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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arborio%20rice | Arborio rice is an Italian short-grain rice. It is named after the town of Arborio, in the Po Valley, which is situated in the region of Piedmont in Italy. When cooked, the rounded grains are firm, creamy and chewy compared to other varieties of rice, due to their higher amylopectin starch content. It has a starchy tas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%20X1000%20series | The R520 (codenamed Fudo) is a graphics processing unit (GPU) developed by ATI Technologies and produced by TSMC. It was the first GPU produced using a 90 nm photolithography process.
The R520 is the foundation for a line of DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.0 3D accelerator X1000 video cards. It is ATI's first major architec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subderivative | In mathematics, the subderivative, subgradient, and subdifferential generalize the derivative to convex functions which are not necessarily differentiable. Subderivatives arise in convex analysis, the study of convex functions, often in connection to convex optimization.
Let be a real-valued convex function defined ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20load | An electrical load is an electrical component or portion of a circuit that consumes (active) electric power, such as electrical appliances and lights inside the home. The term may also refer to the power consumed by a circuit. This is opposed to a power supply source, such as a battery or generator, which provides powe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%20XP | As the next version of Windows NT after Windows 2000, as well as the successor to Windows Me, Windows XP introduced many new features but it also removed some others.
User interface and appearance
Graphics
With the introduction of Windows XP, the C++ based software-only GDI+ subsystem was introduced to replace certai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Colloquium%20on%20Group%20Theoretical%20Methods%20in%20Physics | The International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP) is an academic conference devoted to applications of group theory to physics. It was founded in 1972 by Henri Bacry and Aloysio Janner. It hosts a colloquium every two years. The ICGTMP is led by a Standing Committee, which helps select winne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foton%20%28satellite%29 | Foton (or Photon) is the project name of two series of Russian science satellite and reentry vehicle programs. Although uncrewed, the design was adapted from the crewed Vostok spacecraft capsule. The primary focus of the Foton project is materials science research, but some missions have also carried experiments for ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imiquimod | Imiquimod, sold under the brand name Aldara among others, is a medication that acts as an immune response modifier that is used to treat genital warts, superficial basal cell carcinoma, and actinic keratosis. Scientists at 3M's pharmaceuticals division discovered the drug and 3M obtained the first FDA approval in 1997.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSTM-TV | WSTM-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Syracuse, New York, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to CBS affiliate WTVH (channel 5) through a local marketing agreement with Granite Broadcasting. Both stations share studios on James... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestedness | Nestedness is a measure of structure in an ecological system, usually applied to species-sites systems (describing the distribution of species across locations), or species-species interaction networks (describing the interactions between species, usually as bipartite networks such as hosts-parasites, plants-pollinator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdapha%20flying%20squirrel | The Namdapha flying squirrel (Biswamoyopterus biswasi) is an arboreal, nocturnal flying squirrel endemic to Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India, where it is known from a single specimen collected in Namdapha National Park in 1981. No population estimate is available for B. biswasi, but the known habitat is tall Mesua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20genetics | Medical genetics is the branch of medicine that involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical genetics differs from human genetics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to medicine, while medical genetics refers to the application of genetics to medi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Science%20and%20Technology%20Laboratory | The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is "to maximise the impact of science and technology for the defence and security of the UK". The agency is headed by Paul Hollinshead as its Chief Executive, with the board b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmotron | The Cosmotron was a particle accelerator, specifically a proton synchrotron, at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Its construction was approved by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1948, reaching its full energy in 1953, and continuing to run until 1966. It was dismantled in 1969.
It was the first particle accelerat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali%20golden%20mole | The Somali golden mole (Calcochloris tytonis) is a golden mole endemic to Somalia. In 1964, Dr. Alberto Simonetta of the University of Florence discovered the mole's jaw and ear bone fragments in a barn owl pellet in Jowhar, Somalia. The Somali golden mole differs from the other species in its family (Chrysochloridae) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visagie%27s%20golden%20mole | Visagie's golden mole (Chrysochloris visagiei) is a small, insectivorous mammal of the family Chrysochloridae, the golden moles, endemic to South Africa. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20particle | In particle physics, V was a generic name for heavy, unstable subatomic particles that decay into a pair of particles, thereby producing a characteristic letter V in a bubble chamber or other particle detector. Such particles were first detected in cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere in the late 1940s and were f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldWave | GoldWave is a commercial digital audio editing software product developed by GoldWave Inc, first released to the public in April 1993.
Goldwave product lines
GoldWave: Audio editor for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android. iOS version runs on Mac OS 11 with Apple M1-compatible processor.
GoldWave Infinity: Web browser-base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate%20Boundary%20Observatory | The Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) was the geodetic component of the EarthScope Facility. EarthScope was an earth science program that explored the 4-dimensional structure of the North American Continent. EarthScope (and PBO) was a 15-year project (2003-2018) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in conjunc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20valence%20bond | The generalized valence bond (GVB) is a method in valence bond theory that uses flexible orbitals in the general way used by modern valence bond theory. The method was developed by the group of William A. Goddard, III around 1970.
Theory
The generalized Coulson–Fischer theory for the hydrogen molecule, discussed in Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlemm%27s%20canal | Schlemm's canal is a circular lymphatic-like vessel in the eye. It collects aqueous humor from the anterior chamber and delivers it into the episcleral blood vessels. Canaloplasty may be used to widen it.
Structure
Schlemm's canal is an endothelium-lined tube, resembling that of a lymphatic vessel. On the inside of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Display | Samsung Display (Hangul: 삼성디스플레이) ) is a company selling display devices with OLED and QD-OLED technology. Display markets include smartphones, TVs, laptops, computer monitors, smartwatches, VR, game consoles, and automotive applications.
Headquartered in South Korea, Samsung Display has production plants in China, V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium%20dioxide | Uranium dioxide or uranium(IV) oxide (), also known as urania or uranous oxide, is an oxide of uranium, and is a black, radioactive, crystalline powder that naturally occurs in the mineral uraninite. It is used in nuclear fuel rods in nuclear reactors. A mixture of uranium and plutonium dioxides is used as MOX fuel. Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%20percentage | Baker's percentage is a notation method indicating the proportion of an ingredient relative to the flour used in a recipe when making breads, cakes, muffins, and other baked goods. It is also referred to as baker's math, and may be indicated by a phrase such as based on flour weight. It is sometimes called formula perc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Graham%20problem | In combinatorial number theory, the Erdős–Graham problem is the problem of proving that, if the set of integers greater than one is partitioned into finitely many subsets, then one of the subsets can be used to form an Egyptian fraction representation of unity. That is, for every , and every -coloring of the integers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%20bundle | In mathematics, a Banach bundle is a vector bundle each of whose fibres is a Banach space, i.e. a complete normed vector space, possibly of infinite dimension.
Definition of a Banach bundle
Let M be a Banach manifold of class Cp with p ≥ 0, called the base space; let E be a topological space, called the total space; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBONE | EBONE (standing for European Backbone) was a pan-European Internet backbone. It went online in 1992 and was deactivated in July 2002. Some portions of the Ebone were sold to other companies and continue to operate today.
History
Formation
In 1991 a certain number of research network managers, including Frode Greisen,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End%20of%20interrupt | An end of interrupt (EOI) is a computing signal sent to a programmable interrupt controller (PIC) to indicate the completion of interrupt processing for a given interrupt. Interrupts are used to facilitate hardware signals sent to the processor that temporarily stop a running program and allow a special program, an int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight%20and%20Crooked%20Thinking | Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes, assesses and critically analyses flaws in reasoning and argument. Thouless describes it as a practical manual, rather than a theoretical one.
Synopsis
Thirty-eight fallacies are discussed in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20Enclosure%20Services | SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) is a protocol for more modern SCSI enclosure products. An initiator can communicate with the enclosure using a specialized set of SCSI commands to access power, cooling, and other non-data characteristics.
SES devices
There are two major classes of SES devices:
Attached enclosure servic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D-Calc | 3D-Calc is a 3-dimensional spreadsheet program for the Atari ST computer. The first version of the program was released in April 1989 and was distributed by ISTARI bvba, Ghent, Belgium.
History
Starting May 1991, the English version was distributed by MichTron/Microdeal, Cornwall, UK.
In January 1992, version 2.3 of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Geographic%20Reference%20System | The World Geographic Reference System (GEOREF) is a geocode, a grid-based method of specifying locations on the surface of the Earth. GEOREF is essentially based on the geographic system of latitude and longitude, but using a simpler and more flexible notation. GEOREF was used primarily in aeronautical charts for air n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20anatomy | Molecular anatomy is the subspecialty of microscopic anatomy concerned with the identification and description of molecular structures of cells, tissues, and organs in an organism. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBC%201012 | The DBC/1012 Data Base Computer was a database machine introduced by Teradata Corporation in 1984, as a back-end data base management system for mainframe computers.
The DBC/1012 harnessed multiple Intel microprocessors, each with its own dedicated disk drive, by interconnecting them with the Ynet switching network in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren | Schlieren ( ; , ) are optical inhomogeneities in transparent media that are not necessarily visible to the human eye. Schlieren physics developed out of the need to produce high-quality lenses devoid of such inhomogeneities. These inhomogeneities are localized differences in optical path length that cause deviations of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20biological%20phosphorus%20removal | Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is a sewage treatment configuration applied to activated sludge systems for the removal of phosphate.
The common element in EBPR implementations is the presence of an anaerobic tank (nitrate and oxygen are absent) prior to the aeration tank. Under these conditions a group... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Universe | Digital Universe was a free online information service founded in 2006. The project aimed to create a "network of portals designed to provide high-quality information and services to the public". Subject matter experts were to have been responsible for reviewing and approving content; contributors were to have been bot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zener%20pinning | Zener pinning is the influence of a dispersion of fine particles on the movement of low- and high-angle grain boundaries through a polycrystalline material. Small particles act to prevent the motion of such boundaries by exerting a pinning pressure which counteracts the driving force pushing the boundaries. Zener pinni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recrystallization%20%28metallurgy%29 | In materials science, recrystallization is a process by which deformed grains are replaced by a new set of defect-free grains that nucleate and grow until the original grains have been entirely consumed. Recrystallization is usually accompanied by a reduction in the strength and hardness of a material and a simultaneou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect%20%28psychology%29 | Affect, in psychology, refers to the underlying experience of feeling, emotion, attachment, or mood. In psychology, "affect" refers to the experience of feeling or emotion. It encompasses a wide range of emotional states and can be positive (e.g., happiness, joy, excitement) or negative (e.g., sadness, anger, fear, dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20analysis | In software engineering, domain analysis, or product line analysis, is the process of analyzing related software systems in a domain to find their common and variable parts. It is a model of wider business context for the system. The term was coined in the early 1980s by James Neighbors. Domain analysis is the first p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-band%20agreement | In the exchange of information over a communication channel, an out-of-band agreement is an agreement or understanding between the communicating parties that is not included in any message sent over the channel but which is relevant for the interpretation of such messages.
By extension, in a client–server or provider-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yat%20Ming | Yat Ming (formerly called Yatming) was a die-cast car scale model maker, based in Hong Kong. Yat Ming Industrial Factory Ltd was founded in 1970 by Mr. Wai Ming Lam. Yat in Chinese means "best or number one". The Ming portion came from the founder's "middle name". They continued producing diecast models until 2013. In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playart | Playart was a toy company owned by Hong Kong industrialist Duncan Tong (唐鼎康) that specialized in die-cast cars, similar in size and style to Hot Wheels, Matchbox or Tomica. Cars were well done, but were often diecast seconds from other companies like Yatming or Tomica. Cars were made from 1965 to 1983 at the factory in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactate%20threshold | Lactate inflection point (LIP) is the exercise intensity at which the blood concentration of lactate and/or lactic acid begins to increase rapidly. It is often expressed as 85% of maximum heart rate or 75% of maximum oxygen intake. When exercising at or below the lactate threshold, any lactate produced by the muscles i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopentenyl%20pyrophosphate | Isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP, isopentenyl diphosphate, or IDP) is an isoprenoid precursor. IPP is an intermediate in the classical, HMG-CoA reductase pathway (commonly called the mevalonate pathway) and in the non-mevalonate MEP pathway of isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis. Isoprenoid precursors such as IPP, and its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finders%20Keepers%20%281985%20video%20game%29 | Finders Keepers is a video game written by David Jones and the first game in the Magic Knight series. It was published on the Mastertronic label for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 64, and Commodore 16 in 1985. Published in the United Kingdom at the budget price of £1.99. Finders Keepers is a platform game... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Stand%20%281994%20miniseries%29 | The Stand (also known as Stephen King's The Stand) is a 1994 American post-apocalyptic television miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King. King also wrote the teleplay and has a minor role in the series. It was directed by Mick Garris, who previously directed the original King screenplay/fil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20spoofing | Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. The term applies to email purporting to be from an address which is not actually the sender's; mail sent in reply to that address may bounce or be delivered to an unrelated party whose identity has been faked. Disposable email address or "ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Herman | Louis Herman (April 16, 1930 – August 3, 2016) was an American marine biologist. He was a researcher of dolphin sensory abilities, dolphin cognition, and humpback whales. He was professor in the Department of Psychology and a cooperating faculty member of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted%20Hartree%E2%80%93Fock | Unrestricted Hartree–Fock (UHF) theory is the most common molecular orbital method for open shell molecules where the number of electrons of each spin are not equal. While restricted Hartree–Fock theory uses a single molecular orbital twice, one multiplied by the α spin function and the other multiplied by the β spin f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placement%20%28electronic%20design%20automation%29 | Placement is an essential step in electronic design automation — the portion of the physical design
flow that assigns exact locations for various circuit components within the chip's core area. An inferior placement assignment will not only affect the chip's performance but might also make it non-manufacturable by prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20product | A gene product is the biochemical material, either RNA or protein, resulting from expression of a gene. A measurement of the amount of gene product is sometimes used to infer how active a gene is. Abnormal amounts of gene product can be correlated with disease-causing alleles, such as the overactivity of oncogenes whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition%20code | In coding theory, the repetition code is one of the most basic linear error-correcting codes. In order to transmit a message over a noisy channel that may corrupt the transmission in a few places, the idea of the repetition code is to just repeat the message several times. The hope is that the channel corrupts only a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted%20open-shell%20Hartree%E2%80%93Fock | Restricted open-shell Hartree–Fock (ROHF) is a variant of Hartree–Fock method for open shell molecules. It uses doubly occupied molecular orbitals as far as possible and then singly occupied orbitals for the unpaired electrons. This is the simple picture for open shell molecules but it is difficult to implement.
The f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel%20coding%20theorem | In information theory, the noisy-channel coding theorem (sometimes Shannon's theorem or Shannon's limit), establishes that for any given degree of noise contamination of a communication channel, it is possible to communicate discrete data (digital information) nearly error-free up to a computable maximum rate through t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal%20noise | Neuronal noise or neural noise refers to the random intrinsic electrical fluctuations within neuronal networks. These fluctuations are not associated with encoding a response to internal or external stimuli and can be from one to two orders of magnitude. Most noise commonly occurs below a voltage-threshold that is need... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15%20Strike%20Eagle%20%28video%20game%29 | F-15 Strike Eagle is an F-15 Strike Eagle combat flight simulator originally released for the Atari 8-bit family in 1984 by MicroProse then ported to other systems. It is the first in the F-15 Strike Eagle series followed by F-15 Strike Eagle II and F-15 Strike Eagle III. An arcade version of the game was released simp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindley%20equation | In probability theory, the Lindley equation, Lindley recursion or Lindley processes is a discrete-time stochastic process An where n takes integer values and:
An + 1 = max(0, An + Bn).
Processes of this form can be used to describe the waiting time of customers in a queue or evolution of a queue length over time. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20wave%20background | The gravitational wave background (also GWB and stochastic background) is a random background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe, which is detectable by gravitational-wave experiments, like pulsar timing arrays. The signal may be intrinsically random, like from stochastic processes in the early Universe, or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage | AllAdvantage was an Internet advertising company that positioned itself as the world’s first "infomediary" by paying its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits. It became most well known for its slogan "Get Paid to Surf the Web," a phrase that has since become synony... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice%20quantum%20eraser | A delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment, first performed by Yoon-Ho Kim, R. Yu, S. P. Kulik, Y. H. Shih and Marlan O. Scully, and reported in early 1998, is an elaboration on the quantum eraser experiment that incorporates concepts considered in John Archibald Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment. The experiment was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20transporter | Magnesium transporters are proteins that transport magnesium across the cell membrane. All forms of life require magnesium, yet the molecular mechanisms of Mg2+ uptake from the environment and the distribution of this vital element within the organism are only slowly being elucidated.
The ATPase function of MgtA is hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s%20delayed-choice%20experiment | Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment describes a family of thought experiments in quantum physics proposed by John Archibald Wheeler, with the most prominent among them appearing in 1978 and 1984. These experiments are attempts to decide whether light somehow "senses" the experimental apparatus in the double-slit experi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motronic | Motronic is the trade name given to a range of digital engine control units developed by Robert Bosch GmbH (commonly known as Bosch) which combined control of fuel injection and ignition in a single unit. By controlling both major systems in a single unit, many aspects of the engine's characteristics (such as power, fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes%27%20limit | Dawes' limit is a formula to express the maximum resolving power of a microscope or telescope. It is so named after its discoverer, William Rutter Dawes
, although it is also credited to Lord Rayleigh.
The formula takes different forms depending on the units.
This formula agrees with the usual
at a wavelength of ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%20Deacon | The Demon Deacon is the mascot of Wake Forest University, a school located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Probably best known for its slightly unorthodox name and appearance, the Demon Deacon has become a mainstay in the world of U.S. college mascots.
History
The early years and "The Old Gold & Blac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20information%20theory | A timeline of events related to information theory, quantum information theory and statistical physics, data compression, error correcting codes and related subjects.
1872 – Ludwig Boltzmann presents his H-theorem, and with it the formula Σpi log pi for the entropy of a single gas particle
1878 – J. Willard Gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%E2%80%93von%20Karman%20boundary%20condition | Born–von Karman boundary conditions are periodic boundary conditions which impose the restriction that a wave function must be periodic on a certain Bravais lattice. Named after Max Born and Theodore von Kármán, this condition is often applied in solid state physics to model an ideal crystal. Born and von Karman publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragg%20peak | The Bragg peak is a pronounced peak on the Bragg curve which plots the energy loss of ionizing radiation during its travel through matter. For protons, α-rays, and other ion rays, the peak occurs immediately before the particles come to rest. It is named after William Henry Bragg, who discovered it in 1903.
When a fas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rencontres%20numbers | In combinatorial mathematics, the rencontres numbers are a triangular array of integers that enumerate permutations of the set { 1, ..., n } with specified numbers of fixed points: in other words, partial derangements. (Rencontre is French for encounter. By some accounts, the problem is named after a solitaire game.)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nh%20tr%C3%A1ng | Bánh tráng or bánh đa nem, a Vietnamese term (literally, coated bánh), sometimes called rice paper wrappers, rice crepes, rice wafers or nem wrappers, are edible Vietnamese wrappers used in Vietnamese cuisine, primarily in finger foods and appetizers such as Vietnamese nem dishes. The term rice paper wrappers can somet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIX | VIX is the ticker symbol and the popular name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options. It is calculated and disseminated on a real-time basis by the CBOE, and is often referred to as the fear index o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackshaft%20%28locomotive%29 | A jackshaft is an intermediate shaft used to transfer power from a powered shaft such as the output shaft of an engine or motor to driven shafts such as the drive axles of a locomotive. As applied to railroad locomotives in the 19th and 20th centuries, jackshafts were typically in line with the drive axles of locomoti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darda%20%28toy%29 | Darda is the name of a German toy car racing set (and related items) which was most popular in Europe and the USA throughout the 1980s and '90s.
The unique selling point of the sets is the special Darda Motor, invented by Helmut Darda in 1970, which propelled the cars (similarly sized to Matchbox or Hot Wheels) at spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20reconstitution%20inflammatory%20syndrome | Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is a condition seen in some cases of HIV/AIDS or immunosuppression, in which the immune system begins to recover, but then responds to a previously acquired opportunistic infection with an overwhelming inflammatory response that paradoxically makes the symptoms of inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen%E2%80%93Sutherland%20algorithm | In computer graphics, the Cohen–Sutherland algorithm is an algorithm used for line clipping. The algorithm divides a two-dimensional space into 9 regions and then efficiently determines the lines and portions of lines that are visible in the central region of interest (the viewport).
The algorithm was developed in 196... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholl%E2%80%93Lee%E2%80%93Nicholl%20algorithm | In computer graphics, the Nicholl–Lee–Nicholl algorithm is a fast algorithm for line clipping that reduces the chances of clipping a single line segment multiple times, as may happen in the Cohen–Sutherland algorithm.
Description
Using the Nicholl–Lee–Nicholl algorithm, the area around the clipping window is divided i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocomputing | Ethnocomputing is the study of the interactions between computing and culture. It is carried out through theoretical analysis, empirical investigation, and design implementation. It includes research on the impact of computing on society, as well as the reverse: how cultural, historical, personal, and societal origins ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoscreening | Immunoscreening is a method of biotechnology used to detect a polypeptide produced from a cloned gene. The term encompasses several different techniques designed for protein identification, such as Western blotting, using recombinant DNA, and analyzing antibody-peptide interactions.
Clones are screened for the presenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphosphate-accumulating%20organisms | Polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) are a group of microorganisms that, under certain conditions, facilitate the removal of large amounts of phosphorus from their environments. The most studied example of this phenomenon is in polyphosphate-accumulating bacteria (PAB) found in a type of wastewater processing kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izod%20impact%20strength%20test | The Izod impact strength test is an ASTM standard method of determining the impact resistance of materials. A pivoting arm is raised to a specific height (constant potential energy) and then released. The arm swings down hitting a notched sample, breaking the specimen. The energy absorbed by the sample is calculated fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20flow%20%28EDA%29 | Design flows are the explicit combination of electronic design automation tools to accomplish the design of an integrated circuit. Moore's law has driven the entire IC implementation RTL to GDSII design flows from one which uses primarily stand-alone synthesis, placement, and routing algorithms to an integrated constr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarankiewicz%20problem | The Zarankiewicz problem, an unsolved problem in mathematics, asks for the largest possible number of edges in a bipartite graph that has a given number of vertices and has no complete bipartite subgraphs of a given size. It belongs to the field of extremal graph theory, a branch of combinatorics, and is named after th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query%20optimization | Query optimization is a feature of many relational database management systems and other databases such as NoSQL and graph databases. The query optimizer attempts to determine the most efficient way to execute a given query by considering the possible query plans.
Generally, the query optimizer cannot be accessed dire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization-division%20multiple%20access | Polarization-division multiple access (PDMA) is a channel access method used in some cellular networks and broadcast satellite services. Separate antennas are used in this type, each with different polarization and followed by separate receivers, allowing simultaneous regional access of satellites.
Each corresponding ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20security%20module | A hardware security module (HSM) is a physical computing device that safeguards and manages secrets (most importantly digital keys), performs encryption and decryption functions for digital signatures, strong authentication and other cryptographic functions. These modules traditionally come in the form of a plug-in car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denitrifying%20bacteria | Denitrifying bacteria are a diverse group of bacteria that encompass many different phyla. This group of bacteria, together with denitrifying fungi and archaea, is capable of performing denitrification as part of the nitrogen cycle. Denitrification is performed by a variety of denitrifying bacteria that are widely dist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank%20mobility%20index | In demographics, the rank mobility index (RMI) is a measure of a city's change in population rank among a group of cities.
Formally
where
R1 = city's rank at time 1
R2 = city's rank at time 2
A RMI value must be between −1 and 1. A RMI of 0 indicates no change.
Index numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20School%20of%20Medicine%20for%20Women | The London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) established in 1874 was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. The patrons, vice-presidents, and members of the committee that supported and helped found the London School of Medicine for Women wanted to provide educated women with the necessary fac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap | A lap is a surface (usually horizontal) created between the knee and hips of a biped when it is in a seated or lying down position. The lap of a parent or loved one is seen as a physically and psychologically comfortable place for a child to sit.
In some countries where Christmas is celebrated, it has been a traditio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symrise | Symrise AG is a German chemicals company that is a major producer of flavours and fragrances with sales of €4.618 billion in 2022. Major competitors include Givaudan, Takasago International Corporation, International Flavors and Fragrances and Döhler. Symrise is a member of the European Flavour Association. In 2021, Sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Widlar | Robert John Widlar (pronounced wide-lar; November 30, 1937 – February 27, 1991) was an American electronics engineer and a designer of linear integrated circuits (ICs).
Early years
Widlar was born November 30, 1937 in Cleveland to parents of Czech, Irish and German ethnicity. His mother, Mary Vithous, was born in Clev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels%20%28company%29 | Parallels is a software company based in Bellevue, Washington; it is primarily involved in the development of virtualization software for macOS. The company has offices in 14 countries, including the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Japan, China, Spain, Malta, Australia and Mauritius and has over 800 emp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20factorial | In mathematics, an alternating factorial is the absolute value of the alternating sum of the first n factorials of positive integers.
This is the same as their sum, with the odd-indexed factorials multiplied by −1 if n is even, and the even-indexed factorials multiplied by −1 if n is odd, resulting in an alternation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenomics | Phylogenomics is the intersection of the fields of evolution and genomics. The term has been used in multiple ways to refer to analysis that involves genome data and evolutionary reconstructions. It is a group of techniques within the larger fields of phylogenetics and genomics. Phylogenomics draws information by compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation%20of%20mathematics%20in%20set%20theory | This article examines the implementation of mathematical concepts in set theory. The implementation of a number of basic mathematical concepts is carried out in parallel in ZFC (the dominant set theory) and in NFU, the version of Quine's New Foundations shown to be consistent by R. B. Jensen in 1969 (here understood to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20bandwidth | Memory bandwidth is the rate at which data can be read from or stored into a semiconductor memory by a processor. Memory bandwidth is usually expressed in units of bytes/second, though this can vary for systems with natural data sizes that are not a multiple of the commonly used 8-bit bytes.
Memory bandwidth that is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariotte%27s%20bottle | Mariotte's bottle is a device that delivers a constant rate of flow from closed bottles or tanks. It is named after French physicist Edme Mariotte (1620-1684). A picture of a bottle with a gas inlet is shown in the works of Mariotte, but this construction was made to show the effect of outside pressure on mercury level... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution%20enhancement%20technologies | Resolution enhancement technologies are methods used to modify the photomasks in the lithographic processes used to make integrated circuits (ICs or "chips") to compensate for limitations in the optical resolution of the projection systems. These processes allow the creation of features well beyond the limit that would... |
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