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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20chemistry | Food chemistry is the study of chemical processes and interactions of all biological and non-biological components of foods. The biological substances include such items as meat, poultry, lettuce, beer, milk as examples. It is similar to biochemistry in its main components such as carbohydrates, lipids, and protein, bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spektrum%20RC | Spektrum is a brand of radio control systems designed for use with hobby radio-controlled cars and aircraft. Spektrum is a division of Horizon Hobby.
The R/C hobby in the United States, Japan, and Europe typically used to employ FM radio control in HF and VHF bands such as 27 MHz, 35 MHz, 49 MHz, and 72 MHz. Most manu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Edlund | Erik Edlund (14 March 1819 in Närke Province – 19 August 1888 in Stockholm) was a Swedish physicist. His scientific research was confined chiefly to the theory of electricity. He helped secure the introduction of weather stations to Sweden.
Biography
He obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 1845 at Uppsala University unde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organosulfate | In organosulfur chemistry, organosulfates are a class of organic compounds sharing a common functional group with the structure . The core is a sulfate group and the R group is any organic residue. All organosulfates are formally esters derived from alcohols and sulfuric acid () although many are not prepared in this... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auramine%20phenol%20stain | Auramine phenol stain is a stain used in clinical microbiology and histology to identify tuberculosis mycobacteria.
There are two types of auramine phenol stains, 1 and 2 to stain mycobacterium species and cryptosporidium respectively. Both are fluorescent stains. The bacteria or the parasites appear brilliant greenis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Robotics%20Developer%20Studio | Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (Microsoft RDS, MRDS) is a discontinued Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation that was aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handled a wide variety of robot hardware. It requires a Microsoft Windows 7 operating system or later.
RDS is based ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Muggleton | Stephen H. Muggleton FBCS, FIET, FAAAI, FECCAI, FSB, FREng (born 6 December 1959, son of Louis Muggleton) is Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at Imperial College London.
Education
Muggleton received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science (1982) and Docto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Barrell%20Emerson | George Barrell Emerson (September 12, 1797 – March 14, 1881) was an American educator and pioneer of women's education.
Biography
He was born in Kennebunk, Maine. He graduated from Harvard College in 1817, and soon after took charge of an academy in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Between 1819 and 1821, he was the tutor in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jones%20%28mathematician%29 | Thomas Jones (23 June 1756 – 18 July 1807) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick.
Biography
Jones was born at Berriew, Montgomeryshire, in Wales.
On completing his studies at Shrewsbury School, Jones was adm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20%28disambiguation%29 | A child is a young person who is not yet an adult.
Child may also refer to:
In computer science
The child node of a tree
The child process created by another process
In medicine and healthcare
CHILD syndrome (congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects), a genetic syndrome
Children'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%20matrix | In mathematics, a Cauchy matrix, named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy, is an m×n matrix with elements aij in the form
where and are elements of a field , and and are injective sequences (they contain distinct elements).
The Hilbert matrix is a special case of the Cauchy matrix, where
Every submatrix of a Cauchy mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siavash%20Shahshahani | Siavash Mirshams Shahshahani (Persian: سیاوش میرشمس شهشهانی) (born 1942) is an Iranian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics and head of Mathematical Sciences Department at Sharif University of Technology. He headed up the IRNIC registry for the .ir ccTLD until his retirement from that position in late 2008.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aird%20baronets | The Aird Baronetcy, of Hyde Park Terrace in Paddington in the County of London, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 March 1901 for the civil engineering contractor and Conservative politician John Aird.
The present Baronet is a co-heir to the barony of Willoughby de Eresby
Aird bar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Knowles%20%28chemist%29 | Dr. Tony Knowles was the President of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). A chemist by training, Knowles has been awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal.
Knowles has a BSc and PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Waterloo. Following a variety of private sector and academic posts he was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20B.%20Kantor | Paul B. Kantor is an American information scientist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and an Honorary Research Associate in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Biography
Mr. Kantor was educated in Physics and Mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-coupling | In nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics, J-couplings (also called spin-spin coupling or indirect dipole–dipole coupling) are mediated through chemical bonds connecting two spins. It is an indirect interaction between two nuclear spins that arises from hyperfine interactions between the nuclei and local electrons. In N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear%20matrix | In mathematics (particularly linear algebra), a shear matrix or transvection is an elementary matrix that represents the addition of a multiple of one row or column to another. Such a matrix may be derived by taking the identity matrix and replacing one of the zero elements with a non-zero value.
The name shear reflec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Davies | Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies (née Partridge; born 1 April 1951) is a British geneticist. She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. She is director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) functional genetics unit, a governor of the Wellcome Trust, a director o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemist%20%28disambiguation%29 | Chemist may refer to:
In all countries:
Chemist, a scientist trained in the science of chemistry
In Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and some other countries:
a pharmacist (dispensing chemist)
a pharmacy (shop)
See also
List of chemists
The Chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern%20Blocks | Pattern Blocks are a set of mathematical manipulatives developed in the 1960s. The six shapes are both a play resource and a tool for learning in mathematics, which serve to develop spatial reasoning skills that are fundamental to the learning of mathematics. Among other things, they allow children to see how shapes ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela%20Cortina | Adela Cortina (born 1947, Valencia) is a Spanish philosopher.
Biography
After studying philosophy and letters in the Universidad de Valencia, she was admitted into the department of metaphysics in 1969. In 1976, she defended her doctoral thesis on the notion of God in Kant's transcendental philosophy and during some ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Institute%2C%20University%20of%20Oxford | The Mathematical Institute is the mathematics department at the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the nine departments of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. The institute includes both pure and applied mathematics (Statistics is a separate department) and is one of the large... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly%20bean%20%28disambiguation%29 | A jelly bean is a type of confectionery.
Jelly bean or Jellybean may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Assorted Jelly Beans, American punk rock group
The Jelly Beans, American vocal group
"The Jelly-bean" (1920), short story of Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Biology
Jelly bean palm or Synechanthus, a genus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahgat%20G.%20Sammakia | Bahgat G. Sammakia is an educator and academic administrator who currently serves as Vice President for Research at Binghamton University. He was previously the Interim President of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He is also a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Small Scale Systems Packaging Center ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rellich%E2%80%93Kondrachov%20theorem | In mathematics, the Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is a compact embedding theorem concerning Sobolev spaces. It is named after the Austrian-German mathematician Franz Rellich and the Russian mathematician Vladimir Iosifovich Kondrashov. Rellich proved the L2 theorem and Kondrashov the Lp theorem.
Statement of the theorem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order%20reduction | In computer science, a first-order reduction is a very strong type of reduction between two computational problems in computational complexity theory. A first-order reduction is a reduction where each component is restricted to be in the class FO of problems calculable in first-order logic.
Since we have , the first-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20McClintock | Martha Kent McClintock (born February 22, 1947) is an American psychologist best known for her research on human pheromones and her theory of menstrual synchrony.
Her research focuses on the relationship that the environment and biology have upon sexual behaviour. She is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Guardian | The Lake Guardian is a research vessel that serves on the Great Lakes.
She is owned by the EPA Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO), assisting in monitoring and reporting on the status and trends of the Great Lakes ecosystem. She has three onboard laboratories: a general purpose or "wet" laboratory, chemistry, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20tensor | In mathematics, a Killing tensor or Killing tensor field is a generalization of a Killing vector, for symmetric tensor fields instead of just vector fields. It is a concept in pseudo-Riemannian geometry, and is mainly used in the theory of general relativity. Killing tensors satisfy an equation similar to Killing's equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twintron | In molecular biology, a twintron is an intron-within-intron excised by sequential splicing reactions. A twintron is presumably formed by the insertion of a mobile intron into an existing intron.
Discovery
Twintrons were discovered by Donald W. Copertino and Richard B. Hallick as a group II intron within another group... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe%20radar | The Saab (formerly Ericsson Microwave Systems AB) Giraffe Radar is a family of land and naval two- or three-dimensional G/H-band (4 to 8 GHz) passive electronically scanned array radar-based surveillance and air defense command and control systems. It is tailored for operations with medium- and Short Range Air Defense ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Janich | Peter Janich (4 January 1942 – 4 September 2016) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg.
He was born in Munich. Janich studied physics, philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Erlangen and Hamburg. He attained a doctorate in philosophy in 1969 and during 1969/70 was a guest lecturer at the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20Mathematical%20Contest | The Nordic Mathematical Contest (NMC) is a mathematics competition for secondary school students from the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It takes place every year in March or April and serves the double purpose of being a regional secondary school level mathematics competition for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20circle%20%28disambiguation%29 | A magic circle is a ritually defined space in a number of magical traditions.
Magic circle or Magic Circle may also refer to:
Magic circle (mathematics), an arrangement of natural numbers on circles such that the sum of the numbers on each circle and the sum of numbers on each diameter are identical
Magic circle (so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involutory%20matrix | In mathematics, an involutory matrix is a square matrix that is its own inverse. That is, multiplication by the matrix A is an involution if and only if A2 = I, where I is the n × n identity matrix. Involutory matrices are all square roots of the identity matrix. This is simply a consequence of the fact that any invert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentially%20unique | In mathematics, the term essentially unique is used to describe a weaker form of uniqueness, where an object satisfying a property is "unique" only in the sense that all objects satisfying the property are equivalent to each other. The notion of essential uniqueness presupposes some form of "sameness", which is often f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacoub%20Sarraf | Yacoub Riad Sarraf (; born 1961) is a Lebanese politician. He was born in the town of Miniara in the Akkar district of northern Lebanon.
Biography
Sarraf, who is a Greek Orthodox Christian, has degrees in civil engineering and architecture from the American University of Beirut. He has two children. Sarraf worked for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%C4%9Fan-class%20fast%20attack%20craft | The Doğan class is one of the fast attack craft / missile boat classes of the Turkish Navy.
Designed by Lürssen Werft in Germany, these ships are almost identical with the and classes, having the same hull, machinery and weapons. They were fitted with LIOD Mk.2 electro-optical fire control and TACTICOS command contr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20A.%20Stein | William Arthur Stein (born February 21, 1974 in Santa Barbara, California) is a software developer and previously a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington.
He is the lead developer of SageMath and founder of CoCalc. Stein does computational and theoretical research into the problem of computing with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osazone | Osazone are a class of carbohydrate derivatives found in organic chemistry formed when reducing sugars are reacted with excess of phenylhydrazine at boiling temperatures.
Formation
Osazone formation was developed by Emil Fischer, who used the reaction as a test to identify monosaccharides.
The formation of a pair o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTE | The abbreviation MTE or M.T.E. may refer to:
Materiel de Traction Electrique joint subsidiary of Creusot-Loire and Jeumont-Schneider
MAC-then-Encrypt (MtE), one of approaches to Authenticated encryption
Mathematical Table Errata, an increasingly numbered periodical column about errors in mathematical tables in the jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordisk%20Kemiteknolog%20Konferens | The Nordisk Kemiteknolog Konferens (English: Conference for Nordic Students of Applied Chemistry) is a conference with the goal of letting students of applied chemistry collaborate with colleagues in the Nordic countries.
NKK was first thought of and put to action more than thirty years ago, in the 1970s. The aim of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Belcher | Angela M. Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT, a member of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20%26%20Engineering%20Chemistry%20Research | Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society covering all aspects of chemical engineering. The editor-in-chief is Phillip E. Savage (Pennsylvania State University).
History
The journal was established in 1909 as the Journal of Industrial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20W.%20Swetnam | Thomas W. Swetnam (born 1955) is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona, studying disturbances of forest ecosystems across temporal and spatial scales. He served as the Director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research from 2000 to 2015.
Education
Swetnam received his bachelor's... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Kaplan%20%28biologist%29 | Michael S. Kaplan (born January 3, 1952) is an American biology researcher, medical professor, and clinical physician. A pioneer of neurogenesis research, his work refuted the classic idea that no new nerve cells are born in the adult mammalian brain. His research using light and electron microscopy suggested that neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnormal%20operator | In mathematics, especially operator theory, subnormal operators are bounded operators on a Hilbert space defined by weakening the requirements for normal operators. Some examples of subnormal operators are isometries and Toeplitz operators with analytic symbols.
Definition
Let H be a Hilbert space. A bounded operator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20M.%20Wolfe | Arthur Michael "Art" Wolfe (29 April 1939 – 17 February 2014) was an American astrophysicist, professor and the former director of the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. Together with Rainer K. Sachs, he authored the paper describing the Sachs-Wolfe effect.
The disc ga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear%20Siegler | Lear Siegler Incorporated (LSI) is a diverse American corporation established in 1962. Its products range from car seats and brakes to weapons control systems for military fighter planes. The company's more than $2 billion-a-year annual sales comes from three major areas: aerospace-technology, automotive parts, and ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Joos | Bernhard Joos (18 December 1899 Schaffhausen, Switzerland – 8 June 1990 Paradiso, Switzerland), was the son of Dr. Bernhard Joos and Olga Sturzenegger.
He attained a PhD in chemistry at the University of Zurich in 1925, and was an assistant of Paul Karrer, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937. After a stay in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20physics | This article discusses women who have made an important contribution to the field of physics.
International physics awards
Nobel laureates
Five women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. These are:
1903 Marie Curie: "in recognition of the extraor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20quencher | In chemistry, a dark quencher (also known as a dark sucker) is a substance that absorbs excitation energy from a fluorophore and dissipates the energy as heat; while a typical (fluorescent) quencher re-emits much of this energy as light. Dark quenchers are used in molecular biology in conjunction with fluorophores. Whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax%20tree | Syntax tree may refer to:
Abstract syntax tree, used in computer science
Concrete syntax tree, used in linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void%20ratio | The void ratio of a mixture or composite is the ratio of the volume of voids to volume of solids.
It is a dimensionless quantity in materials science, and is closely related to porosity as follows:
and
where is void ratio, is porosity, VV is the volume of void-space (such as fluids), VS is the volume of solids, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonearm%20%28musician%29 | Tonearm is the stage name of Russian-born, New York-based musician Ilia Bis (Илья Бис). Bis grew up in Moscow and later moved to the United States to study mathematics and computer sound analysis. After doing graduate work at the University of Chicago, he decided to pursue music full-time.
Tonearm usually performs as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20pointer | In computer science, a bounded pointer is a pointer that is augmented with additional information that enable the storage bounds within which it may point to be deduced. This additional information sometimes takes the form of two pointers holding the upper and lower addresses of the storage occupied by the object to wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammotoxin | Grammotoxin is a toxin in the venom of the tarantula Grammostola spatulata. It is a protein toxin that inhibits P-, Q- and N-type voltage-gated calcium channels (Ca 2+ channels) in neurons. Grammotoxin is also known as omega-grammotoxin SIA.
Chemistry
Grammotoxin is a 36 amino acid protein toxin, with the sequence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUSH | In cryptography, NUSH is a block cipher invented by Anatoly Lebedev and Alexey Volchkov for the Russian company LAN Crypto. It was submitted to the NESSIE project, but was not selected.
NUSH exists in several different variants, using keys of 128, 192, or 256 bits, and a block size of 64, 128, or 256 bits. The number ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-matrix | In mathematics, especially linear algebra, an M-matrix is a Z-matrix with eigenvalues whose real parts are nonnegative. The set of non-singular M-matrices are a subset of the class of P-matrices, and also of the class of inverse-positive matrices (i.e. matrices with inverses belonging to the class of positive matrices)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Henry%20%28librarian%29 | Charles Henry (1859–1926) was a French librarian and editor. He was born at Bollwiller, Haut-Rhin, and was educated in Paris, where in 1881 he became assistant and afterward librarian in the Sorbonne. As a specialist in the history of mathematics, he was sent to Italy to seek some manuscripts of that nature which the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostatic%20plasticity | In neuroscience, homeostatic plasticity refers to the capacity of neurons to regulate their own excitability relative to network activity. The term homeostatic plasticity derives from two opposing concepts: 'homeostatic' (a product of the Greek words for 'same' and 'state' or 'condition') and plasticity (or 'change'), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Markov%20chain | In mathematics, the quantum Markov chain is a reformulation of the ideas of a classical Markov chain, replacing the classical definitions of probability with quantum probability.
Introduction
Very roughly, the theory of a quantum Markov chain resembles that of a measure-many automaton, with some important substitution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SC2000 | In cryptography, SC2000 is a block cipher invented by a research group at Fujitsu Labs. It was submitted to the NESSIE project, but was not selected. It was among the cryptographic techniques recommended for Japanese government use by CRYPTREC in 2003, however, has been dropped to "candidate" by CRYPTREC revision in 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20key%20fingerprint | In public-key cryptography, a public key fingerprint is a short sequence of bytes used to identify a longer public key. Fingerprints are created by applying a cryptographic hash function to a public key. Since fingerprints are shorter than the keys they refer to, they can be used to simplify certain key management ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Johnson%20%28technologist%29 | William Michael Johnson is a technologist, and pioneer in superscalar microprocessor design in the United States.
Johnson holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering, both from Arizona State University.
Johnson was an architect and designer of early reduced instruction set computing (RISC) process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20number%20%28disambiguation%29 | A large number or the largest number are terms that may refer to:
Large numbers, for notations to exactly specify very large numbers
Names of large numbers, for the largest numbers with names
In mathematics and physics
Infinity, a concept which can be used as a largest number in some contexts
Graham's number, onc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%20orthogonality%20relations | In mathematics, the Schur orthogonality relations, which were proven by Issai Schur through Schur's lemma, express a central fact about representations of finite groups.
They admit a generalization to the case of compact groups in general, and in particular compact Lie groups, such as the rotation group SO(3).
Finite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kolak | Daniel Kolak (born 1955 in Zagreb, SR Croatia) is a Croatian-American philosopher who works primarily in philosophy of mind, personal identity, cognitive science, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. He is professor of philosophy at the William P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kocaeli%20University | Kocaeli University (Turkish: Kocaeli Üniversitesi) is a state university in İzmit, Turkey. It was founded as the Academy of Engineering and Architecture of Kocaeli in 1976. The electrical and mechanical engineering departments, basic sciences, and department of modern languages were the original departments of the acad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Gewirtz | Russell Gewirtz (born 1967 in Great Neck, New York) is an American screenwriter, best known for writing the screenplay for Spike Lee's 2006 film Inside Man.
Life and career
Gewirtz attended Trinity School in New York City before earning a degree in computer science from Tufts University. He then attended Benjamin N. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical%20grammar | In computer science, a lexical grammar or lexical structure is a formal grammar defining the syntax of tokens. The program is written using characters that are defined by the lexical structure of the language used. The character set is equivalent to the alphabet used by any written language. The lexical grammar lays do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Beams | Jesse Wakefield Beams (December 25, 1898 in Belle Plaine, Kansas – July 23, 1977) was an American physicist at the University of Virginia.
Biography
Beams completed his undergraduate B.A. in physics at Fairmount College in 1921 and his master's degree the next year at the University of Wisconsin. He spent most of his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the sign of a real number is its property of being either positive, negative, or 0.
In some contexts, it makes sense to consider a signed zero (such as floating-point representations of real numbers within computers).
Depending on local conventions, zero may be considered as being neither positive nor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20spin%20alternating%20sign%20matrix | In mathematics, a higher spin alternating sign matrix is a generalisation of the alternating sign matrix (ASM), where the columns and rows sum to an integer r (the spin) rather than simply summing to 1 as in the usual alternating sign matrix definition. HSASMs are square matrices whose elements may be integers in the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%20counter | A people counter is an electronic device that is used to measure the number of people traversing a certain passage or entrance. Examples include simple manual clickers, smart-flooring technologies, infrared beams, thermal imaging systems, WiFi trackers and video counters using advanced machine learning algorithms. They... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20F.%20Traub | Joseph Frederick Traub (June 24, 1932 – August 24, 2015) was an American computer scientist. He was the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He held positions at Bell Laboratories, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, and Col... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating%20function%20%28physics%29 | In physics, and more specifically in Hamiltonian mechanics, a generating function is, loosely, a function whose partial derivatives generate the differential equations that determine a system's dynamics. Common examples are the partition function of statistical mechanics, the Hamiltonian, and the function which acts as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoring%20force | In physics, the restoring force is a force that acts to bring a body to its equilibrium position. The restoring force is a function only of position of the mass or particle, and it is always directed back toward the equilibrium position of the system. The restoring force is often referred to in simple harmonic motion. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taisei%20Corporation | is a Japanese corporation founded in 1873. Its main areas of business are building construction, civil engineering, and real estate development. Taisei's headquarters are located at Shinjuku Center Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Taisei has 15 branch offices, 1 technology center, 46 domestic offices, 12 o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald%20Campus | The Macdonald Campus of McGill University (commonly referred to as the 'Mac Campus' or simply 'Mac') houses McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (FAES), which includes the Institute of Parasitology, the School of Human Nutrition and the McGill School of Environment. It is located in Sainte-Anne-d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstile%20%28symbol%29 | In mathematical logic and computer science the symbol ⊢ () has taken the name turnstile because of its resemblance to a typical turnstile if viewed from above. It is also referred to as tee and is often read as "yields", "proves", "satisfies" or "entails".
Interpretations
The turnstile represents a binary relation. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill%20University%20Faculty%20of%20Science | The Faculty of Science is one of eleven faculties at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. With roots tracing back to 1843, the Faculty currently offers several undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from Earth Sciences to Mathematics to Neuroscience. Notable alumni of the Faculty of Science include sever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellairs%20Research%20Institute | The Bellairs Research Institute, located on the Caribbean island of Barbados, was founded in 1954 as a marine biology field-station for McGill University. The main campus of McGill University is in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Bellairs was initial funding was from a bequest by British naval commander, Carlyon Bellairs, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redpath%20Museum | The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University and located on the university's campus on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1882 as a gift from the sugar baron Peter Redpath.
It houses collections of interest to ethnology, biology, paleontology, and mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliophorus%20psittacinus | Gliophorus psittacinus, commonly known as the parrot toadstool or parrot waxcap, is a colourful member of the genus Gliophorus, found across Northern Europe. It was formerly known as Hygrocybe psittacina, but a molecular phylogenetics study found it to belong in the genus Gliophorus. It had already been placed in Gliop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFC%20%28cipher%29 | In cryptography, DFC (Decorrelated Fast Cipher) is a symmetric block cipher which was
created in 1998 by a group of researchers from École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, and France Télécom (including Jacques Stern and Serge Vaudenay) and submitted to the AES competition.
Like other AES candidates, DFC operates on blocks of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Juola | Patrick Juola is an internationally noted expert in text analysis, security, forensics, and stylometry. He is a professor of computer science at Duquesne University. As a faculty member at Duquesne University, he has authored two books and more than 100 scientific publications as well as generated more than two millio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Nelson | Frederick Nelson (1932 – January 7, 2009) was professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. His areas of professional interest included acoustics, vibration, shock (mechanics) and rotordynamics. He wrote or co-authored more than 50 articles in p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Alembert%E2%80%93Euler%20condition | In mathematics and physics, especially the study of mechanics and fluid dynamics, the d'Alembert-Euler condition is a requirement that the streaklines of a flow are irrotational. Let x = x(X,t) be the coordinates of the point x into which X is carried at time t by a (fluid) flow. Let be the second material derivativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form%20factor%20%28electronics%29 | In electronics or electrical engineering the form factor of an alternating current waveform (signal) is the ratio of the RMS (root mean square) value to the average value (mathematical mean of absolute values of all points on the waveform). It identifies the ratio of the direct current of equal power relative to the gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Chu | Steven Chu (born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. He is known for his res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSRM%20College%20of%20Engineering | K.S.R.M. College of Engineering (Kandula Srinivasa Reddy Memorial College of Engineering, autonomous) is an engineering institute in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located within the Kadapa city of Andhra Pradesh and affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapuramu.
Programs offered
B.Tech:
Civil En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Martin | Raymond Martin may refer to:
Raymond Martin (academic) (1926–2020), Australian chemistry professor and university administrator
Raymond Martin (wheelchair athlete) (born 1992), American wheelchair racer
Raymond Martin (canoeist) (born 1960), Australian sprint canoeist
Raymond Martin (cyclist) (born 1949), French forme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se%20Assiga%20Ahanda | Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda (c. 1941 – February 1, 2014) was a Cameroonian novelist, chemist, and paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bene people. Early in life, Ahanda worked for the Chemistry Department of the University of Yaoundé. She later moved to the Republic of the Congo with her husband, Jean Baptiste Assiga Aha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20the%20Royal%20Society%20Interface | The Journal of the Royal Society Interface is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the interface between the life sciences and the physical sciences, including chemistry, engineering, materials science, mathematics, and physics. The editor-in-chief is Richard Cogdell (University of Glasgow). The journal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaeIII | HaeIII is one of many restriction enzymes (endonucleases) a type of prokaryotic DNA that protects organisms from unknown, foreign DNA. It is a restriction enzyme used in molecular biology laboratories. It was the third endonuclease to be isolated from the Haemophilus aegyptius bacteria. The enzyme's recognition site—th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20George%20%28biologist%29 | Dr. Anne George is a Professor of Oral Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry and holds the Allan G. Brodie Endowed Professorship, and she also is an adjunct professor in the Department of Cell and Anatomy and the Department of Engineering at the University of Illinois Medical School. She... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane%20Fellbaum | Christiane D. Fellbaum is an American linguist and computational linguistics researcher who is Lecturer with Rank of Professor in the Program in Linguistics and the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. The co-developer of the WordNet project, she is also its current director.
Biography
Fellbaum receiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymetal | In chemistry or mining, polymetal or polymetallic is a substance composed of a combination of different metals. When the substance contains only two metals the term bimetal (bimetallic) is sometimes preferred. A (or ) is an ore that is the source of more than one metal suitable for recovery. A mine containing polyme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESH%20%28cipher%29 | In cryptography, MESH is a block cipher designed in 2002 by Jorge Nakahara, Jr., Vincent Rijmen, Bart Preneel, and Joos Vandewalle. MESH is based directly on IDEA and uses the same basic operations.
MESH is actually a family of 3 variant ciphers with block sizes of 64, 96, and 128 bits. The key size is twice the block... |
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