Lerp may refer to Lerp biology , a structure produced by larva e of Jumping plant louse psyllid insect s as a protective cover. Lerp computing , a quasi acronym for linear interpolation in computing and mathematics . Lerp Software , an advanced software related to Laboratory Information Management System defined as Laboratory Enterprise Resource Planning to include related business objects that support the foundations management of Labs LERP can also be used as an acronym Liberia Equal Rights Party Lyari Expressway Resettlement Project disambig ... more details
Other uses Lerp disambiguation In biology , a lerp is a structure of crystallized Honeydew secretion honeydew produced by larva e of psyllid insects as a protective cover. Host plants Some of the host plants on which lerp is often found include Eucalyptus dumosa Eucalyptus terminalis psyllid insect being Apiomorpha pomiformis External links http www.ipm.ucdavis.edu PMG PESTNOTES pn7460.html University of California Integrated Pest Management http www.cnr.berkeley.edu biocon dahlsten rglp index.htm University of California Center for Biological Control http www.lerppsyllid.com Lerp Psyllid resources provided by Pacific Coast Arborists and Consultants Category Entomology truebug stub ... more details
Other uses Lerp disambiguation Refimprove date December 2009 Politics of Liberia The Liberia Equal Rights Party LERP is a political party in Liberia . It fielded candidates in the 11 October 2005 Liberia elections, 2005 elections . LERP candidate Joseph Korto won 3.3 of the vote in the presidential poll. The party failed to win any seats in the Senate of Liberia Senate or House of Representatives of Liberia House of Representatives . The party was disqualified from contesting the Liberian general election, 2011 2011 presidential and legislative elections . ref cite news url http www.newdemocratnews.com index.php?option com content&view article&id 692 october line up&catid 47 national&Itemid 70 title October Line up newspaper New Democrat date May 10, 2011 ref References Reflist Category Political parties in Liberia Liberia party stub ... more details
Infobox German location image photo Wappen Wappen Eschenbergen.png lat deg 51 lat min 1 lat sec 37 lon deg 10 lon min 45 lon sec 36 Lageplan Eschenbergen in GTH.svg Bundesland Th ringen Landkreis Gotha Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Nesseaue H he 300 Fl che 12.66 Einwohner 762 Stand 2006 12 31 PLZ 99869 Vorwahl 036258 Kfz GTH Gemeindeschl ssel 16 0 67 016 Adresse Verband Dr. K lz Str. 4 br 99869 Friemar Website http www.vg nesseaue.de www.vg nesseaue.de B rgermeister Karl Heinz Lerp Partei FDP Eschenbergen is a municipality in the Gotha district district of Gotha , in Thuringia , Germany . Cities and towns in Gotha district References Reflist Category Municipalities in Thuringia Gotha geo stub de Eschenbergen eo Eschenbergen fr Eschenbergen it Eschenbergen nl Eschenbergen pl Eschenbergen pt Eschenbergen ro Eschenbergen ru sr vi Eschenbergen vo Eschenbergen war Eschenbergen ... more details
Infobox Politician image name Joseph Korto caption Joseph Korto birth date birth place Barpa , Nimba County , Liberia residence death date death place office Minister of Education of Liberia term start January 2006 term end April 2010 president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf firstminister predecessor successor party Liberia Equal Rights Party Liberia Equal Rights Party LERP religion spouse children website footnotes Joseph Korto is a Liberia n politician and member of the Liberia Equal Rights Party LERP . Joseph Korto was born in Barpa , Nimba County , Liberia . He was Minister of Education in Liberia from 2006 2010 and was replaced by E. Othello Gongar, formal Minister of Education during the regime of late president Samuel Kanyon Doe. He is also the Executive Director of the Liberian Development Foundation . ref http www.prweb.com releases 2003 9 prweb81133.htm The Liberian Development Foundation initiates major relief campaign for war torn Liberia ref Running as the LERP Liberian Equal Rights Party presidential candidate in the 11 October 2005 Liberian elections, 2005 elections , Korto placed seventh out of 22 candidates, receiving 3.3 of the vote nationally and the highest vote total in Nimba County, his home base. ref http africanelections.tripod.com lr.html Elections in Liberia , African Elections Database. ref After his loss in the first round of voting, he endorsed candidate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for the second round vote against football star George Weah . Johnson Sirleaf went on to win the election, with Korto s support being viewed as an important factor in her victory, and she appointed Korto to her cabinet as Minister of Education shortly after she took office in January 2006. Korto has a background as a teacher and holds a doctorate in education from the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. ref http www.irinnews.org report.asp?ReportID 51162&SelectRegion West Africa&SelectCountry LIBERIA Sirleaf unveils first members of new peacetime government , IR ... more details
of different types of insects, lerp biology lerp s, a honeydew casing exuded by insects of the family ... birds, Lerp feeding and the problem of Honeyeaters journal Emu volume 84 issue 3 pages 137 141 ... more details
dablink For the municipal federation in Germany, see Dolmar Verwaltungsgemeinschaft . Infobox Company company name Dolmar GmbH company type GmbH company logo foundation 1927 location Hamburg , Germany slogan key people num employees revenue industry Forestry equipment, Landscape maintenance products Industrial Chainsaws , String trimmer s, and Leaf blower s File KMS4.jpg thumb Dolmar chainsaw File Kettens gen hnliche Dolmar 8818.jpg thumb 1950s log bucking bandsaws Dolmar GmbH is one of the oldest manufacturers of portable gasoline chainsaw s and is headquartered in Hamburg , Germany. The company founder, Emil Lerp, developed in 1927 the type A saw, which weighed 125 lb and required two men to operate. It was tested on de Dolmar Mount Dolmar in the Thuringia Th ringer forest and the company took its name from the test site. In 1991 the company was acquired by Japanese tool manufacturer Makita . External links Commonscat Dolmar machines http www.dolmar.com Official website Power tool manufacturers manufacturing company stub Germany company stub Category German brands Category Chainsaws Category Logging Category Garden tool manufacturers Category Power tool manufacturers Category Lawn and garden tractors de Dolmar Unternehmen fr Dolmar entreprise nl Dolmar sv Dolmar GmbH ... more details
Linear interpolation is a method of curve fitting using linear polynomials. Lerp is an abbreviation for linear interpolation , which can also be used as a verb harv Raymond 2003 . Linear interpolation between two known points Image LinearInterpolation.svg thumb right 300px Given the two red points, the blue line is the linear interpolant between the points, and the value y at x may be found by linear interpolation. If the two known points are given by the coordinates math scriptstyle x 0,y 0 math and math scriptstyle x 1,y 1 math , the linear interpolant is the straight line between these points. For a value x in the interval math scriptstyle x 0, x 1 math , the value y along the straight line is given from the equation math frac y y 0 x x 0 frac y 1 y 0 x 1 x 0 math which can be derived geometrically from the figure on the right. It is a special case of Polynomial interpolation Constructing the interpolation polynomial polynomial interpolation with n 1. Solving this equation for y , which is the unknown value at x , gives math y y 0 x x 0 frac y 1 y 0 x 1 x 0 y 0 frac x x 0 y 1 x x 0 y 0 x 1 x 0 math which is the formula for linear interpolation in the interval math scriptstyle x 0,x 1 math . Outside this interval, the formula is identical to linear extrapolation . This formula can also be understood as a weighted average. The weights are inversely related to the distance from the end points to the unknown point the closer point has more influence than the farther point. Thus, the weights are math frac x x 0 x 1 x 0 math and math frac x 1 x x 1 x 0 math , which are normalized distances between the unknown point and each of the end points. Interpolation of a data ... two values is so commonly used in computer graphics that it is sometimes called a lerp in that field ... incrementally between the two endpoints of the line. Lerp operations are built into the hardware ... S. Raymond year 2003 contribution LERP contribution url http www.catb.org jargon html L LERP.html title ... more details
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among the Australia n fauna, secrete coverings called lerp biology lerps over their bodies, presumably ..., M.J. & Wessels, D.C.J. 2010. Nymphal behaviour and lerp construction in the mopane psyllid ... eucalyptus psyllids.htm Glycaspis brimblecombei , red gum lerp psyllid http entomology.ifas.ufl.edu ... more details
In the mathematics mathematical field of numerical analysis , De Casteljau s algorithm is a Recursion recursive method to evaluate polynomials in Bernstein form or B zier curve s, named after its inventor Paul de Casteljau . De Casteljau s algorithm can also be used to split a single B zier curve into two B zier curves at an arbitrary parameter value. Although the algorithm is slower for most architectures when compared with the direct approach, it is more numerically stable . Definition Given a polynomial B in Bernstein form of degree n math B t sum i 0 n beta i b i,n t , math where b is a Bernstein polynomial Bernstein basis polynomial , the polynomial at point t sub 0 sub can be evaluated with the recurrence relation math beta i 0 beta i mbox , i 0, ldots,n math math beta i j beta i j 1 1 t 0 beta i 1 j 1 t 0 mbox , i 0, ldots,n j mbox , j 1, ldots,n math Then, the evaluation of math B math at point math t 0 math can be evaluated in math n math steps of the algorithm. The result math B t 0 math is given by math B t 0 beta 0 n . math Moreover, the B zier curve math B math can be split at point math t 0 math into two curves with respective control points math beta 0 0 , beta 0 1 , ldots, beta 0 n math math beta 0 n , beta 1 n 1 , ldots, beta n 0 math Example implementation Here is an example implementation of De Casteljau s algorithm in Haskell programming language Haskell source lang haskell deCasteljau Double Double, Double Double, Double deCasteljau t b b deCasteljau t coefs deCasteljau t reduced where reduced zipWith lerpP t coefs tail coefs lerpP t x0, y0 x1, y1 lerp t x0 x1, lerp t y0 y1 lerp t a b t b 1 t a source Notes When doing the calculation by hand it is useful to write down the coefficients in a triangle scheme as math begin matrix beta 0 & beta 0 0 & & & & & beta 0 1 & & beta 1 & beta 1 0 & & & & & & ddots & vdots & & vdots & & beta 0 n & & & & beta n 1 & beta n 1 0 & & & & & beta n 1 1 & & beta n & beta n 0 & & & end matrix math When choosing a poin ... more details
Taxobox name Striated Pardalote status LC status system IUCN3.1 status ref ref IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife International year 2005 id 50850 title Pardalotus striatus downloaded 12 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern ref image Pardalotus with nesting material.jpg image caption Pardalotus striatus ornatus regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Pardalotidae genus Pardalote Pardalotus species P. striatus binomial Pardalotus striatus binomial authority Johann Friedrich Gmelin Gmelin , 1789 The Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus is the least colourful and most common of the four pardalote species . Other common names include Pickwick , Wittachew and Chip Chip . ref name pizzey It is a very small, short tailed bird that is more often heard than seen, foraging noisily for lerp biology lerp s and other small creatures in the treetops. Taxonomy File Pardalotus striatus Risdon Brook.jpg thumb Nominate race, note the yellow spot on the wing Four full species were originally named, and are clearly recognisable in the field. They are now classified as merely well defined subspecies instead. The Yellow tipped Pardalote race striatus is, found mainly in Tasmania , but crosses the 200 miles of Bass Strait to the mainland each winter in a migration. The Striated Pardalote , race substriatus , central and western Australia. The Eastern Striated or Red tipped Pardalote , race ornatus , from the sub tropical east coast, including the Sydney region. Two races of the Black headed Pardalote , melanocephalus and uropygialis , from north eastern New South Wales to north eastern Queensland , and across the Top End to the Kimberley region of Western Australia Kimberley . All five forms have a black cap which may be striated but never spotted, a white wing stripe and a small, conspicuous wing spot&mdash bright red in all except striatus , which has a yellow spot. Description Image Striatedpar ... more details
Indigenous Australian peoples traditionally classified food sources in a methodical way. Below are a few examples. Central Australia In Central Australia , people used innovative means to obtain a balanced diet. The food categories, and their Arrernte people Arrernte names are ref Turner, Margaret Mary, Arrernte Foods, Foods from Central Australia , IAD Press, Alice Springs, 1994, ISBN 0 949659 76 2 pviii ref class wikitable bgcolor efefef Arrernte name Foods Examples Kere food from animals meat , fat, offal , blood, eggs Kere arlewatyerre goanna , Kere ulkerte perentie , Kere arntetherrke carpet snake , Kere aherre kangaroo , Kere antenhe possum , Kere inape echidna , Kere ankerre emu . Merne food from plants fruit , vegetables Merne atwakeye Capparis mitchellii wild orange , Merne arrutnenge wild passionfruit , Merne pmerlpe quandong , Merne mwanyeme bush tomato , Merne arnweketye conkerberry , Merne alangkwe bush banana , Merne arlatyeye pencil yam . Ntange Merne ntange edible seeds Merne ntange ulyawe Pigweed seed , Merne ntange arlepe Prickly wattle seed , Merne ntange artetye Acacia aneura Mulga seed , Merne ntange arlketyerre Dead finish seed . br See also seedcakes Tyape edible grubs and insects witchetty grub witchetties , cicada s, Tyape atnyematye Witchetty grub , Tyape ahernenge River red gum grub , Tyape ankerrutne Coolibah tree grub , Tyape tyerraye Cicada s , Tyape ayepe arenye Tar vine caterpillar s . Tyape atnyematye Witchetty grub find cracks in the ground underneath a Witchetty bush Acacia kempeana and dig there lever up swollen root where the grubs are located eat grubs raw or cooked in hot earth squash guts of the grubs onto sores Australian Aboriginal sweet foods Ngkwarle honey like foods nectar, stingless bee wild honey , lerp biology lerp s, gum main Australian Aboriginal sweet foods br Ngkwarle athenge arlperle Acacia estrophiolata Ironwood tree gum , Ngkwarle alkerampwe Acacia aneura Mulga tree gum, Ngkwarle arlperrampwe Elaeocarpus kirtoni ... more details
Taxobox name Bell Miner status LC status system iucn3.1 status ref ref IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife International year 2004 id 50834 title Manorina melanophrys downloaded 12 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern ref image Bell Miner1.jpg regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Meliphagidae genus Manorina species M. melanophrys binomial Manorina melanophrys binomial authority John Latham ornithologist Latham , 1801 The Bell Miner , Manorina melanophrys , colloquially known as the Bellbird , is a colonial honeyeater endemic to southeastern Australia . They were given their common name because they feed almost exclusively on the dome like coverings of certain psyllid bugs, referred to as bell lerps, that feed on eucalyptus sap from the leaves. The bell lerps make these domes from their own honeydew secretions in order to protect themselves from predators and the environment. They are also very likely to be named after their bell like call. Bell miners live in large, complex social groups. Within each group there are subgroups consisting of several breeding pairs, but also including a number of birds who are not currently breeding. The nonbreeders help in providing food for the young in all the nests in the subgroup, even though they are not necessarily closely related to them ref Clarke, M. F. 1989 . The pattern of helping in the bell miner Manorina melanophrys . Ethology, 80 , 292 306 ref . The birds defend their colony area communally aggressively, excluding most other passerine species. They do this in order to protect their territory from other insect eating birds that would eat the bell lerps on which they feed. Whenever the local forests die back due to increased lerp psyllid infestations, bell miners undergo a population boom. Image Bell Miner boulumba1.ogg thumb 300px left Boulumba Creek, SE Queensland, Australia br style clear both gallery File Bell miner.jpg File B ... more details
Adolf Christoph Wilhelm Bestelmeyer December 21, 1875 in Nuremberg , November 21, 1957 in Heidelberg was a Germans German experimental physicist . Life and work Bestelmeyer studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Berlin , the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich University of Munich . After his promotion, he worked in 1904 as an assistant at the University of G ttingen . In World War I he was active in torpedo research, and afterwards he was professor of physics at the University of Greifswald from 1917 to 1921. He then served until the end of World War II as a laboratory manager in various companies like Askania , especially in the area of torpedo construction. ref Lerp, Karl Zum Gedenken an Prof. Dr. Adolf Bestelmeyer . In Marine Rundschau . 6, 1959 ref ref name me Meyer, Helmut Geschichte der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus . 16, Wallstein, pp. 122 123, 2007, ISBN 3 8353 0109 8 ref In 1906 Bestelmeyer was the first to question the accuracy of the measurements by Walter Kaufmann physicist Walter Kaufmann regarding the speed dependence of the electromagnetic mass . Thereby, Bestelmeyer was the first to use a Wien filter velocity filter for his own experiments on cathode ray s, and this method was later also used by Alfred Bucherer . While Bucherer saw the results of his experiments as a confirmation of special relativity , his methods were criticized by Bestelmeyer, thus a polemical dispute between these two researchers arose. It took years until those problems could be resolved, and the results of further experiments confirmed the predictions of special relativity. ref Cite book author Miller, Arthur I. year 1981 title Albert Einstein s special theory of relativity. Emergence 1905 and early interpretation 1905 1911 location Reading publisher Addison Wesley isbn 0 201 04679 2 ref Bestelmeyer is also known for developing a magnetic detonator for torpedoes in 1917, for which he was awa ... more details
mathematics kernel . ref name i stewart lcm lowest common multiple of two numbers. lerp linear interpolation . ref name e raymond lerp citation first1 Eric last1 Raymond author1 link Eric S. Raymond year 2003 contribution LERP contribution url http www.catb.org jargon html L LERP.html title Jargon ... more details
Australian Aborigines had many ways to source sweet foods. The four main types of sweet foods gathered apart from ripe fruit were ref Turner, Margaret Mary, Arrernte Foods Foods from Central Australia , IAD Press, Alice Springs, 1994, ISBN 0949659762, pp1 10. ref honey from ants and bees sugarbag , see below leaf scale honeydew lerp biology lerps tree sap flower nectar In some parts of Australia, these customs are still used today, particularly in Central Australia . Foods collected can be eaten directly as a sweet or made into a sweet drink. Arrernte sweet foods and drinks The Arrernte people Arrernte of Central Australia divide their food up into a number of Indigenous Australian food groups groups . Many other groups also do this or did this traditionally. The Arrernte word for sweet foods is Ngkwarle honey like foods. Some Aborigines who still have their language often refer to alcohol by this sweet food group term. class wikitable style background efefef Arrernte Name English name Details Ngkwarle athenge br arlperle Ironwood Acacia estrophiolata tree gum Ironwood gum is broken off tree branches. It can be red or clear. It runs down the tree to the ground in long beads. It is snapped off and mixed in some water and left to set. It is then scooped up with a little stick and eaten. Ngkwarle alkerampwe Mulga Acacia aneura tree gum Gum can be found sitting in small blobs in a row on branches. Some bits are clear and some red. They are snapped off with a wooden skewer. Once quite a few are collected, they are given to the children as a treat. Ngkwarle arlperrampwe Whitewood Atalaya hemiglauca tree gum Arlperrampwe is found on the trunk and branches of the whitewood in big globs. Some of it runs down the tree as its hanging there. It is collected and made into a lump and kneaded until soft, and is then eaten. Ngkwarle atnyerampwe Supplejack Ventilago viminalis tree gum Gum is scraped off after it comes through the bark. It is twisted onto a stick. It is chewy like ch ... more details
Religions Project http www.religionsproject.org ref LERP , an interfaith nonprofit service ... Paths of Love , March 31, 2007, at http michelle.thelemistas.org site en lerp ref , ref Andrew Kille, Lost and Endangered Religions , San Jose Examiner online, December 6, 2009, ref at LERP was one ... more details
In computer graphics , Slerp is shorthand for spherical linear interpolation , introduced by Ken Shoemake in the context of quaternion interpolation for the purpose of animation animating 3D rotation . It refers to constant speed motion along a unit radius great circle arc, given the ends and an interpolation parameter between 0 and 1. Geometric Slerp Slerp has a geometric formula independent of quaternions, and independent of the dimension of the space in which the arc is embedded. This formula, a symmetric weighted sum credited to Glenn Davis, is based on the fact that any point on the curve must be a linear combination of the ends. Let p sub 0 sub and p sub 1 sub be the first and last points of the arc, and let t be the parameter, 0 t 1. Compute as the angle Subtended angle subtended by the arc, so that nowrap cos & 61 p sub 0 sub p sub 1 sub , the n dimensional dot product of the unit vectors from the origin to the ends. The geometric formula is then math mathrm Slerp p 0,p 1 t frac sin 1 t Omega sin Omega p 0 frac sin t Omega sin Omega p 1. math The symmetry can be seen in the fact that nowrap Slerp p sub 0 sub , p sub 1 sub t nowrap Slerp p sub 1 sub , p sub 0 sub 1 t . In the limit as 0, this formula reduces to the corresponding symmetric formula for linear interpolation , math mathrm lerp p 0,p 1 t 1 t p 0 t p 1. , math A Slerp path is, in fact, the spherical geometry equivalent of a path along a line segment in the plane a great circle is a spherical geodesic . Image Slerp factor explanation.png right thumb Oblique vector rectifies to Slerp factor. More familiar than the general Slerp formula is the case when the end vectors are perpendicular, in which case the formula is nowrap p sub 0 sub cos p sub 1 sub sin . Letting nowrap & 61 t 2 , and applying the trigonometric identity nowrap cos & 61 sin 2 , this becomes the Slerp formula. The factor of nowrap 1 sin in the general formula is a normalizati ... more details
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