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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaffian%20function
In mathematics, Pfaffian functions are a certain class of functions whose derivative can be written in terms of the original function. They were originally introduced by Askold Khovanskii in the 1970s, but are named after German mathematician Johann Pfaff. Basic definition Some functions, when differentiated, give a r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upwind%20scheme
In computational physics, the term upwind scheme (sometimes advection scheme) typically refers to a class of numerical discretization methods for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations, in which so-called upstream variables are used to calculate the derivatives in a flow field. That is, derivatives are estim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-component%20regulatory%20system
In the field of molecular biology, a two-component regulatory system serves as a basic stimulus-response coupling mechanism to allow organisms to sense and respond to changes in many different environmental conditions. Two-component systems typically consist of a membrane-bound histidine kinase that senses a specific e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt%20Zawirski
Zygmunt Zawirski (29 July 1882 – 2 April 1948) was a Polish philosopher and logician. His main field of study was philosophy of physics, history of science, multi-valued logic and relation of multi-valued logic to calculus of probability. Biography Zawirski was born on 29 July 1882 in the village of Berezowica Mała (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20C.%20Teng
Lee C. Teng (; 5 September 1926 – 24 June 2022) was a Chinese-born physicist known for his work with the Advanced Photon Source of the Argonne National Laboratory. He has made numerous contributions to the field of accelerator physics. Career Teng was born in Beijing, China, but his ancestral home is in Fuzhou. He gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Materials%20Science%20and%20Metallurgy%2C%20University%20of%20Cambridge
The Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy (DMSM) is a large research and teaching division of the University of Cambridge. Since 2013 it has been located in West Cambridge, having previously occupied several buildings on the New Museums Site in the centre of Cambridge. Following the changes to academic titles...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20clawed%20frog
The western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae, also known as tropical clawed frog. It is the only species in the genus Xenopus to have a diploid genome. Its genome has been sequenced, making it a significant model organism for genetics that complements the related species Xenop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey%20Lyapunov
Alexey Andreyevich Lyapunov (; 8 October 1911 – 23 June 1973) was a Soviet mathematician and an early pioneer of computer science. One of the founders of Soviet cybernetics, Lyapunov was member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and a specialist in the fields of real function theory, mathematical problems o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Born%20Medal%20and%20Prize
The Max Born Medal and Prize is a scientific prize awarded yearly by the German Physical Society (DPG) and the British Institute of Physics (IOP) in memory of the German physicist Max Born, who was a German-Jewish physicist, instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. It was established in 1972, and first awa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernelization
In computer science, a kernelization is a technique for designing efficient algorithms that achieve their efficiency by a preprocessing stage in which inputs to the algorithm are replaced by a smaller input, called a "kernel". The result of solving the problem on the kernel should either be the same as on the original ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrochemistry
Spectrochemistry is the application of spectroscopy in several fields of chemistry. It includes analysis of spectra in chemical terms, and use of spectra to derive the structure of chemical compounds, and also to qualitatively and quantitively analyze their presence in the sample. It is a method of chemical analysis th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage%20the%20Executioner
Terrell Woods (born 1974), better known by his stage name Carnage The Executioner, is an American rapper from Twin Cities, Minnesota. He is best known for rapping, human beatboxing, performing live, and teaching. Outside of his solo work, he is also part of the groups Ill Chemistry and Saltee. Based in Minneapolis, C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Garner%20%28chemist%29
Christopher David Garner FRSC FRS (born 9 November 1941) is a British retired chemist, whose research work was in the growing field of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. His research primarily focussed on the role of transition metal elements in biological processes, for which he published over 400 original papers and rev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanomechanics
Nanomechanics is a branch of nanoscience studying fundamental mechanical (elastic, thermal and kinetic) properties of physical systems at the nanometer scale. Nanomechanics has emerged on the crossroads of biophysics, classical mechanics, solid-state physics, statistical mechanics, materials science, and quantum chemis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSIM
BSIM (Berkeley Short-channel IGFET Model) refers to a family of MOSFET transistor models for integrated circuit design. It also refers to the BSIM group located in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley, that develops these models. Accurate transi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Haroche
Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems", a study of the particle of light, the photon. This and his other w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrop%20Engineering
Wardrop Engineering Inc. was a civil engineering and engineering consulting firm based in Winnipeg. It was acquired by Tetra Tech in 2009. Company profile Les Wardrop started Wardrop Engineering in 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Initial projects consisting primarily of public works engineering and residential su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel%20point
In polymer chemistry, the gel point is an abrupt change in the viscosity of a solution containing polymerizable components. At the gel point, a solution undergoes gelation, as reflected in a loss in fluidity. Gelation is characteristic of polymerizations that include crosslinkers that can form 2- or 3-dimensional netwo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%E2%80%93Jones%20object%20detection%20framework
The Viola–Jones object detection framework is a machine learning object detection framework proposed in 2001 by Paul Viola and Michael Jones. It was motivated primarily by the problem of face detection, although it can be adapted to the detection of other object classes. The algorithm is efficient for its time, able t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%E2%80%93temperature%20superposition
The time–temperature superposition principle is a concept in polymer physics and in the physics of glass-forming liquids. This superposition principle is used to determine temperature-dependent mechanical properties of linear viscoelastic materials from known properties at a reference temperature. The elastic moduli o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picanol
The Picanol Group is a diversified industrial group in the fields of mechanical engineering, agriculture, food, water management, and other industrial markets. The company is based in Ypres (Belgium), with production plants in Asia and Europe. Picanol Group has been listed on Euronext Brussels since 1966 (ticker: PIC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Dittrich
Klaus R. Dittrich (30 December 1950 – 20 November 2007) was a German computer scientist. Biography After his high school graduation at Gymnasium Münchberg he studied at University of Karlsruhe where he received his diploma degree (M.Sc.) in Computer Science. 1982 he earned his Ph.D. at Universität Karlsruhe, Institu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESCOM
The Higher School of Computing (in Spanish: Escuela Superior de Cómputo or ESCOM) is the college specialized in Computer Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute located in Mexico City, Mexico. Its students pursue the bachelor's degree in computer engineering, artificial intelligence engineering and data science...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC%20Systems%20Biology
BMC Systems Biology was an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal that covered research in systems biology. Filling a gap in what was a new research field, the journal was established in 2007 and is published by BioMed Central. Part of the BMC Series of journals, it had a broad scope covering the engineering of b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC%20Bioinformatics
BMC Bioinformatics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering bioinformatics and computational biology published by BioMed Central. It was established in 2000, and has been one of the fastest growing and most successful journals in the BMC Series of journals, publishing 1,000 articles in its first five ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computational%20Biology
The Journal of Computational Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computational biology and bioinformatics. It was established in 1994 and is published by Mary Ann Liebert The editors-in-chief are Sorin Istrail (Brown University) and Michael S. Waterman (University of Southern California). Acc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro%20De%20Camilli
Pietro De Camilli NAS, AAA&S, NAM is an Italian-American biologist and John Klingenstein Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine. He is also an Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. De Camilli completed his M.D. degree from the University of Milan in Italy in 1972. He...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5l%20Spilling
Pål Spilling (October 29, 1934 – January 16, 2018) was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and professor at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller in Norway. He obtained his cand.real. degree in physics from the University of Oslo in 1963. In January 1964 he started on a PhD program at Utrecht Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage%20High%20School%20%28Texas%29
Carthage High School is a public high school located in the city of Carthage, Texas. It is part of the Carthage Independent School District located in central Panola County and classified as a 4A school by the UIL. In 2022, the Texas Education Agency awarded Carthage high a grade of "A", with distinctions earned in ELA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20diagram
In mathematics, trace diagrams are a graphical means of performing computations in linear and multilinear algebra. They can be represented as (slightly modified) graphs in which some edges are labeled by matrices. The simplest trace diagrams represent the trace and determinant of a matrix. Several results in linear alg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Marolf
Donald Michael Marolf is a theoretical physicist, a professor of physics, and former head of the physics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Biography Marolf gained his Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin in 1992, under Bryce DeWitt with a thesis on Green's Bracket Algebras and Their Quan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkhoff%E2%80%93Grothendieck%20theorem
In mathematics, the Birkhoff–Grothendieck theorem classifies holomorphic vector bundles over the complex projective line. In particular every holomorphic vector bundle over is a direct sum of holomorphic line bundles. The theorem was proved by , and is more or less equivalent to Birkhoff factorization introduced by ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert%20%28molecular%20biology%29
In Molecular biology, an insert is a piece of DNA that is inserted into a larger DNA vector by a recombinant DNA technique, such as ligation or recombination. This allows it to be multiplied, selected, further manipulated or expressed in a host organism. Inserts can range from physical nucleotide additions using a tec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectfluor
Selectfluor, a trademark of Air Products and Chemicals, is a reagent in chemistry that is used as a fluorine donor. This compound is a derivative of the nucleophillic base DABCO. It is a colourless salt that tolerates air and even water. It has been commercialized for use for electrophilic fluorination. Preparation S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-specificity%20kinase
In biochemistry, a dual-specificity kinase () is a kinase that can act as both tyrosine kinase and serine/threonine kinase. MEKs, involved in MAP pathways, are principal examples of dual-specificity kinases. Other common examples include: ADK1 (Arabidopsis dual specificity kinase 1) CLK1, CLK2, CLK3, CLK4 DSTYK DY...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20P.%20Stewart
John Pogue Stewart (June 1, 1876 – January 27, 1922) was an American football and basketball coach. He was the fifth head football coach at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, serving for four seasons, from 1903 to 1906, compiling are record of 14–11–1. Stewart taught sciences including biology and physics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holo-%28acyl-carrier-protein%29%20synthase
In enzymology and molecular biology, a holo-[acyl-carrier-protein] synthase (ACPS, ) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction: CoA-[4'-phosphopantetheine] + apo-acyl carrier protein adenosine 3',5'-bisphosphate + holo-acyl carrier protein This enzyme belongs to the family of transferases, specifically those...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20point
Mass point may refer to: Mass point geometry Point mass in physics The values of a probability mass function in probability and statistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolon
In biochemistry, a metabolon is a temporary structural-functional complex formed between sequential enzymes of a metabolic pathway, held together both by non-covalent interactions and by structural elements of the cell, such as integral membrane proteins and proteins of the cytoskeleton. The formation of metabolons al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberts
Alberts may refer to: Alberts (name), a given name and surname The Alberts, a British musical comedy troupe See also Cork Alberts F.C., an Irish football club FK Alberts, a Latvian football club JDFS Alberts, a Latvian football club Molecular Biology of the Cell (textbook) Albert (disambiguation) Albertson (di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Kravitz
Edward Arthur Kravitz (born December 19, 1932) is the George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. He is widely recognized for demonstrating that gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) functions as a neurotransmitter. In addition, he and Antony Stretton were the first to use the intracellular dye pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir%20Abu%20Eisheh
Samir Abu Eisheh (born 1960) () is the former Planning Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). He served in the Palestinian Tenth Government and Eleventh (National Unity) Government (2006–2007) as an expert in planning. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a PhD in civil engineering. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20topological%20space
In mathematics, a finite topological space is a topological space for which the underlying point set is finite. That is, it is a topological space which has only finitely many elements. Finite topological spaces are often used to provide examples of interesting phenomena or counterexamples to plausible sounding conjec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Ward%20%28judge%29
Sir Frederik Gordon Roy Ward OBE is a retired British judge who has served in various countries of the Commonwealth. Early life He was educated in England, obtaining a BSc in botany, zoology and geology, and then taught biology in Northern Ireland. Career Ward studied law and was called to the bar at the Middle Templ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s%20orchard
In mathematics, informally speaking, Euclid's orchard is an array of one-dimensional "trees" of unit height planted at the lattice points in one quadrant of a square lattice. More formally, Euclid's orchard is the set of line segments from to , where and are positive integers. The trees visible from the origin are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20variety
In the mathematics of moduli theory, given an algebraic, reductive, Lie group and a finitely generated group , the -character variety of is a space of equivalence classes of group homomorphisms from to : More precisely, acts on by conjugation, and two homomorphisms are defined to be equivalent (denoted ) if and o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-block%20contraction
The d-block contraction (sometimes called scandide contraction) is a term used in chemistry to describe the effect of having full d orbitals on the period 4 elements. The elements in question are gallium, germanium, arsenic, selenium, bromine, and krypton. Their electronic configurations include completely filled d or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislas%20Goldstein
Ladislas Goldstein (February 6, 1906 – July 15, 1994) was professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois (1951–72) and visiting professor of physics at the University of Paris-Orsay (1957–58, 1963–64, 1967–68). He was born in Dombrád, Kingdom of Hungary. He received the BS degree from the College o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLAT%20domain
In molecular biology the PLAT domain is a protein domain that is found in a variety of membrane or lipid associated proteins. It is called the PLAT (Polycystin-1, Lipoxygenase, Alpha-Toxin) domain<ref name="PUB00018111"></ref> or LH2 (Lipoxygenase homology) domain. The known structure of pancreatic lipase shows this ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged%20architecture
In computer science, a tagged architecture is a type of computer architecture where every word of memory constitutes a tagged union, being divided into a number of bits of data, and a tag section that describes the type of the data: how it is to be interpreted, and, if it is a reference, the type of the object that it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Hessenberg
Karl Adolf Hessenberg (September 8, 1904 – February 22, 1959) was a German mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Education From 1925 to 1930 he studied electrical engineering at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (today Technische Universität Darmstadt) and graduated with a diplom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument%20%28complex%20analysis%29
In mathematics (particularly in complex analysis), the argument of a complex number z, denoted arg(z), is the angle between the positive real axis and the line joining the origin and z, represented as a point in the complex plane, shown as in Figure 1. It is a multivalued function operating on the nonzero complex num...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Degree%20College%20Shakargarh
Government Degree College Shakargarh is located in Shakargarh, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established in 1964 and offers courses in mathematics, sciences, language, computer science, languages, history, religion and philosophy. The college was nationalized during the government of Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przegl%C4%85d%20Elektrotechniczny
Przegląd Elektrotechniczny (English: Electrotechnical Review) is a monthly scientific journal covering electrical engineering and the oldest Polish journal in this field. It was established in 1919 by Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT. Initially it only covered electrical engineering in a narrow sense, but nowadays it also covers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubin%E2%80%93Lions%20lemma
In mathematics, the Aubin–Lions lemma (or theorem) is the result in the theory of Sobolev spaces of Banach space-valued functions, which provides a compactness criterion that is useful in the study of nonlinear evolutionary partial differential equations. Typically, to prove the existence of solutions one first constru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik%20Kre%C3%BCger
Henrik Kreüger (1882–1953) was born in Kalmar, Sweden, and obtained his M.Sc. in civil engineering in 1904 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After graduating, he worked for the construction company Fritz Söderbergh in Stockholm until 1908, when he went back to the university to work as an employed tea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock-capturing%20method
In computational fluid dynamics, shock-capturing methods are a class of techniques for computing inviscid flows with shock waves. The computation of flow containing shock waves is an extremely difficult task because such flows result in sharp, discontinuous changes in flow variables such as pressure, temperature, densi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20E.%20McMurry
John E. McMurry (born July 27, 1942, in New York City) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1964 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1967 working with Gilbert Stork. Following completion of his Ph.D., he joi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Logic%20of%20Sense
The Logic of Sense () is a 1969 book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The English edition was translated by Mark Lester and Charles Stivale, and edited by Constantin V. Boundas. Summary An exploration of meaning and meaninglessness or "commonsense" and "nonsense" through metaphysics, epistemology, grammar, an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%27s%20triangle
Floyd's triangle is a triangular array of natural numbers used in computer science education. It is named after Robert Floyd. It is defined by filling the rows of the triangle with consecutive numbers, starting with a 1 in the top left corner: The problem of writing a computer program to produce this triangle has been...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cees%20Dekker
Cornelis "Cees" Dekker (born 7 April 1959 in Haren, Groningen) is a Dutch physicist, and Distinguished University Professor at the Technical University of Delft. He is known for his research on carbon nanotubes, single-molecule biophysics, and nanobiology. Biography Born in Haren, Groningen in 1959, Dekker studied at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diketene
Diketene is an organic compound with the molecular formula , and which is sometimes written as . It is formed by dimerization of ketene, . Diketene is a member of the oxetane family. It is used as a reagent in organic chemistry. It is a colorless liquid. Production Ketene is generated by dehydrating acetic acid at 70...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptorial
In biology (specifically the anatomy of arthropods), the term raptorial implies much the same as predatory but most often refers to modifications of an arthropod's foreleg that make it function for the grasping of prey while it is consumed, where the gripping surfaces are formed from the opposing faces of two successiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic%20closure
In computer science, syntactic closures are an implementation strategy for a hygienic macro system. The term pertains to the Scheme programming language. When a syntactic closure is used the arguments to a macro call are enclosed in the current environment, such that they cannot inadvertently reference bindings introd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clematoclethra
Clematoclethra is a genus of plants in the family Actinidiaceae. It contains about 20 species and is endemic to subtropical and temperate regions of central and western China. Monophyly of the group is supported by genetic evidence and also evidence based on the cell biology of members of the genus. Monophyly of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEAMS
Teams is the plural form of team. TEAMS or teams may also refer to: Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science, a competition sponsored by Junior Engineering Technical Society TEAMS (cable system), a Kenyan fibre optic cable system TEAMS, "The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages", originally ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Whitlock
Jeremy J. Whitlock (born September 15, 1965) is a section head in the Dept. of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. He has a Ph.D. in engineering physics from McMaster University and formerly worked at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. He was past president and director of the Canadian Nuclea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi%20Jazayeri
Mehdi Jazayeri is the founding dean of the faculty of informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (University of Lugano) in Lugano, Switzerland, and author of several textbooks on computer software. He was awarded the Influential Educator Award in 2012 by the ACM SIGSOFT. Jazayeri received his BS in Electri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daan%20Frenkel
Daan Frenkel (born 1948, Amsterdam) is a Dutch computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Education Frenkel completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1977 in experimental physical chemistry. Career and research Frenkel worked as postdoctoral research fellow in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Durrett
Richard Timothy Durrett is an American mathematician known for his research and books on mathematical probability theory, stochastic processes and their application to mathematical ecology and population genetics. Education and career He received his BS and MS at Emory University in 1972 and 1973 and his Ph.D. at Sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20arithmetic
In mathematics, field arithmetic is a subject that studies the interrelations between arithmetic properties of a and its absolute Galois group. It is an interdisciplinary subject as it uses tools from algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, algebraic geometry, model theory, the theory of finite groups and of pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20Thring
Meredith Wooldridge Thring (17 December 1915 – 15 September 2006) was a British inventor, engineer, futurologist, professor and author. Education and career Thring was born in Melbourne, Australia, but moved to England when he was four years old. His school was Malvern College. He obtained a double first class degree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Arias%20Ortiz
Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz is a Mexican biochemist specialized in rotaviruses. Along his wife, Susana López Charretón, he has been a co-recipient of both the 2001 Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology and the 2008 TWAS Prize in Biology. Arias Ortiz holds a bachelor's degree in Pharmacology and both a master's and a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%20Lyons
Israel Lyons the Younger (1739–1775), mathematician and botanist, was born at Cambridge, the son of Israel Lyons the elder (died 1770). He was regarded as a prodigy, especially in mathematics, and Robert Smith, master of Trinity College, took him under his wing and paid for his attendance. Biography Due to his Ashkena...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenomatoid%20tumor
Adenomatoid tumors are rare and benign mesothelial tumors, which arise from the lining of organs. It mainly presents in the genital tract, in regions such as the testis and epididymis. Because of this, researchers had a difficult time concluding that type of tumor has a mesothelial origin. Immunohistochemistry staining...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subthreshold%20membrane%20potential%20oscillations
Subthreshold membrane potential oscillations are membrane oscillations that do not directly trigger an action potential since they do not reach the necessary threshold for firing. However, they may facilitate sensory signal processing. Neurons produce action potentials when their membrane potential increases past a cr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil%20Mukhi
Sunil Mukhi is an Indian theoretical physicist working in the areas of string theory, quantum field theory and particle physics. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Honorary Professor Emeritus at the Indian Institute o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Zimmermann%20%28mathematician%29
Paul Zimmermann (born 13 November 1964) is a French computational mathematician, working at INRIA. Zimmermann co-authored the book Computational Mathematics with SageMath used by Mathematical students worldwide. His interests include asymptotically fast arithmetic—he wrote a book on algorithms for computer arithmetic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Oommen
Basantkumar John Oommen (born 8 September 1953 in Conoor, India) is an Indian-Canadian computer scientist. Oommen received the Master of Science degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1979, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Purdue University in 1982, and is now Chancellor's Professor at the S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Pollicott
Mark Pollicott (born 24 September 1959) is a British mathematician known for his contributions to ergodic theory and dynamical systems. He has a particular interest in applications to other areas of mathematics, including geometry, number theory and analysis. Pollicott attended High Pavement College in Nottingham,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20de%20Investigaciones%20en%20Matem%C3%A1ticas%20Aplicadas%20y%20Sistemas
The Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, or IIMAS ("Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute") is the research institute of the UNAM in Mexico City which focuses on computer science, applied mathematics, and robotics and control engineering. History The IIMAS was founded as t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20J.%20McKay
Roland J. McKay is an Australian-born biologist known for his work in exotic and translocated freshwater fish in Australia. McKay is curator of fishes at the Queensland Museum and his work has been quoted extensively. He also contributed a key section on "Introductions of Exotic Fishes in Australia" in Distribution, Bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc-dependent%20phospholipase%20C
In molecular biology, zinc-dependent phospholipases C is a family of bacterial phospholipases C enzymes, some of which are also known as alpha toxins. Bacillus cereus contains a monomeric phospholipase C (PLC) of 245 amino-acid residues. Although PLC prefers to act on phosphatidylcholine, it also shows weak catalyti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20I%27m%20Yours%20%28EP%29
Baby I'm Yours is the third EP by Seattle indie pop band Math and Physics Club. Production Producer/engineer Kevin Suggs at Avast! Studio produced the first three songs on the EP, the fourth was produced by the band's bassist Ethan Jones. The song "A Little Romance" from the Matinee Hit Parade compilation was also re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delannoy%20number
In mathematics, a Delannoy number describes the number of paths from the southwest corner (0, 0) of a rectangular grid to the northeast corner (m, n), using only single steps north, northeast, or east. The Delannoy numbers are named after French army officer and amateur mathematician Henri Delannoy. The Delannoy numb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20Ending%20Romance
Movie Ending Romance is the second EP from Seattle, Washington indie pop band Math and Physics Club. Released in July 2005, it followed their debut EP Weekends Away by just five months. Track listing "Movie Ending Romance" "White and Grey" "Graduation Day" "You're So Good to Me" (Wilson/Love) External links Off...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraneous%20and%20missing%20solutions
In mathematics, an extraneous solution (or spurious solution) is a solution, such as that to an equation, that emerges from the process of solving the problem but is not a valid solution to the problem. A missing solution is a solution that is a valid solution to the problem, but disappeared during the process of solvi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekends%20Away
Weekends Away is the first EP from Seattle, Washington indie pop band Math and Physics Club and was released in February 2005. The band's initial demo attracted the attention of both Jimmy Tassos of Matinee Recordings and the influential KEXP DJ John Richards. As they played their second show in December, they were al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20%28UIL%29
Mathematics (sometimes referred to as General Math, to distinguish it from other mathematics-related events) is one of several academic events sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League. It is also a competition held by the Texas Math and Science Coaches Association, using the same rules as the UIL. Mathemat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Ramanujan%20theorem
In mathematics, the Hardy–Ramanujan theorem, proved by Ramanujan and checked by Hardy states that the normal order of the number ω(n) of distinct prime factors of a number n is log(log(n)). Roughly speaking, this means that most numbers have about this number of distinct prime factors. Precise statement A more preci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Applications%20%28UIL%29
Computer Applications is one of several academic events sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League Computer Applications is designed to test students' abilities to use word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications software, including integration of applications. It is not the same as the Computer Sci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall%20Walton
Kendall Lewis Walton (born 1939) is an American philosopher, the Emeritus Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. His work mainly deals with theoretical questions about the arts and issues of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine%20oxide
Iodine oxides are chemical compounds of oxygen and iodine. Iodine has only two stable oxides which are isolatable in bulk, iodine tetroxide and iodine pentoxide, but a number of other oxides are formed in trace quantities or have been hypothesized to exist. The chemistry of these compounds is complicated with only a fe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boveri%E2%80%93Sutton%20chromosome%20theory
The Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory (also known as the chromosome theory of inheritance or the Sutton–Boveri theory) is a fundamental unifying theory of genetics which identifies chromosomes as the carriers of genetic material. It correctly explains the mechanism underlying the laws of Mendelian inheritance by identify...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Museum%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Coimbra
The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra (Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra) gathers the historical scientific collections of several units of the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra, Portugal. It includes the collection of scientific instruments from the 18th and 19th century of the Physics Museum, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix%20%28disambiguation%29
A radix, or base, is the number of unique digits, including zero, used to represent numbers in a positional numeral system. Radix may also refer to: Mathematics and science Radix (gastropod), a genus of freshwater snails Radical symbol (√), used to indicate a root Root (Latin: ), in biology Computing Radix poin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncanson
Duncanson may refer to: Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model, organometallic chemistry Duncanson (surname), people Duncanson-Cranch House, registered historic place in the District of Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20acetylenic%20carbon
Linear acetylenic carbon (LAC), also known as carbyne or Linear Carbon Chain (LCC), is an allotrope of carbon that has the chemical structure as a repeat unit, with alternating single and triple bonds. It would thus be the ultimate member of the polyyne family. This polymeric carbyne is of considerable interest to na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partner%20Institute%20for%20Computational%20Biology
The CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) was jointly established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German Max Planck Society (MPG) in May 2005. It is located in Xu Hui district in Shanghai, P. R. China. The institute focuses its research on the interface between theoretical and exp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PADI4
Protein-arginine deiminase type-4, is a human protein which in humans is encoded by the PADI4 gene. The protein as an enzyme, specifically protein-arginine deiminase, a type of hydrolase. Molecular biology The human gene is found on the short arm of Chromosome 1 near the telomere (1p36.13). It is located on the Wats...