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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20T.%20Forster
Roger Thomas Forster (born March 1, 1933) was the founder of Ichthus Christian Fellowship, a neocharismatic Evangelical Christian Church that forms part of the British New Church Movement. In 1965 he married Faith Forster (1941- ) and has three children. Cambridge Forster studied mathematics and theology at Cambridge ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20G.%20d%27Aquili
Eugene G. d'Aquili (1940–1998) was a research psychiatrist who specialized in studying members of religious communities (e.g., brain image scans). Works Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (2001) with Andrew Newberg (Author) and Vince Rause, Ballantine Books The Mystical Mind: Probing the Bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20resonance%20%28disambiguation%29
Magnetic resonance can mean: Magnetic resonance, a physical process Physics Magnetic resonance (quantum mechanics), a quantum resonance process Nuclear magnetic resonance, a special case Electron paramagnetic resonance Nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computer Medicine Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a medical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScicomP
The IBM HPC Systems Scientific Computing User Group (ScicomP) is an international organization open to all scientific and technical users of IBM systems. At yearly meetings application scientists and staff from HPC centers present talks about, and discuss, ways to develop efficient and scalable scientific applications....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheuk-Yin%20Wong
Cheuk-Yin Wong (born 1941) is former president of the Overseas Chinese Physics Association (OCPA) and a fellow of the American Physics Society (APS). He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University under thesis advisor John Wheeler. He has worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 1966. References Ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side%20effect%20%28disambiguation%29
A side effect is an effect that is secondary to the one intended. Side effect or side effects may also refer to: Computer science Side effect (computer science), a state change caused by a function or expression Medicine Side effect (medicine), an unintended effect of the use of a drug Media Side Effects (Allen ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter
In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume. All everyday objects that can be touched are ultimately composed of atoms, which are made up of interacting subatomic particles, and in everyday as well as scientific usage, matter generally includes a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLR
DLR may refer to: Companies and organizations , the first German airline , a German radio network or DLR Kultur, a German radio station German Aerospace Center () DLR Group, a U.S. engineering and design firm Mathematics and technology Design layout record, of telecommunication circuit Displacement–length rat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20continuous%20function
In mathematics, and in particular the study of game theory, a function is graph continuous if it exhibits the following properties. The concept was originally defined by Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin in 1986 and is a version of continuity that finds application in the study of continuous games. Notation and prelimi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Pike
Christian Pike is a professor at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a member of the USC Neuroscience Program. His ongoing work focuses on Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative disorders. His laboratory studies the role of neuronal apoptosis in neural diseases. Recently, his research found...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Jos%C3%A9%20Yndur%C3%A1in
Francisco José Ynduráin Muñoz (23 December 1940 – 6 June 2008) was a Spanish theoretical physicist. He founded the particle physics research group that became the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he was a Professor. He was described by his colleagues as "a scientist that a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum-anchor
In large scale oceanic civil engineering, vacuum-anchors are used to anchor gravity-based structures (such as the Troll A Oil Platform) in the soft bottomed muck found on many oil bearing continental shelves and the world's shallower seas. This design is modeled on how the webbed feet of aquatic animals increase the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nobel%20laureates%20in%20Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in physics. As dictated by Nobel's will, th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20product%20formula
In mathematics, the Lie product formula, named for Sophus Lie (1875), but also widely called the Trotter product formula, named after Hale Trotter, states that for arbitrary m × m real or complex matrices A and B, where eA denotes the matrix exponential of A. The Lie–Trotter product formula and the Trotter–Kato theo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipsoid
In mathematics, a superellipsoid (or super-ellipsoid) is a solid whose horizontal sections are superellipses (Lamé curves) with the same squareness parameter , and whose vertical sections through the center are superellipses with the squareness parameter . It is a generalization of an ellipsoid, which is a special case...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRSS
HRSS may refer to: Croatian Peasant Party (Croatian: ), former name of a political party in Croatia HRSS (cryptography), an instantiation of NTRU cryptography used in CECPQ2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Widom
Harold Widom (September 23, 1932 – January 20, 2021) was an American mathematician best known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1994. Education and research...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayet%E2%80%93Iliopoulos%20D-term
In theoretical physics, the Fayet–Iliopoulos D-term (introduced by Pierre Fayet and John Iliopoulos) is a D-term in a supersymmetric theory obtained from a vector superfield V simply by an integral over all of superspace: Because a natural trace must be a part of the expression, the action only exists for U(1) vector...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve%20Marder
Eve Marder is a University Professor and the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. At Brandeis, Marder is also a member of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems. Dr. Marder is known for her pioneering work on small neuronal networks which her team has interrogated via ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza%20Roszkowska%20%C3%96berg
Eliza Roszkowska Öberg (born 3 February 1978) is a Polish-Swedish political figure who, in 2008, was elected to Sweden's Parliament, the Riksdag. A native of Warsaw, Eliza Roszkowska Öberg received her Master's degree in computer science and economics at the Polish capital's university in 2002, at the age of 24. Later...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Gautschi
Walter Gautschi (born December 11, 1927) is a Swiss-born American mathematician, writer and professor emeritus of Computer science and Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is primarily known for his contributions to numerical analysis and has authored over 200 papers in his area and published...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Selin%20Lindgren
Eva Selin Lindgren (1936 – 3 September 2011) was a Swedish Centre Party politician and a professor in nuclear physics. She was a member of the Riksdag from 2006 to September 2010. References External links Eva Selin Lindgren at the Riksdag website Members of the Riksdag from the Centre Party (Sweden) 1936 births 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20F.%20Logan
Benjamin Franklin "Tex" Logan, Jr. (June 6, 1927 – April 24, 2015) was an American electrical engineer and bluegrass music fiddler. Born in Coahoma, Texas, Logan earned a B.Sc. in electrical engineering at Texas Tech University, then Texas Technological College, in Lubbock, Texas, studied for a B.Sc. in engineering at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%20%28physics%20symbol%29%20%28disambiguation%29
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20McGraw
Gary McGraw is an American computer scientist, author, and researcher. Education McGraw holds a dual PhD in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Virginia. His doctoral dissertation is titled "Letter Spirit: Emergent High-Level Perception of Lette...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyoshi%20Kitaoka
is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. In 1984, he received a BSc from the Department of Biology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, where he studied animal psychology (burrowing behavior in rats) and (at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience) neur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Society%20for%20Research%20into%20Learning%20Mathematics
The British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics is a United Kingdom association for people interested in research in mathematics education. Purpose BSRLM organises the Special Interest Group (SIG) on mathematics education for the British Educational Research Association (BERA). It is a participating society...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedral%20combinatorics
Polyhedral combinatorics is a branch of mathematics, within combinatorics and discrete geometry, that studies the problems of counting and describing the faces of convex polyhedra and higher-dimensional convex polytopes. Research in polyhedral combinatorics falls into two distinct areas. Mathematicians in this area st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associahedron
In mathematics, an associahedron is an -dimensional convex polytope in which each vertex corresponds to a way of correctly inserting opening and closing parentheses in a string of letters, and the edges correspond to single application of the associativity rule. Equivalently, the vertices of an associahedron correspo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera%20%28biology%29%20%28disambiguation%29
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat
Nat or NAT may refer to: Computing Network address translation (NAT), in computer networking Chemistry, biology, and medicine Natural antisense transcript, an RNA transcript in a cell N-acetyltransferase, an enzyme; also NAT1, NAT2, etc. Nucleic acid test, for genetic material Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20%28disambiguation%29
Membrane most commonly means a thin, selective barrier, but it is sometimes used for films that function as separators, like biological membranes. Membrane may also refer to: Biology: Isolating tissues formed by layers of cells Amnion, a membrane in the amniotic sac Basement membrane, a thin sheet of fibers that un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Wilkerson
Tim Wilkerson (born December 29, 1960, in Springfield, Illinois) is a NHRA drag racer. He graduated from Southeast High School in Springfield, Illinois and earned an Associate's in Science in civil engineering from Lincoln Land Community College. He is married to Krista and has three children, Daniel (2007 NHRA Divisio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20Kalai
Gil Kalai (born 1955) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Henry and Manya Noskwith Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Professor of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, and adjunct Professor of mathematics and of computer scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spine%20%28biology%29%20%28disambiguation%29
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Heinrich%20B%C3%BCrmann
Hans Heinrich Bürmann (died 21 June 1817, in Mannheim) was a German mathematician and teacher. He ran an "academy of commerce" in Mannheim since 1795 where he used to teach mathematics. He also served as a censor in Mannheim. He was nominated Headmaster of the Commerce Academy of the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1811. He di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U50
U50 may refer to: Naval vessels , various vessels , a sloop of the Royal Navy U-50-class submarine of the Austro-Hungarian Navy Other uses GE U50, a diesel-electric locomotive Small dodecicosahedron Small nucleolar RNA SNORD50 U50 statistic, in computational biology Uppland Runic Inscription 50
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20God%20Particle
The God Particle may refer to: Higgs boson, a particle in physics sometimes referred to as the God particle The God Particle (book), a 1993 popular science book by Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi The God Particle (EP), by the band BUN The Cloverfield Paradox, a 2018 American science fiction thriller film origina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20Group%20on%20Women%20in%20Physics
The Working Group on Women in Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) was formed by resolution of the Atlanta IUPAP General Assembly in 1999. The mandate of the group is: to survey the present situation and report to the Council and the liaison committees and to suggest means to improve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20test
An acid test is any qualitative chemical or metallurgical assay which uses acid; most commonly, and historically, the use of a strong acid to distinguish gold from base metals. Figuratively, acid test is any definitive test for some attribute, e.g. of a person's character, or of the performance of a product. Chemistry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External
External may refer to: External (mathematics), a concept in abstract algebra Externality, in economics, the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit Externals, a fictional group of X-Men antagonists See also Internal (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumplinx
PumpLinx is a 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software developed for the analysis of fluid pumps, motors, compressors, valves, propellers, hydraulic systems, and other fluid devices with rotating or sliding components. Features The software imports 3-D geometry from CAD data in the form of STL files. It has geo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed%20graph
In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a directed graph (or digraph) is a graph that is made up of a set of vertices connected by directed edges, often called arcs. Definition In formal terms, a directed graph is an ordered pair where V is a set whose elements are called vertices, nodes, or points; ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantur%20Silaban
Pantur Silaban (11 November 1937 – 1 August 2022) was an Indonesian physicist, regarded as one of the foremost in his profession in Indonesia, especially in the field of theoretical physics. He was also one of the earliest physicists from ASEAN countries who studied Einstein's general relativity theories in depth. Ear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20N.%20Goldberg
Joshua N. Goldberg (May 30, 1925 – October 5, 2020) was an American physicist and educator who was particularly noted for his research on general relativity. Early life and education Goldberg was born in Rochester, New York, and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1947. He received a docto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis%20Gritchenko
Alexis Gritchenko (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Гри́щенко; born April 2, 1883 – January 28, 1977) was a Ukrainian painter and art theorist. Biography Education and early career Gritchenko studied philology and biology at the universities of Kyiv, St Petersburg and Moscow before turning to art. He studied painting in Moscow and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20properties%20of%20carbon%20nanotubes
The optical properties of carbon nanotubes are highly relevant for materials science. The way those materials interact with electromagnetic radiation is unique in many respects, as evidenced by their peculiar absorption, photoluminescence (fluorescence), and Raman spectra. Carbon nanotubes are unique "one-dimensional...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20number
In mathematics, a rational number is a number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction of two integers, a numerator and a non-zero denominator . For example, is a rational number, as is every integer (e.g., The set of all rational numbers, also referred to as "the rationals", the field of rationals or the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka%20Toivola
Jukka Olavi Toivola (7 September 1949 – 27 May 2011) was a male long-distance runner and teacher of chemistry from Finland. Born in Liperi, North Karelia, Toivola represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the men's marathon, finishing in 27th place. In 1979, he won the first edition of the Stockhol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hotez
Peter Jay Hotez (born May 5, 1958) is an American scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control. He serves as founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor Col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Fredman
Michael Lawrence Fredman is an emeritus professor at the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University, United States. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1972 under the supervision of Donald Knuth. He was a member of the mathematics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Chudnovsky
Maria Chudnovsky (born January 6, 1977) is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Education and career Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. She grew up in Russia (attended Saint Petersburg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Moncrieff
Christopher Wighton Moncrieff CBE (9 September 1931 – 22 November 2019) was a British journalist. He was the political editor of the Press Association from 1980 to 1994. Early life Moncrieff was born in Derby in 1931 to Robert Wighton Moncrieff and Winifred Margaret (née Hydon). His father had studied chemistry at Man...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%20height
In fluid dynamics, the wave height of a surface wave is the difference between the elevations of a crest and a neighboring trough. Wave height is a term used by mariners, as well as in coastal, ocean and naval engineering. At sea, the term significant wave height is used as a means to introduce a well-defined and stan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Edward%20Mayer
Joseph Edward Mayer (February 5, 1904, New York City – October 15, 1983) was a chemist who formulated the Mayer expansion in statistical field theory. He was professor of chemistry at the University of California San Diego from 1960 to 1972, and previously at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the Unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Wajcman
Judy Wajcman, is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the Principal Investigator of the Women in Data Science and AI project at The Alan Turing Institute. She is also a visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her scholarly interests en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Brehm
Paul Brehm is a researcher at the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health and Science University. It was during a seminar by Brehm that Martin Chalfie became inspired to work on Green fluorescent protein for which Chalfie shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008. Biography He graduated in zoology from the University of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20nitride
In organic chemistry, carbon nitrides are compounds consisting only of carbon and nitrogen atoms. Carbon nitrides are also known as organic semiconductors with a band gap of 2.7 eV. Due to its hydrogen-bonding motifs and electron-rich properties, this carbon material is considered a potential candidate for material app...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahotra%20Sarkar
Sahotra Sarkar (born 1962) is an Indian-American professor at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the philosophy of biology. Education and career Sarkar is originally from India where he lived in Darjeeling until 1975. He earned a BA from Columbia University, where he won a Van Amringe Mathematical Pri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Adair%20Gowaty
Patricia Adair Gowaty is an American evolutionary biologist. She received her B.A. in biology at Tulane University and her PhD in zoology at Clemson University in 1980. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gowaty is known for her many articles about human and animal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko%20Yui
Noriko Yui is a professor of mathematics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Career A native of Japan, Yui obtained her B.S. from Tsuda College, and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rutgers University in 1974 under the supervision of Richard Bumby. Known internationally, Yui has been a visiting researcher at the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20J.%20Lipkin
Harry Jeannot Lipkin (June 16, 1921 – September 15, 2015), also known as Zvi Lipkin, was an Israeli theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. He is a recipient of the prestigious Wigner Medal. Biography Lipkin was born in New York, New York, United States and attended high ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Sawruk
John Sawruk (November 23, 1946 – November 12, 2008) was an American executive. He was also the official historian of the Pontiac Motor Division of GM. John was a licensed engineer, receiving his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and his MBA from Wayne State Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution%20%28algebra%29
In mathematics, and more specifically in homological algebra, a resolution (or left resolution; dually a coresolution or right resolution) is an exact sequence of modules (or, more generally, of objects of an abelian category), which is used to define invariants characterizing the structure of a specific module or obje...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stably%20free%20module
In mathematics, a stably free module is a module which is close to being free. Definition A finitely generated module M over a ring R is stably free if there exist free finitely generated modules F and G over R such that Properties A projective module is stably free if and only if it possesses a finite free resoluti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20expander
Beam expanders are optical devices that take a collimated beam of light and expand its width (or, used in reverse, reduce its width). In laser physics they are used either as intracavity or extracavity elements. They can be telescopic in nature or prismatic. Generally prismatic beam expanders use several prisms and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gualberto%20Rua%C3%B1o
Gualberto Ruaño is a pioneer in the field of personalized medicine and the inventor of molecular diagnostic systems used worldwide for the management of viral diseases. Ruaño is President and Founder of Genomas, a genetics-related company and now the bio-tech anchor of Hartford Hospital’s Genetic Research Center; he al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep%20problem
The jeep problem, desert crossing problem or exploration problem is a mathematics problem in which a jeep must maximize the distance it can travel into a desert with a given quantity of fuel. The jeep can only carry a fixed and limited amount of fuel, but it can leave fuel and collect fuel at fuel dumps anywhere in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexillary
Vexillary may refer to: an adjective meaning "flag-like" the carrier of a Roman vexillum Vexillary permutation in mathematics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Lowe
David G. Lowe is a Canadian computer scientist working for Google as a senior research scientist. He was a former professor in the computer science department at the University of British Columbia and New York University. Works Lowe is a researcher in computer vision, and is the author of the patented scale-invariant ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane%20Souvaine
Diane L. Souvaine is a professor of computer science and an adjunct professor of mathematics at Tufts University. Contributions Souvaine's research is in computational geometry and its applications, including robust non-parametric statistics and molecular modeling. She has also encouraged women and minorities to study...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denticity
In coordination chemistry, denticity () refers to the number of donor groups in a given ligand that bind to the central metal atom in a coordination complex. In many cases, only one atom in the ligand binds to the metal, so the denticity equals one, and the ligand is said to be monodentate (sometimes called unidentate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Hester
Stephen A. M. Hester (born 14 December 1960) is an international businessman and former banker. He is Chairman of Nordea Bank and easyJet and former chief executive officer (CEO) of RSA Insurance Group, of RBS Group and of British Land. Early life Hester is the eldest son of Ronald, a chemistry professor at the Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Bowie
Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie FRS (born 24 March 1917, in Bixter, Shetland - died 3 September 2008) was a Scottish geologist. He was considered a "world authority on uranium geology and a leader in the field of geochemistry and mineralogy". He developed methods and tools to identify opaque minerals using micro-indentation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Zisserman
Andrew Zisserman (born 1957) is a British computer scientist and a professor at the University of Oxford, and a researcher in computer vision. As of 2014 he is affiliated with DeepMind. Education Zisserman received the Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, and his PhD in theoretical physics from the Sunderland Polyte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapped%20robot%20problem
In robotics, the kidnapped robot problem is the situation where an autonomous robot in operation is carried to an arbitrary location. The kidnapped robot problem creates significant issues with the robot's localization system, and only a subset of localization algorithms can successfully deal with the uncertainty crea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-up%20robot%20problem
In robotics, the wake-up robot problem refers to a situation where an autonomous robot is carried to an arbitrary location and put to operation, and the robot must localize itself without any prior knowledge. The wake-up robot problem is closely related to the kidnapped robot problem. See also Exploration problem ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinodynamic%20planning
In robotics and motion planning, kinodynamic planning is a class of problems for which velocity, acceleration, and force/torque bounds must be satisfied, together with kinematic constraints such as avoiding obstacles. The term was coined by Bruce Donald, Pat Xavier, John Canny, and John Reif. Donald et al. developed ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding%20domain
In molecular biology, binding domain is a protein domain which binds to a specific atom or molecule, such as calcium or DNA. A protein domain is a part of a protein sequence and a tertiary structure that can change or evolve, function, and live by itself independent of the rest of the protein chain. Upon binding, pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinitz%27s%20theorem
In polyhedral combinatorics, a branch of mathematics, Steinitz's theorem is a characterization of the undirected graphs formed by the edges and vertices of three-dimensional convex polyhedra: they are exactly the 3-vertex-connected planar graphs. That is, every convex polyhedron forms a 3-connected planar graph, and ev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slater%E2%80%93Condon%20rules
Within computational chemistry, the Slater–Condon rules express integrals of one- and two-body operators over wavefunctions constructed as Slater determinants of orthonormal orbitals in terms of the individual orbitals. In doing so, the original integrals involving N-electron wavefunctions are reduced to sums over inte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jog
Jog or JOG may refer to: Jogging Jog (dislocations), a term in materials science, dislocation theory Jog (raga) Jog Falls, India's highest waterfall jog.fm, a music website Yogyakarta, Indonesia Adisucipto International Airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, by IATA code Jolt Online Gaming Junior Offshore Group, a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Ellenberg
Jordan Stuart Ellenberg (born October 30, 1971) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research involves arithmetic geometry. He is also an author of both fiction and non-fiction writing. Early life Ellenberg was born in Potomac, Maryland. He was a c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philomycus
Philomycus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the family Philomycidae, the mantleslugs. Biology These slugs create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. Species Species within the genus Philomycus include: Philomycus batchi - dusky mantleslug Philomycus bilineatus Philomycus bisdosus - gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Operating%20System
Robot Operating System (ROS or ros) is an open-source robotics middleware suite. Although ROS is not an operating system (OS) but a set of software frameworks for robot software development, it provides services designed for a heterogeneous computer cluster such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, imple...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based%20system
In computer science, a rule-based system is used to store and manipulate knowledge to interpret information in a useful way. It is often used in artificial intelligence applications and research. Normally, the term rule-based system is applied to systems involving human-crafted or curated rule sets. Rule-based syste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio%20Mori
is a Japanese physiologist, sports scientist and writer. He is also the founder and the former head of the Japanese learned society . Mori was originally known for his physiology researches, but began to write books about human neuroscience, coining the term "game brain" in his 2002 book . He claimed that the brains o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20constant
In physics and engineering, the time constant, usually denoted by the Greek letter (tau), is the parameter characterizing the response to a step input of a first-order, linear time-invariant (LTI) system. The time constant is the main characteristic unit of a first-order LTI system. In the time domain, the usual choi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting%20lemma%20%28functions%29
In mathematics, especially in singularity theory, the splitting lemma is a useful result due to René Thom which provides a way of simplifying the local expression of a function usually applied in a neighbourhood of a degenerate critical point. Formal statement Let be a smooth function germ, with a critical point at 0...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand%20Narayan
Anand Narayan (born 4 October 1985) is a yoga trainer, television personality and playback singer from Kerala, India. He hosted Josco Indian Voice, a music reality show on Mazhavil Manorama. Early years and personal life Narayan was born in Thiruvananthapuram. He went to Loyola School and pursued his BTech degree in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Colefax
Sir Henry Arthur Colefax, KBE, KC (9 July 1866 – 19 February 1936) was a British patent lawyer and Liberal Unionist politician. Colefax was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, and was the son of J S Colefax, a woollen merchant. He was initially educated at Bradford Grammar School before studying natural science and chemistry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clunio
Clunio is a genus of non-biting midges in the subfamily Orthocladiinae of the bloodworm family (Chironomidae). All species in the genus are marine. They are found in the intertidal zone of many coasts worldwide. The species Clunio marinus is a long-standing model system in Chronobiology and its genome has been sequence...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20column
A Taylor column is a fluid dynamics phenomenon that occurs as a result of the Coriolis effect. It was named after Geoffrey Ingram Taylor. Rotating fluids that are perturbed by a solid body tend to form columns parallel to the axis of rotation called Taylor columns. An object moving parallel to the axis of rotation in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souleymane%20Bachir%20Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (born 8 November 1955 in Saint-Louis, Senegal) is a Senegalese philosopher. His work is focused on the history of logic and mathematics, epistemology, the tradition of philosophy in the Islamic world, identity formation, and African literatures and philosophies. Biography After passing his b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley%20Cavell
Kingsley Cavell is a retired Australian chemist who was professor of inorganic chemistry and head of the School of Chemistry at Cardiff University. His research interests include the design and synthesis of novel heterocyclic carbenes, and functionalised derivatives as ligands in transition metal complexes. Reference...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Garrett%20%28astronomer%29
Michael (Mike) Garrett (born 1964) is a Scottish astronomer. He has been the Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics since September 2016. He was previously the General Director of ASTRON, part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Personal life He was born in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast%20cancer%20classification
Breast cancer classification divides breast cancer into categories according to different schemes criteria and serving a different purpose. The major categories are the histopathological type, the grade of the tumor, the stage of the tumor, and the expression of proteins and genes. As knowledge of cancer cell biology d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appell%20series
In mathematics, Appell series are a set of four hypergeometric series F1, F2, F3, F4 of two variables that were introduced by and that generalize Gauss's hypergeometric series 2F1 of one variable. Appell established the set of partial differential equations of which these functions are solutions, and found various red...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Hues
Robert Hues (1553 – 24 May 1632) was an English mathematician and geographer. He attended St. Mary Hall at Oxford, and graduated in 1578. Hues became interested in geography and mathematics, and studied navigation at a school set up by Walter Raleigh. During a trip to Newfoundland, he made observations which caused him...