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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus%20Magazine | Plus Magazine is an online popular mathematics magazine run under the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge.
Plus contains:
feature articles on all aspects of mathematics;
reviews of popular maths books and events;
a news section;
mathematical puzzles and games;
interviews with people... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus | Plus may refer to:
Mathematics
Addition
+, the mathematical sign
Music
+ (Ed Sheeran album), (pronounced "plus"), 2011
Plus (Cannonball Adderley Quintet album), 1961
Plus (Astrud Gilberto and James Last album), 1986
Plus (Matt Nathanson EP), 2003
Plus (Martin Garrix EP), 2018
Plus (band), a Japanese pop boy b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleman%20matrix | In mathematics, a Carleman matrix is a matrix used to convert function composition into matrix multiplication. It is often used in iteration theory to find the continuous iteration of functions which cannot be iterated by pattern recognition alone. Other uses of Carleman matrices occur in the theory of probability gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian%20Physicists%27%20Tournament%20for%20University%20Students | Ukrainian Physicists' Tournament for University Students (, commonly abbreviated as СТФ) is a creative team competition of university students targeted to realize their potential through solving complicated scientific problems and defending their research projects in a scientific discussion, called Physics Fight. Is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20R.%20Goodman | James Richard "Jim" Goodman (born July 16, 1944) retired as professor of computer science at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand, and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Education and research
Goodman received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. He joined ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Goodman | James Goodman may refer to:
James Goodman (cricketer) (born 1990), Kent County Cricket Club cricketer
James Goodman (musicologist) (1828–1896), clergyman, professor of Irish, and collector of Irish music
James A. Goodman (born 1936), American politician
James R. Goodman (born 1944), professor of computer science ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Xavier%20Castellanos | F. Xavier Castellanos (born November 16, 1953) is a Bolivian nueroscientist who is the director of research at the NYU Child Study Center. His work aims at elucidating the neuroscience of ADHD through structural and functional brain imaging studies, collaborating on molecular genetic studies, and coordinating an inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panimalar%20Engineering%20College | Panimalar Engineering College is a postsecondary educational institution located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India focusing on engineering.
Undergraduate courses (4 years)
Bachelor of Engineering degree in
Civil Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Information Technology
Electronics and Communication Engineering
El... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn%C3%A1%20Orava%20Protected%20Landscape%20Area | Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area () is one of the 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. It is situated in the Námestovo and Tvrdošín districts, within the Orava region.
History
The park was created on 24 September 1979 and the law creating it was amended on 29 September 2003.
Geography, geology and biology
It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Mathematical%20Modeling | The Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) was created in 2000 to encompass research and training activities that were being conducted by members of the Department of Mathematical Engineering at Universidad de Chile. Today, it features a range of activities from fundamental research in applied mathematics to industry-o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBIT | UBIT may refer to:
Unrelated Business Income Tax, a U.S. tax on a certain activities of tax-exempt organizations
U-bit, a proposed theoretical entity in quantum mechanics
UBIT, an acronym for the Department of Computer Science at the University of Karachi
University of Buffalo Information Technology, which provides te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundedly%20generated%20group | In mathematics, a group is called boundedly generated if it can be expressed as a finite product of cyclic subgroups. The property of bounded generation is also closely related with the congruence subgroup problem (see ).
Definitions
A group G is called boundedly generated if there exists a finite subset S of G an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20reaction | In chemistry, a color reaction or colour reaction is a chemical reaction that is used to transform colorless chemical compounds into colored derivatives which can be detected visually or with the aid of a colorimeter.
The concentration of a colorless solution cannot normally be determined with a colorimeter. The addi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRSA | DRSA may refer to:
Dominance-based rough set approach (theoretical computer science)
Deutsches Rettungsschwimmabzeichen (the German water-lifesaving grade) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic%20spectral%20sequence | In mathematics, the chromatic spectral sequence is a spectral sequence, introduced by , used for calculating the initial term of the Adams spectral sequence for Brown–Peterson cohomology, which is in turn used for calculating the stable homotopy groups of spheres.
See also
Chromatic homotopy theory
Adams-Novikov s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Savage | Stefan Savage (born 1969) is an American computer science researcher, currently a Professor in the Systems and Networking Group at the University of California, San Diego. There, he holds the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer Science. Savage is widely cited in computer security, particularly in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%20spectral%20sequence | In mathematics, the May spectral sequence is a spectral sequence, introduced by . It is used for calculating the initial term of the Adams spectral sequence, which is in turn used for calculating the stable homotopy groups of spheres. The May spectral sequence is described in detail in .
References
.
Spectral seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20computer%20engineering | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer engineering:
Computer engineering – discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill-topping%20%28biology%29 | Hill-topping (more often spelt hilltopping) is a mate-location behaviour seen in many insects including butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees, wasps, beetles and flies.
Males of many butterfly species may be found flying up to and staying on a hilltop - for days on end if necessary. Females, desirous of mating, fly u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20Flanders | Harley M. Flanders (September 13, 1925 – July 26, 2013) was an American mathematician, known for several textbooks and contributions to his fields: algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing.
Life
Flanders was a sophomore calculus student of Lester R. Ford at the Ill... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20and%20recall | In pattern recognition, information retrieval, object detection and classification (machine learning), precision and recall are performance metrics that apply to data retrieved from a collection, corpus or sample space.
Precision (also called positive predictive value) is the fraction of relevant instances among the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Mathematical%20Sciences%20Institute | The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) was established in 2002 for collaboration in the mathematical sciences to strengthen mathematics and statistics, especially in universities.
The Fields Institute and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences have influenced AMSI's structure and operations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20E.%20Gibbs | Norman E. Gibbs (November 27, 1941 – April 25, 2002) was an American software engineer, scholar and educational leader.
He studied to a B.Sc. in mathematics at Ursinus College (1964) and M.Sc. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) in Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Robert R. Korfhage. His research area was cycle ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIMB%20%28disambiguation%29 | CIMB Group is a financial services provider in Malaysia.
CIMB may also refer to:
Current Issues in Molecular Biology, an academic scientific periodical
See also
CIMB-FM, a radio station of Quebec, Canada
CINB-FM, a radio station of New Brunswick, Canada
cymb., an abbreviation for Cymbal
SinB, a member of Korea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayliss%20and%20Starling%20Society | The Bayliss and Starling Society was founded in 1979 as a forum for research scientists with specific interests in the chemistry, physiology and function of central and autonomic peptides.
The society was named in honour of William Bayliss and Ernest Starling, who discovered the gastrointestinal peptide secretin in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERAC | Nerac, Inc. is a research and advisory firm for companies developing products and technologies. Nerac is located in Tolland, Connecticut, US.
The company was founded in 1966 by Daniel Wilde, a professor of computer science at the University of Connecticut (UCONN). Nerac began operating in 1966 as the New England Res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogen%20bond | In chemistry, a halogen bond occurs when there is evidence of a net attractive interaction between an electrophilic region associated with a halogen atom in a molecular entity and a nucleophilic region in another, or the same, molecular entity. Like a hydrogen bond, the result is not a formal chemical bond, but rather ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20S.%20Turner | Jonathan Shields Turner is a senior professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include the design and analysis of high performance routers and switching systems, extensible communication networks via overlay networks, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Pembrey | Marcus Edred Pembrey FMedSci (born 20 April 1943) is a British clinical geneticist with a research interest in non-Mendelian inheritance in humans. He is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Genetics at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Visiting Professor of Paediatric Genetics, University of Bristol. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Wilhelm%20Gilbert | Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (August 12, 1769 – March 7, 1824) was a German physicist and chemist, and professor of physics at the University of Leipzig. From 1799-1824, he published the "Annalen der Physik", of which Poggendorffs "Annalen der Physik und Chemie" was a continuation.
Biography
Gilbert was born in Berlin. Afte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Paul%20Erd%C5%91s | The following are named after Paul Erdös:
Paul Erdős Award of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions
Erdős Prize
Erdős Lectures
Erdős number
Erdős cardinal
Erdős–Nicolas number
Erdős conjecture — a list of numerous conjectures named after Erdős; See also List of conjectures by Paul Erdős.
E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrodelphinus | Macrodelphinus is an extinct genus of primitive odontocete known from Late Oligocene (Chattian) marine deposits in California.
Biology
Macrodelphinus was an orca-sized odontocete similar to members of Eurhinodelphinidae in having a swordfish-like rostrum and upper jaw. Because of its size, and inch-long teeth, it is b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%E2%80%93semiconductor%20junction | In solid-state physics, a metal–semiconductor (M–S) junction is a type of electrical junction in which a metal comes in close contact with a semiconductor material. It is the oldest practical semiconductor device. M–S junctions can either be rectifying or non-rectifying. The rectifying metal–semiconductor junction f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Zheng | Chen Zheng may refer to:
Chen Zheng (Tang dynasty) (616–677), Tang Dynasty general responsible for developing the city of Zhangzhou
Xiao Yang (1929–1998), politician of the People's Republic of China
George Chen, born Chen Zheng, materials science professor at University of Nottingham
See also
Zheng Chen (born 1965)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20John%20Shaw | Dr. Herbert John Shaw (June 2, 1918 – January 19, 2006) was a professor at Stanford University, and a major inventor in the fields of fiber optic gyroscopes, optical communications, and surface acoustic wave devices.
Shaw was born in Seattle, and in 1941 received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamow%20factor | The Gamow factor, Sommerfeld factor or Gamow–Sommerfeld factor, named after its discoverer George Gamow or after Arnold Sommerfeld, is a probability factor for two nuclear particles' chance of overcoming the Coulomb barrier in order to undergo nuclear reactions, for example in nuclear fusion. By classical physics, ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T%20DSP1 | The AT&T DSP1 was a pioneering digital signal processor (DSP) created by Bell Labs.
The DSP1 started in 1977 with a Bell Labs study that recommended creating a large-scale integrated circuit for digital signal processing. It described a basic DSP architecture with multiplier/accumulator, addressing unit, and control; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosocial | Biosocial can refer to:
Biosocial behavior
Biosocial criminology
Sociobiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkling | Sparkling may refer to:
Beverages
Sparkling apple cider
Sparkling water
Sparkling wine
Biology
Sparkling enope squid, a squid species
Sparkling gourami, a fish species
Sparkling violetear, a hummingbird species
See also
Spark (disambiguation)
Sparkle (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinbeck%20%28surname%29 | Steinbeck is a surname, which may refer to:
Christoph Steinbeck (born 1966), German chemistry researcher
Elaine Anderson Steinbeck (1914–2003), American actress and stage manager
Janet Steinbeck (born 1951), Australian swimmer and olympic medalist
Muriel Steinbeck (1913–1982), Australian radio, television, theatre, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXN | OXN may refer to:
Oxenholme Lake District railway station, England; National Rail station code OXN
Oxnard (Amtrak station), California, United States; Amtrak station code OXN
Oxonica, a British nanotechnology company; EPIC code OXN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%2086081 | HD 86081 is a yellow-hued star in the equatorial constellation of Sextans. It has the proper name Bibha, after Indian physicist Bibha Chowdhuri. The name was suggested in the NameExoWorlds competition by Ananyo Bhattacharya, a mechanical engineering student of the Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEP | QEP may refer to:
Quadrature encoder pulse, in a rotary encoder
Query plan or query execution plan, in a database software system
Quadratic eigenvalue problem, a special case of nonlinear eigenproblem in mathematics
QEP Resources, a defunct American energy company. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P1-derived%20artificial%20chromosome | A P1-derived artificial chromosome, or PAC, is a DNA construct derived from the DNA of P1 bacteriophages and Bacterial artificial chromosome. It can carry large amounts (about 100–300 kilobases) of other sequences for a variety of bioengineering purposes in bacteria. It is one type of the efficient cloning vector used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity%20of%20a%20set | In mathematics, the capacity of a set in Euclidean space is a measure of the "size" of that set. Unlike, say, Lebesgue measure, which measures a set's volume or physical extent, capacity is a mathematical analogue of a set's ability to hold electrical charge. More precisely, it is the capacitance of the set: the tota... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schottky%20anomaly | The Schottky anomaly is an effect observed in solid-state physics where the specific heat capacity of a solid at low temperature has a peak. It is called anomalous because the heat capacity usually increases with temperature, or stays constant. It occurs in systems with a limited number of energy levels so that E(T) in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild%20criterion | Discovered by Karl Schwarzschild, the Schwarzschild criterion is a criterion in astrophysics where a stellar medium is stable against convection when the rate of change in temperature (T) by altitude (Z) satisfies
where is gravity and is the heat capacity at constant pressure.
If a gas is unstable against convectio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apply | In mathematics and computer science, apply is a function that applies a function to arguments. It is central to programming languages derived from lambda calculus, such as LISP and Scheme, and also in functional languages. It has a role in the study of the denotational semantics of computer programs, because it is a co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Astrophysics%2C%20Optics%20and%20Electronics | The National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (in Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, INAOE) is a Mexican science research institute located in Tonantzintla, Puebla.
Founded by presidential decree on November 12, 1971, it has over 100 researchers in Astrophysics, Optics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil%20J.%20Nesbitt | Cecil James Nesbitt, Ph.D., F.S.A., M.A.A.A. (1912 – 2001) was a mathematician who was a Ph.D. student of Richard Brauer and wrote many influential papers in the early history of modular representation theory. He taught actuarial mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1980. Nesbitt was born in Ontario... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Van%20Camp | Benjamin Van Camp (born 26 December 1946) is a Belgian scientist working on the immunobiology of B cell malignancies and multiple myeloma, and autologous bone marrow transplantation. Between 2000 and 2008 he was the rector of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Benjamin Van Camp was born in Mechelen, Belgium, in 1946. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2824%297.ai | [24]7.ai (full company name [24]7.ai, Inc.) is a customer service software and services company based in California that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide targeted customer service.
History
[24]7.ai was founded in April 2000 by P. V. Kannan and Shanmugam Nagarajan. Kannan previously founded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20energy | In mathematics, the Dirichlet energy is a measure of how variable a function is. More abstractly, it is a quadratic functional on the Sobolev space . The Dirichlet energy is intimately connected to Laplace's equation and is named after the German mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.
Definition
Given an ope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20J.%20Lohwater | Arthur John "Jack" Lohwater (October 20, 1922 - June 10, 1982) was an American mathematician.
He obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics at University of Rochester (1951), on the dissertation The Boundary Values of a Class of Analytic Functions, advised by Wladimir Seidel. Later he joined the faculty at University of Michiga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20horn | A magnetic horn or neutrino horn (also known as the Van der Meer horn) is a high-current, pulsed focusing device, invented by the Dutch physicist Simon van der Meer in CERN, that selects pions and focuses them into a sharp beam. The original application of the magnetic horn was in the context of neutrino physics, where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20bee%20colony%20algorithm | In computer science and operations research, the artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is an optimization algorithm based on the intelligent foraging behaviour of honey bee swarm, proposed by Derviş Karaboğa (Erciyes University) in 2005.
Algorithm
In the ABC model, the colony consists of three groups of bees: employe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Goryanin | Igor I. Goryanin is a systems biologist, who holds a Henrik Kacser Chair in Computational Systems Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He also heads the Biological Systems Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
Biography
Goryanin graduated in 1985 with an MSc in applied mathematics from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20T.%20Fuller | Margaret "Minx" T. Fuller is an American developmental biologist known for her research on the male germ line and defining the role of the stem cell environment (the hub cells that establish the niche of particular cells) in specifying cell fate and differentiation.
Fuller is the Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searle%20Scholars%20Program | The Searle Scholars Program is a career development award made annually to support 15 young faculty in biomedical research and chemistry at US universities and research centers. The goal of the award is to support to exceptional young scientists who are at the beginning of their independent research careers and are wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek%20%C5%A0orm | František Šorm (28 February 1913 in Prague – 18 November 1980) was a Czech chemist known for synthesis of natural compounds, mainly terpenes and biologically active components of plants. Šorm was the founder of the Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
Šorm studied ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti%20effect | In electrical engineering, the Ferranti effect is the increase in voltage occurring at the receiving end of a very long (> 200 km) AC electric power transmission line, relative to the voltage at the sending end, when the load is very small, or no load is connected. It can be stated as a factor, or as a percent increase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Dulac | Catherine Dulac is a French–American biologist. She is the Higgins Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, where she served as department chair from 2007 to 2013. She is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was born in 1963 in France. She came to the United States ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Dickson%20%28engineer%29 | Michael Dickson (1944–2018) was a structural engineer and a founding partner of Buro Happold. He was a Visiting Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Bath Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
He studied mechanical sciences (the precursor of engineering) at Cambridge University followed by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20torsion | In mathematics, Reidemeister torsion (or R-torsion, or Reidemeister–Franz torsion) is a topological invariant of manifolds introduced by Kurt Reidemeister for 3-manifolds and generalized to higher dimensions by and .
Analytic torsion (or Ray–Singer torsion) is an invariant of Riemannian manifolds defined by as an an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteinase%20K | In molecular biology, Proteinase K (, protease K, endopeptidase K, Tritirachium alkaline proteinase, Tritirachium album serine proteinase, Tritirachium album proteinase K) is a broad-spectrum serine protease. The enzyme was discovered in 1974 in extracts of the fungus Parengyodontium album (formerly Engyodontium albu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Grabiner | Judith Victor Grabiner (born October 12, 1938) is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics, who is Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges. Her main interest is in mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Education
Grabiner com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20molarity | In chemistry, the effective molarity (denoted EM) is defined as the ratio between the first-order rate constant of an intramolecular reaction and the second-order rate constant of the corresponding intermolecular reaction (Kinetic Effective Molarity) or the ratio between the equilibrium constant of an intramolecular re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohuslav%20Schnirch | Bohuslav Bedřich Josef Schnirch (10 August 1845, Prague – 30 September 1901, Prague) was a Czech sculptor, designer and preservationist.
Biography
His father was the builder and engineer, and his great-uncle, Bedřich Schnirch, designed railways and bridges. He studied civil engineering and architecture at the Czech T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilberforce%20pendulum | A Wilberforce pendulum, invented by British physicist Lionel Robert Wilberforce around 1896, consists of a mass suspended by a long helical spring and free to turn on its vertical axis, twisting the spring. It is an example of a coupled mechanical oscillator, often used as a demonstration in physics education. The mas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther%20Stent | Gunther S. Stent (28 March 1924 – 12 June 2008) was Graduate Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the early bacteriophage biologists, he was known also for his studies on the metabolism of bacteria and neurobiology of leeches, and for his writing on the history and philosop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Hudson | Claude Silbert Hudson (January 26, 1881 – December 27, 1952) was an American chemist who is best known for his work in the area of carbohydrate chemistry. He is also the namesake of the Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry given by the American Chemical Society.
Life and work
Hudson was born in Atlanta,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itogi%20Nauki%20i%20Techniki | Itogi Nauki i Techniki (Итоги науки и техники, Review of Science and Technique, established 1972 in Moscow) is a Russian journal, publishing several series for a variety of areas in science and technology, including mathematics, biology, astronomy, and motor vehicles.
Notes
Science and technology in Russia
Science an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20genomics | Personal genomics or consumer genetics is the branch of genomics concerned with the sequencing, analysis and interpretation of the genome of an individual. The genotyping stage employs different techniques, including single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis chips (typically 0.02% of the genome), or partial or full... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20by%20Erd%C5%91s%20number | Paul Erdős (1913–1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He considered mathematics to be a social activity and often collaborated on his papers, having 511 joint authors, many of whom also have their own collaborators. The Erdős number measures the "collaborative distance" between an author and Erdős. Thus, his direct co-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Mackenzie%20%28contractor%29 | William Mackenzie (20 March 1794 – 29 October 1851) was an Anglo-Scottish civil engineer and civil engineering contractor who was one of the leading European contractors in the 1840s.
Early life
Mackenzie was born near Nelson, Lancashire, England, the eldest of the 11 children of Alexander Mackenzie, a Scottish contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Pearson | Gerald L. Pearson (March 31, 1905 – October 25, 1987) was a physicist whose work on silicon rectifiers at Bell Labs led to the invention of the solar cell. In 2008, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Biography
Pearson was born in Salem, Oregon. He took a bachelor's degree in mathematics and phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain%20boundary%20strengthening | In materials science, grain-boundary strengthening (or Hall–Petch strengthening) is a method of strengthening materials by changing their average crystallite (grain) size. It is based on the observation that grain boundaries are insurmountable borders for dislocations and that the number of dislocations within a grain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20weight | In neuroscience and computer science, synaptic weight refers to the strength or amplitude of a connection between two nodes, corresponding in biology to the amount of influence the firing of one neuron has on another. The term is typically used in artificial and biological neural network research.
Computation
In a com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiberg%E2%80%93Witten%20invariants | In mathematics, and especially gauge theory, Seiberg–Witten invariants are invariants of compact smooth oriented 4-manifolds introduced by , using the Seiberg–Witten theory studied by during their investigations of Seiberg–Witten gauge theory.
Seiberg–Witten invariants are similar to Donaldson invariants and can be u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Ruina | Jack P. Ruina (August 19, 1923 – February 4, 2015) was an American electrical engineer who was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1963 until 1997 and thereafter an MIT professor emeritus. From 1966 to 1970, he was also vice president for special laboratories a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelung%20equations | In theoretical physics, the Madelung equations, or the equations of quantum hydrodynamics, are Erwin Madelung's equivalent alternative formulation of the Schrödinger equation, written in terms of hydrodynamical variables, similar to the Navier–Stokes equations of fluid dynamics. The derivation of the Madelung equations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBD%20%28disambiguation%29 | RBD is a Mexican pop band formed in 2004.
RBD may also refer to:
Biology and psychology
Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
Receptor binding domain
Recurrent brief depression
Computing
Rational Business Developer, an IDE from IBM
RADOS Block Device, a feature of the Ceph (software) storage management s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%20and%20odd%20ordinals | In mathematics, even and odd ordinals extend the concept of parity from the natural numbers to the ordinal numbers. They are useful in some transfinite induction proofs.
The literature contains a few equivalent definitions of the parity of an ordinal α:
Every limit ordinal (including 0) is even. The successor of an e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Pommerenke | Christian Pommerenke (born 17 December 1933 in Copenhagen) is a mathematician known for his work in complex analysis.
He studied at the University of Göttingen (1954–58), achieving diploma in mathematics (1957), Ph.D. (1959) on the dissertation Über die Gleichverteilung von Gitterpunkten auf m-dimensionalen Ellipsoi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Vahl | Jens Laurentius Moestue Vahl (27 November 1796 – 12 November 1854) was a Danish botanist and pharmacist.
Biography
He was son of the Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist Martin Vahl (1749-1804).
Jens Vahl graduated as a pharmacist in 1819 and then started studying botany and chemistry.
Vahl participated W. A. Graa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXC%20code | EXC is a condensed matter physics many-body theory software package implementing the Bethe–Salpeter equation in frequency-reciprocal space and on a plane wave basis set. Its purpose is to calculate, ab initio, dielectric and optical properties, like absorption, reflectivity, refraction index, electron and X-ray energy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard%20Genzel | Reinhard Genzel (; born 24 March 1952) is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20George%20Nicholson%20Geddes | William George Nicholson Geddes CBE DSc FRSE FEng (29 July 1913 – 10 November 1993) was a Scottish civil engineer.
Life
George Geddes was born in Oldhamstocks, East Lothian the son of Ina Nicholson and her husband, William Brydon Geddes. His early education was at Dunbar Grammar School.
He studied civil engineering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Fitzpatrick%20%28engineer%29 | Anthony James Fitzpatrick FREng HonFRIBA (1951-26 July 2003) was an eminent structural engineer and director of Arup.
Life and career
He graduated from Leeds University in 1972 with a first class degree in civil engineering, having won the Holst Prize. He worked for Arup in the UK and in Iran, before joining the des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beery | Beery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Adaline Hohf Beery (1859–1929), American author, newspaper editor, songbook compiler, hymnwriter
Dan Beery (born 1975), American competition rower, Olympic champion and world champion
Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
Noah ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric%20Brian | Éric Brian is a historian of science and a sociologist. He studies the uncertainty and regularity of social phenomena, and in particular, how scientists have caught and conceived them as objects of mathematics or social and economic sciences.
He is currently senior professor at EHESS (École des hautes études en scienc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locusts%3A%20The%208th%20Plague | Locusts: The 8th Plague is a 2005 natural horror film directed by Ian Gilmour and starring Dan Cortese, Julie Benz and David Keith about a group of farmers and scientists that battle a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that have escaped from a secret genetics laboratory in Idaho.
Plot
The film starts in a genetics laborat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20educational%20programmes%20at%20the%20Vrije%20Universiteit%20Brussel | The Vrije Universiteit Brussel offers educational programmes leading to bachelor's, master's, master after master's, and doctoral degrees.
Bachelor's Programmes
The programmes marked with are taught in English.
Adult Educational Sciences
Applied Economics
Biology
Bioengineering Sciences
Biomedical Sciences
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20cyclic%20group | In mathematics, the binary cyclic group of the n-gon is the cyclic group of order 2n, , thought of as an extension of the cyclic group by a cyclic group of order 2. Coxeter writes the binary cyclic group with angle-brackets, ⟨n⟩, and the index 2 subgroup as (n) or [n]+.
It is the binary polyhedral group corresponding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Geroch | Robert Geroch (born 1 June 1942 in Akron, Ohio) is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked prominently on general relativity and mathematical physics and has promoted the use of category theory in mathematics and physics. He was the Ph.D. supervisor for Abhay Ashtekar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking%20Bad | Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan for AMC. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited high-school chemistry teacher who is struggling with a recent diagnosis of s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPR32 | G protein-coupled receptor 32, also known as GPR32 or the RvD1 receptor, is a human receptor (biochemistry) belonging to the rhodopsin-like subfamily of G protein-coupled receptors.
Gene
The GPR32 was initially identified and defined by molecular cloning in 1998 as coding for an orphan receptor, i.e. a protein with a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRH | Peropsin, a visual pigment-like receptor, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RRH gene. It belongs like other animal opsins to the G protein-coupled receptors. Even so, the first peropsins were already discovered in mice and humans in 1997, not much is known about them.
Photochemistry
Like most opsins, pero... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20nanotechnology | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to nanotechnology:
Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers.
Branches of nanotechnology
Green nanotechnology – use of nanotechnology to enhance the environmental-sustain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20M.%20Bruckner | Andrew Michael Bruckner (born December 17, 1932) is an American retired mathematician, known for his contributions to real analysis.
He got his PhD in mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles (1959) on the dissertation Minimal Superadditive Extensions of Superadditive Functions advised by John Green (mat... |
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