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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohobation | In pre-modern chemistry and alchemy, cohobation was the process of repeated distillation of the same matter, with the liquid drawn from it; that liquid being poured again and again upon the matter left at the bottom of the vessel. Cohobation is a kind of circulation, only differing from it in this, that the liquid is d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale%20School%20of%20the%20Environment | Yale School of the Environment (YSE) is a professional school of Yale University. It was founded to train foresters, and now trains environmental students through four 2-year degree programs (Master of Environmental Management, Master of Environmental Science, Master of Forestry, and Master of Forest Science), two 10-m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality%20%28electrical%20circuits%29 | In electrical engineering, electrical terms are associated into pairs called duals. A dual of a relationship is formed by interchanging voltage and current in an expression. The dual expression thus produced is of the same form, and the reason that the dual is always a valid statement can be traced to the duality of e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicina%20Radio%20Observatory | The Medicina Radio Observatory is an astronomical observatory located 30 km from Bologna, Italy. It is operated by the Institute for Radio Astronomy of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) of the government of Italy.
The site includes:
32-metre diameter parabolic antenna for observing between 1.4 and 23 GHz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20%28molecular%20biology%29 | In molecular biology and genetics, the sense of a nucleic acid molecule, particularly of a strand of DNA or RNA, refers to the nature of the roles of the strand and its complement in specifying a sequence of amino acids. Depending on the context, sense may have slightly different meanings. For example, the negative-sen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent%20point | In mathematics, a recurrent point for a function f is a point that is in its own limit set by f. Any neighborhood containing the recurrent point will also contain (a countable number of) iterates of it as well.
Definition
Let be a Hausdorff space and a function. A point is said to be recurrent (for ) if , i.e. if... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Daugman | John Gustav Daugman is a British-American professor of computer vision and pattern recognition at the University of Cambridge. His major research contributions have been in computational neuroscience, pattern recognition, and in computer vision with the original development of wavelet methods for image encoding and an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20conjugacy | In mathematics, two functions are said to be topologically conjugate if there exists a homeomorphism that will conjugate the one into the other. Topological conjugacy, and related-but-distinct of flows, are important in the study of iterated functions and more generally dynamical systems, since, if the dynamics of on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%20eugenics | Nazi eugenics refers to the social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany, composed of various ideas about genetics which are now considered pseudoscientific. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement of the German people by selective breeding of "Nordic" or "Aryan" traits at its center. These polic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Klebs | Georg Albrecht Klebs (23 October 1857 – 15 October 1918) was a German botanist from Neidenburg (Nidzica), Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs.
Life
Klebs studied chemistry, philosophy, and art history at the University of Königsberg and became an assistant to Anton de Bary at the University of Strassb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Thomas%20James%20Morgan | Walter Thomas James Morgan CBE FRS (5 October 1900 – 10 February 2003) was a British biochemist noted for his work on the immunochemistry of antigens and described as 'one of the pioneers of immunochemistry'.
Early life
He was born in Ilford to Walter Morgan, a solicitor's clerk at the Royal Courts of Justice and his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20EC%20numbers%20%28EC%206%29 | This list contains a list of EC numbers for the sixth group, EC 6, ligases, placed in numerical order as determined by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. All official information is tabulated at the website of the committee. The database is developed and maintai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20EC%20numbers%20%28EC%205%29 | This list contains a list of EC numbers for the fifth group, EC 5, isomerases, placed in numerical order as determined by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. All official information is tabulated at the website of the committee. The database is developed and main... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20EC%20numbers%20%28EC%204%29 | This list contains a list of EC numbers for the fourth group, EC 4, lyases, placed in numerical order as determined by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. All official information is tabulated at the website of the committee. The database is developed and maintai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20EC%20numbers%20%28EC%203%29 | This list contains a list of EC numbers for the third group, EC 3, hydrolases, placed in numerical order as determined by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. All official information is tabulated at the website of the committee. The database is developed and main... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar%20Heil | Oskar Heil (20 March 1908, in Langwieden – 15 May 1994, San Mateo, California) was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He studied physics, chemistry, mathematics, and music at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and was awarded his PhD in 1933, for his work on molecular spectroscopy.
Personal life
At the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20EC%20numbers%20%28EC%202%29 | This list contains a list of EC numbers for the second group, EC 2, transferases, placed in numerical order as determined by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. All official information is tabulated at the website of the committee. The database is developed and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Hapke | Bruce William Hapke (born February 17, 1931) is a noted American planetary scientist, currently a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and a specialist in bidirectional reflectance spectroscopy.
Career
Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Hapke earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20Computing | Theory of Computing is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering theoretical computer science. The journal was established in 2005 and is published by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chicago. The editor-in-chief is László Babai (University of Chicago).
External links
Academic j... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyridon%20Stais | Spyridon Stais (, 1859–1932) was a Greek politician from the island of Kythera.
He studied physics and mathematics and served as a teacher in gymnasia (secondary schools) of Greece. He became active in politics in 1892, joining first the party of Charilaos Trikoupis and later (after Trikoupis’ death) the Modernist Par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton%20%28disambiguation%29 | An automaton is a self-operating machine.
Automaton may also refer to:
An automaton, an abstract machine in mathematics, computer science, and automata theory, a mathematical model of computer hardware and software
In particular, a finite-state automaton, an automaton limited to a finite state space
Film and TV
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansive%20homeomorphism | In mathematics, the notion of expansivity formalizes the notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function. The idea of expansivity is fairly rigid, as the definition of positive expansivity, below, as well as the Schwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theorem demonstrate.
Definition
If is a metric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanocortin%20receptor | Melanocortin receptors are members of the rhodopsin family of 7-transmembrane G protein-coupled receptors.
There are five known members of the melanocortin receptor system each with differing specificities for melanocortins:
. MC1R is associated with pigmentation genetics.
. MC2R is also known as the ACTH receptor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegated%20administration | In computing, delegated administration or delegation of control describes the decentralization of role-based-access-control systems. Many enterprises use a centralized model of access control. For large organizations, this model scales poorly and IT teams become burdened with menial role-change requests. These reque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrepression | In the field of molecular biology, transrepression is a process whereby one protein represses (i.e., inhibits) the activity of a second protein through a protein-protein interaction. Since this repression occurs between two different protein molecules (intermolecular), it is referred to as a trans-acting process.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Kershner | Bruce S. Kershner (April 17, 1950 – February 16, 2007) was an environmentalist, author, high school biology teacher and forest ecologist.
As a child he resided in Staten Island. Bruce Kershner obtained degrees from Binghamton University and the University of Connecticut. He most recently resided in Amherst with his wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker%20limit%20formula | In mathematics, the classical Kronecker limit formula describes the constant term at s = 1 of a real analytic Eisenstein series (or Epstein zeta function) in terms of the Dedekind eta function. There are many generalizations of it to more complicated Eisenstein series. It is named for Leopold Kronecker.
First Kronecke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20plane | In mathematics, the Moore plane, also sometimes called Niemytzki plane (or Nemytskii plane, Nemytskii's tangent disk topology), is a topological space. It is a completely regular Hausdorff space (also called Tychonoff space) that is not normal. It is named after Robert Lee Moore and Viktor Vladimirovich Nemytskii.
D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAUSS%20%28software%29 | GAUSS is a matrix programming language for mathematics and statistics, developed and marketed by Aptech Systems. Its primary purpose is the solution of numerical problems in statistics, econometrics, time-series, optimization and 2D- and 3D-visualization. It was first published in 1984 for MS-DOS and is available for L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20memory | Cellular memory can refer to:
Biology
Body memory, the hypothesis that (traumatic) memories can be stored in individual cells outside the brain
Neuronal memory allocation, the storage of memories in the brain at the cellular level
The epigenetic state of a cell, including the nongenetic information that can be passed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension%20topology | In topology, a branch of mathematics, an extension topology is a topology placed on the disjoint union of a topological space and another set. There are various types of extension topology, described in the sections below.
Extension topology
Let X be a topological space and P a set disjoint from X. Consider in X ∪ P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20C.%20Patten | Henry C. Patten (1887 – January 30, 1956) was General Manager of the Toronto Transportation Commission from 1939 until 1952.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1908 with a degree in electrical engineering. He served in the U.S. Army Engineering Corps f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassim%20Daoud | Kassim Abbas Daoud (born April 13, 1949) is an Iraqi scientist and politician. Born in Al Hillah, he graduated from Baghdad University in 1971. He then studied in Britain, earning a doctorate in microbiology and environment in 1982 from the University of Wales. He worked in the United Arab Emirates and at one time was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Virasoro%20algebra | In mathematical physics, a super Virasoro algebra is an extension of the Virasoro algebra (named after Miguel Ángel Virasoro) to a Lie superalgebra. There are two extensions with particular importance in superstring theory: the Ramond algebra (named after Pierre Ramond) and the Neveu–Schwarz algebra (named after André... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Brill | Eric Brill is a computer scientist specializing in natural language processing. He created the Brill tagger, a supervised part of speech tagger. Another research paper of Brill introduced a machine learning technique now known as transformation-based learning.
Biography
Brill earned a BA in mathematics from the Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Johan%20Bergman | Carl Johan Bergman (born 14 March 1978) is a former Swedish biathlete. He lives in Lillehammer, Norway with his Norwegian wife, Liv Kjersti Eikeland. He is (174 cm), and weighs 152 lb .
He studies computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His mother is called Birgitta, his f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Old%20Boys%20of%20St%20Aloysius%27%20College | This is a list of St Aloysius' College Alumni. Notable former studentsknown as "Old Boys"of the Catholic school, St Aloysius' College in Milsons Point, New South Wales, Australia.
Academia, medicine and science
Dr Stephen Hicks a research fellow in Neuroscience and Visual Prosthetics, Nuffield Department of Clinical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrieker%20%28film%29 | Shrieker is a 1998 American horror film directed by David DeCoteau and produced by Charles Band.
Plot
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at a University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lax%20pair | In mathematics, in the theory of integrable systems, a Lax pair is a pair of time-dependent matrices or operators that satisfy a corresponding differential equation, called the Lax equation. Lax pairs were introduced by Peter Lax to discuss solitons in continuous media. The inverse scattering transform makes use of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziwei%20doushu | Zi Wei Dou Shu (Chinese: ), commonly referred to in English as Purple Star Astrology, is a form of fortune-telling in Chinese culture. The study of destiny (Chinese: , ming xue) is one of the five arts of Chinese metaphysics. Along with the Bazi chart, Zi Wei Dou Shu is one of the most renowned fortune-telling methods ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthing | Earthing may refer to:
Ground (electricity) in electrical engineering
Earthing system, how to connect an electrical circuit to ground
, an alternative medicine practice
Nature therapy, another alternative medicine practice
Hilling, piling soil around the base of a plant |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine%20butterfly | Alpine butterfly may refer to:
Biology
Erebia, a genus of butterflies common in the Rocky Mountains of North America
Parnassius, a genus of butterflies in Eurasia
Knots
Alpine butterfly knot, used to form a fixed loop in the middle of a rope
Alpine butterfly bend, used to join the ends of two ropes together |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory%20Bomber | The British "Victory Bomber" was a Second World War design proposal by British inventor and aircraft designer Barnes Wallis while at Vickers-Armstrongs for a large strategic bomber. This aircraft was to have performed what Wallis referred to as "anti-civil engineering" bombing missions and was to have carried his proje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dead%20Talk%20Back | The Dead Talk Back is a crime film that was produced in 1957, but was not released until 1993. The film is also a drama film with major subjects of the film being investigations, metaphysics, murder, police, and scientists.
Plot
Scientist Henry Krasker (Farnese) experiments in speaking with the dead from the afterli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a fiber is a particularly lightweight thread of execution.
Like threads, fibers share address space. However, fibers use cooperative multitasking while threads use preemptive multitasking. Threads often depend on the kernel's thread scheduler to preempt a busy thread and resume another thread; fib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time%20adaptive%20processing | Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is a signal processing technique most commonly used in radar systems. It involves adaptive array processing algorithms to aid in target detection. Radar signal processing benefits from STAP in areas where interference is a problem (i.e. ground clutter, jamming, etc.). Through ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse%20mass | The transverse mass is a useful quantity to define for use in particle physics as it is invariant under Lorentz boost along the z direction. In natural units, it is:
where the z-direction is along the beam pipe and so
and are the momentum perpendicular to the beam pipe and
is the (invariant) mass.
This definition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo%20Fardella | Michelangelo Fardella (1650 – January 2, 1718) was an Italian scientist.
Fardella was born at Trapani, Sicily, and died in Naples. He was a member of the Order of Friars Minor. He excelled in physics and mathematics, and was both the chair of philosophy in Modena and of astronomy and philosophy in Padua. He embraced t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Hagen | Hans Hagen (born 1953) is a professor of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern. His main research interests are scientific visualization and geometric modelling.
From 1999 to 2003 he was the editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
He got the John Gregory Memorial Aw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20G.%20Colling | Richard G. Colling is a former professor of biology and chairman of the biological sciences department at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois, who was barred from teaching general biology after writing a book that attempts to reconcile Christian belief with a scientific understanding of evolution.
Ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADD%20%28disambiguation%29 | CADD is Computer-Aided Design and Drafting
CADD is also Computer-Aided Drug Design
Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion, in biology.
CADD may also refer to:
Brian Cadd (born 1946), Australian musician
See also
Caddy (disambiguation)
CADDS, an early product of the company Computervision
CAAD, abbreviation f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood%20of%20Railroad%20Signalmen | The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS) is a labor union in the United States. It represents workers who install, maintain, and repair railroad traffic control systems. These include switching, signaling, and highway-rail crossing warning systems on rail transport networks. Founded in 1901, it has a membership of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSEA | CSEA may refer to:
California School Employees Association
California State Employees Association
Civil Service Employees Association (AFSCME Local 1000)
Computer Science and Engineering Association, IIT Guwahati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20filament | In biology, a protein filament is a long chain of protein monomers, such as those found in hair, muscle, or in flagella. Protein filaments form together to make the cytoskeleton of the cell. They are often bundled together to provide support, strength, and rigidity to the cell. When the filaments are packed up togethe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excluded%20point%20topology | In mathematics, the excluded point topology is a topology where exclusion of a particular point defines openness. Formally, let X be any non-empty set and p ∈ X. The collection
of subsets of X is then the excluded point topology on X. There are a variety of cases which are individually named:
If X has two points,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oper | Oper may refer to:
Technology
Operator (disambiguation)
IRC operator
Outstanding Physical Education Preparation, a website for PE preparation
Opera
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Leipzig, Komische Oper Berlin, Alte Oper
Romantische Oper, genre of German opera
Surname
Andres Oper, Estonian football player
Mathemati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POTS%20codec | A POTS codec is a type of audio coder-decoder (codec) that uses digital signal processing to transmit audio digitally over standard telephone lines (plain old telephone service, POTS) at a higher level of audio quality than the telephone line would normally provide in its analog mode. The POTS codec is one of a family ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighWire | HighWire is an internet hosting service in the United States specialising in academic and scholarly publications. HighWire-hosted publishers collectively make over 2 million articles available (out of 7.5 million articles) freely accessible.
History
HighWire was founded by Stanford University Libraries in 1995. The J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral%20mutation | Neutral mutations are changes in DNA sequence that are neither beneficial nor detrimental to the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce. In population genetics, mutations in which natural selection does not affect the spread of the mutation in a species are termed neutral mutations. Neutral mutations that are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shijimia%20moorei | Shijimia moorei, the Moore's Cupid, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. It is found from Assam to Indo China and Japan.
Taxonomy
S. m. moorei Yunnan
S. m. taiwana Matsumura, 1919 Taiwan
Biology
The larva on feeds on Lysionotus pauciflorus
See also
List of butterflies o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak%20%28disambiguation%29 | A yak is a long-haired species of cattle. There are two types of yak:
Domestic yak (Bos grunniens)
Wild yak (Bos mutus)
Yak may also refer to:
Yak (band), an English rock band
YAK (cryptography) is a public-key authenticated key agreement protocol
Yak (Thailand), a mythical ogre of the Yasha kind
Yak (instrumen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnim%20Zola | Arnim Zola is a supervillain appearing in American comic books by Marvel Comics. He is a master of biochemistry and a recurring enemy of Captain America and the Avengers. The character first appeared in Captain America and the Falcon #208 (April 1977), and was created by writer/artist Jack Kirby. When he was first intr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinesmith | Machinesmith (Samuel "Starr" Saxon) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most notably as a regular enemy of Captain America. He specializes in robotics, and is able to make convincing robotic doubles of other superhumans. His own mind was ultimately transferred to a robotic bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Murdoch%20Henderson | J. Murdoch Henderson (31 March 1902 – November 1970) was a Scottish fiddler, composer, and music critic.
John Murdoch Henderson was born in New Deer, Scotland, and became a mathematics teacher in Aberdeen. A childhood accident led to him breaking both wrists and hampered his playing. He took an interest in the interp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmstedt%E2%80%93Tanasescu%20reaction | The Lehmstedt–Tanasescu reaction is a method in organic chemistry for the organic synthesis of acridone derivatives (3) from a 2-nitrobenzaldehyde (1) and an arene compound (2):
The reaction is named after two chemists who devoted part of their careers to research into this synthetic method, the German chemist Kurt Le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20of%20action | In pharmacology and biochemistry, mode of action (MoA) describes a functional or anatomical change, resulting from the exposure of a living organism to a substance. In comparison, a mechanism of action (MOA) describes such changes at the molecular level.
A mode of action is important in classifying chemicals, as it re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20G.%20Hansen | Arthur Gene "Art" Hansen (February 28, 1925 – July 5, 2010) was a philanthropist and former chancellor of several American universities.
Education and early career
Hansen joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve and was sent to Purdue University as part of the Navy's V-12 program. He earned his bachelor's degree ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Bacteriology | The Journal of Bacteriology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1916. It is published by the American Society for Microbiology and the editor in chief is George A. O'Toole (Dartmouth College). The journal is delayed open access: content is available for free at the journal's website and at Pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods%20in%20Enzymology | Methods in Enzymology is a book-series of scientific publications focused primarily on research methods in biochemistry by Academic Press, created by Sidney P. Colowick and Nathan O. Kaplan.
Content
Historically, each volume has centered on a specific topic of biochemistry, such as DNA repair, yeast genetics, or the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Makanin | Vladimir Semyonovich Makanin (; 13 March 1937 in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union – 1 November 2017 in , Aksaysky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia) was a Russian writer of novels and short stories
Life
Makanin graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University and worked as a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20J.%20Finlay%20Prize%20for%20Microbiology | The Carlos J. Finlay Prize is a biennial scientific prize sponsored by the Government of Cuba and awarded since 1980 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to people or organizations for their outstanding contributions to microbiology (including immunology, molecular biology, g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Lapworth | Arthur Lapworth FRS (10 October 1872 – 5 April 1941) was a Scottish chemist.
He was born in Galashiels, Scotland, the son of geologist Charles Lapworth, and educated at St Andrew's and King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham. He graduated in chemistry from Mason College (later Birmingham University). From 1893 to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadiraja%20Tirtha | Sri Vadiraja Tirtha (1480 – 1600) was a Dvaita philosopher, poet, traveller and mystic. A polymath of his time, he authored many works, often polemical, on Madhva theology and metaphysics. Additionally, he composed numerous poems and as the pontiff of Sodhe Mutt, renovated the temple complex at Udupi and established th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20strand | In genetics, a sense strand, or coding strand, is the segment within double-stranded DNA that carries the translatable code in the 5′ to 3′ direction, and which is complementary to the antisense strand of DNA, or template strand, which does not carry the translatable code in the 5′ to 3′ direction. The sense strand i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Jeremijenko | Natalie Jeremijenko (born 1966) is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of the net.art movement, and her work primarily explores the interface between society, the environment and technology.
She has alterna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20National%20College%20for%20the%20Blind | The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) is a co-educational specialist residential college of further education based in the English city of Hereford. Students who attend the college are aged 16 to 25 and blind or partially sighted. They can study a wide range of qualifications at RNC, from academic subjects suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20closed%20category | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, compact closed categories are a general context for treating dual objects. The idea of a dual object generalizes the more familiar concept of the dual of a finite-dimensional vector space. So, the motivating example of a compact closed category is FdVect, the category havi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization%20of%20an%20algebraic%20form | In mathematics, in particular in algebra, polarization is a technique for expressing a homogeneous polynomial in a simpler fashion by adjoining more variables. Specifically, given a homogeneous polynomial, polarization produces a unique symmetric multilinear form from which the original polynomial can be recovered by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliano%20Preparata | Giuliano Preparata (10 March 1942, Padua – 24 April 2000, Frascati) was an Italian physicist.
Biography
He attended the High School Umberto I of Rome (the same as Enrico Fermi), and graduated in theoretical physics with honors in 1964. The following year he was in Florence with a CNR grant, later to become appointed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro%20inequality | In mathematics, the Shapiro inequality is an inequality proposed by Harold S. Shapiro in 1954.
Statement of the inequality
Suppose is a natural number and are positive numbers and:
is even and less than or equal to , or
is odd and less than or equal to .
Then the Shapiro inequality states that
where .
For g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20coregulator | In molecular biology and genetics, transcription coregulators are proteins that interact with transcription factors to either activate or repress the transcription of specific genes. Transcription coregulators that activate gene transcription are referred to as coactivators while those that repress are known as corepr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20A.%20D.%20de%20Maine | Paul Alexander Desmond de Maine (October 11, 1924 – May 13, 1999) was a leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s.
Early life and education
He was born in South Africa and took his B.Sc. in ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20object | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a dual object is an analogue of a dual vector space from linear algebra for objects in arbitrary monoidal categories. It is only a partial generalization, based upon the categorical properties of duality for finite-dimensional vector spaces. An object admitting a dual is cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Hepp%20rearrangement | In organic chemistry, the Fischer–Hepp rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in which an aromatic N-nitroso () or nitrosamine () converts to a carbon nitroso compound:
This organic reaction was first described by the German chemist Otto Philipp Fischer (1852–1932) and
Eduard Hepp (June 11, 1851 – June 18, 1917) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20analytic%20Eisenstein%20series | In mathematics, the simplest real analytic Eisenstein series is a special function of two variables. It is used in the representation theory of SL(2,R) and in analytic number theory. It is closely related to the Epstein zeta function.
There are many generalizations associated to more complicated groups.
Definition
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili%20Pronchishchev | Vasili Vasilyevich Pronchishchev () (1702–) was a Russian explorer.
In 1718, Vasili Pronchishchev graduated from Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation and was promoted to naval cadet. In 1733, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and appointed head of one of the units of the Second Kamchatka Expedition, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20the%20Universe | Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos is a 2006 popular science book by Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book proposes that the Universe is a quantum computer (supercomputer), and advances in the understanding of physi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLAS%20%28education%29 | CLAS was a test and given in California in the early 1990s. It was based on concepts of new standards such as whole language and reform mathematics. Instead of multiple choice tests with one correct answer, it used open written responses that were graded according to rubrics. Test takers would have to write about pass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafik%20Schami | Rafik Schami () (born Suheil Fadel () 23 June 1946) is a Syrian-German author, storyteller and critic.
Biography
Born in Syria in 1946, Schami is the son of a baker from a Syriac-Christian family. His family originated from the town of Maaloula. After attending a monastery boarding school in Lebanon, he studied chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Freundlich | Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich (28 January 1880 in Charlottenburg – 30 March 1941 in Minneapolis) was a German chemist.
His father was of German Jewish descent, and his mother ( Finlay) was from Scotland. His younger brother was Erwin Finlay Freundlich (1885–1964).
He was a department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Kelley%20%28writer%29 | Brian Kelley is an American television writer. He has written for SNL, Newsradio, Clerks, Futurama, Joey and The Simpsons.
Biography
Kelley graduated with honors from Connecticut's Darien High School, and in 1990 he entered Harvard University as a physics major. He became a television writer four years later.
Writing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aled%20Edwards | Aled Morgan Edwards (born June 1, 1962) is the founder and Chief Executive of the Structural Genomics Consortium, a charitable public-private partnership. He is Professor of Medical Genetics and Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, Visiting Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford, and Adj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Walmsley%2C%20Baroness%20Walmsley | Joan Margaret Walmsley, Baroness Walmsley (born 12 April 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She is currently the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.
Biography
She was educated at Notre Dame High School in Liverpool, before attending Liverpool University from where she graduated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRE%20Biochemistry%2C%20Cell%20and%20Molecular%20Biology%20Test | GRE Subject Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology was a standardized exam provided by ETS (Educational Testing Service) that was discontinued in December 2016. It is a paper-based exam and there are no computer-based versions of it. ETS places this exam three times per year: once in April, once in October and once i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20education%20in%20Australia | Mathematics education in Australia varies significantly between states, especially at the upper secondary level. While every school offers a state-based education systems, some may also offer the International Baccalaureate program.
Secondary
New South Wales
Higher School Certificate
The Higher School Certificate (H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFRB | IFRB is an acronym for:
Institute of Food and Radiation Biology
International Frequency Registration Board, a former organ of the International Telecommunication Union; see
See also
IRFB, the International Rugby Football Board, the predecessor to World Rugby |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Stephenson%20%28psychologist%29 | William Stephenson (May 14, 1902 – June 14, 1989) was a psychologist and physicist best known for developing Q methodology.
He was born in England and trained in physics at the University of Oxford and Durham University (where he earned a Ph.D. in 1926). His interest in research methods in physics and complementarity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility%20%28geochemistry%29 | Compatibility is a term used by geochemists to describe how elements partition themselves in the solid and melt within Earth's mantle. In geochemistry, compatibility is a measure of how readily a particular trace element substitutes for a major element within a mineral.
Compatibility of an ion is controlled by two thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite%20inner%20product%20space | In mathematics, in the field of functional analysis, an indefinite inner product space
is an infinite-dimensional complex vector space equipped with both an indefinite inner product
and a positive semi-definite inner product
where the metric operator is an endomorphism of obeying
The indefinite inner product spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Thompson | Hugh Patrick Thompson (born 21 October 1935), known as Patrick Thompson, is a British Conservative Party politician.
Early life
Educated at Felsted School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Thompson was a schoolmaster, teaching physics. From 1960 to 1965, he taught at the Manchester Grammar School and from 1965 to 1983 ... |
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