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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Tannery | Paul Tannery (20 December 1843 – 27 November 1904) was a French mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo%20Finkelstein | Salo Finkelstein (born 1896 or 1897, date of death unknown) was a mental calculator. He was born in Łódź (then within the Russian Empire, now in Poland) to a Jewish family.
While at school he was above average in mathematics, and discovered his calculating abilities as well as his faculty in memorizing numbers. At the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A9nard%20equation | In mathematics, more specifically in the study of dynamical systems and differential equations, a Liénard equation is a second order differential equation, named after the French physicist Alfred-Marie Liénard.
During the development of radio and vacuum tube technology, Liénard equations were intensely studied as they... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retraction | Retraction or retract(ed) may refer to:
Academia
Retraction in academic publishing, withdrawals of previously published academic journal articles
Mathematics
Retraction (category theory)
Retract (group theory)
Retraction (topology)
Human physiology
Retracted (phonetics), a sound pronounced to the back of the vo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmath | cmath or CMath may stand for:
The cmath header file in C++, alias of math.h.
(complex math) is a library for Python ( for example results in )
CMath, abbreviation of the chartered mathematician title offered by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20paraffin | Liquid paraffin may refer to:
Liquid paraffin (drug)
Mineral oil
In chemistry, a mixture of heavier alkanes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Bruen | Ken Bruen (born 1951) is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.
Biography
Education and teaching career
Born in Galway, he was educated at Gormanston College, County Meath and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he earned a PhD in metaphysics.
Bruen spent twenty-five years as an English teacher i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, an operation is a function which takes zero or more input values (also called "operands" or "arguments") to a well-defined output value. The number of operands is the arity of the operation.
The most commonly studied operations are binary operations (i.e., operations of arity 2), such as addition and m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ido%20Abram | Isidoor Bert Hans "Ido" Abram (1940, Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 14 January 2019), was a Dutch educator and writer on the nature of Jewishness.
Early life
As a small child during World War II Abram was an internee in Japanese camps. After liberation his family returned to the Netherlands. Abram studied mathematics a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodemography%20of%20human%20longevity | Biodemography is a multidisciplinary approach, integrating biological knowledge (studies on human biology and animal models) with demographic research on human longevity and survival. Biodemographic studies are important for understanding the driving forces of the current longevity revolution (dramatic increase in huma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Assurance%20Internet%20Protocol%20Encryptor | A High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) is a Type 1 encryption device that complies with the National Security Agency's HAIPE IS (formerly the HAIPIS, the High Assurance Internet Protocol Interoperability Specification). The cryptography used is Suite A and Suite B, also specified by the NSA as part of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20dynamo | The solar dynamo is a physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field. It is explained with a variant of the dynamo theory. A naturally occurring electric generator in the Sun's interior produces electric currents and a magnetic field, following the laws of Ampère, Faraday and Ohm, as well as the laws of fluid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenberger%E2%80%93Horne%E2%80%93Zeilinger%20state | In physics, in the area of quantum information theory, a Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state (GHZ state) is a certain type of entangled quantum state that involves at least three subsystems (particle states, qubits, or qudits). The four-particle version was first studied by Daniel Greenberger, Michael Horne and Anton Zei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive%20analytics | Predictive analytics is a form of business analytics applying machine learning to generate a predictive model for certain business applications. As such, it encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from predictive modeling and machine learning that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Kakalios | James Kakalios (born December 27, 1958) is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. Known within the scientific community for his work with amorphous semiconductors, granular materials, and 1/f noise, he is known to the general public as the author of the book The Physics of Superheroes, which considers comi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20A.%20Tiller | William A. Tiller (Toronto, Canada, September 18, 1929 – Scottsdale, Arizona, February 7, 2022) was a professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University.
He wrote Science and Human Transformation, a book about concepts such as subtle energies beyond the four fundamental forces, which he believes act ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict%20Machine | "Strict Machine" is an electronic dance song written by British electronic music duo Goldfrapp and Nick Batt for Goldfrapp's second studio album, Black Cherry (2003). It was produced by Goldfrapp and describes laboratory rats in neuroscience experiments. Alison Goldfrapp read in a newspaper about experiments in which s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s%20theorem%20%28stationary%20points%29 | In mathematics, Fermat's theorem (also known as interior extremum theorem) is a method to find local maxima and minima of differentiable functions on open sets by showing that every local extremum of the function is a stationary point (the function's derivative is zero at that point). Fermat's theorem is a theorem in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan%20Physics%20Institute | The A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory () is a research institute located in Yerevan, Armenia. It was founded in 1943 as a branch of the Yerevan State University by brothers Abram Alikhanov and Artem Alikhanian. It was often referred to by the acronym YerPhI (Yerevan Physics Institute). In 2011 it was renamed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20J%20%28mtDNA%29 | Haplogroup J is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. The clade derives from the haplogroup JT, which also gave rise to haplogroup T. Within the field of medical genetics, certain polymorphisms specific to haplogroup J have been associated with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy.
Origin
Around 45,000 years be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-bodies | In cellular biology, P-bodies, or processing bodies, are distinct foci formed by phase separation within the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell consisting of many enzymes involved in mRNA turnover. P-bodies are highly conserved structures and have been observed in somatic cells originating from vertebrates and invertebrat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20B%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, haplogroup B is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup B is believed to have arisen in Asia some 50,000 years before present. Its ancestral haplogroup was Eurasian haplogroup R.
The greatest variety of haplogroup B is in China. It is therefore likely that it u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae-Wan%20Ho | Mae-Wan Ho (; 12 November 1941 – 24 March 2016) was a geneticist known for her critical views on genetic engineering and evolution. She authored or co-authored a number of publications, including 10 books, such as The Rainbow and the Worm, the Physics of Organisms (1993, 1998), Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare? ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20A%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, Haplogroup A is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup A is believed to have arisen in Asia some 30,000–50,000 years BC. Its ancestral haplogroup was Haplogroup N. However, the extant diversity of mitochondrial genomes that belong to Haplogroup A is low relat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20C%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, Haplogroup C is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup C is believed to have arisen somewhere between the Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal some 24,000 years before present. It is a descendant of the haplogroup M. Haplogroup C shares six mutations downstream of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20D%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, Haplogroup D is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
It is a descendant haplogroup of haplogroup M, thought to have arisen somewhere in Asia, between roughly 60,000 and 35,000 years ago (in the Late Pleistocene, before the Last Glacial Maximum and the settlement of the Americas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Nugent | Keith Alexander Nugent FAA (born 28 June 1959) is an Australian physicist. He is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.
He was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) at La Trobe University, Victoria, and a Laureate Professo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20Z | In human mitochondrial genetics, Haplogroup Z is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup Z is believed to have arisen in Central Asia, and is a descendant of haplogroup CZ.
Distribution
The greatest clade diversity of haplogroup Z is found in East Asia and Central Asia. However, its greatest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAC | ACAC or acac may refer to:
Acetylacetonate (acac), a ligand in coordination chemistry derived from acetylacetone
ACAC consortium, a subsidiary of China Aviation Industry Corporation
Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference, the governing body for collegiate sports in Alberta, Canada
Amador County Arts Council, the of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigent%20protein | Dirigent proteins are members of a class of proteins which dictate the stereochemistry of a compound synthesized by other enzymes. The first dirigent protein was discovered in Forsythia intermedia. This protein has been found to direct the stereoselective biosynthesis of (+)-pinoresinol from coniferyl alcohol monomers:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation-absorbent%20material | In materials science, radiation-absorbent material (RAM) is a material which has been specially designed and shaped to absorb incident RF radiation (also known as non-ionising radiation), as effectively as possible, from as many incident directions as possible. The more effective the RAM, the lower the resulting level ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20P%20%28Y-DNA%29 | Haplogroup P also known as P-F5850 or K2b2 is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup in human genetics. P-F5850 is a branch of K2b (previously Haplogroup MPS; P331), which is a branch of Haplogroup K2 (K-M526).
The haplogroup K2b splits into K2b1 (haplogroup MS*) and K2b2 (haplogroup P-F580, Y-DNA P*). Basal P* (P-PF5850*) is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20virtualization | In computer science, storage virtualization is "the process of presenting a logical view of the physical storage resources to" a host computer system, "treating all storage media (hard disk, optical disk, tape, etc.) in the enterprise as a single pool of storage."
A "storage system" is also known as a storage array, d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Brough%20Smyth | Robert Brough Smyth (1830 – 8 October 1889) was an Australian geologist, author and social commentator.
Life
Smyth was born in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, the son of Edward Smyth, a mining engineer, and his wife Ann, née Brough. Smyth was educated at a school at Whickham, afterwards studied geology, chemistry a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter%20%28genetics%29 | An adapter or adaptor, or a linker in genetic engineering is a short, chemically synthesized, single-stranded or double-stranded oligonucleotide that can be ligated to the ends of other DNA or RNA molecules. Double stranded adapters can be synthesized to have blunt ends to both terminals or to have sticky end at one en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Chroston | John Chroston of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, a biology teacher at Falkirk High School, Scotland, was one of the few tourists present during the Indian Ocean earthquake able to recognize tsunami warning signs and prompt a beach evacuation. Another foreigner who issued an alert was 10-year-old British schoolgirl Till... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zajonc | Zajonc or Zayonc ( ) is a surname. It is a spelling variant of Zając, meaning "hare" in Polish. Notable people with the surname include:
Arthur Zajonc (born 1949), professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts
Miroslav Zajonc or Miro Zayonc (born 1960), Czechoslovak-born luger
Rick Zayonc (born 1959), Can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS%20%28disambiguation%29 | MVS is an IBM mainframe computer operating system, commonly known as Multiple Virtual Storage.
MVS may also refer to:
Maritime Volunteer Service, a UK Charity supplying Maritime Training and Support
Marquez Valdes-Scantling, an American football player
Metal vapor synthesis, a technique in chemistry
Mezinárodní ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullaskar%20Dutta | Ullaskar Dutta (16 April 1885 – 17 May 1965) was an Indian revolutionary associated with Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar of Bengal, and was a close associate of Barindra nath Ghosh. He was the principal bomb maker of the Jugantar group until Hemchandra Kanungo returned from Paris learning political theory and explosive c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Fallon | James H. "Jim" Fallon (born October 18, 1947) is an American neuroscientist. He is professor of psychiatry and human behavior and emeritus professor of anatomy and neurobiology in the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. His research interests include adult stem cells, chemical neuroanatomy and circuitr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilist%20cipher | In the history of cryptography, the Nihilist cipher is a manually operated symmetric encryption cipher, originally used by Russian Nihilists in the 1880s to organize terrorism against the tsarist regime. The term is sometimes extended to several improved algorithms used much later for communication by the First Chief D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20mitochondrial%20DNA%20haplogroup | In human genetics, a human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup is a haplogroup defined by differences in human mitochondrial DNA. Haplogroups are used to represent the major branch points on the mitochondrial phylogenetic tree. Understanding the evolutionary path of the female lineage has helped population geneticists trace ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability%20theory%20of%20aging%20and%20longevity | The reliability theory of aging is an attempt to apply the principles of reliability theory to create a mathematical model of senescence. The theory was published in Russian by Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova as Biologiia prodolzhitelʹnosti zhizni in 1986, and in English translation as The Biology of Life S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credibility%20theory | Credibility theory is a branch of actuarial mathematics concerned with determining risk premiums. To achieve this, it uses mathematical models in an effort to forecast the (expected) number of insurance claims based on past observations. Technically speaking, the problem is to find the best linear approximation to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20arm | The T-arm or T-loop is a specialized region on the tRNA molecule which acts as a special recognition site for the ribosome to form a tRNA-ribosome complex during protein biosynthesis or translation (biology).
The T-arm has two components to it; the T-stems and the T-loop.
There are two T-stems of five base pairs eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromagnetics | Micromagnetics is a field of physics dealing with the prediction of magnetic behaviors at sub-micrometer length scales. The length scales considered are large enough for the atomic structure of the material to be ignored (the continuum approximation), yet small enough to resolve magnetic structures such as domain walls... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoregiochemistry | Cryptoregiochemistry refers to the site of initial oxidative attack in double bond formation by enzymes such as fatty acid desaturases. This is a mechanistic parameter that is usually determined through the use of kinetic isotope effect experiments, based on the premise that the initial C-H bond cleavage step should be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taita%20falcon | The Taita falcon (Falco fasciinucha) is a small falcon found in central and eastern Africa. It was first described from the Taita Hills of Kenya from which it derives its name.
Description
The Taita falcon is a small, rare raptor species. The biology and ecology of this falcon is not well-understood. It is robust, l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Y-chromosome%20DNA%20haplogroup | thumb|500 Y-DNA phylogeny and haplogroup distribution.
(a) Phylogenetic tree. 'kya' means 'thousand years ago'.
(b) Geographical distributions of haplogroups are shown in color.
(c) Geographical color legend.
In genetics, a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup is a haplogroup defined by mutations in the non-recombining porti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20universe | Parallel universe may refer to:
Science
Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which implies the existence of parallel universes
Multiverse, the sum of all universes, e.g. everything that exists
Philosophy
Possible world, a construct in metaphysics to bring rigor to talk of logical possibility
Modal r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalkOrigins%20Archive | The TalkOrigins Archive is a website that presents mainstream science perspectives on the antievolution claims of young-earth, old-earth, and "intelligent design" creationists. With sections on evolution, creationism, geology, astronomy and hominid evolution, the web site provides broad coverage of evolutionary biology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20F.%20Schaefer%20III | Henry Frederick "Fritz" Schaefer III (born June 8, 1944) is a computational and theoretical chemist. He is one of the most highly cited chemists in the world, with a Thomson Reuters H-Index of 121 as of 2020. He is the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meropeidae | Meropeidae is a family of tiny scorpionflies within the order Mecoptera with only three living species, commonly referred to as "earwigflies" (or sometimes "forcepflies"). These include the North American Merope tuber, the Western Australian Austromerope poultoni, and the recently discovered South American A. brasilie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20R.%20Weart | Spencer R. Weart (born 1942) is the former director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) from 1971 until his retirement in 2009.
Life
Originally trained as a physicist, he is now a historian of science. He earned his B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph.D. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Centre%20for%20Ecology%20%26%20Hydrology | The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) is a centre for excellence in environmental science across water, land and air.
The organisation has a long history of investigating, monitoring and modelling environmental change. Research topics include: air pollution, biodiversity, chemical risks in the environment, ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen%20trilemma | In epistemology, the Münchhausen trilemma is a thought experiment intended to demonstrate the theoretical impossibility of proving any truth, even in the fields of logic and mathematics, without appealing to accepted assumptions. If it is asked how any given proposition is known to be true, proof in support of that pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20random%20number%20generators | Random number generators are important in many kinds of technical applications, including physics, engineering or mathematical computer studies (e.g., Monte Carlo simulations), cryptography and gambling (on game servers).
This list includes many common types, regardless of quality or applicability to a given use case.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovis | Bovis may refer to:
Bovis Homes Group, a national British housebuilding company
Bovis Lend Lease, an international construction management company and subsidiary of Lend Lease Corporation
Bovis Project Management, an national Mexican construction management company, formerly subsidiary of Lend Lease Corporation
Bio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel%20gauge | In automotive and aerospace engineering, a fuel gauge is an instrument used to indicate the amount of fuel in a fuel tank. In electrical engineering, the term is used for ICs determining the current State of Charge of accumulators.
Motor vehicles
As used in vehicles, the gauge consists of two parts:
The sending un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20John%20Kerr | Frank John Kerr (8 January 191815 September 2000) was an Australian astronomer and physicist who made contributions to human understanding of the galactic structure of the Milky Way. Born in St Albans to Australian parents, Kerr returned with his family to Australia after the completion of World War I. He received de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margie%20Profet | Margaret J. "Margie" Profet (born August 7, 1958) is an American evolutionary biologist with no formal biology training who created a decade-long controversy when she published her findings on the role of Darwinian evolution in menstruation, allergies and morning sickness. She argued that these three processes had evol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litmus%20test%20%28politics%29 | In politics, a litmus test is a question asked of a potential candidate for high office, the answer to which would determine whether the nominating official would proceed with the appointment or nomination. The expression is a metaphor based on the litmus test in chemistry, in which one is able to test the general acid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20machine%20vision | The following are common definitions related to the machine vision field.
General related fields
Machine vision
Computer vision
Image processing
Signal processing
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1394. FireWire is Apple Inc.'s brand name for the IEEE 1394 interface. It is also known as i.Link (Sony's name) or IEEE 1394 (although the 1394 st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20E.%20Buckley%20Prize | The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize is an annual award given by the American Physical Society "to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics." It was endowed by AT&T Bell Laboratories as a means of recognizing outstanding scientific work. The prize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20films%20about%20mathematicians | This is a list of feature films and documentaries that include mathematicians, scientists who use math or references to mathematicians.
About mathematics
Films where mathematics is central to the plot:
21 (2008) – A group of current and former MIT students, mostly mathematicians, and an algebra professor devise a ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20geometry | In mathematics, convex geometry is the branch of geometry studying convex sets, mainly in Euclidean space. Convex sets occur naturally in many areas: computational geometry, convex analysis, discrete geometry, functional analysis, geometry of numbers, integral geometry, linear programming, probability theory, game theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlile%20Pollock%20Patterson | Carlile Pollock Patterson (August 24, 1816 – August 15, 1881) was the fourth superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. He was born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, the son of Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson. He was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy in 1830. He studied Civil Engineering... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Ambrose | Warren Arthur Ambrose (October 25, 1914 – December 4, 1995) was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Buenos Aires.
He was born in Virden, Illinois in 1914. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1935, his master's in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1939, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-biquaternion | In mathematics, a split-biquaternion is a hypercomplex number of the form
where w, x, y, and z are split-complex numbers and i, j, and k multiply as in the quaternion group. Since each coefficient w, x, y, z spans two real dimensions, the split-biquaternion is an element of an eight-dimensional vector space. Conside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20J.%20Blanco | Francisco José Blanco is a chemist working on structural biology at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in Madrid, Spain. His research utilizes Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy to characterize protein structure and interactions relevant in cancer. Early in his career he worked in protein folding, desc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico%20Capasso | Federico Capasso (born 1949) is an applied physicist and is one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University.
Biography
Federico Capasso received the Doctor of Physics degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Rome, Italy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20of%20immanence | Plane of immanence () is a founding concept in the metaphysics or ontology of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
Immanence, meaning residing or becoming within, generally offers a relative opposition to transcendence, that which extends beyond or outside. Deleuze "refuses to see deviations, redundancies, destructions,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Texas%20Longhorn%20Band | The University of Texas Longhorn Band (LHB), also known as the Showband of the Southwest, is the marching band of The University of Texas at Austin. The Longhorn Band was founded in 1900 by distinguished professor of chemistry, Dr. Eugene P. Schoch. The band is currently under the direction of Dr. Cliff Croomes. The ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavorist | A flavorist, also known as flavor chemist, is someone who uses chemistry to engineer artificial and natural flavors. The tools and materials used by flavorists are almost the same as that used by perfumers with the exception that flavorists seek to mimic or modify both the olfactory and gustatory properties of various ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%20%28cryptography%29 | Panama is a cryptographic primitive which can be used both as a hash function and a stream cipher, but its hash function mode of operation has been broken and is not suitable for cryptographic use. Based on StepRightUp, it was designed by Joan Daemen and Craig Clapp and presented in the paper Fast Hashing and Stream E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Levin%20%28Internet%20governance%29 | Alan Levin (born 15 April 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African computer scientist and internet activist.
Early life and career
He obtained a Computer Science degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990 and left South Africa to avoid his conscription to the South African army during the last... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Rellich | Franz Rellich (September 14, 1906 – September 25, 1955) was an Austrian-German mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him.
Biograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20transition%20region | The solar transition region is a region of the Sun's atmosphere between the upper chromosphere and corona. It is important because it is the site of several unrelated but important transitions in the physics of the solar atmosphere:
Below, gravity tends to dominate the shape of most features, so that the Sun may often... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20mapping | Brain mapping is a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps.
According to the definition established in 2013 by Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT), brain mapping is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20expansion | In mathematics, an expansion of a product of sums expresses it as a sum of products by using the fact that multiplication distributes over addition. Expansion of a polynomial expression can be obtained by repeatedly replacing subexpressions that multiply two other subexpressions, at least one of which is an addition, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20molecular%20biology | The history of molecular biology begins in the 1930s with the convergence of various, previously distinct biological and physical disciplines: biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, virology and physics. With the hope of understanding life at its most fundamental level, numerous physicists and chemists also took an int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Liebowitz | Dr. Michael R. Liebowitz is a Columbia University psychiatrist and founder of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic, the first of its kind, at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Liebowitz pioneered research on the molecular basis of love and wrote a book on the topic, "The Chemistry of Love."
Early life and education
H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20pressure | In physics, magnetic pressure is an energy density associated with a magnetic field. In SI units, the energy density of a magnetic field with strength can be expressed as
where is the vacuum permeability.
Any magnetic field has an associated magnetic pressure contained by the boundary conditions on the field. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20in%20the%20Renaissance | During the Renaissance, great advances occurred in geography, astronomy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, manufacturing, anatomy and engineering. The collection of ancient scientific texts began in earnest at the start of the 15th century and continued up to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the invention of prin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20behaviourist | A dog behaviourist is a person who works in modifying or changing behaviour in dogs. They can be experienced dog handlers, who have developed their experience over many years of hands-on experience, or have formal training up to degree level. Some have backgrounds in veterinary science, animal science, zoology, sociolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20decay | In nuclear physics, neutron decay may refer to:
Neutron emission by an atomic nucleus
Free neutron decay
Beta decay of a neutron inside an atomic nucleus
Baryon decay, as predicted by grand unified theories, also involves neutron decay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20identity | In mathematics, the additive identity of a set that is equipped with the operation of addition is an element which, when added to any element in the set, yields . One of the most familiar additive identities is the number 0 from elementary mathematics, but additive identities occur in other mathematical structures whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatos%20Kongoli | Fatos Kongoli (born January 12, 1944) is an Albanian novelist and a utilizer of contemporary Albanian prose.
Biography
He was born and raised in Elbasan and studied at the Qemal Stafa High School, in Tirana, Albania. Afterwards he studied mathematics in China during the tense years of the Sino-Albanian split. Kongoli ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus%20Rosenberg | Gerson "Gus" Rosenberg is an American biomedical engineer. He is the Jane A. Fetter Professor of Surgery, professor of bioengineering, and chief of the Division of Applied Biomedical Engineering (previously known as the Division of Artificial Organs) at Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Coll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan%20Prize | Distinguish from the De Morgan Medal awarded by the London Mathematical Society.
The Morgan Prize (full name Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student) is an annual award given to an undergraduate student in the US, Canada, or Mexico who demonstrates superior mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Woessner | Warren Woessner (born 1944), poet and lawyer, studied creative writing with James McConkey and A. R. Ammons at Cornell University. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1966 and co-founded Abraxas Magazine with poet James Bertolino in 1968. He was also a founder of WORT-FM and hosted its poetry program. He received a Ph.D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHG | SHG may refer to:
Sacred Heart-Griffin High School, Springfield, Illinois, US
Samoyed hereditary glomerulopathy, a dog disease
Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer, an archaeogenetic lineage
Second-harmonic generation in optical physics
Segmented Hyper Graphics, a file format
Self Help Graphics & Art
Self-help group (f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Spybotics | Lego Spybotics (stylized as LEGO Spybotics) was a Mindstorms robotics sub-series by Lego. There are four different sets, each of which includes a Spybot, a controller, a cable, and a software disc. The Spybots are color-coded, and each one has a different set of equipment attached. The software disc allows the user to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20process | Also known as the (Moran-)Gamma Process, the gamma process is a random process studied in mathematics, statistics, probability theory, and stochastics. The gamma process is a stochastic or random process consisting of independently distributed gamma distributions where represents the number of event occurrences from t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-ratio%20%28oceanography%29 | In oceanic biogeochemistry, the f-ratio is the fraction of total primary production fuelled by nitrate (as opposed to that fuelled by other nitrogen compounds such as ammonium). The ratio was originally defined by Richard Eppley and Bruce Peterson in one of the first papers estimating global oceanic production. This fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristane | Pristane is a natural saturated terpenoid alkane obtained primarily from shark liver oil, from which its name is derived (Latin pristis, "shark"). It is also found in the stomach oil of birds in the order Procellariiformes and in mineral oil and some foods. Pristane and phytane are used in the fields of geology and env... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Loudon | James Loudon (May 24, 1841 – December 29, 1916) was a Canadian professor of mathematics and physics and President of the University of Toronto from 1892 to 1906. He was the first Canadian-born professor at the University of Toronto.
Biography
Loudon was educated at the Toronto Grammar School, Upper Canada College, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20selection%20theory | Cultural selection theory is the study of cultural change modelled on theories of evolutionary biology. Cultural selection theory has so far never been a separate discipline. However it has been proposed that
human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and "the structure of a science of cultural ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readers%E2%80%93writer%20lock | In computer science, a readers–writer (single-writer lock, a multi-reader lock, a push lock, or an MRSW lock) is a synchronization primitive that solves one of the readers–writers problems. An RW lock allows concurrent access for read-only operations, whereas write operations require exclusive access. This means that m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higman%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Higman's lemma states that the set of finite sequences over a finite alphabet, as partially ordered by the subsequence relation, is well-quasi-ordered. That is, if is an infinite sequence of words over some fixed finite alphabet, then there exist indices such that can be obtained from by deleting so... |
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