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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20and%20Morag | Megan and Morag, two domestic sheep, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloned from differentiated cells. They are not to be confused with Dolly the sheep which was the first animal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell or Polly the sheep which was the first cloned and transgenic animal. Me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombieri%20norm | In mathematics, the Bombieri norm, named after Enrico Bombieri, is a norm on homogeneous polynomials with coefficient in or (there is also a version for non homogeneous univariate polynomials). This norm has many remarkable properties, the most important being listed in this article.
Bombieri scalar product for homo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20Graphics%20File | PGF (Progressive Graphics File) is a wavelet-based bitmapped image format that employs lossless and lossy data compression. PGF was created to improve upon and replace the JPEG format. It was developed at the same time as JPEG 2000 but with a focus on speed over compression ratio.
PGF can operate at higher compression... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Shubik%20power%20index | The Shapley–Shubik power index was formulated by Lloyd Shapley and Martin Shubik in 1954 to measure the powers of players in a voting game. The index often reveals surprising power distribution that is not obvious on the surface.
The constituents of a voting system, such as legislative bodies, executives, shareholders... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Mathematics | This is a list of Institutes of Mathematics or Mathematical Institutes.
Americas
American Institute of Mathematics
Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, at the Université de Montréal
Center for Mathematical Modeling, at the University of Chile
Centro de Investiga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20of%20things | The Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks. The Internet of things encompasses electronics, communication and computer science engineerin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20signal%20controller | A digital signal controller (DSC) is a hybrid of microcontrollers and digital signal processors (DSPs). Like microcontrollers, DSCs have fast interrupt responses, offer control-oriented peripherals like PWMs and watchdog timers, and are usually programmed using the C programming language, although they can be programme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoimmunology | Osteoimmunology (όστέον, osteon from Greek, "bone"; from Latin, "immunity"; and λόγος, logos, from Greek "study") is a field that emerged about 40 years ago that studies the interface between the skeletal system and the immune system, comprising the "osteo-immune system". Osteoimmunology also studies the shared compon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-level%20parallelism | In computer architecture, memory-level parallelism (MLP) is the ability to have pending multiple memory operations, in particular cache misses or translation lookaside buffer (TLB) misses, at the same time.
In a single processor, MLP may be considered a form of instruction-level parallelism (ILP). However, ILP is ofte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe%20Vardi | Moshe Ya'akov Vardi () is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, United States. and a faculty advisor for the Ken Kennedy Institute. His interests focus on applications of logic to computer science,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambra%20Computer%20Corporation | Ambra Computer Corporation is a defunct wholly owned subsidiary of IBM. Created by Dr Richard Greame Ambra, it introduced a line of personal computers targeted at the home user, sold mainly through mail-order, first in Europe (1992), then in the USA (1993). Ambra had a volume production run of just a year or so; the li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA%20Spectra%2070 | The RCA Spectra 70 was a line of electronic data processing (EDP) equipment manufactured by the Radio Corporation of America’s computer division beginning in April 1965. The Spectra 70 line included several CPU models, various configurations of core memory, mass-storage devices, terminal equipment, and a variety of sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrence%20period%20density%20entropy | Recurrence period density entropy (RPDE) is a method, in the fields of dynamical systems, stochastic processes, and time series analysis, for determining the periodicity, or repetitiveness of a signal.
Overview
Recurrence period density entropy is useful for characterising the extent to which a time series repeats th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical%20microbiology | Pharmaceutical microbiology is an applied branch of microbiology. It involves the study of microorganisms associated with the manufacture of pharmaceuticals e.g. minimizing the number of microorganisms in a process environment, excluding microorganisms and microbial byproducts like exotoxin and endotoxin from water an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaps%20and%20gores | Gaps and gores are portions of land areas that do not conform to boundaries found in cadastre and other land surveys based upon imprecise measurements and other ambiguities of metes and bounds. A gap, also known as a hiatus, occurs where the descriptions in deeds describing adjacent properties (unintentionally) overlo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compucolor | Compucolor is a series of color microcomputers introduced by Compucolor Corporation of Norcross, Georgia. It was the first color home computer system with built-in color graphics and floppy-based data storage. It used the Intel 8080 CPU.
The first model was an upgrade kit for the company's color computer terminal, tur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstep%20protocol | The lockstep protocol is a partial solution to the look-ahead cheating problem in peer-to-peer architecture multiplayer games, in which a cheating client delays their own actions to await the messages of other players. A client can do so by acting as if they're suffering from high latency; the outgoing packet is forged... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetanisole | Acetanisole is an aromatic chemical compound with an aroma described as sweet, fruity, nutty, and similar to vanilla. In addition acetanisole can sometimes smell like butter or caramel.
Acetanisole is found naturally in castoreum, the glandular secretion of the beaver.
Preparation
Acetanisole can be prepared synth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivars%20Peterson | Ivars Peterson (born 4 December 1948) is an American mathematics writer.
Early life
Peterson received a B.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry and a B.Ed. in Education from the University of Toronto. Peterson received an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Career
Peterson worked as a high school sci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20compatibility | A family of computer models is said to be compatible if certain software that runs on one of the models can also be run on all other models of the family. The computer models may differ in performance, reliability or some other characteristic. These differences may affect the outcome of the running of the software.
So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20error | In software engineering and mathematics, numerical error is the error in the numerical computations.
Types
It can be the combined effect of two kinds of error in a calculation.
the first is caused by the finite precision of computations involving floating-point or integer values
the second usually called truncation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlentaucher | Perlentaucher is a German online magazine. It was founded and is published by Anja Seeliger and Thierry Chervel and has been available since March 15, 2000.
The magazine styles itself as a culture magazine, with its main focus on German culture and feuilleton and a daily overview of book reviews that have been publish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pay%20auction | In economics and game theory, an all-pay auction is an auction in which every bidder must pay regardless of whether they win the prize, which is awarded to the highest bidder as in a conventional auction. As shown by Riley and Samuelson (1981), equilibrium bidding in an all pay auction with private information is reven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20vestigiality | In the context of human evolution, human vestigiality involves those traits occurring in humans that have lost all or most of their original function through evolution. Although structures called vestigial often appear functionless, a vestigial structure may retain lesser functions or develop minor new ones. In some ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoBlock | MoBlock is free software for blocking connections to and from a specified range of hosts. Moblock is an IP address filtering program for Linux that is similar to PeerGuardian for Microsoft Windows. Its development has been stopped in favor of Phoenix Labs' official PeerGuardian Linux and parts of its code have been mer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20de%20Medicina%20Molecular | The Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (Institute of Molecular Medicine), or iMM for short, is an associated research institution of the University of Lisbon, in Lisbon, Portugal.
IMM is devoted to human genome research with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of disease mechanisms, develo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebugging | Bebugging (or fault seeding or error seeding) is a popular software engineering technique used in the 1970s to measure test coverage. Known bugs are randomly added to a program source code and the software tester is tasked to find them. The percentage of the known bugs not found gives an indication of the real bugs th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Dynamics | Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but having only completed the acquisition in June 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20bounding%20box | In geometry, the minimum bounding box or smallest bounding box (also known as the minimum enclosing box or smallest enclosing box) for a point set in dimensions is the box with the smallest measure (area, volume, or hypervolume in higher dimensions) within which all the points lie. When other kinds of measure are use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%20circles | In geometry, a set of Johnson circles comprises three circles of equal radius sharing one common point of intersection . In such a configuration the circles usually have a total of four intersections (points where at least two of them meet): the common point that they all share, and for each of the three pairs of cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification%20pattern | In computer programming, the specification pattern is a particular software design pattern, whereby business rules can be recombined by chaining the business rules together using boolean logic. The pattern is frequently used in the context of domain-driven design.
A specification pattern outlines a business rule that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20function%20%28set%20theory%29 | In set theory, a continuous function is a sequence of ordinals such that the values assumed at limit stages are the limits (limit suprema and limit infima) of all values at previous stages. More formally, let γ be an ordinal, and be a γ-sequence of ordinals. Then s is continuous if at every limit ordinal β < γ,
and
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-Federation | WS-Federation (Web Services Federation) is an Identity Federation specification, developed by a group of companies: BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA Inc. (along with Layer 7 Technologies now a part of CA Inc.), IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and VeriSign. Part of the larger Web Services Security frame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrie%20Holley | Kerrie Lamont Holley is an American software architect, author, researcher, consultant, and inventor. He recently joined Industry Solutions, Google Cloud. Previously he was with UnitedHealth Group / Optum, their first Technical Fellow, where he focused on ideating healthcare assets and solutions using IoT, AI, graph d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveStation | Livestation was a platform for distributing live television and radio broadcasts over a data network. It was originally developed by Skinkers Ltd. and is now an independent company called Livestation Ltd. The service was originally based on peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research. Between mid-June 2013... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20extraction | Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving data out of (usually unstructured or poorly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). The import into the intermediate extracting system is thus usually followed by data transformation and possibly the addition of metadata ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20TOS | TOS (The Operating System) is the operating system of the Atari ST range of computers. This range includes the 520ST and 1040ST, their STF/M/FM and STE variants and the Mega ST/STE. Later, 32-bit machines (TT, Falcon030) were developed using a new version of TOS, called MultiTOS, which allowed multitasking. More recen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeiss-Planetarium%20Jena | The Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena, Germany, is the oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world.
Engineered by German engineer Walther Bauersfeld, the building was opened on 18 July 1926.
The Zeiss-Planetarium is a projection planetarium; the planets and fixed stars are projected onto the inner surface of a wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry%20ketone | Raspberry ketone is a natural phenolic compound that is the primary aroma compound of red raspberries.
Occurrence
Raspberry ketone occurs in a variety of fruits, including raspberries, cranberries, and blackberries. It is detected and released by orchid flowers, e.g. Dendrobium superbum (syn D. annosmum), and several ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure%20as%20a%20service | Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service model by means of which computing resources are supplied by a cloud services provider. The IaaS vendor provides the storage, network, servers, and virtualization (which mostly refers, in this case, to emulating computer hardware). This service enables user... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochhammer%20k-symbol | In the mathematical theory of special functions, the Pochhammer k-symbol and the k-gamma function, introduced by Rafael Díaz and Eddy Pariguan are generalizations of the Pochhammer symbol and gamma function. They differ from the Pochhammer symbol and gamma function in that they can be related to a general arithmetic p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20National%20Association%20of%20Biology%20Teachers%20presidents | This is a list of the presidents of the National Association of Biology Teachers, from 1939 to the present.
2020s
2020: Sharon Gusky
2010s
2019: Sherri Annee
2018: Elizabeth Cowles
2017: Susan Finazzo
2016: Bob Melton
2015: Jane Ellis
2014: Stacey Kiser
2013: Mark Little
2012: Don French
2011: Dan Ward
201... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20control%20channel | Flood control channels are large and empty basins where surface water can flow through but is not retained (except during flooding), or dry channels that run below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if a flash flood occurs the excess water can drain out along these channels into a river or other bodies of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull%20technology | Pull coding or client pull is a style of network communication where the initial request for data originates from the client, and then is responded to by the server. The reverse is known as push technology, where the server pushes data to clients.
Pull requests form the foundation of network computing, where many cli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Muther%20%28industrial%20engineer%29 | Richard Muther (November 20, 1913 – October 15, 2014) was an American consulting engineer, faculty member at MIT, and author. He developed fundamental techniques used in plant layout, material handling, and other aspects of industrial engineering. He was also known as "Mister Systematic".
Biography
Muther was born 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrol%20interceptor | A petrol interceptor is a trap used to filter out hydrocarbon pollutants from rainwater runoff. It is typically used in road construction and on Petrol Station forecourts to prevent fuel contamination of streams carrying away the runoff.
Petrol interceptors work on the premise that some hydrocarbons such as petroleum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dip%20soldering | Dip soldering is a small-scale soldering process by which electronic components are soldered to a printed circuit board (PCB) to form an electronic assembly. The solder wets to the exposed metallic areas of the board (those not protected with solder mask), creating a reliable mechanical and electrical connection.
Dip ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality%20%28physics%29 | In response theory, the quality of an excited system is related to the number of excitation frequencies to which it can respond. In the case of a homogeneous, isotropic system, the quality is proportional to the FWHM.
This sense of the phrase is the precursor of the usage of the word in music theory. In music theory, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid%20needle%20adapter | A rigid needle adapter enables electrical contact of finest structures on printed and assembled circuit boards, and also direct contact in fine-pole connectors.
The spring probes are arranged in a compact grid in the raster head so that up to 280 spring probes per square centimeter can be integrated. The rigid needles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance%20engineering | Maintenance Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying engineering concepts for the optimization of equipment, procedures, and departmental budgets to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment.
Maintenance, and hence maintenance engineering, is increasing in importance du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.ho.st | G.ho.st (usually pronounced ghost) was the trading name of Ghost Inc. and the service name and URL of the company's hosted computer operating system or web desktop service. Its name is an acronym of Global Hosted Operating SysTem. The old URL G.ho.st was a domain hack (using the São Tomé and Príncipe .st country extens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20engineering%20universities | This list of systems engineering at universities gives an overview of the different forms of systems engineering (SE) programs, faculties, and institutes at universities worldwide. Since there is no clear consensus on what constitutes a systems engineering degree, this list simply identifies the college and department... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29 | In computer programming, a collection is a grouping of some variable number of data items (possibly zero) that have some shared significance to the problem being solved and need to be operated upon together in some controlled fashion. Generally, the data items will be of the same type or, in languages supporting inher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27%20Club | The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians, artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age 27. Although the claim of a "statistical spike" for the death of musicians at that age has been refuted by scientific research, it remains a cultural phenomenon, with many celebrities who die a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%20wavelet | In functional analysis, compactly supported wavelets derived from Legendre polynomials are termed Legendre wavelets or spherical harmonic wavelets. Legendre functions have widespread applications in which spherical coordinate system is appropriate. As with many wavelets there is no nice analytical formula for describin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock%20Exchange%20of%20Visions | The Stock Exchange of Visions is a project initiated in 2006 by Fabrica, Benetton's research center. It gathers visionaries from diverse nationalities and cultures, who hail from a wide range of specialties, to provide insight into their vision for the future.
Artists, sociologists, activists, scientists and others ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20Analysis | Vector Analysis is a textbook by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, first published in 1901 and based on the lectures that Josiah Willard Gibbs had delivered on the subject at Yale University. The book did much to standardize the notation and vocabulary of three-dimensional linear algebra and vector calculus, as used by physicists ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatability | Palatability (or palatableness) is the hedonic reward (which is pleasure of taste in this case) provided by foods or fluids that are agreeable to the "palate", which often varies relative to the homeostatic satisfaction of nutritional, water, or energy needs. The palatability of a food or fluid, unlike its flavor or ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20tiling | In geometry, a uniform tiling is a tessellation of the plane by regular polygon faces with the restriction of being vertex-transitive.
Uniform tilings can exist in both the Euclidean plane and hyperbolic plane. Uniform tilings are related to the finite uniform polyhedra which can be considered uniform tilings of the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20Control%20Act%20of%201941 | The Flood Control Act of 1941 was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by US President Franklin Roosevelt that authorized civil engineering projects such as dams, levees, dikes, and other flood control measures through the United States Army Corps of Engineers and other Federal agencies. It is one of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20transformation%20vector | Plant transformation vectors are plasmids that have been specifically designed to facilitate the generation of transgenic plants. The most commonly used plant transformation vectors are termed T-DNA binary vectors and are often replicated in both E. coli, a common lab bacterium, and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a plant-v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20fair-service%20curve | The hierarchical fair-service curve (HFSC) is a network scheduling algorithm for a network scheduler proposed by Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang and T. S. Eugene from Carnegie Mellon University at SIGCOMM 1997
It is based on a QoS and CBQ.
An implementation of HFSC is available in all operating systems based on the Linux kerne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrenchment%20%28computing%29 | Retrenchment is a technique associated with Formal Methods that was introduced to address some of the perceived limitations of formal, model based refinement, for situations in which refinement might be regarded as desirable in principle, but turned out to be unusable, or nearly unusable, in practice. It was primarily ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBL%20Index | The CBL Index is a ratio between the number of IP addresses in a given IP subnet (Subnetwork) to
the number of CBL (Composite Blocking List) listings in the subnet. It may
be used to measure how "clean" (of compromised computers) a given subnet is.
The higher the number is, the "cleaner" the subnet.
The CBL index ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20DNA%20binary%20system | A transfer DNA (T-DNA) binary system is a pair of plasmids consisting of a T-DNA binary vector and a vir helper plasmid. The two plasmids are used together (thus binary) to produce genetically modified plants. They are artificial vectors that have been derived from the naturally occurring Ti plasmid found in bacterial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayTV | PlayTV is an add-on unit for the PlayStation 3 video game console that allows it to act as a digital television receiver, and digital video recorder, using the DVB-T standard.
Features
LiveTV
The Live TV feature of PlayTV provides access to free-to-air (unencrypted) channels through the DVB-T network. While using thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGreen | The pGreen plasmids are vectors for plant transformation. They were first described in 2000 as components of a novel T-DNA binary system. The supporting web page provides supplementary information and ongoing support to researchers to request their plasmid resources. As these plasmids have been taken up by the research... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit%20preserves | Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits whose main preserving agent is sugar and sometimes acid, often stored in glass jars and used as a condiment or spread.
There are many varieties of fruit preserves globally, distinguished by the method of preparation, type of fruit used, and place in a meal. Sweet fruit preser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increment%20theorem | In nonstandard analysis, a field of mathematics, the increment theorem states the following: Suppose a function is differentiable at and that is infinitesimal. Then
for some infinitesimal , where
If then we may write
which implies that , or in other words that is infinitely close to , or is the standard part o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camfrog | Camfrog is a video chat and instant messaging client that was created by Camshare in October 2003. The app allows users to contact others worldwide and find or create chat rooms to gather communities that share similar interests.
History
On October 19, 2010, it was announced that Paltalk acquired Camfrog.
In 2015, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snom | Snom Technology GmbH is a German company which manufactures Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones, based on the IETF standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Snom's products are targeted at the small- to medium-sized business sector, home offices, Internet service providers, carriers, and original equipmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-myc%20mRNA | C-myc mRNA is a type of mRNA that serves as a template for the MYC protein which is implicated in the rapid growth of cancer cells. This mRNA is a topic of ongoing research to investigate the viability of preventing cancer growth by cleaving or degrading the c-myc mRNA.
See also
C-myc
References
RNA
Molecular biolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhegalkin%20polynomial | Zhegalkin (also Žegalkin, Gégalkine or Shegalkin) polynomials (), also known as algebraic normal form, are a representation of functions in Boolean algebra. Introduced by the Russian mathematician Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin in 1927, they are the polynomial ring over the integers modulo 2. The resulting degeneracies of mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20problems%20in%20loop%20theory%20and%20quasigroup%20theory | In mathematics, especially abstract algebra, loop theory and quasigroup theory are active research areas with many open problems. As in other areas of mathematics, such problems are often made public at professional conferences and meetings. Many of the problems posed here first appeared in the Loops (Prague) conferen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%27s%20rule | In operations research, Johnson's rule is a method of scheduling jobs in two work centers. Its primary objective is to find an optimal sequence of jobs to reduce makespan (the total amount of time it takes to complete all jobs). It also reduces the amount of idle time between the two work centers.
The method minimizes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20of%20mechanism%20and%20policy | The separation of mechanism and policy is a design principle in computer science. It states that mechanisms (those parts of a system implementation that control the authorization of operations and the allocation of resources) should not dictate (or overly restrict) the policies according to which decisions are made ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozy | Mozy () was an online backup service for both Windows and macOS users. Linux's support was made available in Q3, 2014. In 2007 Mozy was acquired by EMC, and in 2013 Mozy was included in the EMC Backup Recovery Systems division's product list.
On September 7, 2016, Dell Inc. acquired EMC Corporation to form Dell Techno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, an edge is a particular type of line segment joining two vertices in a polygon, polyhedron, or higher-dimensional polytope. In a polygon, an edge is a line segment on the boundary, and is often called a polygon side. In a polyhedron or more generally a polytope, an edge is a line segment where two faces (o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20software%20process | In combination with the personal software process (PSP), the team software process (TSP) provides a defined operational process framework that is designed to help teams of managers and engineers organize projects and produce software for
products that range in size from small projects of several thousand lines of code... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20Lifecycle%20Framework | Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) was an Eclipse Foundation project to develop an open framework for system integration and interoperability for application lifecycle management tools. The project failed to gain the support of significant vendors and was terminated in 2008.
See also
ISO/IEC 12207, this is an int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind | A whirlwind is a phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow (current) gradients. Whirlwinds can vary in size and last from a couple minutes to a couple hours.
Types
Whirlwinds are subdivided into two main ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigben%20%28computer%29 | The Bigben supercomputer was a Cray XT3 MPP system with 2068 nodes located at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. It was decommissioned on March 31, 2010. Bigben was a part of the TeraGrid.
System architecture
BigBen was a Cray XT3 MPP system with 2068 compute nodes linked by a custom-designed interconnect. Twenty-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20desktop%20application%20launchers | An application launcher is a computer program that helps a user to locate and start other computer programs. An application launcher provides shortcuts to computer programs, and stores the shortcuts in one place so they are easier to find.
In the comparison of desktop application launchers that follows, each section ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-recording%20mixer | A re-recording mixer in North America, also known as a dubbing mixer in Europe, is a post-production audio engineer who mixes recorded dialogue, sound effects and music to create the final version of a soundtrack for a feature film, television program, or television advertisement. The final mix must achieve a desired ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbow | The Hyperbow is an electronic violin bow interface that was developed as a result of an in-depth research project by students at MIT. The instrument is intended for use only by accomplished players and was designed to amplify their gestures, which lead to supplementary sound or musical control possibilities. It offers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPX | VPX (Virtual Path Cross-Connect), also known as VITA 46, is a set of standards for connecting components of a computer (known as a computer bus), commonly used by defense contractors. Some are ANSI standards such as ANSI/VITA 46.0–2019. VPX provides VMEbus-based systems with support for switched fabrics over a new high... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20measure%20theory | In mathematics, geometric measure theory (GMT) is the study of geometric properties of sets (typically in Euclidean space) through measure theory. It allows mathematicians to extend tools from differential geometry to a much larger class of surfaces that are not necessarily smooth.
History
Geometric measure theory w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%203%20%281987%20video%20game%29 | Mach 3 is a 1987 3D shooter video game by Loriciels for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MSX, Thomson TO7, ZX Spectrum and DOS. The DOS (PC) version uses CGA 320x200 video mode.
Gameplay
The player controls a spacecraft and shoots various enemy crafts while avoiding mines and obstacles. During the intro screen, a sample... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20encryption | In modern cryptography, null encryption (or selecting null cipher or NONE cipher) is choosing not to use encryption in a system where various encryption options are offered. When this option is used, the text is the same before and after encryption, which can be practical for testing/debugging, or authentication-only c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inforex%201300%20Systems | Inforex Inc. corporation manufactured and sold key-to-disk data entry systems in the 1970s and mid-1980s. The company was founded by ex-IBM engineers to develop direct data entry systems that allowed information to be entered on terminals and stored directly on disk drives, replacing keypunch machines using punched car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethinking%20Mathematics | Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers is a 2005 book (2nd edition 2013) edited by Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson, advocating a mathematics education curriculum that intertwines mathematics with social justice. The various essays in the book, including "Home Buying While Brown or Black" and "Swe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20eye%20tube | A magic eye tube or tuning indicator, in technical literature called an electron-ray indicator tube, is a vacuum tube which gives a visual indication of the amplitude of an electronic signal, such as an audio output, radio-frequency signal strength, or other functions. The magic eye (also called a cat's eye, or tuning ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positively%20invariant%20set | In mathematical analysis, a positively (or positive) invariant set is a set with the following properties:
Suppose is a dynamical system, is a trajectory, and is the initial point. Let where is a real-valued function. The set is said to be positively invariant if implies that
In other words, once a trajectory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk-cap | Milk-cap (also milk cap, milkcap, or milky) is a common name that refers to mushroom-forming fungi of the genera Lactarius, Lactifluus, and Multifurca, all in the family Russulaceae. The common and eponymous feature of their fruitbodies is the latex ("milk") they exude when cut or bruised. Mushrooms with typical milk-c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikonal%20approximation | In theoretical physics, the eikonal approximation (Greek εἰκών for likeness, icon or image) is an approximative method useful in wave scattering equations which occur in optics, seismology, quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and partial wave expansion.
Informal description
The main advantage that the eikonal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet%20Radio%20Unit%2C%20Melbourne | Fleet Radio Unit, Melbourne (FRUMEL) was a United States–Australian–British signals intelligence unit, founded in Melbourne, Australia, during World War II. It was one of two major Allied signals intelligence units called Fleet Radio Units in the Pacific theatre, the other being FRUPAC (also known as Station HYPO), in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remez%20inequality | In mathematics, the Remez inequality, discovered by the Soviet mathematician Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez , gives a bound on the sup norms of certain polynomials, the bound being attained by the Chebyshev polynomials.
The inequality
Let σ be an arbitrary fixed positive number. Define the class of polynomials πn(σ) to be t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeal%20Richmond%20Mine%20acidophilic%20nanoorganisms | Archaeal Richmond Mine acidophilic nanoorganisms (ARMAN) were first discovered in an extremely acidic mine located in northern California (Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain) by Brett Baker in Jill Banfield's laboratory at the University of California Berkeley. These novel groups of archaea named ARMAN-1, ARMAN-2 (Candida... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Microsoft%20Windows | The various versions of Microsoft's desktop operating system, Windows, have received various criticisms since Microsoft's inception.
Data collection
Concerns were shown by advocates and other critics for Windows 10's privacy policies and its collection and use of customer data. Under the default "Express" settings, W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Max%20Planck%20Research%20School%20for%20Molecular%20and%20Cellular%20Biology | The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IMPRS-MCB) is an international PhD program in molecular biology and cellular biology founded in 2006 by the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and the University of Freiburg.
The Max Planck Society (MPG) started in 2000... |
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