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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrayTek | DrayTek () is a network equipment manufacturer of broadband CPE (Customer Premises Equipment), including firewalls, VPN devices, routers, managed switches and wireless LAN devices. The company was founded in 1997. The earliest products included ISDN based solutions, the first being the ISDN Vigor128, a USB terminal ada... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20and%20test-and-set | In computer architecture, the test-and-set CPU instruction (or instruction sequence) is designed to implement
mutual exclusion in multiprocessor environments. Although a correct lock can be implemented with test-and-set, the test and test-and-set optimization lowers resource contention caused by bus locking, especiall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20sum | The direct sum is an operation between structures in abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics. It is defined differently, but analogously, for different kinds of structures. To see how the direct sum is used in abstract algebra, consider a more elementary kind of structure, the abelian group. The direct sum of two a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%20metric | The Gödel metric, also known as the Gödel solution or Gödel universe, is an exact solution, found in 1949 by Kurt Gödel, of the Einstein field equations in which the stress–energy tensor contains two terms: the first representing the matter density of a homogeneous distribution of swirling dust particles (dust solution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia%20%27Celestial%20Blue%27 | Salvia 'Celestial Blue' (also known as celestial blue sage or Las Pilitas sage), is a hybrid cross between Salvia clevelandii (Cleveland sage or chaparral sage) and S. pachyphylla (Rose's sage or mountain desert sage), and possibly involving Salvia 'Pozo Blue' — which is itself a cross between S. clevelandii and S. leu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusing%20update%20algorithm | The diffusing update algorithm (DUAL) is the algorithm used by Cisco's EIGRP routing protocol to ensure that a given route is recalculated globally whenever it might cause a routing loop. It was developed by J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves at SRI International. The full name of the algorithm is DUAL finite-state machine (DUAL ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%27s%20conjecture%20on%20primitive%20roots | In number theory, Artin's conjecture on primitive roots states that a given integer a that is neither a square number nor −1 is a primitive root modulo infinitely many primes p. The conjecture also ascribes an asymptotic density to these primes. This conjectural density equals Artin's constant or a rational multiple th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite%20interpolation | In numerical analysis, Hermite interpolation, named after Charles Hermite, is a method of polynomial interpolation, which generalizes Lagrange interpolation. Lagrange interpolation allows computing a polynomial of degree less than that takes the same value at given points as a given function. Instead, Hermite interpo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otolith | An otolith (, ear + , , a stone), also called statoconium or otoconium or statolith, is a calcium carbonate structure in the saccule or utricle of the inner ear, specifically in the vestibular system of vertebrates. The saccule and utricle, in turn, together make the otolith organs. These organs are what allows an org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming, flag can refer to one or more bits that are used to store a binary value or a Boolean variable for signaling special code conditions, such as file empty or full queue statuses.
Flags may be found as members of a defined data structure, such as a database record, and the meaning of the value co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular%20recording | Perpendicular recording (or perpendicular magnetic recording, PMR), also known as conventional magnetic recording (CMR), is a technology for data recording on magnetic media, particularly hard disks. It was first proven advantageous in 1976 by Shun-ichi Iwasaki, then professor of the Tohoku University in Japan, and fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springburn%20Museum | Springburn Museum was set up in the reading room of the Springburn Library, Glasgow, Scotland, as the first independent community museum in the city, presenting material on the industrial heritage of the area.
The Museum was opened by Tom Weir in 1986. It continued to provide a community based resource for historical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20amplifier | An integrated amplifier (pre/main amp) is an electronic device containing an audio preamplifier and power amplifier in one unit, as opposed to separating the two. Most modern audio amplifiers are integrated and have several inputs for devices such as CD players, DVD players, and auxiliary sources.
Vintage integrated a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibred%20category | Fibred categories (or fibered categories) are abstract entities in mathematics used to provide a general framework for descent theory. They formalise the various situations in geometry and algebra in which inverse images (or pull-backs) of objects such as vector bundles can be defined. As an example, for each topologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20O%27Rahilly | Alfred O'Rahilly, KSG (1 October 1884 – 1 August 1969) was an academic with controversial views on both electromagnetism and religion. He briefly served in politics, as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork City, and was later the president of University College Cork. He also became a priest following the death of his wife.
Ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Darwin%27s%20education | Charles Darwin's education gave him a foundation in the doctrine of Creation prevalent throughout the West at the time, as well as knowledge of medicine and theology. More significantly, it led to his interest in natural history, which culminated in his taking part in the second voyage of HMS Beagle and the eventual in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20I%20Lay%20Me%20Down%20to%20Sleep | Now I lay me down to sleep is a Christian children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century.
Text
Perhaps the earliest version was written by George Wheler in his 1698 book The Protestant Monastery, which reads:
Upon lying down, and going to sleep.
Here I lay me down to sleep.
To thee, O Lord, I give my Soul to keep,
Wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames%20strain | The Ames strain is one of 89 known strains of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis). It was isolated from a diseased 14-month-old Beefmaster heifer that died in Sarita, Texas in 1981. The strain was isolated at the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory and a sample was sent to the United States Army Medic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoe | , commonly translated as "comma", is a comma-like swirl symbol used in Japanese (roughly equivalent to a heraldic badge or charge in European heraldry). It closely resembles the usual form of a .
The appears in many designs with various uses. The simplest, most common patterns of the device contain from one to four ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy%20coding | Cowboy coding is software development where programmers have autonomy over the development process. This includes control of the project's schedule, languages, algorithms, tools, frameworks and coding style. Typically, little to no coordination exists with other developers or stakeholders.
A cowboy coder can be a lone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20latent%20semantic%20analysis | Probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA), also known as probabilistic latent semantic indexing (PLSI, especially in information retrieval circles) is a statistical technique for the analysis of two-mode and co-occurrence data. In effect, one can derive a low-dimensional representation of the observed variables in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insteon | Insteon is a proprietary home automation (domotics) system that enables light switches, lights, thermostats, leak sensors, remote controls, motion sensors, and other electrically powered devices to interoperate through power lines, radio frequency (RF) communications, or both. It employed a dual-mesh networking topolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20telephone | A secure telephone is a telephone that provides voice security in the form of end-to-end encryption for the telephone call, and in some cases also the mutual authentication of the call parties, protecting them against a man-in-the-middle attack. Concerns about massive growth of telephone tapping incidents led to growin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher | An international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or IMSI-catcher, is a telephone eavesdropping device used for intercepting mobile phone traffic and tracking location data of mobile phone users. Essentially a "fake" mobile tower acting between the target mobile phone and the service provider's real towers, it is co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidogen-1 | Nidogen-1 (NID-1), formerly known as entactin, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NID1 gene. Both nidogen-1 and nidogen-2 are essential components of the basement membrane alongside other components such as type IV collagen, proteoglycans (heparan sulfate and glycosaminoglycans), laminin and fibronectin.
Fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%E2%80%93Szekeres%20coordinates | In general relativity, Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates, named after Martin Kruskal and George Szekeres, are a coordinate system for the Schwarzschild geometry for a black hole. These coordinates have the advantage that they cover the entire spacetime manifold of the maximally extended Schwarzschild solution and are well-b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecentre | A telecentre is a public place where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skills. Telecentres exist in almost every country, although they sometimes go by a differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20density%20estimation | In statistics, kernel density estimation (KDE) is the application of kernel smoothing for probability density estimation, i.e., a non-parametric method to estimate the probability density function of a random variable based on kernels as weights. KDE answers a fundamental data smoothing problem where inferences about t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intragenomic%20conflict | Intragenomic conflict refers to the evolutionary phenomenon where genes have phenotypic effects that promote their own transmission in detriment of the transmission of other genes that reside in the same genome. The selfish gene theory postulates that natural selection will increase the frequency of those genes whose p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auf%20Wiedersehen%20Monty | Auf Wiedersehen Monty (German for "Goodbye Monty") is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 16. Released in 1987, it is the fourth game in the Monty Mole series. It was written by Peter Harrap and Shaun Hollingworth with music by Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish.
Gameplay
The pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20multistep%20method | Linear multistep methods are used for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. Conceptually, a numerical method starts from an initial point and then takes a short step forward in time to find the next solution point. The process continues with subsequent steps to map out the solution. Single-step met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault%20tolerance | Fault tolerance is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more faults within some of its components. If its operating quality decreases at all, the decrease is proportional to the severity of the failure, as compared to a naively designed system, in which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic%20acid%20double%20helix | In molecular biology, the term double helix refers to the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA. The double helical structure of a nucleic acid complex arises as a consequence of its secondary structure, and is a fundamental component in determining its tertiary structure. The term ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volterra%20integral%20equation | In mathematics, the Volterra integral equations are a special type of integral equations. They are divided into two groups referred to as the first and the second kind.
A linear Volterra equation of the first kind is
where f is a given function and x is an unknown function to be solved for. A linear Volterra equatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schering%20AG | Schering AG was a research-centered German multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Wedding, Berlin, which operated as an independent company from 1851 to 2006. In 2006, it was bought by Bayer AG and merged to form the Bayer subsidiary Bayer Schering Pharma AG, which was renamed Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresenius%20%28company%29 | Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA is a European multinational health care company based in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany. It provides products and services for dialysis in hospitals, as well as inpatient and outpatient medical care. The company is involved in hospital management and in engineering and services for medical c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania%20%28personification%29 | Germania (; ) is the personification of the German nation or the Germans as a whole. Like many other national personification symbols, she appeared first during the Roman Era. During the Medieval era, she was usually portrayed as one of the lands or provinces ruled by the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, and not as t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dym%20equation | In mathematics, and in particular in the theory of solitons, the Dym equation (HD) is the third-order partial differential equation
It is often written in the equivalent form for some function v of one space variable and time
The Dym equation first appeared in Kruskal and is attributed to an unpublished paper b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COQ7 | Mitochondrial 5-demethoxyubiquinone hydroxylase (DMQ hydroxylase), also known as coenzyme Q7, hydroxylase, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the COQ7 gene. The clk-1 (clock-1) gene encodes this protein that is necessary for ubiquinone biosynthesis in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans and other eukaryotes. The m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb%20drive | Comb-drives are microelectromechanical actuators, often used as linear actuators, which utilize electrostatic forces that act between two electrically conductive combs. Comb drive actuators typically operate at the micro- or nanometer scale and are generally manufactured by bulk micromachining or surface micromachinin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20defense%20Geiger%20counters | Geiger counter is a colloquial name for any hand-held radiation measuring device in civil defense, but most civil defense devices were ion-chamber radiological survey meters capable of measuring only high levels of radiation that would be present after a major nuclear event.
Most Geiger and ion-chamber survey meters w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz%20myth | The megahertz myth, or in more recent cases the gigahertz myth, refers to the misconception of only using clock rate (for example measured in megahertz or gigahertz) to compare the performance of different microprocessors. While clock rates are a valid way of comparing the performance of different speeds of the same mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20activity%20monitoring | Business activity monitoring (BAM) is software that aids the monitoring of business activities that are implemented in computer systems.
The term was originally coined by analysts at Gartner, Inc. and refers to the aggregation, analysis, and presentation of real-time information about activities inside organizations, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparklies | Sparklies is a form of interference on analogue satellite television transmissions.
Sparklies are black or white 'hard' interference dots (as opposed to the 'soft' interference patterns of terrestrial television), caused either by too weak or too strong a signal. When within the satellite's rated reception footprint, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20axis | In Euclidean geometry, the radical axis of two non-concentric circles is the set of points whose power with respect to the circles are equal. For this reason the radical axis is also called the power line or power bisector of the two circles. In detail:
For two circles with centers and radii the powers of a point ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortinet | Fortinet is a cybersecurity company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The company develops and sells security solutions like firewalls, endpoint security and intrusion detection systems. Fortinet has offices located all over the world.
Brothers Ken Xie and Michael Xie founded Fortinet in 2000. The company's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20of%20a%20point | In elementary plane geometry, the power of a point is a real number that reflects the relative distance of a given point from a given circle. It was introduced by Jakob Steiner in 1826.
Specifically, the power of a point with respect to a circle with center and radius is defined by
If is outside the circle, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinu | Xinu Is Not Unix (Xinu, a recursive acronym), is an operating system for embedded systems, originally developed by Douglas Comer for educational use at Purdue University in the 1980s. The name is both recursive, and is Unix spelled backwards. It has been ported to many hardware platforms, including the DEC PDP-11 and V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20decay | Cluster decay, also named heavy particle radioactivity, heavy ion radioactivity or heavy cluster decay, is a rare type of nuclear decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a small "cluster" of neutrons and protons, more than in an alpha particle, but less than a typical binary fission fragment. Ternary fission into three ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%20polynomials | The Abel polynomials are a sequence of polynomials named after Niels Henrik Abel, defined by the following equation:
This polynomial sequence is of binomial type: conversely, every polynomial sequence of binomial type may be obtained from the Abel sequence using umbral calculus.
Examples
For , the polynomials are
F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Vegetarian%20Union | The European Vegetarian Union (EVU) is a non-profit, non-governmental umbrella organisation for vegan and vegetarian societies and groups in Europe. The union works in the areas of vegetarianism, nutrition, health, consumer protection, climate and environment, and food labelling.
History
The EVU distributed the 1995... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%20bran%20oil | Rice bran oil is the oil extracted from the hard outer brown layer of rice called bran. It is known for its high smoke point of and mild flavor, making it suitable for high-temperature cooking methods such as stir frying and deep frying. It is popular as a cooking oil in East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Southea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastebasket%20taxon | Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the purpose of classifying organisms that do not fit anywhere else. They are typically defined by either their designated members' often superficial similarity to each other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic%20effect | The oligodynamic effect (from Greek oligos, "few", and dynamis, "force") is a biocidal effect of metals, especially heavy metals, that occurs even in low concentrations.
In modern times, the effect was observed by Carl Nägeli, although he did not identify the cause. Brass doorknobs and silverware both exhibit this eff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped-ion%20quantum%20computer | A trapped-ion quantum computer is one proposed approach to a large-scale quantum computer. Ions, or charged atomic particles, can be confined and suspended in free space using electromagnetic fields. Qubits are stored in stable electronic states of each ion, and quantum information can be transferred through the colle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%20Meyer | Yves F. Meyer (; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017.
Biography
Born in Paris in a Jewish family, Yves Meyer studied at the Lycée Carnot in Tunis; he won the French General Student Comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498 | MIL-STD-498, Military Standard Software Development and Documentation, was a United States military standard whose purpose was to "establish uniform requirements for software development and documentation." It was released Nov. 8, 1994, and replaced DOD-STD-2167A, DOD-STD-2168, DOD-STD-7935A, and DOD-STD-1703. It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberinfrastructure | United States federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over the Internet beyond ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%20cell | S cells are cells which release secretin, found in the jejunum and duodenum. They are stimulated by a drop in pH to 4 or below in the small intestine's lumen. The released secretin will increase the secretion of bicarbonate (HCO3−) into the lumen, via the pancreas. This is primarily accomplished by an increase in cycli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Gelsinger | Jesse Gelsinger (June 18, 1981 – September 17, 1999) was the first person publicly identified as having died in a clinical trial for gene therapy. Gelsinger suffered from ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, an X-linked genetic disease of the liver, the symptoms of which include an inability to metabolize ammonia – a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally%20positive%20matrix | In mathematics, a totally positive matrix is a square matrix in which all the minors are positive: that is, the determinant of every square submatrix is a positive number. A totally positive matrix has all entries positive, so it is also a positive matrix; and it has all principal minors positive (and positive eigenva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapsar | A collapsar is a star which has undergone gravitational collapse. When a star no longer has enough fuel for significant fusion reactions, there are three possible outcomes, depending on the star's mass: If it is less than the Chandrasekhar limit (1.4 solar masses), the star will stabilize and shrink, becoming a white d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%27s%20eye%20view | Beam's eye view (abbreviated BEV) is an imaging technique used in radiation therapy for quality assurance and planning of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). These are primarily used to ensure that the relative orientation of the patient and the treatment machine are correct. The BEV image will typically include the ima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%20Puckette | Miller Smith Puckette (born 1959) is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994.
Puckette is known for authoring Max, a graphical development environment for music and multimedia syn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry | Stylometry is the application of the study of linguistic style, usually to written language. It has also been applied successfully to music, paintings, and chess.
Stylometry is often used to attribute authorship to anonymous or disputed documents. It has legal as well as academic and literary applications, ranging fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombospondin | Thrombospondins (TSPs) are a family of secreted glycoproteins with antiangiogenic functions. Due to their dynamic role within the extracellular matrix they are considered matricellular proteins. The first member of the family, thrombospondin 1 (THBS1), was discovered in 1971 by Nancy L. Baenziger.
Types
The thrombospo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard%20pointer | In a multithreaded computing environment, hazard pointers are one approach to solving the problems posed by dynamic memory management of the nodes in a lock-free data structure. These problems generally arise only in environments that don't have automatic garbage collection.
Any lock-free data structure that uses the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacia | Malacia is abnormal softening of a biological tissue, most often cartilage. The word is derived from Greek μαλακός, malakos = soft. Usually the combining form -malacia suffixed to another combining form that denotes the affected tissue assigns a more specific name to each such disorder, as follows:
Osteomalacia (ric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20conversion%20coefficient | In nuclear physics, the internal conversion coefficient describes the rate of internal conversion.
The internal conversion coefficient may be empirically determined by the following formula:
There is no valid formulation for an equivalent concept for E0 (electric monopole) nuclear transitions.
There are theoretical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recrudescence | Recrudescence is the recurrence of an undesirable condition. In medicine, it is usually defined as the recurrence of symptoms after a period of remission or quiescence, in which sense it can sometimes be synonymous with relapse. In a narrower sense, it can also be such a recurrence with higher severity than before the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbor%20Discovery%20Protocol | The Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), or simply Neighbor Discovery (ND), is a protocol of the Internet protocol suite used with Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). It operates at the link layer of the Internet model, and is responsible for gathering various information required for network communication, including th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-norm | In mathematics, a t-norm (also T-norm or, unabbreviated, triangular norm) is a kind of binary operation used in the framework of probabilistic metric spaces and in multi-valued logic, specifically in fuzzy logic. A t-norm generalizes intersection in a lattice and conjunction in logic. The name triangular norm refers to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20common%20household%20pests | This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.
Mammals
Mice
Field mice
House mice
Possums
Brushtail possum
Ringtail possum
Rats
Black rats
Brown rats
Wood rat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprobiont | Saprobionts are organisms that digest their food externally and then absorb the products. This process is called saprotrophic nutrition. Fungi are examples of saprobiontic organisms, which are a type of decomposer.
Saprobiontic organisms feed off dead and/or decaying biological materials. Digestion is accomplished by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic%20function | A mimic function changes a file so it assumes the statistical properties of another file . That is, if is the probability of some substring occurring in , then a mimic function , recodes so that approximates for all strings of length less than some . It is commonly considered to be one of the basic techniques fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-adjoint%20logic%20programming | Multi-adjoint logic programming defines syntax and semantics of a logic programming program in such a way that the underlying maths justifying the results are a residuated lattice and/or MV-algebra.
The definition of a multi-adjoint logic program is given, as usual in fuzzy logic programming, as a set of weighted rule... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterproofing | Waterproofing is the process of making an object or structure waterproof or water-resistant so that it remains relatively unaffected by water or resisting the ingress of water under specified conditions. Such items may be used in wet environments or underwater to specified depths.
Water-resistant and waterproof often ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute-oriented%20programming | Attribute-oriented programming (@OP) is a technique for embedding metadata, namely attributes, within program code.
Attribute-oriented programming in various languages
Java
With the inclusion of Metadata Facility for Java (JSR-175) into the J2SE 5.0 release it is possible to utilize attribute-oriented programming ri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm%20heteromorphism | Sperm heteromorphism is the simultaneous production of two or more distinguishable types of sperm by a single male. The sperm types might differ in size, shape and/or chromosome complement. Sperm heteromorphism is also called sperm polymorphism or sperm dimorphism (for species with two sperm types). Typically, only one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20to%20Lie%20with%20Statistics | How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954, presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. Not a statistician, Huff was a journalist who wrote many how-to articles as a freelancer.
The book is a brief, breezy illustrated volume outlining the misuse of statistics and errors i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopotential | In physics, a pseudopotential or effective potential is used as an approximation for the simplified description of complex systems. Applications include atomic physics and neutron scattering. The pseudopotential approximation was first introduced by Hans Hellmann in 1934.
Atomic physics
The pseudopotential is an att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Aleksandrovich%20Kozyrev | Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev (; 2 September 1908 – 27 February 1983) was a Soviet Russian astronomer and astrophysicist.
Biography
He was born in St. Petersburg, and by 1928 he had graduated from the Leningrad State University. In 1931 he began working at the Pulkovo Observatory, located to the south of Leningrad. He... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatheca | The spermatheca (pronounced plural: spermathecae ), also called receptaculum seminis (plural: receptacula seminis), is an organ of the female reproductive tract in insects, e.g. ants, bees, some molluscs, oligochaeta worms and certain other invertebrates and vertebrates. Its purpose is to receive and store sperm from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory%20System%20Agent | A Directory System Agent (DSA) is the element of an X.500 directory service that provides User Agents with access to a portion of the directory (usually the portion associated with a single Organizational Unit). X.500 is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20actuator | A linear actuator is an actuator that creates linear motion (i.e., in a straight line), in contrast to the circular motion of a conventional electric motor. Linear actuators are used in machine tools and industrial machinery, in computer peripherals such as disk drives and printers, in valves and dampers, and in many o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomyces%20lactifluorum | Hypomyces lactifluorum, the lobster mushroom, contrary to its common name, is neither a mushroom nor a crustacean, but rather a parasitic ascomycete fungus that grows on certain species of mushrooms, turning them a reddish orange color that resembles the outer shell of a cooked lobster. H. lactifluorum specifically at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20regions | Several chromosome regions have been defined by convenience in order to talk about gene loci. Most important is the distinction between chromosome region p and chromosome region q. The p region is represented in the shorter arm of the chromosome (p is for petit, French for small) while the q region is in the larger ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20%28acoustics%29 | In acoustics, a beat is an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as a periodic variation in volume whose rate is the difference of the two frequencies.
With tuning instruments that can produce sustained tones, beats can be readily recognized. Tuning two tones to a unison ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20by%20new%20constant%20and%20function%20names | In mathematical logic, a theory can be extended with
new constants or function names under certain conditions with assurance that the extension will introduce
no contradiction. Extension by definitions is perhaps the best-known approach, but it requires
unique existence of an object with the desired property. Addition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glume | In botany, a glume is a bract (leaf-like structure) below a spikelet in the inflorescence (flower cluster) of grasses (Poaceae) or the flowers of sedges (Cyperaceae). There are two other types of bracts in the spikelets of grasses: the lemma and palea.
In grasses, two bracts known as "glumes" form the lowermost organs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumstix | Gumstix is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California. It develops and manufactures small system boards comparable in size to a stick of gum. In 2003, when it was first fully functional, it used ARM architecture system on a chip (SoC) and an operating system based on Linux 2.6 kerne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20point | A code point, codepoint or code position is a unique position in a quantized n-dimensional space that has been assigned a semantic meaning.
In other words, a code point is a particular position in a table, where the position has been assigned a meaning. The table has discrete positions (1, 2, 3, 4, but not fractions) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenothera%20biennis | Oenothera biennis, the common evening-primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae, native to eastern and central North America, from Newfoundland west to Alberta, southeast to Florida, and southwest to Texas, and widely naturalized elsewhere in temperate and subtropical regions. Evening primrose ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Personal%20Telecommunications | Universal personal telecommunications (UPT) was a special segment of the international telephone number space which had been set aside for universal personal telephone numbers. This service had been allocated country code +87810 and was completed by a 10-digit subscriber number which provided 10 billion unique numbers.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-cost%20service | Shared-cost service is a type of telephone call billing where the charge for calling a particular telephone number is partially, but not entirely, paid for by the recipient.
Shared cost numbers normally enable non-geographical or long-distance calls that are priced to the caller as if they were local while the differe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomode%20transducer | An orthomode transducer (OMT) is a waveguide component that is commonly referred to as a polarisation duplexer. Orthomode is a contraction of orthogonal mode. Orthomode transducers serve either to combine or to separate two orthogonally polarized microwave signal paths. One of the paths forms the uplink, which is trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20transfer | Electron transfer (ET) occurs when an electron relocates from an atom or molecule to another such chemical entity. ET is a mechanistic description of certain kinds of redox reactions involving transfer of electrons.
Electrochemical processes are ET reactions. ET reactions are relevant to photosynthesis and respiratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope%20%28instrument%29 | The heliotrope is an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances to mark the positions of participants in a land survey. The heliotrope was invented in 1821 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The word "heliotrope" is taken from the Greek: helios (), meaning "sun", and tropos ()... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroid%20cartilage | The thyroid cartilage is the largest of the nine cartilages that make up the laryngeal skeleton, the cartilage structure in and around the trachea that contains the larynx. It does not completely encircle the larynx (only the cricoid cartilage encircles it).
Structure
The thyroid cartilage is a hyaline cartilage struc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamina%20%28anatomy%29 | Lamina is a general anatomical term meaning "plate" or "layer". It is used in both gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy to describe structures.
Some examples include:
The laminae of the thyroid cartilage: two leaf-like plates of cartilage that make up the walls of the structure.
The vertebral laminae: plates of bo... |
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