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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Hertwig | Oscar Hertwig (21 April 1849 in Friedberg – 25 October 1922 in Berlin) was a German embryologist and zoologist known for his research in developmental biology and evolution. Hertwig is credited as the first man to observe sexual reproduction by looking at the cells of sea urchins under the microscope.
Biography
Hertw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20at%20home%20parent | A work at home parent is someone who conducts remote work from home and integrates parenting into his or her working time and workspace. They are sometimes referred to as a WAHM (work at home mom) or a WAHD (work at home dad).
People work from home for a variety of reasons, including lower business expenses, personal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS%20black%20hole | In theoretical physics, an anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole is a black hole solution of general relativity or its extensions which represents an isolated massive object, but with a negative cosmological constant. Such a solution asymptotically approaches anti-de Sitter space at spatial infinity, and is a generalization... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20brane | In general relativity, a black brane is a solution of the equations that generalizes a black hole solution but it is also extended—and translationally symmetric—in p additional spatial dimensions. That type of solution would be called a black p-brane.
In string theory, the term black brane describes a group of D1-bran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warped%20Passages | Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions is the debut non-fiction book by Lisa Randall, published in 2005, about particle physics in general and additional dimensions of space (cf. Kaluza–Klein theory) in particular. The book has made it to top 50 at amazon.com, making it the world'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93Gamow%20paper | In physical cosmology, the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, or αβγ paper, was created by Ralph Alpher, then a physics PhD student, his advisor George Gamow, and Hans Bethe. The work, which would become the subject of Alpher's PhD dissertation, argued that the Big Bang would create hydrogen, helium and heavier elements in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternionic%20projective%20space | In mathematics, quaternionic projective space is an extension of the ideas of real projective space and complex projective space, to the case where coordinates lie in the ring of quaternions Quaternionic projective space of dimension n is usually denoted by
and is a closed manifold of (real) dimension 4n. It is a hom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobleaching | In optics, photobleaching (sometimes termed fading) is the photochemical alteration of a dye or a fluorophore molecule such that it is permanently unable to fluoresce. This is caused by cleaving of covalent bonds or non-specific reactions between the fluorophore and surrounding molecules. Such irreversible modification... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons%20to%20Megawatts%20Program | The Megatons to Megawatts Program, also called the United States-Russia Highly Enriched Uranium Purchase Agreement, was an agreement between Russia and the United States whereby Russia converted 500 metric tons of "excess" weapons-grade uranium (enough for 20,000 warheads) into 15,000 metric tons of low enriched uraniu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Portable%20II | The Compaq Portable II is the fourth product in the Compaq Portable series to be brought out by Compaq Computer Corporation. Released in 1986 at a price of US$3499, the Portable II much improved upon its predecessor, the Compaq 286, which had been Compaq's version of the PC AT in the original Compaq Portable chassis; P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Shewchuk | Jonathan Richard Shewchuk is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He obtained his B.S. in Physics and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, the latter in 1997.
He conducts research in sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial | Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is supported on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, macOS, and Linux.
Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalability, decentralization, fully distributed collaborative development, robust handlin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdural%20space | The subdural space (or subdural cavity) is a potential space that can be opened by the separation of the arachnoid mater from the dura mater as the result of trauma, pathologic process, or the absence of cerebrospinal fluid as seen in a cadaver. In the cadaver, due to the absence of cerebrospinal fluid in the subarachn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2010967 | ISO/IEC 10967, Language independent arithmetic (LIA), is a series of
standards on computer arithmetic. It is compatible with ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011,
more known as IEEE 754-2008, and much of the
specifications are for IEEE 754 special values
(though such values are not required by LIA itself, unless the parameter iec55... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICL%202900%20Series | The ICL 2900 Series was a range of mainframe computer systems announced by the British manufacturer ICL on 9 October 1974. The company had started development under the name "New Range" immediately on its formation in 1968. The range was not designed to be compatible with any previous machines produced by the company, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-notation | L-notation is an asymptotic notation analogous to big-O notation, denoted as for a bound variable tending to infinity. Like big-O notation, it is usually used to roughly convey the rate of growth of a function, such as the computational complexity of a particular algorithm.
Definition
It is defined as
where c is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Compulsory%20Certificate | The China Compulsory Certificate mark, commonly known as a CCC Mark, is a compulsory safety mark for many products imported, sold or used in the Chinese market. It was implemented on May 1, 2002, and became fully effective on August 1, 2003.
It is the result of the integration of China's two previous compulsory inspec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base36 | Base36 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme that represents binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-36 representation. The choice of 36 is convenient in that the digits can be represented using the Arabic numerals 0–9 and the Latin letters A–Z (the ISO basic Latin alphabet).
Each base36 dig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofrito | (Spanish, ), (Catalan, ), (Italian, ), or (Portuguese, ) is a basic preparation in Mediterranean, Latin American, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese cooking. It typically consists of aromatic ingredients cut into small pieces and sautéed or braised in cooking oil for a long period of time over a low heat.
In modern S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20arthritis | Reactive arthritis, also known as Reiter's syndrome, is a form of inflammatory arthritis that develops in response to an infection in another part of the body (cross-reactivity). Coming into contact with bacteria and developing an infection can trigger the disease. By the time the patient presents with symptoms, often ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%201%20diabetes | Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that originates when cells that make insulin (beta cells) are destroyed by the immune system. Insulin is a hormone required for the cells to use blood sugar for energy and it helps regulate glucose levels in the bloodstream. Before tre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yilmaz%20theory%20of%20gravitation | The Yilmaz theory of gravitation is an attempt by Huseyin Yilmaz (1924–2013; Turkish: Hüseyin Yılmaz) and his coworkers to formulate a classical field theory of gravitation which is similar to general relativity in weak-field conditions, but in which event horizons cannot appear.
Yilmaz's work has been criticized on t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair%20of%20pants%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a pair of pants is a surface which is homeomorphic to the three-holed sphere. The name comes from considering one of the removed disks as the waist and the two others as the cuffs of a pair of pants.
Pairs of pants are used as building blocks for compact surfaces in various theories. Two important appl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification%20of%20Russia | The personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times.
Most common terms for national personification of Russia are:
Mother Russia (, tr. Matushka Rossiya, "Mother Russia"; also, , tr. Rossiya-matushka, "Russia the Mother", , tr. Mat'-Rossiya, , tr. Matushka Rus' , "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-range | In statistics, the mid-range or mid-extreme is a measure of central tendency of a sample defined as the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum values of the data set:
The mid-range is closely related to the range, a measure of statistical dispersion defined as the difference between maximum and minimum values.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleoside%20analogue | Nucleoside analogues are structural analogues of a nucleoside, which normally contain a nucleobase and a sugar. Nucleotide analogues are analogues of a nucleotide, which normally has one to three phosphates linked to a nucleoside. Both types of compounds can deviate from what they mimick in a number of ways, as changes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20atomic%20number%20%28compounds%20and%20mixtures%29 | The atomic number of a material exhibits a strong and fundamental relationship with the nature of radiation interactions within that medium. There are numerous mathematical descriptions of different interaction processes that are dependent on the atomic number, . When dealing with composite media (i.e. a bulk material ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20complexity | Programming complexity (or software complexity) is a term that includes software properties that affect internal interactions. Several commentators distinguish between the terms "complex" and "complicated". Complicated implies being difficult to understand, but ultimately knowable. Complex, by contrast, describes the i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20typographic%20symbols | This article lists Japanese typographic symbols that are not included in kana or kanji groupings.
Repetition marks
Brackets and quotation marks
Phonetic marks
Punctuation marks
Other special marks
Organization-specific symbols
See also
Japanese map symbols
Japanese punctuation
Emoji, which originated in Japan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20oxygen | Solid oxygen forms at normal atmospheric pressure at a temperature below 54.36 K (−218.79 °C, −361.82 °F). Solid oxygen O2, like liquid oxygen, is a clear substance with a light sky-blue color caused by absorption in the red part of the visible light spectrum.
Oxygen molecules have attracted attention because of the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20model | A computational model uses computer programs to simulate and study complex systems using an algorithmic or mechanistic approach and is widely used in a diverse range of fields spanning from physics, engineering, chemistry and biology to economics, psychology, cognitive science and computer science.
The system under s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Firewall | Windows Firewall (officially called Microsoft Defender Firewall in Windows 10 version 2004 and later) is a firewall component of Microsoft Windows. It was first included in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. Before the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, it was known as the "Internet Connection Firewall."
O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap%20theorem | See also Gap theorem (disambiguation) for other gap theorems in mathematics.
In computational complexity theory, the Gap Theorem, also known as the Borodin–Trakhtenbrot Gap Theorem, is a major theorem about the complexity of computable functions.
It essentially states that there are arbitrarily large computable gaps ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate%20biopsy | Prostate biopsy is a procedure in which small hollow needle-core samples are removed from a man's prostate gland to be examined for the presence of prostate cancer. It is typically performed when the result from a PSA blood test is high. It may also be considered advisable after a digital rectal exam (DRE) finds possi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra%20i%20Logika | Algebra i Logika (English: Algebra and Logic) is a peer-reviewed Russian mathematical journal founded in 1962 by Anatoly Ivanovich Malcev, published by the Siberian Fund for Algebra and Logic at Novosibirsk State University. An English translation of the journal is published by Springer-Verlag as Algebra and Logic sinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federa%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20das%20Sociedades%20de%20Biologia%20Experimental | The Federação das Sociedades de Biologia Experimental (Federation of Experimental Biology Societies, abbreviated FeSBE) is a Brazilian scientific association which runs a number of the mainstream specialized societies in experimental biology and medicine. It was founded in 1985 and currently has the following member so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component-based%20software%20engineering | Component-based software engineering (CBSE), also called component-based development (CBD), is a style of software engineering that aims to build software out of loosely-coupled, modular components. It emphasizes the separation of concerns among different parts of a software system.
Definition and characteristics of c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrophysics | Agrophysics is a branch of science bordering on agronomy and physics,
whose objects of study are the agroecosystem - the biological objects, biotope and biocoenosis affected by human activity, studied and described using the methods of physical sciences. Using the achievements of the exact sciences to solve major prob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus%20Fuchs | Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs (5 May 1833 – 26 April 1902) was a Jewish-German mathematician who contributed important research in the field of linear differential equations. He was born in Moschin (Mosina) (located in Grand Duchy of Posen) and died in Berlin, Germany. He was buried in Schöneberg in the St. Matthew's Cemetery... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression%20theorem | In computational complexity theory, the compression theorem is an important theorem about the complexity of computable functions.
The theorem states that there exists no largest complexity class, with computable boundary, which contains all computable functions.
Compression theorem
Given a Gödel numbering of the co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Christmas%20%28song%29 | "White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The song was written by Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn. The composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Bing Crosby's record topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Mike%20Reed | George Michael ("Mike") Reed is an American computer scientist. He has contributed to theoretical computer science in general and CSP in particular.
Mike Reed has a doctorate in pure mathematics from Auburn University, United States, and a doctorate in computation from Oxford University, England. He has an interest in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel-Paul%20Sch%C3%BCtzenberger | Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger (24 October 1920 – 29 July 1996) was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. He worked in the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory. In addition to his formal results in mathematics, he was "deeply involved in [a] struggle against the votaries of [ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fitzgerald%20%28computer%20scientist%29 |
John S. Fitzgerald FBCS (born 1965) is a British computer scientist. He is a professor at Newcastle University. He was the head of the School of Computing before taking on the role of Dean of Strategic Projects in the university’s Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering. His research interests are in the area ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi%20Prize | The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society, and it includes a $100,000 honorarium and a work of sculpture. Recipient... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20completion | Early completion is a property of some classes of asynchronous circuit. It means that the output of a circuit may be available as soon as sufficient inputs have arrived to allow it to be determined. For example, if all of the inputs to a mux have arrived, and all are the same, but the select line has not yet arrived, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20gating | In computer architecture, clock gating is a popular power management technique used in many synchronous circuits for reducing dynamic power dissipation, by removing the clock signal when the circuit is not in use or ignores clock signal. Clock gating saves power by pruning the clock tree, at the cost of adding more log... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-delay-insensitive%20circuit | In digital logic design, an asynchronous circuit is quasi delay-insensitive (QDI) when it operates correctly, independent of gate and wire delay with the weakest exception necessary to be turing-complete.
Overview
Pros
Robust to process variation, temperature fluctuation, circuit redesign, and FPGA remapping.
Natur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larmor%20formula | In electrodynamics, the Larmor formula is used to calculate the total power radiated by a nonrelativistic point charge as it accelerates. It was first derived by J. J. Larmor in 1897, in the context of the wave theory of light.
When any charged particle (such as an electron, a proton, or an ion) accelerates, energy is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Sannella | Donald T. Sannella FRSE is professor of computer science in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Sannella graduated from Yale University, University of California, Berkeley and University of Edinburgh with degrees in computer science. His ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%98%20%28set%20theory%29 | In set theory, Θ (pronounced like the letter theta) is the least nonzero ordinal α such that there is no surjection from the reals onto α.
If the axiom of choice (AC) holds (or even if the reals can be wellordered), then Θ is simply , the cardinal successor of the cardinality of the continuum. However, Θ is often stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD%2B | In set theory, AD+ is an extension, proposed by W. Hugh Woodin, to the axiom of determinacy. The axiom, which is to be understood in the context of ZF plus DC (the axiom of dependent choice for real numbers), states two things:
Every set of reals is ∞-Borel.
For any ordinal λ less than Θ, any subset A of ωω, and any ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel%20%28programming%20language%29 | Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a lightweight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games.
MirthKit, a simple toolkit for making and distributing open source, cross-platform 2D games, u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.1D | IEEE 802.1D is the Ethernet MAC bridges standard which includes bridging, Spanning Tree Protocol and others. It is standardized by the IEEE 802.1 working group. It includes details specific to linking many of the other 802 projects including the widely deployed 802.3 (Ethernet), 802.11 (Wireless LAN) and 802.16 (WiMax... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreambox | Dreambox is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial and cable digital television receivers (set-top boxes), produced by German multimedia vendor Dream Multimedia.
History and description
The Linux-based production software originally used by Dreambox was originally developed for DBox2, by the Tuxbox proj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest%20paradox | The Ehrenfest paradox concerns the rotation of a "rigid" disc in the theory of relativity.
In its original 1909 formulation as presented by Paul Ehrenfest in relation to the concept of Born rigidity within special relativity, it discusses an ideally rigid cylinder that is made to rotate about its axis of symmetry. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Miescher%20Laboratory%20of%20the%20Max%20Planck%20Society | The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) of the Max Planck Society is a biological research institute located on the Society's campus in Tübingen, Germany, named after Friedrich Miescher, founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists in biology an opportunity to establish independent research groups and pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobbledok | The Gobbledok is a fictitious television character used to promote The Smith's Snackfood Company brand potato chips in Australia. A light brown alien from "Dok the Potato Planet", the Gobbledok was known for its multi-colored mohawk hairstyle, its obsession for eating Smith's potato chips, and its catchphrase "chippie,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20of%20Technology%20Assessment | The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was an office of the United States Congress that operated from 1974 to 1995. OTA's purpose was to provide congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology asse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Woodcock | James Charles Paul Woodcock is a British computer scientist.
Woodcock gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool. Until 2001 he was Professor of Software Engineering at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he was also a Fellow of Kellogg College. He then joined the University of Kent and is now base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servomotor | A servomotor (or servo motor or simply servo (to be differentiated from servomechanism, which may also be called a servo)) is a rotary actuator or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity, and acceleration in a mechanical system. It consists of a suitable motor coupled to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical%20gradient | An electrochemical gradient is a gradient of electrochemical potential, usually for an ion that can move across a membrane. The gradient consists of two parts:
The chemical gradient, or difference in solute concentration across a membrane.
The electrical gradient, or difference in charge across a membrane.
When th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoperdon%20perlatum | Lycoperdon perlatum, popularly known as the common puffball, warted puffball, gem-studded puffball or devil's snuff-box, is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. A widespread species with a cosmopolitan distribution, it is a medium-sized puffball with a round fruit body tapering to a wide stalk, and d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellet%20mill | A pellet mill, also known as a pellet press, is a type of mill or machine press used to create pellets from powdered material. Pellet mills are unlike grinding mills, in that they combine small materials into a larger, homogeneous mass, rather than break large materials into smaller pieces.
Types
There are many types ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infineon%20TriCore | TriCore is a 32-bit microcontroller architecture from Infineon. It unites the elements of a RISC processor core, a microcontroller and a DSP in one chip package.
History and background
In 1999, Infineon launched the first generation of AUDO (Automotive unified processor) which is based on what the company describes as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK%20%28file%20format%29 | QWK is a file-based offline mail reader format that was popular among bulletin board system (BBS) users, especially users of FidoNet and other networks that generated large volumes of mail. QWK was originally developed by Mark "Sparky" Herring in 1987 for systems running the popular PCBoard bulletin board system, but i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtually%20fibered%20conjecture | In the mathematical subfield of 3-manifolds, the virtually fibered conjecture, formulated by American mathematician William Thurston, states that every closed, irreducible, atoroidal 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group has a finite cover which is a surface bundle over the circle.
A 3-manifold which has such a f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNN%20extension | In mathematics, the HNN extension is an important construction of combinatorial group theory.
Introduced in a 1949 paper Embedding Theorems for Groups by Graham Higman, Bernhard Neumann, and Hanna Neumann, it embeds a given group G into another group G' , in such a way that two given isomorphic subgroups of G are conj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacida | The Lacida, also called LCD, was a Polish rotor cipher machine. It was designed and produced before World War II by Poland's Cipher Bureau for prospective wartime use by Polish military higher commands.
History
The machine's name derived from the surname initials of Gwido Langer, Maksymilian Ciężki and Ludomir Danile... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonicity | In chemical biology, tonicity is a measure of the effective osmotic pressure gradient; the water potential of two solutions separated by a partially-permeable cell membrane. Tonicity depends on the relative concentration of selective membrane-impermeable solutes across a cell membrane which determine the direction and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt%20vector%20table | An interrupt vector table (IVT) is a data structure that associates a list of interrupt handlers with a list of interrupt requests in a table of interrupt vectors. Each entry of the interrupt vector table, called an interrupt vector, is the address of an interrupt handler(also known as ISR). While the concept is common... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-system%20programming | In-system programming (ISP), or also called in-circuit serial programming (ICSP), is the ability of some programmable logic devices, microcontrollers, chipsets and other embedded devices to be programmed while installed in a complete system, rather than requiring the chip to be programmed prior to installing it into th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Content%20Alliance | The Open Content Alliance (OCA) was a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others. Scanning for the Open Content All... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Code%20of%20Nomenclature%20of%20Prokaryotes | The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) formerly the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (ICNB) or Bacteriological Code (BC) governs the scientific names for Bacteria and Archaea. It denotes the rules for naming taxa of bacteria, according to their relative rank. As such it is one of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS.IN | FOSS.IN, previously known as Linux Bangalore, was an annual free and open source software (FOSS) conference, held in Bangalore, India from 2001 to 2012. From 2001 to 2004, it was known as Linux Bangalore, before it took on a new name and wider focus. During its lifetime, it was one of the largest FOSS events in Asia, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openfiler | Openfiler is an operating system that provides file-based network-attached storage and block-based storage area network. It was created by Xinit Systems, and is based on the CentOS Linux distribution. It is free software licensed under the GNU GPLv2
History
The Openfiler codebase was started at Xinit Systems in 2001... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful%20nuclear%20explosion | Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) are nuclear explosions conducted for non-military purposes. Proposed uses include excavation for the building of canals and harbours, electrical generation, the use of nuclear explosions to drive spacecraft, and as a form of wide-area fracking. PNEs were an area of some research from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallor%20mortis |
Pallor mortis (Latin: pallor "paleness", mortis "of death"), the first stage of death, is an after-death paleness that occurs in those with light/white skin. An opto-electronical colour measurement device is used to measure pallor mortis on bodies.
Timing and applicability
Pallor mortis occurs almost immediately, ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination%20factor | In molecular biology, a termination factor is a protein that mediates the termination of RNA transcription by recognizing a transcription terminator and causing the release of the newly made mRNA. This is part of the process that regulates the transcription of RNA to preserve gene expression integrity and are present i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%20banging | In computer engineering and electrical engineering, bit banging is a "term of art" for any method of data transmission that employs software as a substitute for dedicated hardware to generate transmitted signals or process received signals. Software directly sets and samples the states of GPIOs (e.g., pins on a microco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20megafauna%20discovered%20in%20modern%20times | The following is a list of megafauna discovered by science since the beginning of the 19th century (with their respective date of discovery). Some of these may have been known to native peoples or reported anecdotally but had not been generally acknowledged as confirmed by the scientific world, until conclusive evidenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-force%20helix | A low-force helix (LFH-60) is a 60-pin electrical connector (four rows of 15 pins) with signals for two digital and analog connectors. Each of the pins is twisted approximately 45 degrees between the tip and the plastic frame which holds the pins in place. Hence "helix" in the name.
The DMS-59 is a derivative of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20method | In statistics, the delta method is a result concerning the approximate probability distribution for a function of an asymptotically normal statistical estimator from knowledge of the limiting variance of that estimator.
History
The delta method was derived from propagation of error, and the idea behind was known in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Menger%20determinant | In linear algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, the Cayley–Menger determinant is a formula for the content, i.e. the higher-dimensional volume, of a -dimensional simplex in terms of the squares of all of the distances between pairs of its vertices. The determinant is named after Arthur Cayley and Karl Menger.
The pair... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Logical%20Partitioning | Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR), is the capability of a logical partition (LPAR) to be reconfigured dynamically, without having to shut down the operating system that runs in the LPAR. DLPAR enables memory, CPU capacity, and I/O interfaces to be moved nondisruptively between LPARs within the same server.
DLPAR ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20flag%20%28idiom%29 | A red flag could either be a literal red flag used for signaling or, as a metaphor, a sign of some particular problem requiring attention.
Background
The term and the expression "to raise the red flag" come from various usages of real flags throughout history. A red flag is frequently flown by armed forces to warn th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20editing | RNA editing (also RNA modification) is a molecular process through which some cells can make discrete changes to specific nucleotide sequences within an RNA molecule after it has been generated by RNA polymerase. It occurs in all living organisms and is one of the most evolutionarily conserved properties of RNAs. RNA e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim%20Devices | Slim Devices, Inc. was a consumer electronics company based in Mountain View, California, United States. Their main product was the Squeezebox network music player which connects to a home ethernet or Wi-Fi network, and allows the owner to stream digital audio over the network to a stereo. The company, founded in 2000... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Hedning | Herman Hedning (lit. Herman the Heathen, known as Marwin Meathead in English editions) is a Swedish humorous comic strip, drawn and written by Jonas Darnell.
History
Herman Hedning first appeared in 1988 in Fantomen, the Swedish edition of The Phantom. Since then Jonas Darnell has written over 700 strips, and a number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataTAC | DataTAC is a wireless data network technology originally developed by Mobile Data International which was later acquired by Motorola, who jointly developed it with IBM and deployed in the United States as ARDIS (Advanced Radio Data Information Services). DataTAC was also marketed in the mid-1990s as MobileData by Tele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOnet%20Names%20Server | The GEOnet Names Server (GNS), sometimes also referred to in official documentation as Geographic Names Data or geonames in domain and email addresses, is a service that provides access to the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the US Board on Geographic Names's (BGN) database of geograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbiter%20%28electronics%29 | Arbiters are electronic devices that allocate access to shared resources.
Bus arbiter
There are multiple ways to perform a computer bus arbitration, with the most popular varieties being:
dynamic centralized parallel where one central arbiter is used for all masters as discussed in this article;
centralized serial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immerman%E2%80%93Szelepcs%C3%A9nyi%20theorem | In computational complexity theory, the Immerman–Szelepcsényi theorem states that nondeterministic space complexity classes are closed under complementation. It was proven independently by Neil Immerman and Róbert Szelepcsényi in 1987, for which they shared the 1995 Gödel Prize. In its general form the theorem states t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20BSTW | The Algorithm BSTW is a data compression algorithm, named after its designers, Bentley, Sleator, Tarjan and Wei in 1986. BSTW is a dictionary-based algorithm that uses a move-to-front transform to keep recently seen dictionary entries at the front of the dictionary. Dictionary references are then encoded using any of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDN%20%28magazine%29 | EDN is an electronics industry website and formerly a magazine owned by AspenCore Media, an Arrow Electronics company. The editor-in-chief is Majeed Ahmad. EDN was published monthly until, in April 2013, EDN announced that the print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue.
History
The first issue of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius%20of%20Bithynia | Theodosius of Bithynia (; 2nd–1st century BC) was a Hellenistic astronomer and mathematician from Bithynia who wrote the Spherics, a treatise about spherical geometry, as well as several other books on mathematics and astronomy, of which two survive, On Habitations and On Days and Nights.
Life
Little is known about Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation%E2%80%93recombination%20noise | Generation–recombination noise, or g–r noise, is a type of electrical signal noise caused statistically by the fluctuation of the generation and recombination of electrons in semiconductor-based photon detectors. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20theory%20landscape | In string theory, the string theory landscape (or landscape of vacua) is the collection of possible false vacua, together comprising a collective "landscape" of choices of parameters governing compactifications.
The term "landscape" comes from the notion of a fitness landscape in evolutionary biology. It was first ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Creative%20Technologies | The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a University Affiliated Research Center at the University of Southern California located in Playa Vista, California. ICT was established in 1999 with funding from the US Army.
Dr. Mike Andrews, chief scientist of the US Army is described as "founder of and inspiration b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic%20sand | Hydrophobic sand (or magic sand) is a toy made from sand coated with a hydrophobic compound. The presence of the hydrophobic compound causes the grains of sand to adhere to one another and form cylinders (to minimize surface area) when exposed to water, and form a pocket of air around the sand. The pocket of air makes... |
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