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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
Anathem is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 2008. Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and nominalism. Plot summary Anathem is set on the fictional planet of Arbre. Thousands of years befor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Trautz
Max Trautz (19 March 1880 – 19 August 1960) was a German chemist. He was very productive with over 190 scientific publications especially in the field of chemical kinetics. He was the first to investigate the activation energy of molecules by connecting Max Planck's new results concerning light with observations in che...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralization
Neutralization or Neutralized may refer to: Neutralization (chemistry), a chemical reaction where a base and an acid react to form a salt Neutralisation (immunology), pathogen neutralization caused by antibodies Neutralisation (sociology) Neutralization (linguistics), the elimination of certain distinctive feature...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Cohen-Corwin
Amy Cohen-Corwin (formerly known as Amy C. Murray) is a professor emerita of mathematics at Rutgers University, and former Dean of University College at Rutgers University. In 2006, she was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Cohen-Corwin is especially interested in the Korteweg–d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian%20tree
In computer science, a Cartesian tree is a binary tree derived from a sequence of distinct numbers. To construct the Cartesian tree, set its root to be the minimum number in the sequence, and recursively construct its left and right subtrees from the subsequences before and after this number. It is uniquely defined as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushdown
Pushdown may refer to: Pushdown automaton, a concept in theoretical computer science More generally, anything relating to a stack Push-down (exercise), a strength-training exercise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorted%20array
A sorted array is an array data structure in which each element is sorted in numerical, alphabetical, or some other order, and placed at equally spaced addresses in computer memory. It is typically used in computer science to implement static lookup tables to hold multiple values which have the same data type. Sorting ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%20filtration
In mathematics, especially in the area of algebraic topology known as stable homotopy theory, the Adams filtration and the Adams–Novikov filtration allow a stable homotopy group to be understood as built from layers, the nth layer containing just those maps which require at most n auxiliary spaces in order to be a comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuyama%20coupling
The Fukuyama coupling is a coupling reaction taking place between a thioester and an organozinc halide in the presence of a palladium catalyst. The reaction product is a ketone. This reaction was discovered by Tohru Fukuyama et al. in 1998. Advantages The reaction has gained considerable importance in synthetic organ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20F.%20Dinges
David F. Dinges is an American sleep researcher and teacher. He is professor of psychology in psychiatry, chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology in the Department of Psychiatry, and associate director of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy%20II
Freddy (1969–1971) and Freddy II (1973–1976) were experimental robots built in the Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception (later Department of Artificial Intelligence, now part of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh). Technology Technical innovations involving Freddy were at the foref...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohru%20Fukuyama
is a Japanese organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at University of Tokyo in Japan. He discovered the Fukuyama coupling in 1998. Biography Fukuyama studied chemistry at Nagoya University with degrees Bachelor's (1971) and Master's (1973) degrees. As a graduate student, he then worked at Harvard University, where...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20H.%20Henry
Charles H. Henry (May 6, 1937 – September 16, 2016) was an American physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received an M.S. degree in physics in 1959 from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. degree in physics in 1965 from the University of Illinois, under the direction of Charlie Slichter. In March 2008, h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinaldi%20Firmansyah
Rinaldi Firmansyah (born 10 June 1960 in Tanjung Pinang, Riau Islands) is an Indonesian businessman. Education Graduate of Electrical Engineering (Ir), Bandung Institute of Technology in 1985. Master of Business Administration (MBA), IPMI Jakarta. Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), AIMR, Charlottesville, USA. Work e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Journal%20of%20Physics
The Chinese Journal of Physics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of physics. It is published by Elsevier on behalf of the Physical Society of Taiwan. The journal publishes reviews, articles, and refereed conference papers in all the major areas of physics. The editor-in-chief is Fu-Je...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenkichi%20Sonogashira
is a Japanese chemist and was a professor of chemistry at Osaka University in Japan. He discovered the Sonogashira coupling in 1975. Sonogashira was later a professor at Osaka City University and retired in 2004. References SONOGASHIRA Kenkichi 1931 births Living people Japanese chemists Osaka University alumni Acad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto%20Kumada
was a Japanese chemist and was a Professor of Chemistry first at Osaka City University until his retirement in 1983 at Kyoto University in Japan. In 1972, Kumada's group reported nickel-catalyzed cross coupling reactions nearly concurrently with the Corriu group working in France. The Kumada coupling now bears his nam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ei-ichi%20Negishi
was a Japanese chemist who was best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling. He spent most of his career at Purdue University in the United States, where he was the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor and the director of the Negishi-Brown Institute. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for pal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRAS
PRAS or Pras may refer to: People Pras (born 1972), American rapper and member of The Fugees Éric Pras (born 1972), French chef Jacques Pras (1924–1982), French cyclist E. A. S. Prasanna, Indian crickter, nicknamed Pras Other uses Polynomial-time randomized approximation scheme, in computer science Pras (Thessaly), a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20IEEE%20publications
The publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) constitute around 30% of the world literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, publishing well over 100 peer-reviewed journals. The content in these journals as well as the content from several hun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organotellurium%20chemistry
Organotellurium chemistry describes the synthesis and properties of organotellurium compounds, chemical compounds containing a carbon-tellurium chemical bond. Organotellurium chemistry is a lightly studied area, in part because of it having few applications. Functional groups The tellurium analogues of common organosu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenoxide%20elimination
Selenoxide elimination (also called α-selenation) is a method for the chemical synthesis of alkenes from selenoxides. It is most commonly used to synthesize α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds from the corresponding saturated analogues. It is mechanistically related to the Cope reaction. Mechanism and stereochemistry ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20regularization
In mathematics, Hadamard regularization (also called Hadamard finite part or Hadamard's partie finie) is a method of regularizing divergent integrals by dropping some divergent terms and keeping the finite part, introduced by . showed that this can be interpreted as taking the meromorphic continuation of a convergent ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Mingde
Chen Mingde (Traditional Chinese: 陳明德, Simplified Chinese: 陈明德), born 1940, is a Chinese politician. He is former general secretary and vice-president of the China Democratic National Construction Association (CNDCA). Career Chen was born in June 1940 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and graduated from the Department of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bassham
James Alan Bassham (November 26, 1922 – November 19, 2012) was an American scientist known for his work on photosynthesis. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1945 from the University of California, Berkeley, earning his Ph.D. degree from Berkeley in 1949. His graduate studies were on the subject of carbon reduc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinpterochiroptera
The Yinpterochiroptera (or Pteropodiformes) is a suborder of the Chiroptera, which includes taxa formerly known as megabats and five of the microbat families: Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Craseonycteridae, and Megadermatidae. This suborder is primarily based on molecular genetics data. This proposal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20marketing
Artificial intelligence marketing (AIM) is a form of marketing that leverages artificial intelligence concepts and models such as machine learning and Bayesian Networks to achieve marketing goals. The main difference between AIM and traditional forms of marketing resides in the reasoning, which is performed by a comput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel%20Safra
Shmuel Safra () is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He was born in Jerusalem. Safra's research areas include complexity theory and automata theory. His work in complexity theory includes the classification of approximation problems—showing them NP-har...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20mechanism%20design
Algorithmic mechanism design (AMD) lies at the intersection of economic game theory, optimization, and computer science. The prototypical problem in mechanism design is to design a system for multiple self-interested participants, such that the participants' self-interested actions at equilibrium lead to good system pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20chloride%20transformation
Calcium chloride (CaCl2) transformation is a laboratory technique in prokaryotic (bacterial) cell biology. The addition of calcium chloride to a cell suspension promotes the binding of plasmid DNA to lipopolysaccharides (LPS). Positively charged calcium ions attract both the negatively charged DNA backbone and the nega...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler%E2%80%93Volmer%20equation
In electrochemistry, the Butler–Volmer equation (named after John Alfred Valentine Butler and Max Volmer), also known as Erdey-Grúz–Volmer equation, is one of the most fundamental relationships in electrochemical kinetics. It describes how the electrical current through an electrode depends on the voltage difference be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon%20Margalef%20Prize%20in%20Ecology
The Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology () is a prize awarded annually by the Generalitat de Catalunya to recognize an exceptional scientific career or discovery in the field of ecology or other environmental sciences. The award was created to honor the life and work of Ramon Margalef. The award has been presented every ye...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPX
HPX, short for High Performance ParalleX, is a runtime system for high-performance computing. It is currently under active development by the STEAR group at Louisiana State University. Focused on scientific computing, it provides an alternative execution model to conventional approaches such as MPI. HPX aims to overcom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocarboxylate%20transporter%201
Monocarboxylate transporter 1 is a ubiquitous protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC16A1 gene (also known as MCT1). It is a proton coupled monocarboxylate transporter. Biochemistry Detailed kinetic analysis of monocarboxylate transport in erythrocytes revealed that MCT1 operates through an ordered mechanism. MCT...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20H.%20Eberly
Joseph Henry Eberly is a physicist who holds the positions of Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester. Early life and education Joseph Henry Eberly was born in 1935. Eberly completed his undergraduate studies at the Pennsylvania State University in 1957...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Evans%20%28Australian%20businessman%29
Ray Evans (10 September 1939 – 17 June 2014) was an Australian businessperson, political conservative, and campaigner against climate change mitigation efforts. Early years and education Ray Evans was educated at Melbourne High School. He attended the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated in electrical and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20by%20intimidation
Proof by intimidation (or argumentum verbosum) is a jocular phrase used mainly in mathematics to refer to a specific form of hand-waving, whereby one attempts to advance an argument by marking it as obvious or trivial, or by giving an argument loaded with jargon and obscure results. It attempts to intimidate the audien...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Xiantu
He Xiantu (; born September 28, 1937), also romanized as Xian-Tu He, is a Chinese nuclear and theoretical physicist. He is the chief scientist of many Chinese national nuclear research and development programs. He designed the first neutron bomb in China. Career Born in Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he studied ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivialization
Trivialization or trivialisation may refer to: Trivialization (mathematics), a trivialization of a fiber bundle Trivialization (psychology), a form of minimization, a cognitive distortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor%20correspondence
In mathematical physics, the twistor correspondence (also known as Penrose–Ward correspondence) is a bijection between instantons on complexified Minkowski space and holomorphic vector bundles on twistor space, which as a complex manifold is , or complex projective 3-space. Twistor space was introduced by Roger Penrose...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdetermined%20system
In mathematics, a system of linear equations or a system of polynomial equations is considered underdetermined if there are fewer equations than unknowns (in contrast to an overdetermined system, where there are more equations than unknowns). The terminology can be explained using the concept of constraint counting. Ea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daven%20Presgraves
Daven Presgraves is University Dean's Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Rochester. Education and career Presgraves earned his B.S. and an M.S. at the University of Maryland at College Park and a second M.S. and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Rochester. Aft...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Klein
Daniel Klein may refer to: Daniel B. Klein (born 1962), professor of economics at George Mason University Daniel Klein (grammarian) (1609–1666), medieval scholar of Lithuanian language Daniel Martin Klein (born 1939), American author Dan Klein (born 1976), American professor of computer science at the University of C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Klein
Daniel Klein (born 1976) is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He was educated at Mt. Lebanon High School in Mt. Lebanon Township, Pennsylvania and earned a BA in m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Farish%20%28chemist%29
William Farish (1759–1837) was a British scientist who was a professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, known for the development of the method of isometric projection and development of the first written university examination. Biography Farish was probably born around mid-April, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%27s%20recognition%20theorem
In topology, a branch of mathematics, Bing's recognition theorem, named for R. H. Bing, asserts that a necessary and sufficient condition for a 3-manifold M to be homeomorphic to the 3-sphere is that every Jordan curve in M be contained within a topological ball. References 3-manifolds Geometric topology Theorems i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remo%20Ruffini
Remo Ruffini (born May 17, 1942, La Brigue, Alpes-Maritimes, at that time, Briga Marittima, Italy). He is the Director of ICRANet, International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics Network and the President of the International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA). Ruffini initiated the International Relativist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescribed%20Ricci%20curvature%20problem
In Riemannian geometry, a branch of mathematics, the prescribed Ricci curvature problem is as follows: given a smooth manifold M and a symmetric 2-tensor h, construct a metric on M whose Ricci curvature tensor equals h. See also Prescribed scalar curvature problem References Thierry Aubin, Some nonlinear problems i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni%20Milkowski
Antoni Milkowski (1935–2001) was an American minimalist sculptor. Biography Antoni "Tony" Milkowski was born October 7, 1935, in Evanston, Illinois. He was also known as "Antek", particularly by his family. When he was two years old, the family moved to New York City. He attended Kenyon College where he received a deg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis%20Kolchin
Ellis Robert Kolchin (April 18, 1916 – October 30, 1991) was an American mathematician at Columbia University. Kolchin earned a doctorate in mathematics from Columbia University in 1941 under supervision of Joseph Ritt. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 and 1961. Kolchin worked on differential algebra and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescribed%20scalar%20curvature%20problem
In Riemannian geometry, a branch of mathematics, the prescribed scalar curvature problem is as follows: given a closed, smooth manifold M and a smooth, real-valued function ƒ on M, construct a Riemannian metric on M whose scalar curvature equals ƒ. Due primarily to the work of J. Kazdan and F. Warner in the 1970s, thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20entropy
Software entropy is the idea that software eventually rots as it is changed if sufficient care is not taken to maintain coherence with product design and established design principles. The common usage is only tangentially related to entropy as defined in classical thermodynamics and statistical physics. Another aspec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratner%27s%20theorems
In mathematics, Ratner's theorems are a group of major theorems in ergodic theory concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces proved by Marina Ratner around 1990. The theorems grew out of Ratner's earlier work on horocycle flows. The study of the dynamics of unipotent flows played a decisive role in the proof of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M294
M294 or M-294 may refer to: a mutation of the haplogroup CT of Y-DNA in human genetics M-294 (Michigan highway), a state trunkline highway in Calhoun County in the United States of America the Public School number for Essex Street Academy (Seward Park campus) in the list of high schools in New York City – Manhattan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongation
Elongation may refer to: Elongation (astronomy) Elongation (geometry) Elongation (plasma physics) Part of transcription of DNA into RNA of all types, including mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, etc. Part of translation (biology) of mRNA into proteins Elongated organisms Elongation (mechanics), linear deformation See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Zaanen
Jan Zaanen (born 17 April 1957) is professor of theoretical physics at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is best known for his contributions to the understanding of the quantum physics of the electrons in strongly correlated material, and in particular high temperature superconductivity. Zaanen's areas of interest...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Keddy
Paul Anthony Keddy (born May 29, 1953 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian ecologist. He has studied plant population ecology and community ecology in wetlands and many other habitats in eastern Canada and Louisiana, United States. He began his formal training in biology in 1969 at York University in Toronto and finished...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Christian%20Schuch
Johann Christian Schuch (or Jan Chrystian Szuch; 1752 – 28 June 1813) was a Dresden-born garden designer and architect, active in Poland. Life Schuch learned gardening from his father, a House of Wettin court gardener. Later he studied painting and civil engineering at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, and to complet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Collard
Paul Trevor Collard (7 July 1952 – 28 December 2005) was an entrepreneur and founded U.S. Robotics in 1976 with Casey Cowell and Steve Muka. Early life Paul Collard was born in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Roy and Margaret Collard. He went to the Weston-super-Mare Grammar School for Boys, and later graduated from Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Ludvigsen
Malcolm Ludvigsen (born 14 February 1946) is a British mathematician and plein air painter. He is a former research fellow and visiting lecturer in mathematics at the University of York and the author of a book on general relativity. Many of his paintings depict the beaches of the Yorkshire coast. References External...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon%C4%8Dar
Končar, also spelled Konchar, may refer to: Mark Koncar (born 1953), American football player Rade Končar (1911–1942), World War II Yugoslav Communist resistance fighter John Konchar (born 1996), American professional basketball player KONČAR Group, an electrical engineering company of Croatia Končar-class missile boa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inat
Inat, INAT, or iNat may refer to: iNaturalist, a biology-oriented citizen science project INAT, an Indian admissions test for doctoral students in astronomy and astrophysics (see List of admission tests to colleges and universities#India Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie (INAT), an agricultural university in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI%20School%20of%20Biological%20Sciences
The School of Biological Sciences is one of the academic units of the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The school is divided into four departments: developmental and cell biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, molecular biology and biochemistry, and neurobiology and behavior. With over 3,700 students it is i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBR
TBR may refer to: Tampa Bay Rays, a Major League Baseball team Tampa Bay Rowdies, a USL Championship soccer club Tree bisection and reconnection, a tree rearrangement algorithm in computational phylogenetics TBR, IATA code for Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport TBR1 (T-box, brain, 1), a transcription factor prote...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Sewell%20%28writer%29
Stephen Sewell is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. Biography Born in Liverpool, New South Wales, Sewell's first theatre experience was playing a pirate in a school production of "The Pirates of Penzance", before abandoning a career in Physics, for which he studied at the University of Sydney, and devoting h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20California%2C%20Irvine%20School%20of%20Physical%20Sciences
The School of Physical Sciences is an academic unit of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) that conducts academic research and teaching in the field of physical sciences. It offers both pre-professional training and general education in the departments of chemistry, earth system science, mathematics, and physics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint%20%28computing%29
In computer science, a fingerprinting algorithm is a procedure that maps an arbitrarily large data item (such as a computer file) to a much shorter bit string, its fingerprint, that uniquely identifies the original data for all practical purposes just as human fingerprints uniquely identify people for practical purpose...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio%20Prodi
Giorgio Prodi (August 12, 1928, Scandiano, Italy – December 4, 1987, Bologna, Italy) was an Italian medical scientist, oncologist and semiotician. He studied medicine and chemistry at the University of Bologna. From 1958, he taught general pathology and experimental oncology in the same university. He held Italy's fir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne%20Guibourg
The Abbé Étienne Guibourg (c. 1610 – January 1686) was a French Roman Catholic abbé and occultist who was involved in the affaire des poisons, during the reign of Louis XIV. He has been variously described as a "defrocked" or "renegade" priest, and is said to have also had a good knowledge of chemistry. He is best know...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Roche
Pierre Roche (Paris, 2 August 1855 – Paris, 18 January 1922), pseudonym of Pierre Henry Ferdinand Massignon, was a French sculptor, painter, ceramist and medallist. He was the father to Louis Massignon. Roche first studied medicine and chemistry in Paris, but then switched to studying painting at the Académie Julian 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20Daren
Huang Daren (; born 1945) is a Chinese mathematician who served as President of Sun Yat-sen University from 1999 to 2010. Biography Huang was born in April 1945 in Xiangshan County, Zhejiang, China. Huang did his undergraduate and postgraduate study in the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University. After complet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlul%20Halim%20Chowdhury
Fazlul Halim Chowdhury (1 August 19309 April 1996) was a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and one of the longest-serving Vice-Chancellors of the University of Dhaka. He made pioneering contributions to the development of physical chemistry in Bangladesh, publishing more than 20 articles. He focused on cellu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkan%20Demirci
Utkan Demirci is a Professor with tenure at Stanford University at the departments of Radiology and Electrical Engineering (by courtesy), and serves as the Interim Division Chief and Director of the Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection in the Department of Radiology. https://profiles.stanford.edu/utkan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinusoidal%20model
In statistics, signal processing, and time series analysis, a sinusoidal model is used to approximate a sequence Yi to a sine function: where C is constant defining a mean level, α is an amplitude for the sine, ω is the angular frequency, Ti is a time variable, φ is the phase-shift, and Ei is the error sequence. This...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20Talk
The Turing Talk, previously known as the Turing Lecture, is an annual award lecture delivered by a noted speaker on the subject of Computer Science. Sponsored and co-hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the British Computer Society, the talk has been delivered at different locations in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4n%20%2B%202
4n + 2 may refer to: Singly even number, a number of the form 4n + 2 for an integer n Hückel's rule in organic chemistry, also known as the 4n + 2 rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20extraction
RNA extraction is the purification of RNA from biological samples. This procedure is complicated by the ubiquitous presence of ribonuclease enzymes in cells and tissues, which can rapidly degrade RNA. Several methods are used in molecular biology to isolate RNA from samples, the most common of these is guanidinium thio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Chivian
Eric S. Chivian is the founder and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE) at Harvard Medical School, where he is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry. Life and career A 1964 graduate of Harvard University (AB, biochemistry), he went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Burger
Edward Burger Burger (born December 10, 1964) is an American mathematician and President Emeritus of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Previously, he was the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, and the Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching at Ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20P.%20Dobkin
David Paul Dobkin is an American computer scientist and the Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. His research has concerned computational geometry and computer graphics. Early life and education Dobkin was born February 29, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a B.S....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Ant%C3%B3n
Annie Antón is an academic and researcher in the fields of computer science, mathematical logic, and bioinformatics. She is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, within its College of Computing. She is the founder and director of ThePrivacyPlace.org, a research center devoted to issues o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Herklots
Dr Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots (1902 – 14 January 1986) was a British botanist and ornithologist. From 1928 he was a reader in biology at Hong Kong University until the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941, during which he was interned in Stanley, Hong Kong, until 1945. After the war was over he returned to Lon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crell%27s%20Annalen
Crell's Annalen is a German chemistry journal. Its original name is Chemische Annalen für die Freunde der Naturlehre, Arzneygelährtheit, Haushaltungskunst und Manufacturen, which is usually shortened to Chemische Annalen and often referred to as Crell's Annalen after the editor Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell (1744–...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasis%20Mitra
Debasis Mitra (born November 3, 1944 in Kolkata) is an Indian-American mathematician, known for his numerous contributions to the theory of communication systems, control theory and queueing theory. He got his B.Sc. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) in electrical engineering from University of London, on an Atomic Energy Resear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Ritt
Joseph Fels Ritt (August 23, 1893 – January 5, 1951) was an American mathematician at Columbia University in the early 20th century. He was born and died in New York. After beginning his undergraduate studies at City College of New York, Ritt received his B.A. from George Washington University in 1913. He then earned ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20approximation
Sparse approximation (also known as sparse representation) theory deals with sparse solutions for systems of linear equations. Techniques for finding these solutions and exploiting them in applications have found wide use in image processing, signal processing, machine learning, medical imaging, and more. Sparse decom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPANphos
SPANphos is an organophosphorus compound used as a ligand in organometallic and coordination chemistry. The compound is a rare example of a trans-spanning ligand and rigidly links mutually trans coordination sites. By virtue of its C2-symmetric backbone, SPANphos forms a chiral cavity over the face of a square planar ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Morph
The Nokia Morph is a concept mobile phone created by Finnish company Nokia in collaboration with the University of Cambridge in Great Britain and is based on nanotechnology. The project was postponed indefinitely due to the sale of Nokia’s mobile phone division. Launched along with the Museum of Modern Art “Design and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooillogix
Zooillogix is a zoology blog on the ScienceBlogs network, created and edited by Andrew and Benny Bleiman. The site has been featured on ABC News, in Seed magazine, Mental Floss, FHM, and the Annals of Improbable Research, awarders of the Ig Nobel Prize. The site attracts a diverse readership from notable scientists, su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-gamete%20test
In population genetics, the four-gamete test is a method for detecting historical recombination events. Description Given a set of four or more sampled haploid chromosomes, the four-gamete test (FGT) detects recombination events by locating pairs of segregating sites that cannot have arisen without either recombina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo%20Salah
Arturo Salah Cassani (born 4 December 1949) is a former Chilean footballer and manager. From January 2016 until 2019 he was the president of Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. He studied civil engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Manager career He began his managerial career with Colo-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting%20principle
In mathematics, the splitting principle is a technique used to reduce questions about vector bundles to the case of line bundles. In the theory of vector bundles, one often wishes to simplify computations, say of Chern classes. Often computations are well understood for line bundles and for direct sums of line bundle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitary%20combinatorics
In mathematics, infinitary combinatorics, or combinatorial set theory, is an extension of ideas in combinatorics to infinite sets. Some of the things studied include continuous graphs and trees, extensions of Ramsey's theorem, and Martin's axiom. Recent developments concern combinatorics of the continuum and combinator...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazar%20Al%20Baharna
Nizar Al Baharna (Arabic: نزار البحارنة) (born 1950) is a Bahraini academic, entrepreneur and politician. Early life and education Baharna was born in 1950. He is a graduate of the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. He received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering there. H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalappil%20Pradeep
Thalappil Pradeep is an institute professor and professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is also the Deepak Parekh Chair Professor. In 2020 he received the Padma Shri award for his distinguished work in the field of Science and Technology. He has received th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Carruthers%20%28philosopher%29
Peter Carruthers (; born 16 June 1952) is a British-American philosopher and cognitive scientist working primarily in the area of philosophy of mind, though he has also made contributions to philosophy of language and ethics. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, an associate memb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Chemical%20Society
The European Chemical Society (EuChemS) is a European non-profit organisation which promotes collaboration between non-profit scientific and technical societies in the field of chemistry. Based in Brussels, Belgium, the association took over the role and responsibilities of the Federation of European Chemical Societie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9%20Fabri
Honoré Fabri (Honoratus Fabrius; 5 April 1607 or 8 April 1608 – 8 March 1688) was a French Jesuit theologian, also known as Coningius. He was a mathematician, physicist and controversialist. Life He entered the Society of Jesus at Avignon, in 1626. For eight years he taught philosophy and for six years mathematics at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid%20%28image%20processing%29
Pyramid, or pyramid representation, is a type of multi-scale signal representation developed by the computer vision, image processing and signal processing communities, in which a signal or an image is subject to repeated smoothing and subsampling. Pyramid representation is a predecessor to scale-space representation a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%27s%20lemma
In mathematics, Hadamard's lemma, named after Jacques Hadamard, is essentially a first-order form of Taylor's theorem, in which we can express a smooth, real-valued function exactly in a convenient manner. Statement Proof Consequences and applications See also Citations References Real analysis Theorems i...