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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial%20moment%20generating%20function | In probability theory and statistics, the factorial moment generating function (FMGF) of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable X is defined as
for all complex numbers t for which this expected value exists. This is the case at least for all t on the unit circle , see characteristic function. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrikosov%20vortex | In superconductivity, a fluxon (also called an Abrikosov vortex or quantum vortex) is a vortex of supercurrent in a type-II superconductor, used by Alexei Abrikosov to explain magnetic behavior of type-II superconductors. Abrikosov vortices occur generically in the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity.
Overvie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacral%20architecture | Sacral architecture (also known as sacred architecture or religious architecture) is a religious architectural practice concerned with the design and construction of places of worship or sacred or intentional space, such as churches, mosques, stupas, synagogues, and temples. Many cultures devoted considerable resources... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taplow%20Court | Taplow Court is a Victorian house in the village of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, England. Its origins are an Elizabethan manor house, remodelled in the early 17th century. In the 18th century the court was owned by the Earls of Orkney. In the 1850s, the court was sold to Charles Pascoe Grenfell, whose descendants retaine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20plan | A body plan, (), or ground plan is a set of morphological features common to many members of a phylum of animals. The vertebrates share one body plan, while invertebrates have many.
This term, usually applied to animals, envisages a "blueprint" encompassing aspects such as symmetry, layers, segmentation, nerve, limb,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20life%20cycle | Viruses are only able to replicate themselves by commandeering the reproductive apparatus of cells and making them reproduce the virus's genetic structure and particles instead. How viruses do this depends mainly on the type of nucleic acid DNA or RNA they contain, which is either one or the other but never both. Virus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Atomic%20Scientists%20Association | The British Atomic Scientists Association (ASA or BASA), was founded by Joseph Rotblat in 1946.
It was a politically neutral group, composed of eminent physicists and other scientists and was concerned with matters of British public policy regarding applications and dangers of nuclear physics (including nuclear weapon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ground%20of%20Arts | Robert Recorde's Arithmetic: or, The Ground of Arts was one of the first printed English textbooks on arithmetic and the most popular of its time. The Ground of Arts appeared in London in 1543, and it was reprinted around 45 more editions until 1700. Editors and contributors of new sections included John Dee, John Mell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3lya%20enumeration%20theorem | The Pólya enumeration theorem, also known as the Redfield–Pólya theorem and Pólya counting, is a theorem in combinatorics that both follows from and ultimately generalizes Burnside's lemma on the number of orbits of a group action on a set. The theorem was first published by J. Howard Redfield in 1927. In 1937 it was i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut%20milk%20powder | Coconut milk powder is a fine, white powder used in Southeast Asian and other cuisines. Coconut milk powder is manufactured through the spray drying process of raw unsweetened coconut cream and is reconstituted with water for use in recipes that call for coconut milk. Many commercially available coconut milk powders li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card%20reader | A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium. The first were punched card readers, which read the paper or cardboard punched cards that were used during the first several decades of the computer industry to store information and programs for computer systems. Modern card reader... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanned%20synthesis | Scanned synthesis represents a powerful and efficient technique for animating wave tables and controlling them in real-time . Developed by Bill Verplank, Rob Shaw, and Max Mathews between 1998 and 1999 at Interval Research, Inc., it is based on the psychoacoustics of how we hear and appreciate timbres and on our motor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDObjects | DDObjects is a remoting framework for Borland Delphi and C++ Builder. A main goal while developing DDObjects has not been only to keep the code one has to implement in order to utilize DDObjects as simple as possible but also very close to Delphi's usual style of event-driven programming.
DDObjects supports remote met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motty | Motty (11 July – 21 July 1978) was the only proven hybrid between an Asian and an African elephant. The male calf was born in Chester Zoo, to Asian mother Sheba and African father Jumbolino. He was named after George Mottershead, who founded the Chester Zoo in 1931.
Appearance
Motty's head and ears were morphologicall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-IMAP | Push-IMAP, which is otherwise known as P-IMAP or Push extensions for Internet Message Access Protocol, is an email protocol designed as a faster way to synchronise a mobile device like a PDA or smartphone to an email server.
It was developed by Oracle and other partners, and based on IMAP with additional enhancements... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioGRID | The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID) is a curated biological database of protein-protein interactions, genetic interactions, chemical interactions, and post-translational modifications created in 2003 (originally referred to as simply the General Repository for Interaction Datasets (GRID... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfone | Zfone is software for secure voice communication over the Internet (VoIP), using the ZRTP protocol. It is created by Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the PGP encryption software. Zfone works on top of existing SIP- and RTP-programs, but should work with any SIP- and RTP-compliant VoIP-program.
Zfone turns many existing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%20type | In type theory, a type system is said to have the principal type property if, given a term and an environment, there exists a principal type for this term in this environment, i.e. a type such that all other types for this term in this environment are an instance of the principal type.
The principal type property is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20and%20aging | Age-related memory loss, sometimes described as "normal aging" (also spelled "ageing" in British English), is qualitatively different from memory loss associated with types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, and is believed to have a different brain mechanism.
Mild cognitive impairment
Mild cognitive impairment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectedness%20locus | In one-dimensional complex dynamics, the connectedness locus of a parameterized family of one-variable holomorphic functions is a subset of the parameter space which consists of those parameters for which the corresponding Julia set is connected.
Examples
Without doubt, the most famous connectedness locus is the Mande... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Roughgarden | Joan Roughgarden (born 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in Anolis lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitment limitation in the rocky intertidal zones of California and Oregon. She has more recently become known fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Work%20Convention | Home Work Convention, created in 1996, is an International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention, which came into force in 2000. It offers protection to workers who are employed in their own homes.
Overview
It was established in 1996, with the preamble stating:
The Convention provides protection for home workers, givi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Xpander | The HP Xpander (F1903A) aka "Endeavour" was to be Hewlett-Packard's newest graphing calculator in 2002, but the project was cancelled in November 2001 months before it was scheduled to go into production. It had both a keyboard and a pen-based interface, measured 162.6 mm by 88.9 mm by 22.9 mm, with a large grayscale s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology%20of%20computation%20of%20%CF%80 | The table below is a brief chronology of computed numerical values of, or bounds on, the mathematical constant pi (). For more detailed explanations for some of these calculations, see Approximations of .
The last 100 decimal digits of the latest 2022 world record computation are:
4658718895 1242883556 4671544483 9... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20SPOT | Sun SPOT (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology) was a sensor node for a wireless sensor network developed by Sun Microsystems announced in 2007. The device used the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for its networking, and unlike other available sensor nodes, used the Squawk Java virtual machine.
After the acquisition of Su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCumber%20cube | In 1991, John McCumber created a model framework for establishing and evaluating information security (information assurance) programs, now known as The McCumber Cube.
This security model is depicted as a three-dimensional Rubik's Cube-like grid.
The concept of this model is that, in developing information assurance s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20Networks | Extreme Networks is an American networking company based in Morrisville, North Carolina. Extreme Networks designs, develops, and manufactures wired and wireless network infrastructure equipment and develops the software for network management, policy, analytics, security and access controls.
History
Extreme Networks w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-fostering | Cross-fostering is a technique used in animal husbandry, animal science, genetic and nature versus nurture studies, and conservation, whereby offspring are removed from their biological parents at birth and raised by surrogates, typically of a different species, hence 'cross.' This can also occasionally occur in nature... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20lens%20design | Optical lens design is the process of designing a lens to meet a set of performance requirements and constraints, including cost and manufacturing limitations. Parameters include surface profile types (spherical, aspheric, holographic, diffractive, etc.), as well as radius of curvature, distance to the next surface, ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKM | FKM is a family of fluorocarbon-based fluoroelastomer materials defined by ASTM International standard D1418, and ISO standard 1629. It is commonly called fluorine rubber or fluoro-rubber. FKM is an abbreviation of Fluorine Kautschuk Material. All FKMs contain vinylidene fluoride as a monomer. Originally developed by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavasoft | Adaware, formerly known as Lavasoft, is a software development company that produces spyware and malware detection software, including Adaware. It operates as a subsidiary of Avanquest, a division of Claranova.
The company offers products Adaware Antivirus, Adaware Protect, Adaware Safe Browser, Adaware Privacy, Adawa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adinkra%20symbols | Adinkra are symbols from Ghana that represent concepts or aphorisms. Adinkra are used extensively in fabrics, logos and pottery. They are incorporated into walls and other architectural features. Adinkra symbols appear on some traditional Akan goldweights. The symbols are also carved on stools for domestic and ritual u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain%20pass%20theorem | The mountain pass theorem is an existence theorem from the calculus of variations, originally due to Antonio Ambrosetti and Paul Rabinowitz. Given certain conditions on a function, the theorem demonstrates the existence of a saddle point. The theorem is unusual in that there are many other theorems regarding the exis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20video%20game%20policy | French video game policy refers to the strategy and set of measures laid out by France since 2002 to maintain and develop a local video game development industry in order to preserve European market diversity.
History
Proposals for government support
The French game developer trade group, known as Association des Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR | SIMD within a register (SWAR), also known by the name "packed SIMD" is a technique for performing parallel operations on data contained in a processor register. SIMD stands for single instruction, multiple data. Flynn's 1972 taxonomy categorises SWAR as "pipelined processing".
Many modern general-purpose computer proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Any-source%20multicast | Any-source multicast (ASM) is the older and more usual form of multicast where multiple senders can be on the same group/channel, as opposed to source-specific multicast where a single particular source is specified.
Any-source multicast allows a host computer to map IPs and then sends IPs to a number of groups via IP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archicad | ArchiCAD is an architectural BIM CAD software for Mac and Windows developed by the Hungarian company Graphisoft. ArchiCAD offers computer aided solutions for common aspects of aesthetics and engineering during the design process of the built environment—buildings, interiors, urban areas, etc.
History
Development of Ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20stoichiometry | Ecological stoichiometry (more broadly referred to as biological stoichiometry) considers how the balance of energy and elements influences living systems. Similar to chemical stoichiometry, ecological stoichiometry is founded on constraints of mass balance as they apply to organisms and their interactions in ecosystem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemote | Jiangsu Lemote Tech Co., Ltd or Lemote () is a computer company established as a joint venture between the Jiangsu Menglan Group and the Chinese Institute of Computing Technology, involved in computer hardware and software products, services, and projects.
History
In June 2006, shortly after Institute of Computing Te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friability | In materials science, friability ( ), the condition of being friable, describes the tendency of a solid substance to break into smaller pieces under duress or contact, especially by rubbing. The opposite of friable is indurate.
Substances that are designated hazardous, such as asbestos or crystalline silica, are often... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver%20%28information%20theory%29 | The receiver in information theory is the receiving end of a communication channel. It receives decoded messages/information from the sender, who first encoded them. Sometimes the receiver is modeled so as to include the decoder. Real-world receivers like radio receivers or telephones can not be expected to receive as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformational%20change | In biochemistry, a conformational change is a change in the shape of a macromolecule, often induced by environmental factors.
A macromolecule is usually flexible and dynamic. Its shape can change in response to changes in its environment or other factors; each possible shape is called a conformation, and a transition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20genetics | Dynamical genetics concerns the study and the interpretation of those phenomena in which physiological enzymatic protein complexes alter the DNA, in a more or less sophisticated way.
The study of such mechanisms is important firstly since they promote useful functions, as for example the immune system recombination (o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgor%20pressure | Turgor pressure is the force within the cell that pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall.
It is also called hydrostatic pressure, and is defined as the pressure in a fluid measured at a certain point within itself when at equilibrium. Generally, turgor pressure is caused by the osmotic flow of water and occu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Shanks | William Shanks (25 January 1812 – June 1882) was an English amateur mathematician. He is famous for his calculation of (pi) to 707 places in 1873, which was correct up to the first 527 places. The error was discovered in 1944 by D. F. Ferguson (using a mechanical desk calculator). Nevertheless, Shanks's approximation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap%20extension%20polymerase%20chain%20reaction | The overlap extension polymerase chain reaction (or OE-PCR) is a variant of PCR. It is also referred to as Splicing by overlap extension / Splicing by overhang extension (SOE) PCR. It is used assemble multiple smaller double stranded DNA fragments into a larger DNA sequence. OE-PCR is widely used to insert mutations at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouOS | YouOS was a web desktop and web integrated development environment, developed by Webshaka until June 2008.
From 2006 to 2008 YouOS replicated the desktop environment of a modern operating system on a webpage, using JavaScript to communicate with the remote server. This allowed users to save their current desktop state... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20canonical%20transformation | In Hamiltonian mechanics, the linear canonical transformation (LCT) is a family of integral transforms that generalizes many classical transforms. It has 4 parameters and 1 constraint, so it is a 3-dimensional family, and can be visualized as the action of the special linear group SL2(R) on the time–frequency plane (do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20origami | DNA origami is the nanoscale folding of DNA to create arbitrary two- and three-dimensional shapes at the nanoscale. The specificity of the interactions between complementary base pairs make DNA a useful construction material, through design of its base sequences. DNA is a well-understood material that is suitable for c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20application | In computing, a composite application is a software application built by combining multiple existing functions into a new application. The technical concept can be compared to mashups. However, composite applications use business sources (e.g., existing modules or even Web services ) of information, while mashups usual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations%20of%20%CF%80 | Approximations for the mathematical constant pi () in the history of mathematics reached an accuracy within 0.04% of the true value before the beginning of the Common Era. In Chinese mathematics, this was improved to approximations correct to what corresponds to about seven decimal digits by the 5th century.
Further p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T%20CallVantage | AT&T CallVantage was a voice over Internet Protocol telephone service first offered in 2004 by AT&T Corp., upon the heels of its announcement that it would stop seeking traditional local and long-distance landline customers.
Renaming
After SBC Communications purchased AT&T Corp. in 2005 and renamed itself AT&T Inc., C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runoff%20%28hydrology%29 | Runoff is the flow of water across the earth, and is a major component in the hydrological cycle. Runoff that flows over land before reaching a watercourse is referred to as surface runoff or overland flow. Once in a watercourse, runoff is referred to as streamflow, channel runoff, or river runoff.
Urban runoff is surf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternant%20matrix | In linear algebra, an alternant matrix is a matrix formed by applying a finite list of functions pointwise to a fixed column of inputs. An alternant determinant is the determinant of a square alternant matrix.
Generally, if are functions from a set to a field , and , then the alternant matrix has size and is defi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsa%20%28software%29 | Capsa is the name for a family of packet analyzers developed by Colasoft for network administrators to monitor, troubleshoot and analyze wired & wireless networks. The company provides a free edition for individuals, but paid licenses are available for businesses and enterprises. The software includes Ethernet packet a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintos | Pintos is computer software, a simple instructional operating system framework for the x86 instruction set architecture. It supports kernel threads, loading and running user programs, and a file system, but it implements all of these in a very simple way.
Pintos is currently used by multiple institutions, including... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP | ZRTP (composed of Z and Real-time Transport Protocol) is a cryptographic key-agreement protocol to negotiate the keys for encryption between two end points in a Voice over IP (VoIP) phone telephony call based on the Real-time Transport Protocol. It uses Diffie–Hellman key exchange and the Secure Real-time Transport Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum-product%20number | A sum-product number in a given number base is a natural number that is equal to the product of the sum of its digits and the product of its digits.
There are a finite number of sum-product numbers in any given base . In base 10, there are exactly four numbers : 0, 1, 135, and 144.
Definition
Let be a natural num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKA1 | EKA1 (EPOC Kernel Architecture 1) is the first-generation kernel for the operating system Symbian OS. EKA1 originated in the earlier operating system EPOC. It offers preemptive computer multitasking and memory protection, but no real-time computing guarantees, and a single-threaded device driver model. It was largely b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKA2 | EKA2 (EPOC Kernel Architecture 2) is the second-generation Symbian platform real-time operating system kernel, which originated in the earlier operating system EPOC.
EKA2 began with a proprietary software license. In October 2009, it was released as free and open-source software under an Eclipse Public License. In Apr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DES%20Challenges | The DES Challenges were a series of brute force attack contests created by RSA Security to highlight the lack of security provided by the Data Encryption Standard.
The Contests
The first challenge began in 1997 and was solved in 96 days by the DESCHALL Project.
DES Challenge II-1 was solved by distributed.net in 39 d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agda%20%28programming%20language%29 | Agda is a dependently typed functional programming language originally developed by Ulf Norell at Chalmers University of Technology with implementation described in his PhD thesis. The original Agda system was developed at Chalmers by Catarina Coquand in 1999. The current version, originally known as Agda 2, is a full ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross%20%28unit%29 | In English and related languages, several terms involving the words "great" or "gross" relate to numbers involving a multiple of exponents of twelve (dozen):
A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen, 122).
A great gross refers to a group of 1,728 items (a dozen gross or a cubic dozen, 123... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-stimulation | Co-stimulation is a secondary signal which immune cells rely on to activate an immune response in the presence of an antigen-presenting cell. In the case of T cells, two stimuli are required to fully activate their immune response. During the activation of lymphocytes, co-stimulation is often crucial to the development... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1728%20%28number%29 | 1728 is the natural number following 1727 and preceding 1729. It is a dozen gross, or one great gross (or grand gross). It is also the number of cubic inches in a cubic foot.
In mathematics
1728 is the cube of 12, and therefore equal to the product of the six divisors of 12 (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12). It is also the product ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20II%20peripheral%20cards | The Apple II line of computers supported a number of Apple II peripheral cards. In an era before plug and play USB or Bluetooth connections, these were expansion cards that plugged into slots on the motherboard. They added to and extended the functionality of the base motherboard when paired with specialized software t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zest%20%28ingredient%29 | Zest is a food ingredient that is prepared by scraping or cutting from the rind of unwaxed citrus fruits such as lemon, orange, citron, and lime. Zest is used to add flavor to foods.
In terms of fruit anatomy, the zest is obtained from the flavedo (exocarp) which is also referred to as zest. The flavedo and white pith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Tripwire | Open Source Tripwire is a free software security and data integrity tool for monitoring and alerting on specific file change(s) on a range of systems. The project is based on code originally contributed by Tripwire, Inc. in 2000.
See also
AIDE
Host-based intrusion detection system comparison
OSSEC
Samhain
Refere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripwire%20%28company%29 | Tripwire, Inc. is a software company based in Portland, Oregon, that focuses on security and compliance automation. It is a subsidiary of technology company Fortra.
History
Tripwire's intrusion detection software was created in the 1990s by Purdue University graduate student Gene Kim and his professor Gene Spafford. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Schreiber | Stuart L. Schreiber (born 6 February 1956) is a scientist at Harvard University and co-founder of the Broad Institute. He has been active in chemical biology, especially the use of small molecules as probes of biology and medicine. Small molecules are the molecules of life most associated with dynamic information flow;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale%20difference%20sequence | In probability theory, a martingale difference sequence (MDS) is related to the concept of the martingale. A stochastic series X is an MDS if its expectation with respect to the past is zero. Formally, consider an adapted sequence on a probability space . is an MDS if it satisfies the following two conditions:
, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus%20in%20popular%20culture | Tyrannosaurus rex is unique among dinosaurs in its place in modern culture; paleontologist Robert Bakker has called it "the most popular dinosaur among people of all ages, all cultures, and all nationalities". Paleontologists Mark Norell and Lowell Dingus have likewise called it "the most famous dinosaur of all times."... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex%20%28radio%20band%29 | Apex radio stations (also known as skyscraper and pinnacle) was the name commonly given to a short-lived group of United States broadcasting stations, which were used to evaluate transmitting on frequencies that were much higher than the ones used by standard amplitude modulation (AM) and shortwave stations. Their name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20transfer%20coefficient | In engineering, the mass transfer coefficient is a diffusion rate constant that relates the mass transfer rate, mass transfer area, and concentration change as driving force:
Where:
is the mass transfer coefficient [mol/(s·m2)/(mol/m3)], or m/s
is the mass transfer rate [mol/s]
is the effective mass transfer area [... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabWindows/CVI | LabWindows/CVI (CVI is short for C for Virtual Instrumentation) is an ANSI C programming environment for test and measurement developed by National Instruments. The program was originally released as LabWindows for DOS in 1987, but was soon revisioned (and renamed) for the Microsoft Windows platform. The current versio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20clone | A Grand Theft Auto clone (often shortened to GTA clone) is a subgenre of open world action-adventure video games, characterized by their likeness to the Grand Theft Auto series in either gameplay, or overall design. In these types of open world games, players may find and use a variety of vehicles and weapons while roa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20in%20Middle%20Earth | War in Middle Earth is a real-time strategy game released for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple IIGS, and Atari ST in 1988 by Virgin Mastertronic on the Melbourne House label.
The game combines both large scale army unit level and small scale character level. All the action happens ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of%20Man%20and%20Manta | Of Man and Manta is a trilogy of science fiction novels written by Piers Anthony. It consists of the three books: Omnivore (1968), Orn (1970), and (1975).
Omnivore has as its frame the investigation of the deaths of eighteen travelers from Earth to the distant planet Nacre. Nacre is seen through the eyes of three sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox%20of%20enrichment | The paradox of enrichment is a term from population ecology coined by Michael Rosenzweig in 1971. He described an effect in six predator–prey models where increasing the food available to the prey caused the predator's population to destabilize. A common example is that if the food supply of a prey such as a rabbit is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone%20methylation | Histone methylation is a process by which methyl groups are transferred to amino acids of histone proteins that make up nucleosomes, which the DNA double helix wraps around to form chromosomes. Methylation of histones can either increase or decrease transcription of genes, depending on which amino acids in the histones... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental%20utilization | Utilization is the primary method by which tool rental companies measure asset performance. In its most basic form it measures the actual revenue earned by assets against the potential revenue they could have earned.
Calculations
Rental utilization is divided into a number of different calculations, and not all compan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dip-coating | Dip coating is an industrial coating process which is used, for example, to manufacture bulk products such as coated fabrics and condoms and specialised coatings for example in the biomedical field. Dip coating is also commonly used in academic research, where many chemical and nano material engineering research projec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil%20number | In number theory, an evil number is a non-negative integer that has an even number of 1s in its binary expansion. These numbers give the positions of the zero values in the Thue–Morse sequence, and for this reason they have also been called the Thue–Morse set. Non-negative integers that are not evil are called odious n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20with%20two%20rooms | House with two rooms or Bing's house is a particular contractible, 2-dimensional simplicial complex that is not collapsible. The name was given by R. H. Bing.
The house is made of 2-dimensional panels, and has two rooms. The upper room may be entered from the bottom face, while the lower room may be entered from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20run-on | A nuclear run-on assay is conducted to identify the genes that are being transcribed at a certain time point. Approximately one million cell nuclei are isolated and incubated with labeled nucleotides, and genes in the process of being transcribed are detected by hybridization of extracted RNA to gene specific probes on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity | In computer programming, homoiconicity (from the Greek words homo- meaning "the same" and icon meaning "representation") is a property of some programming languages. A language is homoiconic if a program written in it can be manipulated as data using the language, and thus the program's internal representation can be i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltic%20Preservation%20Society | The Deltic Preservation Society is a railway preservation group based in England. The society is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the remaining Class 55 "Deltic" diesel locomotives operated by British Rail from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Formation
The Deltic Preservation Society (DPS) was founded in 1977 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20transformation | Viral transformation is the change in growth, phenotype, or indefinite reproduction of cells caused by the introduction of inheritable material. Through this process, a virus causes harmful transformations of an in vivo cell or cell culture. The term can also be understood as DNA transfection using a viral vector.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSSP%20%28imaging%29 | DSSP stands for digital shape sampling and processing. It is an alternative and often preferred way of describing "reverse engineering" software and hardware. The term originated in a 2005 Society of Manufacturing Engineers' "Blue Book" on the topic, which referenced numerous suppliers of both scanning hardware and pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration%20isolation | Vibration isolation is the prevention of transmission of vibration from one component of a system to others parts of the same system, as in buildings or mechanical systems. Vibration is undesirable in many domains, primarily engineered systems and habitable spaces, and methods have been developed to prevent the transfe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20communicator | The term personal communicator has been used with several meanings. Around 1990 the next generation digital mobile phones were called digital personal communicators. Another definition, coined in 1991, is for a category of handheld devices that provide personal information manager functions and packet switched wireless... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLIP%20%28programming%20language%29 | SLIP is a list processing computer programming language, invented by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. The name SLIP stands for Symmetric LIst Processor. It was first implemented as an extension to the Fortran programming language, and later embedded into MAD and ALGOL. The best known program written in the language is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS%20memory | EOS memory (for ECC on SIMMs) is an error-correcting memory system built into SIMMs, used to upgrade server-class computers without built-in ECC memory support. The EOS SIMM itself does the error checking, with reduced need for ECC memory modules and support. The technology was introduced by IBM in the mid-1990s.
Refe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Olympiads%20for%20Elementary%20and%20Middle%20Schools | Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEMS) is a worldwide math competition, organized by a not for profit foundation with the same name. It is held yearly from November through March with one test administered each month. Tests are given at individual schools and results are sent to MOEMS for scor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20energy%20control | In control theory, the minimum energy control is the control that will bring a linear time invariant system to a desired state with a minimum expenditure of energy.
Let the linear time invariant (LTI) system be
with initial state . One seeks an input so that the system will be in the state at time , and for an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposex | Imposex is a disorder in sea snails caused by the toxic effects of certain marine pollutants. These pollutants cause female sea snails (marine gastropod molluscs) to develop male sex organs such as a penis and a vas deferens.
Imposex inducing substances
It was believed that the only inducer of imposex was tributyltin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Wine%20Research%20Institute | The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) is a research institute with a focus on Australian wine, based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Location
It is based at the Wine Innovation Cluster, situated in the Waite Research Precinct, in the Adelaide suburb of Urrbrae, South Australia.
History
The institute was establi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeTourneau%20L-2350 | The P&H L-2350 Wheel Loader (formerly the L-2350 loader) is a loader used for surface mining. It is manufactured by Komatsu Limited. It holds the Guinness World Record for Biggest Earth Mover. Designed to center-load haul trucks with capacities of up to , the L-2350 provides an operating payload of , a lift height, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20throughput%20scheduling | Maximum throughput scheduling is a procedure for scheduling data packets in a packet-switched best-effort network, typically a wireless network, in view to maximize the total throughput of the network, or the system spectral efficiency in a wireless network. This is achieved by giving scheduling priority to the least "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%88%82 | The character ∂ (Unicode: U+2202) is a stylized cursive d mainly used as a mathematical symbol, usually to denote a partial derivative such as (read as "the partial derivative of z with respect to x"). It is also used for boundary of a set, the boundary operator in a chain complex, and the conjugate of the Dolbeault o... |
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