Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina.It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan.It began as an outlet for music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world, with records reaching the top of the Billboard music charts.

In database theory, relational algebra is a theory that uses algebraic structures with a well-founded semantics for modeling data, and defining queries on it. The theory was introduced by Edgar F. Codd.. The main application of relational algebra is to provide a theoretical foundation for relational databases, particularly query languages for such databases, chief among which is …

Warner Music Group Corp. (d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.It is one of the "big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME).). Formerly …

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of Sony.. It was originally founded in 1929 as American Record …

JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment Corporation, also known as Victor Entertainment in Japan, is a subsidiary of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan.It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where Sony Music Entertainment operates the RCA Victor label.

In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into an order.The most frequently used orders are numerical order and lexicographical order, and either ascending or descending.Efficient sorting is important for optimizing the efficiency of other algorithms (such as search and merge algorithms) that require input data to be in sorted lists.

In computer science, merge sort (also commonly spelled as mergesort) is an efficient, general-purpose, and comparison-based sorting algorithm.Most implementations produce a stable sort, which means that the order of equal elements is the same in the input and output.Merge sort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm that was invented by John von Neumann in 1945.

In March 2005, Daft Punk released their third album, Human After All, the result of six weeks of writing and recording. Reviews were mixed, with criticism for its repetitiveness and darker mood. " Robot Rock", "Technologic", "Human After All" and "The Prime Time of Your Life" were released as singles.A Daft Punk anthology CD/DVD, Musique Vol. 1 1993–2005, was released on 4 …

British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings.It was partly nationalised in 1975, when the UK government created a holding company called British Leyland, later renamed BL in 1978.

The 1979 NHL expansion was the culmination of several years of negotiations between the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA) that resulted in the WHA and all of its surviving franchises folding in return for the owners of four of the WHA's six remaining teams (the Edmonton Oilers, New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques, and …