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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality%20engineering | Quality engineering is the discipline of engineering concerned with the principles and practice of product and service quality assurance and control. In software development, it is the management, development, operation and maintenance of IT systems and enterprise architectures with a high quality standard.
Descriptio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler%20Description%20Language | Compiler Description Language (CDL) is a programming language based on affix grammars. It is very similar to Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation. It was designed for the development of compilers. It is very limited in its capabilities and control flow, and intentionally so. The benefits of these limitations are twofold.
O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20Programmable%20Nanowire%20Interconnect | Field Programmable Nanowire Interconnect (often abbreviated FPNI) is a new computer architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard. This is a defect-tolerant architecture, using the results of the Teramac experiment.
Technology
The design combines a nanoscale crossbar switch structure with conventional CMOS to create a hyb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorylation%20cascade | A phosphorylation cascade is a sequence of signaling pathway events where one enzyme phosphorylates another, causing a chain reaction leading to the phosphorylation of thousands of proteins. This can be seen in signal transduction of hormone messages. A signaling pathway begins at the cell surface where a hormone or pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/4%20%2B%201/16%20%2B%201/64%20%2B%201/256%20%2B%20%E2%8B%AF | In mathematics, the infinite series is an example of one of the first infinite series to be summed in the history of mathematics; it was used by Archimedes circa 250–200 BC. As it is a geometric series with first term and common ratio , its sum is
Visual demonstrations
The series lends itself to some particularly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect%20biodiversity | Insect biodiversity accounts for a large proportion of all biodiversity on the planet—over half of the estimated 1.5 million organism species described are classified as insects.
Species diversity
Estimates of the total number of insect species or those within specific orders are often highly variable. Globally, avera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20bootloaders | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available bootloaders.
General information
Technical information
Note: The column MBR (Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Rec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventually%20%28mathematics%29 | In the mathematical areas of number theory and analysis, an infinite sequence or a function is said to eventually have a certain property, if it doesn't have the said property across all its ordered instances, but will after some instances have passed. The use of the term "eventually" can be often rephrased as "for suf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelet%20%28computer%20science%29 | Bandelets are an orthonormal basis that is adapted to geometric boundaries. Bandelets can be interpreted as a warped wavelet basis. The motivation behind bandelets is to perform a transform on functions defined as smooth functions on smoothly bounded domains. As bandelet construction utilizes wavelets, many of the resu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Web%20Developer%20Pack | The Sun Web Developer Pack (SWDP) is a collection of open source software released by Sun Microsystems for developing web applications that run on Java EE application servers. The SWDP is targeted at software developers interested in writing web applications that use Web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax, REST, Atom, and J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Application%20Description%20Language | The Web Application Description Language (WADL) is a machine-readable XML description of HTTP-based web services. WADL models the resources provided by a service and the relationships between them. WADL is intended to simplify the reuse of web services that are based on the existing HTTP architecture of the Web. It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlings%20purifier | A middlings purifier is a device used in the production of flour to remove the husks from the kernels of wheat.
It was developed in Minnesota by Edmund LaCroix, a French inventor hired by Cadwallader C. Washburn and George Christian of the Washburn "A" Mill.
It was developed to complement the emerging roller mill te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular%20metrics | There are a broad range of metrics that denote the relative capabilities of various vehicles. Most of them apply to all vehicles while others are type-specific.
See also
References
External links
Car Performance Meters
Vehicles
Metrics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-cubic%20honeycomb | In geometry, the 5-cubic honeycomb or penteractic honeycomb is the only regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 5-space. Four 5-cubes meet at each cubic cell, and it is more explicitly called an order-4 penteractic honeycomb.
It is analogous to the square tiling of the plane and to the cubic hon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntruShield | The McAfee IntruShield is a network-based intrusion prevention sensor appliance that is used in prevention of zero-day, DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, spyware, malware, botnets and VoIP threats. It is now called McAfee Network Security Platform.
References
External links
http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/datas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20synchronous%20compensator | A static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), is a shunt-connected, reactive compensation device used on transmission networks. It uses power electronics to form a voltage-source converter that can act as either a source or sink of reactive AC power to an electricity network. It is a member of the FACTS family of devices... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plant%20orders | This article lists the living orders of the Viridiplantae, based primarily on the work of Ruggiero et al. 2015. Living order of Lycophytes and ferns are taken from Christenhusz et al. 2011b and Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group. Living orders of Gymnosperms are added from Christenhusz et al. 2011a while extinct orders are f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20%28biology%29 | In biology, a test is the hard shell of some spherical marine animals and protists, notably sea urchins and microorganisms such as testate foraminiferans, radiolarians, and testate amoebae. The term is also applied to the covering of scale insects. The related Latin term testa is used for the hard seed coat of plant se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20zoology | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to zoology:
Zoology – study of animals. Zoology, or "animal biology", is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the identification, structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all anima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20theory | In mathematical logic, a theory is complete if it is consistent and for every closed formula in the theory's language, either that formula or its negation is provable. That is, for every sentence the theory contains the sentence or its negation but not both (that is, either or ). Recursively axiomatizable first-ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance%20parameters | Impedance parameters or Z-parameters (the elements of an impedance matrix or Z-matrix) are properties used in electrical engineering, electronic engineering, and communication systems engineering to describe the electrical behavior of linear electrical networks. They are also used to describe the small-signal (lineariz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20operation | In group theory, geometry, representation theory and molecular geometry, a symmetry operation is a geometric transformation of an object that leaves the object looking the same after it has been carried out. For example, as transformations of an object in space, rotations, reflections and inversions are all symmetry op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Guice | Google Guice (pronounced like "juice") is an open-source software framework for the Java platform developed by Bob Lee and Kevin Bourrillion at Google and released under the Apache License. It provides support for dependency injection using annotations to configure Java objects. Dependency injection is a design pattern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20graphics%20unit | A remote graphics unit (RGU) is a device that allows a computer to be separated from some input/output devices such as keyboard, mouse, speakers, and display monitors. The key part being remoted is the graphics sub-system of the computer.
History
RGUs may have their origin with experiments with graphics controllers o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20DVR%20software%20packages | This is a comparison of digital video recorder (DVR), also known as personal video recorder (PVR), software packages. Note: this is may be considered a comparison of DVB software, not all listed packages have recording capabilities.
General information
Basic general information for popular DVR software packages - not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-MPLS | T-MPLS or Transport MPLS is a transport network layer technology that uses extensions to a subset of the existing MPLS standards and is designed specifically for application in transport networks. Work to define T-MPLS was started by the ITU-T in February 2006. It was intended specifically as a connection-oriented pack... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Tools%20%28company%29 | PC Tools (founded in 2003), formerly known as WinGuides.com, was a software company acquired by Symantec in 2008; the new owner eventually discontinued the PC Tools name. Company headquarters were in Australia, with offices in Luxembourg, the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Ukraine. The company had previousl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano%20existence%20theorem | In mathematics, specifically in the study of ordinary differential equations, the Peano existence theorem, Peano theorem or Cauchy–Peano theorem, named after Giuseppe Peano and Augustin-Louis Cauchy, is a fundamental theorem which guarantees the existence of solutions to certain initial value problems.
History
Peano f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagata%20ring | In commutative algebra, an N-1 ring is an integral domain whose integral closure in its quotient field is a finitely generated -module. It is called a Japanese ring (or an N-2 ring) if for every finite extension of its quotient field , the integral closure of in is a finitely generated -module (or equivalently a fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nador%20transmitter | Nador transmitter is the main transmission facility for longwave and shortwave of Medi 1 Radio, a privately owned broadcasting company of Morocco. It is situated approximately 18 kilometres south of the city of Nador and a few kilometres south of Selouane at 35°2'29"N and 2°55'7"W.
The longwave transmitter of the Nado... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-ring | In commutative algebra, a G-ring or Grothendieck ring is a Noetherian ring such that the map of any of its local rings to the completion is regular (defined below). Almost all Noetherian rings that occur naturally in algebraic geometry or number theory are G-rings, and it is quite hard to construct examples of Noetheri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor%20protein | Photoreceptor proteins are light-sensitive proteins involved in the sensing and response to light in a variety of organisms. Some examples are rhodopsin in the photoreceptor cells of the vertebrate retina, phytochrome in plants, and bacteriorhodopsin and bacteriophytochromes in some bacteria. They mediate light respons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific%20recombination | Site-specific recombination, also known as conservative site-specific recombination, is a type of genetic recombination in which DNA strand exchange takes place between segments possessing at least a certain degree of sequence homology. Enzymes known as site-specific recombinases (SSRs) perform rearrangements of DNA se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIKEN%20MDGRAPE-3 | MDGRAPE-3 is an ultra-high performance petascale supercomputer system developed by the Riken research institute in Japan. It is a special purpose system built for molecular dynamics simulations, especially protein structure prediction.
MDGRAPE-3 consists of 201 units of 24 custom MDGRAPE-3 chips (4,824 total), plus ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyespot%20apparatus | The eyespot apparatus (or stigma) is a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate or (motile) cells of green algae and other unicellular photosynthetic organisms such as euglenids. It allows the cells to sense light direction and intensity and respond to it, prompting the organism to either swim towards the light... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean%20construction | Lean construction is a combination of operational research and practical development in design and construction with an adoption of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the end-to-end design and construction process. Unlike manufacturing, construction is a project-based production process. Lean Construction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allele-specific%20oligonucleotide | An allele-specific oligonucleotide (ASO) is a short piece of synthetic DNA complementary to the sequence of a variable target DNA. It acts as a probe for the presence of the target in a Southern blot assay or, more commonly, in the simpler dot blot assay. It is a common tool used in genetic testing, forensics, and mole... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakai%20equation | In filtering theory the Zakai equation is a linear stochastic partial differential equation for the un-normalized density of a hidden state. In contrast, the Kushner equation gives a non-linear stochastic partial differential equation for the normalized density of the hidden state. In principle either approach allows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation%20system | An invitation system is a method of encouraging people to join an organization, such as a club or a website. In regular society, it refers to any system whereby new members are chosen; they cannot simply apply. In relation to websites and other technology-related organisations, the term refers to a more specific situat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s%20inequalities | In mathematics, the Newton inequalities are named after Isaac Newton. Suppose a1, a2, ..., an are real numbers and let denote the kth elementary symmetric polynomial in a1, a2, ..., an. Then the elementary symmetric means, given by
satisfy the inequality
If all the numbers ai are non-zero, then equality holds if a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettsometer | A Bettsometer is a fabric degradation tester commonly used to measure or test the integrity of fabric coverings (and associated stitching) on aircraft and their wings.
The Bettsometer comprises a pen-like instrument (which functions much like a spring balance) and a smooth round needle or pin. The needle is inserted i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duress%20code | A duress code is a covert distress signal used by an individual who is being coerced by one or more hostile persons. It is used to warn others that they are being forced to do something against their will. Typically, the warning is given via some innocuous signal embedded in normal communication, such as a code-word or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slenderness%20ratio | In architecture, the slenderness ratio, or simply slenderness, is an aspect ratio, the quotient between the height and the width of a building.
In structural engineering, slenderness is used to calculate the propensity of a column to buckle. It is defined as where is the effective length of the column and is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratowski%27s%20closure-complement%20problem | In point-set topology, Kuratowski's closure-complement problem asks for the largest number of distinct sets obtainable by repeatedly applying the set operations of closure and complement to a given starting subset of a topological space. The answer is 14. This result was first published by Kazimierz Kuratowski in 192... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%20equation | In mathematics, in the field of control theory, a Sylvester equation is a matrix equation of the form:
It is named after English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester. Then given matrices A, B, and C, the problem is to find the possible matrices X that obey this equation. All matrices are assumed to have coefficients ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20space | In mathematics, there are a few topological spaces named after M. K. Fort, Jr.
Fort space
Fort space is defined by taking an infinite set X, with a particular point p in X, and declaring open the subsets A of X such that:
A does not contain p, or
A contains all but a finite number of points of X.
Note that the sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CobraNet | CobraNet is a combination of software, hardware, and network protocols designed to deliver uncompressed, multi-channel, low-latency digital audio over a standard Ethernet network. Developed in the 1990s, CobraNet is widely regarded as the first commercially successful audio-over-Ethernet implementation.
CobraNet was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20%28Unix%29 | is a legacy utility available on some Unix and Unix-like operating systems. This utility outputs a 16-bit checksum of each argument file, as well as the number of blocks they take on disk. Two different checksum algorithms are in use. POSIX abandoned sum in favor of cksum.
Overview
The program is generally only usefu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20JX | The IBM JX (or JXPC) was a personal computer released in 1984 into the Japanese, Australian and New Zealand markets. Designed in Japan, it was based on the technology of the IBM PCjr and was designated the IBM 5511. It was targeted in the Australasian market towards the public education sector rather than at consumers,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20inverted%20pendulum | A double inverted pendulum is the combination of the inverted pendulum and the double pendulum. The double inverted pendulum is unstable, meaning that it will fall down unless it is controlled in some way. The two main methods of controlling a double inverted pendulum are moving the base, as with the inverted pendulum,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois%20Riedler | Alois Riedler (May 15, 1850 - October 25, 1936) was a noted Austrian mechanical engineer, and, as professor in Germany, a vigorous proponent of practically-oriented engineering education.
Riedler was born in Graz, Austria, and studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule (TH) Graz from 1866-1871. After... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilton%20and%20Colburn%20J-factor%20analogy | Chilton–Colburn J-factor analogy (also known as the modified Reynolds analogy) is a successful and widely used analogy between heat, momentum, and mass transfer. The basic mechanisms and mathematics of heat, mass, and momentum transport are essentially the same. Among many analogies (like Reynolds analogy, Prandtl–Tayl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20Jerry | Miss Jerry is an 1894 American feature-length black-and-white silent pre-film "Picture Play" written and produced by Alexander Black and starring Blanche Bayliss. Miss Jerry was not a film, but a series of posed magic lantern slides projected onto a screen with a dissolving stereopticon, accompanied by narration and mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM%20Nimbus | RM Nimbus was a range of personal computers from British company Research Machines (now RM Education) sold from 1985 until the early 1990s, after which the designation Nimbus was discontinued. The first of these computers, the RM Nimbus PC-186, was not IBM PC compatible, but its successors the PC-286 and PC-386 were. R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20%28magazine%29 | Radio magazine, a radio broadcasting trade publication, covers the technology side of radio broadcasting. The publication is targeted at radio broadcast engineers, technology managers and owners of radio stations, networks, and recording studios. It is owned by Future US.
History
Radio magazine was first published in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String-net%20liquid | In condensed matter physics, a string-net is an extended object whose collective behavior has been proposed as a physical mechanism for topological order by Michael A. Levin and Xiao-Gang Wen. A particular string-net model may involve only closed loops; or networks of oriented, labeled strings obeying branching rules g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrogustometry | Electrogustometry is the measurement of taste threshold by passing controlled anodal current through the tongue. When current passes through the tongue a unique and distinct metallic taste is perceived.
Electrogustometry has been in existence since the 1950s. However, not much research has been done in this field.
Eq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20self-assembly | In chemistry and materials science, molecular self-assembly is the process by which molecules adopt a defined arrangement without guidance or management from an outside source. There are two types of self-assembly: intermolecular and intramolecular. Commonly, the term molecular self-assembly refers to the former, while... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%203D%20graphics%20libraries | 3D graphics have become so popular, particularly in video games, that specialized APIs (application programming interfaces) have been created to ease the processes in all stages of computer graphics generation. These APIs have also proved vital to computer graphics hardware manufacturers, as they provide a way for prog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential%20extension | In mathematics, specifically module theory, given a ring R and an R-module M with a submodule N, the module M is said to be an essential extension of N (or N is said to be an essential submodule or large submodule of M) if for every submodule H of M,
implies that
As a special case, an essential left ideal of R is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-demicubic%20honeycomb | The 5-demicube honeycomb (or demipenteractic honeycomb) is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 5-space. It is constructed as an alternation of the regular 5-cube honeycomb.
It is the first tessellation in the demihypercube honeycomb family which, with all the next ones, is not regular, bei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel%20fraction | In aerospace engineering, an aircraft's fuel fraction, fuel weight fraction, or a spacecraft's propellant fraction, is the weight of the fuel or propellant divided by the gross take-off weight of the craft (including propellant):
The fractional result of this mathematical division is often expressed as a percent. For ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20resume | Video résumé or video resume is a recording promoting a job seeker.
History
Video resumes, sometimes called Visumé or Video CV, were first introduced in the 1980s for use and distribution via VHS tape, but the idea never took off beyond the video taping of interviews. However, with the modern capabilities of transmitt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20protocol | A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate with each other to distribute information that enables them to select paths between nodes on a computer network. Routers perform the traffic directing functions on the Internet; data packets are forwarded through the networks of the internet from router to router un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMUcam | A CMUcam is a low cost computer vision device intended for robotics research. CMUcams consist of a small video camera and a microcontroller with a serial interface. While other digital cameras typically use a much higher bandwidth connector, the CMUcam's lightweight interface allows it to be accessed by microcontroller... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping%20cone%20%28homological%20algebra%29 | In homological algebra, the mapping cone is a construction on a map of chain complexes inspired by the analogous construction in topology. In the theory of triangulated categories it is a kind of combined kernel and cokernel: if the chain complexes take their terms in an abelian category, so that we can talk about coh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeophyte | An archaeophyte is a plant species which is non-native to a geographical region, but which was an introduced species in "ancient" times, rather than being a modern introduction. Those arriving after are called neophytes.
The cut-off date is usually the beginning of the early modern period (turn of the 15th or 16th ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20matrix%20%28linear%20differential%20equation%29 | In mathematics, a fundamental matrix of a system of n homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations
is a matrix-valued function whose columns are linearly independent solutions of the system.
Then every solution to the system can be written as , for some constant vector (written as a column vector of height ).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Wave%20Blaster | The Wave Blaster was an add-on MIDI-synthesizer for Creative Sound Blaster 16 and Sound Blaster AWE32 family of PC soundcards. It was a sample-based synthesis General MIDI compliant synthesizer. For General MIDI scores, the Wave Blaster's wavetable-engine produced more realistic instrumental music than the SB16's onb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan%20%28drawing%29 | Plans are a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams used to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions. Usually plans are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file.
Plans are used in a range of fields: architecture, urban planning, landscape ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducci%20sequence | A Ducci sequence is a sequence of n-tuples of integers, sometimes known as "the Diffy game", because it is based on sequences.
Given an n-tuple of integers , the next n-tuple in the sequence is formed by taking the absolute differences of neighbouring integers:
Another way of describing this is as follows. Arrange n ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion%20vent | An explosion vent or rupture panel is a safety device to protect equipment or buildings against excessive internal, explosion-incurred pressures, by means of pressure relief. An explosion vent will relieve pressure from the instant its opening (or activation) pressure pstat has been exceeded.
Several explosion vent pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20loading | Dynamic loading is a mechanism by which a computer program can, at run time, load a library (or other binary) into memory, retrieve the addresses of functions and variables contained in the library, execute those functions or access those variables, and unload the library from memory. It is one of the 3 mechanisms by w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung%20Laung%20Liu | Chung Laung Liu (; 1934 – 7 November 2020), also known as David Liu or C. L. Liu, was a Taiwanese computer scientist. Born in Guangzhou, he spent his childhood in Macau. He received his B.Sc. degree in Taiwan, master's degree and doctorate in United States.
Biography
Liu received his B.Sc. degree (1956) at the Nationa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20storm%20report | A Local Storm Report (LSR) is transmitted by the National Weather Service (NWS) when it receives significant information from storm spotters, such as amateur radio operators, storm chasers, law enforcement officials, civil defense (now emergency management) personnel, firefighters, EMTs or public citizens, about severe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel%20mass%20fraction | In combustion physics, fuel mass fraction is the ratio of fuel mass flow to the total mass flow of a fuel mixture. If an air flow is fuel free, the fuel mass fraction is zero; in pure fuel without trapped gases, the ratio is unity. As fuel is burned in a combustion process, the fuel mass fraction is reduced. The defini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Country | Math Country is an instructional television program produced by Kentucky Educational Television, in the late 1970s.
The show taught elementary math concepts and featured actor Ray Walston as a ghost named Lionel Hardway who inhabits the family farm, now lived in and ran by his descendants, helping them with various ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Vacuum%20Science%20and%20Technology | The Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published in two parts, A and B, by the American Institute of Physics on behalf of the American Vacuum Society. It was established in 1964 and the editor-in-chief is Eray Aydil (University of Minnesota).
History
1964–1982 Journal of Vac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20product%20of%20quadratic%20forms | In mathematics, the tensor product of quadratic forms is most easily understood when one views the quadratic forms as quadratic spaces. If R is a commutative ring where 2 is invertible (that is, R has characteristic ), and if and are two quadratic spaces over R, then their tensor product is the quadratic space whos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20engineering | Algorithm engineering focuses on the design, analysis, implementation, optimization, profiling and experimental evaluation of computer algorithms, bridging the gap between algorithm theory and practical applications of algorithms in software engineering.
It is a general methodology for algorithmic research.
Origins
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20system%20design | Graphical system design (GSD) is a modern approach to designing measurement and control systems that integrates system design software with COTS hardware to dramatically simplify development. This approach combines user interfaces, models of computation, math and analysis, Input/output signals, technology abstractions,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawabata%20evaluation%20system | The Kawabata evaluation system (KES) is used to measure the mechanical properties of fabrics. The system was developed by a team led by Professor Kawabata in the department of polymer chemistry, Kyoto University Japan.
KES is composed of four different machines on which a total of six tests can be performed:
Tensile ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneser%27s%20theorem%20%28differential%20equations%29 | In mathematics, the Kneser theorem can refer to two distinct theorems in the field of ordinary differential equations:
the first one, named after Adolf Kneser, provides criteria to decide whether a differential equation is oscillating or not;
the other one, named after Hellmuth Kneser, is about the topology of the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20delay | Network delay is a design and performance characteristic of a telecommunications network. It specifies the latency for a bit of data to travel across the network from one communication endpoint to another. It is typically measured in multiples or fractions of a second. Delay may differ slightly, depending on the locati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Certificate%20Enrollment%20Protocol | Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is described by the informational . Older versions of this protocol became a de facto industrial standard for pragmatic provisioning of digital certificates mostly for network equipment.
The protocol has been designed to make the request and issuing of digital certificates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20i750 | The Intel i750 is a two-chip graphics processing unit composed of the 82750PB pixel processor and 82750DB display processor. The i750 chip was used in video capture/compression cards such as the Intel Smart Video Recorder and Creative Labs Video Blaster RT300. These cards were needed to allow Video for Windows to recor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20A.%20Stradling | Richard Anthony "Tony" Stradling (1937-2002), was a notable English semiconductor physicist, latterly professor of physics at Imperial College London.
Biography
Tony Stradling was born in Solihull, Warwickshire. He received his early education at Solihull School.
He took a First in physics from Brasenose College, Oxf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico%20Habermann | Arie Nicolaas Habermann (26 June 1932 – 8 August 1993), often known as Nico Habermann, was a noted Dutch computer scientist.
Habermann was born in Groningen, Netherlands, and earned his B.S. in mathematics and physics and M.S. in mathematics from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1953 and 1958. After working as a ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20SenseCam | Microsoft's SenseCam is a lifelogging camera with fisheye lens and trigger sensors, such as accelerometers, heat sensing, and audio, invented by Lyndsay Williams, patent granted in 2009. Usually worn around the neck, Sensecam is used for the MyLifeBits project, a lifetime storage database. Early developers were James S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Green%20Wall%20%28China%29 | The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program (), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert, and provide timber to the local population. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetruminantia | The Cetruminantia are a clade made up of the Cetancodontamorpha (or Whippomorpha) and their closest living relatives, the Ruminantia.
Cetruminantia's placement within Artiodactyla can be represented in the following cladogram:
Classification
Order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
Tylopoda (camelids)
Artiofabula (r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectoanal%20inhibitory%20reflex | The rectoanal inhibitory reflex (RAIR) (also known as the anal sampling mechanism, anal sampling reflex, rectosphincteric reflex, or anorectal sampling reflex) is a reflex characterized by a transient involuntary relaxation of the internal anal sphincter in response to distention of the rectum. The RAIR provides the u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Institute%20of%20Agriculture | The International Institute of Agriculture (IIA) was founded in Rome in 1905 by the King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III with the intent of creating a clearinghouse for collection of agricultural statistics. It was created primarily due to the efforts of David Lubin. In 1930, the IIA published the first world agricultura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-screen%20television%20technology | Large-screen television technology (colloquially big-screen TV) developed rapidly in the late 1990s and 2000s. Prior to the development of thin-screen technologies, rear-projection television was standard for larger displays, and jumbotron, a non-projection video display technology, was used at stadiums and concerts. V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked%20poset | In mathematics, a ranked poset is a partially ordered set in which one of the following (non-equivalent) conditions hold: it is
a graded poset, or
a poset with the property that for every element x, all maximal chains among those with x as greatest element have the same finite length, or
a poset in which all maximal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy%20of%20engineering | The philosophy of engineering is an emerging discipline that considers what engineering is, what engineers do, and how their work affects society, and thus includes aspects of ethics and aesthetics, as well as the ontology, epistemology, etc. that might be studied in, for example, the philosophy of science or the philo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-ITX | In computer design, Pico-ITX is a PC motherboard form factor announced by VIA Technologies in January 2007 and demonstrated later the same year at CeBIT. The formfactor was transferred over to SFF-SIG in 2008. The Pico-ITX form factor specifications call for the board to be , which is half the area of Nano-ITX.
EPIA P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinors%20in%20three%20dimensions | In mathematics, the spinor concept as specialised to three dimensions can be treated by means of the traditional notions of dot product and cross product. This is part of the detailed algebraic discussion of the rotation group SO(3).
Formulation
The association of a spinor with a 2×2 complex Hermitian matrix was formu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle%20design | Motorcycle design can be described as activities that define the appearance, function and engineering of motorcycles.
Professionally it is a branch of industrial design, similar to automotive design using identical techniques and methodology, but confined by a set of conventions about what is acceptable to the buying ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdetermined%20system | In mathematics, a system of equations is considered overdetermined if there are more equations than unknowns. An overdetermined system is almost always inconsistent (it has no solution) when constructed with random coefficients. However, an overdetermined system will have solutions in some cases, for example if some e... |
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