Constant proportion portfolio insurance — (CPPI) is a capital guarantee derivative security that embeds a dynamic trading strategy in order to provide participation to the performance of a certain underlying asset. See also dynamic asset allocation. The intuition behind CPPI was adopted… … Wikipedia
Nmap — Security Scanner results of an Nmap scan Original author(s) Gordon Lyon (Fyodor) Initial release September, 1997 … Wikipedia
Windows Registry — The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low level operating system components as well as the applications running on the… … Wikipedia
Harris affine region detector — In the fields of computer vision and image analysis, the Harris affine region detector belongs to the category of feature detection. Feature detection is a preprocessing step of several algorithms that rely on identifying characteristic points or … Wikipedia
Gear — For the gear like device used to drive a roller chain, see Sprocket. This article is about mechanical gears. For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation). Two meshing gears transmitting rotational motion. Note that the smaller gear is rotating… … Wikipedia
Assembly language — See the terminology section below for information regarding inconsistent use of the terms assembly and assembler. Motorola MC6800 Assembly Language An assembly language is a low level programming language for computers, microprocessors,… … Wikipedia
C Sharp syntax — The correct title of this article is C# syntax. The substitution or omission of the # sign is because of technical restrictions. Main article: C Sharp (programming language) This article describes the syntax of the C# programming language. The… … Wikipedia
Document Type Definition — (DTD) is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for SGML family markup languages (SGML, XML, HTML). DTDs were a precursor to XML schema and have a similar function, although different capabilities. DTDs use a terse formal syntax … Wikipedia
Portable Document Format — PDF redirects here. For other uses, see PDF (disambiguation). Portable Document Format Adobe Reader icon Filename extension .pdf Internet media type application/pdf application/x pdf application/x bzpdf application/x gzpdf … Wikipedia
C preprocessor — The C preprocessor (cpp) is the preprocessor for the C and C++ computer programming languages. The preprocessor handles directives for source file inclusion (#include), macro definitions (#define), and conditional inclusion (#if). In many C… … Wikipedia
Wave equation — Not to be confused with Wave function. The wave equation is an important second order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves – as they occur in physics – such as sound waves, light waves and water waves. It arises in… … Wikipedia