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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... |
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