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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%20Hugh%20Baird | Nicol Hugh Baird (26 August 1796 – 18 October 1849) was a Scottish surveyor who worked for his uncle Charles Baird in St Petersburg for several years, and emigrated to Canada in 1828.
Works
Baird is known in Canada for the work on various canal and road construction in Upper and Lower Canada as well as inventing equip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Liquid%20Atomization%20and%20Spray%20Systems | The Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, (ILASS), is an organization of researchers, industrial practitioners and students engaged in professional activities connected with the spraying of liquids and slurries. Annual technical conferences are organized by each of the ILASS organizations ILASS-Americas, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Web%20Services | The International Conference on Web Services or ICWS denotes an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners focused on Web services. Since 2018 there are two ICWS events, one is sponsored by Services Society and Springer, and the other is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE ICWS). The IEEE I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2027002 | ISO/IEC 27002 is an information security standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), titled Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Information security controls.
The ISO/IEC 27000-series standards are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellis%20quantization | Trellis quantization is an algorithm that can improve data compression in DCT-based encoding methods. It is used to optimize residual DCT coefficients after motion estimation in lossy video compression encoders such as Xvid and x264. Trellis quantization reduces the size of some DCT coefficients while recovering othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Com | P-Com Corporation was a manufacturer of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The company banked on providing wireless local loop and bandwidth facilities to metropolitan and remote areas, using fixed antennas and Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology. At its peak, the company... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20representations%20of%20e | The mathematical constant can be represented in a variety of ways as a real number. Since is an irrational number (see proof that e is irrational), it cannot be represented as the quotient of two integers, but it can be represented as a continued fraction. Using calculus, may also be represented as an infinite ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Seed%20Bank%20Partnership | The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP or MSB), formerly known as the Millennium Seed Bank Project, is the largest ex situ plant conservation programme in the world coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. After being awarded a Millennium Commission grant in 1995, the project commenced in 1996, and is now hou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Lines | The Victoria Lines, originally known as the North West Front, are a line of fortifications that spans 12 kilometres along the width of Malta, dividing the north of the island from the more heavily populated south.
Location
The Victoria Lines run along a natural geographical barrier known as the Great Fault, from Madli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic%20fungus | Radiotrophic fungi are fungi that can perform the hypothetical biological process called radiosynthesis, which means using ionizing radiation as an energy source to drive metabolism. It has been claimed that radiotrophic fungi have been found in extreme environments such as in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20order | In mathematics, especially order theory,
the interval order for a collection of intervals on the real line
is the partial order corresponding to their left-to-right precedence relation—one interval, I1, being considered less than another, I2, if I1 is completely to the left of I2.
More formally, a countable poset is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%20bridge | A Kelvin bridge, also called a Kelvin double bridge and in some countries a Thomson bridge, is a measuring instrument used to measure unknown electrical resistors below 1 ohm. It is specifically designed to measure resistors that are constructed as four terminal resistors.
Background
Resistors above about 1 ohm in val... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnardisation | Barnardisation is a method of statistical disclosure control for tables of counts. It involves adding +1, 0 or -1 to some or all of the internal non-zero cells in a table in a pseudo-random fashion. The probability of adjustment for each internal cell is calculated as p/2 (add 1), 1-p (leave as is), p/2 (subtract 1). T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap%E2%80%93add%20method | In signal processing, the overlap–add method is an efficient way to evaluate the discrete convolution of a very long signal with a finite impulse response (FIR) filter :
where for m outside the region .
This article uses common abstract notations, such as or in which it is understood that the functions should be t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames | GeoNames (or GeoNames.org) is a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The project was founded in late 2005.
The GeoNames dataset differs from, but includes data from, the US Government's similarly named GEOnet Names Ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centimorgan | In genetics, a centimorgan (abbreviated cM) or map unit (m.u.) is a unit for measuring genetic linkage. It is defined as the distance between chromosome positions (also termed loci or markers) for which the expected average number of intervening chromosomal crossovers in a single generation is 0.01. It is often used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Academy%20of%20Technology%20and%20Engineering | The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) is a learned academy that helps Australians understand and use technology to solve complex problems. It was founded in 1975 as one of Australia's then four learned academies (now five). Its original name was the 'Australian Academy of Technological Sciences', ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20frame | A vehicle frame, also historically known as its chassis, is the main supporting structure of a motor vehicle to which all other components are attached, comparable to the skeleton of an organism.
Until the 1930s, virtually every car had a structural frame separate from its body. This construction design is known as bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Electrician | The Electrician, published in London from 1861–1863 and 1878–1952, was the one of the earliest and foremost electrical engineering periodicals and scientific journals. It was published in two series: The original Electrician was published for three years from 1861–1863. After a fifteen year gap, a new series of the Ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bulletin%20board%20systems | This is an incomplete list of notable bulletin board systems:
Amateur Action BBS
French Connection BBS - famous California dating BBS written by Hal Finney and Stephen Cohen started in 1979
CBBS – the first BBS on record, established 1978
Celco 51 Operation Cybersnare – United States Secret Service Cellular Fraud sti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problems%20involving%20arithmetic%20progressions | Problems involving arithmetic progressions are of interest in number theory, combinatorics, and computer science, both from theoretical and applied points of view.
Largest progression-free subsets
Find the cardinality (denoted by Ak(m)) of the largest subset of {1, 2, ..., m} which contains no progression of k distinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games%20and%20Economic%20Behavior | Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) is a journal of game theory published by Elsevier. Founded in 1989, the journal's stated objective is to communicate game-theoretic ideas across theory and applications. It is considered to be the leading journal of game theory and one of the top journals in economics, and it is one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Spivey | Michael Spivey (commonly known as Mike Spivey) is a British computer scientist at the University of Oxford.
Spivey was born in 1960 and educated at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in York, England. He studied mathematics at Christ's College, Cambridge and then undertook a DPhil in computer science on the Z notatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beast%20%28Revelation%29 | The Beast (, ) may refer to one of two beasts described in the Book of Revelation.
In Revelation 13:1-10, the first beast (interpreted as the Antichrist) rises "out of the sea" and is given authority and power by the dragon. This first beast is initially mentioned in Revelation 11:7 as emerging from the abyss. His app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20Enhancements | Web Services Enhancements (WSE) is an obsolete add-on to the Microsoft .NET Framework, which includes a set of classes that implement additional WS-* web service specifications chiefly in areas such as security, reliable messaging, and sending attachments. Web services are business logic components which provide functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20gene%20knockout | Conditional gene knockout is a technique used to eliminate a specific gene in a certain tissue, such as the liver. This technique is useful to study the role of individual genes in living organisms. It differs from traditional gene knockout because it targets specific genes at specific times rather than being deleted f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosity%20%28radiometry%29 | In radiometry, radiosity is the radiant flux leaving (emitted, reflected and transmitted by) a surface per unit area, and spectral radiosity is the radiosity of a surface per unit frequency or wavelength, depending on whether the spectrum is taken as a function of frequency or of wavelength. The SI unit of radiosity is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWeb | The BioWeb is the connotation for a network of web-enabled biological devices (e.g. trees, plants, and flowers) which extends an internet of things to the Internet of Living Things of natural sensory devices. The BioWeb devices give insights to real-time ecological data and feedback to changes in the environment. The b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor%20node | A sensor node (also known as a mote in North America), consists of an individual node from a sensor network that is capable of performing a desired action such as gathering, processing or communicating information with other connected nodes in a network.
History
Although wireless sensor networks have existed for decad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Mazya | Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya (; born 31 December 1937) (the family name is sometimes transliterated as Mazya, Maz'ja or Mazja) is a Russian-born Swedish mathematician, hailed as "one of the most distinguished analysts of our time" and as "an outstanding mathematician of worldwide reputation", who strongly influenced the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrionics | Mitrionics was a Swedish company manufacturing softcore reconfigurable processors. It has been mentioned as one of EETimes "60 Emerging startups".
The company was founded in 2001 by Stefan Möhl and Pontus Borg to commercialize a massively parallel reconfigurable processor implemented on FPGAs. It can be described as t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabletKiosk | TabletKiosk is a manufacturer of enterprise-grade Tablet PCs and UMPCs located in Torrance, California, United States. All mobile computers produced by TabletKiosk fall into the slate category, featuring touchscreen or pen (active digitizer) input, in lieu of integrated or convertible keyboards. Current products includ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-Laplace%20distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the log-Laplace distribution is the probability distribution of a random variable whose logarithm has a Laplace distribution. If X has a Laplace distribution with parameters μ and b, then Y = eX has a log-Laplace distribution. The distributional properties can be derived from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20theorem%20%28differential%20geometry%29 | In differential geometry, Hilbert's theorem (1901) states that there exists no complete regular surface of constant negative gaussian curvature immersed in . This theorem answers the question for the negative case of which surfaces in can be obtained by isometrically immersing complete manifolds with constant curvat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zedo | Zedo (trademark styled as ZEDO) is a US and India-based advertising technology company that provides several online advertising products and services to Internet publishers, advertisers, and agencies. The company was founded in 1999 by Roy de Souza.
The company works with publishers that sell space on their web pages ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20extinctions%20in%20the%20Holocene | This article is a list of biological species, subspecies, and evolutionary significant units that are known to have become extinct during the Holocene, the current geologic epoch, ordered by their known or approximate date of disappearance from oldest to most recent.
The Holocene is considered to have started with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic%20level | The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. A food chain is a succession of organisms that eat other organisms and may, in turn, be eaten themselves. The trophic level of an organism is the number of steps it is from the start of the chain. A food web starts at trophic level 1 with prim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing%20%28animal%20behavior%29 | Mobbing in animals is an antipredator adaptation in which individuals of prey species mob a predator by cooperatively attacking or harassing it, usually to protect their offspring. A simple definition of mobbing is an assemblage of individuals around a potentially dangerous predator. This is most frequently seen in bir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20extension | In order theory, a branch of mathematics, a linear extension of a partial order is a total order (or linear order) that is compatible with the partial order. As a classic example, the lexicographic order of totally ordered sets is a linear extension of their product order.
Definitions
Linear extension of a partial or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%20order | In the mathematical field of order theory, an inclusion order is the partial order that arises as the subset-inclusion relation on some collection of objects. In a simple way, every poset P = (X,≤) is (isomorphic to) an inclusion order (just as every group is isomorphic to a permutation group – see Cayley's theorem). ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20Community%20Network | SAP Community (formerly SAP Community Network or SCN) is the official user community of SAP SE. SAP software users, developers, consultants, mentors and students use the SAP Community Network to get help, share ideas, learn, innovate and connect with others. There are an average of 2 million unique visitors to SCN eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%203%20system%20software | The PlayStation 3 system software, is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 3. The base operating system used by Sony for the PlayStation 3 is a fork of both FreeBSD and NetBSD known internally as CellOS or GameOS. It uses XrossMediaBar as its graphical shell.
The process of updating is almost... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20L.%20Hurd | Peter L. Hurd is an academic specialising in biology. He is an Associate Professor aligned to the Department of Psychology's Biocognition Unit, and the University's Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. His research primarily focuses on the study of the evolution of aggressive behaviour, including inves... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20disk%20and%20virtual%20drive | Virtual disk and virtual drive are software components that emulate an actual disk storage device.
Virtual disks and virtual drives are common components of virtual machines in hardware virtualization, but they are also widely used for various purposes unrelated to virtualization, such as for the creation of logical d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20unified%20method | The Oracle unified method (OUM), first released by Oracle Corporation in 2006, is a standards-based method with roots in the unified process (UP). OUM is business-process and use-case driven and includes support for the Unified Modeling Language (UML), though the use of UML is not required. OUM combines these standard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger%20M%C3%B8ller-Pedersen | Birger Møller-Pedersen (born 11 November 1949) is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Oslo, department of informatics. He published numerous works on object-oriented programming and has contributed to the creation of the BETA programming language, which is a descendant of Simula.
Academic work
Møl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20quadratic%20polynomial | A complex quadratic polynomial is a quadratic polynomial whose coefficients and variable are complex numbers.
Properties
Quadratic polynomials have the following properties, regardless of the form:
It is a unicritical polynomial, i.e. it has one finite critical point in the complex plane, Dynamical plane consist of m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Hombre%20chipset | Hombre is a RISC chipset for the Amiga, designed by Commodore, which was intended as the basis of a range of Amiga personal computers and multimedia products, including a successor to the Amiga 1200, a next generation game machine called CD64 and a 3D accelerator PCI card. Hombre was canceled along with the bankruptcy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TZSP | TaZmen Sniffer Protocol (TZSP) is an encapsulation protocol used to wrap other protocols. It is commonly used to wrap 802.11 wireless packets to support Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), wireless tracking, or other wireless applications.
Protocol Summary
A number of 802.11 sensors and Access Points use the TZSP proto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20bisimulation | In theoretical computer science, probabilistic bisimulation is an extension of the concept of bisimulation for fully probabilistic transition systems first described by K.G. Larsen and A. Skou.
A discrete probabilistic transition system is a triple
where gives the probability of starting in the state s, performin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20drive | Molecular drive is a term coined by Gabriel Dover in 1982 to describe evolutionary processes that change the genetic composition of a population through DNA turnover mechanisms. Molecular drive operates independently of natural selection and genetic drift.
The best-known such process is the concerted evolution of gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OurGrid | OurGrid is an opensource grid middleware based on a peer-to-peer architecture. OurGrid was mainly developed at the Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil), which has run an OurGrid instance named "OurGrid" since December 2004. Anyone can freely join it to gain access to large amount of computational power and run... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite%20alleles%20model | The infinite alleles model is a mathematical model for calculating genetic mutations. The Japanese geneticist Motoo Kimura and American geneticist James F. Crow (1964) introduced the infinite alleles model, an attempt to determine for a finite diploid population what proportion of loci would be homozygous. This was,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProSyst | ProSyst Software GmbH was founded in Cologne in 1997 as a company specializing in Java software and middleware. ProSyst's first commercial application was a Java EE application server. In 2000, the company sold this server technology and has since focused completely on OSGi solutions.
In 1999, ProSyst was among the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20rectifier | A mechanical rectifier is a device for converting alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) by means of mechanically operated switches. The best-known type is the commutator, which is an integral part of a DC dynamo, but before solid-state devices became available, independent mechanical rectifiers were used for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20materials-testing%20resources | Materials testing is used to assess product quality, functionality, safety, reliability and toxicity of both materials and electronic devices. Some applications of materials testing include defect detection, failure analysis, material development, basic materials science research, and the verification of material prope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20constraint | A binary constraint, in mathematical optimization, is a constraint that involves exactly two variables.
For example, consider the n-queens problem, where the goal is to place n chess queens on an n-by-n chessboard such that none of the queens can attack each other (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally). The forma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Riordan%20%28mathematician%29 | John Francis Riordan (April 22, 1903 – August 27, 1988) was an American mathematician and the author of major early works in combinatorics, particularly Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis and Combinatorial Identities.
Biography
Riordan was a graduate of Yale University. In his early life he wrote a number of poem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millioctave | The millioctave (moct) is a unit of measurement for musical intervals. As is expected from the prefix milli-, a millioctave is defined as 1/1000 of an octave. From this it follows that one millioctave is equal to the ratio 21/1000, the 1000th root of 2, or approximately 1.0006934 ().
Given two frequencies a and b, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kn%C3%B6del%20number | In number theory, an n-Knödel number for a given positive integer n is a composite number m with the property that each i < m coprime to m satisfies . The concept is named after Walter Knödel.
The set of all n-Knödel numbers is denoted Kn.
The special case K1 is the Carmichael numbers. There are infinitely many n-Knöd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20cryptosystem | In cryptography, a hybrid cryptosystem is one which combines the convenience of a public-key cryptosystem with the efficiency of a symmetric-key cryptosystem. Public-key cryptosystems are convenient in that they do not require the sender and receiver to share a common secret in order to communicate securely. However, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamabe%20problem | The Yamabe problem refers to a conjecture in the mathematical field of differential geometry, which was resolved in the 1980s. It is a statement about the scalar curvature of Riemannian manifolds:
By computing a formula for how the scalar curvature of relates to that of , this statement can be rephrased in the follow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NameBase | NameBase is a web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on individuals involved in the international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, crime, and business. The focus is on the post-World War II era and on left of center, conspiracy theory, and espionage activities up to 2008.
Overview
Founder D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontron | Kontron AG is a German-based multinational company which designs and manufactures embedded computer modules, boards and systems.
Kontron AG serves original equipment manufacturers, system integrators and application providers of different market segments (amongst others: Industrial automation, communications, transpor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20immunodiffusion | Radial immunodiffusion (RID), Mancini immunodiffusion or single radial immunodiffusion assay, is an immunodiffusion technique used in immunology to determine the quantity or concentration of an antigen in a sample.
Description
Preparation
A solution containing antibody is added to a heated medium such as agar or aga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCODE | A bCODE is an identifier that can be sent to a mobile phone/device and used as a ticket/voucher/identification or other type of token. The bCODE is an SMS message that can be read electronically from the screen of a mobile device. Bcodes can be sent by text message, and as they are just a standard SMS they can be rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome%20sign | A welcome sign (or gateway sign) is a road sign at the border of a jurisdiction or region that introduces or welcomes visitors to the city/county/state/province/prefecture/canton/region. Examples of welcome signs can be found near political borders, such as when entering a state, province, county, city, or town, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated%20error%20correction%20code | In coding theory, concatenated codes form a class of error-correcting codes that are derived by combining an inner code and an outer code. They were conceived in 1966 by Dave Forney as a solution to the problem of finding a code that has both exponentially decreasing error probability with increasing block length and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvesicle | Microvesicles (ectosomes, or microparticles) are a type of extracellular vesicle (EV) that are released from the cell membrane. In multicellular organisms, microvesicles and other EVs are found both in tissues (in the interstitial space between cells) and in many types of body fluids. Delimited by a phospholipid bilaye... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgalim | Orgalim (derived originally from the French Organisme de Liaison des Industries Métalliques Européennes) represents Europe's technology industries, comprising 770,000 companies spanning the mechanical, electrical and electronics, and metal technology branches. The industry employs about 11.19 million people in Europe, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20vehicular%20ad%20hoc%20network |
Intelligent vehicular ad hoc networks (InVANETs) use WiFi IEEE 802.11p (WAVE standard) and effective communication between vehicles with dynamic mobility. Effective measures such as media communication between vehicles can be enabled as well methods to track automotive vehicles. InVANET is not foreseen to replace cur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20server | Strictly, a private server is any machine or virtual machine used as a server that is privately administrated. Colloquially the term is nearly-exclusively used to refer to independently operated, unofficial servers for video games.
Private Servers (Broadly Defined)
As servers need adequate internet connection, power ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibull%20modulus | The Weibull modulus is a dimensionless parameter of the Weibull distribution which is used to describe variability in measured material strength of brittle materials.
For ceramics and other brittle materials, the maximum stress that a sample can be measured to withstand before failure may vary from specimen to specim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PS/ValuePoint | The PS/ValuePoint (or just ValuePoint) personal computer was IBM's answer to the PC clone market, where the IBM PS/2 could not compete due to price and proprietary interfaces. Announced in October 1992 and withdrawn in July 1995, it was replaced by the IBM PC Series 300.
Specifications and history
These systems used s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20%28engineering%29 | In engineering, a function is interpreted as a specific process, action or task that a system is able to perform.
In engineering design
In the lifecycle of engineering projects, there are usually distinguished subsequently: Requirements and Functional specification documents. The Requirements usually specifies the mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEO%20%28telecommunication%20company%29 | MEO is a mobile and fixed telecommunications service and brand from Altice Portugal (formerly Portugal Telecom), managed by MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia. The service was piloted in Lisbon in 2006 and was later extended to Porto and Castelo Branco.
History
MEO in its current form was founded in 2007 aft... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baum%E2%80%93Connes%20conjecture | In mathematics, specifically in operator K-theory, the Baum–Connes conjecture suggests a link between the K-theory of the reduced C*-algebra of a group and the K-homology of the classifying space of proper actions of that group. The conjecture sets up a correspondence between different areas of mathematics, with the K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PC%20Series | The Personal Computer Series, or PC Series, was IBM's follow-up to the Personal System/2 and PS/ValuePoint. Announced in October 1994 and withdrawn in October 2000, it was replaced by the IBM NetVista, apart from the Pentium Pro-based PC360 and PC365, which were replaced by the IBM IntelliStation.
Models
x86-based
P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Feng | Milton Feng co-created the first transistor laser, working with Nick Holonyak in 2004. The paper discussing their work was voted in 2006 as one of the five most important papers published by the American Institute of Physics since its founding 75 years ago. In addition to the invention of transistor laser, he is also w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20allocation%20vector | The network allocation vector (NAV) is a virtual carrier-sensing mechanism used with wireless network protocols such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and IEEE 802.16 (WiMax). The virtual carrier-sensing is a logical abstraction which limits the need for physical carrier-sensing at the air interface in order to save power. The MA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripe%20Digital%20Entertainment | Ripe Digital Entertainment (RDE) was an on-demand digital entertainment company with video on demand components on several platforms. RDE was founded by CEO Ryan Magnussen.
Networks
Ripe's 'networks', which consisted of Ripe TV, Octane TV and Flow TV were delivered over multiple platform. Ripe TV, launched in Octob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse%20plug | A fuse plug is a collapsible dam installed on spillways in dams to increase the dam's capacity.
The principle behind the fuse plug is that the majority of water that overflows a dam's spillway can be safely dammed except in high flood conditions. The fuse plug may be a sand-filled container, a steel structure or a co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC%20XO | The OLPC XO (formerly known as $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, 2B1) is a low cost laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning). The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etest | Etest (previously known as the Epsilometer test) is a way of determining antimicrobial sensitivity by placing a strip impregnated with antimicrobials onto an agar plate. A strain of bacterium or fungus will not grow near a concentration of antibiotic or antifungal if it is sensitive. For some microbial and antimicrobi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RespOrg | A RespOrg, or responsible organization, is a company that maintains the registration for individual toll-free telephone numbers In the North American Numbering Plan by means of the distributed Service Management System/800 database.
RespOrgs were established in 1993 as part of a Federal Communications Commission order... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITerating | ITerating was a Wiki-based software guide, where users could find, compare and give reviews to software products. As of January 2021 the domain is listed as being for sale and the website no longer on-line. Founded in October 2005, and based in New York, ITerating was created by CEO Nicolas Vandenberghe, who saw that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copypasta | A copypasta is a block of text copied and pasted to the internet and social media. Copypasta containing controversial ideas or lengthy rants are often posted for humorous purposes, to provoke reactions from those unaware that the posted text is a meme.
History
The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABA%20receptor%20antagonist | GABA receptor antagonists are drugs that inhibit the action of GABA. In general these drugs produce stimulant and convulsant effects, and are mainly used for counteracting overdoses of sedative drugs.
Examples include bicuculline, securinine and metrazol, and the benzodiazepine GABAA receptor antagonist flumazenil.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone |
Linphone (contraction of Linux phone) is a free voice over IP softphone, SIP client and service. It may be used for audio and video direct calls and calls through any VoIP softswitch or IP-PBX. Linphone also provides the possibility to exchange instant messages. It has a simple multilanguage interface based on Qt for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%20integral | In mathematics, the Weyl integral (named after Hermann Weyl) is an operator defined, as an example of fractional calculus, on functions f on the unit circle having integral 0 and a Fourier series. In other words there is a Fourier series for f of the form
with a0 = 0.
Then the Weyl integral operator of order s is ... |
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Principle of operation
Ions that hit the doorknob release secondary elec... |
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Software suite
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By eliminating the need for manual score-keeping, these systems have introduced new bowlers in... |
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Examples of relevant processes
Climate processes largely control the distribution, size, shape and p... |
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History
The Asia Sentinel was founded in Hong Kong in August 2006 by four journalists from the United Kingdo... |
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