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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presenter%20first%20%28software%20approach%29
Presenter first is a software development approach that combines the ideas of the model–view–presenter (MVP) design pattern, test-driven development, and feature-driven development. Approach Presenter first concentrates on transforming each of a customer's requirements into a well tested, working feature as quickly an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airway%20resistance
In respiratory physiology, airway resistance is the resistance of the respiratory tract to airflow during inhalation and exhalation. Airway resistance can be measured using plethysmography. Definition Analogously to Ohm's law: Where: So: Where: = Airway Resistance = Pressure Difference driving airflow = Atmosphe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafner%E2%80%93Sarnak%E2%80%93McCurley%20constant
The Hafner–Sarnak–McCurley constant is a mathematical constant representing the probability that the determinants of two randomly chosen square integer matrices will be relatively prime. The probability depends on the matrix size, n, in accordance with the formula where pk is the kth prime number. The constant is th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving%20panorama
The moving panorama was an innovation on panoramic painting in the mid-nineteenth century. It was among the most popular forms of entertainment in the world, with hundreds of panoramas constantly on tour in the United Kingdom, the United States, and many European countries. Moving panoramas were often seen in melodrama...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Vershik
Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (; born on 28 December 1933 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergei V. Kerov on representations of infinite symmetric groups and applications to the longest increasing subsequences. Biography Vershik studied at Leningrad State U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus%20cycle
The phosphorus cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that describes the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Unlike many other biogeochemical cycles, the atmosphere does not play a significant role in the movement of phosphorus, because phosphorus and phosphorus-based compounds are us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20fryer
A vacuum fryer is a deep-frying device housed inside a vacuum chamber. Vacuum fryers are fit to process low-quality potatoes that contain higher sugar levels than normal, as they frequently have to be processed in spring and early summer before the potatoes from the new harvest become available. With vacuum frying it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Toyota%20Way
The Toyota Way is a set of principles defining the organizational culture of Toyota Motor Corporation. The company formalized the Toyota Way in 2001, after decades of academic research into the Toyota Production System and its implications for lean manufacturing as a methodology that could be adopted by other organizat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%E2%80%93Brouwer%20order
In descriptive set theory, the Kleene–Brouwer order or Lusin–Sierpiński order is a linear order on finite sequences over some linearly ordered set , that differs from the more commonly used lexicographic order in how it handles the case when one sequence is a prefix of the other. In the Kleene–Brouwer order, the prefix...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ertumaxomab
Ertumaxomab (trade name Rexomun) is a rat-murine hybrid monoclonal antibody designed to treat some types of cancer. It is a trifunctional antibody which works by linking T-lymphocytes and macrophages to the cancer cells. Phase II clinical trial evaluating the treatment of breast cancer was terminated due to change ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20ears
A dog ear is a folded down corner of a book page. The name refers to the ears of many breeds of domestic dog flapping over. A dog ear can serve as a bookmark. Dog-earing is also commonly used to mark a section or phrase in a book that one finds to be important or of personal meaning. Other names for this practice incl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto%20%28restaurant%29
Moto was a molecular gastronomy restaurant in the Fulton River District of Chicago, Illinois known for creating "high-tech" dishes which incorporate elements such as carbonated fruit, edible paper, lasers, and liquid nitrogen for freezing food. Moto was run by executive chef Homaro Cantu until his suicide in 2015. Sis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-compartment%20model
A multi-compartment model is a type of mathematical model used for describing the way materials or energies are transmitted among the compartments of a system. Sometimes, the physical system that we try to model in equations is too complex, so it is much easier to discretize the problem and reduce the number of paramet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20specification
A functional specification (also, functional spec, specs, functional specifications document (FSD), functional requirements specification) in systems engineering and software development is a document that specifies the functions that a system or component must perform (often part of a requirements specification) (ISO/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether%20%28cell%20biology%29
Biological cells which form bonds with a substrate and are at the same time subject to a flow can form long thin membrane cylinders called tethers. These tethers connect the adherent area of the substrate to the main body of the cell. Under physiological conditions, neutrophil tethers can extend to several micrometers....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20predicates
Design predicates are a method invented by Thomas McCabe, to quantify the complexity of the integration of two units of software. Each of the four types of design predicates have an associated integration complexity rating. For pieces of code that apply more than one design predicate, integration complexity ratings can...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Centre%20for%20Excellence%20in%20the%20Teaching%20of%20Mathematics
The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) is an institution set up in the wake of the Smith Report to improve mathematics teaching in England. It provides strategic leadership for mathematics-specific CPD and aims to raise the professional status of all those engaged in the teaching of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-adaptive%20variable-length%20coding
Context-adaptive variable-length coding (CAVLC) is a form of entropy coding used in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding. It is an inherently lossless compression technique, like almost all entropy-coders. In H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, it is used to encode residual, zig-zag order, blocks of transform coefficients. It is an alternati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar%20display
A radar display is an electronic device that presents radar data to the operator. The radar system transmits pulses or continuous waves of electromagnetic radiation, a small portion of which backscatter off targets (intended or otherwise) and return to the radar system. The receiver converts all received electromagneti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo%20blot
A zoo blot or garden blot is a type of Southern blot that demonstrates the similarity between specific, usually protein-coding, DNA sequences of different species. A zoo blot compares animal species while a garden blot compares plant species. The purpose of the zoo blot is to detect the conservation of the gene(s) of i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-chase%20analysis
In biochemistry and molecular biology, a pulse-chase analysis is a method for examining a cellular process occurring over time by successively exposing the cells to a labeled compound (pulse) and then to the same compound in an unlabeled form (chase). Mechanism A selected cell or a group of cells is first exposed to a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20Tycoon%3A%20Venture%20Africa
Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa is a simulation video game set in Africa. Players create and control African animals such as lions, elephants, zebras in this strategy game. To succeed, the player must discover the unique behaviors of each species and build food and water sources to suit them. They must plan their ecosy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-criterion
The T-failure criterion is a set of material failure criteria that can be used to predict both brittle and ductile failure. These criteria were designed as a replacement for the von Mises yield criterion which predicts the unphysical result that pure hydrostatic tensile loading of metals never leads to failure. The T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babelgum
Babelgum was a free-to-view Internet television platform supported by advertising. The project was set up in 2005 by Italian media and telecommunications entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia (one of the founders of Italian TelCo FASTWEB) and scientist Erik Lumer, with the aim of developing interactive software for distributing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pvserver
pvServer is a 3GPP/2 standards compliant multimedia server that provides streaming and broadcast services to mobile devices. pvServer is developed by PacketVideo Network Solutions , a wholly owned company of Alcatel-Lucent. pvServer delivers multiple streams of live and pre-recorded audio / video content (MPEG-4, H.2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20cellular%20automaton
Cellular automata, as with other multi-agent system models, usually treat time as discrete and state updates as occurring synchronously. The state of every cell in the model is updated together, before any of the new states influence other cells. In contrast, an asynchronous cellular automaton is able to update individ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshtel
Freshtel Holdings Limited is an Australian telephony company developing and marketing Voice over IP products and services. Freshtel Holdings Limited offers VoIP solutions to wholesale customers globally through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Voicedot and Virbiage, and has a direct-to-market retail channel through Fresh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Socket%20Tunneling%20Protocol
Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is a form of virtual private network (VPN) tunnel that provides a mechanism to transport PPP traffic through an SSL/TLS channel. SSL/TLS provides transport-level security with key negotiation, encryption and traffic integrity checking. The use of SSL/TLS over TCP port 443 (by de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular%20interval
The triangular interval (also known as the lateral triangular space, lower triangular space, and triceps hiatus) is a space found in the axilla. It is one of the three intermuscular spaces found in the axillary space. The other two spaces are: quadrangular space and triangular space. Borders Two of its borders are as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tools%20for%20static%20code%20analysis
This is a list of notable tools for static program analysis (program analysis is a synonym for code analysis). Static code analysis tools Languages Ada C, C++ C# Fortran Fortran-Lint (Information Processing Techniques, Inc) IEC 61131-3 CODESYS Static Analysis integrated add-on for CODESYS (application code r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20EMC%20Isilon
Dell EMC Isilon is a scale out network-attached storage platform offered by Dell EMC for high-volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured data. It provides a cluster-based storage array based on industry standard hardware, and is scalable to 50 petabytes in a single filesystem using its FreeBSD-derived OneFS f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20cups%20problem
The three cups problem, also known as the three cup challenge and other variants, is a mathematical puzzle that, in its most common form, cannot be solved. In the beginning position of the problem, one cup is upside-down and the other two are right-side up. The objective is to turn all cups right-side up in no more th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash
DigiCash Inc. was an electronic money corporation founded by David Chaum in 1989. DigiCash transactions were unique in that they were anonymous due to a number of cryptographic protocols developed by its founder. DigiCash declared bankruptcy in 1998 and subsequently sold its assets to eCash Technologies, another digita...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airshaft
In manufacturing, an airshaft is a device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as continuous-process printing presses. Airshafts—also called Air Expanding shafts—are used in the manufacturing processes for fitting into a core onto which materials such as paper, card and plastic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerometer
An aerometer is an instrument designed to measure the density (among other parameters) of the air and some gases. The word aerometer (or Ärometer, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ -aer "air" and μέτρον -métron "measure, scale") refers to various types of devices for measuring or handling of gases. The instruments designated wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy
is a puzzle game by dB-Soft in the same vein as the Eggerland series and Sokoban that is obscure outside Japan. It features Flappy, a somewhat mole-like character who must complete each level by pushing a blue stone from its starting place to the blue tile destination. Flappy first appeared on the Sharp X1 home comput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinc%20%28protocol%29
Tinc is an open-source, self-routing, mesh networking protocol and software implementation used for compressed and encrypted virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, and Wessel Dankers, and released as a GPL-licensed project. Platforms Tinc is available on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenB...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputter%20deposition
Sputter deposition is a physical vapor deposition (PVD) method of thin film deposition by the phenomenon of sputtering. This involves ejecting material from a "target" that is a source onto a "substrate" such as a silicon wafer. Resputtering is re-emission of the deposited material during the deposition process by ion ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20of%20the%20beast
The number of the beast (, ) is associated with the Beast of Revelation in chapter 13, verse 18 of the Book of Revelation. In most manuscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible, the number of the beast is six hundred sixty-six or (in Greek numerals, represents 600, represents 60 and repr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20Symbolic%20Calculator
The Inverse Symbolic Calculator is an online number checker established July 18, 1995 by Peter Benjamin Borwein, Jonathan Michael Borwein and Simon Plouffe of the Canadian Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics (Burnaby, Canada). A user will input a number and the Calculator will use an algorithm to sea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahn%E2%80%93Hilliard%20equation
The Cahn–Hilliard equation (after John W. Cahn and John E. Hilliard) is an equation of mathematical physics which describes the process of phase separation, by which the two components of a binary fluid spontaneously separate and form domains pure in each component. If is the concentration of the fluid, with indicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleraxis
The scleraxis protein is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) superfamily of transcription factors. Currently two genes ( and respectively) have been identified to code for identical scleraxis proteins. Function It is thought that early scleraxis-expressing progenitor cells lead to the eventual formation o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHPPC
The RHPPC is a radiation hardened processor based on PowerPC 603e technology licensed from Motorola (now Freescale) and manufactured by Honeywell. The RHPPC is equivalent to the commercial PowerPC 603e processor with the minor exceptions of the phase locked loop (PLL) and the processor version register (PVR). The RHPPC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20appliance%20testing
In electrical safety testing, portable appliance testing (PAT, PAT inspection or PAT testing) is a process in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia by which electrical appliances are routinely checked for safety. The formal term for the process is "in-service inspection & testing of electrical equipmen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units%20of%20textile%20measurement
Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units. A fiber, a single filament of natural material, such as cotton, linen or wool, or artificial material such as nylon, polyester, metal or mineral fiber, or man-made cellulosic fibre like viscose, Modal, Lyocell or other rayon fiber is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiescence%20bias
Acquiescence bias, also known as agreement bias, is a category of response bias common to survey research in which respondents have a tendency to select a positive response option or indicate a positive connotation disproportionately more frequently. Respondents do so without considering the content of the question or ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20derivative
In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the third derivative or third-order derivative is the rate at which the second derivative, or the rate of change of the rate of change, is changing. The third derivative of a function can be denoted by Other notations can be used, but the above are the most common. Mathematical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/743%20%28number%29
743 (seven hundred [and] forty three) is the natural number following 742 and preceding 744. It is a prime number. 743 is a Sophie Germain prime, because 2 × 743 + 1 = 1487 is also prime. 743 is an emirp, because 347 (the reversal of its digits) is prime. There are exactly 743 independent sets in a four-dimensional ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%202200
The Wang 2200 was an all-in-one minicomputer released by Wang Laboratories in May 1973. Unlike some other desktop computers, such as the HP 9830, it had a cathode-ray tube (CRT) in a cabinet that also included an integrated computer-controlled cassette tape storage unit and keyboard. It was microcoded to run BASIC on s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20national%20flag%20problem
The Dutch national flag problem is a computational problem proposed by Edsger Dijkstra. The flag of the Netherlands consists of three colors: red, white, and blue. Given balls of these three colors arranged randomly in a line (it does not matter how many balls there are), the task is to arrange them such that all balls...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SenseTalk
SenseTalk is a high-level English-like scripting language in the XTalk family, that supports both procedural and object-oriented paradigms. SenseTalk scripts are intended to be largely readable by ordinary people, including those with little to no training in programming. To this end, SenseTalk includes a number of l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes. The term zoological garden refers to zoology, the study of animals. The term is derived from the Greek , , 'animal', and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack%20register
A stack register is a computer central processor register whose purpose is to keep track of a call stack. On an accumulator-based architecture machine, this may be a dedicated register. On a machine with multiple general-purpose registers, it may be a register that is reserved by convention, such as on the IBM System/3...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAT%20Lightpipe
The ADAT Lightpipe, officially the ADAT Optical Interface, is a standard for the transfer of digital audio between equipment. It was originally developed by Alesis but has since become widely accepted, with many third party hardware manufacturers including Lightpipe interfaces on their equipment. The protocol has becom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20physics%20equations
In physics, there are equations in every field to relate physical quantities to each other and perform calculations. Entire handbooks of equations can only summarize most of the full subject, else are highly specialized within a certain field. Physics is derived of formulae only. General scope Variables commonly use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry%20Firewall
Sentry Firewall is a free open-source network firewall Linux distribution that was first published in 2001 and has been the subject of multiple magazine reviews. The distribution is particularly notable because it consists solely of a bootable CD-ROM that is designed to be used in a computer with no hard disk. Configu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellius
was a Japanese video game developer and publisher headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, founded in 2007 as a joint venture between Sony and Bandai Namco Holdings. The aim of the company was to "help take share from Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co." Sony hoped that the company would make up for the losses it made during quar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webroot
Webroot Inc. is an American privately-held cybersecurity software company that provides Internet security for consumers and businesses. The company was founded in Boulder, Colorado, US, and is now headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, and has US operations in San Mateo and San Diego, and globally in Australia, Austria...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20360
Norton 360 is an "all-in-one" security suite developed by Gen Digital, formerly Symantec and later NortonLifeLock. The current suite was released in 2019 as a replacement for Norton Security, which had itself replaced an earlier suite named Norton 360. See also Norton AntiVirus References External links Antivirus s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneously%20Suslin%20set
In descriptive set theory, a set is said to be homogeneously Suslin if it is the projection of a homogeneous tree. is said to be -homogeneously Suslin if it is the projection of a -homogeneous tree. If is a set and is a measurable cardinal, then is -homogeneously Suslin. This result is important in the proof tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous%20tree
In descriptive set theory, a tree over a product set is said to be homogeneous if there is a system of measures such that the following conditions hold: is a countably-additive measure on . The measures are in some sense compatible under restriction of sequences: if , then . If is in the projection of , the ult...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20loss%20prevention%20software
Data loss prevention (DLP) software detects potential data breaches/data exfiltration transmissions and prevents them by monitoring, detecting and blocking sensitive data while in use (endpoint actions), in motion (network traffic), and at rest (data storage). The terms "data loss" and "data leak" are related and are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20laser
A disk laser or active mirror (Fig.1) is a type of diode pumped solid-state laser characterized by a heat sink and laser output that are realized on opposite sides of a thin layer of active gain medium. Despite their name, disk lasers do not have to be circular; other shapes have also been tried. The thickness of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Williams%20%28robot%20fatality%29
Robert Nicholas Williams (May 2, 1953 – January 25, 1979) was an American factory worker who was the first known human to be killed by a robot. While working at the Ford Motor Company's Michigan Casting Center, Williams was killed by an industrial robot arm on January 25, 1979. Death and litigation Williams was one o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverett%20J-function
In petroleum engineering, the Leverett J-function is a dimensionless function of water saturation describing the capillary pressure, where is the water saturation measured as a fraction, is the capillary pressure (in pascal), is the permeability (measured in m²), is the porosity (0-1), is the surface tension (in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable%20lacing
Cable lacing is a method for tying wiring harnesses and cable looms, traditionally used in telecommunication, naval, and aerospace applications. This old cable management technique, taught to generations of lineworkers, is still used in some modern applications since it does not create obstructions along the length of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzHugh%E2%80%93Nagumo%20model
The FitzHugh–Nagumo model (FHN) describes a prototype of an excitable system (e.g., a neuron). It is an example of a relaxation oscillator because, if the external stimulus exceeds a certain threshold value, the system will exhibit a characteristic excursion in phase space, before the variables and relax back to th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping%20child
The sleeping child (maghrebi Arabic: ragued or bou-mergoud), according to Moroccan and the wider Maghrebian folk belief, is a fetus which has been rendered dormant by black or white magic and may eventually wake up and be born after the normal pregnancy term. This belief, supported by the concept that God's will contro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe%20vortex
The horseshoe vortex model is a simplified representation of the vortex system present in the flow of air around a wing. This vortex system is modelled by the bound vortex (bound to the wing) and two trailing vortices, therefore having a shape vaguely reminiscent of a horseshoe. A starting vortex is shed as the wing be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScRGB
scRGB is a wide color gamut RGB color space created by Microsoft and HP that uses the same color primaries and white/black points as the sRGB color space but allows coordinates below zero and greater than one. The full range is −0.5 through just less than +7.5. Negative numbers enables scRGB to encompass most of the C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTOPIA%20%28bioinformatics%20tools%29
UTOPIA (User-friendly Tools for Operating Informatics Applications) is a suite of free tools for visualising and analysing bioinformatics data. Based on an ontology-driven data model, it contains applications for viewing and aligning protein sequences, rendering complex molecular structures in 3D, and for finding and u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20music%20ripping
The term ripping (slang term for digital media extraction) can also apply to radio. New software, techniques and cloud services now makes it possible to extract the songs played on the radio and digitally save them on separate audio tracks. Available techniques make it possible to rip the music from Internet radio broa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-20
The AN/UYK-20 "Data Processing Set" was a ruggedized small computer manufactured by Univac and used by the United States Navy for small and medium-sized shipboard and shore systems built in the 1970s. It featured non-volatile magnetic core memory and was housed in a heavy-duty metal cube-shaped box which was designed t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Rutherford%20%28mathematician%29
William Rutherford (1798–1871) was an English mathematician famous for his calculation of 208 digits of the mathematical constant π in 1841. Only the first 152 calculated digits were later found to be correct; but that broke the record of the time, which was held by the Slovenian mathematician Jurij Vega since 1789 (1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt%20flag
The Interrupt flag (IF) is a flag bit in the CPU's FLAGS register, which determines whether or not the (CPU) will respond immediately to maskable hardware interrupts. If the flag is set to 1 maskable interrupts are enabled. If reset (set to 0) such interrupts will be disabled until interrupts are enabled. The Interrupt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20Link%20%28puzzle%29
Missing Link is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1981 by Steven P. Hanson and Jeffrey D. Breslow. The puzzle has four sides, each depicting a chain of a different color. Each side contains four tiles, except one which contains three tiles and a gap. The top and bottom rows can be rotated, and tiles can slide up or down...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility%20testing
Compatibility testing is a part of non-functional testing conducted on application software to ensure the application's compatibility with different computing environment. The ISO 25010 standard, (System and Software Quality Models) defines compatibility as a characteristic or degree to which a software system can exc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum%20Akhiezer
Naum Ilyich Akhiezer (; ; 6 March 1901 – 3 June 1980) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his works in approximation theory and the theory of differential and integral operators. He is also known as the author of classical books on various subjects in analysis, and for his work on the h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refined%20grains
Refined grains have been significantly modified from their natural composition, in contrast to whole grains. The modification process generally involves the mechanical removal of bran and germ, either through grinding or selective sifting. Overview A refined grain is defined as having undergone a process that removes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling%20factor
Filling factor, is a quantity measuring the efficiency of absorption of pump in the core of a double-clad fiber. Definition The efficiency of absorption of pumping energy in the fiber is an important parameter of a double-clad fiber laser. In many cases this efficiency can be approximated with where is the cross-s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20offset
Band offset describes the relative alignment of the energy bands at a semiconductor heterojunction. Introduction At semiconductor heterojunctions, energy bands of two different materials come together, leading to an interaction. Both band structures are positioned discontinuously from each other, causing them to align...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%E2%80%93Laplace%20equation
In physics, the Young–Laplace equation () is an algebraic equation that describes the capillary pressure difference sustained across the interface between two static fluids, such as water and air, due to the phenomenon of surface tension or wall tension, although use of the latter is only applicable if assuming that th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics%20Letters
Electronics Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published biweekly by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. It specializes in the rapid publication of short communications on all areas of electronic engineering, including optical, communication, and biomedical engineering, as well as electronic circu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESAIM%3A%20Control%2C%20Optimisation%20and%20Calculus%20of%20Variations
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations is a scientific journal in the field of applied mathematics. External links Mathematics journals EDP Sciences academic journals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forging%20temperature
Forging temperature is the temperature at which a metal becomes substantially more soft, but is lower than the melting temperature, such that it can be reshaped by forging. Bringing a metal to its forging temperature allows the metal's shape to be changed by applying a relatively small force, without creating cracks. F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20root%20of%203
The square root of 3 is the positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number 3. It is denoted mathematically as or . It is more precisely called the principal square root of 3 to distinguish it from the negative number with the same property. The square root of 3 is an irrational number. It is al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERF
A spin exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometer is a type of magnetometer developed at Princeton University in the early 2000s. SERF magnetometers measure magnetic fields by using lasers to detect the interaction between alkali metal atoms in a vapor and the magnetic field. The name for the technique comes from t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%BCcker%20matrix
The Plücker matrix is a special skew-symmetric 4 × 4 matrix, which characterizes a straight line in projective space. The matrix is defined by 6 Plücker coordinates with 4 degrees of freedom. It is named after the German mathematician Julius Plücker. Definition A straight line in space is defined by two distinct poin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology
Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary information encoded in genes, which can be transmitted to future generations. Ano...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20model%20checking
In computer science and in mathematics, abstraction model checking is for systems where an actual representation is too complex in developing the model alone. So, the design undergoes a kind of translation to scaled down "abstract" version. The set of variables are partitioned into visible and invisible depending on t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar%20signal%20characteristics
A radar system uses a radio-frequency electromagnetic signal reflected from a target to determine information about that target. In any radar system, the signal transmitted and received will exhibit many of the characteristics described below. In the time domain The diagram below shows the characteristics of the tran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRT%20%28genetics%29
CRT is the gene cluster responsible for the biosynthesis of carotenoids. Those genes are found in eubacteria, in algae and are cryptic in Streptomyces griseus. Role of CRT genes in carotenoid biosynthesis The CRT gene cluster consists of twenty-five genes such as crtA, crtB, crtC, crtD, crtE, crtF, crtG, crtH, crtI, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Secure%20Intranet
Government Secure Intranet (GSi) was a United Kingdom government wide area network, whose main purpose was to enable connected organisations to communicate electronically and securely at low protective marking levels. It was known for the '.gsi.gov.uk' family of domains for government email. Migration away from these d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-bit%20character%20code
A six-bit character code is a character encoding designed for use on computers with word lengths a multiple of 6. Six bits can only encode 64 distinct characters, so these codes generally include only the upper-case letters, the numerals, some punctuation characters, and sometimes control characters. The 7-track magnet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advances%20in%20Applied%20Clifford%20Algebras
Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research papers and also notes, expository and survey articles, book reviews, reproduces abstracts and also reports on conferences and workshops in the area of Clifford algebras and their applications to other branches o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodynamics
Geodynamics is a subfield of geophysics dealing with dynamics of the Earth. It applies physics, chemistry and mathematics to the understanding of how mantle convection leads to plate tectonics and geologic phenomena such as seafloor spreading, mountain building, volcanoes, earthquakes, faulting. It also attempts to pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi%20Transport%20Protocol
Venturi Transport Protocol (VTP) is a patented proprietary transport layer protocol that is designed to transparently replace TCP in order to overcome inefficiencies in the design of TCP related to wireless data transport. It is owned by Venturi Wireless. The protocol is employed by various wireless broadband internet ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphocyte%20function-associated%20antigen%201
Lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1) is an integrin found on lymphocytes and other leukocytes. LFA-1 plays a key role in emigration, which is the process by which leukocytes leave the bloodstream to enter the tissues. LFA-1 also mediates firm arrest of leukocytes. Additionally, LFA-1 is involved in the pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20sketch%20for%20G%C3%B6del%27s%20first%20incompleteness%20theorem
This article gives a sketch of a proof of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem. This theorem applies to any formal theory that satisfies certain technical hypotheses, which are discussed as needed during the sketch. We will assume for the remainder of the article that a fixed theory satisfying these hypotheses has been...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tog%20%28unit%29
The tog is a measure of thermal insulance of a unit area, also known as thermal resistance. It is commonly used in the textile industry and often seen quoted on, for example, duvets and carpet underlay. The Shirley Institute in Manchester, England developed the tog as an easy-to-follow alternative to the SI unit of m2...