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13. Encoded Archival Description Tag Library
- www.loc.gov
- <function> Function.
- The <function> element may be used in text elements such as <p>. To indicate a function with major representation in the materials being described, nest <function> within the <controlaccess> element. ...
- The AUTHFILENUMBER attribute can be used to identify a link to an authority file record that has more information about the function or cross references for alternative forms of a function term. ...
- The <function> element is comparable to MARC field 657.
- </p> <controlaccess> <head>Government Functions:</head> <function encodinganalog="657" source="aat">Law enforcing. </function> <function encodinganalog="657" source="aat">Convicting. </function> </controlaccess> </controlaccess> .
14. C++ Tutorial - Lesson 16: Function Templates
- cplus.about.com
- You are here:About>Computing & Technology>C / C++> Learning C++> Beginner C++ Tutorial> C++ Tutorial - Lesson 16: Function Templates Home EssentialsC TutorialC++ TutorialC/C++ GlossaryTipsMore Tutorials Articles & ResourcesLearning C++Learning CC++ ProgrammingLearning C#C ProgrammingDesignSoftware Engineering. ...
- C++ Tutorial - Lesson 16: Function Templates .
- • Function Templates, Page 1.
- • Function Templates, Page 2.
- • Function Templates, Page 3.
- • C++ Tutorial - Function Overloading.
- This lesson covers function templates, which are an advanced topic in C++. ...
- Function templates provide a way to parameterize the arguments or return types of a function. What does this mean? In the definition of the function, rather than specifying an explicit type of some of the arguments or the return value, a placeholder is used. Why would this be of benefit? Let's look at the same example that was used in the lesson on function overloading. Suppose it's needed to have a function that converts a temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
- Now suppose that a Convert function is also needed to convert an integer Fahrenheit temperature to Celsius in the same program, or a double Fahrenheit to a double Celsius, etc. ... Keeping track of multiple function names is difficult and can lead to programming errors. The second solution was to use function overloading. Function overloading is a technique that allows the programmer to define multiple functions with the same name differing in the number and/or type of their arguments. The compiler chooses the correct function based on the arguments in the function call. ... Function definitions were written for each case, and the sample program correctly resolved the right function to call based on the data types in the arguments of the function invocation. The one weakness in this technique was that it was necessary to write multiple function definitions when each definition differed only in the type of its parameters. Function templates provide a way to write a single function definition where the data type is a parameter. ...
15. Riemann Zeta Function -- from MathWorld
- mathworld.wolfram.com
- Calculus and Analysis "> Special Functions "> Riemann Zeta Function .
- Riemann Zeta Function.
- The Riemann zeta function is an extremely important special function of mathematics and physics that arises in definite integration and is intimately related with very deep results surrounding the prime number theorem. While many of the properties of this function have been investigated, there remain important fundamental conjectures (most notably the Riemann hypothesis) that remain unproved to this day. The Riemann zeta function is defined over the complex plane for one complex variable, and is conventionally denoted s (instead of the usual z) in deference to the notation used by Riemann in his 1859 paper that founded the study of this function (Riemann 1859). ...
- On the real line with x > 1, the Riemann zeta function can be defined by the integral .
- where is the gamma function. ...
- Integrating the final expression in (6) gives , which cancels the factor and gives the most common form of the Riemann zeta function, .
- The Riemann zeta function can also be defined in terms of multiple integrals by .
- Note that the zeta function has a singularity at n = 1, where it reduces to the divergent harmonic series. ...
- The Riemann zeta function satisfies the reflection functional equation .
- As defined above, the zeta function with a complex number is defined for. ...
- Here, the sum on the right-hand side is exactly the Dirichlet eta function (sometimes also called the alternating zeta function). ... A globally convergent series for the Riemann zeta function (which provides the analytic continuation of to the entire complex plane except s = 1) is given by .
- that, unlike (18), can also be extended to a generalization of the Riemann zeta function known as the Hurwitz zeta function. ...
- The Riemann zeta function can also be defined in the complex plane by the contour integral .
16. Angiosperm Stucture/Function Tutorials
- biog-101-104.bio.cornell.edu
- Angiosperm Stucture & Function Tutorials Lab. ...
- Questions to test your understanding of angiosperm stucture & function.
17. The compliance function in banks (Basel Committee Publications No. 103 - October 2003)
- www.bis.org
- BIS Home > Publications > Committee Publications > BCBS Publications > The compliance function in banks .
- The compliance function in banks .
- As part of its ongoing efforts to address bank supervisory issues and enhance sound practices in banking organisations, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (The Committee) is issuing this paper on the compliance function in banking organisations. The purpose of the compliance function is to assist the bank in managing its compliance risk, which can be defined as the risk of legal or regulatory sanctions, financial loss, or loss to reputation a bank may suffer as a result of its failure to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, codes of conduct and standards of good practice (together, "laws, rules and standards"). ...
- BIS Home > Publications > Committee Publications > BCBS Publications > The compliance function in banks .
18. Virtual Hospital: Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests: Spirometry
- www.vh.org
- Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests: Spirometry.
- Pulmonary function testing is one of the basic tools for evaluating a patient's respiratory status. ... Pulmonary function tests (PFT's) are also used for pre-operative evaluation, managing patients with known pulmonary disease, and quantifying pulmonary disability. ...
- Practice Test for Interpreting Pulmonary Function Tests: Spirometry .
- Test for Interpreting Pulmonary Function Tests: SPirometry - CME Credit.
19. Insulin Function and Diabetes
- web.indstate.edu
- Return to Medical Biochemistry Page Actions of Insulin The major function of insulin is to counter the concerted action of a number of hyperglycemia-generating hormones and to maintain low blood glucose levels. ...
- Insulin also has profound effects on the transcription of numerous genes, effects that are primarily mediated by regulated function of sterol-regulated element binding protein, SREBP. ...
- The most common form of diabetes is diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disorder in which there is an inability to oxidize carbohydrate due to disturbances in insulin function. ...
- All cases to date have shown impaired b-cell function. ...
- Drug-induced diabetes; treatment with glucocorticoids and diuretics can interfere with insulin function. ...
- In addition to the loss of insulin secretion, the function of pancreatic a-cells is also abnormal. ...
- These compounds bind to and alter the function of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor g (PPARg). ...
- The a-Glucosidase inhibitors: Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors such as acarbose (Precose) and miglitol (Glyset) function by interfering with the action of the a-glucosidases present in the small intestinal brush border. ... The advantage to the use of the a-glucosidase inhibitors is that they function locally in the intestine and have no major systemic action. ... Sulfonylureas function by binding to and inhibiting the pancreatic ATP-dependent potassium channel that is normally involved in glucose-mediated insulin secretion (see above under insulin function). ... The Biguanides: The biguanides are a class of drugs that function to lower serum glucose levels by enhancing insulin-mediated suppression of hepatic glucose production and enhancing insulin-stimulated glucose uptake by skeletal muscle. ... The TZDs function as agonists for the nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-g (PPARg). ... Recent clinical evidence has shown that either infusion of GLP-1 or inhibition of DPP IV can result in dramatic reductions in plasma glucose concentrations, reductions in HbA1c and improvement in pancreatic b-cell function. Thus, both represent potential targets for the prevention of the hyperglycemia associated with diabetes and impaired insulin function (see the DPP IV review site maintained by Dr. ...
20. Wave Function of the Universe(s)
- www.geocities.com
- Wave Function of the Universe(s).
- is a wave function that describes all the possible various possible states of a particle. ... The thundercloud may be compared to a single electron's wave function. ... As I sit in my chair in Princeton, I know that I have a Schrödinger probabllity wave function. If I could somehow see my own wave function, it would resemble a cloud very much in the shape of my body. ... Although part of my wave function has spread even beyond the Milky Way galaxy, there is only an infinitesimal chance that I am sitting in another galaxy. ... We begin with a wave function describing the set of all possible universes. This means that the starting point of Hawking's theory must be an infinite set of parallel universes, the wave function of the universe. ... According to this picture, the wave function of the universe spreads out over all possible universes. The wave function is assumed to be quite large near our own universe, so there is a good chance that our universe is the correct one, as we expect. ... Since the wave function is supposedly vanishingly small for these other universes, we do not expect that our universe will make a quantum leap to them in the near future. The goal facing quantum cosmologists is to verify this conjecture mathematically, to show that the wave function of the universe is large for our present universe and vanishingly small for other universes.
- In Hawking's wave function of the universe, the wave function is most likely concentrated around our own universe. ... However, there is a small but non-vanishing probability that the wave function prefers neighboring, parallel universes. ...
21. The RIPEMD-160 page
- www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be
- The hash function RIPEMD-160.
- RIPEMD-160 is a 160-bit cryptographic hash function, designed by Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers, and Bart Preneel. ...
- 1019 evaluations of the function. ...
- The attack on MD4 requires only a few seconds on a PC, and still leaves some freedom as to the choice of the message, clearly ruling out MD4 as a collision resistant hash function. Shortly afterwards, in the Spring of 1996, Hans also found collisions for the compression function of MD5. Although not yet extended to collisions for MD5 itself, this attack casts serious doubts on the strength of MD5 as a collision resistant hash function. RSA Data Security, for which Ron Rivest developed MD4 and MD5, recommend that MD4 should not longer be used, and that MD5 should not be used for future applications that require the hash function to be collision-resistant. ...
- In view of the result of Paul van Oorschot and Mike Wiener mentioned earlier, 128-bit hash results do not offer sufficient protection for the next ten years, and applications using 128-bit hash functions should consider upgrading to a 160-bit hash function. ...
- A theoretical attack on the compression function of the first version with complexity 261 was found by Florent Chabaud and Antoine Joux, ``Differential Collisions in SHA-0,''Advances in Cryptology - Crypto'98, LNCS 1462, H. ...
- Preneel, ``The RIPEMD-160 cryptographic hash function,'' Dr. ...
- Dobbertin, ``The cryptographic hash function RIPEMD-160,'' CryptoBytes, Vol. ...
- To this end RIPEMD-256 and RIPEMD-320 are constructed from, respectively, RIPEMD-128 and RIPEMD-160 by initializing the two parallel lines with different initial values, omitting the combination of the two lines at the end of every application of the compression function, and exchanging a chaining variable between the 2 parallel lines after each round. ...
- Two constructions of MACs based on a hash-function have been standardized within ISO/IEC ( ISO/IEC 9797-2:2002). ...
- At Crypto'95 Bart Preneel and Paul van Oorschot proposed a new generic construction (MDx-MAC) for transforming any secure hash function of the MD4-family into a secure MAC of equal or smaller bitlength and comparable speed. ...
- The OAEP (Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding) encoding method is parametrized by the choice of the hash function and mask generation function. This section lists test vectors for OAEP based on RIPEMD-160 and the mask generation function MGF1 as defined in PKCS #1 v2. 0 and IEEE P1363 with RIPEMD-160 as the hash function. ...
22. Optimizing a Unimodal Response Function
- www.eecs.umich.edu
- Optimizing a Unimodal Response Function for Binary Variables.
- In this paper, several sampling designs are examined for the problem of optimizing a response function from a set of Bernoulli populations, where the population means are assumed to have a strict unimodal structure. ...
23. 2.1 Built-in Functions
- docs.python.org
- This function is invoked by the import statement. It mainly exists so that you can replace it with another function that has a compatible interface, in order to change the semantics of the import statement. ... See also the built-in module imp, which defines some useful operations out of which you can build your own __import__() function. ...
- Note that even though locals() and 'eggs' are passed in as arguments, the __import__() function does not set the local variable named eggs; this is done by subsequent code that is generated for the import statement. ...
- 3: If no argument is given, this function returns False. ...
- function).
- Return a class method for function. ...
- The @classmethod form is a function decorator - see the description of function definitions in chapter 7 of the Python Reference Manual for details. ...
- 4: Function decorator syntax added. ...
- If the first parameter is a string, it will be interpreted as a complex number and the function must be called without a second parameter. ... If imag is omitted, it defaults to zero and the function serves as a numeric conversion function like int(), long() and float(). ...
- The function deletes the named attribute, provided the object allows it. ...
- This function can also be used to execute arbitrary code objects (such as those created by compile()). ...
- Execution of statements from a file is supported by the execfile() function. ...
- This function is similar to the exec statement, but parses a file instead of a string. ...
- Warning: The default locals act as described for function locals() below: modifications to the default locals dictionary should not be attempted. Pass an explicit locals dictionary if you need to see effects of the code on locals after function execfile() returns. execfile() cannot be used reliably to modify a function's locals. ...
24. Citizen Function Band: wedding, party, corporate, dinner dance, live music cabaret
- www.citizenband.co.uk
- Citizen function band was formed in 1992 for the sole purpose of performing at weddings, parties, corporate events, dinner dances. ... Voted 'best function band in the UK' by Viva Music. ...
- Confetti wedding magazine described Citizen as 'the busiest function band in the North West due to their enormous versatility and the sheer variety of musical styles they play'. ...
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