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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20function | In computer science, the complexity function of a word or string (a finite or infinite sequence of symbols from some alphabet) is the function that counts the number of distinct factors (substrings of consecutive symbols) of that string. More generally, the complexity function of a formal language (a set of finite stri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveolae | In biology, caveolae (Latin for "little caves"; singular, caveola), which are a special type of lipid raft, are small (50–100 nanometer) invaginations of the plasma membrane in the cells of many vertebrates. They are the most abundant surface feature of many vertebrate cell types, especially endothelial cells, adipocyt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20system | An energy system is a system primarily designed to supply energy-services to end-users. The intent behind energy systems is to minimise energy losses to a negligible level, as well as to ensure the efficient use of energy. The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report defines an energy system as "all components related to the produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohnstamm%27s%20phenomenon | First described by German neurologist Oskar Kohnstamm (1871–1917) in 1915, Kohnstamm's phenomenon is a sustained involuntary contraction of a muscle after a prolonged voluntary contraction. The simplest demonstration, sometimes called "the floating arms experiment", is to have a subject press the arms against a door f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20pasteurization | Flash pasteurization, also called "high-temperature short-time" (HTST) processing, is a method of heat pasteurization of perishable beverages like fruit and vegetable juices, beer, wine, and some dairy products such as milk. Compared with other pasteurization processes, it maintains color and flavor better, but some ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh | Flesh is any aggregation of soft tissues of an organism. Various multicellular organisms have soft tissues that may be called "flesh". In mammals, including humans, flesh encompasses muscles, fats and other loose connective tissues, but sometimes excluding non-muscular organs (liver, lung, spleen, kidney) and typicall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSIF | GSIF is a proprietary protocol and API between the TASCAM GigaStudio software (a virtual audio sampling device) and the soundcard connected to the computer. It is not known exactly what the initials stand for; it most likely means GigaSampler InterFace. GigaStudio having an important user base, it is supported by many ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTHNY%20theory | The KTHNY-theory describes the melting of crystals in two dimensions (2D). The name is derived from the initials of the surnames of John Michael Kosterlitz, David J. Thouless, Bertrand Halperin, David R. Nelson, and A. Peter Young, who developed the theory in the 1970s. It is, beside the Ising model in 2D and the XY m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20conservation%20of%20complexity | The law of conservation of complexity, also known as Tesler's Law, or Waterbed Theory, is an adage in human–computer interaction stating that every application has an inherent amount of complexity that cannot be removed or hidden. Instead, it must be dealt with, either in product development or in user interaction.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asad%20Abidi | Asad Ali Abidi (born July 12, 1956) is a Pakistani-American electrical engineer. He serves as a tenured professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is best known for pioneering RF CMOS technology duri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemically%20induced%20dimerization | Chemically Induced Dimerization (CID) is a biological mechanism in which two proteins bind only in the presence of a certain small molecule, enzyme or other dimerizing agent. Genetically engineered CID systems are used in biological research to control protein localization, to manipulate signalling pathways and to indu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic%20Amphibians%20and%20Reptiles%20of%20the%20United%20States | Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States is a field guide to the exotic amphibians and reptiles established in the continental United States and Hawaii. It is co-authored by herpetologists Walter E. Meshaka Jr., Suzanne L. Collins, R. Bruce Bury, and Malcolm L. McCallum.
The book provides information about ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20IoT | Windows IoT, short for Windows Internet of Things and formerly known as Windows Embedded, is a family of operating systems from Microsoft designed for use in embedded systems. Microsoft has three different subfamilies of operating systems for embedded devices targeting a wide market, ranging from small-footprint, real-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidorenko%27s%20conjecture | Sidorenko's conjecture is a conjecture in the field of graph theory, posed by Alexander Sidorenko in 1986. Roughly speaking, the conjecture states that for any bipartite graph and graph on vertices with average degree , there are at least labeled copies of in , up to a small error term. Formally, it provides an in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomaly-based%20intrusion%20detection%20system | An anomaly-based intrusion detection system, is an intrusion detection system for detecting both network and computer intrusions and misuse by monitoring system activity and classifying it as either normal or anomalous. The classification is based on heuristics or rules, rather than patterns or signatures, and attempts... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear%20inverse%20Compton%20scattering | Non-linear inverse Compton scattering (NICS), also known as non-linear Compton scattering and multiphoton Compton scattering, is the scattering of multiple low-energy photons, given by an intense electromagnetic field, in a high-energy photon (X-ray or gamma ray) during the interaction with a charged particle, in many ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20break | In econometrics and statistics, a structural break is an unexpected change over time in the parameters of regression models, which can lead to huge forecasting errors and unreliability of the model in general. This issue was popularised by David Hendry, who argued that lack of stability of coefficients frequently cause... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching%20quantifier | In logic a branching quantifier, also called a Henkin quantifier, finite partially ordered quantifier or even nonlinear quantifier, is a partial ordering
of quantifiers for Q ∈ {∀,∃}. It is a special case of generalized quantifier. In classical logic, quantifier prefixes are linearly ordered such that the value of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species%20complex | In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each other, further blurring any distinctions. Terms that are sometimes used synony... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternionic%20structure | In mathematics, a quaternionic structure or -structure is an axiomatic system that abstracts the concept of a quaternion algebra over a field.
A quaternionic structure is a triple where is an elementary abelian group of exponent with a distinguished element , is a pointed set with distinguished element , and is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat | In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ecological niche. Thus "habitat" is a species-specific term, fundame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-side%20%28UK%20telephone%20cabling%29 | In a UK telephone line, the term D-side or distribution side refers at any point on a local loop connection between a customer's premises and a telephone exchange to the wires (or pairs of copper wires) leaving into the direction of the customer. Conversely, E-side is the exchange side of a telephone line, that is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RegTransBase | RegTransBase is database of regulatory interactions and transcription factor binding sites in prokaryotes
See also
Transcription factors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appcelerator | Appcelerator is a privately held mobile technology company based in San Jose, California. Its main products are Titanium, an open-source software development kit for cross-platform mobile development, and the Appcelerator Platform.
Founded in 2006, Appcelerator serves industries including retail, financial services, h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose%20%28file%20system%29 | In computing, rubberhose (also known by its development codename Marutukku) is a deniable encryption archive containing multiple file systems whose existence can only be verified using the appropriate cryptographic key.
Name and history
The project was originally named Rubberhose, as it was designed to be resistant t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20emission | Acoustic emission (AE) is the phenomenon of radiation of acoustic (elastic) waves in solids that occurs when a material undergoes irreversible changes in its internal structure, for example as a result of crack formation or plastic deformation due to aging, temperature gradients, or external mechanical forces.
In part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20coordinates | In crystallography, a fractional coordinate system (crystal coordinate system) is a coordinate system in which basis vectors used to the describe the space are the lattice vectors of a crystal (periodic) pattern. The selection of an origin and a basis define a unit cell, a parallelotope (i.e., generalization of a paral... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Compatibility%20Test%20for%20Mobile%20Browsers | Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers (often Mobile Acid test) is a test page published and promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to expose web page rendering flaws in mobile web browsers and other applications that render HTML. It was developed in the spirit of the Acid test by the Web Standards Project... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Kilpatrick | Jeremy Kilpatrick (September 21, 1935, in Fairfield, Iowa – September 17, 2022, in Athens, Georgia) was an American mathematics educator. He received the Felix Klein Medal for 2007 from ICMI (The International Commission on Mathematics Instruction). He graduated from Chaffey two-year college in California (1954), then... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Operating%20System%20%28software%29 | The Business Operating System, or BOS, was initially developed as an early cross-platform operating system, originally for Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 microprocessors and then for actual businesses and business models. The technology was used in Zilog Z80-based computers and later for most microcomputers of the 1980s.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated%20presence%20therapy | Simulated presence therapy (SPT) is an emotion-oriented non-pharmacological intervention for people with dementia developed by P. Woods and J. Ashley in 1995. SPT was created as part of a study conducted in a nursing home where 17 individuals with the disease listened to a recording of a caregiver over a stereo. The st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Telework%20Association | The Canadian Telework Association (CTA) is an organization promoting telework and telecommuting in Canada. It was founded in 1997, and since then, it has grown to include over 1000 members, most of which are individuals, corporations, and academic institutions. The association does not accept funding or donations and d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20topology | In mathematics, the upper topology on a partially ordered set X is the coarsest topology in which the closure of a singleton is the order section for each If is a partial order, the upper topology is the least order consistent topology in which all open sets are up-sets. However, not all up-sets must necessarily ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESKAPE | ESKAPE is an acronym comprising the scientific names of six highly virulent and antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens including: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp. The acronym is sometimes extended to ESKAPEE to i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal-section%20mode | Longitudinal-section modes are a set of a particular kind of electromagnetic transmission modes found in some types of transmission line. They are a subset of hybrid electromagnetic modes (HEM modes). HEM modes are those modes that have both an electric field and a magnetic field component longitudinally in the direc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20electromagnetic%20theory | The history of electromagnetic theory begins with ancient measures to understand atmospheric electricity, in particular lightning. People then had little understanding of electricity, and were unable to explain the phenomena. Scientific understanding into the nature of electricity grew throughout the eighteenth and nin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalase-related%20immune-responsive%20domain | In molecular biology, the catalase-related immune-responsive domain is a protein domain found in catalases. This domain carries the immune-responsive amphipathic octa-peptide that is recognised by T cells. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20mobile%20virtualization | Remote mobile virtualization, like its counterpart desktop virtualization, is a technology that separates operating systems and applications from the client devices that access them. However, while desktop virtualization allows users to remotely access Windows desktops and applications, remote mobile virtualization off... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes%20%28software%29 | Malwarebytes (formerly Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, abbreviated as MBAM) is an anti-malware software for Microsoft Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Android, and iOS that finds and removes malware. Made by Malwarebytes Corporation, it was first released in January 2006. It is available in a free version, which scans for and remo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojiky%C5%8D | (), also known by its full name , is a character encoding scheme. The , which published the character set, also published computer software and TrueType fonts to accompany it. The Mojikyō Institute, chaired by , originally had its character set and related software and data redistributed on CD-ROMs sold in Kinokuniya s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelolipoma | Myelolipoma (, from the Ancient Greek 'marrow'; , 'of, or pertaining to, fat'; -oma 'tumor or mass'; also myolipoma) is a benign tumor-like lesion composed of mature adipose (fat) tissue and haematopoietic (blood-forming) elements in various proportions.
Myelolipomas can present in the adrenal gland, or outside of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling%20release | Rolling release, also known as rolling update or continuous delivery, is a concept in software development of frequently delivering updates to applications. This is in contrast to a standard or point release development model which uses software versions that must be reinstalled over the previous version. An example of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entera | Entera is a middleware product introduced in the mid-1990s by the Open Environment Corporation (OEC), an early implementation of the three-tiered client–server model development model. Entera viewed business software as a collection of services, rather than as a monolithic application.
Entera was designed to allow c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution%20ratio | In chemistry and biology, the dilution ratio and dilution factor are two related (but slightly different) expressions of the change in concentration of a liquid substance when mixing it with another liquid substance. They are often used for simple dilutions, one in which a unit volume of a liquid material of interest i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank%20of%20an%20elliptic%20curve | In mathematics, the rank of an elliptic curve is the rational Mordell–Weil rank of an elliptic curve defined over the field of rational numbers. Mordell's theorem says the group of rational points on an elliptic curve has a finite basis. This means that for any elliptic curve there is a finite subset of the rational p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Neveu | Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu (14 November 193217 May 2016) was a Belgian (and then French) mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics.
Education and career
Jacques Neveu received in 1955 from the Sorbonne his doctorate in m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically%20induced%20transparency | Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a coherent optical nonlinearity which renders a medium transparent within a narrow spectral range around an absorption line. Extreme dispersion is also created within this transparency "window" which leads to "slow light", described below. It is in essence a quantum i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20web%20service%20specifications | There are a variety of specifications associated with web services. These specifications are in varying degrees of maturity and are maintained or supported by various standards bodies and entities. These specifications are the basic web services framework established by first-generation standards represented by WSDL, S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionPay%20%28application%29 | The app of UnionPay (, literally “Cloud QuickPass”) is a mobile and online payment service, developed and operated by UnionPay, the national Chinese bank card clearing service. Launched in 2017, it was designed to compete with the existing third-party Chinese mobile payment platforms, Alibaba Group's Alipay and Tencent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby%20E | Dolby E is a lossy audio compression and decoding technology developed by Dolby Laboratories that allows 6 to 8 channels of audio to be compressed into an AES3 digital audio stream that can be stored as a standard stereo pair of digital audio tracks.
Up to six channels, such as a 5.1 mix, can be recorded as 16-bit Dol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCntz%E2%80%93Sz%C3%A1sz%20theorem | The Müntz–Szász theorem is a basic result of approximation theory, proved by Herman Müntz in 1914 and Otto Szász (1884–1952) in 1916. Roughly speaking, the theorem shows to what extent the Weierstrass theorem on polynomial approximation can have holes dug into it, by restricting certain coefficients in the polynomials ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Citation%20Index | The Indian Citation Index (ICI) is an online bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations from academic journals. Currently ICI covers more than 1100 journals from India covering scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences that includes arts and humanities. ICI covers data from 2004 onwards and pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb%20polynomials | In mathematics, Gottlieb polynomials are a family of discrete orthogonal polynomials introduced by . They are given by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered%20set | The concept of shattered sets plays an important role in Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, also known as VC-theory. Shattering and VC-theory are used in the study of empirical processes as well as in statistical computational learning theory.
Definition
Suppose A is a set and C is a class of sets. The class C shatters the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%20%26%20Lyle | Tate & Lyle PLC is a British-headquartered, global supplier of food and beverage products to food and industrial markets. It was originally a sugar refining business, but from the 1970s, it began to diversify, eventually divesting its sugar business in 2010. It specialises in turning raw materials such as corn and tapi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent%20tensor | In mathematics and physics, a recurrent tensor, with respect to a connection on a manifold M, is a tensor T for which there is a one-form ω on M such that
Examples
Parallel Tensors
An example for recurrent tensors are parallel tensors which are defined by
with respect to some connection .
If we take a pseudo-Riem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweep%20and%20prune | In physical simulations, sweep and prune is a broad phase algorithm used during collision detection to limit the number of pairs of solids that need to be checked for collision, i.e. intersection. This is achieved by sorting the starts (lower bound) and ends (upper bound) of the bounding volume of each solid along a nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakutani%27s%20theorem%20%28measure%20theory%29 | In measure theory, a branch of mathematics, Kakutani's theorem is a fundamental result on the equivalence or mutual singularity of countable product measures. It gives an "if and only if" characterisation of when two such measures are equivalent, and hence it is extremely useful when trying to establish change-of-meas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwim%20Way%20Leg | Throwim Way Leg is a 1998 book written by Australian scientist Tim Flannery. It documents Flannery's experiences conducting scientific research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and Indonesian Western New Guinea. The book describes the flora and fauna of the island and the cultures of its various peoples. The title ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversitas | Diversitas (the Latin word for “diversity”) was an international research programme aiming at integrating biodiversity science for human well-being. In December 2014 its work was transferred to the programme called Future Earth, which was sponsored by the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentially%20closed%20field | In mathematics, a differential field K is differentially closed if every finite system of differential equations with a solution in some differential field extending K already has a solution in K. This concept was introduced by . Differentially closed fields are the analogues
for differential equations of algebraically... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia%20geniculata | Thalia geniculata, the bent alligator-flag, arrowroot, or fire-flag, is a plant species widespread across tropical Africa and much of the Americas.
Thalia geniculata is native to a large region in Africa, from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east, south to Zimbabwe and Angola. It is also considered native to Mexic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-shaping%20control | Energy-shaping control for energy systems considers the plant and its controller as energy-transformation devices. The control strategy is formulated in terms of interconnection (in a power-preserving manner) in order to achieve a desired behavior.
Further reading
See also
Control theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renu%20C.%20Laskar | Renu Chakravarti Laskar (born 1932) is an Indian-born American mathematician, specializing in graph theory. She is Professor Emerita of Mathematical sciences at Clemson University. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1962.
Laskar has often contributed to the the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCRL | Inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase OCRL-1, also known as Lowe oculocerebrorenal syndrome protein, is an enzyme encoded by the OCRL gene located on the X chromosome in humans.
This gene encodes an inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase. The responsible gene locus is at Xq26.1. This phosphatase enzyme is in part respon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20termination | Intrinsic, or rho-independent termination, is a process in prokaryotes to signal the end of transcription and release the newly constructed RNA molecule. In prokaryotes such as E. coli, transcription is terminated either by a rho-dependent process or rho-independent process. In the Rho-dependent process, the rho-protei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20bilayer%20fusion | In membrane biology, fusion is the process by which two initially distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic cores, resulting in one interconnected structure. If this fusion proceeds completely through both leaflets of both bilayers, an aqueous bridge is formed and the internal contents of the two structures can m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroplasmy | Heteroplasmy is the presence of more than one type of organellar genome (mitochondrial DNA or plastid DNA) within a cell or individual. It is an important factor in considering the severity of mitochondrial diseases. Because most eukaryotic cells contain many hundreds of mitochondria with hundreds of copies of mitochon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra%20tile | Algebra tiles are mathematical manipulatives that allow students to better understand ways of algebraic thinking and the concepts of algebra. These tiles have proven to provide concrete models for elementary school, middle school, high school, and college-level introductory algebra students. They have also been used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20Clearing%20House | Packet Clearing House (PCH) is the international nonprofit organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system. The organization also works in the areas of cybersecurity coordination, regul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20modular%20redundancy | In computing, triple modular redundancy, sometimes called triple-mode redundancy, (TMR) is a fault-tolerant form of N-modular redundancy, in which three systems perform a process and that result is processed by a majority-voting system to produce a single output. If any one of the three systems fails, the other two sys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental%20symmetry |
In field theory
In physics, particularly in renormalization theory, an accidental symmetry is a symmetry which is present in an effective field theory because the operators in the Lagrangian that violate this symmetry are irrelevant operators. Since the contribution by irrelevant operators at low energies is small, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogMeIn%20Hamachi | LogMeIn Hamachi is a virtual private network (VPN) application developed and released in 2004 by Alex Pankratov. It is capable of establishing direct links between computers that are behind network address translation (NAT) firewalls without requiring reconfiguration (when the user's PC can be accessed directly without... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20Evolution%3A%20Facts%20and%20Theories | Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories was a five-day conference held in March 2009 by the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. The conference was sponsored by the Catholic Church. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%27s%20law | Davis's law is used in anatomy and physiology to describe how soft tissue models along imposed demands. It is similar to Wolff's law, which applies to osseous tissue. It is a physiological principle stating that soft tissue heal according to the manner in which they are mechanically stressed.
It is also an application... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size | Size in general is the magnitude or dimensions of a thing. More specifically, geometrical size (or spatial size) can refer to three geometrical measures: length, area, or volume. Length can be generalized to other linear dimensions (width, height, diameter, perimeter).
Size can also be measured in terms of mass, espec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20mixer | A DJ mixer is a type of audio mixing console used by disc jockeys (DJs) to control and manipulate multiple audio signals. Some DJs use the mixer to make seamless transitions from one song to another when they are playing records at a dance club. Hip hop DJs and turntablists use the DJ mixer to play record players like ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%3A%20The%20Hidden%20Language%20of%20Computer%20Hardware%20and%20Software | Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (1999) is a book by Charles Petzold that seeks to teach how personal computers work at a hardware and software level. In the preface to the 2000 softcover edition, Petzold wrote that his goal was for readers to understand how computers work at a concrete level... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheems | Balltze (, 9 January 2011 – 18 August 2023), nicknamed Cheems in online memes, was a famous Shiba Inu from Hong Kong. He was called Ball Ball by his owners.
Biography
Balltze was born on 9 January 2011. He was adopted at the age of one from an emigrating friend, by fashion designer Kathy from Kowloon. Kathy's brother ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania%20lunar%20sample%20displays | The Romania lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of Romania by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.
Description
Apollo 11
Apollo 17
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmer%20RMS%20detector | The Blackmer RMS detector is an electronic true RMS converter invented by David E. Blackmer in 1971. The Blackmer detector, coupled with the Blackmer gain cell, forms the core of the dbx noise reduction system and various professional audio signal processors developed by dbx, Inc.
Unlike earlier RMS detectors that tim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20communications | Cloud communications are Internet-based voice and data communications where telecommunications applications, switching and storage are hosted by a third-party outside of the organization using them, and they are accessed over the public Internet. Cloud services is a broad term, referring primarily to data-center-hosted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20P.%20League%2B%20mascots | The following is a list of mascots of the teams in P. League+ (PLG). New Taipei Kings and Taoyuan Pauian Pilots are teams currently without mascots. Hsinchu Lioneers is currently the only team with more than one mascot.
Current mascots
Former mascots
Notes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmURFP | Small ultra red fluorescent protein (smURFP) is a class of far-red fluorescent protein evolved from a cyanobacterial (Trichodesmium erythraeum) phycobiliprotein, α-allophycocyanin. Native α-allophycocyanin requires an exogenous protein, known as a lyase, to attach the chromophore, phycocyanobilin. Phycocyanobilin is no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20matrix%20inequality | In convex optimization, a linear matrix inequality (LMI) is an expression of the form
where
is a real vector,
are symmetric matrices ,
is a generalized inequality meaning is a positive semidefinite matrix belonging to the positive semidefinite cone in the subspace of symmetric matrices .
This linear matrix ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistron | Wistron Corporation () is an electronics manufacturer based in Taiwan. It was the manufacturing arm of Acer Inc. before being spun off in 2000. As an original design manufacturer, the company designs and manufactures products for other companies to sell under their brand name. Wistron products include notebook and de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20control%20system | A fuzzy control system is a control system based on fuzzy logic—a mathematical system that analyzes analog input values in terms of logical variables that take on continuous values between 0 and 1, in contrast to classical or digital logic, which operates on discrete values of either 1 or 0 (true or false, respectivel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Atlantic | The Tropical Atlantic realm is one of twelve marine realms that cover the world's coastal seas and continental shelves.
The Tropical Atlantic covers both sides of the Atlantic. In the western Atlantic, it extends from Bermuda, southern Florida, and the southern Gulf of Mexico through the Caribbean and along South Amer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological%20model | A hydrologic model is a simplification of a real-world system (e.g., surface water, soil water, wetland, groundwater, estuary) that aids in understanding, predicting, and managing water resources. Both the flow and quality of water are commonly studied using hydrologic models.
Analog models
Prior to the advent of co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-interactive%20zero-knowledge%20proof | Non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs are cryptographic primitives, where information between a prover and a verifier can be authenticated by the prover, without revealing any of the specific information beyond the validity of the statement itself. This function of encryption makes direct communication between the prov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaik%C5%8D%20ROV | was a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) built by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for exploration of the deep sea. Kaikō was the second of only five vessels ever to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, as of 2019. Between 1995 and 2003, this 10.6 ton unmanned submersible c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspensory%20ligament%20of%20ovary | The suspensory ligament of the ovary, also infundibulopelvic ligament (commonly abbreviated IP ligament or simply IP), is a fold of peritoneum that extends out from the ovary to the wall of the pelvis.
Some sources consider it a part of the broad ligament of uterus while other sources just consider it a "termination" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20and%20sleep | Music and sleep involves the listening of music in order to improve sleep quality or improve sleep onset insomnia in adults (for infant use of music and sleep, see lullaby). This process can be either self-prescribed or under the guidance of a music therapist. Music is easy to administer and has no reported side effect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20instrument | In physics, a quantum instrument is a mathematical abstraction of a quantum measurement, capturing both the classical and quantum outputs. It combines the concepts of measurement and quantum operation. It can be equivalently understood as a quantum channel that takes as input a quantum system and has as its output two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrepancy%20%28algebraic%20geometry%29 | In algebraic geometry, given a pair (X, D) consisting of a normal variety X and a -divisor D on X (e.g., canonical divisor), the discrepancy of the pair (X, D) measures the degree of the singularity of the pair.
See also
Canonical singularity
Crepant resolution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20Groth%20Strip | The Extended Groth Strip is an image of a small region between the constellations of Ursa Major and Boötes, based on the results of a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers an area 70 arcminutes across and 10 arcminutes wide, which correlates to a patch of sky roughly the width of a finger stre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anginal%20equivalent | An anginal equivalent is a symptom such as shortness of breath (dyspnea), diaphoresis (sweating), extreme fatigue, or pain at a site other than the chest, occurring in a patient at high cardiac risk. Anginal equivalents are considered to be symptoms of myocardial ischemia. Anginal equivalents are considered to have the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytosterol | Phytosterols are phytosteroids, similar to cholesterol, that serve as structural components of biological membranes of plants. They encompass plant sterols and stanols. More than 250 sterols and related compounds have been identified. Free phytosterols extracted from oils are insoluble in water, relatively insoluble in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemoine%27s%20conjecture | In number theory, Lemoine's conjecture, named after Émile Lemoine, also known as Levy's conjecture, after Hyman Levy, states that all odd integers greater than 5 can be represented as the sum of an odd prime number and an even semiprime.
History
The conjecture was posed by Émile Lemoine in 1895, but was erroneously at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sethares | William A. Sethares (born April 19, 1955) is an American music theorist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. In music, he has contributed to the theory of Dynamic Tonality and provided a formalization of consonance.
Consonance and dissonance
Among the earliest musical traditions, mus... |
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