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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20D.%20Bailey%20%28sociologist%29 | Kenneth D. Bailey (born 1943) is an American sociologist, systems scientist and professor of sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Biography
Bailey studied at the University of Texas at Austin. He got there a B.S. in mathematics in 1963, a M.A. in sociology in 1966 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1968... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffard%20ring | In mathematics, a Jaffard ring is a type of ring, more general than a Noetherian ring, for which Krull dimension behaves as expected in polynomial extensions. They are named for Paul Jaffard who first studied them in 1960.
Formally, a Jaffard ring is a ring R such that the polynomial ring
where "dim" denotes Krull d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Sch%C3%B6nemann | Peter Hans Schönemann (July 15, 1929 – April 7, 2010) was a German born psychometrician and statistical expert. He was professor emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. His research interests included multivariate statistics, multidimensional scaling and measurement, quantitative beha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%20problem | In theoretical physics, the problem is a problem of supersymmetric theories, concerned with understanding the parameters of the theory.
Background
The supersymmetric Higgs mass parameter appears as the following term in the superpotential: It is necessary to provide a mass for the fermionic superpartners of the Hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro%20Baracchi | Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto Baracchi (25 February 1851 – 23 July 1926) was an Grand Duchy of Tuscany-born astronomer, active in Australia and Government Astronomer of Victoria (Australia) 1900-15.
Baracchi was born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and took a degree in civil engineering. In 1876 he sailed for Ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennessy%E2%80%93Milner%20logic | In computer science, Hennessy–Milner logic (HML) is a dynamic logic used to specify properties of a labeled transition system (LTS), a structure similar to an automaton. It was introduced in 1980 by Matthew Hennessy and Robin Milner in their paper "On observing nondeterminism and concurrency" (ICALP).
Another varian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim%20al-Shimiri | Salim al-Shimiri (born in Basra, Iraq) is an Iraqi fashion designer. His job entails selecting the fabrics used, the models, positioning the lighting for runway shows as well as creating the garments. He graduated at Baghdad University with a degree in microbiology, he later returned to study art. He has held many fash... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia%20Dubrovinskaia | Natalia Dubrovinskaia (born 18 February 1961) is a Swedish geologist of Russian origin.
Education
In 1983, Natalia Dubrovinskaia earned a Master of Science degree in geochemistry from Moscow State University and she received her PhD in crystallography and crystal physics at the same institution 6 years later. Working... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%20Kesarovski | Nikola Kesarovski () (c. 11 November 1944 – 29 August 2007) was a Bulgarian science-fiction writer.
His most famous book is The Fifth Law of Robotics, published in 1983, the title being a reference to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and the fifth law being that a robot must know that it is a robot.
The science-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi%20Ravven | Heidi M. Ravven (born 1952) is the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies at Hamilton College, where she has taught her specialization, Jewish Philosophy, and general Jewish Studies since 1983. She is a Fellow in Neurophilosophy of the Integrative Neurosciences Research Program, which is co-dir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%27s%20Version | Roger's Version is a 1986 novel by American writer John Updike.
Plot summary
The novel is about Roger Lambert, a theology professor in his fifties, whose rather complacent faith is challenged by Dale, an evangelical Christian graduate student who believes he can prove that God exists with computer science. Roger becom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ono%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Ono's inequality is a theorem about triangles in the Euclidean plane. In its original form, as conjectured by T. Ono in 1914, the inequality is actually false; however, the statement is true for acute triangles and right triangles, as shown by F. Balitrand in 1916.
Statement of the inequality
Consider... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithine%20decarboxylase%20antizyme | In molecular biology, Ornithine decarboxylase antizyme (ODC-AZ) is an ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor. It binds to, and destabilises, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), a key enzyme in polyamine synthesis. ODC is then rapidly degraded. It was first characterized in 1981. The expression of ODC-AZ requires programmed, ribo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomische%20Nachrichten | Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes), one of the first international journals in the field of astronomy, was established in 1821 by the German astronomer Heinrich Christian Schumacher. It claims to be the oldest astronomical journal in the world that is still being published. The publication today specializes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindley%20Darden | Lindley Darden (born 1945) is a contemporary philosopher of science, with a research focus on the philosophy of biology.
Biography
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974 and B.A. in 1968 from Rhodes College, and is currently Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland. Between 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Akansu | Ali Naci Akansu (born May 6, 1958) is a Turkish-American Professor of electrical & computer engineering and scientist in applied mathematics.
He is best known for his seminal contributions to the theory and applications of linear subspace methods including sub-band and wavelet transforms, particularly the binomial QM... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrokh%20Khoshnevis | Behrokh Khoshnevis is the President and CEO of Contour Crafting Corporation and the Louise L. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), where he has affiliations with the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Astronautics Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian%20Society%20of%20Physiology | The Brazilian Society of Physiology (Sociedade Brasileira de Fisiologia, in Portuguese language, official abbreviation SBFis) is a learned society and association of students and professionals in physiology in Brazil. It is a member of the Brazilian Federation of Experimental Biology Societies (FeSBE) and of the Brazil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whey%20acidic%20protein | In molecular biology, the Whey acidic proteins (WAP) have been identified as a major whey protein family in milk, and are important in regulating the proliferation of mammary epithelial cells. Additionally, their physiological function is thought to be similar to a protease inhibitor. It has been concluded, therefore, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian%20Journal%20of%20Medical%20and%20Biological%20Research | The Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal in the fields of biology and medicine, edited and published monthly by the Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica (ABDC), a federation of Brazilian scientific societies comprising:
Sociedade Brasileira d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID%20Quantique | ID Quantique (IDQ) is a Swiss company, based in Geneva, Switzerland, and provides quantum key distribution (QKD) systems, quantum safe network encryption, single photon counters, and hardware random number generators.
It was founded in 2001 as a spin-off of the Group of Applied Physics at the University of Geneva.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Fromm | Eli Fromm (born 7 May 1939) is professor emeritus and Electrical and Computer Engineering Leroy A. Brothers Professor in the College of Engineering at Drexel University.
Dr. Fromm received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel in 1962, a Masters in Engineering also from Drexel in 1964, and his Ph.D. from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylenedioxy | Methylenedioxy is the term used in the field of chemistry, particularly in organic chemistry, for a functional group with the structural formula R-O-CH2-O-R' which is connected to the rest of a molecule by two chemical bonds. The methylenedioxy group consists of two oxygen atoms connected to a methylene bridge (-CH2- u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Prize | The Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize is an American national and international award established by the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in October 1999 in Athens. Named after Fritz Russ, the founder of Systems Research Laboratories, and his wife Dolores Russ, it recognizes a bioengineering achieve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Joel%20Greene | Lewis Joel Greene (born August 10, 1934) is an American Brazilian biochemist, scientist, university professor and editor of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research.
Greene received a BA in liberal arts from Amherst College in 1955 and a PhD in biochemistry and cell biology at Rockefeller University in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Hugh%20Thompson | Dr. Herbert Hugh Thompson is a computer security expert, an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University, and the Chief Technology Officer of Symantec. He is also the Program Chairman of RSA Conference the world's largest information security conference with over 25,000 attendees annually... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20F.%20Church%20Medal | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) established The Edwin F. Church Medal in 1972. Every year it is awarded to "an individual who has rendered eminent service in increasing the value, importance and attractiveness of mechanical engineering education." The ASME intends the Medal to represent Education in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Atwater | James E. Atwater (born September 22, 1946) is a retired North American multidisciplinary physical scientist with training in geophysics, chemistry, and biological science. Atwater holds courtesy faculty appointments with the University of Oregon Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the School of Chemical, Bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20view%20of%20theories | The semantic view of theories is a position in the philosophy of science that holds that a scientific theory can be identified with a collection of models. The semantic view of theories was originally proposed by Patrick Suppes in “A Comparison of the Meaning and Uses of Models in Mathematics and the Empirical Science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitoformate | Gitoformate (INN, or pentaformylgitoxin, trade name Dynocard) is a cardiac glycoside, a type of drug that can be used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat). Produced by Madaus, it is not available in the US, and does not seem to be available in Europe either.
Chemist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-DQ3 | Within molecular and cell biology, HLA-DQ3 (DQ3) is a broad serotype category with split antigens HLA-DQ7, DQ8, and DQ9. Historically, originally recognized as MB3 a DC4 serotype, DQw3 was one of three early determined antigens recognized as HLA-DQ along with HLA-DQ1 and HLA-DQ2. While the DQ3 molecules are structurall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Kleier | Alan Kleier an engineer and business executive.
History
Alan Kleir studied mechanical engineering and worked for Texaco and Chevron, first as a petroleum engineer. He assumed different leadership positions and was the General Director for Chevron Corporation's operations in Angola.
Kleier met with Marco Nhunga, Depu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20School%20for%20Gifted%20Students%2C%20Hanoi%20National%20University%20of%20Education | The HNUE High School for Gifted Students (), commonly known as HNUE High School (, CSP), is a public magnet school in Hanoi, Vietnam. The school was founded in 1966 as a national educational institution to nurture Vietnamese students who excelled at mathematics. HNUE High School is the second oldest magnet high school ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20Heart%20Junior%20College | Sacred Heart Junior College was established in 1999 to offer tertiary-level education opportunities in the Cayo District, Belize. When it was first established, it offered Network Administration, International Business, Biology, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Marketing and Tourism Management, of which the To... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Texas%20Health%20Science%20Center%20Department%20of%20Radiology | The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Department of Radiology is the second largest academic department in Radiological Sciences in the United States. Its Graduate Program in Radiological Sciences offers graduate training in various tracks, including Medical Physics, radiation biology, Medical H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemocline | A chemocline is a type of cline, a layer of fluid with different properties, characterized by a strong, vertical chemistry gradient within a body of water. In bodies of water where chemoclines occur, the cline separates the upper and lower layers, resulting in different properties for those layers. The lower layer show... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20I.%20Gordon | Eugene Irving Gordon (September 14, 1930 – September 15, 2014) was an American physicist. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs.
Biography
Gordon was born on September 14, 1930, in New York City. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1952 with a B.S. in physics, and completed h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arieh%20Warshel | Arieh Warshel (; born November 20, 1940) is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Sou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Public%20Key%20Infrastructure | Wireless Public Key Infrastructure (WPKI) is a technology that provides public key infrastructure functionality using a mobile Secure Element such as a SIM card. It can be used for example for two-factor authentication.
References
Public-key cryptography
Banking technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20T.%20Grady-James%20H.%20Stack%20Award%20for%20Interpreting%20Chemistry | The James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public is awarded on a yearly basis by the American Chemical Society. The Award recognizes outstanding reporting on chemistry, chemical engineering, and related chemical fields. Typically the winner must have communicated to the public through "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20Goodman%20%28scientist%29 | Morris Goodman (1925 – November 14, 2010, Michigan) was an American scientist known for his work in molecular evolution and molecular systematics. Goodman was a distinguished professor at the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine, editor-in-chief of the journal Molec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20Hopf%20algebra | In mathematics, the group Hopf algebra of a given group is a certain construct related to the symmetries of group actions. Deformations of group Hopf algebras are foundational in the theory of quantum groups.
Definition
Let G be a group and k a field. The group Hopf algebra of G over k, denoted kG (or k[G]), is as a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Klir | George Jiří Klir (April 22, 1932 – May 27, 2016) was a Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.
Biography
George Klir was born in 1932 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1957 he received a M.S. degree in electrical engineering at the Czech Techn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20pollution | Genetic pollution is a term for uncontrolled gene flow into wild populations. It is defined as "the dispersal of contaminated altered genes from genetically engineered organisms to natural organisms, esp. by cross-pollination", but has come to be used in some broader ways. It is related to the population genetics conc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Joan%20of%20Arc%20Secondary%20School%2C%20Hong%20Kong | St. Joan of Arc Secondary School (SJA, ) is a Roman Catholic co-educational school founded in 1955 by a group of Catholic women who graduated from the University of Hong Kong.
English is the primary medium of instruction in St. Joan of Arc Secondary School. It is the medium of instruction in junior Form English, Math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explore%20Evolution | Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism is a controversial biology textbook written by a group of intelligent design supporters and published in 2007. Its promoters describe it as aimed at helping educators and students to discuss "the controversial aspects of evolutionary theory that are discuss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedersehen%20pair | In mathematics—specifically, in Riemannian geometry—a Wiedersehen pair is a pair of distinct points x and y on a (usually, but not necessarily, two-dimensional) compact Riemannian manifold (M, g) such that every geodesic through x also passes through y, and the same with x and y interchanged.
For example, on an ordina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%20fixed-point%20theorem | In mathematics, the Borel fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem in algebraic geometry generalizing the Lie–Kolchin theorem. The result was proved by .
Statement
If G is a connected, solvable, linear algebraic group acting regularly on a non-empty, complete algebraic variety V over an algebraically closed field ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Writing%20Award | The American Institute of Physics (AIP) instituted their Science Writing Award to "promote effective science communication in print and broadcast media in order to improve the general public's appreciation of physics, astronomy, and allied science fields." The winner receives $3000, and an engraved Windsor chair. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevac | Genevac Ltd is a company which was founded in 1990 by Michael Cole. It used to specialize in the manufacture of vacuum pumps and centrifugal evaporators, but has since directed its attention to equipment designed for combinatorial chemistry. Following a series of mergers, it is currently a subsidiary of SP Industries.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20seawater | Artificial seawater (abbreviated ASW) is a mixture of dissolved mineral salts (and sometimes vitamins) that simulates seawater. Artificial seawater is primarily used in marine biology and in marine and reef aquaria, and allows the easy preparation of media appropriate for marine organisms (including algae, bacteria, pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berger%27s%20isoembolic%20inequality | In mathematics, Berger's isoembolic inequality is a result in Riemannian geometry that gives a lower bound on the volume of a Riemannian manifold and also gives a necessary and sufficient condition for the manifold to be isometric to the -dimensional sphere with its usual "round" metric. The theorem is named after the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Shaw%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mary Shaw (born 1943) is an American software engineer, and the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for her work in the field of software architecture.
Biography
Early life
Mary M. Shaw was born in Washington D.C. in 1943. Her father (El... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok%20Das | Ashok Das is an Indian-American physicist.
Early life and education
Das was born in Puri, Odisha. He received his BS (with honors) in 1972 and MS in 1974 in physics from the University of Delhi. He received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook in 1977.
Career
He was a research associate at the City College of New York, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berezin%20transform | In mathematics — specifically, in complex analysis — the Berezin transform is an integral operator acting on functions defined on the open unit disk D of the complex plane C. Formally, for a function ƒ : D → C, the Berezin transform of ƒ is a new function Bƒ : D → C defined at a point z ∈ D by
where denotes the compl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20E.%20Eberly | Robert Edward Eberly (July 14, 1918 – May 19, 2004), son of Orville and Ruth Eberly, served as Chairman of the Board of Eberly Natural Gas Company, an oil and natural gas exploration and production firm. He was also a director of Gallatin National Bank (retiring in 1990). Eberly graduated in 1939 from Penn State with a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20invertebrate%20paleozoology | The history of invertebrate paleozoology (also spelled palaeozoology) differs from the history of paleontology in that the former usually emphasizes paleobiology and the paleoecology of extinct marine invertebrates, while the latter typically emphasizes the earth sciences and the sedimentary rock remains of terrestria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Br%C3%BCche | Ernst Carl Reinhold Brüche (28 March 1900 in Hamburg – 8 February 1985 in Mosbach) was a German physicist. From 1944 to 1972, he was the editor of the Physikalische Blätter, a publication of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
Education
Brüche studied physics at the Danzig Technische Hochschule from 1919 to 192... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Hall | Dame Wendy Hall (born 25 October 1952) is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
Early life and education
Wendy Hall was born in west London and educated at Ealing Grammar School for Girls. She studied for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Sullivan%20%28journalist%29 | Walter Seager Sullivan, Jr. (January 12, 1918 – March 19, 1996) was considered the "dean" of science writers.
Sullivan spent most of his career as a science reporter for The New York Times. Over a 50-year career he covered all aspects of science—Antarctic expeditions, rocket launchings in the late 1950s, physics, chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannaschia | In taxonomy, Jannaschia is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.
Name
The genus is named for Holger W. Jannasch, a German microbiologist described as "one of the pioneers of marine microbiology".
References
Further reading
Scientific journals
Scientific books
Scientific databases
External links
Rhodobacteraceae
Bact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant | Constant or The Constant may refer to:
Mathematics
Constant (mathematics), a non-varying value
Mathematical constant, a special number that arises naturally in mathematics, such as or
Other concepts
Control variable or scientific constant, in experimentation the unchanging or constant variable
Physical constant,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Ridge%20Virtual%20Governor%27s%20School | The Blue Ridge Virginia Governor's School ("BRVGS") is a Virginia Academic Year Governor's School available to public high school students enrolled in the counties of Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Louisa, Madison, Nelson and Orange in central Virginia. BRVGS emphasizes technology, science, mathematics, and the develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20D.%20Rainville | Professor Earl David Rainville (5 November 1907 – 29 April 1966) taught in the Department of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he began as an assistant professor in 1941. He studied at the University of Colorado, receiving his B.A. there in 1930 before going on to graduate studies at Michigan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20E.%20Gordon | James Edward Gordon (UK, 1913–1998) was one of the founders of materials science and biomechanics, and a well-known author of three books on structures and materials, which have been translated in many languages and are still widely used in schools and universities.
Biography
Gordon graduated in naval architecture at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun%20Prakash%20%28educator%29 | Arun Prakash is an Indian educational facility planner. He is the receiver of the National Award for Best Principal from the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
He has been at the helm of affairs of various institutions for more than 25 years. He is an alumnus of Allahabad University where he also began teac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Astrobiology | The International Journal of Astrobiology (IJA) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2002 and published by Cambridge University Press that covers research on the prebiotic chemistry, origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life on Earth and beyond, SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology%20%28journal%29 | Astrobiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life across the universe. The journal's scope includes astrobiology, astrophysics, astropaleontology, bioastronomy, cosmochemistry, ecogenomics, exobiology, extremophiles, geomicrobiology, gravitati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starting%20vortex | In fluid dynamics, the starting vortex is a vortex which forms in the air adjacent to the trailing edge of an airfoil as it is accelerated from rest. It leaves the airfoil (which now has an equal but opposite "bound vortex" around it), and remains (nearly) stationary in the flow. It eventually decays through the actio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traugott%20Sandmeyer | Traugott Sandmeyer (15 September 1854 – 9 April 1922) was a Swiss chemist after whom the Sandmeyer reaction, which he discovered 1884, was named.
Life
Sandmeyer was born as the last of seven children and attended school in Aarau, studying to become a precision mechanic. His friend, J. Gustav Schmidt, studied chemist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porous%20set | In mathematics, a porous set is a concept in the study of metric spaces. Like the concepts of meagre and measure zero sets, a porous set can be considered "sparse" or "lacking bulk"; however, porous sets are not equivalent to either meagre sets or measure zero sets, as shown below.
Definition
Let (X, d) be a complete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Fairlamb | Alan Hutchinson Fairlamb, CBE, FRSE, FLS, FMedSci, FRSB (born 30 April 1947, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Biochemistry in the Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland. From 2006-2011... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Lafayette%20College%20people | This is a list of notable people affiliated with Lafayette College.
Notable alumni and trustees
Academics and education
George C. Heckman, class of 1845, president of Hanover College 1870–79
Thomas Craig, class of 1875, early professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University
James Bright, class of 1877, philolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiera | Forestiera is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. Members of the genus are often called swampprivets. Most are shrubs.
There are about 20 species, native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, Ecuador and the southern half of the United States. Phylogenetics indicate that Forestiera is sis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaertnera | Gaertnera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. There are at least 85 species distributed across the Old World tropics from Africa to Asia.
Plants in this genus are variable in appearance and biology. Most all are regional endemics, plants limited to a small geographical area and narrowly adapted to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniatis | Maniatis can refer to:
Surname
Giannis Maniatis, Greek international football (soccer) player
Kostas Maniatis, professional football (soccer) goalkeeper
Tom Maniatis, professor of molecular and cellular biology
Peter Maniatis, TV host and boxing promoter
Place name
Maniatis, a village in the community of Dafni, Arcad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottiales | Pottiales is an order of mosses in the subclass Dicranidae.
Classification
The following families are recognised in Bryophyte Biology:
Pottiaceae
Pleurophascaceae
Serpotortellaceae
Mitteniaceae
Some other families are recognised by other sources:
Ephemeraceae – this putative family is characterized by highly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toric%20manifold | In mathematics, a toric manifold is a topological analogue of toric variety in algebraic geometry. It is an even-dimensional manifold with an effective smooth action of an -dimensional compact torus which is locally standard with the orbit space a simple convex polytope.
The aim is to do combinatorics on the quotient ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20L.%20Boger | Dale Lester Boger is an American medicinal and organic chemist and former chair of the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.
Dale Boger was born on August 22, 1953, in Hutchinson, Kansas. He studied chemistry at the University of Kansas (B.S., 1975), and received his Ph.D. from Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltwood | Boltwood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bertram Boltwood (1870–1927), American pioneer of radiochemistry
Paul Boltwood (1943–2017), Canadian amateur astronomer
See also
Beltwood House |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinuous%20Galerkin%20method | In applied mathematics, discontinuous Galerkin methods (DG methods) form a class of numerical methods for solving differential equations. They combine features of the finite element and the finite volume framework and have been successfully applied to hyperbolic, elliptic, parabolic and mixed form problems arising from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20property | In mathematics, properties that hold for "typical" examples are called generic properties. For instance, a generic property of a class of functions is one that is true of "almost all" of those functions, as in the statements, "A generic polynomial does not have a root at zero," or "A generic square matrix is invertibl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20cut | Graph cut may refer to:
Cut (graph theory), in mathematics
Graph cut optimization
Graph cuts in computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%20Wagner | Montford Johnson Wagner (born March 23, 1980) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Early years and amateur career
Wagner was born in Amarillo, Texas and grew up in upstate New York, where his father taught computer sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He caddied for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20segregation | Sexual segregation, in biology, is the segregation of males and females into different groups or the differential use of space, habitats, and resources by the males and females of a species outside the breeding season.
For the physical, legal, and cultural separation of humans according to their biological sex, see se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20J.%20Morrison | Philip J. Morrison is an American professor in physics at the Institute for Fusion Studies at the University of Texas.
He attended the University of California, San Diego, receiving a B.S. in 1972, M.S. in 1974. He received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. William Thompson at the University of California, San ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrozamia%20viridis | Macrozamia viridis is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to Australia
Biology
The fact that Macrozamia viridis has an occurrence at only two locations means that it qualifies for Endangered status. The population trend of the species is now decreasing. They can also be found in terrestrial envir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%27ad%2C%20Israel | Ya'ad (, lit. Destiny or Goal) is a small moshav in northern Israel. Located near the city of Karmiel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
It was founded in 1974 by computer science graduates from the Technion next to the land where the Arab village of Mi'ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Blum | Kenneth Blum (born August 8, 1939) is an American scientist who has studied neuropsychopharmacology and genetics. Until 1995 he was a professor of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Blum originated the term "Reward Deficiency Syndrome" (RDS).
Academic background
Blum recei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen%20Long | Maureen Long may refer to:
Maureen D. Long, American geophysics professor
Maureen Long, victim of English serial killer Peter Sutcliffe
Maureen Johnson (Heinlein character), also known as Maureen Long, character in science fiction novels by American writer Robert A. Heinlein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakha%20Valley%20School | The Visakha Valley School (also known as VVS) is a school situated in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of oldest schools in the city of Visakhapatnam.
Student life
The campus covers 33 acres, with blocks for students of LKG and UKG, 1st to 5th, 6 to 9 and 10 to 12. There are two computer labs, one chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat%20Science%20City | Gujarat Science City is a science education and entertainment centre located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Opened in 2002 and expanded in 2021, it has an IMAX 3D theatre; exhibitions on science, space, energy park, life science park, planet earth, hall of science, musical fountain, thrill ride, plants, nature and robot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P87PIKAP | Within molecular and cell biology, p87PIKAP is a regulatory subunit of the type IB Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase p110γ that is highly expressed in the heart and is present in dendritic cells, macrophages, and neutrophils.
It is also referred to as p84 and p87. Some studies have found P87PIKAP to have a role in carcinogenes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterocarpus%20santalinoides | Pterocarpus santalinoides is a tree species in the legume family (biology) (Fabaceae); it is locally known as mututi.
It has a remarkable bi-continental distribution, native to tropical western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northicote%20School | Northicote School was a co-educational secondary school located in the city Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. The age range of the school was 11-18. It had specialist status in mathematics and computing.
It was the first school in Britain to be condemned as "failing" by OFSTED shortly after the organisation's cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurauia | Saurauia is a genus of plants in the family Actinidiaceae. It comprises about over 300 species distributed in the tropics and subtropics of Asia and South and Central America. Genetic evidence and the cell biology of the group support monophyly of the genus. Monophyly of the genus is also supported by micromorphologica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumanniophyton%20problematicum | Schumanniophyton problematicum is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Sierra Leone. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Chemistry
The plant has been found to contain the alkaloids rohitukine and rohitukine N-oxide, and the iridoid glycosides scyphiphorin A1–A2 and scyphipho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihajlo%20D.%20Mesarovic | Mihajlo D. Mesarovic (Serbian Latin: Mihajlo D. Mesarović, Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Д. Месаровић; born 2 July 1928) is a Serbian scientist, who is a professor of Systems Engineering and Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University. Mesarovic has been a pioneer in the field of systems theory, he was UNESCO Scientific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiLCoE%20College | HiLCoE School of Computer Science and Technology is a private college in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The name HiLCoE stands for Higher Learning Center of Excellence. A specialized computer science institution, it was established in January 1997 by two information technology professionals, Ahmed Hussien (PhD) and Nassir Dino... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anahad%20O%27Connor | Anahad O'Connor (born 23 May 1981) is an American journalist and staff reporter for The New York Times. He joined the Times in 2003 and writes about consumer health, science and national issues. He is also a bestselling author.
O'Connor was born and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He studied neuroscience... |
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