CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Yum! Brands, Inc. Type Public ( Spin out ) Traded as NYSE : YUM S&P 500 Component Industry Restaurants Founded 1997 as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc . 2002 – Yum! Brands LLC Headquarters Louisville, Kentucky , United States Area served Worldwide Key people David C. Novak ( Executive Chairman ) Greg Creed ( CEO ) Patrick J. Grismer ( CFO ) Revenue US$ 13.084 Billion (2013) [ 1 ] Operating income US$ 1.798 Billion (2013) [ 1 ] Net income US$ 1.091 Billion (2013) [ 1 ] Total assets US$ 8.695 billion (2013) [ 2 ] Total equity US$ 2.229 Billion (2013) [ 1 ] Number of employees Approximately 539,000 (as of December 2013) [ 1 ] Divisions China, India Subsidiaries KFC Pizza Hut Taco Bell WingStreet Super Chix ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Stars ) Jump to: navigation , search For other uses, see Star (disambiguation) . A star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud . False-color imagery of the Sun , a G-type main-sequence star , the closest to Earth A star is a luminous sphere of plasma held together by its own gravity . The nearest star to Earth is the Sun . Other stars, mostly in the Milky Way , are visible from Earth during the night, appearing as a multitude of fixed luminous points in the sky due to their immense distance from Earth. Historically, the most prominent stars were grouped into constellations and asterisms , and the brightest stars gained proper names. Extensive catalogues of stars have been assembled by astronomers, which provide standardized star designations . For at least a portion of its life, a ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Elastin Identifiers Symbols ELN ; SVAS; WBS; WS External IDs OMIM : 130160 MGI : 95317 HomoloGene : 73880 GeneCards : ELN Gene Gene ontology Molecular function • extracellular matrix structural constituent • protein binding • extracellular matrix constituent conferring elasticity • extracellular matrix binding Cellular component • extracellular region • proteinaceous extracellular matrix • mitochondrion • elastic fiber Biological process • blood vessel remodeling • skeletal muscle tissue development • respiratory gaseous exchange • blood circulation • cell proliferation • organ morphogenesis • extracellular matrix organization • regulation of actin filament polymerization • stress fiber assembly Sources: Amigo / QuickGO ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Pol Pot Pol Pot in 1978 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea In office February 1963 – 1981 Vice Secretary Nuon Chea Preceded by Tou Samouth Succeeded by None (party dissolved) Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea In office 25 October 1976 – 7 January 1979 President Khieu Samphan Deputy Ieng Sary Son Sen Preceded by Nuon Chea Succeeded by Pen Sovan In office 17 April 1975 – 27 September 1976 President Norodom Sihanouk Khieu Samphan Preceded by Khieu Samphan (acting) Succeeded by Nuon Chea Personal details Born Saloth Sar ( 1925-05-19 ) 19 May 1925 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Prek Sbauv , Kampong Thom , French Indochina Died 15 April 1998 ( 1998-04-15 ) (aged 72) Anlong Veng , Oddar Me...

CentralNotice Until the Light Takes Us From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Until the Light Takes Us Theatrical release poster Directed by Aaron Aites Audrey Ewell Produced by Aaron Aites Tyler Brodie Audrey Ewell Gill Holland Frederick Howard Starring Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg Kjetil-Vidar "Frost" Haraldstad Harmony Korine Bjarne Melgaard Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg Bård "Faust" Eithun Cinematography Audrey Ewell Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen Edited by Andrew Ford Production company Artists Public Domain Field Pictures The Group Entertainment Release dates October 31, 2008 ( 2008-10-31 ) (AFI Film Festival) December 4, 2009 ( 2009-12-04 ) (United States) Running time 93 minutes Country United States Language English Until...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "Scent of rain" redirects here. For the play, see Scent of Rain . For other uses, see Scent of Rain (disambiguation) . "Smell of rain" redirects here. For the album, see The Smell of Rain . Rainfall Petrichor ( / ˈ p ɛ t r ɨ k ɔər / ) is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil . The word is constructed from Greek , petra , meaning ‘stone’, + ichor , the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. The term was coined in 1964 by two researchers, Isabel Joy Bear ( Australian ) and Roderick G. Thomas ( British ), for an article in the journal Nature . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the article, the authors describe how the smell derives from an oil exuded by certain plants during dry periods, whereupon it is absorbed by clay -based soils and rocks . During rain, the oil ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search GoboLinux GoboLinux desktop OS family Unix-like Working state Current [ 1 ] Source model Open source Latest release 015 / May 7, 2014 ( 2014-05-07 ) Available in German , English, Hungarian , Portuguese , Spanish Platforms i686 Kernel type Monolithic Linux kernel Default user interface Enlightenment License GNU General Public License Official website gobolinux .org GoboLinux is a free and open source operating system whose most prominent feature is a reorganization of the traditional Linux file system . Rather than following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard like most Unix-like systems, each program in a GoboLinux system has its own subdirectory tree, where all of its files (including settings specific for that program) may be found. Thus, a...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search A 1776 textbook drawing of a tobacco smoke enema device, consisting of a nozzle, a fumigator and a bellows The tobacco smoke enema , an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema , was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments. Tobacco was recognised as a medicine soon after it was first imported from the New World , and tobacco smoke was used by western medical practitioners as a tool against cold and drowsiness, but applying it by enema was a technique appropriated from the North American Indians . The procedure was used to treat gut pain, and attempts were often made to resuscitate victims of near drowning . Liquid tobacco enemas were often given to ease the symptoms of a hernia . During the early 19th century the practice fell into d...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Internet protocol suite Application layer BGP DHCP DNS FTP HTTP IMAP LDAP MGCP NNTP NTP POP ONC/RPC RTP RTSP RIP SIP SMTP SNMP SSH Telnet TLS/SSL XMPP more... Transport layer TCP UDP DCCP SCTP RSVP more... Internet layer IP IPv4 IPv6 ICMP ICMPv6 ECN IGMP IPsec more... Link layer ARP NDP OSPF Tunnels L2TP PPP MAC Ethernet DSL ISDN FDDI more... v t e The Quote Of The Day ( QOTD ) service is a member of the Internet protocol suite , defined in RFC 865 . As indicated there, the QOTD concept predated the specification, when QOTD was used by mainframe sysadmins to broadcast a daily quote on request by a user. It was then formally codified both for prior purposes as well as for testing and measurement purposes in RFC 865 . A host may connect to a s...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2008) In computer science , the subset sum problem is one of the important problem in complexity theory and cryptography . The problem is this: given a set (or multiset ) of integers, is there a non-empty subset whose sum is zero? For example, given the set {−7, −3, −2, 5, 8}, the answer is yes because the subset {−3, −2, 5} sums to zero. The problem is NP-complete . An equivalent problem is this: given a set of integers and an integer s , does any non-empty subset sum to s ? Subset sum can also be thought of as a special case of the knapsack problem . [ 1 ] One interesting special case of s...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search In the C and C++ programming languages, the comma operator (represented by the token , ) is a binary operator that evaluates its first operand and discards the result, and then evaluates the second operand and returns this value (and type). The use of the comma token as an operator is distinct from its use in function calls and definitions, variable declarations, enum declarations, and similar constructs, where it acts as a separator . 1 Syntax 2 Examples 3 Uses 3.1 For loops 3.2 Macros 3.3 Condition 3.4 Complex return 3.5 Avoid a block 4 Other languages 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Syntax [ edit ] The comma operator separates expressions (which have value) in a way analogous to how the semicolon terminates statements, and sequences of expressions are en...

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CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search In game theory , " guess 2/3 of the average " is a game where several people guess what 2/3 of the average of their guesses will be, and where the numbers are restricted to the real numbers between 0 and 100, inclusive. The winner is the one closest to the 2/3 average. 1 Equilibrium analysis 2 Experimental results 3 Rationality versus common knowledge of rationality 4 History 5 See also 6 Notes Equilibrium analysis [ edit ] In this game there is no strictly dominant strategy. However, there is a unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium . This equilibrium can be found by iterated elimination of weakly dominated strategies . Guessing any number that lies above 66.67 is weakly dominated for every player since it cannot possibly be 2/3 of the average of any guess. These can be elim...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The Kendall tau rank distance is a metric that counts the number of pairwise disagreements between two ranking lists. The larger the distance, the more dissimilar the two lists are. Kendall tau distance is also called bubble-sort distance since it is equivalent to the number of swaps that the bubble sort algorithm would make to place one list in the same order as the other list. The Kendall tau distance was created by Maurice Kendall . 1 Definition 2 Example 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Definition [ edit ] The Kendall tau ranking distance between two lists and is where and are the rankings of the element i in and respectively. will be equal to 0 if the two lists are identical and (where is the list size) if one list is the reverse of the other. Often Kendall ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "Iff" redirects here. For other uses, see IFF (disambiguation) . "↔" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Bidirectional traffic . This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2013) ↔⇔≡ Logical symbols representing iff Transformation rules Propositional calculus Rules of inference Modus ponens / Modus tollens Biconditional introduction / elimination Conjunction introduction / elimination Disjunction introduction / elimination Disjunctive / Hypothetical syllogism Constructive / Destructive dilemma Absorption Modus ponendo tollens Rules of replacement Associativity Commutativity Distributivity Double ne...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2015) A curriculum vitae ( English pronunciation: / k ə ˈ r ɪ k j ʉ l ə m ˈ v iː t aɪ / , / ˈ w iː t aɪ / , or / ˈ v aɪ t iː / ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] C.V. ) [ 3 ] is a written overview of a person's experience and other qualifications. In some countries, a C.V. is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview . The official Latin is lowercase cv. 1 Use 2 Etymology and spellings 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Use [ edit ] In the United Kingdom , most Commonwe...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For the village located within this town, see Horseheads (village), New York . Horseheads, New York Town Horseheads Location within the state of New York Coordinates: 42°09′59″N 76°49′39″W  /  42.16639°N 76.82750°W  / 42.16639; -76.82750 Coordinates : 42°09′59″N 76°49′39″W  /  42.16639°N 76.82750°W  / 42.16639; -76.82750 Country United States State New York County Chemung Government • Type Town Council • Town Supervisor Michael W. Edwards ( R ) • Town Council Members • Albert J. Curran • Donald J. Fischer • Carl R. Lewis, Sr. • Gary H. Riopko Area • Total 35.9 sq mi (93.0 km 2 ) • Land 35.6 sq mi (92.2 km 2 ) • Water 0.3 sq mi (0.8 km 2 ) Population ( 2010 ) [ 1 ] • Total 19,485 • Density 547/sq mi (2...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Bitonic sorter Bitonic sort network with eight inputs. Class Sorting algorithm Data structure Array Worst case performance parallel time Best case performance parallel time Average case performance parallel time Worst case space complexity comparators Bitonic mergesort is a parallel algorithm for sorting. It is also used as a construction method for building a sorting network . The algorithm was devised by Ken Batcher . The resulting sorting networks consist of comparators and have a delay of , where is the number of items to be sorted. [ 1 ] A sorted sequence is a monotonically non-decreasing (or non-increasing) sequence. A bitonic sequence is a sequence with for some , or a circular shift of such a sequence. 1 How the algorithm works 2 Example code...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For other uses, see Dwarf (disambiguation) . DWARF is a widely used, standardized debugging data format . DWARF was originally designed along with Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), although it is independent of object file formats. [ 1 ] The name is a medieval fantasy complement to "ELF" that has no official meaning, although the backronym 'Debugging With Attributed Record Formats' was later proposed. [ 1 ] 1 History 2 Structure 3 Further reading 4 See also 5 References 6 External links History [ edit ] The first version of DWARF proved to use excessive amounts of storage, and an incompatible successor, DWARF-2, superseded it and added various encoding schemes to reduce data size. DWARF did not immediately gain universal acceptance; for instance, when Sun Microsystems ad...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For other uses, see Dwarf (disambiguation) . DWARF is a widely used, standardized debugging data format . DWARF was originally designed along with Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), although it is independent of object file formats. [ 1 ] The name is a medieval fantasy complement to "ELF" that has no official meaning, although the backronym 'Debugging With Attributed Record Formats' was later proposed. [ 1 ] 1 History 2 Structure 3 Further reading 4 See also 5 References 6 External links History [ edit ] The first version of DWARF proved to use excessive amounts of storage, and an incompatible successor, DWARF-2, superseded it and added various encoding schemes to reduce data size. DWARF did not immediately gain universal acceptance; for instance, when Sun Microsystems ad...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs attention from an expert on the subject . Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. Consider associating this request with a WikiProject . (January 2013) A graphical representation of an example Boltzmann machine. Each undirected edge represents dependency. In this example there are 3 hidden units and 4 visible units. This is not a restricted Boltzmann machine. A Boltzmann machine is a type of stochastic recurrent neural network invented by Geoffrey Hinton and Terry Sejnowski in 1985. Boltzmann machines can be seen as the stochastic , generative counterpart of Hopfield nets . They were one of the first examples of a neural network capable of learning internal representations, and are able to represent an...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Lighting and reflection calculations (shown here in the first-person shooter OpenArena ) use the fast inverse square root code to compute angles of incidence and reflection. Fast inverse square root (sometimes referred to as Fast InvSqrt() or by the hexadecimal constant 0x5f3759df ) is a method of calculating x −½ , the reciprocal (or multiplicative inverse) of a square root for a 32-bit floating point number in IEEE 754 floating point format . The algorithm was probably developed at Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s, and an implementation appeared in 1999 in the Quake III Arena source code, but the method did not appear on public forums such as Usenet until 2002 or 2003. [ 1 ] At the time, the primary advantage of the algorithm came from avoiding computationally expensive floating...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Thermodynamics The classical Carnot heat engine Branches Classical Statistical Chemical Equilibrium / Non-equilibrium Laws Zeroth First Second Third Systems State Equation of state Ideal gas Real gas State of matter Equilibrium Control volume Instruments Processes Isobaric Isochoric Isothermal Adiabatic Isentropic Isenthalpic Quasistatic Polytropic Free expansion Reversibility Irreversibility Endoreversibility Cycles Heat engines Heat pumps Thermal efficiency System properties Note: Conjugate variables in italics Property diagrams Intensive and extensive properties Functions of state Temperature / Entropy ( introduction ) Pressure / Volume Chemical potential / Particle number Vapor quality Reduced propertie...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2015) The following tables list the running time of various algorithms for common mathematical operations . Here, complexity refers to the time complexity of performing computations on a multitape Turing machine . [ 1 ] See big O notation for an explanation of the notation used. Note: Due to the variety of multiplication algorithms, M ( n ) below stands in for the complexity of the chosen multiplication algorithm. 1 Arithmetic functions 2 Algebraic functions 3 Special functions 3.1 Elementary functions 3.2 Non-elementary functions 3.3 Mathematical constants 4 Number theory 5 Ma...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search De Bruijn sequence for k = 2 and n = 2 In combinatorial mathematics , a k -ary De Bruijn sequence B ( k , n ) of order n , named after the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn , is a cyclic sequence of a given alphabet A with size k for which every possible subsequence of length n in A appears as a sequence of consecutive characters exactly once. Each B ( k , n ) has length k n . There are distinct De Bruijn sequences B ( k , n ) . According to de Bruijn, [ 1 ] the existence of De Bruijn sequences for each order together with the above properties were first proved, for the case of alphabets with two elements, by Camille Flye Sainte-Marie in 1894, [ 2 ] whereas the generalization to larger alphabets is originally due to Tanja van Aardenne-Ehrenfest and himself. 1 H...