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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Kochin | Nikolai Yevgrafovich Kochin (; 19 May 1901, St Petersburg – 31 December 1944, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician specialising in applied mathematics, and especially fluid and gas mechanics.
Biography
Kochin graduated from Petrograd University in 1923. He taught mathematics and mechanics at Leningrad State... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Vsevolodovich%20Meshcherskiy | Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky (, 1859–1935) was a Russian Empire and Soviet mathematician who gained fame for his work on mechanics, notably the motion of bodies of variable mass.
Biography
Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshcherskiy was born in Arkhangelsk. After graduation from Arkhangelsk Gymnasium, Meshcherskiy studied mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Dayan | Peter Dayan is a British neuroscientist and computer scientist who is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. He is co-author of Theoretical Neuroscience, an influential textbook on computational neuroscience. He is known for applying Bayesian methods from machine learning... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratoire%20d%27Informatique%20Fondamentale%20de%20Lille | The Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), is a computer science research laboratory of University of Lille, in Lille, France. LIFL was founded in 1983 and currently employs more than 200 employees. Since January 2015, the LIFL has merged with another laboratory, the Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20J.%20Van%20Loon | Richard Van Loon (born 1940) is a former Canadian civil servant and ex-president of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
Van Loon was the first president of Carleton who was also a Carleton alumnus. He got his Bachelor of Science in chemistry there in 1961, as well as an MA in 1965. He completed a PhD in political ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20density | In mathematics, the Dirichlet density (or analytic density) of a set of primes, named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, is a measure of the size of the set that is easier to use than the natural density.
Definition
If A is a subset of the prime numbers, the Dirichlet density of A
is the limit
if it exists. Note ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit%20theorem | Limit theorem may refer to:
Central limit theorem, in probability theory
Edgeworth's limit theorem, in economics
Plastic limit theorems, in continuum mechanics
Mathematics disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20and%20Resistance | Control and Resistance is the second and final album by progressive metal band Watchtower, released in 1989. This was the band's last album before disbanding in 1993 while working on its never-released third album Mathematics, and their first release with vocalist Alan Tecchio and guitarist Ron Jarzombek. Control and R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20Axel%20Rydberg | Per Axel Rydberg (July 6, 1860 – July 25, 1931) was a Swedish-born, American botanist who was the first curator of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium.
Biography
Per Axel Rydberg was born in Odh, Västergötland, Sweden and emigrated to the United States in 1882. From 1884 to 1890, he taught mathematics at Luther ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20receptor | In the field of molecular biology, nuclear receptors are a class of proteins responsible for sensing steroids, thyroid hormones, vitamins, and certain other molecules. These intracellular receptors work with other proteins to regulate the expression of specific genes thereby controlling the development, homeostasis, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich%20compound | In organometallic chemistry, a sandwich compound is a chemical compound featuring a metal bound by haptic, covalent bonds to two arene (ring) ligands. The arenes have the formula , substituted derivatives (for example ) and heterocyclic derivatives (for example ). Because the metal is usually situated between the two r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Christopher%20Zeise | William Christopher Zeise (15 October 1789 – 12 November 1847) was a Danish organic chemist. He is best known for synthesising one of the first organometallic compounds, named Zeise's salt in his honour. He also performed pioneering studies in organosulfur chemistry, discovering the xanthates in 1823.
Early life
Willi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20R.%20Rao | Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao was an Indian-American electrical engineer. He was a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington). Academically known as K. R. Rao, he is credited with the co-invention of discrete cosine transform (DCT), along with Nasir Ahmed and T. Natarajan due t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Smyth | Professor Malcolm Smyth is and Irish chemist. He is also the dean of the Faculty of Science & Health at Dublin City University, in Dublin, Ireland. Smyth is also the president of the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and is the first analytical chemist from the Republic of Ireland to hold the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20von%20Jank%C3%B3 | Paul von Jankó (2 June 1856 – 17 March 1919) was a Hungarian pianist, engineer and Idist.
He first studied mathematics and music in Vienna, where he was a pupil of H. Schmitt, J. Krenn and Anton Bruckner. He then moved to Berlin where he during the years 1881 and 1882 studied mathematics at the city's University, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20New%20South%20Wales%20alumni | This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni.
Academia
Toby Walsh, computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert
Dijana Alić, architect and academic
Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University from 2008 until 2014 (Mathematics)
Gernot Heiser, John Lions chai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix%20sum | In computer science, the prefix sum, cumulative sum, inclusive scan, or simply scan of a sequence of numbers is a second sequence of numbers , the sums of prefixes (running totals) of the input sequence:
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For instance, the prefix sums of the natural numbers are the triangular numbers:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM-ODP | Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is a reference model in computer science, which provides a co-ordinating framework for the standardization of open distributed processing (ODP). It supports distribution, interworking, platform and technology independence, and portability, together with an enterpr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizaveta%20Litvinova | Elizaveta Fedorovna Litvinova (1845–1919?) was a Russian mathematician and pedagogue. She is the author of over 70 articles about mathematics education.
Early life and education
Born in 1845 in czarist Russia as Elizaveta Fedorovna Ivashkina, she completed her early education at a women's high school in Saint Petersb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitrii%20Sintsov | Dmitrii Matveevich Sintsov (21 November 1867, in Vyatka – 28 January 1946) was a Russian mathematician known for his work in the theory of conic sections and non-holonomic geometry.
He took a leading role in the development of mathematics at the University of Kharkiv, serving as chairman of the Kharkov Mathematical S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliks%20Bara%C5%84ski | Feliks Barański (1915-2006) was a Polish mathematician and an active member of the so-called Lwów School of Mathematics. Born May 1915 in Lwów, Austria-Hungary (modern Lviv, Ukraine), he joined the circle of young, talented mathematicians formed around Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus. During the period of German occup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Rajewski | Jan Rajewski (14 May 1857 – 30/31 December 1906) was a professor of the University of Lviv. He was a mathematician.
External links
Mathematics at Lviv University
Mathematicians from Austria-Hungary
1857 births
1906 deaths
Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%20rational%20functions | In mathematics, the Chebyshev rational functions are a sequence of functions which are both rational and orthogonal. They are named after Pafnuty Chebyshev. A rational Chebyshev function of degree is defined as:
where is a Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind.
Properties
Many properties can be derived from the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FELICS | FELICS, which stands for Fast Efficient & Lossless Image Compression System, is a lossless image compression algorithm
that performs 5-times faster than the original lossless JPEG codec and achieves a similar compression ratio.
History
It was invented by Paul G. Howard and Jeffrey S. Vitter of the Department of Comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVC | FVC may refer to:
Fair Vote Canada, an electoral reform advocacy group in Canada
Ferraz de Vasconcelos (CPTM), a railway station in Brazil
Financial vehicle corporation in the European Union
Fingerprint Verification Competition
FIRST Vex Challenge, a high school robotics competition
Forced vital capacity
Fortune... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Rousseau | Denis L. Rousseau (signing papers as D. L. Rousseau) is an American scientist. He is currently professor and university chairman of the department of physiology and biophysics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Biography
Rousseau is professor and university chairman of physiology and biophysics at the Albert Ein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collisionless | Collisionless may refer to:
In information theory and computer science, computer networking architectures where collisions between packets of data cannot occur
In computer science, situations where collisions, or occurrences of the same value, cannot occur in a structure (and prevent reliable lookups)
In cosmology and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Vlasov | Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vlasov (; – 22 December 1975) was a Russian, later Soviet, theoretical physicist prominent in the fields of statistical mechanics, kinetics, and especially in plasma physics.
Biography
Anatoly Vlasov was born in Balashov, in the family of a steamfitter. In 1927 he entered into the Moscow State ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICS | LICS may refer to:
Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society
LICS (character set), Lotus International Character Set
LICS (conference), Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
Liberal and Centre Union (, LiCS), a Lithuanian political party
Logic in computer science, field of logic and computer science
See also
LIC (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalloexopeptidase | A metalloexopeptidase is a type of enzyme that acts as a metalloproteinase exopeptidase.
These enzymes have a catalytic mechanism involving a metal, often zinc. They function in molecular biology as agents that cut the terminal (or penultimate) peptide bonds ending peptide chains. Analogous to slicing the end off a lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20A | Mathematics courses named Math A, Maths A, and similar are found in:
Mathematics education in New York: Math A, Math A/B, Math B
Mathematics education in Australia: Maths A, Maths B, Maths C
Mathematics disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella%20virus%20P22 | Salmonella virus P22 is a bacteriophage in the Podoviridae family that infects Salmonella typhimurium. Like many phages, it has been used in molecular biology to induce mutations in cultured bacteria and to introduce foreign genetic material. P22 has been used in generalized transduction and is an important tool for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%20Cornalia | Emilio Cornalia (25 August 1824 – 8 June 1882) was an Italian naturalist. He was born in Milan and died in the same city.
He was conservator from 1851 to 1866, and director from 1866 till his death, of the Milan Museum of Natural History, and was interested in all areas of biology.
He was one of the group of leading ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Ladislao%20Holmberg | Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (27 July 1852, in Buenos Aires – 4 November 1937) was an Argentine natural historian and novelist, one of the leading figures in Argentine biology. Together with Florentino Ameghino he undertook the inventory of Argentine flora and fauna, and explored all the ecoregions in the country, summari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanes%20%28organic%20chemistry%29 | Phanes are abstractions of highly complex organic molecules introduced for simplification of the naming of these highly complex molecules.
Systematic nomenclature of organic chemistry consists of building a name for the structure of an organic compound by a collection of names of its composite parts but describing als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Dolphin | David H. Dolphin, (born January 15, 1940) is a Canadian biochemist.
He is an internationally recognized expert in porphyrin chemistry and biochemistry. He was the lead creator of Visudyne, a medication used in conjunction with laser treatment to eliminate the abnormal blood vessels in the eye associated with conditio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD11 | In cell biology, CD11 is the α (alpha) component of various integrins, especially ones in which the β (beta) component is CD18 (β2) and mediate leukocyte adhesion. For example,
LFA1 (CD11a/CD18) short representation of Lymphocyte Function-associated Antigen 1, also called αLβ2 integrin
Mac1 (CD11b/CD18) present on ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20design | The Natural Design Perspective is an approach to psychology and biology that (among other things) holds that concepts such as "motivation", "emotion", "development", "adaptation" refer to objectively observable patterns, rather than hidden causes. It was developed by Nicholas S. Thompson (Professor Emeritus of Ethology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele%20Diamond | Adele Dorothy Diamond is a professor of neuroscience at the University of British Columbia, where she is currently a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. One of the pioneers in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, Diamond researches how executive functions are affected by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20Rosier | Cathy Rosier (January 2, 1945 in Fort-de-France – May 17, 2004) was a model and actress born in Martinique, French West Indies. She died in Marrakech, Morocco from a ruptured aorta.
Rosier was the daughter of the Martiniquais writer and painter Yva (née de Montaigne) and her husband, politician and mathematics instruc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Wheeler | Albert H. Wheeler (1915 – April 4, 1994) was an American life-sciences professor and politician in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He became the city's first African-American mayor, serving in the office from 1975 to 1978.
Early career
Wheeler was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20of%20structure | In mathematics, particularly in universal algebra and category theory, transport of structure refers to the process whereby a mathematical object acquires a new structure and its canonical definitions, as a result of being isomorphic to (or otherwise identified with) another object with a pre-existing structure. Defini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon%20Gorge%20%28Falkirk%29 | The Avon Gorge () is a small wooded gorge in Falkirk, Scotland.
Biology
An area of of the gorge is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest; it was notified in 1986. The steep wooded banks constitute one of the few remaining ancient, semi-natural woodland sites in Falkirk District.
Plants found here which a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gabai | David Gabai is an American mathematician and the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Focused on low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry, he is a leading researcher in those subjects.
Biography
David Gabai received his B.S. in mathematics from MIT in 1976 and his Ph.D. in mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womersley%20number | The Womersley number ( or ) is a dimensionless number in biofluid mechanics and biofluid dynamics. It is a dimensionless expression of the pulsatile flow frequency in relation to viscous effects. It is named after John R. Womersley (1907–1958) for his work with blood flow in arteries. The Womersley number is important ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanes%20%28disambiguation%29 | Phanes is a Greek deity. Phanes may also refer to:
Phanes coins, the most ancient inscribed coins, which have the name "Phanes" on them
Phanes (organic chemistry), a structural sub-unit in nomenclature
Phanes of Halicarnassus, a councilman serving Amasis, who would eventually help Cambyses II to conquer Egypt
Phan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataxin%201 | Ataxin-1 is a DNA-binding protein which in humans is encoded by the ATXN1 gene.
Mutations in ataxin-1 cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, an inherited neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive loss of cerebellar neurons, particularly Purkinje neurons.
Genetics
ATXN1 is conserved across multiple speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinzolamide | Brinzolamide (trade name Azopt) is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor used to lower intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
Brinzolamide was approved as a generic medication in the United States in November 2020.
Chemistry
Brinzolamide is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor (specific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20cognitive%20neuroscience | Developmental cognitive neuroscience is an interdisciplinary scientific field devoted to understanding psychological processes and their neurological bases in the developing organism. It examines how the mind changes as children grow up, interrelations between that and how the brain is changing, and environmental and b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Reich%20%28geneticist%29 | David Emil Reich (born July 14, 1974) is an American geneticist known for his research into the population genetics of ancient humans, including their migrations and the mixing of populations, discovered by analysis of genome-wide patterns of mutations. He is professor in the department of genetics at the Harvard Medic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeffe%27s%20method | In mathematics, Graeffe's method or Dandelin–Lobachesky–Graeffe method is an algorithm for finding all of the roots of a polynomial. It was developed independently by Germinal Pierre Dandelin in 1826 and Lobachevsky in 1834. In 1837 Karl Heinrich Gräffe also discovered the principal idea of the method. The method sep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20F.%20Havill | Steven F. Havill is an American author of mysteries and westerns.
Havill lives in Datil, New Mexico, with his wife Kathleen, a writer and artist. A high school teacher of biology and English by day, Havill earned both his B.A. and M.A. from the University of New Mexico. He has written two series of police procedurals ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng%20Cui | Zheng Cui is a biochemist currently serving as an Associate Professor of Pathology (Tumor Biology) at Wake Forest University. As an oncologist and a cancer researcher Cui has proposed the unique idea that certain individuals (estimated at 10% to 15% of the human population) naturally produce a special kind of white bl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast%20wave | In fluid dynamics, a blast wave is the increased pressure and flow resulting from the deposition of a large amount of energy in a small, very localised volume. The flow field can be approximated as a lead shock wave, followed by a self-similar subsonic flow field. In simpler terms, a blast wave is an area of pressure e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Sedov | Leonid Ivanovich Sedov (; 14 November 1907 – 5 September 1999) was a Russian physicist who worked as an engineer in the former Soviet space program.
In 1930 Sedov graduated from the Moscow State University, where he had been a student of Sergey Chaplygin, with the degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematical Sciences.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterologous | The term heterologous has several meanings in biology.
Gene expression
In cell biology and protein biochemistry, heterologous expression means that a protein is experimentally put into a cell that does not normally make (i.e., express) that protein. Heterologous (meaning 'derived from a different organism') refers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuart%20Campbell | Steuart Campbell (born in ) is a British writer who lives in Edinburgh.
Career
Campbell trained as an architect and worked as one until the mid-1970s. He then gained a degree in mathematics and science from the Open University (BA, 1983).
Campbell is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Edinburgh Secular Society.
Writing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-memory%20BFGS | Limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS or LM-BFGS) is an optimization algorithm in the family of quasi-Newton methods that approximates the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm (BFGS) using a limited amount of computer memory. It is a popular algorithm for parameter estimation in machine learning. The algorithm's target pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFF | WFF may refer to:
Wallops Flight Facility, a NASA facility
Well-formed formula, in logic, linguistics, and computer science, a symbol or string of symbols that is generated by the formal grammar of a formal language
Montreal World Film Festival
Woodhull Freedom Foundation & Federation, a nonprofit created "to affirm ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Doran | Peter T. Doran is an Americana earth scientist who is Professor of Geology and Geophysics and John Franks Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University. Prior to 2015, he was faculty in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Doran specializes in polar regions, especially Antarctic cli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer%20machine | In theoretical computer science, a pointer machine is an atomistic abstract computational machine whose storage structure is a graph. A pointer algorithm could also be an algorithm restricted to the pointer machine model.
Some particular types of pointer machines are called a linking automaton, a KU-machine, an SMM, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri%20Winkler | Geri Winkler (born 13 April 1956 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian mountaineer, who was the first insulin-dependent diabetic to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Since 1984, Winkler has taught mathematics, French, and German language in Vienna. In September 1984, he was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1. In Ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20coding | Neural coding (or neural representation) is a neuroscience field concerned with characterising the hypothetical relationship between the stimulus and the individual or ensemble neuronal responses and the relationship among the electrical activity of the neurons in the ensemble. Based on the theory that
sensory and othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline%20lysis | Alkaline lysis or alkaline extraction is a method used in molecular biology to isolate plasmid DNA from bacteria.
Method
Bacteria containing the plasmid of interest are first cultured, then a sample is centrifuged in order to concentrate cellular material (including DNA) into a pellet at the bottom of the containing v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Barto | Andrew G. Barto (born 1948) is an American computer scientist, currently Professor Emeritus of computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Barto is best known for his foundational contributions to the field of modern computational reinforcement learning.
Early life and education
Barto received his B.S. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Towsley%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Donald Fred Towsley (born 1949) is an American computer scientist who has been a
distinguished university professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His research interests include network measurement, modeling, and analysis. Towsley currently serves as ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinide%20concept | In nuclear chemistry, the actinide concept (also known as actinide hypothesis) proposed that the actinides form a second inner transition series homologous to the lanthanides. Its origins stem from observation of lanthanide-like properties in transuranic elements in contrast to the distinct complex chemistry of previou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%E2%80%93Potter%20set%20theory | An approach to the foundations of mathematics that is of relatively recent origin, Scott–Potter set theory is a collection of nested axiomatic set theories set out by the philosopher Michael Potter, building on earlier work by the mathematician Dana Scott and the philosopher George Boolos.
Potter (1990, 2004) clarifie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal%20mtDNA%20transmission | In genetics, paternal mtDNA transmission and paternal mtDNA inheritance refer to the incidence of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) being passed from a father to his offspring. Paternal mtDNA inheritance is observed in a small proportion of species; in general, mtDNA is passed unchanged from a mother to her offspring, making ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20chemistry | In flow chemistry, also called reactor engineering, a chemical reaction is run in a continuously flowing stream rather than in batch production. In other words, pumps move fluid into a reactor, and where tubes join one another, the fluids contact one another. If these fluids are reactive, a reaction takes place. Flo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled%20lab%20reactor | In chemistry, a Controlled Lab Reactor or CLR is any reaction system where there is an element of automated control. Generally these devices refers to a jacketed glass vessel where a circulating chiller unit pumps a thermal control fluid through the jacket to accurately control the temperature of the vessel contents. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immittance | Immittance is a term used within electrical engineering and acoustics, specifically bioacoustics and the inner ear, to describe the combined measure of electrical or acoustic admittance and electrical or acoustic impedance. Immittance was initially coined by H. W. Bode in 1945, and was first used to describe the electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Varghese | George Varghese (born 1960) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining MSR's lab in Silicon Valley in 2013, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego, where he led the Internet Algorithms Lab and also worked with the Center for Network Systems and the Center f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titu%20Andreescu | Titu Andreescu (born August 19, 1956) is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is firmly involved in mathematics contests and olympiads, having been the Director of American Mathematics Competitions (as appointed by the Mathematical Association of America), Director of the Mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transterm | Transterm is a database of mRNA sequences, codon usage, and associated cis-regulatory elements that regulate gene expression. Many of these elements are in the 3' UTR. Transterm is a database provided by the Biochemistry department of The University of Otago. Transterm is used to look at the protein binding sites with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Reid | Heather Margaret Murray Reid (born c. 1969), also known as "Heather the Weather", is a Scottish meteorologist, physicist, science communicator and educator. She was formerly a broadcaster and weather presenter for BBC Scotland.
Career
Reid was born in Paisley. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20Events | In computer science and web development, XML Events is a W3C standard for handling events that occur in an XML document. These events are typically caused by users interacting with the web page using a device, such as a web browser on a personal computer or mobile phone.
Formal definition
An XML Event is the represen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20everything%20%28philosophy%29 | In philosophy, a theory of everything (ToE) is an ultimate, all-encompassing explanation or description of nature or reality. Adopting the term from physics, where the search for a theory of everything is ongoing, philosophers have discussed the viability of the concept and analyzed its properties and implications. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20residuosity%20problem | In cryptography, most public key cryptosystems are founded on problems that are believed to be intractable. The higher residuosity problem (also called the n th-residuosity problem) is one such problem. This problem is easier to solve than integer factorization, so the assumption that this problem is hard to solve is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal%20%CE%BC-calculus | In theoretical computer science, the modal μ-calculus (Lμ, Lμ, sometimes just μ-calculus, although this can have a more general meaning) is an extension of propositional modal logic (with many modalities) by adding the least fixed point operator μ and the greatest fixed point operator ν, thus a fixed-point logic.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyharmonic%20spline | In applied mathematics, polyharmonic splines are used for function approximation and data interpolation. They are very useful for interpolating and fitting scattered data in many dimensions. Special cases include thin plate splines and natural cubic splines in one dimension.
Definition
A polyharmonic spline is a lin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrosynthesis | In electrochemistry, electrosynthesis is the synthesis of chemical compounds in an electrochemical cell. Compared to ordinary redox reactions, electrosynthesis sometimes offers improved selectivity and yields. Electrosynthesis is actively studied as a science and also has industrial applications. Electrooxidation has p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Trewavas | Anthony James Trewavas (born 1939) FRS FRSE is Emeritus Professor in the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Edinburgh best known for his research in the fields of plant physiology and molecular biology. His research investigates plant behaviour.
Education and early life
Trewavas was born in 1939 and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20educational%20software | This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning.
Educational software by subject
Anatomy
3D Indiana
Bodyworks Voyager – Mission in Anatomy
Primal Pictures
Visible Human Project
Chemistry
Aqion - simulates water chemistry
Children's software
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Gruber%20%28author%29 | Michael Gruber (born October 1, 1940) is an American author.
Gruber was born in Brooklyn and currently lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Miami. He worked as a cook, a marine biologist, a speech writer, a policy advisor for the Jimmy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrold%20E.%20Marsden | Jerrold Eldon Marsden (August 17, 1942 – September 21, 2010) was a Canadian mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
Career
Marsden earned his B.Sc. in mathematics at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRC%20Herzberg%20Astronomy%20and%20Astrophysics%20Research%20Centre | The NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre (NRC Herzberg, HAA) is the leading Canadian centre for astronomy and astrophysics. It is based in Victoria, British Columbia. The current director-general, as of 2021, is Luc Simard.
History
Named for the Nobel laureate Gerhard Herzberg, it was formed in 197... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomorphism | In mathematics, two objects, especially systems of axioms or semantics for them, are called cryptomorphic if they are equivalent but not obviously equivalent. In particular, two definitions or axiomatizations of the same object are "cryptomorphic" if it is not obvious that they define the same object. Examples of cry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20V.%20Roberts | Paul V. Roberts (November 27, 1938 - February 2006) was a prominent environmental engineer. He made major contributions to environmental engineering by applying fundamental principles of mass transport and chemistry to drinking water treatment and wastewater reclamation research. An author of more than 200 scientific p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajetan%20Georg%20von%20Kaiser | Kajetan Georg von Kaiser (5 January 1803 – 28 August 1871) was a German chemistry professor, researcher and inventor.
Biography
He was born at Kelheim on the Danube, in Bavaria, on 5 January 1803. He was appointed professor of technology at the University of Munich in 1851, and in 1868 became professor of applied chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20W.%20Jones | Douglas W. Jones is an American computer scientist at the University of Iowa. His research focuses primarily on computer security, particularly electronic voting.
Jones received a B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo%20Luizar | Oswaldo Luizar Obregón (born 13 November 1962) a Peruvian politician. He studied Physics. He is formerly a Congressman representing Cusco for the period 2006–2011, and belongs to the Peruvian Nationalist Party. He ran again in the 2016 elections, this time under the Fujimorist Popular Force, but he was not elected.
Bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Harriot%20College%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences | The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences is the liberal arts college at East Carolina University. Its Departments comprise courses of study in mathematics, the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.
In 1941, the Board of Trustees approved an undergraduate degree program in liberal arts disci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20light%20scattering | Dynamic light scattering (DLS) is a technique in physics that can be used to determine the size distribution profile of small particles in suspension or polymers in solution. In the scope of DLS, temporal fluctuations are usually analyzed using the intensity or photon auto-correlation function (also known as photon cor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BasicX | BasicX is a free programming language designed specifically for NetMedia's BX-24 microcontroller and based on the BASIC programming language. It is used in the design of robotics projects such as the Robodyssey Systems Mouse robot.
Further reading
Odom, Chris D. BasicX and Robotics. Robodyssey Systems LLC,
External l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar%20Wolfgang%20Nordheim | Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (November 7, 1899, Munich – October 5, 1985, La Jolla, California) was a German born Jewish American theoretical physicist. He was a pioneer in the applications of quantum mechanics to solid-state problems, such as thermionic emission, work function of metals, field electron emission, rectific... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychotomy | A polychotomy (päl′i kät′ə mē; plural polychotomies) is a division or separation into many parts or classes. Polychotomy is a generalization of dichotomy, which is a polychotomy of exactly two parts. In evolutionary biology, the term polychotomy can also be considered a historically-based misspelling of polytomy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20E%20%28mtDNA%29 | In human mitochondrial genetics, haplogroup E is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup typical for the Malay Archipelago. It is a subgroup of haplogroup M9.
Origin
Two contrasting proposals have been made for the location and time of the origin of Haplogroup E.
One view is that the clade was formed over 30,000... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasant%20K.%20Prabhu | Dr. Vasant K. Prabhu is a professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has taught at UTA since 1991. He specializes in teaching and researching digital communication systems.
In 1958, Prabhu received his Bachelor of Science degree from Karnatak University. He also rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB84 | BB84 is a quantum key distribution scheme developed by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard in 1984. It is the first quantum cryptography protocol. The protocol is provably secure assuming a perfect implementation, relying on two conditions: (1) the quantum property that information gain is only possible at the expense ... |
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