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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20C.%20Liotta | Dennis Liotta is a chemistry professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He is noted for his work on the development of antiviral drugs.
Career
Liotta's fields of research are organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry. Along with Dr. Raymond F. Schinazi and Dr. Woo-Baeg Choi of Emory, he inven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Forsyth%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David A. Forsyth is a South-African-born American computer scientist and the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Education
Forsyth holds Bachelor of Science (1984) and Master of Science (1986) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Achievement%20Test | The General Achievement Test (often abbreviated GAT) is a test of general knowledge and skills including communication, mathematics, science and technology, the arts, humanities and social sciences in the Australian state of Victoria.
Although the GAT is not a part of the graduation requirements and does not count tow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a space is a set (sometimes called a universe) with some added structure.
While modern mathematics uses many types of spaces, such as Euclidean spaces, linear spaces, topological spaces, Hilbert spaces, or probability spaces, it does not define the notion of "space" itself.
A space consists of selected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20compact%20set | In mathematics, a random compact set is essentially a compact set-valued random variable. Random compact sets are useful in the study of attractors for random dynamical systems.
Definition
Let be a complete separable metric space. Let denote the set of all compact subsets of . The Hausdorff metric on is defined b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow%20leg | The bow leg is a highly resilient robotic leg being developed for running robots at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. The key technology is the fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) spring that bends like a bow to store elastic energy.
History of the bow leg
Legged robots were initially conceptualized to pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masking%20threshold | Masking threshold within acoustics (a branch of physics that deals with topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound , and infrasound), refers to a process where if there are two concurrent sounds and one sound is louder than the other, a person may be unable to hear the soft sound because it is masked by the louder sou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika%20Heynatz | Erika Heynatz (born 25 March 1975) is an Australian model, actress, singer, and television personality. She joined long-running Australian TV series Home and Away in June 2015, as villainous biology teacher Charlotte King.
Career
Heynatz hosted the first two cycles of the Foxtel reality TV show Australia's Next Top Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-consistent%20mean%20field | Self-consistent mean field may be one of the following:
Mean field theory, an approach to the many-body problem in physics and statistical mechanics
Self-consistent mean field (biology), an application of this theory to the problem of protein structure prediction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%20spine | In mathematics, in the area of potential theory, a Lebesgue spine or Lebesgue thorn is a type of set used for discussing solutions to the Dirichlet problem and related problems of potential theory. The Lebesgue spine was introduced in 1912 by Henri Lebesgue to demonstrate that the Dirichlet problem does not always have... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Lucas%20%28neuroscientist%29 | Keith Lucas FRS (8 March 1879, Greenwich – 5 October 1916, Salisbury Plain) was a British scientist who carried out pioneering work in neuroscience at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was the son of Francis Robert and Katharine Mary (née Riddle) Lucas. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria%20%28beetle%29 | Euphoria is a genus of scarab beetles in the subfamily Cetoniinae, the flower or fruit chafers. They are native to the Americas, where they are distributed from Canada to Argentina. They are most diverse in Mexico and Central America. As of 2012, there are 59 species in the genus.
Description and biology
Euphoria spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s%20escapement | Galileo's escapement is a design for a clock escapement, invented around 1637 by Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). Galileo was one of the leading minds of the Scientific Revolution. He was dubbed the founder of theoretical physics. He is also credited with the invention of the celatone (a type of telescope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%20Meertens | Lambert Guillaume Louis Théodore Meertens or L.G.L.T. Meertens (born 10 May 1944, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor. , he is a researcher at the Kestrel Institute, a nonprofit computer science research center in Palo Alto's Stanford Research Park.
Life and career
As a student at the Ignatius G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Fink | Thomas Fink (born 1972) is an Anglo-American physicist, author and entrepreneur. He has published papers in statistical physics and its applications, written two books and designed an iPhone app. He set up the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and is a manager of research at the French National Centre for Scie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20velocity | Space velocity may refer to:
Space velocity (astronomy), the velocity of a star in the galactic coordinate system
Space velocity (chemistry), the relation between volumetric flow rate and reactor volume in a chemical reactor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20R.%20Wessler | Susan Randi Wessler (born 1953, in New York City), ForMemRS, is an American plant molecular biologist and geneticist. She is Distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR).
Education
Wessler graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1970. She received her bachelor's degr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission%20coefficient | The transmission coefficient is used in physics and electrical engineering when wave propagation in a medium containing discontinuities is considered. A transmission coefficient describes the amplitude, intensity, or total power of a transmitted wave relative to an incident wave.
Overview
Different fields of applicati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20McPherson%20%28university%20president%29 | William McPherson (July 2, 1864 – October 2, 1951) was the acting President of Ohio State University from July 1, 1938, to March 1, 1940. A chemistry laboratory at Ohio State is named for him.
Further reading
Past Presidents of the Ohio State University
McPherson Hall at The Ohio State University
External links
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novice%20Gail%20Fawcett | Novice Gail Fawcett (March 29, 1909 – June 19, 1998) was an American academic administrator who served as the 8th president of Ohio State University from 1956 to 1972.
Early life and education
Fawcett was born in Gambier, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in science and mathematics from Kenyon College in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Kirwan | William English "Brit" Kirwan (born April 14, 1938) is an American university administrator and mathematician who is chancellor emeritus of the University System of Maryland (USM) and professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Most recently, Kirwan served as chancellor of USM from 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grille%20%28cryptography%29 | In the history of cryptography, a grille cipher was a technique for encrypting a plaintext by writing it onto a sheet of paper through a pierced sheet (of paper or cardboard or similar). The earliest known description is due to the polymath Girolamo Cardano in 1550. His proposal was for a rectangular stencil allowing s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Railways%20Institute%20of%20Mechanical%20and%20Electrical%20Engineering | The Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (IRIMEE) was founded in 1888 as a technical school and commenced training Mechanical Officers for Indian Railways in 1927. It is the oldest of the five Centralised Training Institutes (CTIs) for training officers for Indian Railways. IRIMEE is locat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate | A swashplate, also known as slant disk, is a mechanical engineering device used to translate the motion of a rotating shaft into reciprocating motion, or vice versa. The working principle is similar to crankshaft, Scotch yoke, or wobble/nutator/Z-crank drives, in engine designs. It was originally invented to replace a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20global%20choice | In mathematics, specifically in class theories, the axiom of global choice is a stronger variant of the axiom of choice that applies to proper classes of sets as well as sets of sets. Informally it states that one can simultaneously choose an element from every non-empty set.
Statement
The axiom of global choice sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour%20Jonathan%20Singer | Seymour Jonathan Singer (May 23, 1924 – February 2, 2017) was an American cell biologist and professor of biology, emeritus, at the University of California, San Diego.
Biography
Singer was born in New York City and attended Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. in 1943. He received his doctorate from the Pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Shulman | Lee S. Shulman (born September 28, 1938) is an American educational psychologist and reformer. He has made notable contributions to the study of teaching, assessment of teaching, and the fields of medicine, science, and mathematics.
Background
Shulman was born on September 28, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20acid%20fermentation | In biochemistry, mixed acid fermentation is the metabolic process by which a six-carbon sugar (e.g. glucose, ) is converted into a complex and variable mixture of acids. It is an anaerobic (non-oxygen-requiring) fermentation reaction that is common in bacteria. It is characteristic for members of the Enterobacteriaceae... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic%20detector | In particle physics, a hermetic detector (also called a 4π detector) is a particle detector designed to observe all possible decay products of an interaction between subatomic particles in a collider by covering as large an area around the interaction point as possible and incorporating multiple types of sub-detectors.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Campbell%20Jr. | George Campbell Jr. (born December 2, 1945) was the eleventh president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art from July 2000 to July 2011.
Education
Campbell earned a PhD in theoretical physics from Syracuse University in 1977 and a BS in physics from Drexel University in 1968. He is a graduate of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20West%20Bohemia | The University of West Bohemia (, ZČU) is a university in Plzeň, Czech Republic. It was founded in 1991 and consists of nine faculties.
History
The university was formed by the merger of the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Education in Plzeň. The College of Mechanical and Electrical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhan%20Po%C3%A7an | Serhan Poçan (1970) is a Turkish mountaineer and a summiter of Mount Everest.
He was born on April 11, 1970, in Konya, Turkey. Serhan graduated Middle East Technical University, Ankara with a BS degree in Mathematics. Currently, he is working as a software expert.
He was the leader of the first Turkish expedition to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculum | In biology, inoculum (: inocula) refers to the source material used for inoculation. Inoculum may refer to:
In medicine, material that is the source of the inoculation in a vaccine
In microbiology, propagules: cells, tissue, or viruses that are used to inoculate a new culture
Microbial inoculant, the beneficial intr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor%20device%20modeling | Semiconductor device modeling creates models for the behavior of the electrical devices based on fundamental physics, such as the doping profiles of the devices. It may also include the creation of compact models (such as the well known SPICE transistor models), which try to capture the electrical behavior of such devi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Cain%20%28composer%29 | David Cain was a composer and technician for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. He was educated at Imperial College London, where he earned a degree in mathematics. In 1963, he joined the BBC as a studio manager, specialising in radio drama. He transferred to the Radiophonic Workshop in 1967 where he composed various jingl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20D.%20Kell | Raymond Davis Kell (June 7, 1904 – November 2, 1986), most often known as Ray Kell, was an American television researcher at RCA. He was awarded the Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1948 for being a pioneer in the development of color television.
Kell was born on June 7, 1904, in Kell, Illinois, and received his B.S. degre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy%20Moore | Patsy Alexis Moore (born August 10, 1964 on the West Indian island of Antigua) is a singer-songwriter, as well as a poet, essayist, and educator. Raised in a devout Christian home, and an adult student of New Thought Metaphysics, she has spent most of her productive life in the United States.
Youth
The elder daughter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proviso%20West%20High%20School | Proviso West High School (PWHS) is a public high school located in Hillside, Illinois, United States. It is a part of Proviso Township High Schools District 209, and was opened in 1958. Its sister schools are Proviso East High School and Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy.
The school is located approximately ten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroon%20Ahmed | Haroon Ahmed FREng (born 2 March 1936), is a British Pakistani scientist in specialising the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering. He is Emeritus Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifloat | In computing, minifloats are floating-point values represented with very few bits. Predictably, they are not well suited for general-purpose numerical calculations. They are used for special purposes, most often in computer graphics, where iterations are small and precision has aesthetic effects. Machine learning also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Nees | Georg Nees (23 June 1926 – 3 January 2016) was a German academic who was a pioneer of computer art and generative graphics. He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Erlangen and Stuttgart and was scientific advisor at the SEMIOSIS, International Journal of semiotics and aesthetics. In 1977, he was appointed Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition%20topology | In mathematics, the partition topology is a topology that can be induced on any set by partitioning into disjoint subsets these subsets form the basis for the topology. There are two important examples which have their own names:
The is the topology where and Equivalently,
The is defined by letting and
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particular%20point%20topology | In mathematics, the particular point topology (or included point topology) is a topology where a set is open if it contains a particular point of the topological space. Formally, let X be any non-empty set and p ∈ X. The collection
of subsets of X is the particular point topology on X. There are a variety of cases... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E7%C2%BD | {{DISPLAYTITLE:E7½}}
In mathematics, the Lie algebra E7½ is a subalgebra of E8 containing E7 defined by Landsberg and Manivel in order
to fill the "hole" in a dimension formula for the exceptional series En of simple Lie algebras. This hole was observed by Cvitanovic, Deligne, Cohen and de Man. E7½ has dimension 190, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSU%20Young%20Scholars%20Program | FSU Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a six-week residential science and mathematics summer program for 40 high school students from Florida, USA, with significant potential for careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The program was developed in 1983 and is currently administered by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBT | RBT may refer to:
Computing
Red–black tree, in computer science
Residual block termination, in cryptography
Risk-based testing, in software testing
Other uses
Random breath test or sobriety checkpoints
RBT (TV series), an Australian docuseries
Residence-based taxation
Ringback tone, in telephony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%20Turkin | Hyman C. Turkin (May 9, 1915 – June 24, 1955) was a sportswriter best known for co-editing the first baseball encyclopedia.
Turkin was born in New York City, one of seven children. He joined the staff of the New York Daily News after graduating from Cooper Union in 1936 with a degree in electrical engineering. Turkin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kastler | Daniel Kastler (; 4 March 1926 – 4 July 2015) was a French theoretical physicist, working on the foundations of quantum field theory and on non-commutative geometry.
Biography
Daniel Kastler was born on March 4, 1926, in Colmar, a city of north-eastern France. He is the son of the Physics Nobel Prize laureate Alfred ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSU%20Department%20of%20Materials%20Science | The Moscow State University Materials Science Department () is a faculty of Moscow State University, founded in 1991 at the base of Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Physics and Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. Former name of a structure was High School of Materials Science (Высший колледж наук о материалах).
As o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20engineering | Crystal engineering studies the design and synthesis of solid-state structures with desired properties through deliberate control of intermolecular interactions. It is an interdisciplinary academic field, bridging solid-state and supramolecular chemistry.
The main engineering strategies currently in use are hydroge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Evans%20%28headmaster%29 | Ian Philip Evans OBE FRSC (born 1948) is a British educationalist and a former Headmaster of Bedford School.
Biography
Born on 2 May 1948 and educated in North Wales at Ruabon Boys Grammar school, Evans read Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge taking a first class degree and obtained a doctorate in inorg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Weingartner | Hans Weingartner (born 2 November 1977) is an author, director and producer of films. Born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, he attended the Austrian Association of Cinematography in Vienna and earned a diploma as a camera assistant. Later, he studied film at the Academy of Media Arts KHM in Cologne, Germany. He also has studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20California%2C%20Davis%20alumni | This page lists notable alumni of the University of California, Davis.
Academics
University presidents
Professors
Science
Astronauts
Tracy Caldwell Dyson
Stephen K. Robinson
Computer science
Engineering
Economics
Ahmad Faruqui, defense analyst and economist
Masami Imai, Japanese economist
Timothy Francis M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20California%2C%20Davis%20faculty | This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Davis.
Arts and music
Biological sciences
Chemistry
Communications and media
Charles Berger, professor of communication
Earth sciences
Economics
Engineering
English
Food sciences
History
Law and government
Mathematics
Med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle%20and%20motorcycle%20dynamics | Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics is the science of the motion of bicycles and motorcycles and their components, due to the forces acting on them. Dynamics falls under a branch of physics known as classical mechanics. Bike motions of interest include balancing, steering, braking, accelerating, suspension activation, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Arnold%20%28racing%20driver%29 | William Henry "Billy" Arnold (December 16, 1905 – November 10, 1976) was an American racing driver. He won the 1930 Indianapolis 500.
Early life
Richard William Arnold was born in Chicago on December 16, 1905. He earned his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Railway%20Service%20of%20Mechanical%20Engineering | The Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineering, abbreviated as IRSME, is one of the group 'A' central engineering services of the Indian railways. The officers of this service are responsible for managing the Mechanical Engineering Division of the Indian Railways. Till 2019, IRSME officers were drawn from the Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF%20Class%20X%2073900 | The X73900 is a diesel multiple unit (DMU) train type operated by the SNCF in France. They were built from 2001 to 2004 by Alsthom DDF. They are a version of the SNCF Class X 73500 equipped with train control systems for transborder services to Germany.
General Information
The trains are single railcars. The units wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUS%20reporter%20system | The GUS reporter system (GUS: β-glucuronidase) is a reporter gene system, particularly useful in plant molecular biology and microbiology. Several kinds of GUS reporter gene assay are available, depending on the substrate used. The term GUS staining refers to the most common of these, a histochemical technique.
Purpos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Triantafyllou | Michael Triantafyllou is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, Head of the Area of Ocean Science and Engineering, and Director of the Testing Tank and Propeller Tunnel Facilities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Chemical%20Information%20and%20Modeling | The Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society. It was established in 1961 as the Journal of Chemical Documentation, renamed in 1975 to Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, and obtained its current name in 2005. The jou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Informatics | Molecular Informatics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley VCH. It covers research in cheminformatics, quantitative structure–activity relationships, and combinatorial chemistry. It was established in 1981 as Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships and renamed to QSAR & Combinatorial Science i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinch%20%28plasma%20physics%29 | A pinch (or: Bennett pinch (after Willard Harrison Bennett), electromagnetic pinch, magnetic pinch, pinch effect, or plasma pinch.) is the compression of an electrically conducting filament by magnetic forces, or a device that does such. The conductor is usually a plasma, but could also be a solid or liquid metal. Pinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence%20kinetic%20energy | In fluid dynamics, turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) is the mean kinetic energy per unit mass associated with eddies in turbulent flow. Physically, the turbulence kinetic energy is characterised by measured root-mean-square (RMS) velocity fluctuations. In the Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes equations, the turbulence kine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%20%28Lie%20algebra%29 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:En (Lie algebra)}}
In mathematics, especially in Lie theory, En is the Kac–Moody algebra whose Dynkin diagram is a bifurcating graph with three branches of length 1, 2 and k, with k = n − 4.
In some older books and papers, E2 and E4 are used as names for G2 and F4.
Finite-dimensional Lie algebras
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-consistent%20mean%20field%20%28biology%29 | The self-consistent mean field (SCMF) method is an adaptation of mean field theory used in protein structure prediction to determine the optimal amino acid side chain packing given a fixed protein backbone. It is faster but less accurate than dead-end elimination and is generally used in situations where the protein of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra%20isomorphism | In mathematics, the Harish-Chandra isomorphism, introduced by ,
is an isomorphism of commutative rings constructed in the theory of Lie algebras. The isomorphism maps the center of the universal enveloping algebra of a reductive Lie algebra to the elements of the symmetric algebra of a Cartan subalgebra that are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20variational%20inequality | In mathematics, a differential variational inequality (DVI) is a dynamical system that incorporates ordinary differential equations and variational inequalities or complementarity problems.
DVIs are useful for representing models involving both dynamics and inequality constraints. Examples of such problems include, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Y.%20al-Hassan | Ahmad Yousef Al-Hassan () (June 25, 1925 – April 28, 2012) was a Palestinian/Syrian/Canadian historian of Arabic and Islamic science and technology, educated in Jerusalem, Cairo, and London with a PhD in Mechanical engineering from University College London. He was Dean of Engineering and later President of the Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%20cake%20%28disambiguation%29 | A layer cake is a pastry made from stacked layers of cake held together by filling.
Layer Cake or layer cake may also refer to:
In mathematics, the Layer cake representation is a representation of a function in terms of an integral of 'slices' of the function's area
Layer-cake federalism, is a political arrangement ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%20element%20of%20a%20Coxeter%20group | In mathematics, the longest element of a Coxeter group is the unique element of maximal length in a finite Coxeter group with respect to the chosen generating set consisting of simple reflections. It is often denoted by w0. See and .
Properties
A Coxeter group has a longest element if and only if it is finite; "onl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organomercury%20chemistry | Organomercury chemistry refers to the study of organometallic compounds that contain mercury. Typically the Hg–C bond is stable toward air and moisture but sensitive to light. Important organomercury compounds are the methylmercury(II) cation, CH3Hg+; ethylmercury(II) cation, C2H5Hg+; dimethylmercury, (CH3)2Hg, diethyl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver%20Creek%20Secondary%20School | Enver Creek Secondary School is a public high school located in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and is part of the School District 36 Surrey.
Academics
Students are required to enroll in English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Sciences, and Physical Education. Most academic areas offer honours courses. Advanced Placem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamanawis%20Secondary%20School | Tamanawis Secondary is a public secondary school in Surrey, British Columbia. It is a part of School District 36.
The school provides many choices regarding subjects for its students. Here is a list of some of the subjects offered:
Fine Arts,
Business,
Biology,
AP Calculus,
Chemistry,
Drama
Dance,
Home Economics,
F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Fourman | Michael Paul Fourman FBCS FRSE (born 12 September 1950) is Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK, and was Head of the School of Informatics from 2001 to 2009.
Fourman is worked in applications of logic in computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science – more spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%20Amity%20School | Brooklyn Amity School (also known as Amity) is a UPK-12 private school that was founded in 1999. As of 2016, 256 students were enrolled.
Academic Curriculum
AP Courses: AP Language, AP World History,
AP US History, AP Government, AP Calculus, AP
Biology*, AP Art Studio, AP Psychology
English: English I, II, III, IV,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20B.%20Johnson | Dr George B. Johnson (born 11 June 1942, in Newport News, Virginia) is a science educator who for many years has written a weekly column "On Science" in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. For over 30 years he was a biology professor at Washington University and a genetics professor at Washington University School of Medicine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20sweep | In genetics, a selective sweep is the process through which a new beneficial mutation that increases its frequency and becomes fixed (i.e., reaches a frequency of 1) in the population leads to the reduction or elimination of genetic variation among nucleotide sequences that are near the mutation. In selective sweep, po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20J.%20Silhavy | Thomas J. Silhavy is the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of molecular biology at Princeton University. Silhavy is a bacterial geneticist who has made fundamental contributions to several different research fields. He is best known for his work on protein secretion, membrane biogenesis, and signal transduction. U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional%20Chemistry | Emotional Chemistry is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon A. Forward and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Trix.
The novel is written as a love story between two aliens separated by time, and is set in three distinct time pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crooked%20World | The Crooked World is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.
Plot
The Doctor accidentally brings the concept of reality to a world based on cartoon physics.
Continuity
The concep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten%20disilicide | Tungsten silicide (WSi2) is an inorganic compound, a silicide of tungsten. It is an electrically conductive ceramic material.
Chemistry
Tungsten silicide can react violently with substances such as strong acids, fluorine, oxidizers, and interhalogens.
Applications
It is used in microelectronics as a contact material,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kautsky%20effect | In biophysics, the Kautsky effect (also fluorescence transient, fluorescence induction or fluorescence decay) is a phenomenon consisting of a typical variation in the behavior of a plant fluorescence when exposed to light. It was discovered in 1931 by H. Kautsky and A. Hirsch.
When dark-adapted photosynthesising cells... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20McGowan | Ken McGowan (born 1954) is an environmentalist, entrepreneur and former politician.
Early life
McGowan is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a degree in biology.
Political career
Early political career
McGowan was the Green Party of Nova Scotia's candidate for the electoral district of Annapolis in the 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perron%20number | In mathematics, a Perron number is an algebraic integer α which is real and exceeds 1, but such that its conjugate elements are all less than α in absolute value. For example, the larger of the two roots of the irreducible polynomial is a Perron number.
Perron numbers are named after Oskar Perron; the Perron–Frobeni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Company%20of%20Biologists | The Company of Biologists is a UK-based charity and not-for-profit publisher that was established in 1925 by George Parker Bidder III with the aim of promoting research and study across all branches of biology. The company publishes currently five scientific journals: Development, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Journal o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Rose | Malcolm Rose (born 1953) is a British young adult author. Many of his books, including the Traces and Lawless and Tilley series, are mysteries or thrillers where the hero uses science to catch the criminal or terrorist.
Biography
Malcolm Rose was born in Coventry in 1953. He studied chemistry at the University of Yo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mymarommatidae | The Mymarommatidae, sometimes referred to as false fairy wasps, are a very small family of microscopic parasitic wasps. Only about half of the known species are living taxa (the others are fossils), but they are found worldwide.
Little is known about the biology of these insects, but because of their size, and simple ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20algebra | In mathematics, a (right) Leibniz algebra, named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, sometimes called a Loday algebra, after Jean-Louis Loday, is a module L over a commutative ring R with a bilinear product [ _ , _ ] satisfying the Leibniz identity
In other words, right multiplication by any element c is a derivation. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Hauser | Marc D. Hauser (born October 25, 1959) is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior, animal cognition and human behavior and neuroscience. Hauser was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1998 to 2011. In 2010 Harvard found him guilty of research misconduct, specifically fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjeldahl%20method | The Kjeldahl method or Kjeldahl digestion () in analytical chemistry is a method for the quantitative determination of nitrogen contained in organic substances plus the nitrogen contained in the inorganic compounds ammonia and ammonium (NH3/NH4+). Without modification, other forms of inorganic nitrogen, for instance ni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Georgia%20College%20of%20Agricultural%20and%20Environmental%20Sciences | The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) is the agricultural college of the University of Georgia, a public land-grant research university in Athens, Georgia.
History
Originally the state agricultural college, CAES was founded in 1859 by the University Board of Trustees as part of a complete reorg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Environmental%20Science | Advanced Placement (AP) Environmental Science (also known as APES, AP Enviro, AP Environmental, AP Environment, or AP EnviroSci) is a course and exam offered by the American College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program to high school students interested in the environmental and natural sciences. AP Environm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Physics%20C%3A%20Mechanics | Advanced Placement (AP) Physics C: Mechanics (also known as AP Mechanics) is an introductory physics course administered by the College Board as part of its Advanced Placement program. It is intended to proxy a one-semester calculus-based university course in mechanics. The content of Physics C: Mechanics overlaps with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carius%20halogen%20method | The Carius halogen method in analytical chemistry is a method for the quantitative determination of halogens in chemical substances.
A known mass of an organic compound is heated with fuming nitric acid in the presence of silver nitrate contained in a hard glass tube known as carius tube, in a furnace. Carbon and hydr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Applied%20Physics%20and%20Computational%20Mathematics | The Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) was established in 1958 in Beijing in the People's Republic of China. The institution conducts research on nuclear warhead design computations for the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) in Mianyang, Sichuan and focuses on applied theoreti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hacker | Peter Michael Stephan Hacker (born 15 July 1939) is a British philosopher.
His principal expertise is in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophical anthropology. He is known for his detailed exegesis and interpretation of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, his critique of cognitive neuroscie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallet%20%28software%20project%29 | MALLET is a Java "Machine Learning for Language Toolkit".
Description
MALLET is an integrated collection of Java code useful for statistical natural language processing, document classification, cluster analysis, information extraction, topic modeling and other machine learning applications to text.
History
MALLET wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grex | Grex or GREX may refer to:
Grex (biology), a multicellular aggregate of amoeba of the phyla Acrasiomycota or Dictyosteliomycota
Grex (horticulture), (pl. greges) a kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents
Formerly used to mean species aggr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Barros%20Sierra | Javier Barros Sierra (25 February 1915 – 5 May 1971) was a Mexican engineer and rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico during the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.
Career
Born in Mexico City, he studied civil engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He became president of the student socie... |
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