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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamson%27s%20grunter | Adamson's grunter (Hephaestus adamsoni) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter from the family Terapontidae which is endemic to Lake Kutubu in the Kikori River system, Papua New Guinea.
Habitat and biology
Adamson's grunter is numerous along the shores of Lake Kutubu, the juveniles are found in shallow ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Regent%20gudgeon | The Prince Regent gudgeon (Hypseleotris regalis) is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae endemic to Australia, where it is only known to occur in clear, rocky pools in the Prince Regent Reserve in Western Australia. This species can reach a length of .
Biology
The Prince Regent gudgeon is a freshwater fish. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroderidae | Heteroderidae is a family of nematodes. The name comes from the Greek heteros = other and deras = skin (derm). This "refers to the different 'skins' of female and cyst."
Genetics
GenBank has unusually extensive coverage of Heteroderidae internal transcribed spacers, most of which has been generated by Sergei Subboti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Lycosthenes | Conrad Lycosthenes (8 August 151825 March 1561), born Conrad Wolffhart, was an Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist. Deacon of Saint Leonard in Basel, professor of grammar and dialectics, Lycosthenes had a passion for the study of nature and geophysics.
Life
Conrad Wolffhart was born in Rouffach in Alsace on 8 August ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20C.%20Wimsatt | William C. Wimsatt (born May 27, 1941) is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (previously Conceptual Foundations of Science), and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Winton Professor of the L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater%20mullet | The freshwater mullet (Pseudomyxus capensis) is a species of fish in the family Mugilidae. It is endemic to South Africa.
Distribution
The freshwater mullet is endemic to South Africa where is distribution extends from Kwazulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape to the Western Cape, from Kosi Bay to the Breede River drainage.
Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothobranchius%20eggersi | The orchid nothobranch (Nothobranchius eggersi) is a species of killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae. It is endemic to the lower basin of the Rufiji River in Tanzania. Its natural habitat is temporary pools and swamps. This species is found in both a blue and red form. This species was described in 1982 by Lothar ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectropomus | Plectropomus, commonly known as the coral groupers, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, groupers from the subfamily Epinephelinae, part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region.
Habitat and biology
The Plectropomus coral groupers are ecologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20stonebasher | The dark stonebasher (Pollimyrus nigricans) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae.
Location
It is found in Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. In Africa, they can be found at Lake Victoria, Nabugabo and Kyoga; the Kiruni River (Semliki Valley), Malagarasi River and Tanganyika Lake.
Biology
Its na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Pescott | Trevor William Pescott (born 1934) is an Australian naturalist, conservationist and writer, based in Geelong, Victoria. He was born in Ballarat and educated in Geelong, qualifying with a Diploma of Civil Engineering from the Gordon Institute of Technology. He was subsequently employed as a municipal engineer with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20D.%20Grey | Robert D. Grey is a long-time academic administrator and researcher and educator in the field of cellular and molecular biology. He has spent the majority of his career in positions in the University of California system, including interim provost of the UC system, acting chancellor at UC Riverside and provost and exec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zingel%20balcanicus | Zingel balcanicus, the Vardar streber is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Percidae, the perches, ruffes, pikeperches and the darters. This species is endemic to the Vardar or Axios River in North Macedonia and its distribution may extend to the lower reaches of the river in Greece. Its biology is l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20Institute%20for%20Astrophysics%20Potsdam | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is a German research institute. It is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (AOP) founded in 1874. The latter was the world's first observatory to emphasize explicitly the research area of astrophysics. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moser%20spindle | In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, the Moser spindle (also called the Mosers' spindle or Moser graph) is an undirected graph, named after mathematicians Leo Moser and his brother William, with seven vertices and eleven edges. It is a unit distance graph requiring four colors in any graph coloring, and its existe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal%20rearrangement | In genetics, a chromosomal rearrangement is a mutation that is a type of chromosome abnormality involving a change in the structure of the native chromosome. Such changes may involve several different classes of events, like deletions, duplications, inversions, and translocations. Usually, these events are caused by a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Island%20Senior%20High%20School%20%28New%20York%29 | Grand Island Senior High School is a public high school located at 1100 Ransom Road in Grand Island, New York, serving over 1,000 students in grades 9–12. The school follows the New York State Regents Board curriculum. Advanced Placement classes are offered in 16 subjects including Biology, Calculus, Physics C: Mecha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20autonomy | Adaptive autonomy refers to a suggestion for the definition of the notation 'autonomy' in mobile robotics.
Human-automation interaction
The extremist idea of "eliminate the human from the field" rendered the ironies of automation to the extent that the researchers in the related fields shifted the paradigm to the id... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20Reviews%20in%20Biomedical%20Engineering | Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Begell House covering biomedical engineering, bioengineering, clinical engineering, and related subjects. The editor-in-chief is Chenzhong Li.
External links
Biomedical engineering journals
Bimonthly journals
Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20linear%20hybrid%20automaton | Lazy linear hybrid automata model the discrete time behavior of control systems containing finite-precision sensors and actuators interacting with their environment under bounded inertial delays. The model permits only linear flow constraints but the invariants and guards can be any computable function.
This computati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s%20principle | Fisher's principle is an evolutionary model that explains why the sex ratio of most species that produce offspring through sexual reproduction is approximately 1:1 between males and females. A. W. F. Edwards has remarked that it is "probably the most celebrated argument in evolutionary biology".
Fisher's principle was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20St.%20John | Katherine St. John is a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Computer Science and at Lehman College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. She is a faculty member at the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. In 2007 she was selected to be an AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer
where she gave ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWM/MAA%20Falconer%20Lecture | The Etta Z. Falconer Lecture is an award and lecture series which honors "women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education". It is sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America. The lectures began in 1996 and were n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan%20Research%20Fellowship | The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.
Fellowships were initially awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered%20Surveyor | Chartered Surveyor is the description (protected by law in many countries) of Professional Members and Fellows of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) entitled to use the designation (and a number of variations such as "Chartered Building Surveyor" or "Chartered Quantity Surveyor" or "Chartered Civil Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Brout | Robert Brout (; June 14, 1928 – May 3, 2011) was an American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions in elementary particle physics. He was a professor of physics at Université Libre de Bruxelles where he had created, together with François Englert, the Service de Physique Théorique.
Research
After re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20R.%20Bryant | Gregory Russell Bryant, Sr. (born November 1950) is a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.
Navy career
Bryant enlisted in the Navy in 1970 and was selected for the Naval Enlisted Scientific Education Program (NESEP). Through NESEP, he attended the University of New Mexico earning a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation%20to%20the%20identity | In mathematics, an approximation to the identity refers to a sequence or net that converges to the identity in some algebra. Specifically, it can mean:
Nascent delta function, most commonly
Mollifier, more narrowly
Approximate identity, more abstractly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20space | Image space may refer to:
Image space - the optical space coordinatizing the visual representation or component of a scene
Image (mathematics) - the set of results of a function, the output object of a morphism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorm | Mindstorm or Mindstorms may refer to:
Mindstorm (film), a science-fiction telefilm
Lego Mindstorms, a series of programmable robotics kits
MinDStorm, a 2006 educational video game
Mindstorm Studios, a computer video game developer and software developer company
Mindstorms (book), 1980 book by Seymour Papert
"Mind ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter%20%28set%20theory%29 | In mathematics, a filter on a set is a family of subsets such that:
and
if and , then
If , and , then
A filter on a set may be thought of as representing a "collection of large subsets", one intuitive example being the neighborhood filter. Filters appear in order theory, model theory, and set theory, but ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Dufay | Jean Claude Barthélemy Dufay (July 18, 1896–November 6, 1967) was a French astronomer.
During his career he studied nebulae, interstellar matter, the night sky and cometary physics. In 1925, while working in collaboration with Jean Cabannes, he computed the altitude of the Earth's ozone layer. He was named the honorar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Behmann | Heinrich Behmann (10 January 1891, in Bremen-Aumund – 3 February 1970, in Bremen-Aumund) was a German mathematician. He performed research in the field of set theory and predicate logic.
Behmann studied mathematics in Tübingen, Leipzig and Göttingen. During World War I, he was wounded and received the Iron Cross 2nd C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20Dennis | Olive Wetzel Dennis (November 20, 1885 – November 5, 1957) was an engineer whose design innovations changed the nature of railway travel. Born in Thurlow, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Baltimore.
Career
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Goucher College in 1908, and a master's degree in mathematics from Columbia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite%20monkey%20theorem%20in%20popular%20culture | The infinite monkey theorem and its associated imagery is considered a popular and proverbial illustration of the mathematics of probability, widely known to the general public because of its transmission through popular culture rather than because of its transmission via the classroom.
However, this popularity as eit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Mammalogy | The Journal of Mammalogy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Mammalogists. Both the society and the journal were established in 1919. The journal covers research on mammals throughout the world, including their ecology, genetics, cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminella%20sanguinea | Laminella sanguinea is a species of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Amastridae. This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
This species is ground-dwelling and often has debris on its shell to camouflage itself. The biology of Laminella sanguinea is poorly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URBI | Urbi is an open-source cross-platform software computing platform written in C++ used to develop applications for robotics and complex systems. Urbi is based on the UObject distributed C++ component architecture. It also includes the urbiscript orchestration language which is a parallel and event-driven script language... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Kluv%C3%A1nek | Igor Kluvánek (27 January 1931 – 24 July 1993) was a Slovak-Australian mathematician.
Academic career
Igor Kluvánek obtained his first degree in electrical engineering from the Slovak Polytechnic University, Bratislava, in 1953. His first appointment was in the Department of Mathematics of the same institution. At the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aur%C3%A9lien%20Barrau | Aurélien Barrau (born 19 May 1973, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French physicist and philosopher, specialized in astroparticle physics, black holes and cosmology. He is the director of the Grenoble Center for Theoretical Physics, works in the CNRS Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology (LPSC), and is a professor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Commission%20on%20Trichinellosis | The International Commission on Trichinellosis is an international organization founded in 1958 in Budapest. It aims to exchange information on the biology, physiopathology, epidemiology, immunology, and clinical aspects of trichinellosis in humans and animals.
International Conferences on Trichinellosis
The Internat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cang%20Hui | Cang Hui () is a mathematical ecologist at Stellenbosch University. His research interests are proposing models and theories for explaining emerging patterns of biodiversity, networks and adaptive traits in ecology and evolution.
Background
Hui was born in Xi'an and received his BSc (1998) in Applied Mathematics from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Axel%20M%C3%B6rner | Niklas "Nils"-Axel Mörner af Morlanda (March 17, 1938 – October 16, 2020) was a Swedish geologist and geophysicist. He served as head of the paleogeophysics and geodynamics unit at Stockholm University until his retirement in 2005. He was president of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Commission o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Segalstad | Tom Victor Segalstad (born 1949) is a Norwegian geologist. He has taught geology and geophysics at the University of Oslo, Norway, and at Pennsylvania State University, United States.
Career
Positions
He is the past head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo (a position he held for 12 years) and the pas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%20limit | In mathematics, the Laplace limit is the maximum value of the eccentricity for which a solution to Kepler's equation, in terms of a power series in the eccentricity, converges. It is approximately
0.66274 34193 49181 58097 47420 97109 25290.
Kepler's equation M = E − ε sin E relates the mean anomaly M with the eccen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Pierre%20Gaspar | Alexandre-Pierre Gaspar (born 7 April 1960, Paris, France) is a French physician and Internet pioneer, founder in 1996 of COCORICO ! French Culture, Q.O.A.C.H (Question Oriented Approach for Common Health), and later Memento Mundi, a global project aimed to sustain cognitive health.
University
After studies in mathema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescein%20amidite | Fluorescein amidites, abbreviated as FAM, are important synthetic equivalents of fluorescein dye used in oligonucleotide synthesis and molecular biology. FAM is used in the preparation of fluorescein-labeled oligonucleotide probes for the detection of the presence of the complementary nucleic acids or primers for polym... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfanilic%20acid | Sulfanilic acid (4-aminobenzenesulfonic acid) is an organic compound with the formula H3NC6H4SO3. It is an off-white solid. It is a zwitterion, which explains its high melting point. It is a common building block in organic chemistry.
Synthesis
Sulfanilic acid can be produced the sulfonation of aniline with concentra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Schering | Harald Ernst Malmsten Schering (November 25, 1880 – April 10, 1959) was a German physicist born in Göttingen. He is best known for his work in high voltage electricity and the Schering Bridge used in electrical engineering. Schering was the son of Ernst Schering, mathematician at the Göttingen Observatory. His mother c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott%20scattering | In physics, Mott scattering also referred to as spin-coupling inelastic Coulomb scattering, is the separation of the two spin states of an electron beam by scattering the beam off the Coulomb field of heavy atoms. It is named after Nevill Francis Mott, who first developed the theory. It is mostly used to measure the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Blaylock | Russell L. Blaylock (born November 15, 1945) is an author and a retired U.S. neurosurgeon.
Blaylock was a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In 2013 he was a visiting professor in the biology department at Belhaven College.
Blaylock has endorsed views incons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Gurnis | Michael Gurnis is the John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology.
Gurnis served as director of the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), an NSF-funded institute operated by Caltech which supports and promotes Earth science by developing and maintaining op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Commons | Michael Lamport Commons (b. 1939) is a theoretical behavioral scientist and a complex systems scientist. He developed the model of hierarchical complexity.
Life and work
Michael Lamport Commons was born in 1939 in Los Angeles and grew up in Hollywood. Commons holds two B.A.s from University of California at Los Angel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECSAM | The Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics (RECSAM) is a multinational educational corporation headquartered in Penang, Malaysia. It is one of the founding sister centres of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO), established on 30 November 1965 to promote co-operation in edu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashed%20array%20tree | In computer science, a hashed array tree (HAT) is a dynamic array data-structure published by Edward Sitarski in 1996, maintaining an array of separate memory fragments (or "leaves") to store the data elements, unlike simple dynamic arrays which maintain their data in one contiguous memory area. Its primary objective i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Allen | Bruce Allen may refer to:
Bruce Allen (American football) (born 1956), American football executive
Bruce Allen (manager), Canadian manager of musical artists
Bruce Allen (physicist) (born 1959), American physicist; director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Bruce C. Allen (died 2009), American guita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP2 | AP2 or variant, may refer to:
Biochemistry
Activating protein 2 (AP-2), a mammalian transcription factor
Adipocyte protein 2 (aP2), a carrier protein for fatty acids
AP2 adaptors (AP-2 complex), which aid clathrin mediated endocytosis
Apetala 2 (AP2), a plant transcription factor
Vehicles and transportation
Auto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb%E2%80%93Dickman%20constant | In mathematics, the Golomb–Dickman constant arises in the theory of random permutations and in number theory. Its value is
It is not known whether this constant is rational or irrational.
Definitions
Let an be the average — taken over all permutations of a set of size n — of the length of the longest cycle in eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20William%20Prescott%2C%201st%20Baronet | Sir William Henry Prescott, 1st Baronet, CBE, DL (1874 – 15 June 1945) was a British engineer and Conservative Party politician.
The son of John Prescott, he initially studied law and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1909. He subsequently took up a career in civil engineering, acting as a consultant to a number ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav%20E.%20Bene%C5%A1 | Václav Edvard "Vic" Beneš (born January 1, 1931) is a Czech-American, a mathematician known for his contributions to the theory of stochastic processes, queueing theory and control theory, as well as the design of telecommunications switches.
He studied under John Kemeny and gained a doctorate in mathematics at Prince... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic%20convexity | In mathematics — specifically, in Riemannian geometry — geodesic convexity is a natural generalization of convexity for sets and functions to Riemannian manifolds. It is common to drop the prefix "geodesic" and refer simply to "convexity" of a set or function.
Definitions
Let (M, g) be a Riemannian manifold.
A subs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s%20equation | For Liouville's equation in dynamical systems, see Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian).
For Liouville's equation in quantum mechanics, see Von Neumann equation.
For Liouville's equation in Euclidean space, see Liouville–Bratu–Gelfand equation.
In differential geometry, Liouville's equation, named after Joseph Liouvill... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawwaz%20T.%20Ulaby | Fawwaz T. Ulaby () is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and formerly the Founding Provost and Executive Vice President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and R. Jamieson and Betty Williams Professor of Ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humana%20Press | Humana Press was an American academic publisher of science, technology, and medical books and journals founded in 1976. It was bought by Springer Science+Business Media in 2006.
History
Humana published more than 100 new books and 25 journals per year, with a backlist of approximately 1,500 titles in areas such as mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Moscati | Giuseppe Moscati (25 July 1880 – 12 April 1927) was an Italian doctor, scientific researcher, and university professor noted both for his pioneering work in biochemistry and for his piety. Moscati was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1987; his feast day is 16 November.
Youth
Moscati was the seventh of nine children... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Institute%20for%20Advanced%20Computer%20Science | The Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) was founded June 1, 1983 as a joint collaboration between the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and the NASA Ames Research Center. The Institute was created to conduct basic and applied research in computer science, covering a broad range of re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina%20Ratner | Marina Evseevna Ratner (; October 30, 1938 – July 7, 2017) was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory. Around 1990, she proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems. Ratner was elected to the Amer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnet%20%28mathematics%29 | In topology and related areas of mathematics, a subnet is a generalization of the concept of subsequence to the case of nets. The analogue of "subsequence" for nets is the notion of a "subnet". The definition is not completely straightforward, but is designed to allow as many theorems about subsequences to generalize ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Lawrenson | Peter John Lawrenson, FIEE, FIEEE, FRS, FREng (12 March 1933 – 27 October 2017) was an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds who pioneered and championed the development of switched reluctance drive technology. He also made significant contributions to the analysis and computation of m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stam | STAM can refer to:
Ghent City Museum (in Dutch: Stadsmuseum Gent)
Signal transducing adaptor molecule, a human gene
Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, an open access journal in materials science
Sparse totally anti-magic square, a type of Antimagic square
UGM-89 Perseus, a cancelled U.S. Navy submarine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie%20Choset | Howie Choset is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. His research includes snakebots, or robots designed in a segmented fashion to mimic snake-like actuation and motion, demining, and coverage. His snake robots have also been used in surgical applications for diagnosis and tumor removal; nucl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwood%20School%20%28Durban%20North%2C%20South%20Africa%29 | Northwood School is a high school in the coastal city of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Northwood was founded after two schools, Beachwood High and Northlands High combined - forming Northwood School.
Curriculum
Each learner must study English home language and either Afrikaans or Zulu first additional langu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASCADE | KASCADE was a European physics experiment started in 1996 at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany (now Karlsruher Institut für Technologie), an extensive air shower experiment array to study the cosmic ray primary composition and the hadronic interactions, measuring simultaneously the electronic, muonic and hadronic co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORSIKA | CORSIKA (COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade) is a physics computer software for simulation of extensive air showers induced by high energy cosmic rays, i.e. protons and atomic nuclei, as well as Gamma rays (photons), electrons, and neutrinos. It may be used up to and beyond the highest energies of 100 EeV.
In the curr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Pomerene | James Herbert Pomerene (June 22, 1920 – December 7, 2008) was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
Biography
Pomerene was born June 22, 1920, in Yonkers, New York. His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower.
He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1942.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20L.%20Moll | John Louis Moll (December 21, 1921 – July 19, 2011) was an American electrical engineer, notable for his contributions to solid-state physics.
Biography
Moll was born in Wauseon, Ohio, and obtained a B.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University in 1943 and 1952 respectively. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%20W.%20Straiton | Archie Waugh Straiton (27 August 1907 – 22 July 2000) was a physicist, who studied radio propagation.
Biography
He received the degrees of B.S. in E.E., M.A. in Physics, and the Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1929, 1931, and 1939, respectively.
From 1931 to 1943, he taught at Texas A&M U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20G.%20Streetman | Ben G. Streetman is the former dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas in 1966, and became a professor there in 1982. He founded the university's Microelectronics Research Center and holds the Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Cha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20function%20of%20a%20matrix | In mathematics, every analytic function can be used for defining a matrix function that maps square matrices with complex entries to square matrices of the same size.
This is used for defining the exponential of a matrix, which is involved in the closed-form solution of systems of linear differential equations.
Exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedding%20problem | In Galois theory, a branch of mathematics, the embedding problem is a generalization of the inverse Galois problem. Roughly speaking, it asks whether a given Galois extension can be embedded into a Galois extension in such a way that the restriction map between the corresponding Galois groups is given.
Definition
Give... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20D.%20H.%20Tellegen | Bernard D.H. Tellegen (24 June 1900 – 30 August 1990) was a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem.
He obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering from Delft University in 1923, and joined the Philips Natuurku... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20S.%20Jones | Frederick Scheetz Jones (April 7, 1862 – January 14, 1944) was an American university professor, dean, and college football coach. He was the first physics teacher at the University of Minnesota and the school's second football coach, known as the "father of Minnesota football". Following his time as coach, Jones cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20quenching | In high-energy physics, jet quenching is a phenomenon that can occur in the collision of ultra-high-energy particles. In general, the collision of high-energy particles can produce jets of elementary particles that emerge from these collisions. Collisions of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion particle beams create a hot and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnow%20%28algorithm%29 | The winnow algorithm is a technique from machine learning for learning a linear classifier from labeled examples. It is very similar to the perceptron algorithm. However, the perceptron algorithm uses an additive weight-update scheme, while Winnow uses a multiplicative scheme that allows it to perform much better whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886%20Minnesota%20Golden%20Gophers%20football%20team | The 1886 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota as an independent during the 1886 college football season. The season was the first season under head coach Frederick S. Jones. He came from Yale to teach physics and became known as the "father of Minnesota football". Unlike Thomas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20M.%20L.%20Baker%20Jr. | Robert M. L. Baker Jr. (born September 1, 1930) is an American physicist. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics at UCLA summa cum laude, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and earned a master's degree in physics and a Ph.D. in engineering at UCLA. The Ph.D. in engineering, with a specialization in aerospace, was, accord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20for%20Astrophysics | The National Institute for Astrophysics (, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn employ scientists, engineers and technical staff. The research they perform covers most areas of astronomy, rang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan%20Apis | Clan Apis is a graphic novel created by then Assistant Professor (now Full Professor) of Biology at Juniata College, Jay Hosler. It was originally published by Active Synapse in 1998 as five comic books, and as a single graphic novel in 2000. The novel follows the life story of a honey bee named Nyuki learning about h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Keim | Wilhelm Keim (1 December 1934 – 30 September 2018) was a German chemist and professor of chemistry at the Technical Chemistry and former director of the Institute for Technical and Petrol Chemistry at RWTH Aachen in Germany.
Wilhelm Keim was one of the key figures in the development of the SHOP – process (Shell higher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Atkins | Derek A Atkins is a computer scientist specializing in computer security. He studied electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In June 2014, he became the chief technology officer of SecureRF.
Atkins is an author or co-author of several computer security books, includi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20sup%C3%A9rieur%20d%27%C3%A9lectronique%20de%20Paris | Institut supérieur d’électronique de Paris (ISEP) is a French grande école located in Paris. It specializes in electronics, telecommunication and computer science.
ISEP cultivates engineers in the key areas of IT world: Computer science & Cybersecurity – Electronics & Robotics – Telecommunications & Internet of Thing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population-based%20incremental%20learning | In computer science and machine learning, population-based incremental learning (PBIL) is an optimization algorithm, and an estimation of distribution algorithm. This is a type of genetic algorithm where the genotype of an entire population (probability vector) is evolved rather than individual members. The algorithm i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20of%20Computer%20Science | The degree of Doctor of Computer Science (DCS, DCompSci, DSc.Comp, D.C.Sc.) is an applied research doctorate in computer science awarded on the basis of advanced study and research in the field of computer science. While it is considered a terminal degree and requires coursework and research beyond the masters' level, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Westenhofer | Bill Westenhofer is an American visual effects supervisor. He worked for Rhythm and Hues Studios until its closure in 2013.
Early life and education
His hometown is Brookfield, Connecticut, where he graduated from Brookfield High School in 1986. He then earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalagrion%20leptodemas | Megalagrion leptodemas, commonly referred to as the Crimson Hawaiian damselfly, is one of the rarest and most endangered Megalagrion species that is endemic to the island of Oahu in Hawaii. It is currently labeled as endangered by the ESA and critically endangered on the IUCN Red List. The general biology of Crimson Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mictocaris | Mictocaris halope is the only species of cave crustacean in the monotypic genus Mictocaris. It is placed in its own family, Mictocarididae, and is sometimes considered the only member of the order Mictacea. Mictocaris is endemic to anchialine caves in Bermuda, and grows up to long. Its biology is poorly known.
Taxono... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tits%20alternative | In mathematics, the Tits alternative, named after Jacques Tits, is an important theorem about the structure of finitely generated linear groups.
Statement
The theorem, proven by Tits, is stated as follows.
Consequences
A linear group is not amenable if and only if it contains a non-abelian free group (thus the von ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20A.%20Collins | Richard Anthony Collins FRSC (born 18 February 1966) is a British scientist.
Life
He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry on 'Purification and characterisation of a mutant form of pyruvate kinase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae produced by site-directed mutatgenesis' from the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He did post-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vytautas%20Poci%C5%ABnas | Vytautas Pociūnas (September 1957 – 23 August 2006) was a physicist, officer of the Lithuanian State Security Department, and a diplomat.
Career
He graduated from Vilnius University, Faculty of Physics. Since 1992 he has been working in State Security Department. He became the senior State counselor and chairman of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Dunlop | Brian Dunlop (1938–2009) was a still life and figurative painter born in Sydney, Australia. He won the Sulman Prize in 1980 for The Old Physics Building (genre painting). He was a finalist in the 2004 Archibald Prize with Brian Kenna: imagines Urfa. Dunlop painted in Sydney and Ebenezer in New South Wales and in Tusca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%20chafer%20beetle | The Cromwell chafer beetle (Prodontria lewisii) is a species of flightless beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in just one spot in Central Otago, New Zealand, which is now a nature reserve.
Description and biology
This species was named by Broun in 1904 as Prodontria Lewisii, from "three mutilated individua... |
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