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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe%20at%20War%3A%20Earth%20Assault | Universe at War: Earth Assault is a real-time strategy game, developed by Petroglyph Games and published by Sega. Universe at War: Earth Assault was intended to be the first game in a planned series of games to be called the Universe at War series.
On May 10, 2007, Sega announced that the title was also in development... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20descriptions%20of%20the%20electromagnetic%20field | There are various mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field that are used in the study of electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental interactions of nature. In this article, several approaches are discussed, although the equations are in terms of electric and magnetic fields, potentials, and charges wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeater%20insertion | Repeater insertion is a technique used to reduce time delays associated with long wire lines in integrated circuits. This technique involves cutting the long wire into one or more shorter wires, and then inserting a repeater between each pair of newly created short wires.
The time it takes for a signal to travel from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20TLCS | TLCS is a prefix applied to microcontrollers made by Toshiba. The product line includes multiple families of CISC and RISC architectures. Individual components generally have a part number beginning with "TMP". E.g. the TMP8048AP is a member of the TLCS-48 family.
TLCS-12
The TLCS-12 was a 12-bit microprocessor a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20Computing%20%28journal%29 | Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on parallel processing, distributed computing systems, and computer communication networks. The journal was established in 1998.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact fac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront%20curvature%20sensor | A wavefront curvature sensor is a device for measuring the aberrations of an optical wavefront. Like a Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor it uses an array of small lenses (or lenslets) to focus the wavefront into an array of spots. Unlike the Shack-Hartmann, which measures the position of the spots, the curvature sensor m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20cyclone%20engineering | Tropical cyclone engineering, or hurricane engineering, is a specialist sub-discipline of civil engineering that encompasses planning, analysis, design, response, and recovery of civil engineering systems and infrastructure for hurricane hazards. Hurricane engineering is a relatively new and emerging discipline within ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20microscopy | Virtual microscopy is a method of posting microscope images on, and transmitting them over, computer networks. This allows independent viewing of images by large numbers of people in diverse locations. It involves a synthesis of microscopy technologies and digital technologies. The use of virtual microscopes can tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PME%20Aggregation%20Function | PME Aggregation Function (PAF) is a computer networking mechanism defined in Clause 61 of the IEEE 802.3 standard, which allows one or more Physical Medium Entities (PMEs) to be combined to form a single logical Ethernet link.
The PAF is located in the physical coding sublayer (PCS), between the media access control ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolization%20theorem | In geometry, Thurston's geometrization theorem or hyperbolization theorem implies that closed atoroidal Haken manifolds are hyperbolic, and in particular satisfy the Thurston conjecture.
Statement
One form of Thurston's geometrization theorem states:
If M is a compact irreducible atoroidal Haken manifold whose bou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow%20foundation | A shallow foundation is a type of building foundation that transfers structural load to the earth very near to the surface, rather than to a subsurface layer or a range of depths, as does a deep foundation. Customarily, a shallow foundation is considered as such when the width of the entire foundation is greater than i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feasible%20region | In mathematical optimization and computer science, a feasible region, feasible set, or solution space is the set of all possible points (sets of values of the choice variables) of an optimization problem that satisfy the problem's constraints, potentially including inequalities, equalities, and integer constraints. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OOHDM | OOHDM (Object-Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) is a method for the development of Web applications.
It was one of the first methods to postulate the separation of concerns that defines its various models – requirements, conceptual, navigation, abstract interface and implementation. OOHDM, and its successor, SHDM (Se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American%20Biodiversity%20Information%20Network | The Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) is a network dedicated to the adoption and promotion of ecoinformatics standards and protocols in all the countries of the Americas, thus facilitating the sound use of biological information for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. It is primarily... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive%20suspension%20design%20process | Automotive suspension design is an aspect of automotive engineering, concerned with designing the suspension for cars and trucks. Suspension design for other vehicles is similar, though the process may not be as well established.
The process entails
Selecting appropriate vehicle level targets
Selecting a system arc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung%20compliance | Lung compliance, or pulmonary compliance, is a measure of the lung's ability to stretch and expand (distensibility of elastic tissue). In clinical practice it is separated into two different measurements, static compliance and dynamic compliance. Static lung compliance is the change in volume for any given applied pres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Methuen%2C%207th%20Baron%20Methuen | Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen (22 July 1931 – 9 July 2014), was a British Liberal Democrat peer. He was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999.
Biography
Methuen was the third and youngest son of Anthony Methuen, 5th Baron Methue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitaper | In signal processing, multitaper is a spectral density estimation technique developed by David J. Thomson. It can estimate the power spectrum SX of a stationary ergodic finite-variance random process X, given a finite contiguous realization of X as data.
Motivation
The multitaper method overcomes some of the limitati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binocular%20disparity | Binocular disparity refers to the difference in image location of an object seen by the left and right eyes, resulting from the eyes’ horizontal separation (parallax). The brain uses binocular disparity to extract depth information from the two-dimensional retinal images in stereopsis. In computer vision, binocular dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzanck%20test | In dermatopathology, the Tzanck test, also Tzanck smear, is scraping of an ulcer base to look for Tzanck cells. It is sometimes also called the chickenpox skin test and the herpes skin test. It is a simple, low-cost, and rapid office based test.
Tzanck cells (acantholytic cells) are found in:
Herpes simplex
Varicella... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alipay | Alipay () is a third-party mobile and online payment platform, established in Hangzhou, China in February 2004 by Alibaba Group and its founder Jack Ma. In 2015, Alipay moved its headquarters to Pudong, Shanghai, although its parent company Ant Financial remains Hangzhou-based.
Alipay overtook PayPal as the world's la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field%20electromagnetic%20ranging | Near-field electromagnetic ranging (NFER) refers to any radio technology employing the near-field properties of radio waves as a Real Time Location System (RTLS).
Overview
Near-field electromagnetic ranging is an emerging RTLS technology that employs transmitter tags and one or more receiving units. Operating within ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity%20symbols | Polarity symbols are a notation for electrical polarity, found on devices that use direct current (DC) power, when this is or may be provided from an alternating current (AC) source via an AC adapter. The adapter typically supplies power to the device through a thin electrical cord which terminates in a coaxial power ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20exchange | Information exchange or information sharing means that people or other entities pass information from one to another. This could be done electronically or through certain systems. These are terms that can either refer to bidirectional information transfer in telecommunications and computer science or communication seen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection-oriented%20Ethernet | Connection-oriented Ethernet refers to the transformation of Ethernet, a connectionless communication system by design, into a connection-oriented system. The aim of connection-oriented Ethernet is to create a networking technology that combines the flexibility and cost-efficiency of Ethernet with the reliability of c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Rally | Windows Rally is a set of technologies from Microsoft intended to simplify the setup and maintenance of wired and wireless network-connected devices. They aim to increase reliability and security of connectivity for users who connect the devices to the Internet or to computers running Microsoft Windows. These technolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20nomenclature | Phylogenetic nomenclature is a method of nomenclature for taxa in biology that uses phylogenetic definitions for taxon names as explained below. This contrasts with the traditional approach, in which taxon names are defined by a type, which can be a specimen or a taxon of lower rank, and a description in words. Phyloge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20Graphics%20Access | Direct Graphics Access is a plug-in for the X display servers that allows client programs direct access to the frame buffer.
Graphics hardware communicates via a chunk of memory called a frame buffer. This is an array of values that represent pixel color values on the screen. Writing the appropriate values into the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT%20%28network%29 | ANT is a proprietary (but open access) multicast wireless sensor network technology designed and marketed by ANT Wireless (a division of Garmin Canada). It provides personal area networks (PANs), primarily for activity trackers. ANT was introduced by Dynastream Innovations in 2003, followed by the low-power standard AN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20sound | Second sound is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which heat transfer occurs by wave-like motion, rather than by the more usual mechanism of diffusion. Its presence leads to a very high thermal conductivity. It is known as "second sound" because the wave motion of entropy and temperature is similar to the propagation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Routing%20Protocol | The Wireless Routing Protocol (WRP) is a proactive unicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs).
Description
WRP uses an enhanced version of the distance-vector routing protocol, which uses the Bellman–Ford algorithm to calculate paths. Because of the mobile nature of the nodes within the MANET, the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20%28building%29 | A building joint is a junction where building elements meet without applying a static load from one element to another. When one or more of these vertical or horizontal elements that meet are required by the local building code to have a fire-resistance rating, the resulting opening that makes up the joint must be fire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast%20wall | A blast wall is a barrier designed to protect vulnerable buildings or other structures and the people inside them from the effects of a nearby explosion, whether caused by industrial accident, military action, or terrorism.
Effectiveness
Research by Cranfield University Defence Academy, building on earlier work, has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Historical%20Society | The San Francisco Historical Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and presentation of the history of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. It is a membership-based organization that holds monthly speaking programs, conducts walking tours of San Francisco and publishes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDoc | IDoc, short for Intermediate Document, is a SAP document format for business transaction data transfers.
Non SAP-systems can use IDocs as the standard interface (computing) for data transfer.
IDoc is similar to XML in purpose, but differs in syntax. Both serve the purpose of data exchange and automation in computer sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing%20supermarket | A manufacturing supermarket (or market location) is, for a factory process, what a retail supermarket is for the customer. The customers draw products from the 'shelves' as needed and this can be detected by the supplier who then initiates a replenishment of that item. It was the observation that this 'way of working' ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20decoder | A video decoder is an electronic circuit, often contained within a single integrated circuit chip, that converts base-band analog video signals to digital video. Video decoders commonly allow programmable control over video characteristics such as hue, contrast, and saturation. A video decoder performs the inverse func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment%20method | The method of reassignment is a technique for sharpening a time-frequency representation by mapping the data to time-frequency coordinates that are nearer to the true region of support of the analyzed signal. The method has been independently introduced by several parties under various names, including method of reass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20wavelet%20transform | In the mathematics of signal processing, the harmonic wavelet transform, introduced by David Edward Newland in 1993, is a wavelet-based linear transformation of a given function into a time-frequency representation. It combines advantages of the short-time Fourier transform and the continuous wavelet transform. It can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20quality%20indicator | The Design Quality Indicator (DQI) is a toolkit to measure, evaluate and improve the design quality of buildings.
Development of DQI was started by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in 1999. It was initiated in response to the success of Key Performance Indicators devised for assessing construction process issue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama%20Software | Panorama Software is a Canadian software and consulting company specializing in business intelligence. The company was founded by Rony Ross in Israel in 1993; it relocated its headquarters to Toronto, Canada in 2003.
Panorama sold its online analytical processing (OLAP) technology to Microsoft in 1996, which was built ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20risk%20minimization | Structural risk minimization (SRM) is an inductive principle of use in machine learning. Commonly in machine learning, a generalized model must be selected from a finite data set, with the consequent problem of overfitting – the model becoming too strongly tailored to the particularities of the training set and general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochore%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, an isochore is a large region of genomic DNA (greater than 300 kilobases) with a high degree of uniformity in GC content; that is, guanine (G) and cytosine (C) bases. The distribution of bases within a genome is non-random: different regions of the genome have different amounts of G-C base pairs, such that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20safety | The system safety concept calls for a risk management strategy based on identification, analysis of hazards and application of remedial controls using a systems-based approach. This is different from traditional safety strategies which rely on control of conditions and causes of an accident based either on the epidemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Capacity%20Color%20Barcode | High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) is a technology developed by Microsoft for encoding data in a 2D "barcode" using clusters of colored triangles instead of the square pixels conventionally associated with 2D barcodes or QR codes. Data density is increased by using a palette of 4 or 8 colors for the triangles, although... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible%20reference%20system%20propagation%20algorithm | Reversible reference system propagation algorithm (r-RESPA) is a time stepping algorithm used in molecular dynamics.
It evolves the system state over time,
where the L is the Liouville operator.
References
Molecular dynamics
Hamiltonian mechanics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Bueno%20de%20Mesquita | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (; born November 24, 1946) is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Biography
Bueno de Mesquita graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1963, (along with Richard Axel and Alexander Rosenberg), earned his BA degre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIG64 | DIG64 or Developers' Interface Guide for 64-bit Intel Architecture Servers was an alliance between several leading technology companies including Groupe Bull, Fujitsu Siemens, Hitachi, HP, Intel, NEC, and Unisys.
The corporation had responsibility for driving for interoperability on Itanium platforms. To do this the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-RCS | DVB-RCS (Digital Video Broadcasting - Return Channel via Satellite) provides a method by which the DVB-S platform (and in theory also the DVB-S2 platform) can become a bi-directional, asymmetric data path using wireless between broadcasters and customers. It is a specification for an interactive on-demand multimedia sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20rationale | A design rationale is an explicit documentation of the reasons behind decisions made when designing a system or artifact. As initially developed by W.R. Kunz and Horst Rittel, design rationale seeks to provide argumentation-based structure to the political, collaborative process of addressing wicked problems.
Overview... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torkel%20Franz%C3%A9n | Torkel Franzén (1 April 1950, Norrbotten County – 19 April 2006, Stockholm) was a Swedish academic.
Biography
Franzén worked at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, in the fields of mathematical logic and computer science. He was known for his work on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase%20chain%20reaction%20optimization | The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a commonly used molecular biology tool for amplifying DNA, and various techniques for PCR optimization which have been developed by molecular biologists to improve PCR performance and minimize failure.
Contamination and PCR
The PCR method is extremely sensitive, requiring only ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Concurrent%20Supercomputer | The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer (ECS) was a large Meiko Computing Surface supercomputer. This transputer-based, massively parallel system was installed at the University of Edinburgh during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
History
Following a pilot project involving an early 40-transputer Computing Surface inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion%20%28gastropod%29 | Torsion is a gastropod synapomorphy which occurs in all gastropods during larval development. Torsion is the rotation of the visceral mass, mantle, and shell 180˚ with respect to the head and foot of the gastropod. This rotation brings the mantle cavity and the anus to an anterior position above the head.
In some grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmostat | The osmostat is the regulatory center in the hypothalamus that controls the osmolality of the extracellular fluid. The area in the anterior region of the hypothalamus contains the osmoreceptors, cells that control osmolality via the secretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH).
In neurological conditions such as epilepsy o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20U750%20Alias%202 | The Samsung SCH-U750, marketed as Samsung Alias 2 and also as Samsung Zeal, was a cell phone made by Samsung. The phone was only available in metallic gray. It features a dual-hinge design that can be opened in portrait or landscape style. The Alias 2 featured an E Ink-based keyboard. In horizontal mode it features a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME%20Devhelp | Devhelp is a GTK/GNOME browser for API documentation; it works natively with gtk-doc (which is the API reference format for GTK/GNOME documentation).
It is integrated in GNOME development tools such as GNOME Builder, Glade and Anjuta, and is an official application of the GNOME project. Devhelp uses Bonobo for integra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SxS | SxS (S-by-S) is a flash memory standard compliant to the Sony and SanDisk-created ExpressCard standard. According to Sandisk and Sony, the cards have transfer rates of 800 Mbit/s and burst transfer rate of up to 2.5 Gbit/s over the ExpressCard's PCI Express interface. Sony uses these cards as the storage medium for the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential%20unified%20process | The essential unified process for software development, or EssUP, was invented by Ivar Jacobson as an improvement on the rational unified process. It identifies practices, such as use cases, iterative development, architecture driven development, team practices and process practices, which are borrowed from RUP, CMMI a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelato%20Federation | The Gelato Federation (usually just Gelato) was a "global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium platform through collaboration, education, and leadership." Formed in 2001, membership included more than seventy academic and research organizations around the world, including several that o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antistatic%20bag | An antistatic bag is a bag used for storing electronic components, which are prone to damage caused by electrostatic discharge (ESD).
These bags are usually plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and have a distinctive color (silvery for metallised film, pink or black for polyethylene). The polyethylene variant may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Equipment%20Identity%20Register | A Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) is a database of mobile equipment identifiers (IMEI – for networks of GSM standard, MEID – for networks of CDMA standard). Such an identifier is assigned to each SIM slot of the mobile device.
Lists of IMEIs may be the:
White – for devices that are allowed to register in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime | Nettime is an internet mailing list proposed in 1995 by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz (then half-jokingly called "the nettime brothers") at the second meeting of the "Medien Zentral Kommittee" during the Venice Biennale. Since 1998, Ted Byfield and Felix Stalder have moderated the main list, coordinated moderation of ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20monoid | In computer science, a trace is a set of strings, wherein certain letters in the string are allowed to commute, but others are not. It generalizes the concept of a string, by not forcing the letters to always be in a fixed order, but allowing certain reshufflings to take place. Traces were introduced by Pierre Cartier... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opengear | Opengear is a global computer network technology company headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, U.S., with R&D operations in Brisbane, Qld, Australia and production in Sandy, UT.
The company develops and manufactures "smart out-of-band infrastructure management" products aimed at allowing customers to securely access, c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross%20processing | Gross processing, "grossing" or "gross pathology" is the process by which pathology specimens undergo examination with the bare eye to obtain diagnostic information, as well as cutting and tissue sampling in order to prepare material for subsequent microscopic examination.
Responsibility
Gross examination of surgical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Media%20Player | Adobe Media Player is a discontinued desktop media player that allowed users to manage and interact with their media content, and allowed content publishers to define branding and advertising in and around their content. The Adobe Media Player was one of the first Adobe AIR applications from Adobe Systems. It was annou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoherpetology | Ethnoherpetology is the study of the past and present interrelationships between human cultures and reptiles and amphibians. It is a sub-field of ethnozoology, which in turn is a sub-field of ethnobiology.
Snakes and amphibians have been considered chthonic creatures in many cultures. Richly represented in mythology, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20X2 | The Cray X2 is a vector processing node for the Cray XT5h supercomputer, developed and sold by Cray Inc. and launched in 2007.
The X2, developed under the code name Black Widow, was originally expected to be a standalone supercomputer system, superseding the Cray X1 parallel vector supercomputer. However, the X2 was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20testing%20strips | Food testing strips are products that help determine whether or not food contains bacteria that can cause foodborne illness. These products can typically be used on food, water, and hard surfaces, and are often designed for quick and easy home and commercial use.
Categories
Currently, there are two categories of food ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20learning | In machine learning, lazy learning is a learning method in which generalization of the training data is, in theory, delayed until a query is made to the system, as opposed to eager learning, where the system tries to generalize the training data before receiving queries.
The primary motivation for employing lazy learn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eager%20learning | In artificial intelligence, eager learning is a learning method in which the system tries to construct a general, input-independent target function during training of the system, as opposed to lazy learning, where generalization beyond the training data is delayed until a query is made to the system.
The main advantage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline%20learning | In machine learning, systems which employ offline learning do not change their approximation of the target function when the initial training phase has been completed. These systems are also typically examples of eager learning.
While in online learning, only the set of possible elements is known, in offline learning,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk%20email%20software | Bulk email software is software that is used to send emails in large quantities.
Bulk email software usually refers to standalone software, while there are bulk email-sending web-based services.
Types of software
Most bulk email software programs are hosted by third-party companies that sell access to their system. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%E2%80%93Jacobi%20map | In mathematics, the Abel–Jacobi map is a construction of algebraic geometry which relates an algebraic curve to its Jacobian variety. In Riemannian geometry, it is a more general construction mapping a manifold to its Jacobi torus.
The name derives from the theorem of Abel and Jacobi that two effective divisors are lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20flux%20analysis | Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) is an experimental fluxomics technique used to examine production and consumption rates of metabolites in a biological system. At an intracellular level, it allows for the quantification of metabolic fluxes, thereby elucidating the central metabolism of the cell. Various methods of MFA, in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20Internet%20device | A mobile Internet device (MID) is a multimedia capable mobile device providing wireless Internet access. They are designed to provide entertainment, information and location-based services for personal or business use. They allow 2-way communication and real-time sharing. They have been described as filling a niche bet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Microsoft%20Windows%20versions | Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
All versions of Microsoft Win... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush%20hid%20the%20facts | Bush hid the facts is a common name for a bug present in some versions of Microsoft Windows, which causes text encoded in ASCII to be interpreted as if it were UTF-16LE, resulting in garbled text. When the string "Bush hid the facts", without quotes, was put in a new Notepad document and saved, closed, and reopened, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobel%20network | For the wave filter invented by Zobel and sometimes named after him see m-derived filters.
Zobel networks are a type of filter section based on the image-impedance design principle. They are named after Otto Zobel of Bell Labs, who published a much-referenced paper on image filters in 1923. The distinguishing featur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form%20classification | Form classification is the classification of organisms based on their morphology, which does not necessarily reflect their biological relationships. Form classification, generally restricted to palaeontology, reflects uncertainty; the goal of science is to move "form taxa" to biological taxa whose affinity is known.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalised%20circle | In geometry, a generalized circle, sometimes called a cline or circline, is a straight line or a circle.
The natural setting for generalized circles is the extended plane, a plane along with one point at infinity through which every straight line is considered to pass. Given any three distinct points in the extended p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiautomaton | In mathematics and theoretical computer science, a semiautomaton is a deterministic finite automaton having inputs but no output. It consists of a set Q of states, a set Σ called the input alphabet, and a function T: Q × Σ → Q called the transition function.
Associated with any semiautomaton is a monoid called the cha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Engineering | The Journal of Environmental Engineering is a monthly engineering journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The main editor is Dionysios D. Dionysiou of University of Cincinnati.
The journal presents broad interdisciplinary information on the practice and status of research in environmental engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20system | In theoretical computer science, a transition system is a concept used in the study of computation. It is used to describe the potential behavior of discrete systems. It consists of states and transitions between states, which may be labeled with labels chosen from a set; the same label may appear on more than one tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20system | A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software). It "consists of a number of separate programs, configuration files, which are used to set up these programs, system documentation, which describes the structure of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3DirectCut | mp3DirectCut is a lossless editor for MP3 (and to a degree, MP2 and AAC) audio files, able to provide cuts and crops, copy and paste, gain and fades to audio files without having to decode or re-encode the audio. By modifying the global gain field of each frame of MPEG audio, the volume of that frame can be modified wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20Biology%20%28journal%29 | Conservation Biology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, published by Wiley-Blackwell and established in May 1987. It covers the science and practice of conserving Earth's biological diversity, including issues concerning any of the Earth's ecosystems or regions. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20chain | A jack chain is a type of chain made of thin wire, with figure-eight-shaped links and loops at right angles to each other. Jack chains are often used to suspend fixtures such as lights or signs, for decorative purposes, or as part of a cable lock.
Jack chain may be manufactured as either single-jack chain or as double... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weitzenb%C3%B6ck%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Weitzenböck's inequality, named after Roland Weitzenböck, states that for a triangle of side lengths , , , and area , the following inequality holds:
Equality occurs if and only if the triangle is equilateral. Pedoe's inequality is a generalization of Weitzenböck's inequality. The Hadwiger–Finsler ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plants%20with%20symbolism | Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings. New symbols have a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20maturity | In mathematics, mathematical maturity is an informal term often used to refer to the quality of having a general understanding and mastery of the way mathematicians operate and communicate. It pertains to a mixture of mathematical experience and insight that cannot be directly taught. Instead, it comes from repeated ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterocoely | Enterocoelom (adjective forms: enterocoelic and enterocoelous) describes both the process by which some animal embryos develop and the origin of the cells involved. In enterocoely, a mesoderm (middle layer) is formed in a developing embryo, in which the coelom appears from pouches growing and separating from the digest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading%20%28earthworks%29 | Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage. The earthworks created for such a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-crypt | dm-crypt is a transparent block device encryption subsystem in Linux kernel versions 2.6 and later and in DragonFly BSD. It is part of the device mapper (dm) infrastructure, and uses cryptographic routines from the kernel's Crypto API. Unlike its predecessor cryptoloop, dm-crypt was designed to support advanced modes o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregularity%20of%20distributions | The irregularity of distributions problem, stated first by Hugo Steinhaus, is a numerical problem with a surprising result. The problem is to find N numbers, , all between 0 and 1, for which the following conditions hold:
The first two numbers must be in different halves (one less than 1/2, one greater than 1/2).
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capers%20Jones |
Capers Jones is an American specialist in software engineering methodologies, and is often associated with the function point model of cost estimation.
He was born in St Petersburg, Florida, United States and graduated from the University of Florida, having majored in English. He later became the President and CEO o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20base | A negative base (or negative radix) may be used to construct a non-standard positional numeral system. Like other place-value systems, each position holds multiples of the appropriate power of the system's base; but that base is negative—that is to say, the base is equal to for some natural number ().
Negative-base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20cellular%20automaton | A quantum cellular automaton (QCA) is an abstract model of quantum computation, devised in analogy to conventional models of cellular automata introduced by John von Neumann. The same name may also refer to quantum dot cellular automata, which are a proposed physical implementation of "classical" cellular automata by e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xircom | Xircom, Inc., was an American computer networking hardware and mobile technology company. Headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, Xircom was one of the first companies to develop network computing products for notebook computers. Products included computer memory cards, LAN adapters, modems, and remote access serve... |
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