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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%28II%29
In chemistry, iron(II) refers to the element iron in its +2 oxidation state. In ionic compounds (salts), such an atom may occur as a separate cation (positive ion) denoted by Fe2+. The adjective ferrous or the prefix ferro- is often used to specify such compounds — as in "ferrous chloride" for iron(II) chloride, . Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registry%20of%20Standard%20Biological%20Parts
The Registry of Standard Biological Parts is a collection of genetic parts that are used in the assembly of systems and devices in synthetic biology. The registry was founded in 2003 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The registry, as of 2018, contains over 20,000 parts. Recipients of the genetic parts inclu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20differencing
In computer science and information theory, data differencing or differential compression is producing a technical description of the difference between two sets of data – a source and a target. Formally, a data differencing algorithm takes as input source data and target data, and produces difference data such that gi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arieh%20Ben-Naim
Arieh Ben-Naim (; Jerusalem, 11 July 1934) is a professor of physical chemistry who retired in 2003 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has made major contributions over 40 years to the theory of the structure of water, aqueous solutions and hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions. He is mainly concerned with theo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20K-theory
In mathematics, additive K-theory means some version of algebraic K-theory in which, according to Spencer Bloch, the general linear group GL has everywhere been replaced by its Lie algebra gl. It is not, therefore, one theory but a way of creating additive or infinitesimal analogues of multiplicative theories. Formula...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis%20of%20water%20chemistry
Water chemistry analyses are carried out to identify and quantify the chemical components and properties of water samples. The type and sensitivity of the analysis depends on the purpose of the analysis and the anticipated use of the water. Chemical water analysis is carried out on water used in industrial processes, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menkui%21
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Suzuki Tanaka. It is licensed in North America by Blu Manga, the yaoi imprint of Tokyopop, which released the manga between May 2006 and January 2007. Reception Julie Rosato, reviewing the first volume for Mania Entertainment, enjoyed the chemistry between the characters,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20factories
Transcription factories, in genetics describe the discrete sites where transcription occurs in the cell nucleus, and are an example of a biomolecular condensate. They were first discovered in 1993 and have been found to have structures analogous to replication factories, sites where replication also occurs in discrete ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGear%20Terminal%20Equipment%20Platform
The openGear Terminal Equipment Platform is a modular platform for terminal equipment used for video, audio and data signal processing and distribution in the broadcast and production industries. Ross Video is the creator of the openGear platform and licenses it to other companies who then make openGear compliant sign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiyah%20conjecture
In mathematics, the Atiyah conjecture is a collective term for a number of statements about restrictions on possible values of -Betti numbers. History In 1976, Michael Atiyah introduced -cohomology of manifolds with a free co-compact action of a discrete countable group (e.g. the universal cover of a compact manifold ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea%20University%20College%20of%20Life%20Sciences%20and%20Biotechnology
The College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology is the largest BT college in the country with 90 full-time faculty, 1,400 undergraduate students, and 450 graduate students. The College merged the existing College of Life Sciences and College of Life and Environmental Sciences and unified the departmental structures. It ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea%20University%20College%20of%20Engineering
The College of Engineering is a leading private school for engineering and architecture at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. Departments Materials Science and Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Industrial and Management Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering Civil, Environmental and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20graph
Flow graph may refer to: Flow or rooted graph (graph theory), a graph in which a vertex has been distinguished as the root Control-flow graph (computer science), a representation of paths through a program during its execution Flow graph (mathematics), a directed graph linked to a set of linear algebraic or differe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%B2%20Cesa-Bianchi
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi () is a computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Milan. He is a researcher in the field of machine learning, and co-author of the books "Prediction, Learning, and Games" with Gabor Lugosi and "Regret analysis of stochastic and n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20M.%20Chan
Albert M. Chan (born October 1, 1975) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker based in the United States. Background Chan was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and lived in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1997, to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20International%20Journal%20of%20Biochemistry%20%26%20Cell%20Biology
The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier, covering research in all areas of biochemistry and cell biology. The editor-in-chief is Geoffrey J. Laurent (University of Western Australia). The journal was established in 1970 as Internationa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Ivey
Donald G. Ivey (6 February 1922 - 25 June 2018) was the principal of the University of Toronto's New College from 1963 to 1974. Career After receiving his PhD in 1949, he joined the University of Toronto’s Department of Physics as Assistant Professor of Physics, becoming a full Professor in 1963. In collaboration wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Zalloua
Pierre Zalloua () is a Lebanese biologist. His contributions to biology include numerous researches in genetic predisposition to diseases such as type 1 diabetes and β-thalassemia. He is most noted for taking part in the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project. Youth and education Pierre Zalloua was born i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellerman
Ellerman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Ellerman (born 1943), philosopher working in economics, political economy, social theory, philosophy and mathematics Derek Ellerman (born 1978), the co-founder and board chair of Polaris Project, a Washington DC-based organization Ferdinand Ellerman...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20neuroscience
Consumer neuroscience is the combination of consumer research with modern neuroscience. The goal of the field is to find neural explanations for consumer behaviors in individuals both with or without disease. Consumer research Consumer research has existed for more than a century and has been well established as a co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enos%20Regnet%20Wicher
Enos Regnet Wicher was a professor of physics at Columbia University. He had been married to Rae Kidd, future star of the 1938 nudist movie "The Unashamed," while both were students at the University of Wisconsin 1935-37. During World War II he worked in the Wave Propagation Group at Columbia's Division of War Research...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Henry%20Woodger
Joseph Henry Woodger (2 May 1894 – 8 March 1981) was a British theoretical biologist and philosopher of biology whose attempts to make biological sciences more rigorous and empirical was significantly influential to the philosophy of biology in the twentieth century. Karl Popper, the prominent philosopher of science, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n%20E.%20L%C3%B3pez
Ramón E. López (born c. 1959) is a Puerto Rican physics professor at the University of Texas at Arlington whose research focuses on space physics and science education. He is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society (1999) and the recipient of its 2002 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach for his contribution...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connes%20embedding%20problem
Connes' embedding problem, formulated by Alain Connes in the 1970s, is a major problem in von Neumann algebra theory. During that time, the problem was reformulated in several different areas of mathematics. Dan Voiculescu developing his free entropy theory found that Connes’ embedding problem is related to the existen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20North%20%28historian%29
John David North (19 May 1934 – 31 October 2008) was a British historian of science and author of numerous books. North was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 1934. He attended Batley Grammar School and then read Mathematics at Merton College, Oxford and later Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He met his wife Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20of%20cells
Evolution of cells refers to the evolutionary origin and subsequent evolutionary development of cells. Cells first emerged at least 3.8 billion years ago approximately 750 million years after Earth was formed. The first cells The initial development of the cell marked the passage from prebiotic chemistry to partition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20structure%20alignment%20program
The sequential structure alignment program (SSAP) in chemistry, physics, and biology is a method that uses double dynamic programming to produce a structural alignment based on atom-to-atom vectors in structure space. Instead of the alpha carbons typically used in structural alignment, SSAP constructs its vectors from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Butler
Michael Butler may refer to: Michael Butler (computer scientist), professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, UK Sir Michael Butler (diplomat) (1927–2013), former British ambassador to the EEC Michael Butler (musician) (born 1961), musician and podcaster Michael Butler (politician), Canadian politic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehari%20manifold
In the calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics, a Nehari manifold is a manifold of functions, whose definition is motivated by the work of . It is a differentiable manifold associated to the Dirichlet problem for the semilinear elliptic partial differential equation Here Δ is the Laplacian on a bounded domain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20H.%20Oort
Abraham Hans Oort (born 1934 in Leiden, Netherlands) is a Dutch-born American climatologist. Oort is the son of the Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort. He moved to the United States in 1961. Since 1971, Oort was professor at Princeton University, where from 1977 until his retirement in 1996 he worked at the Geophysica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Saterbak
Ann Saterbak is a Professor of Biomedical engineering and Engineering Design and Communication at Duke University, and is a co-author of Bioengineering Fundamentals. She formerly worked at Rice University, also as a Professor of Biomedical engineering. Saterbak holds a B.A. in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominador%20Baldomero%20Baz%C3%A1n
Dominador 'Kaiser' Baldomero Bazán (13 December 1937 – 8 August 2006) was the Second Vice President of Panama in the Mireya Moscoso administration from September 1999 to September 2004. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1961, and obtained a degree in civil engineering from Stanford's University in 1962. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Hollaender
Alexander Hollaender (9 December 1898 – 6 December 1986) was one of the world's leading researchers in radiation biology and in genetic mutations. In 1983 he was given the Enrico Fermi Award by the United States Department of Energy for his contributions in founding the science of radiation biology, and for his leaders...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric%20Shader
The Dielectric Physical Phenomenon Shader is a shader used by the LightWave and Mental Ray 3D rendering engines. It is based on a dielectric model of physics, which describes how electromagnetic fields behave inside materials. The dielectric shader is able to realistically render the behavior of light rays passing thr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Mumin%20Warfa
Ahmed Mumin Warfa (, ) was a Somali scientist specializing in botany, who with his colleague Mats Thulin discovered Cyclamen somalense. He served as president (rector) of the Zamzam University of Science and Technology from 2020 until his death. Biography Somalia Warfa was a professor at the Somali National Universi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20function
In mathematics, a radial function is a real-valued function defined on a Euclidean space Rn whose value at each point depends only on the distance between that point and the origin. The distance is usually the Euclidean distance. For example, a radial function Φ in two dimensions has the form where φ is a function of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stangeland%20Gruppen
Stangeland Gruppen is a construction company based in Norway. It is the parent company of T. Stangeland Maskin, Stangeland Kran, and TS Eiendom. History It was founded by Trygve Stangeland in 1959. It had a turnover of in 2008, and has about 600 employees, most of them in T. Stangeland Maskin. References Construc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonorial
In mathematics, the Fibonorial , also called the Fibonacci factorial, where is a nonnegative integer, is defined as the product of the first positive Fibonacci numbers, i.e. where is the th Fibonacci number, and gives the empty product (defined as the multiplicative identity, i.e. 1). The Fibonorial is define...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoroethyl
Fluoroethyl is an organofluorine functional group in chemistry. Its formula is . See also Trifluoromethyl References Haloalkyl groups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoMission
NanoMission is a serious game series made by PlayGen for Wellcome Trust and FEI to teach the player about the world of nanomedicine. There are four downloadable modules available, each teaching different concepts related to nanotechnology. The gameplay varies greatly between the different modules in the series offerin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prueba%20de%20Selecci%C3%B3n%20Universitaria
The University Selection Test ( or PSU) was a standardized test used for college admissions in Chile. Since 2003 it has replaced the Prueba de Aptitud Académica (PAA) which had been in use since 1966. The PSU consists of four sections: Spanish, mathematics, history and science. The PSU is given once a year between No...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UP%20Diliman%20Institute%20of%20Civil%20Engineering
The Institute of Civil Engineering (I.C.E.) is one of the two education institutes operating under College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines Diliman. In October 2008, the University of the Philippines Board of Regents approved the transformation of the Department of Civil Engineering to an Institute ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Civil%20Engineering%20%28disambiguation%29
The Institute of Civil Engineering (India) may refer to: Institute of Civil Engineering of the University of the Philippines Diliman. Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering of Indian Railways. Hebei Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, a private university in Hebei, China. As an organization, i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20I.%20Moore
Christopher I. Moore is a neuroscientist at Brown University. Early life and education Moore studied philosophy and neuroscience at Oberlin College, where he received his A.B., and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. Research Before working at Brown University, Moore was a member of MI...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izvestia%20%28disambiguation%29
Izvestia (; alternative transliteration: Izvestiya, Izvestija) may refer to: Izvestia, a Russian newspaper Novye Izvestia, a Russian newspaper, founded by former journalists of Izvestia Izvestia (horse), a racehorse Izvestija Trophy, an ice hockey tournament held in the Soviet Union Izvestiya: Mathematics, a mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirmal%20Bose
Nirmal Bose (died November 23, 2009) was a professor in the Pennsylvania State University Electrical Engineering Department, from 1986 until his death. Before joining the Penn State faculty, he taught at Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh. Bose was a world-renowned expert in multidimensional signals...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurovirology
Neurovirology is an interdisciplinary field which represents a melding of clinical neuroscience, virology, immunology, and molecular biology. The main focus of the field is to study viruses capable of infecting the nervous system. In addition to this, the field studies the use of viruses to trace neuroanatomical pathwa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20encoding%20of%20sound
The neural encoding of sound is the representation of auditory sensation and perception in the nervous system. The complexities of contemporary neuroscience are continually redefined. Thus what is known of the auditory system has been continually changing. The encoding of sounds includes the transduction of sound wave...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Ashurst%20Gooch
Amy Ashurst Gooch is a computer scientist known for her contributions in non-photorealistic rendering. She is currently the Chief Operations Officer at ViSOAR LLC, a data visualization research spin-off software company from the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. She is also an adjunct professor of computer sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional%20isomorphism
In mathematics, an exceptional isomorphism, also called an accidental isomorphism, is an isomorphism between members ai and bj of two families, usually infinite, of mathematical objects, which is incidental, in that it is not an instance of a general pattern of such isomorphisms. These coincidences are at times conside...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Temple
Sally Temple is an American developmental neuroscientist in Albany, New York. She is a co-founder and scientific director for The Neural Stem Cell Institute and is a professor of Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology at Albany Medical College Temple is also the principal investigator in her laboratory that focuses on neu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20developmental%20robotics
Evolutionary developmental robotics (evo-devo-robo for short) refers to methodologies that systematically integrate evolutionary robotics, epigenetic robotics and morphogenetic robotics to study the evolution, physical and mental development and learning of natural intelligent systems in robotic systems. The field was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomol%27nyi%E2%80%93Prasad%E2%80%93Sommerfield%20state
In theoretical physics, massive representations of an extended supersymmetry algebra called BPS states have mass equal to the supersymmetry central charge Z. Quantum mechanically, if the supersymmetry remains unbroken, exact equality to the modulus of Z exists. Their importance arises as the supermultiplets shorten for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomial%20conjecture
In commutative algebra, a field of mathematics, the monomial conjecture of Melvin Hochster says the following: Let A be a Noetherian local ring of Krull dimension d and let x1, ..., xd be a system of parameters for A (so that A/(x1, ..., xd) is an Artinian ring). Then for all positive integers t, we have The state...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamdouh%20Hosny%20Khalil
Mamdouh Hosny Khalil or Mamdouh Hosni Khalil (born 7 November 1964) is an Egyptian politician. He received a university qualification of Bachelor of Civil Engineering. He was the chief executive officer of Alex. Steel Group which manufactured pre-engineered steel buildings, and operated a steel service center, and a s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcev%20Lie%20algebra
In mathematics, a Malcev Lie algebra, or Mal'tsev Lie algebra, is a generalization of a rational nilpotent Lie algebra, and Malcev groups are similar. Both were introduced by , based on the work of . Definition According to a Malcev Lie algebra is a rational Lie algebra together with a complete, descending -vector ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20lock-in
Carbon lock-in refers to the self-perpetuating inertia created by large fossil fuel-based energy systems that inhibits public and private efforts to introduce alternative energy technologies. Related to the concept of technological lock-in, the concept is most used in relation to the challenge of altering the current e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20data
Synthetic data is information that's artificially generated rather than produced by real-world events. Typically created using algorithms, synthetic data can be deployed to validate mathematical models and to train machine learning models. Data generated by a computer simulation can be seen as synthetic data. This en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20C.%20Bishop
Peter C. Bishop is a professional futurist (futurologist), a retired Associate Professor of Strategic Foresight, and the former Director of the graduate program in Futures Studies at the University of Houston. Early career In 1968, Bishop received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. Louis University where he ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20di%20Giugno
Giuseppe Di Giugno (born 1937 in Benghazi) is an Italian physicist. He graduated with a degree in physics from Rome University in 1961. Particle physics From 1961 until 1975, Di Giugno was a researcher in the field of matter-antimatter interactions at the National Laboratory of Nuclear Physics at Frascati and at Euro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20mapping
In genetics, association mapping, also known as "linkage disequilibrium mapping", is a method of mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that takes advantage of historic linkage disequilibrium to link phenotypes (observable characteristics) to genotypes (the genetic constitution of organisms), uncovering genetic associa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20A.%20Short
Clarence Albert Short (July 1, 1873 – March 23, 1947) was an American college football and educator. He served as the head football at Delaware College–now known as the University of Delaware–in 1902 and 1906, compiling a record of 8–7–1 in two seasons. Short was also assistant professor of mathematics and civil engine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, Gabriel's theorem, proved by Pierre Gabriel, classifies the quivers of finite type in terms of Dynkin diagrams. Statement A quiver is of finite type if it has only finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable representations. classified all quivers of finite type, and also their indecomposabl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Morse
Anthony Perry Morse (21 August 1911 – 6 March 1984) was an American mathematician who worked in both analysis, especially measure theory, and in the foundations of mathematics. He is best known as the co-creator, together with John L. Kelley, of Morse–Kelley set theory. This theory first appeared in print in Kelley's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20R.%20H.%20Raetz
Christian Rudolf Hubert Raetz (1946 – August 16, 2011) was the George Barth Geller Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. His laboratory's research focused on lipid biochemistry and has contributed significantly to the understanding of Lipid A biosynthe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20in%20Variable%20Environment
Evolution in Variable Environment (EVE) is a computer program designed to simulate microbial cellular behavior in various environments. The prediction of cellular responses is a rapidly evolving topic in systems biology and computational biology. The goal is to predict the behavior a particular organism in response to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Colin
Andrew John Theodore Colin was a British university professor of computer science, born in 1936. He is a co-inventor of the widely used Binary Tree data structure. Professor Colin published 12 textbooks on various aspects of Computer Science, some of which have been translated into other languages. Andrew Colin lectur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Damascus
The following is a list of notable people from Damascus, Syria. Ancient Ananias - one of the Seventy Disciples Apollodorus of Damascus - Syrian architect Ibn al-Nafis - polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He is mostl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACROSS%20Project
ACROSS is a Singular Strategic R&D Project led by Treelogic funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade activities in the field of Robotics and Cognitive Computing over an execution time-frame from 2009 to 2011. ACROSS project involves a number higher than 100 researchers from 13 Spanish entities. AC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Ng
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (; born 1976) is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, building the company's Artificial Intelligence Group into a team of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost%20Human%3A%20Making%20Robots%20Think
Almost Human: Making Robots Think is a book written by Lee Gutkind founder of Creative Nonfiction. Gutkind spent six years as a "fly on the wall" researcher at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He observed scientists and students working to design, build, and test robots so advanced t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern%20L.%20Schramm
Vern L. Schramm (born November 9, 1941) is a professor and Ruth Merns Chair in Biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Schramm was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. His laboratory's research focuses on the elucidation of enzymatic mechanisms and transition state...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-financing%20portfolio
In financial mathematics, a self-financing portfolio is a portfolio having the feature that, if there is no exogenous infusion or withdrawal of money, the purchase of a new asset must be financed by the sale of an old one. This concept is used to define for example admissible strategies and replicating portfolios, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20J.%20Nestler
Eric J. Nestler is the Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience, Director of the Friedman Brain Institute, and Dean for Academic Affairs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chief Scientific Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. His research is focused on a molecular approach to drug addiction and depres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Jennings
Gerard Jennings, also known as Professor S. Gerard Jennings, is an Irish Professor of Physics at the University of Galway, in Ireland. Jennings is the Director of the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), which is a multidisciplinary research centre involving collaboration between researchers from various faculties of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20research
Space research is scientific study carried out in outer space, and by studying outer space. From the use of space technology to the observable universe, space research is a wide research field. Earth science, materials science, biology, medicine, and physics all apply to the space research environment. The term inclu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Laut
Peter Laut is a professor Emeritus of Physics, from the Technical University of Denmark, DTU. He retired in 2003. He has a background in theoretical physics and is educated at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. He gradually developed an interest in climatology, and in the 1990s he was asked to b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie%20Walker%20%28astronomer%29
Connie Walker (b. 1957) is an American astronomer and senior employee of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). She earned her Bachelor's degree in Physics and Astronomy from Smith College, her Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and her P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asghar%20Qadir
Asghar Qadir ( born 23 July 1946) HI, SI, FPAS, is a Pakistani mathematician and a prominent cosmologist, specialised in mathematical physics and physical cosmology. Nowadays, he is widely considered one of the top mathematicians in Pakistan. Asghar has played a prominent role in promoting Relativity in Pakistan. To th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Sydney%20School%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Statistics
The School of Mathematics and Statistics is a constituent body of the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, Australia. It was established in its present form in 1991. As of 29 August 2022, the Head of School is Professor Dingxuan Zhou, and the Deputy Head of School is Professor Mary Myerscough. The Magma co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrotoma
Cylindrotoma is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae. Biology The larvae of the genus Cylindrotoma live on various flowering plants. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats. Distribution Species can be found throughout Asia, North America, and Europe. China in the most species-rich country. Spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Epidemiology%20and%20Biostatistics
The Journal of Epidemiology and Biostatistics is a peer reviewed journal for epidemiological and biostatistical studies. It is published by Martin Dunitz Ltd, part of Taylor & Francis Group. It covers Biology, Mathematics and Statistics and Public Health. In 2002 the title was changed to Journal of Cancer Epidemiology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Sydney%20School%20of%20Physics
The School of Physics is a constituent body of the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, Australia. History Physics was first taught at the tertiary level in Australia at the University of Sydney, beginning in 1852. After the establishment of the Faculty of Science in 1882, the School was established as a di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Sydney%20School%20of%20Chemistry
The School of Chemistry, University of Sydney is a school of the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney. Two Nobel Laureates are associated with the School: John Cornforth completed his undergraduate degree in the School, graduating in 1938 with First Class Honours and the University Medal; and Robert Robinson...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stibadocera
Stibadocera is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae. Stibadocera are unusual for crane flies in that the males have very long antenna, sometimes as long as the body. Most species are very small (6–10 mm). Biology The larvae of the genus Stibadocera live on mosses. Adults are to be found in damp tropical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methiodide
In organic chemistry, a methiodide is a chemical derivative produced by the reaction of a compound with methyl iodide. Methiodides are often formed through the methylation of tertiary amines: R3N + CH3I → (CH3)R3N+I− Whereas the parent amines are hydrophobic and often oily, methiodides, being salts, are somewhat hydr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed%20suffix%20array
In computer science, a compressed suffix array is a compressed data structure for pattern matching. Compressed suffix arrays are a general class of data structure that improve on the suffix array. These data structures enable quick search for an arbitrary string with a comparatively small index. Given a text T of n c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassam%20Shakhashiri
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri (born 1939, Lebanon) is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is the holder of the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair. An active advocate for science education, he is the author of multiple books of chemical demonstrations. He was the 2012 president of the A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Christian%20Baumeister
Friedrich Christian Baumeister (17 July 1709 – 8 October 1785) was a German philosopher. Baumeister studied philosophy in Jena and Wittenberg. He became director of the Görlitz gymnasium in 1736. His textbooks propagated the metaphysics of Christian Wolff. Works Philosophia definitiva, 1735. 1767 edition available o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance%20Fortnow
Lance Jeremy Fortnow (born August 15, 1963) is a computer scientist known for major results in computational complexity and interactive proof systems. He is currently Dean of the College of Computing at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Biography Lance Fortnow received a doctorate in applied mathematics from MIT i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSH
VSH may refer to: Mathematics Vector spherical harmonics Very smooth hash, in cryptography Media and entertainment VSH News, a Pakistani television station XrossMediaBar (Sony codename: VSH) Other uses VSH project, to develop suborbital spacecraft Varroa sensitive hygiene, in bees company stock code for Visha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20of%20roller%20coasters
The physics of roller coasters comprises the mechanics that affect the design and operation of roller coasters, a machine that uses gravity and inertia to send a train of cars along a winding track. Gravity, inertia, g-forces, and centripetal acceleration give riders constantly changing forces which create certain sens...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro-haplogroup%20L
In human mitochondrial genetics, L is the mitochondrial DNA macro-haplogroup that is at the root of the anatomically modern human (Homo sapiens) mtDNA phylogenetic tree. As such, it represents the most ancestral mitochondrial lineage of all currently living modern humans, also dubbed "Mitochondrial Eve". Its two sub-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20Birkbeck%20Pell
Morris Birkbeck Pell (31 March 1827 – 7 May 1879) was an American-Australian mathematician, professor, lawyer and actuary. He became the inaugural Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 1852, and continued in the role until ill health enforced his retirement in 1877. He was for m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20values%20of%20L-functions
In mathematics, the study of special values of -functions is a subfield of number theory devoted to generalising formulae such as the Leibniz formula for pi, namely by the recognition that expression on the left-hand side is also where is the Dirichlet -function for the field of Gaussian rational numbers. This formu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogma
Diogma is a genus of crane flies in the family Cylindrotomidae. Biology The larvae of the genus Diogma live on mosses. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats. Distribution Palaearctic. Species D. brevifurca Alexander, 1949 D. caudata Takahashi, 1960 D. dmitrii Paramonov, 2005 D. glabrata (Meigen, 1818) D. mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liogma
Liogma is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae. Biology The larvae of the genus Liogma live on mosses. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats. Distribution Canada, United States, China, Russian Far East, Japan, Taiwan. Species L. brevipecten Alexander, 1932 L. brunneistigma Alexander, 1949 L. m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalacrocera
Phalacrocera is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotominae. Biology The larvae of the genus Phalacrocera live on mosses. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats. Distribution Canada, United States, Myanmar, Taiwan, India, China, Japan, Europe, Most species have a fairly limited known ranges, with the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stibadocerella
Stibadocerella is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae. Biology The larvae of the genus Stibadocerella live on mosses. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats. Distribution Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India. Species S. albitarsis (de Meijere, 1919) S. formosensis Alexander, 1929 S. omeie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stibadocerina
Stibadocerina is a genus of crane fly in the family Cylindrotomidae. Biology The larvae of the genus Stibadocerina live on mosses. Adults are to be found in damp wooded habitats. Distribution Chile. Species S. chilensis Alexander, 1929 References Cylindrotomidae Diptera of South America Endemic fauna of Chile