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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heating%20degree%20day | Heating degree day (HDD) is a measurement designed to quantify the demand for energy needed to heat a building. HDD is derived from measurements of outside air temperature. The heating requirements for a given building at a specific location are considered to be directly proportional to the number of HDD at that locati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multispectral%20imaging | Multispectral imaging captures image data within specific wavelength ranges across the electromagnetic spectrum. The wavelengths may be separated by filters or detected with the use of instruments that are sensitive to particular wavelengths, including light from frequencies beyond the visible light range, i.e. infrare... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrabenazine | Tetrabenazine is a drug for the symptomatic treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders. It is sold under the brand names Nitoman and Xenazine among others. On August 15, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of tetrabenazine to treat chorea associated with Huntington's disease. Although other d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading%20zero | A leading zero is any 0 digit that comes before the first nonzero digit in a number string in positional notation. For example, James Bond's famous identifier, 007, has two leading zeros. Any zeroes appearing to the left of the first non-zero digit (of any integer or decimal) do not affect its value, and can be omitted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20precession | In physics, the Thomas precession, named after Llewellyn Thomas, is a relativistic correction that applies to the spin of an elementary particle or the rotation of a macroscopic gyroscope and relates the angular velocity of the spin of a particle following a curvilinear orbit to the angular velocity of the orbital moti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTXH | KTXH (channel 20), branded on-air as My 20 Vision, is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, serving as the local outlet for the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KRIV (channel 26). Both stations share studios on Southwest Freeway (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20filament | The term polar filament may refer to either of two analogous structures used for host invasion by different groups of parasites: Myxozoa (Metazoa) and Microsporidia (Fungi), respectively.
In Myxozoa
The polar filament is a structure found in the polar capsule of myxosporean organisms. It is homologous to the "penetran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20capsule | Polar capsules are structures found in the valves of Myxosporean parasites, which contain the polar filament. The polar capsule is constructed of a proteinaceous and a polysaccharide layer, both layers of which continue into the polar filament.
The mouth of the capsule is covered with a cap-like structure. This struct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLOSS%20debate | The SLOSS debate was a debate in ecology and conservation biology during the 1970's and 1980's as to whether a single large or several small (SLOSS) reserves were a superior means of conserving biodiversity in a fragmented habitat. Since its inception, multiple alternate theories have been proposed. There have been app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume-weighted%20average%20price | In finance, volume-weighted average price (VWAP) is the ratio of the value of a security or financial asset traded to the total volume of transactions during a trading session. It is a measure of the average trading price for the period.
Typically, the indicator is computed for one day, but it can be measured between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20negative%20dimension | Unique negative dimension (UND) is a complexity measure for the model of learning from positive examples.
The unique negative dimension of a class of concepts is the size of the maximum subclass such that for every concept , we have is nonempty.
This concept was originally proposed by M. Gereb-Graus in "Complexity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMI | SEMI is an industry association comprising companies involved in the electronics design and manufacturing supply chain. They provide equipment, materials and services for the manufacture of semiconductors, photovoltaic panels, LED and flat panel displays, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), printed and flexible ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaser%20%28effect%29 | A phaser is an electronic sound processor used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum. The position of the peaks and troughs of the waveform being affected is typically modulated by an internal low-frequency oscillator so that they vary over time, creating a sweeping effe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigdo | Jigdo (a portmanteau of "Jigsaw" and "download") is a utility typically used for downloading to piece together a large file, most commonly an optical disk image such as a CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD) image, from many smaller individual constituent files. The constituent files may be local and/or retrieved from one or m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT%20%28instant%20messenger%29 | TNT is an open source instant messaging client which is designed to use AIM and uses the AOL TOC protocol. The client is run within Emacs or XEmacs and is written in Emacs Lisp.
The client was originally written for AOL, but the project was abandoned around 1999, along with its other TOC clients, TiK and TAC. Since ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobweb%20plot | A cobweb plot, or Verhulst diagram is a visual tool used in the dynamical systems field of mathematics to investigate the qualitative behaviour of one-dimensional iterated functions, such as the logistic map. Using a cobweb plot, it is possible to infer the long term status of an initial condition under repeated applic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory%20pigment | Accessory pigments are light-absorbing compounds, found in photosynthetic organisms, that work in conjunction with chlorophyll a. They include other forms of this pigment, such as chlorophyll b in green algal and vascular ("higher") plant antennae, while other algae may contain chlorophyll c or d. In addition, there ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPN-AMI | CPN-AMI is a computer-aided software engineering environment based on Petri Net specifications. It provides the ability to specify the behavior of a distributed system—and to evaluate properties such as invariants (preservation of resources), absence of deadlocks, liveness, or temporal logic properties (relations betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging | Geotagging, or GeoTagging, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though they can also in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corchorus | Corchorus is a genus of about 40–100 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world.
Different common names are used in different contexts, with jute applying to the fiber produced from the plant, and jute mallow leaves for the leaves used as a vege... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnaporthe%20grisea | Magnaporthe grisea, also known as rice blast fungus, rice rotten neck, rice seedling blight, blast of rice, oval leaf spot of graminea, pitting disease, ryegrass blast, Johnson spot, neck blast, wheat blast and , is a plant-pathogenic fungus and model organism that causes a serious disease affecting rice. It is now kno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT180 | The VT180 is a personal computer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts, USA.
Introduced in early 1982, the CP/M-based VT180 was DEC's entry-level microcomputer. "VT180" is the unofficial name for the combination of the VT100 computer terminal and VT18X option. The VT18X includes a 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky%20bit | In computing, the sticky bit is a user ownership access right flag that can be assigned to files and directories on Unix-like systems.
There are two definitions: one for files, one for directories.
For files, particularly executables, superuser could tag these as to be retained in main memory, even when their need en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20100 | The Rainbow 100 is a microcomputer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1982. This desktop unit had a monitor similar to the VT220 and a dual-CPU box with both Zilog Z80 and Intel 8088 CPUs.
The Rainbow 100 was a triple-use machine: VT100 mode (industry standard terminal for interacting with DEC's own... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%E2%80%93orbit%20interaction | In quantum physics, the spin–orbit interaction (also called spin–orbit effect or spin–orbit coupling) is a relativistic interaction of a particle's spin with its motion inside a potential. A key example of this phenomenon is the spin–orbit interaction leading to shifts in an electron's atomic energy levels, due to ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcentral | Webcentral, formerly known as Melbourne IT Group, is an Australian digital services provider. It is a publicly-traded company that was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange () in December 1999. It provides internet domain registration, email/office applications, cloud hosting, cloud services, 5G networks, manage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20continuum | The term information continuum is used to describe the whole set of all information, in connection with information management. The term may be used in reference to the information or the information infrastructure of a people, a species, a scientific subject or an institution.
Other usages
in biological anthropolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetongue%20virus | Bluetongue virus (BTV) is a Sedoreoviridae dsRNA virus part of the genus Orbivirus. The virus causes Bluetongue disease. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20species | In ecology, the foundation species are species that have a strong role in structuring a community. A foundation species can occupy any trophic level in a food web (i.e., they can be primary producers, herbivores or predators). The term was coined by Paul K. Dayton in 1972, who applied it to certain members of marine i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Arbor%20staging | Ann Arbor staging is the staging system for lymphomas, both in Hodgkin's lymphoma (formerly designated Hodgkin's disease) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (abbreviated NHL). It was initially developed for Hodgkin's, but has some use in NHL. It has roughly the same function as TNM staging in solid tumors.
The stage depends on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20mechanics | Rock mechanics is a theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behavior of rocks and rock masses.
Compared to geology, it is the branch of mechanics concerned with the response of rock and rock masses to the force fields of their physical environment.
Background
Rock mechanics is part of a much broader subjec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20cascade | A biochemical cascade, also known as a signaling cascade or signaling pathway, is a series of chemical reactions that occur within a biological cell when initiated by a stimulus. This stimulus, known as a first messenger, acts on a receptor that is transduced to the cell interior through second messengers which amplify... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet%20Winsock | Trumpet Winsock is a TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.x that implemented the Winsock API, which is an API for network sockets. It was developed by Peter Tattam from Trumpet Software International and distributed as shareware software.
History
The first version, 1.0A, was released in 1994. It rapidly gained reputation as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20plasma | Relativistic plasmas in physics are plasmas for which relativistic corrections to a particle's mass and velocity are important. Such corrections typically become important when a significant number of electrons reach speeds greater than 0.86c (Lorentz factor =2).
Such plasmas may be created either by heating a gas to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal%20impression | The conception of a maternal impression rests on the belief that a powerful mental (or sometimes physical) influence working on the mother's mind may produce an impression, either general or definite, on the child she is carrying. The child might be said to be "marked" as a result.
Medicine
Maternal impression, accor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20stress | In materials science and solid mechanics, residual stresses are stresses that remain in a solid material after the original cause of the stresses has been removed. Residual stress may be desirable or undesirable. For example, laser peening imparts deep beneficial compressive residual stresses into metal components such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20Quality%20and%20Accountability%20Office | The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario in Canada. It was legislated into creation in 1996 in response to recommendations made by the Royal Commission on Learning in February 1995.
EQAO is governed by a board of directors appointed by the Lieutenant Governo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Keeley | Barbara Mary Keeley (born 26 March 1952) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Worsley and Eccles South, previously Worsley, since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Shadow Minister for Music and Tourism since 2023. She previously served as Deputy Le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%E2%80%93Severi%20group | In algebraic geometry, the Néron–Severi group of a variety is
the group of divisors modulo algebraic equivalence; in other words it is the group of components of the Picard scheme of a variety. Its rank is called the Picard number. It is named after Francesco Severi and André Néron.
Definition
In the cases of most i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virotherapy | Virotherapy is a treatment using biotechnology to convert viruses into therapeutic agents by reprogramming viruses to treat diseases. There are three main branches of virotherapy: anti-cancer oncolytic viruses, viral vectors for gene therapy and viral immunotherapy. These branches use three different types of treatment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkdevil | Darkdevil (Reilly Tyne) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Tom DeFalco and Pat Olliffe, the character first appeared in Spider-Girl #2 (November 1998). Darkdevil primarily appears in the Marvel Comics 2 future of the Marvel Universe.
Publication history
Darkkdevil ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton%20bound | In coding theory, the Singleton bound, named after Richard Collom Singleton, is a relatively crude upper bound on the size of an arbitrary block code with block length , size and minimum distance . It is also known as the Joshibound. proved by and even earlier by .
Statement of the bound
The minimum distance of a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction%20filter | In a mixed-signal system (analog and digital), a reconstruction filter, sometimes called an anti-imaging filter, is used to construct a smooth analog signal from a digital input, as in the case of a digital to analog converter (DAC) or other sampled data output device.
Sampled data reconstruction filters
The sampling ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinidazole | Tinidazole, sold under the brand name Tindamax among others, is a medication used against protozoan infections. It is widely known throughout Europe and the developing world as a treatment for a variety of anaerobic amoebic and bacterial infections. It was developed in 1972 and is a prominent member of the nitroimidazo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20industry | The software industry includes businesses for development, maintenance and publication of software that are using different business models, mainly either "license/maintenance based" (on-premises) or "Cloud based" (such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, MBaaS, MSaaS, DCaaS etc.). The industry also includes software services, such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20filter | An elliptic filter (also known as a Cauer filter, named after Wilhelm Cauer, or as a Zolotarev filter, after Yegor Zolotarev) is a signal processing filter with equalized ripple (equiripple) behavior in both the passband and the stopband. The amount of ripple in each band is independently adjustable, and no other filte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20geocoding | Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface. Reverse geocoding, on the other hand, converts geog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressor | In molecular genetics, a repressor is a DNA- or RNA-binding protein that inhibits the expression of one or more genes by binding to the operator or associated silencers. A DNA-binding repressor blocks the attachment of RNA polymerase to the promoter, thus preventing transcription of the genes into messenger RNA. An RN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystocele | The cystocele, also known as a prolapsed bladder, is a medical condition in which a woman's bladder bulges into her vagina. Some may have no symptoms. Others may have trouble starting urination, urinary incontinence, or frequent urination. Complications may include recurrent urinary tract infections and urinary retenti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-generation%20network | The next-generation network (NGN) is a body of key architectural changes in telecommunication core and access networks. The general idea behind the NGN is that one network transports all information and services (voice, data, and all sorts of media such as video) by encapsulating these into IP packets, similar to those... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOM%20port | The LOM port (Lights Out Management port) is a remote access facility on a Sun Microsystems server. When the main processor is switched off, or when it is impossible to telnet to the server, an operator would use a link to the LOM port to access the server. As long as the server has power, the LOM facility will work, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20morphogenetic%20protein | Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are a group of growth factors also known as cytokines and as metabologens. Originally discovered by their ability to induce the formation of bone and cartilage, BMPs are now considered to constitute a group of pivotal morphogenetic signals, orchestrating tissue architecture throughout... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissible%20stress%20design | Permissible stress design is a design philosophy used by mechanical engineers and civil engineers.
The civil designer ensures that the stresses developed in a structure due to service loads do not exceed the elastic limit. This limit is usually determined by ensuring that stresses remain within the limits through the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Heisenberg%20model | The Classical Heisenberg model, developed by Werner Heisenberg, is the case of the n-vector model, one of the models used in statistical physics to model ferromagnetism, and other phenomena.
Definition
It can be formulated as follows: take a d-dimensional lattice, and a set of spins of the unit length
,
each one pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGLO | The pGLO plasmid is an engineered plasmid used in biotechnology as a vector for creating genetically modified organisms. The plasmid contains several reporter genes, most notably the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the ampicillin resistance gene. GFP was isolated from the jelly fish Aequorea victoria. Because it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20information%20system%20software | A GIS software program is a computer program to support the use of a geographic information system, providing the ability to create, store, manage, query, analyze, and visualize geographic data, that is, data representing phenomena for which location is important. The GIS software industry encompasses a broad range of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20conduction%20study | A nerve conduction study (NCS) is a medical diagnostic test commonly used to evaluate the function, especially the ability of electrical conduction, of the motor and sensory nerves of the human body. These tests may be performed by medical specialists such as clinical neurophysiologists, physical therapists, physiatris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20cloning%20site | A multiple cloning site (MCS), also called a polylinker, is a short segment of DNA which contains many (up to ~20) restriction sites - a standard feature of engineered plasmids. Restriction sites within an MCS are typically unique, occurring only once within a given plasmid. The purpose of an MCS in a plasmid is to all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmatism | In geometric optics, stigmatism refers to the image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space. Two such points are called a stigmatic pair of the optical system. Many optical systems, even those exhibiting optical aberrations, includi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator%20product%20expansion | In quantum field theory, the operator product expansion (OPE) is used as an axiom to define the product of fields as a sum over the same fields. As an axiom, it offers a non-perturbative approach to quantum field theory. One example is the vertex operator algebra, which has been used to construct two-dimensional confor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endace | Endace Ltd is a privately owned network monitoring company, based in New Zealand and founded in 2001. It provides network visibility and network recording products to large organizations. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 and then delisted in 2013 when it was acquired by Emulex. In 2016 Endac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1 | The Kenbak-1 is considered by the Computer History Museum, the Computer Museum of America and the American Computer Museum to be the world's first "personal computer", invented by John Blankenbaker (born 1929) of Kenbak Corporation in 1970 and first sold in early 1971. Less than 50 machines were ever built, using Bud ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20loop%20carrier | A digital loop carrier (DLC) is a system which uses digital transmission to extend the range of the local loop farther than would be possible using only twisted pair copper wires. A DLC digitizes and multiplexes the individual signals carried by the local loops onto a single datastream on the DLC segment.
Reasons for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siku%20Toys | Sieper Lüdenscheid GmbH & Co. KG, mostly known by its trade name Siku, is a German manufacturer of scale models headquartered in Lüdenscheid. Some of the products sold by Siku are model cars, figurines, model aircraft, model commercial vehicles, and model agricultural machinery.
History
Founded in 1921, Sieper-Werke ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Font%20Server | The X font server (xfs) provides a standard mechanism for an X server to communicate with a font renderer, frequently one running on a remote machine. It usually runs on TCP port 7100.
Current status
The use of server-side fonts is currently considered deprecated in favour of client-side fonts. Such fonts are rendere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming%20bound | In mathematics and computer science, in the field of coding theory, the Hamming bound is a limit on the parameters of an arbitrary block code: it is also known as the sphere-packing bound or the volume bound from an interpretation in terms of packing balls in the Hamming metric into the space of all possible words. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%20bar | An oxygen bar is an establishment, or part of one, that sells oxygen for recreational use. Individual scents may be added to enhance the experience. The flavors in an oxygen bar come from bubbling oxygen through bottles containing aromatic solutions before it reaches the nostrils: most bars use food-grade particles to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Anon%20Proxy | Java Anon Proxy (JAP) also known as JonDonym, was a proxy system designed to allow browsing the Web with revocable pseudonymity. It was originally developed as part of a project of the Technische Universität Dresden, the Universität Regensburg and Privacy Commissioner of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. The client-sof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Barham | Peter Barham (born 1950) is emeritus professor of physics at the University of Bristol. He was visiting professor of Molecular Gastronomy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Early life
Peter Barham was born in 1950. He received his BSc from the University of Warwick, and his MSc and PhD from the University of Br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphophone | The Graphophone was the name and trademark of an improved version of the phonograph. It was invented at the Volta Laboratory established by Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, D.C., United States.
Its trademark usage was acquired successively by the Volta Graphophone Company, the American Graphophone Company, the Nor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian%20foliation | In mathematics, a Lagrangian foliation or polarization is a foliation of a symplectic manifold, whose leaves are Lagrangian submanifolds. It is one of the steps involved in the geometric quantization of a square-integrable functions on a symplectic manifold. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursa%20of%20Fabricius | In birds, the bursa of Fabricius (Latin: bursa cloacalis or bursa fabricii) is the site of hematopoiesis. It is a specialized organ that, as first demonstrated by Bruce Glick and later by Max Dale Cooper and Robert Good, is necessary for B cell (part of the immune system) development in birds. Mammals generally do not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria | Phantasmagoria (), alternatively fantasmagorie and/or fantasmagoria was a form of horror theatre that (among other techniques) used one or more magic lanterns to project frightening images, such as skeletons, demons, and ghosts, onto walls, smoke, or semi-transparent screens, typically using rear projection to keep the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opte%20Project | The Opte Project, created in 2003 by Barrett Lyon, seeks to generate an accurate representation of the breadth of the Internet using visual graphics. Lyon believes that his network mapping can help teach students more about the Internet while also acting as a gauge illustrating both overall Internet growth and the spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16%20mm%20scale | 16 mm to 1 foot or 1:19.05 is a popular scale of model railway in the UK which represents narrow gauge prototypes. The most common gauge for such railways is , representing gauge prototypes. This scale/gauge combination is sometimes referred to as "SM32" (terminology popularised by Peco, one of the principal manufactu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel | Backchannel is the use of networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside the primary group activity or live spoken remarks. The term was coined from the linguistics term to describe listeners' behaviours during verbal communication.
The term "backchannel" generally refers to online conversat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20ecology | Historical ecology is a research program that focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment over long-term periods of time, typically over the course of centuries. In order to carry out this work, historical ecologists synthesize long-series data collected by practitioners in diverse fields. Rather t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Tammet | Daniel Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney; 31 January 1979) is an English writer and savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor%20theorem | In algebra, the factor theorem connects polynomial factors with polynomial roots. Specifically, if is a polynomial, then is a factor of if and only if (that is, is a root of the polynomial). The theorem is a special case of the polynomial remainder theorem.
The theorem results from basic properties of addition an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireHOL | FireHOL is a shell script designed as a wrapper for iptables written to ease the customization of the Linux kernel's firewall netfilter. FireHOL is free software and open-source, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
FireHOL does not have graphical user interface, but is configured through an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urophagia | Urophagia is the consumption of urine. Urine was used in several ancient cultures for various health, healing, and cosmetic purposes; urine drinking is still practiced today. In extreme cases, people may drink urine if no other fluids are available, although numerous credible sources (including the US Army Field Manual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20memory%20algorithm | In computing, external memory algorithms or out-of-core algorithms are algorithms that are designed to process data that are too large to fit into a computer's main memory at once. Such algorithms must be optimized to efficiently fetch and access data stored in slow bulk memory (auxiliary memory) such as hard drives or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grating%20light%20valve | The "'grating light valve'" ("'GLV'") is a "micro projection" technology that operates using a dynamically adjustable diffraction grating. It competes with other light valve technologies such as Digital Light Processing (DLP) and liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) for implementation in video projector devices such as rea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20algebraic%20coding%20theory%20topics | This is a list of algebraic coding theory topics.
Algebraic coding theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%E2%80%93Varshamov%20bound | In coding theory, the Gilbert–Varshamov bound (due to Edgar Gilbert and independently Rom Varshamov) is a limit on the parameters of a (not necessarily linear) code. It is occasionally known as the Gilbert–Shannon–Varshamov bound (or the GSV bound), but the name "Gilbert–Varshamov bound" is by far the most popular. Var... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s%20three%20principles%20of%20real%20analysis | Littlewood's three principles of real analysis are heuristics of J. E. Littlewood to help teach the essentials of measure theory in mathematical analysis.
The principles
Littlewood stated the principles in his 1944 Lectures on the Theory of Functions
as:
The first principle is based on the fact that the inner measu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBRIX%20Fusion | IBRIX Fusion is a parallel file system combined with a logical volume manager, availability features and a management interface. The software was produced, sold, and supported by IBRIX Incorporated of Billerica, Massachusetts. HP announced on July 17, 2009 that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire IBRIX. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20geometry%20code | Algebraic geometry codes, often abbreviated AG codes, are a type of linear code that generalize Reed–Solomon codes. The Russian mathematician V. D. Goppa constructed these codes for the first time in 1982.
History
The name of these codes has evolved since the publication of Goppa's paper describing them. Historically... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singin%27%20in%20the%20Rain%20%28song%29 | "Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown. Doris Eaton Travis introduced the song on Broadway in The Hollywood Music Box Revue in 1929. It was then widely popularized by Cliff Edwards and the Brox Sisters in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Many contemporary artists have sinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%27n%27Quiet | AMD Cool'n'Quiet is a CPU dynamic frequency scaling and power saving technology introduced by AMD with its Athlon XP processor line. It works by reducing the processor's clock rate and voltage when the processor is idle. The aim of this technology is to reduce overall power consumption and lower heat generation, allowi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin%20policy | In computing, the same-origin policy (SOP) is an important concept in the web application security model. Under the policy, a web browser permits scripts contained in a first web page to access data in a second web page, but only if both web pages have the same origin. An origin is defined as a combination of URI schem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeno-associated%20virus | Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) are small viruses that infect humans and some other primate species. They belong to the genus Dependoparvovirus, which in turn belongs to the family Parvoviridae. They are small (approximately 26 nm in diameter) replication-defective, nonenveloped viruses and have linear single-stranded D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical%20constant | An astronomical constant is any of several physical constants used in astronomy. Formal sets of constants, along with recommended values, have been defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) several times: in 1964 and in 1976 (with an update in 1994). In 2009 the IAU adopted a new current set, and recognizin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20steam | Live steam is steam under pressure, obtained by heating water in a boiler. The steam may be used to operate stationary or moving equipment.
A live steam machine or device is one powered by steam, but the term is usually reserved for those that are replicas, scale models, toys, or otherwise used for heritage, museum, e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulba%20Sutras | The Shulva Sutras or Śulbasūtras (Sanskrit: शुल्बसूत्र; : "string, cord, rope") are sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction.
Purpose and origins
The Shulba Sutras are part of the larger corpus of texts called the Shrauta Sutras, considered to be appendic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta%20theorem | In geometry, Brahmagupta's theorem states that if a cyclic quadrilateral is orthodiagonal (that is, has perpendicular diagonals), then the perpendicular to a side from the point of intersection of the diagonals always bisects the opposite side. It is named after the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598-668).
More spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window%20of%20the%20World | The Window of the World () is a theme park located in the western part of the city of Shenzhen in the People's Republic of China. It has about 130 reproductions of some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world squeezed into 48 hectares (118 acres). The 108 metre (354 ft) tall Eiffel Tower dominates the skyli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore%20Blum | Lenore Carol Blum (née Epstein, born December 18, 1942) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation. She was a distinguished career professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendid%20China%20Folk%20Village | Splendid China Folk Village (Chinese: 锦绣中华民俗村, pinyin: Jǐnxiù Zhōnghuá Mínsú Cūn) is a theme park including two areas (Splendid China Miniature Park & China Folk Culture Village) located in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. The park's theme reflects the history, culture, art, ancient architectu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%20quasiprobability%20distribution | The Wigner quasiprobability distribution (also called the Wigner function or the Wigner–Ville distribution, after Eugene Wigner and Jean-André Ville) is a quasiprobability distribution. It was introduced by Eugene Wigner in 1932 to study quantum corrections to classical statistical mechanics. The goal was to link the w... |
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