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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XACML |
The eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) is an XML-based standard markup language for specifying access control policies. The standard, published by OASIS, defines a declarative fine-grained, attribute-based access control policy language, an architecture, and a processing model describing how to evaluat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRCW-TV | KRCW-TV (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Salem, Oregon, United States, serving as the CW outlet for the Portland area. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside CBS affiliate KOIN (channel 6). Both stations share studios in the basement of the KOIN Center skyscrape... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20mashed%20potatoes | Instant mashed potatoes are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing and dehydrating to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted by adding hot water or milk, producing an approximation of mashed potatoes. They are available in many different flavors.
Mashed potatoes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infraspinatus%20muscle | In human anatomy, the infraspinatus muscle is a thick triangular muscle, which occupies the chief part of the infraspinatous fossa. As one of the four muscles of the rotator cuff, the main function of the infraspinatus is to externally rotate the humerus and stabilize the shoulder joint.
Structure
It attaches mediall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/210%20%28number%29 | 210 (two hundred [and] ten) is the natural number following 209 and preceding 211.
In mathematics
210 is a composite number, an abundant number, Harshad number, and the product of the first four prime numbers (2, 3, 5, and 7), and thus a primorial. It is also the least common multiple of these four prime numbers. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose%20corn%20syrup | High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose–fructose, isoglucose and glucose–fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzymes. To make HFCS, the corn syrup is further processed by D-xylose isomerase to co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford%20knot | The Stafford knot, more commonly known as the Staffordshire knot, is a distinctive three-looped knot that is the traditional symbol of the English county of Staffordshire and of its county town, Stafford. It is a particular representation of the simple overhand knot, the most basic knot of all.
Origins
One legend of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20configuration%20interaction | Full configuration interaction (or full CI) is a linear variational approach which provides numerically exact solutions (within the infinitely flexible complete basis set) to the electronic time-independent, non-relativistic Schrödinger equation.
Explanation
It is a special case of the configuration interaction method... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin%28IV%29%20oxide | Tin(IV) oxide, also known as stannic oxide, is the inorganic compound with the formula SnO2. The mineral form of SnO2 is called cassiterite, and this is the main ore of tin. With many other names, this oxide of tin is an important material in tin chemistry. It is a colourless, diamagnetic, amphoteric solid.
Structure
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstetrical%20dilemma | The obstetrical dilemma is a hypothesis to explain why humans often require assistance from other humans during childbirth to avoid complications, whereas most non-human primates give birth unassisted with relatively little difficulty. This occurs due to the tight fit of the fetal head to the maternal birth canal, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting%20%28plant%29 | A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation. A piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil. If the conditions are suitable, the plant piece will begin to grow as a new plant independent of the parent, a proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Link%20Protocol | Radio Link Protocol (RLP) is an automatic repeat request (ARQ) fragmentation protocol used over a wireless (typically cellular) air interface. Most wireless air interfaces are tuned to provide 1% packet loss, and most Vocoders are mutually tuned to sacrifice very little voice quality at 1% packet loss. However, 1% pack... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Forefront%20Threat%20Management%20Gateway | Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server), is a discontinued network router, firewall, antivirus program, VPN server and web cache from Microsoft Corporation. It ran on Windows Server and works by inspecting all netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20handler | An air handler, or air handling unit (often abbreviated to AHU), is a device used to regulate and circulate air as part of a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. An air handler is usually a large metal box containing a blower, furnace or A/C elements, filter racks or chambers, sound attenuators, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20factorization%20theorem | In mathematics, and particularly in the field of complex analysis, the Hadamard factorization theorem asserts that every entire function with finite order can be represented as a product involving its zeroes and an exponential of a polynomial. It is named for Jacques Hadamard.
The theorem may be viewed as an extensi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochner%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Bochner's theorem (named for Salomon Bochner) characterizes the Fourier transform of a positive finite Borel measure on the real line. More generally in harmonic analysis, Bochner's theorem asserts that under Fourier transform a continuous positive-definite function on a locally compact abelian group co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Gale%E2%80%93Pearson%20experiment | The Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment (1925) is a modified version of the Michelson–Morley experiment and the Sagnac-Interferometer. It measured the Sagnac effect due to Earth's rotation, and thus tests the theories of special relativity and luminiferous ether along the rotating frame of Earth.
Experiment
The aim, as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYNOP | SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by staffed and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically sent every six hours by Deutscher Wetterdienst on shortwave and low frequency using RTTY. A report consists of groups of num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu%C3%B1o | () is a freeze-dried potato product traditionally made by Quechua and Aymara communities of Bolivia and Peru, and is known in various countries of South America, including Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Northwest Argentina. It is a five-day process, obtained by exposing a bitter, frost-resistant variety of potatoes to the ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20J.%20Williams | Roger John Williams (August 14, 1893 – February 20, 1988), was an American biochemist. He is known for is work on vitamins and human nutrition. He had leading roles in the discovery of folic acid, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6, lipoic acid, and avidin. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1946, and serv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20bundle | In differential geometry, a field of mathematics, a normal bundle is a particular kind of vector bundle, complementary to the tangent bundle, and coming from an embedding (or immersion).
Definition
Riemannian manifold
Let be a Riemannian manifold, and a Riemannian submanifold. Define, for a given , a vector to be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucagon-like%20peptide-2 | Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) is a 33 amino acid peptide with the sequence HADGSFSDEMNTILDNLAARDFINWLIQTKITD (see Proteinogenic amino acid) in humans. GLP-2 is created by specific post-translational proteolytic cleavage of proglucagon in a process that also liberates the related glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). GLP-2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPS%20%28format%29 | MPS (Mathematical Programming System) is a file format for presenting and archiving linear programming (LP) and mixed integer programming problems.
Overview
The format was named after an early IBM LP product and has emerged as a de facto standard ASCII medium among most of the commercial LP solvers. Essentially all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRADIUS | FreeRADIUS is a modular, high performance free RADIUS suite developed and distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2, and is free for download and use. The FreeRADIUS Suite includes a RADIUS server, a BSD-licensed RADIUS client library, a PAM library, an Apache module, and numerous additional RADIUS re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20beam%20analysis | Ion beam analysis (IBA) is an important family of modern analytical techniques involving the use of MeV ion beams to probe the composition and obtain elemental depth profiles in the near-surface layer of solids. All IBA methods are highly sensitive and allow the detection of elements in the sub-monolayer range. The dep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed%20screw | A bleed screw is a device used to create a temporary opening in an otherwise closed hydraulic system, which facilitates the removal of air or another substance from the system by way of pressure and density differences.
Applications
Domestic heating radiators
On a home radiator unit, the bleed screw can be opened, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20intelligence | Ambient intelligence (AmI) is a term used in computing to refer to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. The term is generally applied to consumer electronics, telecommunications, and computing.
Ambient intelligence is intended to enable devices to work in concert with p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram%20%28video%20game%29 | Pentagram is a ZX Spectrum and MSX video game released by Ultimate Play the Game in 1986. It is the fourth in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde and Knight Lore. Similarly to Knight Lore it uses the isometric Filmation engine. The game was written by either Tim and Chris S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econometric%20Society | The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools in the practiced of econometrics. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians.
It was founded on December 29, 1930, at the Statler ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surroundings | Surroundings are the area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography (when it is more precisely known as vicinity, or vicinage) and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different%20ideal | In algebraic number theory, the different ideal (sometimes simply the different) is defined to measure the (possible) lack of duality in the ring of integers of an algebraic number field K, with respect to the field trace. It then encodes the ramification data for prime ideals of the ring of integers. It was introduce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeuti%27s%20conjecture | In mathematics, Takeuti's conjecture is the conjecture of Gaisi Takeuti that a sequent formalisation of second-order logic has cut-elimination (Takeuti 1953). It was settled positively:
By Tait, using a semantic technique for proving cut-elimination, based on work by Schütte (Tait 1966);
Independently by Prawitz (Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2011179 | The ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) standard is an international ISO/IEC standard for representing metadata for an organization in a metadata registry. It documents the standardization and registration of metadata to make data understandable and shareable.
Intended purpose
Organizations exchange data between co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Kerr | Roy Patrick Kerr (; born 16 May 1934) is a New Zealand mathematician who discovered the Kerr geometry, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity. His solution models the gravitational field outside an uncharged rotating massive object, including a rotating black hole. His solution to Einst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioorthogonal%20chemical%20reporter | In chemical biology, bioorthogonal chemical reporter is a non-native chemical functionality that is introduced into the naturally occurring biomolecules of a living system, generally through metabolic or protein engineering. These functional groups are subsequently utilized for tagging and visualizing biomolecules. Jen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer%20science | Polymer science or macromolecular science is a subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics and elastomers. The field of polymer science includes researchers in multiple disciplines including chemistry, physics, and engineering.
Subdisciplines
This science compr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Carroll | Gabriel Drew Carroll (born December 24, 1982) is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He was born to tech industry worker parents in Oakland. He graduated from Harvard University with B.A. in mathematics and linguistics in 2005 and received his doctorate in economics from MIT in 2012. He was recognize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-plane%20and%20H-plane | The E-plane and H-plane are reference planes for linearly polarized waveguides, antennas and other microwave devices.
In waveguide systems, as in the electric circuits, it is often desirable to be able to split the circuit power into two or more fractions. In a waveguide system, an element called a junction is used fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYPRIS%20%28microchip%29 | CYPRIS (cryptographic RISC microprocessor) was a cryptographic processor developed by the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories. The device was designed to implement NSA encryption algorithms and had a similar intent to the AIM and Sierra crypto modules. However, the principal references date back to the lat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulated%20continuous%20wave | Modulated continuous wave (MCW) is Morse code telegraphy, transmitted using an audio tone to modulate a carrier wave.
The Federal Communications Commission defines modulated continuous wave in 47 CFR §97.3(c)(4) as "Tone-modulated international Morse code telegraphy emissions having designators with A, C, D, F, G, H o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20capacitance | Evolutionary capacitance is the storage and release of variation, just as electric capacitors store and release charge. Living systems are robust to mutations. This means that living systems accumulate genetic variation without the variation having a phenotypic effect. But when the system is disturbed (perhaps by stres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASY-TV | KASY-TV (channel 50) is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting alongside Santa Fe–licensed CW affiliate KWBQ (channel 19) and its Roswell-based satellite, KRWB-TV (channel 21). The two stations share studios with dual CBS/Fox affi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Global%20Mirror | Global Mirror is an IBM technology that provides data replication over extended distances between two sites for business continuity and disaster recovery. If adequate bandwidth exists, Global Mirror provides a recovery point objective (RPO) of as low as 3–5 seconds between the two sites at extended distances with no p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurofibrillary%20tangle | Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau protein that are most commonly known as a primary biomarker of Alzheimer's disease. Their presence is also found in numerous other diseases known as tauopathies. Little is known about their exact relationship to the different pathologies.
Formati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism%20%28computing%29 | In computing, minimalism refers to the application of minimalist philosophies and principles in the design and use of hardware and software. Minimalism, in this sense, means designing systems that use the least hardware and software resources possible.
History
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, programmers worked with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20manifold | A hydraulic manifold is a component that regulates fluid flow between pumps and actuators and other components in a hydraulic system. It is like a switchboard in an electrical circuit because it lets the operator control how much fluid flows between which components of a hydraulic machinery. For example, in a backhoe l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSCW-DT | KSCW-DT (channel 33) is a television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Hutchinson-licensed CBS affiliate KWCH-DT (channel 12). Both stations share studios on 37th Street in northeast Wichita, while KSCW-DT's transmitter is located in rural northe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMTW | KMTW (channel 36) is a television station licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas, United States, serving the Wichita area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by the Mercury Broadcasting Company, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual Fox/MyN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert%20Riedl | Rupert Riedl (22 February 1925 – 18 September 2005) was an Austrian zoologist.
Biography
Riedl was a scientist with broad interests, whose influence in epistemology grounded in evolutionary theory was notable, although less in English-speaking circles than in German or even Spanish speaking ones. His 1984 work, Biolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie%20dough | Cookie dough is an uncooked blend of cookie ingredients. While cookie dough is normally intended to be baked into individual cookies before eating, edible cookie dough is made to be eaten as is, and usually is made without eggs to make it safer for human consumption.
Cookie dough can be made at home or bought pre-mad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20lightbulb | A nuclear lightbulb is a hypothetical type of spacecraft engine using a gaseous fission reactor to achieve nuclear propulsion. Specifically it would be a type of gas core reactor rocket that uses a quartz wall to separate nuclear fuel from coolant/propellant. It would be operated at temperatures of up to 22,000°C where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Handy-phone%20System | The Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), also marketed as the Personal Communication Telephone (PCT) in Thailand, and the Personal Access System (PAS) and commercially branded as Xiaolingtong () in Mainland China, was a mobile network system operating in the 1880–1930 MHz frequency band, used mainly in Japan, China, Taiw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20education%20in%20New%20York | Mathematics education in New York in regard to both content and teaching method can vary depending on the type of school a person attends. Private school math education varies between schools whereas New York has statewide public school requirements where standardized tests are used to determine if the teaching method ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species%E2%80%93area%20relationship | The species–area relationship or species–area curve describes the relationship between the area of a habitat, or of part of a habitat, and the number of species found within that area. Larger areas tend to contain larger numbers of species, and empirically, the relative numbers seem to follow systematic mathematical re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20requirement | In software engineering and systems engineering, a functional requirement defines a function of a system or its component, where a function is described as a summary (or specification or statement) of behavior between inputs and outputs.
Functional requirements may involve calculations, technical details, data manipul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse%20%28hydraulic%29 | In hydraulic systems, a fuse (or velocity fuse) is a component which prevents the sudden loss of hydraulic fluid pressure. It is a safety feature, designed to allow systems to continue operating, or at least to not fail catastrophically, in the event of a system breach. It does this by stopping or greatly restricting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauliflory | Cauliflory is a botanical term referring to plants that flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks, rather than from new growth and shoots. It is rare in temperate regions but common in tropical forests.
There have been several strategies to distinguish among types of cauliflory historically, including the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mesons | This list is of all known and predicted scalar, pseudoscalar and vector mesons. See list of particles for a more detailed list of particles found in particle physics.
This article contains a list of mesons, unstable subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. They are part of the hadron particle famil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakley%20protocol | The Oakley Key Determination Protocol is a key-agreement protocol that allows authenticated parties to exchange keying material across an insecure connection using the Diffie–Hellman key exchange algorithm. The protocol was proposed by Hilarie K. Orman in 1998, and formed the basis for the more widely used Internet Key... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin%20L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3 | Ervin László (; born 12 June 1932) is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He is an advocate of the theory of quantum consciousness.
Early life and education
László was born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of a shoe manufacturer and a mother who playe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20chromatography%E2%80%93mass%20spectrometry | Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) is an analytical chemistry technique that combines the physical separation capabilities of liquid chromatography (or HPLC) with the mass analysis capabilities of mass spectrometry (MS). Coupled chromatography - MS systems are popular in chemical analysis because the indiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Berthelot | Pierre Berthelot (; born 1943) is a mathematician at the University of Rennes. He developed crystalline cohomology and rigid cohomology.
Publications
Berthelot, Pierre Cohomologie cristalline des schémas de caractéristique p>0. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 407. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1974. 604 pp.
Be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%2B | Sky+ (pronounced Sky Plus) is a discontinued personal video recorder (PVR) and subscription service from the satellite television provider Sky in the UK and Ireland. Launched in September 2001, it allows customers to record, pause and instantly rewind live TV. The system performs these functions using an internal hard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution%20%28biology%29 | Devolution, de-evolution, or backward evolution (not to be confused with dysgenics) is the notion that species can revert to supposedly more primitive forms over time. The concept relates to the idea that evolution has a purpose (teleology) and is progressive (orthogenesis), for example that feet might be better than h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcification | Calcification is the accumulation of calcium salts in a body tissue. It normally occurs in the formation of bone, but calcium can be deposited abnormally in soft tissue, causing it to harden. Calcifications may be classified on whether there is mineral balance or not, and the location of the calcification. Calcificatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20Life | 3D Life is a cellular automaton. It is a three-dimensional extension of Game of Life, investigated by Carter Bays. A number of different semitotalistic rules for the 3D rectangular Moore neighborhood were investigated.
It was popularized by A. K. Dewdney in his "Computer Recreations" column in Scientific American mag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20health | Population health has been defined as "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group". It is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of an entire human population. It has been described as consisting of three components. These are "health outco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxysome | Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) consisting of polyhedral protein shells filled with the enzymes ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO)—the predominant enzyme in carbon fixation and the rate limiting enzyme in the Calvin cycle—and carbonic anhydrase.
Carboxysomes are thought to ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20It%20Snow%21%20Let%20It%20Snow%21%20Let%20It%20Snow%21 | "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", also known as simply "Let It Snow", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945 in Hollywood, California, during a heat wave as Cahn and Styne imagined cooler conditions. The song was first recorded that fall by Vaughn Monroe, was released just... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFOX-TV | KFOX-TV (channel 14) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate KDBC-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios on South Alto Mesa Drive in northwest El Paso, while KFOX-TV's transmitter is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko%20Poga%C4%8Dnik | Marko Pogačnik (born 11 August 1944) is a Slovenian artist and author.
Background
Pogačnik studied at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, where he graduated in 1967. He was a co-founder of the neo-avantgarde artistic movement OHO, members of which were also Tomaž Šalamun and Slavoj Žižek. From ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge%20pressure | Discharge pressure (also called high side pressure or head pressure) is the pressure generated on the output side of a gas compressor in a refrigeration or air conditioning system. The discharge pressure is affected by several factors: size and speed of the condenser fan, condition and cleanliness of the condenser coil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity%20optimization | Capacity optimization is a general term for technologies used to improve storage use by shrinking stored data. Primary technologies used for capacity optimization are data deduplication and data compression. These are delivered as software or hardware, integrated with storage systems or delivered as standalone products... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTD%28f%29 | MTD(f) is an alpha-beta game tree search algorithm modified to use ‘zero-window’ initial search bounds, and memory (usually a transposition table) to reuse intermediate search results. MTD(f) is a shortened form of MTD(n,f) which stands for Memory-enhanced Test Driver with node ‘n’ and value ‘f’. The efficacy of this p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20aluminosilicate | Sodium aluminosilicate refers to compounds which contain sodium, aluminium, silicon and oxygen, and which may also contain water. These include synthetic amorphous sodium aluminosilicate, a few naturally occurring minerals and synthetic zeolites. Synthetic amorphous sodium aluminosilicate is widely used as a food addi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%20bodies | Inclusion bodies are aggregates of specific types of protein found in neurons, a number of tissue cells including red blood cells, bacteria, viruses, and plants. Inclusion bodies of aggregations of multiple proteins are also found in muscle cells affected by inclusion body myositis and hereditary inclusion body myopath... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanner%20graph | In coding theory, a Tanner graph, named after Michael Tanner, is a bipartite graph used to state constraints or equations which specify error correcting codes. In coding theory, Tanner graphs are used to construct longer codes from smaller ones. Both encoders and decoders employ these graphs extensively.
Origins
Tann... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungas | The Yungas (Aymara yunka warm or temperate Andes or earth, Quechua yunka warm area on the slopes of the Andes) is a bioregion of a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru and Bolivia, and extends into Northwest Argentina at the slope of the Andes pre-cordillera. It is a transition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20jealousy | Sexual jealousy is a special form of jealousy in sexual relationships, based on suspected or imminent sexual infidelity. The concept is studied in the field of evolutionary psychology.
Basis
Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that there is a gender difference in sexual jealousy, driven by men and women's diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20congruence | In mathematics, two square matrices A and B over a field are called congruent if there exists an invertible matrix P over the same field such that
PTAP = B
where "T" denotes the matrix transpose. Matrix congruence is an equivalence relation.
Matrix congruence arises when considering the effect of change of basis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apo2.7 | Apo2.7 is a protein confined to the mitochondrial membrane. It can be detected during early stages of apoptosis. It can be used to detect apoptosis via flow cytometry. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B3T | 4B3T, which stands for 4 (four) binary 3 (three) ternary, is a line encoding scheme used for ISDN PRI interface. 4B3T represents four binary bits using three pulses.
Description
It uses three states:
+ (positive pulse),
0 (no pulse), and
− (negative pulse).
This means we have 24 = 16 input combinations to represe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopterin | Neopterin is an organic compound belonging to the pteridine class of heterocyclic compounds.
Neopterin belongs to the chemical group known as pteridines. It is synthesised by human macrophages upon stimulation with the cytokine interferon-gamma and is indicative of a pro-inflammatory immune status. Neopterin serves as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Hookean%20solid | A neo-Hookean solid is a hyperelastic material model, similar to Hooke's law, that can be used for predicting the nonlinear stress-strain behavior of materials undergoing large deformations. The model was proposed by Ronald Rivlin in 1948. In contrast to linear elastic materials, the stress-strain curve of a neo-Hoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%20phenomenon | In complex analysis the Stokes phenomenon, discovered by , is where the asymptotic behavior of functions can differ in different regions of the complex plane. This seemingly gives rise to a paradox when looking at the asymptotic expansion of an analytic function. Since an analytic function is continuous you would expec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinarian%27s%20Oath | The Veterinarian's Oath was adopted by the American Veterinary Medical Association's House of Delegates July 1969, and amended by the AVMA Executive Board, November 1999 and December 2010.
The Veterinarian Oath taken by Canadian veterinarians, established by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association in 2004, has so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-and-place%20machine | Surface-mount technology (SMT) component placement systems, commonly called pick-and-place machines or P&Ps, are robotic machines which are used to place surface-mount devices (SMDs) onto a printed circuit board (PCB). They are used for high speed, high precision placing of a broad range of electronic components, for e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20clamp | A clamp is a compact heap, mound or pile of materials. A storage clamp is used in the agricultural industry for temporary storage of root crops such as potato, turnip, rutabaga, mangelwurzel, and sugar beet.
A clamp is formed by excavating a shallow rectangular depression in a field to make a base for the clamp. Root... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%20queue | In computer science, an input queue is a collection of processes in storage that are waiting to be brought into memory to run a program. Input queues are mainly used in Operating System Scheduling which is a technique for distributing resources among processes. Input queues not only apply to operating systems (OS), but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20ratio | The shooting ratio or "Bertolo code" in filmmaking and television production is the ratio between the total duration of its footage created for possible use in a project and that which appears in its final cut.
A film with a shooting ratio of 2:1 would have shot twice the amount of footage than was used in the film. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espacenet | Espacenet (formerly stylized as esp@cenet) is a free online service for searching patents and patent applications. Espacenet was developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) together with the member states of the European Patent Organisation. Most member states have an Espacenet service in their national language, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20source-code-hosting%20facilities | A source-code-hosting facility (also known as forge) is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20entomology | Entomology, the scientific study of insects and closely related terrestrial arthropods, has been impelled by the necessity of societies to protect themselves from insect-borne diseases, crop losses to pest insects, and insect-related discomfort, as well as by people's natural curiosity. This timeline article traces the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alston%20Scott%20Householder | Alston Scott Householder (5 May 1904 – 4 July 1993) was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis.
He is the inventor of the Householder transformation and of Householder's method.
Career
Householder was born in Rockford, Illinois, USA. He received a BA in philosophy fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberun | Cyberun is a ZX Spectrum video game by Ultimate Play the Game and published by U.S. Gold in 1986. Although not part of the Jetman series, it has similarities to Jetpac in that the player must construct their spaceship from parts, then seek out resources and power-ups.
Gameplay
The player controls a spaceship trapped... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle%20%28ASIC%29 | The Beetle ASIC is an analog readout chip. It is developed for the LHCb experiment at CERN.
Overview
The chip integrates 128 channels with low-noise charge-sensitive pre-amplifiers and shapers. The pulse shape can be chosen such that it complies with LHCb specifications: a peaking time of 25 ns with a remainder of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbler%20%28video%20game%29 | Bubbler is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game in 1987. It was Ultimate's final release for 8-bit home computers before evolving into Rare. The game is an isometric platform game in the style of Marble Madness (1984).
Development
A Commodore 64 version was outsourced to Lynsoft b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy%20Neyman | Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; born Jerzy Spława-Neyman; ) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland and then at University College London, and the second part at the University of California, Berkeley. Neyma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Westendorp | Carlos Westendorp y Cabeza (born 7 January 1937) is a Spanish diplomat and former politician. He is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and also served as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina succeeding Carl Bildt and was powered with upholding the Dayton Peace Agreement.
Career
Born in Madrid on 7 Januar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avid%20DNxHD | Avid DNxHD ("Digital Nonlinear Extensible High Definition") is a lossy high-definition video post-production codec developed by Avid for multi-generation compositing with reduced storage and bandwidth requirements. It is an implementation of SMPTE VC-3 standard.
Overview
DNxHD is a video codec intended to be usable as... |
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