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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse%20metrics | In software engineering, many reuse metrics and models are metrics used to measure code reuse and reusability. A metric is a quantitative indicator of an attribute of a thing. A model specifies relationships among metrics. Reuse models and metrics can be categorized into six types:
reuse cost-benefits models
maturit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle%20jewelry | A piece of puzzle jewelry is a puzzle which can be worn by a person as jewelry.
These puzzles can be both fully mechanically functional and aesthetically pleasing as pieces of wearable jewelry.
Examples of available puzzle jewelry
The following list implies that a small version of the cited puzzle is available with s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20phone | A mobile phone (or cellphone) is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone). The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20force | In classical mechanics, a central force on an object is a force that is directed towards or away from a point called center of force.
where is the force, F is a vector valued force function, F is a scalar valued force function, r is the position vector, ||r|| is its length, and is the corresponding unit vector.
Not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20heme-dependent%20peroxidases | Animal heme-dependent peroxidases is a family of peroxidases. Peroxidases are found in bacteria, fungi, plants and animals. On the basis of sequence similarity, a number of animal heme peroxidases can be categorized as members of a superfamily: myeloperoxidase (MPO); eosinophil peroxidase (EPO); lactoperoxidase (LPO); ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9600%20port | The '9600 port' (also named data-jack or data-port) is an industry-specific name given to a special connector on the back of amateur radio HF, VHF, and UHF transceivers. It is used for connecting a packet radio modem or any other type of data-modem which uses audio tones to convey data.
This port is capable of transmi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle-throw%20vibrating%20machine | A circle-throw vibrating machine is a screening machine employed in processes involving particle separation. In particle processes screening refers to separation of larger from smaller particles in a given feed, using only the materials' physical properties. Circle throw machines have simple structure with high screeni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20data%20type | A real data type is a data type used in a computer program to represent an approximation of a real number.
Because the real numbers are not countable, computers cannot represent them exactly using a finite amount of information.
Most often, a computer will use a rational approximation to a real number.
Rational number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Manta | Black Manta is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy, the character debuted in Aquaman #35 (September 1967), and has since endured as the archenemy of the superhero Aquaman.
Black Manta has had numerous origin stories throughout his comic book hist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibu.com | Kibu.com was an American website for teenage girls that was created in 1999 and launched in 2000. The website was founded as an online community for girls to discuss and exchange advice.
Kibu.com secured a US$22 million investment from high-profile figures in the tech industry, including Jim Clark. However, following ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber%20science | Rubber science is a science fiction term describing a quasi-scientific explanation for an aspect of a science fiction setting. Rubber science explanations are fictional but convincing enough to avoid upsetting the suspension of disbelief. Rubber science is a feature of most genres of science fiction, with the exception... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20and%20Ball%20Apparatus | Ring and Ball Apparatus is used to determine the softening point of bitumen, waxes, LDPE, HDPE/PP blend granules, rosin and solid hydrocarbon resins. The apparatus was first designed in the 1910s while ASTM adopted a test method in 1916. This instrument is ideally used for materials having softening point in the range ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20Assessment%20of%20Genome%20Interpretation | The Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI) is an annual bioinformatics competition focused on interpretation of genome variation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20polynomials | In mathematics, the secondary polynomials associated with a sequence of polynomials orthogonal with respect to a density are defined by
To see that the functions are indeed polynomials, consider the simple example of Then,
which is a polynomial provided that the three integrals in (the moments of the densit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%20flow | In computer networking, an elephant flow is an extremely large (in total bytes) continuous flow set up by a TCP (or other protocol) flow measured over a network link. Elephant flows, though not numerous, can occupy a disproportionate share of the total bandwidth over a period of time. It is not clear who coined "elepha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20T.%20Cockerell | John T. Cockerell was a collector of specimens for zoölogists, active in Australia sometime between 1865 and 1891.
In reviewing an outlying record of Purpureicephalus spurius (red-capped parrot) at Port Essington, repeated by John Gould and other ornithologists, Birds of Australia gave this caution on Cockerell's spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragilaria%20gracilis | Fragilaria gracilis is a species of freshwater pennate diatoms. F. gracilis is reported from many parts of Europe, in Sweden even as one of the dominant freshwater diatom taxa.
Identification
Despite its frequent occurrence, there has been some confusion about the identification of this taxon. However, a recent study ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarek%20National%20Park | Sarek National Park () is a national park in Jokkmokk Municipality, Lapland in northern Sweden. Established in 1909, the park is among the oldest national parks in Europe. It is adjacent to two other national parks, namely Stora Sjöfallet and Padjelanta. The shape of Sarek National Park is roughly circular with an aver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobylite | Chernobylite is a technogenic compound, a crystalline zirconium silicate with a high (up to 10%) content of uranium as a solid solution.
It was discovered in the corium produced in the Chernobyl disaster, a lava-like glassy material formed in the nuclear meltdown of reactor core 4.
Chernobylite is highly radioactive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Carr | Carol Scott Carr (born 1939) is an American woman from the state of Georgia who became the center of a widely publicized debate over euthanasia when she killed her two adult sons because they had Huntington's disease.
Killing and trial
Huntington's disease is an autosomal dominant disorder, inherited from Carol Carr's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20costal%20facet | The inferior costal facet (or inferior costal fovea) is a site where a rib forms a joint with the inferior aspect of the body of a thoracic vertebra.
In the adjacent picture, the arrow points to an inferior costal facet. The facets are named for their location on the vertebral body, not the rib. The inferior costal fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewitt%20Crane | Hewitt D. Crane (1927–2008) was an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for Bank of America, magnetic digital logic, neuristor logic, the development of an eye-movement tracking device, and a pen-input device for computers.
Early ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20kappa-ell%20function | In control theory, it is often required to check if a nonautonomous system is stable or not. To cope with this it is necessary to use some special comparison functions. Class functions belong to this family:
Definition: A continuous function is said to belong to class if:
for each fixed , the function belongs to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s%20measurements%20of%20the%20speed%20of%20light | In 1850, Léon Foucault used a rotating mirror to perform a differential measurement of the speed of light in water versus its speed in air. In 1862, he used a similar apparatus to measure the speed of light in the air.
Background
In 1834, Charles Wheatstone developed a method of using a rapidly rotating mirror to stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds-averaged%20Navier%E2%80%93Stokes%20equations | The Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (RANS equations) are time-averaged
equations of motion for fluid flow. The idea behind the equations is Reynolds decomposition, whereby an instantaneous quantity is decomposed into its time-averaged and fluctuating quantities, an idea first proposed by Osborne Reynolds. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickless%20kernel | A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required.
The Linux kernel on s390 from 2.6.6 and on i386 from release 2.6.21 can be configured to turn the timer tick off (tickless or dynamic tick) for idle CPUs using CONFIG_NO_HZ, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-dropout%20regulator | A low-dropout regulator (LDO regulator) is a DC linear voltage regulator that can operate even when the supply voltage is very close to the output voltage.
The advantages of an LDO regulator over other DC-to-DC voltage regulators include: the absence of switching noise (in contrast to switching regulators); smaller dev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Beck | Friedrich Hans Beck (16 February 1927 – 20 December 2008) was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness.
Early life and education
Beck was born in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%20polynomial | In mathematics, Schur polynomials, named after Issai Schur, are certain symmetric polynomials in n variables, indexed by partitions, that generalize the elementary symmetric polynomials and the complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials. In representation theory they are the characters of polynomial irreducible repre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20persicina | Amanita persicina, commonly known as the peach-colored fly agaric, is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus Amanita. This fungus was previously believed to be a variety of Amanita muscaria, but research has recently shown that Amanita persicina is best treated as a distinct species.
Amanita persicina is distinguished by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20multi-paradigm%20programming%20languages | Programming languages can be grouped by the number and types of paradigms supported.
Paradigm summaries
A concise reference for the programming paradigms listed in this article.
Concurrent programming – have language constructs for concurrency, these may involve multi-threading, support for distributed computing, mes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Khmu%20animal%20common%20names | The following list of Khmu (Kammu Yuan dialect of Luang Namtha Province, Laos) animal names is from Svantesson et al. (2013).
Insects
Other arthropods
Other invertebrates
Fish
Amphibians and reptiles
Birds
Mammals
See also
List of Khmu plant common names
Wildlife of Laos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20tunnel | The basilar membrane stretches from the tympanic lip of the osseous spiral lamina to the basilar crest and consists of two parts, an inner and an outer. The inner is thin, and is named the inner tunnel (or zona arcuata): it supports the spiral organ of Corti. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty%20bit | A dirty bit or modified bit is a bit that is associated with a block of computer memory and indicates whether the corresponding block of memory has been modified. The dirty bit is set when the processor writes to (modifies) this memory. The bit indicates that its associated block of memory has been modified and has not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Pentland | Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and serial entrepreneur.
Education
Pentland received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and obtained his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.
Care... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog-wood | Bog-wood (also spelled bogwood or bog wood), also known as abonos and, especially amongst pipe smokers, as morta, is a material from trees that have been buried in peat bogs and preserved from decay by the acidic and anaerobic bog conditions, sometimes for hundreds or even thousands of years. The wood is usually stain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphragm%20%28acoustics%29 | In the field of acoustics, a diaphragm is a transducer intended to inter-convert mechanical vibrations to sounds, or vice versa. It is commonly constructed of a thin membrane or sheet of various materials, suspended at its edges. The varying air pressure of sound waves imparts mechanical vibrations to the diaphragm w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully%20switched%20network | A fully switched network is a computer network which uses only network switches rather than Ethernet hubs on Ethernet networks. The switches provide a dedicated connection to each workstation. A switch allows for many conversations to occur simultaneously. Before switches, networks based on hubs data could only allow t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20derivative | In the calculus of variations, a field of mathematical analysis, the functional derivative (or variational derivative) relates a change in a functional (a functional in this sense is a function that acts on functions) to a change in a function on which the functional depends.
In the calculus of variations, functionals... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithol%20Rubine%20BK | Lithol Rubine BK is a reddish synthetic azo dye. It has the appearance of a red powder and is magenta when printed. It is slightly soluble in hot water, insoluble in cold water, and insoluble in ethanol. When dissolved in dimethylformamide, its absorption maximum lies at about 442 nm. It is usually supplied as a calci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchase%20line | The Purchase Line is the name commonly given to the line dividing Indian from British Colonial lands established in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768 in western Pennsylvania. In New York State documents, it is referred to as the Line of Property. That article contains the treaty text and other sections.
History
The r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiatron | The skiatron is a type of cathode ray tube (CRT) that replaces the conventional phosphor with some type of scotophor, typically potassium chloride.
When hit by the electron beam from the back of the CRT, this normally white material turns a magenta color, producing a dark spot or line on the display. The pattern remai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20Underwood%20Coon%20Dog%20Memorial%20Graveyard | The Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard is a specialized and restricted pet cemetery and memorial in rural Colbert County, Alabama, US. It is reserved specifically for the burials of coon dogs. The cemetery was established by Key Underwood on September 4, 1937. Underwood buried his own dog there, choosing the spo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20singular-value%20decomposition | In linear algebra, two-dimensional singular-value decomposition (2DSVD) computes the low-rank approximation of a set of matrices such as 2D images or weather maps in a manner almost identical to SVD (singular-value decomposition) which computes the low-rank approximation of a single matrix (or a set of 1D vectors).
SV... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20A | Lipid A is a lipid component of an endotoxin held responsible for the toxicity of gram-negative bacteria. It is the innermost of the three regions of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS), also called endotoxin molecule, and its hydrophobic nature allows it to anchor the LPS to the outer membrane. While its toxic effects can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20internal%20reflection%20fluorescence%20microscope | A total internal reflection fluorescence microscope (TIRFM) is a type of microscope with which a thin region of a specimen, usually less than 200 nanometers can be observed.
TIRFM is an imaging modality which uses the excitation of fluorescent cells in a thin optical specimen section that is supported on a glass slide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canned%20wine | Canned wine is wine packaged in a can. Driven by demand for small format, convenient and environmentally sustainable packaging for wine, wine in a can has boomed in Asian markets for over a decade and more recently in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Difficulties in canning wine
Wines & Vine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B | C++ (, pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. First released in 1985 as an extension of the C programming language, it has since expanded significantly over time; C++ has object-oriented, g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20equation%20in%20curved%20spacetime | In mathematical physics, the Dirac equation in curved spacetime is a generalization of the Dirac equation from flat spacetime (Minkowski space) to curved spacetime, a general Lorentzian manifold.
Mathematical formulation
Spacetime
In full generality the equation can be defined on or a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party%20software%20component | In computer programming, a third-party software component is a reusable software component developed to be either freely distributed or sold by an entity other than the original vendor of the development platform. The third-party software component market thrives because many programmers believe that component-oriented... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-surround%20antagonism | Center-surround antagonism refers to antagonistic interactions between center and surround regions of the receptive fields of photoreceptor cells in the retina. Center surround antagonism enables edge detection and contrast enhancement within the visual cortex. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README | In software development, a README file contains information about the other files in a directory or archive of computer software. A form of documentation, it is usually a simple plain text file called README, Read Me, READ.ME, README.TXT, README.md (to indicate the use of Markdown), or README.1ST.
The file's name is g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Energy%20Physics%20Advisory%20Panel | The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) is a permanent advisory committee to the United States Department of Energy and the National Academy of Sciences, created in 1967 and organized under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972.
Under the FACA, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel meets in public,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqarnas | Muqarnas (; , or ), also known in Iberian architecture as Mocárabe, is a form of ornamented vaulting in Islamic architecture. It is the archetypal form of Islamic architecture, integral to the vernacular of Islamic buildings. It was most likely first developed in eleventh-century Iraq, though the earliest preserved exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra%20%26%20Number%20Theory | Algebra & Number Theory is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by the nonprofit organization Mathematical Sciences Publishers. It was launched on January 17, 2007, with the goal of "providing an alternative to the current range of commercial specialty journals in algebra and number theory, an alternative of h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattauch%20isobar%20rule | The Mattauch isobar rule, formulated by Josef Mattauch in 1934, states that if two adjacent elements on the periodic table have isotopes of the same mass number, one of these isotopes must be radioactive. Two nuclides that have the same mass number (isobars) can both be stable only if their atomic numbers differ by mor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasistatic%20approximation | Quasistatic approximation(s) refers to different domains and different meanings. In the most common acceptance, quasistatic approximation refers to equations that keep a static form (do not involve time derivatives) even if some quantities are allowed to vary slowly with time. In electromagnetism it refers to mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler-compiler | In computer science, a compiler-compiler or compiler generator is a programming tool that creates a parser, interpreter, or compiler from some form of formal description of a programming language and machine.
The most common type of compiler-compiler is more precisely called a parser generator. It only handles syntact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20palindromic%20places | A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
Issues
Because th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Objects%20Everywhere | Distributed Objects Everywhere (DOE) was a long-running Sun Microsystems project to build a distributed computing environment based on the CORBA system in the 'back end' and OpenStep as the user interface. First started in 1990 and announced soon thereafter, it remained vaporware for many years before it was finally re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessen%E2%80%93Wintner%20theorem | In mathematics, the Jessen–Wintner theorem, introduced by , asserts that a random variable of Jessen–Wintner type, meaning the sum of an almost surely convergent series of independent discrete random variables, is of pure type. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaktor%20Serba%20Guna%20G.A.%20Siwabessy | Reaktor Serba Guna–Gerrit Augustinus Siwabessy (RSG-GAS) (Multipurpose Reactor–Gerrit Augustinus Siwabessy) is a research reactor located in the Serpong neighborhood of South Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. The reactor plays an important role in the Centre for Nuclear Industry Development, at Puspiptek, Serpong to serve ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinement%20calculus | The refinement calculus is a formalized approach to stepwise refinement for program construction. The required behaviour of the final executable program is specified as an abstract and perhaps non-executable "program", which is then refined by a series of correctness-preserving transformations into an efficiently execu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unplaced%20in%20APG%20II | When the APG II system of plant classification was published in April 2003, fifteen genera and three families were placed incertae sedis in the angiosperms, and were listed in a section of the appendix entitled "Taxa of uncertain position".
By the end of 2009, molecular phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences had revea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus%20abies | Pinus abies is a taxonomic synonym that may refer to:
Pinus abies = Picea abies
Pinus abies , nom. illeg. = Abies alba
Pinus abies var. laxa Münchh. = Picea glauca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20group | In mathematics, the Grothendieck group, or group of differences, of a commutative monoid is a certain abelian group. This abelian group is constructed from in the most universal way, in the sense that any abelian group containing a homomorphic image of will also contain a homomorphic image of the Grothendieck group ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optomyography | Optomyography (OMG) was proposed in 2015 as a technique that could be used to monitor muscular activity. It is possible to use OMG for the same applications where Electromyography (EMG) and Mechanomyography (MMG) are used. However, OMG offers superior signal-to-noise ratio and improved robustness against the disturbing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TO-18 | In electronics, TO-18 is a designation for a style of transistor metal case. The case is more expensive than the similarly sized plastic TO-92 package. The name is from JEDEC, signifying Transistor Outline Package, Case Style 18.
Construction and orientation
The typical TO-18 metal can package has a base diameter of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintuple%20bond | A quintuple bond in chemistry is an unusual type of chemical bond, first reported in 2005 for a dichromium compound. Single bonds, double bonds, and triple bonds are commonplace in chemistry. Quadruple bonds are rarer and are currently known only among the transition metals, especially for Cr, Mo, W, and Re, e.g. [Mo2C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderlink | ThunderLink is a legacy expansion adapter for the Thunderbolt computer bus interface, which added support for SAS, SATA, fibre optic and Ethernet interfaces.
The adapter could support throughput speeds of up to 10Gb/s.
ATTO Technology ThunderLink devices were a purpose-built Thunderbolt product designed to connect vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-differentiability | In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the notions of one-sided differentiability and semi-differentiability of a real-valued function f of a real variable are weaker than differentiability. Specifically, the function f is said to be right differentiable at a point a if, roughly speaking, a derivative can be defined as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu | Ubuntu ( ) is a Linux distribution based on Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Ubuntu is officially released in multiple editions: Desktop, Server, and Core for Internet of things devices and robots. All of the editions can run on a computer alone, or in a virtual machine. Ubuntu is a popular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20crossing | Wildlife crossings are structures that allow animals to cross human-made barriers safely. Wildlife crossings may include underpass tunnels or wildlife tunnels, viaducts, and overpasses or green bridges (mainly for large or herd-type animals); amphibian tunnels; fish ladders; canopy bridges (especially for monkeys and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Fine | Nathan Jacob Fine (22 October 1916 in Philadelphia – 18 November 1994 in Deerfield Beach, Florida) was an American mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He is best known for his lecture notes on the subject which for four decades served as an inspiration to experts in the field until they were final... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20vector%20algebra%20and%20geometric%20algebra | Geometric algebra is an extension of vector algebra, providing additional algebraic structures on vector spaces, with geometric interpretations.
Vector algebra uses all dimensions and signatures, as does geometric algebra, notably 3+1 spacetime as well as 2 dimensions.
Basic concepts and operations
Geometric algebra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson%20de%20Castro | Edson de Castro (born 1938) is a computer engineer and businessman, perhaps best known for designing the Data General Nova series of computers.
De Castro was founder and CEO of Data General Corporation throughout the 1970s, the 1980s and into the 1990s when he was replaced by Ronald L Skates, a former Price Waterhouse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons%20of%20Mars | The two moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos. They are irregular in shape. Both were discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall in August 1877 and are named after the Greek mythological twin characters Phobos (fear and panic) and Deimos (terror and dread) who accompanied their father Ares into battle. Ares, the god of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Saudi%20Arabian%20flags | The following is a list of Flags used in Saudi Arabia. For more information about the national flag, see the Flag of Saudi Arabia.
National Flag
Royal Flags
Ministry Flag
Military Flags
Historical Flags
See also
Flag of Saudi Arabia
Emblem of Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Faiek%20Shennib | Sir Omar Faiek Shennib (Omar Fayek Shennib, Omar Shannib, Omar Shannaib) () was Libyan Minister of Defence, Chief of the Royal Diwan, Vice President of the Libyan National Assembly under the reign of King Idris Al Senussi. Omar Faiek Shennib was the patriarch of the House of Shennib, one of Libya's most prominent nobl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampbrush%20chromosome | Lampbrush chromosome are a special form of chromosome found in the growing oocytes (immature eggs) of most animals, except mammals. They were first described by Walther Flemming and Ruckert in 1882. Lampbrush chromosomes of tailed and tailless amphibians, birds and insects are described best of all. Chromosomes transfo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Chernoff | Paul Robert Chernoff (21 June 1942, Philadelphia – 17 January 2017) was an American mathematician, specializing in functional analysis and the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. He is known for Chernoff's Theorem, a mathematical result in the Feynman path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.
Educat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93Liverpool%20Inventory%20of%20Feelings%20and%20Experiences | The Oxford–Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE) is a questionnaire for measuring psychosis-proneness, principally schizotypy. It was introduced in 1995 and has since been used in a variety of experimental and clinical studies. The O-LIFE is a tool with 104 items in the Yes/No response format, althou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Guardian | The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, before it changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDAIS%20algorithms | XDAIS or eXpressDsp Algorithm Interoperability Standard is a standard for algorithm development by Texas Instruments for the TMS320 DSP family. The standard was first introduced in 1999 and was created to facilitate integration of DSP algorithms into systems without re-engineering cost. The XDAIS standard address the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosati%20involution | In mathematics, a Rosati involution, named after Carlo Rosati, is an involution of the rational endomorphism ring of an abelian variety induced by a polarisation.
Let be an abelian variety, let be the dual abelian variety, and for , let be the translation-by- map, . Then each divisor on defines a map via . The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Elasticity | Journal of Elasticity: The Physical and Mathematical Science of Solids is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of elasticity. It is published seven times a year by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Roger Fosdick (University of Minnesota).
Abstracting and indexing
According to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Robertson graph or (4,5)-cage, is a 4-regular undirected graph with 19 vertices and 38 edges named after Neil Robertson.
The Robertson graph is the unique (4,5)-cage graph and was discovered by Robertson in 1964. As a cage graph, it is the smallest 4-regular graph with gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority%20and%20inferiority%20ranking%20method | The superiority and inferiority ranking method (or SIR method) is a multi-criteria decision making model (MCDA) which can handle real data and provides six different preference structures for the system user. MCDM is a sub-discipline of operations research that explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in deci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPGEnc | TMPGEnc or TSUNAMI MPEG Encoder is a video transcoder software application primarily for encoding video files to VCD and SVCD-compliant MPEG video formats and was developed by Hiroyuki Hori and Pegasys Inc. TMPGEnc can also refer to the family of software video encoders created after the success of the original TMPGEnc... |
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/EzTaxon%20Database | In bioinformatics, the EzTaxon database is a web-based tool for the identification of prokaryotes based on 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences. EzTaxon is an open access database that is produced and maintained by ChunLab, Inc.
The EzTaxon database contains sequences of type strains of prokaryotic species with validly pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe | LightScribe is an optical disc recording technology that was created by the Hewlett-Packard Company. It uses specially coated recordable CD and DVD media to produce laser-etched labels with text or graphics, as opposed to stick-on labels and printable discs. Although HP is no longer developing the technology, it is sti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20YM2413 | The YM2413, a.k.a. OPLL, is a cost-reduced FM synthesis sound chip manufactured by Yamaha Corporation and based on their YM3812 (OPL2).
To make the chip cheaper to manufacture, many of the internal registers were removed. The result of this is that the YM2413 can only play one user-defined instrument at a time; the ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axillary%20nerve | The axillary nerve or the circumflex nerve is a nerve of the human body, that originates from the brachial plexus (upper trunk, posterior division, posterior cord) at the level of the axilla (armpit) and carries nerve fibers from C5 and C6. The axillary nerve travels through the quadrangular space with the posterior ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary%20equivalency | Veterinary equivalency is the mutual recognition by two or more countries that each party's safety and sanitation standards for animal products, even where not identical, provide an equivalent level of protection to public and animal health. Aimed at facilitating trade, the practical effect of veterinary equivalency is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20engine | An animal engine is a machine powered by an animal. Horses, donkeys, oxen, dogs, and humans have all been used in this way. An unusual example of an animal engine was recorded at Portland, Victoria in 1866. A kangaroo had been tamed and trained to work a treadmill which drove various items of machinery.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InRule%20Technology | InRule Technology is a software company that offers Business Rule Management System (BRMS) enterprise software products.
History
InRule Technology's Chief Executive Officer Rik Chomko and Chief Technology Officer Loren Goodman founded InRule Technology in Chicago in 2002. Paul Hessinger joined InRule Technology in 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-derived%20filter | m-derived filters or m-type filters are a type of electronic filter designed using the image method. They were invented by Otto Zobel in the early 1920s. This filter type was originally intended for use with telephone multiplexing and was an improvement on the existing constant k type filter. The main problem being add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spallation%20Neutron%20Source | The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source facility in the U.S. that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. Each year, this facility hosts hundreds of researchers from universities, national laboratories, and indust... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter | A blitter is a circuit, sometimes as a coprocessor or a logic block on a microprocessor, dedicated to the rapid movement and modification of data within a computer's memory. A blitter can copy large quantities of data from one memory area to another relatively quickly, and in parallel with the CPU, while freeing up the... |
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