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Kamloops (provincial electoral district)
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Software patents under TRIPs Agreement
The only allowable exceptions to this provision are laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3 of the same Article 27, and neither software nor computer programs are mentioned therein. The following elements may be excluded from patentability by WTO members under TRIPs: (...) inventions, the prevention within their territory of ...
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Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation
The mission of the CCRG is "to promote excellence in research and education, and to advance discovery beyond the frontiers of current knowledge in key research areas of computational astrophysics, gravitational physics, high-performance computing and scientific visualization." References External links Rochester Instit...
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Walsh function
Romanuke showed that Walsh functions can be generalized to binary surfaces in a particular case of function of two variables. There also exist eight Walsh-like bases of orthonormal binary functions, whose structure is nonregular (unlike the structure of Walsh functions). These eight bases are generalized to surfaces (i...
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GE Evolution Series
Operators ArcelorMittal, operated by Cartier Railway: 2 ES44AC units, numbered 301 and 302, built in summer 2010 BNSF Railway: 30 pre-production ES44AC units, numbered 5718-5747, were built between October 2003 and April 2004. 685 production ES44AC units, numbered 5748–5837 (built 2005) and 5844-6438 (built between...
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Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude
As in many standardized tests, the WTMA uses a multiple-choice format for its test questions. Each question contains a line drawing and a brief question together with three possible answers. Sample questions are available online. The questions on the Wiesen test, which are written at a sixth-grade reading level, do not...
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Sexological testing
This questionnaire is aimed at knowing sexuality and sexual attitudes in the elderly. It is made up of 61 items divided into two subscales: "Knowledge subscale", a 35-item scale with "True/False" and "I don't know" answers and "Attitudes subscale" which is composed of 26 items rated on a 7-point Likert scale. Both sub...
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Primitive recursive function
In the following we observe that primitive recursive functions can be of four types: functions for short: "number-theoretic functions" from { 0, 1, 2, ...} to { 0, 1, 2, ...}, predicates: from { 0, 1, 2, ...} to truth values { t =true, f =false }, propositional connectives: from truth values { t, f } to truth values...
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Bitap algorithm
algorithm bitap_search is input: text as a string. pattern as a string. output: string m := length(pattern) if m = 0 then return text /* Initialize the bit array R. */ R := new array[m+1] of bit, initially all 0 R[0] := 1 for i := 0; i < length(text); i...
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PowerBASIC
External links PowerBASIC company website PowerBasic Peer Support Community Börje Hagsten's Files Don Dickinson's PowerBASIC code Gary Beene's gbSnippets FreeBase's Page on PowerBASIC (archived 2014) TheirCorp's PowerBASIC projects on SourceForge Books on Internet Archive: Using Turbo Basic. Frederick E. Mosh...
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Engineering geology
Scope of studies Engineering geology investigation and studies may be performed: for residential, commercial and industrial developments; for governmental and military installations; for public works such as a stormwater drainage system, power plant, wind turbine, transmission line, sewage treatment plant, water treatm...
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Ideological criticism
Ideographs need not be verbal only; they can be visual too. In 1997, Janis Edwards and Carol Winkler expanded the idea of the ideograph to include visual images as well as written words. They argue images can act as “a Visual reference point that forms the basis of arguments about a variety of themes and subjects” that...
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Fence (mathematics)
The number of antichains in a fence is a Fibonacci number; the distributive lattice with this many elements, generated from a fence via Birkhoff's representation theorem, has as its graph the Fibonacci cube. A partially ordered set is series-parallel if and only if it does not have four elements forming a fence. Severa...
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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
The plan is designed to ensure that the investment logic will lead to project objectives. We internally test the business plan, including activities, structure and strategy for growth, to confirm they have been adequately planned to deliver a high probability of success. In cases where intelligence and evidence from si...
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Technological literacy
describe and demonstrate the basic tasks and uses of word processors, such as text entry, editing text, formatting text and printing, describe and demonstrate the purpose and basic features of presentation software and other digital resources. describe the purpose and basic function of graphic software and use a graph...
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Code of Points (gymnastics)
The current Code of Points covers the years 2017 to 2020. Following past editions, there is no top score of 10.0, nor is there an upper limit of the difficulty score. On all apparatuses except vault, official men's skills are rated from A (0.1) to I (0.9) and women's skills from A (0.1) to J (1.0). Currently, there are...
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Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
Content The Project focuses on several organizations including United Mexican American Students (UMAS), the Brown Berets, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan (MEChA), United Farmworker Cooperative, El Teatro del Piojo, El Centro de la Raza, the Concilio for Spanish Speaking, SEAMAR Community Health Centers, and ...
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Chirality (chemistry)
Definition The chirality of a molecule is based on the molecular symmetry of its conformations. A conformation of a molecule is chiral if and only if it belongs to the Cn, Dn, T, O, I point groups (the chiral point groups). However, whether the molecule itself is considered to be chiral depends on whether its chiral c...
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Hardware acceleration
To perform computing tasks more quickly (or better in some other way), generally one can invest time and money in improving the software, improving the hardware, or both. There are various approaches with advantages and disadvantages in terms of decreased latency, increased throughput and reduced energy consumption. Ty...
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Food frequency questionnaire
Estimation of total consumption of specific foods, food groups, and nutrients in a population. Estimation of the correlation between patterns of food consumption and other non-diet variables, such as health status or specific medical conditions. Estimation of the effectiveness of interventions to change diet. In this...
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Irreducible complexity
In the late 19th century, in a dispute between supporters of the adequacy of natural selection and those who held for inheritance of acquired characteristics, one of the arguments made repeatedly by Herbert Spencer, and followed by others, depended on what Spencer referred to as co-adaptation of co-operative parts, as ...
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1977–78 United States network television schedule
NBCReturning SeriesThe Black Sheep Squadron The Big Event The Bionic Woman (moved from ABC) C.P.O. Sharkey Chico and the Man Columbo Headliners With David Frost The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams Little House on the Prairie NBC Monday Night at the Movies NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Police Woman Quincy, M.E. The R...
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Microcomputer
In the US the earliest models such as the Altair 8800 were often sold as kits to be assembled by the user, and came with as little as 256 bytes of RAM, and no input/output devices other than indicator lights and switches, useful as a proof of concept to demonstrate what such a simple device could do. As microprocessor...
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PowerPC
The PowerPC is designed along RISC principles, and allows for a superscalar implementation. Versions of the design exist in both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations. Starting with the basic POWER specification, the PowerPC added: Support for operation in both big-endian and little-endian modes; the PowerPC can switch fro...
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History of combinatorics
The ancient Chinese book of divination I Ching describes a hexagram as a permutation with repetitions of six lines where each line can be one of two states: solid or dashed. In describing hexagrams in this fashion they determine that there are possible hexagrams. A Chinese monk also may have counted the number of conf...
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Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics
The age of quantum mechanics 1887 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect that will play a very important role in the development of the quantum theory with Einstein's explanation of this effect in terms of quanta of light 1896 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers the X-rays while studying electrons in p...
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2004–05 United States network television schedule
Returning seriesAmerican DreamsThe ApprenticeCrossing JordanDateline NBCERFear FactorLas VegasLast Comic StandingLaw & OrderLaw & Order: Criminal IntentLaw & Order: Special Victims UnitScrubsThird WatchThe West WingWill & GraceNew series$25 Million Dollar Hoax *The Biggest LoserCommitted *The Contender *Father of the P...
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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Until recently, prospects for useful extremal principles in this area have seemed clouded. 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, and comment...
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Sampling (statistics)
A particular problem involves non-response. Two major types of non-response exist:Dillman, D. A., Eltinge, J. L., Groves, R. M., & Little, R. J. A. (2002). "Survey nonresponse in design, data collection, and analysis". In: R. M. Groves, D. A. Dillman, J. L. Eltinge, & R. J. A. Little (Eds.), Survey nonresponse (pp. 3–2...
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Homology (chemistry)
On the periodic table, homologous elements share many electrochemical properties and appear in the same group (column) of the table. For example, all noble gases are colorless, monatomic gases with very low reactivity. These similarities are due to similar structure in their outer shells of valence electrons. Mendeleev...
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Social engineering (political science)
Overview Decision-making can affect the safety and survival of billions of people. The scientific theory expressed by German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in his 1905 study The Present Problems of Social Structure, proposes that society can no longer operate successfully using outmoded methods of social management. To ...
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Supercomputer
The stages of supercomputer application may be summarized in the following table: The IBM Blue Gene/P computer has been used to simulate a number of artificial neurons equivalent to approximately one percent of a human cerebral cortex, containing 1.6 billion neurons with approximately 9 trillion connections. The same r...
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Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
There is no age limit criterion defined by the exam conducting authority to appear in GATE. Disciplines, structure, syllabus, and marking scheme Disciplines At present, GATE is conducted in the following 29 disciplines. A candidate can select any one of these. From 2022 introduce 2 new papers. The paper sections under...
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Computer chess
The developers of a chess-playing computer system must decide on a number of fundamental implementation issues. These include: Graphical user interface (GUI) – how moves are entered and communicated to the user, how the game is recorded, how the time controls are set, and other interface considerations Board represen...
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TILLING (molecular biology)
The first paper describing TILLING used HPLC to identify mutations (McCallum et al., 2000a). The method was made more high throughput by using the restriction enzyme Cel-I combined with the LICOR gel based system to identify mutations (Colbert et al.,2001). Advantages to using this system are that mutation sites can ...
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IDL (programming language)
Examples The following graphics were created with IDL (source code included): Image of random data plus trend, with best-fit line and different smoothings Plots of delta-o-18 against age and depth (from EPICA and Vostok) coyote IDL gallery examples of IDL imaging
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Practice-based research network
Each of these research pioneers provide inspiration for the development of practice-based, primary care research networks because each demonstrated that important new knowledge could be discovered by the practicing primary care physician. They each wondered about their patients, developed means of gathering and recordi...
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Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
Some of the supermassive black holes in AGN are known to be rotating, as in the Seyfert galaxy MCG 6-30-15 with time-variability in their inner accretion disks. Black hole spin is a potentially effective agent to drive UHECR production, provided ions are suitably launched to circumvent limiting factors deep within the ...
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Genetic algorithm scheduling
As we increase the number of objectives we are trying to achieve we also increase the number of constraints on the problem and similarly increase the complexity. Genetic algorithms are ideal for these types of problems where the search space is large and the number of feasible solutions is small. Application of a genet...
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Metropolis–Hastings algorithm
Step-by-step instructions Suppose that the most recent value sampled is . To follow the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, we next draw a new proposal state with probability density and calculate a value where is the probability (e.g., Bayesian posterior) ratio between the proposed sample and the previous sample , and i...
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ENCODE
In 2014, ENCODE researchers noted that in the literature, functional parts of the genome have been identified differently in previous studies depending on the approaches used. There have been three general approaches used to identify functional parts of the human genome: genetic approaches (which rely on changes in phe...
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PTC (software company)
1989 - Initial public offering. 1992 - Caterpillar Inc. becomes PTC's largest customer. 1995 - Rasna, which "develops, markets and supports the Mechanica family of integrated software products for mechanical design." 1996 - PTC acquires Reflex project modeling and management software technology sold the following ...
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Electrical impedance tomography
Cervix (MF-EIT) In addition to his pioneering role in the development of the first EIT systems in Sheffield professor Brian H. Brown is currently active in the research and development of an electrical impedance spectroscope based on MF-EIT. According to a study published by Brown in 2000, MF-EIT is able to predict [Ce...
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Page (computer memory)
Unix and POSIX-based operating systems Unix and POSIX-based systems may use the system function sysconf(), as illustrated in the following example written in the C programming language. #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> /* sysconf(3) */ int main(void) { printf("The page size for this system is %ld bytes.\n", s...
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Homological mirror symmetry
Hodge diamond The dimensions hp,q of spaces of harmonic (p,q)-differential forms (equivalently, the cohomology, i.e., closed forms modulo exact forms) are conventionally arranged in a diamond shape called the Hodge Diamond. These (p,q)-Betti numbers can be computed for complete intersections using a generating function...
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Flow-based programming
FBP and JSP share the concept of treating a program (or some components) as a parser of an input stream. In Jackson's later work, Jackson System Development (JSD), the ideas were developed further. In JSD the design is maintained as a network design until the final implementation stage. The model is then transformed in...
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Form-based code
Scope Form-Based Codes address the relationship between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks. The regulations and standards in Form-Based Codes, presented in both diagrams and words, are keyed to a regulating plan...
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List of Philippine mythological figures
Gugurang: the supreme god; causes the pit of Mayon volcano to rumble when he is displeased; cut Mt. Malinao in hald with a thunderbolt; the god of good Asuang: brother of Gugurang; an evil god who wanted Gugurang's fire, and gathered evil spirits and advisers to cause immortality and crime to reign; vanquished by Gugur...
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Marine engineering
Applications The following categories provide a number of focus areas in which marine engineers direct their efforts. Arctic Engineering In designing systems that operate in the arctic (especially scientific equipment such as meteorological instrumentation and oceanographic buoys), marine engineers must overcome an arr...
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Raptor code
The RaptorQ code specified in IETF RFC 6330 has the following trade-off between recovery probability and recovery overhead: Greater than 99% recovery probability with overhead of 0 symbols (recovery from k received encoding symbols). Greater than 99.99% recovery probability with overhead of 1 symbol (recovery from k...
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Feature-oriented programming
FOMDD Feature-Oriented Model-Driven Design (FOMDD) combines the ideas of AHEAD with Model-Driven Design (MDD) (a.k.a. Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)). AHEAD functions capture the lockstep update of program artifacts when a feature is added to a program. But there are other functional relationships among program arti...
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Bayesian network
Several equivalent definitions of a Bayesian network have been offered. For the following, let G = (V,E) be a directed acyclic graph (DAG) and let X = (Xv), v ∈ V be a set of random variables indexed by V. Factorization definitionX is a Bayesian network with respect to G if its joint probability density function (with ...
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Code Saturne
code_saturne is a general-purpose computational fluid dynamics free computer software package. Developed since 1997 at Électricité de France R&D, code_saturne is distributed under the GNU GPL licence. It is based on a co-located finite-volume approach that accepts meshes with any type of cell (tetrahedral, hexahedral, ...
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Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale
Scale overview The JMA scale is expressed in levels of seismic intensity from 0 to 7 in a manner similar to that of the Mercalli intensity scale, which is not commonly used in Japan. Real-time earthquake reports are calculated automatically from seismic-intensity-meter measurements of peak ground acceleration throughou...
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Performance Network Theatre
The 1998–99 Season: (Johanna Broughton, Executive Director) Avenue X: An A Cappella Musical book & lyrics by John Jiler, music by Ray Leslee The Talking Cure by Rachel Urist (world premiere) Innocent Thoughts by William Missouri Downs (Michigan premiere) Private Eyes by Steven Dietz (Michigan premiere) How I Learned T...
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Atari 8-bit computer peripherals
400/800 era (1979-1982) 410 Program Recorder - a tape drive, 600 bit/s on compact cassettes There are several variants of the 410. Early models were sizeable due largely to a much bigger speaker area at the back, and had square cornered buttons. Later versions were smaller and had buttons that were rounded off on t...
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Concatenated error correction code
Background The field of channel coding is concerned with sending a stream of data at the highest possible rate over a given communications channel, and then decoding the original data reliably at the receiver, using encoding and decoding algorithms that are feasible to implement in a given technology.
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Front-end engineering
Project Organization Chart Project Scope Defined civil, mechanical and chemical engineering HAZOP, safety and ergonomic studies 2D & 3D preliminary models Equipment layout and installation plan Engineering design package development Major equipment list Automation strategy PFD - Process Flow Diagrams and P&ID ...
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Periodic function
Calculating period Consider a real waveform consisting of superimposed frequencies, expressed in a set as ratios to a fundamental frequency, f: F = [f f f ... f] where all non-zero elements ≥1 and at least one of the elements of the set is 1. To find the period, T, first find the least common denominator of all the ele...
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Software performance testing
In detail, what is the performance test scope? What subsystems, interfaces, components, etc. are in and out of scope for this test? For the user interfaces (UIs) involved, how many concurrent users are expected for each (specify peak vs. nominal)? What does the target system (hardware) look like (specify all server a...
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List of fictional computers
1960s The Machine, a computer built to specifications received in a radio transmission from an alien intelligence beyond our galaxy in the BBC seven-part TV series A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle (1961) Old Man In The Cave, a computer that guided a post-apocalyptic town of survivors on what foods were safe to eat Twili...
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CSA (database company)
CSA Technology Research Database CSA Technology Research Database is bibliographic platform that is updated monthly with temporal coverage from 1962 to the present. It combines a number of secondary databases: the Materials Research Database with METADEX (see above), the CSA High Technology Research Database with Aeros...
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Technological change
Further reading Books Jones, Charles I. (1997). Introduction to Economic Growth. W. W. Norton. Kuhn, Thomas Samuel (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd edition. University of Chicago Press. Mansfield, Edwin (2003). Microeconomic Theory and Applications, 11th edition. W. W. Norton Rogers, Everett...
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Portable Network Graphics
PNG Working Group The original PNG specification was authored by an ad hoc group of computer graphics experts and enthusiasts. Discussions and decisions about the format were conducted by email. The original authors listed on RFC 2083 are: Editor: Thomas Boutell Contributing Editor: Tom Lane Authors (in alphabetical o...
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Bentley–Ottmann algorithm
Faster algorithms The O(n log n) part of the time bound for the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm is necessary, as there are matching lower bounds for the problem of detecting intersecting line segments in algebraic decision tree models of computation. However, the dependence on k, the number of crossings, can be improved. an...
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Space-based solar power
In the 21st century 2001: NASDA (One of Japan's national space agencies before it became part of JAXA) announces plans to perform additional research and prototyping by launching an experimental satellite with 10 kilowatts and 1 megawatt of power. 2003: ESA studies 2007: The US Pentagon's National Security Space O...
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Comparison of programming languages (array)
The following list contains syntax examples of how a range of element of an array can be accessed. In the following table: - the index of the first element in the slice - the index of the last element in the slice - one more than the index of last element in the slice - the length of the slice (= end - first) - th...
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Analysis of molecular variance
Since developing AMOVA, Excoffier has written a program for running such analyses. This program, which runs on Windows, is called Arlequin and is freely available on Excoffier's website. There are also implementations in R language in the ade4 and the pegas packages, both available on CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Net...
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Social engineering (security)
Andersson and Reimers (2014) found that employees often do not see themselves as part of the organization Information Security "effort" and often take actions that ignore organizational information security best interests. Research shows Information security culture needs to be improved continuously. In "Information Se...
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Bag-of-words model in computer vision
Here are some notations for this section. Suppose the size of codebook is . : each patch is a V-dimensional vector that has a single component equal to one and all other components equal to zero (For k-means clustering setting, the single component equal one indicates the cluster that belongs to). The th codeword in...
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Cell microprocessor implementations
This document includes a photograph of the 2.54 × 5.81 mm SPE, as implemented in 90-nm SOI. In this technology, the SPE contains 21 million transistors of which 14 million are contained in arrays (a term presumably designating register files and the local store) and 7 million transistors are logic. This photograph is o...
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Hume (programming language)
match -- * wildcards for unfilled outputs, and unconsumed inputs ( my_coin, *, v) {- ''join-pattern'' equivalent: coin(my_coin) & value(v) -} -> let v’ = incrementCredit my_coin v in ( *, v’, *, show v’) -- time bounding (''within x time-unit'') raises TimeOut () | ( ...
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Algorithmic information theory
There are several variants of Kolmogorov complexity or algorithmic information; the most widely used one is based on self-delimiting programs and is mainly due to Leonid Levin (1974). Per Martin-Löf also contributed significantly to the information theory of infinite sequences. An axiomatic approach to algorithmic info...
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List of interactive geometry software
KmPlot is a mathematical function plotter released under the free GPL license. Includes a powerful parser and precision printing in correct scale. Simultaneously plot multiple functions and combine function terms to build new functions. Supports functions with parameters and functions in polar coordinates. Several gr...
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Microbial ecology
Although measuring biogeochemical process rates could analyze what processes were occurring, they were incomplete because they provided no information on which specific microbes were responsible. It was long known that ‘classical’ cultivation techniques recovered fewer than 1% of the microbes from a natural habitat. Ho...
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OODA loop
References Boyd, John, R., The Essence of Winning and Losing, 28 June 1995 a five slide set by Boyd. Greene, Robert, OODA and You Hillaker, Harry, Code one magazine, "John Boyd, USAF Retired, Father of the F16", July 1997. Linger, Henry, Constructing The Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Too...
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Service Civil International
SCI states to base its work on the following values: Volunteering – in the sense of acting out of self-initiative, without seeking material reward and for the benefit of civil society, as a method and a statement for social change, whilst never competing with paid labour nor seeking to contribute to strike-breaking No...
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Environmental impact of nuclear power
Although this future analyses deals with extrapolations for present Generation II reactor technology, the same paper also summarizes the literature on "FBRs"/Fast Breeder Reactors, of which two are in operation as of 2014 with the newest being the BN-800, for these reactors it states that the "median life cycle GHG emi...
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Orion Molecular Cloud Complex
The following is a list of notable regions within the larger Complex: Orion A Molecular cloud The Orion Nebula, also known as M42 (part of Orion's Sword) M43, which is part of the Orion Nebula Sh2-279 (part of Orion's Sword) NGC 1980 (part of Orion's Sword) Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1) with the Becklin–Neugebauer O...
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Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The Oden Institute supports seven major programs that seek to promote computational science at various levels. The Computational Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics Program (CSEM) A graduate program for MS and PhD students Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Supports the research of recent doctorates...
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Nuclear Power and the Environment
Chapter Two: Radioactivity and Radiobiology The focus of the first half of the chapter is designed to provide basic information about atoms and radiation to aid in later chapters. The first half covers the basics on atoms such as: an atom consists of Neutrons, Protons, and Electrons; the atomic number of an atom determ...
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Comparison of computer viruses
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Extracurricular activities There are many clubs within the Courant Institute open to undergraduate and graduate students alike. These clubs include the Courant Student Organization, The ACM at NYU, Women-in-Computing (WinC), The Mathematics Society, Masters Association for Computer Science and many more. Additionally, ...
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Ranger: Simulation of Modern Patrolling Operations
The classic solitaire wargame returns! Our first game and one of the biggest selling wargames of all time returns in an all new, revised 3000 Line edition completely updated with new weapons, equipment and tactics. The new maps are UV coated allowing the use of dry erase markers. Four versions of the game now allow pat...
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Randomized algorithm
Monte Carlo algorithm: findingA_MC(array A, n, k) begin i := 0 repeat Randomly select one element out of n elements. i := i + 1 until i = k or 'a' is found end If an ‘a’ is found, the algorithm succeeds, else the algorithm fails. After k iterations, the probability of finding an ‘a’ is: This...
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Prim's algorithm
The time complexity of Prim's algorithm depends on the data structures used for the graph and for ordering the edges by weight, which can be done using a priority queue. The following table shows the typical choices: A simple implementation of Prim's, using an adjacency matrix or an adjacency list graph representation ...
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Quite Universal Circuit Simulator
Analysis types Analysis types include S-parameter (including noise), AC (including noise), DC, Transient Analysis, Harmonic Balance (not yet finished), Digital simulation (VHDL and Verilog-HDL) and Parameter sweeps. Features at a glance Qucs has a graphical interface for schematic capture. Simulation data can be repr...
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List of Animal Mechanicals episodes
Mechana Balloonosaurs Island Mission: Help the party-loving bunnies get more balloons from the balloonosaurs. Abilities used: Strength, Gizmo, and Flight. The wrong objects Komodo's tail popped out: Saw, Hammer and Lollipop. There's a problem over on Mechana Balloonosaurs Island- the balloons that the balloonosaurs ...
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Obfuscation (software)
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Biostatistics
In agriculture and biology studies, yield data and its components can be obtained by metric measures. However, pest and disease injuries in plats are obtained by observation, considering score scales for levels of damage. Especially, in genetic studies, modern methods for data collection in field and laboratory should ...
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Electronic Network for Arab-West Understanding
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Reiss, head of the Department of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions at the University of Vienna, gave Arab-West Report in 2012 a platform that would include substantial contributions of our student interns which gave many of them a first opportunity to contribute to academic publishing. Th...
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Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
Political concerns: the trustworthiness of NIST-produced curves being questioned after revelations that the NSA willingly inserts backdoors into software, hardware components and published standards were made; well-known cryptographers have expressed doubts about how the NIST curves were designed, and voluntary taintin...
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Houston Cellular
Other sources Legal Battle with BellSouth over Domain Names: U.S. Supreme Court Case 05-718 Reuben Norman, Petitioner v. BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation AT&T History and science resources at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit Brand evolution of AT&T companies Press Release announcing FCC...
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Timeline of quantum computing and communication
UNSW Sydney develops a way of producing 'hot qubits' – quantum devices that operate at 1.5 kelvins. Griffith University, UNSW and UTS, in partnership with seven universities in the United States, develop noise cancelling for quantum bits via machine learning, taking quantum noise in a quantum chip down to 0%. UNSW pe...
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Double layer (plasma physics)
Energy transfer: Double layers can facilitate the transfer of electrical energy into kinetic energy, dW/dt=I•ΔV where I is the electric current dissipating energy into a double layer with a voltage drop of ΔV. Alfvén points out that the current may well consist exclusively of low-energy particles. Torvén et al. have po...
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Comet (programming)
The HTML 5 draft specification produced by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) specifies so called server-sent events, which defines a new JavaScript interface EventSource and a new MIME type text/event-stream. All major browsers except Microsoft Internet Explorer include this technology. T...
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Global powder metallurgy property database
In assembling the GPMD content, a broad range of mechanical, fatigue and physical property data has been collected from the associations’ memberships and rigorously evaluated by regional accreditation committees. However, the database’s primary targets are designers and material specifiers in end-user industries who ma...
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Anki (software)
Comparisons Anki's current scheduling algorithm is derived from SM-2 (an older version of the SuperMemo algorithm), though the algorithm has been significantly changed from SM-2 and is also far more configurable. One of the most apparent differences is that while SuperMemo provides users a 6-point grading system (0 thr...
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Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering
Associations The institution is associated with the following associations: IEEE–Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, New York City E-Cell–Entrepreneurship Cell Students' Chapter American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York Association for Computing Machinery, New York Computer Society of India, ...
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Multi-junction solar cell
Now, we can fully use Henry's graphical QE analysis, taking into account the two major intrinsic losses in the efficiency of solar cells. The two main intrinsic losses are radiative recombination, and the inability of single junction solar cells to properly match the broad solar energy spectrum. The shaded area under t...
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