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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Bang%20Theory | The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers and head writers on the series, along with Steven Molaro. It aired on CBS from September 24, 2007, to May 16, 2019, running for 12 seasons and 279 episodes.
The show originally centere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypohidrosis | Hypohidrosis is a disorder in which a person exhibits diminished sweating in response to appropriate stimuli. In contrast with hyperhidrosis, which is a socially troubling yet often benign condition, the consequences of untreated hypohidrosis include hyperthermia, heat stroke and death. An extreme case of hypohidrosis ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadyne | A metadyne is a direct current electrical machine with two pairs of brushes. It can be used as an amplifier or rotary transformer. It is similar to a third brush dynamo but has additional regulator or "variator" windings. It is also similar to an amplidyne except that the latter has a compensating winding which fully ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20state | A system is said to be transient or in a transient state when a process variable or variables have been changed and the system has not yet reached a steady state. The time taken for the circuit to change from one steady state to another steady state is called the transient time.
Examples
Chemical Engineering
When a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20%28civil%20engineering%29 | In civil engineering, a transient is a short-lived pressure wave. A common example is water hammer.
Transients are often misunderstood and not accounted for in the design of water distribution systems, thus contributing to hydraulic element failures, such as pipe breaks and pump/valve failures.
External links
Journa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In computer programming, transient is a property of any element in the system that is temporary. The term applies to transient applications, i.e. software for the end-user which is displayed with a transient application posture; transient data, which is discarded after it is no longer needed by the computation; and tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20Protocols%20Open%20Repository | SPORE, the Security Protocols Open Repository, is an online library of security protocols with comments and links to papers. Each protocol is downloadable in a variety of formats, including rules for use with automatic protocol verification tools. All protocols are described using BAN logic or the style used by Clark a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMII-UK | OMII-UK is an open-source software organisation for the UK research community.
OMII-UK have a number of roles within the UK research community: helping new users get started with E-research, providing the software that is needed and developing that software if it does not exist. OMII-UK also help to guide the developm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoChip | Picochip was a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company based in Bath, England, founded in 2000. In January 2012 Picochip was acquired by Mindspeed Technologies, Inc and subsequently by Intel.
The company was active in two areas, with two distinct product families.
Picochip was one of the first companies to start... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMethods%20Glue | webMethods Glue is an enterprise web services platform from webMethods. It provides web services/SOAP capabilities to existing Java and C/C++ applications.
Developers use the Java-based product to add enterprise web services integration to legacy applications with reduced programming effort. It is an embeddable produc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20router | An audio router is a device that transports audio signals from inputs to outputs.
Inputs and Outputs
The number of inputs and outputs varies dramatically. The way routers are described is normally number of inputs by number of outputs e.g. 2x1, 256x256.
Signals
The type of signals transported - switched can be an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster%20%28electric%20power%29 | A power booster is a combination of motor-mechanical power amplifier- generator. For example a 30kw motor with the power amplifier could power a 100kw generator. This power booster is now commercially available
Line booster
In the days of direct current mains, voltage drop along the line was a problem so line booster... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidoop | Vidoop LLC was a privately held company based in Portland, Oregon. Its flagship product was Vidoop Secure, a login solution designed to function without traditional passwords, which Vidoop claimed was resistant to brute force, keystroke logging, phishing, and some man-in-the-middle attacks. On 30 May 2009, Vidoop anno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frailty%20syndrome | Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome that embodies an elevated risk of catastrophic declines in health and function among older adults. Frailty is a condition associated with ageing, and it has been recognized for centuries. It is a marker of a more widespread syndrome of frailty, with associated weakness, slowing, d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20virtual%20private%20network | A mobile virtual private network (mobile VPN or mVPN) is a VPN which is capable of persisting during sessions across changes in physical connectivity, point of network attachment, and IP address. The "mobile" in the name refers to the fact that the VPN can change points of network attachment, not necessarily that the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryophorus | A cryophorus is a glass container containing liquid water and water vapor. It is used in physics courses to demonstrate rapid freezing by evaporation. A typical cryophorus has a bulb at one end connected to a tube of the same material. When the liquid water is manipulated into the bulbed end and the other end is submer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2N7000 | The 2N7000 and BS170 are two different N-channel, enhancement-mode MOSFETs used for low-power switching applications, with different lead arrangements and current ratings. They are sometimes listed together on the same datasheet with other variants 2N7002, VQ1000J, and VQ1000P.
The 2N7000 is a widely available and po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad%20data%20rate | Quad data rate (QDR, or quad pumping) is a communication signaling technique wherein data are transmitted at four points in the clock cycle: on the rising and falling edges, and at two intermediate points between them. The intermediate points are defined by a second clock that is 90° out of phase from the first. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem%20of%20points | The problem of points, also called the problem of division of the stakes, is a classical problem in probability theory. One of the famous problems that motivated the beginnings of modern probability theory in the 17th century, it led Blaise Pascal to the first explicit reasoning about what today is known as an expected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20conversation | A digital conversation is a scripted dialogue between a person and a computer through various digital mediums, including web browsers, PDAs, mobile phones, and interactive television.
Introduction
A digital conversation is scripted by a human, uploaded to a server where it can be accessed as a web service by other hu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal%20%28phylogenetics%29 | In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram. The term may be more strictly applied only to nodes adjacent to the root, or more loosely applied to nodes regarded as being close to the root. Note that extant taxa that lie on branches connecting directly to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purine%20metabolism | Purine metabolism refers to the metabolic pathways to synthesize and break down purines that are present in many organisms.
Biosynthesis
Purines are biologically synthesized as nucleotides and in particular as ribotides, i.e. bases attached to ribose 5-phosphate. Both adenine and guanine are derived from the nucleotid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITkit | FITkit is an immunological test for measuring natural rubber latex (NRL) allergens from a variety of rubber products, such as gloves.
Description
FITkit is a method for quantification of the major natural rubber latex (NRL) specific allergens: Hev b 1, Hev b 3, Hev b 5 and Hev b 6.02. The sum of four major allergens s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20product%20line | Software product lines (SPLs), or software product line development, refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of similar software systems from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production.
The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute defines a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Dwight%20Smith | Laurence Dwight Smith (1895-1952) was an American author specializing in crime fiction and cryptography.
Early life and education
Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 24, 1895. After completing preparatory school at the Phillips Academy in 1914, he attended Yale College and, after graduating, took a job wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERMIS | PERMIS (PrivilEge and Role Management Infrastructure Standards) is a sophisticated policy-based authorization system that implements an enhanced version of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standard Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) model. PERMIS supports the distributed assignment of both r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%208255 | The Intel 8255 (or i8255) Programmable Peripheral Interface (PPI) chip was developed and manufactured by Intel in the first half of the 1970s for the Intel 8080 microprocessor. The 8255 provides 24 parallel input/output lines with a variety of programmable operating modes.
The 8255 is a member of the MCS-85 family of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20control%20body | A building control body is an organisation authorised to control building work that is subject to the Building Regulations in England and Wales (similar systems are provided in Northern Ireland, and in Scotland where the term 'building standards' is used. Such regulations or standards are also known as building codes i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20storage | Cloud storage is a model of computer data storage in which the digital data is stored in logical pools, said to be on "the cloud". The physical storage spans multiple servers (sometimes in multiple locations), and the physical environment is typically owned and managed by a hosting company. These cloud storage provider... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-premises%20software | On-premises software (abbreviated to on-prem, and incorrectly referred to as on-premise) is installed and runs on computers on the premises of the person or organization using the software, rather than at a remote facility such as a server farm or cloud. On-premises software is sometimes referred to as "shrinkwrap" sof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocard%27s%20problem | Brocard's problem is a problem in mathematics that seeks integer values of such that is a perfect square, where is the factorial. Only three values of are known — 4, 5, 7 — and it is not known whether there are any more.
More formally, it seeks pairs of integers and such thatThe problem was posed by Henri Brocar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20NetWare | NetWare Lite and Personal NetWare are a series of discontinued peer-to-peer local area networks developed by Novell for DOS- and Windows-based personal computers aimed at personal users and small businesses in the 1990s.
NetWare Lite
In 1991, Novell introduced a radically different and cheaper product from their cent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliding%20flight | Gliding flight is heavier-than-air flight without the use of thrust; the term volplaning also refers to this mode of flight in animals. It is employed by gliding animals and by aircraft such as gliders. This mode of flight involves flying a significant distance horizontally compared to its descent and therefore can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a vertex (: vertices or vertexes) is a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet or intersect. As a consequence of this definition, the point where two lines meet to form an angle and the corners of polygons and polyhedra are vertices.
Definition
Of an angle
The vertex of an angle is the poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20participants%20in%20the%20Evolving%20Genes%20and%20Proteins%20symposium | This is a list of scientists who participated in the 1964 Evolving Genes and Proteins symposium, a landmark event in the history of molecular evolution. The symposium, supported by the National Science Foundation, took place on September 17 and September 18, 1964 at the Institute of Microbiology of Rutgers University.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-brush%20dynamo | A third-brush dynamo was a type of dynamo, an electrical generator, formerly used for battery charging on motor vehicles. It was superseded, first by a two-brush dynamo equipped with an external voltage regulator, and later by an alternator.
Construction
As the name implies, the machine had three brushes in contact w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%20numbering | In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number.
Bit significance and indexing
In computing, the least significant bit (LSb) is the bit position in a binary integer representing the binary 1s place of the integer. Similarly, the most significant bit (MSb) represents... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMMT | HMMT is an annual high school math competition that started in 1998. The location of the tournament, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, alternates between Harvard University (November tournament) and MIT (February tournament). The contest is written and staffed almost entirely by Harvard and MIT students.
Naming
HMMT was i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20polymerase%20chain%20reaction | Digital polymerase chain reaction (digital PCR, DigitalPCR, dPCR, or dePCR) is a biotechnological refinement of conventional polymerase chain reaction methods that can be used to directly quantify and clonally amplify nucleic acids strands including DNA, cDNA, or RNA. The key difference between dPCR and traditional PCR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle%20dynamo | A bottle dynamo or sidewall dynamo is a small electrical generator for bicycles employed to power a bicycle's lights. The traditional bottle dynamo (pictured) is not actually a dynamo at all (which creates DC power), but a low-power magneto that generates AC. Newer models can include a rectifier to create DC output to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension%20function | In mathematics, the notion of an (exact) dimension function (also known as a gauge function) is a tool in the study of fractals and other subsets of metric spaces. Dimension functions are a generalisation of the simple "diameter to the dimension" power law used in the construction of s-dimensional Hausdorff measure.
M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rensch%27s%20rule | Rensch's rule is a biological rule on allometrics, concerning the relationship between the extent of sexual size dimorphism and which sex is larger. Across species within a lineage, size dimorphism increases with increasing body size when the male is the larger sex, and decreases with increasing average body size when ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-phase%20logic | Four-phase logic is a type of, and design methodology for dynamic logic. It enabled non-specialist engineers to design quite complex ICs, using either PMOS or NMOS processes.
It uses a kind of 4-phase clock signal.
History
R. K. "Bob" Booher, an engineer at Autonetics, invented four-phase logic and communicated the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20model | An acoustic model is used in automatic speech recognition to represent the relationship between an audio signal and the phonemes or other linguistic units that make up speech. The model is learned from a set of audio recordings and their corresponding transcripts. It is created by taking audio recordings of speech, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20corpus | A speech corpus (or spoken corpus) is a database of speech audio files and text transcriptions.
In speech technology, speech corpora are used, among other things, to create acoustic models (which can then be used with a speech recognition or speaker identification engine).
In linguistics, spoken corpora are used to d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino%20logic | Domino logic is a CMOS-based evolution of the dynamic logic techniques based on either PMOS or NMOS transistors. It allows a rail-to-rail logic swing. It was developed to speed up circuits, solving the premature cascade problem, typically by inserting small and fast pFETs between domino stages to constrain the intersta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising%20and%20lowering%20indices | In mathematics and mathematical physics, raising and lowering indices are operations on tensors which change their type. Raising and lowering indices are a form of index manipulation in tensor expressions.
Vectors, covectors and the metric
Mathematical formulation
Mathematically vectors are elements of a vector spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20probability | In immunology, surface probability is the amount of reflection of an antigen's secondary or tertiary structure to the outside of the molecule.
A greater surface probability means that an antigen is more likely to be immunogenic (i.e. induce the formation of antibodies).
References
Immunology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Aid%20Detachment | A Light Aid Detachment is an attached independent minor unit of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, or Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment operating as a sub-unit of the supported unit. These units ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20genomics | Synthetic genomics is a nascent field of synthetic biology that uses aspects of genetic modification on pre-existing life forms, or artificial gene synthesis to create new DNA or entire lifeforms.
Overview
Synthetic genomics is unlike genetic modification in the sense that it does not use naturally occurring genes in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%20tree | In fractal geometry, the H tree is a fractal tree structure constructed from perpendicular line segments, each smaller by a factor of the square root of 2 from the next larger adjacent segment. It is so called because its repeating pattern resembles the letter "H". It has Hausdorff dimension 2, and comes arbitrarily cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%20%28cell%29 | In cellular biology, inclusions are diverse intracellular non-living substances (ergastic substances) that are not bound by membranes. Inclusions are stored nutrients/deutoplasmic substances, secretory products, and pigment granules. Examples of inclusions are glycogen granules in the liver and muscle cells, lipid drop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20Integration%20Patterns | Enterprise Integration Patterns is a book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf and describes 65 patterns for the use of enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware in the form of a pattern language.
The integration (messaging) pattern language
The pattern language presented in the book consists of 6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knudsen%20cell | In crystal growth, a Knudsen cell is an effusion evaporator source for relatively low partial pressure elementary sources (e.g. Ga, Al, Hg, As). Because it is easy to control the temperature of the evaporating material in Knudsen cells, they are commonly used in molecular-beam epitaxy.
Development
The Knudsen effusi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrasin | Each species of slime mold has its own specific chemical messenger, which are collectively referred to as acrasins. These chemicals signal that many individual cells aggregate to form a single large cell or plasmodium. One of the earliest acrasins to be identified was cyclic AMP, found in the species Dictyostelium disc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveler%27s%20dilemma | In game theory, the traveler's dilemma (sometimes abbreviated TD) is a non-zero-sum game in which each player proposes a payoff. The lower of the two proposals wins; the lowball player receives the lowball payoff plus a small bonus, and the highball player receives the same lowball payoff, minus a small penalty. Surpri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation%20of%20machine%20translation | Various methods for the evaluation for machine translation have been employed. This article focuses on the evaluation of the output of machine translation, rather than on performance or usability evaluation.
Round-trip translation
A typical way for lay people to assess machine translation quality is to translate from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20hectare | The global hectare (gha) is a measurement unit for the ecological footprint of people or activities and the biocapacity of the Earth or its regions. One global hectare is the world's annual amount of biological production for human use and human waste assimilation, per hectare of biologically productive land and fisher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Hadamard%20matrix | In mathematics a regular Hadamard matrix is a Hadamard matrix whose row and column sums are all equal. While the order of a Hadamard matrix must be 1, 2, or a multiple of 4, regular Hadamard matrices carry the further restriction that the order be a square number. The excess, denoted E(H), of a Hadamard matrix H of o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioeconomy | Biobased economy, bioeconomy or biotechonomy is economic activity involving the use of biotechnology and biomass in the production of goods, services, or energy. The terms are widely used by regional development agencies, national and international organizations, and biotechnology companies. They are closely linked to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-projection%20television | Rear-projection television (RPTV) is a type of large-screen television display technology. Until approximately 2006, most of the relatively affordable consumer large screen TVs up to used rear-projection technology. A variation is a video projector, using similar technology, which projects onto a screen.
Three types ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%20anonymity | Forward anonymity is a property of a cryptographic system which prevents an attacker who has recorded past encrypted communications from discovering its contents and participants in the future. This property is analogous to forward secrecy.
An example of a system which uses forward anonymity is a public key cryptograp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomolecular%20engineering | Biomolecular engineering is the application of engineering principles and practices to the purposeful manipulation of molecules of biological origin. Biomolecular engineers integrate knowledge of biological processes with the core knowledge of chemical engineering in order to focus on molecular level solutions to issue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterned%20media | Patterned media (also known as bit-patterned media or BPM) is a potential future hard disk drive technology to record data in magnetic islands (one bit per island), as opposed to current hard disk drive technology where each bit is stored in within a continuous magnetic film. The islands would be patterned from a prec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve%20audio%20amplifier%20technical%20specification | Technical specifications and detailed information on the valve audio amplifier, including its development history.
Circuitry and performance
Characteristics of valves
Valves (also known as vacuum tubes) are very high input impedance (near infinite in most circuits) and high-output impedance devices. They are also hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20message | An Active message (in computing) is a messaging object capable of performing processing on its own. It is a lightweight messaging protocol used to optimize network communications with an emphasis on reducing latency by removing software overheads associated with buffering and providing applications with direct user-lev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-rating%20certification | Human-rating certification, also known as man-rating or crew-rating, is the certification of a spacecraft or launch vehicle as capable of safely transporting humans. There is no one particular standard for human-rating a spacecraft or launch vehicle, and the various entities that launch or plan to launch such spacecraf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birotunda | In geometry, a birotunda is any member of a family of dihedral-symmetric polyhedra, formed from two rotunda adjoined through the largest face. They are similar to a bicupola but instead of alternating squares and triangles, it alternates pentagons and triangles around an axis. There are two forms, ortho- and gyro-: an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bridges%20%28software%20developer%29 | John Bridges is the co-author of the computer program PCPaint and primary developer of the program GRASP for Microtex Industries with Doug Wolfgram. He is also the sole author of GLPro and AfterGRASP. His article entitled "Differential Image Compression" was published in the February 1991 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping%20%28signal%20processing%29 | Clipping is a form of distortion that limits a signal once it exceeds a threshold. Clipping may occur when a signal is recorded by a sensor that has constraints on the range of data it can measure, it can occur when a signal is digitized, or it can occur any other time an analog or digital signal is transformed, parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer%27s%20dilemma | The volunteer's dilemma game models a situation in which each player can either make a small sacrifice that benefits everybody, or instead wait in hope of benefiting from someone else's sacrifice.
One example is a scenario in which the electricity supply has failed for an entire neighborhood. All inhabitants know that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute-based%20access%20control | Attribute-based access control (ABAC), also known as policy-based access control for IAM, defines an access control paradigm whereby a subject's authorization to perform a set of operations is determined by evaluating attributes associated with the subject, object, requested operations, and, in some cases, environment ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based%20architecture | A Space-based architecture (SBA) is an approach to distributed computing systems where the various components interact with each other by exchanging tuples or entries via one or more shared spaces. This is contrasted with the more common Message queuing service approaches where the various components interact with each... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20networking | Distributed networking is a distributed computing network system where components of the program and data depend on multiple sources.
Overview
Distributed networking, used in distributed computing, is the network system over which computer programming, software, and its data are spread out across more than one compute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fibonacci%20Association | The Fibonacci Association is a mathematical organization that specializes in the Fibonacci number sequence and a wide variety of related subjects, generalizations, and applications, including recurrence relations, combinatorial identities, binomial coefficients, prime numbers, pseudoprimes, continued fractions, the gol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Wireless%20Information%20Networks | The International Journal of Wireless Information Networks is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on wireless networks, including sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, wireless personal area networks, wireless LANs, indoor positioning systems, wireless health, body area networking, cyber-p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive%20state%20representation | In computer science, a predictive state representation (PSR) is a way to model a state of controlled dynamical system from a history of actions taken and resulting observations. PSR captures the state of a system as a vector of predictions for future tests (experiments) that can be done on the system. A test is a seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20de%20Bovelles | Charles de Bovelles (; born c. 1475 at Saint-Quentin, died at Ham, Somme after 1566) was a French mathematician and philosopher, and canon of Noyon. His Géométrie en françoys (1511) was the first scientific work to be printed in French.
Bovelles authored a number of philological, theological and mystical treatises, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20television | Social television is the union of television and social media. Millions of people now share their TV experience with other viewers on social media such as Twitter and Facebook using smartphones and tablets. TV networks and rights holders are increasingly sharing video clips on social platforms to monetise engagement an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Washtenaw | The Wireless Washtenaw project was originally an ambitious plan to provide free wireless broadband access throughout Washtenaw County, Michigan by April 2008 "without a burden on taxpayers". To accomplish this, it was to rely upon a public/ private sector partnership between the Washtenaw County government and 20/20 C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20Engine | The Venus Engine is an image-processing engine for digital cameras. It is developed by the company Panasonic. Almost all of their Lumix cameras use a version of the Venus Engine. It is based on the Panasonic MN103/MN103S.
All image processors operate in four steps. Firstly, they receive data from the CCD sensor. Secon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20recognition%20software%20for%20Linux | As of the early 2000s, several speech recognition (SR) software packages exist for Linux. Some of them are free and open-source software and others are proprietary software. Speech recognition usually refers to software that attempts to distinguish thousands of words in a human language. Voice control may refer to soft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDK7%20pathway | CDK7 is a cyclin-dependent kinase shown to be not easily classified. CDK7 is both a CDK-activating kinase (CAK) and a component of the general transcription factor TFIIH.
Introduction
An intricate network of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) is organized in a pathway to ensure that each cell accurately replicates its DN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarking | Sarking is an English word with multiple meanings in roof construction:
The use of wood panels, or "sarking boards", called sheathing, sheeting or decking in American English, under the roof-covering materials such as the shingles of a roof to provide support. It is a common term in Scotland, Australia, and New Zeala... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20splitter | A flow splitter, in hydraulic engineering, is any device designed to break up the flow of water or nappe over a dam wall or weir. Flow splitters are used to reduce the likelihood of nappe vibration that might cause the failure of a dam wall by aerating the water flow. They are also used to restrict large flows of stor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLT%20%28x86%20instruction%29 | In the x86 computer architecture, HLT (halt) is an assembly language instruction which halts the central processing unit (CPU) until the next external interrupt is fired. Interrupts are signals sent by hardware devices to the CPU alerting it that an event occurred to which it should react. For example, hardware timers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooers%27s%20law | Mooers's law is a comment about the use of information retrieval systems made by the American computer scientist Calvin Mooers in 1959:
Original interpretation
Mooers argued that information is at risk of languishing unused due not only on the effort required to assimilate it but also to any impliciations of the info... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20safety | Process safety is an interdisciplinary engineering domain focusing on the study, prevention, and management of large-scale fires, explosions and chemical accidents (such as toxic gas clouds) in process plants or other facilities dealing with hazardous materials, such as refineries and oil and gas (onshore and offshore)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiodinium | Symbiodinium is a genus of dinoflagellates that encompasses the largest and most prevalent group of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates known. These unicellular microalgae commonly reside in the endoderm of tropical cnidarians such as corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish, where the products of their photosynthetic processing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20approximation | The binomial approximation is useful for approximately calculating powers of sums of 1 and a small number x. It states that
It is valid when and where and may be real or complex numbers.
The benefit of this approximation is that is converted from an exponent to a multiplicative factor. This can greatly simp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%20axis%20theorem | In geometry and linear algebra, a principal axis is a certain line in a Euclidean space associated with an ellipsoid or hyperboloid, generalizing the major and minor axes of an ellipse or hyperbola. The principal axis theorem states that the principal axes are perpendicular, and gives a constructive procedure for findi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIP-Tool | CIP-Tool (Communicating Interacting Processes) is a software tool for the modelling and implementation of event-driven applications. It is especially relevant for the development of software components of embedded systems.
History
The underlying mathematical formalisms of CIP were first proposed by the physicist, Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated%20hauler | An articulated hauler, articulated dump truck (ADT), or sometimes a dump hauler, is a very large heavy-duty type of dump truck used to transport loads over rough terrain, and occasionally on public roads. The vehicle usually has all-wheel drive and consists of two basic units: the front section, generally called the tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew-Hamiltonian%20matrix | In linear algebra, skew-Hamiltonian matrices are special matrices which correspond to skew-symmetric bilinear forms on a symplectic vector space.
Let V be a vector space, equipped with a symplectic form . Such a space must be even-dimensional. A linear map is called a skew-Hamiltonian operator with respect to if the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20Bouquet | Kitchen Bouquet is a browning and seasoning sauce primarily composed of caramel with vegetable flavorings. It has been used as a flavoring addition for gravies and other foods since the late 19th century. It is currently produced by the Hidden Valley or HV Food Products Company.
Kitchen Bouquet was manufactured in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage%20share%20of%20operating%20systems | The usage share of operating systems is the percentage of computing devices that run each operating system (OS) at any particular time. All such figures are necessarily estimates because data about operating system share is difficult to obtain. There are few reliable primary sources and no agreed methodologies for its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunofixation | Immunofixation permits the detection and typing of monoclonal antibodies or immunoglobulins in serum or urine. It is of great importance for the diagnosis and monitoring of certain blood related diseases such as myeloma.
Principle
The method detects by precipitation: when a soluble antigen (Ag) is brought in contact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20spam | Image-based spam, or image spam, is a kind of email spam where the textual spam message is embedded into images, that are then attached to spam emails. Since most of the email clients will display the image file directly to the user, the spam message is conveyed as soon as the email is opened (there is no need to furth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Abad%C3%ADa%20del%20Crimen | La abadía del crimen (The Abbey of Crime) is a video game written by Paco Menéndez with graphics made by Juan Delcán and published in 1987 by Opera Soft. It was conceived as a version of Umberto Eco's 1980 book The Name of the Rose. Paco Menéndez and Opera Soft were unable to secure the rights for the name, so the gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction%20threshold | Extinction threshold is a term used in conservation biology to explain the point at which a species, population or metapopulation, experiences an abrupt change in density or number because of an important parameter, such as habitat loss. It is at this critical value below which a species, population, or metapopulation,... |
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