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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar-Mansu%C3%A8te%20Despretz
César-Mansuète Despretz (4 May 1791, Lessines – 15 March 1863, Paris) was a chemist and physicist. He became a French citizen in 1838. A street got its name after him in Lessines (rue César Despretz). Biography In 1818, Despretz started working as répétiteur in chemistry at Polytechnique, in Paris, under Joseph Lou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Denton
Michael John Denton (born 25 August 1943) is a British proponent of intelligent design and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He holds a PhD degree in biochemistry. Denton's book, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, inspired intelligent design proponents Phillip Johnson and Michael ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%20Body%20of%20Bianca
Sweet Body of Bianca () is a 1984 Italian comedy-mystery film directed by Nanni Moretti. Plot In Rome, Michele Apicella moves to a new apartment and starts a new job as mathematics teacher in the experimental Marilyn Monroe high school where most of the staff are, like him, eccentric. A solitary man, scrupulous about ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrling%27s%20lemma
In mathematics, Ehrling's lemma, also known as Lions' lemma, is a result concerning Banach spaces. It is often used in functional analysis to demonstrate the equivalence of certain norms on Sobolev spaces. It was named after Gunnar Ehrling. Statement of the lemma Let (X, ||·||X), (Y, ||·||Y) and (Z, ||·||Z) be three ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implosion
Implosion can refer to: Physics Implosion (mechanical process) Building implosion Implosion-type nuclear weapon In phonetics, an airstream mechanism associated with implosive consonants Gravitational collapse (and more specifically, core collapse) in cosmology Parabolic implosion in complex dynamics Art, entert...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo%20Seltzer
Margo Ilene Seltzer is a professor and researcher in computer systems. She is currently the Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family Chair in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Previously, Seltzer was the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oklahoma%20State%20University%20buildings
Academic facilities Advanced Technology Research Center Agricultural Center Offices Agricultural Hall Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory Animal Sciences Architecture Building Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts BioSystems and Agricultural Engineering Laboratory Boren Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital Business ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20A.%20Jorgensen
Richard A. Jorgensen (born 1951) is an American molecular geneticist and an early pioneer in the study of post transcriptional gene silencing. Biography From 1965 through 1969 he attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, a college preparatory school. Jorgensen holds a B.S. in biomedical engineering and a M.S. in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha%20%28web%20server%29
Hiawatha is a web server available for multiple platforms. It is developed by Hugo Leisink. History Hiawatha started in January 2002 as a small web server for servers with older hardware. Leisink, a computer science student at the time, initially created the server to support internet servers in student houses in Delf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherina%20Reiche
Katherina Reiche (born 16 July 1973) is a German manager and former politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Education After receiving her Abitur in 1992, she studied chemistry at the University of Potsdam, Clarkson University in New York and the University of Turku in Finland. In 1997, she received her dip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20Mather
John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946, Roanoke, Virginia) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot. This work helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize commi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and the second contestant to win the $1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Sach
Andrew Sach is a contemporary evangelical Christian pastor, speaker and author. He is an ordained Church of England minister and holds a doctorate in neuroscience. He has written several Christian books and is a regular speaker at Word Alive and other conferences. As an 18-year-old Sach was an atheist and viewed Chris...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Feynman
Joan Feynman (March 31, 1927 – July 21, 2020) was an American astrophysicist. She made contributions to the study of solar wind particles and fields, sun-Earth relations, and magnetospheric physics. In particular, Feynman was known for developing an understanding of the origin of auroras. She was also known for creatin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Mantilla
Evelyn Mantilla (born February 16, 1963) is an American politician from Connecticut who served from 1997 to 2007 as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. Mantilla was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, and moved to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1978. She has a A.S. degree in computer science from Manchester Commu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy%20algorithm%20for%20Egyptian%20fractions
In mathematics, the greedy algorithm for Egyptian fractions is a greedy algorithm, first described by Fibonacci, for transforming rational numbers into Egyptian fractions. An Egyptian fraction is a representation of an irreducible fraction as a sum of distinct unit fractions, such as . As the name indicates, these rep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryl%20Parker%20Haskins
Caryl Parker Haskins (1908–2001) was an American scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, governmental adviser and pioneering entomologist in the study of ant biology. Along with Franklin S. Cooper, he founded the Haskins Laboratories, a private, non-profit research laboratory, in 1935. He was professor at Union C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20embedding
In mathematics, one normed vector space is said to be continuously embedded in another normed vector space if the inclusion function between them is continuous. In some sense, the two norms are "almost equivalent", even though they are not both defined on the same space. Several of the Sobolev embedding theorems are co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%2B
H+ or h+ may refer to: Science and technology Electron hole, h+ the conceptual opposite of an electron Evolved High Speed Packet Access, H+ mobile phone icon Hydron (chemistry), H+ a cationic form of atomic hydrogen Other H (S-train), a rail service in Copenhagen, Denmark H+: The Digital Series, a science-fict...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Boneh
Dan Boneh (; ) is an Israeli–American professor in applied cryptography and computer security at Stanford University. In 2016, Boneh was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography and computer security. Biography Born in Israel in 1969, Boneh o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length%20code
In coding theory, a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits. The equivalent concept in computer science is bit string. Variable-length codes can allow sources to be compressed and decompressed with zero error (lossless data compression) and still be read back symbol by sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadammanitta%20Vasudevan%20Pillai
Prof. Kadammanitta Vasudevan Pillai, is a Padayani exponent from Kerala, India. He is the former Vice Chairman of the Kerala Folklore Academy, a professor in mathematics, a writer and public speaker. Early and professional life Vasudevan Pillai was born to M. R. Ramakrishna Pillai (late) and Parukutty Amma (late), at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces%20Genome%20Database
The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) is a scientific database of the molecular biology and genetics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is commonly known as baker's or budding yeast. Further information is located at the Yeastract curated repository. Saccharomyces Genome Database The SGD provides Interne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailing%20zero
In mathematics, trailing zeros are a sequence of 0 in the decimal representation (or more generally, in any positional representation) of a number, after which no other digits follow. Trailing zeros to the right of a decimal point, as in 12.340, don’t affect the value of a number and may be omitted if all that is of i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac%20College
Mackinac College was a private liberal arts college which opened on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the fall of 1966 and closed four years later in 1970. The college taught courses in biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, modern languages, theater, television, radio, journalism, art, government, and public affairs. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20D.%20Kornberg
Roger David Kornberg (born April 24, 1947) is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of euk...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Balding
David Balding is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Melbourne, and Director of Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), having previously been the founding senior appointment at the UCL Genetics Institute in London. He was educated at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the University of Oxfo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligate
As an adjective, obligate means "by necessity" (antonym facultative) and is used mainly in biology in phrases such as: Obligate aerobe, an organism that cannot survive without oxygen Obligate anaerobe, an organism that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen Obligate air-breather, a term used in fish physiology to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin%20L.%20Cohen
Marvin Lou Cohen (born March 3, 1935) is an American–Canadian theoretical physicist. He is a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Cohen is a leading expert in the field of condensed matter physics. He is widely known for his seminal work on the electronic structure of solids. Biography Early l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation%20formalisms%20in%20three%20dimensions
In geometry, various formalisms exist to express a rotation in three dimensions as a mathematical transformation. In physics, this concept is applied to classical mechanics where rotational (or angular) kinematics is the science of quantitative description of a purely rotational motion. The orientation of an object at ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E2%80%93Bbar%20oscillation
Neutral B meson oscillations (or – oscillations) are one of the manifestations of the neutral particle oscillation, a fundamental prediction of the Standard Model of particle physics. It is the phenomenon of B mesons changing (or oscillating) between their matter and antimatter forms before their decay. The meson can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Observatory%20%28Ithaca%29
The Clinton B. Ford Observatory is an astronomical observatory that is operated by the Ithaca College physics department. The observatory is located in the forest on the south end of the Ithaca College campus in Ithaca, New York (United States). It was constructed in 1998 using funds from the National Science Found...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%20%28disambiguation%29
N is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. N or n may also refer to: Mathematics , the set of natural numbers N, the field norm N for nullae, a rare Roman numeral for zero n, the size of a statistical sample Science ATC code N Nervous system, a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classificat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%E2%80%93secondary%20quality%20distinction
The primary–secondary quality distinction is a conceptual distinction in epistemology and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality. It is most explicitly articulated by John Locke in his Essay concerning Human Understanding, but earlier thinkers such as Galileo and Descartes made similar distinctions. Primary qu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEKKO%20XII
The is a high-power, 12-beam, neodymium-doped glass laser at the Osaka University's Institute for Laser Engineering (大阪大学レーザーエネルギー学研究センター) completed in 1983, which is used for high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion research. The name refers to the twelve individual beamlines used to amplify the la...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunko%20Kanazawa
is a Japanese adult film actress, who was mostly active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She has been called "one of the biggest AV idols in Japan". Life and career Debut—Cosmos Plan Bunko Kanazawa was born April 4, 1979, in Kanagawa prefecture. She reports that as a child she was good at mathematics and science, b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrystEngComm
CrystEngComm is a peer-reviewed online-only scientific journal publishing original research and review articles on all aspects of crystal engineering including properties, polymorphism, target materials, and crystalline nanomaterials. It is published biweekly by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the editor-in-chief is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraaminoethylene
In organic chemistry, tetraaminoethylene is a hypothetical, organic compound with formula or . Like all polyamines that are geminal, this compound has never been synthesised and is believed to be extremely unstable. However, there are many stable compounds that can be viewed as derivatives of tetraaminoethylene, wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrystEngCommunity
CrystEngCommunity is a virtual web community for people working in the field of crystal engineering. The website is owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). CrystEngCommunity has links to the main international research groups working in crystal engineering; publishes occasional profiles (interviews) of crystal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptor%E2%80%93ligand%20kinetics
In biochemistry, receptor–ligand kinetics is a branch of chemical kinetics in which the kinetic species are defined by different non-covalent bindings and/or conformations of the molecules involved, which are denoted as receptor(s) and ligand(s). Receptor–ligand binding kinetics also involves the on- and off-rates of b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogilbia%20suarezae
Ogilbia suarezae is a species of fish of the genus Ogilbia found in the shallows of the Caribbean Sea. It is yellowish in color and is livebearing. Etymology It was named in honor of Susan Suarez, a professor at Cornell University, in recognition of her careful study of the reproductive biology of the related fish Og...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20martingale
In mathematics, a local martingale is a type of stochastic process, satisfying the localized version of the martingale property. Every martingale is a local martingale; every bounded local martingale is a martingale; in particular, every local martingale that is bounded from below is a supermartingale, and every local ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20K.%20Gunn
Stephen K. Gunn is Executive Co-Chairman and co-Founder of Sleep Country Canada Inc, which he co-founded with Christine Magee and Gordon Lownds. As of June 2013, the company has 201 stores across Canada and 43 stores in the US (Sleep America). Early life Gunn grew up in Montreal and Kingston. He completed an honours ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Kurdyumov
Sergey Pavlovich Kurdyumov (; November 18, 1928 – December 2, 2004) was a specialist in mathematical physics, mathematical modeling, plasma physics, complexity studies and synergetics from Moscow, Russia. Kurdyumov graduated from the Moscow State University in 1957. Since 1953 he worked in the Keldysh Institute of App...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Rosenberg
Alexander Rosenberg (who generally publishes as "Alex") is an American philosopher and novelist. He is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, well known for contributions to philosophy of biology and philosophy of economics. Rosenberg describes himself as a "naturalist". Education and career R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20energy%20model
In the statistical physics of disordered systems, the random energy model is a toy model of a system with quenched disorder, such as a spin glass, having a first-order phase transition. It concerns the statistics of a collection of spins (i.e. degrees of freedom that can take one of two possible values ) so that the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Danly
Laura Danly (born July 7, 1958) is an American astronomer and academic who served as Curator of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. She has also served as chair of the Department of Space Sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Education Danly earned a B.A. in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Okello
Dorothy Okello is a Ugandan electrical engineer, and professor known for founding the Women of Uganda Network or WOUGNET. In 2016, she became the first female president of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers Education She has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University, Uganda, obtained in 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopped%20process
In mathematics, a stopped process is a stochastic process that is forced to assume the same value after a prescribed (possibly random) time. Definition Let be a probability space; be a measurable space; be a stochastic process; be a stopping time with respect to some filtration of . Then the stopped process...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Stebbins
Michael Stebbins is an American geneticist and former Vice President of Science and Technology at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. He previously served as Assistant Director for Biotechnology, at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Education He received his B.S. in biology from the State Univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20A.%20Brock
William Allen "Buz" Brock (born October 23, 1941) is a mathematical economist and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1975. He is known for his application of a branch of mathematics known as chaos theory to economic theory and econometrics. In 1998, he was elected to the National Academy of Scien...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Kauffman
Louis Hirsch Kauffman (born February 3, 1945) is an American mathematician, mathematical physicist, and professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He does research in topology, knot theory, topological quantum field theory, quant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explant%20culture
In biology, explant culture is a technique to organotypically culture cells from a piece or pieces of tissue or organ removed from a plant or animal. The term explant can be applied to samples obtained from any part of the organism. The extraction process is extensively sterilized, and the culture can be typically used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Zeipel%20theorem
In astrophysics, the von Zeipel theorem states that the radiative flux in a uniformly rotating star is proportional to the local effective gravity . The theorem is named after Swedish astronomer Edvard Hugo von Zeipel. The theorem is: where the luminosity and mass are evaluated on a surface of constant pressure...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia%20Galloway
Cecilia Galloway has been a headmistress in England and Northern Ireland and was a school adjudicator appointed by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator. Born in 1955, she studied chemistry at Leeds University. Later gaining an MSc degree at Reading University, she was accepted as a Fellow by the Royal Society of Chemi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20L.%20Lambert
Frank L. Lambert (July 10, 1918 – December 28, 2018) was an American academic who was Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is known for his advocacy of changing the definition of thermodynamic entropy as "disorder" in US general chemistry texts to its replacement by viewing entropy as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20analysis
A sieve analysis (or gradation test) is a practice or procedure used in civil engineering and chemical engineering to assess the particle size distribution (also called gradation) of a granular material by allowing the material to pass through a series of sieves of progressively smaller mesh size and weighing the amoun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20sensitivity
Air sensitivity is a term used, particularly in chemistry, to denote the reactivity of chemical compounds with some constituent of air. Most often, reactions occur with atmospheric oxygen (O2) or water vapor (H2O), although reactions with the other constituents of air such as carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2),...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric%20thermal%20analysis
Dielectric thermal analysis (DETA), or dielectric analysis (DEA), is a materials science technique similar to dynamic mechanical analysis except that an oscillating electrical field is used instead of a mechanical force. For investigation of the curing behavior of thermosetting resin systems, composite materials, adhes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Academy%20of%20Technology%20and%20Environmental%20Science
The Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES) is a comprehensive, selective magnet public high school with a focus on marine and environmental science that is part of the Ocean County Vocational School District. The school is located in the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township, in Ocean County, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20R.%20Heim
Michael R. Heim is an American author and educator. Known as "the philosopher of cyberspace", Heim's three scholarly books - Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (Yale University Press, 1986), The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Oxford University Press, 1993), and Virtual Realism (Oxford Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity%20in%20embryogenesis
In developmental biology, an embryo is divided into two hemispheres: the animal pole and the vegetal pole within a blastula. The animal pole consists of small cells that divide rapidly, in contrast with the vegetal pole below it. In some cases, the animal pole is thought to differentiate into the later embryo itself, f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitable
Excitable may refer to: a song on the 1987 Def Leppard album Hysteria a hit song by the British band Amazulu a cell that can respond to stimuli See also Excitable medium (mathematics / system analysis) Cell excitability (biology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20linear%20algebra
Numerical linear algebra, sometimes called applied linear algebra, is the study of how matrix operations can be used to create computer algorithms which efficiently and accurately provide approximate answers to questions in continuous mathematics. It is a subfield of numerical analysis, and a type of linear algebra. Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern%20recognition%20%28psychology%29
In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition describes a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. Pattern recognition occurs when information from the environment is received and entered into short-term memory, causing automatic activation of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure%20switch
A pressure switch is a form of switch that operates an electrical contact when a certain set fluid pressure has been reached on its input. The switch may be designed to make contact either on pressure rise or on pressure fall. Pressure switches are widely used in industry to automatically supervise and control systems...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Lebowitz
Joel Louis Lebowitz (born May 10, 1930) is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics. Lebowitz has published more than five hundred papers concerning statistical physics and science in ge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRO%20Publishing
CSIRO Publishing is an Australian-based science and technology publisher. It publishes books, journals and magazines across a range of scientific disciplines, including agriculture, chemistry, plant and animal sciences, natural history and environmental management. It also produces interactive learning modules for prim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20control%20system
An industrial control system (ICS) is an electronic control system and associated instrumentation used for industrial process control. Control systems can range in size from a few modular panel-mounted controllers to large interconnected and interactive distributed control systems (DCSs) with many thousands of field co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Butler%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Michael J. Butler is an Irish computer scientist. As of 2022, he is professor of computer science and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, England. Biography Butler was born in Ireland. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Trinity College, Dub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Bouveresse
Jacques Bouveresse (; 20 August 1940 – 9 May 2021) was a French philosopher who wrote on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy. Bouveresse was called "an avis rara among the better known French philosoph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic%20function%20%28convex%20analysis%29
In the field of mathematics known as convex analysis, the characteristic function of a set is a convex function that indicates the membership (or non-membership) of a given element in that set. It is similar to the usual indicator function, and one can freely convert between the two, but the characteristic function as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel%20%28biology%29
In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic trait that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection. Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin brought the term into biology in their 1979 paper "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory%20marker%20protein
In molecular biology, olfactory marker protein is a protein involved in signal transduction. It is a highly expressed, cytoplasmic protein found in mature olfactory sensory receptor neurons of all vertebrates. OMP is a modulator of the olfactory signal transduction cascade. The crystal structure of OMP reveals a beta s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tob%C3%ADas%20Lasser
Tobías Lasser CBE (May 24, 1911 – May 25, 2006), was a recognized Venezuelan botanist, being a fundamental pillar in the creation of the Botanical Garden of Caracas, the School of Biology and the Faculty of Sciences of the Central University of Venezuela. He was born in Agua Larga, Falcón State, Venezuela. He was hono...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology%20manifold
In mathematics, a homology manifold (or generalized manifold) is a locally compact topological space X that looks locally like a topological manifold from the point of view of homology theory. Definition A homology G-manifold (without boundary) of dimension n over an abelian group G of coefficients is a locally comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Behavioral%20Neuroendocrinology
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior. Publications SBN publishes the scientific journal Hormones and Behavior. External links Neuroscience organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored%20Combat%20Engineer%20Robot
The Armored Combat Engineer Robot (ACER) is a military robot created by Mesa Robotics. Roughly the size of a small bulldozer and weighing 2.25 tons, ACER is among the larger military robots. ACER is able to reach speeds of 6.3 mph, using treads for movement. Uses for this robot include clearing obstacles, removing expl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%20%28particle%20physics%29
In the Grand Unified Theory of particle physics (GUT), the desert refers to a theorized gap in energy scales, between approximately the electroweak energy scale–conventionally defined as roughly the vacuum expectation value or VeV of the Higgs field (about 246 GeV)–and the GUT scale, in which no unknown interactions ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Weinstein
Alan David Weinstein (17 June 1943, New York City) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the field of differential geometry, and especially in Poisson geometry. Education and career After attending Roslyn High School, Weinstein obtained a bachelor's degree at the Massachu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Vari%C4%87ak
Vladimir Varićak (sometimes also spelled Vladimir Varičak; March 1, 1865 – January 17, 1942) was a Croatian mathematician and theoretical physicist of Serbian origin. Biography Varićak, an ethnic Serb, was born on March 1, 1865, in the village of Švica near Otočac, Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia). He studied phy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinko%20Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k
Vinko Dvořák (January 21, 1848 – May 6, 1922) was a Czech-Croatian physicist, professor and academician. He studied mathematics and physics at the Charles University in Prague, and after graduating he became an assistant to professor Ernst Mach. After obtaining his doctorate in Prague in 1873/1874 he came to Zagreb (a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20E.%20Gonz%C3%A1lez
Dr. Juan E. González born in The Bronx, New York is a Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. González received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Ins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock%20number
The term stock number can have several meanings: In inorganic chemistry, it is an obsolete synonym of oxidation number. (See Stock nomenclature.) Stock numbers can also be reference numbers to identify a unique sheet of paper, such as tickets, paper money and giro forms. Stock numbers are printed when the paper is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Ramsay%20Shaw
Barbara Ramsay Shaw is the William T. Miller Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Duke University. She is known for her work on how DNA reacts with other compounds. Education and career Shaw earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1965. She has an M.S. (1967) and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry (1973) fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroneutral%20cation-Cl
In molecular biology, the electroneutral cation-Cl (electroneutral potassium chloride cotransporter) family of proteins are a family of solute carrier proteins. This family includes the products of the Human genes: SLC12A1, SLC12A1, SLC12A2, SLC12A3, SLC12A4, SLC12A5, SLC12A6, SLC12A7, SLC12A8 and SLC12A9. The K-Cl co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Maria%20Mamachi
Thomas Maria Mamachi (December 4, 1713 in Chios – June 7, 1792 in Corneto, near Montefiascone), was an Italo-Greek Dominican theologian and historian. Life At the age of sixteen he entered the convent of Chios and passed later to St. Mark's at Florence and the Minerva at Rome. In 1740 he was appointed professor of p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Park%20Babcock
Joseph Park Babcock (1893 – 1949), American popularizer of Mahjong, was born in Lafayette, Indiana. After graduating from Purdue University with a degree in Civil Engineering, he worked for the Standard Oil Company. In 1912 he was sent to Suzhou, China, as a representative of Standard Oil. There he and his wife enj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville%20Sewell
Edward Granville Sewell is an American mathematician, university professor, and intelligent design advocate. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso. Education Sewell received his PhD from Purdue University in 1972 and an M.S. in mechanical engineering 1977 from the University of Texas, Au...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Grofman
Bernard Norman Grofman (born December 2, 1944) is a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. He is an expert on redistricting and has been a special master on several district map redrawings. From the University of Chicago he received a B.S. (1966) in mathematics and an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Benedict%27s%20Catholic%20School
St Benedict's Catholic School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Opened in 1967, the school has around 900 students. St Benedict's was a Mathematics and Computing Specialist School. Whilst the school is based in Bury St. Edmunds, many of its students...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlito
Carlito means "little Carlos". It may refer to: Biology Carlito (genus), a genus of tarsiers The Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta), the only extant species in the above genus People Carlito (name) Carlito (wrestler), a ring name used by professional wrestler, Carlos Edwin Colón Jr. Other Carlito (typeface)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Rosenblum
Mary Rosenblum (born Mary Freeman; June 27, 1952 – March 11, 2018) was an American science fiction and mystery author. Biography Rosenblum was born in Levittown, New York and grew up in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. She earned a biology degree from Reed College in Oregon. Rosenblum attended the Clarion West Writers Work...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth%20ferrite
Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3, also commonly referred to as BFO in materials science) is an inorganic chemical compound with perovskite structure and one of the most promising multiferroic materials. The room-temperature phase of BiFeO3 is classed as rhombohedral belonging to the space group R3c. It is synthesized in bulk an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20B.%20Guti%C3%A9rrez
Juan Bernardo Gutiérrez (born March 17, 1973) is an American mathematician and author of Colombian origin, known primarily for his theoretical and practical contributions in the field of electronic literature. Biography Gutiérrez was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated in 1996 with a B.Sc. in civil engineering from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modon
Modon may refer to: The name given by the Venetians to the town of Methoni, Messenia, in Greece Latin Bishopric of Modon, a titular diocese of the Roman Catholic church whose seat was Methoni MODON, a business name of the Saudi Industrial Property Authority , a tributary of the Cher, in France Modon (fluid dynamics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau%E2%80%93Rayleigh%20instability
In fluid dynamics, the Plateau–Rayleigh instability, often just called the Rayleigh instability, explains why and how a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets with the same volume but less surface area. It is related to the Rayleigh–Taylor instability and is part of a greater branch of fluid dynamics co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibsen%20Mart%C3%ADnez
Ibsen Martínez (born 20 October 1951) is a columnist, mathematician, journalist, and playwright from Caracas, Venezuela. Ibsen is a graduate from Central University of Venezuela in pure mathematics. Since 1995, he has written a weekly column for El Nacional. His writings have appeared in El Nuevo Herald, The New York ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Aderem
Alan Aderem is an American biologist, specializing in immunology and cell biology. Aderem's particular focus is the innate immune system, the part of the immune system that responds generically to pathogens. His laboratory's research focuses on diseases afflicting citizens of resource poor countries, including AIDS, m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finham%20Park%20School
Finham Park School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status. It is situated on Green Lane in Finham, Coventry, England. In September 2003, it became the first Mathematics and Computing College in Coventry. The Headteacher is Mr Chris Bishop, with Deputy Headteachers Ms Sarah Megeney and Mr Rob Morey. T...