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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwisTrack | SwisTrack is a tool for tracking robots, humans, animals and objects using a camera or a recorded video as input source. It uses Intel's OpenCV library for fast image processing and contains interfaces for USB, FireWire and GigE cameras, as well as AVI files.
The architecture of SwisTrack is flexible to allow the user... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Prokhorov | Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (; 15 December 1929 – 16 July 2013) was a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1956.
Prokhorov became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding%20T%20bevel | A sliding T bevel, also known as a bevel gauge or false square is an adjustable gauge for setting and transferring angles. Different from the square, which is fixed and can only set a 90° angle, the sliding T bevel can set any angle and transfer it on another piece.
The bevel gauge is composed of two elements connecte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE%20259M | SMPTE 259M is a standard published by SMPTE which "describes a 10-bit serial digital interface operating at 143/270/360 Mb/s."
The goal of SMPTE 259M is to define a serial digital interface (based on a coaxial cable), called SDI or SD-SDI.
There are 4 bit rates defined, which are normally used to transfer the followi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy%E2%80%93Prokhorov%20metric | In mathematics, the Lévy–Prokhorov metric (sometimes known just as the Prokhorov metric) is a metric (i.e., a definition of distance) on the collection of probability measures on a given metric space. It is named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy and the Soviet mathematician Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov; Prokhorov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy%20metric | In mathematics, the Lévy metric is a metric on the space of cumulative distribution functions of one-dimensional random variables. It is a special case of the Lévy–Prokhorov metric, and is named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy.
Definition
Let be two cumulative distribution functions. Define the Lévy distance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%20equation | The Karplus equation, named after Martin Karplus, describes the correlation between 3J-coupling constants and dihedral torsion angles in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy:
where J is the 3J coupling constant, is the dihedral angle, and A, B, and C are empirically derived parameters whose values depend on the at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeyev%20Collection | The Sergeyev Collection (officially Nikolai Sergeev Dance Notations and Music Scores for Ballets) is a collection of choreographic notation, musical materials, designs for décor and costumes, theatre programs, photos and other items that document the repertory of the Imperial Ballet (precursor of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard%20digit | In numerical analysis, one or more guard digits can be used to reduce the amount of roundoff error.
For example, suppose that the final result of a long, multi-step calculation can be safely rounded off to N decimal places. That is to say, the roundoff error introduced by this final roundoff makes a negligible contrib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipulative%20%28mathematics%20education%29 | In mathematics education, a manipulative is an object which is designed so that a learner can perceive some mathematical concept by manipulating it, hence its name. The use of manipulatives provides a way for children to learn concepts through developmentally appropriate hands-on experience.
The use of manipulatives i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation%20of%20axes%20in%20two%20dimensions | In mathematics, a rotation of axes in two dimensions is a mapping from an xy-Cartesian coordinate system to an x′y′-Cartesian coordinate system in which the origin is kept fixed and the x′ and y′ axes are obtained by rotating the x and y axes counterclockwise through an angle . A point P has coordinates (x, y) with r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz%20Bionic | The Mercedes-Benz Bionic is a concept car created by DaimlerChrysler AG under the Mercedes Group. It was first introduced in 2005 at the DaimlerChrysler Innovation Symposium in Washington, D. C. The Bionic is modeled after a type of fish, the yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus, and also has 80% lower nitrogen oxide emis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal%20cognitivism | Anecdotal cognitivism is a method of research using anecdotal, and anthropomorphic evidence through the observation of animal behaviour. A psychological methodology that attributes mental states to animals on the basis of anecdotes and on the observation of particular cases, other than those observations made during co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Align-m | Align-m is a multiple sequence alignment program written by Ivo Van Walle.
Align-m has the ability to accomplish the following tasks:
multiple sequence alignment,
include extra information to guide the sequence alignment,
multiple structural alignment,
homology modeling by (iteratively) combining sequence and stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointwise%20mutual%20information | In statistics, probability theory and information theory, pointwise mutual information (PMI), or point mutual information, is a measure of association. It compares the probability of two events occurring together to what this probability would be if the events were independent.
PMI (especially in its positive pointwi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought%20suppression | Thought suppression is a psychological defence mechanism. It is a type of motivated forgetting in which an individual consciously attempts to stop thinking about a particular thought. It is often associated with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is when a person will repeatedly (usually unsuccessfully) attempt t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user%20development | End-user development (EUD) or end-user programming (EUP) refers to activities and tools that allow end-users – people who are not professional software developers – to program computers. People who are not professional developers can use EUD tools to create or modify software artifacts (descriptions of automated behavi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfotransferase | In biochemistry, sulfotransferases (SULTs) are transferase enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a sulfo group () from a donor molecule to an acceptor alcohol () or amine (). The most common sulfo group donor is 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS). In the case of alcohol as acceptor, the product is a sulfate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annonin | Annonins are a group of chemical compounds classified as acetogenins. They are found in the extracts of Annona seeds (A. squamosa and A. muricata). Annonin-based bioinsecticides are used to control Coleoptera (beetle) pests commonly found in stored organic cereal and beans in the country of Brazil. Other different typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleason%27s%20theorem | In mathematical physics, Gleason's theorem shows that the rule one uses to calculate probabilities in quantum physics, the Born rule, can be derived from the usual mathematical representation of measurements in quantum physics together with the assumption of non-contextuality. Andrew M. Gleason first proved the theorem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20semigroup | In mathematics, a regular semigroup is a semigroup S in which every element is regular, i.e., for each element a in S there exists an element x in S such that . Regular semigroups are one of the most-studied classes of semigroups, and their structure is particularly amenable to study via Green's relations.
History
R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular%20signal-regulated%20kinases | In molecular biology, extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs) or classical MAP kinases are widely expressed protein kinase intracellular signalling molecules that are involved in functions including the regulation of meiosis, mitosis, and postmitotic functions in differentiated cells. Many different stimuli, inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20guanidinium%20thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform%20extraction | Acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction (abbreviated AGPC) is a liquid–liquid extraction technique in biochemistry. It is widely used in molecular biology for isolating RNA (as well as DNA and protein in some cases). This method may take longer than a column-based system such as the silica-based purif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker%20noise | Flicker noise is a type of electronic noise with a 1/f power spectral density. It is therefore often referred to as 1/f noise or pink noise, though these terms have wider definitions. It occurs in almost all electronic devices and can show up with a variety of other effects, such as impurities in a conductive channel, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20plot | A food plot is a planted area set aside to act as a supplementary food source for wildlife. The term was coined by the U.S. hunting and outdoor industries and food plots are most commonly planted for game species.
Food plot crops generally consist of but are not limited to legumes (clovers, alfalfa, beans, etc.), gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20Push | Direct Push is Microsoft's technology for receiving e-mail instantly on Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0 and 6.1 enabled devices, from Microsoft Exchange Servers, Kerio Connect and Zarafa. This service was launched primarily for business users and was supported around 2006 by about 100 operators.
It provides response times si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games%20Computers%20Play | In the 1980s, Games Computers Play (GCP) was an online service written by Gardner Pomper and Greg Hogg and one of the first multiplayer online games (MOGs) to offer a graphical user interface (GUI). The service launched sometime in early 1985, beaten only by a few months by PlayNET on the Commodore 64, which ultimately... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20domain | A security domain is the determining factor in the classification of an enclave of servers/computers. A network with a different security domain is kept separate from other networks. For example, NIPRNet, SIPRNet, JWICS, and NSANet are all kept separate.
A security domain is considered to be an application or collecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal%20nutrient%20solution | Algal nutrient solutions are made up of a mixture of chemical salts and water. Sometimes referred to as "Growth Media", nutrient solutions (along with carbon dioxide and light), provide the materials needed for algae to grow. Nutrient solutions (e.g., Hoagland solution), as opposed to fertilizers, are designed specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20scan | On computer networks, a service scan identifies the available network services by attempting to initiate many sessions to different applications with each device in a target group of devices. This is done by sending session initiation packets for many different applications to open ports on all of the devices specified... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Pest%20Plant%20Accord | The National Pest Plant Accord (NPPA) is a New Zealand agreement that identifies pest plants that are prohibited from sale and commercial propagation and distribution.
The Accord initially came into effect on 1 October 2001 between regional councils and government departments with biosecurity responsibilities, but in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicius%20%282nd%20century%20AD%29 | According to the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus, Apicius is the name of a cook who found a way of packing fresh oysters to send to the emperor Trajan while he was on campaign in Mesopotamia around 115 AD. The information comes by way of the Epitome or summary of the Deipnosophists, since the full text of this part of Ath... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Diana | Project Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess Diana, was an experimental project of the US Army Signal Corps in 1946 to bounce radar signals off the Moon and receive the reflected signals. This was the first experiment in radar astronomy and the first active attempt to probe another celestial body. It was the inspi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai%20domain | The Olduvai domain, known until 2018 as DUF1220 (domain of unknown function 1220) and the NBPF repeat, is a protein domain that shows a striking human lineage-specific (HLS) increase in copy number and appears to be involved in human brain evolution. The protein domain has also been linked to several neurogenetic disor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panton%E2%80%93Valentine%20leukocidin | Panton–Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a cytotoxin—one of the β-pore-forming toxins. The presence of PVL is associated with increased virulence of certain strains (isolates) of Staphylococcus aureus. It is present in the majority
of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) isolates studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20call%20recording%20laws | Telephone call recording laws are legislation enacted in many jurisdictions, such as countries, states, provinces, that regulate the practice of telephone call recording. Call recording or monitoring is permitted or restricted with various levels of privacy protection, law enforcement requirements, anti-fraud measures,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miltefosine | Miltefosine, sold under the trade name Impavido among others, is a medication mainly used to treat leishmaniasis and free-living amoeba infections such as Naegleria fowleri and Balamuthia mandrillaris. This includes the three forms of leishmaniasis: cutaneous, visceral and mucosal. It may be used with liposomal amphote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20bitters | Swedish bitters, also called Swedish tincture, is a bitter and a traditional herbal tonic, the use of which dates back to the 15th century.
Origins
Swedish bitters is said to have been formulated in a similar way to ancient bitters by Paracelsus and rediscovered by 18th century Swedish medics Dr. Klaus Samst and Dr. U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpy%C5%8D%20%28food%29 | , sometimes romanized and pronounced , are dried shavings of Lagenaria siceraria var. hispida, a variety of calabash gourd. The gourd is known as (夕顔) or (フクベ) in Japanese. Kanpyō is an ingredient in traditional Edo style Japanese cuisine. Cooked and flavored kanpyō is commonly used in futomaki sushi roll.
Kanpyō ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predispositioning%20theory | Predispositioning theory, in the field of decision theory and systems theory, is a theory focusing on the stages between a complete order and a complete disorder.
Predispositioning theory was founded by Aron Katsenelinboigen (1927–2005), a professor in the Wharton School who dealt with indeterministic systems such as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1ry%27s%20theorem | In the mathematical field of graph theory, Fáry's theorem states that any simple, planar graph can be drawn without crossings so that its edges are straight line segments. That is, the ability to draw graph edges as curves instead of as straight line segments does not allow a larger class of graphs to be drawn. The th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-cost%20flow%20problem | The minimum-cost flow problem (MCFP) is an optimization and decision problem to find the cheapest possible way of sending a certain amount of flow through a flow network. A typical application of this problem involves finding the best delivery route from a factory to a warehouse where the road network has some capacity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation%20problem | The circulation problem and its variants are a generalisation of network flow problems, with the added constraint of a lower bound on edge flows, and with flow conservation also being required for the source and sink (i.e. there are no special nodes). In variants of the problem, there are multiple commodities flowing t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntop | ntop is computer software that probes a computer network to show network use in a way similar to what the program top does for processes.
Software
In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a web server, creating a HTML dump of the network status. It supports a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%203D | Club 3D, founded in 1997 as Colour Power (Club 3D since 2005), is a Dutch brand of video cards and digital multimedia products such as TV tuner cards and digital sound cards for PCs, featuring AMD graphics chipsets and technologies.
History
Pioneers in the introduction of the first graphics cards from S3 Graphics, 3d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemokinesis | Chemokinesis is chemically prompted kinesis, a motile response of unicellular prokaryotic or eukaryotic organisms to chemicals that cause the cell to make some kind of change in their migratory/swimming behaviour. Changes involve an increase or decrease of speed, alterations of amplitude or frequency of motile characte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-commodity%20flow%20problem | The multi-commodity flow problem is a network flow problem with multiple commodities (flow demands) between different source and sink nodes.
Definition
Given a flow network , where edge has capacity . There are commodities , defined by , where and is the source and sink of commodity , and is its demand. The vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Wiener%20space | In mathematics, classical Wiener space is the collection of all continuous functions on a given domain (usually a subinterval of the real line), taking values in a metric space (usually n-dimensional Euclidean space). Classical Wiener space is useful in the study of stochastic processes whose sample paths are continuou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextGenTel | NextGenTel is a Norwegian telecommunications company located in Bergen (HQ), Trondheim, Oslo, Stavanger, and Kristiansand. They offer ADSL, SHDSL, ADSL2+, VDSL2, IPTV, IP Telephony, mobilephone subscriptions, and WiMax solutions. They are, with 140,000 customers, Norway's third-largest Internet service provider (the la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aorticopulmonary%20septum | The aorticopulmonary septum is developmentally formed from neural crest, specifically the cardiac neural crest, and actively separates the aorta and pulmonary arteries and fuses with the interventricular septum within the heart during heart development.
Structure
In the developing heart, the truncus arteriosus and bul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncus%20arteriosus | The truncus arteriosus is a structure that is present during embryonic development. It is an arterial trunk that originates from both ventricles of the heart that later divides into the aorta and the pulmonary trunk.
Structure
The truncus arteriosus and bulbus cordis are divided by the aorticopulmonary septum. The t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20of%20metrics | In mathematics, two metrics on the same underlying set are said to be equivalent if the resulting metric spaces share certain properties. Equivalence is a weaker notion than isometry; equivalent metrics do not have to be literally the same. Instead, it is one of several ways of generalizing equivalence of norms to ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poncelet%20point | In geometry, the Poncelet point of four given points is defined as follows:
Let be four points in the plane that do not form an orthocentric system and such that no three of them are collinear. The nine-point circles of triangles meet at one point, the Poncelet point of the points . (If do form an orthocentric sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence%20of%20measures | In mathematics, more specifically measure theory, there are various notions of the convergence of measures. For an intuitive general sense of what is meant by convergence of measures, consider a sequence of measures μn on a space, sharing a common collection of measurable sets. Such a sequence might represent an attemp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20metric | In mathematics, a product metric is a metric on the Cartesian product of finitely many metric spaces which metrizes the product topology. The most prominent product metrics are the p product metrics for a fixed :
It is defined as the p norm of the n-vector of the distances measured in n subspaces:
For this metric i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotactic%20selection | Chemotaxis receptors are expressed in the surface membrane with diverse dynamics, some of them have long-term characteristics as they are determined genetically, others have short-term moiety as their assembly is induced ad hoc in the presence of the ligand. The diverse feature of the chemotaxis receptors and ligands p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent%20horizon | In general relativity, an apparent horizon is a surface that is the boundary between light rays that are directed outwards and moving outwards and those directed outward but moving inward.
Apparent horizons are not invariant properties of spacetime, and in particular, they are distinct from event horizons. Within an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20memory%20model | The Java memory model describes how threads in the Java programming language interact through memory. Together with the description of single-threaded execution of code, the memory model provides the semantics of the Java programming language.
The original Java memory model developed in 1995, was widely perceived a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Elliott%20Bell | David Elliott Bell (born in 1945) is an American mathematician and computer security pioneer. While working at MITRE Corporation, he and Leonard J. LaPadula co-developed the highly influential Bell–LaPadula model. In 2012, Bell was interviewed as part of an effort by the National Science Foundation to document the “Bui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20Mules | The Army Mules are a group of mules which serve as the mascots for the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
The tradition of mules as mascots for Army dates back to 1899, when an officer at the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot decided that the team needed a mascot to counter the Navy goat. Mules wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belweder%20%28TV%20set%29 | Belweder was the brand name of the OT1471 television set, manufactured in People's Republic of Poland (PRL) from 1957 to 1960 at the Warszawskie Zakłady Telewizyjne (WZT). It was the second (after the Wisła) TV set made in Poland and the first one designed entirely domestically.
The communist authorities of the PRL sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillistor | An oscillistor is a semiconductor device, consisting of a semiconductor specimen placed in magnetic field, and a resistor after a power supply. The device produces high-frequency oscillations, which are very close to sinusoidal.
The basic principle of operation is the effect of spiral unsteadiness of electron-hole (p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undertone%20series | In music, the undertone series or subharmonic series is a sequence of notes that results from inverting the intervals of the overtone series. While overtones naturally occur with the physical production of music on instruments, undertones must be produced in unusual ways. While the overtone series is based upon arithme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy%20mixture | Burgundy mixture, named after the French district where it was first used to treat grapes and vines, is a mixture of copper sulfate and sodium carbonate. This mixture, which can have an overall copper concentration within the range of 1% through 20%, is used as a fungicidal spray for trees and small fruits.
History
Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Nuclear%20Material | Defence Nuclear Material within the UK is defined as:
Nuclear weapons (warheads)
Special Nuclear Materials (SNM)
New and used reactor fuel from Royal Navy submarines.
Nuclear materials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20over%20USB | Ethernet over USB is the use of a USB link as a part of an Ethernet network, resulting in an Ethernet connection over USB (instead of e.g. PCI or PCIe).
USB over Ethernet (also called USB over Network or USB over IP) is a system to share USB-based devices over Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or the Internet, allowing access to devic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20horizon | In general relativity, an absolute horizon is a boundary in spacetime, defined with respect to the external universe, inside which events cannot affect an external observer. Light emitted inside the horizon can never reach the observer, and anything that passes through the horizon from the observer's side is never seen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20calling%20conventions | This article describes the calling conventions used when programming x86 architecture microprocessors.
Calling conventions describe the interface of called code:
The order in which atomic (scalar) parameters, or individual parts of a complex parameter, are allocated
How parameters are passed (pushed on the stack, plac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustained%20Spheromak%20Physics%20Experiment | The Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) is a program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States established to investigate spheromak plasma.
A spheromak device produces a plasma in magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium mainly through self-induced plasma currents, as opposed to a tokamak device ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarion | Alvarion Technologies is a global provider of autonomous Wi-Fi networks designed with self-organizing capabilities for carrier-grade Wi-Fi, enterprise connectivity, smart city planning, smart hospitality, connected campuses, and connected events.
History
Alvarion was originally incorporated as BreezeCOM Ltd. in Septe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenopodium%20nuttalliae | Chenopodium nuttalliae is a species of edible plant native to Mexico. It is known by the common names huauzontle (literally "hairy amaranth", from the Nahuatl huauhtli 'amaranth' and tzontli 'hair') and Aztec broccoli. Other variations of the name include huauhzontle, huazontle, huanzontle, and guausoncle. It is relate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20semantics | Computational semantics is the study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with meaning representations of natural language expressions. It consequently plays an important role in natural-language processing and computational linguistics.
Some traditional topics of interest are: construction of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1760 | MIL-STD-1760 Aircraft/Store Electrical Interconnection System defines a standardized electrical interface between a military aircraft and its carriage stores. Carriage stores range from weapons, such as GBU-31 JDAM, to pods, such as AN/AAQ-14 LANTIRN, to drop tanks. Prior to adoption and widespread use of MIL-STD-1760... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame%20controversy | The artificial sweetener aspartame has been the subject of several controversies since its initial approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1974. The FDA approval of aspartame was highly contested, beginning with suspicions of its involvement in brain cancer, alleging that the quality of the initial r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4 | SSE4 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 4) is a SIMD CPU instruction set used in the Intel Core microarchitecture and AMD K10 (K8L). It was announced on September 27, 2006, at the Fall 2006 Intel Developer Forum, with vague details in a white paper; more precise details of 47 instructions became available at the Spring 2007 In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20engineering | Surface engineering is the sub-discipline of materials science which deals with the surface of solid matter. It has applications to chemistry, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering (particularly in relation to semiconductor manufacturing).
Solids are composed of a bulk material covered by a surface. The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fictional%20actuaries | Fictional actuaries and the appearance of actuaries in works of fiction have been the subject of a number of articles in actuarial journals.
Film
The Ice Road (2021) - Varnay (played by Benjamin Walker (actor); He introduced himself as an insurance actuary
About Schmidt (2002) - Warren Schmidt is portrayed by Jack N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20liquidator | A computer liquidator buys computer technology and related equipment that is no longer required by one company, and resells ("flips") it to another company. Computer liquidators are agents that act in the computer recycling, or electronic recycling, business.
There are several reasons why companies will sell, or liqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Digital%20Rights | European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. EDRi is a network collective of non-profit organizations (NGO), experts, advocates and academics working to defend and advance digital rights across the continent. As of October 2022, EDRi is made of more than 40 NGOs,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulbil | A bulbil (also referred to as a bulbel, bulblet, and/or pup) is a small, young plant that is reproduced vegetatively from axillary buds on the parent plant's stem or in place of a flower on an inflorescence. These young plants are clones of the parent plant that produced them—they have identical genetic material. The f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20statistical%20packages | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.
General information
Operating system support
ANOVA
Support for various ANOVA methods
Regression
Support for various regression methods.
Time series analysis
Support for various time series analysis methods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium%20controversy | The hafnium controversy is a debate over the possibility of 'triggering' rapid energy releases, via gamma ray emission, from a nuclear isomer of hafnium, 178m2Hf. The energy release is potentially 5 orders of magnitude (100,000 times) more energetic than a chemical reaction, but 2 orders of magnitude less than a nuclea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesion%20%28medicine%29 | Adhesions are fibrous bands that form between tissues and organs, often as a result of injury during surgery. They may be thought of as internal scar tissue that connects tissues not normally connected.
Pathophysiology
Adhesions form as a natural part of the body's healing process after surgery in a similar way that a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20streaming%20media%20software | This is a comparison of streaming media systems. A more complete list of streaming media systems is also available.
General
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of streaming media systems both audio and video. Please see the individual systems' linked articles for further informa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20computational%20identification | Molecular computational identification (MCID) is a technique in which molecules are used as means for identifying individual cells or nanodevices.
See also
RFID |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideline | A tideline refers to where two currents in the ocean converge. Driftwood, floating seaweed, foam, and other floating debris may accumulate, forming sinuous lines called tidelines (although they generally have nothing to do with the tide).
There are four mechanisms that can cause tidelines to form:
Where one body of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric%20genetics | Psychiatric genetics is a subfield of behavioral neurogenetics and behavioral genetics which studies the role of genetics in the development of mental disorders (such as alcoholism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism). The basic principle behind psychiatric genetics is that genetic polymorphisms (as indicated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Boot%20effect | The Lee–Boot effect is a phenomenon concerning the suppression or prolongation of oestrous cycles of mature female mice (and other rodents), when females are housed in groups and isolated from males. It is caused by the effects of an estrogen-dependent pheromone, possibly 2,5-dimethylpyrazine, which is released via the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWater | SmartWater is a traceable liquid and forensic asset marking system (taggant) that is applied to items of value to identify thieves and deter theft. The liquid leaves a long-lasting and unique identifier, whose presence is invisible except under an ultraviolet black light.
History
SmartWater, the forensic technology co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20topping | Tree topping is the practice of removing whole tops of trees or large branches and/or trunks from the tops of trees, leaving stubs or lateral branches that are too small to assume the role of a terminal leader. Other common names for the practice include hat-racking, heading, rounding over, and tipping. Some species of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Panda%27s%20Thumb%20%28blog%29 | The Panda's Thumb is a blog on issues of creationism and evolution from a mainstream scientific perspective. In 2006, Nature listed it as one of the top five science blogs, and Mark Pallen has called it "the definitive blog on the evolution versus creationism debate".
It is written by multiple contributors, including ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUTEr | CUTEr (Constrained and Unconstrained Testing Environment, revisited) is an open source testing environment for optimization and linear algebra solvers. CUTEr provides a collection of test problems along with a set of tools to help developers design, compare, and improve new and existing test problem solvers.
CUTEr is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azoospermia%20factor | Azoospermia factor (AZF) is one of several proteins or their genes, which are coded from the AZF region on the human male Y chromosome. Deletions in this region are associated with inability to produce sperm. Subregions within the AZF region are AZFa (sometimes AZF1), AZFb and AZFc (together referred to as AZF2). AZF m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioorganometallic%20chemistry | Bioorganometallic chemistry is the study of biologically active molecules that contain carbon directly bonded to metals or metalloids. The importance of main-group and transition-metal centers has long been recognized as important to the function of enzymes and other biomolecules. However, only a small subset of natur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging%20Atwood%27s%20machine | The swinging Atwood's machine (SAM) is a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine except that one of the masses is allowed to swing in a two-dimensional plane, producing a dynamical system that is chaotic for some system parameters and initial conditions.
Specifically, it comprises two masses (the pendulum, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20source%20of%20truth | In information science and information technology, single source of truth (SSOT) architecture, or single point of truth (SPOT) architecture, for information systems is the practice of structuring information models and associated data schemas such that every data element is mastered (or edited) in only one place, provi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDOS | HDOS is an early microcomputer operating system, originally written for the Heathkit H8 computer system and later also available for the Heathkit H89 and Zenith Z-89 computers. The author was Heath Company employee Gordon Letwin, who later was an early employee of Microsoft and lead architect of OS/2.
HDOS originally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieferich%20pair | In mathematics, a Wieferich pair is a pair of prime numbers p and q that satisfy
pq − 1 ≡ 1 (mod q2) and qp − 1 ≡ 1 (mod p2)
Wieferich pairs are named after German mathematician Arthur Wieferich.
Wieferich pairs play an important role in Preda Mihăilescu's 2002 proof of Mihăilescu's theorem (formerly known as Catalan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-integer%20base%20of%20numeration | A non-integer representation uses non-integer numbers as the radix, or base, of a positional numeral system. For a non-integer radix β > 1, the value of
is
The numbers di are non-negative integers less than β. This is also known as a β-expansion, a notion introduced by and first studied in detail by . Every real n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jerry%20Lewis%20MDA%20Labor%20Day%20Telethon | The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an annual telethon held on (starting the night before and throughout) Labor Day in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The Muscular Dystrophy Association was founded in 1950 with hopes of gaining the American public's interest. The show was hoste... |
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