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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling%20model | In chemistry, a space-filling model, also known as a calotte model, is a type of three-dimensional (3D) molecular model where the atoms are represented by spheres whose radii are proportional to the radii of the atoms and whose center-to-center distances are proportional to the distances between the atomic nuclei, all ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor | Flavor or flavour is either the sensory perception of taste or smell, or a flavoring in food that produces such perception.
Flavor or flavour may also refer to:
Science
Flavors (programming language), an early object-oriented extension to Lisp
Flavour (particle physics), a quantum number of elementary particles rela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Kara-Murza | Sergey Georgyevich Kara-Murza (; born January 23, 1939, in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian chemist, historian, political philosopher and sociologist.
Biography
Sergey Kara-Murza was graduated with degree in chemistry from Moscow State University in 1961. Between 1966 and 1972 he worked as a Soviet chemical specialis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20J.%20Kolenkow | Robert J. Kolenkow is an American physicist and teacher. He is best known for being the coauthor, along with Daniel Kleppner, of a popular undergraduate physics textbook.
Kolenkow did his undergraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1955. For a time, he was an associate professor of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20pseudoperfect%20number | In mathematics, and particularly in number theory, N is a primary pseudoperfect number if it satisfies the Egyptian fraction equation
where the sum is over only the prime divisors of N.
Properties
Equivalently, N is a primary pseudoperfect number if it satisfies
Except for the primary pseudoperfect number N = 2, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avesthagen | Avesthagen Limited is an integrated systems biology platform company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It was founded as an academic startup in 1998 by Villoo Morawala-Patell, a Rockefeller Fellow and grantee within NCBS-UAS, Bangalore. Avesthagen started business operations on March 21, 2001 with Series-A round inves... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahen%27s%20constant | In mathematics, Cahen's constant is defined as the value of an infinite series of unit fractions with alternating signs:
Here denotes Sylvester's sequence, which is defined recursively by
Combining these fractions in pairs leads to an alternative expansion of Cahen's constant as a series of positive unit fractions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%20of%20finite-dimensional%20Hilbert%20spaces | In mathematics, the category FdHilb has all finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces for objects and the linear transformations between them as morphisms. Whereas the theory described by the normal category of Hilbert spaces, Hilb, is ordinary quantum mechanics, the corresponding theory on finite dimensional Hilbert spaces is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20topology | In mathematics, the uniform topology on a space may mean:
In functional analysis, it sometimes refers to a polar topology on a topological vector space.
In general topology, it is the topology carried by a uniform space.
In real analysis, it is the topology of uniform convergence. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformly%20Cauchy%20sequence | In mathematics, a sequence of functions from a set S to a metric space M is said to be uniformly Cauchy if:
For all , there exists such that for all : whenever .
Another way of saying this is that as , where the uniform distance between two functions is defined by
Convergence criteria
A sequence of functions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammasphere | The Gammasphere is a third generation gamma ray spectrometer used to study rare and exotic nuclear physics. It consists of 108 Compton-suppressed large volume, high-purity germanium detectors arranged in a spherical shell.
Gammasphere has been used to perform a variety of experiments in nuclear physics. Most experimen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus%20trichocarpa | Populus trichocarpa, the black cottonwood, western balsam-poplar or California poplar, is a deciduous broadleaf tree species native to western North America. It is used for timber, and is notable as a model organism in plant biology.
Description
It is a large tree, growing to a height of and a trunk diameter over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20stopping | In mathematics, the theory of optimal stopping or early stopping is concerned with the problem of choosing a time to take a particular action, in order to maximise an expected reward or minimise an expected cost. Optimal stopping problems can be found in areas of statistics, economics, and mathematical finance (related... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdier%20duality | In mathematics, Verdier duality is a cohomological duality in algebraic topology that generalizes Poincaré duality for manifolds. Verdier duality was introduced in 1965 by as an analog for locally compact topological spaces of
Alexander Grothendieck's theory of
Poincaré duality in étale cohomology
for schemes in alge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryo | Cryo- is from the Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “ice, icy cold, chill, frost”). Uses of the prefix Cryo- include:
Physics and geology
Cryogenics, the study of the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures and the study of producing extremely low temperatures
Cryoelectronics, the study of superco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FirstDefender | FirstDefender is a handheld liquid and solid chemical identification instrument which uses a method of analysis called Raman spectroscopy. It is designed for use by first responders, homeland security, law enforcers and forensic chemistry personnel for immediate identification of unknown solids, liquids, and mixtures.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirzebruch%20signature%20theorem | In differential topology, an area of mathematics, the Hirzebruch signature theorem (sometimes called the Hirzebruch index theorem)
is Friedrich Hirzebruch's 1954 result expressing the signature
of a smooth closed oriented manifold by a linear combination of Pontryagin numbers called the
L-genus.
It was used in the proo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruss | Bruss may refer to:
Brös an alternate spelling of a preparation of cheese and grappa
Franz Thomas Bruss, a Belgian-German professor of mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Logan Bruss (born 1999), American football player
Robert Bruss, a real estate attorney and syndicated columnist known as "the Dear Abby... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta%20characteristic | In mathematics, a theta characteristic of a non-singular algebraic curve C is a divisor class Θ such that 2Θ is the canonical class. In terms of holomorphic line bundles L on a connected compact Riemann surface, it is therefore L such that L2 is the canonical bundle, here also equivalently the holomorphic cotangent bun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohinder%20Suresh | Mohinder Suresh is a fictional character on the NBC drama Heroes, portrayed by Sendhil Ramamurthy. He is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and is a genetics professor at the University of Madras. Mohinder is attempting to find the truth behind the sudden death of his father, Chandra Suresh (portrayed by Erick Avari), and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparsetooth%20dogfish | The sparsetooth dogfish (Scymnodalatias oligodon) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, the holotype of which was taken in the subtropical southeast Pacific at a depth of up to 200 m. Its biology is unknown.
References
Scymnodalatias
Fish described in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest%20common%20ancestor | In graph theory and computer science, the lowest common ancestor (LCA) (also called least common ancestor) of two nodes and in a tree or directed acyclic graph (DAG) is the lowest (i.e. deepest) node that has both and as descendants, where we define each node to be a descendant of itself (so if has a direct conn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionally%20graded%20material | In materials science Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) may be characterized by the variation in composition and structure gradually over volume, resulting in corresponding changes in the properties of the material. The materials can be designed for specific function and applications. Various approaches based on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Ili%C4%87%20%28pianist%29 | Ivan Ilić (; born August 14, 1978) is a Serbian-American pianist. He lives in Paris.
Early life
Ilić was born in Palo Alto, in the United States. He attended the University of California, Berkeley in the U.S. where he took degrees in mathematics and music. Ilić also briefly studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQM-147%20Dragon |
The BAI Aerosystems (BAIA) BQM-147 Dragon unmanned aerial vehicle is a tactical battlefield UAV operated by the US Marine Corps.
Development
The Dragon began life in 1986, when the US Marines Corps contracted with the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), an offshoot of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward%2C%20Inc. | Woodward, Inc. is an American designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control systems and control system components (e.g. fuel pumps, engine controls, actuators, air valves, fuel nozzles, and electronics) for aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation and mobile industrial equipment. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20magnetic%20resonance | In physics, biology and chemistry, electron magnetic resonance (EMR) is an interdisciplinary field that covers both electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR, also known as electron spin resonance – ESR) and electron cyclotron resonance (ECR). EMR looks at electrons rather than nuclei or ions as in nuclear magnetic resonanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike%20Force%20Bowling | Strike Force Bowling is a video game of the sports genre released in 2004 by LAB Rats. A previous game, Fast Lanes Bowling, was published by Enlight Software for Microsoft Windows. The two games are very similar sharing the same physics engine and graphics, although Strike Force featured more locations as well as left-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration%20%28geometry%29 | In mathematics, specifically projective geometry, a configuration in the plane consists of a finite set of points, and a finite arrangement of lines, such that each point is incident to the same number of lines and each line is incident to the same number of points.
Although certain specific configurations had been st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20of%20nanotechnology | The impact of nanotechnology extends from its medical, ethical, mental, legal and environmental applications, to fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, computing, materials science, and communications.
Major benefits of nanotechnology include improved manufacturing methods, water purification systems, energy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20A.%20McCrerey | Homer Alex McCrerey (July 29, 1919 – 1999) became U.S. Navy Meteorologist and oceanographer for CINCPACFLT until 1972.
Biography
US Navy Captain McCrerey was born in Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas. During 1941 he graduated from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas with a mathematics degree. Homer was commissioned... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonexistent%20objects | In metaphysics and ontology, Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong advanced nonexistent objects in the 19th and 20th centuries within a "theory of objects". He was interested in intentional states which are directed at nonexistent objects. Starting with the "principle of intentionality", mental phenomena are intentional... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemistry%20of%20Alzheimer%27s%20disease | The biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is not yet very well understood. Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been identified as a proteopathy: a protein misfolding disease due to the accumulation of abnormally folded amyloid beta (Aβ) protein in the brain. Amyloid beta is a short peptide th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence%20Parsons | Terence Dwight Parsons (1939–2022) was an American philosopher, specializing in philosophy of language and metaphysics. He was emeritus professor of philosophy at UCLA.
Life and career
Parsons was born in Endicott, New York and graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in physics. He received his PhD from S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noneism | Noneism, also known as modal Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong), is a theory in logic and metaphysics. It holds that some things do not exist. It was first coined by Richard Routley in 1980 and appropriated again in 2005 by Graham Priest.
Overview
Noneism holds that some things do not exist. That is, we can q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Dushkin | Leonid Stepanovich Dushkin (Леонид Степанович Душкин) (August 15, 1910 in the Spirove settlement of the Tver region – April 4, 1990), was a major pioneer of Soviet rocket engine technology.
He graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in mathematics and mechanics. In October 1932, he joined Fridrikh Tsan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Rubin | Philip E. Rubin (born May 22, 1949) is an American cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator known for raising the visibility of behavioral and cognitive science, neuroscience, and ethical issues related to science, technology, and medicine, at a national level.
His research career is noted for his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20A.%20Walker%20%28engineer%29 | Eric Arthur Walker (April 29, 1910 – February 17, 1995) was president of the Pennsylvania State University from 1956 to 1970 and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Biography
Born in Long Eaton, England, Dr. Walker earned a Bachelor's degree from Harvard University in Electrical Engineering, a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Alembert%27s%20equation | In mathematics, d'Alembert's equation is a first order nonlinear ordinary differential equation, named after the French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The equation reads as
where . After differentiating once, and rearranging we have
The above equation is linear. When , d'Alembert's equation is reduced to Clai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat%20Desai | Bharat Desai (Hindi: भरत देसाई; born November 1952) is an American billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and chairman of Syntel.
Early life
Bharat Desai was born in November 1952, in Kenya. He is of Gujarati Indian origin. In his childhood, he lived in Mombasa and Ahmedabad. Desai received a bachelor's degree i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange%20of%20limiting%20operations | In mathematics, the study of interchange of limiting operations is one of the major concerns of mathematical analysis, in that two given limiting operations, say L and M, cannot be assumed to give the same result when applied in either order. One of the historical sources for this theory is the study of trigonometric s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullback%20attractor | In mathematics, the attractor of a random dynamical system may be loosely thought of as a set to which the system evolves after a long enough time. The basic idea is the same as for a deterministic dynamical system, but requires careful treatment because random dynamical systems are necessarily non-autonomous. This req... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfister%20form | In mathematics, a Pfister form is a particular kind of quadratic form, introduced by Albrecht Pfister in 1965. In what follows, quadratic forms are considered over a field F of characteristic not 2. For a natural number n, an n-fold Pfister form over F is a quadratic form of dimension 2n that can be written as a tenso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20form | In mathematics, a norm form is a homogeneous form in n variables constructed from the field norm of a field extension L/K of degree n. That is, writing N for the norm mapping to K, and selecting a basis e1, ..., en for L as a vector space over K, the form is given by
N(x1e1 + ... + xnen)
in variables x1, ..., xn.
In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20flow%20%28random%20dynamical%20systems%29 | In mathematics, the base flow of a random dynamical system is the dynamical system defined on the "noise" probability space that describes how to "fast forward" or "rewind" the noise when one wishes to change the time at which one "starts" the random dynamical system.
Definition
In the definition of a random dynamical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20variety | In mathematics, a norm variety is a particular type of algebraic variety V over a field F, introduced for the purposes of algebraic K-theory by Voevodsky. The idea is to relate Milnor K-theory of F to geometric objects V, having function fields F(V) that 'split' given 'symbols' (elements of Milnor K-groups).
The formu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorbing%20set%20%28random%20dynamical%20systems%29 | In mathematics, an absorbing set for a random dynamical system is a subset of the phase space. A dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space.
The absorbing set eventually contains the image of any bounded set under the cocycle ("flow") of the random ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20series%20representation | In mathematics, a discrete series representation is an irreducible unitary representation of a locally compact topological group G that is a subrepresentation of the left regular representation of G on L²(G). In the Plancherel measure, such representations have positive measure. The name comes from the fact that the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C3%B4%20isometry | In mathematics, the Itô isometry, named after Kiyoshi Itô, is a crucial fact about Itô stochastic integrals. One of its main applications is to enable the computation of variances for random variables that are given as Itô integrals.
Let denote the canonical real-valued Wiener process defined up to time , and let be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20square%20root | In mathematics, a functional square root (sometimes called a half iterate) is a square root of a function with respect to the operation of function composition. In other words, a functional square root of a function is a function satisfying for all .
Notation
Notations expressing that is a functional square root... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira%20Carmen | Ira Harris Carmen (born December 3, 1934) graduated from the University of Michigan and is an American Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught from 1968 to 2009.
Carmen is a co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics. The f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Young%20Physicists%27%20Tournament | The International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT), sometimes referred to as the “Physics World Cup”, is a scientific competition between teams of secondary school students. It mimics, as close as possible, the real-world scientific research and the process of presenting and defending the results obtained.
Particip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Toliver | Kay Toliver is a teacher specialising in mathematics education.
Background
Kay Toliver was born and raised in East Harlem and the South Bronx. A product of the New York City public school system, she graduated from Harriet Beecher Stowe Junior High, Walton High School and Hunter College (AB 1967, MA 1971) with gradua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avishai%20Dekel | Avishai Dekel (born 1951) is a professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, holding the Andre Aisenstadt Chair of Theoretical Physics. His primary research interests are in astrophysics and cosmology.
Academic career
Dekel earned his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1980, and was a research f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20cryptanalysis | In cryptography, integral cryptanalysis is a cryptanalytic attack that is particularly applicable to block ciphers based on substitution–permutation networks. It was originally designed by Lars Knudsen as a dedicated attack against Square, so it is commonly known as the Square attack. It was also extended to a few oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Matloff | Norman Saul Matloff (born December 16, 1948) is an American professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.
Early life
Norman Saul Matloff was born on December 16, 1948. Matloff received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from the mathematics department at the University of California, Los A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo%20Matassa | Cosimo Vincent Matassa (April 13, 1926 – September 11, 2014) was an American recording engineer and studio owner, responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings.
Life and career
Matassa was born in New Orleans in 1926. In 1944 he began studies as a chemistry major at Tulane University, which he abandoned ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozomu%20Sahashi | ; previously Saruhashi) is the founder of the now-defunct Nova Corporation, previously the major eikaiwa (private school for conversational English) provider in Japan. After graduating from high school, Sahashi went to Paris to attend university and majored in physics although it took him five years to complete a two-y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched%20Xenon%20Observatory | The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is a particle physics experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of xenon-136 at WIPP near Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S.
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) detection would prove the Majorana nature of neutrinos and impact the neutrino mass values and ordering. These a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cairns%20%28biochemist%29 | Hugh John Forster Cairns FRS (21 November 1922 – 12 November 2018) was a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health.
Career
Cairns received his M.D. from Oxford. He then worked as a virologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20High%20Energy%20Physics | The Journal of High Energy Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering the field of high energy physics. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the International School for Advanced Studies. The journal is part of the SCOAP3 initiative. According to the Journal Ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20coordinates | In Riemannian geometry, a branch of mathematics, harmonic coordinates are a certain kind of coordinate chart on a smooth manifold, determined by a Riemannian metric on the manifold. They are useful in many problems of geometric analysis due to their regularity properties.
In two dimensions, certain harmonic coordinate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Ageno | Mario Ageno (March 2, 1915 – December 23, 1992) is considered one of Italy's most important biophysicists.
Early life and education
Born in Livorno from a Genoese family, he studied Physics for two years in Genoa, when one of his professors noticed his talent as a scientist, and suggested that he should move to Rome. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Hermann%20Weyl | This is a list of topics named after Hermann Weyl, the influential German mathematician from the 20th century.
Mathematics and physics
Cartan–Weyl theory
Cartan–Weyl basis
Courant–Fischer–Weyl min-max principle
De Donder–Weyl theory
Hodge−Weyl decomposition
Majorana–Weyl spinor
Peter–Weyl theorem
Schur–Weyl du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Stein%20%28mathematician%29 | Karl Stein (1 January 1913 in Hamm, Westphalia – 19 October 2000) was a German mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him.
Career
Karl Stein received his doctorate with his dissertation on the topic Zur Theorie der Funktionen meh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipermutable%20subgroup | In mathematics, in algebra, in the realm of group theory, a subgroup of a finite group is said to be semipermutable if commutes with every subgroup whose order is relatively prime to that of .
Clearly, every permutable subgroup of a finite group is semipermutable. The converse, however, is not necessarily true.
E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurophilicity | In chemistry, aurophilicity refers to the tendency of gold complexes to aggregate via formation of weak metallophilic interactions.
The main evidence for aurophilicity is from the crystallographic analysis of Au(I) complexes. The aurophilic bond has a length of about 3.0 Å and a strength of about 7–12 kcal/mol, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankar%20Ghosh | Sankar Ghosh is an Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemist, who is the Chair and Silverstein & Hutt Family Professor of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Ghosh is best known for his pioneering research on the activation of cellular responses v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle%20map | In mathematics, a bundle map (or bundle morphism) is a morphism in the category of fiber bundles. There are two distinct, but closely related, notions of bundle map, depending on whether the fiber bundles in question have a common base space. There are also several variations on the basic theme, depending on precisely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabba%20S.%20%C8%98tef%C4%83nescu | Sabba S. Ștefănescu (20 July 1902 – 15 April 1994) was a Romanian geophysicist, professor of geophysics, member of the Romanian Academy. He was the cofounder, together with Liviu Constantinescu, of the Romanian school of geophysics.
Biography
He was the third and youngest son of , professor of paleontology at the Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannakian%20formalism | In mathematics, a Tannakian category is a particular kind of monoidal category C, equipped with some extra structure relative to a given field K. The role of such categories C is to approximate, in some sense, the category of linear representations of an algebraic group G defined over K. A number of major applications ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Charles%20Johnson | Isaac Charles Johnson (28 January 1811 – 29 November 1911) was a British cement manufacturer, and a pioneer of the Portland cement industry.
Born in London, his father was a charge-hand at Francis & White's "Roman Cement" plant in Nine Elms. He himself worked there as a labourer from age 16 while studying chemistry. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpand%20Rally | Xpand Rally is a rally racing game developed by Techland for Microsoft Windows. The games main focus is on graphics as well as physics. It contains 60 tracks where players can drive against 120 different rally drivers.
Reception
The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermarking%20attack | In cryptography, a watermarking attack is an attack on disk encryption methods where the presence of a specially crafted piece of data can be detected by an attacker without knowing the encryption key.
Problem description
Disk encryption suites generally operate on data in 512-byte sectors which are individually encry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20education%20in%20the%20Indian%20subcontinent | Education in the Indian subcontinent began with teaching of traditional elements such as Indian religions, Indian mathematics, Indian logic at early Hindu and Buddhist centres of learning such as ancient Takshashila (in modern-day Pakistan) and Nalanda (in India). Islamic education became ingrained with the establishme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECCB%20%28disambiguation%29 | ECCB may refer to:
Monetary authority
Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, monetary authority of a group of eight Caribbean nations.
Scientific Conference
European Conference on Computational Biology, a scientific conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
European Congress of Conservation Biology, a scientifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoram%20Moses | Yoram Moses () is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Yoram Moses received a B.Sc. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1986. Moses is a co-author of the book Reason... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthazar%20Gerbier | Sir Balthazar Gerbier (23 February 1592, in N.S. – 1663) was an Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer, in his own words fluent in "several languages" with "a good hand in writing, skill in sciences as mathematics, architecture, drawing, painting, contriving of scenes, masqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRYPTON | In cryptography, CRYPTON is a symmetric block cipher submitted as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It is very efficient in hardware implementations and was designed by Chae Hoon Lim of Future Systems Inc.
The CRYPTON algorithm processes blocks of 128 bits in the form of 4×4 byte arrays. The roun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornblum%E2%80%93DeLaMare%20rearrangement | The Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry in which a primary or secondary organic peroxide is converted to the corresponding ketone and alcohol under acid or base catalysis. The reaction is relevant as a tool in organic synthesis and is a key step in the biosynthesis of prosta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Leighton%20Carss | William Leighton Carss (February 15, 1865 – May 31, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in Pella, Marion County, Iowa and subsequently moved with his parents to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1867. There he attended the public schools, studied civil and mechanical engineering and followed that profession for a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing%20squad%20synchronization%20problem | The firing squad synchronization problem is a problem in computer science and cellular automata in which the goal is to design a cellular automaton that, starting with a single active cell, eventually reaches a state in which all cells are simultaneously active. It was first proposed by John Myhill in 1957 and publishe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Penrose | Oliver Penrose (born 6 June 1929) is a British theoretical physicist.
He is the son of the scientist Lionel Penrose and brother of the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, chess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose, and geneticist Shirley Hodgson. He was associated with the Open University for seventeen years and was a Prof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukumar%20Nandi | Professor Sukumar Nandi is senior member of IEEE and is in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He did his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur under Professor P. Pal Chaudhri. He joined IIT Guwahati, and has been teaching there since 1995. He is also a member of the Board ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Principles%20of%20Programming%20Languages | The annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) is an academic conference in the field of computer science, with focus on fundamental principles in the design, definition, analysis, and implementation of programming languages, programming systems, and programming interfaces. The ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20covariance | In physics, the principle of covariance emphasizes the formulation of physical laws using only those physical quantities the measurements of which the observers in different frames of reference could unambiguously correlate.
Mathematically, the physical quantities must transform covariantly, that is, under a certain r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisimple%20operator | In mathematics, a linear operator T : V → V on a vector space V is semisimple if every T-invariant subspace has a complementary T-invariant subspace. If T is a semisimple linear operator on V, then V is a semisimple representation of T. Equivalently, a linear operator is semisimple if its minimal polynomial is a prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20algebraic%20geometry | In mathematics, real algebraic geometry is the sub-branch of algebraic geometry studying real algebraic sets, i.e. real-number solutions to algebraic equations with real-number coefficients, and mappings between them (in particular real polynomial mappings).
Semialgebraic geometry is the study of semialgebraic sets, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Fire | Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). This research was conducted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20amplitude%20zero%20autocorrelation%20waveform | In signal processing, a Constant Amplitude Zero AutoCorrelation waveform (CAZAC) is a periodic complex-valued signal with modulus one and out-of-phase periodic (cyclic) autocorrelations equal to zero. CAZAC sequences find application in wireless communication systems, for example in 3GPP Long Term Evolution for synchr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellar%20bodies | In cell biology, lamellar bodies (otherwise known as lamellar granules, membrane-coating granules (MCGs), keratinosomes or Odland bodies) are secretory organelles found in type II alveolar cells in the lungs, and in keratinocytes in the skin. They are oblong structures, appearing about 300-400 nm in width and 100-150 n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Lawrence%20%28bridge%29 | Michael Steven Lawrence (born May 28, 1940) is an American bridge player, teacher, theorist, and prolific writer.
Biography
Lawrence was born in San Francisco. He started playing bridge while he was a chemistry student at the University of California; as result of a self-inflicted hand injury, he had to postpone the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred%20Edgerton%20Merrill | Winifred Edgerton (September 24, 1862 – September 6, 1951) was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. She was the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia University and the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics. She was awarded a PhD with high honors from Columbia University in 1886, by a unanimous vote of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20S.%20Brown | Gordon Stanley Brown (August 30, 1907 in Australia – August 23, 1996 in Tucson, Arizona) was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems and the numerical control of machine tools. From 1959 to 1968, he served as the dean of MIT's engineeri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOSMAT | HOSMAT multispecialty Hospital Pvt. Ltd. , the Hospital for Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Arthritis & Trauma, is a 350-bed speciality hospital in central Bangalore, India. It also includes Hosmat Joint Replacement Center and HOSMAT Neurosciences. It is currently undergoing expansion to 500 beds, which would make it th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak%20%C3%A0%20configuration%20variable | The tokamak à configuration variable (TCV, literally "variable configuration tokamak") is an experimental tokamak located at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) in Lausanne, Switzerland. As the largest experimental facility of the Swiss Plasma Center, the TCV tokamak explores t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRS%20Robotics | CRS Robotics Corporation (currently operating as Thermo CRS Limited) was a robotics company based out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada. CRS Robotics designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced human scale articulated robots, and laboratory automation systems. Human scale robots have approximately the same reach, sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz | Betz may refer to:
Betz (surname)
Betz Airport, Michigan
Betz cell, giant pyramidal neuron of primary motor cortex
Betz's law, law of physics applying to fluids
Betz, Oise, commune in France
GE Betz, water treatment company
See also
Betts, surname
Willi Betz, logistics company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin%20J.%20Marks | Tobin Jay Marks (born November 25, 1944) is an inorganic chemistry Professor, the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Professor of Applied Physics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Amo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20V.%20Ley | Steven Victor Ley (born 10 December 1945) is Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000–2002) and was made a CBE in January 2002, in the process. In 2011, he was i... |
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