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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order%20stimulus | A second-order stimulus is a form of visual stimulus used in psychophysics in which objects are delineated from their backgrounds by differences of contrast or texture. On the contrary, a stimulus defined by differences in luminance is known as a first-order stimulus.
See also
Julesz conjecture
Psychophysics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi%E2%80%93Anger%20expansion | In mathematics, the Jacobi–Anger expansion (or Jacobi–Anger identity) is an expansion of exponentials of trigonometric functions in the basis of their harmonics. It is useful in physics (for example, to convert between plane waves and cylindrical waves), and in signal processing (to describe FM signals). This identity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral%20microbiology | Oral microbiology is the study of the microorganisms (microbiota) of the oral cavity and their interactions between oral microorganisms or with the host. The environment present in the human mouth is suited to the growth of characteristic microorganisms found there. It provides a source of water and nutrients, as well... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20F.%20Titterton | George F. Titterton (19 August 1904 in New York City, New York – 12 January 1998) was a design engineer and Senior Vice-President of the Grumman Corporation.
Personal life
Titterton married Ada Ryan on October 6, 1929.
Career history
After graduating from New York University in 1925 with a degree in Mechanical Engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent%20Selsam | Millicent Ellis Selsam (May 30, 1912 – October 12, 1996) was an American children's author.
Background
Selsam was born May 30, 1912, in New York City. She became interested in biology during her high school years. She took this interest to college when she studied biology at Brooklyn College. She was then offered a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%27s%20connectedness%20theorem | In mathematics, Grothendieck's connectedness theorem , states that if A is a complete Noetherian local ring whose spectrum is k-connected and f is in the maximal ideal, then Spec(A/fA) is (k − 1)-connected. Here a Noetherian scheme is called k-connected if its dimension is greater than k and the complement of every cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Winkler | Peter Mann Winkler is a research mathematician, author of more than 125 research papers in mathematics and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation. His research areas include discrete mathematics, theory of computation and probability theory.
He is currently a prof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Hierholzer | Carl Hierholzer (2 October 1840 – 13 September 1871) was a German mathematician.
Biography
Hierholzer studied mathematics in Karlsruhe, and he got his Ph.D. from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1865. His Ph.D. advisor was Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811–1874). In 1870 Hierholzer wrote his habilitation about conic sec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruan%20Chongwu | Ruan Chongwu (; born May 1933 in Huai'an County, Hebei) is a politician of the People's Republic of China.
Biography
He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Moscow Automotive College in 1957.
He was the Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China from September 1985 to March 1987... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer%20immunology | Cancer immunology is an interdisciplinary branch of biology and a sub-discipline of immunology that is concerned with understanding the role of the immune system in the progression and development of cancer; the most well known application is cancer immunotherapy, which utilises the immune system as a treatment for can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Andel%20Institute | Van Andel Institute (VAI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit biomedical research and science education organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan. VAI was founded by Jay and Betty Van Andel in 1996.
The institute's research focuses on cancer epigenetics and Parkinson's disease. Its educational efforts support teacher development an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20homotopy%20theory | In mathematics and specifically in topology, rational homotopy theory is a simplified version of homotopy theory for topological spaces, in which all torsion in the homotopy groups is ignored. It was founded by and . This simplification of homotopy theory makes certain calculations much easier.
Rational homotopy type... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20deletion | In computer science, lazy deletion refers to a method of deleting elements from a hash table that uses open addressing. In this method, deletions are done by marking an element as deleted, rather than erasing it entirely. Deleted locations are treated as empty when inserting and as occupied during a search. The deleted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20C.%20F.%20Horle | Lawrence Christopher Frank Horle (May 27, 1892 - October 29, 1950) was a noted American electrical engineer.
Horle was born in Newark, New Jersey, and in 1914 received his degree in mechanical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he served as instructor until 1916. From 1916-1917 he was a design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Spotswood%20Green | William Spotswood Green (10 September 1847 – 22 April 1919) was an Irish naturalist, who specialised in marine biology.
Born at Youghal and educated at Trinity College Dublin, he was ordained a priest in 1873. He had already worked on marine biology before he left the services of the Church in 1890: in the 1880s, he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20hydrolysis | In organic chemistry, acid hydrolysis is a hydrolysis process in which a protic acid is used to catalyze the cleavage of a chemical bond via a nucleophilic substitution reaction, with the addition of the elements of water (H2O). For example, in the conversion of cellulose or starch to glucose. For the case of esters an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinertsen | Reinertsen is a civil engineering, construction, and petroleum industry supply company based in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1946 and remains family-owned. Its CEO is Erik Reinertsen and
chairman is Torkil R. Reinertsen. In 2011, Reinertsen had a revenue of €400 million and 2,100 employees. It has offices... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot%20SA | Parrot SA is a French wireless products manufacturer company based in Paris, France. It was founded in 1994 by Christine/M De Tourvel, Jean-Pierre Talvard and Henri Seydoux.
Since 2017, it has focused exclusively on drone manufacturing.
The company
The firm specializes in technologies involving voice recognition an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Electric%20House | The Electric House is a 1922 American short comedy film co-directed by and starring Buster Keaton.
Plot
Three graduating students drop their degree certificates, but each picks up the wrong ones off the floor. Keaton plays a botany student who, accidentally, picked up an electrical engineering degree and is invited t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Wille | Rudolf Wille (2 November 1937 – 22 January 2017) was a German mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of formal concept analysis, an unsupervised machine learning technique that applies mathematica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20F.%20Bottke | William F. "Bill" Bottke (born 1966) is a planetary scientist specializing in asteroids. He works at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Education
Bottke received his undergraduate degrees, in physics and astrophysics, at the University of Minnesota in 1988. In 1995, he received his PhD in planetary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burchard%20de%20Volder | Burchard de Volder (26 July 1643 – 21 March 1709) was a Dutch physicist.
Biography
He was born in a Mennonite family in Amsterdam. He earned an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Utrecht under in 1660. He earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leiden under Franciscus Sylvius in 1664. He became profe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20J.%20Conway | Deanna "D. J." Conway (May 3, 1939 – February 1, 2019) was a non-fiction author of books in the field of magic, Wicca, Druidism, shamanism, metaphysics and the occult, and the author of three fantasy novels. Born in Hood River, Oregon to a family of Irish, North Germanic, and Native North American descent, she studied ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Godwin | Robert Godwin (born 1958 in England) is a British author who has written about rock music and spaceflight. Early in his career he was a rock music impresario who managed a venue in Burlington, Ontario, and founded Griffin Music.
Personal information
After attending Ellesmere College in Shropshire, where he studied Mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stuart%20Anderson | John Stuart Anderson FRS, FAA, (9 January 1908 – 25 December 1990) was a British and Australian scientist who was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
He was born in Islington, London, the son of a Scottish cabinet-maker, and attended s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synth%20%28disambiguation%29 | A synth or synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument.
Synth may also refer to:
Science
Synthetic biology
Synthetic intelligence
Media
Synth (video game), a freeware strategic action game that utilizes procedurally generated graphics
Synth, machines powered by organic components used by the Combine in the Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Physics%20D | Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by IOP Publishing, a subsidiary of the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1968 from the division of the earlier title, Proceedings of the Physical Society. It has a broad coverage, including five main fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Natural%20History%2C%20G%C3%B6rlitz | The Museum of Natural History in Görlitz, Germany ( or Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz) is a natural history museum with focus on zoology, botany and geology. Since 2009, the museum has been part of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung with headquarters in Frankfurt/Main. The main field of research... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Biology | Physical Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by IOP Publishing covering a range of fields that bridge the biological and physical sciences, including biophysics, systems biology, population dynamics, etc. The editor-in-chief is Greg Huber (Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco).
The journal is ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgit%20Grodal | Birgit Grodal (24 June 1943 - 4 May 2004), was an economics professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1968 until her death in 2004.
Early life
Birgit Grodal was born on 24 June 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She grew up in Frederiksberg. She was the middle child having both a younger and an older brother. Grodal w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Physics%3A%20Conference%20Series | Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication from IOP Publishing providing readers with the latest developments in physics presented at international conferences.
It forms part of the IOP Conference Series, a collection of open access publications specialising in proceedings... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nampa%20Gateway%20Center | Nampa Gateway Center is a lifestyle center located in Nampa, Idaho, United States. The center is owned by Gardner Company and is anchored by Crunch Fitness, DEFY Trampoline Parks, House of Design Robotics, JCPenney, Shoe Carnival, and WinCo Foods.
History
The shopping center opened August 3, 2007 with a JCPenney depar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20superionic%20conductor | An advanced superionic conductor (AdSIC) in materials science, is fast ion conductor that has a crystal structure close to optimal for fast ion transport (FIT).
History
The term was introduced in a paper by A.L. Despotuli, A.V. Andreeva and B. Rambaby.
Characteristics
The rigid ion sublattice of Advanced SuperIonic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20W.%20O%27Malley | Bert W. O’Malley is the Tom Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Chancellor at Baylor College of Medicine. A native of Pittsburgh, he has a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh (A&S 1959) and a M.D. from their School of Medicine (1963). He completed his residency... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk%20Martinez | Kirk Martinez is a Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton UK. He gained a BSc in Physics from the University of Reading and a PhD in Image Processing in the department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex. While Arts Computing Lecturer at Birkbeck College ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Genetz | Karl Emil Moritz Genetz (October 24, 1852 – May 1, 1930) was a Finnish composer of patriotic choral works.
Genetz was born in Impilahti, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now in the Republic of Karelia). He became professionally employed as a language teacher, but gained prominence for his choral compositions. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20%28computational%20biology%29 | Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and data and analysis persistence and publishing platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have computer programming or systems administration experience. Although it was initially developed for genomics research, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-matrix%20theory | S-matrix theory was a proposal for replacing local quantum field theory as the basic principle of elementary particle physics.
It avoided the notion of space and time by replacing it with abstract mathematical properties of the S-matrix. In S-matrix theory, the S-matrix relates the infinite past to the infinite future... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20and%20Robotics | The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) is a laboratory of the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO). Located in Bangalore, Karnataka, involved in the Research & Development of high quality Secure Communication, Command and Control, and Intelligent Systems. CAIR was founded by Arogyaswam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl%20chloride | Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl chloride (Fmoc-Cl) is a chloroformate ester. It is used to introduce the fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl protecting group as the Fmoc carbamate.
Preparation
This compound may be prepared by reacting 9-fluorenylmethanol with phosgene:
References
Chloroformates
Reagents for organic chemistry
Reag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Murnane | Margaret Mary Murnane NAS AAA&S (born 23 January 1959) is an Irish physicist, who served as a distinguished professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, having moved there in 1999, with past positions at the University of Michigan and Washington State University. She is currently Director of the STROB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoji%20Totsuka | was a Japanese physicist and Special University Professor, Emeritus, University of Tokyo. A leader in the study of solar and atmospheric neutrinos, he was a scientist and director at Kamioka Observatory, Super-Kamiokande and the High Energy Physics Laboratory (KEK) in Japan.
Totsuka helped to discover neutrino oscill... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20B.%20McDonald | Arthur Bruce McDonald, P.Eng (born August 29, 1943) is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 2006 to 2013. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20W.%20Szostak | Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, University Professor at the University of Chicago, former Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Bost... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook%20polynomial | In combinatorial mathematics, a rook polynomial is a generating polynomial of the number of ways to place non-attacking rooks on a board that looks like a checkerboard; that is, no two rooks may be in the same row or column. The board is any subset of the squares of a rectangular board with m rows and n columns; we th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinase-mediated%20cassette%20exchange | RMCE (recombinase-mediated cassette exchange) is a procedure in reverse genetics allowing the systematic, repeated modification of higher eukaryotic genomes by targeted integration, based on the features of site-specific recombination processes (SSRs). For RMCE, this is achieved by the clean exchange of a preexisting g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitric%20oxide%20synthase%202%20%28inducible%29 | Nitric oxide synthase, inducible is an enzyme which is encoded by the NOS2 gene in humans and mice.
Genetics
Three related pseudogenes are located within the Smith-Magenis syndrome region on chromosome 17. Alternative splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants encoding different isoforms.
Location
Nitri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus%20de%20Dacia%20%28mathematician%29 | Petrus de Dacia, also called Philomena and Peder Nattergal (Peter Nightingale), was a Danish scholar who lived in the 13th century. He worked mainly in Paris and Italy, writing in Latin. He published a calendar of new moon dates for the years 1292-1367. In 1292, he published a book on mathematics that contained a new m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20in%20Medicine%20and%20Biology | Physics in Medicine & Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on the application of physics to medicine, physiology, and biology. It was established in 1956 and is published by IOP Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. It is also an official journal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC6 | AC6 or AC-6 may refer to:
Aviastroitel AC-6, a glider
, a US Navy refueling ship
Southern Pacific class AC-6, steam locomotives
AC-6, a utilization category in electrical engineering, defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, a 2007 video game
Armored Core VI: Fires of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic%20acid%20analogue | Nucleic acid analogues are compounds which are analogous (structurally similar) to naturally occurring RNA and DNA, used in medicine and in molecular biology research.
Nucleic acids are chains of nucleotides, which are composed of three parts: a phosphate backbone, a pentose sugar, either ribose or deoxyribose, and one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Journal%20of%20Physics | New Journal of Physics is an online-only, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in all aspects of physics, as well as interdisciplinary topics where physics forms the central theme. The journal was established in 1998 and is a joint publication of the Institute of Physics and the Deutsche Phys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost%20integer | In recreational mathematics, an almost integer (or near-integer) is any number that is not an integer but is very close to one. Almost integers are considered interesting when they arise in some context in which they are unexpected.
Almost integers relating to the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers
Well-known example... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Inman | James Inman (1776–1859), an English mathematician and astronomer, was professor of mathematics at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, and author of Inman's Nautical Tables.
Early years
Inman was born at Tod Hole in Garsdale, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the younger son of Richard Inman and Jane Hutchinson. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladistics%20%28journal%29 | Cladistics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which has published research in cladistics since 1985. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Willi Hennig Society. Cladistics publishes papers relevant to evolution, systematics, and integrative biology. Papers of both a conceptual or philosophica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20God%20Particle%20%28book%29 | The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? is a 1993 popular science book by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman and science writer Dick Teresi.
The book provides a brief history of particle physics, starting with the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Democritus, and continuing thro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane%20%28disambiguation%29 | A brane is a spatially extended mathematical concept that appears in M-theory. It may also refer to:
Brane cosmology, several theories in particle physics and cosmology related to superstring theory and M-theory
BRANE (acronym for Bombing Radar Navigation Equipment) - the airborne computer built by IBM in the 1950s ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi%20Gojobori | is a Japanese molecular biologist, Vice-Director of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) at NIG, in Mishima, Japan. Gojobori is a Distinguished Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is a Professor of Bioscience and A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Edwards%20%28scientist%29 | Gordon Edwards is a Canadian scientist and nuclear consultant. Edwards was born in Canada in 1940, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 with a gold medal in Mathematics and Physics and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. At the University of Chicago he obtained two master's degrees, one in Mathematics (1962)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Gray | Peter Gray may refer to:
Peter Gray (Australian judge), Federal Court of Australia judge
Peter Gray (bioengineer) (born 1946), bioengineer in Australia
Peter Gray (chemist) (1926–2012), professor of physical chemistry at the University of Leeds
Peter Gray (historian) (born 1965), professor of modern Irish history at Q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Barratt | Claire Barratt (born 1974) is an English industrial archaeologist, steam engineer and television presenter.
Career
Barratt studied civil engineering at the University of Portsmouth, and whilst doing so, became more interested in mechanical engineering.
On graduation she worked at the Chiltern Open Air Museum, the Roy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Science%20Tripos | The Computer Science Tripos (CST) is the undergraduate course in computer science offered by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. It evolved out of the Diploma in Computer Science, the world's first taught course in computer science, which started in 1953. Successful candidates are awarded a Bachelor of Ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%20Dombois | Florian Dombois (born 1966 in Berlin) is an artist who focuses on time, landforms, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, as well as on their various representational and media formats.
Dombois studied geophysics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel and Hawaii, and wrote his PhD in Amsterdam and Berlin. After that, he h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Earnshaw | Samuel Earnshaw (1 February 1805, Sheffield, Yorkshire – 6 December 1888, Sheffield, Yorkshire) was an English clergyman and mathematician and physicist, noted for his contributions to theoretical physics, especially "Earnshaw's theorem".
Earnshaw was born in Sheffield and entered St John's College, Cambridge, graduat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Sklar | Jessica Katherine Sklar (born 1973) is a mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, mathematics and art, and mathematics and popular culture. She is a professor of mathematics at Pacific Lutheran University, and former head of the mathematics department at Pacific Lutheran.
Education and c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary%20surface | In fluid mechanics and mathematics, a capillary surface is a surface that represents the interface between two different fluids. As a consequence of being a surface, a capillary surface has no thickness in slight contrast with most real fluid interfaces.
Capillary surfaces are of interest in mathematics because the pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%20gun | A gravity gun is a type of device in video games, particularly first-person shooters using physics engines, whereby players can directly manipulate objects in the world, often allowing them to be used as projectiles against hostile characters. The concept was popularized by the gravity gun found in Valve's Half-Life 2,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomechanical%20engineering | Biomechanical engineering, also considered a subfield of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, combines principles of physics (with a focus on mechanics), biology, and engineering. Topics of interest in this field include (experimental and theoretical) biomechanics, computational mechanics, continuum mecha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachus%20%28son%20of%20Aristotle%29 | Nicomachus (; fl. c. 325 BC) was the son of Aristotle. The Suda states that Nicomachus was from Stageira, was a philosopher, a pupil of Theophrastus, and, according to Aristippus, his lover. He may have written a commentary on his father's lectures in physics. Nicomachus was born to the slave Herpyllis, and his father'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Design | Centre of Mathematics and Design (MAyDI) () was created at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires, in 1995, under the direction of Vera W. de Spinadel.
This Centre received several research and development grants from the Secretary of Science and Technology of the University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge%20Schmitz-Feuerhake | Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake (born in Osnabrück, Germany on 28 September 1935) is a German physicist and mathematician. Her research has assessed the biological effects of ionizing radiation at low dosage levels. From 1973 and until her retirement in 2000 she was a professor in experimental physics at the University of Breme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adilson%20E.%20Motter | Adilson E. Motter (born January 1, 1974, in Brazil), is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics at Northwestern University, where he has helped develop the concept of synthetic rescue in network biology as well as methods to control the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks. In joint work with Takashi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Murr | Gabriel Murr () is a Lebanese politician and businessman who launched MTV in 1991, and is the brother of Michel Murr. He is an open critic of the relationship that Lebanon has had with the Syrian Government.
Personal life and education
Gabriel Murr was born on 26 February 1939. He has a civil engineering degree from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20manifolds | In mathematics, specifically geometry and topology, the classification of manifolds is a basic question, about which much is known, and many open questions remain.
Main themes
Overview
Low-dimensional manifolds are classified by geometric structure; high-dimensional manifolds are classified algebraically, by surgery... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Molecular%20and%20Biomolecular%20Informatics | The Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) is an academic computational biology (bioinformatics) research department based in Nijmegen (the Netherlands), and is part of the Radboudumc University Medical Center.
Most of the research topics at the CMBI focus strongly on (in silico) biomedical data ana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Mathematics%20of%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences%20of%20Armenia | The Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (Armenian: ) is owned and operated by the Armenian Academy of Sciences, located in Yerevan.
History
The Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia originated as the Section for Mathematics and Mechanics, created within the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention%20for%20the%20Protection%20of%20Human%20Rights%20and%20Dignity%20of%20the%20Human%20Being%20with%20regard%20to%20the%20Application%20of%20Biology%20and%20Medicine | The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, otherwise known as the European Convention on Bioethics or the European Bioethics Convention, is an international instrument aiming to prohibit the misuse of innovations in biomedicin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%20Ghazaryan | Rafael Ghazaryan (, 26 January 1924 – 3 November 2007, Yerevan) was an Armenian radio-physicist, academician, public activist, a member of Karabakh Committee.
Ghazaryan was a World War II veteran. He is an author of a number of works on radiophysics, laser atmosphere technics and light modulation, a member of the Nati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20mathematics | Fuzzy mathematics is the branch of mathematics including fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic that deals with partial inclusion of elements in a set on a spectrum, as opposed to simple binary "yes" or "no" (0 or 1) inclusion. It started in 1965 after the publication of Lotfi Asker Zadeh's seminal work Fuzzy sets. Linguis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20dimension | In mathematics, specifically linear algebra and geometry, relative dimension is the dual notion to codimension.
In linear algebra, given a quotient map , the difference dim V − dim Q is the relative dimension; this equals the dimension of the kernel.
In fiber bundles, the relative dimension of the map is the dimensio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Goldberg | David Goldberg may refer to:
David E. Goldberg (born 1953), American professor of engineering and computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Theo Goldberg (born 1952), South African philosopher and director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute
David Goldberg (PARC), e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion%20Press | Hyperion Press was an American publishing company, based in Westport, Connecticut. In the 1970s, it published science fiction and science fiction studies including reissues of several books first published by World Publ. Co. of Cleveland and classic comics and mathematics. It published two different series. The first w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win%E2%80%93stay%2C%20lose%E2%80%93switch | In psychology, game theory, statistics, and machine learning, win–stay, lose–switch (also win–stay, lose–shift) is a heuristic learning strategy used to model learning in decision situations. It was first invented as an improvement over randomization in bandit problems. It was later applied to the prisoner's dilemma ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%20Hall | Benson Hall is a building in the University of Washington campus. It is home to the chemical engineering department. The building was named after Henry K. Benson, a faculty member from 1904 to 1954. During this time, he held the position of Chair of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Leonard William Bindon and John Le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20conformation%20capture | Chromosome conformation capture techniques (often abbreviated to 3C technologies or 3C-based methods) are a set of molecular biology methods used to analyze the spatial organization of chromatin in a cell. These methods quantify the number of interactions between genomic loci that are nearby in 3-D space, but may be se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20W.%20F.%20Valle | José W. F. Valle (born June 2, 1953) is a Spanish-Brazilian physicist.
Biography
Born in Brazil, he earned a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Syracuse University (New York, 1982). In January 1983 he joined the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK, as a Research Associate, where he got married with a Spanish ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo%20Bartoli | Adolfo Bartoli (19 March 1851 – 18 July 1896) was an Italian physicist, who is best known for introducing the concept of radiation pressure from thermodynamical considerations.
Born in Florence, Bartoli studied physics and mathematics at the University of Pisa until 1874. He was professor of physics at the Technical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Antinori | Giovanni Antinori (January 28, 1734 – June 24, 1792) was an Italian neoclassical architect. Employed by the papacy, he oversaw the re-erecting of three of Rome's obelisks - the Quirinale (between the Horse Tamers), the Sallustian (outside Trinità dei Monti) and the Montecitorio.
Life
He studied mathematics in his bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Holmes%20%28broadcaster%29 | Martha Holmes is a BAFTA Award-winning BBC Television producer and writer known for her wildlife documentaries.
Biography
Holmes studied for a PhD in marine biology at the University of York.
She started work at the BBC in 1988 hosting a live underwater broadcast from the northern Red Sea for Reefwatch, and the award... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima%20Centauri%20%28short%20story%29 | "Proxima Centauri" is a science fiction short story by American writer Murray Leinster, originally published in the March 1935 issue of Astounding Stories. Unusually for the time, the story adhered to the laws of physics as they were known by showing a starship that was limited by the speed of light and took several y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-statistic | F-statistic may refer to:
a statistic used for the F-test
a concept in biogenetics, see F-statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20on%20cancer | The "war on cancer" is the effort to find a cure for cancer by increased research to improve the understanding of cancer biology and the development of more effective cancer treatments, such as targeted drug therapies. The aim of such efforts is to eradicate cancer as a major cause of death. The signing of the National... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigeon | The wigeons or widgeons are a group of birds, dabbling ducks currently classified in the genus Mareca along with two other species. There are three extant species of wigeon, in addition to one recently extinct species.
Biology
There are three extant species: the Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope), the American wigeon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20Education | Physics Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the teaching of physics at the secondary school and introductory undergraduate levels. Its scope includes ideas and guidance for classroom teaching, demonstrations and laboratory experiments, international news on education developments, book reviews, eq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Zettl | Alex K. Zettl (born Oct. 11, 1956) is an American experimental physicist, educator, and inventor.
He is a Professor of the Graduate School in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Zettl is a leading expert in the synthesis, characterizat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Physics%20G | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes theoretical and experimental research into nuclear physics, particle physics and particle astrophysics, including all interface areas between these fields.
The editor-in-chief is Jacek Dobaczewski, University of York, UK.
Sco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9vost%20reaction | The Prévost reaction is chemical reaction in which an alkene is converted by iodine and the silver salt of benzoic acid to a vicinal diol with anti stereochemistry. The reaction was discovered by the French chemist Charles Prévost (1899–1983).
Reaction mechanism
The reaction between silver benzoate (1) and iodine is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent%20Forfait | Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (21 April 1752, in Rouen – 8 November 1807, in Rouen) was a French engineer, hydrographer and politician, and Minister of the Navy.
Career
Born to a family of rich merchants, Forfait studied at a Jesuit college in Rouen, where he was awarded prizes in Mathematics and Hydrography upon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20Mermer | Sami Mermer is a Turkish Canadian documentary filmmaker of Kurdish descent.
Biography
Mermer was born in Turkey. He studied mathematics at the University of Ankara from 1994 to 1996 and from 1996 to 2000, Environment Engineering at the University of Istanbul. He pursued cinema studies at the University of Mesopotamia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Brogden | Alexander Brogden (3 November 1825-26 November 1892) was a politician who became Member of Parliament for Wednesbury, England.
Career
Brogden was born in Manchester on 3 November 1825, the second son of John Brogden (1798 – 1869) and educated at Blackburn, New College Manchester and King's College London, where he rea... |
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