Homograph

A homograph is one of a group of words that share the same spelling but have different meanings. When spoken, the meanings are sometimes, but not necessarily, distinguished by different pronunciations. A homograph is a specific type of homonym.

Examples:

(1)
shift n. (a change)
shift n. (a period at work)
shift v. (slang for ‘move it’)

In (1) all three words are identical in spelling and pronunciation (ie they are also homophones), but differ in meaning and function. These are commonly described as different senses of the same word, but if a word is regarded as a unique idea separate from its orthography and pronunciation then they are two different words.

(2)
read /riːd/ (present)
read /red/ (past)

(2) is an example of two words spelt identically but pronounced differently. Here confusion is not possible in spoken language.

Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields.

In typography, “homograph” is sometimes used as a synomym for homoglyph.


See also

  • Homography, a concept in geometry. A homography matrix is sometimes known as a homograph.

BAE Systems Electronics and Integrated Solutions

BAE Systems Electronics & Integrated Solutions (E&IS) is a major operating group of BAE Systems Inc., the North American subsidiary of UK-based BAE Systems.

BAE Systems E&IS was formed in June 2005 by the merger of BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS) and BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration (IESI). This was part of a wider reorganisation which saw BAE businesses in the United States placed into three “operating groups”:

  • BAE Systems E&IS
  • BAE Systems Customer Solutions
  • BAE Systems Land and Armaments


Organisation

  • BAE Systems Electronic Warfare
  • BAE Systems Network Systems
  • BAE Systems Platform Solutions
  • BAE Systems Sensor Systems


External links

  • BAE Systems E&IS homepage

High-level assembler

High-level assemblers are assembly language translators that incorporate features found in modern high-level programming languages into an assembler.

Some high-level assemblers are Borland’s TASM, Microsoft’s MASM, IBM’s HLASM (for z/Architecture systems), Alessandro Ghignola’s Linoleum, and Randall Hyde’s HLA.

High-level assemblers typically provide all the usual low-level machine instructions, plus statements like IF, WHILE, REPEAT…UNTIL, and FOR, in their base language. This allows assembly programmers to use high-level control statement abstractions wherever maximal speed or minimal space is not absolutely required and drop down to low-level machine code when fast or short code is desirable. The end result is assembly source code that is far more readable than standard assembly code while preserving the efficiency inherent with using assembly language.

High-level assemblers generally provide information hiding facilities (though their capabilities vary by assembler) and the ability to call functions and procedures using a high-level-like syntax (i.e., the assembler automatically emits code to push parameters on the stack rather than the programmer having to manually write the code to do this).

In addition to high level control structures, high-level assemblers also provide data abstractions normally found in high level languages. Examples include structures, unions, classes, and sets. Some high level assemblers (e.g., TASM and HLA) even support object-oriented programming.

David Salomon’s book Assemblers and Loaders presents definitions and examples of older high-level assemblers. Those willing to program in a high-level assembly language on the x86 PC should examine HLA and MASM32 (See webster.cs.ucr.edu below) as well as Randall Hyde’s “The Art of Assembly Language”.


External links

  • Information on HLA and assembler
  • Publisher of “The Art of Assembly Language”
  • “Terse: Algebraic Assembly Language for x86″

I Never Liked You

I Never Liked You ISBN 1-896-59714-9) is an autobiographical graphic novel by Chester Brown. It was published by Drawn and Quarterly in 1994.

List of highways numbered 80

The following highways are numbered 80:


Kuwait

  • Highway 80 (Kuwait)


United States

  • Interstate 80
  • U.S. Route 80
  • Connecticut Route 80
  • State Road 80 (Florida)
  • Maryland Route 80
  • M-80 (Michigan highway)
  • Minnesota State Highway 80
  • Montana Highway 80
  • Nevada State Route 80
  • New Mexico State Road 80
  • New York State Route 80
  • Pennsylvania Route 80
  • State Route 80 (Virginia)

Local Management Interface

Local Management Interface (LMI) is a signaling standard used between routers and frame relay switches. Communication takes place between a router and the first frame relay switch it’s connected to. Information about keepalives, global addressing, IP Multicast and the status of virtual circuits is commonly exchanged using LMI.

There are three standards for LMI: ANSI’s Annex D standard, T1.617; ITU-T’s Q.933 Annex A standard; and the “Gang of Four” standard, named for the four companies that developed it: Cisco, DEC, StrataCom and NorTel (Northern Telecom).

Sputter coating

Sputter coating in microscopy is a process of covering a specimen with a very thin layer of heavy metal, generally a gold/palladium (Au/Pd) mixture. This coating increases the ability of a specimen to conduct electricity and emit secondary electrons when in a scanning electron microscope, acting as a “stain” for electron microscopy. Biological specimens, composed largely of carbon compounds, are usually poor emitters of secondary electrons due to the low atomic number of carbon. Rather than absorbing electrons from the electron source of the microscope and then emitting electrons for detection, carbon compounds tend to collect a charge.


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Changing bag

A changing bag is a bag specifically designed so that it does not allow light to enter while in usage. It is required for certain applications involving photosensitive materials when a dark room is not available. Common usages include removing film from its canister to put it into a developing tank. They are also commonly found on the set of a film, where the clapper loader may need one if shooting on location or far away from a dark room.


Usage

It is handy to use when a darkroom is not available as is often the case in field shooting. It is also used in commercial photoprocessing labs, often to change paper.


Description

A changing bag has two sleeves at one end for both the user’s arms, and a zipper (often more than one, for double layered changing bags) to insert the tools and film needed. There are several sizes available, from smaller ones for many still photography applications to larger bags used in large-format still photography or filmmaking, which may need to hold both a magazine and a can of film stock which each have a 1000 foot capacity. Larger changing bag sizes are also available as “changing tents”, where the top of the bag can be held in a dome-like configuration through the use of two curved rods.

Film laboratory

A film laboratory is a commercial service enterprise and technical facility for the film industry where specialists develop, print, and conform film material for classical film production and distribution which is based on film material, such as negative and positive, black and white and color, on different film formats: 65-70mm, 35mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, 8 mm.

Although sometimes somewhat mysterious the individual technical services are most clearly defined. Exposed motion-picture film will be processed according to exact chemical prescriptions at measured temperature as well as over measured time. Today the interaction of the photographic baths with the chemicals in the films´ photographic layers is largely understood down to the atomic scale. It might appear amazing that the amplification factor of development is in the region of 100 million times.

After processing there is an original, the camera or picture original, in most cases a negative. From it a first sample is exposed on a motion-picture film printer. Again after processing there is a positive ready for inspection by the production representatives, usually by projection in the dark just like one sees a movie in a theatre.

The film lab. thus needs various apparatus from developing equipment and machines, over measuring tools, cutting, editing devices, and printers to different sorts of viewing machinery including classic projectors. Besides there are sensitometers, densitometers, analysers, and array of chemical laboratory items that will help maintaining a level of repeatability of operations. Auxiliary material is also encountered within a film laboratory, for example leader film, plain plastic, to keep a developing machine threaded up.

Every single action of the lab costs money. The film laboratory managers can offer by the footage or by time. This issue is rather complex, because at times one tends to feel misunderstood when, let us say, the screening of 200 feet of film causes the same amount in the bill like one of 1000 feet. Yet, for the lab people both footages demand equal labour (preparation of rooms, machines, and film).

Electronic Games

Electronic Games was the first video game magazine published in the United States and ran from 1981 to 1985. Co-founded by Arnie Katz, Joyce Worley and Bill Kunkel, it is unrelated to the subsequent Electronic Gaming Monthly.


External links

  • Article on the first issue of Electronic Games

Pipe down

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Multiplication factor

Multiplication factor may refer to:

  • Neutron multiplication factor, in a nuclear chain reaction
  • Multiplication factor, a term used in digital photography
  • Multiplication factor or gas gain in gas ionization detectors used in Nuclear and Particle Physics.


See also

  • Multiplicative factor

E-4 process

See also Ektachrome for full details of Kodak E-series processes.

The E-4 process is a now outdated process for developing color reversal (transparency) photographic film.

The process is infamous for its use of the highly toxic reversal agent Tertiary Butyl-Amine Borane (TBAB). The use of the reversal agent permitted processing of the film without the manual reexposure that its predecessor E-3 required. The process was also faster and ran at 30°C (86°F), about 6°C (10°F) higher than E-3. The ME-4 process was a motion picture variation of the E-4 process.

The process was phased out in 1976 with the introduction of the E-6 process which was more environmentally friendly due to its lack of toxic chemicals.

Today the process is discontinued but was used up until 1996 for Kodak IE Color Infrared film. This was due to legal commitment by Kodak to provide the process for 30 years.


External links

  • Kodak specifications for hand mixing of chemistry


Processing of older Ektachrome films (including Process E-4)

  • Process C-22 UK and Europe
  • Film Rescue USA and Canada
  • Rocky Mountain USA

The Astral Files

The Astral Files is the fourth album by the Israel-based Goa- and Psychedelic Trance group Astral Projection. It was released in 1996 on Phonokol.


Track listing

  1. “Ionized” – 7:23
  2. “Zero” – 5:56
  3. “Enlightened Evolution” (Remix) – 7:20
  4. “Free Tibet” – 7:40
  5. “Maian Dream” – 7:01
  6. “Kabalah” (New Age Mix) – 9:12
  7. “Time Began With The Universe” (The end of time Mix) – 7:23
  8. “Utopia” (Concept Remix) – 7:48
  9. “Electronic” – 9:03
  10. “Ambience” – 7:41

Stromkern

An electronic music act that blends industrial and hip-hop, Stromkern was formed in 1994 by James “Ned” Kirby.

Kirby was originally a DJ in Madison, Wisconsin as a teenager, experimenting under the moniker “Flowers for Ravers” before founding Stromkern. Disenchanted with the music he was receiving as a DJ, he decided to start his own industrial act. His early compositions included the German-language “Konzentrationslagen” and “Aussicht vom Rande der Nacht” as well as a cover of Nick Cave’s “The Mercy Seat”, all of which found favor on compilations. He was soon signed to German label Kodex/Sushia Light, and the resulting CD “Flicker Like a Candle” announced Stromkern to the club music scene. Stromkern now records for Dependent Records in Europe and WTII Records in North America.

After two successful albums and several singles as essentially a solo artist, Kirby recruited musician/producer and friend Kelly Shaffer to join the lineup for “Armageddon.” Additional live members Matt Berger, Rob Wentz and later Tyler Newman (of Battery Cage and Informatik) joined the band for the recording of “Light it Up.”


Discography


Singles/EPs

  • Flicker Like a Candle EP (Kodex/Sushia Light, 1997)
  • Night Riders EP (Scanner, 2000)
  • Re-align EP (WTII Records (U.S.) / Scanner (EU), 2002)
  • “Stand Up” single (EU) (Dependent Records, 2005)
  • “Stand Up” single (U.S.) (WTII Records, 2005 - Different tracklisting)
  • “Reminders” single (U.S.) (WTII Records, 2006)
  • “Reminders” single (EU) (Dependent Records, 2006 - Different tracklisting)
  • “Hindsight” single (EU) (Dependent Records, 2006 - digital-only release)


Albums

  • Dammerung Im Traum (Scanner (EU) / WTII Records (U.S.), 1999)
  • Flicker Like a Candle (Millennium Edition) (Scanner (EU) / WTII Records (U.S.), 2001)
  • Armageddon (Scanner (EU) / WTII Records (U.S.), 2001)
  • Armageddon/Perfect Remix (Limited 2CD) (Scanner (EU) / WTII Records (U.S.), 2001)
  • Light It Up (WTII Records (U.S.) / Dependent Records (EU), 2005)


Other Releases

  • Project Gotham Racer 3 Soundtrack (November 2005)
Other notable acts on the soundtrack are Mind.In.A.box, Covenant, Auto Aggression, Mindless Faith, and Deathboy.
  • J Ned Kirby provides vocals on the track Accelerating on the 2004 album Aura by The Alpha Conspiracy, and also lends his talents on two albums by the band Cycloon (titled Head|Over|Now (2000) and Zeitseize (2002) ). The tracks from the Cycloon albums are: Inheritance,New Patterns, Nemesis and Scars of Obedience; for some time lyrics to these were provided on the stromkern homepage.(archive.org cache, circa 2003)


External links

  • Official Site

List of fictional species

There are a number of lists of fictional species:


Alien species (science fiction)

  • List of extraterrestrials in fiction
  • List of fictional robots


Fantasy species (fantasy fiction)

  • List of species in fantasy fiction
  • List of fictional dragons
    • List of dragons in fantasy fiction
  • List of Pokémon
  • List of Digimon
  • List of The Future Is Wild species


Humanoid species

  • List of fictional humanoid species


Plant species

  • List of fictional plants

Value-rational action

Rational action (or value-rational action, wertrational) is a social action which is taken because it leads to a valued goal, but with no thought of its consequences and often without consideration of the appropriateness of the means chosen to achieve it (’the end sanctifies the means’).


See also

  • Affectional action
  • Forms of activity and interpersonal relations
  • Instrumental action
  • Traditional action

Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy

Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy is a method of examination of the eye. It uses the technique of confocal laser scanning microscopy for diagnostic imaging of retina or cornea of the human eye.

It is helpful in the diagnosis of glaucoma, macular degeneration, and other retinal disorders.

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See also

  • Ophthalmoscopy


Notes

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External links

  • Optos website

Form factor

Form factor may refer to:

  • Form factor (radiative transfer) or emissivity, the proportion of energy transmitted by that object which can be transferred to another object
  • Form factor (electronics), an alternating current waveform
  • Electric form factor, the Fourier transform of electric charge distribution in space
  • Magnetic form factor, the Fourier transform of an electric current distribution in space
  • Atomic form factor, or atomic scattering factor, is a measure of the amplitude of a wave scattered from an isolated atom
  • Motherboard form factor, the size and shape of a computer’s motherboard, which sets a lower limit on the overall size and shape of the computer

ICAO code

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) defines several important codes for use in international aviation:

  • ICAO airport codes or location indicators (published in ICAO Document 7910 - Location Indicators): 4-letter codes like LSZH for Zuerich or HECA for Cairo
  • ICAO airline designators (published in ICAO Document 8585 - Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services): 3-letter codes like BAW for British Airways or AFR for Air France
  • ICAO aircraft type designators (published in ICAO Document 8643 - Aircraft Type Designators): 4-letter codes like A320 for Airbus 320 or B772 for Boeing 777-200
  • ICAO 24bit aircraft addresses: allocation of 24 bit addresses to states to uniquely identify aircraft worldwide

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Beyond the Sea

Beyond The Sea may refer to:

  • Beyond the Sea (song), a hit song recorded by Bobby Darin in 1960
  • Beyond the Sea (film), a 2004 film starring Kevin Spacey about the life of singer Bobby Darin
  • “Beyond the Sea (The X-Files episode)”, an episode of The X-Files named after the song
  • Beyond the Sea (album), the fifth full-length album by the power metal band, Dark Moor
  • Beyond the Sea (K Album), the first album by J-Pop artist K.