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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, an immersion is a differentiable function between differentiable manifolds whose differential pushforward is everywhere injective. Explicitly, is an immersion if
is an injective function at every point of (where denotes the tangent space of a manifold at a point in ). Equivalently, is an immersi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Danknick | Dan Danknick is a physicist and roboticist who graduated from UCI and has made several appearances on robotics related television shows.
Battlebots
Danknick gained comedic notoriety in the robotics community with his appearances on the Comedy Central show Battlebots. The robot created by his Team Delta, Hazard, was c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia%20University%20massacre | The Concordia University massacre was a school shooting on August 24, 1992 in which Valery I. Fabrikant, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, killed four colleagues and wounded a staff member at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieces%20of%20a%20Dream%20%28Chemistry%20song%29 | "Pieces of a Dream" is the first single from the Japanese R&B (J-urban) band Chemistry.
Overview
This was the first single from the duo that had won the Asayan held in Japan. Since the band won a contest similar to the American Idol show, the single was expected to be a success. Although the single debuted at #2 on th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20restriction%20fragment%20length%20polymorphism | Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP or sometimes T-RFLP) is a molecular biology technique for profiling of microbial communities based on the position of a restriction site closest to a labelled end of an amplified gene. The method is based on digesting a mixture of PCR amplified variants of a sing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial%20Matters | Celestial Matters is a science fantasy novel by American writer Richard Garfinkle, set in an alternate universe with different laws of physics. Published by Tor Books in 1996, it is a work of alternate history and elaborated "alternate science", as the physics of this world and its surrounding cosmos are based on the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic%20filling | In mathematics, a filling of a manifold X is a cobordism W between X and the empty set. More to the point, the n-dimensional topological manifold X is the boundary of an (n + 1)-dimensional manifold W. Perhaps the most active area of current research is when n = 3, where one may consider certain types of fillings.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Reklaw | Jesse Reklaw (born 1971) is an American cartoonist and painter, author of the syndicated dream-based comic strip Slow Wave.
Biography
Reklaw was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in Sacramento, studied at UC Santa Cruz, and completed a master's degree in computer science at Yale University. In 1995, while pursu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Kremer | Johann Paul Kremer (26 December 1883 – 8 January 1965) was a German professor, physician and war criminal.
He was a professor of anatomy and human genetics at Münster University who joined the Wehrmacht on May 20, 1941. He served in the SS in the Auschwitz concentration camp as a physician from 30 August 1942 to 18 No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMS%20%28disambiguation%29 | WIMS is a ratio station in Michigan City, Indiana.
WIMS may also refer to:
Wireless Integrated MicroSystems, a collaboration of Michigan universities
WWW Interactive Multipurpose Server, an online mathematics exercise application server
Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (ERS WIMS)
J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Antonio%20Medrano | Giovanni Antonio Medrano (11 December, 1703–1760) was the "Major Regius Praefectus Mathematicis Regni Neapolitani" (Major Royal Governor of Mathematics of the Kingdom of Naples), chief engineer of the kingdom, architect, brigadier, and teacher of Charles III of Spain and his brothers the infantes. Giovanni was born in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leftover%20hash%20lemma | The leftover hash lemma is a lemma in cryptography first stated by Russell Impagliazzo, Leonid Levin, and Michael Luby.
Imagine that you have a secret key that has uniform random bits, and you would like to use this secret key to encrypt a message. Unfortunately, you were a bit careless with the key, and know that a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger%20%28disambiguation%29 | Liger is a crossbreed between lion and tiger.
Liger may also refer to the following
Biology
Liger is a genus of spiders in the family Linyphiidae
Geography
Liger is the classical name of the river Loire, in modern-day France
Liger (river), a tributary of the Bresle in northern France
People
Jushin Liger (bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix%20order | In mathematics, especially order theory, a prefix ordered set generalizes the intuitive concept of a tree by introducing the possibility of continuous progress and continuous branching. Natural prefix orders often occur when considering dynamical systems as a set of functions from time (a totally-ordered set) to some p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%20prime | In mathematics, a Ramanujan prime is a prime number that satisfies a result proven by Srinivasa Ramanujan relating to the prime-counting function.
Origins and definition
In 1919, Ramanujan published a new proof of Bertrand's postulate which, as he notes, was first proved by Chebyshev. At the end of the two-page publis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm%20dense%20matter | Warm dense matter, abbreviated WDM, can refer to either equilibrium or non-equilibrium states of matter in a (loosely defined) regime of temperature and density between condensed matter and hot plasma. It can be defined as the state that is too dense to be described by weakly coupled plasma physics yet too hot to be de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochem | AutoChem is NASA release software that constitutes an automatic computer code generator and documenter for chemically reactive systems written by David Lary between 1993 and the present. It was designed primarily for modeling atmospheric chemistry, and in particular, for chemical data assimilation.
The user selects a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cita | Cita or CITA may refer to:
Cita, Texas
Cita Morei, women's liberation and anti-nuclear weapons activist and writer
MV Cita, a German merchant ship
La Cita (album), a 1994 album by Mexican pop singer Daniela Romo.
Acronyms
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Cash in the Attic, a UK television show ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kir2.1 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Kir2.1}}
The Kir2.1 inward-rectifier potassium channel is a lipid-gated ion channel encoded by the gene.
Clinical significance
A defect in this gene is associated with Andersen-Tawil syndrome.
A mutation in the KCNJ2 gene has also been shown to cause short QT syndrome.
In research
In neurogenet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase | In biochemistry, glycoside hydrolases (also called glycosidases or glycosyl hydrolases) are a class of enzymes which catalyze the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds in complex sugars. They are extremely common enzymes, with roles in nature including degradation of biomass such as cellulose (cellulase), hemicellulose, and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%27s%20inequality | Hardy's inequality is an inequality in mathematics, named after G. H. Hardy. It states that if is a sequence of non-negative real numbers, then for every real number p > 1 one has
If the right-hand side is finite, equality holds if and only if for all n.
An integral version of Hardy's inequality states the followin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20line | A phase line may refer to:
Phase line (mathematics), used to analyze autonomous ordinary differential equations
Phase line (cartography), used to identify phases of military operations or changing borders over time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Mathematical%20Olympiad%20selection%20process | This article describes the selection process, by country, for entrance into the International Mathematical Olympiad.
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual mathematics olympiad for students younger than 20 who have not started at university.
Each year, participating countries send at most 6 studen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20inference%20in%20phylogeny | Bayesian inference of phylogeny combines the information in the prior and in the data likelihood to create the so-called posterior probability of trees, which is the probability that the tree is correct given the data, the prior and the likelihood model. Bayesian inference was introduced into molecular phylogenetics in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casson%20handle | In 4-dimensional topology, a branch of mathematics, a Casson handle is a 4-dimensional topological 2-handle constructed by an infinite procedure. They are named for Andrew Casson, who introduced them in about 1973. They were originally called "flexible handles" by Casson himself, and introduced the name "Casson handle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Beekman | Vladimir Beekman (23 August 1929 – 3 October 2009) was an Estonian writer, poet and translator.
Early life and education
After completing his primary education, he attended the Tallinn University of Technology and graduated in 1953 with a degree in chemistry. From 1953 to 1956, he was head of the fiction department at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna%20Palepu | Krishna Palepu (born 1954) is an American academic, author, consultant and director of various corporations. He is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He serves as Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard University for Global Strategy.
Education
Palepu has a maste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20cloning | Quantum cloning is a process that takes an arbitrary, unknown quantum state and makes an exact copy without altering the original state in any way. Quantum cloning is forbidden by the laws of quantum mechanics as shown by the no cloning theorem, which states that there is no operation for cloning any arbitrary state pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Darnell | James Edwin Darnell Jr. (born September 9, 1930, Columbus, Mississippi) is an American biologist who made significant contributions to RNA processing and cytokine signaling and is author of the cell biology textbook Molecular Cell Biology.
In 2004, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Scienc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetoxy%20group | In organic chemistry, the acetoxy group (abbr. AcO or OAc; IUPAC name: acetyloxy), is a functional group with the formula and the structure . As the -oxy suffix implies, it differs from the acetyl group () by the presence of an additional oxygen atom. The name acetoxy is the short form of acetyl-oxy.
Functionality
An... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping%20point | Tipping point or TippingPoint or The Tipping Point may refer to:
Science and technology
Tipping point (physics), a threshold in a sharp hysteresis loop; once reached, the system rapidly changes its state
Tipping point (sociology), an event when a previously rare phenomenon becomes rapidly and dramatically more comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binas%20%28book%29 | The Binas (Often written as BiNaS or BINAS) is a Dutch science reference work (a handbook) for the higher levels of secondary school, consisting largely of tables and formulas. The name stands for biologie, natuurkunde, scheikunde (biology, physics, chemistry). It is compiled by NVON (Dutch Association for Education in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Botanical%20Research%20Institute | The National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) is a research institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is engaged in the field of taxonomy and modern biology.
History
Originally conceptualised and set up as the National Botanic Gardens (NBG) by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef%20Dobkin | Yosef (Joseph) Dobkin (13 August 1909 – 9 April 1977) was an Israeli chess master.
Dobkin was born in the Russian Empire. He immigrated to Palestine (British Mandate) in 1924 and studied chemistry at the Hebrew University. He did his Ph.D. thesis, and joined the Department of Physiology. He was an accomplished chess ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basudeb%20Barman | Basudeb Barman (born 5 October 1935) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mathurapur constituency of West Bengal and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) party.
Mr. Barman completed M.Sc. (Tech) in Applied Chemistry at the University of Calcutta. Mr. Barman was a pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokhlin%27s%20theorem | In 4-dimensional topology, a branch of mathematics, Rokhlin's theorem states that if a smooth, orientable, closed 4-manifold M has a spin structure (or, equivalently, the second Stiefel–Whitney class vanishes), then the signature of its intersection form, a quadratic form on the second cohomology group , is divisible ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knudsen%20diffusion | In physics, Knudsen diffusion, named after Martin Knudsen, is a means of diffusion that occurs when the scale length of a system is comparable to or smaller than the mean free path of the particles involved. An example of this is in a long pore with a narrow diameter (2–50 nm) because molecules frequently collide with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon%20Solomon | Lon Solomon is American evangelical Christian pastor and the founder of Lon Solomon Ministries, a non-profit ministry.
Early life
Lon Solomon was born and raised in a Jewish home in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Solomon earned a B.S. degree in chemistry (1971) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Th.M. d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istituto%20Nazionale%20di%20Fisica%20Nucleare | The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN; "National Institute for Nuclear Physics") is the coordinating institution for nuclear, particle, theoretical and astroparticle physics in Italy.
History
INFN was founded on 8 August 1951, to further the nuclear physics research tradition initiated by Enrico Fermi in Rom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroparticle%20physics | Astroparticle physics, also called particle astrophysics, is a branch of particle physics that studies elementary particles of astronomical origin and their relation to astrophysics and cosmology. It is a relatively new field of research emerging at the intersection of particle physics, astronomy, astrophysics, detecto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Arvin | Nick Arvin is an American engineer and writer.
Early life and education
Arvin was born in North Carolina and raised in Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Stanford University with degrees in mechanical engineering. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has worked in forensic en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Lane | Nick Lane (born 1967) is a British biochemist and writer. He is a professor in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published five books to date which have won several awards.
Career
Educated at Imperial College, London, he earned his PhD at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1995 with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20P.%20Dempster | Arthur Pentland Dempster (born 1929) is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.
Biography
Dempster received his B.A. in mathematics and physics (1952) and M.A. in mathematics (1953), both from the University of Toronto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Caldeira | Amir Ordacgi Caldeira (born 1950 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian physicist. He received his bachelor's degree in 1973 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, his M.Sc. degree in 1976 from the same university, and his Ph.D. in 1980 from University of Sussex. His Ph.D. advisor was the Physics Nobel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20inverse | In mathematics, and in particular, algebra, a generalized inverse (or, g-inverse) of an element x is an element y that has some properties of an inverse element but not necessarily all of them. The purpose of constructing a generalized inverse of a matrix is to obtain a matrix that can serve as an inverse in some sense... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20game%20theory | Quantum game theory is an extension of classical game theory to the quantum domain. It differs from classical game theory in three primary ways:
Superposed initial states,
Quantum entanglement of initial states,
Superposition of strategies to be used on the initial states.
This theory is based on the physics of inform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lane%20%28oncologist%29 | Sir David Philip Lane (born 1 July 1952) is a British immunologist, molecular biologist and cancer researcher. He is currently working in the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at the Karolinska Institute and is Chairman of Chugai Pharmabody. He is best known for the discovery of p53, one of the most i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredholm | Fredholm is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866–1927), Swedish mathematician
Fredholm alternative, in mathematics
Fredholm determinant, in mathematics
Fredholm integral equation, in mathematics
Fredholm kernel, in mathematics
Fredholm module, In noncommutative geometry
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCG | GCG may refer to:
Biochemistry
GCG, a codon for the amino acid alanine
Gallocatechin gallate, a flavonol
Proglucagon, a protein
GCG (General Computer Group) was collection of programs for the analysis of gene and protein sequences, now defunct
Medical
Ghost cell glaucoma
Other
Gallantry Cross, Gold of the Repu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem%20of%20the%20cube | In mathematics, the theorem of the cube is a condition for a line bundle over a product of three complete varieties to be trivial. It was a principle discovered, in the context of linear equivalence, by the Italian school of algebraic geometry. The final version of the theorem of the cube was first published by , who c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20irreducibility | In mathematics, a multivariate polynomial defined over the rational numbers is absolutely irreducible if it is irreducible over the complex field. For example, is absolutely irreducible, but while is irreducible over the integers and the reals, it is reducible over the complex numbers as and thus not absolutely irr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari%20Enqvist | Kari-Pekka Enqvist (born February 16, 1954 in Lahti, Finland) is a professor of cosmology in the Department of Physical Sciences at the University of Helsinki. Enqvist was awarded his PhD in theoretical physics in 1983.
Enqvist is the chairman of the scientific advisory board of Skepsis ry (a Finnish sceptics' society... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20biologique%20de%20Roscoff | The Station biologique de Roscoff (SBR) is a French marine biology and oceanography research and teaching center. Founded by Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) in 1872, it is at the present time affiliated to the Sorbonne University (SU) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
Overview
The Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20abelian%20variety | In mathematics, a dual abelian variety can be defined from an abelian variety A, defined over a field K.
Definition
To an abelian variety A over a field k, one associates a dual abelian variety Av (over the same field), which is the solution to the following moduli problem. A family of degree 0 line bundles parametriz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyst%20%28journal%29 | Analyst is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of analytical chemistry, bioanalysis, and detection science. It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the editor-in-chief is Norman Dovichi (University of Notre Dame). The journal was established in 1877 by the Society for Analytic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinning%20force | Pinning force is a force acting on a pinned object from a pinning center. In solid state physics, this most often refers to the vortex pinning, the pinning of the magnetic vortices (magnetic flux quanta, Abrikosov vortices) by different kinds of the defects in a type II superconductor. Important quantities are the indi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtolab | FemtoLab is a laser spectroscopy and communications laboratory in the physics department at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. The lab's director is Rainer Martini.
The main focus of the research in this laboratory is the development of new devices and application in the infrared region of the spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance | Laurance is a surname or given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
John Laurance (1750–1810), American lawyer and politician from New York
William F. Laurance (born 1957), American-Australian biology professor
Bill Laurance (born 1981), English composer, producer, and multi-instrumental musician
Giv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desymmetrization | Desymmetrization in stereochemistry is the modification of a molecule that results in the loss of one or more symmetry elements. A common application of this class of reactions involves the introduction of chirality. Formally, such conversions required the loss of an improper axis of rotation (mirror plane, center of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20F.%20Ferguson | Donald Ferguson (born 1960) is a Technical Fellow and Chief SW Architect at Ansys, Inc. Before joining Ansys, Ferguson was a Professor of Professional Practice in Computer Science at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia in 2018, he was vice president and CTO for software at Dell. Previously he was CTO, Distingu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statisticians%27%20and%20engineers%27%20cross-reference%20of%20statistical%20terms | The following terms are used by electrical engineers in statistical signal processing studies instead of typical statistician's terms.
In other engineering fields, particularly mechanical engineering, uncertainty analysis examines systematic and random components of variations in measurements associated with physical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonelli%E2%80%93Hobson%20test | In mathematics, the Tonelli–Hobson test gives sufficient criteria for a function ƒ on R2 to be an integrable function. It is often used to establish that Fubini's theorem may be applied to ƒ. It is named for Leonida Tonelli and E. W. Hobson.
More precisely, the Tonelli–Hobson test states that if ƒ is a real-valued mea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defcon%20Robot%20Contest | The Defcon Robot Contest was a robotics competition which was held at the annual Defcon computer security conference in Las Vegas.
History
Defcon 12 (2004)
The first competition was held at Defcon 11 in 2003. The objective was to transport ping pong balls from one corner of an arena to the other. Only Irvine Undergro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecten | Pecten or pectin may refer to:
Pecten
Biology
Pecten (biology), any comb like structure in animals
Pecten (bivalve), a genus of scallops
Pecten (company), a subsidiary of Sinopec
Pecten oculi, a structure in the bird retina which contains most of the vasculature
Other uses
Pecten, Alberta, Canada
Venus comb mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishable | Distinguishable may refer to:
Distinguishing attack in cryptography
Distinguishable interfaces in user interfaces
Identical particles in statistical mechanics
Clear enough to be recognized or identified as different.
See also
Distinction (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20synchrony | Reproductive synchrony is a term used in evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology. Reproductive synchrony—sometimes termed "ovulatory synchrony"—may manifest itself as "breeding seasonality". Where females undergo regular menstruation, "menstrual synchrony" is another possible term.
Reproduction is said to be synch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20gas | A two-dimensional gas is a collection of objects constrained to move in a planar or other two-dimensional space in a gaseous state. The objects can be: classical ideal gas elements such as rigid disks undergoing elastic collisions; elementary particles, or any ensemble of individual objects in physics which obeys laws ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Nogales | Eva Nogales (born in Colmenar Viejo, Spain) is a Spanish-American biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as head of the Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lorentz%20transformations | The history of Lorentz transformations comprises the development of linear transformations forming the Lorentz group or Poincaré group preserving the Lorentz interval and the Minkowski inner product .
In mathematics, transformations equivalent to what was later known as Lorentz transformations in various dimensions w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hore%20%28chemist%29 | Peter John Hore is a British chemist and academic. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of two Oxford Chemistry Primers (OCP 32 and 92) on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and research articles primarily in the area of NMR, electron p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitting%20time | In the study of stochastic processes in mathematics, a hitting time (or first hit time) is the first time at which a given process "hits" a given subset of the state space. Exit times and return times are also examples of hitting times.
Definitions
Let be an ordered index set such as the natural numbers, the non-ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Muddy%20Baker | Lee "Muddy" Baker (born 16 November 1969) is a UK-based singer-songwriter, producer, performer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.
Biography
Early years
Lee Baker grew up in Watford, England where he attended Watford Boys' Grammar School. Having gained A-Levels in Art, Maths & Physics he went on to read Modern Art ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennametal | Kennametal is an American supplier of tooling and industrial materials founded in 1938 by Philip M. McKenna in the Latrobe, Pennsylvania, area.
Production
Kennametal products:
Blades, disks, skins, fuel control systems, and landing gear for the aerospace industry
Synthetic fertilizers for agriculture
Camshafts, cranks... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Strauss | Eric G. Strauss is a President's Professor at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California. He is a member of the Biology Department at the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering and director of the Ballona Discovery Park. Founder of the Center for Urban Resilience (CURes), Strauss aims to c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20residue | In mathematics, the Poincaré residue is a generalization, to several complex variables and complex manifold theory, of the residue at a pole of complex function theory. It is just one of a number of such possible extensions.
Given a hypersurface defined by a degree polynomial and a rational -form on with a pole o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20nanotechnology | The history of nanotechnology traces the development of the concepts and experimental work falling under the broad category of nanotechnology. Although nanotechnology is a relatively recent development in scientific research, the development of its central concepts happened over a longer period of time. The emergence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Enckell | Carl Johan Alexis Enckell (7 June 1876 – 26 March 1959) was a Finnish politician, diplomat, officer and businessman.
Enckell followed his father's footsteps in the Russian military and rose to the Imperial Russian Guard. As he was not satisfied with the salary and his stagnated military career, he studied mechanical e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Nanotechnology is impacting the field of consumer goods, several products that incorporate nanomaterials are already in a variety of items; many of which people do not even realize contain nanoparticles, products with novel functions ranging from easy-to-clean to scratch-resistant. Examples of that car bumpers are made... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDE | FDE may refer to:
Fault detection and exclusion, a technique used in global positioning systems
Federal Directorate of Education, an agency of the Pakistani government
Fetch-decode-execute cycle, in computer science
First-degree entailment, a weakening of paraconsistent logic lacking truths
Førde Airport, Bringel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Orlich | Don Orlich is professor emeritus of the Science Mathematics Engineering Education Center at Washington State University. He has published more than 100 professional papers, co-authored more than 30 monographs and books, and is the senior co-author of “Teaching Strategies: A guide to Effective Teaching,” published by Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice%20Hall%20International%20Series%20in%20Computer%20Science | Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science was a series of books on computer science published by Prentice Hall.
The series' founding editor was Tony Hoare. Richard Bird subsequently took over editing the series. Many of the books in the series have been in the area of formal methods in particular.
Select... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Pyle | John Adrian Pyle is a British atmospheric scientist, Director of the Centre for Atmospheric Science in Cambridge, England. He is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and since 2007 has held the 1920 Chair of Physical Chemistry in the Chemistry Department. He is also a Fellow of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | The field of psychology has been greatly influenced by the study of genetics. Decades of research have demonstrated that both genetic and environmental factors play a role in a variety of behaviors in humans and animals (e.g. Grigorenko & Sternberg, 2003). The genetic basis of aggression, however, remains poorly unders... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20molecular%20theory | In chemistry, the history of molecular theory traces the origins of the concept or idea of the existence of strong chemical bonds between two or more atoms.
A modern conceptualization of molecules began to develop in the 19th century along with experimental evidence for pure chemical elements and how individual atoms ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20microbiology | Food microbiology is the study of the microorganisms that inhabit, create, or contaminate food. This includes the study of microorganisms causing food spoilage; pathogens that may cause disease (especially if food is improperly cooked or stored); microbes used to produce fermented foods such as cheese, yogurt, bread, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20Jamin | Jules Célestin Jamin (31 May 1818, Termes, Ardennes – 12 February 1886) was a French physicist. He was professor of physics at École Polytechnique from 1852 to 1881 and received the Rumford Medal in 1858 for his work on light. He improved Brewster's inclined interference plates with the development of the Jamin interfe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20%28biology%29 | A sequence in biology is the one-dimensional ordering of monomers, covalently linked within a biopolymer; it is also referred to as the primary structure of a biological macromolecule. While it can refer to many different molecules, the term sequence is most often used to refer to a DNA sequence.
See also
Protein seq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Mikhalchishin | Adrian Bohdanovych Mikhalchishin (also Mihalcisin, Mihalčišin or Mykhalchyshyn, , born November 18, 1954) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster now playing for Slovenia. Education: Lviv University, faculty of physics 1976. Mikhalchishin is married, with two children.
Biography
He became a Grandmaster in 1978, shared first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Centre%20for%20Nanotechnology | The London Centre for Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary research centre in physical and biomedical nanotechnology in London, United Kingdom. It brings together three institutions that are world leaders in nanotechnology, University College London, Imperial College London and King's College London. It was conceived ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidity | In biochemistry, avidity refers to the accumulated strength of multiple affinities of individual non-covalent binding interactions, such as between a protein receptor and its ligand, and is commonly referred to as functional affinity. Avidity differs from affinity, which describes the strength of a single interaction.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%20%28manga%29 | is a manga by Masamune Shirow, first serialized in 1990 and 1991 in Seishinsha Comic Gaia magazine.
Description
The magic/technology described in the story draws upon ideas from Buddhism, Taoism, ancient Japanese myth, elements of cyberpunk, Yin/Yang mysticism, and particle physics. The story is based on a minor empi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Melnick | Don J. Melnick (June 2, 1953 – April 18, 2019) was an environmental biologist and conservationist. He held the position of Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology at Columbia University, where he was also professor of anthropology and biological sciences.
He served as the founding Executive Director of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle-resolved%20photoemission%20spectroscopy | Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is an experimental technique used in condensed matter physics to probe the allowed energies and momenta of the electrons in a material, usually a crystalline solid. It is based on the photoelectric effect, in which an incoming photon of sufficient energy ejects an elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Helfand | David J. Helfand is a U.S. astronomer who served as president of Quest University Canada from 2008 to 2015. Prior to his presidency at Quest, he was a Visiting Tutor at Quest. He has also served as chair of the Department of Astronomy at Columbia University and co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20Farrell | Jeremiah (Jerry) Farrell (December 12, 1937, in Hastings, Nebraska – July 4, 2022, in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American professor emeritus of mathematics at Butler University in Indiana. He was well known for having constructed Will Shortz's favorite puzzle, the famous 1996 "Election Day" crossword in The New York... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrosymmetric%20matrix | In mathematics, especially in linear algebra and matrix theory, a centrosymmetric matrix is a matrix which is symmetric about its center. More precisely, an n×n matrix A = [Ai,j] is centrosymmetric when its entries satisfy
Ai,j = An−i + 1,n−j + 1 for i, j ∊{1, ..., n}.
If J denotes the n×n exchange matrix with 1 on t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributions%20of%20Leonhard%20Euler%20to%20mathematics | The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) is among the most prolific and successful mathematicians in the history of the field. His seminal work had a profound impact in numerous areas of mathematics and he is widely credited for introducing and popularizing modern notation and terminology.
Mathematical notat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%20continuity%20theorem | In mathematics, the Kolmogorov continuity theorem is a theorem that guarantees that a stochastic process that satisfies certain constraints on the moments of its increments will be continuous (or, more precisely, have a "continuous version"). It is credited to the Soviet mathematician Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.
St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20abandoned%20education%20methods | This is a list of education practices which have been replaced by or abandoned in favor of newer (or older) practices. To maintain a balanced point of view, each example should provide a source showing that the practice was abandoned or replaced. A practice abandoned by one school, for example reform mathematics, may s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20P.%20Y.%20Reddy | S. Pedda Yerikal Reddy (4 June 1950 – 30 April 2019) was a three-time Lok Sabha MP and Industrialist who headed the Nandi Group of Industries. He was born on 4 June 1950 in the Ankalammagudur village from Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from NIT Waranga... |
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