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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater-than%20sign | The greater-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values. The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the right, , has been found in documents dated as far back as 1631. In mathematical writing, the greater-than sign is typically placed between... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danskin%27s%20theorem | In convex analysis, Danskin's theorem is a theorem which provides information about the derivatives of a function of the form
The theorem has applications in optimization, where it sometimes is used to solve minimax problems. The original theorem given by J. M. Danskin in his 1967 monograph provides a formula for the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric%20moment%20problem | In mathematics, the trigonometric moment problem is formulated as follows: given a finite sequence {α0, ... αn }, does there exist a positive Borel measure μ on the interval [0, 2π] such that
In other words, an affirmative answer to the problems means that {α0, ... αn } are the first n + 1 Fourier coefficients of some... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemosis | Nemosis is a process of cell activation and death in human fibroblasts.
Initially discovered as programmed necrosis, the name nemosis, is a derivative from the Goddess Nemesis in Greek mythodology. This name was adopted for fibroblast activation based on its initiation by direct cell–cell interactions as opposed to pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LandWarNet | LandWarNet (LWN) is the United States Army’s contribution to the Global Information Grid (GIG) that consists of all globally interconnected, end-to-end set of Army information capabilities, associated processes, and personnel for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating, and managing information on demand support... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20tissue%20engineering | Neural tissue engineering is a specific sub-field of tissue engineering. Neural tissue engineering is primarily a search for strategies to eliminate inflammation and fibrosis upon implantation of foreign substances. Often foreign substances in the form of grafts and scaffolds are implanted to promote nerve regeneration... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal | Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. As of 2022, 2.16 mill... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calo%20tester | The Calo tester, also known as a ball craterer or coating thickness tester, is a simple and inexpensive piece of equipment used to measure the thickness of coatings. Coatings with thicknesses typically between 0.1 to 50 micrometres, such as Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) coatings or Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%20enhancement%20ratio | The oxygen enhancement ratio (OER) or oxygen enhancement effect in radiobiology refers to the enhancement of therapeutic or detrimental effect of ionizing radiation due to the presence of oxygen. This so-called oxygen effect is most notable when cells are exposed to an ionizing radiation dose.
The OER is traditionally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekursiv | Rekursiv was a computer processor designed by David M. Harland in the mid-1980s at a division of hi-fi manufacturer Linn Products. It was one of the few computer architectures intended to implement object-oriented concepts directly in hardware, a form of high-level language computer architecture. The Rekursiv operated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20airgap | Airgap is a technique invented by IBM for fabricating small pockets of vacuum in between copper interconnects. The technique belongs to a general class of similar techniques that replaces solid low-κ dielectrics with air-filled or vacuum pockets.
Description
By insulating copper interconnects (wires) on an integrated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOT | XOT (X.25 Over TCP) is a protocol developed by Cisco Systems that enables X.25 packets to be encapsulated and routed through TCP/IP connections instead of LAPB links. In 2012, X.25 tunnelled over TCP/IP using XOT was noted as by then being likely more common in actual use than physical X.25 over LAPB.
References
Netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching%20the%20conformational%20space%20for%20docking | In molecular modelling, docking is a method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to another when bound together in a stable complex. In the case of protein docking, the search space consists of all possible orientations of the protein with respect to the ligand. Flexible docking in addition consid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trymedia | Trymedia Systems, Inc. is a division of RealNetworks that provides digital distribution services based on its proprietary ActiveMARK DRM and digital distribution technology. Trymedia is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Berkshire and Alicante.
Overview
Trymedia was founded in 1999 as Trymedia Systems, In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20move | A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff. Strategic moves can either be unconditional moves or response rules. The key characteristics of a strategic move are that it involves a commitment from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensu | Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of". It is used in a number of fields including biology, geology, linguistics, semiotics, and law. Commonly it refers to how strictly or loosely an expression is used in describing any particular concept, but it also appears in expressions that indicate the convention or cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Biodiversity%20Network | The National Biodiversity Network (UK) (NBN) is a collaborative venture set up in 2000 in the United Kingdom committed to making biodiversity information available through various media, including on the internet via the NBN Atlas—the data search website of the NBN.
Description
It is estimated that up to 60,000 people... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archard%20equation | The Archard wear equation is a simple model used to describe sliding wear and is based on the theory of asperity contact. The Archard equation was developed much later than (sometimes also known as energy dissipative hypothesis), though both came to the same physical conclusions, that the volume of the removed debris ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback%20diode | A flyback diode is any diode connected across an inductor used to eliminate flyback, which is the sudden voltage spike seen across an inductive load when its supply current is suddenly reduced or interrupted. It is used in circuits in which inductive loads are controlled by switches, and in switching power supplies and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admissible%20representation | In mathematics, admissible representations are a well-behaved class of representations used in the representation theory of reductive Lie groups and locally compact totally disconnected groups. They were introduced by Harish-Chandra.
Real or complex reductive Lie groups
Let G be a connected reductive (real or complex)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau%20de%20Concordance | The Tableau de Concordance was the main French diplomatic code used during World War I; the term also refers to any message sent using the code. It was a superenciphered four-digit code that was changed three times between 1 August 1914 and 15 January 1915.
The Tableau de Concordance is considered superenciphered beca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern%20Poythress | Vern Sheridan Poythress (born 1946) is an American philosopher, theologian, New Testament scholar and mathematician, who is currently the New Testament chair of the ESV Oversight Committee. He is also the Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Biblical Interpretation, and Systematic Theology at Westminster Theologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAIM | FLAIM (Framework for Log Anonymization and Information Management) is a modular tool designed to allow computer and network log sharing through application of complex data sanitization policies.
FLAIM is aimed at 3 different user communities. First, FLAIM can be used by the security engineer who is investigating a bro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic%20Park | Jurassic Park, later also referred to as Jurassic World, is an American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton and centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs. It began in 1990 when Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment bought the rights to Crichton's novel Jur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trizol | TRIzol is a widely used chemical solution used in the extraction of DNA, RNA, and proteins from cells. The solution was initially used and published by Piotr Chomczyński and Nicoletta Sacchi in 1987.
TRIzol is the brand name of guanidinium thiocyanate from the Ambion part of Life Technologies, and Tri-Reagent is the b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-wiring | Bi-wiring is a means of connecting a :loudspeaker to an audio :amplifier, primarily used in hi-fi systems. Normally, there is one pair of connectors on a loudspeaker and a single cable (two conductors) runs from the amplifier output to the terminals at the loudspeaker housing. From this point, connections are made to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20crane | A steam crane is a crane powered by a steam engine. It may be fixed or mobile and, if mobile, it may run on rail tracks, caterpillar tracks, road wheels, or be mounted on a barge. It usually has a vertical boiler placed at the back so that the weight of the boiler counterbalances the weight of the jib and load.
They ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-weight%20Identity | Light-weight Identity (LID), or Light Identity Management (LIdM), is an identity management system for online digital identities developed in part by NetMesh. It was first published in early 2005, and is the original URL-based identity system, later followed by OpenID. LID uses URLs as a verification of the user's iden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAVE-based%20authentication | CAVE-based Authentication (a.k.a. HLR Authentication, 2G Authentication, Access Authentication) is an access authentication protocol used in CDMA/1xRTT computer network systems.
CAVE (Cellular Authentication and Voice Encryption)
There are two network entities involved in CAVE-based authentication when roaming:
Authe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Carrier%20Alpha%20Code | The Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) is a privately controlled US code used to identify vessel operating common carriers (VOCC). It is typically two to four letters long. The National Motor Freight Traffic Association developed the SCAC code in the 1960s to help road transport companies computerize data and records.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20relation | In linear algebra, a linear relation, or simply relation, between elements of a vector space or a module is a linear equation that has these elements as a solution.
More precisely, if are elements of a (left) module over a ring (the case of a vector space over a field is a special case), a relation between is a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud%20%28video%20game%29 | Feud is an adventure game designed by John Pickford for Binary Design and published in 1987 as the first game under the Bulldog Software label of Mastertronic. Versions were released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, and ZX Spectrum. The player takes on the role of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic%20limit | The ballistic limit or limit velocity is the velocity required for a particular projectile to reliably (at least 50% of the time) penetrate a particular piece of material. In other words, a given projectile will generally not pierce a given target when the projectile velocity is lower than the ballistic limit. The te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronis%20Secure%20Zone | Acronis Secure Zone is a hard disk partition type created and used by Acronis True Image as a backup storage target.
Overview
Backup applications typically use network storage for storing backup archives, but this can be problematic when such resources are not available. Acronis designed a solution to this problem by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilleon | Xilleon is a brand for a family of SoCs combining a low-power CPU with ASICs for accelerated video decompression and further functions for major worldwide broadcast networks (including PAL, NTSC, SECAM and ATSC) targeting digital television (i.e. products like set-top boxes, Integrated digital television, digital telev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus%20stacking | Focus stacking (also known as focal plane merging and z-stacking or focus blending) is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field (DOF) than any of the individual source images. Focus stacking can be used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MStar | MStar Semiconductor, Inc. () was a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company specializing in mixed-mode integrated circuit technologies, based in Hsinchu Hsien. MStar made hardware for multimedia and wireless communications, in the form of display ICs and mixed-mode (i.e. combining analog and digital functions) ASIC/IPs,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20entropy%20spectral%20estimation | Maximum entropy spectral estimation is a method of spectral density estimation. The goal is to improve the spectral quality based on the principle of maximum entropy. The method is based on choosing the spectrum which corresponds to the most random or the most unpredictable time series whose autocorrelation function ag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20rate | In the mathematical theory of probability, the entropy rate or source information rate of a stochastic process is, informally, the time density of the average information in a stochastic process. For stochastic processes with a countable index, the entropy rate is the limit of the joint entropy of members of the proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentials%20of%20Programming%20Languages | Essentials of Programming Languages (EOPL) is a textbook on programming languages by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes.
EOPL surveys the principles of programming languages from an operational perspective. It starts with an interpreter in Scheme for a simple functional core language similar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisphere%20Networks | Unisphere Networks (formally Unisphere Solutions) was a Westford, Massachusetts-based networking equipment manufacturer and subsidiary of German corporation Siemens AG. Formed in 1998 at a cost of roughly US$1 billion, Unisphere was later sold to Juniper Networks in May 2002 for between $585 million and $740 million, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Research%20of%20the%20National%20Institute%20of%20Standards%20and%20Technology | The Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology was the flagship peer-reviewed scientific journal of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It was published from 1904–2022. Its former name was Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards. Its section D (Radio Scienc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body%20problem | The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind, and the body.
It is not obvious how the concept of the mind and the concept of the body relate. For example, feelings of sadness (which are mental events) cause people to cry (which is a ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20retrieval | Phase retrieval is the process of algorithmically finding solutions to the phase problem. Given a complex signal , of amplitude , and phase :
where x is an M-dimensional spatial coordinate and k is an M-dimensional spatial frequency coordinate. Phase retrieval consists of finding the phase that satisfies a set of cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20statistics | Medical statistics deals with applications of statistics to medicine and the health sciences, including epidemiology, public health, forensic medicine, and clinical research. Medical statistics has been a recognized branch of statistics in the United Kingdom for more than 40 years but the term has not come into general... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame%20programmer | A flame programmer is an electrical, electro-mechanical, or electronic device used to program the safe lighting of fuel burning equipment, as well as the safe shut-down of the flame when it is not needed.
These programmers are made with different time sequences to accommodate very small household furnaces to mammoth i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20card%20application%20protocol%20data%20unit | In the context of smart cards, an application protocol data unit (APDU) is the communication unit between a smart card reader and a smart card. The structure of the APDU is defined by ISO/IEC 7816-4 Organization, security and commands for interchange.
APDU message command-response pair
There are two categories of APD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetic%20material | Biomimetic materials are materials developed using inspiration from nature. This may be useful in the design of composite materials. Natural structures have inspired and innovated human creations. Notable examples of these natural structures include: honeycomb structure of the beehive, strength of spider silks, bird fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20guidance%20conduit | A nerve guidance conduit (also referred to as an artificial nerve conduit or artificial nerve graft, as opposed to an autograft) is an artificial means of guiding axonal regrowth to facilitate nerve regeneration and is one of several clinical treatments for nerve injuries. When direct suturing of the two stumps of a se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Felder | Richard M. Felder (born 1939 in New York City) is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Education and career history
Felder received a BChE degree from the City College of New York in 1962 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 196... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinguiririca%20fauna | The fossil Tinguiririca fauna, entombed in volcanic mudflows and ash layers at the onset of the Oligocene, about 33-31.5 million years ago, represents a unique snapshot of the history of South America's endemic fauna, which was extinguished when the former island continent was joined to North America by the rising Isth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named%20data%20networking | Named Data Networking (NDN) (related to content-centric networking (CCN), content-based networking, data-oriented networking or information-centric networking (ICN)) is a proposed Future Internet architecture inspired by years of empirical research into network usage and a growing awareness of unsolved problems in cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamation%20property | In the mathematical field of model theory, the amalgamation property is a property of collections of structures that guarantees, under certain conditions, that two structures in the collection can be regarded as substructures of a larger one.
This property plays a crucial role in Fraïssé's theorem, which characterises... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice%20and%20notice | A "notice and notice" system is used by some internet service providers (ISPs) in relation to the uploading and downloading activities of a user of a peer-to-peer file sharing network, otherwise known as "P2P". It may occur when an ISP receives notification from a rights holder to a copyrighted work that one of its sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzootic | Enzootic is the non-human equivalent of endemic and means, in a broad sense, "belonging to" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope.
It also has two specific meanings:
an organism being "enzootic" means native to a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20bacterium | Asymmetric bacteria are bacteria that undergo "non-symmetrical" life cycles. This especially includes those that differentiate temporally, such as prosthecate bacteria.
History
Cell division asymmetries have appeared alongside the evolution of complex developmental processes. While bacteria were historically consider... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20Assets%20Database | The Routing Assets Database (RADb), formerly known as the Routing Arbiter Database is a public database in which the operators of Internet networks publish authoritative declarations of routing policy for their Autonomous System (AS) which are, in turn, used by the operators of other Internet networks to configure thei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthecate%20bacteria | Prosthecate bacteria are a non-phylogenetically related group of Gram-negative bacteria that possess appendages, termed prosthecae. These cellular appendages are neither pili nor flagella, as they are extensions of the cellular membrane and contain cytosol. One notable group of prosthecates is the genus Caulobacter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20trace | Branch trace is a computer program debugging tool or analysis technique. It is an abbreviated instruction trace in which only the successful branch instructions are recorded. On IBM System/360 this was implemented as part of Program-Event Recording (PER) but was seldom used at the application programming level. Program... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin%20flora | Skin flora, also called skin microbiota, refers to microbiota (communities of microorganisms) that reside on the skin, typically human skin.
Many of them are bacteria of which there are around 1,000 species upon human skin from nineteen phyla. Most are found in the superficial layers of the epidermis and the upper pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20converter | A protocol converter is a device used to convert standard or proprietary protocol of one device to the protocol suitable for the other device or tools to achieve the desired interoperability. Protocols are software installed on the routers, which convert the data formats, data rate and protocols of one network into the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism-closed%20subcategory | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a subcategory of a category is said to be isomorphism closed or replete if every -isomorphism with belongs to This implies that both and belong to as well.
A subcategory that is isomorphism closed and full is called strictly full. In the case of full subcategorie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-oxidant | Pro-oxidants are chemicals that induce oxidative stress, either by generating reactive oxygen species or by inhibiting antioxidant systems. The oxidative stress produced by these chemicals can damage cells and tissues, for example, an overdose of the analgesic paracetamol (acetaminophen) can fatally damage the liver, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20R.%20Pidgeon | W. R. Pidgeon developed the pidgeon machine, an electrostatic machine with a unique setup.
Biography
Pidgeon presented his machine to the Physical Society after several years of investigation into influence machines (in the 1890s). The device was later reported in the Philosophical Magazine (December 1898, pg. 564) an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL2%28R%29 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:SL2(R)}}
In mathematics, the special linear group SL(2, R) or SL2(R) is the group of 2 × 2 real matrices with determinant one:
It is a connected non-compact simple real Lie group of dimension 3 with applications in geometry, topology, representation theory, and physics.
SL(2, R) acts on the complex ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAIM%20Working%20Group | The LAIM (Log Anonymization and Information Management) Working Group is a NSF and ONR funded research group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications under the direction of Adam Slagell . Work from this group focuses upon log anonymization and Internet privacy. The LAIM group, established in 2005, has rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20foot | A Cape foot is a unit of length defined as 1.0330 English feet (and equal to 12.396 English inches, or 0.31485557516 meters) found in documents of belts and diagrams relating to landed property. It was identically equal to the Rijnland voet and was introduced into South Africa by the Dutch settlers in the seventeenth ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20emissions%20measurement%20system | A portable emissions measurement system (PEMS) is a vehicle emissions testing device that is small and light enough to be carried inside or moved with a motor vehicle that is being driven during testing, rather than on the stationary rollers of a dynamometer that only simulates real-world driving.
Early examples of mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20discipline | A line discipline (LDISC) is a layer in the terminal subsystem in some Unix-like systems. The terminal subsystem consists of three layers: the upper layer to provide the character device interface, the lower hardware driver to communicate with the hardware or pseudo terminal, and the middle line discipline to implement... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic%20induction | In mathematics, parabolic induction is a method of constructing representations of a reductive group from representations of its parabolic subgroups.
If G is a reductive algebraic group and is the Langlands decomposition of a parabolic subgroup P, then parabolic induction consists of taking a representation of , ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum-free%20set | In additive combinatorics and number theory, a subset A of an abelian group G is said to be sum-free if the sumset A + A is disjoint from A. In other words, A is sum-free if the equation has no solution with .
For example, the set of odd numbers is a sum-free subset of the integers, and the set {N + 1, ..., 2N&hairsp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%E2%80%93Brauer%20matrices | In mathematics, particularly in the theory of spinors, the Weyl–Brauer matrices are an explicit realization of a Clifford algebra as a matrix algebra of matrices. They generalize the Pauli matrices to dimensions, and are a specific construction of higher-dimensional gamma matrices. They are named for Richard Brauer a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20probe | The mercury probe is an electrical probing device to make rapid, non-destructive contact to a sample for electrical characterization. Its primary application is semiconductor measurements where otherwise time-consuming metallizations or photolithographic processing are required to make contact to a sample. These proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extouch%20triangle | In Euclidean geometry, the extouch triangle of a triangle is formed by joining the points at which the three excircles touch the triangle.
Coordinates
The vertices of the extouch triangle are given in trilinear coordinates by:
or equivalently, where are the lengths of the sides opposite angles respectively,
Relate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNOS%20%28operating%20system%29 | MNOS (MobilNaya Operatsionnaya Sistema, МобильНая Операционная Система (МНОС), or Portable Operating System) is a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union.
Overview
The system is derived from Version 6 Unix and then modified to incorporate features of Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix. From 198... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whewell%20equation | The Whewell equation of a plane curve is an equation that relates the tangential angle () with arclength (), where the tangential angle is the angle between the tangent to the curve and the -axis, and the arc length is the distance along the curve from a fixed point. These quantities do not depend on the coordinate sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade%20effect%20%28ecology%29 | An ecological cascade effect is a series of secondary extinctions that are triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem. Secondary extinctions are likely to occur when the threatened species are: dependent on a few specific food sources, mutualistic (dependent on the key species in some way), o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtrace | mtrace is the memory debugger included in the GNU C Library.
Use
Note that mtrace tool works only with single threaded applications. One thread could temporarily remove the hook while another thread could malloc memory at the sametime leading to missed allocations in a multithreaded application!
The function mtrace ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCOS | LOCOS, short for LOCal Oxidation of Silicon, is a microfabrication process where silicon dioxide is formed in selected areas on a silicon wafer having the Si-SiO2 interface at a lower point than the rest of the silicon surface. As of 2008 it was largely superseded by shallow trench isolation.
This technology was devel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20Media%20Interface | In computing, Direct Media Interface (DMI) is Intel's proprietary link between the northbridge (or CPU) and southbridge (e.g. Platform Controller Hub family) chipset on a computer motherboard. It was first used between the 9xx chipsets and the ICH6, released in 2004. Previous Intel chipsets had used the Intel Hub Archi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20systems%20theory | Biochemical systems theory is a mathematical modelling framework for biochemical systems, based on ordinary differential equations (ODE), in which biochemical processes are represented using power-law expansions in the variables of the system.
This framework, which became known as Biochemical Systems Theory, has been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%27s%20invariant | In electronics, Mason's invariant, named after Samuel Jefferson Mason, is a measure of the quality of transistors.
"When trying to solve a seemingly difficult problem, Sam said to concentrate on the easier ones first; the rest, including the hardest ones, will follow," recalled Andrew Viterbi, co-founder and former vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GF%282%29 | (also denoted , or ) is the finite field of two elements (GF is the initialism of Galois field, another name for finite fields). Notations and may be encountered although they can be confused with the notation of -adic integers.
is the field with the smallest possible number of elements, and is unique if the addit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20316 | The Honeywell 316 was a popular 16-bit minicomputer built by Honeywell starting in 1969. It is part of the Series 16, which includes the Models 116 (1965, discrete), 316 (1969), 416 (1966), 516 (1966) and DDP-716 (1969). They were commonly used for data acquisition and control, remote message concentration, clinical la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrad%20formalism | The tetrad formalism is an approach to general relativity that generalizes the choice of basis for the tangent bundle from a coordinate basis to the less restrictive choice of a local basis, i.e. a locally defined set of four linearly independent vector fields called a tetrad or vierbein. It is a special case of the mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStream | OnStream Holdings of the Netherlands was spun off from Philips in 1998 and went bankrupt for a second time in 2003.
As a result of its first bankruptcy in 2001, the company was split into two parts, OnStream Data and OnStream MST. The "Data" division manufactured magnetic tape products and the "MST" division produced... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20of%20Life | The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing trusted databases curated by experts and with the assistance of non-experts throughout the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower%20Mounted%20Amplifier | A Tower Mounted Amplifier (TMA), or Mast Head Amplifier (MHA), is a low-noise amplifier (LNA) mounted as close as practical to the antenna in mobile masts or base transceiver stations. A TMA reduces the base transceiver station noise figure (NF) and therefore improves its overall sensitivity; in other words the mobile ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzel%20%28computer%29 | Uzel was the Soviet Union's first digital computer used on submarines, to assist in tracking multiple targets and calculate torpedo solutions. Uzel's design team was headed by two American defectors to the Soviet Union, Alfred Sarant (a.k.a. Philip Staros) and Joel Barr (a.k.a. Joseph Berg). An upgraded version of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcarrier%20multiplexing | Subcarrier Multiplexing (SCM) is a method for combining (multiplexing) many different communications signals so that they can be transmitted along a single optical fiber. SCM (also known as SCMA, SubCarrier Multiple Access) is used in passive optical network (PON) access infrastructures as a variant of wavelength divi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempner%20function | In number theory, the Kempner function is defined for a given positive integer to be the smallest number such that divides the For example, the number does not divide , , but does
This function has the property that it has a highly inconsistent growth rate: it grows linearly on the prime numbers but only grow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild%20%28ecology%29 | A guild (or ecological guild) is any group of species that exploit the same resources, or that exploit different resources in related ways. It is not necessary that the species within a guild occupy the same, or even similar, ecological niches.
Details
Guilds are defined according to the locations, attributes, or acti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple%20Earth%20hypothesis | The Purple Earth hypothesis is an astrobiological hypothesis first proposed by Indian-American molecular biologist Shiladitya DasSarma in 2007, that the earliest photosynthetic life forms of Early Earth were based on the simpler molecule retinal rather than the more complex porphyrin-based chlorophyll, making the surfa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20family%20of%20languages | In computer science, in particular in the field of formal language theory,
an abstract family of languages is an abstract mathematical notion generalizing characteristics common to the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages, and other families of formal languages studied ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAR%20LSM%201.0 | The National Center for Atmospheric Research Land Surface Model (LSM) is a unidimensional computational model developed by Gordon Bonan that describes ecological processes joined in many ecosystem models, hydrological processes found in hydrological models and flow of surface common in surface models using atmospheric ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer%20Distributed%20Transfer%20Protocol | The Peer Distributed Transfer Protocol is an Internet file transfer protocol for distributing files from a central server across a peer-to-peer network. It is conceptually similar to BitTorrent but allows for streaming media. The protocol has been assigned port 6086 by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. The pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle%20Warriors%3A%20Seal%20of%20the%20Dark%20Lord | Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord, known as in Japan, is a role-playing video game released initially on the Japanese PC-88 and then ported to various other systems, including a Master System port developed by Sega, which was released internationally.
Gameplay
Each screen of the game consists of four parts. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Pochhammer%20symbol | In mathematical area of combinatorics, the q-Pochhammer symbol, also called the q-shifted factorial, is the product
with
It is a q-analog of the Pochhammer symbol , in the sense that
The q-Pochhammer symbol is a major building block in the construction of q-analogs; for instance, in the theory of basic hypergeometri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaved%20polling%20with%20adaptive%20cycle%20time | Interleaved polling with adaptive cycle time (IPACT) is an algorithm designed by Glen Kramer, Biswanath Mukherjee and Gerry Pesavento of the Advanced Technology Lab at the University of California, Davis in 2002. IPACT is a dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm for use in Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs).
IP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20HDL%20simulators | HDL simulators are software packages that simulate expressions written in one of the hardware description languages, such as VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog.
This page is intended to list current and historical HDL simulators, accelerators, emulators, etc.
Proprietary simulators
Some commercial proprietary simulators ... |
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