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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate%E2%80%93glutamine%20cycle
In biochemistry, the glutamate–glutamine cycle is a cyclic metabolic pathway which maintains an adequate supply of the neurotransmitter glutamate in the central nervous system. Neurons are unable to synthesize either the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate, or the inhibitory GABA from glucose. Discoveries of glutamat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Bazell
Robert Bazell is adjunct professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. He is the former chief science and health correspondent for NBC News. Biography Education Bazell graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in 1967 with a B.A. in biochemistry and Phi Beta Kappa ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolan%20DNA%20Learning%20Center
The DNA Learning Center (DNALC) is a genetics learning center affiliated with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. It is the world's first science center devoted entirely to genetics education and offers online education, class field trips, student summer day camps, and teacher training....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%20elastic%20material
In physics, a Cauchy-elastic material is one in which the stress at each point is determined only by the current state of deformation with respect to an arbitrary reference configuration. A Cauchy-elastic material is also called a simple elastic material. It follows from this definition that the stress in a Cauchy-ela...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20regeneration
In telecommunications, signal regeneration is signal processing that restores a signal, recovering its original characteristics. The signal may be electrical, as in a repeater on a T-carrier line, or optical, as in an OEO optical cross-connect. The process is used when it is necessary to change the signal type in ord...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly%20symmetric%20space
In mathematics, a weakly symmetric space is a notion introduced by the Norwegian mathematician Atle Selberg in the 1950s as a generalisation of symmetric space, due to Élie Cartan. Geometrically the spaces are defined as complete Riemannian manifolds such that any two points can be exchanged by an isometry, the symmetr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20W.%20Ketchledge
Raymond Waibel Ketchledge (December 8, 1919 – October 23, 1987) was an American engineer, known for his contributions to the first computerized telephone switching control systems. Biography Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Ketchledge married Lois Jane Quackenbush. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (1942) in electrical eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20linear%20Lie%20algebra
In mathematics, the special linear Lie algebra of order n (denoted or ) is the Lie algebra of matrices with trace zero and with the Lie bracket . This algebra is well studied and understood, and is often used as a model for the study of other Lie algebras. The Lie group that it generates is the special linear group....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20inequality
In mathematics a linear inequality is an inequality which involves a linear function. A linear inequality contains one of the symbols of inequality: < less than > greater than ≤ less than or equal to ≥ greater than or equal to ≠ not equal to A linear inequality looks exactly like a linear equation, with the ine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausen%27s%20formula
In mathematics, Clausen's formula, found by , expresses the square of a Gaussian hypergeometric series as a generalized hypergeometric series. It states In particular it gives conditions for a hypergeometric series to be positive. This can be used to prove several inequalities, such as the Askey–Gasper inequality used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorthonychiidae
Pseudorthonychiidae is an extinct, monogeneric (contains only one genus) family of fossil snails, gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Genera The sole genus in this family is: Pseudorthonychia Bandel & Frýda, 1999 References Pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askey%E2%80%93Wilson%20polynomials
In mathematics, the Askey–Wilson polynomials (or q-Wilson polynomials) are a family of orthogonal polynomials introduced by as q-analogs of the Wilson polynomials. They include many of the other orthogonal polynomials in 1 variable as special or limiting cases, described in the Askey scheme. Askey–Wilson polynomials a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Lef%C3%A8vre%E2%80%91Gineau
Louis Lefèvre-Gineau (7 March 1751 – 3 February 1829), born at Authe (Ardennes), was a French chemist and scientist. Of modest origins, a village elder approached d'Étrépigny to give this intelligent child the basics of knowledge that permitted him to shine in the studies of chemistry and of physics that he pursued at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20engineering
Thermal engineering is a specialized sub-discipline of mechanical engineering that deals with the movement of heat energy and transfer. The energy can be transferred between two mediums or transformed into other forms of energy. A thermal engineer will have knowledge of thermodynamics and the process to convert generat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Geman
Donald Jay Geman (born September 20, 1943) is an American applied mathematician and a leading researcher in the field of machine learning and pattern recognition. He and his brother, Stuart Geman, are very well known for proposing the Gibbs sampler and for the first proof of the convergence of the simulated annealing a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20polynomials
In mathematics, Wilson polynomials are a family of orthogonal polynomials introduced by that generalize Jacobi polynomials, Hahn polynomials, and Charlier polynomials. They are defined in terms of the generalized hypergeometric function and the Pochhammer symbols by See also Askey–Wilson polynomials are a q-analogu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahn%20polynomials
In mathematics, the Hahn polynomials are a family of orthogonal polynomials in the Askey scheme of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, introduced by Pafnuty Chebyshev in 1875 and rediscovered by Wolfgang Hahn . The Hahn class is a name for special cases of Hahn polynomials, including Hahn polynomials, Meixner poly...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlier%20polynomials
In mathematics, Charlier polynomials (also called Poisson–Charlier polynomials) are a family of orthogonal polynomials introduced by Carl Charlier. They are given in terms of the generalized hypergeometric function by where are generalized Laguerre polynomials. They satisfy the orthogonality relation They form a She...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Carter%20%28insurance%20executive%29
Sir John Gordon Thomas Carter (born 28 December 1937) is a British businessman who was Chief Executive of Commercial Union from 1994 to 1998, and who is the current chairman of travelers insurance europe. Life Carter was educated at the City of Oxford High School and Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining a degree in mathem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slee
Did you mean 'Sleep'? Slee may refer to: People Carl Slee (born 1947), Welsh footballer Carry Slee (born 1949), Dutch author whose novel Afblijven is the basis for the films Keep Off and Timboektoe Colin Slee (1945–2010), clergyman in the Church of England George Slee (died 1613), wool merchant and clothier John...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinkenberg%20correction
In Petrophysics a Klinkenberg correction is a procedure for calibration of permeability data obtained from a minipermeameter device. A more accurate correction factor can be obtained using Knudsen correction. When using nitrogen gas for core plug measurements, the Klinkenberg correction is usually necessary due to the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongotoxin
Hongotoxin (HgTX) is an ion channel toxin, which blocks Shaker-type (Kv1) K+ channels. The toxin is derived from the venom of Centruroides limbatus, a Central American scorpion found meanly in Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama. Chemistry Hongotoxin belongs to the short scorpion toxin superfamily. Potassium channel inhib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Physics%20and%20Ancient%20Faith
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (2003) is a book by Stephen M. Barr, a physicist from the University of Delaware and frequent contributor to First Things. This book is "an extended attack" on what Barr calls scientific materialism. National Review says of the book: "[A] lucid and engaging survey of modern physics an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20Coldham
Iain Coldham is an organic chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge before moving to Austin, Texas, in 1989 for postdoctoral research. His areas of study have included intramolecular trapping of episulfonium ions with amine nucleophi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper%27s%20algorithm
In mathematics, Gosper's algorithm, due to Bill Gosper, is a procedure for finding sums of hypergeometric terms that are themselves hypergeometric terms. That is: suppose one has a(1) + ... + a(n) = S(n) − S(0), where S(n) is a hypergeometric term (i.e., S(n + 1)/S(n) is a rational function of n); then necessarily a(n)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20guard
Ram guards protect the hydraulic ram on an excavator which is used to move the boom and other parts of the arm of an excavator to carry out work. Ram guards are best suited and successfully used for machines used for demolition and civil engineering purposes, and can be fitted to most excavators. They prevent the ram...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya%20Rahmat-Samii
Yahya Rahmat-Samii (; born August 20, 1948) is the Northrop Grumman Chair Professor in Electromagnetics at the electrical engineering department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches and conducts research on microwave transmission and radio antennas. Rahmat-Samii received his Bachelor of Scienc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamino%20acid
In chemistry, a diamino acid, also called a diamino carboxylic acid, is a molecule including a carboxylic acid and two amine functional groups. Diamino acids belong to the class of amino acids. Biochemical function Lysine is a proteinaceous diamino acid (i.e. a component of proteins), and is accordingly coded by codo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20diffusivity
The magnetic diffusivity is a parameter in plasma physics which appears in the magnetic Reynolds number. It has SI units of m²/s and is defined as: , while in Gaussian units it can be defined as . In the above, is the permeability of free space, is the speed of light, and is the electrical conductivity of the materi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Sackmann
Erich Sackmann (born 26 November 1934) is a German experimental physicist and a pioneer of biophysics in Europe. Career Sackmann obtained his MSc (1961) and PhD (1964) degrees from the University of Stuttgart in the group of Theodor Förster. He then spent two years at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Je...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitomi%20%28satellite%29
, also known as ASTRO-H and New X-ray Telescope (NeXT), was an X-ray astronomy satellite commissioned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for studying extremely energetic processes in the Universe. The space observatory was designed to extend the research conducted by the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20%28physics%29
Spin is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, and thus by composite particles such as hadrons, atomic nuclei, and atoms. Spin should not be conceptualized as involving the "rotation" of a particle's "internal mass", as ordinary use of the word may suggest: spin is a quantized property o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20C.%20Frank%20Chang
Mau-Chung Frank Chang (, born February 20, 1951) is Distinguished Professor and the Chairman of Electrical Engineering department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducts research and teaching on RF CMOS design, high speed integrated circuit design, data converter, and mixed-signal circuit design...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical%20physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena. The advancement of science generally d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%20constant
The Planck constant, or Planck's constant, denoted by is a fundamental physical constant of foundational importance in quantum mechanics: a photon's energy is equal to its frequency multiplied by the Planck constant, and the wavelength of a matter wave equals the Planck constant divided by the associated particle mome...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuo%20Itoh
Tatsuo Itoh (5 May 1940 — 4 March 2021) was an electrical engineer who was professor and holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Microwave and Millimeter Wave Electronics in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught and conducted research on microwave and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20H.%20Sayed
Ali H. Sayed (born Sao Paulo, Brazil, to parents of Lebanese descent) is the dean of engineering at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), where he teaches and conducts research on Adaptation, Learning, Statistical Signal Processing, and Signal Processing for Communications. He is the Director of the EPFL Ada...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racah%20polynomials
In mathematics, Racah polynomials are orthogonal polynomials named after Giulio Racah, as their orthogonality relations are equivalent to his orthogonality relations for Racah coefficients. The Racah polynomials were first defined by and are given by Orthogonality when , where is the Racah polynomial, is the Kro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Racah%20polynomials
In mathematics, the q-Racah polynomials are a family of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme, introduced by . give a detailed list of their properties. Definition The polynomials are given in terms of basic hypergeometric functions and the Pochhammer symbol by They are sometimes ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Oxlee
John Oxlee (1779–1854) was an English cleric, philologist and writer on theology. Biography Oxlee, son of a well-to-do farmer in Yorkshire, was born at Guisborough in Yorkshire, on 25 September 1779, and was educated at Sunderland. After devoting himself to business for a short time he studied mathematics and Latin, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20physics
In physics, time is defined by its measurement: time is what a clock reads. In classical, non-relativistic physics, it is a scalar quantity (often denoted by the symbol ) and, like length, mass, and charge, is usually described as a fundamental quantity. Time can be combined mathematically with other physical quantiti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20M.%20Nijssen
Gerardus Maria "Sjir" Nijssen (born 18 October 1938, Schinnen) is a Dutch computer scientist, former professor of computer science at the University of Queensland, consultant, and author. Nijssen is considered the founder of verbalization in computer science, and one of the founders of business modeling and information...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby%E2%80%93Rice%20theorem
In mathematics, and in particular the necklace splitting problem, the Hobby–Rice theorem is a result that is useful in establishing the existence of certain solutions. It was proved in 1965 by Charles R. Hobby and John R. Rice; a simplified proof was given in 1976 by A. Pinkus. The theorem Define a partition of the i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20%28disambiguation%29
Physics is a natural science that studies matter and the forces that act upon it. Physics may also refer to: Journals and magazines Physics (American Physical Society journal), former name of the Journal of Applied Physics, published by the American Physical Society Physics (Chinese Physical Society journal), or Wu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koornwinder%20polynomials
In mathematics, Macdonald-Koornwinder polynomials (also called Koornwinder polynomials) are a family of orthogonal polynomials in several variables, introduced by Koornwinder and I. G. Macdonald, that generalize the Askey–Wilson polynomials. They are the Macdonald polynomials attached to the non-reduced affine root sys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turku%20Centre%20for%20Computer%20Science
Turku Centre for Computer Science (abbr. TUCS, , ) is a joint department of University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. TUCS was founded on March 21, 1994. The mission of TUCS is to coordinate the education, research and societal interaction of the affiliate Universities in the field of ICT. The TUCS office facilit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd%20Hirzinger
Gerd Hirzinger received his Dipl.-Ing. degree and the doctor’s degree from the Technical University of Munich, in 1969 and 1974 respectively. In 1969 he joined DLR (the German Aerospace Center) where he first worked on fast digital control systems. 1976 he became head of the automation and robotics laboratory of DLR, w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20H.%20Koornwinder
Tom H. Koornwinder (born 19 September 1943, in Rotterdam) is a Dutch mathematician at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics who introduced Koornwinder polynomials. See also Askey–Bateman project References Curriculum Vitae home page brief bio 1943 births Living people 20th-century Dutch mathematician...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Charlier%20polynomials
In mathematics, the q-Charlier polynomials are a family of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme. give a detailed list of their properties. Definition The polynomials are given in terms of the basic hypergeometric function by References Orthogonal polynomials Q-analogs Special hyper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meixner%20polynomials
In mathematics, Meixner polynomials (also called discrete Laguerre polynomials) are a family of discrete orthogonal polynomials introduced by . They are given in terms of binomial coefficients and the (rising) Pochhammer symbol by See also Kravchuk polynomials References Orthogonal polynomials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikael%20Ter-Mikaelian%20Institute%20for%20Physical%20Research
The Institute for Physical Research () of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia is a physics research institute located in Armenia. History Institute for Physical Research (IPR) was founded in 1967 by a prominent Armenian scientist Mikael Levonovich Ter-Mikaelian and currently is one of the leading research in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitavan
Gitavan (, "settlement of knowledge" or "settlement of science") is a name for campus of research institutions in Armenia with habitable area for scientists. Examples are gitavan of Institute for Physical Research and the Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, both forming a part of the National Academy of Sciences...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Hide
Raymond Hide CBE FRS (17 May 1929 – 6 September 2016) was a British physicist, who was a professor of physics at the University of Oxford and, since 2000, senior research investigator at Imperial College, London. Life Hide was educated at Percy Jackson Grammar School, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire and the University...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Tjian
Robert Tjian (; born 1949) is a Hong Kong-born American biochemist best known for his work on eukaryotic transcription. He is currently professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). On April 1, 2009, Tjian be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20algebra
In mathematics, more specifically algebra, abstract algebra or modern algebra is the study of algebraic structures. Algebraic structures include groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, lattices, and algebras over a field. The term abstract algebra was coined in the early 20th century to distinguish it from older...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Poincar%C3%A9%20group
In physics and mathematics, the κ-Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré, is a quantum group, obtained by deformation of the Poincaré group into a Hopf algebra. It is generated by the elements and with the usual constraint: where is the Minkowskian metric: The commutation rules reads: In the (1 + 1)-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Ptashne
Mark Ptashne (born June 5, 1940, in Chicago) is a molecular biologist. He is the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Ptashne grew up in Chicago. He earned his undergraduate degree at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1961 and his PhD from Harvard in 1968, af...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy%20wave%20theory
In fluid dynamics, Airy wave theory (often referred to as linear wave theory) gives a linearised description of the propagation of gravity waves on the surface of a homogeneous fluid layer. The theory assumes that the fluid layer has a uniform mean depth, and that the fluid flow is inviscid, incompressible and irrotati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jur%20Hronec
Jur Hronec (May 17, 1881; Gočovo, Rožňava District – December 1, 1959; Bratislava) was a Slovak mathematician. Early years Jur Hronec was born in Gočovo, Slovakia (then Gócs, Kingdom of Hungary). He grew up in modest circumstances in a farmers family. After graduating from high school in Rožňava he studied mathematic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%20integral
In mathematics, a Barnes integral or Mellin–Barnes integral is a contour integral involving a product of gamma functions. They were introduced by . They are closely related to generalized hypergeometric series. The integral is usually taken along a contour which is a deformation of the imaginary axis passing to the ri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Institute%20for%20Racial%20Biology
The State Institute for Racial Biology (SIRB, ) was a Swedish governmental research institute founded in 1922 with the stated purpose of studying eugenics and human genetics. It was the most prominent institution for the study of "racial science" in Sweden. It was located in Uppsala. In 1958, it was renamed to the Stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20property%20%28mathematics%29
In the mathematical field of group theory, a group is residually X (where X is some property of groups) if it "can be recovered from groups with property X". Formally, a group G is residually X if for every non-trivial element g there is a homomorphism h from G to a group with property X such that . More categoricall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20property%20%28physics%29
In thermodynamics a residual property is defined as the difference between a real fluid property and an ideal gas property, both considered at the same density, temperature, and composition. Correlated terms Departure function References J. M. Smith, H.C.Van Ness, M. M. Abbot Introduction to Chemical Engineering The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofer%20Lellouche
Ofer Lellouche (, born 19 April 1947 in Tunis) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, etcher and video artist. Biography Lellouche was born in Tunisia in 1947. He studied mathematics and physics in Paris at Saint Louis College. In 1966, two months before he was scheduled to graduate, he ran away to Kibbutz Yehiam in Israel....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20K.%20Miller
Earl Keith Miller (born November 30, 1962) is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on neural mechanisms of cognitive, or executive, control. Earl K. Miller is the Picower Professor of Neuroscience with the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater%20biology
Freshwater biology is the scientific biological study of freshwater ecosystems and is a branch of limnology. This field seeks to understand the relationships between living organisms in their physical environment. These physical environments may include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, lakes, reservoirs, or wetlands. Kno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTB
JTB may refer to: Jets to Brazil, an American rock band John the Baptist (died circa 30), Jewish preacher and ascetic JTB (gene), a human gene Journal of Theoretical Biology, a scientific journal JTB Corporation, formerly Japan Travel Bureau, the largest travel agency in Japan Justified true belief, a philosophi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateral%20hypergeometric%20series
In mathematics, a bilateral hypergeometric series is a series Σan summed over all integers n, and such that the ratio an/an+1 of two terms is a rational function of n. The definition of the generalized hypergeometric series is similar, except that the terms with negative n must vanish; the bilateral series will in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elizabethan%20Academy
The Elizabethan Academy is a secondary school with academy status located in the Nottinghamshire market town of Retford, England. It is situated to the north of Retford town centre, to the east of the A638, on the side of the River Idle once known as West Retford. The academy has specialist status in Science and Mathem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20veto%20network
In cryptography, the anonymous veto network (or AV-net) is a multi-party secure computation protocol to compute the boolean-OR function. It was first proposed by Feng Hao and Piotr Zieliński in 2006. This protocol presents an efficient solution to the Dining cryptographers problem. A related protocol that securely com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEF5
IDEF5 (Integrated Definition for Ontology Description Capture Method) is a software engineering method to develop and maintain usable, accurate domain ontologies. This standard is part of the IDEF family of modeling languages in the field of software engineering. Overview In the field of computer science ontologies a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%20Davies
Kelvin J. A. Davies is the James E. Birren Chair of Gerontology at the USC Davis School of Gerontology with a joint appointment in Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in biology. He is involved in researching free radical biology, oxidative stress, and aging; and was an early member of the stu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20black%20Nobel%20laureates
The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace, with an associated prize in Economics awarded since 1969. As of November 2022, Nobel Prizes had been awarded to 954 individuals, of whom 17 were Black recipients...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliana
Emiliana is a feminine name of Italian origin. It can refer to: As a given name Emiliana of Trasilla and Emiliana, Catholic saints Emilíana Torrini (born 1977), Icelandic singer As a surname Cesare Emiliani (1922–1995), Italian-American geologist and paleontologist Biology Emiliania (coccolithophore), a genus ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieron%20O%27Hara
Kieron O'Hara is a philosopher, computer scientist and political writer. He is an associate professor and principal research fellow within the department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton where he specialises in the politics, philosophy and epistemology of technology. He is also a res...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20S.%20Shamma
Jeff S. Shamma (born c. 1961) is an American control theorist. He is the Department Head and Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Formerly, he was a Professor of Electrical engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Before...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle%20signature%20scheme
In hash-based cryptography, the Merkle signature scheme is a digital signature scheme based on Merkle trees (also called hash trees) and one-time signatures such as the Lamport signature scheme. It was developed by Ralph Merkle in the late 1970s and is an alternative to traditional digital signatures such as the Digita...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%20allele
In population genetics, a fixed allele is an allele that is the only variant that exists for that gene in a population. A fixed allele is homozygous for all members of the population. The process by which alleles become fixed is called fixation. A population of a hypothetical species can be conceived to exemplify the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi%20Ishiguro
is a Japanese engineer and director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, Japan. A notable development of the laboratory is the Actroid, a humanoid robot with lifelike appearance and visible behaviour such ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20family
In mathematics and its applications, a parametric family or a parameterized family is a family of objects (a set of related objects) whose differences depend only on the chosen values for a set of parameters. Common examples are parametrized (families of) functions, probability distributions, curves, shapes, etc. In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nobel%20laureates%20in%20Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896. These prizes are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn%20%28biology%29
Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals. As a verb, to spawn refers to the process of releasing the eggs and sperm, and the act of both sexes is called spawning. Most aquatic animals, except for aquatic mammals and reptiles, reproduce through the process of spawning. Spawn consi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Newton
Julia L. Newton is Clinical Professor of Ageing and Medicine and Dean for Clinical Medicine at the School of Clinical Medical Sciences of Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She is Director of MD Studies in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle, and a member of the Pharmacogenomics & Complex Di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20notation
X-ray notation is a method of labeling atomic orbitals that grew out of X-ray science. Also known as IUPAC notation, it was adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1991 as a simplification of the older Siegbahn notation. In X-ray notation, every principal quantum number is given a letter as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20point%20%28disambiguation%29
An extreme point, in mathematics, is a point in a convex set which does not lie in any open line segment joining two points in the set. Extreme point or extremal point may also refer to: A point where some function attains its extremum A leaf vertex of a tree in graph theory Extreme points of Earth, points of land tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinto%20%28disambiguation%29
Pinto is a surname. Pinto may also refer to: Biology and engineering AJI T-610 Super Pinto, a modified version of the Temco TT Pinto Pinto bean, a type of mottled bean Pinto horse, a horse coat color that consists of large patches of white and another color Ford Pinto, a subcompact car manufactured by the Ford Motor ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengjiang
Chengjiang (; earlier Tchinkiang) is a city located in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China, just north of Fuxian Lake. Administrative divisions Chengjiang City has 2 subdistricts and 4 townships. 2 subdistricts Fenglu () Longjie () 4 towns Chengjiang Fossil Site In evolutionary biology, and especially paleontology, Chen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner%20Stone
Sumner Stone (born 9 June 1945 in Venice, Florida) is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe. A specimen of ITC Stone is shown at his personal website. Career Stone studied at Reed College, graduating with a degree in sociology in 1967, and earned an MA in Mathema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20O.%20Pollak
Henry Otto Pollak (born December 13, 1927) is an Austrian-American mathematician. He is known for his contributions to information theory, and with Ronald Graham is the namesake of the Graham–Pollak theorem in graph theory. Born in Vienna, Austria, he since moved to United States. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%20L.%20Miranker
Willard L. Miranker (March 8, 1932 – April 28, 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for his contributions to applied mathematics and numerical mathematics. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, he earned Bachelor of Arts (1952), Master of Science (1953) and Ph.D. (1956) from the Courant Institute ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu%20Shimomura
was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two Ameri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Chalfie
Martin Lee Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is University Professor at Columbia University. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". He holds a PhD in neurobiology fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myr%20%28disambiguation%29
A myr is a unit of time, one million years, used in astronomy, geology and biology. Myr or MYR may also refer to: Munichi language (ISO 639 language code: myr) Malaysian ringgit, currency of Malaysia by ISO 4217 currency code Myrtle Beach International Airport (IATA airport code: MYR; ICAO airport code: KMYR), Sou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imago%20Scientific%20Instruments
Imago Scientific Instruments was a company founded in 1999 by Dr. Tom Kelly. At that time he was the Director of the Materials Science Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, but left his tenured position in 2001 to guide the company's growth. Imago commercialized the Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP), pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency
Contingency or Contingent may refer to: Contingency (philosophy), in philosophy and logic Contingency plan, in planning Contingency (electrical grid), in electrical grid engineering Contingency table, in statistics Contingency theory, in organizational theory Contingency theory (biology) in evolutionary biology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPU
BPU may refer to : Branch prediction unit, in computer science, Beppu airport, on Kyūshū island, Japan. Birmingham Political Union, a political party in Great Britain during the 1830s, Biotic Processing Unit, a robotic biology cloud lab capable of carrying out remote-controlled experiments, part of a Stanford Univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamamoto%20%28disambiguation%29
Yamamoto is a Japanese surname. Yamamoto may also refer to: Places Yamamoto, Kagawa Yamamoto, Miyagi Yamamoto, Akita Yamamoto District, Akita Other uses Yamamoto (crater) See also Lubell–Yamamoto–Meshalkin inequality, in mathematics Yamoto (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeloader%20%28disambiguation%29
Freeloader may refer to: Freeloaders (band), an electronic music act Freeloaders (film), a Broken Lizard film Freeloader (game), a board game created by Cheapass Games Freeloader boot disks, a series of video game boot disks (e.g. the Wii Freeloader) See also Cheating (biology) Mooch (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systole%20%28disambiguation%29
Systole may refer to: Systole (medicine), a term describing the contraction of the heart Systolic array, a term used in computer architecture Systolic geometry, a term used in mathematics In mathematics, Systoles of surfaces are systolic inequalities for curves on surfaces Also see Introduction to systolic geometry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20relational%20learning
Statistical relational learning (SRL) is a subdiscipline of artificial intelligence and machine learning that is concerned with domain models that exhibit both uncertainty (which can be dealt with using statistical methods) and complex, relational structure. Note that SRL is sometimes called Relational Machine Learning...