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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Paterson | Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086. This system emulated the application programming interface (API) of CP/M, which was created by Gary Kildall. 86-DOS later formed the basis of MS-DOS, the most widely used personal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackey%20topology | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, the Mackey topology, named after George Mackey, is the finest topology for a topological vector space which still preserves the continuous dual. In other words the Mackey topology does not make linear functions continuous which were discontinuous in the default t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermogenic%20plant | Thermogenic plants have the ability to raise their temperature above that of the surrounding air. Heat is generated in the mitochondria, as a secondary process of cellular respiration called thermogenesis. Alternative oxidase and uncoupling proteins similar to those found in mammals enable the process, which is still p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knotted%20protein | Knotted proteins are proteins whose backbones entangle themselves in a knot. One can imagine pulling a protein chain from both termini, as though pulling a string from both ends. When a knotted protein is “pulled” from both termini, it does not get disentangled. Knotted proteins are very rare, making up only about one ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20general%20equilibrium | In mathematical economics, applied general equilibrium (AGE) models were pioneered by Herbert Scarf at Yale University in 1967, in two papers, and a follow-up book with Terje Hansen in 1973, with the aim of empirically estimating the Arrow–Debreu model of general equilibrium theory with empirical data, to provide "“a g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneSweep | GeneSweep or Gene Sweepstake was a sweepstake and scientific wager for scientists to bet on the total number of genes in the human genome. The sweepstake was started at a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory conference in 2000. Initially, bets could be placed for $1, which was raised to $5 in 2001 and to $20 in 2002. The cost... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncation | In mathematics and computer science, truncation is limiting the number of digits right of the decimal point.
Truncation and floor function
Truncation of positive real numbers can be done using the floor function. Given a number to be truncated and , the number of elements to be kept behind the decimal point, the tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCGR1A | High affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc receptor I is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FCGR1A gene.
Interactions
The FcgRI binds the Fc portion of IgG and causes activation of the host cell via an intercellular ITAM motif. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Key%20Exchange | In computing, Internet Key Exchange (IKE, versioned as IKEv1 and IKEv2) is the protocol used to set up a security association (SA) in the IPsec protocol suite. IKE builds upon the Oakley protocol and ISAKMP. IKE uses X.509 certificates for authentication ‒ either pre-shared or distributed using DNS (preferably with DNS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse%20representation%20theory | In formal linguistics, discourse representation theory (DRT) is a framework for exploring meaning under a formal semantics approach. One of the main differences between DRT-style approaches and traditional Montagovian approaches is that DRT includes a level of abstract mental representations (discourse representation s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20of%20chaos | In lab experiments that study chaos theory, approaches designed to control chaos are based on certain observed system behaviors. Any chaotic attractor contains an infinite number of unstable, periodic orbits. Chaotic dynamics, then, consists of a motion where the system state moves in the neighborhood of one of these o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Rushby | John Rushby (born 1949) is a British computer scientist now based in the United States and working for SRI International. He previously taught and did research for Manchester University and later Newcastle University.
Early life and education
John Rushby was born and brought up in London, where he attended Dartford Gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschsprachige%20Mykologische%20Gesellschaft | Deutschsprachige Mykologische Gesellschaft (DMykG) e.V. (German-Speaking Mycological Society) has been acknowledged as a non-profit organisation. The society was founded in 1961 as a platform for all scientists of the German-speaking area who are interested in mycology either from a medical or veterinary standpoint, i.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squared%20triangular%20number | In number theory, the sum of the first cubes is the square of the th triangular number. That is,
The same equation may be written more compactly using the mathematical notation for summation:
This identity is sometimes called Nicomachus's theorem, after Nicomachus of Gerasa (c. 60 – c. 120 CE).
History
Nicomachus, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologenomics | Hologenomics is the omics study of hologenomes. A hologenome is the whole set of genomes of a holobiont, an organism together with all co-habitating microbes, other life forms, and viruses. While the term hologenome originated from the hologenome theory of evolution, which postulates that natural selection occurs on th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somos%27%20quadratic%20recurrence%20constant | In mathematics, Somos' quadratic recurrence constant, named after Michael Somos, is the number
This can be easily re-written into the far more quickly converging product representation
which can then be compactly represented in infinite product form by:
The constant σ arises when studying the asymptotic behaviour o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20call%20recording%20laws | Telephone call recording laws are legislation enacted in many jurisdictions, such as countries, states, provinces, that regulate the practice of telephone call recording. Call recording or monitoring is permitted or restricted with various levels of privacy protection, law enforcement requirements, anti-fraud measures,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrizyme | Hybrizyme is a term coined to indicate novel or normally rare gene variants (or alleles) that are associated with hybrid zones, geographic areas where two related taxa (e.g. species or subspecies) meet, mate, and produce hybrid offspring. The hybrizyme phenomenon is widespread and these alleles occur commonly, if not i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial%20theorem | In mathematics, the multinomial theorem describes how to expand a power of a sum in terms of powers of the terms in that sum. It is the generalization of the binomial theorem from binomials to multinomials.
Theorem
For any positive integer and any non-negative integer , the multinomial formula describes how a sum wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendecagon | In geometry, a hendecagon (also undecagon or endecagon) or 11-gon is an eleven-sided polygon. (The name hendecagon, from Greek hendeka "eleven" and –gon "corner", is often preferred to the hybrid undecagon, whose first part is formed from Latin undecim "eleven".)
Regular hendecagon
A regular hendecagon is represented... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Becker%20KG | Kurt Becker KG was a German manufacturer of die-cast miniature cars. The factory was located in Berlin, Germany.
History
Little is known about the history of the Kurt Becker KG, other than that it was founded by the German entrepreneur Kurt Becker from Berlin, presumably shortly after World War II. As far as known K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugger | A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" program). The main use of a debugger is to run the target program under controlled conditions that permit the programmer to track its execution and monitor changes in computer resources that may indicate malfunctionin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snarl | A snarl is a sound, often a growl or vicious utterance, often accompanied by a facial expression, where the upper lip is raised, and the nostrils widen, generally indicating hate, anger or pain. In addition to humans, other mammals including monkeys, rabbits and dogs snarl, often to warn others of their potential bite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Continuous%20Plankton%20Recorder%20Survey | The Australian Continuous Plankton Recorder (AusCPR) survey is a joint project of the CSIRO and the Australian Antarctic Division, DEWHA, to monitor plankton communities as a guide to the health of Australia's oceans.
Plankton respond rapidly to changes in the ocean environment compared to other marine animals such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroreception%20and%20electrogenesis | Electroreception and electrogenesis are the closely related biological abilities to perceive electrical stimuli and to generate electric fields. Both are used to locate prey; stronger electric discharges are used in a few groups of fishes (most famously the electric eel, which is not actually an eel but a knifefish) to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sklyanin%20algebra | In mathematics, specifically the field of algebra, Sklyanin algebras are a class of noncommutative algebra named after Evgeny Sklyanin. This class of algebras was first studied in the classification of Artin-Schelter regular algebras of global dimension 3 in the 1980s. Sklyanin algebras can be grouped into two differen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azoxystrobin | Azoxystrobin is a broad spectrum systemic fungicide widely used in agriculture to protect crops from fungal diseases. It was first marketed in 1996 using the brand name Amistar and by 1999 it had been registered in 48 countries on more than 50 crops. In the year 2000 it was announced that it had been granted UK Millenn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry%20flag | In computer processors the carry flag (usually indicated as the C flag) is a single bit in a system status register/flag register used to indicate when an arithmetic carry or borrow has been generated out of the most significant arithmetic logic unit (ALU) bit position. The carry flag enables numbers larger than a sing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwell%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Broadwell is the fifth generation of the Intel Core processor. It is Intel's codename for the 14 nanometer die shrink of its Haswell microarchitecture. It is a "tick" in Intel's tick–tock principle as the next step in semiconductor fabrication. Like some of the previous tick-tock iterations, Broadwell did not completel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterned%20media | Patterned media (also known as bit-patterned media or BPM) is a potential future hard disk drive technology to record data in magnetic islands (one bit per island), as opposed to current hard disk drive technology where each bit is stored in within a continuous magnetic film. The islands would be patterned from a prec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20genetic%20hybrids | This is a list of genetic hybrids which is limited to well documented cases of animals of differing species able to create hybrid offspring which may or may not be infertile.
Hybrids should not be confused with genetic chimeras, such as that between sheep and goat known as the geep. Wider interspecific hybrids can be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20thrust%20averaging | In fluid dynamics, stream thrust averaging is a process used to convert three-dimensional flow through a duct into one-dimensional uniform flow. It makes the assumptions that the flow is mixed adiabatically and without friction. However, due to the mixing process, there is a net increase in the entropy of the system.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20imprinting | Metabolic imprinting refers to the long-term physiological and metabolic effects that an offspring's prenatal and postnatal environments have on them. Perinatal nutrition has been identified as a significant factor in determining an offspring's likelihood of it being predisposed to developing cardiovascular disease, ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20%28computability%29 | In computability theory, a Turing degree [X] is low if the Turing jump [X′] is 0′. A set is low if it has low degree. Since every set is computable from its jump, any low set is computable in 0′, but the jump of sets computable in 0′ can bound any degree recursively enumerable in 0′ (Schoenfield Jump Inversion). X bei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20tower | In personal computing, a tower is a form factor of desktop computer case whose height is much greater than its width, thus having the appearance of an upstanding tower block, as opposed to a traditional "pizza box" computer case whose width is greater than its height and appears lying flat.
Compared to a pizza box cas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMesh | JMesh is a JSON-based portable and extensible file format for the storage and interchange of unstructured geometric data, including discretized geometries such as triangular and tetrahedral meshes, parametric geometries such as NURBS curves and surfaces, and constructive geometries such as constructive solid geometry (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic%20Research%20Group | The Ideographic Research Group (IRG), formerly called the Ideographic Rapporteur Group, is a subgroup of the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee, responsible for developing aspects of The Unicode Standard pertaining to CJK unified ideographs.The IRG is composed of representatives from the Unicode Consortium, as well as e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics%20%26%20Chromatin | Epigenetics & Chromatin is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by BioMed Central that covers the biology of epigenetics and chromatin.
Scope
Epigenetics & Chromatin is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes research related to epigenetic inheritance and chromatin-based inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900%20English%20beer%20poisoning | In 1900, more than 6,000 people in England were poisoned by arsenic-tainted beer, with more than 70 of the affected dying as a result. The food safety crisis was caused by arsenic entering the supply chain through impure sugar which had been made with contaminated sulphuric acid. The illness was prevalent across the Mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa%20M.%20Reineke | Theresa M. Reineke (born January 1, 1972) is an American chemist and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. She designs sustainable, environmentally friendly polymer-based delivery systems for targeted therapeutics. She is the associate editor of ACS Macro Letters.
Early life and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxo | Paxo is a brand of stuffing in the United Kingdom, currently owned by Premier Foods.
Paxo was devised in 1901 by John Crampton, a butcher from Eccles near Manchester, who wanted to have something extra to sell to his customers shopping for their Sunday lunch menus.
In the beginning sales growth of Paxo was slow beca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Velicer | Wayne Velicer (March 4, 1944 – October 15, 2017) was an American psychologist known for his research in quantitative and health psychology. He taught at the University of Rhode Island from 1973 until his death in 2017. He worked with James O. Prochaska to help to found the University of Rhode Island's Cancer Prevention... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joubert%27s%20theorem | In polynomial algebra and field theory, Joubert's theorem states that if and are fields, is a separable field extension of of degree 6, and the characteristic of is not equal to 2, then is generated over by some element λ in , such that the minimal polynomial of λ has the form = , for some constants in . The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunt%20trauma | Blunt trauma, also known as blunt force trauma or non-penetrating trauma, describes a physical trauma due to a forceful impact without penetration of the body's surface. Blunt trauma stands in contrast with penetrating trauma, which occurs when an object pierces the skin, enters body tissue, and creates an open wound. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20Stress%20Index | The Weather Stress Index, or WSI, is a relative measure of the weather conditions, often used as a comfort indicator. The index, a number between 0 and 100, represents the percentage of time in the past with temperatures below the current temperature, for a given location, day and time. This makes the index a local mea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anja%20Feldmann | Anja Feldmann (born 8 March 1966 in Bielefeld) is a German computer scientist.
Education and career
Feldmann studied computer science at Universität Paderborn and received her degree in 1990.
She continued her studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned her M.Sc. in 1991 and her Ph.D. in 1995.
Following ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20information%20modeling | Building information modeling (BIM) is a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of the physical and functional characteristics of places. BIM is supported by various tools, technologies and contracts. Building information models (BIMs) are computer files (often but not always in pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20bean%20paste | Black bean paste, commonly called dòushā () or hēidòushā (), is a sweet bean paste often used as a filling in cakes such as mooncakes or doushabao in many Chinese and Taiwanese cuisines.
Black bean paste is made from pulverized mung beans, combined with potassium chlorate, ferrous sulfate heptahydrate () crystal (whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20in%20animals | Sleep in animals refers to a behavioral and physiological state characterized by altered consciousness, reduced responsiveness to external stimuli, and homeostatic regulation observed in various animals. Sleep has been observed in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and some fish, and, in some form, in insects and ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnTourage%20eDGe | The enTourage eDGe is a dual-panel personal device, combining a tablet computer on one screen and an e-book reader on the other. Since 2011 it has been developed by Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
The device runs Google's Android OS. At present Foxconn is engaged in mass manufacturing of the enTourage eDGe v2.5. Production v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20tile | Wang tiles (or Wang dominoes), first proposed by mathematician, logician, and philosopher Hao Wang in 1961, are a class of formal systems. They are modelled visually by square tiles with a color on each side. A set of such tiles is selected, and copies of the tiles are arranged side by side with matching colors, withou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20transponder%20codes | The following list shows specific aeronautical transponder codes, and ranges of codes, that have been used for specific purposes in various countries. Traditionally each country has allocated transponder codes by their own scheme with little commonality across borders. The list is retained for historic interest.
Pilot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20Scramble%20System | The Content Scramble System (CSS) is a digital rights management (DRM) and encryption system employed on many commercially produced DVD-Video discs. CSS utilizes a proprietary 40-bit stream cipher algorithm. The system was introduced around 1996 and was first compromised in 1999.
CSS is one of several complementary sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Freeman%20%28game%20designer%29 | Jon Freeman is a game designer and co-founder of software developer Automated Simulations, which was later renamed to Epyx and became a major company during the 8-bit era of home computing. He is married to game programmer Anne Westfall, and they work together as Free Fall Associates. Free Fall is best known for Archon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder%20Dash%20%28video%20game%29 | Boulder Dash is a 2D maze-puzzle video game released in 1984 by First Star Software for Atari 8-bit computers. It was created by Canadian developers Peter Liepa and Chris Gray. The player controls Rockford, who collects treasures while evading hazards.
Boulder Dash was ported to many 8-bit and 16-bit systems and turne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas%20Alaoglu | Leonidas (Leon) Alaoglu (; March 19, 1914 – August 1981) was a mathematician, known for his result, called Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach–Alaoglu theorem.
Life and work
Alaoglu was born in Red Deer, Alberta to Greek paren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson%27s%20theorem | In operator theory, Atkinson's theorem (named for Frederick Valentine Atkinson) gives a characterization of Fredholm operators.
The theorem
Let H be a Hilbert space and L(H) the set of bounded operators on H. The following is the classical definition of a Fredholm operator: an operator T ∈ L(H) is said to be a Fredho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnett | Ordnett is a Norwegian online dictionary service, published and maintained by Kunnskapsforlaget, a privately held publishing house. Ordnett offers access to 50 dictionaries, covering 11 languages. This makes it the largest, commercially available dictionary database in Norway. Thirteen of the dictionaries are either on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proboscis%20%28anomaly%29 | In teratology, a proboscis is a blind-ended, tube-like structure, commonly located in the middle of the face. It is commonly seen in severe forms of holoprosencephaly that include cyclopia and is usually the result of abnormal development of the nose.
Types
Proboscis formation is classified in four general types: hol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicius%20%282nd%20century%20AD%29 | According to the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus, Apicius is the name of a cook who found a way of packing fresh oysters to send to the emperor Trajan while he was on campaign in Mesopotamia around 115 AD. The information comes by way of the Epitome or summary of the Deipnosophists, since the full text of this part of Ath... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pignistic%20probability | In decision theory, a pignistic probability is a probability that a rational person will assign to an option when required to make a decision.
A person may have, at one level certain beliefs or a lack of knowledge, or uncertainty, about the options and their actual likelihoods. However, when it is necessary to make a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAFOS%20float | RAFOS floats are submersible devices used to map ocean currents well below the surface. They drift with these deep currents and listen for acoustic "pongs" emitted at designated times from multiple moored sound sources. By analyzing the time required for each pong to reach a float, researchers can pinpoint its positi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towed%20array%20sonar | A towed array sonar is a system of hydrophones towed behind a submarine or a surface ship on a cable. Trailing the hydrophones behind the vessel, on a cable that can be kilometers long, keeps the array's sensors away from the ship's own noise sources, greatly improving its signal-to-noise ratio, and hence the effective... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20and%20God | Connections between mathematics and God include the use of mathematics in arguments about the existence of God and about whether belief in God is beneficial.
Mathematical arguments for God's existence
In the 1070s, Anselm of Canterbury, an Italian medieval philosopher and theologian, created an ontological argument wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20circuit | A neural circuit (also known as a biological neural network BNNs) is a population of neurons interconnected by synapses to carry out a specific function when activated. Multiple neural circuits interconnect with one another to form large scale brain networks.
Neural circuits have inspired the design of artificial neur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20q-Hermite%20polynomials | In mathematics, the discrete q-Hermite polynomials are two closely related families hn(x;q) and ĥn(x;q) of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme, introduced by . give a detailed list of their properties. hn(x;q) is also called discrete q-Hermite I polynomials and ĥn(x;q) is also called... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioche%27s%20rules | Bioche's rules, formulated by the French mathematician (1859–1949), are rules to aid in the computation of certain indefinite integrals in which the integrand contains sines and cosines.
In the following, is a rational expression in and . In order to calculate , consider the integrand . We consider the behavior of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCMN-LD | WCMN-LD (channel 13) is a low-power television station licensed to both St. Cloud and Sartell, Minnesota, United States, which primarily broadcasts religious programming. Owned by StarCom, LLC, the station maintains a transmitter on Julep Road (off State Highway 23) in Waite Park, Minnesota.
History
Channel 13 began a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana%20sutras | The (Sanskrit: बौधायन) are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily ritual, mathematics and is one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE. They belong to the Taittiriya branch of the Krishna Yajurveda school and are among the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood%20Medical%20and%20Academic%20Area | The Longwood Medical and Academic Area (also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or simply Longwood) is a medical campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Flanking Longwood Avenue, LMA is adjacent to the Fenway–Kenmore, Audubon Circle, and Mission Hill neighborhoods, as well as the town of Brookline.
It is most strongly asso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20abortivum | Entoloma abortivum, commonly known as the aborted entoloma or shrimp of the woods, is an edible mushroom in the Entolomataceae family of fungi. Caution should be used in identifying the species before eating (similar species such as Entoloma sinuatum being poisonous). First named Clitopilus abortivus by Miles Joseph Be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncinate%20process%20of%20pancreas | The uncinate process is a small part of the pancreas. The uncinate process is the formed prolongation of the angle of junction of the lower and left lateral borders in the head of the pancreas. The word "uncinate" comes from the Latin "uncinatus", meaning "hooked".
Structure
Development
The pancreas arises as two sep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20N.%20Clelland | Jeanne A. Nielsen Clelland (born 1970) is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and its applications to differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the author of a textbook on moving frames, From Frenet to Cartan: The Method of Moving Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20drug%20resistance | Multiple drug resistance (MDR), multidrug resistance or multiresistance is antimicrobial resistance shown by a species of microorganism to at least one antimicrobial drug in three or more antimicrobial categories. Antimicrobial categories are classifications of antimicrobial agents based on their mode of action and spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovecot%20%28software%29 | Dovecot is an open-source IMAP and POP3 server for Unix-like operating systems, written primarily with security in mind. Timo Sirainen originated Dovecot and first released it in July 2002. Dovecot developers primarily aim to produce a lightweight, fast and easy-to-set-up open-source email server.
The primary purpose ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20copulation | In cryptography, Russian copulation is a method of rearranging plaintext before encryption so as to conceal stereotyped headers, salutations, introductions, endings, signatures, etc. This obscures clues for a cryptanalyst, and can be used to increase cryptanalytic difficulty in naive cryptographic schemes (however, mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-temperature%20polycrystalline%20silicon | Low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) is polycrystalline silicon that has been synthesized at relatively low temperatures (~650 °C and lower) compared to in traditional methods (above 900 °C). LTPS is important for display industries, since the use of large glass panels prohibits exposure to deformative high t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20handover | Vertical handover or vertical handoff refers to a network node changing the type of connectivity it uses to access a supporting infrastructure, usually to support node mobility. For example, a suitably equipped laptop might be able to use both high-speed wireless LAN and cellular technology for Internet access. Wireles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20dispatch | In software engineering, double dispatch is a special form of multiple dispatch, and a mechanism that dispatches a function call to different concrete functions depending on the runtime types of two objects involved in the call. In most object-oriented systems, the concrete function that is called from a function call ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20comparator | A digital comparator or magnitude comparator is a hardware electronic device that takes two numbers as input in binary form and determines whether one number is greater than, less than or equal to the other number. Comparators are used in central processing units (CPUs) and microcontrollers (MCUs). Examples of digital... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune%20heart%20disease | Autoimmune heart diseases are the effects of the body's own immune defense system mistaking cardiac antigens as foreign and attacking them leading to inflammation of the heart as a whole, or in parts. The commonest form of autoimmune heart disease is rheumatic heart disease or rheumatic fever.
Cause
Aetiologically, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronucleus | A pronucleus (: pronuclei) denotes the nucleus found in either a sperm or egg cell during the process of fertilization. The sperm cell undergoes a transformation into a pronucleus after entering the egg cell but prior to the fusion of the genetic material of both the sperm and egg. In contrast, the egg cell possesses a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musqu%C3%A9 | Musqué is a French term applied to certain varieties or clones of grapes used for making wine. The term means both perfumed ("musky") and Muscat-like, and indicates that the variety or clone is highly aromatic. The term musqué is usually suffixed to the name of certain grape varieties to indicate a clone with musqué pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20DVR%20software%20packages | This is a comparison of digital video recorder (DVR), also known as personal video recorder (PVR), software packages. Note: this is may be considered a comparison of DVB software, not all listed packages have recording capabilities.
General information
Basic general information for popular DVR software packages - not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypsinization | Trypsinization is the process of cell dissociation using trypsin, a proteolytic enzyme which breaks down proteins, to dissociate adherent cells from the vessel in which they are being cultured. When added to cell culture, trypsin breaks down the proteins that enable the cells to adhere to the vessel. Trypsinization is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclin%20D/Cdk4 | The Cyclin D/Cdk4 complex is a multi-protein structure consisting of the proteins Cyclin D and cyclin-dependent kinase 4, or Cdk4, a serine-threonine kinase. This complex is one of many cyclin/cyclin-dependent kinase complexes that are the "hearts of the cell-cycle control system" and govern the cell cycle and its pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveStation | Livestation was a platform for distributing live television and radio broadcasts over a data network. It was originally developed by Skinkers Ltd. and is now an independent company called Livestation Ltd. The service was originally based on peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research. Between mid-June 2013... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkinsida | Perkinsida is an order of alveolates in the phylum Perkinsozoa. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balking%20pattern | The balking pattern is a software design pattern that only executes an action on an object when the object is in a particular state. For example, if an object reads ZIP files and a calling method invokes a get method on the object when the ZIP file is not open, the object would "balk" at the request. In the Java progr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrelled%20space | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a barrelled space (also written barreled space) is a topological vector space (TVS) for which every barrelled set in the space is a neighbourhood for the zero vector.
A barrelled set or a barrel in a topological vector space is a set that is convex, balanced, ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2%20%28operating%20system%29 | A2 (formerly named Active Object System (AOS), and then Bluebottle) is a modular, object-oriented operating system with unconventional features including automatic garbage-collected memory management, and a zooming user interface. It was developed originally at ETH Zurich in 2002. It is free and open-source software un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smut%20%28fungus%29 | The smuts are multicellular fungi characterized by their large numbers of teliospores. The smuts get their name from a Germanic word for dirt because of their dark, thick-walled, and dust-like teliospores. They are mostly Ustilaginomycetes (phylum Basidiomycota) and comprise seven of the 15 orders of the subphylum. Mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergelyan%27s%20theorem | Mergelyan's theorem is a result from approximation by polynomials in complex analysis proved by the Armenian mathematician Sergei Mergelyan in 1951.
Statement
Let K be a compact subset of the complex plane C such that C∖K is connected. Then, every continuous function f : K C, such that the restriction f to int(K) is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Rudie | Karen Gail Rudie (born 1963) is a Canadian control theorist and electrical engineer known for her work on the decentralized control of discrete event dynamic systems. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering in Queen's University at Kingston.
Education and career
Rudie majored in mathematics and engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Davis%20%28programmer%29 | Paul Davis (formerly known as Paul Barton-Davis) is a British-American software developer best known for his work on audio software (JACK) for the Linux operating system, and for his role as one of the first two programmers at Amazon.com.
Davis grew up in the English Midlands and in London. After studying molecular bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MStar | MStar Semiconductor, Inc. () was a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company specializing in mixed-mode integrated circuit technologies, based in Hsinchu Hsien. MStar made hardware for multimedia and wireless communications, in the form of display ICs and mixed-mode (i.e. combining analog and digital functions) ASIC/IPs,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needham%E2%80%93Schroeder%20protocol | The Needham–Schroeder protocol is one of the two key transport protocols intended for use over an insecure network, both proposed by Roger Needham and Michael Schroeder. These are:
The Needham–Schroeder Symmetric Key Protocol, based on a symmetric encryption algorithm. It forms the basis for the Kerberos protocol. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%20for%20Aging%20Research | The Alliance for Aging Research is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes medical research to improve the human experience of aging. Founded in 1986 by Daniel Perry, the Alliance also advocates and implements health education for consumers and health professionals.
The Alliance is governed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Lamb%20Cullen | Alexander Lamb Cullen, (30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013) was a British electrical engineer.
Career and research
Cullen served as the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London where he held the Pender Chair, from 1967 to 1980. In 1988 he published his book Modern Radio ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameleon%20%28protein%29 | Cameleon is an engineered protein based on variant of green fluorescent protein used to visualize calcium levels in living cells. It is a genetically encoded calcium sensor created by Roger Y. Tsien and coworkers. The name is a conflation of CaM (the common abbreviation of calmodulin) and chameleon to indicate the fact... |
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