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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%20M45 | The M45 Project (or M45) is the name of a cluster announced in November 2007 by Yahoo!.
According to Yahoo!, it has approximately 4,000 processors, three terabytes of memory, 1.5 petabytes of disks, and a peak performance of more than 27 trillion calculations per second (27 teraflops), placing it among the top 50 fas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle%20%28database%20server%29 | Drizzle is a discontinued free software/open-source relational database management system (DBMS) that was forked from the now-defunct 6.0 development branch of the MySQL DBMS.
Like MySQL, Drizzle had a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Old Drizzle files are distributed under vers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectrix%20of%20Maclaurin | In geometry, a sectrix of Maclaurin is defined as the curve swept out by the point of intersection of two lines which are each revolving at constant rates about different points called poles. Equivalently, a sectrix of Maclaurin can be defined as a curve whose equation in biangular coordinates is linear. The name is de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20derivative%20%28continuum%20mechanics%29 | The derivatives of scalars, vectors, and second-order tensors with respect to second-order tensors are of considerable use in continuum mechanics. These derivatives are used in the theories of nonlinear elasticity and plasticity, particularly in the design of algorithms for numerical simulations.
The directional deriv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-unit | In mathematics, in the field of algebraic number theory, an S-unit generalises the idea of unit of the ring of integers of the field. Many of the results which hold for units are also valid for S-units.
Definition
Let K be a number field with ring of integers R. Let S be a finite set of prime ideals of R. An element... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate%20semiconductor | A degenerate semiconductor is a semiconductor with such a high level of doping that the material starts to act more like a metal than as a semiconductor. Unlike non-degenerate semiconductors, these kinds of semiconductor do not obey the law of mass action, which relates intrinsic carrier concentration with temperature... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20parties%20to%20the%20Biological%20Weapons%20Convention | The list of parties to the Biological Weapons Convention encompasses the states which have signed and ratified or acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), a multilateral treaty outlawing biological weapons.
On 10 April 1972, the BWC was opened for signature. The Netherlands became the first state to deposit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20tilings%20in%20hyperbolic%20plane | In hyperbolic geometry, a uniform hyperbolic tiling (or regular, quasiregular or semiregular hyperbolic tiling) is an edge-to-edge filling of the hyperbolic plane which has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive (transitive on its vertices, isogonal, i.e. there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20equivalent | The term human equivalent is used in a number of different contexts. This term can refer to human equivalents of various comparisons of animate and inanimate things.
Animal models in chemistry and medicine
Animal models are used to learn more about a disease, its diagnosis and its treatment, with animal models predic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED%20display | A LED display is a flat panel display that uses an array of light-emitting diodes as pixels for a video display. Their brightness allows them to be used outdoors where they are visible in the sun for store signs and billboards. In recent years, they have also become commonly used in destination signs on public transpor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliman | Milliman, formerly Milliman & Robertson, is an international actuarial and consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington.
The company was founded in 1947, by Wendell Milliman and Stuart A. Robertson and operates 59 offices internationally, with over 3,000 employees. Milliman is owned and managed by approximately 350 p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach%20Volleyball%20Database | The Beach Volleyball Database, also known as BVB Info, is an online website that tracks international beach volleyball players, tournaments and history, including results of continental and international tournaments. It is the only website of its kind in the sport of beach volleyball.
Volleyball Magazine calls the web... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UI%20data%20binding | UI data binding is a software design pattern to simplify development of GUI applications. UI data binding binds UI elements to an application domain model. Most frameworks employ the Observer pattern as the underlying binding mechanism. To work efficiently, UI data binding has to address input validation and data typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20flag%20debate | The Australian flag debate is a question over whether the Australian flag should be changed, particularly to remove the Union Jack from the canton, but also to possibly introduce a completely new design without the Southern Cross. Acknowledgement of the significance of the issues, and corresponding changes are required... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altropane | Altropane (O-587, IACFT, 2β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-fluorophenyl)-N-((E)-3-iodo-prop-2-enyl)tropane) is a phenyltropane derivative which acts as a potent dopamine reuptake inhibitor and long-acting stimulant drug. It has mainly been used as the 125I radiolabelled form for mapping the distribution of dopamine transporters in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Biometeorology | The International Journal of Biometeorology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original research papers, review articles, and short communications on studies examining the interactions between living organisms and factors of the natural and artificial physical environment. The journal is published by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20corners | In semiconductor manufacturing, a process corner is an example of a design-of-experiments (DoE) technique that refers to a variation of fabrication parameters used in applying an integrated circuit design to a semiconductor wafer. Process corners represent the extremes of these parameter variations within which a circ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke%27s%20atom | Hooke's atom, also known as harmonium or hookium, refers to an artificial helium-like atom where the Coulombic electron-nucleus interaction potential is
replaced by a harmonic potential. This system is of significance as it is, for certain values of the force constant defining the harmonic containment, an exactly solv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwindows | In computing, Nano-X is a windowing system which is full featured enough to be used on a PC, an embedded system or a PDA. It is an Open Source project aimed at bringing the features of modern graphical windowing environments to smaller devices and platforms. The project was renamed from Microwindows due to legal threat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard%20Huet | Gérard Pierre Huet (; born 7 July 1947) is a French computer scientist, linguist and mathematician. He is senior research director at INRIA and mostly known for his major and seminal contributions to type theory, programming language theory and to the theory of computation.
Biography
Gérard Huet graduated from the Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence%20%28signal%20processing%29 | In signal processing, the coherence is a statistic that can be used to examine the relation between two signals or data sets. It is commonly used to estimate the power transfer between input and output of a linear system. If the signals are ergodic, and the system function is linear, it can be used to estimate the caus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokehouse | A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. Even when smoke is not used, such a building—typically a subsidiary building—is sometimes referred to as a "smokehouse". When smok... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20of%20Sri%20Lanka | The wildlife of Sri Lanka includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats. Sri Lanka has one of the highest rates of biological endemism (16% of the fauna and 23% of flowering plants are endemic).
Ecological zones
The mountains and the southwestern part of the country, known as the "wet zone", receive ample r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoh%20hyperelastic%20model | The Yeoh hyperelastic material model is a phenomenological model for the deformation of nearly incompressible, nonlinear elastic materials such as rubber. The model is based on Ronald Rivlin's observation that the elastic properties of rubber may be described using a strain energy density function which is a power seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab%20Secure%20Radio | Cab Secure Radio (CSR) was an in-cab analogue radiotelephone system formerly used on parts of the British railway network. Its main function was to provide a secure speech link between the train driver and the signaller which could not be overheard by other train drivers. In areas where CSR was used, it had to be the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate%20alcohol | Surrogate alcohol is a term for any substance containing ethanol that is intentionally consumed by humans but is not meant for human consumption. Some definitions of the term also extend to illegally produced alcoholic beverages.
Consumption of such substances carries extreme health risks, both from the ethanol conten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20solderability%20preservative | Organic solderability preservative or OSP is a method for coating of printed circuit boards. It uses a water-based organic compound that selectively bonds to copper and protects the copper until soldering.
The compounds typically used are from the azole family such as benzotriazoles, imidazoles, benzimidazoles. These ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparata%20code | In coding theory, the Preparata codes form a class of non-linear double-error-correcting codes. They are named after Franco P. Preparata who first described them in 1968.
Although non-linear over GF(2) the Preparata codes are linear over Z4 with the Lee distance.
Construction
Let m be an odd number, and . We first... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%20%28human%20resources%20consulting%20company%29 | Buck (formerly Buck Consultants) is a global HR benefits and human resource consulting firm based in New York City. On April 3, 2023, the company was acquired by Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
History
Founded as an actuarial firm in New York City in 1916 by George B. Buck Sr., in 2016 the firm had more than 1,500 employees... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel%E2%80%93Bulkley%20fluid | The Herschel–Bulkley fluid is a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid, in which the strain experienced by the fluid is related to the stress in a complicated, non-linear way. Three parameters characterize this relationship: the consistency k, the flow index n, and the yield shear stress . The consistency is a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20problem | In computer science, lattice problems are a class of optimization problems related to mathematical objects called lattices. The conjectured intractability of such problems is central to the construction of secure lattice-based cryptosystems: Lattice problems are an example of NP-hard problems which have been shown to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping%20level | In integrated circuits, the stepping level or revision level is a version number that refers to the introduction or revision of one or more photolithographic photomasks within the set of photomasks that is used to pattern an integrated circuit. The term originated from the name of the equipment ("steppers") that expos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20video%20effect | Digital video effects (DVEs) are visual effects that provide comprehensive live video image manipulation, in the same form as optical printer effects in film. DVEs differ from standard video switcher effects (often referred to as analog effects) such as wipes or dissolves, in that they deal primarily with resizing, dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma%20Olson | Wilma K. Olson (born ) is the Mary I. Bunting professor at the Rutgers Center for Quantitative Biology (CQB) (formerly known as BioMaPS institute for Quantitative Biology) at Rutgers University. Olson has her own research group on the New Brunswick campus. Although she is a polymer chemist by training, her research a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone%20of%20polarizing%20activity | The zone of polarizing activity (ZPA) is an area of mesenchyme that contains signals which instruct the developing limb bud to form along the anterior/posterior axis. Limb bud is undifferentiated mesenchyme enclosed by an ectoderm covering. Eventually, the limb bud develops into bones, tendons, muscles and joints. L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyraminx%20Crystal | The Pyraminx Crystal (also called a Chrysanthemum puzzle) is a dodecahedral puzzle similar to the Rubik's Cube and the Megaminx. It is manufactured by Uwe Mèffert and has been sold in his puzzle shop since 2008.
The puzzle was originally called the Brilic, and was first made in 2006 by Aleh Hladzilin, a member of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, especially in the areas of abstract algebra dealing with group cohomology or relative homological algebra, Shapiro's lemma, also known as the Eckmann–Shapiro lemma, relates extensions of modules over one ring to extensions over another, especially the group ring of a group and of a subgroup. It thus rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginga%20%28middleware%29 | Ginga is the middleware specification for the Nipo-Brazilian Digital Television System (SBTVD, from the Portuguese Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital). Ginga is also ITU-T Recommendation for IPTV Services. It is also considered in ITU-T recommendations for Cable Broadcast services (ITU-T J.200 Recommendation serie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuEChERS | QuEChERS is a solid phase extraction method for detection of pesticide residues in food. The name is a portmanteau word formed from "quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe".
Technique
The sample (fruits, vegetables, tobacco, etc.) is homogenized and centrifuged with a reagent and agitated for 1 minute. The re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural%20number | In mathematics, the supernatural numbers, sometimes called generalized natural numbers or Steinitz numbers, are a generalization of the natural numbers. They were used by Ernst Steinitz in 1910 as a part of his work on field theory.
A supernatural number is a formal product:
where runs over all prime numbers, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%20Monkey | The Martian Monkey is the name given to the monkey used by Edward Watters, Tom Wilson and Arnold Payne to perpetrate a hoax in Atlanta, Georgia in 1953.
The hoax
In 1953, young Atlanta barbers Edward Watters and Tom Wilson, along with butcher Arnold Payne, took a dead rhesus monkey and removed its tail, applied large... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20water | Metabolic water refers to water created inside a living organism through metabolism, by oxidizing energy-containing substances in food and adipose tissue. Animal metabolism produces about 107–110 grams of water per 100 grams of fat, 41–42 grams of water per 100 g of protein, and 60 grams of water per 100 g of carbohyd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voitenko%20compressor | The Voitenko compressor is a shaped charge adapted from its original purpose of piercing thick steel armour to the task of accelerating shock waves. It was proposed by Anatoly Emelyanovich Voitenko (Анатолий Емельянович Войтенко), a Soviet scientist, in 1964. It slightly resembles a wind tunnel.
The Voitenko compresso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20component%20video | Digital component video is defined by the ITU-R BT.601 (formerly CCIR 601) standard and uses the Y'CbCr colorspace. The specific encoding of ITU-R BT.656 was used to transmit uncompressed analog standard-definition television component signals in a multiplexed digital format.
Like analog component video, it gets its n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unattended%20ground%20sensor | The Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) are a variety of small sensors, generally covert, dedicated to detect and identify activities on the ground such as enemy soldiers or vehicles. UGS come as systems with an integrated communication network and processing capabilities.
Future combat systems UGS
The unattended ground ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk%20Monster | The "Montauk Monster" was an animal carcass that washed ashore on a beach near the business district of Montauk, New York, in July 2008. The identity of the creature and the veracity of stories surrounding it have been the subject of controversy and speculation. The corpse was eventually decided by experts to be that o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20transform | In the mathematical theory of harmonic analysis, the Riesz transforms are a family of generalizations of the Hilbert transform to Euclidean spaces of dimension d > 1. They are a type of singular integral operator, meaning that they are given by a convolution of one function with another function having a singularity a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weemote | The Weemote was a television remote control made by Fobis Technologies that was designed for young children.
Design
The Weemote was designed for younger children to limit their ability to surf television channels, and also to partially serve as a learning tool. The remote looks like a toy with buttons that are differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Sterelny | Kim Sterelny (born 1950) is an Australian philosopher and professor of philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. He is the winner of several international prizes in the philosophy of science, and was previously editor of Biology and Phi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingar%20Roggen | Dich Ingar Emil Roggen (born 26 April 1934 in Valencia, Spain) is a Norwegian sociologist, and has been described as one of the European social informatics pioneers. His field of work is focused on the social aspects of virtual space, the social analysis of the Internet, the interaction between man and computer, and wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting%20electrochemical%20cell | A light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC or LEEC) is a solid-state device that generates light from an electric current (electroluminescence). LECs are usually composed of two metal electrodes connected by (e.g. sandwiching) an organic semiconductor containing mobile ions. Aside from the mobile ions, their structur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Thomas%20Bruss | Franz Thomas Bruss is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he had been director of "Mathématiques Générales" and co-director of the probability chair, and where he continues his research as invited professor.
His main research activities in mathematics are in the field of proba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggler%20sequence | In number theory, a juggler sequence is an integer sequence that starts with a positive integer a0, with each subsequent term in the sequence defined by the recurrence relation:
Background
Juggler sequences were publicised by American mathematician and author Clifford A. Pickover. The name is derived from the rising a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELMO%20%28protein%29 | ELMO (Engulfment and Cell Motility) is a family of related proteins (~82 kDa) involved in intracellular signalling networks. These proteins have no intrinsic catalytic activity and instead function as adaptors which can regulate the activity of other proteins through their ability to mediate protein-protein interaction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20seabed%20classification | Acoustic seabed classification is the partitioning of a seabed acoustic image into discrete physical entities or classes. This is a particularly active area of development in the field of seabed mapping, marine geophysics, underwater acoustics and benthic habitat mapping. Seabed classification is one route to character... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaired%20electron | In chemistry, an unpaired electron is an electron that occupies an orbital of an atom singly, rather than as part of an electron pair. Each atomic orbital of an atom (specified by the three quantum numbers n, l and m) has a capacity to contain two electrons (electron pair) with opposite spins. As the formation of ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%E2%80%93Gauss%20quadrature | In numerical analysis Chebyshev–Gauss quadrature is an extension of Gaussian quadrature method for approximating the value of integrals of the following kind:
and
In the first case
where
and the weight
In the second case
where
and the weight
See also
Chebyshev polynomials
Chebyshev nodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotes%27s%20spiral | In physics and in the mathematics of plane curves, a Cotes's spiral (also written Cotes' spiral and Cotes spiral) is one of a family of spirals classified by Roger Cotes.
Description
Cotes introduces his analysis of these curves as follows: “It is proposed to list the different types of trajectories which bodies can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Meehan%20%28Gaelic%20footballer%29 | Michael Meehan is a Gaelic footballer from County Galway. Meehan plays his club football with Caltra and played county football for the Galway senior football team. He announced his retirement from inter county football on 21 March 2014 due to injury.
Career
College
Meehan attended St Jarlath's College in Tuam, playi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Hickson | Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification, and the Pingback specification, and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0. He is known as a proponent of Web standards, and has played a crucial role in the development of specifications such as CSS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Reischek | Andreas Reischek (15 September 1845 – 3 April 1902) was an Austrian taxidermist, naturalist, ornithologist and grave robber notable for his extensive natural history collecting expeditions throughout New Zealand as well as being notorious for acts of grave robbing there. He added materially to the understanding of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Implosions | Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System is a 2008 book by Daniel Pope, a history professor at the University of Oregon, which traces the history of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a public agency which undertook to build five large nuclear power plants, one of the m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20NVC%20community%20A18 | Ranunculetum fluitantis is one of the 24 Aquatic plant communities (A18) included in the British National Vegetation Classification (NVC).
The vegetation type or community comprises stands of submerged vegetation dominated by clumps of River water crowfoot. Few other plants are found with any frequency among the dense... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20correlation | In multivariate quantitative genetics, a genetic correlation (denoted or ) is the proportion of variance that two traits share due to genetic causes, the correlation between the genetic influences on a trait and the genetic influences on a different trait estimating the degree of pleiotropy or causal overlap. A geneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arptables | The arptables computer software utility is a network administrator's tool for maintaining the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packet filter rules in the Linux kernel firewall modules.
The tools may be used to create, update, and view the tables that contain the filtering rules, similarly to the iptables program from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20flag | The zero flag is a single bit flag that is a central feature on most conventional CPU architectures (including x86, ARM, PDP-11, 68000, 6502, and numerous others). It is often stored in a dedicated register, typically called status register or flag register, along with other flags. The zero flag is typically abbreviate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradyphrenia | Bradyphrenia is the slowness of thought common to many disorders of the brain. Disorders characterized by bradyphrenia include Parkinson's disease and forms of schizophrenia consequently causing a delayed response and fatigue. Patients with bradyphrenia may describe or may manifest slowed thought processes, evidenced b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pycnidium | A pycnidium (plural pycnidia) is an asexual fruiting body produced by mitosporic fungi, for instance in the order Sphaeropsidales (Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes) or order Pleosporales (Ascomycota, Dothideomycetes). It is often spherical or inversely pearshaped (obpyriform) and its internal cavity is lined with conidiopho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acervulus | An acervulus (pl. acervuli) is a small asexual fruiting body that erupts through the epidermis of host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Melanconiales (Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes). It has the form of a small cushion at the bottom of which short crowded conidiophores are formed. The spores escape... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporodochium | A sporodochium (pl. sporodochia) is a small, compact stroma (mass of hyphae) usually formed on host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Tuberculariales (subdivision Deuteromycota, class Hyphomycetes). This stroma bears the conidiophores on which the asexual spores or conidia are formed. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidable%20sublanguages%20of%20set%20theory | In mathematical logic, various sublanguages of set theory are decidable. These include:
Sets with Monotone, Additive, and Multiplicative Functions.
Sets with restricted quantifiers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine%20osmolality | Urine osmolality is a measure of urine concentration, in which large values indicate concentrated urine and small values indicate diluted urine. Consumption of water (including water contained in food) affects the osmolality of urine.
Osmolality is measured by osmometer, which evaluates the freezing point depression of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20pressure | The ambient pressure on an object is the pressure of the surrounding medium, such as a gas or liquid, in contact with the object.
Atmosphere
Within the atmosphere, the ambient pressure decreases as elevation increases. By measuring ambient atmospheric pressure, a pilot may determine altitude (see pitot-static system).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summed-area%20table | A summed-area table is a data structure and algorithm for quickly and efficiently generating the sum of values in a rectangular subset of a grid. In the image processing domain, it is also known as an integral image. It was introduced to computer graphics in 1984 by Frank Crow for use with mipmaps. In computer vision i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Ann%C3%A9e%20philologique | L'Année philologique (The Philological Year) is an index to scholarly work in fields related to the language, literature, history and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome. It is the standard bibliographical tool for research in classical studies. Published in print annually since 1928, with the first volume covering the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang-Hua%20Teng | Shang-Hua Teng (; born 1964) is a Chinese-American computer scientist. He is the Seeley G. Mudd Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Southern California. Previously, he was the chairman of the Computer Science Department at the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%20effect%20%28information%20technology%29 | In information technology, the observer effect is the impact on the behaviour of a computer process caused by the act of observing the process while it is running.
For example: if a process uses a log file to record its progress, the process could slow down. Furthermore, the act of viewing the file while the process i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%20effect%20%28physics%29 | In physics, the observer effect is the disturbance of an observed system by the act of observation. This is often the result of utilizing instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. A common example is checking the pressure in an automobile tire, which causes some of the air to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK1%20%28program%29 | sK1 is an open-source, cross-platform illustration program that seeks to be a substitute for professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator. Unique project features are CorelDRAW formats importers, tabbed multiple document interface, Cairo-based engine, and color management.
History
A small te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Study%20in%20Scarlet%20%281933%20film%29 | A Study in Scarlet is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery thriller film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes and Anna May Wong as Mrs. Pyke. The title is taken from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel of the same name, the first in the Holmes series, but the screenplay by Robert Florey was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20O%27Rourke%20%28professor%29 | Joseph O'Rourke is the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor of Computer Science at Smith College and the founding chair of the Smith computer science department. His main research interest is computational geometry.
One of O'Rourke's early results was an algorithm for finding the minimum bounding box of a point set in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entitlement%20%28fair%20division%29 | Entitlement in fair division describes that proportion of the resources or goods to be divided that a player can expect to receive. In many fair division settings, all agents have equal entitlements, which means that each agent is entitled to 1/n of the resource. But there are practical settings in which agents have di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality%20mining | Reality mining is the collection and analysis of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior, with the goal of identifying predictable patterns of behavior. In 2008, MIT Technology Review called it one of the "10 technologies most likely to change the way we live."
Reality mining studies huma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaphone%20%28molecule%29 | Megaphone is a cytotoxic neolignan obtained from Aniba megaphylla, a flowering plant of Laurel family which gave the compound its name. Megaphone has also been prepared synthetically.
Studies carried out in the 1960s demonstrated that an alcoholic extract of the ground root of Aniba megaphylla inhibited, in vitro, gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional%20quartz%20phenolic | Three-dimensional quartz phenolic (3DQP) is a phenolic-based material composed of a quartz cloth material impregnated with a phenolic resin and hot-pressed. When cured, 3DQP can be machined in the same way as metals and is tough and fire-resistant. 3DQP is used for the manufacture of nuclear weapon re-entry vehicles (R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%2011 | Code 11 is a barcode symbology developed by Intermec in 1977, and it is used primarily in telecommunications. The symbol can encode any length string consisting of the digits 0–9 and the dash character (-). A twelfth code represents the start/stop character, commonly printed as "*". One or two modulo-11 check digit(s)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Indo-Pacific | The Central Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean, and the connecting seas.
The Central Indo-Pacific is a part of the larger Indo-Pacific, which includes the tropical Indian Ocean, the western and central tropical P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Critchlow | Keith Barry Critchlow (16 March 1933 – 8 April 2020) was a British artist, lecturer, author, Sacred Geometer, professor of architecture, and a co-founder of the Temenos Academy in the UK.
Biography
Critchlow was educated at the Summerhill School, St Martins School of Art, and the Royal College of Art.
He performed na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma%20Oficial%20Mexicana | The Norma Oficial Mexicana (Official Mexican Standard), abbreviated NOM, is the name of each of a series of official, compulsory standards and regulations for diverse activities in Mexico. They are more commonly referred to as NOMs or normas.
The standards are prepared by the Dirección General de Normas (DGN) (Directo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20L.%20Jinks | John Leonard Jinks CBE FRS (Stoke-on-Trent, 21 October 1929 – 6 June 1987) was a British geneticist. His untimely death at 57 cut short a distinguished career with many contributions in the fields of microbial genetics, cytoplasmic inheritance, and biometrical genetics.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moniliformin | Moniliformin is an unusual mycotoxin, a feed contaminant that is lethal to fowl, especially ducklings.
Moniliformin is formed in many cereals by a number of Fusarium species that include Fusarium moniliforme, Fusarium avenaceum, Fusarium subglutinans, Fusarium proliferatum, Fusarium fujikuroi and others. It is mainly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderlich%20%28vacuum%20tube%29 | Wunderlich refers to a series of vacuum tubes introduced in the early 1930s. Wunderlichs were designed to be used as full-wave detectors in AM radio receivers. However, because of their unusual design, they were rarely used in commercially manufactured receivers. The tube is named for its inventor, Norman Wunderlich... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Standards%20of%20the%20People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China | The National Standards of the People's Republic of China (), coded as , are the standards issued by the Standardization Administration of China under the authorization of Article 10 of the Standardization Law of the People's Republic of China.
According to Article 2 of the Standarization Law, national standards are d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds%20algorithm | In decision theory, the odds algorithm (or Bruss algorithm) is a mathematical method for computing optimal strategies for a class of problems that belong to the domain of optimal stopping problems. Their solution follows from the odds strategy, and the importance of the odds strategy lies in its optimality, as explain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollmien%E2%80%93Schlichting%20wave | In fluid dynamics, a Tollmien–Schlichting wave (often abbreviated T-S wave) is a streamwise unstable wave which arises in a bounded shear flow (such as boundary layer and channel flow). It is one of the more common methods by which a laminar bounded shear flow transitions to turbulence. The waves are initiated when som... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troitsk%20Institute%20of%20Innovative%20and%20Thermonuclear%20Research | SSC RF "Troitsk Institute of Innovative and Thermonuclear Research" or TRINITY for short ) is a Russian state scientific center (SSC) in the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion, plasma physics, laser physics, and the technology and practical application of impulse sources of power supply based on MHD generators.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20trust | In information security, computational trust is the generation of trusted authorities or user trust through cryptography. In centralised systems, security is typically based on the authenticated identity of external parties. Rigid authentication mechanisms, such as public key infrastructures (PKIs) or Kerberos, have al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musculoskeletal%20injury | Musculoskeletal injury refers to damage of muscular or skeletal systems, which is usually due to a strenuous activity and includes damage to skeletal muscles, bones, tendons, joints, ligaments, and other affected soft tissues. In one study, roughly 25% of approximately 6300 adults received a musculoskeletal injury of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra | Algebra () () is the study of variables and the rules for manipulating these variables in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics.
Elementary algebra deals with the manipulation of variables (commonly represented by Roman letters) as if they were numbers and is therefore essential in all applic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin%2034 | Interleukin 34 (IL-34) is a protein belonging to a group of cytokines called interleukins. It was originally identified in humans, by large scale screening of secreted proteins; chimpanzee, murine, rat and chicken interleukin 34 orthologs have also been found. The protein is composed of 241 amino acids, 39 kilodaltons ... |
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