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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maziacs | Maziacs is an action adventure maze game published by DK'Tronics in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and MSX.
History
Maziacs, written by Don Priestley, was based on his earlier ZX81 game Mazogs which was published by Bug-Byte in 1982. Mazogs was one of the most successful ZX81 games so Don Priestley adapted it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Rights%20Ireland | Digital Rights Ireland is a digital rights advocacy and lobbying group based in Ireland. The group works for civil liberties in a digital age.
Telecommunications data retention
In 2012, the group brought an action before the Irish High Court, which subsequently made a reference to the Court of Justice of the European... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20part%20and%20content | In algebra, the content of a nonzero polynomial with integer coefficients (or, more generally, with coefficients in a unique factorization domain) is the greatest common divisor of its coefficients. The primitive part of such a polynomial is the quotient of the polynomial by its content. Thus a polynomial is the produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20topology | In any domain of mathematics, a space has a natural topology if there is a topology on the space which is "best adapted" to its study within the domain in question. In many cases this imprecise definition means little more than the assertion that the topology in question arises naturally or canonically (see mathematica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode%20and%20HTML%20for%20the%20Hebrew%20alphabet | The Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet are found in the following tables. The Unicode Hebrew block extends from U+0590 to U+05FF and from U+FB1D to U+FB4F. It includes letters, ligatures, combining diacritical marks (niqqud and cantillation marks) and punctuation. The Numeric Character References are included fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DailyMed | DailyMed is a website operated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) to publish up-to-date and accurate drug labels (also called a "package insert") to health care providers and the general public. The contents of DailyMed is provided and updated daily by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay%20brackets | Macaulay brackets are a notation used to describe the ramp function
A popular alternative transcription uses angle brackets, viz. .
Another commonly used notation is + or + for the positive part of , which avoids conflicts with for set notation.
In engineering
Macaulay's notation is commonly used in the static ana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Intelligent%20Cluster | The IBM Intelligent Cluster was a cluster solution for x86-based high-performance computing composed primarily of IBM (System x, BladeCenter and System Storage) components, integrated with network switches from various vendors and optional high-performance InfiniBand interconnects.
History
The solution was formerly kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically%20modified%20plant | Genetically modified plants have been engineered for scientific research, to create new colours in plants, deliver vaccines, and to create enhanced crops. Plant genomes can be engineered by physical methods or by use of Agrobacterium for the delivery of sequences hosted in T-DNA binary vectors. Many plant cells are pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade%20algorithm | In the mathematical topic of wavelet theory, the cascade algorithm is a numerical method for calculating function values of the basic scaling and wavelet functions of a discrete wavelet transform using an iterative algorithm. It starts from values on a coarse sequence of sampling points and produces values for successi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%CF%80%20theorem | In mathematics, the theorem of Gromov and Thurston states a sufficient condition for Dehn filling on a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold to result in a negatively curved 3-manifold.
Let be a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold. Disjoint horoball neighborhoods of each cusp can be selected. The boundaries of these neighborhoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2011992 | ISO 11992 is a CAN based vehicle bus standard by the heavy duty truck industry. It is used for communication between the tractor and one or more trailers. Its full title is "Road vehicles -- Interchange of digital information on electrical connections between towing and towed vehicles".
The protocol structure is simil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20time%20duty | The short time duty (or short time operation) indicates an operating mode of increased performance but for a shorter length of time. Commonly it is also referred to the maximum load (the performance) at which and the related maximum length of time a device can be operated without to failure.
Device applications
The lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre-to-centre%20distance | Centre-to-centre distance (c.t.c. distance or ctc distance) is a concept for distances, also called on-center spacing (o.c. spacing or oc spacing), heart distance, and pitch.
It is the distance between the centre (the heart) of a column and the centre (the heart) of another column. By expressing a distance in c.t.c., ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWsoft | SWsoft was a privately held server automation and virtualization software company and the parent company of Parallels. SWsoft developed software for running data centers, particularly for web-hosting services companies, application service providers, and managed service providers. SWsoft products included applications ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM%20Multiuser%20Benchmark | The AIM Multiuser Benchmark, also called the AIM Benchmark Suite VII or AIM7, is a job throughput benchmark widely used by UNIX computer system vendors. Current research operating systems such as K42 use
the reaim
form of the benchmark for performance analysis.
The AIM7 benchmark measures some of the same things as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20migration | System migration involves moving a set of instructions or programs, e.g., PLC (programmable logic controller) programs, from one platform to another, minimizing reengineering.
Migration of systems can also involve downtime, while the old system is replaced with a new one.
Migration can be from a mainframe computer w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat%20%28microarchitecture%29 | The AMD Bobcat Family 14h is a microarchitecture created by AMD for its AMD APUs, aimed at a low-power/low-cost market.
It was revealed during a speech from AMD executive vice-president Henri Richard in Computex 2007 and was put into production Q1 2011. One of the major supporters was executive vice-president Mario A.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINA%20%28software%29 | LINA was a piece of open-source software that enabled users to run applications compiled for Linux under Windows and Mac OS X with a native look and feel. Version 1.00 beta1 was released in October 2009 and was available at the Open Lina web site. However, that domain is now up for sale.
Release
The latest binary vers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Modeling%20Framework | P-Modeling Framework is a package of guidelines, methods, tools and templates for the development process improvement. P-Modeling framework can be integrated into any other SDLC in use, e.g., MSF Agile, MSF CMMI, RUP, etc.
History
The origins of P-Modeling Framework come from "The Babel Experiment" designed by Vladi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatological%20Observers%20Link | The Climatological Observers Link (COL) was founded in 1970 by a small group of amateur meteorologists following the exchange of correspondence in the magazine Weather - published by
The Royal Meteorological Society. It is the largest enthusiasts' weather observer network within the United Kingdom. The organisation ai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-Trust | WS-Trust is a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security, specifically dealing with the issuing, renewing, and validating of security tokens, as well as with ways to establish, assess the presence of, and broker trust relationships between participants in a secure message exchange.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic%20digestion | Aerobic digestion is a process in sewage treatment designed to reduce the volume of sewage sludge and make it suitable for subsequent use. More recently, technology has been developed that allows the treatment and reduction of other organic waste, such as food, cardboard and horticultural waste.
It is a bacterial proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20SteadyState | Windows SteadyState (formerly Shared Computer Toolkit) is a discontinued freeware tool developed by Microsoft that gives administrators enhanced options for configuring shared computers, such as hard drive protection and advanced user management. It is primarily designed for use on computers shared by many people, such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMOS%20logic | PMOS or pMOS logic (from p-channel metal–oxide–semiconductor) is a family of digital circuits based on p-channel, enhancement mode metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). In the late 1960s and early 1970s, PMOS logic was the dominant semiconductor technology for large-scale integrated circuits be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhaanu | Sandhaanu (meaning Throne in English) was an online political news magazine in the Maldives. It was launched in 1999. Its main editor Ahmed Didi together with his main contributors Ibrahim Lutfy and Mohamed Zaki were sentenced to life in prison while another editor (Fathimath Nisreen) to 10 years in prison in 2003 for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerbango | Kerbango was both a company acquired by 3Com and its lead product. Kerbango was founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley by former executives from Apple Computer and Power Computing Corporation. On June 27, 2000, 3Com announced it was acquiring the Kerbango company in an $80 million deal. As part of the deal, Kerbango's CEO,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Eclipse-based%20software | The Eclipse IDE platform can be extended by adding different plug-ins. Notable examples include:
Acceleo, an open source code generator that uses EMF-based models to generate any textual language (Java, PHP, Python, etc.).
Actifsource, a modeling and code generation workbench.
Adobe ColdFusion Builder, the official... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelasticity | Ferroelasticity is a phenomenon in which a material may exhibit a spontaneous strain. Usually, a crystal has two or more stable orientational states in the absence of mechanical stress or electric field, i.e. remanent states, and can be reproducibly switched between states by the application of mechanical stress. In fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%20tunnel | HTTP tunneling is used to create a network link between two computers in conditions of restricted network connectivity including firewalls, NATs and ACLs, among other restrictions. The tunnel is created by an intermediary called a proxy server which is usually located in a DMZ.
Tunneling can also allow communication u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%C5%9Fi%20S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk | Ekşi Sözlük (; "Sour Dictionary", stylized as ekşi sözlük) is a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkish based on the concept of Web sites built up on user contribution. However, Ekşi Sözlük is not a dictionary in the strict sense; users are not required to write correct information. It is currently one of the la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500 | The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International Supercomputing Conference in June, and the second... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triconex | Triconex is both the name of a Schneider Electric brand that supplies products, systems, and services for safety, critical control, and turbomachinery applications and the name of its hardware devices that utilize its TriStation application software. Triconex products are based on patented Triple modular redundancy (TM... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%201103 | The 1103 is a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) integrated circuit (IC) developed and fabricated by Intel. Introduced in October 1970, the 1103 was the first commercially available DRAM IC; and due to its small physical size and low price relative to magnetic-core memory, it replaced the latter in many applications. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning%20poker | Planning poker, also called Scrum poker, is a consensus-based, gamified technique for estimating, mostly used for timeboxing in Agile principles. In planning poker, members of the group make estimates by playing numbered cards face-down to the table, instead of speaking them aloud. The cards are revealed, and the estim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana%20peel | A banana peel, called banana skin in British English, is the outer covering of the banana fruit. Banana peels are used as food for animals, an ingredient in cooking, in water purification, for manufacturing of several biochemical products as well as for jokes and comical situations.
There are several methods to remove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20plane | In network routing, the control plane is the part of the router architecture that is concerned with drawing the network topology, or the information in a routing table that defines what to do with incoming packets. Control plane functions, such as participating in routing protocols, run in the architectural control ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20cut | Smart cut is a technological process that enables the transfer of very fine layers of crystalline silicon material onto a mechanical support. It was invented by Michel Bruel of CEA-Leti, and was protected by US patent 5374564. The application of this technological procedure is mainly in the production of silicon-on-ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotypic%20testing%20of%20mycobacteria | In microbiology, the phenotypic testing of mycobacteria uses a number of methods. The most-commonly used phenotypic tests to identify and distinguish Mycobacterium strains and species from each other are described below.
Tests
Acetamide as sole C and N sources
Media: KH2PO4 (0.5 g), MgSO>4*7H20 (0.5 g), purified agar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitely%20generated%20algebra | In mathematics, a finitely generated algebra (also called an algebra of finite type) is a commutative associative algebra A over a field K where there exists a finite set of elements a1,...,an of A such that every element of A can be expressed as a polynomial in a1,...,an, with coefficients in K.
Equivalently, there e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-in-Wonder | The All-in-Wonder (also abbreviated to AIW) was a combination graphics card/TV tuner card designed by ATI Technologies. It was introduced on November 11, 1996. ATI had previously used the Wonder trademark on other graphics cards (ATI Wonder series), however, they were not full TV/graphics combo cards (EGA Wonder, VGA W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20information%20system | In domain theory, a branch of mathematics and computer science, a Scott information system is a primitive kind of logical deductive system often used as an alternative way of presenting Scott domains.
Definition
A Scott information system, A, is an ordered triple
satisfying
Here means
Examples
Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetobiology | Magnetobiology is the study of biological effects of mainly weak static and low-frequency magnetic fields, which do not cause heating of tissues. Magnetobiological effects have unique features that obviously distinguish them from thermal effects; often they are observed for alternating magnetic fields just in separat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSHmail | OSHMail is an electronic newsletter from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA).
It is a monthly summary of the latest news, events, and occupational safety and health information published at the EU-OSHA website. Most of the content is available in 25 languages. Currently more than 68,000 subscri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytotechnology | Cytotechnology is the microscopic interpretation of cells to detect cancer and other abnormalities. This includes the examination of samples collected from the uterine cervix (Pap test), lung, gastrointestinal tract, or body cavities.
A cytotechnologist is an allied health professional trained to evaluate specimens o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20Disk | Private Disk is a disk encryption application for the Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Dekart SRL. It works by creating a virtual drive, the contents of which is encrypted on-the-fly; other software can use the drive as if it were a usual one.
One of Private Disk's key selling points is in its ease of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cured%20fish | Cured fish is fish which has been cured by subjecting it to fermentation, pickling, smoking, or some combination of these before it is eaten. These food preservation processes can include adding salt, nitrates, nitrite or sugar, can involve smoking and flavoring the fish, and may include cooking it. The earliest form o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted%20fish | Salted fish, such as kippered herring or dried and salted cod, is fish cured with dry salt and thus preserved for later eating. Drying or salting, either with dry salt or with brine, was the only widely available method of preserving fish until the 19th century. Dried fish and salted fish (or fish both dried and salted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tallest%20people | This is a list of the tallest people, verified by Guinness World Records or other reliable sources.
According to the Guinness World Records, the tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940), who was . He received media attention in 1939 when he was measured to be the tallest man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic%20cooling | Sympathetic cooling is a process in which particles of one type cool particles of another type.
Typically, atomic ions that can be directly laser cooled are used to cool nearby ions or atoms, by way of their mutual Coulomb interaction. This technique is used to cool ions and atoms that cannot be cooled directly by las... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20shelf%20label | An electronic shelf label (ESL) system is used by retailers for displaying, typically on the front edge of retail shelving, product pricing on shelves that can automatically be updated or changed under the control of a central server.
ESL tag modules use electronic paper (E-paper) or liquid-crystal display (LCD) to s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Tera-Scale | Intel Tera-Scale is a research program by Intel that focuses on development in Intel processors and platforms that utilize the inherent parallelism of emerging visual-computing applications. Such applications require teraFLOPS of parallel computing performance to process terabytes of data quickly. Parallelism is the co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyMUCK | TinyMUCK or, more broadly, a MUCK, is a type of user-extendable online text-based role-playing game, designed for role playing and social interaction. Backronyms like "Multi-User Chat/Created/Computer/Character/Carnal Kingdom" and "Multi-User Construction Kit" are sometimes cited, but are not the actual origin of the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Ct | Intel Ct is a programming model developed by Intel to ease the exploitation of its future multicore chips, as demonstrated by the Tera-Scale research program.
It is based on the exploitation of SIMD to produce automatically parallelized programs.
On August 19, 2009, Intel acquired RapidMind, a privately held company ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teraflops%20Research%20Chip | Intel Teraflops Research Chip (codenamed Polaris) is a research manycore processor containing 80 cores, using a network-on-chip architecture, developed by Intel's Tera-Scale Computing Research Program. It was manufactured using a 65 nm CMOS process with eight layers of copper interconnect and contains 100 million trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette%20Wing | Jeannette Marie Wing is Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, where she is also a professor of computer science. Until June 30, 2017, she was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research with oversight of its core research laboratories around the world and Microsoft Research Conn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telos%20Alliance | Telos Alliance is an American corporation manufacturing audio products primarily for broadcast stations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, US, the company is divided into six divisions:
Telos Systems manufactures talkshow systems, IP audio codecs and transceivers, as well as streaming audio encoders.
Omnia Audio make... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement%E2%80%93length%20ratio | The displacement–length ratio (DLR or D/L ratio) is a calculation used to express how heavy a boat is relative to its waterline length.
DLR was first published in
It is calculated by dividing a boat's displacement in long tons (2,240 pounds) by the cube of one one-hundredth of the waterline length (in feet):
DLR ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%20address%20register | A page address register (PAR) contains the physical addresses of pages currently held in the main memory of a computer system. PARs are used in order to avoid excessive use of an address table in some operating systems. A PAR may check a page's number against all entries in the PAR simultaneously, allowing it to retrie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20I.%20Williamson | Donald Irving Williamson (8 January 1922, in Alnham, England – 29 January 2016, in Port Erin, Isle of Man) was a British planktologist and carcinologist.
Education
Williamson gained his first degree from the Newcastle division of Durham University in 1942. He earned his PhD from the same university in 1948, and a DSc ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection%20of%20genetically%20modified%20organisms | The detection of genetically modified organisms in food or feed is possible by biochemical means. It can either be qualitative, showing which genetically modified organism (GMO) is present, or quantitative, measuring in which amount a certain GMO is present. Being able to detect a GMO is an important part of GMO labeli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transplastomic%20plant | A transplastomic plant is a genetically modified plant in which genes are inactivated, modified or new foreign genes are inserted into the DNA of plastids like the chloroplast instead of nuclear DNA.
Currently, the majority of transplastomic plants are a result of chloroplast manipulation due to poor expression in oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Leveson | Nancy G. Leveson is an American specialist in system and software safety and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, United States.
Leveson gained her degrees (in computer science, mathematics and management) from UCLA, including her PhD in 1980. Previously she worked at University of California, Irvine an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20recursion%20theory | In recursion theory, α recursion theory is a generalisation of recursion theory to subsets of admissible ordinals . An admissible set is closed under functions, where denotes a rank of Godel's constructible hierarchy. is an admissible ordinal if is a model of Kripke–Platek set theory. In what follows is conside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre%20recombinase | Tre recombinase is an experimental enzyme that in lab tests has removed DNA inserted by HIV from infected cells. Through selective mutation, Cre recombinase which recognizes loxP sites are modified to identify HIV long terminal repeats (loxLTR) instead. As a result, instead of performing Cre-Lox recombination, the new ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreatic%20zone | The phreatic zone, saturated zone, or zone of saturation, is the part of an aquifer, below the water table, in which relatively all pores and fractures are saturated with water. Above the water table is the unsaturated or vadose zone.
The phreatic zone size, color, and depth may fluctuate with changes of season, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction%20temperature | Junction temperature, short for transistor junction temperature, is the highest operating temperature of the actual semiconductor in an electronic device. In operation, it is higher than case temperature and the temperature of the part's exterior. The difference is equal to the amount of heat transferred from the junct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylenediamine%20pyrocatechol | Ethylenediamine pyrocatechol (EDP), also known as ethylenediamine-pyrocatechol-water (EPW), is an anisotropic etchant solution for silicon. A typical formulation consists of ethylenediamine, pyrocatechol, pyrazine and water. It is carcinogenic and very corrosive. It is mainly used in research labs, and is not used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociophysiology | Sociophysiology is the "interplay between society and physical functioning" (Freund 1988: 856) involving "collaboration of two neighboring sciences: physiology and sociology" (Mauss 1936: 373). In other words, sociophysiology is physiological sociology, a special science that studies the physiological side of human (an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20optimization%20software | Given a transformation between input and output values, described by a mathematical function , optimization deals with generating and selecting the best solution from some set of available alternatives, by systematically choosing input values from within an allowed set, computing the output of the function and recordin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kane%20%28mathematician%29 | Daniel Mertz Kane (born 1986) is an American mathematician. He is an associate professor with a joint position in the Mathematics Department and the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego.
Early life and education
Kane was born in Madison, Wisconsin, to Janet E. Mertz an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar%20straight-line%20graph | In computational geometry and geometric graph theory, a planar straight-line graph (or straight-line plane graph, or plane straight-line graph), in short PSLG, is an embedding of a planar graph in the plane such that its edges are mapped into straight-line segments. Fáry's theorem (1948) states that every planar graph ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiosis | Antibiosis is a biological interaction between two or more organisms that is detrimental to at least one of them; it can also be an antagonistic association between an organism and the metabolic substances produced by another. Examples of antibiosis include the relationship between antibiotics and bacteria or animals a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20H.%20van%20Lint | Jacobus Hendricus ("Jack") van Lint (1 September 1932 – 28 September 2004) was a Dutch mathematician, professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, of which he was rector magnificus from 1991 till 1996.
He gained his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1957 under the supervision of Fred van der Blij. He was profes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcrusher | A Bitcrusher is an audio effect that produces distortion by reducing of the resolution or bandwidth of digital audio data. The resulting quantization noise may produce a "warmer" sound impression, or a harsh one, depending on the amount of reduction.
Methods
A typical bitcrusher uses two methods to reduce audio fideli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon%27s%20algorithm | In computer science, Cannon's algorithm is a distributed algorithm for matrix multiplication for two-dimensional meshes first described in 1969 by Lynn Elliot Cannon.
It is especially suitable for computers laid out in an N × N mesh. While Cannon's algorithm works well in homogeneous 2D grids, extending it to heterog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20reference%20string%20model | In cryptography, the common reference string (CRS) model captures the assumption that a trusted setup in which all involved parties get access to the same string crs taken from some distribution D exists. Schemes proven secure in the CRS model are secure given that the setup was performed correctly. The common referenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube%20furnace | A tube furnace is an electric heating device used to conduct syntheses and purifications of inorganic compounds and occasionally in organic synthesis. One possible design consists of a cylindrical cavity surrounded by heating coils that are embedded in a thermally insulating matrix. Temperature can be controlled via ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-bias%20sample%20space | In theoretical computer science, a small-bias sample space (also known as -biased sample space, -biased generator, or small-bias probability space) is a probability distribution that fools parity functions.
In other words, no parity function can distinguish between a small-bias sample space and the uniform distributio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20database | In database security, a negative database is a database that saves attributes that cannot be associated with a certain entry.
A negative database is a kind of database that contains huge amount of data consisting of simulating data.
When anyone tries to get access to such databases both the actual and the negative dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogenic%20bacteria | Cancer bacteria are bacteria infectious organisms that are known or suspected to cause cancer. While cancer-associated bacteria have long been considered to be opportunistic (i.e., infecting healthy tissues after cancer has already established itself), there is some evidence that bacteria may be directly carcinogenic. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20cut | In the construction of masonry buildings, a fire cut or fireman's cut is a diagonal chamfer of the end of a joist or beam where it enters a masonry wall. If the joist burns through somewhere along its length, damage to the wall is prevented as the fire cut allows the joist to fail and still leave the masonry wall stan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Planet%20Internet%20Services | The Planet was a privately held dedicated server company based in Texas. In May 2006, the company merged with Everyone's Internet, which used the EV1 Servers brand. In 2010, they merged with SoftLayer. All services provided by both companies were then operated under the SoftLayer name.
History
The Planet's support s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASK%20Group | ASK Group, Inc., formerly ASK Computer Systems, Inc., was a producer of business and manufacturing software. It is best remembered for its Manman enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and for Sandra Kurtzig, the company's founder and one of the early female pioneers in the computer industry. At its peak, ASK had ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphosis%20%28biology%29 | Anamorphosis or anamorphogenesis is the process of postembryonic development and moulting in Arthropoda that results in the addition of abdominal body segments, even after sexual maturity. Examples of this mode of development occur in proturans and millipedes.
Protura hatch with only 8 abdominal segments and add the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morita%20conjectures | The Morita conjectures in general topology are certain problems about normal spaces, now solved in the affirmative. The conjectures, formulated by Kiiti Morita in 1976, asked
If is normal for every normal space Y, is X a discrete space?
If is normal for every normal P-space Y, is X metrizable?
If is normal fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandboxie | Sandboxie is an open-source OS-level virtualization solution for Microsoft Windows. It is a sandboxing solution that creates an isolated operating environment in which applications can run without permanently modifying the local system. This virtual environment allows for controlled testing of untrusted programs and we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Six%20Sigma%20software%20packages | There are generally four classes of software used to support the Six Sigma process improvement protocol:
Analysis tools, which are used to perform statistical or process analysis;
Program management tools, used to manage and track a corporation's entire Six Sigma program;
DMAIC and Lean online project collaboration too... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinfoil%20Hat%20Linux | Tinfoil Hat Linux (THL) was a compact security-focused Linux distribution designed for high security developed by The Shmoo Group. The first version (1.000) was released in February 2002. By 2013, it had become a low-priority project. Its image files and source are available in gzip format. THL can be used on modern PC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC%20Geographical%20Names | The BC Geographical Names (formerly BC Geographical Names Information System or BCGNIS) is a geographic name web service and database for the Canadian province of British Columbia run by the Base Mapping and Geomatic Services Branch of the Integrated Land Management Bureau. The database contains official names and spel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal%20computer | Decimal computers are computers which can represent numbers and addresses in decimal as well as providing instructions to operate on those numbers and addresses directly in decimal, without conversion to a pure binary representation. Some also had a variable wordlength, which enabled operations on numbers with a large ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20decoding | In coding theory, list decoding is an alternative to unique decoding of error-correcting codes for large error rates. The notion was proposed by Elias in the 1950s. The main idea behind list decoding is that the decoding algorithm instead of outputting a single possible message outputs a list of possibilities one of wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flory%20convention | In polymer science, the Flory convention is a convention for labelling rotational isomers of polymers. It is named after nobel prize-winning Paul Flory.
The convention states that for a given bond, when the dihedral angle formed between the previous and subsequent bonds projected on the plane normal to the bond is 0 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20integer%20decimal | The IEEE 754-2008 standard includes decimal floating-point number formats in which the significand and the exponent (and the payloads of NaNs) can be encoded in two ways, referred to as binary encoding and decimal encoding.
Both formats break a number down into a sign bit s, an exponent q (between qmin and qmax), and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20engineer | A building engineer is recognised as being expert in the use of technology for the design, construction, assessment and maintenance of the built environment. Commercial Building Engineers are concerned with the planning, design, construction, operation, renovation, and maintenance of buildings, as well as with their im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction%20Processing%20over%20XML | Transaction Processing over XML (TPoX) is a computing benchmark for XML database systems. As a benchmark, TPoX is used for the performance testing of database management systems that are capable of storing, searching, modifying and retrieving XML data. The goal of TPoX is to allow database designers, developers and use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20identity%20management | Mobile identity is a development of online authentication and digital signatures, where the SIM card of one’s mobile phone works as an identity tool. Mobile identity enables legally binding authentication and transaction signing for online banking, payment confirmation, corporate services, and consuming online content.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT91CAP | AT91CAP (AT91CAP Customizable Atmel Microcontrollers) is a family of Atmel microcontrollers based on the 32-bit RISC microprocessors from ARM. They include a block of metal-programmable logic gates (MP Block) that can be personalized by the application developer. The MP Block can contain one or more additional processo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20signature%20roaming | In mobile telecommunications technology, the concept of mobile signature roaming means an access point (AP) should be able to get a mobile signature from any end-user, even if the AP and the end-user have not contracted a commercial relationship with the same MSSP. Otherwise, an AP would have to build commercial terms ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepaea | Cepaea is a genus of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicidae. The shells are often brightly colored and patterned with brown stripes. The two species in this genus, C. nemoralis and C. hortensis, are widespread and common in Western and Central Europe and have b... |
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