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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reema%20construction | Reema construction is a system of building using prefabricated reinforced concrete panels which came into being in the late 1940s and was still in use well into the 1960s.
Buildings made in this way are currently (2008) very hard to obtain finance on in the UK, primarily due to potential problems with similar large pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20T.%20Friis | Harald Trap Friis (22 February 1893 – 15 June 1976), who published as H. T. Friis, was a Danish-American radio engineer whose work at Bell Laboratories included pioneering contributions to radio propagation, radio astronomy, and radar. His two Friis formulas remain widely used.
Background
Friis was born in Næstved, De... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2021827 | ISO/IEC 21827 (SSE-CMM – ISO/IEC 21827) is an international standard based on the Systems Security Engineering Capability Maturity Model (SSE-CMM) developed by the International Systems Security Engineering Association (ISSEA).
ISO/IEC 21827 specifies the Systems Security Engineering - Capability Maturity Model, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExOR%20%28wireless%20network%20protocol%29 | Extremely Opportunistic Routing (ExOR) is a combination of routing protocol and media access control for a wireless ad hoc network, invented by Sanjit Biswas and Robert Morris of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and described in a 2005 paper.
A very similar opportunistic routing scheme was also independentl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2018014 | ISO/IEC 18014 Information technology — Security techniques — Time-stamping services is an international standard that specifies time-stamping techniques. It comprises four parts:
Part 1: Framework
Part 2: Mechanisms producing independent tokens
Part 3: Mechanisms producing linked tokens
Part 4: Traceability of time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2R%20hypothesis | The 2R hypothesis or Ohno's hypothesis, first proposed by Susumu Ohno in 1970, is a hypothesis that the genomes of the early vertebrate lineage underwent two complete genome duplications, and thus modern vertebrate genomes reflect paleopolyploidy. The name derives from the 2 rounds of duplication originally hypothesiz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%20botnet | The Storm botnet or Storm worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware) was a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet") that had been linked by the Storm Worm, a Trojan horse spread through e-mail spam. At its height in September 2007, the Storm botnet was running on anywhere from 1 mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscimation | Viscimation is the turbulence when liquids of different viscosities mix,
particularly the formation of vortices (also known as "viscimetric whorls") and visible separate threads of the different liquids.
The term viscimation is archaic and idiosyncratic to whisky tasting; their study (or appreciation) is called viscim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20store | In computer programming, a local variable that is assigned a value but is not read by any subsequent instruction is referred to as a dead store. Dead stores waste processor time and memory, and may be detected through the use of static program analysis, and removed by an optimizing compiler.
If the purpose of a store ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuEXEC | Apache suEXEC is a feature of the Apache web server. It allows users to run Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Server Side Includes (SSI) applications as a different user. Normally, all web server processes run as the default web server user (often wwwrun, www-data, apache or nobody). The suEXEC feature consists of a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility%20preservation | Fertility preservation is the effort to help cancer patients retain their fertility, or ability to procreate. Research into how cancer, ageing and other health conditions effect reproductive health and preservation options are growing. Specifically sparked in part by the increase in the survival rate of cancer patients... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20ground%20floor | A solid ground floor consists of a layer of concrete, which in the case of a domestic building will be the surface layer brought up to ground floor level with hardcore filling under it.
The advantage of a solid ground floor is the elimination of dry rot and other problems normally associated with hollow joisted floor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20table | A plane table (plain table prior to 1830) is a device used in surveying site mapping, exploration mapping, coastal navigation mapping, and related disciplines to provide a solid and level surface on which to make field drawings, charts and maps. The early use of the name plain table reflected its simplicity and plainn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filar%20micrometer | A filar micrometer is a specialized eyepiece used in astronomical telescopes for astrometry measurements, in microscopes for specimen measurements, and in alignment and surveying telescopes for measuring angles and distances on nearby objects. "Filar" derives from the Latin filum ("thread"). It refers to the fine threa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadia%20mark | Stadia marks, also called stadia lines or stadia hairs, are crosshairs on the reticle of a theodolite or other surveying instrument that allow stadiametric rangefinding.
Etymology
The term stadia mark derives from the obsolete unit of distance, the stadion, derived from the Greek measurement of a stadium. Several diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20method | In logic, mathematics and computer science, especially metalogic and computability theory, an effective method or effective procedure is a procedure for solving a problem by any intuitively 'effective' means from a specific class. An effective method is sometimes also called a mechanical method or procedure.
Definitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20relation | In set theory a serial relation is a homogeneous relation expressing the connection of an element of a sequence to the following element. The successor function used by Peano to define natural numbers is the prototype for a serial relation.
Bertrand Russell used serial relations in The Principles of Mathematics (1903)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Computer%20and%20Telecommunications%20Agency | The Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) was a UK government agency providing computer and telecoms support to government departments.
History
Formation
In 1957, the UK government formed the Technical Support Unit (TSU) within HM Treasury to evaluate and advise on computers, initially based around ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagmaFS | Magma is a distributed file system based on a distributed hash table, written in C, compatible with Linux and BSD kernels using FUSE.
Terminology and basic principles
Magma binds several hosts interconnected by a TCP/IP network to form a common storage space called a lava ring. Each host (or node) is called a vulcan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnability | Learnability is a quality of products and interfaces that allows users to quickly become familiar with them and able to make good use of all their features and capabilities.
Software testing
In software testing learnability, according to ISO/IEC 9126, is the capability of a software product to enable the user to learn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAPWS | The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) is an international non-profit association of national organizations concerned with the properties of water and steam, particularly thermophysical properties and other aspects of high-temperature steam, water and aqueous mixtures that are rele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ambidextrous%20Universe | The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner, covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture, science and the wider universe. It culminates in a discussion of whether nature's conservation of parity (the symmetry of mirrored quantum systems) is ever violated, which had been proven ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20modeling | Metadata modeling is a type of metamodeling used in software engineering and systems engineering for the analysis and construction of models applicable to and useful for some predefined class of problems.
Meta-modeling is the analysis, construction and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models and theories... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAL4/UAS%20system | The GAL4-UAS system is a biochemical method used to study gene expression and function in organisms such as the fruit fly. It is based on the finding by Hitoshi Kakidani and Mark Ptashne, and Nicholas Webster and Pierre Chambon in 1988 that Gal4 binding to UAS sequences activates gene expression. The method was introdu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20dimension | The intrinsic dimension for a data set can be thought of as the number of variables needed in a minimal representation of the data. Similarly, in signal processing of multidimensional signals, the intrinsic dimension of the signal describes how many variables are needed to generate a good approximation of the signal.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian%20identity%20card | The Estonian identity card () is a mandatory identity document for citizens of Estonia. In addition to regular identification of a person, an ID-card can also be used for establishing one's identity in electronic environment and for giving one's digital signature. Within Europe (except Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20staff | A level staff, also called levelling rod, is a graduated wooden or aluminium rod, used with a levelling instrument to determine the difference in height between points or heights of points above a vertical datum.
When used for stadiametric rangefinding, the level staff is called a stadia rod.
Rod construction and mate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20angle%20%28EELS%29 | The magic angle is a particular value of the collection angle of an electron microscope at which the measured energy-loss spectrum "magically" becomes independent of the tilt angle of the sample with respect to the beam direction. The magic angle is not uniquely defined for isotropic samples, but the definition is uniq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS%20rebinding | DNS rebinding is a method of manipulating resolution of domain names that is commonly used as a form of computer attack. In this attack, a malicious web page causes visitors to run a client-side script that attacks machines elsewhere on the network. In theory, the same-origin policy prevents this from happening: client... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Research%20Building | The New Research Building (or NRB for short) is the largest building ever built by Harvard University, and was dedicated on September 24, 2003 by the then president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers and the dean of the Harvard Medical School, Joseph Martin.
It is an integrated biomedical research facility, lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast%20router%20discovery | Multicast router discovery (MRD) provides a general mechanism for the discovery of multicast routers on an IP network. For IPv4, the mechanism is based on IGMP. For IPv6 the mechanism is based on MLD. Multicast router discovery is defined by RFC 4286.
Computer networking
Internet Protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20of%20disease-causing%20pathogens | The discovery of disease-causing pathogens is an important activity in the field of medical science. Many viruses, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, helminthes and prions are identified as a confirmed or potential pathogen. In the United States, a Centers for Disease Control program, begun in 1995, identified over a hundred p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip%20%28mathematics%29 | In algebraic geometry, flips and flops are codimension-2 surgery operations arising in the minimal model program, given by blowing up along a relative canonical ring. In dimension 3 flips are used to construct minimal models, and any two birationally equivalent minimal models are connected by a sequence of flops. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully%20qualified%20domain%20address | A fully qualified domain address (FQDA) is a string forming an Internet e-mail address. It was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 3801 for the use in voice profiles for Internet mail, but has been used on the Internet as early as 1988.
A FQDA is composed of a local part, followed by the symbol and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-number | The term c-number (classical number) is an old nomenclature introduced by Paul Dirac which refers to real and complex numbers. It is used to distinguish from operators (q-numbers or quantum numbers) in quantum mechanics.
Although c-numbers are commuting, the term anti-commuting c-number is also used to refer to a typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a flat or affine subspace is a subset of an affine space that is itself an affine space (of equal or lower dimension). In the case the parent space is Euclidean, a flat is a Euclidean subspace which inherits the notion of distance from its parent space.
The flats in a plane (two-dimensional space) are poi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression%20list | A suppression list is a list of suppressed e-mail addresses used by e-mail senders to comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (United States of America). CAN-SPAM requires that senders of commercial emails provide a functioning opt-out mechanism by which email recipients can unsubscribe their email address from future ema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Technologies | SMART Technologies (also known as "SMART") is a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and wholly owned by Foxconn. Founded in 1987, SMART is best known as the developer of interactive whiteboards branded as the "SMART Board" popularly used in education and business.
History
SMART was founded in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20management | Load management, also known as demand-side management (DSM), is the process of balancing the supply of electricity on the network with the electrical load by adjusting or controlling the load rather than the power station output. This can be achieved by direct intervention of the utility in real time, by the use of fre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20CleanSweep | Norton CleanSweep, designed by Quarterdeck, was designed to aid in the removal of installed programs on Microsoft Windows.
CleanSweep was acquired by Symantec, and sold as a standalone product for a period of time. As of 2009, CleanSweep currently is unavailable from Symantec standalone and is incorporated in Norton S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcing%20%28computability%29 | Forcing in computability theory is a modification of Paul Cohen's original set-theoretic technique of forcing to deal with computability concerns.
Conceptually the two techniques are quite similar: in both one attempts to build generic objects (intuitively objects that are somehow 'typical') by meeting dense sets. Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP%20card | In cryptography, the OpenPGP card is an ISO/IEC 7816-4, -8 compatible smart card that is integrated with many OpenPGP functions. Using this smart card, various cryptographic tasks (encryption, decryption, digital signing/verification, authentication etc.) can be performed. It allows secure storage of secret key materia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCssner%20effect | In fluid dynamics, the Küssner effect describes the unsteady aerodynamic forces on an airfoil or hydrofoil caused by encountering a transverse gust. This is directly related to the Küssner function, used in describing the effect. Both the effect and function are named after Hans Georg Küssner (1900–1984), a German aero... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE5 | The SSE5 (short for Streaming SIMD Extensions version 5) was a SIMD instruction set extension proposed by AMD on August 30, 2007 as a supplement to the 128-bit SSE core instructions in the AMD64 architecture.
AMD chose not to implement SSE5 as originally proposed. In May 2009, AMD replaced SSE5 with three smaller ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modeling%20and%20Analysis%20of%20Real%20Time%20and%20Embedded%20systems | Modeling and Analysis of Real Time and Embedded systems also known as MARTE is the OMG standard for modeling real-time and embedded applications with UML2.
Description
The UML modeling language has been extended by the OMG consortium to support model-driven development of real-time and embedded application. This exte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromeritics | Micromeritics is the science and technology of small particles pioneered by Joseph M. DallaValle. It is thus the study of the fundamental and derived properties of individual as well as a collection of particles. The knowledge and control of the size of particles has importance in pharmacy and materials science. The si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrowski%E2%80%93Hadamard%20gap%20theorem | In mathematics, the Ostrowski–Hadamard gap theorem is a result about the analytic continuation of complex power series whose non-zero terms are of orders that have a suitable "gap" between them. Such a power series is "badly behaved" in the sense that it cannot be extended to be an analytic function anywhere on the bou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMulator | ARM Instruction Set Simulator, also known as ARMulator, is one of the software development tools provided by the development systems business unit of ARM Limited to all users of ARM-based chips. It owes its heritage to the early development of the instruction set by Sophie Wilson. Part of this heritage is still visib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20network | A flat network is a computer network design approach that aims to reduce cost, maintenance and administration. Flat networks are designed to reduce the number of routers and switches on a computer network by connecting the devices to a single switch instead of separate switches. Unlike a hierarchical network design, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal%20tasks | Ideal tasks arise during task analysis. Ideal tasks are different from real tasks. They are ideals in the Platonic sense of a circle being an ideal whereas a drawn circle is flawed and real. The study of theoretically best or “mathematically ideal” tasks (Green & Swets, 1966), has been the basis of the branch of sti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20Propulsion%20Laboratory%20Development%20Ephemeris | Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris (abbreved JPL DE(number), or simply DE(number)) designates one of a series of mathematical models of the Solar System produced at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for use in spacecraft navigation and astronomy. The models consist of numeric represent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort | A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure the riskiness of various day-to-day activities. A microprobability is a one-in-a million chance of some event; thus, a micromort is the microprobability of death. The micromort conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20module | A cognitive module in cognitive psychology is a specialized tool or sub-unit that can be used by other parts to resolve cognitive tasks. It is used in theories of the modularity of mind and the closely related society of mind theory and was developed by Jerry Fodor. It became better known throughout cognitive psycholog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek | MediaTek Inc. () is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia products and digital subscriber line services as well as optical disc drives.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Rolly | Rolly is an egg-shaped digital robotic music player made by Sony, combining music functions with robotic dancing. It has two wheels that allow it to rotate and spin, as well as two bands of colored LED light running around its edge and cup-like "wings" (or "arms" according to the Sony sonystyle USA website) which can o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20truck | A satellite truck is a mobile communications satellite ground station mounted on a truck chassis as a platform. Employed in remote television broadcasts, satellite trucks transmit video signals back to studios or production facilities for editing and broadcasting. Satellite trucks usually travel with a production truck... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Kittel | Charles Kittel (July 18, 1916 – May 15, 2019) was an American physicist. He was a professor at University of California, Berkeley from 1951 and was professor emeritus from 1978 until his death.
Life and work
Charles Kittel was born in New York City in 1916. He studied at the University of Cambridge, England, where he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20Dietz%20method | The modified Dietz method is a measure of the ex post (i.e. historical) performance of an investment portfolio in the presence of external flows. (External flows are movements of value such as transfers of cash, securities or other instruments in or out of the portfolio, with no equal simultaneous movement of value in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile%20drag%20coefficient | The drag coefficient is a common measure in automotive design as it pertains to aerodynamics. Drag is a force that acts parallel to and in the same direction as the airflow. The drag coefficient of an automobile measures the way the automobile passes through the surrounding air. When automobile companies design a new v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20congruency | Phase congruency is a measure of feature significance in computer images, a method of edge detection that is particularly robust against changes in illumination and contrast.
Foundations
Phase congruency reflects the behaviour of the image in the frequency domain. It has been noted that edgelike features have many of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predeclared | In computer languages, the built-in information, encodings or tools that are available to a programmer are pre-declared, often in the form of entities, variables, objects, functions or instructions. It is mostly not possible to overwrite or otherwise manipulate them.
Pre-declared entity
A pre-declared entity is a bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Gun%20for%20Dinosaur | "A Gun for Dinosaur" is a classic time travel science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp as part of his Rivers of Time series. It tells the story of four men who travel into the past to hunt dinosaurs.
It was first published in the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction for March, 1956, and first appeared in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate%20number | A Fortunate number, named after Reo Fortune, is the smallest integer m > 1 such that, for a given positive integer n, pn# + m is a prime number, where the primorial pn# is the product of the first n prime numbers.
For example, to find the seventh Fortunate number, one would first calculate the product of the first sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocatastrophism | Neocatastrophism is the hypothesis that life-exterminating events such as gamma-ray bursts have acted as a galactic regulation mechanism in the Milky Way upon the emergence of complex life in its habitable zone. It is one of several proposed solutions to the Fermi paradox since it provides a mechanism which would have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantieghems%20theorem | In number theory, Vantieghems theorem is a primality criterion. It states that a natural number n≥3 is prime if and only if
Similarly, n is prime, if and only if the following congruence for polynomials in X holds:
or:
Example
Let n=7 forming the product 1*3*7*15*31*63 = 615195. 615195 = 7 mod 127 and so 7 is prim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Church%E2%80%93Turing%20thesis | The history of the Church–Turing thesis ("thesis") involves the history of the development of the study of the nature of functions whose values are effectively calculable; or, in more modern terms, functions whose values are algorithmically computable. It is an important topic in modern mathematical theory and computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILIAS | ILIAS ( [German for "Integrated Learning, Information and Work Cooperation System"]) is an open-source web-based learning management system (LMS). It supports learning content management (including SCORM 2004 compliance) and tools for collaboration, communication, evaluation and assessment. The software is published un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20Theory%20Foundation | The Number Theory Foundation (NTF) is a non-profit organization based in the United States which supports research and conferences in the field of number theory, with a particular focus on computational aspects and explicit methods.
The NTF funds the Selfridge prize awarded at each Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20printing | Nature printing is a printing process, developed in the 18th century, that uses the plants, animals, rocks and other natural subjects to produce an image. The subject undergoes several stages to give a direct impression onto materials such as lead, gum, and photographic plates, which are then used in the printing proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietoris%E2%80%93Rips%20complex | In topology, the Vietoris–Rips complex, also called the Vietoris complex or Rips complex, is a way of forming a topological space from distances in a set of points. It is an abstract simplicial complex that can be defined from any metric space M and distance δ by forming a simplex for every finite set of points that ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpoTV | EXPO Tv or ExpoTV () is an Internet TV network (video platform) in Iran that prepares, produces and broadcasts video products. It is active in the fields of trade, industry and economy of Iran and the world and has a specialized audience. It was established in 2018 by Mehrdad Manafi in Tehran, Iran as the first interne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Gnome | The Sky Gnome was a device from British Sky Broadcasting launched under their Sky Digital brand. It allowed users to listen to radio channels and digital television from their Sky digibox from around the house.
History
The Sky Gnome was released in September 2005 and was available until mid-2007 with a retail price o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting%20balance%20theory | The shifting balance theory is a theory of evolution proposed in 1932 by Sewall Wright, suggesting that adaptive evolution may proceed most quickly when a population divides into subpopulations with restricted gene flow. The name of the theory is borrowed from Wright's metaphor of fitness landscapes (evolutionary land... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiProcessor%20Specification | The MultiProcessor Specification (MPS) for the x86 architecture is an open standard describing enhancements to both operating systems and firmware, which will allow them to work with x86-compatible processors in a multi-processor configuration. MPS covers Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) architectures.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus%20%28hat%29 | The pileus (, ; also or in Latin) was a brimless felt cap worn in Ancient Greece, Etruria, Illyria (especially Pannonia), later also introduced in Ancient Rome. The pileus also appears on Apulian red-figure pottery.
The pilos together with the petasos were the most common types of hats in Archaic and Classical era (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRISTAL%20Audio%20Engine | The KRISTAL Audio Engine (commonly referred to as KRISTAL or KAE) is a digital audio workstation for Microsoft Windows. It is free for personal & educational use, with licensing options for commercial use.
The successor to this product became what is now known as Studio One.
History
Initial Development
KRISTAL beg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20repeater | A wireless repeater (also called wireless range extender or wifi extender) is a device that takes an existing signal from a wireless router or wireless access point and rebroadcasts it to create a second network. When two or more hosts have to be connected with one another over the IEEE 802.11 protocol and the distance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20apparatus%20room | In broadcast facilities and television studios, a central apparatus room (CAR, pronounced "C-A-R"), central machine room, or central equipment room (CER), or central technical area (CTA), or rack room is where shared equipment common to all technical areas is located. Some broadcast facilities have several of these r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES64 | The AES coarse-groove calibration discs (AES-S001-064) are a boxed set of two identical discs, one for routine use, one for master reference. The intent is to characterize the reproduction chain for the mass transfer of coarse-groove records to digital media, much like using a photographic calibration reference in imag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Harrier%20II | is the sequel to Space Harrier, developed and published by Sega. First released on October 29, 1988, it was one of the original launch titles released for the Mega Drive in Japan and one of the six Sega Genesis launch titles in the United States the following year. It was also later released on the Wii's Virtual Consol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitetopping | Whitetopping is the covering of an existing asphalt pavement with a layer of Portland cement concrete. Whitetopping is divided into types depending on the thickness of the concrete layer and whether the layer is bonded to the asphalt substrate. Unbonded whitetopping, also called conventional whitetopping, uses concrete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20density%20estimation | In statistical signal processing, the goal of spectral density estimation (SDE) or simply spectral estimation is to estimate the spectral density (also known as the power spectral density) of a signal from a sequence of time samples of the signal. Intuitively speaking, the spectral density characterizes the frequency ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%20end%20moment | The fixed end moments are reaction moments developed in a beam member under certain load conditions with both ends fixed. A beam with both ends fixed is statically indeterminate to the 3rd degree, and any structural analysis method applicable on statically indeterminate beams can be used to calculate the fixed end mome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK%20Nodo%20Jiman | is a long-running TV program broadcast on NHK TV and NHK radio in Japan.
History
Nodo Jiman ("Proud of my voice") features amateur singers who live in the locality where the competition is held. The first competition was held on the radio in 1946, just after the end of World War II. It has been featured in two Japane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip%20creep | Chip creep refers to the problem of an integrated circuit (chip) working its way out of its socket over time. This was mainly an issue in early PCs.
Chip creep occurs due to thermal expansion, which is expansion and contraction as the system heats up and cools down. It can also occur due to vibration. While chip creep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drazin%20inverse | In mathematics, the Drazin inverse, named after Michael P. Drazin, is a kind of generalized inverse of a matrix.
Let A be a square matrix. The index of A is the least nonnegative integer k such that rank(Ak+1) = rank(Ak). The Drazin inverse of A is the unique matrix AD that satisfies
It's not a generalized inverse i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewtron | Viewtron was an online service offered by Knight-Ridder and AT&T from 1983 to 1986. Patterned after the British Post Office's Prestel system, it started as a videotex service requiring users to have a special terminal, the AT&T Sceptre. As home computers became important in the marketplace, the development focus shifte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericom%20Software | Ericom Software, Inc. is a Closter, New Jersey-based company that provides web isolation and remote application access software to businesses.
Overview
Ericom develops and sells Remote Browser isolation technology, available as a cloud service or on-premises software. The company also sells a broad line of secure acc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20anisotropy | In condensed matter physics, magnetic anisotropy describes how an object's magnetic properties can be different depending on direction. In the simplest case, there is no preferential direction for an object's magnetic moment. It will respond to an applied magnetic field in the same way, regardless of which direction th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203745 | The IBM 3745 is the latest and last of a 37xx family of communications controllers for the IBM mainframe environment. As of mid-2009 there were an estimated 7,000+ of the larger 3745 models still in active production status, down from 20,000 or more in 2007. The 3745 and associated 3746 models were once heavily used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire%20Technology | Sapphire Technology () is a Hong Kong-based technology company, founded in 2001, which produces graphics cards for personal computers and workstations, motherboards, TV tuner cards, digital audio players and LCDTVs
Sapphire's products are based on AMD graphics processing units, and both AMD (ATI) and Intel motherboard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20mesh%20generation | Parallel mesh generation in numerical analysis is a new research area between the boundaries of two scientific computing disciplines: computational geometry and parallel computing. Parallel mesh generation methods decompose the original mesh generation problem into smaller subproblems which are solved (meshed) in p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia%20Biblica | Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible (1899), edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible. In theology and biblical studies, it is often referenced as Enc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETEDIT | SETEDIT is a computer software text editor that is an open source, multi-platform clone of the editor of Borland's Turbo* IDEs, with several improvements. According to the project page, it was started in 1996.
It is not vi or emacs, but may be familiar to DOS users, as noted in reviews.
It is the editor used by RHIDE.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20hypothesis | The sequence hypothesis was first formally proposed in the review "On Protein Synthesis" by Francis Crick in 1958. It states that the sequence of bases in the genetic material (DNA or RNA) determines the sequence of amino acids for which that segment of nucleic acid codes, and this amino acid sequence determines the th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20synchronization | Cell synchronization is a process by which cells in a culture at different stages of the cell cycle are brought to the same phase. Cell synchrony is a vital process in the study of cells progressing through the cell cycle as it allows population-wide data to be collected rather than relying solely on single-cell experi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano | Guano (Spanish from ) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. Guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to the high content of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, all key nutrients essential for plant growth. Guano was also, to a lesser extent, sought for the production of gunpowder and other explosive mater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percoll | Percoll is a tool for efficient density separation in Cell biology that was first formulated by Pertoft and colleagues. It is used for the isolation of cells, organelles, and/or viruses by density centrifugation. Percoll consists of colloidal silica particles of 15–30 nm diameter (23% w/w in water) which have been coa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire%20des%20Antiquit%C3%A9s%20Grecques%20et%20Romaines | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines}}
The Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines d'après les textes et les monuments, contenant l'explication des termes qui se rapportent aux mœurs, aux institutions, à la religion, aux arts, aux sciences, au costume, au mobilier, à la guerre, à la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20District | The Discovery District is one of the commercial districts in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has a high concentration of hospitals and research institutions, particularly those related to biotechnology. The district is roughly bounded by Bloor Street on the north, Bay Street on the east, Dundas Street on the sout... |
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