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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressively%20measurable%20process | In mathematics, progressive measurability is a property in the theory of stochastic processes. A progressively measurable process, while defined quite technically, is important because it implies the stopped process is measurable. Being progressively measurable is a strictly stronger property than the notion of being a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplast | A cytoplast is a medical term that is used to describe a cell membrane and the cytoplasm. It is occasionally used to describe a cell in which the nucleus has been removed. Originally named by Rebecca Bodily.
See also
Cytoplast
References
Cell biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeiu%20problem | In mathematics, the Pompeiu problem is a conjecture in integral geometry, named for Dimitrie Pompeiu, who posed the problem in 1929,
as follows. Suppose f is a nonzero continuous function defined on a Euclidean space, and K is a simply connected Lipschitz domain, so that the integral of f vanishes on every congruent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby%20Homes | Crosby Homes was a major British residential housebuilding business. It was acquired by Lendlease in 2005.
History
Crosby Homes was established in the mid-1920s by James Crosby to build houses in north Cheshire. During the War it turned to civil engineering and contracting but returned to housebuilding in the late 195... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vratislav%20Effenberger | Vratislav Effenberger (22 April 1923 in Nymburk; - 10 August 1986 in Prague) was a Czech literature theoretician. He has German Bohemian descent from his paternal side, but has assimilated into Czech.
Life and career
In 1944, Effenberger left industrial school with his Abitur. He went to study chemistry and the histor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne%20Langevin-Joliot | Hélène Langevin-Joliot (née Joliot-Curie; born 19 September 1927) is a French nuclear physicist known for her research on nuclear reactions in French laboratories and for being the granddaughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and the daughter of Irene Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, all four of whom have recei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support%20%28measure%20theory%29 | In mathematics, the support (sometimes topological support or spectrum) of a measure on a measurable topological space is a precise notion of where in the space the measure "lives". It is defined to be the largest (closed) subset of for which every open neighbourhood of every point of the set has positive measure.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Aided%20Verification | In computer science, the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) is an annual academic conference on the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis of software and hardware systems, broadly known as formal methods. It is one of the highest-ranked conferences in computer science. Among t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20contact%20conductance | In physics, thermal contact conductance is the study of heat conduction between solid or liquid bodies in thermal contact. The thermal contact conductance coefficient, , is a property indicating the thermal conductivity, or ability to conduct heat, between two bodies in contact. The inverse of this property is termed t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20theorem%20for%20Gaussian%20measures | In mathematics, the structure theorem for Gaussian measures shows that the abstract Wiener space construction is essentially the only way to obtain a strictly positive Gaussian measure on a separable Banach space. It was proved in the 1970s by Kallianpur–Sato–Stefan and Dudley–Feldman–le Cam.
There is the earlier resu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-dimensional%20distribution | In mathematics, finite-dimensional distributions are a tool in the study of measures and stochastic processes. A lot of information can be gained by studying the "projection" of a measure (or process) onto a finite-dimensional vector space (or finite collection of times).
Finite-dimensional distributions of a measure
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Ursula%20Academy%20%28Cincinnati%2C%20Ohio%29 | St. Ursula Academy, located in the East Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a Catholic college-preparatory high school for young women that offers an intensive four-year program in the fields of English, mathematics, science, social studies, French, Spanish, Latin, and religion. An entrance test is requir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20aerospace%20engineering%20schools | Aerospace (or aeronautical) engineering can be studied at the bachelors, masters and Ph.D. levels in aerospace engineering departments at many universities, and in mechanical engineering departments at others.
Institution names are followed by accreditation where applicable.
Argentina
Universidad Nacional de Cordob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20theorem%20for%20Riemann%20surfaces | In mathematics, the identity theorem for Riemann surfaces is a theorem that states that a holomorphic function is completely determined by its values on any subset of its domain that has a limit point.
Statement of the theorem
Let and be Riemann surfaces, let be connected, and let be holomorphic. Suppose that fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching%20theorem | In mathematics, the branching theorem is a theorem about Riemann surfaces. Intuitively, it states that every non-constant holomorphic function is locally a polynomial.
Statement of the theorem
Let and be Riemann surfaces, and let be a non-constant holomorphic map. Fix a point and set . Then there exist and chart... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%E2%80%93Ocone%20theorem | In mathematics, the Clark–Ocone theorem (also known as the Clark–Ocone–Haussmann theorem or formula) is a theorem of stochastic analysis. It expresses the value of some function F defined on the classical Wiener space of continuous paths starting at the origin as the sum of its mean value and an Itô integral with respe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-derivative | In mathematics, the H-derivative is a notion of derivative in the study of abstract Wiener spaces and the Malliavin calculus.
Definition
Let be an abstract Wiener space, and suppose that is differentiable. Then the Fréchet derivative is a map
;
i.e., for , is an element of , the dual space to .
Therefore, define ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20trigonometry | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to trigonometry:
Trigonometry – branch of mathematics that studies the relationships between the sides and the angles in triangles. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions, which describe those relationships and have applicability to cyclic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Zinin | Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin (; 25 August 1812, in Shusha – 18 February 1880, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian organic chemist.
Life
He studied at the University of Kazan where he graduated in mathematics but he started teaching chemistry in 1835. To improve his skills he was asked to study in Europe for some time, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedarburg%20High%20School | Cedarburg High School (CHS) is a Public Education High School in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
Curriculum
Classes offered at Cedarburg High School are grouped into 13 departments: art, business and information technology, engineering/technology education, English, family and consumer education, foreign language, health, mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the term fiber (US English) or fibre (British English) can have two meanings, depending on the context:
In naive set theory, the fiber of the element in the set under a map is the inverse image of the singleton under
In algebraic geometry, the notion of a fiber of a morphism of schemes must be d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20E.%20Vardeman | Robert Edward Vardeman (sometimes called Vardebob) (born 1947) is an American science fiction fan and writer.
Career
Robert E. Vardeman was born in Mineral Wells, Texas, but is a longtime resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of New Mexico with a B.S. in physics and a M.S. in materials... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iven%20Mackay | Lieutenant General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay, (7 April 1882 – 30 September 1966) was a senior Australian Army officer who served in both world wars.
Mackay graduated from the University of Sydney in 1904 and taught physics there from 1910 until 1914, when he joined the Australian Imperial Force shortly after the outbr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly%20positive%20measure | In mathematics, strict positivity is a concept in measure theory. Intuitively, a strictly positive measure is one that is "nowhere zero", or that is zero "only on points".
Definition
Let be a Hausdorff topological space and let be a -algebra on that contains the topology (so that every open set is a measurable se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Okounkov | Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov (, Andrej Okun'kov) (born July 26, 1969) is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the acade... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial%20Agents%20and%20Chemotherapy | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. It covers antimicrobial, antiviral, antifungal, and antiparasitic agents and chemotherapy. The editor-in-chief is Cesar A. Arias (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston). It was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelin%20Werner | Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20slope | In astrophysics and planetary science, spectral slope, also called spectral gradient, is a measure of dependence of the reflectance on the wavelength.
In digital signal processing, it is a measure of how quickly the spectrum of an audio sound tails off towards the high frequencies, calculated using a linear regression... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20B.%20Moore | Charles Bachman Moore Jr. (October 28, 1920 – March 2, 2010) was an American physicist, engineer and meteorologist, known for his research on atmospheric physics and his work with gas balloons. He was born in Maryville, Tennessee.
Career
Moore attended college at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1940. During World W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindel%C3%B6f%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Lindelöf's lemma is a simple but useful lemma in topology on the real line, named for the Finnish mathematician Ernst Leonard Lindelöf.
Statement of the lemma
Let the real line have its standard topology. Then every open subset of the real line is a countable union of open intervals.
Generalized Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20F.%20Neuman | William F Neuman (June 2, 1919 in Petoskey, Michigan – January 4, 1981 in Rochester, New York) was an American biochemist and author.
Career
Neuman was an authority on the biochemistry of bone tissue. Before joining the faculty of the University of Rochester in 1944, he headed the biochemistry section of the U.S. Ato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20scheme | In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, a Hilbert scheme is a scheme that is the parameter space for the closed subschemes of some projective space (or a more general projective scheme), refining the Chow variety. The Hilbert scheme is a disjoint union of projective subschemes corresponding to Hilbert polynomi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20%28measure%20theory%29 | In mathematics, and specifically in measure theory, equivalence is a notion of two measures being qualitatively similar. Specifically, the two measures agree on which events have measure zero.
Definition
Let and be two measures on the measurable space and let
and
be the sets of -null sets and -null sets, respec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphedema%E2%80%93distichiasis%20syndrome | Lymphedema–distichiasis syndrome is a medical condition associated with the FOXC2 gene. People with this hereditary condition have a double row of eyelashes, which is called distichiasis, and a risk of swollen limbs due to problems in the lymphatic system.
Genetics
Lymphedema-distichiasis is inherited in an autosoma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20time | In computer science and computer programming, system time represents a computer system's notion of the passage of time. In this sense, time also includes the passing of days on the calendar.
System time is measured by a system clock, which is typically implemented as a simple count of the number of ticks that have tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrichs%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Friedrichs's inequality is a theorem of functional analysis, due to Kurt Friedrichs. It places a bound on the Lp norm of a function using Lp bounds on the weak derivatives of the function and the geometry of the domain, and can be used to show that certain norms on Sobolev spaces are equivalent. Friedri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Society%20of%20London%20Michael%20Faraday%20Prize | The Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize is awarded for "excellence in communicating science to UK audiences". Named after Michael Faraday, the medal itself is made of silver gilt, and is accompanied by a purse of £2500.
Background
The prize was first awarded in 1986 to Charles Taylor for "his outstanding pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw%20Batsch | Mieczysław Józef Batsch a.k.a. Bacz (1 January 1900 in Lemberg – 9 September 1977 in Przemyśl) was a Polish soccer forward. He represented both Pogoń Lwów and the Poland National Team.
Batsch was a graduate of the mechanical engineering program of Lwów's Technical University (Politechnika Lwowska).
In the 1920s, whil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Snyder%20%28scientist%29 | Harry Snyder (1867–1927) was an American agricultural scientist, a specialist in agricultural chemistry.
Biography
Harry Snyder was born in Cherry Valley, New York on January 26, 1867. He earned a B.S. from Cornell University in 1889, where he was subsequently instructor of chemistry for two years. Snyder joined the A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Homestead%20at%20Denison%20University | The Homestead at Denison University (Granville, Ohio) is a student-run intentional community with a focus on environmental sustainability and voluntary simplicity. Founded in 1977 under the guiding vision of biology professor Dr. Robert W. Alrutz, it is an evolving experiment in learning through living. Membership is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Different%20Universe | A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down is a 2005 physics book by Robert B. Laughlin, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the fractional quantum Hall effect. Its title is a play on the P. W. Anderson manifesto More is Different, historically important in claiming that condensed-matter phys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homovanillic%20acid | Homovanillic acid (HVA) is a major catecholamine metabolite that is produced by a consecutive action of monoamine oxidase and catechol-O-methyltransferase on dopamine. Homovanillic acid is used as a reagent to detect oxidative enzymes, and is associated with dopamine levels in the brain.
In psychiatry and neuroscience... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20finite%20measure | In mathematics, a locally finite measure is a measure for which every point of the measure space has a neighbourhood of finite measure.
Definition
Let be a Hausdorff topological space and let be a -algebra on that contains the topology (so that every open set is a measurable set, and is at least as fine as the B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niel%20Brandt | William Nielsen Brandt (born June 10, 1970; also known as Niel Brandt) is the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and a professor of physics at the Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his work on active galaxies, cosmological X-ray surveys, starburst galaxies, normal galaxies, and X-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20theorem | In mathematics, comparison theorems are theorems whose statement involves comparisons between various mathematical objects of the same type, and often occur in fields such as calculus, differential equations and Riemannian geometry.
Differential equations
In the theory of differential equations, comparison theorems a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonin%20petrel | The Bonin petrel or nunulu (Pterodroma hypoleuca) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae. It is a small gadfly petrel that is found in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its secretive habits, remote breeding colonies and limited range have resulted in few studies and many aspects of the species' biology are poorly known.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Barnett | Allen M. Barnett (born June 20, 1940) was a research professor of electrical engineering at the University of Delaware. He was the principal investigator of the DARPA-funded Consortium for Very High Efficiency Solar cells. Barnett was the founder and CEO of solar-cell producer Astropower, Inc. He was also a Professor o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunc | Nunc A/S of Denmark was founded in 1953. Nunc specialized in laboratory plastic ware including products for cell culture, cell biology assays, sample prep, and sample storage. The company merged with the Nalge Company, which was founded in 1949 by chemist Emanuel Goldberg of Rochester, New York in 1995.
References
Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20theory%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics and economics, transportation theory or transport theory is a name given to the study of optimal transportation and allocation of resources. The problem was formalized by the French mathematician Gaspard Monge in 1781.
In the 1920s A.N. Tolstoi was one of the first to study the transportation problem ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Immortal%20%281970%20TV%20series%29 | The Immortal is an American television series, starring Christopher George as a man whose blood chemistry and resistance to almost all diseases (including old age) makes him both almost immortal and a target of several wealthy men who would basically use him as a personal blood bank, aired on ABC from September 24, 197... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20A.%20Kerkut | Gerald Allan Kerkut (or G. A. Kerkut) (19 August 1927 – 6 March 2004) was a British zoologist and physiologist.
Career
He attended the University of Cambridge from 1945 to 1952 and earned a doctorate in zoology. He went on to establish the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry at University of Southampton where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzylamine | Benzylamine is an organic chemical compound with the condensed structural formula C6H5CH2NH2 (sometimes abbreviated as PhCH2NH2 or BnNH2). It consists of a benzyl group, C6H5CH2, attached to an amine functional group, NH2. This colorless water-soluble liquid is a common precursor in organic chemistry and used in the i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Neuroscience | Social Neuroscience is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in social neuroscience. It was founded in March 2006 by Jean Decety and Julian Paul Keenan. It is published by Psychology Press, a division of Taylor and Francis. The current editor is Paul J. Eslinger (Penn State Hershey Medical Center). Accordi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Howson%20%28mathematician%29 | Susan Howson (born 1973) is a British mathematician whose research is in the fields of algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry.
Education and career
Howson received her PhD in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1998 with thesis title Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves for ρ-Adic Lie Extensions unde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna%20Grossman | Edna Grossman (born Edna Kalka) is an American mathematician. She was born in Germany, grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated with a B.S. in mathematics from Brooklyn College. She earned her M.S. in mathematics from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where she also received her Ph.D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20migration%20tracking | Animal migration tracking is used in wildlife biology, conservation biology, ecology, and wildlife management to study animals' behavior in the wild. One of the first techniques was bird banding, placing passive ID tags on birds legs, to identify the bird in a future catch-and-release. Radio tracking involves attaching... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah%20Sadiq | Abdullah Sadiq (born 1940), is a Pakistani physicist and ICTP laureate who received the ICTP Prize in the honour of Nikolay Bogolyubov, in the fields of mathematics and solid state physics in 1987 for his contributions to scientific knowledge in the field of mathematics and statistical physics. He is the professor of p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Shapiro | Linda G. Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, a professor of electrical engineering, and adjunct professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.
Education and experience
Shapiro graduated with a B.S. with highest distinction in mathem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Leupold | Jacob Leupold (22 July 1674 – 12 January 1727) was a German physicist, mathematician, instrument maker, mining commissioner and engineer. He wrote the seminal book Theatrum Machinarum Generale ("The General Theory of Machines").
Early life
Jacob Leupold built many instruments needed for experimental physics studies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20Rijke | Petrus Leonardus Rijke (11 July 1812 – 7 April 1899) was a Dutch physicist, and a professor in experimental physics at the University of Leiden. Rijke spent his scientific career exploring the physics of electricity, and is known for the Rijke tube. On 1 July 1852 he married Johanna Hamaker. They had 6 sons and 6 daugh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-%C3%89tienne%20Choron | Alexandre-Étienne Choron (21 October 1771 – 29 June 1834) was a French musicologist. For a short time he directed the Paris Opera. He made a distinction between sacred and secular music and was one of the originators of French interest in musicology.
Biography
Choron studied mathematics at the Collège de Juilly. Sinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshay%20Venkatesh | Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular represen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Engines%20of%20Our%20Ingenuity | The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a daily radio series produced jointly by KUHF-FM, Houston, Texas, and the University of Houston.
The series tells the story of human invention and creativity in 3 minute essays. The stories center on engineering and technology, but they venture freely into mathematics, science, literatu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasinorm | In linear algebra, functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a quasinorm is similar to a norm in that it satisfies the norm axioms, except that the triangle inequality is replaced by
for some
Definition
A on a vector space is a real-valued map on that satisfies the following conditions:
:
: for all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Understanding%20Conference | The Message Understanding Conferences (MUC) for computing and computer science, were initiated and financed by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to encourage the development of new and better methods of information extraction. The character of this competition, many concurrent research teams competing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium%20unfolding | In biochemistry, equilibrium unfolding is the process of unfolding a protein or RNA molecule by gradually changing its environment, such as by changing the temperature or pressure, pH, adding chemical denaturants, or applying force as with an atomic force microscope tip. If the equilibrium was maintained at all steps, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychoanalysis | Neuropsychoanalysis integrates both neuroscience and psychoanalysis, to create a balanced and equal study of the human mind. This overarching approach began as advances in neuroscience lead to breakthroughs which held pertinent information for the field of psychoanalysis. Despite advantages for these fields to interco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20modification | Chemical modification refers to a number of various processes involving the alteration of the chemical constitution or structure of molecules.
In chemistry
Chemical modification describes the conversion of macromolecules through a chemical reaction or series of reactions.
Chemically modified electrodes
Chemically mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20birefringence | In biochemistry, flow birefringence is a hydrodynamic technique for measuring the rotational diffusion constants (or, equivalently, the rotational drag coefficients). The birefringence of a solution sandwiched between two concentric cylinders is measured as a function of the difference in rotational speed between the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length%20%28disambiguation%29 | Length in its basic meaning is the long dimension of an object.
Length may also refer to:
Mathematics
Arc length, the distance between two points along a section of a curve.
Length of a sequence or tuple, the number of terms. (The length of an -tuple is )
Length of a module, in abstract algebra
Length of a polynomial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20N.%20Wegman | Mark N. Wegman is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to algorithms and compiler optimization. Wegman received his B.A. from New York University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined IBM Research in 1975, where he currently serves as head of Computer Science. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamping%20%28graphics%29 | In computer science, clamping, or clipping is the process of limiting a value to a range between a minimum and a maximum value. Unlike wrapping, clamping merely moves the point to the nearest available value.
In Python, clamping can be defined as follows:
def clamp(x, minimum, maximum):
if x < minimum:
ret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncas%20A.%20Whitaker | Uncas Aeneas Whitaker (March 22, 1900 – September 1975) was a prominent mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Raised in Missouri, he received a mechanical engineering degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an electrical engineering degree from Carnegie Institu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valva%20%28disambiguation%29 | Valva may refer to:
In geography:
Valva (city), an ancient city in L'Aquila province, Italy
Valva (mountain), a mountain in North Africa
Valva, Campania, a commune in Salerno province, Italy
In biology:
Valva, a clasping structure in some animals
Valva (moth), a genus of moths in the family Pyralidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihajlo%20Ka%C5%BEi%C4%87 | Mihajlo Kažić (in Serbian Михајло Кажић) (born in Pristina in 1960) is a Serbian novelist. He trained as an engineer, completing a civil engineering degree at the University of Novi Sad.
In 1985 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US, and obtained his M.Sc. and PhD in Engineering from the University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20S.%20Pierce | William S. Pierce (born January 12, 1937) is the cardiothoracic surgeon and chemical engineer who led development of the first pneumatic heart assist pump. The Pierce-Donachy Ventricular Assist Device, also known as the Penn State Assist Pump, was designated an International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower%20rule | The tower rule may refer to one of two rules in mathematics:
Law of total expectation, in probability and stochastic theory
a rule governing the degree of a field extension of a field extension in field theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Allen%20Keast | James Allen Keast (15 November 1922 – 8 March 2009) was an Australian ornithologist, and Professor of Biology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Born in Turramurra, New South Wales, he performed war service 1941–1945 in New Guinea and New Britain. He earned his BSc (1950) and MSc (1952) degrees at the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomon%20%28figure%29 | In geometry, a gnomon is a plane figure formed by removing a similar parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram; or, more generally, a figure that, added to a given figure, makes a larger figure of the same shape.
Building figurate numbers
Figurate numbers were a concern of Pythagorean mathematics, and Pyth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-continuous%20process | In mathematics, a sample-continuous process is a stochastic process whose sample paths are almost surely continuous functions.
Definition
Let (Ω, Σ, P) be a probability space. Let X : I × Ω → S be a stochastic process, where the index set I and state space S are both topological spaces. Then the process X is called s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20%28stochastic%20processes%29 | In mathematics, the law of a stochastic process is the measure that the process induces on the collection of functions from the index set into the state space. The law encodes a lot of information about the process; in the case of a random walk, for example, the law is the probability distribution of the possible traj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%20extension%20theorem | In mathematics, the Kolmogorov extension theorem (also known as Kolmogorov existence theorem, the Kolmogorov consistency theorem or the Daniell-Kolmogorov theorem) is a theorem that guarantees that a suitably "consistent" collection of finite-dimensional distributions will define a stochastic process. It is credited to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxotes | Toxotes may refer to:
Biology
the genus of the Archerfish, including the following species:
Banded archerfish (Toxotes jaculatrix), Pallas 1767
Toxotes chatareus, Hamilton 1822
Smallscale archerfish (Toxotes microlepis), Günther 1860
Big scale archerfish (Toxotes oligolepis), Bleeker 1876
Toxotes blythii, Boulenger 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT%20Chemistry%20Department | The Department of Chemistry at MIT is one of the top university faculties in the world. Research conducted covers the entire field of chemistry, ranging from organic chemistry and biological chemistry to physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, environmental chemistry, materials science and nanoscience.
History
The De... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kase%20Lukman%20Lawal | Kase Lukman Lawal (born June 30, 1954) is a Nigerian-born businessman who lives and works in the United States.
Lawal was born June 30, 1954, in Ibadan. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Texas Southern University in 1976, and his MBA from Prairie View A&M University, both in Texas in 1978. He is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20diffusion%20test | The disk diffusion test (also known as the agar diffusion test, Kirby–Bauer test, disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test and KB test) is a culture-based microbiology assay used in diagnostic and drug discovery laboratories. In diagnostic labs, the assay is used to det... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr-Brown%20Corporation | The Burr-Brown Corporation was an American technology company in Tucson, Arizona, which designed, manufactured, and marketed a broad line of proprietary, standard, high-performance, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) used in electronic signal processing. The company's products were used in a wide range ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20priori%20and%20a%20posteriori | ('from the earlier') and ('from the later') are Latin phrases used in philosophy to distinguish types of knowledge, justification, or argument by their reliance on experience. knowledge is independent from any experience. Examples include mathematics, tautologies, and deduction from pure reason. knowledge depends on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Biogeochemistry | The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is located in Jena, Germany. It was created in 1997, and moved into new buildings 2002. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft).
Departments and research groups
Biogeochemical Processes (Susan E. Trumbore)
Molecular Biogeochemistry (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Biology | The Max Planck Institute for Biology is a research institute located in Tübingen, Germany, and was formerly known as the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. A predecessor institution operated under the same name from 1948 to 2004.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the forerunner to the Max Planck Society, estab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20form | In mathematics, a cubic form is a homogeneous polynomial of degree 3, and a cubic hypersurface is the zero set of a cubic form. In the case of a cubic form in three variables, the zero set is a cubic plane curve.
In , Boris Delone and Dmitry Faddeev showed that binary cubic forms with integer coefficients can be used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned%20Herrmann | William Edward Herrmann (1922 – December 24, 1999) was an American creativity researcher and author, known for his research in creative thinking and whole-brain methods. He is considered the "father of brain dominance technology."
Biography
At Cornell University, Herrmann majored in both physics and music in the Clas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktoras%20Muntianas | Viktoras Muntianas (born 11 November 1951 in Marijampolė, Lithuanian SSR) is a Lithuanian politician of Moldovan descent and former Speaker of the Seimas. In 1968 he graduated from the high school in Marijampolė. In 1973 he enrolled in the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute, completing his studies in 1978. Between 198... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couch%20%28disambiguation%29 | A couch is a piece of furniture.
Couch or couches may also refer to:
Biology
Elymus repens, also known as Couch grass
Cynodon dactylon, also known as Bermuda grass
Various species of Digitaria
Media
Film and television
Couch (film), a 1964 film by Andy Warhol
Music
Couch (band), a German post-rock band
"Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabedit | Gabedit is a graphical user interface to GAMESS (US), Gaussian, MOLCAS, MOLPRO, MPQC, OpenMopac, PC GAMESS, ORCA and Q-Chem computational chemistry packages.
Major features
Builds molecules by atom, ring, group, amino acid and nucleoside.
Creates an input file for computational chemistry packages.
Reads output fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar%20van%20der%20Pol | Balthasar van der Pol (27 January 1889 – 6 October 1959) was a Dutch physicist.
Life and work
Van der Pol began his studies of physics in Utrecht in 1911. J. A. Fleming offered van der Pol the use of the Pender Electrical Laboratory at University College for a study of the heuristics of wireless reception on board sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Biophysics | The Max Planck Institute of Biophysics () is located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Biophysics in 1937, and moved into a new building in 2003. It is an institute of the Max Planck Society.
Since March 2003, the MPI for Biophysics has resided in a new building on the Riedberg c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%20T.%20Ceyer | Sylvia Teresse Ceyer is a professor of chemistry at MIT, holding the John C. Sheehan Chair in Chemistry. Until 2006, she held the chemistry chair of the National Academy of Sciences.
Early life and education
Ceyer graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan in 1974 with an A.B. in chemistry. In 1979, she was aw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%20Is%20Love | "She Is Love" is a song by English rock band Oasis, first released as the ninth track on their fifth studio album, Heathen Chemistry, written and sung by guitarist Noel Gallagher. In September 2002, it was released with "Little by Little" as the first double A-sided single by the band, peaking at number two on the UK S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna%20of%20Canada | The fauna of Canada consist of approximately 200 mammal species, over 460 native bird species, 43 amphibian species, 43 reptile species, and 1,200 fish species. The biology survey of Canada cites that there are approximately 55,000 species of insects, and 11,000 species of mites and spiders.
The most threatened wild... |
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