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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20waste | Human waste (or human excreta) refers to the waste products of the human digestive system, menses, and human metabolism including urine and feces. As part of a sanitation system that is in place, human waste is collected, transported, treated and disposed of or reused by one method or another, depending on the type of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-PHAGES | SEA-PHAGES stands for Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science; it was formerly called the National Genomics Research Initiative. This was the first initiative launched by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Science Education Alliance (SEA) by their director Tuajuanda ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory-based%20coherence | Directory-based coherence is a mechanism to handle Cache coherence problem in Distributed shared memory (DSM) a.k.a. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA). Another popular way is to use a special type of computer bus between all the nodes as a "shared bus" (a.k.a. System bus). Directory-based coherence uses a special direct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20set%20theory%20topics | This page is a list of articles related to set theory.
Articles on individual set theory topics
Lists related to set theory
Glossary of set theory
List of large cardinal properties
List of properties of sets of reals
List of set identities and relations
Set theorists
Societies and organizations
Associati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematics%20history%20topics | This is a list of mathematics history topics, by Wikipedia page. See also list of mathematicians, timeline of mathematics, history of mathematics, list of publications in mathematics.
1729 (anecdote)
Adequality
Archimedes Palimpsest
Archimedes' use of infinitesimals
Arithmetization of analysis
Brachistochrone curve
Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing%20delay | In a network based on packet switching, processing delay is the time it takes routers to process the packet header. Processing delay is a key component in network delay.
During processing of a packet, routers may check for bit-level errors in the packet that occurred during transmission as well as determining where th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-covariance | In probability and statistics, given two stochastic processes and , the cross-covariance is a function that gives the covariance of one process with the other at pairs of time points. With the usual notation for the expectation operator, if the processes have the mean functions and , then the cross-covariance is giv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Celix | Apache Celix is an open-source implementation of the OSGi specification adapted to C and C++ developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The project aims to provide a framework to develop (dynamic) modular software applications using component and/or service-oriented programming.
Apache Celix is primarily developed i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning%20mobility%20particle%20sizer | A scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) is an analytical instrument that measures the size and number concentration of aerosol particles with diameters from 2.5 nm to 1000 nm. They employ a continuous, fast-scanning technique to provide high-resolution measurements.
Applications
The particles that are investigated c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20fluid | In physics, a perfect fluid or ideal fluid is a fluid that can be completely characterized by its rest frame mass density and isotropic pressure p. Real fluids are "sticky" and contain (and conduct) heat. Perfect fluids are idealized models in which these possibilities are neglected. Specifically, perfect fluids have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orban%20%28audio%20processing%29 | Orban is an international company making audio processors for radio, television and Internet broadcasters. It has been operating since founder Bob Orban sold his first product in 1967. The company was originally based in San Francisco, California.
History
The Orban company started in 1967 when Bob Orban built and sol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindgut%20fermentation | Hindgut fermentation is a digestive process seen in monogastric herbivores, animals with a simple, single-chambered stomach. Cellulose is digested with the aid of symbiotic bacteria. The microbial fermentation occurs in the digestive organs that follow the small intestine: the large intestine and cecum. Examples of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-bodied%20organism | Soft-bodied organisms are animals that lack skeletons. The group roughly corresponds to the group Vermes as proposed by Carl von Linné. All animals have muscles but, since muscles can only pull, never push, a number of animals have developed hard parts that the muscles can pull on, commonly called skeletons. Such skele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens%20Award | The Stevens Award is a software engineering lecture award given by the Reengineering Forum, an industry association. The international Stevens Award was created to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature or practice of methods for software and systems development. The first award was given in 1995. The pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography%20of%20encyclopedias%3A%20biology | This is a list of encyclopedias as well as encyclopedic and biographical dictionaries published on the subject of biology in any language.
Entries are in the English language unless specifically stated as otherwise.
General biology
Becher, Anne, Joseph Richey. American environmental leaders: From colonial times to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling | Supercooling, also known as undercooling, is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid below its freezing point without it becoming a solid. It is achieved in the absence of a seed crystal or nucleus around which a crystal structure can form. The supercooling of water can be achieved without any special techn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20in%20biology | Calcium ions (Ca2+) contribute to the physiology and biochemistry of organisms' cells. They play an important role in signal transduction pathways, where they act as a second messenger, in neurotransmitter release from neurons, in contraction of all muscle cell types, and in fertilization. Many enzymes require calcium... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20cycle%20analysis | Cell cycle analysis by DNA content measurement is a method that most frequently employs flow cytometry to distinguish cells in different phases of the cell cycle. Before analysis, the cells are usually permeabilised and treated with a fluorescent dye that stains DNA quantitatively, such as propidium iodide (PI) or 4,6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology%20%28biology%29 | Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
This includes aspects of the outward appearance (shape, structure, colour, pattern, size), i.e. external morphology (or eidonomy), as well as the form and structure of the internal pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve%20physics | Naïve physics or folk physics is the untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena. In the field of artificial intelligence the study of naïve physics is a part of the effort to formalize the common knowledge of human beings.
Many ideas of folk physics are simplifications, misunderstandings, or misperceptions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability | Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work. One definition for software systems specifies that this may be done by adding resources to the system.
In an economic context, a scalable business model implies that a company can increase sales given increased resources. For example, a pack... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20end%20node | A Secure End Node is a trusted, individual computer that temporarily becomes part of a trusted, sensitive, well-managed network and later connects to many other (un)trusted networks/clouds. SEN's cannot communicate good or evil data between the various networks (e.g. exfiltrate sensitive information, ingest malware, e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles | Physics (Greek: physis–φύσις meaning "nature") is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as mass, charge, matter and its motion and all that derives from these, such as energy, force and spacetime. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the world and uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Im%20schwarzen%20Walfisch%20zu%20Askalon | "Im schwarzen Walfisch zu Askalon" ("In the Black Whale of Ascalon") is a popular academic commercium song. It was known as a beer-drinking song in many German speaking ancient universities. Joseph Victor von Scheffel provided the lyrics under the title Altassyrisch (Old Assyrian) 1854, the melody is from 1783 or earli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacemaker%20failure | Pacemaker failure is the inability of an implanted artificial pacemaker to perform its intended function of regulating the beating of the heart. A pacemaker uses electrical impulses delivered by electrodes in order to contract the heart muscles. Failure of a pacemaker is defined by the requirement of repeat surgical pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharos%20network%20coordinates | Pharos is a hierarchical and decentralized network coordinate system. With the help of a simple two-level architecture, it achieves much better prediction accuracy then the representative Vivaldi coordinates, and it is incrementally deployable.
Overview
Network coordinate (NC) systems are an efficient mechanism for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%20stability%20criterion | In control theory and stability theory, the Nyquist stability criterion or Strecker–Nyquist stability criterion, independently discovered by the German electrical engineer at Siemens in 1930 and the Swedish-American electrical engineer Harry Nyquist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1932, is a graphical technique for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univariate%20%28statistics%29 | Univariate is a term commonly used in statistics to describe a type of data which consists of observations on only a single characteristic or attribute. A simple example of univariate data would be the salaries of workers in industry. Like all the other data, univariate data can be visualized using graphs, images or ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queuing%20delay | In telecommunication and computer engineering, the queuing delay or queueing delay is the time a job waits in a queue until it can be executed. It is a key component of network delay. In a switched network, queuing delay is the time between the completion of signaling by the call originator and the arrival of a ringing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20Check%20Architecture | In computing, Machine Check Architecture (MCA) is an Intel and AMD mechanism in which the CPU reports hardware errors to the operating system.
Intel's P6 and Pentium 4 family processors, AMD's K7 and K8 family processors, as well as the Itanium architecture implement a machine check architecture that provides a mechan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-employment%20theorem | In computer science and mathematics, a full employment theorem is a term used, often humorously, to refer to a theorem which states that no algorithm can optimally perform a particular task done by some class of professionals. The name arises because such a theorem ensures that there is endless scope to keep discoverin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrefaction | Putrefaction is the fifth stage of death, following pallor mortis, livor mortis, algor mortis, and rigor mortis. This process references the breaking down of a body of an animal post-mortem. In broad terms, it can be viewed as the decomposition of proteins, and the eventual breakdown of the cohesiveness between tissues... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged%20architecture | In computer science, a tagged architecture is a type of computer architecture where every word of memory constitutes a tagged union, being divided into a number of bits of data, and a tag section that describes the type of the data: how it is to be interpreted, and, if it is a reference, the type of the object that it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20non-equilibrium | Quantum non-equilibrium is a concept within stochastic formulations of the De Broglie–Bohm theory of quantum physics.
Overview
In quantum mechanics, the Born rule states that the probability density of finding a system in a given state, when measured, is proportional to the square of the amplitude of the system's wave... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted%20isometry%20property | In linear algebra, the restricted isometry property (RIP) characterizes matrices which are nearly orthonormal, at least when operating on sparse vectors. The concept was introduced by Emmanuel Candès and Terence Tao and is used to prove many theorems in the field of compressed sensing. There are no known large matrice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20super-resolution | Video super-resolution (VSR) is the process of generating high-resolution video frames from the given low-resolution video frames. Unlike single-image super-resolution (SISR), the main goal is not only to restore more fine details while saving coarse ones, but also to preserve motion consistency.
There are many approa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane%27s%20rule | Haldane's rule is an observation about the early stage of speciation, formulated in 1922 by the British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane, that states that if — in a species hybrid — only one sex is inviable or sterile, that sex is more likely to be the heterogametic sex. The heterogametic sex is the one with two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch%20dynamics | Patch dynamics is an ecological perspective that the structure, function, and dynamics of ecological systems can be understood through studying their interactive patches. Patch dynamics, as a term, may also refer to the spatiotemporal changes within and among patches that make up a landscape. Patch dynamics is ubiqui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%20tack | The up tack or falsum (⊥, \bot in LaTeX, U+22A5 in Unicode) is a constant symbol used to represent:
The truth value 'false', or a logical constant denoting a proposition in logic that is always false (often called "falsum" or "absurdum").
The bottom element in wheel theory and lattice theory, which also represents a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingredient-flavor%20network | In network science, ingredient-flavor networks are networks describing the sharing of flavor compounds of culinary ingredients. In the bipartite form, an ingredient-flavor network consist of two different types of nodes: the ingredients used in the recipes and the flavor compounds that contributes to the flavor of each... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology | Astrobiology is a scientific field within the life and environmental sciences that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe by investigating its deterministic conditions and contingent events. As a discipline, astrobiology is founded on the premise that life may exist beyon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasta%20filtering | RASTA-filtering and Mean Subtraction was introduced to support Perceptual Linear Prediction
(PLP) preprocessing. It uses bandpass filtering in the log spectral domain. Rasta filtering then removes slow channel variations. It has also been applied to cepstrum feature-based preprocessing with both log spectral and cepstr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCpfm%C3%BCller%27s%20uncertainty%20principle | Küpfmüller's uncertainty principle by Karl Küpfmüller in the year 1924 states that the relation of the rise time of a bandlimited signal to its bandwidth is a constant.
with either or
Proof
A bandlimited signal with fourier transform in frequency space is given by the multiplication of any signal with with a re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20Presentation%20Protocol | Lightweight Presentation Protocol (LPP) is a protocol used to provide ISO presentation services on top of TCP/IP based protocol stacks. It is defined in RFC 1085.
The Lightweight Presentation Protocol describes an approach for providing "streamlined" support of OSI model-conforming application services on top of TCP/IP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot%20planimeter | A dot planimeter is a device used in planimetrics for estimating the area of a shape, consisting of a transparent sheet containing a square grid of dots. To estimate the area of a shape, the sheet is overlaid on the shape and the dots within the shape are counted. The estimate of area is the number of dots counted mult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20space | In dynamical systems theory and control theory, a phase space or state space is a space in which all possible "states" of a dynamical system or a control system are represented, with each possible state corresponding to one unique point in the phase space. For mechanical systems, the phase space usually consists of all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20root%20of%207 | The square root of 7 is the positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the prime number 7. It is more precisely called the principal square root of 7, to distinguish it from the negative number with the same property. This number appears in various geometric and number-theoretic contexts. It can be den... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONA%20number | A MONA number (short for Moths of North America), or Hodges number after Ronald W. Hodges, is part of a numbering system for North American moths found north of Mexico in the Continental United States and Canada, as well as the island of Greenland. Introduced in 1983 by Hodges through the publication of Check List of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20oldest%20fathers | This is a list of persons reported to have become father of a child at or after 75 years of age. These claims have not necessarily been verified.
Medical considerations
According to a 1969 study, there is a decrease in sperm concentration as men age. The study reported that 90% of seminiferous tubules in men in their ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20architect | (In the automation and engineering environments, the hardware engineer or architect encompasses the electronics engineering and electrical engineering fields, with subspecialities in analog, digital, or electromechanical systems.)
The hardware systems architect or hardware architect is responsible for:
Interfacing wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20instruction%2C%20multiple%20threads | Single instruction, multiple threads (SIMT) is an execution model used in parallel computing where single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is combined with multithreading. It is different from SPMD in that all instructions in all "threads" are executed in lock-step. The SIMT execution model has been implemented on sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20synthesis%20of%20programs | Structural synthesis of programs (SSP) is a special form of (automatic) program synthesis that is based on propositional calculus. More precisely, it uses intuitionistic logic for describing the structure of a program in such a detail that the program can be automatically composed from pieces like subroutines or even c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20%28play%29 | Proof is a 2000 play by the American playwright David Auburn. Proof was developed at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays. The play premiered Off-Broadway in May 2000 and transferred to Broadway in October 2000. The play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Dra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematic%20operators | In mathematics, an operator or transform is a function from one space of functions to another. Operators occur commonly in engineering, physics and mathematics. Many are integral operators and differential operators.
In the following L is an operator
which takes a function to another function . Here, and are some ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxon%20in%20disguise | In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of a similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. That happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear so radically different from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-based%20robotics | Behavior-based robotics (BBR) or behavioral robotics is an approach in robotics that focuses on robots that are able to exhibit complex-appearing behaviors despite little internal variable state to model its immediate environment, mostly gradually correcting its actions via sensory-motor links.
Principles
Behavior-ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20interconnect | In integrated circuits, optical interconnects refers to any system of transmitting signals from one part of an integrated circuit to another using light. Optical interconnects have been the topic of study due to the high latency and power consumption incurred by conventional metal interconnects in transmitting electric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPL%20network | The NPL network, or NPL Data Communications Network, was a local area computer network operated by a team from the National Physical Laboratory in London that pioneered the concept of packet switching.
Based on designs first conceived by Donald Davies in 1965, development work began in 1968. Elements of the first vers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20signal%20processor | A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing. DSPs are fabricated on metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit chips. They are widely used in audio signal processing, telecommunications, digital ima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated%20Identity%20Body | Authenticated Identity Body or AIB is a method allowing parties in a network to share authenticated identity thereby increasing the integrity of their SIP communications. AIBs extend other authentication methods like S/MIME to provide a more specific mechanism to introduce integrity to SIP transmissions. Parties transm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20variational%20topics | This is a list of variational topics in from mathematics and physics. See calculus of variations for a general introduction.
Action (physics)
Averaged Lagrangian
Brachistochrone curve
Calculus of variations
Catenoid
Cycloid
Dirichlet principle
Euler–Lagrange equation cf. Action (physics)
Fermat's principle
Fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika%20oleoresin | Paprika oleoresin (also known as paprika extract and oleoresin paprika) is an oil-soluble extract from the fruits of Capsicum annuum or Capsicum frutescens, and is primarily used as a colouring and/or flavouring in food products. It is composed of vegetable oil (often in the range of 97% to 98%), capsaicin, the main fl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20logic%20array | A programmable logic array (PLA) is a kind of programmable logic device used to implement combinational logic circuits. The PLA has a set of programmable AND gate planes, which link to a set of programmable OR gate planes, which can then be conditionally complemented to produce an output. It has 2N AND gates for N inp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20wavelet | In mathematics, in functional analysis, several different wavelets are known by the name Poisson wavelet. In one context, the term "Poisson wavelet" is used to denote a family of wavelets labeled by the set of positive integers, the members of which are associated with the Poisson probability distribution. These wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe%20operating%20area | For power semiconductor devices (such as BJT, MOSFET, thyristor or IGBT), the safe operating area (SOA) is defined as the voltage and current conditions over which the device can be expected to operate without self-damage.
SOA is usually presented in transistor datasheets as a graph with VCE (collector-emitter voltage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven%20control%20system | Data-driven control systems are a broad family of control systems, in which the identification of the process model and/or the design of the controller are based entirely on experimental data collected from the plant.
In many control applications, trying to write a mathematical model of the plant is considered a hard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimilation%20%28biology%29 | ' is the process of absorption of vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food as part of the nutrition of an organism. In humans, this is always done with a chemical breakdown (enzymes and acids) and physical breakdown (oral mastication and stomach churning).chemical alteration of substances in the bloodstream b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz%20scalar | In a relativistic theory of physics, a Lorentz scalar is an expression, formed from items of the theory, which evaluates to a scalar, invariant under any Lorentz transformation. A Lorentz scalar may be generated from e.g., the scalar product of vectors, or from contracting tensors of the theory. While the components of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Arabic%20mathematical%20notation | Modern Arabic mathematical notation is a mathematical notation based on the Arabic script, used especially at pre-university levels of education. Its form is mostly derived from Western notation, but has some notable features that set it apart from its Western counterpart. The most remarkable of those features is the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20testing%20%28manufacturing%29 | In manufacturing, functional testing (FCT) is performed during the last phase of the production line. This is often referred to as a final quality control test, which is done to ensure that specifications are carried out by FCTs.
The process of FCTs is entailed by the emulation or simulation of the environment in whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%E2%80%93aluminium%20intermetallic | A gold–aluminium intermetallic is an intermetallic compound of gold and aluminium that occurs at contacts between the two metals.
These intermetallics have different properties from the individual metals, which can cause problems in wire bonding in microelectronics. The main compounds formed are Au5Al2 (white plague)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20notation | Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, since to do so would require writing out an inconveniently long string of digits. It may be referred to as scientific form or standard index form, or standard form in the United Kingdom. This b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping%20level | In integrated circuits, the stepping level or revision level is a version number that refers to the introduction or revision of one or more photolithographic photomasks within the set of photomasks that is used to pattern an integrated circuit. The term originated from the name of the equipment ("steppers") that expos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20rate%20test | The relative rate test is a genetic comparative test between two ingroups (somewhat closely related species) and an outgroup or “reference species” to compare mutation and evolutionary rates between the species. Each ingroup species is compared independently to the outgroup to determine how closely related the two spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost%20everywhere | In measure theory (a branch of mathematical analysis), a property holds almost everywhere if, in a technical sense, the set for which the property holds takes up nearly all possibilities. The notion of "almost everywhere" is a companion notion to the concept of measure zero, and is analogous to the notion of almost sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%E2%80%93Moser%20notation | In mathematics, Steinhaus–Moser notation is a notation for expressing certain large numbers. It is an extension (devised by Leo Moser) of Hugo Steinhaus's polygon notation.
Definitions
a number in a triangle means nn.
a number in a square is equivalent to "the number inside triangles, which are all nested."
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniPro | UniPro (or Unified Protocol) is a high-speed interface technology for interconnecting integrated circuits in mobile and mobile-influenced electronics. The various versions of the UniPro protocol are created within the MIPI Alliance (Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance), an organization that defines specificati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle%20chip | A jungle chip, or jungle IC, is an integrated circuit (IC or "chip") found in most analog televisions of the 1990s. It takes a composite video signal from the radio frequency receiver electronics and turns it into separate RGB outputs that can be sent to the cathode ray tube to produce a display. This task had previous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flotation%20of%20flexible%20objects | Flotation of flexible objects is a phenomenon in which the bending of a flexible material allows an object to displace a greater amount of fluid than if it were completely rigid. This ability to displace more fluid translates directly into an ability to support greater loads, giving the flexible structure an advantage ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy%20%28book%29 | Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences is a 1988 book by mathematician John Allen Paulos about innumeracy (deficiency of numeracy) as the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy: incompetence with numbers rather than words. Innumeracy is a problem with many otherwise educated and knowledgeable people. W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal%20Fibonacci%20constant | The reciprocal Fibonacci constant, or ψ, is defined as the sum of the reciprocals of the Fibonacci numbers:
The ratio of successive terms in this sum tends to the reciprocal of the golden ratio. Since this is less than 1, the ratio test shows that the sum converges.
The value of ψ is known to be approximately
.
Go... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20identities | This article lists mathematical identities, that is, identically true relations holding in mathematics.
Bézout's identity (despite its usual name, it is not, properly speaking, an identity)
Binomial inverse theorem
Binomial identity
Brahmagupta–Fibonacci two-square identity
Candido's identity
Cassini and Catalan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-based%20security | In computer science, language-based security (LBS) is a set of techniques that may be used to strengthen the security of applications on a high level by using the properties of programming languages.
LBS is considered to enforce computer security on an application-level, making it possible to prevent vulnerabilities wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuRiNet | The Quail Ridge Wireless Mesh Network project is an effort to provide a wireless communications infrastructure to the Quail Ridge Reserve, a wildlife reserve in California in the United States. The network is intended to benefit on-site ecological research and provide a wireless mesh network tested for development and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20%28logarithmic%20quantity%29 | In science and engineering, a power level and a field level (also called a root-power level) are logarithmic magnitudes of certain quantities referenced to a standard reference value of the same type.
A power level is a logarithmic quantity used to measure power, power density or sometimes energy, with commonly used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mesons | This list is of all known and predicted scalar, pseudoscalar and vector mesons. See list of particles for a more detailed list of particles found in particle physics.
This article contains a list of mesons, unstable subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. They are part of the hadron particle famil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20sinusoidal%20input%20describing%20function |
Definition
The higher-order sinusoidal input describing functions (HOSIDF) were first introduced by dr. ir. P.W.J.M. Nuij. The HOSIDFs are an extension of the sinusoidal input describing function which describe the response (gain and phase) of a system at harmonics of the base frequency of a sinusoidal input signal. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20industrial%20automation | This glossary of industrial automation is a list of definitions of terms and illustrations related specifically to the field of industrial automation. For a more general view on electric engineering, see Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering. For terms related to engineering in general, see Glossary of eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20common%20physics%20notations | This is a list of common physical constants and variables, and their notations. Note that bold text indicates that the quantity is a vector.
Latin characters
Greek characters
Other characters
See also
List of letters used in mathematics and science
Glossary of mathematical symbols
List of mathematical uses of La... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Certified%20Entry%20Networking%20Technician | The Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) certification was the first stage of Cisco's certification system. The certification was retired on 24 February 2020. The CCENT certification was an interim step to Associate level or directly with CCNA and CCDA certifications. While the CCENT covered basic networ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20imaging | Biological imaging may refer to any imaging technique used in biology.
Typical examples include:
Bioluminescence imaging, a technique for studying laboratory animals using luminescent protein
Calcium imaging, determining the calcium status of a tissue using fluorescent light
Diffuse optical imaging, using near-infra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feller%27s%20coin-tossing%20constants | Feller's coin-tossing constants are a set of numerical constants which describe asymptotic probabilities that in n independent tosses of a fair coin, no run of k consecutive heads (or, equally, tails) appears.
William Feller showed that if this probability is written as p(n,k) then
where αk is the smallest positive r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch%20production | Starch production is an isolation of starch from plant sources. It takes place in starch plants. Starch industry is a part of food processing which is using starch as a starting material for production of starch derivatives, hydrolysates, dextrins.
At first, the raw material for the preparation of the starch was wheat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20manifolds | This is a list of particular manifolds, by Wikipedia page. See also list of geometric topology topics. For categorical listings see :Category:Manifolds and its subcategories.
Generic families of manifolds
Euclidean space, Rn
n-sphere, Sn
n-torus, Tn
Real projective space, RPn
Complex projective space, CPn
Quate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20theorem | The transport theorem (or transport equation, rate of change transport theorem or basic kinematic equation) is a vector equation that relates the time derivative of a Euclidean vector as evaluated in a non-rotating coordinate system to its time derivative in a rotating reference frame. It has important applications in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20topos%20theory | In mathematics, The fundamental theorem of topos theory states that the slice of a topos over any one of its objects is itself a topos. Moreover, if there is a morphism in then there is a functor which preserves exponentials and the subobject classifier.
The pullback functor
For any morphism f in there is an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20browning | Browning is the process of food turning brown due to the chemical reactions that take place within. The process of browning is one of the chemical reactions that take place in food chemistry and represents an interesting research topic regarding health, nutrition, and food technology. Though there are many different wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20hierarchy | Cache hierarchy, or multi-level caches, refers to a memory architecture that uses a hierarchy of memory stores based on varying access speeds to cache data. Highly requested data is cached in high-speed access memory stores, allowing swifter access by central processing unit (CPU) cores.
Cache hierarchy is a form and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20control%20instruction | In computing, a cache control instruction is a hint embedded in the instruction stream of a processor intended to improve the performance of hardware caches, using foreknowledge of the memory access pattern supplied by the programmer or compiler. They may reduce cache pollution, reduce bandwidth requirement, bypass lat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine, sampling is gathering of matter from the body to aid in the process of a medical diagnosis and/or evaluation of an indication for treatment, further medical tests or other procedures. In this sense, the sample is the gathered matter, and the sampling tool or sampler is the person or material to collect the... |
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