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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Frenkel
Igor Borisovich Frenkel (; born April 22, 1952) is a Russian-American mathematician at Yale University working in representation theory and mathematical physics. Frenkel emigrated to the United States in 1979. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1980 with a dissertation on the "Orbital Theory for Affine Lie Al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Lepowsky
James Lepowsky (born July 5, 1944) is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Previously he taught at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 where his advisors were Bertram Kostant and Sigurdur Helgason. Lepowsky graduated from Stuyvesant High Sch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Trueman
Dan Trueman is a composer, fiddle player, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Trueman studied physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, composition and theory at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Cincin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osem
Osem may refer to: Osem (mathematics) – algorithm for image reconstruction in nuclear medical imaging Osem (company) – Israeli food corporation Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, an official State symphony orchestra in Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioScience
BioScience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. It was established in 1964 and was preceded by the AIBS Bulletin (1951–1963). The journal publishes literature reviews of current research in biology, as wel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Institute%20of%20Biological%20Sciences
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is a nonprofit scientific public charitable organization. The organization's mission is to promote the use of science to inform decision-making and advance biology for the benefit of science and society. Overview AIBS serves as a society of societies. AIBS has o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Griess
Robert Louis Griess, Jr. (born 1945, Savannah, Georgia) is a mathematician working on finite simple groups and vertex algebras. He is currently the John Griggs Thompson Distinguished University Professor of mathematics at University of Michigan. Education Griess developed a keen interest in mathematics prior to enter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavement%20engineering
Pavement engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to design and maintain flexible (asphalt) and rigid (concrete) pavements. This includes streets and highways and involves knowledge of soils, hydraulics, and material properties. Pavement engineering involves new construction as well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Trevett
Neil Trevett is an electrical engineer and executive involved in 3D computer graphics technology. Biography Trevett holds a first-class with honors joint B.Sc. electronic engineering and computer science degree from the University of Birmingham, England. In 1985, Trevett joined benchMark Technologies as head of graph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladino%20F%C3%A9lix
Aladino Félix (March 1, 1905 November 11, 1985), better known by his pen name Dino Kraspedon, was a Brazilian writer, right-wing paramilitary leader, and self-proclaimed messiah of the Jewish people, who claimed in a 1959 book to have been contacted by an extraterrestrial from Jupiter. Much information of a scientifi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20M.%20Brienza
David M. Brienza is a professor of rehabilitation science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He holds additional professorial appointments in bioengineering and electrical engineering. Biography Brienza earned a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame in Electrical Engineering...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20visualization
Flow visualization or flow visualisation in fluid dynamics is used to make the flow patterns visible, in order to get qualitative or quantitative information on them. Overview Flow visualization is the art of making flow patterns visible. Most fluids (air, water, etc.) are transparent, thus their flow patterns are i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris%20Kraniotis
Dimitrios Kraniotis (; born 1950) is a Greek dancer and poet who lives in France. Biography Early life Dimitrios Κ. Kraniotis was born in 1950 in Athens, Greece. He studied philosophy and mathematics in Paris, later also theology and poetry. He lived in the monasteries of Mount Athos. Career He started his career as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear%20flow
In fluid dynamics, shear flow is the flow induced by a force in a fluid. In solid mechanics, shear flow is the shear stress over a distance in a thin-walled structure. In solid mechanics For thin-walled profiles, such as that through a beam or semi-monocoque structure, the shear stress distribution through the thickne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Nash%20%28linguist%29
David George Nash (born 1951) is a prominent Australian field linguist, specialising in the Aboriginal languages of Australia. Brought up in Parkes, New South Wales, he received a BA in pure mathematics from the Australian National University followed by an M.A. in Linguistics. He then went to the Massachusetts Institu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofya%20Yanovskaya
Sofya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya (also Janovskaja; ; 31 January 1896 – 24 October 1966) was a Soviet mathematician and historian, specializing in the history of mathematics, mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. She is best known for her efforts in restoring the research of mathematical logic in the Soviet U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip%20Belu%C5%A1i%C4%87
Josip Belušić (March 12, 1847 – January 8, 1905) was a Croatian inventor and professor of physics and mathematics. He was born in the small settlement of Županići, in the region of Labin, Istria, and schooled in Pazin and Koper. Belušić continued his studies in Vienna, later resettling in Trieste before coming back to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hoffert
Paul Matthew Hoffert, LLD, CM (born 22 September 1943, in Brooklyn, New York) is a recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. He later studied music composition with Gordon Delamont. In 1969, the 26-year-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt%20transect
Belt transects are used in biology, more specifically in biostatistics, to estimate the distribution of organisms in relation to a certain area, such as the seashore or a meadow. The belt transect method is similar to the line transect method but gives information on abundance as well as presence, or absence of specie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli%20group
In physics and mathematics, the Pauli group on 1 qubit is the 16-element matrix group consisting of the 2 × 2 identity matrix and all of the Pauli matrices , together with the products of these matrices with the factors and : . The Pauli group is generated by the Pauli matrices, and like them it is named after Wolfg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20Physics%20Laboratory%20%28Saskatchewan%29
The Plasma Physics Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan was established in 1959 by H. M. Skarsgard. Early work centered on research with a Betatron. Facilities STOR-1M STOR-1M is Canada's first tokamak built in 1983. In 1987 STOR-1M was the world’s first demonstration of alternating current in a tokamak. ST...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Retrospective%20Digitization
The Center for Retrospective Digitization in Göttingen () is an online system for archiving academic journals maintained by the University of Göttingen. See also JSTOR List of retrodigitized Mathematics Journals and Monographs References External links Official website (German only) German digital libraries Acade...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Protecting%20Digital%20Content
Self Protecting Digital Content (SPDC), is a copy protection (digital rights management) architecture which allows restriction of access to, and copying of, the next generation of optical discs and streaming/downloadable content. Overview Designed by Cryptography Research, Inc. of San Francisco, SPDC executes code ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology%3A%20The%20Unity%20and%20Diversity%20of%20Life
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life is an introductory textbook of biology, for students. The fifteenth edition was published in 2019, by Cengage Learning. It was compiled by Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart with pictures and illustrations by Lisa Starr. Its contents include concepts in molecular biology and biochemi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20Lawn
The Queen's Lawn is a green lawned area situated at the centre of Imperial College London's South Kensington campus, next to the Queen's Tower and immediately to the north of Imperial College Road. It provides an open space of 1,600 sq metres, and is surrounded by the Abdus Salam Library, and the Sherfield administrati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagstuhl%20Castle
Dagstuhl Castle (in German: Burgruine Dagstuhl or Burg Dagstuhl) is a ruined castle on the top of a hill near the town of Wadern, kreis Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany. It overlooks the newer Schloss Dagstuhl in the valley below, which is historic, but has been converted for use as a meeting centre for computer sci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syneresis
Syneresis (also written 'synæresis' or 'synaeresis') could refer to: Synaeresis, contraction of two vowels into a diphthong Syneresis (chemistry), extraction or expulsion of a liquid from a gel Syneresis cracks, cracks formed in mudstone by changes in the salinity of water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Knudsen
Eric Knudsen is a professor of neurobiology at Stanford University. He is best known for his discovery, along with Masakazu Konishi, of a brain map of sound location in two dimensions in the barn owl, tyto alba. His work has contributed to the understanding of information processing in the auditory system of the barn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping%20power%20%28particle%20radiation%29
In nuclear and materials physics, stopping power is the retarding force acting on charged particles, typically alpha and beta particles, due to interaction with matter, resulting in loss of particle kinetic energy. Stopping power is also interpreted as the rate at which a material absorbs the kinetic energy of a charg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Electrical%20Engineering%20and%20Computer%20Science%20%28University%20of%20Ottawa%29
The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is an academic unit within The Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Ottawa. Until 2011 it was called the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), which remains the name of a building on the southern edge of campus. It was formed in 1997...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Science%20%26%20Mathematics%20Access%20to%20Retain%20Talent%20Grant
The National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant was a need based federal grant that was awarded to undergraduate students in their third and fourth year of undergraduate studies. The National SMART grant was introduced to help maintain the edge that United States has in the fields of Science ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamosuchus
Shamosuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) period in what is now the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia, approximately 75 million to 71 million years ago. Paleobiology The eye and nasal openings were not raised above the skull as in modern crocodilians,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20McKay
Dr Christopher P. McKay (born 1954) is an American planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, studying planetary atmospheres, astrobiology, and terraforming. McKay majored in physics at Florida Atlantic University, where he also studied mechanical engineering, graduating in 1975, and received his PhD in astroge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taufik%20Akbar
Taufik Akbar (born 8 January 1951 in Medan) is an Indonesian engineer and former astronaut candidate. After graduating at the Bandung Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1975, he worked as a telecommunication engineer. While working for Telkom in the development of the Palap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20conditioning
In electronics and signal processing, signal conditioning is the manipulation of an analog signal in such a way that it meets the requirements of the next stage for further processing. In an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) application, signal conditioning includes voltage or current limiting and anti-aliasing filte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20grammar
In computer science, a grammar is informally called a recursive grammar if it contains production rules that are recursive, meaning that expanding a non-terminal according to these rules can eventually lead to a string that includes the same non-terminal again. Otherwise it is called a non-recursive grammar. For examp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Stone
Roy Stone (October 16, 1836 – August 5, 1905) was an American soldier, civil engineer, and inventor. He served in the American Civil War, distinguishing himself during the Battle of Gettysburg, and took part in the Spanish–American War. He pursued a civil engineering career in a peacetime and became in 1893 the first h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Gustave%20le%20Doulcet%2C%20Comte%20de%20Pont%C3%A9coulant
Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant (1795–1874) was a French astronomer. He was the younger son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant and was the brother of Louis-Adolphe Pontécoulant. After 1811 he served in the army until 1849. Following his retirement he dedicated himself to the study of ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART%20Defense%20Scholarship%20Program
The Science, Mathematics, And Research For Transformation (SMART) Defense Scholarship Program was tested as a program in 2005 under the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. SMART was fully established by the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2006, and was assigned to the Navy Postgraduate School ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%20College
Cyprus College is a for-profit college in Nicosia, Cyprus. It was founded in 1961 by Ioannis Gregoriou as a business school, and thereafter it expanded into a number of other fields, including computer science, graduate studies, and social sciences. In 2006, when the college had an enrolment of 3,500, it submitted unde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristol
Kristol is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bill Kristol (born 1952), American neoconservative pundit David Kristol (born 1938), chemistry professor Irving Kristol (1920–2009), American neoconservative Ljuba Kristol (born 1944), Israeli chess champion See also Crystal (disambiguation) Kristel, giv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivers%E2%80%93Willard%20hypothesis
In evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, the Trivers–Willard hypothesis, formally proposed by Robert Trivers and Dan Willard in 1973, suggests that female mammals adjust the sex ratio of offspring in response to maternal condition, so as to maximize their reproductive success (fitness). For example, it may ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyration%20tensor
In physics, the gyration tensor is a tensor that describes the second moments of position of a collection of particles where is the Cartesian coordinate of the position vector of the particle. The origin of the coordinate system has been chosen such that i.e. in the system of the center of mass . Where Anothe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20B.%20Allyn
Lewis B. Allyn (Louis) (July 3, 1874 – May 7, 1940, in Westfield, Massachusetts) was an American chemistry professor and influential figure in the pure food movement at the time of his murder. He was teaching at Westfield Teachers College and contributing as a pure foods expert for McClure's magazines at the time of h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20model
A molecular model is a physical model of an atomistic system that represents molecules and their processes. They play an important role in understanding chemistry and generating and testing hypotheses. The creation of mathematical models of molecular properties and behavior is referred to as molecular modeling, and the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Mathematical%20Olympiad
The Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (SMO) is a mathematics competition organised by the Singapore Mathematical Society. It comprises three sections, Junior, Senior and Open, each of which is open to all pre-university students studying in Singapore who meet the age requirements for the particular section. The competiti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20distribution
In physics and mechanics, mass distribution is the spatial distribution of mass within a solid body. In principle, it is relevant also for gases or liquids, but on Earth their mass distribution is almost homogeneous. Astronomy In astronomy mass distribution has decisive influence on the development e.g. of nebulae, st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Partington
Jonathan Richard Partington (born 4 February 1955) is an English mathematician who is Emeritus Professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds. Education Professor Partington was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed his PhD thesis entitled "Numerical ranges an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20Boltzmann%20methods
The lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM), originated from the lattice gas automata (LGA) method (Hardy-Pomeau-Pazzis and Frisch-Hasslacher-Pomeau models), is a class of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for fluid simulation. Instead of solving the Navier–Stokes equations directly, a fluid density on a lattice is si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthocompact%20space
In mathematics, in the field of general topology, a topological space is said to be orthocompact if every open cover has an interior-preserving open refinement. That is, given an open cover of the topological space, there is a refinement that is also an open cover, with the further property that at any point, the inte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Posner%20%28psychologist%29
Michael I. Posner (; born September 12, 1936) is an American psychologist who is a researcher in the field of attention, and the editor of numerous cognitive and neuroscience compilations. He is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Oregon (Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive and Decision ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercompact%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is called supercompact if there is a subbasis such that every open cover of the topological space from elements of the subbasis has a subcover with at most two subbasis elements. Supercompactness and the related notion of superextension was introduced by J....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonormal%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be pseudonormal if given two disjoint closed sets in it, one of which is countable, there are disjoint open sets containing them. Note the following: Every normal space is pseudonormal. Every pseudonormal space is regular. An example of a pseud...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectionwise%20Hausdorff%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be collectionwise Hausdorff if given any closed discrete subset of , there is a pairwise disjoint family of open sets with each point of the discrete subset contained in exactly one of the open sets. Here a subset being discrete has the usual ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volterra%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be a Volterra space if any finite intersection of dense Gδ subsets is dense. Every Baire space is Volterra, but the converse is not true. In fact, any metrizable Volterra space is Baire. The name refers to a paper of Vito Volterra in which he use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-paracompact%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be a-paracompact if every open cover of the space has a locally finite refinement. In contrast to the definition of paracompactness, the refinement is not required to be open. Every paracompact space is a-paracompact, and in regular spaces the tw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door%20space
In mathematics, specifically in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be a door space if every subset is open or closed (or both). The term comes from the introductory topology mnemonic that "a subset is not like a door: it can be open, closed, both, or neither". Properties and examples Every door sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20S.%20Kayne
Richard Stanley Kayne is Professor of Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at New York University. Born in 1944, after receiving an A.B. in mathematics from Columbia College, New York City in 1964, he studied linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969. He then taught at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocompact%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be pseudocompact if its image under any continuous function to R is bounded. Many authors include the requirement that the space be completely regular in the definition of pseudocompactness. Pseudocompact spaces were defined by Edwin Hewitt in 194...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realcompact%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be realcompact if it is completely regular Hausdorff and it contains every point of its Stone–Čech compactification which is real (meaning that the quotient field at that point of the ring of real functions is the reals). Realcompact spaces have a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20Hausdorff%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be locally Hausdorff if every point has a neighbourhood that is a Hausdorff space under the subspace topology. Examples and sufficient conditions Every Hausdorff space is locally Hausdorff. There are locally Hausdorff spaces where a sequence h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesocompact%20space
In mathematics, in the field of general topology, a topological space is said to be mesocompact if every open cover has a compact-finite open refinement. That is, given any open cover, we can find an open refinement with the property that every compact set meets only finitely many members of the refinement. The follow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be a shrinking space if every open cover admits a shrinking. A shrinking of an open cover is another open cover indexed by the same indexing set, with the property that the closure of each open set in the shrinking lies inside the corresponding or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemicompact%20space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be hemicompact if it has a sequence of compact subsets such that every compact subset of the space lies inside some compact set in the sequence. Clearly, this forces the union of the sequence to be the whole space, because every point is compact a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster%3A%20Day%20of%20Crisis
is a 2008 action-adventure light gun shooter developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Wii. In it, the player must survive various natural disasters while also battling terrorists and rescuing civilians. According to Nintendo, the game features “cutting-edge physics and gripping visuals” to recreate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Digital%20Data%20Systems
Applied Digital Data Systems (ADDS) was a supplier of video display computer terminals, founded in 1969 by Leeam Lowin and William J. Catacosinos. Lowin simultaneously founded Solid State Data Sciences (SSDS). SSDS was one of the first developers of the MOS/LSI integrated circuits that were key to ADDS's product line. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20tree%20grammar
In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a regular tree grammar is a formal grammar that describes a set of directed trees, or terms. A regular word grammar can be seen as a special kind of regular tree grammar, describing a set of single-path trees. Definition A regular tree grammar G is defined b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autapomorphy
In phylogenetics, an autapomorphy is a distinctive feature, known as a derived trait, that is unique to a given taxon. That is, it is found only in one taxon, but not found in any others or outgroup taxa, not even those most closely related to the focal taxon (which may be a species, family or in general any clade). I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurchatov%20Medal
The Kurchatov Medal, or the Gold Medal in honour of Igor Kurchatov is an award given for outstanding achievements in nuclear physics and in the field of nuclear energy. The USSR Academy of Sciences established this award on February 9, 1960 in honour of Igor Kurchatov and in recognition of his lifetime contributions to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rearrangement
Rearrangement may refer to: Chemistry Rearrangement reaction Mathematics Rearrangement inequality The Riemann rearrangement theorem, also called the Riemann series theorem see also Lévy–Steinitz theorem A permutation of the terms of a conditionally convergent series Genetics Chromosomal rearrangements, suc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CellFactor%3A%20Revolution
CellFactor: Revolution is a first-person shooter video game developed by Timeline Interactive, Artificial Studios and Immersion Games. It was released on May 8, 2007, for Microsoft Windows. The game was designed to show off what AGEIA PhysX cards are capable of. The cards are designed for physics processing, which allo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Renger-Patzsch
Albert Renger-Patzsch (June 22, 1897 – September 27, 1966) was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity. Biography Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. After military service in the First World War he studied chemistry at the Königlich-Sächsisches Polytechnik...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantities%2C%20Units%20and%20Symbols%20in%20Physical%20Chemistry
Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, also known as the Green Book, is a compilation of terms and symbols widely used in the field of physical chemistry. It also includes a table of physical constants, tables listing the properties of elementary particles, chemical elements, and nuclides, and information...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20University%20of%20Liberec
The Technical University of Liberec () is a university in the city of Liberec, Czech Republic. The university has undergone great transformation in its over sixty-year history. When it was founded, it was called the Institute of Mechanical Engineering in Liberec, and its original classrooms were located in the attics o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20compartment
Cellular compartments in cell biology comprise all of the closed parts within the cytosol of a eukaryotic cell, usually surrounded by a single or double lipid layer membrane. These compartments are often, but not always, defined as membrane-bound organelles. The formation of cellular compartments is called compartmenta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countercurrent%20distribution
Countercurrent distribution (CCD, also spelled "counter current" distribution) is an analytical chemistry technique which was developed by Lyman C. Craig in the 1940s. Countercurrent distribution is a separation process that is founded on the principles of liquid–liquid extraction where a chemical compound is distribut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20Barth
Wolf Paul Barth (20 October 1942, Wernigerode – 30 December 2016, Nuremberg) was a German mathematician who discovered Barth surfaces and whose work on vector bundles has been important for the ADHM construction. Until 2011 Barth was working in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Ge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitopological%20space
In mathematics, a bitopological space is a set endowed with two topologies. Typically, if the set is and the topologies are and then the bitopological space is referred to as . The notion was introduced by J. C. Kelly in the study of quasimetrics, i.e. distance functions that are not required to be symmetric. Conti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20al-Buni
Sharaf al-Din or Shihab al-Din or Muḥyi al-Din Abu al-Abbas Aḥmad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf al-Qurashi al-Sufi, better known as Ahmad al-Buni (, ), was a mathematician and philosopher and a well known Sufi. Very little is known about him. His writings deal with the esoteric value of letters and topics relating to mathematics, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinespring%20dilation%20theorem
In mathematics, Stinespring's dilation theorem, also called Stinespring's factorization theorem, named after W. Forrest Stinespring, is a result from operator theory that represents any completely positive map on a C*-algebra A as a composition of two completely positive maps each of which has a special form: A *-repr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRC%20Laboratory%20of%20Molecular%20Biology
The Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is a research institute in Cambridge, England, involved in the revolution in molecular biology which occurred in the 1950–60s. Since then it has remained a major medical research laboratory at the forefront of scientific discovery, dedicated to im...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond%20valence%20method
The bond valence method or mean method (or bond valence sum) (not to be mistaken for the valence bond theory in quantum chemistry) is a popular method in coordination chemistry to estimate the oxidation states of atoms. It is derived from the bond valence model, which is a simple yet robust model for validating chemica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-standing%20Mathematics%20Qualifications
Free-standing Mathematics Qualifications (FSMQ) are a suite of mathematical qualifications available at levels 1 to 3 in the National Qualifications Framework – Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced. Educational standard They bridge a gap between GCSE and A-Level Mathematics. The advanced course is especially ideal fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20process%20%28mathematics%29
The contact process is a stochastic process used to model population growth on the set of sites of a graph in which occupied sites become vacant at a constant rate, while vacant sites become occupied at a rate proportional to the number of occupied neighboring sites. Therefore, if we denote by the proportionality con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20fusion
Vacuum fusion is an analytical chemistry technique, used for determining the oxygen, hydrogen, and sometimes nitrogen content of metals. While ineffective when used on alkali or earth metals, vacuum fusion remains a viable means when applied to almost all other metals. Analytical chemistry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Robotics%20Challenge
The National Robotics Challenge is an annual robotics competition in the United States, established in 1986, in which robot contestants compete in one or more of a number of different disciplines. History The National Robotics Challenge was originally known as the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Robotic Technology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidMiner
RapidMiner is a data science platform that analyses the collective impact of an organization's data. It was acquired by Altair Engineering in September 2022. History RapidMiner, formerly known as YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment), was developed starting in 2001 by Ralf Klinkenberg, Ingo Mierswa, and Simon Fische...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20August%20von%20Steinheil
Carl August von Steinheil (12 October 1801 – 14 September 1870) was a German physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Biography Steinheil was born in Ribeauvillé, Alsace. He studied law in Erlangen since 1821. He then studied astronomy in Göttingen and Königsberg. He continued his studies in astronomy and physic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Stewart%20%28mathematician%29
James Drewry Stewart, (March 29, 1941December 3, 2014) was a Canadian mathematician, violinist, and professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University. Stewart is best known for his series of calculus textbooks used for high school, college, and university level courses. Career Stewart received his master of sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formylation
Formylation refers to any chemical processes in which a compound is functionalized with a formyl group (-CH=O). In organic chemistry, the term is most commonly used with regards to aromatic compounds (for example the conversion of benzene to benzaldehyde in the Gattermann–Koch reaction). In biochemistry the reaction is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjul%20Bhargava
Manjul Bhargava (born 8 August 1974) is a Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University, and also holds Adjunct Professorships at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower%20Power
Tower Power was the 1994 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition. Field The Playing Field was a carpeted regular dodecagon which measured across. The surface consists of a closed loop, low piled carpet. The perimeter of the field was defined by four-by-four boards. At the beginning of a match, there were 36 soccer ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramp%20%27n%20Roll
Ramp n' Roll was the 1995 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition. Field The playing field is a carpeted modified T-shaped area. The goal area is made up of three ramps and two slopes leading to a square platform. In each match, three teams compete to put their own balls over a field goal. Robots Each robot had to w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagon%20Havoc
Hexagon Havoc was the 1996 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition. Seeding games of 1-on-1-on-1 were played double-elimination to determine the teams for the finals rounds. In the finals, robots played 1-on-1 in a best 2 out of 3. Field The playing field was a carpeted, hexagon-shaped area with a central goal. Around...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroid%20Terror
Toroid Terror was the 1997 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition. This was the first year that FRC had a regional event outside its origins in New Hampshire; in addition to Manchester, regionals were held in Chicago and New Brunswick, New Jersey, as well as the championship event at a complex set up in the Epcot park...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder%20Logic
Ladder Logic was the game for the 1998 FIRST Robotics Competition. Field The playing field is a carpeted, hexagon-shaped area with an tall central goal. Three horizontal rail goals extend outward from the center. Each ball placed on the rail goals scores points and each ball in the center doubles the team's score. Ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Trouble%20%28FIRST%29
Double Trouble was the 1999 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition, and the first game to feature alliances. Field The playing field is a carpeted, rectangular area. Alliances score points by positioning "floppies," their robots, and a "puck" on the playing field. "Floppies" are light-weight, pillow-like objects with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-Opertition%20FIRST
Co-Opertition FIRST was the 2000 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition. Field The playing field was a carpeted, rectangular area with two high goals located midfield, one goal for each alliance. There is a clearance bar under each goal. Between the goals is an wide ramp with a clearance bar, which robots may han...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolical%20Dynamics
Diabolical Dynamics was the 2001 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition. Field The playing field is a carpeted, rectangular area. Dividing the field in half is an high railing with a central bridge, which can tilt to either side of the field or remain level. Two high movable goals begin on opposite sides of the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen%20Lindegaard
Jørgen Lindegaard (born 7 October 1948) is a Danish businessman who has held several major posts in large Danish and Scandinavian companies. Most famously, he was CEO of the SAS Group from May 2001 – late 2006. Education and career He graduated with a master's degree in civil engineering from the Technical University ...