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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density%20dependence
In population ecology, density-dependent processes occur when population growth rates are regulated by the density of a population. This article will focus on density dependence in the context of macroparasite life cycles. Positive density-dependence Positive density-dependence, density-dependent facilitation, or the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20complex
In mathematics, specifically Homological algebra, a double complex is a generalization of a chain complex where instead of having a -grading, the objects in the bicomplex have a -grading. The most general definition of a double complex, or a bicomplex, is given with objects in an additive category . A bicomplex is a se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20ammonium%20salts%20of%20phosphorylated%20glycerides
The mix of ammonium salts of phosphorylated glycerides can be either made synthetically or from mixture of glycerol and partially hardened plant (most often used: rapeseed oil) oils. Applications It is most often used in chocolate industry as an emulsifier, often as alternative to lecithin. Properties At room tempe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose%20acetate%20isobutyrate
Sucrose acetoisobutyrate (SAIB) is an emulsifier and has E number E444. In the United States, SAIB is categorized as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) as a food additive in cocktail mixers, beer, malt beverages, or wine coolers and is a potential replacement for brominated vegetable oil. Chemistry SAIB can be prep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priam%20Corporation
Priam Corporation was a company located in San Jose, California, founded in 1978 by William Schroeder and Al Wilson, two former Memorex executives, as a manufacturer of hard disk drives. Originally, they made high-capacity 14-inch drives, developed for mainframe computers, available for minicomputers and high-end works...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Institute%20of%20Graduate%20Studies
The Wang Institute of Graduate Studies was an independent educational institution founded in 1979 by computer entrepreneur An Wang. Its purpose was to provide professional and continuing studies in the nascent field of software engineering. It was accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges in 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin%20recognition
Kin recognition, also called kin detection, is an organism's ability to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin. In evolutionary biology and psychology, such an ability is presumed to have evolved for inbreeding avoidance, though animals do not typically avoid inbreeding. An additional adaptive function some...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductive%20dual%20pair
In the mathematical field of representation theory, a reductive dual pair is a pair of subgroups (G, G′) of the isometry group Sp(W) of a symplectic vector space W, such that G is the centralizer of G′ in Sp(W) and vice versa, and these groups act reductively on W. Somewhat more loosely, one speaks of a dual pair whene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D37D
The D37D Minuteman III flight computer was initially supplied with the LGM-30G missile, as part of the NS-20 navigation system. The NS-20 D37D flight computer is a miniaturized general purpose (serial transmission) digital computer. The new NS-50 missile guidance computer (MGC) is built around a 16-bit high-speed micro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase%20cycling%20assembly
Polymerase cycling assembly (or PCA, also known as Assembly PCR) is a method for the assembly of large DNA oligonucleotides from shorter fragments. The process uses the same technology as PCR, but takes advantage of DNA hybridization and annealing as well as DNA polymerase to amplify a complete sequence of DNA in a pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry%20algebras%20in%201%20%2B%201%20dimensions
A two dimensional Minkowski space, i.e. a flat space with one time and one spatial dimension, has a two-dimensional Poincaré group IO(1,1) as its symmetry group. The respective Lie algebra is called the Poincaré algebra. It is possible to extend this algebra to a supersymmetry algebra, which is a -graded Lie superalgeb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20%28category%20theory%29
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the center (or Drinfeld center, after Soviet-American mathematician Vladimir Drinfeld) is a variant of the notion of the center of a monoid, group, or ring to a category. Definition The center of a monoidal category , denoted , is the category whose objects are pairs (A,u)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%20Paul%20Henry
Desmond Paul Henry (1921–2004) was a Manchester University Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy (1949–82). He was one of the first British artists to experiment with machine-generated visual effects at the time of the emerging global computer art movement of the 1960s (The Cambridge Encyclopaedia 1990 p. 289; Levy 2006 pp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stearyl%20palmityl%20tartrate
Stearyl palmityl tartrate is a derivative of tartaric acid used as an emulsifier. It is produced by esterification of tartaric acid with commercial grade stearyl alcohol, which generally consists of a mixture of the fatty alcohols stearyl and palmityl alcohol. Stearyl palmityl tartrate consists mainly of diesters, with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20inosinate
Calcium inosinate is a calcium salt of the nucleoside inosine. Under the E number E633, it is a food additive used as a flavor enhancer. Calcium compounds Flavor enhancers Food additives Nucleotides Purines E-number additives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20permeability%20specific%20surface
The air permeability specific surface of a powder material is a single-parameter measurement of the fineness of the powder. The specific surface is derived from the resistance to flow of air (or some other gas) through a porous bed of the powder. The SI units are m2·kg−1 ("mass specific surface") or m2·m−3 ("volume s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20IntelliStation
The IntelliStation is a family of workstations developed by IBM and first released in March 1997 as the follow-on to the PC Series 360 and 365. Certain IntelliStation M Pro Series were near hardware identical to low end IBM Netfinity 1000 Series network servers (with variants in included video cards and SCSI options). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature-tagged%20mutagenesis
Signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) is a genetic technique used to study gene function. Recent advances in genome sequencing have allowed us to catalogue a large variety of organisms' genomes, but the function of the genes they contain is still largely unknown. Using STM, the function of the product of a particular gene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles%20of%20astronomical%20bodies
The poles of astronomical bodies are determined based on their axis of rotation in relation to the celestial poles of the celestial sphere. Astronomical bodies include stars, planets, dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies such as comets and minor planets (e.g., asteroids), as well as natural satellites and minor-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user%20MIMO
Multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) is a set of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technologies for multipath wireless communication, in which multiple users or terminals, each radioing over one or more antennas, communicate with one another. In contrast, single-user MIMO (SU-MIMO) involves a single multi-antenna-equipped...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-interference%20ratio
The signal-to-interference ratio (SIR or S/I), also known as the carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR or C/I), is the quotient between the average received modulated carrier power S or C and the average received co-channel interference power I, i.e. crosstalk, from other transmitters than the useful signal. The CIR res...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20function
In mathematics, auxiliary functions are an important construction in transcendental number theory. They are functions that appear in most proofs in this area of mathematics and that have specific, desirable properties, such as taking the value zero for many arguments, or having a zero of high order at some point. Def...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeckOS
GeckOS is a multitasking operating system for MOS 6502, and compatible processors such as the MOS 6510. The GeckOS operating system is one of the few successful attempts to implement a Unix-like operating system on the 6502 architecture. Overview The system offers some Unix-like functionality including pre-emptive mu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal%20Fibonacci%20constant
The reciprocal Fibonacci constant, or ψ, is defined as the sum of the reciprocals of the Fibonacci numbers: The ratio of successive terms in this sum tends to the reciprocal of the golden ratio. Since this is less than 1, the ratio test shows that the sum converges. The value of ψ is known to be approximately . Go...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipative%20soliton
Dissipative solitons (DSs) are stable solitary localized structures that arise in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization. They can be considered as an extension of the classical soliton concept in conservative systems. An alternative terminology includes autosolitons, sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20regulation
Load regulation is the capability to maintain a constant voltage (or current) level on the output channel of a power supply despite changes in the supply's load (such as a change in resistance value connected across the supply output). Definitions Load regulation of a constant-voltage source is defined by the equatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20regulation
Line regulation is the ability of a power supply to maintain a constant output voltage despite changes to the input voltage, with the output current drawn from the power supply remaining constant. where ΔVi is the change in input voltage while ΔVo is the corresponding change in output voltage. It is desirable for a p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20H.%20Coulter%20Department%20of%20Biomedical%20Engineering
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering is a department in the Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Engineering, and Peking University College of Engineering dedicated to the study of and research in biomedical engineering, and is named after the pioneer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20panel
A Projection panel (also called overhead display or LCD panel) is a device that, although no longer in production, was used as a data projector is today. It works with an overhead projector. The panel consists of a translucent LCD, and a fan to keep it cool. The projection panel sits on the bed of the overhead project...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20power%20inequality
In information theory, the entropy power inequality (EPI) is a result that relates to so-called "entropy power" of random variables. It shows that the entropy power of suitably well-behaved random variables is a superadditive function. The entropy power inequality was proved in 1948 by Claude Shannon in his seminal pap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20angle%20problem
Clock angle problems are a type of mathematical problem which involve finding the angle between the hands of an analog clock. Math problem Clock angle problems relate two different measurements: angles and time. The angle is typically measured in degrees from the mark of number 12 clockwise. The time is usually based ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaroom
Mediaroom is a collection of software for operators to deliver IPTV (IPTV) subscription services, including content-protected, live, digital video recorder, video on demand, multiscreen, and applications. These services can be delivered via a range of devices inside and outside customers' homes, including wired and Wi-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20DevOps%20Server
Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)) is a Microsoft product that provides version control (either with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git), reporting, requirements management, project management (for both agile software development and waterfall tea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Blass
Andreas Raphael Blass (born October 27, 1947) is a mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Michigan. He works in mathematical logic, particularly set theory, and theoretical computer science. Blass graduated from the University of Detroit, where he was a Putnam Fellow in 1965, in 1966 with a B.S. in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20space
In mathematical psychology and education theory, a knowledge space is a combinatorial structure used to formulate mathematical models describing the progression of a human learner. Knowledge spaces were introduced in 1985 by Jean-Paul Doignon and Jean-Claude Falmagne, and remain in extensive use in the education theor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20Convention%20Office
Canada's Biodiversity Convention Office (BCO) serves as National Focal Point for the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy. BCO also provides a leadership role in the Biodiversity Conservation Working Group of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and in the Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu%20wavelet
The Mathieu equation is a linear second-order differential equation with periodic coefficients. The French mathematician, E. Léonard Mathieu, first introduced this family of differential equations, nowadays termed Mathieu equations, in his “Memoir on vibrations of an elliptic membrane” in 1868. "Mathieu functions are a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netgear%20MP101
The Netgear MP101 was the first of a series of digital media receivers by Netgear. Family history The Netgear MP101's family also includes other devices such as the MP115, the EVA700 and, the EVA8000. Appearance The Netgear MP101 is a small brushed silver unit that can provide a link between a PC-based MP3 collection...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrintableString
A PrintableString is a restricted character string type in the ASN.1 notation. It is used to describe data that consists only of a specific printable subset of the ASCII character set. According to the ASN.1 Specification of basic notation, the character set of PrintableString can be expressed as: The PrintableString...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20problem
The r-to-1 collision problem is an important theoretical problem in complexity theory, quantum computing, and computational mathematics. The collision problem most often refers to the 2-to-1 version: given even and a function , we are promised that f is either 1-to-1 or 2-to-1. We are only allowed to make queries abou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20AntiBot
Norton AntiBot, developed by Symantec, monitored applications for damaging behavior. The application was designed to prevent computers from being hijacked and controlled by hackers. According to Symantec, over 6 million computers have been hijacked, and the majority of users are unaware of their computers being hacked....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20subspace
In signal processing, signal subspace methods are empirical linear methods for dimensionality reduction and noise reduction. These approaches have attracted significant interest and investigation recently in the context of speech enhancement, speech modeling, and speech classification research. The signal subspace is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panavision%20cameras
Panavision has been a manufacturer of cameras for the motion picture industry since the 1950s, beginning with anamorphic widescreen lenses. The lightweight Panaflex is credited with revolutionizing filmmaking. Other influential cameras include the Millennium XL and the digital video Genesis. Panavision Silent Reflex ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantangara%20Dam
Tantangara Dam is a major ungated concrete gravity dam with concrete chute spillway across the Murrumbidgee River in Tantangara, upstream of Adaminaby in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia. The dam is part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20executive
A cyclic executive is an alternative to a real-time operating system. It is a form of cooperative multitasking, in which there is only one task. The sole task is typically realized as an infinite loop in main(), e.g. in C. The basic scheme is to cycle through a repeating sequence of activities, at a set frequency (A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous%20satellite
A geosynchronous satellite is a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, with an orbital period the same as the Earth's rotation period. Such a satellite returns to the same position in the sky after each sidereal day, and over the course of a day traces out a path in the sky that is typically some form of analemma. A specia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octacube%20%28sculpture%29
The Octacube is a large, stainless steel sculpture displayed in the mathematics department of Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. The sculpture represents a mathematical object called the 24-cell or "octacube". Because a real 24-cell is four-dimensional, the artwork is actually a projection into the thr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaccio%27s%20glands
Ciaccio's glands or Wolfring's glands are small tubular accessory lacrimal glands (glandulae lacrimales accessoriae) found in the lacrimal caruncle of the eyelid. These accessory lacrimal glands are located in the upper border of the tarsus, approximately in the middle between the extremities of the tarsal glands. Some...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Engineers%2C%20Columbia%20Detachment
The Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers was a contingent of the Royal Engineers of the British Army that was responsible for the foundation of British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–66). It was commanded by Colonel Richard Clement Moody, FICE FRGS RIBA, Kt. (France). British Columbia Selectio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Henry%20Burgess
George Henry Burgess (8 June 1831 – 22 April 1905) was an English American painter, wood engraver and lithographer. In London, he received training in lithography. With two other brothers preceding them, in 1850 Burgess traveled to California in the company of his brother Charles. Once there, the Burgess brothers set u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid-tie%20inverter
A grid-tie inverter converts direct current (DC) into an alternating current (AC) suitable for injecting into an electrical power grid, normally 120 V RMS at 60 Hz or 240 V RMS at 50 Hz. Grid-tie inverters are used between local electrical power generators: solar panel, wind turbine, hydro-electric, and the grid. To i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krause%27s%20glands
Krause's glands or Krause glands are small, mucous accessory lacrimal glands that are found underneath the eyelid where the upper and lower conjunctivae meet. Their ducts unite into a rather long sinus which open into the fornix conjunctiva. There are approximately forty Krause glands in the region of the upper eyelid,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20sentence
In mathematics education, a number sentence is an equation or inequality expressed using numbers and mathematical symbols. The term is used in primary level mathematics teaching in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Usage The term is used as means of asking students to write down equations us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gland%20of%20Zeis
Glands of Zeis are unilobar sebaceous glands located on the margin of the eyelid. The glands of Zeis service the eyelash. These glands produce an oily substance that is issued through the excretory ducts of the sebaceous lobule into the middle portion of the hair follicle. In the same area of the eyelid, near the base ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oden%20Institute%20for%20Computational%20Engineering%20and%20Sciences
The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences is an interdisciplinary research unit and graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin dedicated to advancing computational science and engineering through a variety of programs and research centers. The Institute currently supports 16 research cen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%20plastometer
The cam plastometer is a physical testing machine. It measures the resistance of non-brittle materials to compressive deformation at constant true-strain rates. In this way, it can be compared a bit to the Gleeble®. In the early days, the machine operates at relatively low strain rates, but over time it has been enhanc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADiations%20Effects%20on%20Components%20and%20Systems
The RADECS association is a non-profit professional organization that promotes basic and applied research in the field of radiation and its effects on materials, components and systems. The acronym RADECS stands for "RADiations Effects on Components and Systems. History The first “Radiation and its Effects on Compone...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD4%20immunoadhesin
CD4 immunoadhesin is a recombinant fusion protein consisting of a combination of CD4 and the fragment crystallizable region, similarly known as immunoglobulin. It belongs to the antibody (Ig) gene family. CD4 is a surface receptor for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The CD4 immunoadhesin molecular fusion allow the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20debt
In software development, or any other IT field (e.g., Infrastructure, Networking, etc.) technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is the implied cost of future reworking required when choosing an easy but limited solution instead of a better approach that could take more time. Analogous with monetary deb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20Talkies
Water Talkies are devices which makes talking underwater possible. They were invented by Richie Stachowski, Jr. in 1995 at age 11. It is a colorful, cone-shaped device that amplifies voices underwater for up to . What started as one product turned into a company producing water toys "made by a kid for kids" - a line o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moll%27s%20gland
Moll's gland, also known as the gland of Moll or ciliary gland, is a modified apocrine sweat gland that is found on the margin of the eyelid. They are next to the base of the eyelashes, and anterior to the meibomian glands within the distal eyelid margin. These glands are relatively large and tubular-shaped. The gland...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti%20Orion
The Orion was a mid-range mainframe computer introduced by Ferranti in 1959 and installed for the first time in 1961. Ferranti positioned Orion to be their primary offering during the early 1960s, complementing their high-end Atlas and smaller systems like the Sirius and Argus. The Orion was based on a new type of logi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%E2%80%93Tolman%20effect
The Stewart–Tolman effect is a phenomenon in electrodynamics caused by the finite mass of electrons in conducting metal, or, more generally, the finite mass of charge carriers in an electrical conductor. It is named after T. Dale Stewart and Richard C. Tolman, two American physicists who carried out their experimental...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste%20receptor
A taste receptor or tastant is a type of cellular receptor which facilitates the sensation of taste. When food or other substances enter the mouth, molecules interact with saliva and are bound to taste receptors in the oral cavity and other locations. Molecules which give a sensation of taste are considered "sapid". V...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20application%20security%20testing
A dynamic application security testing (DAST) is a non functional testing process where one can assess an application using certain techniques and the end result of such testing process covers security weaknesses and vulnerabilities present in an application. This testing process can be carried out either in manual way...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20on%20module
A system on a module (SoM) is a board-level circuit that integrates a system function in a single module. It may integrate digital and analog functions on a single board. A typical application is in the area of embedded systems. Unlike a single-board computer, a SoM serves a special function like a system on a chip (S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20buffer
In computer science, a circular buffer, circular queue, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end. This structure lends itself easily to buffering data streams. There were early circular buffer implementations in hardware. Overview A cir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%20%28microarchitecture%29
Tesla is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2006, as the successor to Curie microarchitecture. It was named after the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. As Nvidia's first microarchitecture to implement unified shaders, it was used with GeForce 8 Series, GeForce 9 Ser...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyad
In mathematics, polyad is a concept of category theory introduced by Jean Bénabou in generalising monads. A polyad in a bicategory D is a bicategory morphism Φ from a locally punctual bicategory C to D, . (A bicategory C is called locally punctual if all hom-categories C(X,Y) consist of one object and one morphism only...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20microarray
A cellular microarray (or cell microarray) is a laboratory tool that allows for the multiplex interrogation of living cells on the surface of a solid support. The support, sometimes called a "chip", is spotted with varying materials, such as antibodies, proteins, or lipids, which can interact with the cells, leading t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretchable%20electronics
Stretchable electronics, also known as elastic electronics or elastic circuits, is a group of technologies for building electronic circuits by depositing or embedding electronic devices and circuits onto stretchable substrates such as silicones or polyurethanes, to make a completed circuit that can experience large str...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20E.%20Hart
Peter E. Hart (born 1941) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He was chairman and president of Ricoh Innovations, which he founded in 1997. He made significant contributions in the field of computer science in a series of widely cited publications from the years 1967–75 while associated with the Artific...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28operating%20system%29
Pilot is a single-user, multitasking operating system designed by Xerox PARC in early 1977. Pilot was written in the Mesa programming language, totalling about 24,000 lines of code. Overview Pilot was designed as a single user system in a highly networked environment of other Pilot systems, with interfaces designed f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic%20programming
A nondeterministic programming language is a language which can specify, at certain points in the program (called "choice points"), various alternatives for program flow. Unlike an if-then statement, the method of choice between these alternatives is not directly specified by the programmer; the program must decide at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Identity%20Management
Oracle Identity Management, a software suite marketed by Oracle Corporation, provides identity and access management (IAM) technologies. The name of the software suite closely resembles the name of one of its components, Oracle Identity Manager. Components Sun rebranding After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, they...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diallel%20cross
A diallel cross is a mating scheme used by plant and animal breeders, as well as geneticists, to investigate the genetic underpinnings of quantitative traits. In a full diallel, all parents are crossed to make hybrids in all possible combinations. Variations include half diallels with and without parents, omitting rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20instruction%20set%20computing
No instruction set computing (NISC) is a computing architecture and compiler technology for designing highly efficient custom processors and hardware accelerators by allowing a compiler to have low-level control of hardware resources. Overview NISC is a statically scheduled horizontal nanocoded architecture (SSHNA). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Verification%20Library
Open Verification Library (OVL) is a library of property checkers for digital circuit descriptions written in popular Hardware Description Languages (HDLs). OVL is currently maintained by Accellera. Applications OVL works by placing modules or components checking specific properties of the circuit alongside regular mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis5D
Vis5D is a 3D visualization system used primarily for animated 3D visualization of weather simulations. It was the first system to produce fully interactive animated 3D displays of time-dynamic volumetric data sets and the first open source 3D visualization system. It is GNU GPL licensed. Design Vis5D was created in r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx%20Software%20Technologies
Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. (formerly LynuxWorks) is a San Jose, California software company founded in 1988. Lynx specializes in secure virtualization and open, reliable, certifiable real-time operating systems (RTOSes). Originally known as Lynx Real-Time Systems, the company changed its name to LynuxWorks in 200...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI%20beat%20clock
MIDI beat clock, or simply MIDI clock, is a clock signal that is broadcast via MIDI to ensure that several MIDI-enabled devices such as a synthesizer or music sequencer stay in synchronization. Clock events are sent at a rate of 24 pulses per quarter note. Those pulses are used to maintain a synchronized tempo for synt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyconvex%20function
In mathematics, the notion of polyconvexity is a generalization of the notion of convexity for functions defined on spaces of matrices. Let Mm×n(K) denote the space of all m × n matrices over the field K, which may be either the real numbers R, or the complex numbers C. A function f : Mm×n(K) → R ∪ {±∞} is said to be p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF%20and%20microwave%20filter
Radio frequency (RF) and microwave filters represent a class of electronic filter, designed to operate on signals in the megahertz to gigahertz frequency ranges (medium frequency to extremely high frequency). This frequency range is the range used by most broadcast radio, television, wireless communication (cellphones,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck%20%28software%29
In software engineering, a bottleneck occurs when the capacity of an application or a computer system is limited by a single component, like the neck of a bottle slowing down the overall water flow. The bottleneck has the lowest throughput of all parts of the transaction path. System designers try to avoid bottleneck...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20gene%20synthesis
Artificial gene synthesis, or simply gene synthesis, refers to a group of methods that are used in synthetic biology to construct and assemble genes from nucleotides de novo. Unlike DNA synthesis in living cells, artificial gene synthesis does not require template DNA, allowing virtually any DNA sequence to be synthesi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20PureVideo
PureVideo is Nvidia's hardware SIP core that performs video decoding. PureVideo is integrated into some of the Nvidia GPUs, and it supports hardware decoding of multiple video codec standards: MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264, HEVC, and AV1. PureVideo occupies a considerable amount of a GPU's die area and should not be confused wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20rights%20management
Information rights management (IRM) is a subset of digital rights management (DRM), technologies that protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. It is sometimes referred to as E-DRM or Enterprise Digital Rights Management. This can cause confusion, because digital rights management (DRM) technologies are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20Portable%20system%20software
The PlayStation Portable system software is the official firmware for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). It uses the XrossMediaBar (XMB) as its user interface, similar to the PlayStation 3 console. Updates Updates add new functionality as well as security patches to prevent unsigned code from being executed on the syst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20engineering%20law
Environmental engineering law is a profession that requires an expertise in both environmental engineering and law. This field includes professionals with both a legal and environmental engineering education. This dual educational requirement is typically satisfied through an ABET accredited degree in environmental eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20calculus
Rod calculus or rod calculation was the mechanical method of algorithmic computation with counting rods in China from the Warring States to Ming dynasty before the counting rods were increasingly replaced by the more convenient and faster abacus. Rod calculus played a key role in the development of Chinese mathematics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitascan
Vitascan (sometimes alternately spelled VitaScan) was an early color television camera system developed by American television equipment manufacturer DuMont Laboratories. Development began in 1949 and the product was released on an experimental basis in 1956. Vitascan was fully compatible with the NTSC color system, an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Communication%20Slot
The Apple Communication Slot, or Comm Slot, is an internal expansion data interface (slot) found in Apple Macintosh computers from the early to mid-1990s. It was designed as an inexpensive way to add communication expansion cards like network adapters or modems to Macs and Power Macs. The slot exists in two forms. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20perception
Machine perception is the capability of a computer system to interpret data in a manner that is similar to the way humans use their senses to relate to the world around them. The basic method that the computers take in and respond to their environment is through the attached hardware. Until recently input was limited ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Link%20Aggregation%20Control%20Protocol
Virtual LACP (VLACP) is an Avaya extension of the Link Aggregation Control Protocol to provide a Layer 2 handshaking protocol which can detect end-to-end failure between two physical Ethernet interfaces. It allows the switch to detect unidirectional or bi-directional link failures irrespective of intermediary devices a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20system%20Wi-Fi%20support
Operating system Wi-Fi support is the support in the operating system for Wi-Fi and usually consists of two pieces: driver level support, and configuration and management support. Driver support is usually provided by multiple manufacturers of the chip set hardware or end manufacturers. Also available are Unix clones ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20Dark%20%28P2P%29
is a peer-to-peer file-sharing (P2P) application from Japan designed for use with Microsoft Windows. It was launched in 2006. Its author is known by the pseudonym . Perfect Dark was developed with the intention for it to be the successor to both Winny and Share software. While Japan's Association for Copyright of Comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident%20laser
The Trident Laser was a high power, sub-petawatt class, solid-state laser facility located at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL website), in Los Alamos, New Mexico, originally built in the late 1980s for Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research by KMS Fusion, founded by Kip Siegel, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility%20%28finance%29
In finance, volatility (usually denoted by σ) is the degree of variation of a trading price series over time, usually measured by the standard deviation of logarithmic returns. Historic volatility measures a time series of past market prices. Implied volatility looks forward in time, being derived from the market pri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity%20%28philosophy%29
In philosophy and theology, infinity is explored in articles under headings such as the Absolute, God, and Zeno's paradoxes. In Greek philosophy, for example in Anaximander, 'the Boundless' is the origin of all that is. He took the beginning or first principle to be an endless, unlimited primordial mass (ἄπειρον, apei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterSwitch%20Trunk
InterSwitch Trunk (IST) is one or more parallel point-to-point links (Link aggregation) that connect two switches together to create a single logical switch. The IST allows the two switches to share addressing information, forwarding tables, and state information, permitting rapid (less than one second) fault detectio...