing with questions concerning the natural environment in its undisturbed state, the interaction of humanity with the environment, and urban environments. The field of environmental statistics has seen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug%20symbol | A debug symbol is a special kind of symbol that attaches additional information to the symbol table of an object file, such as a shared library or an executable. This information allows a symbolic debugger to gain access to information from the source code of the binary, such as the names of identifiers, including vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20William%20K%C3%B6rner | Thomas William Körner (born 17 February 1946) is a British pure mathematician and the author of three books on popular mathematics. He is titular Professor of Fourier Analysis in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He is the son of the philosopher Stephan Körner and of Edith Körner.
He studied at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendency | Ascendency or ascendancy is a quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network. Ascendency is derived using mathematical tools from information theory. It is intended to capture in a single index the ability of an ecosystem to prevail against disturbance by virtue of it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Burstall | Rodney Martineau "Rod" Burstall FRSE (born 1934) is a British computer scientist and one of four founders of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Biography
Burstall studied physics at the University of Cambridge, then an M.Sc. in operational research at Birmingham Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20annuity | A life annuity is an annuity, or series of payments at fixed intervals, paid while the purchaser (or annuitant) is alive. The majority of life annuities are insurance products sold or issued by life insurance companies however substantial case law indicates that annuity products are not necessarily insurance products.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocalTalk-to-Ethernet%20bridge | A LocalTalk-to-Ethernet Bridge is a network bridge that joins the physical layer of the AppleTalk networking used by previous generations of Apple Computer products to an Ethernet network. This was an important class of products in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before Ethernet support became universal on the Mac line... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journal%20of%20Food%20Science%20Education | The Journal of Food Science Education was an online peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Food Technologists (Chicago, Illinois). It was established in 2002 as the first scientific electronic journal of the Institute that was published online only. Its main focus was the education methods invol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%20Reviews%20in%20Food%20Science%20and%20Food%20Safety | Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety is an online peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Food Technologists (Chicago, Illinois) that was established in 2002. Its main focus is food science and food safety. This includes nutrition, genetics, food microbiology, food chemistry, his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role%20Class%20Model | In computer science, the role class model is a role analysis pattern described (but not invented ) by Francis G. Mossé in his article on Modelling Roles. The role class pattern provides the ability for a class to play multiple roles and to embed the role characteristic in a dedicated class.
In our society, as we built... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggresome | In eukaryotic cells, an aggresome refers to an aggregation of misfolded proteins in the cell, formed when the protein degradation system of the cell is overwhelmed. Aggresome formation is a highly regulated process that possibly serves to organize misfolded proteins into a single location.
Biogenesis
Correct folding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20controls | Security controls are safeguards or countermeasures to avoid, detect, counteract, or minimize security risks to physical property, information, computer systems, or other assets. In the field of information security, such controls protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
Systems of contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimatory | A sublimatory or sublimation apparatus is equipment, commonly laboratory glassware, for purification of compounds by selective sublimation. In principle, the operation resembles purification by distillation, except that the products do not pass through a liquid phase.
Overview
A typical sublimation apparatus separate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid | ArVid (Archiver on Video) () is a data backup solution using a VHS tape as a storage medium. It was very popular in Russia and the rest of the former USSR in the mid-1990s.
It was produced in Zelenograd, Russia by PO KSI.
Features
Using low-cost VHS tapes and recording units for data backup.
High reliability
Ham... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Ocean%20Shelf%20Tracking%20Project | The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST) is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that researches the behavior of marine animals through the use of ocean telemetry and data management systems. This system of telemetry consists of highly efficient lines of acoustic receivers that create sections of the con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiPatterns | AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis is a book about anti-patterns: specific repeated practices in software architecture, software design and software project management that initially appear to be beneficial, but ultimately result in bad consequences that outweigh hoped-for advanta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20resistance | The term vertical resistance, used commonly in context of plant selection, was first used by J.E. Vanderplank to describe single-gene resistance. This contrasted the term horizontal resistance which was used to describe many-gene resistance. Raoul A. Robinson further refined the definition of vertical resistance, empha... |
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