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Hydronic balancing, also called hydraulic balancing, is the process of optimizing the distribution of water in a building's hydronic heating or cooling...

Object Query Language (OQL) is a query language standard for object-oriented databases modeled after SQL and developed by the Object Data Management Group...

In mathematical modeling, a guess value is more commonly called a starting value or initial value. These are necessary for most optimization problems which...

In geometry, a negative pedal curve is a plane curve that can be constructed from another plane curve C and a fixed point P on that curve. For each point...

In mathematics, the infinitesimal character of an irreducible representation ρ of a semisimple Lie group G on a vector space V is, roughly speaking, a...

Java AWT Native Interface (JAWT) is an interface for the Java programming language that enables rendering libraries compiled to native code to draw directly...

Nikolai Alexandrovich Kudryavtsev (Russian: Николай Александрович Кудрявцев; Opochka, October 21, 1893 – Leningrad, December 12, 1971) was a Soviet Russian...

A feed ramp is a basic feature of many breech loading cartridge firearm designs. It is a tightly machined and polished piece of metal which guides a cartridge...

Fab Lab MSI (Fabrication Laboratory at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois) is a small scale workshop that uses various machines to...

In cell biology, the Celada–Seiden model is a logical description at the inter-cellular level of the mechanisms making up the adaptive immune humoral and...

Ernst Schatz (1844–1887) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. With Otto Staudinger (1830-1900), he wrote Exotische Schmetterlinge...

In the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), a high-speed communication channel comprising multiple aggregated low-speed channels to accommodate...

In theoretical physics, the word meta-operator is sometimes used to refer to a specific operation over a combination of operators, as in the example of...

Paranormal Attack is a psychedelic trance group formed by Rui Oliveira (Xangaii), Gonçalo Miranda and Lucas, originally from Portugal. They have been producing...

The Tajik Soviet Encyclopedia (Tajik: Энциклопедияи советии тоҷик) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Tajik language, published in Dushanbe from...

The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century is a 2004 book by Thomas P.M. Barnett based around an earlier article he wrote for Esquire...

A swing-door operator (or swing-door opener or automatic swing-door operator) is a device that operates a swing door for pedestrian use. It opens or helps...

VeloBind is a type of book binding often offered at copy and print shops. Velobinding involves punching several small holes along the edge of an unbound...

A testing reliability is a set of two probabilities, the definition of which varies by field. In medicine, the sensitivity and specificity are conventionally...

The Centre Algerien de la Cinematographie is a film archive in Algeria.[citation needed] List of archives in Algeria List of film archives Cinema of Algeria...