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unusual facts about Applications


Applications-By-Forms

It provides an ASCII form painter, which automatically binds form fields to a database using ABF, a programming language, with embedded SQL, simplifying the task of making a "CRUD" application for textual data.


Air Transportation Stabilization Board

The ATSB denied applications from nine carriers: Ozark Airlines dba Great Plains Airlines, MEDjet International, Corporate Airlines, Gemini Air Cargo, Frontier Flying Service, Spirit Airlines, National Airlines, and both initial and revised applications from United Airlines and Vanguard Airlines.

Alikram Hummatov

After emigrating to the Netherlands, Hummatov made two applications against the Republic of Azerbaijan to the European Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Automatic calculation of particle interaction or decay

Such codes have evolved quite a lot with applications not only optimized for high-energy physics like FORM but also more general purpose programs like Mathematica and Maple.

C-squares

C-squares spatial indexing, search, and/or mapping routines are currently incorporated into OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System; FishBase; AquaMaps; and a variety of web-accessible applications at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.

Cellular manufacturing

Although there appear to have been similar applications earlier in history Portsmouth Block Mills offers what by definition constitutes an early example of cellular manufacturing.

Colin Eaborn

Thanks to grants from the United States Air Force and Army, Eaborn was able to assemble a team of 15 researchers and students, and in 1960 published the textbook Organosillicon Compounds, which had "a major influence on the development of what has become one of the most prolific areas of organometallic chemistry, with extensive applications in organic synthesis, catalysis and materials science".

Computer stereo vision

Scientific applications for digital stereo vision include the extraction of information from aerial surveys, for calculation of contour maps or even geometry extraction for 3D building mapping, or calculation of 3D heliographical information such as obtained by the NASA STEREO project.

Constant-weight code

Binary constant-weight codes have several applications, including frequency hopping in GSM networks.

David Lauren

In his time at Ralph Lauren Corporation, Lauren has played a role in many key initiatives, including the establishment of RalphLauren.com, the launch of the Rugby brand, and Ralph Lauren Corporation's entry into mobile applications.

David Webber

He holds two US software patents on XML and EDI technologies that have been widely referenced by 37 other patent applications from leading implementing companies such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, AT&T, GE, SAP, NEC and Dell.

Distributed element filter

Distributed element filters are used in many of the same applications as lumped element filters, such as selectivity of radio channel, bandlimiting of noise and multiplexing of many signals into one channel.

DNS.com

DNS.com serves direct customers including ecommerce websites, Software as a service applications, and advertising and marketing agencies.

DVDVideoSoft

DVDVideoSoft is criticized for toolbar and Web search engine installation (in some versions of Free Studio and DVDVideoSoft applications).

Ehud Hrushovski

Hrushovski is well known for his work in model theory, in particular in the branch that has become known as geometric model theory; and for the applications he has made of it to Diophantine geometry, including the Mordell–Lang conjecture.

Electric current

In certain applications, different waveforms are used, such as triangular or square waves.

Enterprise digital assistant

An enterprise digital assistant (EDA) is a handheld computer, born of the personal digital assistant popularity which was adapted for extensive, more robust usage within the SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) and Enterprise business applications as a data capture mobile device.

Fleet Management System

The six European manufacturers Daimler AG, MAN AG, Scania, Volvo (incl. Renault), DAF Trucks and IVECO have developed the so called FMS-Standard in 2002 to make manufacturer independent applications for telematics possible.

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

He partnered with fellow insurance salesman Norman O. Houston and businessman George A. Beavers, Jr. to secure 500 pre-paid life insurance applications as well as the $15,000 deposit required by California.

Hamlets

Hamlets provide an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, lightweight, small-footprint, servlet-based content creation framework that facilitates the development of Web-based applications.

Henry Katzenstein

The company's first product to reach the market was an 8-bit CMOS D/A converter intended for video applications.

Human Universal Load Carrier

Lockheed Martin is also exploring exoskeleton designs to support industrial and medical applications.

IBM Lotus Quickr

Third party applications that enhance the user experience include an improved Online rich-text editor from Ephox which helps contributors create compelling content quickly in Team places, the wiki and blog components.

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

Nishizawa was professor, director of two research institutes and the 17th president at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, and contributed important innovations in the fields of optical communications and semiconductor devices, such as laser and PIN diodes and static induction thyristors for electric power applications.

Independent Energy Partners

On March 1, 2006, IEP concluded negotiations with Battelle Memorial Institute, the operator of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for development of the Geothermic Fuel Cell prototype and in September 2008, they signed agreements for modeling, analysis, design and engineering to commercialize this technology and related applications.

IQinVision

For example, IQeye camera integrate with many popular 3rd Party Network Video Recorder (NVR) applications such as those by companies like Aimetis, Genetec, Milestone, ONSSI, Mirasys and many others.

Isolation amplifier

These amplifiers are also used for amplifying low-level signals in multi-channel applications.

Isotopes of iron

Much of this work has been driven by the Earth and planetary science communities, although applications to biological and industrial systems are beginning to emerge.

James Ready

His company Montavista Software did pioneering work in adapting the operating system Linux for real-time applications.

Killer NIC

Bigfoot also publishes some of their own applications; these include a firewall, BitTorrent client, FTP application, and Telnet service that allows access to the Killer NIC's OS.

Michael Struwe

His publications include the book Variational methods (Applications to nonlinear PDE and Hamiltonian systems) (Springer-Verlag, 1990), which was praised by Jürgen Jost as "very useful" with an "impressive range of often difficult examples".

MyMobileWorkers

Variations of the MyMobileWorkers workforce management software applications include field service, proof of delivery and collection and mobile delivery.

Numina Application Framework

The Numina Application Framework is a product from Numina Solutions LLC which provides single sign-on capabilities and an Application framework for building applications.

Open Source Applications Foundation

The Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Mitch Kapor whose purpose is to effect widespread adoption of free software/open-source software.

Oracle Fusion

Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA), Oracle applications built on top of the Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack using Oracle Fusion Architecture as blueprint

Passage SAS

At the same time, the brand developed construction applications, in particular by supplying the nosing for the Paris metro steps and equipping the pedestrian zones in cities such as Lyon, Lille and Bordeaux.

PCCW Solutions

Unihub signed three-year contract with Dragonair in the provision of professional services on systems integration, hardware and software support, upgrades and maintenance of Oracle E-Business Suite-related applications.

Reedville, Virginia

Menhaden, once caught, are cooked in large mass and processed for further use in various applications including as a protein additive for poultry feed; Tyson Foods is a large customer.

Rotary screw compressor

This control scheme was popularized in industrial air compressor applications by KOBELCO,Kaeser and Gardner Denver.

Scripting Bridge

The Scripting Bridge is a framework in OS X allowing Mac applications to communicate with each other without the use of an intermediary scripting language such as AppleScript.

Secure Mobile Architecture

Its central features were the use of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), cryptographic identities, secure directories, and location to make policy-based information about users and the network available to applications, management systems, and intelligent network components.

TallyGenicom

Tally AG was founded in 1948 by Philip Renshaw, focusing on design, development, manufacturing, distribution and servicing of printers for high-volume industrial and business applications.

Testdroid

Testdroid can use testing frameworks, such as Robotium, cisimple, and uiautomator for native and Selenium for web applications, targeted for mobile application and game developers.

Tone letter

Until the spread of OpenType computer fonts starting in 2000–2001, tone letters were not practical for many applications.

Transfer admissions in the United States

In Virginia, the University of Virginia, which has approximately 14,000 undergraduate students, had 2,434 transfer applications in 2008, and of these, admitted 958, an acceptance rate of 39%.

Vilhelm Bjerknes

In 1917, he founded the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen where he wrote his book On the Dynamics of the Circular Vortex with Applications to the Atmosphere and to Atmospheric Vortex and Wave Motion (1921), and laid the foundation for the Bergen School of Meteorology.

Virtual tape library

It was targeted for a mainframe market, where many legacy applications tend to use a lot of very short tape volumes.

Vitalize!

Vitalize! is a browser plugin created by Clickteam which processes and displays applications with a .

Where

Where.com, a provider of location-based applications via mobile phones

XPages

XPages base internally on JavaServer Faces, but the sources of a XPages pages are an XML derivative called XSP which is translated into Java code when running the applications.

Xylanase

Commercial applications for xylanase include the chlorine-free bleaching of wood pulp prior to the papermaking process, and the increased digestibility of silage (in this aspect, it is also used for fermentative composting).


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