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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%E2%80%93Wilson%20model | The Clark–Wilson integrity model provides a foundation for specifying and analyzing an integrity policy for a computing system.
The model is primarily concerned with formalizing the notion of information integrity. Information integrity is maintained by preventing corruption of data items in a system due to either err... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20pack | A battery pack is a set of any number of (preferably) identical batteries or individual battery cells. They may be configured in a series, parallel or a mixture of both to deliver the desired voltage, capacity, or power density. The term battery pack is often used in reference to cordless tools, radio-controlled hobby ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20science | Animal science is described as "studying the biology of animals that are under the control of humankind". It can also be described as the production and management of farm animals. Historically, the degree was called animal husbandry and the animals studied were livestock species, like cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurochip | A neurochip is an integrated circuit chip (such as a microprocessor) that is designed for interaction with neuronal cells.
Formation
It is made of silicon that is doped in such a way that it contains EOSFETs (electrolyte-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors) that can sense the electrical activity of the neur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOSFET | An EOSFET or electrolyte–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor is a FET, like a MOSFET, but with an electrolyte solution replacing the metal for the detection of neuronal activity. Many EOSFETs are integrated in a neurochip.
Electrochemistry
Sensors
Transistor types
MOSFETs
Field-effect transistors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiochemistry | Radiochemistry is the chemistry of radioactive materials, where radioactive isotopes of elements are used to study the properties and chemical reactions of non-radioactive isotopes (often within radiochemistry the absence of radioactivity leads to a substance being described as being inactive as the isotopes are stable... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%27%20inequality | In information theory, Gibbs' inequality is a statement about the information entropy of a discrete probability distribution. Several other bounds on the entropy of probability distributions are derived from Gibbs' inequality, including Fano's inequality.
It was first presented by J. Willard Gibbs in the 19th century.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20analytic%20number%20theory | Abstract analytic number theory is a branch of mathematics which takes the ideas and techniques of classical analytic number theory and applies them to a variety of different mathematical fields. The classical prime number theorem serves as a prototypical example, and the emphasis is on abstract asymptotic distribution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%20sulfate | Aluminium sulfate is a salt with the formula Al2(SO4)3. It is soluble in water and is mainly used as a coagulating agent (promoting particle collision by neutralizing charge) in the purification of drinking water and wastewater treatment plants, and also in paper manufacturing.
The anhydrous form occurs naturally as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-bearer | A standard-bearer, also known as a colour-bearer or flag-bearer, is a person who bears an emblem known as a standard or military colours, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image, which is used (and often honoured) as a formal, visual symbol of a state, prince, military unit, etc. This can either be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20bag%20problem | In geometry, the paper bag problem or teabag problem is to calculate the maximum possible inflated volume of an initially flat sealed rectangular bag which has the same shape as a cushion or pillow, made out of two pieces of material which can bend but not stretch.
According to Anthony C. Robin, an approximate formula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce%207%20series | The GeForce 7 series is the seventh generation of Nvidia's GeForce graphics processing units. This was the last series available on AGP cards.
A slightly modified GeForce 7-based card (more specifically based on the 7800GTX) is present as the RSX Reality Synthesizer, which is present on the PlayStation 3.
Features
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris%20Volume%20Manager | Solaris Volume Manager (SVM; formerly known as Online: DiskSuite, and later Solstice DiskSuite) is a software package for creating, modifying and controlling RAID-0 (concatenation and stripe) volumes, RAID-1 (mirror) volumes, RAID 0+1 volumes, RAID 1+0 volumes, RAID-5 volumes, and soft partitions.
Version 1.0 of Onlin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gago%20Coutinho | Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, GCTE, GCC (; 17 February 1869 – 18 February 1959), generally known simply as Gago Coutinho, was a Portuguese geographer, cartographer, naval officer, historian and aviator. An aviation pioneer, Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral were the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air, in a j... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20product | In information theory, the bar product of two linear codes C2 ⊆ C1 is defined as
where (a | b) denotes the concatenation of a and b. If the code words in C1 are of length n, then the code words in C1 | C2 are of length 2n.
The bar product is an especially convenient way of expressing the Reed–Muller RM (d, r) code in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-terminated%20silicon%20surface | Hydrogen-terminated silicon surface is a chemically passivated silicon substrate where the surface Si atoms are bonded to hydrogen. The hydrogen-terminated surfaces are hydrophobic, luminescent, and amenable to chemical modification. Hydrogen-terminated silicon is an intermediate in the growth of bulk silicon from si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigamma%20function | In mathematics, the trigamma function, denoted or , is the second of the polygamma functions, and is defined by
.
It follows from this definition that
where is the digamma function. It may also be defined as the sum of the series
making it a special case of the Hurwitz zeta function
Note that the last ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISFET | An ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) is a field-effect transistor used for measuring ion concentrations in solution; when the ion concentration (such as H+, see pH scale) changes, the current through the transistor will change accordingly. Here, the solution is used as the gate electrode. A voltage between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20ML | Concurrent ML (CML) is a concurrent extension of the Standard ML programming language characterized by its ability to allow programmers to create composable communication abstractions that are first-class rather than built into the language. The design of CML and its primitive operations have been adopted in several ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics%20in%20general%20relativity | In general relativity, a geodesic generalizes the notion of a "straight line" to curved spacetime. Importantly, the world line of a particle free from all external, non-gravitational forces is a particular type of geodesic. In other words, a freely moving or falling particle always moves along a geodesic.
In general r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20logistics | Medical logistics is the logistics of pharmaceuticals, medical and surgical supplies, medical devices and equipment, and other products needed to support doctors, nurses, and other health and dental care providers. Because its final customers are responsible for the lives and health of their patients, medical logistics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric%20Shortest%20Path%20First | Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) is a routing protocol used in Fibre Channel computer networks. It calculates the best path between network switches, establishes routes across the fabric and calculates alternate routes in event of a failure or network topology change. FSPF can guarantee in-sequence delivery of frames,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20caterer%27s%20sequence | The lazy caterer's sequence, more formally known as the central polygonal numbers, describes the maximum number of pieces of a disk (a pancake or pizza is usually used to describe the situation) that can be made with a given number of straight cuts. For example, three cuts across a pancake will produce six pieces if th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens%20%28geometry%29 | In 2-dimensional geometry, a lens is a convex region bounded by two circular arcs joined to each other at their endpoints. In order for this shape to be convex, both arcs must bow outwards (convex-convex). This shape can be formed as the intersection of two circular disks. It can also be formed as the union of two circ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website%20builder | Website builders are tools that typically allow the construction of websites without manual code editing. They fall into two categories:
Online proprietary tools provided by web hosting service companies. These are typically intended for service users to build their own website. Some services allow the site owner to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus%20mirabilis%20papers | The annus mirabilis papers (from Latin annus mīrābilis, "miracle year") are the four papers that Albert Einstein published in Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics), a scientific journal, in 1905. These four papers were major contributions to the foundation of modern physics. They revolutionized science's understanding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical%20astronomy | Theoretical astronomy is the use of analytical and computational models based on principles from physics and chemistry to describe and explain astronomical objects and astronomical phenomena. Theorists in astronomy endeavor to create theoretical models and from the results predict observational consequences of those mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway%20visual%20range | In aviation, the runway visual range (RVR) is the distance over which a pilot of an aircraft on the centreline of the runway can see the runway surface markings delineating the runway or identifying its centre line. RVR is normally expressed in meters or feet. RVR is used to determine the landing and takeoff conditions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMWF%20re-analysis | The ECMWF reanalysis project is a meteorological reanalysis project carried out by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
The first reanalysis product, ERA-15, generated reanalyses for approximately 15 years, from December 1978 to February 1994. The second product, ERA-40 (originally intended ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensembl%20genome%20database%20project | Ensembl genome database project is a scientific project at the European Bioinformatics Institute, which provides a centralized resource for geneticists, molecular biologists and other researchers studying the genomes of our own species and other vertebrates and model organisms. Ensembl is one of several well known geno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger%20zone%20%28food%20safety%29 | The danger zone is the temperature range in which food-borne bacteria can grow. Food safety agencies, such as the United States' Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), define the danger zone as roughly . The FSIS stipulates that potentially hazardous food should not be stored at temperatures in this range in order... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelung%20constant | The Madelung constant is used in determining the electrostatic potential of a single ion in a crystal by approximating the ions by point charges. It is named after Erwin Madelung, a German physicist.
Because the anions and cations in an ionic solid attract each other by virtue of their opposing charges, separating the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%20oval | In geometry, a Cassini oval is a quartic plane curve defined as the locus of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points (foci) is constant. This may be contrasted with an ellipse, for which the sum of the distances is constant, rather than the product. Cassini ovals are the special c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selamectin | Selamectin (trade names Selehold manufactured by KRKA, Selarid manufactured by Norbrook Laboratories Limited, Revolution and Stronghold manufactured by Zoetis, Revolt manufactured by Aurora Pharmaceuticals, Senergy manufactured by Virbac, among others) is a topical parasiticide and anthelminthic used on dogs and cats.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20networking%20service | A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
Social ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20System%20of%20Logic | A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is an 1843 book by English philosopher John Stuart Mill.
Overview
In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the philosophy of science, and more generally, insofar as it outlines the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear%20rate | In physics, shear rate is the rate at which a progressive shearing deformation is applied to some material.
Simple shear
The shear rate for a fluid flowing between two parallel plates, one moving at a constant speed and the other one stationary (Couette flow), is defined by
where:
is the shear rate, measured in re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20shear | Simple shear is a deformation in which parallel planes in a material remain parallel and maintain a constant distance, while translating relative to each other.
In fluid mechanics
In fluid mechanics, simple shear is a special case of deformation where only one component of velocity vectors has a non-zero value:
And... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCR/DVD%20combo | A VCR/DVD combination, VCR/DVD combo, or DVD/VCR combo, is a multiplex or converged device that allows the ability to watch both VHS tapes and DVDs. Many such players can also play additional formats such as CD and VCD.
VCR/DVD player combinations were first introduced around the year 1999, with the first model relea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ED50 | ED50 ("European Datum 1950", EPSG:4230) is a geodetic datum which was defined after World War II for the international connection of geodetic networks.
Background
Some of the important battles of World War II were fought on the borders of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and the mapping of these countrie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Triggered%20Protocol | The Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP) is an open computer network protocol for control systems.
It was designed as a time-triggered fieldbus for vehicles and industrial applications. and standardized in 2011 as SAE AS6003 (TTP Communication Protocol). TTP controllers have accumulated over 500 million flight hours in comme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Microsoft%20operating%20systems | This is a list of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. For another list of versions of Microsoft Windows, see, List of Microsoft Windows versions.
MS-DOS
See MS-DOS Versions for a full list.
Windows
Windows 1.0 unt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Microsoft%20software | Microsoft is a developer of personal computer software. It is best known for its Windows operating system, the Internet Explorer and subsequent Microsoft Edge web browsers, the Microsoft Office family of productivity software plus services, and the Visual Studio IDE. The company also publishes books (through Microsoft ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecopsychology | Ecopsychology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field that focuses on the synthesis of ecology and psychology and the promotion of sustainability. It is distinguished from conventional psychology as it focuses on studying the emotional bond between humans and the Earth. Instead of examining personal pain s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodetic%20control%20network | A geodetic control network (also geodetic network, reference network, control point network, or control network) is a network, often of triangles, which are measured precisely by techniques of control surveying, such as terrestrial surveying or satellite geodesy.
A geodetic control network consists of stable, identifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodetic%20astronomy | Geodetic astronomy or astronomical geodesy (astro-geodesy) is the application of astronomical methods into geodetic networks and other technical projects of geodesy.
Applications
The most important applications are:
Establishment of geodetic datum systems (e.g. ED50) or at expeditions
apparent places of stars, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit-level%20gateway | A circuit-level gateway is a type of firewall.
Circuit-level gateways work at the session layer of the OSI model, or as a "shim-layer" between the application layer and the transport layer of the TCP/IP stack. They monitor TCP handshaking between packets to determine whether a requested session is legitimate. Informat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattening | Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) respectively. Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness. The usual notation for flattening is and its definition in terms of the semi-axes and of the resulting ellipse o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith%20camera | A zenith camera is an astrogeodetic telescope used today primarily for the local surveys of Earth's gravity field. Zenith cameras are designed as transportable field instruments for the direct observation of the plumb line (astronomical latitude and longitude) and vertical deflections.
Instrument
A zenith camera com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent%20place | The apparent place of an object is its position in space as seen by an observer. Because of physical and geometrical effects it may differ from the "true" or "geometric" position.
Astronomy
In astronomy, a distinction is made between the mean position, apparent position and topocentric position of an object.
Positi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkg-config | pkg-config is a computer program that defines and supports a unified interface for querying installed libraries for the purpose of compiling software that depends on them. It allows programmers and installation scripts to work without explicit knowledge of detailed library path information. pkg-config was originally d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20masts%20and%20towers | Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest human-made structures. Masts are often named after the broadcasting organizations th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Future%20Is%20Wild | The Future Is Wild (also referred to by the acronym FIW) is a 2002 speculative evolution docufiction miniseries and an accompanying multimedia entertainment franchise. The Future Is Wild explores the ecosystems and wildlife of three future time periods: 5, 100, and 200 million years in the future, in the format of a na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast%20radiator | A mast radiator (or radiating tower) is a radio mast or tower in which the metal structure itself is energized and functions as an antenna. This design, first used widely in the 1930s, is commonly used for transmitting antennas operating at low frequencies, in the LF and MF bands, in particular those used for AM radio ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS%20Plus | DOS Plus (erroneously also known as DOS+) was the first operating system developed by Digital Research's OEM Support Group in Newbury, Berkshire, UK, first released in 1985. DOS Plus 1.0 was based on CP/M-86 Plus combined with the PCMODE emulator from Concurrent PC DOS 4.11. While CP/M-86 Plus and Concurrent DOS 4.1 st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20citrate | Potassium citrate (also known as tripotassium citrate) is a potassium salt of citric acid with the molecular formula K3C6H5O7. It is a white, hygroscopic crystalline powder. It is odorless with a saline taste. It contains 38.28% potassium by mass. In the monohydrate form, it is highly hygroscopic and deliquescent.
As ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECUS | The Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS) was an independent computer user group related to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The Connect User Group Community, formed from the consolidation in May, 2008 of DECUS, Encompass, HP-Interex, and ITUG is the Hewlett-Packard’s largest user community, representin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20cross%20section | The nuclear cross section of a nucleus is used to describe the probability that a nuclear reaction will occur. The concept of a nuclear cross section can be quantified physically in terms of "characteristic area" where a larger area means a larger probability of interaction. The standard unit for measuring a nuclear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUICC | The QUICC (Quad Integrated Communications Controller) was a Motorola 68k -based microcontroller made by Freescale Semiconductor, targeted at the telecommunications market. It lends its name to a family of successor chips called PowerQUICC.
History
The original QUICC was the Motorola 68360 (MC68360), based on the MC68... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrov%20classification | In differential geometry and theoretical physics, the Petrov classification (also known as Petrov–Pirani–Penrose classification) describes the possible algebraic symmetries of the Weyl tensor at each event in a Lorentzian manifold.
It is most often applied in studying exact solutions of Einstein's field equations, but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segre%20classification | The Segre classification is an algebraic classification of rank two symmetric tensors. The resulting types are then known as Segre types. It is most commonly applied to the energy–momentum tensor (or the Ricci tensor) and primarily finds application in the classification of exact solutions in general relativity.
See a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic%20pole%20shift%20hypothesis | The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis is a pseudo-scientific claim that there have been recent, geologically rapid shifts in the axis of rotation of Earth, causing calamities such as floods and tectonic events or relatively rapid climate changes.
There is evidence of precession and changes in axial tilt, but this chan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunophenotyping | Immunophenotyping is a technique used to study the protein expressed by cells. This technique is commonly used in basic science research and laboratory diagnostic purpose. This can be done on tissue section (fresh or fixed tissue), cell suspension, etc. An example is the detection of tumor markers, such as in the dia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20BIOS | Video BIOS is the BIOS of a graphics card in a (usually IBM PC-derived) computer. It initializes the graphics card at the computer's boot time. It also implements INT 10h interrupt and VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) for basic text and videomode output before a specific video driver is loaded. In UEFI 2.x systems, the INT 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff%20algorithm | Chaff is an algorithm for solving instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem in programming. It was designed by researchers at Princeton University. The algorithm is an instance of the DPLL algorithm with a number of enhancements for efficient implementation.
Implementations
Some available implementations of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulcus%20%28morphology%29 | In biological morphology and anatomy, a sulcus (: sulci) is a furrow or fissure (Latin fissura, : fissurae). It may be a groove, natural division, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear in the surface of a limb or an organ, most notably on the surface of the brain, but also in the lungs, certain muscles (including the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic%20Versatile%20Card | The Holographic Versatile Card (HVC) was a proposed data storage format by Optware; the projected date for a Japanese launch had been the first half of 2007, pending finalization of the specification, however as of March 2022, nothing has yet surfaced. One of its main advantages compared with discs was supposed to be t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20fuel | Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines. Heat is created when nuclear fuel undergoes nuclear fission.
Most nuclear fuels contain heavy fissile actinide elements that are capable of undergoing and sustaining nuclear fission. The three most relevant fissile isotopes are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akeno%20Giant%20Air%20Shower%20Array | The Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA) was an array of particle detectors designed to study the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. It was deployed from 1987 to 1991 and decommissioned in 2004.
It consisted of 111 scintillation detectors and 27 muon detectors spread over an area of 100 km2.
It was operated by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Magnete | De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert. A highly influential and successful book, it exerted an immediate influence on many con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence%20point | In mathematics, a coincidence point (or simply coincidence) of two functions is a point in their common domain having the same image.
Formally, given two functions
we say that a point x in X is a coincidence point of f and g if f(x) = g(x).
Coincidence theory (the study of coincidence points) is, in most settings, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20powder | Baby powder is an astringent powder used for preventing diaper rash and for cosmetic uses. It may be composed of talc (in which case it is also called talcum powder) or corn starch. It may also contain additional ingredients like fragrances. Baby powder can also be used as a dry shampoo, cleaning agent (to remove grea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Fish | El-Fish is a fish and fish-tank simulator and software toy developed by Russian game developer AnimaTek, with Maxis providing development advice. The game was published by Mindscape (v1.1) and later by Maxis (v1.1 + v1.2) in 1993 on 5 diskettes.
Each fish in El-Fish has a unique Roe, similar to the genome. This allows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%20flow | Stokes flow (named after George Gabriel Stokes), also named creeping flow or creeping motion, is a type of fluid flow where advective inertial forces are small compared with viscous forces. The Reynolds number is low, i.e. . This is a typical situation in flows where the fluid velocities are very slow, the viscosities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750 | The RAD750 is a radiation-hardened single-board computer manufactured by BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support. The successor of the RAD6000, the RAD750 is for use in high-radiation environments experienced on board satellites and spacecraft. The RAD750 was released in 2001, with the first units launched int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20standard%20tuning | New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning. The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth {(C,G),(G,D),(D,A),(A,E)}; the two highest strings ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully%20polynomial-time%20approximation%20scheme | A fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) is an algorithm for finding approximate solutions to function problems, especially optimization problems. An FPTAS takes as input an instance of the problem and a parameter ε > 0. It returns as output a value is at least times the correct value, and at most times ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/389%20Directory%20Server | The 389 Directory Server (previously Fedora Directory Server) is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server developed by Red Hat as part of the community-supported Fedora Project. The name "389" derives from the port number used by LDAP.
389 Directory Server supports many operating systems, including Fedor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emote | An emote is an entry in a text-based chat client that indicates an action taking place. Unlike emoticons, they are not text art, and instead describe the action using words or images (similar to emoji).
Emotes were created by Shigetaka Kurita in Japan, whose original idea was to create a way of communication using pi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization%20identity | In linear algebra, a branch of mathematics, the polarization identity is any one of a family of formulas that express the inner product of two vectors in terms of the norm of a normed vector space.
If a norm arises from an inner product then the polarization identity can be used to express this inner product entirely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9%20Povinho | Zé Povinho is the cartoon character of a Portuguese everyman created in 1875 by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. He became first a symbol of the Portuguese working-class people, and eventually into the unofficial personification of Portugal.
Gallery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/216%20%28number%29 | 216 (two hundred [and] sixteen) is the natural number following 215 and preceding 217. It is a cube, and is often called Plato's number, although it is not certain that this is the number intended by Plato.
In mathematics
216 is the cube of 6, and the sum of three cubes:
It is the smallest cube that can be represent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name%E2%80%93value%20pair | A name–value pair, also called an attribute–value pair, key–value pair, or field–value pair, is a fundamental data representation in computing systems and applications. Designers often desire an open-ended data structure that allows for future extension without modifying existing code or data. In such situations, all o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAST%20storage%20utility | PAST is a large-scale, distributed, persistent storage system based on the Pastry peer-to-peer overlay network.
See also
Pastry (DHT) (PAST section)
External links
A. Rowstron and P. Druschel. Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility. 18th ACM SOSP'01, Lake Loui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity%20%28operating%20system%29 | Singularity is an experimental operating system developed by Microsoft Research between July 9, 2003, and February 7, 2015. It was designed as a high dependability OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and application software were all written in managed code. Internal security uses type safety instead of hardware me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20tissue | The ground tissue of plants includes all tissues that are neither dermal nor vascular. It can be divided into three types based on the nature of the cell walls. This tissue system is present between the dermal tissue and forms the main bulk of the plant body.
Parenchyma cells have thin primary walls and usually remai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISOLDE | The ISOLDE (Isotope Separator On Line DEvice) Radioactive Ion Beam Facility, is an on-line isotope separator facility located at the centre of the CERN accelerator complex on the Franco-Swiss border. Created in 1964, the ISOLDE facility started delivering radioactive ion beams (RIBs) to users in 1967. Originally locate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetch-and-add | In computer science, the fetch-and-add (FAA) CPU instruction atomically increments the contents of a memory location by a specified value.
That is, fetch-and-add performs the operation
increment the value at address by , where is a memory location and is some value, and return the original value at .
in such a way... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20tomography | Quantum tomography or quantum state tomography is the process by which a quantum state is reconstructed using measurements on an ensemble of identical quantum states. The source of these states may be any device or system which prepares quantum states either consistently into quantum pure states or otherwise into gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed%20retreat | Managed retreat involves the purposeful, coordinated movement of people and buildings away from risks. This may involve the movement of a person, infrastructure (e.g., building or road), or community. It can occur in response to a variety of hazards such as flood, wildfire, or drought.
Politicians, insurers and reside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashida | Kashida or Kasheeda (; ; lit. "extended", "stretched", "lengthened") is a type of justification in the Arabic language and in some descendant cursive scripts. In contrast to white-space justification, which increases the length of a line of text by expanding spaces between words or individual letters, kasheeda creates ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astringent | An astringent (sometimes called adstringent) is a chemical that shrinks or constricts body tissues. The word derives from the Latin adstringere, which means "to bind fast". Calamine lotion, witch hazel, and yerba mansa, a Californian plant, are astringents, as are the powdered leaves of the myrtle.
Astringency, the dr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20psychopathology | Child psychopathology refers to the scientific study of mental disorders in children and adolescents. Oppositional defiant disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorder are examples of psychopathology that are typically first diagnosed during childhood. Mental health providers who wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20West | Joseph Thomas West III (November 22, 1939 – May 19, 2011) was an American technologist. West is notable for being the key figure in the Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine.
West began his career in computer design at RCA, after seven years at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20biotechnology | Environmental biotechnology is biotechnology that is applied to and used to study the natural environment. Environmental biotechnology could also imply that one try to harness biological process for commercial uses and exploitation. The International Society for Environmental Biotechnology defines environmental biote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogenesis | Histogenesis is the formation of different tissues from undifferentiated cells. These cells are constituents of three primary germ layers, the endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm. The science of the microscopic structures of the tissues formed within histogenesis is termed histology.
Germ layers
A germ layer is a collec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%20control | Proportional control, in engineering and process control, is a type of linear feedback control system in which a correction is applied to the controlled variable, and the size of the correction is proportional to the difference between the desired value (setpoint, SP) and the measured value (process variable, PV). Two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strainmeter | A strainmeter is an instrument used by geophysicists to measure the deformation of the Earth. Linear strainmeters measure the changes in the distance between two points, using either a solid piece of material (over a short distance) or a laser interferometer (over a long distance, up to several hundred meters).
The ty... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Moog | William Moog (August 15, 1915–1997) is known for inventing the electrohydraulic servo valve in 1951. He founded Moog Inc., which makes actuators for aircraft.
He was born in New Jersey. His cousin was Robert Moog, one of the leading pioneers of the modern synthesizer.
Moog was married and had three daughters. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Red | Mr. Red is the first mascot of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. He is a humanoid figure dressed in a Reds uniform, with an oversized baseball for a head. Sometimes, Mr. Red is referred to by the team as "The Running Man" for the way he has posed on the logo c. 1968.
Mr. Red was created by Henry "Hank" Zureick, the ... |
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