Expanded glossary of Cycad terms . 2014.
Bootstrap funding — Financial bootstrapping is a term used to cover different methods for avoiding using the financial resources of external investors. Bootstrapping can be defined as “a collection of methods used to minimize the amount of outside debt and equity… … Wikipedia
evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… … Universalium
Resampling (statistics) — In statistics, resampling is any of a variety of methods for doing one of the following: # Estimating the precision of sample statistics (medians, variances, percentiles) by using subsets of available data (jackknife) or drawing randomly with… … Wikipedia
Master boot record — A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM Personal Computer.[1] It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. MBRs are usually placed on storage… … Wikipedia
Robust statistics — provides an alternative approach to classical statistical methods. The motivation is to produce estimators that are not unduly affected by small departures from model assumptions. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Examples of robust and non robust… … Wikipedia
Bootstrapping (computing) — In computing, bootstrapping ( to pull oneself up by one s bootstraps ) refers to techniques that allow a simple system to activate a more complicated system. A common scenario is the start up process of a computer system, where a small program,… … Wikipedia
Kademlia — is a distributed hash table for decentralized peer to peer computer networks designed by Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières [* [http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/ petar/papers/maymounkov kademlia lncs.pdf Kademlia: A Peer to peer information system… … Wikipedia
Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics) — Parsimony is a non parametric statistical method commonly used in computational phylogenetics for estimating phylogenies. Under parsimony, the preferred phylogenetic tree is the tree that requires the least evolutionary change to explain some… … Wikipedia
Maximum parsimony — Maximum parsimony, often simply referred to as parsimony, is a non parametric statistical method commonly used in computational phylogenetics for estimating phylogenies. Under maximum parsimony, the preferred phylogenetic tree is the tree that… … Wikipedia
Front panel — A front panel was used on early electronic computers to display and allow the alteration of the state of the machine s internal registers and memory. The front panel usually consisted of arrays of indicator lamps, toggle switches, and push… … Wikipedia
