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Linguistic relativity
Whorf’s argument about Hopi speakers’ conceptualization about time is an example of the structure-centered approach to research into linguistic relativity, which Lucy identified as one of three main strands of research in the field. The "structure-centered" approach starts with a language's structural peculiarity and e...
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Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor
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Association for Psychological Science
Awards and honors William James Fellow Award: Honors APS members for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology. Recipients must be APS members recognized internationally for their outstanding contributions to scientific psychology. James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award: ...
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Correlation (projective geometry)
In two dimensions In the real projective plane, points and lines are dual to each other. As expressed by Coxeter, A correlation is a point-to-line and a line-to-point transformation that preserves the relation of incidence in accordance with the principle of duality. Thus it transforms ranges into pencils, pencils into...
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Simplified molecular-input line-entry system
Note that % appears in front of the index of ring closure labels above 9; see above. Other examples of SMILES The SMILES notation is described extensively in the SMILES theory manual provided by Daylight Chemical Information Systems and a number of illustrative examples are presented. Daylight's depict utility provide...
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Functional programming
Some research-oriented functional languages such as Coq, Agda, Cayenne, and Epigram are based on intuitionistic type theory, which lets types depend on terms. Such types are called dependent types. These type systems do not have decidable type inference and are difficult to understand and program with. But dependent ty...
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Renewable energy in Australia
Oceanlinx is trialling a wave energy system at Port Kembla. Carnegie Corp of Western Australia is refining a method of using energy captured from passing waves, CETO to generate high-pressure sea water. This is piped onshore to drive a turbine and to create desalinated water. A series of large buoys is tethered to pist...
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Computational sociology
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, social scientists used increasingly available computing technology to perform macro-simulations of control and feedback processes in organizations, industries, cities, and global populations. These models used differential equations to predict population distributions as holistic func...
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Traditional ecological knowledge
Differences from science Fulvio Mazzocchi of the Italian National Research Council's Institute of Atmospheric Pollution contrasts traditional knowledge from scientific knowledge as follows: Aspects of traditional ecological knowledge The aspects of traditional ecological knowledge provide different typologies in how i...
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C (programming language)
The C language also exhibits the following characteristics: The language has a small, fixed number of keywords, including a full set of control flow primitives: if/else, for, do/while, while, and switch. User-defined names are not distinguished from keywords by any kind of sigil. It has a large number of arithmetic, ...
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Communicative ecology
While an ecological study aims to be holistic, an appropriate frame for the study must be decided upon at the outset. The scope of communicative ecology research settings is generally restricted to a bounded geographical space. It has been proposed that the communicative ecology framework is suited to studies at the le...
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Environmental impact of wind power
The Peñascal Wind Power Project in Texas is located in the middle of a major bird migration route, and the wind farm uses avian radar originally developed for NASA and the United States Air Force to detect birds as far as away. If the system determines that the birds are in danger of running into the rotating blades, ...
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Movable cellular automaton
The εij parameter is used as a measure of deformation of automaton i under its interaction with automaton j. Where qij – is a distance from the center of automaton i to its contact point with automaton j; Ri = di/2 (di – is the size of automaton i). As an example the titanium specimen under cyclic loading (tension – c...
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M4 (computer language)
Example The following fragment gives a simple example that could form part of a library for generating HTML code. It defines a commented macro to number sections automatically: divert(-1) m4 has multiple output queues that can be manipulated with the `divert' macro. Valid queues range from 0 to 10, inclusive, with the ...
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Energy Exchange Austria
teem - Training for Energy and Environmental Markets Besides its function as a marketplace for spot electricity, EXAA also supports regional initiatives related to electricity markets and provides a training program - teem, for electric utilities and different stakeholders from the energy industry. The Training for Ene...
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Molecular orbital diagram
Diboron The MO diagram for diboron (B-B, electron configuration 1σg21σu22σg22σu21πu2) requires the introduction of an atomic orbital overlap model for p orbitals. The three dumbbell-shaped p-orbitals have equal energy and are oriented mutually perpendicularly (or orthogonally). The p-orbitals oriented in the z-directio...
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List of MeSH codes (H01)
The following is a list of "H" codes for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), as defined by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). This list continues the information at List of MeSH codes (G14). Codes following these are found at List of MeSH codes (I01). For other MeSH codes, see List of MeSH codes. The so...
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D (programming language)
Other functional features such as currying and common higher-order functions such as map, filter, and reduce are available through the standard library modules std.functional and std.algorithm. import std.stdio, std.algorithm, std.range; void main() { int[] a1 = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]; int[] a2 = [6, 7,...
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Loop optimization
The unimodular transformation approach uses a single unimodular matrix to describe the combined result of a sequence of many of the above transformations. Central to this approach is the view of the set of all executions of a statement within n loops as a set of integer points in an n-dimensional space, with the points...
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Turku Centre for Computer Science
The research in TUCS is focused on TUCS Research Programmes. Currently the research programmes are: Combinatorics, Complex Systems and Computability (Com3) - director Prof. Jarkko Kari From Computational Biology and Medical Informatics to Health and Wellbeing (BioHealth) - directors Prof. Tapio Salakoski and Prof. Ion...
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Orthomolecular medicine
Scope According to Abram Hoffer, orthomolecular medicine does not purport to treat all diseases, nor is it "a replacement for standard treatment. A proportion of patients will require orthodox treatment, a proportion will do much better on orthomolecular treatment, and the rest will need a skillful blend of both." Neve...
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Race and genetics
Criticism of race-based medicines Troy Duster points out that genetics is often not the predominant determinant of disease susceptibilities, even though they might correlate with specific socially defined categories. This is because this research oftentimes lacks control for a multiplicity of socio-economic factors. H...
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Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm
The running time of this algorithm when run on a polyline consisting of segments and vertices is given by the recurrence where is the value of index in the pseudocode. In the worst case, or at each recursive invocation and this algorithm has a running time of . In the best case or at each recursive invocatio...
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Javelin Software
Javelin encourages viewing data and algorithms in various self-documenting ways, including simultaneous multiple synchronized views. For example, users can move through the connections between variables on a diagram while seeing the logical roots and branches of each variable. This is an example of what is perhaps it...
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List of country calling codes
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Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference
Each year I/ITSEC hosts a series of special events that reflect emerging topics in the modeling, simulation, and training domain. Special events are devised by the committee members who organize the conference, and special event participants receive invitations versus completing the peer-reviewed paper/tutorial submiss...
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Cell (microprocessor)
As first reported by Wired on October 17, 2007, an interesting application of using PlayStation 3 in a cluster configuration was implemented by Astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna, from the Physics department of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, who replaced time used on supercomputers with a cluster of eight PlayStation...
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Encoded Archival Description
Citing EAD There have been some studies about how to cite EAD files with variable granularity. In particular, Buneman and Silvello proposed a rule-based system to automatically create citation snippets to be used as references when citing XML data; a case study is based on EAD. Furthermore, Silvello proposed a framewor...
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China Economic Databases
3. China Economic Books Database The China Economic Books Database (CEBD) main purpose is to form a comprehensive listing of all books on the topic of China’s economy. The CEBD includes titles from all over the world including both English and Chinese (traditional and simplified) titles. Subjects of the books in the CE...
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Java Class Library
JCL Features are accessed through classes provided in packages. contains fundamental classes and interfaces closely tied to the language and runtime system. I/O and networking access the platform file system, and more generally networks through the , and packages. For networking, SCTP is available through . Mathe...
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Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema
The NETPAC Award is given at select international film festivals to promote Asian cinema by spotlighting exceptional films and discovering new talents. Among filmmakers who have won this award multiple times are Sri Lanka's Prasanna Vithanage (7 times); China's Wang Xiaoshuai (thrice) and Hao Jie (thrice); the Philippi...
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MIT Chemistry Department
Moungi Bawendi Stephen L. Buchwald Jianshu Cao Sylvia Ceyer Arup K. Chakraborty Christopher C. Cummins, Ph.D. 1993 Rick L. Danheiser John M. Deutch, S.B. 1961, Ph.D. 1966 Mircea Dincă Catherine L. Drennan John M. Essigmann, S.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1976 Robert W. Field Frederick D. Greene Robert G. Griffin Mei Ho...
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Ornithological Society of New Zealand
Aims The aims of the OSNZ are to: encourage, organise and promote the study of birds and their habitat use, particularly within the New Zealand region. foster and support the wider knowledge and enjoyment of birds generally. promote the recording and wide circulation of the results of bird studies and observations. ...
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Predicate functor logic
From first-order logic to PFL The following algorithm is adapted from Quine (1976: 300-2). Given a closed formula of first-order logic, first do the following: Attach a numerical subscript to every predicate letter, stating its degree; Translate all universal quantifiers into existential quantifiers and negation; Re...
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Fluorous chemistry
Through the use of high affinity of fluorous tags (ponytails) for fluorous phases or fluorous-derivatized solid phases allows for near complete recovery of the tagged reagent (i.e., near complete reduction in a chemical waste stream), making the use of fluorous chemistry techniques a popular topic in green chemistry. P...
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Struve function
Asymptotic forms For small , the power series expansion is given above. For large , one obtains: where is the Neumann function. Properties The Struve functions satisfy the following recurrence relations: Relation to other functions Struve functions of integer order can be expressed in terms of Weber functions and vic...
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George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science
Computer Science (B.S.) Technical Tracks: Computer Security and Information Assurance – for students interested in the design and implementation of secure computing infrastructures. Artificial Intelligence (AI) – for students interested in artificial intelligence and its applications. Computational Mathematics and Scie...
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Construct (python library)
First, the Ethernet header (layer 2): ethernet = Struct("ethernet_header", Bytes("destination", 6), Bytes("source", 6), Enum(UBInt16("type"), IPv4=0x0800, ARP=0x0806, RARP=0x8035, X25=0x0805, IPX=0x8137, IPv6=0x86DD, ), ) Next, the IP header (layer 3): ...
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Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections
This book contains nine chapters: Da Yan type (Indeterminate equations); Heaven phenomena Area of land and field Surveying Taxation Storage of grains Building construction Military matters Price and interest. Each chapter contains nine problems, a total of 81 problems. Apart from describing Chinese Remainder Theorem fo...
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Cristiano Marcello
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List of interactive geometry software
GCLC is a dynamic geometry tool for visualizing and teaching geometry, and for producing mathematical illustrations. In GCLC, figures are described rather than drawn. This approach stresses the fact that geometrical constructions are abstract, formal procedures and not figures. A concrete figure can be generated on the...
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List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association
The name of a new mineral is kept confidential by the IMA until it is approved or until its full description is published, its authors' option (approved decision: 'IMA2009-D'). The IMA uses a code for its own procedures for the supposed new mineral (and so it is a synonym). Ferri-ottoliniite's proposal was assigned cod...
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Computerized physician order entry
Implementation CPOE systems can take years to install and configure. Despite ample evidence of the potential to reduce medication errors, adoption of this technology by doctors and hospitals in the United States has been slowed by resistance to changes in physician's practice patterns, costs and training time involved,...
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Dominator (graph theory)
Applications Dominators, and dominance frontiers particularly, have applications in compilers for computing static single assignment form. A number of compiler optimizations can also benefit from dominators. The flow graph in this case comprises basic blocks. Automatic parallelization benefits from postdominance front...
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Paleontological Research Institution
Research Research has been one of the core functions of the institution since its founding in 1932. Much of the current research done at PRI focuses on fossils and Recent mollusks of the Western hemisphere, in addition to Devonian marine invertebrates and Pleistocene mastodons of New York State. Ongoing projects at PRI...
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MathSciNet
In addition, reviews or bibliographical information on selected articles is included from many engineering, computer science and other applied journals abstracted by MathSciNet. The selection is done by the editors of Mathematical Reviews. The editors accept suggestions to cover additional journals, but do not reconsid...
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National Center for Engineering and Technology Education
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Mainframe computer
In 2007, an amalgamation of the different technologies and architectures for supercomputers and mainframes has led to a so-called gameframe. See also Channel I/O Cloud computing Computer types Failover Gameframe List of transistorized computers Commodity computing Notes References External links IBM Systems Main...
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Computational fluid dynamics
where is the equation residual at an element vertex , is the conservation equation expressed on an element basis, is the weight factor, and is the volume of the element. Finite difference method The finite difference method (FDM) has historical importance and is simple to program. It is currently only used in few ...
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P-code machine
var p, b, t: integer; {program-, base-, topstack-registers} i: instruction; {instruction register} s: array [1..stacksize] of integer; {datastore} function base(l: integer): integer; var b1: integer; begin b1 := b; {find base l levels down} while l > 0 do begin b1 := s[b1]; l := l ...
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Scheme (programming language)
In R5RS, a suggested implementation of delay and force is given, implementing the promise as a procedure with no arguments (a thunk) and using memoization to ensure that it is only ever evaluated once, irrespective of the number of times force is called (R5RS sec. 6.4). SRFI 41 enables the expression of both finite and...
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United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Jurisdiction In accordance of Rule XXV of the United States Senate, all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects is referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Coal production, distribution, and utilization; Energy policy; Energy...
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Zero-point energy
One may query what this has to do with zero-point energy. Given the complex and adaptive behaviour that arises from nonlinear systems considerable attention in recent years has gone into studying a new class of phase transitions which occur at absolute zero temperature. These are quantum phase transitions which are dri...
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List of complex and algebraic surfaces
Surfaces that are also Shimura varieties: Hilbert modular surfaces Humbert surfaces Picard modular surfaces Shioda modular surfaces Elliptic surfaces, surfaces with an elliptic fibration; quasielliptic surfaces constitute a modification this idea that occurs in finite characteristic Raynaud surfaces and generaliz...
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Eiffel (programming language)
Eiffel Software, "The Eiffel Compiler" tecomp and Eiffel-library-developer Gobo have committed to implementing the standard; Eiffel Software's EiffelStudio 6.1 and "The Eiffel Compiler" tecomp implement some of the major new mechanisms—in particular, inline agents, assigner commands, bracket notation, non-conforming in...
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Compiler Description Language
CDL2, which appeared in 1976, kept the principles of CDL1 but made the language suitable for large projects. It introduced modules, enforced data-change-only-on-success, and extended the capabilities of the language somewhat. The optimizers in the CDL2 compiler and especially in the CDL2 Laboratory (an IDE for CDL2) we...
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Analogical modeling
Variable 1: 0,1,2,3 Variable 2: 0,1,2,3 Variable 3: 0,1,2,3 The two outcomes for the dataset are e and r, and the exemplars are: 3 1 0 e 0 3 2 r 2 1 0 r 2 1 2 r 3 1 1 r We define a network of pointers like so: The solid lines represent pointers between exemplars with matching outcomes; the dotted lines represent po...
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List of problems in loop theory and quasigroup theory
Minimal presentations for loops M(G,2) For a group , define on x by , , , . Find a minimal presentation for the Moufang loop with respect to a presentation for . Proposed: by Petr Vojtěchovský at Loops '03, Prague 2003 Comments: Chein showed in (Chein, 1974) that is a Moufang loop that is nonassociative if and on...
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Extremal principles in non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Prospects Until recently, prospects for useful extremal principles in this area have seemed clouded. C. Nicolis (1999) concludes that one model of atmospheric dynamics has an attractor which is not a regime of maximum or minimum dissipation; she says this seems to rule out the existence of a global organizing principle...
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Research question
According to Farrugia et al., the FINER criteria "highlight useful points that may increase the chances of developing a successful research project". These criteria were first suggested in the book Designing Clinical Research by Hulley et al., detailed below.F – Feasible Adequate number of subjects Adequate technical ...
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University of Kyiv Faculty of Radio Physics, Electronics and Computer Systems
Scientific research The present-day major areas of research are physical electronics, radiophysics, micro-, nano- and quantum electronics, low-temperature plasma physics, semiconductor electronics, medical radiophysics. Students are widely involved into scientific research and exploration. This is a characteristic fea...
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Colossus computer
Early computer development The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) TNMOC: The 75th anniversary of the first attack Tony Sale's Codes and Ciphers Contains a great deal of information, including: Colossus, the revolution in code breaking Lorenz Cipher and the Colossus The machine age comes to Fish codebreaking Th...
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Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot
Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division Number patterns - Instead of featuring traditional equations, "number patterns" provides the user with a series of numbers with one of the numbers missing. The user must identify the pattern to find the missing number (for example, if the problem presented is "5, 10, 15, _, ...
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List of problems in loop theory and quasigroup theory
Proposed: by Orin Chein at Loops '99, Prague 1999 Solved by: Alexander Grishkov and Andrei Zavarnitsine, 2003 Solution: Every finite Moufang loop has the strong Lagrange property (SLP). Here is an outline of the proof: According to (Chein et al. 2003), it suffices to show SLP for nonassociative finite simple Moufang...
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Astrophysics Data System
The first suggestion of a database of journal paper abstracts was made at a conference on Astronomy from Large Data-bases held in Garching bei München in 1987. Initial development of an electronic system for accessing astrophysical abstracts took place during the following two years; in 1991 discussions took place on ...
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The Art of Computer Programming
Knuth's dedication reads: This series of books is affectionately dedicatedto the Type 650 computer once installed atCase Institute of Technology,with whom I have spent many pleasant evenings. Assembly language in the book All examples in the books use a language called "MIX assembly language", which runs on the hypothe...
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Mathematics of Sudoku
A variant on Miyuki Misawa's web site replaces sums with relations: the clues are symbols =, < and > showing the relative values of (some but not all) adjacent region sums. She demonstrates an example with only eight relations. It is not known whether this is the best possible. Maximum number of givens
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Computer cluster
Basic concepts The desire to get more computing power and better reliability by orchestrating a number of low-cost commercial off-the-shelf computers has given rise to a variety of architectures and configurations.
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List of fictional artificial intelligences
2000s The Oracle, Seraph, Merovingian, Persephone, and the Architect from The Matrix Reloaded. The Agent programs are upgraded. The new Agents included Jackson, Johnson, and Thompson. Agent Smith is now a computer virus with the ability to copy himself using humans and programs. (2003) The Oracle, Seraph, Sati, Rama ...
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One-instruction set computer
subneg4 A variant is also possible with four operands – subneg4. The reversal of minuend and subtrahend eases implementation in hardware. The non-destructive result simplifies the synthetic instructions. Instruction subneg s, m, r, j (* subtrahend, minuend, result and jump addresses *) Mem[r] = Mem[m] - Me...
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National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
See also Engineering Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Glossary of engineering Glossary of civil engineering Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering Glossary of mechanical engineering Glossary of structural engineering Glossary of biology Glossary of chemistry Glossary of economics Glossary of phy...
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Sequent Computer Systems
Vestiges of Sequent's innovations live on in the form of data clustering software from PolyServe (subsequently acquired by HP), various projects within OSDL, IBM contributions to the Linux kernel, and claims in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit. History
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Quantum nondemolition measurement
Discussion An observable which is conserved under free evolution, is automatically a QND variable. A sequence of ideal projective measurements of will automatically be QND measurements. To implement QND measurements on atomic systems, the measurement strength (rate) is competing with atomic decay caused by measureme...
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Search-based software engineering
Optimizing software The use of SBSE in program optimization, or modifying a piece of software to make it more efficient in terms of speed and resource use, has been the object of successful research. In one instance, a 50,000 line program was genetically improved, resulting in a program 70 times faster on average. A re...
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Materials Simulation Laboratory
Structural, mechanical, electronic, and transport properties of advanced materials such as diamond, silicon, organic thin films and single molecules, metal/oxide and metal/organic interfaces, and energetic molecular crystals are of particular interest. All the problems addressed have a tight connection with experiment...
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Zeta function regularization
showed that in flat space, in which the eigenvalues of Laplacians are known, the zeta function corresponding to the partition function can be computed explicitly. Consider a scalar field φ contained in a large box of volume V in flat spacetime at the temperature T = β−1. The partition function is defined by a path inte...
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Quintic function
Application to celestial mechanics Solving for the locations of the Lagrangian points of an astronomical orbit in which the masses of both objects are non-negligible involves solving a quintic. More precisely, the locations of L2 and L1 are the solutions to the following equations, where the gravitational forces of two...
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Approximation algorithm
Epsilon terms In the literature, an approximation ratio for a maximization (minimization) problem of c - ϵ (min: c + ϵ) means that the algorithm has an approximation ratio of c ∓ ϵ for arbitrary ϵ > 0 but that the ratio has not (or cannot) be shown for ϵ = 0. An example of this is the optimal inapproximability — inex...
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Cyclic (mathematics)
There are many terms in mathematics that begin with cyclic: Cyclic chain rule, for derivatives, used in thermodynamics Cyclic code, linear codes closed under cyclic permutations Cyclic convolution, a method of combining periodic functions Cycle decomposition (graph theory) Cycle decomposition (group theory) Cycli...
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Greedy algorithm
Examples The activity selection problem is characteristic of this class of problems, where the goal is to pick the maximum number of activities that do not clash with each other. In the Macintosh computer game Crystal Quest the objective is to collect crystals, in a fashion similar to the travelling salesman problem....
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Z4 (computer)
Specifications Frequency: (about) 40 hertz Average calculation speed: 400 ms for an addition, 3 seconds for a multiplication. Approximately 1000 floating point arithmetic operations on average an hour. Programming: holes in 35 mm film stock, punched on a programming machine Input: Decimal floating point numbers, pu...
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History of fluid mechanics
Daniel Bernoulli In 1738 Daniel Bernoulli published his Hydrodynamica seu de viribus et motibus fluidorum commentarii. His theory of the motion of fluids, the germ of which was first published in his memoir entitled Theoria nova de motu aquarum per canales quocunque fluentes, communicated to the academy of St Petersbur...
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Computer-assisted orthopedic surgery
Procedural Approaches CAOS does not substantially deviate from traditional surgical procedures, because the intended goal is to improve the overall operative outcome of the surgery. In image-based procedures, the patient still undergoes similar pre-operative screenings (consultations, scans, etc.). However, CAOS allow...
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Exact statistics
The approach All classical statistical procedures are constructed using statistics which depend only on observable random vectors, whereas generalized estimators, tests, and confidence intervals used in exact statistics take advantage of the observable random vectors and the observed values both, as in the Bayesian a...
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JAL (compiler)
Sample code -- JAL 2.3 include 16f877_bert--define the variables var byte resist--define the pins pin_a0_direction = input--variable resistor pin_d7_direction = input--switch pin_c2_direction = output--pwm led--enable pulse width modulation PWM_init_frequency (true, true) forever loop--convert analog on a0 to...
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Cambridge Computer Lab Ring
Hall of Fame The association claims that, as of January 2018, there are 267 companies created by computer lab graduates and staff. A 'Company of the Year' is chosen from this list annually. 2005 Sophos 2006 Codian 2007 Jagex 2008 Xensource 2009 Linguamatics 2010 Ubisense 2011 RealVNC 2012 Trampoline Systems 201...
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Integrated circuit design
Microarchitecture and system-level design The initial chip design process begins with system-level design and microarchitecture planning. Within IC design companies, management and often analytics will draft a proposal for a design team to start the design of a new chip to fit into an industry segment. Upper-level des...
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Life Science Library
The Life Science Library is a series of hardbound books published by Time Life between 1963 and 1967. Each of the 26 volumes explores a major topic of the natural sciences. They are intended for, and written at a level appropriate to, an educated lay readership. In each volume, the text of each of eight chapters is fol...
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National Center for Computational Sciences
Intel Paragon XP/S 5 (1992): The Intel Paragon XP/S 5 provided 128 GP compute nodes arranged in a 16 row by 8 column rectangular mesh consisting of one 8 by 8 group of 16MB nodes and one 8 by 8 group of 32MB nodes. Also available were four 128MB MP compute nodes in a 2 row by 2 column mesh. In addition, there was the12...
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International Council on Nanotechnology
After a start-up phase, ICON completed its first project in August 2005 with the web publication of a database on nanotechnology environmental, health and safety research (EHS). Initially compiled by a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Chemical Industry Consultative Board on Advancing Nanotechnology, the da...
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Dynamic energy budget theory
However, more recent publications aim to present the DEB theory in an "easier to digest" content to "bridge the ecology-mathematics gap". List of parameters is a direct result of list of processes which are of interest—if only growth under constant food and temperature is of interest, the standard DEB model can be simp...
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MultiValue database
Three of the implementations of MultiValue - PICK version R77, Microdata Reality 3.x, and Prime Information 1.0 - were very similar. In spite of attempts to standardize, particularly by International Spectrum and the Spectrum Manufacturers Association, who designed a logo for all to use, there are no standards across M...
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Energy policy of Australia
Energy strategy In the 2004 White Paper Securing Australia's Energy Future, a number of initiatives were announced to achieve the Australian Government's energy objectives. These include: a complete overhaul of the fuel excise system to remove A$1.5 billion in excise liability from businesses and households in the per...
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List of MeSH codes (A06)
The following is a partial list of the "A" codes for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), as defined by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). This list continues the information at List of MeSH codes (A05). Codes following these are found at List of MeSH codes (A07). For other MeSH codes, see List of MeSH c...
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Questionnaire construction
Within social science research and practice, questionnaires are most frequently used to collect quantitative data using multi-item scales with the following characteristics: Multiple statements or questions (minimum ≥3; usually ≥5) are presented for each variable being examined. Each statement or question has an acco...
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Questionnaire
Within social science research and practice, questionnaires are most frequently used to collect quantitative data using multi-item scales with the following characteristics: Multiple statements or questions (minimum ≥3; usually ≥5) are presented for each variable being examined. Each statement or question has an acco...
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Advancing Physics
Foundations of Physics (assessed via a 1h 30m examination) Physics in Depth (assessed via a 1h 30m examination) Current A Level The current A Level course is linear and consists of three examination papers, in addition to a practical endorsement. All content is assessed across the three papers and practical endorsemen...
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EDA database
The OpenAccess design database Given the importance of a common design database in the EDA industry, the OpenAccess Coalition has been formed to develop, deploy, and support an open-sourced EDA design database with shared control. The data model presented in the OA DB provides a unified model that currently extends fro...
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Advanced Programming Specialist Group
From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs and Branches, for example: February 2013, with Enterprise Architecture SG, What is Enterprise Architecture? January 2013, with Formal Aspects SG (BCS-FACS), Industrial Uses of Formal Methods May 2010, with Fortran SG, Parallel Programming in Fortra...
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