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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker-free | Flicker-free is a term given to video displays, primarily cathode ray tubes, operating at a high refresh rate to reduce or eliminate the perception of screen flicker. For televisions, this involves operating at a 100 Hz or 120 Hz hertz field rate to eliminate flicker, compared to standard televisions that operate at 50... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%E2%80%93voltage%20characteristic | A current–voltage characteristic or I–V curve (current–voltage curve) is a relationship, typically represented as a chart or graph, between the electric current through a circuit, device, or material, and the corresponding voltage, or potential difference, across it.
In electronics
In electronics, the relationship ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20set | Bourbaki also defines an inductive set to be a partially ordered set that satisfies the hypothesis of Zorn's lemma when nonempty.
In descriptive set theory, an inductive set of real numbers (or more generally, an inductive subset of a Polish space) is one that can be defined as the least fixed point of a monotone oper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuo%20Kakutani | was a Japanese-American mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem.
Biography
Kakutani attended Tohoku University in Sendai, where his advisor was Tatsujirō Shimizu. At one point he spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton at the invitation of the mathematician Hermann We... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak%20koruna | The Slovak koruna or Slovak crown (, literally meaning Slovak crown) was the currency of Slovakia between 8 February 1993 and 31 December 2008, and could be used for cash payment until 16 January 2009. The ISO 4217 code was SKK and the local abbreviation was Sk. The koruna was subdivided into 100 haliers (abbreviated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20level | Video black level is defined as the level of brightness at the darkest (black) part of a visual image or the level of brightness at which no light is emitted from a screen, resulting in a pure black screen.
Video displays generally need to be calibrated so that the displayed black is true to the black information in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20game | In mathematics, the term chaos game originally referred to a method of creating a fractal, using a polygon and an initial point selected at random inside it. The fractal is created by iteratively creating a sequence of points, starting with the initial random point, in which each point in the sequence is a given fracti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48-bit%20computing | In computer architecture, 48-bit integers can represent 281,474,976,710,656 (248 or 2.814749767×1014) discrete values. This allows an unsigned binary integer range of 0 through 281,474,976,710,655 (248 − 1) or a signed two's complement range of -140,737,488,355,328 (-247) through 140,737,488,355,327 (247 − 1). A 48-bit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak%20koruna | The Czechoslovak koruna (in Czech and Slovak: koruna československá, at times koruna česko-slovenská; koruna means crown) was the currency of Czechoslovakia from 10 April 1919 to 14 March 1939, and from 1 November 1945 to 7 February 1993. For a brief time in 1939 and again in 1993, it was also the currency of both th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrable%20system | In mathematics, integrability is a property of certain dynamical systems. While there are several distinct formal definitions, informally speaking, an integrable system is a dynamical system with sufficiently many conserved quantities, or first integrals that its motion is confined to a submanifold
of much smaller di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20mount | A polar mount is a movable mount for satellite dishes that allows the dish to be pointed at many geostationary satellites by slewing around one axis. It works by having its slewing axis parallel, or almost parallel, to the Earth's polar axis so that the attached dish can follow, approximately, the geostationary orbit, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondyloperipheral%20dysplasia | Spondyloperipheral dysplasia is an autosomal dominant disorder of bone growth. The condition is characterized by flattened bones of the spine (platyspondyly) and unusually short fingers and toes (brachydactyly). Some affected individuals also have other skeletal abnormalities, short stature, nearsightedness (myopia), h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achondrogenesis%20type%202 | Achondrogenesis, type 2 results in short arms and legs, a small chest with short ribs, and underdeveloped lungs at birth. Achondrogenesis, type 2 is a subtype of collagenopathy, types II and XI. This condition is also associated with a lack of bone formation (ossification) in the spine and pelvis. Typical facial featur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kniest%20dysplasia | Kniest dysplasia is a rare form of dwarfism caused by a mutation in the COL2A1 gene on chromosome 12. The COL2A1 gene is responsible for producing type II collagen. The mutation of COL2A1 gene leads to abnormal skeletal growth and problems with hearing and vision. What characterizes Kniest dysplasia from other type II ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondyloepimetaphyseal%20dysplasia%2C%20Strudwick%20type | Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, Strudwick type is an inherited disorder of bone growth that results in dwarfism, characteristic skeletal abnormalities, and problems with vision. The name of the condition indicates that it affects the bones of the spine (spondylo-) and two regions near the ends of bones (epiphyses and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative%20process | In particle physics, a radiative process refers to one elementary particle emitting another and continuing to exist. This typically happens when a fermion emits a boson such as a gluon or photon.
See also
Bremsstrahlung
Radiation
Particle physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff-person%20syndrome | Stiff-person syndrome (SPS), also known as stiff-man syndrome, is a rare neurologic disorder of unclear cause characterized by progressive muscular rigidity and stiffness. The stiffness primarily affects the truncal muscles and is superimposed by spasms, resulting in postural deformities. Chronic pain, impaired mobilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20emission | Acoustic emission (AE) is the phenomenon of radiation of acoustic (elastic) waves in solids that occurs when a material undergoes irreversible changes in its internal structure, for example as a result of crack formation or plastic deformation due to aging, temperature gradients, or external mechanical forces.
In part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahn%20process%20networks | A Kahn process network (KPN, or process network) is a distributed model of computation in which a group of deterministic sequential processes communicate through unbounded first in, first out channels. The model requires that reading from a channel is blocking while writing is non-blocking. Due to these key restriction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramtil%20oil | Ramtil oil, also known as Niger seed oil, is used mainly in cooking but also for lighting. In India it is pressed from the seed of Guizotia oleifera of the family Asteraceae. A very similar oil is made in Africa from G. abyssinica. The oil is used as an extender for sesame oil, which it resembles, as well as for makin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL | SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle", a recursive acronym for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) is an RDF query language—that is, a semantic query language for databases—able to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. It was made a standard by the RDF Data Access Working Group ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonitis | Pneumonitis describes general inflammation of lung tissue. Possible causative agents include radiation therapy of the chest, exposure to medications used during chemo-therapy, the inhalation of debris (e.g., animal dander), aspiration, herbicides or fluorocarbons and some systemic diseases. If unresolved, continued inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAPSI | FAPSI () or Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information (FAGCI) () was a Russian government agency, which was responsible for signal intelligence and security of governmental communications.
The present-day FAPSI successor agencies are the relevant departments of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fubini%E2%80%93Study%20metric | In mathematics, the Fubini–Study metric (IPA: /fubini-ʃtuːdi/) is a Kähler metric on projective Hilbert space, that is, on a complex projective space CPn endowed with a Hermitian form. This metric was originally described in 1904 and 1905 by Guido Fubini and Eduard Study.
A Hermitian form in (the vector space) Cn+1 d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20development%20philosophies | This is a list of approaches, styles, methodologies, philosophies in software development and engineering. It also contains programming paradigms, software development methodologies, software development processes, and single practices, principles and laws.
Some of the mentioned methods are more relevant to a specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20tooth | An egg tooth is a temporary, sharp projection present on the bill or snout of an oviparous animal at hatching. It allows the hatchling to penetrate the eggshell from inside and break free. Birds, reptiles, and monotremes possess egg teeth as hatchlings. Similar structures exist in Eleutherodactyl frogs, and spiders.
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone%20beam%20reconstruction | In microtomography X-ray scanners, cone beam reconstruction is one of two common scanning methods, the other being Fan beam reconstruction.
Cone beam reconstruction uses a 2-dimensional approach for obtaining projection data. Instead of utilizing a single row of detectors, as fan beam methods do, a cone beam systems u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triglyph | Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze in classical architecture, so called because of the angular channels in them. The rectangular recessed spaces between the triglyphs on a Doric frieze are called metopes. The raised spaces between the channels themselves (within a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MUD%20clients | A MUD client is a game client, a computer application used to connect to a MUD, a type of multiplayer online game. Generally, a MUD client is a very basic telnet client that lacks VT100 terminal emulation and the capability to perform telnet negotiations. On the other hand, MUD clients are enhanced with various feature... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestarter%20%28firewall%29 | Firestarter is a personal firewall tool that uses the Netfilter (iptables/ipchains) system built into the Linux kernel. It has the ability to control both inbound and outbound connections. Firestarter provides a graphical interface for configuring firewall rules and settings. It provides real-time monitoring of all net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20state%20machine | In computer science, an abstract state machine (ASM) is a state machine operating on states that are arbitrary data structures (structure in the sense of mathematical logic, that is a nonempty set together with a number of functions (operations) and relations over the set).
Overview
The ASM Method is a practical and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duration%20calculus | Duration calculus (DC) is an interval logic for real-time systems. It was originally developed by Zhou Chaochen with the help of Anders P. Ravn and C. A. R. Hoare on the European ESPRIT Basic Research Action (BRA) ProCoS project on Provably Correct Systems.
Duration calculus is mainly useful at the requirements level ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20shift | Blood shift has at least two separate meanings:
In medicine, it is synonymous with left shift
In diving physiology, it is part of the diving reflex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peginterferon%20alfa-2a | Pegylated interferon alfa-2a, sold under the brand name Pegasys among others, is medication used to treat hepatitis C and hepatitis B. For hepatitis C it is typically used together with ribavirin and cure rates are between 24 and 92%. For hepatitis B it may be used alone. It is given by injection under the skin.
Side ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride%20volatility | Fluoride volatility is the tendency of highly fluorinated molecules to vaporize at comparatively low temperatures. Heptafluorides, hexafluorides and pentafluorides have much lower boiling points than the lower-valence fluorides. Most difluorides and trifluorides have high boiling points, while most tetrafluorides and m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20ending%20problem | In mathematics, the "happy ending problem" (so named by Paul Erdős because it led to the marriage of George Szekeres and Esther Klein) is the following statement:
This was one of the original results that led to the development of Ramsey theory.
The happy ending theorem can be proven by a simple case analysis: if fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin%20total%20synthesis | Aflatoxin total synthesis concerns the total synthesis of a group of organic compounds called aflatoxins. These compounds occur naturally in several fungi. As with other chemical compound targets in organic chemistry, the organic synthesis of aflatoxins serves various purposes. Traditionally it served to prove the stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-202 | K-202 was a 16-bit minicomputer, created by a team led by Polish scientist Jacek Karpiński between 1970–1973 in cooperation with British companies Data-Loop and M.B. Metals. The machine could perform about 1 million instructions per second, making it highly competitive with the US Data General SuperNOVA and UK CTL Modu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20University%20Institute%20in%20Macau | The United Nations University Institute in Macau, formerly the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST; ; Portuguese: Instituto Internacional para Tecnologia de Programação da Universidade das Nações Unidas) and then United Nations University Institute on Computing and Societ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigorous%20Approach%20to%20Industrial%20Software%20Engineering | Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering (RAISE) was developed as part of the European ESPRIT II LaCoS project in the 1990s, led by Dines Bjørner. It consists of a set of tools designed for a specification language (RSL) for software development. It is especially espoused by UNU-IIST in Macau, who run train... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-replaceable%20unit | A field-replaceable unit (FRU) is a printed circuit board, part, or assembly that can be quickly and easily removed from a computer or other piece of electronic equipment, and replaced by the user or a technician without having to send the entire product or system to a repair facility. FRUs allow a technician lacking i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Jamaican%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Jamaica.
National flag
Governor-General
Prime Minister
Military flags
Historical
See also
Flag of the West Indies Federation
Jamaica
Flags |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Coastal%20Conservancy | The California State Coastal Conservancy (CSCC, SCC) is a non-regulatory state agency in California established in 1976 to enhance coastal resources and public access to the coast. The CSCC is a department of the California Natural Resources Agency. The agency's work is conducted along the entirety of the California co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Polish%20flags | A variety of Polish flags are defined in current Polish national law, either through an act of parliament or a ministerial ordinance. Apart from the national flag, these are mostly military flags, used by one or all branches of the Polish Armed Forces, especially the Polish Navy. Other flags are flown by vessels of non... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-staging | B-staging is a process that utilizes heat or UV light to remove the majority of solvent from an adhesive, thereby allowing a construction to be “staged”. In between adhesive application, assembly and curing, the product can be held for a period of time, without sacrificing performance.
Attempts to use traditional ep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way%20of%20the%20Tiger | The Way of the Tiger is a series of adventure gamebooks by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, originally published by Knight Books (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton) from 1985. They are set on the fantasy world of Orb. The reader takes the part of a young monk/ninja, named Avenger, initially on a quest to avenge his foster ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%20case%20survey | A use case survey is a list of names and perhaps brief descriptions of use cases associated with a system, component, or other logical or physical entity. This artifact is short and inexpensive to produce, and possibly advantageous over similar software development tools, depending on the needs of the project and analy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropisomer | Atropisomers are stereoisomers arising because of hindered rotation about a single bond, where energy differences due to steric strain or other contributors create a barrier to rotation that is high enough to allow for isolation of individual conformers.
They occur naturally and are important in pharmaceutical design. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinucleotide%20repeat%20disorder | Trinucleotide repeat disorders, also known as microsatellite expansion diseases, are a set of over 50 genetic disorders caused by trinucleotide repeat expansion, a kind of mutation in which repeats of three nucleotides (trinucleotide repeats) increase in copy numbers until they cross a threshold above which they cause ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserved%20sequence | In evolutionary biology, conserved sequences are identical or similar sequences in nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) or proteins across species (orthologous sequences), or within a genome (paralogous sequences), or between donor and receptor taxa (xenologous sequences). Conservation indicates that a sequence has been maintai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocereal | A pseudocereal or pseudograin is one of any non-grasses that are used in much the same way as cereals (true cereals are grasses). Pseudocereals can be further distinguished from other non-cereal staple crops (such as potatoes) by their being processed like a cereal: their seed can be ground into flour and otherwise use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou%20Chaochen | Zhou Chaochen (; born 1 November 1937) is a Chinese computer scientist.
Zhou was born in Nanhui, Shanghai, China. He studied as an undergraduate at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Peking University (1954–1958) and as a postgraduate at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneity%20%28physics%29 | In physics, a homogeneous material or system has the same properties at every point; it is uniform without irregularities. A uniform electric field (which has the same strength and the same direction at each point) would be compatible with homogeneity (all points experience the same physics). A material constructed wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%20User%20Group | The Z User Group (ZUG) was established in 1992 to promote use and development of the Z notation, a formal specification language for the description of and reasoning about computer-based systems. It was formally constituted on 14 December 1992 during the ZUM'92 Z User Meeting in London, England.
Meetings and conferenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS-FACS | BCS-FACS is the BCS Formal Aspects of Computing Science Specialist Group.
Overview
The FACS group, inaugurated on 16 March 1978, organizes meetings for its members and others on formal methods and related computer science topics. There is an associated journal, Formal Aspects of Computing, published by Springer, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20singularity | A ring singularity or ringularity is the gravitational singularity of a rotating black hole, or a Kerr black hole, that is shaped like a ring.
Description of a ring singularity
When a spherical non-rotating body of a critical radius collapses under its own gravitation under general relativity, theory suggests it will... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof%20fence | The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits, and other agricultural pests from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral areas.
There are three fences in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAUT-TV | KAUT-TV (channel 43) is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW Television Network. It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, alongside NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios in Oklahoma City's Mc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20Methods%20Europe | Formal Methods Europe (FME) is an organization whose aim is to encourage the research and application of formal methods for the improvement of software and hardware in computer-based systems. The association's members are drawn from academia and industry. It is based in Europe, but is international in scope. FME operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK484 | The MK484 AM radio IC is a fully functional AM radio detector on a chip. It is constructed in a TO-92 case, resembling a small transistor. It replaces the similar ZN414 AM radio IC from the 1970s. The MK484 is favored by many hobbyists. It is advantageous in that it performs well with minimal discrete components, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicranial%20aponeurosis | The epicranial aponeurosis (aponeurosis epicranialis, galea aponeurotica) is an aponeurosis (a tough layer of dense fibrous tissue). It covers the upper part of the skull in humans and many other animals.
Structure
In humans, the epicranial aponeurosis originates from the external occipital protuberance and highest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicranium | The epicranium is the medical term for the collection of structures covering the cranium. It consists of the muscles, aponeurosis, and skin.
Parts
The epicranial aponeurosis is a tough layer of dense fibrous tissue that covers the upper part of the skull.
The epicranial muscle (also called the epicranius) has two se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson%20Bird%20Count | The Tucson Bird Count (TBC) is a community-based program that monitors bird populations in and around the Tucson, Arizona, United States metropolitan area. With nearly 1000 sites monitored annually, the Tucson Bird Count is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world.
Methods
Each spring, TBC p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial%20artery | The facial artery (external maxillary artery in older texts) is a branch of the external carotid artery that supplies structures of the superficial face.
Structure
The facial artery arises in the carotid triangle from the external carotid artery, a little above the lingual artery and, sheltered by the ramus of the ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20adhesin | Adhesins are cell-surface components or appendages of bacteria that facilitate adhesion or adherence to other cells or to surfaces, usually in the host they are infecting or living in. Adhesins are a type of virulence factor.
Adherence is an essential step in bacterial pathogenesis or infection, required for colonizin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLAE-TV | WLAE-TV (channel 32) is an educational independent television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the Educational Broadcasting Foundation, a partnership between the Willwoods Community (a Catholic-related organization) and the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (operator of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20variable | In mathematics, a function of a motor variable is a function with arguments and values in the split-complex number plane, much as functions of a complex variable involve ordinary complex numbers. William Kingdon Clifford coined the term motor for a kinematic operator in his "Preliminary Sketch of Biquaternions" (1873).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefaction%20of%20gases | Liquefaction of gases is physical conversion of a gas into a liquid state (condensation). The liquefaction of gases is a complicated process that uses various compressions and expansions to achieve high pressures and very low temperatures, using, for example, turboexpanders.
Uses
Liquefaction processes are used for sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20UNIX | Ancient UNIX is any early release of the Unix code base prior to Unix System III, particularly the Research Unix releases prior to and including Version 7 (the base for UNIX/32V as well as later developments of AT&T Unix).
After the publication of the Lions' book, work was undertaken to release earlier versions of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory%20analysis | Sensory analysis (or sensory evaluation) is a scientific discipline that applies principles of experimental design and statistical analysis to the use of human senses (sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing) for the purposes of evaluating consumer products. The discipline requires panels of human assessors, on whom the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeform%20surface%20modelling | Freeform surface modelling is a technique for engineering freeform surfaces with a CAD or CAID system.
The technology has encompassed two main fields. Either creating aesthetic surfaces (class A surfaces) that also perform a function; for example, car bodies and consumer product outer forms, or technical surfaces for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetIQ%20eDirectory | eDirectory is an X.500-compatible directory service software product from NetIQ. Previously owned by Novell, the product has also been known as Novell Directory Services (NDS) and sometimes referred to as NetWare Directory Services. NDS was initially released by Novell in 1993 for Netware 4, replacing the Netware binde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20computing | Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with one completing before the next starts.
This is a property of a system—whether a program, computer, or a network—where there is a separate execution point or "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20pluralism | Cosmic pluralism, the plurality of worlds, or simply pluralism, describes the belief in numerous "worlds" (planets, dwarf planets or natural satellites) in addition to Earth (possibly an infinite number), which may harbour extraterrestrial life.
The debate over pluralism began as early as the time of Anaximander (c. 6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Bogolyubov | Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20flake | A fish flake is a platform built on poles and spread with boughs for drying cod on the foreshores of fishing villages and small coastal towns in Newfoundland and Nordic countries. Spelling variations for fish flake in Newfoundland include , , , and . The term's first recorded use in connection with fishing appeared in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applix |
Applix Inc. was a computer software company founded in 1983 based in Westborough, Massachusetts that published Applix TM1, a multi-dimensional online analytical processing (MOLAP) database server, and related presentation tools, including Applix Web and Applix Executive Viewer. Together, Applix TM1, Applix Web and App... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%20Deep%20Field%20South | The Hubble Deep Field South is a composite of several hundred individual images taken using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over 10 days in September and October 1998. It followed the great success of the original Hubble Deep Field in facilitating the study of extremely distant galaxies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal%20point%20%28game%20theory%29 | In game theory, a focal point (or Schelling point) is a solution that people tend to choose by default in the absence of communication. The concept was introduced by the American economist Thomas Schelling in his book The Strategy of Conflict (1960). Schelling states that "(p)eople can often concert their intentions or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Library%20museums%20pages | The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world.
History
The VLmp online directory resource was founded by Jonathan Bowen in 1994, originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom. It has been supported by the International Cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminaphtharhodafluor | Seminaphtharhodafluor or SNARF is a fluorescent dye that changes color with pH.
It can be used to construct optical biosensors that use enzymes that change pH.
The absorption peak of the derivative carboxy-SNARF at pH 6.0 is at wavelength (515 and) 550 nm, while that at pH 9.0 is at 575 nm.
The emission peak of carbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATAR | DATAR, short for Digital Automated Tracking and Resolving, was a pioneering computerized battlefield information system. DATAR combined the data from all of the sensors in a naval task force into a single "overall view" that was then transmitted back to all of the ships and displayed on plan-position indicators similar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confit | Confit (, ) (from the French word confire, literally "to preserve") is any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period as a method of preservation.
Confit, as a cooking term, describes when food is cooked in grease, oil, at a lower temperature, as opposed to deep frying. While deep frying typically takes pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefoldin%20subunit%203 | Prefoldin subunit 3 (VBP-1), also Von Hippel–Lindau binding protein 1, is a prefoldin chaperone protein that binds to von Hippel–Lindau protein and transports it from perinuclear granules to the nucleus or cytoplasm inside the cell. It is also involved in transporting nascent polypeptides to cytosolic chaperonins for p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20Aspects%20of%20Computing | Formal Aspects of Computing (FAOC) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media, covering the area of formal methods and associated topics in computer science. The editor-in-chief is Jim Woodcock. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 1.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20mill | A horse mill is a mill, sometimes used in conjunction with a watermill or windmill, that uses a horse engine as the power source. Any milling process can be powered in this way, but the most frequent use of animal power in horse mills was for grinding grain and pumping water. Other animal engines for powering mills are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20tuning | TCP tuning techniques adjust the network congestion avoidance parameters of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections over high-bandwidth, high-latency networks. Well-tuned networks can perform up to 10 times faster in some cases. However, blindly following instructions without understanding their real consequenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth%20steppe | During the Last Glacial Maximum, the mammoth steppe, also known as steppe-tundra, was once the Earth's most extensive biome. It stretched east-to-west, from the Iberian Peninsula in the west of Europe, across Eurasia to North America, through Beringia (what is today Alaska) and Canada; from north-to-south, the steppe r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPM%2015 | International Standards For Phytosanitary Measures No. 15 (ISPM 15) is an International Phytosanitary Measure developed by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) that directly addresses the need to treat wood materials of a thickness greater than 6mm, used to ship products between countries. Its main pur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element%20Boolean%20algebra | In mathematics and abstract algebra, the two-element Boolean algebra is the Boolean algebra whose underlying set (or universe or carrier) B is the Boolean domain. The elements of the Boolean domain are 1 and 0 by convention, so that B = {0, 1}. Paul Halmos's name for this algebra "2" has some following in the literatur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility%20principle | The single-responsibility principle (SRP) is a computer programming principle that states that "A module should be responsible to one, and only one, actor." The term actor refers to a group (consisting of one or more stakeholders or users) that requires a change in the module.
Robert C. Martin, the originator of the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20path | A trusted path or trusted channel is a mechanism that provides confidence that the user is communicating with what the user intended to communicate with, ensuring that attackers can't intercept or modify whatever information is being communicated.
The term was initially introduced by Orange Book. As its security archi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugunruhe | Zugunruhe (/ˈtsuːk:ʊnʁuːə/; German: [tsuːk:ʊnʁuːə] ; lit. 'migration-anxiety') is the experience of migratory restlessness.
Ethology
In ethology, Zugunruhe describes anxious behavior in migratory animals, especially in birds during the normal migration period. When these animals are enclosed, such as in an Emlen fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM%20expanded%20band | The extended mediumwave broadcast band, commonly known as the AM expanded band, refers to the broadcast station frequency assignments immediately above the earlier upper limits of 1600 kHz in International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Region 2 (the Americas), and 1602 kHz in ITU Regions 1 (Europe, northern Asia and Af... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20A%20surface | In automotive design, a class A surface is any of a set of freeform surfaces of high efficiency and quality. Although, strictly, it is nothing more than saying the surfaces have curvature and tangency alignment – to ideal aesthetical reflection quality, many people interpret class A surfaces to have G2 (or even G3) cur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investors%20in%20People | Investors in People is a standard for people management, offering accreditation to organisations that adhere to the Investors in People Standard. From 1991 to January 2017, Investors in People was owned by the UK government. As of 1 February 2017, Investors in People transitioned into the Investors in People Community ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20theorem%20for%20cyclic%20polygons | In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that no matter how one triangulates a cyclic polygon, the sum of inradii of triangles is constant.
Conversely, if the sum of inradii is independent of the triangulation, then the polygon is cyclic. The Japanese theorem follows from Carnot's theorem; it is a Sangaku problem.
Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-specific%20multicast | Source-specific multicast (SSM) is a method of delivering multicast packets in which the only packets that are delivered to a receiver are those originating from a specific source address requested by the receiver. By so limiting the source, SSM reduces demands on the network and improves security.
SSM requires that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast%20Listener%20Discovery | Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) is a component of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) suite. MLD is used by IPv6 routers for discovering multicast listeners on a directly attached link, much like Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used in IPv4. The protocol is embedded in ICMPv6 instead of using a separ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReserVec | ReserVec was a computerized reservation system developed by Ferranti Canada for Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA, today's Air Canada) in the late 1950s. It appears to be the first such system ever developed, predating the more famous SABRE system in the United States by about two years. Although Ferranti had high hopes that ... |
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