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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach%20%28mathematics%29 | Let X be a subset of Rn. Then the reach of X is defined as
Examples
Shapes that have reach infinity include
a single point,
a straight line,
a full square, and
any convex set.
The graph of ƒ(x) = |x| has reach zero.
A circle of radius r has reach r.
References
Geometric measurement
Real analysis
Topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Yakubovich | Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich (October 21, 1926 in Novosibirsk – August 17, 2012 in the Gdov region) was a notable Russian control theorist and head of the Department of Theoretical Cybernetics at Saint Petersburg State University (formerly Leningrad University).
In 1996 he received the IEEE Control Systems Award for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE%20Power%20Conversion | GE Power Conversion is an electrical engineering company and is a subsidiary of GE Power, part of General Electric. GE Power Conversion's global headquarters is located in the Paris-Saclay research-intensive and business cluster, south of Paris, in the Île-de-France region.
History
In 1989, parts of the British Gener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Lipton | Bruce Harold Lipton is an American writer and lecturer who advocates various pseudosciences, including vaccine misinformation. By his own admission, Lipton's ideas have not received attention from mainstream science.
Beliefs and advocacy
Lipton received a B.A. in biology from C.W. Post Campus of Long Island Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Trutnev%20%28scientist%29 | Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev (; 2 November 1927 – 6 August 2021) was a Russian physicist and a professor of engineering at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute).
His career in physics spent in the former Soviet program of development of nuclear weapons and was one the desig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpulaceae | The Serpulaceae are a family of fungi in the Boletales order. According to the Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008), the family contains 4 genera and 20 species. However, a molecular phylogenetics study showed that the genus Neopaxillus, which was formerly placed in this family, belongs in the family Crepidotac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill-Soon%20Song | Pill-Soon Song is a professor in Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea. Song specializes in molecular photobiology. He worked on the structure-function relation of phytochromes and other photoreceptors including stentorin and blepharismin. Presently, his research revolves around the molecular mechanisms involved in ove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafi%20Muhammad%20Chaudhry | Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry () FPAS HI, NI, SI, Skdt (1 July 1903 – 4 December 1988) best known as R. M. Chaudhry, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and a professor of particle physics at the Government College University. His teaching and instructions on modern physics influenced many of his student to pursue career in phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batanes%20State%20College | The Batanes State College () is a public college in Batanes, Philippines. It is mandated to provide collegiate level occupational, technological, and professional training in the fields of fishery, agriculture, environmental sciences, and other related fields of study.
It is also mandated to provide special instruc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoNed | NanoNed is the Nanotechnology Research and Development initiative of Dutch Government. It is financed Ministry of Economic Affairs (Netherlands).Dutch Technology Foundation STW is responsible for the program management of NanoNed . It is a consortium of seven universities, TNO and Philips. University of Leiden, Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Thompson%20%28academic%29 | Sir Michael Warwick Thompson (born 1 June 1931), is a British academic, who served as vice-chancellor of the Universities of East Anglia and Birmingham.
He was educated at the University of Liverpool, where he graduated with a first in physics. He was a D.Sc. in physics in 1963 from the University of Liverpool. His a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Berliner | Arnold Berliner (Gut Mittelneuland bei Neisse, 26 December 1862 – Berlin, 22 March 1942) was a German physicist.
Biography
Berliner graduated in physics from the University of Breslau in 1886. He worked in the research and development laboratories of the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG).
Around the middl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Culliney | John L. Culliney is an American biologist, a retired professor of biology and marine biology at Hawaii Pacific University.
Information
Culliney is a graduate of Yale and Duke universities and holds a doctorate in zoology.
He has taught biology and marine science in Hawai‘i since 1978 and has authored four books on sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysomela%20lapponica | The leaf beetle Chrysomela lapponica is found in central and northern Europe feeding on leaves of willows and birch. The adult beetles are about 8 mm long and beetles in different regions can have different colour patterns on their elytra.
Colour forms and host plants
Beetles from different populations can be distinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu%20Fai%20Garden | Fu Fai Garden () is a Home Ownership Scheme and Private Sector Participation Scheme court built on reclaimed land in Ma On Shan, New Territories, Hong Kong near Ma On Shan Plaza, MOSTown and MTR Ma On Shan station. It was jointly developed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority and China Civil Engineering Construction Corp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Sanford%20Fox | Maurice Sanford Fox (October 11, 1924 – January 26, 2020) was an American geneticist and molecular biologist, and professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he served as department chair between 1985 and 1989. His pioneering investigations of bacterial transformation helped illumina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Terborgh | John Whittle Terborgh (born April 16, 1936) is a James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science at Duke University and Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and for the past thirty-five years, has been actively involved in tropical ecology and conserv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetramethylazodicarboxamide | Tetramethylazodicarboxamide (also known as TMAD and diamide) is a reagent used in biochemistry for oxidation of thiols in proteins to disulfides. It has also been used as a reagent in the Mitsunobu reaction in place of diethyl azodicarboxylate.
References
Further reading
Azo compounds
Reagents for organic chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Duboule | Denis Duboule (born February 17, 1955) is a Swiss-French biologist. He earned his PhD in Biology in 1984 and is currently Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the University of Geneva. Since 2001, he is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCE%20Library | ASCE Library is an online full-text civil engineering database providing the contents of peer-reviewed journals, proceedings, e-books, and standards published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Library offers free access to abstracts of Academic journal articles, proceedings papers, e-books, and standards ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratocladistics | Stratocladistics is a technique in phylogenetics of making phylogenetic inferences using both geological and morphobiological data. It follows many of the same rules as cladistics, using Bayesian logic to quantify how good a phylogenetic hypothesis is in terms of debt and parsimony. However, in addition to the morpho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20A.%20Rogers | Michael A. Rogers is an author, futurist, and columnist for MSNBC.com. He has also worked with companies including FedEx, Boeing and NBC Universal to Prudential, Dow Corning, American Express and Genentech.
Biography
Rogers graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a Bachelors in Creative Writing and minor in Ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20caffeine%20coffee | Low caffeine coffee is a term that is used by coffee producers to describe coffee that has not been subjected to a process of decaffeination, but is substantially lower in caffeine than average coffee. Samples of coffee vary widely in caffeine levels due to many factors, some well documented (such as genetics) and some... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20M.%20Reppert | Steven M. Reppert (born September 4, 1946) is an American neuroscientist known for his contributions to the fields of chronobiology and neuroethology. His research has focused primarily on the physiological, cellular, and molecular basis of circadian rhythms in mammals and more recently on the navigational mechanisms o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%20Yansong | Ma Yansong (; born in 1975 in Beijing) is a Chinese architect and founder of MAD architects. He serves as adjunct professor at School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, and the visiting professor at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
Early life and background
Ma Yansong was born in Beijing in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofactor%20transferase%20family | In molecular biology, the Cofactor transferase family is a family of protein domains that includes biotin protein ligases, lipoate-protein ligases A, octanoyl-(acyl carrier protein):protein N-octanoyltransferases, and lipoyl-protein:protein N-lipoyltransferases. The metabolism of the cofactors Biotin and lipoic acid sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20M.%20Durbin | Richard Michael Durbin (born 1960) is a British computational biologist and Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where he was previously a senior group leader.
Education
Durbin was educated at The Hall School, Ham... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigurd%20Hofmann | Sigurd Hofmann (15 February 1944 – 17 June 2022) was a German physicist known for his work on superheavy elements.
Biography
Hofmann discovered his love for physics at the Max Planck High School in Groß-Umstadt, Germany, where he graduated in 1963. He studied physics at the Technical University in Darmstadt (Diploma,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20polygamma%20function | In mathematics, the generalized polygamma function or balanced negapolygamma function is a function introduced by Olivier Espinosa Aldunate and Victor Hugo Moll.
It generalizes the polygamma function to negative and fractional order, but remains equal to it for integer positive orders.
Definition
The generalized pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcompleteness | Overcompleteness is a concept from linear algebra that is widely used in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and statistics (usually in the form of overcomplete frames). It was introduced by R. J. Duffin and A. C. Schaeffer in 1952.
Formally, a subset of the vectors of a Banach space , sometimes called a "sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20Hulbert | Lloyd Clair Hulbert (June 27, 1918 – May 23, 1986) was a professor of biology at Kansas State University from 1955 until 1986. He was recognized for his work to establish Konza Prairie and served as its first director from 1971-1986. Hulbert was internationally known for his "research of bluestem (tallgrass) prairie a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Carl%20Schmidt | Gerhard Carl Schmidt (5 July 1865 – 16 October 1949) was a German chemist.
Life
Schmidt was born in London to German parents. He studied chemistry and in 1890 received his PhD for work with Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum. In 1898, two months before Marie Curie, Schmidt discovered that thorium is radioactive. Schmidt di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animesh%20Chakravorty | Animesh Chakravorty FNA, FASc (born 30 June 1935) is a Bengali Indian inorganic chemist. In 1975, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in chemistry by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Early life and education
The eldest of six children, Chakravorty was born in M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20%28charge%29 | In particle physics, the X charge (or simply X) is a conserved quantum number associated with the SO(10) grand unification theory. It is thought to be conserved in strong, weak, electromagnetic, gravitational, and Higgs interactions. Because the X charge is related to the weak hypercharge, it varies depending on the he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Hydroxybenzaldehyde | 4-Hydroxybenzaldehyde is one of the three isomers of hydroxybenzaldehyde. It can be found in the orchids Gastrodia elata, Galeola faberi, and the Vanilla orchids.
Chemistry
The Dakin oxidation is an organic redox reaction in which an ortho- or para-hydroxylated phenyl aldehyde (2-hydroxybenzaldehyde or 4-hydroxybenza... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20genetics%20of%20Jews | The medical genetics of Jews have been studied to identify and prevent some rare genetic diseases that, while still rare, are more common than average among people of Jewish descent. There are several autosomal recessive genetic disorders that are more common than average in ethnically Jewish populations, particularly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20spectral%20radius | In mathematics, the joint spectral radius is a generalization of the classical notion of spectral radius of a matrix, to sets of matrices. In recent years this notion has found applications in a large number of engineering fields and is still a topic of active research.
General description
The joint spectral radius o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Whitley | Sir Michael Henry Whitley (26 September 1872 – 14 October 1959) was a British colonial administrator who became a senior judge and later Attorney General in the Straits Settlements.
Education
Whitley was educated at Cranleigh School and then Blundell's School in Tiverton and read physics at King's College, London.
Ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Physical%20Journal%20A | The European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei is an academic journal, recognized by the European Physical Society, presenting new and original research results in a variety of formats, including Regular Articles, Reviews, Tools for Experiment and Theory/Scientific Notes and Letters.
Topics covered include:
Hadr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Physical%20Journal%20D | The European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics is an academic journal recognized by the European Physical Society, presenting new and original research results.
Scope
The main areas covered are:
Atomic Physics
Molecular Physics and Chemical Physics
Atomic and Molecular Collisions
Cluste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatomic%20hydrogen | Triatomic hydrogen or H3 is an unstable triatomic molecule containing only hydrogen. Since this molecule contains only three atoms of hydrogen it is the simplest triatomic molecule and it is relatively simple to numerically solve the quantum mechanics description of the particles. Being unstable the molecule breaks up ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leconte%20Prize | The Leconte Prize (French: ) is a prize created in 1886 by the French Academy of Sciences to recognize important discoveries in mathematics, physics, chemistry, natural history or medicine. In recent years the prize has been awarded in the specific categories of mathematics, physics, and biology. Scientists and mathema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQM | RQM or rqm may refer to:
Relational quantum mechanics, an interpretation of quantum mechanics
Relativistic quantum mechanics, a theory in quantum mechanics
Rekem, a former name of the archaeological city Petra
Regimental quartermaster, a type of military quartermaster |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20specialization%20%28brain%29 | In neuroscience, functional specialization is a theory which suggests that different areas in the brain are specialized for different functions.
Historical origins
Phrenology, created by Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828) and Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776–1832) and best known for the idea that one's personality could be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20T.%20Dickerson | Matthew T. Dickerson is an American academic working as a professor of computer science at Middlebury College in Vermont. A scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien's literary work and the Inklings, Dickerson is by his own account a novelist, newspaper columnist, blues musician, historian of music, fly fisherman, maple sugar farmer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenflies%20problem | In mathematics, the Schoenflies problem or Schoenflies theorem, of geometric topology is a sharpening of the Jordan curve theorem by Arthur Schoenflies. For Jordan curves in the plane it is often referred to as the Jordan–Schoenflies theorem.
Original formulation
The original formulation of the Schoenflies problem sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimilian%20Breeder | Massimilian Breeder (born in Genova, June 13, 1978) is an Italian artist who works in film, drawings, sound and installation. He spent his childhood with his grandparents between Genova, Italy and Polperro, England. In 1992 he returned to Italy to study at the Paul Klee Institute for the Arts, followed by Neuroscience ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%20Bjorndal | Magnus Bjorndal (September 13, 1899 – January 23, 1971) was a Norwegian American engineer and inventor. Magnus Bjorndal was the founder and president of Tech Laboratories, Inc.
Biography
Magnus Bjorndal was from Ulstein in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. He held degrees in both electrical and mechanical engineering. M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg-R%C3%BCdiger%20Sack | Jörg-Rüdiger Wolfgang Sack (born in Duisburg, Germany) is a professor of computer science at Carleton University, where he holds the SUN–NSERC chair in Applied Parallel Computing. Sack received a master's degree from the University of Bonn in 1979 and a Ph.D. in 1984 from McGill University, under the supervision of God... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20E.%20Schore | Neil E. Schore is an American chemist and former associate professor of organic chemistry and Vice Chair of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis. He is also the co-author of Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function. His doctoral advisor at Columbia University was Nicholas Turro, a world renowned chemist in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20filter | A mechanical filter is a signal processing filter usually used in place of an electronic filter at radio frequencies. Its purpose is the same as that of a normal electronic filter: to pass a range of signal frequencies, but to block others. The filter acts on mechanical vibrations which are the analogue of the electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retained%20name | In chemistry, a retained name is a name for a chemical compound, that is recommended for use by a system of chemical nomenclature (for example, IUPAC nomenclature), but that is not exactly systematic.
Retained names are often used for the most fundamental parts of a nomenclature system: almost all the chemical elements... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20DeFries | John C. DeFries (born November 26, 1934) is one of the world's leading behavior geneticists. His achievements include being President of the Behavior Genetics Association (1982–1983) and cofounder of the journal Behavior Genetics, as well as its co-editor (1970–1978). His awards include The Dobzhansky Award for Outstan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerylonidae | Cerylonidae are small to tiny (), smooth, shiny, hairless beetles, only lightly punctured. There are about 450 species worldwide in 50 or so genera, mostly tropical and subtropical. They are most common under the bark of dead trees, but can also occur in compost and other decaying plant material. Little is known specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocucujidae | Protocucujidae is a family of beetles, in the superfamily Cucujoidea. It has a single known genus, Ericmodes (Reitter, 1878) (syn Protocucujus Crowson, 1954). Species of Ericmodes are native to southern South America and Eastern Australia. Little is known of their biology, though adults and larvae probably live on veg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallacrown | In chemistry, metallacrowns are a macrocyclic compounds that consist of metal ions and solely or predominantly heteroatoms in the ring. Classically, metallacrowns contain an [M–N–O] repeat unit in the macrocycle. First discovered by Vincent L. Pecoraro and Myoung Soo Lah in 1989, metallacrowns are best described as ino... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermilab%20E-906/SeaQuest | Fermilab E-906/SeaQuest is a particle physics experiment which will use Drell–Yan process to measure the contributions of antiquarks to the structure of the proton or neutron and how this structure is modified when the proton or neutron is included within an atomic nucleus.
Overview
The Fermilab E-906/SeaQuest exper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous%20distribution | In mathematics, a homogeneous distribution is a distribution S on Euclidean space Rn or } that is homogeneous in the sense that, roughly speaking,
for all t > 0.
More precisely, let be the scalar division operator on Rn. A distribution S on Rn or } is homogeneous of degree m provided that
for all positive real t a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circasemidian%20rhythm | In chronobiology, a circasemidian rhythm is a physiological arousal cycle that peaks twice in a 24-hour day. It may also be called the semicircadian rhythm . Numerous studies have demonstrated that human circadian rhythms in many measures of performance and physiological activity have a 2-peak daily (circasemidian) pat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary%20ideal | In mathematics, a tertiary ideal is a two-sided ideal in a perhaps noncommutative ring that cannot be expressed as a nontrivial intersection of a right fractional ideal with another ideal. Tertiary ideals generalize primary ideals to the case of noncommutative rings. Although primary decompositions do not exist in gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peroxydicarbonate | In chemistry, peroxydicarbonate (sometimes peroxodicarbonate) is a divalent anion with the chemical formula . It is one of the oxocarbon anions, which consist solely of carbon and oxygen. Its molecular structure can be viewed as two carbonate anions joined so as to form a peroxide bridge –O–O–.
The anion is formed, to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peroxycarbonate | In chemistry, peroxycarbonate (sometimes peroxocarbonate, IUPAC name: oxocarbonate or oxidocarbonate) or percarbonate is a divalent anion with formula . It is an oxocarbon anion that consists solely of carbon and oxygen. It would be the anion of a hypothetical peroxycarbonic acid HO–CO–O–OH (sometimes peroxocarbonic ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptothermy | In biology, kleptothermy is any form of thermoregulation by which an animal shares in the metabolic thermogenesis of another animal. It may or may not be reciprocal, and occurs in both endotherms and ectotherms. One of its forms is huddling. However, kleptothermy can happen between different species that share the same... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffel%E2%80%93Darboux%20formula | In mathematics, the Christoffel–Darboux formula or Christoffel–Darboux theorem is an identity for a sequence of orthogonal polynomials, introduced by and . It states that
where fj(x) is the jth term of a set of orthogonal polynomials of squared norm hj and leading coefficient kj.
There is also a "confluent form" ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20mapping | Index mapping (or direct addressing, or a trivial hash function) in computer science describes using an array, in which each position corresponds to a key in the universe of possible values.
The technique is most effective when the universe of keys is reasonably small, such that allocating an array with one position fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Gibbons | Simon Gibbons is Visiting Professor of Phytochemistry at the Centre for Natural Products Discovery at Liverpool John Moores University.
From 2020-2022 he was Professor of Natural Product Chemistry and Head of the School of Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia.
In 2022, he received the Phytochemical Society of E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%27s%20theorem%20%28composition%20algebras%29 | In mathematics, Hurwitz's theorem is a theorem of Adolf Hurwitz (1859–1919), published posthumously in 1923, solving the Hurwitz problem for finite-dimensional unital real non-associative algebras endowed with a positive-definite quadratic form. The theorem states that if the quadratic form defines a homomorphism into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Fibonacci | The Fibonacci numbers are the best known concept named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci. Among others are the following.
Concepts in mathematics and computing
A professional association and a scholarly journal that it publishes
The Fibonacci Association
Fibonacci Quarterly
An asteroid
6765 Fibonacci
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Conservation%20Biology | Pacific Conservation Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing and dedicated to conservation and wildlife management in the Pacific region. It publishes original research, reviews, perspectives and book reviews.
Pacific Conservation Biology was established in June 1993 by Surrey Beatt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCthrich | Wüthrich is a Swiss surname that may refer to
Gabriel Wüthrich, (born 1981), Swiss football player
Gregory Wüthrich, (born 1994), Swiss football player
Hans Wuthrich, football match official
Hans Wuthrich (icemaker), curling ice technician
Karl Wüthrich, Swiss footballer
Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), Swiss chemis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Beizer | Boris Beizer (1934-2018) was an American software engineer and author. He received his B.S. degree in physics from the City College of New York in 1956, an MS in Electrical Engineering (1963) and a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. He wrote many books and articles on topics such as sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Joseph-Louis%20Lagrange | Several concepts from mathematics and physics are named after the mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange, as are a crater on the Moon and a street in Paris.
Lagrangian
Lagrangian analysis
Lagrangian coordinates
Lagrangian derivative
Lagrangian drifter
Lagrangian foliation
Lagrangian Grassmannian
Lagrangian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically%20modified%20bacteria | Genetically modified bacteria were the first organisms to be modified in the laboratory, due to their simple genetics. These organisms are now used for several purposes, and are particularly important in producing large amounts of pure human proteins for use in medicine.
History
The first example of this occurred i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20data%20structure | In computer science, a concurrent data structure is a
particular way of storing and organizing data for access by
multiple computing threads (or processes) on a computer.
Historically, such data structures were used on uniprocessor
machines with operating systems that supported multiple
computing threads (or processes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricarbonate | In organic chemistry, a tricarbonate is a compound containing the divalent functional group, which consists of three carbonate groups linked in a chain by sharing of oxygen oxygen atoms. These compounds can be viewed as derivatives of a hypothetical tricarbonic acid, . An important example is di-tert-butyl tricarbonat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Kuehne | Hugo Franz Kuehne (February 20, 1884 – November 23, 1963) was an architect and city planner who practiced in Austin, Texas.
Life and career
Kuehne was born in Austin on February 20, 1884. He was the youngest son of Franz and Langer Kuehne, immigrants from Germany. He took a BSc Civil Engineering from the University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian%20q-distribution | In mathematical physics and probability and statistics, the Gaussian q-distribution is a family of probability distributions that includes, as limiting cases, the uniform distribution and the normal (Gaussian) distribution. It was introduced by Diaz and Teruel. It is a q-analog of the Gaussian or normal distribution.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACS%20Medicinal%20Chemistry%20Letters | ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering medicinal chemistry. It was established in 2009 and is published by the American Chemical Society. The editor-in-chief is Dennis C. Liotta (Emory University).
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus%20vasorum | Angiostrongylus vasorum, also known as French heartworm, is a species of parasitic nematode in the family Metastrongylidae. It causes the disease canine angiostrongylosis in dogs. It is not zoonotic, that is, it cannot be transmitted to humans.
Not much is known about the biology of this species.
Description
These n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience%20of%20multilingualism | Neuroscience of multilingualism is the study of multilingualism within the field of neurology. These studies include the representation of different language systems in the brain, the effects of multilingualism on the brain's structural plasticity, aphasia in multilingual individuals, and bimodal bilinguals (people who... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Sorokin | Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin (, 10 July 1931 – 24 September 2015) was an American Russian physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. He was born in Boston and grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, receiving a BA degree in 1952 and a PhD in Applied Physics in 1958; his PhD thesis adviser ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution%20for%20optical%20broad-beam%20responses%20in%20scattering%20media | Photon transport theories in Physics, Medicine, and Statistics (such as the Monte Carlo method), are commonly used to model light propagation in tissue. The responses to a pencil beam incident on a scattering medium are referred to as Green's functions or impulse responses. Photon transport methods can be directly us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faheem%20Hussain | Faheem Hussain (31 July 1942 – 29 September 2009), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and a professor of physics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). A research scientist in the field of superstring theory at the National Center for Physics, Hussain made contributions to the fields of superstring ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20symmetric%20group | In mathematics, the generalized symmetric group is the wreath product of the cyclic group of order m and the symmetric group of order n.
Examples
For the generalized symmetric group is exactly the ordinary symmetric group:
For one can consider the cyclic group of order 2 as positives and negatives () and identi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkehr%20effect | In solid state physics, the Umkehr (meaning 'reversal', , ) is the time variation of the ratio of the scattered intensity at two different wavelengths. The Umkehr effect is observed when measurements are made with ultraviolet spectrophotometer of the ratio of the zenith sky light intensities of two wavelengths in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distortion%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the distortion is a measure of the amount by which a function from the Euclidean plane to itself distorts circles to ellipses. If the distortion of a function is equal to one, then it is conformal; if the distortion is bounded and the function is a homeomorphism, then it is quasiconformal. The distort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20lantern%20structure | In chemistry, the Chinese lantern structure is a coordination complex where two metal atoms are bridged by four bidentate ligands. This structure type is also known as a paddlewheel complex. Examples include chromium(II) acetate, molybdenum(II) acetate, and rhodium(II) acetate, copper(II) acetate dihydrate. The name is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly%20Prize | The Lilly Prize may refer to:
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
Lilly Medal for animal conservation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Konwitschny | Peter Konwitschny (born 21 January 1945 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German opera and theatre director.
Biography
Peter Konwitschny grew up in Leipzig, where his father Franz Konwitschny was principal conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. After an aborted study of physics, he studied theatre direction from 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic%20Hypoglycemia%20%28journal%29 | Diabetic Hypoglycemia is a triannual open access peer-reviewed medical journal published by ESP Bioscience. It publishes review articles on all aspects of hypoglycemia in diabetes including: basic science, molecular genetics, pathophysiology, epidemiology, and clinical aspects of hypoglycemia prevention, diagnosis and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Primrose%20Hay | Captain John Primrose Hay (4 April 1878 – 5 December 1949) was Labour MP for Glasgow Cathcart.
Hay was born in Coatbridge and was educated at the Glasgow Free Church Training College, and the University of Glasgow. He became a lecturer in mathematics at Manchuria Christian College from 1906 to 1915, when he joined th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Desimone | Robert Desimone is an American neuroscientist who currently serves as the director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The McGovern Institute, established by Patrick Joseph McGovern and Lore Harp McGovern foc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20neuroscience%20of%20dreams | Scholarly interest in the process and functions of dreaming has been present since Sigmund Freud's interpretations in the 1900s. The neurology of dreaming has remained misunderstood until recent distinctions, however. The information available via modern techniques of brain imaging has provided new bases for the study ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Beider | Alexander Beider (, ; , ) is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish.
Biography
Alexander Beider was born in Moscow in 1963. In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and in 1989 he received a PhD in applied mathematics from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20Swiss%20people | This is a list of notable Swiss Turks.
Academia
Hatice Altug, Professor of Bioengineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ataç İmamoğlu, physicist
Murat Kunt, scientist
, psychiatrist
Salih Neftçi, Professor of Economics at the New School University (Turkish-Iraqi origin)
Rosa Schupbach, economist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s%20test | In cryptography and the theory of computation, Yao's test is a test defined by Andrew Chi-Chih Yao in 1982, against pseudo-random sequences. A sequence of words passes Yao's test if an attacker with reasonable computational power cannot distinguish it from a sequence generated uniformly at random.
Formal statement
Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Nierstrasz | Oscar Marius Nierstrasz (born ) is a professor at the Computer Science Institute (IAM) at the University of Berne, and a specialist in software engineering and programming languages. He is active in the field of
programming languages and mechanisms to support the flexible composition of high-level, component-based a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Journal%20of%20Human%20Biology | The American Journal of Human Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering human biology. It is the official publication of the Human Biology Association (formerly known as the Human Biology Council). The journal publishes original research, theoretical articles, reviews, and other communications connected to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Vertebrats | The Vertebrats were a musical group formed in the twin cities of Champaign-Urbana (CU), Illinois, initially active from 1979 until 1982. They are credited with being one of the originators of a local CU DIY music scene that still exists. The Vertebrats gained notoriety due to their energetic live performances, on-stage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Boyden | Edward S. Boyden is an American neuroscientist at MIT. He is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, a faculty member in the MIT Media Lab and an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. In 2018 he was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is recognized for his work on opto... |
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