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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lilly%20%28computer%20scientist%29
John Lilly is a venture capitalist and former CEO of Mozilla. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Open Source Applications Foundation and Code for America. He earned his B.S. in computer systems engineering and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University. Career Reactivity Lilly co-founded an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSSE
CSSE can refer to: The Canadian Society of Safety Engineering Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University Chicken Soup for the Soul (Nasdaq: CSSE), American mass media company Computer Science and Software Engineering, a designation used at some universities for the department of the same nam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Life%20Sciences
Open Life Sciences is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all areas of the life sciences. It was established in 2006 as the Central European Journal of Biology and co-published by Versita and Springer Science+Business Media. It obtained its current title in 2014 when it was moved completely to the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20engineering
Coastal engineering is a branch of civil engineering concerned with the specific demands posed by constructing at or near the coast, as well as the development of the coast itself. The hydrodynamic impact of especially waves, tides, storm surges and tsunamis and (often) the harsh environment of salt seawater are typic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20M.%20Clarke
Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (July 27, 1945 – December 22, 2020) was an American computer scientist and academic noted for developing model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. He was the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Clarke, along with E. All...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Sifakis
Joseph Sifakis (Greek: Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης) is a Greek-French computer scientist. He received the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking. Biography Joseph Sifakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1946 and lives in France. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaotic%20bubble
Chaotic bubbles within physics and mathematics, occur in cases when there are any dynamic processes that generate bubbles that are nonlinear. Many exhibit mathematically chaotic patterns consistent with chaos theory. In most systems, they arise out of a forcing pressure that encounters some kind of resistance or shear ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Dorman%20Steele
Joel Dorman Steele (May 14, 1836 – May 25, 1886) was an American educator. He and his wife Esther Baker Steele were important textbook writers of their period, on subjects including American history, chemistry, human physiology, physics, astronomy, and zoology. In the preface to his posthumous Popular Physics, the publ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydalis%20ambigua
Corydalis ambigua is a tuberous early flowering east Asian flowering plant species in the poppy family Papaveraceae. Its exact native range is obscure due to taxonomic confusion. It is one of the sources of the drug tetrahydropalmatine. Chemistry Corydalis ambigua contains a variety of alkaloids including corynoline...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Snoke
David W. Snoke is a physics professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his pioneering work on the experimental and theoretical understanding of dynamical optical processes in semiconductor systems." In 2004 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformation
Deformation can refer to: Deformation (engineering), changes in an object's shape or form due to the application of a force or forces. Deformation (physics), such changes considered and analyzed as displacements of continuum bodies. Deformation (meteorology), a measure of the rate at which the shapes of clouds and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Sapp
Jan Anthony Sapp (born June 12, 1954) is a professor in the Department of Biology, York University, Canada. His writings focus especially on evolutionary biology beyond the classical neo-Darwinian framework, and emphasize the fundamental importance of symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer in heredity and evolution. C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabien%20L%C3%A9vy
Fabien Lévy (born 11 December 1968) is a French composer. Biography Lévy was born in Paris, France. After having been a jazz pianist, he studied composition with Gérard Grisey, orchestration with Marc–André Dalbavie and ethnomusicology with Gilles Leothaud at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 2000. Trained in ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Audin
Maurice Audin (14 February 1932 – c. 21 June 1957) was a renowned French mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who died under torture by the French state during the Battle of Algiers. In the centre of Algiers, beside t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20Ochs
Siegfried Ochs (19 April 1858 – 6 February 1929) was a German choral conductor and composer. Life Born in Frankfurt, Ochs first studied medicine and chemistry at the Polytechnikum Darmstadt (today the Technische Universität Darmstadt) and at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. He later devoted himself entirely...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Bastianelli
Giuseppe Bastianelli (25 October 1862 – 30 March 1959) was an Italian physician and zoologist who worked on malaria and was the personal physician of Pope Benedict XV. Born in Rome, Bastianelli was initially interested in chemistry, physiology and neurology; subsequently he became interested in the study of malaria. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUAD%20%28cipher%29
In cryptography, the QUAD cipher is a stream cipher which was designed with provable security arguments in mind. Description QUAD relies on the iteration of a randomly chosen multivariate quadratic system S=(Q1, ..., Qm) of m=kn equations in n unknowns over a finite field GF(q). The keystream generation process simpl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin%20of%20Insectology
The Bulletin of Insectology is a biannual peer-reviewed open access scientific journal of entomology covering morphology, biology, behaviour and physiology of insects and other arthropods; control of insects, mites, and other arthropod pests with particular reference to biocontrol and integrated pest management. Histo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egila
Egila is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. This genus was previously placed in the tribe Chrysallidini of the family Odostomiidae. It has both extant and fossil (Cenozoic) members. Life habits Little is known about the biology of the memb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional%20inverse%20image%20functor
In mathematics, more specifically sheaf theory, a branch of topology and algebraic geometry, the exceptional inverse image functor is the fourth and most sophisticated in a series of image functors for sheaves. It is needed to express Verdier duality in its most general form. Definition Let f: X → Y be a continuous ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding%20Zhongli
Ding Zhongli (; born 14 January 1957) is a Chinese geologist and officeholder, who is the chairman of the China Democratic League and a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Biography Ding was born in Shengzhou, Zhejiang on January 1957. He received a bachelor of science with a ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPM%20S30V%20steel
CPM S30V is a martensitic (hardened) powder-made (sintered) wear and corrosion-resistant stainless steel developed by Dick Barber of Crucible Industries in collaboration with knifemaker Chris Reeve. Its chemistry promotes the formation and even distribution of vanadium carbides, which are harder and more resistant to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTPS
LTPS or LTPs may refer to: Lawrence Township Public Schools, including Lawrence High School (New Jersey) Low-temperature polycrystalline silicon, a transistor type used in the flat-panel display industry Latitudinal Temperature Probe System, an instrument in the physics experiment Borexino Local Transport Plans in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin%20Rumyantsev
Valentin Vital'yevich Rumyantsev (ru: Валенти́н Вита́льевич Румя́нцев; 19 July 1921, in Novaya Skatovka, Saratov region – 10 June 2007, in Moscow) was a Russian engineer who played a crucial role in Soviet space program, mainly working on robotics and controls . He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20Stieglitz
Julius Oscar Stieglitz (May 26, 1867 – January 10, 1937) was an American chemist of German Jewish origin. He was a teacher and organic chemist with a major interest in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry. He is known for the Stieglitz rearrangement, a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry which commonly involv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20F.%20Bowlds
Lieutenant General Ted Francis Bowlds (born September 11, 1953) is a former Commander, Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. The center's mission is to acquire command and control systems for the Air Force. The organization comprises more than 12,000 people located at six sites throughout the United ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupyrgulina
Eupyrgulina is a genus of small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks in the tribe Chrysallidini within the family Pyramidellidae. Distribution The genus mainly occurs in the Arabian Sea. Life habits Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurathea
Eurathea is a small genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the tribe Chrysallidini within the family Pyramidellidae. Distribution So far, species in this genus have been described from Australia, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. Life habits Little is known about the biolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth%20%28computing%29
In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path. Bandwidth may be characterized as network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth. This definition of bandwidth is in contrast to the field of signal processing, wireless communications, modem data transmission, digital communica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evalina
Evalina is a small genus of sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks in the tribe Chrysallidini within the family Pyramidellidae. The genus has both Recent and fossil members. Life habits Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%20vector
In mathematics, especially the field of group theory, the Parker vector is an integer vector that describes a permutation group in terms of the cycle structure of its elements. Definition The Parker vector P of a permutation group G acting on a set of size n, is the vector whose kth component for k = 1, ..., n is give...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldra
Haldra is a genus of pyramidellid gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the tribe Chrysallidini within the family Pyramidellidae. Life habits Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are likely to be ectoparasites. Species Speci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kline%20sphere%20characterization
In mathematics, a Kline sphere characterization, named after John Robert Kline, is a topological characterization of a two-dimensional sphere in terms of what sort of subset separates it. Its proof was one of the first notable accomplishments of R. H. Bing; Bing gave an alternate proof using brick partitioning in his...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Burrell
Gary Leon Burrell (August 24, 1937 – June 12, 2019) was an American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. He was the co-founder, with Min Kao, and chairman emeritus of Garmin, makers of popular Global Positioning System devices. Early life Gary Burrell was born in 1937. He earned his undergraduate degr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular%20spectrum%20analysis
In time series analysis, singular spectrum analysis (SSA) is a nonparametric spectral estimation method. It combines elements of classical time series analysis, multivariate statistics, multivariate geometry, dynamical systems and signal processing. Its roots lie in the classical Karhunen (1946)–Loève (1945, 1978) spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20knock-in
In molecular cloning and biology, a gene knock-in (abbreviation: KI) refers to a genetic engineering method that involves the one-for-one substitution of DNA sequence information in a genetic locus or the insertion of sequence information not found within the locus. Typically, this is done in mice since the technology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Bartnik
Robert Bartnik (1956 – 2022) was an Australian mathematician based at Monash University. He was known for his contributions to the rigorous mathematical study of general relativity. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Melbourne University and a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 1983, whe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIRS
AIRS may refer to: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, a weather and climate instrument flying on NASA's Aqua satellite Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere, a guidance system designed for use in the LGM-118A Peacekeeper ICBM Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Society, an association for students interested in Robotics, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupter
An interrupter in electrical engineering is a device used to interrupt the flow of a steady direct current for the purpose of converting a steady current into a changing one. Frequently, the interrupter is used in conjunction with an inductor (coil of wire) to produce increased voltages either by a back emf effect or ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20number
In number theory, a branch of mathematics, a Hilbert number is a positive integer of the form (). The Hilbert numbers were named after David Hilbert. The sequence of Hilbert numbers begins 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, ... ) Properties The Hilbert number sequence is the arithmetic sequence with , meaning the Hilbert numbers follo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Goldfarb
Warren David Goldfarb (born 1949) is Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of analytic philosophy and in logic, most notably the classical decision problem. Education and career He received his A.B. and philosophy Ph.D. from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Swain%20%28academic%29
Joseph Swain (June 16, 1857 – May 19, 1927) served as the ninth president of Indiana University and also as the sixth president of Swarthmore College. Summary Education Indiana University (B.L. 1883, M.S. 1885) Wabash College (LL.D. 1893) Career Professor of mathematics and biology at Indiana University (1883...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChemMedChem
ChemMedChem is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering medicinal chemistry. It is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of Chemistry Europe. In addition to original research in the form of full papers and shorter communications, the journal contains review-type articles (reviews, minireviews, patent reviews, es...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tej%20P.%20Singh
Tej Pal Singh (born 1944) is an Indian biophysicist known for his work in the fields of rational structure-based drug design, structural biology of proteins and X-ray crystallography. He has played an active role in the development of drug design in the fields of antibacterial therapeutics, tuberculosis, inflammation, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Uncrewed%20Vehicle%20Systems%20International
The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International, also known as AUVSI, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the unmanned systems and robotics industry through communication, education, and leadership. History AUVSI was established in 1972 when the use of target d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson%20polynomial
In mathematics, the Dickson polynomials, denoted , form a polynomial sequence introduced by . They were rediscovered by in his study of Brewer sums and have at times, although rarely, been referred to as Brewer polynomials. Over the complex numbers, Dickson polynomials are essentially equivalent to Chebyshev polynom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Max%20Planck%20Research%20School%20for%20Neurosciences
International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences, also known as IMPRS for Neurosciences, is a 1½-year MSc program or a 4-year PhD program with a possibility to have MD-PhD degree for those who have completed a medical school. The first year is common for both tracks, after which students take a qualifying exa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation%20polynomial
In mathematics, a permutation polynomial (for a given ring) is a polynomial that acts as a permutation of the elements of the ring, i.e. the map is a bijection. In case the ring is a finite field, the Dickson polynomials, which are closely related to the Chebyshev polynomials, provide examples. Over a finite field, e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson%20reflex
The Ferguson reflex (also called the fetal ejection reflex) is the neuroendocrine reflex comprising the self-sustaining cycle of uterine contractions initiated by pressure at the cervix, more precisely, the internal end of cervix, or vaginal walls. It is an example of positive feedback in biology. The Ferguson reflex o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terram
Terram is part of the Berry Global group, and has its manufacturing headquarters in Maldon, Essex, United Kingdom, supplying geosynthetics materials to the worldwide civil engineering & construction industry. The company was founded in the late 1960s as part of ICI Fibres, and is now part of Berry Global, a supplier of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositiones%20ad%20Acuendos%20Juvenes
The medieval Latin manuscript Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes () is one of the earliest known collections of recreational mathematics problems. The oldest known copy of the manuscript dates from the late 9th century. The text is attributed to Alcuin of York (died 804.) Some editions of the text contain 53 problems...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Alman
Benjamin Aaron Alman is an American orthopaedic clinician-scientist and currently Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, North Carolina). Alman is the Distinguished James R. Urbaniak, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and also holds appointments with the Department of Cell Biolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Kohlrausch
Rudolf Hermann Arndt Kohlrausch (November 6, 1809 in Göttingen – March 8, 1858 in Erlangen) was a German physicist. Biography He was a native of Göttingen, the son of the Royal Hanovarian director general of schools Friedrich Kohlrausch. He was a high-school teacher of mathematics and physics successively at Lüneburg,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedral%20symbol
The polyhedral symbol is sometimes used in coordination chemistry to indicate the approximate geometry of the coordinating atoms around the central atom. One or more italicised letters indicate the geometry, e.g. TP-3 which is followed by a number that gives the coordination number of the central atom. The polyhedral s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSA%20pre-processor
ANSA is a computer-aided engineering tool for finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics analysis widely used in the automotive industry. It is developed by BETA CAE Systems. The software is distributed world wide by a number of BETA CAE Systems subsidiaries and business agents. In the United States, i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20metaheuristic
Parallel metaheuristic is a class of techniques that are capable of reducing both the numerical effort and the run time of a metaheuristic. To this end, concepts and technologies from the field of parallelism in computer science are used to enhance and even completely modify the behavior of existing metaheuristics. Ju...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Molecular%20Structure
Journal of Molecular Structure is a scientific journal published by Elsevier ScienceDirect since 1968. Its articles discuss molecular structure in chemistry. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine it said that it would no longer consider manuscripts written by scientists at Russian institutions. Rui Fausto, the j...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20and%20Theoretical%20Chemistry
Computational and Theoretical Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1985 as Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, a spin-off of the Journal of Molecular Structure. It obtained its current name in 2011 and covers molecular structure in theoretical chemistry. Ab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20State%20Physics%20Laboratory
Solid State Physics Laboratory (SSPL) is a laboratory under the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO). Located in Delhi its primary function is research in the field of Solid State Materials, Devices and Sub-systems. Their activities include development of semi-conductor materials, solid state devices, ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruria%20Kaufman
Bruria Kaufman (August 21, 1918 – January 7, 2010) was an American theoretical physicist. She contributed to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, to statistical physics, where she used applied spinor analysis to rederive the result of Lars Onsager on the partition function of the two-dimensional Ising model,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruelle
Ruelle is a surname of French origin. It may refer to: People David Ruelle, Belgian-French mathematical physicist Ruelle (singer), American singer-songwriter Places Ruelle-sur-Touvre, commune in the Charente department in southwestern France Mathematics Ruelle operator Ruelle zeta function Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Barrett%20%28composer%29
Richard Barrett (born 7 November 1959) is a Welsh composer. Biography Barrett was born in Swansea, Wales and attended Olchfa School. After completing his first bachelor's degree in genetics and microbiology from University College London in 1980, he began to study music, taking private lessons with Peter Wiegold, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20the%20IEST
The Journal of the IEST is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST). It covers research on simulation, testing, modeling, control, and the teaching of the environmental sciences and technologies. The journal was established in 1958 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus%20Jacobus%20Kipp
Petrus Jacobus Kipp (Utrecht, 5 March 1808 – Delft, 3 February 1864) was a Dutch apothecary, chemist and instrument maker. He became known as the inventor of the Kipp apparatus, chemistry equipment for the development of gases. Biography Kipp passed his pharmacist exam in 1829 in Utrecht with a thesis on seven substan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Shalaev
Vladimir (Vlad) M. Shalaev (born February 18, 1957) is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Scientific Director for Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University. Education and career Shalaev earned a Master of Science Degree in physics (summa com laude) in 1979 from K...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morelia%20Institute%20of%20Technology
The Morelia Institute of Technology (in ), also known as Morelia Tech (Tec de Morelia), is a public university in Morelia, Michoacán, México founded in 1964. Academics Undergraduate programs Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics Engineering Computer Engineering Biochem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear%20eigenproblem
In mathematics, a nonlinear eigenproblem, sometimes nonlinear eigenvalue problem, is a generalization of the (ordinary) eigenvalue problem to equations that depend nonlinearly on the eigenvalue. Specifically, it refers to equations of the form where is a vector, and is a matrix-valued function of the number . The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20polynomial
In mathematics, a matrix polynomial is a polynomial with square matrices as variables. Given an ordinary, scalar-valued polynomial this polynomial evaluated at a matrix A is where I is the identity matrix. A matrix polynomial equation is an equality between two matrix polynomials, which holds for the specific matri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20Roberto%20Frisancho
A. Roberto Frisancho is a biological anthropologist and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the 2008 recipient of the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award in Anthropology bestowed by the American Human Biology Association. He is best known for his work on develop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo%20Welch
Ivo Welch, a German-born economist and finance academic. He is the J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He completed his BA in computer science in 1985 at Columbia University, and both his MBA and PhD in finance at the University of Chicago. His research has focused on financia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lide
Lide can refer to: -lide, a chemistry suffix indicating an sp-hybridized carbanion ionically linked to a metal Saint Lide, a legendary bishop People Alice Alison Lide Lide Meriwether
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Mueh
Hans Juergen Mueh (born January 8, 1944) was the director of athletics at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, serving in that position from 2004 until January 2015. Prior to becoming the director of athletics for the USAF, Dr. Mueh served as permanent professor and head of the Department of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Iberian%20Nanotechnology%20Laboratory
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), in Braga, Portugal, a fully international research organization in Europe in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. INL is the result of a joint decision of the Governments of Portugal and Spain, taken on November 19, 2005, at the XXI Portugal–Spain Summit, i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Neuroscience%20and%20Cell%20Biology
The Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) is a nonprofit research institute founded in 1990, aiming to foster research in biomedicine and biotechnology and multidisciplinary graduate teaching at the University of Coimbra. CNC was the first established “Laboratório Associado” in Portugal, and it has steadily in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20British%20Iraqis
This is a list of notable British Iraqis, ordered by surname within section. Academia Jim Al-Khalili OBE - professor of theoretical physics at Surrey University and BBC presenter; born in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and English mother Alphonse Mingana Hormuzd Rassam Actors/actresses Andy Serkis - actor (Iraqi fat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Voto%C4%8Dek
Emil Votoček (5 October 1872 – 11 October 1950) was a Czech chemist, composer and music theorist. He is noted for his chemistry textbooks and multilingual dictionaries in both chemistry and music. Chemistry career Votoček studied at the Czech Institute of Technology later in Mulhouse and received his PhD with Bernhard...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating%20model
In physics, The Keating Model is a model that theoretical physicist Patrick N. Keating introduced in 1966 to describe forces induced on neighboring atoms when one atom moves in a solid. The term most often applies to the forces on first- and second-nearest neighboring atoms that arise when an atom is moved in tetrahed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Mostow
George Daniel Mostow (July 4, 1923 – April 4, 2017) was an American mathematician, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory. He was the Henry Ford II (emeritus) Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the 49th president of the American Mathematical Society (1987–19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Euler
Project Euler (named after Leonhard Euler) is a website dedicated to a series of computational problems intended to be solved with computer programs. The project attracts graduates and students interested in mathematics and computer programming. Since its creation in 2001 by Colin Hughes, Project Euler has gained nota...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Bioengineering%20and%20Electromedical%20Laboratory
The Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory is an Indian defence laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation. Located in Bangalore, its main function is the research and development of technologies and products in the areas of life support, medical and physiological protection systems f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debel
Debel may refer to: Debel, Lebanon Debel, Oromo Name, Oromo, Ethiopia, African name for a boy meaning 'in addition to, gift of ' Debel, Ethiopia, a town in the Afar Region DEBEL, the Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory, an Indian national defense laboratory under DRDO, located in Bangalore. Deb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okayama%20Prefectural%20University
is a public university in Sōja, Okayama, Japan, established in 1993. Faculties and graduate schools Faculties Faculty of Health and Welfare Science Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering Faculty of Design Graduate Schools Graduate School of Health and Welfare Science Graduate School of Systems Engineeri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCormack%20method
In computational fluid dynamics, the MacCormack method (/məˈkɔːrmæk ˈmɛθəd/) is a widely used discretization scheme for the numerical solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations. This second-order finite difference method was introduced by Robert W. MacCormack in 1969. The MacCormack method is elegant and eas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad%20Michoacana%20de%20San%20Nicol%C3%A1s%20de%20Hidalgo
Michoacan University of Saint Nicholas of Hidalgo (UMSNH) is a public university in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, and the oldest institution of higher education in the Americas. The University grants law, economics, computer science, medicine, architecture, and dentistry degrees, plus several other additional fields of s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Qudrat-i-Khuda
Muhammad Qudrat-A-Khuda ( – 3 November 1977) was a Bangladeshi organic chemist, educationist and writer. He was a professor of chemistry at Presidency College, Kolkata. From 1969 till 1972, he served as the president of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. After the independence of Bangladesh, as a chairman of the Nationa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas%20Moore
Sir Jonas Moore, FRS (1617–1679) was an English mathematician, surveyor, ordnance officer, and patron of astronomy. He took part in two of the most ambitious English civil engineering projects of the 17th century: draining the Great Level of the Fens and building the Mole at Tangier. In later life, his wealth and influ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davoud%20Danesh-Jafari
Davoud Danesh-Jafari is an Iranian politician and economist who was minister of economy and finance affairs of Iran. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Biography Born in 1954 in Tehran, Danesh-Jafari graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Regional Engineering College,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest%20S.%20McCartney
Forrest Striplin McCartney (March 23, 1931 – July 17, 2012) was a United States Air Force lieutenant general and former director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. McCartney was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He graduated from Gulf Coast Military Academy in 1949, received a Bachelor of Science degree, in electrical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911%20in%20paleontology
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries Institutions and organizations Natural history museums The Calgary Public Museum opened in Alberta, Canada. Scientific organizations Scientific advances Paleoanthropology Paleobotany Evolutionary biology Exopaleontology Extinction research Micropaleontology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918%20in%20paleontology
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries Institutions and organizations Natural history museums Scientific organizations Scientific advances Paleoanthropology Paleobotany Evolutionary biology Exopaleontology Extinction research Micropaleontology Invertebrate paleozoology Trace fossils Vertebrate p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20E.%20Maryanoff
Bruce Eliot Maryanoff FRSC (born February 26, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American medicinal and organic chemist. Background and contributions Maryanoff received a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1969, and a PhD degree in organic chemistry in 1972, both from Drexel University. From 1972 to 1974 Maryanoff wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn (born 29 August 1949) is a German theoretical computer scientist. He has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science. Education and career Mehlhorn graduated in 1971 from the Technical University of Munich, where he studied computer sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian%20Foulger
Gillian Rose Foulger is a British geologist and academic born in 1952 in Ipswich. Foulger plays a major role in coordinating the global debate in the category of Earth Science, on whether or not deep mantle thermal plumes exist and create “hot spot” volcanism. Biography Foulger is a professor of Geophysics at Durham U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Ray%20Rivero
Manuel Ray Rivero (1924 – November 12, 2013) was a Cuban born engineer, politician and revolutionary, who was later involved in civic and professional actitivities in Puerto Rico. He received a scholarship from the Cuban Ministry of Public Works to study civil engineering at the University of Utah. He returned to Cuba ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muroran%20Institute%20of%20Technology
, abbreviated as MuroranIT, MuIT, or Muroran Tech is a national university in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan. History 1897 Sapporo Agricultural College Department of Civil Engineering Established 1918 Sapporo Agricultural College promoted to Hokkaido Imperial University. 1939 Muroran National Industrial College Established ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20Schaxel
Julius Christoph Ehregott Schaxel (March 24, 1887 – July 15, 1943) was a German developmental biologist and zoologist who was a native of Augsburg. He initially studied biology, philosophy and psychology at Jena under Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), then continued his education in Munich with Richard Hertwig (1850–1937). I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Tokushima
is a national university in the city of Tokushima, Japan, with seven graduate schools and five undergraduate faculties. The university was founded in 1949, by merging six national education facilities into one. The 2014 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, Shuji Nakamura graduated from Tokushima University. On April 1, 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy%20Polyakov
Yuriy Sergeyevich Polyakov (Russian: Юрий Сергеевич Поляков, born September 3, 1980, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian-American scientist at Duality Technologies. He is best known for his work in cryptography (homomorphic encryption, lattice-based cryptography), chemical engineering (theory of filtration processes,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutter%20edit
The stutter edit, or stutter effect, is the rhythmic repetition of small fragments of audio, occurring as the common 16th note repetition, but also as 64th notes and beyond, with layers of digital signal processing operations in a rhythmic fashion based on the overall length of the host tempo. The Stutter Edit audio so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20roommates%20problem
In mathematics, economics and computer science, particularly in the fields of combinatorics, game theory and algorithms, the stable-roommate problem (SRP) is the problem of finding a stable matching for an even-sized set. A matching is a separation of the set into disjoint pairs ("roommates"). The matching is stable i...