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Linear time-invariant system Due to the convolution property of both of these transforms, the convolution that gives the output of the system can be transformed to a multiplication in the transform domain. That is, Just as with the Laplace transform transfer function in continuous-time system analysis, the Z transform ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1383899 | 369,079 |
Water heating An ordinary electric shower often has three heat settings: high (5.5 kW), low (2.5 kW), or cold (0 W) to use when a central heater system is available or in hot seasons. The power consumption of electric showers in the maximum heating setting is about 5.5 kW for 120 V and 7.5 kW for 220 V. The lower costs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521801 | 346,790 |
Nanoneuronics is an emerging discipline involving the application of nanometer-scale methods, materials, science and technology to neurons and neural tissue in order to design and develop advanced medical applications. is a new discipline of engineering that aims to harness the collaborative power and knowledge of nano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25731645 | 11,135 |
SQUID It is based on the AC Josephson effect and uses only one Josephson junction. It is less sensitive compared to DC but is cheaper and easier to manufacture in smaller quantities. Most fundamental measurements in biomagnetism, even of extremely small signals, have been made using RF SQUIDS. The RF is inductively cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46178 | 207,544 |
Fulldome This becomes particularly important for users in the planetarium field, who have a vested interest in projecting a dark night sky. The desire for projectors to “go to black” has resulted in continued use of CRT technology, even as newer and less expensive technologies have emerged. LCD projectors have fundamen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6817345 | 267,692 |
DingDong is a line of smart speakers created by Chinese company LingLong (a partnership between JD.com and iFlytek). The metal A1 was released in 2016, followed by the release of the cheaper A3 and Q1 the following year. The A1 has a height of 9.5 inches (24 centimeters) and has a square base which transitions to a cyl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55890636 | 262,995 |
Natural product Natural products chemistry is a distinct area of chemical research which was important in the history of chemistry, the sourcing of substances in early preclinical drug discovery research, the understanding of traditional medicine and ethnopharmacology, the evolution of technology associated with chemic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1209760 | 49,615 |
Ex situ conservation Seed bank facilities vary from sealed boxes to climate controlled walk-in freezers or vaults. Taxa with recalcitrant seeds that do not tolerate desiccation are typically not held in seed banks for extended periods of time. An extensive open-air planting used maintain genetic diversity of wild, agri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186345 | 26,720 |
Street light A modest steady light at the intersection of two roads is an aid to navigation because it helps a driver see the location of a side road as they come closer to it, so that they can adjust their braking and know exactly where to turn if they intend to leave the main road or see vehicles or pedestrians. A be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=698830 | 384,886 |
Supramolecular chirality In chemistry, the term supramolecular chirality is used to describe supramolecular assemblies that are non-superposable on their mirror images. Chirality in supramolecular chemistry implies the non-symmetric arrangement of molecular components in a non-covalent assembly. Chirality may arise in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22063516 | 16,782 |
Flow tracer Transient tracers change over time, such as radioactive material (Tritium and Cesium-137) and chemical concentrations (CFCs and SF6), which are used to date water masses and can also track mixing. In the mid-1900s, Nuclear weapons testing and chemical production, released tons of compounds that are not natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10606531 | 44,352 |
Global Climate Coalition GCC's challenge to science prompted a backlash from environmental groups. Environmentalists described GCC as a "club for polluters" and called for members to withdraw their support. "Abandonment of the by leading companies is partly in response to the mounting evidence that the world is indeed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13089 | 497,168 |
Solubility pump The combustion of fossil fuels, land-use changes, and the production of cement have led to a flux of CO to the atmosphere. Presently, about one third (approximately 2 gigatons of carbon per year) of anthropogenic emissions of CO are believed to be entering the ocean. The solubility pump is the primary m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1605201 | 98,059 |
Visual phototransduction This so-called 'dark current' depolarizes the cell to around -40 mV. Note that this is significantly more depolarized than most other neurons. A high density of Na-K pumps enables the photoreceptor to maintain a steady intracellular concentration of Na and K. Photoreceptor cells are unusual cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1887433 | 95,232 |
Stride scheduling The stride scheduling is a type of scheduling mechanism that has been introduced as a simple concept to achieve proportional CPU capacity reservation among concurrent processes. aims to sequentially allocate a resource for the duration of standard time-slices (quantum) in a fashion, that performs peri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7755182 | 103,311 |
Ministry of Information (United Kingdom) The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War. Located in Senate House at the University of London during the 1940s, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190694 | 293,892 |
Child labour Yet due to a change in the dictatorship by the military in the 1980s, the minimum age restriction was reduced to twelve but was reviewed due to reports of dangerous and hazardous working conditions in 1988. This led to the minimum age being raised once again to 14. Another set of restrictions was passed in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=101942 | 470,424 |
USS Pueblo (AGER-2) Since early 2013, the ship has been moored along the Pothong River in Pyongyang and used there as a museum ship at the Victorious War Museum. "Pueblo" is the only ship of the U.S. Navy still on the commissioned roster currently being held captive. The ship was launched at the Kewaunee Shipbuilding a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415946 | 277,586 |
Field electron emission By convention, "F" is taken as positive, even though the classical electrostatic field would be negative. The SN equation uses the classical image potential energy to represent the physical effect "correlation and exchange". For an electron approaching a given barrier from the inside, the "proba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293392 | 219,145 |
Committed dose equivalent For instance, potassium iodide (KI), administered orally immediately after exposure, may be used to protect the thyroid from ingested radioactive iodine in the event of an accident or attack at a nuclear power plant, or the detonation of a nuclear explosive which would release radioactive iodi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16506844 | 51,675 |
Flixborough disaster The inquiry report identified 'lessons to be learned' which it presented under various headings; 'General observation' (relating to cultural issues underlying the disaster), 'specific lessons' (directly relevant to the disaster, but of general applicability) are reported below; there were also 'gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671092 | 338,276 |
Smartwatch Although many reviewers declared the watch revolutionary, it was criticized for its weight (108 grams) and was discontinued in 2005. In the same year, Microsoft announced the SPOT smartwatch and it began hitting stores in early 2004. SPOT stands for Smart Personal Objects Technology, an initiative by Microso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28825877 | 133,503 |
Cheating (biology) This makes chimeric aggregates of "Dictyostelium discoideum" susceptible to cheating individuals that take advantage of the reproductive behavior without paying the fair price. In other words, if certain individuals tend to become a part of the sorus more frequently, they can gain increased benefit f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5467149 | 192,412 |
Flip Video The cameras are an American series of tapeless camcorders for digital video created by Pure Digital Technologies, a company bought by Cisco Systems in March 2009; variants included the UltraHD, the MinoHD, and the SlideHD. cameras were known for their simple interface with few buttons, minimal menus and buil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15833970 | 376,305 |
Chlorine The colour fades at low temperatures, so that solid chlorine at −195 °C is almost colourless. Like solid bromine and iodine, solid chlorine crystallises in the orthorhombic crystal system, in a layered lattice of Cl molecules. The Cl–Cl distance is 198 pm (close to the gaseous Cl–Cl distance of 199 pm) and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5667 | 94,354 |
Stereophonic sound 1 channel layout, and more recently with the introduction of digital cinema, Dolby Surround 7.1 and Dolby Atmos in 2010 and 2012 respectively. The progress of stereophonic sound was paced by the technical difficulties of recording and reproducing two or more channels in synchronization with one anoth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1369770 | 260,638 |
Kevin Warwick Warwick co-organised the 2008 Loebner Prize at the University of Reading, which also featured parallel-paired Turing tests. In 2012, he co-organised with Huma Shah a series of Turing tests held at Bletchley Park. According to Warwick, the tests strictly adhered to the statements made by Alan Turing in his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17453 | 116,363 |
Maria Pia Bridge Between 1897 and 1898 there was some concern by technicians about the integrity of the bridge; its width, the interruption of principal beams, its lightweight structure resulted in an elastic nature. In 1890, in Ovar, the "Oficina de Obras Metálicas" ("Metal Works Office") existed to support the work t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5690312 | 332,309 |
Elevator pitch For instance, elevator pitches can be given on short notice and without much preparation due to the pre-planning of the content being delivered within said pitch, making the listener more comfortable. Furthermore, elevator pitches allow the individual who is giving the pitch the ability to simplify the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1603488 | 455,163 |
Edgewell Personal Care Edgewell announced on February 10, 2020 that it is terminating its merger agreement with Harry's after the FTC sued to block the $1.37 billion deal. Carefree is a brand of pantyliners, although packets say tampons. Playtex is a brand of personal care products. Schick is a brand of razors. Wilkins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49212180 | 473,675 |
Analog delay line An analog delay line is a network of electrical components connected in cascade, where each individual element creates a time difference or "phase change" between its input signal and its output signal. It operates on analog signals whose amplitude varies continuously. An example is a bucket-brigade d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6993227 | 401,846 |
Teladoc Health In late 2018, acquired the telemedicine company Advance Medical for $352 million, which employed doctors in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In 2019, the French health company MédecinDirect was acquired. In April 2019, Teladoc launched in Canada with the Teladoc Telemedicine Service. In May 2019, the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47101812 | 240,134 |
Autopoiesis The term autopoiesis () refers to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself. The original definition can be found in "and Cognition: the Realization of the Living" (1st edition 1973, 2nd 1980): The term was introduced in 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to defin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=269190 | 141,998 |
Fine chemical Whereas the production sites of CMOs are multipurpose plants, allowing for the production of tens to hundreds of tons of fine chemicals, the work places of patient CROs are the test persons (volunteers) for the clinical trials and those of the product CROs are the laboratory benches. Major customers for C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 459,500 |
International law The phenomenon of [[Globalization|globalisation]], which has led to the rapid integration of the world in economic, political, and even cultural terms, presents one of the greatest challenges to devising a truly international legal system. Sources of international law have been influenced by a range o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8195726 | 463,989 |
Wireless Supporting technologies include: data communications are used to span a distance beyond the capabilities of typical cabling in point-to-point communication and point-to-multipoint communication, to provide a backup communications link in case of normal network failure, to link portable or temporary workstation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185868 | 138,318 |
Interoperability At the 2016 Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) meeting, experts in the field like Angela N. Johnson with GE Healthcare and representative of the United States Food and Drug Administration provided practical seminars in how companies developing new medical devices, and hospitals installing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41285 | 379,488 |
Polly and Molly (born 1997), two ewes, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell and to be transgenic animals at the same time. This is not to be confused with Dolly the Sheep, the first animal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell where there wasn’t modification ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1857574 | 293,217 |
Trans-Spliced Exon Coupled RNA End Determination In a nine step PCR reaction the cDNAs are concurrently embedded with the BpmI restriction endonuclease site (though any class IIs restriction endonuclease may work) and a biotin label which are present in the primers. These tagged cDNAs are then cleaved 14 bp downstream ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16018002 | 176,215 |
Sedimentation In a sedimentation experiment, the applied force accelerates the particles to a terminal velocity formula_1 at which the applied force is exactly canceled by an opposing drag force. For small enough particles (low Reynolds number), the drag force varies linearly with the terminal velocity, i.e., formula_2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=938894 | 5,877 |
Criticism of Spotify "Billboard" referenced an August 5 practice, in which Universal Music Group hired Jay Frank as its Senior Vice President of Global Streaming Marketing, followed by an investment in Frank's marketing firm DigMark, "an innovator" in pay-for-play practices that charges clients US$2,000 for a six-week ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55391579 | 122,770 |
Nanoarchitectures for lithium-ion batteries Reducing the anode architecture to the nanoscale offers advantages, including improved cycle life and reduced crack propagation and failure. Nanoscale particles are below the critical flaw size within a conductive binder film. Reducing transport lengths(the distance between t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22730221 | 266,954 |
Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence (including death), compulsion, or other forms of extreme hardship to themselves or members of their fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=541048 | 484,080 |
Siemens 3 billion in bribes in many countries and kept separate books to hide them. Fines were anticipated to be as high as $5 billion as the investigation unfolded. Settlement negotiations took place through most of 2008 and when they were announced in December they were far less, driven in part by Siemens' cooperatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168632 | 397,846 |
A Death of Honor is a science fiction mystery novel by American author Joe Clifford Faust. It was published in 1987 by Del Rey Books. The novel is set in a crumbling 21st-century America. D. A. Payne, a bioengineer, is the prime suspect when a dead woman turns up in his apartment. He takes on the task of clearing himse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42029817 | 163,977 |
BioWeb The is the connotation for a network of web-enabled biological devices (e.g. trees, plants, and flowers) which extends an internet of things to the Internet of Living Things of natural sensory devices. The devices give insights to real-time ecological data and feedback to changes in the environment. The biodiver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11709317 | 193,876 |
Action theory (philosophy) Action theory (or theory of action) is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex kind. This area of thought involves epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, jurisprudence, and philosophy of mind, and has attra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48778 | 191,056 |
Exact diagonalization These include QuSpin, ALPS, DoQo, EdLib and many others. results from many small clusters can be combined to obtain more accurate information about systems in the thermodynamic limit using the numerical linked cluster expansion. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61341798 | 92,591 |
Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning So when men ingest substances which are able to benefit their bodies and lengthen their days, why should it be strange that (some of these) should confer life perpetual?" The abolition of decay was believed to demonstrate the power of elixirs, "the corruptible had put on incorruptibi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52875786 | 44,801 |
Bisulfite sequencing (also known as bisulphite sequencing) is the use of bisulfite treatment of DNA before routine sequencing to determine the pattern of methylation. DNA methylation was the first discovered epigenetic mark, and remains the most studied. In animals it predominantly involves the addition of a methyl gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9773858 | 153,664 |
3D Content Retrieval So far, only a few approaches have been proposed. In Funkhouser et al. (2003), the proposed “Princeton 3D search engine” supports 2D sketches, 3D sketches, 3D models and text as queries. In Chen et al. (2003), he designed a 3D retrieval system that intakes 2D sketches and retrieves for 3D objects. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44578960 | 360,928 |
Barcelona Pavilion The roof plates, relatively small, are supported by the chrome-clad, cruciform columns. This gives the impression of a hovering roof. Robin Evans said that the reflective columns appear to be struggling to hold the "floating" roof plane down, not to be bearing its weight. Mies wanted this building to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=554862 | 347,165 |
Flixborough disaster The leaks having been dealt with, early on 1 June attempts began to bring the plant back up to pressure and temperature. At about 16:53 on Saturday 1 June 1974, there was a massive release of hot cyclohexane in the area of the missing reactor 5, followed shortly by ignition of the resulting cloud o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671092 | 24,417 |
Monopolization Courts equated such competition on the merits with unilateral conduct such as product improvement, the realization of economies of scale, innovation, and the like. Such conduct was lawful per se, since it constituted the normal operation of economic forces that a free economy should encourage. At the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6566528 | 499,793 |
Biological Innovation for Open Society ' Jefferson observes that, 'Freeing up the tools that make new discoveries possible will spur a new wave of innovation that has real value.' He notes further that, 'Open source is an enormously powerful tool for driving efficiency.' Through BiOS instruments, licensees cannot appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2020947 | 305,075 |
Wafer-scale integration He used Trilogy's remaining seed capital to buy Elxsi, a maker of VAX-compatible computers, in 1985. The Trilogy efforts were eventually ended and "became" Elxsi. On August 19, 2019, a startup called Cerebras Systems presented their development progress of WSI for deep learning acceleration. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2052726 | 107,642 |
Soil mechanics The water table is located at the depth where the water pressure is equal to the atmospheric pressure. For hydrostatic conditions, the water pressure increases linearly with depth below the water table: where formula_13 is the density of water, and formula_50 is the depth below the water table. Due to su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1276437 | 318,382 |
Thomas J. Katz is an American organic chemist, who is known for his experimental work with prismane, olefin metathesis, and enyne metathesis. Katz earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1956 and received his doctoral thesis in chemistry at Harvard in 1959. Katz's academic ties... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37879689 | 32,428 |
Television standards conversion For viewing native PAL or SECAM material (such as European television series and some European movies) on NTSC equipment, a standards conversion has to take place. There are basically two ways to accomplish this. When converting PAL (625 lines @ 25 frame/s) to NTSC (525 lines @ 30 frame/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10789250 | 388,811 |
Philips Regional sales and support offices are located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland. Current activities include: Healthcare (also responsible for New Zealand operations); Lighting (also responsible for New Zealand operations); Phillips Oral Healthcare, Phillips Professional Dictation Solutions, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23550 | 419,549 |
List of Facebook features In November 2010, Facebook announced "Deals", a subset of the Places offering, which allows for users to check in from restaurants, supermarkets, bars, and coffee shops using an app on a mobile device and then be rewarded discounts, coupons, and free merchandise. This feature is marketed as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16115172 | 111,656 |
EcoCyc In bioinformatics is a biological database for the bacterium "Escherichia coli" K-12. The project performs literature-based curation of the "E. coli" genome, and of "E. coli" transcriptional regulation, transporters, and metabolic pathways. contains written summaries of "E. coli" genes, distilled from over 36,00... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8894085 | 161,675 |
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide Reactions of this type are catalyzed by a large group of enzymes called oxidoreductases. The correct names for these enzymes contain the names of both their substrates: for example NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase catalyzes the oxidation of NADH by coenzyme Q. However, these enzymes are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=365558 | 60,363 |
Opposition to trade unions Unions can also increase jobs losses, with James Sherk arguing that at newly organized workplaces, employment can fall from between 5 and 10%. Sherk notes that some studies find no effect on employment but argues that these tend to focus on workplaces where unionization had little effect of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4443522 | 456,662 |
Vaio This feature has subsequently been used by other manufacturers, including Apple, Asus and Alienware. The high-end AR Series was the first to incorporate a Blu-ray Disc burner. This series was designed to be the epitome of high-definition products including a 1080p capable WUXGA (1920 × 1200 pixels) screen, HDMI ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=220355 | 500,241 |
National Access and Scaffolding Confederation The (NASC) is a United Kingdom construction trade association representing companies involved in scaffolding and access work. Founded in 1945, the NASC represents its sector as a member of Build UK (formerly UK Contractors Group). It is also a member of the Trade Associatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32539527 | 487,025 |
Street Smart (book) Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads is a book about private highways. It covers many aspects of these roads, including the asserted need to protect personal freedom by reducing government control of the roadways; why government highways have failed; how roads can be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15327540 | 290,767 |
Exhaust heat recovery system In transportation, an exhaust heat recovery system turns thermal losses in the exhaust pipe into energy. This technology seems to be more and more of interest by car and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers as an efficient way to save fuel and reduce vehicles’ CO emissions. This technology can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39776215 | 272,323 |
1986 California Proposition 65 Utility companies mail a Prop 65 notice to all customers each year to warn them about exposures to natural gas, petroleum products and sandblasting. Abuse of enforcement lawsuits has also been a consistent theme of Proposition 65 opponents, who criticize the motives of citizen enforcers. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570103 | 26,353 |
Adult stem cell The presence of stem cells in the mature primate brain was first reported in 1967. It has since been shown that new neurons are generated in adult mice, songbirds and primates, including humans. Normally, adult neurogenesis is restricted to two areas of the brain – the subventricular zone, which lines t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2777285 | 173,831 |
Sohn Conference Foundation It showcases the next generation of hedge fund managers whose resumes and past performances predict that they will become Wall Street's future stars. Next Wave Sohn is held in the morning before the main conference event. It is in the same format and spirit as the main conference, but for eme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19404227 | 481,478 |
Georg Wittig Wittig's contributions also include the preparation of phenyllithium and the discovery of the 1,2-Wittig rearrangement and the 2,3-Wittig rearrangement. Wittig was well known in the chemistry community for being a consummate experimenter and observer of chemical transformations, while caring very little fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518749 | 34,427 |
Systems development life cycle Key steps within the detail design and development stage include: During the production and/or construction stage the product is built or assembled in accordance with the requirements specified in the product, process and material specifications and is deployed and tested within the opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573528 | 120,010 |
Maximos Mansion The (, "Mégaro Maxímou") has been the official seat of the Prime Minister of Greece since 1982. It is located in downtown Athens, Greece, near Syntagma Square. The building houses the offices of the Head of the Greek Government, but it is not the residence of the Prime Minister. The "Maximos Mansion" is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19957914 | 343,392 |
Market abolitionism Notably, Noam Chomsky is one of those who have expressed the opinion that a truly free market (in the context of a sudden transition from the current system) would destroy the species as well as physical environment. He also favors a democratic participatory planning process as a replacement to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2451225 | 479,030 |
Ucode system The camera of the phone can be used to read a matrix code containing the ucode. Then, the mobile phone inquires the ucode resolution server – via internet connection - about the code. The ucode resolution server returns the source of the provided ucode information based on the ucode read. Finally, the ubiq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34504702 | 230,126 |
Web access management Plugins are programs that are installed on every web/application server, register with those servers, and are called at every request for a web page. They intercept the request and communicate with an external policy server to make policy decisions. One of the benefits of a plugin (or agent) based... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16765936 | 111,968 |
Bonnington Pavilion as at Dunkeld, mirrors are placed, by the reflection of which we had different views of the water." He also comments on the fine view of the cotton mills that was to be had from the west window. It is not clear when it was abandoned, and the structure is now included on the Buildings at Risk Registe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14196760 | 344,600 |
Mobile equipment identifier because there is no bar code or the bar code is unreadable). The decimal form is specified to be 18 digits grouped in a 5–5–4–4 pattern and is calculated by converting the manufacturer code portion (32 bits) to decimal and padding on the left with '0' digits to 10 digits and separately conve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6726416 | 386,561 |
Superinsulation It was the first house to publicly demonstrate the value of superinsulation and generated a lot of attention. It originally included some experimental evacuated-tube solar panels, but they were not needed and were later removed. The house was heated primarily by waste heat from appliances and the occupa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3457359 | 427,195 |
Intelligence amplification He demonstrates this using a peripheral nerve-computer interface, AlterEgo, which enables a human user to silently and internally converse with a personal AI. Shan Carter and Michael Nielsen introduce the concept of artificial intelligence augmentation (AIA): the use of AI systems to help dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3948917 | 275,859 |
Water clock (Indianapolis) Bernard began making items of artistic science in 1979, at the age of 43, when he left the world of research science to create scientific art. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30679421 | 285,511 |
Chemical engineering Education for chemical engineers in the first college degree 3 or 4 years of study stresses the principles and practices of process design. The same skills are used in existing chemical plants to evaluate the efficiency and make recommendations for improvements. Modeling and analysis of transport p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6038 | 223,425 |
Anti-hijack system An anti-hijack system is an electronic system fitted to motor vehicles to deter criminals from hijacking them. Although these types of systems are becoming more common on newer cars, they have not caused a decrease in insurance premiums as they are not as widely known as other more common anti-theft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8189114 | 103,620 |
Legal tender The Australian dollar, comprising notes and coins, is legal tender in Australia. Australian notes are legal tender by virtue of the "Reserve Bank Act 1959", s.36(1), without an amount limit. The "Currency Act 1965" similarly provides that Australian coins intended for general circulation are also legal ten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267793 | 462,959 |
Nobuko Yoshida She undertook her BSc (1992) and MSc (1994) at the University of Keio, Japan, before completing her PhD (1996) jointly at the universities of Keio and Manchester. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49249913 | 128,769 |
Range extender A range extender vehicle is a battery electric vehicle that includes an auxiliary power unit (APU) known as a 'range extender'. The range extender drives an electric generator which charges a battery which supplies the vehicle's electric motor with electricity. This arrangement is known as a series hybri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27380743 | 383,015 |
Handel-C Thus they may be used as a means of synchronizing threads. Asynchronous channels provide a specified amount of storage for data passing through them in the form of a FIFO. Whilst this FIFO neither full nor empty, both sending and receiving threads may proceed without being blocked. However, when the FIFO is em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4244144 | 374,958 |
Detailed balance Let us count the direct and reverse reaction in the kinetic equation separately: An auxiliary function formula_93 of one variable formula_94 is convenient for the representation of dissipation for the mass action law This function formula_93 may be considered as the sum of the reaction rates for "defor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2212867 | 21,461 |
Methylene group In organic chemistry, a methylene group is any part of a molecule that consists of two hydrogen atoms bound to a carbon atom, which is connected to the remainder of the molecule by two single bonds. The group may be represented as CH<, where the '<' denotes the two bonds. This can equally well be repres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38339537 | 32,686 |
Moore's law According to experts in microprocessor design, Dennard scaling ended in the 2000s, so power density no longer scales inversely with areal density. At the 1975 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, Moore revised the forecast rate. Semiconductor complexity would continue to double annually until about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39418 | 410,092 |
C25H36O4 The molecular formula CHO may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31019592 | 31,406 |
Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct from usually edible vegetable oils. The name "mineral oil" by itself is imprecise, having been used for many specific oils over the past few centuries. Other nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212419 | 34,998 |
Sousveillance There is a need for efficacy, efficiency or effectiveness of sousveillance, which can be met by social media, such as through widespread dissemination on social media, and when used as an output modality in conjunction with sousveillance as an input modality, is called "swollag", or gallows spelled backwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=528064 | 269,631 |
Greedy triangulation The Greedy Triangulation is a method to compute a polygon triangulation or a Point set triangulation using a greedy schema, which adds edges one by one to the solution in strict increasing order by length, with the condition that an edge cannot cut a previously inserted edge. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53259964 | 122,261 |
Data assimilation they are used for operational forecasts both at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)). In numerical weather prediction applications, data assimilation is most widely known as a method for combining observati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2458875 | 373,671 |
Software development The need for better quality control of the software development process has given rise to the discipline of software engineering, which aims to apply the systematic approach exemplified in the engineering paradigm to the process of software development. There are many approaches to software project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248932 | 130,537 |
ICORES "Area: Applications" - Daniel Reich, Sandra L. Winkler and Erica Klampfl. "The Pareto Frontier for Vehicle Fleet Purchases" "Area: Methodologies and Technologies" - N. Perel, J. L. Dorsman and M. Vlasiou. "Cyclic-type Polling Models with Preparation Times" "Area: Applications" - Ahmad Almuhtady, Seungchul Lee, E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51158586 | 129,244 |
Photocatalytic water splitting 2% (highest for metal-oxide photo-electrode) with the advantage of a very simple and cheap catalyst. Tungsten diselenide may have a role in future hydrogen fuel production, as a recent discovery in 2015 by scientists in Switzerland revealed that the compound's own photocatalytic propertie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22242751 | 16,992 |
Execute in place All these complications and the speed tradeoff mean that XIP is generally only used for first stage bootloaders or when RAM is in extremely short supply. In particular, second through fourth generation video game consoles connect the ROM cartridge's address and data bus to that of the console, which le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2234152 | 372,441 |
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