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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20Home | PlayStation Home was a virtual 3D social gaming platform developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's London Studio for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) on the PlayStation Network (PSN). It was accessible from the PS3's XrossMediaBar (XMB). Membership was free but required a PSN account. Upon installation, users could choose how ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret%20Data%20Visualization%20and%20Analysis | Ferret is an interactive computer visualization and analysis environment designed to meet the needs of oceanographers and meteorologists analyzing large and complex gridded data sets. Ferret offers a Mathematica-like approach to analysis; new variables may be defined interactively as mathematical expressions involving ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20multiplicative%20inverse | In mathematics, particularly in the area of arithmetic, a modular multiplicative inverse of an integer is an integer such that the product is congruent to 1 with respect to the modulus . In the standard notation of modular arithmetic this congruence is written as
which is the shorthand way of writing the statement ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Mazia | Daniel Mazia (December 18, 1912 – June 9, 1996) was an American cell biologist, best known for his research that isolated the cell structures responsible for mitosis. His research was the gateway for many later discoveries about the cell cycle, cell division, and many other areas in cell biology.
Biography
Mazia grew... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20X-STR%20markers | The following X-STR markers are used in genealogical DNA testing and other forms of relationship testing.
See also
Short Tandem Repeat
X-STR
List of Y-STR markers
DNA
Genetic genealogy
X-STR
Human evolution
Human population genetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn%20installation | In personal computer games, a spawn installation is an installed copy of a game that may only be used to play in multiplayer mode, or otherwise limits the amount of single-player content accessible to the user. Additionally, some spawn implementations only allow the user to join games hosted by the installer's cd-key. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20and%20health | Race and health refers to how being identified with a specific race influences health. Race is a complex concept that has changed across chronological eras and depends on both self-identification and social recognition. In the study of race and health, scientists organize people in racial categories depending on differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiTAC | MiTAC Holdings Corporation, formerly MiTAC International Corp. () is a Taiwanese electronics company established 8 December 1982. It is a subsidiary of MiTAC-Synnex Group. Through a 100% stock swap from MiTAC International Corp., MiTAC Holdings Corp (神達投資控股) () was established on 12 September 2013, and listed and trade... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging%20in%20place | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines aging in place as "the ability to live in one's own home and community safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability level".
Environmental gerontology
Research in environmental gerontology indicates the importance of the physi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20of%201 | The Story of 1 is a BBC documentary about the history of numbers, and in particular, the number 1. It was presented by former Monty Python member Terry Jones. It was released in 2005.
Synopsis
Terry Jones first journeys to Africa, where bones have been discovered with notches in them. However, there is no way of knowi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC%20chemokine%20receptors | CC chemokine receptors (or beta chemokine receptors) are integral membrane proteins that specifically bind and respond to cytokines of the CC chemokine family. They represent one subfamily of chemokine receptors, a large family of G protein-linked receptors that are known as seven transmembrane (7-TM) proteins since t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holophonics | Holophonics is a binaural recording system created by Hugo Zuccarelli that is based on the claim that the human auditory system acts as an interferometer. It relies on phase variance, just like stereophonic sound. The sound characteristics of holophonics are most clearly heard through headphones, though they can be eff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carr%E2%80%93Benkler%20wager | The Carr–Benkler wager between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr concerned the question whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced or price-incentivized systems.
History
The wager was proposed by Benkler in July 2006 in a comment to a blog post where Carr criticized Benkler's views about v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml%3Atm | xml:tm (XML-based Text Memory) is a standard for XML to allow ease of translation of XML documents.
xml:tm forms part of the Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization reference architecture.
External links
xml:tm page on the LISA web site
Technical communication
XML-based standards
XML markup languages
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Naval%20Computing%20Machine%20Laboratory | The United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory (NCML) was a highly secret design and manufacturing site for code-breaking machinery located in Building 26 of the National Cash Register (NCR) company in Dayton, Ohio and operated by the United States Navy during World War II. It is now on the List of IEEE Milestone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20harmonic%20triangle | The Leibniz harmonic triangle is a triangular arrangement of unit fractions in which the outermost diagonals consist of the reciprocals of the row numbers and each inner cell is the cell diagonally above and to the left minus the cell to the left. To put it algebraically, (where is the number of the row, starting fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclave%20tape | Autoclave tape is an adhesive tape used in autoclaving (heating under high pressure with steam to sterilise) to indicate whether a specific temperature has been reached. Autoclave tape works by changing color after exposure to temperatures commonly used in sterilization processes, typically 121°C in a steam autoclave.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20D.%20Wiley | John Duncan Wiley (born March 23, 1942, in Evansville, Indiana) is a faculty member and former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wiley was named the 28th Chancellor of the University on November 10, 2000, and assumed office on January 1, 2001. He stepped down as chancellor and returned to the faculty o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%20bridge | The Wien bridge is a type of bridge circuit that was developed by Max Wien in 1891. The bridge consists of four resistors and two capacitors.
At the time of the Wien bridge's invention, bridge circuits were a common way of measuring component values by comparing them to known values. Often an unknown component would b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JC3IEDM | JC3IEDM, or Joint Consultation, Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model is a model that, when implemented, aims to enable the interoperability of systems and projects required to share Command and Control (C2) information. JC3IEDM is an evolution of the C2IEDM standard that includes joint operational concep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%2068851 | The Motorola 68851 is an external Memory Management Unit (MMU) which is designed to provide paged memory support for the 68020 using that processor's coprocessor interface. In theory it can be used with other processors such as the 68010 by simulating the coprocessor interface in software.
Later 68K family processors ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin%20insulator | A pin insulator is a device that isolates a wire from a physical support such as a pin (a wooden or metal dowel of about 3 cm diameter with screw threads) on a telegraph or utility pole. It is a formed, single layer shape that is made out of a non-conducting material, usually porcelain or glass. It is thought to be the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndie | Syndie is an open-source cross-platform computer application to syndicate (re-publish) data (mainly forums) over a variety of anonymous and non-anonymous computer networks.
Syndie is capable of reaching archives situated in the following anonymous networks: I2P, Tor, Freenet.
History
Syndie has been in development s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal%20ecosystem | A boreal ecosystem is an ecosystem with a subarctic climate located in the Northern Hemisphere, approximately between 50° to 70°N latitude. These ecosystems are commonly known as taiga and are located in parts of North America, Europe, and Asia. The ecosystems that lie immediately to the south of boreal zones are often... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial%20defect | In materials science, an interstitial defect is a type of point crystallographic defect where an atom of the same or of a different type, occupies an interstitial site in the crystal structure. When the atom is of the same type as those already present they are known as a self-interstitial defect. Alternatively, small ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MouseText | MouseText is a set of 32 graphical characters designed by Bruce Tognazzini and first implemented in the Apple IIc. They were then retrofitted to the Apple IIe forming part of the Enhanced IIe upgrade. A slightly revised version was then released with the Apple IIGS.
By including box-drawing characters, MouseText made ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-circuit%20testing | In-circuit testing (ICT) is an example of white box testing where an electrical probe tests a populated printed circuit board (PCB), checking for shorts, opens, resistance, capacitance, and other basic quantities which will show whether the assembly was correctly fabricated. It may be performed with a "bed of nails" te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20filtering%20system | An information filtering system is a system that removes redundant or unwanted information from an information stream using (semi)automated or computerized methods prior to presentation to a human user. Its main goal is the management of the information overload and increment of the semantic signal-to-noise ratio. To d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea%20Citation%20Index | The Korea Citation Index is a citation index covering research in South Korea.
See also
Korea Research Foundation
Science Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
External links
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Libraries in South Korea
Citation indices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-finite%20collection | In mathematics, a collection or family of subsets of a topological space is said to be point-finite if every point of lies in only finitely many members of
A metacompact space is a topological space in which every open cover admits a point-finite open refinement. Every locally finite collection of subsets of a top... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patching%20and%20Capping | The aggregation of fluorescently tagged antibodies that are associated with proteins on membranes of living cells. The aggregation appears as a cap or a patch in the fluorescence microscope and is due to the bivalent nature of antibodies. Patching and capping were critical in demonstrating the fluid nature of plasma me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidMind | RapidMind Inc. was a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, acquired by Intel in 2009. It provided a software product that aims to make it simpler for software developers to target multi-core processors and accelerators such as graphics processing units (GPUs).
History
RapidMin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20A%20receptor | Vitamin A receptor, Stimulated by retinoic acid 6 or STRA6 protein was originally discovered as a transmembrane cell-surface receptor for retinol-binding protein. STRA6 is unique as it functions both as a membrane transporter and a cell surface receptor, particularly as a cytokine receptor. In fact, STRA6 may be the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnernet | Kinnernet is a series of invitation-only unconference events formed by entrepreneurs, technologists, startup founders, scientists, media professionals, and creatives.
Format
Described as "a wild out of the box, irreverent, bottom-up innovation, creativity and cultural unconference", the event gathers each year 100-200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming%20valve | The Fleming valve, also called the Fleming oscillation valve, was a thermionic valve or vacuum tube invented in 1904 by English physicist John Ambrose Fleming as a detector for early radio receivers used in electromagnetic wireless telegraphy. It was the first practical vacuum tube and the first thermionic diode, a va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-terminal%20telopeptide | The N-terminal telopeptide (NTX), also known as amino-terminal collagen crosslinks, is the N-terminal telopeptide of fibrillar collagens such as collagen type I and type II. It is used as a biomarker to measure the rate of bone turnover. NTX can be measured in the urine (uNTX) or serum (serum NTX). The peptide consist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20press%20%28food%29 | A ram press is a device or machine commonly used to press items with a mechanical ram, such as with a plunger, piston, force pump, or hydraulic ram. In food preparation, there are various kinds of ram presses:
The fruit ram press and cider ram press are both types of fruit presses that extract the juices out of the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astron%20%28wristwatch%29 | The Astron wristwatch, formally known as the Seiko Quartz-Astron 35SQ, was the world's first "quartz clock" wristwatch. It is now registered on the List of IEEE Milestones as a key advance in electrical engineering.
History
The Astron was unveiled in Tokyo on December 25, 1969, after ten years of research and develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAG%20InnoVision | MAG Innovision is a Taiwan-headquartered manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, and HDTV technology. The company was founded by William Wang when he was 26 years old.
In the early to mid-1990s, its products were one of the top-ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMX%20%28technology%29 | PMX refers to the technology developed by Pelmorex to generate local weather information on The Weather Network. PMX consists of computers, typically installed at a cable headend, that takes data fed to it (the video feed of The Weather Network, forecast information, and triggers to run said forecasts) and packages it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20rectification | Image rectification is a transformation process used to project images onto a common image plane. This process has several degrees of freedom and there are many strategies for transforming images to the common plane. Image rectification is used in computer stereo vision to simplify the problem of finding matching point... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20operations%20on%20polygons | Boolean operations on polygons are a set of Boolean operations (AND, OR, NOT, XOR, ...) operating on one or more sets of polygons in computer graphics. These sets of operations are widely used in computer graphics, CAD, and in EDA (in integrated circuit physical design and verification software).
Algorithms
Greiner... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20secrecy | Strong secrecy is a term used in formal proof-based cryptography for making propositions about the security of cryptographic protocols. It is a stronger notion of security than syntactic (or weak) secrecy. Strong secrecy is related with the concept of semantic security or indistinguishability used in the computational ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Google | Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that its compilation of data may violate people's privacy and collaboration with the US military on Google Earth to spy on users, censorship of search results and content... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETSI%20Satellite%20Digital%20Radio | ETSI Satellite Digital Radio (SDR or ETSI SDR) describes a standard of satellite digital radio. It is an activity of the European standardisation organisation ETSI.
It addresses systems where a satellite broadcast directly to mobile and handheld receivers in L band or S band and is complemented by terrestrial transmit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-essing | De-essing (also desibilizing) is any technique intended to reduce or eliminate the excessive prominence of sibilant consonants, such as the sounds normally represented in English by "s", "z", "ch", "j" and "sh", in recordings of the human voice. Sibilance lies in frequencies anywhere between 2 and 10 kHz, depending on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl%20anthranilate | Methyl anthranilate, also known as MA, methyl 2-aminobenzoate, or carbomethoxyaniline, is an ester of anthranilic acid. Its chemical formula is C8H9NO2. It has a strong and fruity grape smell, and one of its key uses is as a flavoring agent.
Chemical properties
It is a colorless to pale yellow liquid with melting poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea%20tasting | Tea tasting is the process in which a trained taster determines the quality of a particular tea. Due to climatic conditions, topography, manufacturing process, and different cultivars of the Camellia sinensis plant (tea), the final product may have vastly differing flavours and appearance. A trained tester can detect t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus%20Project%20%28computing%29 | The Bauhaus project is a software research project collaboration among the University of Stuttgart, the University of Bremen, and a commercial spin-off company Axivion formerly called Bauhaus Software Technologies. The Bauhaus project serves the fields of software maintenance and software reengineering.
Created in res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew%20lattice | In abstract algebra, a skew lattice is an algebraic structure that is a non-commutative generalization of a lattice. While the term skew lattice can be used to refer to any non-commutative generalization of a lattice, since 1989 it has been used primarily as follows.
Definition
A skew lattice is a set S equipped with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mm%20tree | Among Linux kernel developers, the -mm tree refers to a version of the kernel source code maintained by Andrew Morton.
The -mm kernel tree used to fill the role of Linux kernel development builds, formerly identified by odd version numbers following "2.6." (see this section on Linux kernel version numbering). New and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Login | In computer security, logging in (or logging on, signing in, or signing on) is the process by which an individual gains access to a computer system by identifying and authenticating themselves. The user credentials are typically some form of username and a matching password, and these credentials themselves are sometim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute%20Qualit%C3%A9%20Environnementale | The Haute Qualité Environnementale or HQE (High Quality Environmental standard) is a standard for green building in France, based on the principles of sustainable development first set out at the 1992 Earth Summit. The standard is controlled by the Paris-based Association pour la Haute Qualité Environnementale (ASSOHQE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrefying%20bacteria | Putrefying/decay bacteria are bacteria involved in putrefaction of living matter. Along with other decomposers, they play a critical role in recycling nitrogen from dead organisms. Putrefying bacteria also play a role in putrefaction and fermentation of proteins in the human gastrointestinal tract.
Putrefying bacteri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohomological%20dimension | In abstract algebra, cohomological dimension is an invariant of a group which measures the homological complexity of its representations. It has important applications in geometric group theory, topology, and algebraic number theory.
Cohomological dimension of a group
As most cohomological invariants, the cohomologi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geer-Melkus%20Construction | Geer-Melkus Construction Co., Inc. was a commercial construction company located in Grand Island, Nebraska. The company was founded in 1893 and was in existence until 1986.
Originally known as the Geer Company, it later became known as Geer-Maurer Construction Company before becoming known as Geer-Melkus. Geer-Melkus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip-speed%20ratio | The tip-speed ratio, λ, or TSR for wind turbines is the ratio between the tangential speed of the tip of a blade and the actual speed of the wind, . The tip-speed ratio is related to efficiency, with the optimum varying with blade design. Higher tip speeds result in higher noise levels and require stronger blades due t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20factor | The invariant factors of a module over a principal ideal domain (PID) occur in one form of the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain.
If is a PID and a finitely generated -module, then
for some integer and a (possibly empty) list of nonzero elements for which . The nonnega... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimean | In statistics the trimean (TM), or Tukey's trimean, is a measure of a probability distribution's location defined as a weighted average of the distribution's median and its two quartiles:
This is equivalent to the average of the median and the midhinge:
The foundations of the trimean were part of Arthur Bowley'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagal%20tone | Vagal tone is activity of the vagus nerve, the 10th cranial nerve and a fundamental component of the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. This branch of the nervous system is not under conscious control and is largely responsible for the regulation of several body compartments at rest. Vagal activity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-Link%20Switching | Data-Link Switching (DLSw) is a tunneling protocol designed to tunnel unroutable, non-IP based protocols such as IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and NBF over an IP network.
DLSw was initially documented in IETF RFC 1434 in 1993. In 1995 it was further documented in the IETF RFC 1795. DLSw version 2 was presente... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20description%20language | In artificial intelligence, action description language (ADL) is an automated planning and scheduling system in particular for robots. It is considered an advancement of STRIPS. Edwin Pednault (a specialist in the field of data abstraction and modelling who has been an IBM Research Staff Member in the Data Abstraction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20standards%20converter | A video standards converter is a video device that converts NTSC to PAL and/or PAL to NTSC.
The PAL TV signals may be transcoded to or from SECAM.
Video standards converters are primarily used so television shows can be viewed in nations with different video standards.
With the use of high-definition television, new... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing%20formwork | Climbing formwork, also known as jumpform, is a special type formwork for vertical concrete structures that rises with the building process. While relatively complicated and costly, it can be an effective solution for buildings that are either very repetitive in form (such as towers or skyscrapers) or that require a se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgradient%20method | Subgradient methods are iterative methods for solving convex minimization problems. Originally developed by Naum Z. Shor and others in the 1960s and 1970s, subgradient methods are convergent when applied even to a non-differentiable objective function. When the objective function is differentiable, sub-gradient methods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Assessment%20Procedure | The Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) is the UK government's recommended method system for measuring the energy rating of residential dwellings. The methodology is owned by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and produced under licence by BRE. The first version was published in 1995, and was re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20Feature%20Identifier | Unique Feature Identifier or UFI, also known as “UF” is a geocode used for cities, towns, villages, and other geographic features. Generally, these are Static Unique Feature Identifiers (SUFI).
Notes
Geocodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad%20PC2286 | The Amstrad PC2286 was launched 1989. The 2000 series launched as a professional follow on to the PC1512/1640.
The 2000 series consisted of three models: 2086 (8086), 2286 (80286) and 2386 (80386DX). The series used a plastic case similar to 1512–1640, but this time the main computer unit had its own power supply uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finjan%20Holdings | Finjan Holdings (Finjan) is a company that focuses on the licensing of intellectual property. Finjan claims to own patented technology used in enterprise web security tools. Formerly a publicly traded company on NASDAQ (FNJN), it was acquired by the Fortress Investment Group in 2020.
Finjan has filed a large number of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Software%20Reuse | The International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR), is the primary scientific conference on software reuse, domain analysis, and domain engineering.
ICSR includes software reuse researchers, practitioners, and managers. The conference provides an archival source for important reuse papers. The conference is also m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20nomenclature | Gene nomenclature is the scientific naming of genes, the units of heredity in living organisms. It is also closely associated with protein nomenclature, as genes and the proteins they code for usually have similar nomenclature. An international committee published recommendations for genetic symbols and nomenclature in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20simulation%20software | The following is a list of notable computer simulation software.
Free or open-source
Advanced Simulation Library - open-source hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation software.
ASCEND - open-source equation-based modelling environment.
Cantera - chemical kinetics package.
Celestia - a 3D astronomy program.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCOS%20%28computer%20sciences%29 | rCOS stands for refinement of object and component systems. It is a formal method providing component-based model-driven software development.
Overview
rCOS was originally developed by He Jifeng, Zhiming Liu and Xiaoshan Li at UNU-IIST in Macau, and consists of a unified multi-view modeling notation with a theory of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiming%20Liu%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Zhiming Liu (, born 10 October 1961, Hebei, China) is a computer scientist. He studied mathematics in Luoyang, Henan in China and obtained his first degree in 1982. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1988), and a PhD degree from the Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Egg%20Race | The Great Egg Race was a BBC television series, that ran from 1979 to 1986 broadcast on BBC 2. Sixty-eight episodes were produced and presented by six presenters over the life of the show. The first series consisted of 5 episodes and series 2 to 8 consisted of 9 episodes each.
Programme
The Great Egg Race was a BBC te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirst%20Research%20Centre | The Hirst Research Centre, also known as the GEC Hirst Research Centre or GEC Research Laboratories, was established in 1919 at Wembley, Middlesex, by the General Electric Company.
History
Formally opened in 1923, the site at East Lane, Wembley was one of the first specialised industrial research laboratories to be bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20management%20software | DNS management software is computer software that controls Domain Name System (DNS) server clusters. DNS data is typically deployed on multiple physical servers. The main purposes of DNS management software are:
to reduce human error when editing complex and repetitive DNS data
to reduce the effort required to edit DNS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biarc | A biarc is a smooth curve formed from two circular arcs. In order to make the biarc smooth (G1 continuous), the two arcs should have the same tangent at the connecting point where they meet.
Biarcs are commonly used in geometric modeling and computer graphics. They can be used to approximate splines and other plane cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Satellite%20Navigation%20Industries | European Satellite Navigation Industries, formerly called Galileo Industries until legal action prompted a name change, was a joint venture of the companies Alcatel Alenia Space and Thales (France), Finmeccanica (Italy), EADS Astrium (UK and Germany) and Galileo Sistemas y Servicios (a consortium of seven Spanish compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berger%20code | In telecommunication, a Berger code is a unidirectional error detecting code, named after its inventor, J. M. Berger. Berger codes can detect all unidirectional errors. Unidirectional errors are errors that only flip ones into zeroes or only zeroes into ones, such as in asymmetric channels. The check bits of Berger cod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20certificate | In cryptography, implicit certificates are a variant of public key certificate. A subject's public key is reconstructed from the data in an implicit certificate, and is then said to be "implicitly" verified. Tampering with the certificate will result in the reconstructed public key being invalid, in the sense that it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphokine-activated%20killer%20cell | In cell biology, a lymphokine-activated killer cell (also known as a LAK cell) is a white blood cell that has been stimulated to kill tumor cells. If lymphocytes are cultured in the presence of Interleukin 2, it results in the development of effector cells which are cytotoxic to tumor cells.
Mechanism
It has been show... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redux%20%28adhesive%29 | Redux is the generic name of a family of phenol–formaldehyde/polyvinyl–formal adhesives developed by Aero Research Limited (ARL) at Duxford, UK, in the 1940s, subsequently produced by Ciba (ARL). The brand name is now also used for a range of epoxy and bismaleimide adhesives manufactured by Hexcel. The name is a contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform%20mathematics | Reform mathematics is an approach to mathematics education, particularly in North America. It is based on principles explained in 1989 by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The NCTM document Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (CESSM) set forth a vision for K–12 (ages 5–18) m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20theorem%20for%20finitely%20generated%20modules%20over%20a%20principal%20ideal%20domain | In mathematics, in the field of abstract algebra, the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain is a generalization of the fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups and roughly states that finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain (PID) can be uniquely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20set%20of%20invariants | In mathematics, a complete set of invariants for a classification problem is a collection of maps
(where is the collection of objects being classified, up to some equivalence relation , and the are some sets), such that if and only if for all . In words, such that two objects are equivalent if and only if all inva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientation%20character | In algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics, an orientation character on a group is a group homomorphism where:
This notion is of particular significance in surgery theory.
Motivation
Given a manifold M, one takes (the fundamental group), and then sends an element of to if and only if the class it represents ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin%20can%20wall | A tin can wall is a wall constructed from tin cans, which are not a common building source. The cans can be laid in concrete, stacked vertically on top of each other, and crushed or cut and flattened to be used as shingles. They can also be used for furniture.
Tin cans can form the actual fill-in structure (or walls... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Test%20Project | The Linux Test Project (usually referred to as LTP) is a body of regression and conformance tests designed to confirm the behaviour of the Linux kernel as well as glibc.
The LTP is a joint project started by SGI, developed and maintained by IBM, Cisco, Fujitsu, SUSE, Red Hat and others. The project source code was mig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20Video%20Decoder | Unified Video Decoder (UVD, previously called Universal Video Decoder) is the name given to AMD's dedicated video decoding ASIC. There are multiple versions implementing a multitude of video codecs, such as H.264 and VC-1.
UVD was introduced with the Radeon HD 2000 Series and is integrated into some of AMD's GPUs and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED%20lamp | An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LED lamps are significantly more energy-efficient than equivalent incandescent lamps and can be significantly more than most fluorescent lamps. The most efficient commercially available LED lamps have efficiencies exce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20Krebs%20cycle | The reverse Krebs cycle (also known as the reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle, the reverse TCA cycle, or the reverse citric acid cycle, or the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle, or the reductive TCA cycle)
is a sequence of chemical reactions that are used by some bacteria to produce carbon compounds from carbon dioxide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution%20of%20singularities | In algebraic geometry, the problem of resolution of singularities asks whether every algebraic variety V has a resolution, a non-singular variety W with a proper birational map W→V. For varieties over fields of characteristic 0 this was proved in Hironaka (1964), while for varieties over fields of characteristic p it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC%20III | The MANIAC III (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer Model III) was a second-generation electronic computer (i.e., using solid-state electronics rather than vacuum tubes), built in 1961 for use at the Institute for Computer Research at the University of Chicago.
It was designed by Nicholas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyGreenElectronics | myGreenElectronics is a public service online portal for consumers to recycle or reuse their electronics products once they have reached end-of-life. It was designed by The Consumer Electronics Association to empower consumers to make what some people consider "responsible choices" throughout their products’ life cycl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Queen%20hypothesis | The Red Queen hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary biology proposed in 1973, that species must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order to survive while pitted against ever-evolving opposing species. The hypothesis was intended to explain the constant (age-independent) extinction probability as observed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddersfield%20Ben | Huddersfield Ben (c. 1865 – 23 September 1871), an early Yorkshire Terrier, is universally acknowledged to be the foundation sire of the breed. In his day Ben won many prizes, both as a show dog and in ratting contests. He had tremendous influence in setting the breed type for the Yorkshire Terrier, a new breed still ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the term undefined is often used to refer to an expression which is not assigned an interpretation or a value (such as an indeterminate form, which has the possibility of assuming different values). The term can take on several different meanings depending on the context. For example:
In various branch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20reference%20management%20software | The following tables compare notable reference management software. The comparison includes older applications that may no longer be supported, as well as actively-maintained software.
General
In the "notes" section, there is a difference between:
web-based, referring to applications that may be installed on a web ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20textbook | A digital textbook is a digital book or e-book intended to serve as the text for a class. Digital textbooks may also be known as e-textbooks or e-texts. Digital textbooks are a major component of technology-based education reform. They may serve as the texts for a traditional face-to-face class, an online course or deg... |
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