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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine%20pancreatic%20ribonuclease | Bovine pancreatic ribonuclease, also often referred to as bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A or simply RNase A, is a pancreatic ribonuclease enzyme that cleaves single-stranded RNA. Bovine pancreatic ribonuclease is one of the classic model systems of protein science. Two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded in r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preconditioner | In mathematics, preconditioning is the application of a transformation, called the preconditioner, that conditions a given problem into a form that is more suitable for numerical solving methods. Preconditioning is typically related to reducing a condition number of the problem. The preconditioned problem is then usua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHM%20construction | In mathematical physics and gauge theory, the ADHM construction or monad construction is the construction of all instantons using methods of linear algebra by Michael Atiyah, Vladimir Drinfeld, Nigel Hitchin, Yuri I. Manin in their paper "Construction of Instantons."
ADHM data
The ADHM construction uses the following... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20F.%20Hollis | Henry French Hollis (August 30, 1869July 7, 1949) was a United States senator from New Hampshire, and regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
Life
He attended public schools and studied under private tutors. He engaged in civil engineering for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1886 and 1887, and graduated fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple%20%28disambiguation%29 | Maple is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Aceraceae.
Maple may also refer to:
Science and technology
Flowering maple or Abutilon, a genus of shrubs in the family Malvaceae
Maple (software), a mathematics software package developed by Waterloo Maple
Maple BBS, a telnet-based bulletin board system developed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langevin%20dynamics | In physics, Langevin dynamics is an approach to the mathematical modeling of the dynamics of molecular systems. It was originally developed by French physicist Paul Langevin. The approach is characterized by the use of simplified models while accounting for omitted degrees of freedom by the use of stochastic differenti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium%20Finisterrae | Aquarium Finisterrae (Aquarium of the end of the World) is an aquarium located in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It is an interactive centre of the sciences of marine biology, oceanography. It advocates wildlife preservation, particularly the sea ecosystem and sea life.
Founded by the City of A Coruña, it was inaugurated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi%27s%20theorem%20on%20completely%20positive%20maps | In mathematics, Choi's theorem on completely positive maps is a result that classifies completely positive maps between finite-dimensional (matrix) C*-algebras. An infinite-dimensional algebraic generalization of Choi's theorem is known as Belavkin's "Radon–Nikodym" theorem for completely positive maps.
Statement
Cho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine%20topology%20%28potential%20theory%29 | In mathematics, in the field of potential theory, the fine topology is a natural topology for setting the study of subharmonic functions. In the earliest studies of subharmonic functions, namely those for which where is the Laplacian, only smooth functions were considered. In that case it was natural to consider only... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29 | In computer science, a container is a class or a data structure<ref>Paul E. Black (ed.), entry for data structure in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. US National Institute of Standards and Technology.15 December 2004. Accessed 4 Oct 2011.</ref> whose instances are collections of other objects. In other wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruppel-like%20factors | In molecular genetics, the Krüppel-like family of transcription factors (KLFs) are a set of eukaryotic C2H2 zinc finger DNA-binding proteins that regulate gene expression. This family has been expanded to also include the Sp transcription factor and related proteins, forming the Sp/KLF family.
Members
The following h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Schlichting | Hermann Schlichting (22 September 1907 – 15 June 1982) was a German fluid dynamics engineer.
Life and work
Hermann Schlichting studied from 1926 till 1930 mathematics, physics and applied mechanics at the University of Jena, Vienne and Göttingen. In 1930 he wrote his PhD in Göttingen titled Über das ebene Windschatte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butson-type%20Hadamard%20matrix | In mathematics, a complex Hadamard matrix H of size N with all its columns (rows) mutually orthogonal, belongs to the Butson-type H(q, N) if all its elements are powers of q-th root of unity,
Existence
If p is prime and , then can exist
only for with integer m and
it is conjectured they exist for all such cases ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar%20field%20theory | In theoretical physics, scalar field theory can refer to a relativistically invariant classical or quantum theory of scalar fields. A scalar field is invariant under any Lorentz transformation.
The only fundamental scalar quantum field that has been observed in nature is the Higgs field. However, scalar quantum fields... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Karmazin%20Sr. | John Karmazin Sr. (23 May 1884– 25 May 1977) was an American engine component inventor and business founder.
Born in Tman, Austria-Hungary (today in the Czech Republic), Karmazin emigrated to the United States in 1903 and became an American citizen. After earning a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable%20ordinal | In mathematics, specifically computability and set theory, an ordinal is said to be computable or recursive if there is a computable well-ordering of a computable subset of the natural numbers having the order type .
It is easy to check that is computable. The successor of a computable ordinal is computable, and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-value%20link | The principle of truth-value links is a concept in metaphysics discussed in debates between philosophical realism and anti-realism. Philosophers who appeal to truth-value links in order to explain how individuals can come to understand parts of the world that are apparently cognitively inaccessible (the past, the feeli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leray%20spectral%20sequence | In mathematics, the Leray spectral sequence was a pioneering example in homological algebra, introduced in 1946 by Jean Leray. It is usually seen nowadays as a special case of the Grothendieck spectral sequence.
Definition
Let be a continuous map of topological spaces, which in particular gives a functor from sheave... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSU%20Faculty%20of%20Mechanics%20and%20Mathematics | The MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics () is a faculty of Moscow State University.
History
Although lectures in mathematics had been delivered since Moscow State University was founded in 1755, the mathematical and physical department was founded only in 1804. The Mathematics and Mechanics Department was founde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Bartik | Jean Bartik ( Betty Jean Jennings; December 27, 1924 – March 23, 2011) was one of the original six programmers for the ENIAC computer.
Bartik studied mathematics in school then began work at the University of Pennsylvania, first manually calculating ballistics trajectories and then using ENIAC to do so. The other five... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROP%20%28category%20theory%29 | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a PROP is a symmetric strict monoidal category whose objects are the natural numbers n identified with the finite sets and whose tensor product is given on objects by the addition on numbers. Because of “symmetric”, for each n, the symmetric group on n letters is given as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDA%20%28computing%29 | Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis (AIDA) is a set of defined interfaces and formats for representing common data analysis objects. The project was instigated and is primarily used by researchers in high-energy particle physics.
History
The goals of the AIDA project were to define abstract interfaces for common phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%20Epsilon | Chi Epsilon () is an American collegiate civil engineering honor society. It honors engineering students who have exemplified the "principles of scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability...in the civil engineering profession." As of 2023, there are 141 chapters, of which 137 are active, where over 125,000 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Novacky | George A. Novacky was an Assistant Department Chair and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, and an Assistant Dean of CAS for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Education and career
Novacky first received a mathematics degree from Wheeling Jesuit College in 1968. In 1971, he received his MA in mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1701%20%28number%29 | 1701 is the natural number preceding 1702 and following 1700.
In mathematics
1701 is an odd number and a Stirling number of the second kind.
The number 1701 also has unusual properties as it:
belongs to a set of numbers such that contains exactly seven different digits.
is a decagonal and a 13-gonal number.
is di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Tollmien | Walter Tollmien (13 October 1900, in Berlin – 25 November 1968, in Göttingen) was a German fluid dynamicist.
Life
Walter Tollmien studied from the winter semester 1920–1921 mathematics and physics with Ludwig Prandtl in Göttingen and then from 1924 onwards worked under Prandtl at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. After a rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum | Blum may refer to:
Places
Kfar Blum, a kibbutz in Israel
United States
Blum, Texas, a town
Blum Basin Falls, a waterfall in Washington
Blum Lakes, six lakes in Washington
Blum Commercial Maps
Science and technology
Blum axioms, in computational complexity theory
Blum integer, in mathematics
Blum's speedup th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20coordinates | In relativistic physics, the Born coordinate chart is a coordinate chart for (part of) Minkowski spacetime, the flat spacetime of special relativity. It is often used to analyze the physical experience of observers who ride on a ring or disk rigidly rotating at relativistic speeds, so called Langevin observers. This ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20%28psychological%29 | Energy is a concept in some psychological theories or models of a postulated unconscious mental functioning on a level between biology and consciousness.
Philosophical accounts
The idea harks back to Aristotle's conception of actus et potentia. In the philosophical context, the term "energy" may have the literal meani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20queue | In computer science, a command queue is a queue for enabling the delay of command execution, either in order of priority, on a first-in first-out basis, or in any order that serves the current purpose. Instead of waiting for each command to be executed before sending the next one, the program just puts all the commands... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance%20reduction | In mathematics, more specifically in the theory of Monte Carlo methods, variance reduction is a procedure used to increase the precision of the estimates obtained for a given simulation or computational effort. Every output random variable from the simulation is associated with a variance which limits the precision of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Rosenbaum | Marc Rosenbaum, P.E., is an American engineer notable for his work on the design of energy-efficient sustainable architecture.
Rosenbaum studied mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned BS and MS degrees. He has been involved in the design of a number of notable sustainable e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Chemistry | Network Chemistry was a Wi-Fi security startup based in Redwood City, California. The firm was founded in 2002 by several co-founders including Gary Ramah, Rob Markovich and Dr. Christopher Waters and is backed by venture capital firms such as San Francisco-based Geneva Venture Partners, Innovacom and In-Q-Tel, the inv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia%20Clapp | Cornelia Maria Clapp (March 17, 1849 – December 31, 1934) was an American educator and zoologist, specializing in marine biology. She earned the first Ph.D. in biology awarded to a woman in the United States from Syracuse University in 1889, and she would earn a second doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%E2%80%93Moon%20syndrome | Laurence–Moon syndrome (LMS) is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder associated with retinitis pigmentosa, spastic paraplegia, and mental disabilities.
Signs and symptoms
Intellectual disability, hexadactyly, central diabetes insipidus, blindness (usually by 30 years due to central retinal degeneration).
Genet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Handmaid | A handmaid, or handmaiden, is a historic type of personal servant
Handmaid, The Handmaid or The Handmaiden may also refer to:
Biology
Handmaid or Dysauxes ancilla, a moth in the family Erebidae
Handmaiden moth, or Syntomoides imaon, a moth in the family Erebidae
Media
Handmaid Media, Australian film production c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Welsh | Paul Welsh is a British television and radio correspondent and presenter. He was born in England in 1961, but moved frequently because his father was a serving member of the RAF. He studied Physics at the University of Nottingham from 1979 to 1982.
Career
Welsh is best known for coverage of conflicts and disasters; p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optic%20Kerr%20effect | In physics the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) or the surface magneto-optic Kerr effect (SMOKE) is one of the magneto-optic effects. It describes the changes to light reflected from a magnetized surface. It is used in materials science research in devices such as the Kerr microscope, to investigate the magnetization... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QMC%40Home | QMC@Home was a volunteer computing project for the BOINC client aimed at further developing and testing Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) for use in quantum chemistry. It is hosted by the University of Münster with participation by the Cavendish Laboratory. QMC@Home allows volunteers from around the world to donate idle comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Smagorinsky | Joseph Smagorinsky (29 January 1924 – 21 September 2005) was an American meteorologist and the first director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL).
Early life
Joseph Smagorinsky was born to Nathan Smagorinsky and Dina Azaroff. His parents were fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha%27s%20rule | Kasha's rule is a principle in the photochemistry of electronically excited molecules. The rule states that photon emission (fluorescence or phosphorescence) occurs in appreciable yield only from the lowest excited state of a given multiplicity. It is named after American spectroscopist Michael Kasha, who proposed it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirpal%20Nandra | Kirpal "Paul" Nandra is a British physicist and the current director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.
He was Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London.
He is noted as a member of the X-ray group and studies the astrophysics of extreme environments... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka%21%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29 | Eureka! is a Canadian educational television series which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1980 and 1981. The series was narrated by Billy Van, and featured a series of animated vignettes which taught physics lessons to children. It is currently available online.
Synopsis
Eureka! is a series of animated sho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamberger%20triazine%20synthesis | The Bamberger triazine synthesis in organic chemistry is a classic organic synthesis of a triazine first reported by Eugen Bamberger in 1892.
The reactants are an aryl diazonium salt obtained from reaction of the corresponding aniline with sodium nitrite and hydrochloric acid and the hydrazone of pyruvic acid. The azo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient%20coding%20hypothesis | The efficient coding hypothesis was proposed by Horace Barlow in 1961 as a theoretical model of sensory coding in the brain. Within the brain, neurons communicate with one another by sending electrical impulses referred to as action potentials or spikes. One goal of sensory neuroscience is to decipher the meaning of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Klopman | Gilles Klopman (February 24, 1933 – January 10, 2015) was the Charles F. Mabery Professor of Research in Chemistry, Oncology and Environmental Health Sciences Director of the Laboratory for Decision Support Methodologies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and Adjunct Professor of Environmental and O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Langston | Michael Allen Langston is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee. In several publications with Michael Fellows in the late 1980s, he showed that the Robertson–Seymour theorem could be used to prove the existence of a polynomial-time algorithm for problems such as linkl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia%20%28Child%20novel%29 | Utopia () is the first solo novel by Lincoln Child published in 2002. It is set in a futuristic amusement park called Utopia, a park that relies heavily on holographics and robotics. Dr. Andrew Warne, the man who designed the program that runs the park's robots, is called in to help fix a problem. But when he gets ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20J.%20Harrison | Anna Jane Harrison (December 23, 1912 – August 8, 1998) was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years. She was the first female president of the American Chemical Society, and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees. She was nationally known for her teachi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Dreams%20%28short%20story%29 | "Robot Dreams" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov exploring the unbalance of robot/human relationships under Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. It was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1987. It won the Locus Award for Best Short Story in 1987.
"Robot Dreams", along with 20 other short stories by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20relaxation | In materials science, stress relaxation is the observed decrease in stress in response to strain generated in the structure. This is primarily due to keeping the structure in a strained condition for some finite interval of time hence causing some amount of plastic strain. This should not be confused with creep, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Rackoff | Charles Weill Rackoff is an American cryptologist. Born and raised in New York City, he attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1974. He spent a year as a postdoctoral scholar at INRIA in France.
Rackoff currently works at the University of Toronto.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20curve%20%28algebraic%29 | In mathematics, the algebraic butterfly curve is a plane algebraic curve of degree six, given by the equation
The butterfly curve has a single singularity with delta invariant three, which means it is a curve of genus seven. The only plane curves of genus seven are singular, since seven is not a triangular number,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20curve | Butterfly curve may refer to:
Butterfly curve (algebraic), a curve defined by a trinomial
Butterfly curve (transcendental), a curve based on sine functions
Mathematics disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay | Decay may refer to:
Science and technology
Bit decay, in computing
Software decay, in computing
Distance decay, in geography
Decay time (fall time), in electronics
Biology
Decomposition of organic matter
Tooth decay (dental caries), in dentistry
Mitochondrial decay, in genetics
Physics
Orbital decay, the pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Skeen | M. Dale Skeen (born c. 1955) is an American computer scientist. He specializes in designing and implementing large-scale computing systems, distributed computing and database management systems.
Life
Skeen earned a B.S. in computer science from North Carolina State University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20mechanics | Computational mechanics is the discipline concerned with the use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics. Before the emergence of computational science (also called scientific computing) as a "third way" besides theoretical and experimental sciences, computational mechanics w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Zandt | Van Zandt, van Zandt or Vanzandt, is a surname of Dutch origin.
Van Zandt or its variants may refer to:
People
Van Zandt Williams (1916–1966), President of the Optical Society of America and Director of the American Institute of Physics
Billy Van Zandt (born 1957), American playwright and actor
Caitlin Van Zandt (bor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HippoDraw | HippoDraw is a object-oriented statistical data analysis package written in C++, with user interaction via a Qt-based GUI and a Python-scriptable interface. It was developed by Paul Kunz at SLAC, primarily for the analysis and presentation of particle physics and astrophysics data, but can be equally well used in other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20set%20%28potential%20theory%29 | In mathematics, in the area of classical potential theory, polar sets are the "negligible sets", similar to the way in which sets of measure zero are the negligible sets in measure theory.
Definition
A set in (where ) is a polar set if there is a non-constant superharmonic function
on
such that
Note that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecten%20%28biology%29 | A pecten (: pectens or pectines) is a comb-like structure, widely found in the biological world. Although pectens in various animals look similar, they have a varied range of uses, from grooming and filtering to sensory adaptations.
Etymology
The adjective, pectinate, means supplied with a comb-like structure. This f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-propeller | In structural biology, a beta-propeller (β-propeller) is a type of all-β protein architecture characterized by 4 to 8 highly symmetrical blade-shaped beta sheets arranged toroidally around a central axis. Together the beta-sheets form a funnel-like active site.
Structure
Each beta-sheet typically has four anti-parall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Weatherall | Sir David John Weatherall, (9 March 1933 – 8 December 2018) was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine.
Early life and education
David Weatherall was born in Liverpool.
He was educated at Calday Grange Grammar School and then attended Medical School at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop%20Tenison%27s%20Church%20of%20England%20High%20School%2C%20Croydon | Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School, commonly known as Tenison's, is a co-educational 11-18, voluntary aided, school in the London Borough of Croydon, England, part of the educational provision of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and Croydon Council. It is a specialist Mathematics and Computing College.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova%20State%20University | Moldova State University (USM; Romanian: Universitatea de Stat din Moldova) is a university located in Chișinău, Moldova.
History
The university was founded on 1 October 1946 as Chisinau State University. Initially, it had 320 students enrolled in 5 faculties, Physics and Mathematics, Geology and Pedology, History and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends%20in%20International%20Mathematics%20and%20Science%20Study | The IEA's Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is a series of international assessments of the mathematics and science knowledge of students around the world. The participating students come from a diverse set of educational systems (countries or regional jurisdictions of countries) in terms of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20neuroscience | Visual neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that focuses on the visual system of the human body, mainly located in the brain's visual cortex. The main goal of visual neuroscience is to understand how neural activity results in visual perception, as well as behaviors dependent on vision. In the past, visual neuros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20guard%20wasp | The horse guard wasp (Stictia carolina) is a type of sand wasp (Bembicini) from the eastern United States which preys primarily upon horse-flies (Tabanidae).
It is a large, colorful, fast-flying wasp, one of 28 species in the genus Stictia (which occur throughout North and South America), all of which have similar biol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalon | In physics, an anomalon is a hypothetical type of nuclear matter that shows an anomalously large reactive cross section. They were first noticed in experimental runs in the early 1980s as short tracks in film emulsions or plastic leaf detectors connected to medium-energy particle accelerators. The direction of the trac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrij%20Dobriansky | Andrij Dobriansky (; September 2, 1930February 1, 2012) was a principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera for 30 years where he sang over 60 roles in over 900 performances. As a displaced person in post-war Germany, he earned a scholarship to study chemistry at Amherst College, but later decided to forgo chemistry and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distortion%20synthesis | Distortion synthesis is a group of sound synthesis techniques which modify existing sounds to produce more complex sounds (or timbres), usually by using non-linear circuits or mathematics.
While some synthesis methods achieve sonic complexity by using many oscillators, distortion methods create a frequency spectrum wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiche | Reiche is a family name of German origin:
Daniel Reiche, a German soccer player.
Dietlof Reiche, a German writer.
Elena Reiche, a German pentathlete.
Fritz Reiche, a German physics.
Gottfried Reiche, a German musician.
Karl Friedrich Reiche, a German botanist.
Katherina Reiche, a German politician.
Louis Jérô... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay%20%28audio%20effect%29 | Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time. When the delayed playback is mixed with the live audio, it creates an echo-like effect, whereby the original audio is heard followed by the delayed audio. The delayed signal may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window%20of%20opportunity | A window of opportunity, also called a margin of opportunity or critical window, is a period of time during which some action can be taken that will achieve a desired outcome. Once this period is over, or the "window is closed", the specified outcome is no longer possible.
Examples
Windows of opportunity include:
Bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromocene | Chromocene is the organochromium compound with the formula [Cr(C5H5)2]. Like structurally related metallocenes, chromocene readily sublimes in a vacuum and is soluble in non-polar organic solvents. It is more formally known as bis(η5-cyclopentadienyl)chromium(II).
Synthesis
Ernst Otto Fischer, who shared the 1973 Nobe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20High%20School%20Graduation%20Test | The Georgia High School Graduation Test, or GHSGT, was administered to all students in the eleventh grade in the US state of Georgia from 1991 to 2013. It determined whether or not a student was eligible to graduate from a Georgia high school.
The test consisted of five subject areas:
English/Language Arts
Mathemati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge%20%28physics%29 | In physics, a charge is any of many different quantities, such as the electric charge in electromagnetism or the color charge in quantum chromodynamics. Charges correspond to the time-invariant generators of a symmetry group, and specifically, to the generators that commute with the Hamiltonian. Charges are often deno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan%20Needham | Tristan Needham is a British mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of San Francisco.
Education, career and publications
Tristan is the son of social anthropologist Rodney Needham of Oxford, England. He attended the Dragon School. Later Needham attended the University of Oxford and studied physi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20group | R group may refer to:
In chemistry:
Pendant group or side group
Side chain
Substituent
In mathematics:
Tempered representation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Society%20for%20Biomaterials | The European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) is a non-profit organisation that encourages research and spread of information regarding research and uses of biomaterials. Founded in March 1976, became a member of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Sciences and Engineering (IUS-BSE) at its conception, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20lemniscate | In mathematics, a polynomial lemniscate or polynomial level curve is a plane algebraic curve of degree 2n, constructed from a polynomial p with complex coefficients of degree n.
For any such polynomial p and positive real number c, we may define a set of complex numbers by This set of numbers may be equated to points... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping%20generations | In population genetics overlapping generations refers to mating systems where more than one breeding generation is present at any one time. In systems where this is not the case there are non-overlapping generations (or discrete generations) in which every breeding generation lasts just one breeding season. If the adul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathChallengers | MathChallengers is the former Mathcounts in British Columbia. It is open to all grade 8, 9, and 10 students from British Columbia. The major sponsors are the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. (APEGBC), the B.C. Association of Mathematics Teachers (BCAMT), BC Hydro, and IBM Canada.
Rules
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C4%9Fur%20Uluocak | Yaşar Uğur Uluocak (1962 – 2 July 2003) was a Turkish outdoorsman, mountaineer, photographer, and editor.
Born in 1962 in Ankara, Turkey, Uğur attended Saint Joseph High School in Istanbul, and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University.
Uğur started mountain climbing in 1984 with the moun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri%20Tarr | Peri Tarr received her BS in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1986, and her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1992 and 1996, respectively). Between her BS and MS/PhD, she worked full-time at the University of Massachusetts Physical Plant, attempting to i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunt%20Me%2C%20Haunt%20Me%20Do%20It%20Again | Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again is the debut studio album by Canadian electronic musician Tim Hecker, released on November 20, 2001, on Substractif, a sub-label of Alien8 Recordings. The album mixes the digital signal processing of glitch with post-rock structures and melodies. The sounds used for this album, as well as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20mount | An optical mount is a device used to join a normal camera and another optical instrument, such as a microscope or telescope. The optical mount is generally attached to the camera as a lens would on one end, and fastened to the other instrument in a similar fashion. Optical mounts are used extensively in scientific imag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Kaufmann%20%28physicist%29 | Walter Kaufmann (June 5, 1871 – January 1, 1947) was a German physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity.
Life
Of Jewish descent, in 1890/1891, Kaufmann studied m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20S.%20Krishnan | Rappal Sangameswaran Krishnan (23 September 1911 – 2 October 1999) was an Indian experimental physicist and scientist. He was the Head of the department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science and the vice chancellor of the University of Kerala. He is known for his pioneering researches on colloid optics and a di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Alexander%20Drummond | Sir George Alexander Drummond, (11 October 1829 – 2 February 1910) was a Scottish-Canadian businessman and senator.
Life and career
Born in 1829 at Edinburgh, he was a younger son of the entrepreneurial stonemason, building contractor and city councillor, George Drummond, by his wife Margaret Pringle (b.c.1790). Dru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20and%20technology%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | During its 600-year existence, the Ottoman Empire made significant advances in science and technology, in a wide range of fields including mathematics, astronomy and medicine.
The Islamic Golden Age was traditionally believed to have ended in the thirteenth century, but has been extended to the fifteenth and sixteenth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Davy | Edmund Davy FRS (1785 – 5 November 1857) was a professor of chemistry at the Royal Cork Institution from 1813 and at the Royal Dublin Society from 1826. He discovered acetylene, as it was later named by Marcellin Berthelot. He was also an original member of the Chemical Society, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheobase | Rheobase is a measure of membrane potential excitability. In neuroscience, rheobase is the minimal current amplitude of infinite duration (in a practical sense, about 300 milliseconds) that results in the depolarization threshold of the cell membranes being reached, such as an action potential or the contraction of a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%20Garfunkel | Solomon "Sol" Garfunkel born 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, is an American mathematician who has dedicated his career to mathematics education. Since 1980, he has served as the executive director of the award-winning non-profit organization "Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications", working with teachers, student... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Ross%20%28physicist%29 | Douglas Alan Ross (born 9 May 1948) is a British physicist. he is Professor Emeritus of physics at the University of Southampton.
Education
Ross was educated at New College, Oxford where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, supervised by John Clayton Taylor for research ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20engineering | Railway engineering is a multi-faceted engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of rail transport systems. It encompasses a wide range of engineering disciplines, including civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost%20line%20%28astrophysics%29 | In astronomy or planetary science, the frost line, also known as the snow line or ice line, is the minimum distance from the central protostar of a solar nebula where the temperature is low enough for volatile compounds such as water, ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide to condense into solid grains, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost%20line%20%28disambiguation%29 | In geology, the frost line is the level down to which the soil will normally freeze each winter. By an analogy, the term is introduced in other areas.
Frost line (astrophysics), a particular distance in the solar nebula from the central protosun where it is cool enough for hydrogen compounds such as water, ammonia, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20part | In mathematics, the regular part of a Laurent series consists of the series of terms with positive powers. That is, if
then the regular part of this Laurent series is
In contrast, the series of terms with negative powers is the principal part.
References
Complex analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck%20molecular%20force%20field | Merck molecular force field (MMFF) is a family of chemistry force fields developed by Merck Research Laboratories. They are based on the MM3 force field. MMFF is not optimized for one use, such as simulating proteins or small molecules, but tries to perform well for a wide range of organic chemistry calculations. The p... |
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