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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20Esmail%20trial
In 1978 Sami Esmail, a 24-year-old American citizen of Palestinian descent, was prosecuted in Israel for membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The case generated a great deal of interest in the US, especially in the Arab American community and at Michigan State University, where Esmail was a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aklan%20Catholic%20College
Aklan Catholic College is a private Catholic college in Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines. It offers courses in education, English, politics, commerce, business administration, computer science, criminology and hospitality management among others. References External links Official website Universities and colleges in Akl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Madey
John M. J. Madey (28 February 1943 - 5 July 2016) was a professor of Physics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a former director of the Free Electron Laser Laboratory at Duke University, and formerly a professor (research) at Stanford University. He is best known for his development of the free-electron laser (FEL...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Salamon
Peter Salamon is a mathematics professor at San Diego State University. He has published more than 200 mathematical articles related to biomathematics, thermodynamics in finite time / geometrical thermodynamics, and optimization and mathematical modeling. He has an Erdős number of one and is also known for founding a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon%20Razin
Aharon Razin (Hebrew: אהרון רזין; April 6, 1935 – May 27, 2019) was an Israeli biochemist. Biography Aharon Razin was raised in Petah Tikva. He began his academic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, majoring in physics and mathematics. He completed his M.A. and PhD in biochemistry, and did post-doctoral wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Carlin
Alan Carlin (born 1937), is an American economist specializing in cost-benefit analysis and the economics of global climate change control. Education Carlin earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. Work Carlin worked...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20A.%20Steitz
Thomas Arthur Steitz (August 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018) was an American biochemist, a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, best known for his pioneering work on the ribosome. Steitz was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NURC
NURC may refer to: National Ultimate Running Championship, Norway NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy National Undersea Research Center, USA National Underwater Robotics Challenge, USA National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, Rwanda National University Research Council, Romania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20F.%20Noller
Harry F. Noller (born June 10, 1939) is an American biochemist, and since 1992 the director of the University of California, Santa Cruz's Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the ribosome and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Early life ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Oakes%20%28apologist%29
John Oakes is a Christian apologist and a professor of chemistry at Grossmont College. He belongs to the Restoration Movement of the Christian tradition. Biography John Oakes earned his PhD in chemical physics from the University of Colorado in 1984. During his years at graduate school, he converted to Christianity an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau%20principle
The plateau principle is a mathematical model or scientific law originally developed to explain the time course of drug action (pharmacokinetics). The principle has wide applicability in pharmacology, physiology, nutrition, biochemistry, and system dynamics. It applies whenever a drug or nutrient is infused or ingested...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Silver
Bernard Silver (September 21, 1924 – August 28, 1963) was an early developer of barcode technology alongside Norman Joseph Woodland. Silver earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Drexel Institute of Technology in 1947. In 1948 Silver paired with Norman Joseph Woodland to come up with an auto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Thermophysics
The International Journal of Thermophysics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1980. The editor-in-chief is currently Marc J. Assael (Professor of Thermophysical Properties, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). The 2020 impact fac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACS%20Award%20in%20Pure%20Chemistry
The American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry is awarded annually by the American Chemical Society (ACS) "to recognize and encourage fundamental research in pure chemistry carried out in North America by young men and women." "Young" means born within 35 years of the awarding of the Award, which takes place at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somos%20sequence
In mathematics, a Somos sequence is a sequence of numbers defined by a certain recurrence relation, described below. They were discovered by mathematician Michael Somos. From the form of their defining recurrence (which involves division), one would expect the terms of the sequence to be fractions, but nevertheless ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20O%27Boyle
Michael O'Boyle is a professor of Computing and Director of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Education O'Boyle received a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Manchester in 1990. He completed his PhD at the University...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald%20Glenn
Sir Joseph Robert Archibald Glenn, OBE (24 May 19114 January 2012) was an Australian industrialist and founding Chancellor of La Trobe University. Biography Glenn was born in 1911 and raised near Sale, Victoria. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he moved after Sale High School found itself without a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthopyrenia
Arthopyrenia is a genus of fungi in the family Trypetheliaceae. It was formerly classified in the eponymic family Arthopyreniaceae, but molecular phylogenetics studies showed that the type species, Arthopyrenia cerasi, was a member of the Trypetheliaceae. Species , Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 5...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Sol-Gel%20Science%20and%20Technology
The Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on sol-gel materials. Recent findings on new products developed via chemical nanotechnology are also included. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology has a 202...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant%20ideal
In mathematics, the irrelevant ideal is the ideal of a graded ring generated by the homogeneous elements of degree greater than zero. It corresponds to the origin in the affine space which cannot be mapped to a point in the projective space. More generally, a homogeneous ideal of a graded ring is called an irrelevant i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyotropic%20reaction
A dyotropic reaction (from the Greek dyo, meaning two) in organic chemistry is a type of organic reaction and more specifically a pericyclic valence isomerization in which two sigma bonds simultaneously migrate intramolecularly. The reaction type is of some relevance to organic chemistry because it can explain how cert...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuno%20Lorenz
Kuno Lorenz (born September 17, 1932 in Vachdorf, Thüringen) is a German philosopher. He developed a philosophy of dialogue, in connection with the pragmatic theory of action of the Erlangen constructivist school. Lorenz is married to the literary scholar Karin Lorenz-Lindemann. Career After studying mathematics an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSN
VSN may refer to: Ottawa based Hip Hop, R&B and Rap Artist VSN (Musician) Very Smooth Number, used in a very smooth hash in cryptography Victory Sports Network, an American sports news website Virtual sensor network, a type of wireless computer network Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale, also known as Tonton Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Wineland
David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel-laureate physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser-cooling trapped ions and using ions for quantum-computing operations. He was awarded the 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20Eriksson
Per Eriksson may refer to: Per Eriksson (professor) (born 1949), Swedish signal processing scientist Per Thomas Eriksson (born 1963), Swedish Olympic athlete, son of Per Eriksson (decathlete) Per Eriksson (musician) (born 1982), Swedish heavy metal guitarist Per Axel Eriksson (1925–2016), Swedish decathlete See ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zener%E2%80%93Hollomon%20parameter
In materials science, the Zener–Hollomon parameter, typically denoted as Z, is used to relate changes in temperature or strain-rate to the stress-strain behavior of a material. It has been most extensively applied to the forming of steels at increased temperature, when creep is active. It is given by where is the str...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovations%20for%20High%20Performance%20Microelectronics
Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik (English: Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics) is a German research institute located in Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Germany. The IHP was founded in 1983 as Institut für Halbleiterphysik (English: Institute for Semiconductor Physics), and is today part of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz%27s%20ordinal
In mathematics, ψ0(Ωω), widely known as Buchholz's ordinal, is a large countable ordinal that is used to measure the proof-theoretic strength of some mathematical systems. In particular, it is the proof theoretic ordinal of the subsystem -CA0 of second-order arithmetic; this is one of the "big five" subsystems studied ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty%20Crump
Martha L. "Marty" Crump is a behavioral ecologist in the Department of Biology and the Ecology Center at Utah State University who studies amphibians and reptiles. Crump was the first individual to perform a long-term ecological study on a community of tropical amphibians, and did pioneering work in the classification...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Materials%20Science%3A%20Materials%20in%20Medicine
The Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is an offshoot of the Journal of Materials Science, focusing specifically on materials in medicine and dentistry. The founding editor in chief was William Bonfield; the current ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20E.%20Robinson
Gene Ezia Robinson (born January 9, 1955) is an American entomologist, Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and National Academy of Sciences member. He pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior and led the effort to sequence the honey bee genome. On February 10, 2009,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20Microdevices
Biomedical Microdevices is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering applications of Bio-MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems) and biomedical nanotechnology. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief are Alessandro Grattoni (Houston Methodist Research Institute) and Arum Han...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20boolean%20function
In mathematics and computer science, a balanced boolean function is a boolean function whose output yields as many 0s as 1s over its input set. This means that for a uniformly random input string of bits, the probability of getting a 1 is 1/2. Examples of balanced boolean functions are the function that copies the fir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20Meijer
Egbert (Bert) Willem Meijer (born 1955 in Groningen) is a Dutch organic chemist, known for his work in the fields of supramolecular chemistry, materials chemistry and polymer chemistry. Meijer, who is distinguished professor of Molecular Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Academy Professor of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chinese%20Nobel%20laureates
Since 1957, there have been thirteen Chinese (including Chinese-born) winners of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20Giese
Bernd Giese (born 2 June 1940) is a German chemist and guest professor in chemistry at the University of Fribourg in Fribourg, Switzerland since 2010. Biography Born in Hamburg, Germany, Giese received his PhD from the University of Munich under Rolf Huisgen in 1969. From 1969 to 1971 he worked in pharmaceutical resea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-Yung%20Alice%20Chang
Sun-Yung Alice Chang (, , ; born 1948) is a Taiwanese American mathematician specializing in aspects of mathematical analysis ranging from harmonic analysis and partial differential equations to differential geometry. She is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Life Chang was born in X...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20R.%20Smith%20%28physicist%29
David R. Smith is an American physicist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University in North Carolina. Smith's research focuses on electromagnetic metamaterials, or materials with a negative index of refraction. Smith obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Californi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Nathiagali%20Summer%20College%20on%20Physics
The International Nathiagali Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs (INSC), was founded by Nobel laureate in Physics Dr. Abdus Salam (then-Science Advisor to the Prime minister) to promote physics and scientific research activities in Pakistan. Having suggested by Professor Abdus Salam to the Government of Pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSC
INSC may refer to: International Nathiagali Summer College on Physics International Nuclear Safety Center International Nuclear Societies Council inscuteable (INSC) protein, see NFIX National Security Council (Iraq)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroQuantology
NeuroQuantology is a monthly peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scientific journal meant to cover the intersection of neuroscience and quantum mechanics. It was established in April 2003 and its subject matter almost immediately dismissed in The Lancet Neurology as "wild invention" and "claptrap". According to the Journal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler%20Jacks
Tyler Jacks is a David H. Koch Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a long-time HHMI investigator, and Founding Director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, which brings together biologists and engineers to improve detection, diagnosis, and treatment of ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Whittaker
Steve Whittaker is a Professor in human-computer interaction at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is best known for his research at the intersection of computer science and social science in particular on computer mediated communication and personal information management. He is a Fellow of the Association fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McFarland
David McFarland (born Dec 31, 1938) is a ethologist and writer, he's scientist specializing in the field of animal behavior and more recently the broadening of this understanding to "artificial ethology" and robotics. He was educated at Leighton Park School, the Quaker school at Reading. He later taught at Balliol Coll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%20ssl
mod_ssl is an optional module for the Apache HTTP Server. It provides strong cryptography for the Apache v1.3 and v2 webserver via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) cryptographic protocols by the help of the Open Source SSL/TLS toolkit OpenSSL. The original version created for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy%20%28computational%20environment%29
Speakeasy was a numerical computing interactive environment also featuring an interpreted programming language. It was initially developed for internal use at the Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory by the theoretical physicist Stanley Cohen. He eventually founded Speakeasy Computing Corporation to make the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodoresiniferatoxin
Iodoresiniferatoxin (I-RTX) is a strong competitive antagonist of the Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) receptor. I-RTX is derived from resiniferatoxin (RTX). Sources I-RTX can be prepared from RTX by electrophilic aromatic substitution. Iodide substitutes the 5-position. Chemistry Iodination of RTX at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Lodish
Harvey Franklin Lodish (born November 16, 1941) is a molecular and cell biologist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and lead author of the textbook Molecular Cell Biology. Lodish's research focused on cell surface proteins ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEBio
FEBio(Finite Elements for Biomechanics) is a software package for finite element analysis and was specifically designed for applications in biomechanics and bioengineering. It was developed in collaboration with research groups from the University of Utah (MRL, SCI) and Columbia University (MBL). FEBio offers modelin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20neuroscience
Cultural neuroscience is a field of research that focuses on the interrelation between a human's cultural environment and neurobiological systems. The field particularly incorporates ideas and perspectives from related domains like anthropology, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to study sociocultural influences o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Computing%20Reviews
ACM Computing Reviews (CR) is a scientific journal that reviews literature in the field of computer science. It is published by the Association for Computing Machinery and the editor-in-chief is Carol Hutchins (New York University). See also ACM Guide to Computing Literature ACM Computing Surveys Algorithms Refer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assembling%20peptide
Self-assembling peptides are a category of peptides which undergo spontaneous assembling into ordered nanostructures. Originally described in 1993, these designer peptides have attracted interest in the field of nanotechnology for their potential for application in areas such as biomedical nanotechnology, tissue cell c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20Academy%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Science
The Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science (KAMS) is a two-year, residential, early-entrance-to-college program for U.S. high school juniors and seniors who are academically talented in the areas of mathematics and science. Located on the Fort Hays State University campus in Hays, Kansas, students concurrently compl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Neurotherapy
The Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience was a scientific journal for the study and application of neuromodulation and neurofeedback. On December 4, 2013, in volume 17, issue 4, the editor announced that no more issues would be published. It was published q...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20composition%20logic
Protocol Composition Logic is a formal method that is used for proving security properties of protocols that use symmetric key and Public key cryptography. PCL is designed around a process calculi with actions for possible protocol steps like generating some random number, perform encryption and decryption, send and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Swarts
Frédéric Jean Edmond Swarts (2 September 1866 – 6 September 1940) was a Belgian chemist who prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon, CF2Cl2 (Freon-12) as well as several other related compounds. He was a professor in the civil engineering at the University of Ghent. In addition to his work on organofluorine chemistry, h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s%20differential%20equation
In mathematics, Euler's differential equation is a first-order non-linear ordinary differential equation, named after Leonhard Euler. It is given by: This is a separable equation and the solution is given by the following integral equation: References Eponymous equations of physics Mathematical physics Differential ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Wu
Ray Jui Wu (, 14 August 1928 – 10 February 2008) was a Chinese-born American geneticist and served as Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biology at Cornell University. In 1970, Wu created the first approach for DNA sequencing, earlier than the Frederick Sanger's method in 1975 and Walter Gilbert'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedral%20graph
In geometric graph theory, a branch of mathematics, a polyhedral graph is the undirected graph formed from the vertices and edges of a convex polyhedron. Alternatively, in purely graph-theoretic terms, the polyhedral graphs are the 3-vertex-connected, planar graphs. Characterization The Schlegel diagram of a convex po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Xplore
IEEE Xplore digital library is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields. It contains material published mainly by the Institute of Electrical and Ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico%20Delpino
Giacomo Giuseppe Federico Delpino (27 December 1833 – 14 May 1905) was an Italian botanist who made early observations on floral biology, particularly the pollination of flowers by insects. Delpino introduced a very broad view of plant ecology and was the first to suggest pollination syndromes, sets of traits associate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Lusk
Rich Lusk is an American author, minister, and theologian. His book Paedofaith: A Primer on the Mystery of Infant Salvation and a Handbook for Covenant Parents is a book-length discussion of Christian infant faith. He is currently the pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Education He receive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro%20de%20Estudios%20Conservacionistas
The Centro de Estudios Conservacionistas (CECON; Center for Conservation Studies) is a scientific research institute of the San Carlos University of Guatemala (USAC). The center was created in August 1981, and since February 1982 has been administratively attached to USAC's faculty of chemistry and pharmacy. The "Pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-4031
E-4031 is an experimental class III antiarrhythmic drug that blocks potassium channels of the hERG-type. Chemistry E-4031 is a synthesized toxin that is a methanesulfonanilide class III antiarrhythmic drug. Target E-4031 acts on a specific class of voltage-gated potassium channels mainly found in the heart, the hER...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrepin
Discrepin (α-KTx15.6) is a peptide from the venom of the Venezuelan scorpion Tityus discrepans. It acts as a neurotoxin by irreversibly blocking A-type voltage-dependent K+-channels. Etymology and source Discrepin is named after its source: a Venezuelan scorpion called Tityus discrepans. Its systematic number is α-KTx...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Barclay%20Richardson
George Barclay Richardson (19 September 1924 – 2 July 2019) was a British economist, who was Warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1989 to 1994. Life George Barclay Richardson was born in 1924 and educated at Aberdeen Central Secondary School before studying at the University of Aberdeen, receiving a Bachelor of Scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein%20Hajj%20Hassan
Hussein Hajj Hassan (; born 1960) is a Lebanese politician and minister of industry. Early life and education Hajj Hassan was born into a Shia family in the Beqaa Valley in 1960. He holds a PhD in molecular biophysical chemistry, which he received from the University of Orléans, France in 1987. Political career and v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is a graphic novel about the foundational quest in mathematics, written by Apostolos Doxiadis, author of Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, and at the time Berkeley's theoretical computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou. Character design and artwork are by Alecos Papadatos and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalmotoxin
Psalmotoxin (PcTx1) is a spider toxin from the venom of the Trinidad tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridgei. It selectively blocks Acid Sensing Ion Channel 1-a (ASIC1a), which is a proton-gated sodium channel. Sources Psalmotoxin is a toxin produced in the venom glands of the South American tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Mathematics%21
Project Mathematics! (stylized as Project MATHEMATICS!), is a series of educational video modules and accompanying workbooks for teachers, developed at the California Institute of Technology to help teach basic principles of mathematics to high school students. In 2017, the entire series of videos was made available on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenetic%20robotics
Morphogenetic robotics generally refers to the methodologies that address challenges in robotics inspired by biological morphogenesis. Background Differences to epigenetic Morphogenetic robotics is related to, but differs from, epigenetic robotics. The main difference between morphogenetic robotics and epigenetic r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbene%20C%E2%88%92H%20insertion
Carbene C−H insertion in organic chemistry concerns the insertion reaction of a carbene into a carbon–hydrogen bond. This organic reaction is of some importance in the synthesis of new organic compounds. Simple carbenes such as the methylene radical and dichlorocarbene are not regioselective towards insertion. When t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Clive%20Simpson
Andrew Clive Simpson is a British Computer Scientist. He is Director of Studies, Software Engineering Programme at University of Oxford. He is Governing Body Fellow of Kellogg College. Biography He obtained first class BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from University of Wales, Swansea (1989–1992); followed by MSc in Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent%20current
In physics, persistent current is a perpetual electric current that does not require an external power source. Such a current is impossible in normal electrical devices, since all commonly-used conductors have a non-zero resistance, and this resistance would rapidly dissipate any such current as heat. However, in super...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel%20graph
In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, the Herschel graph is a bipartite undirected graph with 11 vertices and 18 edges. It is a polyhedral graph (the graph of a convex polyhedron), and is the smallest polyhedral graph that does not have a Hamiltonian cycle, a cycle passing through all its vertices. It is named afte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow%20Garage
Willow Garage was a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. The company was most likely best known for its open source software suite Robot Operating System (ROS), which rapidly and widely become a common, standard tool a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreier%20coset%20graph
In the area of mathematics called combinatorial group theory, the Schreier coset graph is a graph associated with a group G, a generating set S={si : i in I } of G, and a subgroup H ≤ G. The Schreier graph encodes the abstract structure of a group modulo an equivalence relation formed by the coset. The graph is named ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helina%20evecta
Helina evecta is a fly from the family Muscidae. Biology larvae are found in humus soil and moss. Adults are found feeding on Salix and Tussilago in spring. Distribution Most of Europe, extending into Asia as far as India. North Africa, and Northern South America. References Muscidae Diptera of Europe Diptera of So...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helina%20pertusa
Helina pertusa is a fly from the family Muscidae. It is the type species on the Genus Helina. Description 6 - 8.5mm Eyes are bare. Black tarsi. Biology Larvae are found in leaf litter. Distribution Most of west and central Europe. References Muscidae Diptera of Europe Insects described in 1826 Taxa named by Johann...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20conformal%20transformation
In projective geometry, a special conformal transformation is a linear fractional transformation that is not an affine transformation. Thus the generation of a special conformal transformation involves use of multiplicative inversion, which is the generator of linear fractional transformations that is not affine. In m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopimaric%20acid
Isopimaric acid (IPA) is a toxin which acts as a large conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel (BK channel) opener. Sources IPA originates from many sorts of trees, especially conifers. Chemistry IPA is one of the members of the resin acid group and it is a tricyclic diterpene. Target IPA acts on the large-conducta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Journal%20of%20Neuroscience
The European Journal of Neuroscience is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of neuroscience. It was established in 1989 with Ray Guillery (then at the University of Oxford) as the founding editor-in-chief. The current editor-in-chief is John J. Foxe (University of Rochester) The journal is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9%20Ngongo
René Ngongo (born October 1961 in Goma, Republic of the Congo) is a Congolese biologist, environmentalist and political activist. Ngongo graduated from the University of Kisangani with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1987. In 1994, he created the NGO OCEAN (Organisation Concertée des Ecologistes et Amis de la Nature...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkin
Arkin may refer to: Arkin, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran Arkin, Khodabandeh, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran Adam Arkin (born 1956), American actor and director Alan Arkin (1934–2023), American actor Esther Arkin, Israeli–American mathematician and computer scientist Shy Arkin (born 1965), Israeli ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Thom
Melvin Thom (born July 28, 1938) was born on the Walker River Paiute reservation in Schurz, Nevada. A leader in the movement for Native American civil rights, Thom was one of the founders of the National Indian Youth Council in the 1960s. Background Thom graduated from Lyon County High School in Yerington, Nevada and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20D%C5%82ugosz%20University
The Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa [JDU; ] is a public university located in Częstochowa, in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. Founded in 1971 as a teacher training college, it was transformed into a higher teacher education school in 1974 with two faculties, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin%20Efetov
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Efetov (; ; born 18 July 1958) is a Ukrainian biologist and biochemist, Honored Scientist of Ukraine, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural History, Professor, Dr. Biol. Sci., Head of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Laboratory of Biotechnology of the Crimea State Medical Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lispocephala
Lispocephala is a very large genus of true flies of the family Muscidae. Description frons are broad in both sexes. There are two orbital setae and two frontal setae on each fronta-orbital plate. Biology The biology of the genus is, at present unknown, only a pupa of one species (L. alma) has been described. Some Lis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20robotics
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to robotics: Robotics is a branch of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedbac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adl%C3%A8ne%20Hicheur
Adlène Hicheur (born 4 December 1976) is a particle physicist with dual Algerian and French citizenship. After his master of theoretical physics in Lyon, he joined LAPP (Laboratoire d'Annecy le Vieux de Physique des Particules) to work on the BaBar experiment, located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. His thes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20GTPases%20%28journal%29
Small GTPAses is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on small GTPases, including their structural biology, biochemical regulation, and their individual and collective cell biological functions. The journal was established in 2010 and is published by Taylor & Francis. The editor-in-chief is Michael F Ol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20and%20bottom
Top and bottom can mean more than one thing. In the context of particle physics: Top quark Bottom quark In the context of sexuality: Top, bottom and versatile, for penetrative acts Top, bottom, switch (BDSM), for BDSM interaction In mathematics: the greatest element and least element of a partially ordered set
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate%20composition
In igneous petrology, an intermediate composition refers to the chemical composition of a rock that has 51.563 wt% SiO2 being an intermediate between felsic and mafic compositions. Typical intermediate rocks include andesite, dacite, and trachyandesite among volcanic rocks and diorite and granodiorite among plutonic ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Adler%20%28physicist%29
David Adler (April 13, 1935 – March 31, 1987) was an American physicist and MIT professor. In condensed matter physics, Adler made significant contributions to the understanding of transition-metal oxides, the electronic properties of low-mobility materials, transport phenomena in amorphous materials, metal-insulator t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levoglucosan
Levoglucosan (C6H10O5) is an organic compound with a six-carbon ring structure formed from the pyrolysis of carbohydrates, such as starch and cellulose. As a result, levoglucosan is often used as a chemical tracer for biomass burning in atmospheric chemistry studies, particularly with respect to airborne particulate ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel%20potential
In mathematics, the Bessel potential is a potential (named after Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel) similar to the Riesz potential but with better decay properties at infinity. If s is a complex number with positive real part then the Bessel potential of order s is the operator where Δ is the Laplace operator and the fraction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%281%29%20theorem
In mathematics, the T(1) theorem, first proved by , describes when an operator T given by a kernel can be extended to a bounded linear operator on the Hilbert space L2(Rn). The name T(1) theorem refers to a condition on the distribution T(1), given by the operator T applied to the function 1. Statement Suppose that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential
Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability. The term is used in a wide variety of fields, from physics to the social sciences to indicate things that are in a state where they are able to change in ways ranging from the simple release of energy by objects to the realization of abilities in people. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Nozik
Arthur J. Nozik (born 1936) is a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). He is also a professor at the University of Colorado, which is located in Boulder. He researches semiconductor quantum dots at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and is a chemistry professor at the University of Colorado. He...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group-based%20cryptography
Group-based cryptography is a use of groups to construct cryptographic primitives. A group is a very general algebraic object and most cryptographic schemes use groups in some way. In particular Diffie–Hellman key exchange uses finite cyclic groups. So the term group-based cryptography refers mostly to cryptographic ...