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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9kopa%E2%80%93Leindler%20inequality | In mathematics, the Prékopa–Leindler inequality is an integral inequality closely related to the reverse Young's inequality, the Brunn–Minkowski inequality and a number of other important and classical inequalities in analysis. The result is named after the Hungarian mathematicians András Prékopa and László Leindler.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20network%20inference | Biological network inference is the process of making inferences and predictions about biological networks. By using these networks to analyze patterns in biological systems, such as food-webs, we can visualize the nature and strength of these interactions between species, DNA, proteins, and more.
The analysis of biol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20mixing%20and%20mastering | Stem-mixing is a method of mixing audio material based on creating groups of audio tracks and processing them separately prior to combining them into a final master mix. Stems are also sometimes referred to as submixes, subgroups, or buses.
The distinction between a stem and a separation is rather unclear. Some consid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-mer | In bioinformatics, k-mers are substrings of length contained within a biological sequence. Primarily used within the context of computational genomics and sequence analysis, in which k-mers are composed of nucleotides (i.e. A, T, G, and C), k-mers are capitalized upon to assemble DNA sequences, improve heterologous ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supnick%20matrix | A Supnick matrix or Supnick array – named after Fred Supnick of the City College of New York, who introduced the notion in 1957 – is a Monge array which is also a symmetric matrix.
Mathematical definition
A Supnick matrix is a square Monge array that is symmetric around the main diagonal.
An n-by-n matrix is a Supn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20journalism | Digital journalism, also known as netizen journalism or online journalism, is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is distributed via the Internet, as opposed to publishing via print or broadcast. What constitutes digital journalism is debated by scholars; however, the primary product of journalism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deligne%E2%80%93Lusztig%20theory | In mathematics, Deligne–Lusztig theory is a way of constructing linear representations of finite groups of Lie type using ℓ-adic cohomology with compact support, introduced by .
used these representations to find all representations of all finite simple groups of Lie type.
Motivation
Suppose that G is a reductive g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65%2C536 | 65536 is the natural number following 65535 and preceding 65537.
65536 is a power of two: (2 to the 16th power).
65536 is the smallest number with exactly 17 divisors.
In mathematics
65536 is , so in tetration notation 65536 is 42.
When expressed using Knuth's up-arrow notation, 65536 is
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which is equal to
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whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun%20Study | The Nun Study of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease is a continuing longitudinal study, begun in 1986, to examine the onset of Alzheimer's disease. David Snowdon, an Epidemiologist and the founding Nun Study investigator, started the Nun Study at the University of Minnesota, later transferring the study to the University of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Longitudinal%20Study%20of%20Ageing | The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) is a longitudinal study that collects multidisciplinary data from a representative sample of the English population aged 50 and older to look at all aspects of aging in England.
The study started in 2002 and there are currently nine waves of completed data and a tenth wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%20layout%20editor | An Integrated circuit layout editor or IC layout editor is an electronic design automation software tool that allows a user to digitize the shapes and patterns that form an integrated circuit. Typically the view will include the components (usually as pcells), metal routing tracks, vias and electrical pins. Software of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SitePal | SitePal is a speaking avatar platform for small and medium-sized businesses developed by Oddcast.
SitePal allows users to deploy "virtual employees" on websites that can welcome visitors, guide them around the site and answer questions.
The use of SitePal on commercial websites has been controversial because many vis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20prototyping | Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data.
Construction of the part or assembly is usually done using 3D printing or "additive layer manufacturing" technology.
The first methods for rapid pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20function | Navigation function usually refers to a function of position, velocity, acceleration and time which is used to plan robot trajectories through the environment. Generally, the goal of a navigation function is to create feasible, safe paths that avoid obstacles while allowing a robot to move from its starting configurat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clascal | Clascal is an object-oriented programming language (and associated discontinued compiler) developed in 1983 by the Personal Office Systems (POS) division (later renamed The Lisa Division, then later The 32-Bit Systems Division) of Apple Computer. Clascal was used to program applications for the Lisa Office System, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic%20architecture | Bionic architecture is a contemporary movement that studies the physiological, behavioural, and structural adaptions of biological organisms as a source of inspiration for designing and constructing expressive buildings. These structures are designed to be self-sufficient, being able to structurally modify themselves i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20release | Ecological release refers to a population increase or population explosion that occurs when a species is freed from limiting factors in its environment. Sometimes this may occur when a plant or animal species is introduced, for example, to an island or to a new territory or environment other than its native habitat. Wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspec | Inspec is a major indexing database of scientific and technical literature, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and formerly by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), one of the IET's forerunners.
Inspec coverage is extensive in the fields of physics, computing, control, and engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20reducibility | The axiom of reducibility was introduced by Bertrand Russell in the early 20th century as part of his ramified theory of types. Russell devised and introduced the axiom in an attempt to manage the contradictions he had discovered in his analysis of set theory.
History
With Russell's discovery (1901, 1902) of a paradox... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20form | In complex geometry, the term positive form refers to several classes of real differential forms of Hodge type (p, p).
(1,1)-forms
Real (p,p)-forms on a complex manifold M are forms which are of type (p,p) and real, that is, lie in the intersection A real (1,1)-form is called semi-positive (sometimes just positive)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therefore%20sign | In logical argument and mathematical proof, the therefore sign, , is generally used before a logical consequence, such as the conclusion of a syllogism. The symbol consists of three dots placed in an upright triangle and is read therefore. While it is not generally used in formal writing, it is used in mathematics and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue%20of%20Life | The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System. The Catalogue is used by research scientists, citizen scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20score | An identity score is a system for detecting identity theft. Identity scores are increasingly being adopted as a means to prevent fraud in business and as a tool to verify and correct public records.
Identity scores incorporate, a broad set of consumer data that gauges a person's legitimacy. Identity score components ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%20number | An illegal number is a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter, propagate, or otherwise transmit in some legal jurisdiction. Any piece of digital information is representable as a number; consequently, if communicating a specific set of information is illegal in some way, then the number m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%20Weather%20Observer%20Program | The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) is a network of privately owned electronic weather stations concentrated in the United States but also located in over 150 countries. Network participation allows volunteers with computerized weather stations to send automated surface weather observations to the National Weat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20%28ecology%29 | In ecology, a community is a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time, also known as a biocoenosis, biotic community, biological community, ecological community, or life assemblage. The term community has a variety of uses. In its simples... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Programming%20Specialist%20Group | The Advanced Programming Specialist Group (APSG) is a Specialist Group (SG) of the British Computer Society (BCS). It held its first meeting, when it was referred to as "BCS Study Group No. 5", at Bishop's House, High Holborn, London WC1, England on 17 December 1959. It has met continuously in London since then, gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%20analogy | The car analogy is a common technique, used predominantly in engineering textbooks to ease the understanding of abstract concepts in which a car, its composite parts, and common circumstances surrounding it are used as analogs for elements of the conceptual systems. The car analogy can be seen elsewhere, in textbooks c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protomer | In structural biology, a protomer is the structural unit of an oligomeric protein. It is the smallest unit composed of at least two different protein chains that form a larger hetero-oligomer by association of two or more copies of this unit.
The term was introduced by Chetverin to make nomenclature in the Na/K-ATPase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus%20of%20enterocyte%20effacement | The locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) is a moderately conserved pathogenicity island consisting of 35,000 base pairs in the bacteria Escherichia coli genome. The LEE encodes the Type III secretion system and associated chaperones and effector proteins responsible for attaching and effacing (AE) lesions in the larg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20derivative | In the context of Lagrangian mechanics, the fiber derivative is used to convert between the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian forms. In particular, if is the configuration manifold then the Lagrangian is defined on the tangent bundle , and the Hamiltonian is defined on the cotangent bundle —the fiber derivative is a map ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMF | In cryptography, CDMF (Commercial Data Masking Facility) is an algorithm developed at IBM in 1992 to reduce the security strength of the 56-bit DES cipher to that of 40-bit encryption, at the time a requirement of U.S. restrictions on export of cryptography. Rather than a separate cipher from DES, CDMF constitutes a ke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%E2%80%93sink%20dynamics | Source–sink dynamics is a theoretical model used by ecologists to describe how variation in habitat quality may affect the population growth or decline of organisms.
Since quality is likely to vary among patches of habitat, it is important to consider how a low quality patch might affect a population. In this model, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, folding is the process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation. The process can also be described as intramolecular self-assembly, a type of molecular self-assembly, where the molecule is directed to form a specific shape through noncovalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, metal coo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20context-free%20grammar | In formal grammar theory, the deterministic context-free grammars (DCFGs) are a proper subset of the context-free grammars. They are the subset of context-free grammars that can be derived from deterministic pushdown automata, and they generate the deterministic context-free languages. DCFGs are always unambiguous, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotriangle | In Euclidean plane geometry, a pseudotriangle (pseudo-triangle) is the simply connected subset of the plane that lies between any three mutually tangent convex sets. A pseudotriangulation (pseudo-triangulations) is a partition of a region of the plane into pseudotriangles, and a pointed pseudotriangulation is a pseudot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-polynomial | In mathematics, a quasi-polynomial (pseudo-polynomial) is a generalization of polynomials. While the coefficients of a polynomial come from a ring, the coefficients of quasi-polynomials are instead periodic functions with integral period. Quasi-polynomials appear throughout much of combinatorics as the enumerators for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonextensive%20entropy | Entropy is considered to be an extensive property, i.e., that its value depends on the amount of material present. Constantino Tsallis has proposed a nonextensive entropy (Tsallis entropy), which is a generalization of the traditional Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy.
The rationale behind the theory is that Gibbs-Boltzmann ent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Anderson's theorem is a result in real analysis and geometry which says that the integral of an integrable, symmetric, unimodal, non-negative function f over an n-dimensional convex body K does not decrease if K is translated inwards towards the origin. This is a natural statement, since the graph of f ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shephard%27s%20problem | In mathematics, Shephard's problem, is the following geometrical question asked by Geoffrey Colin Shephard in 1964: if K and L are centrally symmetric convex bodies in n-dimensional Euclidean space such that whenever K and L are projected onto a hyperplane, the volume of the projection of K is smaller than the volume o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedophagy | Paedophagy (literally meaning the "consumption of children") in its general form is the feeding behaviour of fish or other animals whose diet is partially, or primarily the eggs or larvae of other animals. However, P. H. Greenwood, who was the first to describe paedophagia, defines it to be a feeding behaviour evolved ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-domain%20routing | Inter-domain routing is data flow control and interaction between Primary Domain Controller (PDC) computers. This type of computer uses various computer protocols and services to operate. It is most commonly used to multicast between internet domains.
Internet use
An Internet service provider, ISP, is provided with a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambek%E2%80%93Moser%20theorem | The Lambek–Moser theorem is a mathematical description of partitions of the natural numbers into two complementary sets. For instance, it applies to the partition of numbers into even and odd, or into prime and non-prime (one and the composite numbers). There are two parts to the Lambek–Moser theorem. One part states t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeSurvey | LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a free and open source on-line statistical survey web app written in PHP based on a MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL or MSSQL database, distributed under the GNU General Public License. As a web server-based software it enables users using a web interface to develop and publish on-line sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20World%20Wide%20Web%20Conference%20Committee | The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (abbreviated as IW3C2 also written as IW3C2) is a professional non-profit organization registered in Switzerland (Article 60ff of the Swiss Civil Code) that promotes World Wide Web research and development. The IW3C2 organizes and hosts the annual World Wide Web Con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20post | A king post (or king-post or kingpost) is a central vertical post used in architectural or bridge designs, working in tension to support a beam below from a truss apex above (whereas a crown post, though visually similar, supports items above from the beam below).
In aircraft design a strut called a king post acts in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20post | A queen post is a tension member in a truss that can span longer openings than a king post truss. A king post uses one central supporting post, whereas the queen post truss uses two. Even though it is a tension member, rather than a compression member, they are commonly still called a post. A queen post is often confus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dal%C3%A9n%20light | A Dalén light is a light produced from burning of carbide gas (acetylene), combined with a solar sensor which automatically operates the light only during darkness.
Overview
The technology was the predominant form of light source in lighthouses from the 1900s through the 1960s, when electric lighting had become domina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-boundary%20subsidy | Cross-boundary subsidies are caused by organisms or materials that cross or traverse habitat patch boundaries, subsidizing the resident populations. The transferred organisms and materials may provide additional predators, prey, or nutrients to resident species, which can affect community and food web structure. Cross-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%20Vinci%20Systems | da Vinci Systems was an American digital cinema company founded in 1984 in Coral Springs, Florida as a spinoff of Video Tape Associates. It was known for its hardware-based color correction products, GPU-based color grading, digital mastering systems, and film restoration and remastering systems. It was one of the ear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanxin | Hanxin () was an notorious Chinese academic fraudulence case, committed in the name of a digital signal processing (DSP) microchip. Chen Jin, a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University claimed to have developed the chip in 2003. The Hanxin 1 was reportedly the first DSP chip to have been wholly developed in China. Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section%20%28category%20theory%29 | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a section is a right inverse of some morphism. Dually, a retraction is a left inverse of some morphism.
In other words, if and are morphisms whose composition is the identity morphism on , then is a section of , and is a retraction of .
Every section is a monomorphism ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Defence%20Intelligence%20Agency | The Finnish Defence Intelligence Agency (, PVTIEDL; Fenno-Swedish: Försvarsmaktens underrättelsetjänst) is the combined signals (SIGINT), geospatial (GEOINT) and imagery intelligence (IMINT) agency of the Finnish Defence Forces. Operational since 2014, its responsibility is to support the defence of Finland through inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo | A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-power conversion devices were based, including the electric motor, the alternating-current al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm%27s-eye%20view | A worm's-eye view is a view of an object from below, as though the observer were a worm; it is the opposite of a bird's-eye view.
It can be used to look up to something to make an object look tall, strong, and mighty while the viewer feels childlike or powerless.
A worm's eye view commonly uses three-point perspectiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramorphix | The Pyramorphix (), also called Pyramorphinx, is a tetrahedral puzzle similar to the Rubik's Cube. It has a total of 8 movable pieces to rearrange, compared to the 20 of the Rubik's Cube. Although it looks like a trivially simple version of the Pyraminx, it is an edge-turning puzzle with the mechanism identical to that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiValue%20database | A MultiValue database is a type of NoSQL and multidimensional database, typically considered synonymous with PICK, a database originally developed as the Pick operating system.
MultiValue databases include commercial products from Rocket Software, Revelation, InterSystems, Northgate Information Solutions, ONgroup, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrocyte | A fibrocyte is an inactive mesenchymal cell, that is, a cell showing minimal cytoplasm, limited amounts of rough endoplasmic reticulum and lacks biochemical evidence of protein synthesis.
The term fibrocyte contrasts with the term fibroblast. Fibroblasts are activated connective tissue cells characterized by synthes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Networks | Berkeley Networks was a leading startup company that built intelligent switches targeted for the enterprise computer networking market segment.
The company was established in 1996. The name of the company comes from the school University of California, Berkeley. The founder and CEO, Dr. Ravi Sethi, received his Ph.D. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelfand%E2%80%93Graev%20representation | In representation theory, a branch of mathematics, the Gelfand–Graev representation is a representation of a reductive group over a finite field introduced by , induced from a non-degenerate character of a Sylow subgroup.
The Gelfand–Graev representation is reducible and decomposes as the sum of irreducible representa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Land%20Before%20Time | The Land Before Time is an American animated feature film series and media franchise created by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, distributed by Universal Pictures and centered on dinosaurs. The series began in 1988 with the eponymous The Land Before Time, directed and produced by Don Bluth and executive produced by Georg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20markup%20language | A mathematical markup language is a computer notation for representing mathematical formulae, based on mathematical notation. Specialized markup languages are necessary because computers normally deal with linear text and more limited character sets (although increasing support for Unicode is obsoleting very simple us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing-shape%20optimization | Wing-shape optimization is a software implementation of shape optimization primarily used for aircraft design. This allows for engineers to produce more efficient and cheaper aircraft designs.
History
Shape optimization, as a software process and tool, first appeared as an algorithm in 1995 and as commercial software... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Fs%20%28evolution%29 | In evolutionary psychology, people often speak of the four Fs which are said to be the four basic and most primal drives (motivations or instincts) that animals (including humans) are evolutionarily adapted to have, follow, and achieve: fighting, fleeing, feeding and mating (the final word beginning with the letter "M"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/321%20kinematic%20structure | 321 kinematic structure is a design method for robotic arms (serial manipulators), invented by Donald L. Pieper and used in most commercially produced robotic arms. The inverse kinematics of serial manipulators with six revolute joints, and with three consecutive joints intersecting, can be solved in closed form, i.e. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelius | Intelius, Inc. is a public records business headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It provides information services, including people and property search, background checks and reverse phone lookup. Users also have the ability to perform reverse address lookups to find people using Intelius’ services and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20stripping | Air stripping is the transferring of volatile components of a liquid into an air stream. It is an environmental engineering technology used for the purification of groundwaters and wastewaters containing volatile compounds.
Volatile compounds have relatively high vapor pressure and low aqueous solubility characterize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality%20%28computability%20theory%29 | In computability theory, the mortality problem is a decision problem related to the halting problem. For Turing machines, the halting problem can be stated as follows:
Given a Turing machine, and a word, decide whether the machine halts when run on the given word.
In contrast, the mortality problem for Turing machines... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20Internet%20Research%20and%20Experimentation | Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) is a program funded by the European Union to do research on the Internet, its prospects, and its future, a field known as "future Internet".
History
Some researchers met with government officials in Zurich in March 2007.
The first FIRE projects started in 2008, with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissibility%20%28vibration%29 | Transmissibility is the ratio of output to input.
It is defined as the ratio of the force transmitted to the force applied. Transmitted force implies the one which is being transmitted to the foundation or to the body of a particular system. Applied force is the external agent that cause the force to be generated in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral%20Sensor%20Interface%205 | Peripheral Sensor Interface (PSI5) is a digital interface for sensors.
PSI5 is a two-wire interface, used to connect peripheral sensors to electronic control units in automotive electronics. Both point-to-point and bus configurations with asynchronous and synchronous data transmission are supported.
Functional descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Interface%20North%20America | Open Interface North America (OINA) was a privately owned embedded Bluetooth software provider based in Seattle, Washington and was incorporated in 2000 as a division of the Japanese company Open Interface, Inc., which had formed in 1992. Akemi Sagawa, a Microsoft product manager at the time, was hired to run it. Ano... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxarsone | Roxarsone is an organoarsenic compound that has been used in poultry production as a feed additive to increase weight gain and improve feed efficiency, and as a coccidiostat. As of June 2011, it was approved for chicken feed in the United States, Canada, Australia, and 12 other countries. The drug was also approved in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Toshiba%20IBM%20Center%20of%20Competence%20for%20the%20Cell%20Processor | The Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor is the first Center of Competence dedicated to the promotion and development of Sony Toshiba IBM's Cell microprocessor, an eight-core multiprocessor designed using principles of parallelism and memory latency. The center is part of the Georgia Institute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sinclair%20QL%20software | This is a list of software titles produced for the Sinclair QL personal computer.
Notation: Program name (purpose), publisher, first release
Utilities
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3D Precision, High-Precision Imaging System, Digital Precision
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Abacus (Spreadsheet), Psion (Sinclair), 1984
APL Interpreter
ArcED, coWo
Archive (Database)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic%20chickens | Chickens have been widely used as national symbols, and as mascots for clubs, businesses, and other associations.
The chicken is a national symbol of France and is used as an (unofficial) national mascot, in particular for sports teams. See also: Gallic rooster.
The Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) independent party ZANU party... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facet%20theory | Facet theory is a metatheory for the multivariate behavioral sciences that posits that scientific theories and measurements can be advanced by discovering relationships between conceptual classifications of research variables and empirical partitions of data-representation spaces. For this purpose, facet theory propose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger%27s%20Code%20of%20Conduct | The Blogger's Code of Conduct was a proposal by Tim O'Reilly for bloggers to adopt a uniform policy for moderation of comments. It was proposed in 2007, in response to controversy involving threats made to blogger Kathy Sierra. The idea of the code was first reported by BBC News, who quoted O'Reilly saying, "I do think... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda3D | Panda3D is a game engine that includes graphics, audio, I/O, collision detection, and other abilities relevant to the creation of 3D games. Panda3D is free, open-source software under the revised BSD license.
Panda3D's intended game-development language is Python. The engine itself is written in C++ and utilizes an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligonucleotide%20synthesis | Oligonucleotide synthesis is the chemical synthesis of relatively short fragments of nucleic acids with defined chemical structure (sequence). The technique is extremely useful in current laboratory practice because it provides a rapid and inexpensive access to custom-made oligonucleotides of the desired sequence. Wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney%27s%20game | Penney's game, named after its inventor Walter Penney, is a binary (head/tail) sequence generating game between two players. Player A selects a sequence of heads and tails (of length 3 or larger), and shows this sequence to player B. Player B then selects another sequence of heads and tails of the same length. Subseque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleste%202 | Aleste 2 (アレスタ２) is a scrolling shooter video game developed and released by Compile for the MSX2 in 1989 exclusively in Japan. It is a sequel to Aleste and is the first game in the Aleste series to feature the recurring series heroine Ellinor who later appeared in Musha Aleste. Aleste 2, along with other Compile shoot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20art | Microbial art, agar art, or germ art is artwork created by culturing microorganisms in certain patterns. The microbes used can be bacteria, yeast, fungi, or less commonly, protists. The microbes can be chosen for their natural colours or engineered to express fluorescent proteins and viewed under ultraviolet light to m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Computing%20Corporation | Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) was a public company that developed and sold computer security appliances and hosted services to protect users and data. McAfee acquired the company in 2008.
The company also developed filtering systems used by governments such as Iran and Saudi Arabia that blocks their citizens from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrillarin | rRNA 2'-O-methyltransferase fibrillarin is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the FBL gene.
Function
This gene product is a component of a nucleolar small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) particle thought to participate in the first step in processing pre-ribosomal (r)RNA. It is associated with the U3, U8, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile-ITX | Mobile-ITX is the smallest (by 2009) x86 compliant motherboard form factor presented by VIA Technologies in December, 2009. The motherboard size (CPU module) is . There are no computer ports on the CPU module and it is necessary to use an I/O carrier board. The design is intended for medical, transportation and milita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCIR%20%28selcall%29 | There are many types and formats of CCIR Selcall. For example, CCIR 493-4 is a standard format for HF Selcall for Land Mobile applications. CCIR (Consultative Committee on International Radio) functions have largely been taken over by ITU-R.
One common type of CCIR selcall used in VHF and UHF FM two-way radio communi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent%20Committee%20on%20Place%20Names | The Permanent Committee on Place Names (PCPN) created from the various Australian and New Zealand committees on geographical names.
The PCPN started in 1984 as the Committee for Geographical Names in Australia (CGNA) and it was renamed in 2005.
It was integrated within the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip%20protocol | A gossip protocol or epidemic protocol is a procedure or process of computer peer-to-peer communication that is based on the way epidemics spread. Some distributed systems use peer-to-peer gossip to ensure that data is disseminated to all members of a group. Some ad-hoc networks have no central registry and the only wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM%20Interop | COM Interop is a technology included in the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) that enables Component Object Model (COM) objects to interact with .NET objects, and vice versa.
COM Interop aims to provide access to the existing COM components without requiring that the original component be modified. It tries... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%20pad | The Π pad (pi pad) is a specific type of attenuator circuit in electronics whereby the topology of the circuit is formed in the shape of the Greek capital letter pi (Π).
Attenuators are used in electronics to reduce the level of a signal. They are also referred to as pads due to their effect of padding down a signal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Engineering%20for%20Adaptive%20and%20Self-Managing%20Systems | The Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS) is an academic conference for exchanging research results and experiences in the areas of autonomic computing, self-managing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-configuring, and self-adaptive systems theory.
It was established in 2006... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-adaptive%20binary%20arithmetic%20coding | Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) is a form of entropy encoding used in the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standards. It is a lossless compression technique, although the video coding standards in which it is used are typically for lossy compression applications. CABAC is notab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sequenced%20bacterial%20genomes | This list of sequenced eubacterial genomes contains most of the eubacteria known to have publicly available complete genome sequences. Most of these sequences have been placed in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, a public database which can be searched on the web. A few of the listed genomes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetofection | Magnetofection is a transfection method that uses magnetic fields to concentrate particles containing vectors to target cells in the body. Magnetofection has been adapted to a variety of vectors, including nucleic acids, non-viral transfection systems, and viruses. This method offers advantages such as high transfectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip%20%28telecommunication%29 | In telecommunications, a slip is a positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols. Slips are usually caused by inadequate synchronization of the two clocks controlling the transmission or by poor reception of the signal.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/693%20%28number%29 | 693 (six hundred [and] ninety-three) is the natural number following 692 and preceding 694.
In mathematics
693 has twelve divisors: 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 21, 33, 63, 77, 99, 231, and 693. Thus, 693 is tied with 315 for the highest number of divisors for any odd natural number below 900. The smallest positive odd integer wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/744%20%28number%29 | 744 (seven hundred [and] forty four) is the natural number following 743 and preceding 745.
744 plays a major role within moonshine theory of sporadic groups, in context of the classification of finite simple groups.
Number theory
744 is the nineteenth number of the form where , and represent distinct prime num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Daily%20WTF | The Daily WTF (also called Worse Than Failure from February to December 2007) is a humorous blog dedicated to "Curious Perversions in Information Technology". The blog, run by Alex Papadimoulis, "offers living examples of code that invites the exclamation ‘WTF!?'" (What The Fuck!?) and "recounts tales of disastrous de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradeep%20Dubey | Pradeep Dubey (born 9 January 1951) is an Indian game theorist. He is a Professor of Economics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook , and a member of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory. He also holds a visiting position at Cowles Foundation, Yale University. He did his schooling at the St. Columba's Sch... |
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