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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20reaction%20force | In physics, and in particular in biomechanics, the ground reaction force (GRF) is the force exerted by the ground on a body in contact with it.
For example, a person standing motionless on the ground exerts a contact force on it (equal to the person's weight) and at the same time an equal and opposite ground reaction f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3%20refrigerator | A helium-3 refrigerator is a simple device used in experimental physics for obtaining temperatures down to about 0.2 kelvins. By evaporative cooling of helium-4 (the more common isotope of helium), a 1-K pot liquefies a small amount of helium-3 in a small vessel called a helium-3 pot. Evaporative cooling at low press... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samar%20Guha | Samar Guha () was a noted Indian politician, and an Indian independence movement activist. He was a close associate of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was also a well known academician, whose textbooks on chemistry are still widely used. In 1967, he was elected to the 4th Lok Sabha from Contai constituency in West Bengal as a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Velculescu | Victor E. Velculescu (born August 16, 1970) is a Professor of Oncology and Co-Director of Cancer Biology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is internationally known for his discoveries in genomics and cancer research.
Early life and education
Velculescu was born in Bucharest, Romania and moved with h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalle%20Kulbok | Kalle Kulbok (born 3 April 1956 in Tallinn) is an Estonian politician.
Education
Kulbok attended the Nõo Gymnasium and achieved good results on national olympiads of mathematics. By his skills, he could have qualified for the all-Union olympiad of mathematics; however, due to his displayed lack of respect for Sovie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widener%20University%20Observatory | The Widener University Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Widener University, but donated by NASA. It is located in Kirkbride Hall on Widener's main campus in Chester, Pennsylvania. The observatory is intended for student use and research within the physics and astronomy department. In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement%20Markert | Clement Lawrence Markert (April 11, 1917 – October 1, 1999) was an American biologist credited with the discovery of isozymes (different forms of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served as president of several b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather%20surface | In differential geometry, a breather surface is a one-parameter family of mathematical surfaces which correspond to breather solutions of the sine-Gordon equation, a differential equation appearing in theoretical physics. The surfaces have the remarkable property that they have constant curvature , where the curvature ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole%20number%20rule | In chemistry, the whole number rule states that the masses of the isotopes are whole number multiples of the mass of the hydrogen atom. The rule is a modified version of Prout's hypothesis proposed in 1815, to the effect that atomic weights are multiples of the weight of the hydrogen atom. It is also known as the Aston... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-code | Pre-code may refer to:
Pre-Code Hollywood (1927–1934), the American film industry between the adoption of sound and the Motion Picture Production Code
Comics produced before the Comics Code Authority was formed in 1954
Zero-forcing precoding, a method of spatial signal processing
Precoding, in multi-antenna wirel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedment | Embedment is a phenomenon in mechanical engineering in which the surfaces between mechanical members of a loaded joint embed. It can lead to failure by fatigue as described below, and is of particular concern when considering the design of critical fastener joints.
Mechanism
The mechanism behind embedment is differen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASSP | NASSP may refer to:
National Association of Secondary School Principals
North American Society for Social Philosophy
National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme, the space research organization of South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Hagenbach-Bischoff | Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff (20 February 1833, in Basel – 23 December 1910, in Basel) was a Swiss physicist. The Hagenbach-Bischoff quota (a voting system) is named after him.
The son of the theologian Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, he studied physics and mathematics in Basel (with Rudolf Merian), Berlin (with Heinrich Wilhelm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Davida | George I. Davida is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is an outspoken proponent of public access to cryptography and an opponent of various National Security Agency (NSA) and US federal government policies and initiatives like the Clipper chip, a stance dating back to his 1977 reception of a gag orde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Molecular%20Matter | Digital Molecular Matter (DMM) is a proprietary middleware physics engine developed by Pixelux for generating realistic destruction and deformation effects. The offline version can support high-resolution simulations for use in film special effects.
The real-time version is designed for video games, and other simulatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Road%20and%20Bridge%20Corporation | China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), a subsidiary of Fortune Global 500 company China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), focuses on global civil engineering and construction projects such as highways, railways, bridges, ports, and tunnels. Growing out of the Foreign Aid Office of the Ministry of Communica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics a stack or 2-sheaf is, roughly speaking, a sheaf that takes values in categories rather than sets. Stacks are used to formalise some of the main constructions of descent theory, and to construct fine moduli stacks when fine moduli spaces do not exist.
Descent theory is concerned with generalisations of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platon%20Ioseliani | Platon Ioseliani (; November 15, 1810 – November 15, 1875) was a Georgian historian and civil servant in the Russian Empire.
Educated at Saint Petersburg Theological Academy, Ioseliani taught physics and philosophy at Tbilisi Theological Seminary and later served for the office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. His arti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic%20distance | Psychic distance is a perceived difference or distance between objects. The concept is used in aesthetics, international business and marketing, and computer science.
Psychic distance is made up of the Greek word "psychikos" (ψυχικός), an adjective referring to an individual's mind and soul, and "distance", which impl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seashell%20surface | In mathematics, a seashell surface is a surface made by a circle which spirals up the z-axis while decreasing its own radius and distance from the z-axis. Not all seashell surfaces describe actual seashells found in nature.
Parametrization
The following is a parameterization of one seashell surface:
where and \\
V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinearity%20%28journal%29 | Nonlinearity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by IOP Publishing and the London Mathematical Society. The journal publishes papers on nonlinear mathematics, mathematical physics, experimental physics, theoretical physics and other areas in the sciences where nonlinear phenomena are of fundamental importan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Starkweather | Gary Keith Starkweather (January 9, 1938 – December 26, 2019) was an American engineer who invented the laser printer and color management.
Starkweather received a B.S. in physics from Michigan State University in 1960 and an M.S. in optics from the University of Rochester in 1966. In 1969, Starkweather invented the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability%20and%20susceptibility%20in%20conservation%20biology | In conservation biology, susceptibility is the extent to which an organism or ecological community would suffer from a threatening process or factor if exposed, without regard to the likelihood of exposure. It should not be confused with vulnerability, which takes into account both the effect of exposure and the likeli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serviceability%20%28structure%29 | In civil engineering and structural engineering, serviceability refers to the conditions under which a building is still considered useful. Should these limit states be exceeded, a structure that may still be structurally sound would nevertheless be considered unfit. It refers to conditions other than the building str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina%20Beletskaya | Irina Petrovna Beletskaya () (born 1933) is a Soviet and Russian professor of chemistry at Moscow State University. She specializes in organometallic chemistry and its application to problems in organic chemistry. She is best known for her studies on aromatic reaction mechanisms, as well as work on carbanion acidity an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Viiding | Paul Viiding (22 May 1904 – 27 June 1962) was an Estonian poet, author and literary critic.
Born in Valga, to Juhan and Ann Viiding (née Rose), he was the oldest of two children; his sister Linda was born in 1907. He graduated with a degree in mathematics in Tartu before pursuing a career as an author and poet. He was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionys%20Burger | Dionys Burger (10 July 1892, Amsterdam - 19 April 1987) was a Dutch secondary school physics teacher and author of the novel Sphereland.
References
1892 births
1987 deaths
Dutch mathematicians
Dutch science fiction writers
Utrecht University alumni
Writers from Amsterdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledge | Ledge or Ledges may refer to:
Ridge, a geological feature
Reef, an underwater feature
Stratum, a layer of rock
Ledge, in civil engineering, a type of earthmoving cut
Slang for legend or legendary
Window ledge
Wisconsin Ledge AVA (American Viticultural Area)
Ledges (album)
Ledges State Park
See also
The Ledg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teijin%20Aramid | Teijin Aramid, formerly known as Teijin Twaron, is a company in The Netherlands that produces various high-strength fibers for industrial purposes, most notably their para-aramid, Twaron. Twaron finds applications in numerous markets, such as automotive (tires, hoses, belts), aerospace, civil engineering, construction,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt%20Rehse | Alt Rehse is a village and a former municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. On 1 July 2008, it was incorporated into the town Penzlin.
During the Nazi era it was the site of an Institute of Genetics, run by Dr Hermann Boehm, and the Führerschule der Deutschen Ärzte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioning%20cryptanalysis | In cryptography, partitioning cryptanalysis is a form of cryptanalysis for block ciphers. Developed by Carlo Harpes in 1995, the attack is a generalization of linear cryptanalysis. Harpes originally replaced the bit sums (affine transformations) of linear cryptanalysis with more general balanced Boolean functions. He d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS%20%28experiment%29 | ARGUS (A Russian-German-United States-Swedish Collaboration; later joined by Canada and the former Yugoslavia) was a particle physics experiment that ran at the electron–positron collider ring DORIS II at the German national laboratory DESY. Its aim was to explore properties of charm and bottom quarks. Its construction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivator | In mathematics, derivators are a proposed frameworkpg 190-195 for homological algebra giving a foundation for both abelian and non-abelian homological algebra and various generalizations of it. They were introduced to address the deficiencies of derived categories (such as the non-functoriality of the cone constructio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-semiring | In mathematics, a near-semiring, also called a seminearring, is an algebraic structure more general than a near-ring or a semiring. Near-semirings arise naturally from functions on monoids.
Definition
A near-semiring is a set S with two binary operations "+" and "·", and a constant 0 such that (S, +, 0) is a monoid (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Plant%20%28ethnologist%29 | John Plant (born 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American ethnologist, biologist and expert on the culture of the Plains Indians.
Academic career
Plant studied anthropology at Windham College in Putney (Vermont, USA), graduating with the B.A. degree (1976), and biology at the Southern Connecticut State Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan%20Magnet%20Center | McMillan Magnet School, formerly known as McMillan Junior High School, is a middle school located at 3802 Redick Avenue in North Omaha, Nebraska, United States. McMillan is a magnet school, focusing on technology, mathematics, engineering, and communication arts.
History
McMillan opened in 1958, and its students soon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable%20algebra | In mathematics, a separable algebra is a kind of semisimple algebra. It is a generalization to associative algebras of the notion of a separable field extension.
Definition and first properties
A ring homomorphism (of unital, but not necessarily commutative rings)
is called separable if the multiplication map
ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavli%20Prize | The Kavli Prize was established in 2005 as a joint venture of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Kavli Foundation. It honors, supports, and recognizes scientists for outstanding work in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Three p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrically%20conducting%20yarn | An electrically conducting yarn is a yarn that conducts electricity. Conducting yarns are used to manufacture carpets and other items that dissipate static electricity, such as work clothes in highly flammable environments, e.g., in the petrochemistry industry.
There are several methods known to manufacture electrica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forshaw | Forshaw is a surname that may relate to:
Adam Forshaw, English footballer for Leeds United
Christian Forshaw, British musician
Dick Forshaw (1895 – c.1963), British footballer
Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), British professor of particle physics
Joseph Forshaw, Australian ornithologist
Joseph Forshaw (athlete) (1881–1964)
M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Linn | Richard Linn (born April 13, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Education and Experience
As a youth, Linn attended Poly Prep Country Day School. He earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triodide | Triodide may refer to:
(usually lower case) a common misspelling for triiodide, the I3− ion in chemistry
(usually capitalized) Orion Safety and Pacific Dynamics trademarked brand name for Trifluoroiodomethane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachurovskii%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Kachurovskii's theorem is a theorem relating the convexity of a function on a Banach space to the monotonicity of its Fréchet derivative.
Statement of the theorem
Let K be a convex subset of a Banach space V and let f : K → R ∪ {+∞} be an extended real-valued function that is Fréchet differentiable wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20J.%20Dreyer | William J. Dreyer, Ph.D. (1928 – April 23, 2004) was a molecular immunologist and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) professor of biology from 1963 to 2004.
He completed his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Washington in 1956. Dreyer then went to work at the National Institutes of Health as a Nati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dmura%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Kōmura's theorem is a result on the differentiability of absolutely continuous Banach space-valued functions, and is a substantial generalization of Lebesgue's theorem on the differentiability of the indefinite integral, which is that Φ : [0, T] → R given by
is differentiable at t for almost every 0 < ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMP | ZMP can refer to:
Zero marginal product (with reference to marginal product of labor)
Zero moment point, a physical concept used in legged-robot locomotion
ZMP, a Japanese robotics company
Związek Młodzieży Polskiej (Union of Polish Youth)
Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center, abbreviated ZMP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Moreau's theorem is a result in convex analysis named after French mathematician Jean-Jacques Moreau. It shows that sufficiently well-behaved convex functionals on Hilbert spaces are differentiable and the derivative is well-approximated by the so-called Yosida approximation, which is defined in terms o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Gattermann | Ludwig Gattermann (20 April 1860 – 20 June 1920) was a German chemist who contributed significantly to both organic and inorganic chemistry.
Early life
Ludwig Gatterman was born on 20 April 1860 in Goslar, an old mining town north of the Harz mountains. Two of his three siblings died at a young age.
During his time ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20knowledge%20engineering%20environment | In the computer science fields of knowledge engineering and ontology, the Sigma knowledge engineering environment is an open source computer program for the development of formal ontologies. It is designed for use with the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. It originally included only the Vampire theorem prover as its c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Harvey%20School | The Harvey School is a co-educational, college preparatory school near Katonah, New York, for students in grades 6 through 12. It is located on a wooded, 125-acre campus and has an annual budget (2015) of $14 million. AP courses in biology, American history, calculus, statistics, chemistry, physics, English, European h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Gross%20%28science%20writer%29 | Michael Gross (3 November 1963, Kirn, Germany) is a British science writer based at Oxford and has been awarded an honorary research fellowship at the School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.
Biography
Gross studied engineering and chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and he holds a d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales%20Scientifiques%20de%20l%27%C3%89cole%20Normale%20Sup%C3%A9rieure | Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure is a French scientific journal of mathematics published by the Société Mathématique de France. It was established in 1864 by the French chemist Louis Pasteur and published articles in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In 1900, it became a purely m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Parke | Stephen Parke (born 1950) is a New Zealand physicist. He is a distinguished scientist and former head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, Illinois).
Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, Parke attended Edmund Campion College, Gisborne and St Peter's College, Auckland ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Mackenzie | Paul B. Mackenzie (born 1950) is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He did graduate work in physics at Cornell University where he was a student of G. Peter Lepage. He is an expert on Lattice Gauge Theory. He is the chair of the Executive Committee of USQCD, the US collaboration for d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Bird%20Group | Robert Bird Group (RBG), established in 1982, is an Australian global consulting engineering firm. RBG became a member of the Surbana Jurong Group in late 2017.
Services
Robert Bird Group provides structural engineering, civil engineering, construction engineering (temporary works), geotechnical engineering (UK & Mid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob%20Ackeret | Jakob Ackeret, FRAeS (17 March 1898 – 27 March 1981) was a Swiss aeronautical engineer. He is widely viewed as one of the foremost aeronautics experts of the 20th century.
Birth and education
Jakob Ackeret was born in 1898 in Switzerland. He received his diploma degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich in 192... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Journal%20of%20Applied%20Sciences | The American Journal of Applied Sciences is a monthly peer-reviewed open access academic journal publishing original research articles in the fields of chemistry, business and economics, physics, geology, engineering, mathematics, statistics, and computer science. The journal was established in 2004 and is published by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Theilheimer | William Theilheimer (1914 – 14 July 2005), who was born in Augsburg, Germany, played a significant role in the history of what is now known as chemoinformatics.
Life
He received his Ph.D in organic chemistry from Basel University, Switzerland in 1940. Being Jewish, Basel provided a safe haven for him during the Seco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berger%20inequality | In mathematics, Berger inequality may refer to
Berger's inequality for Einstein manifolds;
the Berger–Kazdan comparison theorem. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochner%20identity | In mathematics — specifically, differential geometry — the Bochner identity is an identity concerning harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds. The identity is named after the American mathematician Salomon Bochner.
Statement of the result
Let M and N be Riemannian manifolds and let u : M → N be a harmonic map. Let ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob%20Meisenheimer | Jakob Meisenheimer (14 June 1876 – 2 December 1934) was a German chemist. He made numerous contributions to organic chemistry, the most famous being his proposed structure for a group of compounds now named Meisenheimer complex. He also proposed the mechanism of the Beckmann rearrangement. Later in his career, he repo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIJ | AIJ, Aij, or aij could refer to:
Artificial Intelligence (journal), a scholarly journal about artificial intelligence
, the notation for the entry in the i-th row and j-th column of a matrix (mathematics)
Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic, a Judeo-Aramaic dialect spoken in Israel and Iraq, by ISO 639 code
Architectural... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furstenberg%27s%20proof%20of%20the%20infinitude%20of%20primes | In mathematics, particularly in number theory, Hillel Furstenberg's proof of the infinitude of primes is a topological proof that the integers contain infinitely many prime numbers. When examined closely, the proof is less a statement about topology than a statement about certain properties of arithmetic sequences. U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Fuisz | Richard Carl Fuisz (born December 12, 1939) is an American physician, inventor, and entrepreneur, with connections to the United States military and intelligence community. He holds more than two hundred patents worldwide, in such diverse fields as drug delivery, interactive media, and cryptography, and has lectured on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20transfer%20upconversion | Energy Transfer Upconversion or ETU is a physical principle (most commonly encountered in solid-state laser physics) that involves the excitation of a laser-active ion to a level above that which would be achieved by simple absorption of a pump photon, the required additional energy being transferred from another laser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Journal%20of%20Physics | The European Journal of Physics is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal dedicated to maintaining and improving the standard of physics education in higher education. The journal, published since 1980, is now published by IOP Publishing on behalf of the European Physical Society. The current editor-in-chief is Mojca Čepi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Weygand | Conrad Weygand (8 November 1890 – 18 April 1945) was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Leipzig.
In 1938 he put forward a method for the classification of chemical reactions based on bond breakage and formation during the reaction. The preparative part of his book, Organisch-Chemische Experimentierkunst, was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Guillemin | Victor William Guillemin (born 1937 in Boston) is an American mathematician. He works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the field of symplectic geometry, and he has also made contributions to the fields of microlocal analysis, spectral theory, and mathematical physics.
Education and career
Guillemin obta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstile%20%28disambiguation%29 | A turnstile is a pedestrian gate.
Turnstile may also refer to:
Turnstile (symbol), symbol used in mathematics, logic, and computer science
Turnstiles (album), a 1976 studio album by Billy Joel
Turnstile antenna, set of two dipole antennas
Optical turnstile, physical security device
TURNSTILE, a codename for the UK's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Behavioural%20and%20Neural%20Genetics%20Society | The International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) is a learned society that was founded in 1996. The goal of IBANGS is "promote and facilitate the growth of research in the field of neural behavioral genetics".
Profile
Mission
The IBANGS mission statement is to promote the field of neurobehavioural g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAGI | CAGI may refer to one of the following:
Compressed Air and Gas Institute
A variant of transliteration for TsAGI, Russian Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation, an online biology community experiment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1rbara%20M.%20Brizuela | Bárbara M. Brizuela is an American mathematics educator, and an associate professor education at Tufts University.
Education and career
Brizuela was born in the United States, though raised in Argentina and Venezuela.
She has an Ed.D from Harvard University where she studied under Eleanor Duckworth. Prior to that, she... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Anthony%20Nevin | John Anthony Nevin (July 5, 1933 – September 23, 2018) was an American psychologist who was a professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire.
Biography
Nevin was born July 5, 1933, in New York City. In 1954, he obtained a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University. From 1954-1959, he served in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying%20primate%20hypothesis | In evolutionary biology, the flying primate hypothesis is that megabats, a subgroup of Chiroptera (also known as flying foxes), form an evolutionary sister group of primates. The hypothesis began with Carl Linnaeus in 1758, and was again advanced by J.D. Smith in 1980. It was proposed in its modern form by Australia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Wanless | Sir Derek Wanless (29 September 1947 – 22 May 2012) was an English banker and an adviser to the Labour Party.
Biography
Derek Wanless was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was educated at the Royal Grammar School. From 1967 to 1970, he was an undergraduate in mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, which he att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Materials%20Research | , abbreviated IMR or , is a research institute for materials science in the Tohoku University, Japan. It consistently ranks as one of the top in ISI citations on materials research. In 2001, it ranked first in the field of materials science by ISI, Philadelphia .
Outline
The institute is the oldest of the five researc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20Ritzen | Jozef Marie Mathias "Jo" Ritzen (born 3 October 1945) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist.
Ritzen worked as researcher at the Delft Institute of Technology from July 1969 until June 1972 and at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from June 1972 until July 1976. Ritzen worked as a civil ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%E2%80%93Hochschild%E2%80%93Serre%20spectral%20sequence | In mathematics, especially in the fields of group cohomology, homological algebra and number theory, the Lyndon spectral sequence or Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence is a spectral sequence relating the group cohomology of a normal subgroup N and the quotient group G/N to the cohomology of the total group G. The spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/221%20%28disambiguation%29 | 221 may refer to:
In time:
The year:
221 AD
221 BC
In mathematics:
221 (number)
In geography:
Roads:
U.S. Route 221 in Virginia
In astronomy:
221 Eos, a main-belt asteroid
In transportation:
Aircraft:
The Boeing 221 mail plane
In weapons:
Firearms:
The .221 Remington Fireball pistol cartridge
In fiction:
221B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgroParisTech | AgroParisTech (officially Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l'environnement, or Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences) is a French higher education institution, known as a grande école. It is a constituent member of the Paris-Saclay University. It was founded on Janua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Langmuir%20House | The Irving Langmuir House is a historic house at 1176 Stratford Road in Schenectady, New York. Built about 1900, it was the home of physicist-chemist Irving Langmuir, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry during his research career with General Electric. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
Desc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20academic%20computer%20science%20departments | List
Academic computer science departments
Computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%20Will%20Bark | "Mama Will Bark" is a novelty song written by Dick Manning and recorded as a duet between Frank Sinatra and Dagmar in 1951.
When buxom hostess Dagmar appeared on Sinatra's CBS-TV show on April 7, 1951, Columbia Records A&R head Mitch Miller became intrigued by the comic chemistry he perceived between the unlikely duo.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity%20of%20zero | In mathematics, zero is an even number. In other words, its parity—the quality of an integer being even or odd—is even. This can be easily verified based on the definition of "even": it is an integer multiple of 2, specifically . As a result, zero shares all the properties that characterize even numbers: for example, 0... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentinan | Lentinan is a polysaccharide isolated from the fruit body of shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes mycelium).
Chemistry
Lentinan is a β-1,3 beta-glucan with β-1,6 branching. It has a molecular weight of 500,000 Da and specific rotation of +14-22° (NaOH).
Research
Preclinical studies
An in vitro experiment showed lenti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooty%20Radio%20Telescope | The Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) is located in Muthorai near Ooty, in southern India. It is part of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), which is funded by the Government of India through the Department of Atomic Energy. The radio telescope is a long and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Emanuel%20R.%20Piore%20Award | The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award was a Technical Field Award given each year by the IEEE to an individual or team of two people who have made outstanding contributions to information processing systems in relation to computer science. The award was discontinued in 2012.
The award was established in 1976 and named in ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratowski%20convergence | In mathematics, Kuratowski convergence or Painlevé-Kuratowski convergence is a notion of convergence for subsets of a topological space. First introduced by Paul Painlevé in lectures on mathematical analysis in 1902, the concept was popularized in texts by Felix Hausdorff and Kazimierz Kuratowski. Intuitively, the Kur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian%20Bebchuk | Lucian Arye Bebchuk (born 1955) is a professor at Harvard Law School focusing on economics and finance.
Life and career
Bebchuk has a B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Haifa (1977), an LL.B. from the University of Tel Aviv (1979), an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (1980 and 1984) and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ate%20complex | In chemistry, an ate complex is a salt formed by the reaction of a Lewis acid with a Lewis base whereby the central atom (from the Lewis acid) increases its valence and gains a negative formal charge. (In this definition, the meaning of valence is equivalent to coordination number).
Often in chemical nomenclature the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20and%20Physics%20Club | Math and Physics Club are an American indie pop band based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Its members are Charles Bert (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Ethan Jones (bass, keyboards). James Werle played lead guitar until he died in 2018. Kevin Emerson (drums) continues to play on recordings though no longer a full ti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unistochastic%20matrix | In mathematics, a unistochastic matrix (also called unitary-stochastic) is a doubly stochastic matrix whose entries are the squares of the absolute values of the entries of some unitary matrix.
A square matrix B of size n is doubly stochastic (or bistochastic) if all its entries are non-negative real numbers and each ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleaching%20of%20wood%20pulp | Bleaching of wood pulp is the chemical processing of wood pulp to lighten its color and whiten the pulp. The primary product of wood pulp is paper, for which whiteness (similar to, but distinct from brightness) is an important characteristic. These processes and chemistry are also applicable to the bleaching of non-woo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Y.%20Tsien | Roger Yonchien Tsien (pronounced , "CHEN"; February 1, 1952 – August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation%20theory | Situation theory provides the mathematical foundations to situation semantics, and was developed by writers such as Jon Barwise and Keith Devlin in the 1980s. Due to certain foundational problems, the mathematics was framed in a non-well-founded set theory. One could think of the relation of situation theory to situati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer%20School%20of%20Natural%20and%20Environmental%20Sciences | The Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (BSNES) is a fully accredited degree-granting institution and the primary college of undergraduate and graduate scientific research at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was formed in 1994 with the separation of the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Baldischwiler | John Karl Baldischwiler (born January 19, 1956) is a former National Football League tackle who played nine seasons in the NFL from 1978–1986. He has a son (Matt) and a daughter (Elizabeth) both in their 20s. . He is currently a principal engineer at a civil engineering consulting firm in Oklahoma City.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Rapson | William Sage Rapson (14 August 1912 – 25 June 1999) was a New Zealand and South African chemist. His initial career was in organic chemistry but he moved into inorganic chemistry with particular emphasis on gold. His research interests ranged from fish oil through coal liquefaction to X-ray diffraction.
Early life and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Kambartel | Friedrich Kambartel was a German philosopher.
Biography
Kambartel was born on 17 February 1935 in Münster, Germany. He studied physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Münster, where he received his PhD (in mathematics) and his “habilitation”, the postdoctoral lecture qualification (in philosophy). In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lule%C3%A5%20algorithm | The Luleå algorithm of computer science, designed by , is a technique for storing and searching internet routing tables efficiently. It is named after the Luleå University of Technology, the home institute/university of the technique's authors. The name of the algorithm does not appear in the original paper describing... |
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