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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted%20winner%20procedure | Adjusted Winner (AW) is a procedure for envy-free item allocation. Given two agents and some goods, it returns a partition of the goods between the two agents with the following properties:
Envy-freeness: Each agent believes that his share of the goods is at least as good as the other share;
Equitability: The "relat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20Triangle | It is a triangle contained within the Submandibular triangle. Its boundaries are the Hypoglossal Nerve, and the Anterior and Posterior belly of the Digastric muscle. This triangle was named after a German surgeon named Ladislaus Leon Lesser, who lived from 1846 to 1925 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic%20thrust | The pelvic thrust is the thrusting motion of the pelvic region, which is used for a variety of activities, such as dance, exercise, or sexual activity.
Sexual activity
The pelvic thrust is used during copulation by many species of mammals, including humans, or for other sexual activities (such as non-penetrative sex)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocard%20triangle | In geometry, the Brocard triangle of a triangle is a triangle formed by the intersection of lines from a vertex to its corresponding Brocard point and a line from another vertex to its corresponding Brocard point and the other two points constructed using different combinations of vertices and Brocard points. This tria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upland%20pasture | Upland pasture (rough grazing and/or semi-natural rough grazing) is a type of semi-natural grassland located in uplands of rolling foothills or upon higher slopes, greater than 350 meters (1148.29 feet) and less than 600 meters (1968.50 feet) from ground level, that is used primarily for grazing. Upland pastures occur ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Burago | Yuri Dmitrievich Burago (; born 1936) is a Russian mathematician. He works in differential and convex geometry.
Education and career
Burago studied at Leningrad University, where he obtained his Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees. His advisors were Victor Zalgaller and Aleksandr Aleksandrov.
Yuri is a creator (with hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%27s%20theorem | In Euclidean geometry, Ptolemy's theorem is a relation between the four sides and two diagonals of a cyclic quadrilateral (a quadrilateral whose vertices lie on a common circle). The theorem is named after the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus). Ptolemy used the theorem as an aid to creati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%20discovered%20using%20the%20WISE%20spacecraft | The following is a list of numbered minor planets discovered, co-discovered and re-discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a NASA infrared spaceborne observatory. As of July 2018, the list contains 4093 entries, accredited by the Minor Planet Center as discovered by "WISE". Notable discoveries inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk%20posture | The obelisk posture is a handstand-like position that some dragonflies and damselflies assume to prevent overheating on sunny days. The abdomen is raised until its tip points at the sun, minimizing the surface area exposed to solar radiation. When the sun is close to directly overhead, the vertical alignment of the i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20models%20are%20wrong | All models are wrong is a common aphorism and anapodoton in statistics; it is often expanded as "All models are wrong, but some are useful". The aphorism acknowledges that statistical models always fall short of the complexities of reality but can still be useful nonetheless. The aphorism originally referred just to st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell%20Lake%20%28video%20game%29 | Odell Lake is a 1986 educational life simulation game produced by MECC for the Apple II and Commodore 64. The player is a fish living in Odell Lake, a real-world lake in Oregon. It is based on a 1980 BASIC program of the same name. It was followed-up by Odell Down Under.
Gameplay
As a fish, the player could "go explo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20air%20solder%20leveling | HASL or HAL (for hot air (solder) leveling) is a type of finish used on printed circuit boards (PCBs).
The PCB is typically dipped into a bath of molten solder so that all exposed copper surfaces are covered by solder. Excess solder is removed by passing the PCB between hot air knives.
HASL can be applied with or wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-1 | Indo-1 is a popular calcium indicator similar to Fura-2. In contrast to Fura-2, Indo-1 has a dual emissions peak. The main emission peak in calcium-free solution is 475 nm while in the presence of calcium the emission is shifted to 400 nm. It is widely used in flow cytometry.
The penta potassium salt is commercially a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin%20canal | Resin canals or resin ducts are elongated, tube-shaped intercellular spaces surrounded by epithelial cells which secrete resin into the canal. These canals are orientated longitudinally and radially in between fusiform rays. They are usually found in late wood: denser wood grown later in the season. Resin is antiseptic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony%20Compiler | Harmony Compiler was written by Peter Samson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The compiler was designed to encode music for the PDP-1 and built on an earlier program Samson wrote for the TX-0 computer.
Jack Dennis noticed and had mentioned to Samson that the sound on or off state of the TX-0's speak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%A9on%20Denis%20Poisson | Baron Siméon Denis Poisson FRS FRSE (; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Moreover... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20of%20Interactive%20Arts%20%26%20Sciences | The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of video game industry professionals. It organizes the annual Design Innovate Communicate Entertain summit, better known as D.I.C.E., which includes the presentations of the D.I.C.E. Awards.
History
Andrew S. Zucker, an attorney in the ent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Archive | The Internet Archive is an American digital library founded on May 10, 1996, and chaired by free information advocate Brewster Kahle. It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellar%20phase | Lamellar phase refers generally to packing of polar-headed long chain nonpolar-tail molecules in an environment of bulk polar liquid, as sheets of bilayers separated by bulk liquid. In biophysics, polar lipids (mostly, phospholipids, and rarely, glycolipids) pack as a liquid crystalline bilayer, with hydrophobic fatty ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebeloma%20insigne | Hebeloma insigne is a species of mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. Along with other species of its genus, it is poisonous and can result in severe gastrointestinal upset. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue%20logic | In electronics, glue logic is the custom logic circuitry used to interface a number of off-the-shelf integrated circuits. This is often achieved using common, inexpensive 7400- or 4000-series components. In more complex cases, a programmable logic device like a CPLD or FPGA might be used. The falling price of programma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean%20transformation | In physics, a Galilean transformation is used to transform between the coordinates of two reference frames which differ only by constant relative motion within the constructs of Newtonian physics. These transformations together with spatial rotations and translations in space and time form the inhomogeneous Galilean gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%20theory | Landau theory in physics is a theory that Lev Landau introduced in an attempt to formulate a general theory of continuous (i.e., second-order) phase transitions. It can also be adapted to systems under externally-applied fields, and used as a quantitative model for discontinuous (i.e., first-order) transitions. Althoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20complete | In mathematics, specifically in order theory and functional analysis, a subset of an ordered vector space is said to be order complete in if for every non-empty subset of that is order bounded in (meaning contained in an interval, which is a set of the form for some ), the supremum ' and the infimum both exist a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflect.ca | Deflect is a DDoS mitigation and website security service by eQualitie, a Canadian social enterprise developing open and reusable systems with a focus on privacy, resilience and self-determination, to protect and promote human rights and press freedom online.
History
Deflect was founded by digital security expert an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19%20lab%20leak%20theory | The COVID-19 lab leak theory, or lab leak hypothesis, is the idea that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, came from a laboratory. The claim is highly controversial; most scientists believe the virus spilled into human populations through natural zoonosis (transfer directly from an infected non-hum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20bodies | Russell bodies are inclusion bodies usually found in atypical plasma cells that become known as Mott cells. Russell bodies are eosinophilic, homogeneous immunoglobulin (Ig)-containing inclusions usually found in cells undergoing excessive synthesis of Ig; the Russell body is characteristic of the distended endoplasmic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess%20prodigy | A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious talent will often enable them to defeat experienced adult players and even titled chess masters. Some chess prodigies have progressed to become World Chess Champions.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-categorical%20theory | In mathematical logic, an omega-categorical theory is a theory that has exactly one countably infinite model up to isomorphism. Omega-categoricity is the special case κ = = ω of κ-categoricity, and omega-categorical theories are also referred to as ω-categorical. The notion is most important for countable first-orde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 6° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 6th meridian west forms a great circle with the 174th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo%20decedo | , Latin for "therefore I leave" or "then I go off", a truncation of argumentum ergo decedo, and colloquially denominated the traitorous critic fallacy, denotes responding to the criticism of a critic by implying that the critic is motivated by undisclosed favorability or affiliation to an out-group, rather than respond... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending%20limb%20of%20loop%20of%20Henle | Within the nephron of the kidney, the ascending limb of the loop of Henle is a segment of the heterogenous loop of Henle downstream of the descending limb, after the sharp bend of the loop. This part of the renal tubule is divided into a thin and thick ascending limb; the thick portion is also known as the distal strai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornhuetter%E2%80%93Ferguson%20method | The Bornhuetter–Ferguson method is a loss reserving technique in insurance.
Background
The Bornhuetter–Ferguson method was introduced in the 1972 paper "The Actuary and IBNR", co-authored by Ron Bornhuetter and Ron Ferguson.
Like other loss reserving techniques, the Bornhuetter–Ferguson method aims to estimate incurr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustatory%20nucleus | The gustatory nucleus is the rostral part of the solitary nucleus located in the medulla. The gustatory nucleus is associated with the sense of taste and has two sections, the rostral and lateral regions. A close association between the gustatory nucleus and visceral information exists for this function in the gustator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leber%27s%20hereditary%20optic%20neuropathy | Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrially inherited (transmitted from mother to offspring) degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and their axons that leads to an acute or subacute loss of central vision; it predominantly affects young adult males. LHON is transmitted only through the moth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion | An ion () is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge. The charge of an electron is considered to be negative by convention and this charge is equal and opposite to the charge of a proton, which is considered to be positive by convention. The net charge of an ion is not zero because its total number of electron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sovereign%20states%20by%20number%20of%20Internet%20hosts | This is the list of countries by number of Internet hosts, based on 2012 figures from the CIA World Factbook. Several dependent territories, not fully recognized states, and non-state territories are also listed. The European Union host (.eu) is mostly composed of French, Polish and German hosts.
List
(*) The U.S. fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine%20triphosphate | Thiamine triphosphate (ThTP) is a biomolecule found in most organisms including bacteria, fungi, plants and animals. Chemically, it is the triphosphate derivative of the vitamin thiamine.
Function
It has been proposed that ThTP has a specific role in nerve excitability, but this has never been confirmed and recent re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeewanu | Jeewanu (Sanskrit for "particles of life") are synthetic chemical particles that possess cell-like structure and seem to have some functional properties; that is, they are a model of primitive cells, or protocells. It was first synthesised by Krishna Bahadur (20 January 1926 — 5 August 1994), an Indian chemist and his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20diagram | An information diagram is a type of Venn diagram used in information theory to illustrate relationships among Shannon's basic measures of information: entropy, joint entropy, conditional entropy and mutual information. Information diagrams are a useful pedagogical tool for teaching and learning about these basic measu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus%20breathalyzer | A coronavirus breathalyzer is a diagnostic medical device enabling the user to test with 90% or greater accuracy the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in an exhaled breath.
As of the first half of 2020, the idea of a practical coronavirus breathalyzer was concomitantly developed by unrelated r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s%20key | The programmer's key, or interrupt button, is a button or switch on Classic Mac OS-era Macintosh systems, which jumps to a machine code monitor. The symbol on the button is ⎉: . On most 68000 family based Macintosh computers, an interrupt request can also be sent by holding down the command key and pressing the power k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gingivitis | Gingivitis is a non-destructive disease that causes inflammation of the gums. The most common form of gingivitis, and the most common form of periodontal disease overall, is in response to bacterial biofilms (also called plaque) that is attached to tooth surfaces, termed plaque-induced gingivitis. Most forms of gingivi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REPROM | Reprogrammable memory (abbreviated as REPROM or RePROM) is type of ROM, more precisely, a type of PROM electronic memory. Re refers to reprogrammable ROM memory.
There are two types of RePROM electronic memories:
EPROM
E²PROM or EEPROM
See also
Read-mostly memory (RMM)
Non-volatile memory
Computer memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent%20scheduling | Talent scheduling is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research, and it is also a problem in combinatorial optimization. Suppose we need to make films, and each film contains several scenes. Each scene needs to be shot by one or more actors. And suppose you can only shoot one scene a day. The s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomedian | In statistics, the pseudomedian is a measure of centrality for data-sets and populations. It agrees with the median for symmetric data-sets or populations. In mathematical statistics, the pseudomedian is also a location parameter for probability distributions.
Description
The pseudomedian of a distribution is define... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Sloane |
Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the creator and maintainer of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
Biogr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-making%20models | Decision-making as a team is a scientific process when that decision will affect a policy affecting an entity. Decision-making models are used as a method and process to fulfill the following objectives:
Every team member is clear about how a decision will be made
The roles and responsibilities for the decision maki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20data%20model | A common data model (CDM) can refer to any standardised data model which allows for data and information exchange between different applications and data sources. Common data models aim to standardise logical infrastructure so that related applications can "operate on and share the same data", and can be seen as a way ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20velocity | The signal velocity is the speed at which a wave carries information. It describes how quickly a message can be communicated (using any particular method) between two separated parties. No signal velocity can exceed the speed of a light pulse in a vacuum (by Special Relativity).
Signal velocity is usually equal to gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Thirring | Walter Eduard Thirring (29 April 1927 – 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. He was the son of the physicist Hans Thirring.
Life and career
Walter Thirring was born in Vienna, Austria, where he earned his Doctor of Physics degree in 1949 at the age... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-model%20database | In the field of database design, a multi-model database is a database management system designed to support multiple data models against a single, integrated backend. In contrast, most database management systems are organized around a single data model that determines how data can be organized, stored, and manipulated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato%20paradox | The potato paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result. The Universal Book of Mathematics states the problem as such:
Then reveals the answer:
In Quine's classification of paradoxes, the potato paradox is a veridical paradox.
If the potatoes are 99% water, the dry mass is 1%. This me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories%3A%20On%20the%20Beauty%20of%20Physics | Categories: On the Beauty of Physics is a non-fiction science and art book edited, co-written, and published by American author Hilary Thayer Hamann in 2006. The book was conceived as a multidisciplinary educational tool that uses art and literature to broaden the reader's understanding of challenging material. Alan Li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink%20test | Sink test is a form of medical laboratory diagnostics healthcare fraud whereby clinical specimens are discarded, via a sink drain, and fabricated results are reported, without the clinical specimen actually being tested.
In the United States, the prevalence of sink test laboratories in the 1980s led in part to regulat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20585b | Zinc finger protein 585B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF585B gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%E2%80%93Clebsch%20condition |
In the calculus of variations the Legendre–Clebsch condition is a second-order condition which a solution of the Euler–Lagrange equation must satisfy in order to be a minimum.
For the problem of minimizing
the condition is
Generalized Legendre–Clebsch
In optimal control, the situation is more complicated because o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20locality | In physics, the principle of locality states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings. A theory that includes the principle of locality is said to be a "local theory". This is an alternative to the concept of instantaneous, or "non-local" action at a distance. Locality evolved out of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibroejaculation | Vibroejaculation (or penile vibratory stimulation) is a means of inducing ejaculation through vibration. It is used for semen collection, and in humans, the management of anejaculation.
One method of penile vibratory stimulation is the use of specialised devices that are placed around the glans penis to stimulate it b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody%20microarray | An antibody microarray (also known as antibody array) is a specific form of protein microarray. In this technology, a collection of captured antibodies are spotted and fixed on a solid surface such as glass, plastic, membrane, or silicon chip, and the interaction between the antibody and its target antigen is detected.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey%20of%20Health%2C%20Ageing%20and%20Retirement%20in%20Europe | The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks. In seven survey waves to date, SHARE has conducted approximately 380,000 interviews with about 140,000 individuals aged 5... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer | A carputer, or car-puter, is a computer with specializations to run in a car, such as compact size, low power requirement, and some customized components. The computing hardware is typically based on standard PCs or mobile devices. They normally have standard interfaces such as Bluetooth, USB, and WiFi. The first carpu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YGL%20motif | The YGL motif (or the amino acids in sequence of Tyrosine-Glycine-Leucine) is an integrin-binding motif present in several viral glycoproteins including Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) 1, EHV-4, and in rotavirus VP4. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20algorithm | A galactic algorithm is one that outperforms other algorithms for problems that are sufficiently large, but where "sufficiently large" is so big that the algorithm is never used in practice. Galactic algorithms were so named by Richard Lipton and Ken Regan, because they will never be used on any data sets on Earth.
P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20enumeration | Algebraic enumeration is a subfield of enumeration that deals with finding exact formulas for the number of combinatorial objects of a given type, rather than estimating this number asymptotically. Methods of finding these formulas include generating functions and the solution of recurrence relations. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustovirus | Faustovirus is a genus of giant virus which infects amoebae associated with humans. The virus was first isolated in 2015 and shown to be around 0.2 micrometers in diameter with a double stranded DNA genome of 466 kilobases predicted to encode 451 proteins. Although classified as a nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (NCL... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footprinting | Footprinting (also known as reconnaissance) is the technique used for gathering information about computer systems and the entities they belong to. To get this information, a hacker might use various tools and technologies. This information is very useful to a hacker who is trying to crack a whole system.
When used in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Emeagwali | Philip Emeagwali (born 23 August 1954) is a computer scientist originally from Nigeria. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for price-performance in high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and implementation. He is known for making controver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACSL1 | Long-chain-fatty-acid—CoA ligase 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ACSL1 gene.
Structure
Gene
The ACSL1 gene is located on the 4th chromosome, with its specific location being 4q35.1. The gene contains 28 exons.
The protein encoded by this gene is an isozyme of the long-chain fatty-aci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege%20%28computing%29 | In computing, privilege is defined as the delegation of authority to perform security-relevant functions on a computer system. A privilege allows a user to perform an action with security consequences. Examples of various privileges include the ability to create a new user, install software, or change kernel functions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95-quadratic%20form | In mathematics, specifically the theory of quadratic forms, an ε-quadratic form is a generalization of quadratic forms to skew-symmetric settings and to *-rings; , accordingly for symmetric or skew-symmetric. They are also called -quadratic forms, particularly in the context of surgery theory.
There is the related not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%20Puckette | Miller Smith Puckette (born 1959) is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994.
Puckette is known for authoring Max, a graphical development environment for music and multimedia syn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%20barrier | The Coulomb barrier, named after Coulomb's law, which is in turn named after physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, is the energy barrier due to electrostatic interaction that two nuclei need to overcome so they can get close enough to undergo a nuclear reaction.
Potential energy barrier
This energy barrier is given ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20audio | Balanced audio is a method of interconnecting audio equipment using balanced interfaces. This type of connection is very important in sound recording and production because it allows the use of long cables while reducing susceptibility to external noise caused by electromagnetic interference. The balanced interface gu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POPLmark%20challenge | In programming language theory, the POPLmark challenge (from "Principles of Programming Languages benchmark", formerly Mechanized Metatheory for the Masses!) (Aydemir, 2005) is a set of benchmarks designed to evaluate the state of automated reasoning (or mechanization) in the metatheory of programming languages, and to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer%20bonding | Wafer bonding is a packaging technology on wafer-level for the fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), microelectronics and optoelectronics, ensuring a mechanically stable and hermetically sealed encapsulation. The wafers' diameter range from 100 mm to 200 mm (4 inch ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven%20development | Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process relying on software requirements being converted to test cases before software is fully developed, and tracking all software development by repeatedly testing the software against all test cases. This is as opposed to software being developed first and tes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonetics%20Recomp%20II | The Autonetics RECOMP II was a computer first introduced in 1958. It was made by the Autonetics division of North American Aviation.
It was attached to a desk that housed the input/output devices. Its desk integration made it a hands-on small system intended for the scientific and engineering computing market. The co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth%20wallpaper | For computer network security, stealth wallpaper is a material designed to prevent an indoor Wi-Fi network from extending or "leaking" to the outside of a building, where malicious persons may attempt to eavesdrop or attack a network. While it is simple to prevent all electronic signals from passing through a building... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi%20Goto | was a Japanese computer scientist, the builder of one of the first general-purpose computers in Japan.
Biography
Goto was born on January 26, 1931, in Shibuya, Tokyo. After attending Seikei High School he went to Tokyo University, where he graduated in 1953. He continued his graduate studies at Tokyo in physics under ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3af | w3af (Web Application Attack and Audit Framework) is an open-source web application security scanner. The project provides a vulnerability scanner and exploitation tool for Web applications. It provides information about security vulnerabilities for use in penetration testing engagements. The scanner offers a graphical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20of%20Clebsch%E2%80%93Gordan%20coefficients | This is a table of Clebsch–Gordan coefficients used for adding angular momentum values in quantum mechanics. The overall sign of the coefficients for each set of constant , , is arbitrary to some degree and has been fixed according to the Condon–Shortley and Wigner sign convention as discussed by Baird and Biedenharn.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the jet is an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the truncated Taylor polynomial of f, at each point of its domain. Although this is the definition of a jet, the theory of jets regards these polynomials as being abstract polynomials rather than polynomial functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20group | In mathematics, a character group is the group of representations of a group by complex-valued functions. These functions can be thought of as one-dimensional matrix representations and so are special cases of the group characters that arise in the related context of character theory. Whenever a group is represented b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicsek%20model | The Vicsek model is a mathematical model used to describe active matter. One motivation of the study of active matter by physicists is the rich phenomenology associated to this field. Collective motion and swarming are among the most studied phenomena. Within the huge number of models that have been developed to catch ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz | In musical tuning and harmony, the (German for 'tone network') is a conceptual lattice diagram representing tonal space first described by Leonhard Euler in 1739. Various visual representations of the Tonnetz can be used to show traditional harmonic relationships in European classical music.
History through 1900
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20nonsatiation | In microeconomics, the property of local nonsatiation (LNS) of consumer preferences states that for any bundle of goods there is always another bundle of goods arbitrarily close that is strictly preferred to it.
Formally, if X is the consumption set, then for any and every , there exists a such that and is strictl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybirds | Skybirds was a brand name for a series of 1:72 scale wood and metal aircraft model kits produced during the 1930s and 1940s, manufactured by the A. J. Holladay & Co.
Some of the Skybird-branded products were die-cast scale model cars, aircraft, military vehicles, figurines, among others.
History
These kits were des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLTSS | The Network Livermore Timesharing System (NLTSS, also sometimes the New Livermore Time Sharing System) is an operating system that was actively developed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) from 1979 until about 1988, though it continued to run production applications until 199... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT | MiNT (MiNT is Now TOS) is a free software alternative operating system kernel for the Atari ST series. It is a multi-tasking alternative to TOS and MagiC. Together with the free system components fVDI device drivers, XaAES graphical user interface widgets, and TeraDesk file manager, MiNT provides a free TOS compatible ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resprouter | Resprouters are plant species that are able to survive fire by the activation of dormant vegetative buds to produce regrowth.
Plants may resprout from a bud bank that can be located in different places, including in the trunk or major branches (epicormic shoots) or in belowground structures like lignotubers, bulbs, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otway%E2%80%93Rees%20protocol | The Otway–Rees protocol is a computer network authentication protocol designed for use on insecure networks (e.g. the Internet). It allows individuals communicating over such a network to prove their identity to each other while also preventing eavesdropping or replay attacks and allowing for the detection of modificat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padstool%20%28signage%29 | Bicycle mushroom (Dutch: ) is a form of rural wayfinding signage for cyclists, in use in the Netherlands. They are named for their toadstool-like shape; "paddenstoel" first came into use as a nickname around 1921.
Use
Padstools are considered complementary to conventional signs on tall poles. In built-up areas, pole ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20message%20journaling | Electronic message journaling is the process of retaining information relating to electronic messages. In this context, electronic messages are defined as any type of electronic communication data structure. Historically this was an electronic mail, but it may also include instant messages, audio messages (such as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20clustering | Consensus clustering is a method of aggregating (potentially conflicting) results from multiple clustering algorithms. Also called cluster ensembles or aggregation of clustering (or partitions), it refers to the situation in which a number of different (input) clusterings have been obtained for a particular dataset and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary%20currency | A complementary currency is a currency or medium of exchange that is not necessarily a national currency, but that is thought of as supplementing or complementing national currencies. Complementary currencies are usually not legal tender and their use is based on agreement between the parties exchanging the currency.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20mottos | This article lists state and national mottos for the world's nations. The mottos for some states lacking general international recognition, extinct states, non-sovereign nations, regions, and territories are listed, but their names are not bolded.
A state motto is used to describe the intent or motivation of the state... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdridge%20life%20zones%20in%20Guatemala | There are 14 Holdridge life zones in Guatemala: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Sagnac | Georges Sagnac (; 14 October 1869 – 26 February 1928) was a French physicist who lent his name to the Sagnac effect, a phenomenon which is at the basis of interferometers and ring laser gyroscopes developed since the 1970s.
Life and work
Sagnac was born at Périgueux and entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1889. W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordLocker | NordLocker is a file encryption software integrated with end-to-end encrypted cloud storage. It is available on Windows and macOS. NordLocker is developed by Nord Security, a company behind the NordVPN virtual private network, and is based in the UK and the Netherlands.
NordLocker uses a freemium business model, where... |
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