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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll%20Williams
Carroll Milton Williams (December 2, 1916 in Oregon Hill, Virginia October 11, 1991 in Watertown, Massachusetts) was an American zoologist known for his work in entomology and developmental biology—in particular, metamorphosis in insects, for which he won the George Ledlie Prize. He performed groundbreaking surgical e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20B.%20Prior
Lawrence B. Prior is a US businessman who has also served in the US military, and worked in public administration. Early life and education Prior grew up in the Los Angeles area, graduating from Redondo Union High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Loyola Marymount University in 1973 and a Master of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-oxocarbon%20anion
In chemistry, the term pseudo-oxocarbon anion is used to refer to a negative ion that is conceptually derived from an oxocarbon anion through replacement of one or more of the basic oxygen atoms by chemically similar elements or functional groups, such as sulfur (S), selenium (Se), or dicyanomethylene (=C(CN)2). Typic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babatunde%20Omotoba
Babatunde Omotoba was appointed Federal Minister of Aviation by President Umaru Yar'Adua on 17 December 2008. He left office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet. Background Omotoba studied Civil Engineering at the University of Benin, gaining a first class degree. He worked as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarada%20K.%20Sarma
Sarada Kanta Sarma is a geotechnical engineer, emeritus reader of engineering seismology and senior research investigator at Imperial College London. He has developed a method of seismic slope stability analysis which is named after him, the Sarma method. Curriculum Sarma was initially educated in India, studying civ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Schlumberger%20Award
The Conrad Schlumberger Award is an award given to one of the members of European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers. The award is given each year to one that has made an outstanding contribution over a period of time to the scientific and technical advancement of the geosciences, particularly geophysics. The a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20nationale%20d%27ing%C3%A9nieurs%20de%20Saint-%C3%89tienne
The École nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne (ÉNISE; National Engineering School of Saint-Étienne) is a French grande école which offers five-year course in engineering after the baccalauréat, in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Sensory Engineering. The school delivers the Diplôme d'Ing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Heterocyclic%20Chemistry
Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal summarizing progress in the field of heterocycle chemistry. It is a source for the ChemSpider database. References Chemistry journals English-language journals Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Bimonthly journals Academic journals established in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20W.%20Thomas
Arthur Waldorf Thomas (February 18, 1891 - March 22, 1982) was a professor and chemist who specialized in colloid chemistry. He studied and taught at Columbia University for 50 years. Education and employment Thomas was born in New Brunswick. The full tenure of Thomas' career was at Columbia University, where he rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Brophy%20%28rugby%29
Tom Brophy is an English former rugby union international who represented England from 1964 to 1966. In 1966 he swapped codes to become a rugby league footballer for Barrow. Early life Tom Brophy was born on 8 July 1942 in Liverpool. He studied chemistry at Loughborough College, where he played for Loughborough Colleg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajive%20Bagrodia
Rajive Bagrodia is an Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Scalable Network Technologies as well as an emeritus professor of computer science at UCLA. Education and research Rajive Bagrodia received his Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Conselice
Christopher J. Conselice is an astrophysicist who is Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Background Conselice grew up in Neptune Beach, Florida and graduated from Stanton College Preparatory School. Conselice received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Chicago in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Lamb%20%28racing%20driver%29
Todd Lamb (born May 30, 1970) is a professional American race car driver, Engineer, and Entrepreneur. He previously lived in Royal Oak, Michigan and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Engineering Todd graduated from GMI Engineering & Management Institute in 1993 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He worked f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Finger
Josef Finger (1 January 1841 – 6 May 1925) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician. Biography Joseph Finger was born the son of a baker in Pilsen. He attended high school in Pilsen. He studied mathematics and physics at Charles University in Prague from 1859 to 1862. In 1865 and for financial reason he acquired t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PALLAS
PALLAS stands for Parallel Applications, Libraries, Languages, Algorithms, and Systems. It is a research group in The Parallel Computing Laboratory of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of California, Berkeley, led by Professor Kurt Keutzer. The group believes that the productive d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal%20movement%20grammar
In linguistics and theoretical computer science, literal movement grammars (LMGs) are a grammar formalism intended to characterize certain extraposition phenomena of natural language such as topicalization and cross-serial dependency. LMGs extend the class of context free grammars (CFGs) by adding introducing pattern-m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20Sivathanu%20Pillai
A Sivathanu Pillai is an Indian scientist who formerly served as Honorary Distinguished Professor at Indian Space Research Organisation (2015-2018) and an honorary professor at IIT Delhi in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2015-2016) and a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Science (2014-2015). He is t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Nivat
Maurice Paul Nivat (21 December 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a French computer scientist. His research in computer science spanned the areas of formal languages, programming language semantics, and discrete geometry. A 2006 citation for an honorary doctorate (Ph.D.) called Nivat one of the fathers of theoretical compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scallop%20theorem
In physics, the scallop theorem states that a swimmer that performs a reciprocal motion cannot achieve net displacement in a low-Reynolds number Newtonian fluid environment, i.e. a fluid that is highly viscous. Such a swimmer deforms its body into a particular shape through a sequence of motions and then reverts to the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%20trap
In mathematics, an orbit trap is a method of colouring fractal images based upon how close an iterative function, used to create the fractal, approaches a geometric shape, called a "trap". Typical traps are points, lines, circles, flower shapes and even raster images. Orbit traps are typically used to colour two dimens...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20the%20Collaborative%20Classroom
Center for the Collaborative Classroom (previously Developmental Studies Center) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Alameda, CA that was founded in 1980 by Eric Schaps. Collaborative Classroom develops and disseminates literacy and community-building programs for use in elementary schools, and literacy, mathe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASACUSA%20experiment
Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA), AD-3, is an experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN. The experiment was proposed in 1997, started collecting data in 2002 by using the antiprotons beams from the AD, and will continue in future under the AD and ELENA decelerator facility...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Reiter%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Michael K. Reiter is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a James B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He was formerly the Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was previously a professor of electrical and computer eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive%20semantics
Naive semantics is an approach used in computer science for representing basic knowledge about a specific domain, and has been used in applications such as the representation of the meaning of natural language sentences in artificial intelligence applications. In a general setting the term has been used to refer to the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20Jim%C3%A9nez%20Barbero
Jesús Jiménez Barbero (born 1960, in Madrid) is a Spanish scientist who has contributed to the advance of glycoscience by unraveling the conformational properties of carbohydrates and analogues and the molecular basis of their interactions with proteins, using a multidisciplinary approach that employs carbohydrate synt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20semantic%20analysis
Stochastic semantic analysis is an approach used in computer science as a semantic component of natural language understanding. Stochastic models generally use the definition of segments of words as basic semantic units for the semantic models, and in some cases involve a two layered approach. Example applications ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Antonio%20Borgnis
Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis (Frenchified as Joseph Antoine Borgnis) 1781–1863, was an Italian engineer, professor of Applied mathematics and then of Architecture at the University of Pavia. His book Théorie de la mécanique usuelle is considered by historian Donald Cardwell to be one of the great engineering textbooks of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20W.%20Morley%20School
Edward W. Morley School is an elementary school in the West Hartford Public School District. The school is named after Edward W. Morley, a professor of chemistry at Case Western Reserve University who was famous for the Michelson–Morley experiment (effort to detect aether that came up empty). Recognitions Dr. Ellen St...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20renormalization%20group
In theoretical physics, functional renormalization group (FRG) is an implementation of the renormalization group (RG) concept which is used in quantum and statistical field theory, especially when dealing with strongly interacting systems. The method combines functional methods of quantum field theory with the intuitiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman%27s%20principle
Bateman's principle, in evolutionary biology, is that in most species, variability in reproductive success (or reproductive variance) is greater in males than in females. It was first proposed by Angus John Bateman (1919–1996), an English geneticist. Bateman suggested that, since males are capable of producing millions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience%20%26%20Biobehavioral%20Reviews
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering behavioral neuroscience published by Elsevier. The journal publishes reviews, theoretical articles, and mini-reviews. It is an official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. Abstracting and indexing The journa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Stumm
Werner Stumm (1924 – 14 April 1999) was a Swiss chemist. After earning his doctorate in inorganic chemistry at the University of Zürich in 1952 he moved to the U.S. where he was active as a professor at Harvard University until 1969. From 1970 until 1992 he was head of the Swiss Federal Water Resources Centre EAWAG. W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocnus%20echinatus
Pseudocnus echinatus is a species of sea cucumber in the family Cucumariidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and Bay of Bengal to China and Japan. Biology Nearly all sea cucumbers are dioecious, with males and females being indistinguishable externally. Spawning takes place in this species between mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%20%28logic%29
In logic and mathematics, inclusion is the concept that all the contents of one object are also contained within a second object. For example, if m and n are two logical matrices, then The modern symbol for inclusion first appears in Gergonne (1816), who defines it as one idea 'containing' or being 'contained' by ano...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital%20fiber%20type%20disproportion
Congenital fiber type disproportion (CFTD) is an inherited form of myopathy with small type 1 muscle fibers that may occur in a number of neurological disorders. It has a relatively good outcome and follows a stable course. While the exact genetics is unclear, there is an association with mutations in the genes TPM3,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%20%28software%29
Cantor is a free software mathematics application for scientific statistics and analysis. It is part of the KDE Software Compilation 4, and was introduced with the 4.4 release as part of the KDE Education Project's kdeedu package. Features Cantor is a graphical user interface that delegates its mathematical operations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20oxide
Rose oxide is a fragrance chemical found in roses and rose oil. It also contributes to the flavor of some fruits, such as lychee, and wines, such as Gewürztraminer. Chemistry Rose oxide is an organic compound of the pyran class of monoterpenes. The compound has a cis- and a trans-isomer, each with a (+)- and (−)-st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent%20sequence
In mathematics, recurrent sequence may refer to: A sequence satisfying a recurrence relation Recurrent word, a sequence such that any factor (consecutive subsequence) that appears does so infinitely often, such as the Thue–Morse sequence or a Sturmian word
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Shaw
Dr Herman Shaw (1892 – 4 May 1950) was a British geophysicist who was Director of the Science Museum in London, England. He was a founder member of the British Society for the History of Science in 1947. Books Applied Geophysics, H.M.S.O. for the Science Museum (London), 3rd edition, 1938. References ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient%20of%20fractional%20parentage
In physics, coefficients of fractional parentage (cfp's) can be used to obtain anti-symmetric many-body states for like particles. In a jj-coupling scheme they are defined by the following relation. The state is normalized and totally anti-symmetric with respect to permutations of all its particles, while the sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%27s%20law
Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically charged particles at rest. This electric force is conventionally called electrostatic force or Coulomb force. Although the law was known earlier, it was first published i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole%20%28disambiguation%29
In physics, a dipole is a quantity involving some form of polarity. Dipole may also refer to: In physics Electric dipole Magnetic dipole Dipole moment (disambiguation) A flow dipole, a separation of a sink and a source in potential flow In meteorology Arctic dipole anomaly Indian Ocean Dipole Subtropical Indian Ocea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Primatology
The International Journal of Primatology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research papers on the study of primates. Articles published in the journal are drawn from a number of disciplines involved in primatological research, including anthropology, zoology, psychology, paleontology, sociolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2C3%2C4-Trimethylpentane
2,3,4-Trimethylpentane is a branched alkane. It is one of the isomers of octane. References External links 2,3,4-Trimethylpentane at environmentalchemistry.com Alkanes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenhard%20Ng
Lenhard Ng (born 1976, United States) is an American mathematician, working primarily on symplectic geometry. Ng is a professor of mathematics at Duke University. Background and education Lenhard Ng is an American of Chinese descent. His father, Jack Ng, is a professor of physics at University of North Carolina Chape...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Verstraete
Frank Verstraete (born November 1972) is a Belgian quantum physicist who is working on the interface between quantum information theory and quantum many-body physics. He pioneered the use of tensor networks and entanglement theory in quantum many body systems. He holds the Leigh Trapnell Professorship of Quantum Physic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based%20memory%20management
In computer science, region-based memory management is a type of memory management in which each allocated object is assigned to a region. A region, also called a zone, arena, area, or memory context, is a collection of allocated objects that can be efficiently reallocated or deallocated all at once. Like stack allocat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate
Multivariate is the quality of having multiple variables. It may also refer to: In mathematics Multivariable calculus Multivariate function Multivariate polynomial Multivariate interpolation Multivariate optimization In computing Multivariate cryptography Multivariate division algorithm Multivariate optical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacochroa%20permixtella
Cacochroa permixtella is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in the Mediterranean Region. Biology The caterpillars feed on Phillyrea angustifolia and Phillyrea latifolia. After overwintering in the larval stage, the larvae live freely in a rolled leaf. Taxonomy Junior synonyms are: Anchinia permixtella ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen%27s%20T%20function
In mathematics, Owen's T function T(h, a), named after statistician Donald Bruce Owen, is defined by The function was first introduced by Owen in 1956. Applications The function T(h, a) gives the probability of the event (X > h and 0 < Y < aX) where X and Y are independent standard normal random variables. This func...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotriveratrylene
Cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) is an organic compound with the formula [C6H2(OCH3)2CH2]3. It is a white solid that is soluble in organic solvents. The compound is a macrocycle and used in host–guest chemistry as a molecular host. Synthesis The compound can be synthesised from veratrole alcohol upon acid catalysis. Op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veratrole%20alcohol
Veratrole alcohol (veratryl alcohol) is an organic compound related to veratrole and also to benzyl alcohol. It can be obtained by reduction of veratraldehyde. Veratrole alcohol is the raw material for the synthesis of cyclotriveratrylene which is used in host–guest chemistry. It is a secondary metabolite of some white...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amperometry
Amperometry in chemistry is detection of ions in a solution based on electric current or changes in electric current. Amperometry is used in electrophysiology to study vesicle release events using a carbon fiber electrode. Unlike patch clamp techniques, the electrode used for amperometry is not inserted into or attach...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20double
In computer programming and computer science, programmers employ a technique called automated unit testing to reduce the likelihood of bugs occurring in the software. Frequently, the final release software consists of a complex set of objects or procedures interacting together to create the final result. In automated u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elibia%20dolichus
Elibia dolichus is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by John O. Westwood in 1847. It is found in Nepal, north-eastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, southern China, Malaysia (Peninsular, Sarawak, Sabah), Indonesia (Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java) to the Philippines (Palawan Island). Description The wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudrock%20line
In rock physics and petrophysics, the mudrock line, also called Castagna's equation or Castagna's relation, is an empirical linear relation between seismic P-wave velocity and S-wave velocity in brine-saturated siliciclastic rocks (i.e. sandstones and shales). The equation reads: Where and refer to P-wave velocity ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanomorph
A melanomorph is a substance related to the pigment melanin. Melanomorphs originate from the aromatic amino acids tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine. They tend to absorb ultraviolet-B light, with peaks around 280 nanometers. See also Beer's Law. References Organic Chemistry 5th Ed. Bruice http://www.textbooks...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Tom%20Lendrum
John Thomas "Tom" Lendrum (December 24, 1927 – July 17, 2016) was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2002. His district consisted of portions of Lorain County, Ohio. He was succeeded by Kathleen Walcher. Lendrum held a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He die...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Chemistry
Nature Chemistry is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in April 2009. The editor-in-chief is Stuart Cantrill. The journal covers all aspects of chemistry. Publishing formats include primary research articles, reviews, news, views, highlights of notable research ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Revelle%20Medal
The Roger Revelle Medal is given out annually by the American Geophysical Union to recognize "outstanding accomplishments or contributions toward the understanding of the Earth’s atmospheric processes, including its dynamics, chemistry, and radiation; and toward the role of the atmosphere, atmosphere-ocean coupling, or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20of%20Excellence%20in%20Nanotechnology
The Center of Excellence (CoE) in Nanotechnology is located at the Asian Institute of Technology campus. It is one of the eight centers of excellence in Thailand. The CoEN at AIT is about the applied research and graduate education in nanotechnology. The unified concept of this center's research activities is the usag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20biology%20visualization%20software
Online software Applications References Systems Systems biology Data visualization software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Lake%20High%20School
Upper Lake High School is a small public high school located in Upper Lake, California. It is the only comprehensive high school in the Upper Lake Union High School District. Academics Upper Lake High offers AP courses in English, U.S. history, art history, and environmental science. It offers ROP (vocational) courses...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20breaking%20and%20cortical%20rotation
Symmetry breaking in biology is the process by which uniformity is broken, or the number of points to view invariance are reduced, to generate a more structured and improbable state. Symmetry breaking is the event where symmetry along a particular axis is lost to establish a polarity. Polarity is a measure for a biolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Civil%20and%20Environmental%20Engineering%2C%20Imperial%20College%20London
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the academic department at Imperial College London dedicated to civil engineering. It is located at the South Kensington Campus in London, along Imperial College Road. The department is currently a part of the college's Faculty of Engineering, which was formed in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placidus%20de%20Titis
Placidus de Titis (also de Titus, Latinization of Placido de Titi, pseudonym Didacus Prittus Pelusiensis; 1603–1668) was an Olivetan monk and professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Pavia from 1657 until his death. Placidus popularized the system of astrological houses now known as the "Pl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transworld%20identity
Transworld Identity is the idea that objects exist in multiple possible worlds. See also Identity (philosophy) Modal realism External links Concepts in metaphysics Possible worlds Identity (philosophy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20R.%20Sridhar
KR Sridhar (born ) is an Indian American engineer, professor, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Bloom Energy. He was a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona. Sridhar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20C.%20Mulligan
Richard C. Mulligan (born 1954) is an American scientist who is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, the Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative and a visiting scientist at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Kozma%20%28professor%29
Robert Kozma is First Tennessee University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Memphis. Biography Kozma received his MS in Power Engineering from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1982, his MS in mathematics from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1988, and his PhD in Applied Physics from Delft Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20Robotics%20Corporation
Networked Robotics Corporation is an American scientific automation company that designs and manufactures electronic devices that monitor scientific instruments, scientific processes, and environmental conditions via the internet. Networked Robotics is an Illinois company but is now based largely out of Pleasanton, Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Pottage
Julian Y. Pottage (born 1962) is a British contract bridge player, writer, and teacher, who studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also well known as a collector of bridge problems, and writes a monthly problem column in Britain's Bridge Magazine. He is the Bridge Correspondent for The Daily Telegra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui%20Zhang%20%28pathologist%29
Hui Zhang () is a professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in analysis of glycoproteins and other protein modifications on the proteome scale. Her most cited article is Identification and quantification of N-linked glycoproteins using hydrazide chemistry, stable isotope labeling and mass spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Moss%20Stock%20Center
The International Moss Stock Center (IMSC) is a biorepository which is specialized in collecting, preserving and distributing moss plants of a high value of scientific research. The IMSC is located at the Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Biotechnology, at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany. Moss...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Integrated%20Protein%20Science%20Munich
The Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) is a cluster of excellence in sciences located in Munich. It is an association of research groups of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Center Munich, and the Max Planck Institutes of biochemistry and neu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20engineering
Cognitive engineering is a method of study using cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience to design and develop engineering systems to support or improve the cognitive processes of users. History It was an engineering method used in the 1970s at Bell Labs, focused on how people form a cognitive model of a syste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20H.%20Durham
William H. Durham, a biological anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, is the Bing Professor Emeritus in Human Biology at Stanford University. Education William Durham earned a B.S. at Stanford University in 1971, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a master’s (1973) and PhD (1977). Career Durham...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiclass%20classification
In machine learning and statistical classification, multiclass classification or multinomial classification is the problem of classifying instances into one of three or more classes (classifying instances into one of two classes is called binary classification). While many classification algorithms (notably multinomia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cementos%20Pacasmayo
Pacasmayo is the largest cement company in the north of Peru. The company has 3 cement plants in Piura , Pacasmayo and another in Rioja with a total annual capacity of 4.9 million tons of cement. It was founded by Luis Hochschild Plaut. References Cement companies of Peru Companies based in La Libertad Region Constr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Nikolaevich%20Yanenko
Nikolai Nikolaevich Yanenko (; 22 May 1921 – 16 January 1984) was a Soviet mathematician and academician. He was known for his contributions to computational mathematics and fluid mechanics. He served as Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Scien...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%20algebra
In mathematics, Schur algebras, named after Issai Schur, are certain finite-dimensional algebras closely associated with Schur–Weyl duality between general linear and symmetric groups. They are used to relate the representation theories of those two groups. Their use was promoted by the influential monograph of J. A. G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoplatinum%20chemistry
Organoplatinum chemistry is the chemistry of organometallic compounds containing a carbon to platinum chemical bond, and the study of platinum as a catalyst in organic reactions. Organoplatinum compounds exist in oxidation state 0 to IV, with oxidation state II most abundant. The general order in bond strength is Pt-C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-derivation
In mathematics, more specifically differential algebra, a p-derivation (for p a prime number) on a ring R, is a mapping from R to R that satisfies certain conditions outlined directly below. The notion of a p-derivation is related to that of a derivation in differential algebra. Definition Let p be a prime number. A ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20group
In chemistry and physics, the iron group refers to elements that are in some way related to iron; mostly in period (row) 4 of the periodic table. The term has different meanings in different contexts. In chemistry, the term is largely obsolete, but it often means iron, cobalt, and nickel, also called the iron triad; o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%20Medal
The Chern Medal is an international award recognizing outstanding lifelong achievement of the highest level in the field of mathematics. The prize is given at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), which is held every four years. Introduction It is named in honor of the late Chinese mathematician Shiing-S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20test
A physical test is a qualitative or quantitative procedure that consists of determination of one or more characteristics of a given product, process or service according to a specified procedure. Often this is part of an experiment. Physical testing is common in physics, engineering, and quality assurance. Purposes P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20C.%20Jahn
Edwin C. Jahn (September 6, 1902 – June 13, 2001) was Dean of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University from 1967 to 1969. He received his B.S. cum laude (1925) and M.S. (1926) from the New York State College of Forestry; and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20Squeezes%20Complete
Bridge Squeezes Complete is a book on contract bridge written by Ann Arbor, Michigan-based mathematics professor Clyde E. Love, originally published in 1959. Written in a "dry, mathematical way", it is still considered one of the most important bridge books ever written and the squeeze vocabulary Love invented remains ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20E.%20Love
Clyde Elton Love (December 12, 1882 – January 31, 1960) was an American contract bridge author and mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a native of Bancroft, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1905. Love is well known in bridge circles for his 1959 book Bridge ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20King-Millward
Carl Edward King-Millward (17 July 1935 in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom – August 2000) was a British mathematician. He became head of applied mathematics at the Institute of Historical Research in London in 1965, thus becoming the youngest non-literary scholar to do so in the post-war era. King-Millward's parents wer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Knuth
Paul Erich Otto Wilhelm Knuth (20 November 1854 in Greifswald – 30 October 1900 in Kiel) was a 19th-century German botanist and pollination ecologist. He studied chemistry and natural history at the University of Greifswald and obtained his doctorate degree in 1876. He then took up a career as "high school" (Realschul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20Haigh
Joanna Dorothy Haigh (born 7 May 1954) is a British physicist and academic. Before her retirement in 2019 she was Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment. She served as head of the department of physics at Imperial College ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogi-Gua%C3%A7u%20Biological%20Reserve
Mogi-Guaçu Biological Reserve () is a biological reserve located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The reserve was created by State Law nº. 12.500 of 1942 with an area of . The reserve is in the Martinho Prado Junior district of the municipality of Mogi Guaçu. It holds a research centre that investigates ecology, ta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20operator
In quantum mechanics, energy is defined in terms of the energy operator, acting on the wave function of the system as a consequence of time translation symmetry. Definition It is given by: It acts on the wave function (the probability amplitude for different configurations of the system) Application The energy ope...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTW%20Berlin
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics) or HTW Berlin in Berlin, Germany is the largest public University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and Eastern Germany. It has over 13,000 students and 75 programs in areas of engineering, computer science, business, cultu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torc%20%28disambiguation%29
A torc is a large rigid or stiff neck ring in metal, made either as a single piece or from strands twisted together. Torc or TORC may also refer to: Torc Robotics, a robotics company in southwestern Virginia Torque, physical quantity Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, a town TORC: The Off Road Championship, an Americ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Malcolm%20Orr
David Orr CBE, FREng, FICE, FIAE, (born 1953 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a civil engineer. He was the 143rd President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is married to Vyvienne and they have 2 children. David Orr graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 1974 with an honours degree in civil engineering...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Kirby-Harris
Bob Kirby-Harris (born 12 June 1952) is a former Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics. Early life He went to Ashford Grammar School (now The Norton Knatchbull School). He gained a 1st Class BSc in Theoretical Physics in 1973 from the U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane%20foam
Polyurethane foam is a specialist material used for thermal insulation and other applications. It is a solid polymeric foam based on polyurethane chemistry. Flexible polyurethane foam The so-called flexible polyurethane foam (FPF) is produced from the reaction of polyols and isocyanates, a process pioneered in 1937. F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse%20of%20Bigfoot
Curse of Bigfoot is a 1975 American horror television film produced and directed by Dave Flocker (credited as Don Fields), and written by James T. Flocker (credited as J.T. Fields). Plot summary A high school biology class receives a visitor, who is a good friend of their teacher. He tells them of an encounter that h...