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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copositive%20matrix
In mathematics, specifically linear algebra, a real matrix A is copositive if for every nonnegative vector . The collection of all copositive matrices is a proper cone; it includes as a subset the collection of real positive-definite matrices. Copositive matrices find applications in economics, operations research, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odesa%20University
Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University (), often referred to as Odesa National University (Одеський національний університет, abbr.: ОНУ/ONU), located in Odesa, Ukraine, is one of the country's major universities, named after the scientist Élie Metchnikoff (who studied immunology, microbiology, and evolutionary embr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermo%20King
Thermo King is an American manufacturer of transport temperature control systems for refrigerator trucks and trailers, refrigerated containers and refrigerated railway cars along with heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems for bus and passenger rail applications. Headquartered in the Minneapolis suburb of Bl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach%20Yourself
Teach Yourself is currently an imprint of Hodder Education and formerly a series published by the English Universities Press (a subsidiary company of Hodder & Stoughton) that specializes in self-instruction books. The series, which began in 1938, is most famous for its language education books, but its titles in mathem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary%20sequences
For complementary sequences in biology, see complementarity (molecular biology). For integer sequences with complementary sets of members see Lambek–Moser theorem. In applied mathematics, complementary sequences (CS) are pairs of sequences with the useful property that their out-of-phase aperiodic autocorrelation coeff...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Canal
Richard Canal (born 1953) is a French author and screenwriter in the science-fiction, fantasy, mainstream and thriller genres. Biography After a PhD in Toulouse III University, he became a teacher-researcher in computer science. He has lived in Africa for many years where he teaches artificial intelligence, multi-age...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Joaquin%20Grey
Michael Joaquin Grey (born 1961 in Los Angeles) is an American artist, inventor, and educator based in New York City. Grey holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art and a BS in Genetics from the University of California, Berkeley, 1984 and a MFA in Sculpture from Yale University, 1990. He is the inventor of ZOOB, an awa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither%20%28disambiguation%29
Dither is a process used in digital signal processing. Dither may also refer to: Dither fish, a term used by aquarists for certain types of fish Dither (album), an album by the rock group moe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption%20cross%20section
In physics, absorption cross section is a measure for the probability of an absorption process. More generally, the term cross section is used in physics to quantify the probability of a certain particle-particle interaction, e.g., scattering, electromagnetic absorption, etc. (Note that light in this context is describ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based%20addressing
In computer science, capability-based addressing is a scheme used by some computers to control access to memory as an efficient implementation of capability-based security. Under a capability-based addressing scheme, pointers are replaced by protected objects (called capabilities) that can be created only through the u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Roelen
Otto Roelen (22 March 1897 – 30 January 1993) was a German chemist. Roelen was born in Mülheim, Germany and studied chemistry and graduated in 1922 from Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. He worked with Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research from 1922. He developed the homogeneo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Evans%20Howe
Roger Evans Howe (born May 23, 1945) is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale University, and Curtis D. Robert Endowed Chair in Mathematics Education at Texas A&M University. He is known for his contributions to representation theory, in particular for the notion of a reductive dual pair ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison%E2%80%93Knudsen
Morrison–Knudsen (MK) was an American civil engineering and construction company, with headquarters in Boise, Idaho. MK designed and constructed major infrastructure throughout the world and was one of the consortium of firms that built Hoover Dam, San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and many ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugosity
Rugosity, fr, is a measure of small-scale variations of amplitude in the height of a surface, where Ar is the real (true, actual) surface area and Ag is the geometric surface area. Utility Rugosity calculations are commonly used in materials science to characterize surfaces, amongst others, in marine science to chara...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Stewart%20Cole
Kenneth Stewart Cole (July 10, 1900 – April 18, 1984) was an American biophysicist described by his peers as "a pioneer in the application of physical science to biology". Cole was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1967. Biography He was born on July 10, 1900, in Ithaca, New York, to Charles Nelson Cole, an ins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20cat
Blue Cat may refer to: Russian Blue, a cat breed. Blue Cat Records, a record company. 3000 Whys of Blue Cat, the Chinese animation series, or its main character, Lan Mao. Dougal and the Blue Cat, a 1970 film based on the television programme The Magic Roundabout. In Cat coat genetics, a cat with a type of grey fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Commission%20on%20Mathematical%20Instruction
The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is a commission of the International Mathematical Union and is an internationally acting organization focussing on mathematics education. ICMI was founded in 1908 at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rome and aims to improve teaching s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nqthm
Nqthm is a theorem prover sometimes referred to as the Boyer–Moore theorem prover. It was a precursor to ACL2. History The system was developed by Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore, professors of computer science at the University of Texas, Austin. They began work on the system in 1971 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Thei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv%20Gandhi%20Centre%20for%20Biotechnology
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology is a research institute in India, exclusive devoted to research in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. It is located at Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital city of the state of Kerala in India. This centre is an autonomous institute under the Department of Biotechnology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Caldarelli
Guido Caldarelli (born in Rome on 8 April 1967) is an Italian physicist (statistical physics) and full professor in Theoretical Physics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Biography Caldarelli received his Ph.D. from SISSA, after which he was a postdoc in the Department of Physics and School of Biology, University o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Massey
Richard Massey (born 14 October 1977) is a physicist currently working as Royal Society Research Fellow in the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University. Previously he was a senior research fellow in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology and STFC Advanced Fellow at the Institute for As...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20Abstraction%20Layer
The Physics Abstraction Layer (PAL) is an open-source cross-platform physical simulation API abstraction system. It is similar to a physics engine wrapper, however it is far more flexible providing extended abilities. PAL is free software, released under the BSD license. PAL is a high-level interface for low-level phy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UES%20%28cipher%29
In cryptography, UES (Universal Encryption Standard) is a block cipher designed in 1999 by Helena Handschuh and Serge Vaudenay. They proposed it as a transitional step, to prepare for the completion of the AES process. UES was designed with the same interface as AES: a block size of 128 bits and key size of 128, 192, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCourt%20School%20of%20Public%20Policy
The McCourt School of Public Policy is one of ten constituent schools of Georgetown University. The McCourt School offers master's degrees in public policy, international development policy, policy management, data science for public policy, and policy leadership as well as administers several professional certificate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20historian
In manufacturing, an operational historian is a time-series database application that is developed for operational process data. Historian software is often embedded or used in conjunction with standard DCS and PLC control systems to provide enhanced data capture, validation, compression, and aggregation capabilities. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspace%20theorem
In mathematics, the subspace theorem says that points of small height in projective space lie in a finite number of hyperplanes. It is a result obtained by . Statement The subspace theorem states that if L1,...,Ln are linearly independent linear forms in n variables with algebraic coefficients and if ε>0 is any given ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Ifrah
Georges Ifrah (1947 – 1 November 2019) was a teacher of mathematics, a French author and a self-taught historian of mathematics, especially numerals. His work, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers (1985, 1994) was translated into multiple languages, became an international bestseller, and was included in A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pramod%20P.%20Khargonekar
Pramod P. Khargonekar is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. An expert in control systems engineering, Dr. Khargonekar has served in a variety of administrative roles in academia and federal funding agencies...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Review%20B
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (also known as PRB) is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, published by the American Physical Society (APS). The Editor of PRB is Stephen E. Nagler. It is part of the Physical Review family of journals. The current Editor in Chief is Randall Kamien. PRB current...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20surface
Control surface may refer to: Audio control surface, a human interface device (HID) which allows the user to control a digital audio Flight control surfaces, allow a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude Diving plane, a control surface in submarines Control surface (fluid dynamics), a surfaceen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo%20Eyzaguirre
Domingo de Eyzaguirre y Arechavala (July 17, 1775 – April 22, 1854) was a Chilean politician and philanthropist. He was born in Santiago, Chile, the son of the Basque Domingo Eyzaguirre Escutasolo and of María Rosa de Arechavala y Alday. He studied in the seminary of his native City, and showed remarkable aptitude fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Giorgi
Francesco Giorgi Veneto (1466–1540) was an Italian Franciscan friar, and author of the work De harmonia mundi totius from 1525. In it Giorgio proposed an idea of the Universe created according to the universal system of proportion, which may be studied as laws of mathematics used by architects. The Cambridge History of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con%20Lehane%20%28socialist%29
Cornelius "Con" Lehane (also spelled O'Lyhane) (1877–31 December 1919) was a socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Ireland Lehane was born in Coachford, County Cork in 1877. Although a graduate in Irish and chemistry from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20Valley%20School
Test Valley School is a comprehensive secondary school with Specialist Status in Mathematics and Computing located in Stockbridge, Hampshire, England. Due to its rural location, it has a wide catchment area, with significant numbers of students travelling from Andover, Salisbury, Romsey, The Wallops and other small vil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golod%E2%80%93Shafarevich%20theorem
In mathematics, the Golod–Shafarevich theorem was proved in 1964 by Evgeny Golod and Igor Shafarevich. It is a result in non-commutative homological algebra which solves the class field tower problem, by showing that class field towers can be infinite. The inequality Let A = K⟨x1, ..., xn⟩ be the free algebra over a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Robert%20Anderson%20%28chemist%29
John Robert Anderson (5 March 1928 – 26 February 2007) was an Australian chemist whose research specialised on materials science. Anderson served as Chief of the Division of Material Sciences at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1970 to 1978. He attended Sydney Boys High School from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Meadows%20Rendel%20%28geneticist%29
James Meadows Rendel (16 May 1915 - 4 February 2001) was an Australian agricultural scientist who specialised in animal genetics and was Chief of the CSIRO Division of Animal Genetics from 1959 to 1976. He was the grandson of Lytton Strachey's sister Dorothy Bussy, and the nephew of Frances Partridge. Early life Rende...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanibel%20Symposium
The Sanibel Symposium is an international scientific conference in quantum chemistry, solid-state physics, and quantum biology. It has been organized by the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States, every winter since 1960. It was founded by Per-Olov Löwdin who was invo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v%20%28disambiguation%29
Delta-v is a term used in astrodynamics for the total 'effort' to change from one space trajectory to another. Delta V may also refer to: Science and technology Delta-V (Internet Protocol), a Web Versioning and Configuration Management Protocol specified by RFC 3253 for WebDAV Delta-v (physics), a mathematical symbol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Hunt%20Morgan%20Medal
The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded by the Genetics Society of America (GSA) for lifetime contributions to the field of genetics. The medal is named after Thomas Hunt Morgan, the 1933 Nobel Prize winner, who received this award for his work with Drosophila and his "discoveries concerning the role played by the chr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Quantum%20Chemistry
The International Journal of Quantum Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original, primary research and review articles on all aspects of quantum chemistry, including an expanded scope focusing on aspects of materials science, biochemistry, biophysics, quantum physics, quantum information theory,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Perkins%20%28geneticist%29
David Dexter Perkins (May 2, 1919 – January 2, 2007) was an American geneticist, a member of the faculty of the Department of Biology at Stanford University for more than 58 years, from 1948 until his death in 2007. He received his PhD in Zoology in 1949 from Columbia University. A member of the National Academy of Sci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombardi%20Engineering
Lombardi Engineering Ltd. is a Swiss civil engineering company based in Giubiasco, Bellinzona district. It was established in 1989. It is the successor to "Giovanni Lombardi Ph. D. Consulting Engineers" which was established in 1955 by Giovanni Lombardi. As of 2012, the company employs 200 employees. Projects The comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steen%20Rasmussen%20%28physicist%29
Steen Rasmussen (born 7 July 1955) is a Danish physicist mainly working in the areas of artificial life and complex systems. He is currently a professor in physics and a center director at University of Southern Denmark as well as an external research professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His formal training was at the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponderomotive%20energy
In strong-field laser physics, ponderomotive energy is the cycle-averaged quiver energy of a free electron in an electromagnetic field. Equation The ponderomotive energy is given by , where is the electron charge, is the linearly polarised electric field amplitude, is the laser carrier frequency and is the elect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACELL
ACELL may refer to: Advancing Chemistry by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory, an Australian chemistry teaching project Australasian Chemistry Enhanced Laboratory Learning, of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute ACell Incorporated, a Maryland-based biotechnology company specializing in regenerative medicine Fe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Shur
Michael Shur (born November 13, 1942) is a Russian and American physicist and a professor of solid state electronics and electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Background Shur was born on November 13, 1942, in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk, USSR. He received his master's degree in Electrical Enginee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM%20%28website%29
Portal Resources for Indiana Science and Mathematics (PRISM) is a free website originally designed for Indiana middle school math, science, and technology teachers. It links Indiana Academic Standards for middle school science, technology, pre-engineering, and math (STEM fields) to appropriate, teacher-reviewed online ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antun%20Karlo%20Bakoti%C4%87
Antun Karlo Bakotić (4 November 1831 in Kaštel Gomilica – 13 January 1887 in Zadar) was a Croatian writer and physicist. He studied mathematics and physics at Vienna and Venice. He worked as a professor in Rijeka, as well as managing the Velika Gimnazija in Split and acting as school superintendent. He was one of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Allender
Eric Warren Allender (born 1956) is an American computer scientist active in the field of computational complexity theory. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is currently a professor at Rutgers University where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 2006 unti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylene%20group
In organic chemistry, the phenylene group () is based on a di-substituted benzene ring (arylene). For example, poly(p-phenylene) is a polymer built up from para-phenylene repeating units. The phenylene group has three structural isomers, based on which hydrogens are substituted: para-phenylene, meta-phenylene, and orth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millfield%20Science%20%26%20Performing%20Arts%20College
Further information The school gained specialist college status in 2005. Millfield consists of: A Block (the original buildings) - which houses Arts, Technology (resistant materials and food studies), I.C.T, Drama, Dance, Canteen, Offices, Medical room, Media studies and Performing Arts B, C and D Block (the tower...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration%20%28disambiguation%29
Iteration means the act of repeating in the contexts of mathematics, computing and project management, particularly software development. It can also refer to: Iterated function, in mathematics "Iteration", a song from Potemkin City Limits, the fourth full-length album by the punk rock band Propagandhi Iteration, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep%20Guia
Josep Guia i Marín (; born 1947, in Valencia) is a Spanish writer, mathematics professor of University of Valencia and political activist within PSAN party. In 1986, he was awarded by Fundació Jaume I. Some of his most relevant essays about Catalan nationalism are: Països Catalans i Llibertat ("Catalan Countries and F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual%20Review%20of%20Ecology%2C%20Evolution%2C%20and%20Systematics
{{Infobox journal | title = Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | cover = Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics cover.png | discipline = Ecology, evolutionary biology, and systematics | formernames = Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics (1970–2002)' | editor = Douglas J. Futuyma | ab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba%20%28disambiguation%29
Amoeba (sometimes amœba or ameba, plural amoebae, amoebas or amebas) is a type of cell or organism which has the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods. Amoeba or variants may also refer to: Biology Amoeba (genus), a genus of single-celled protists in the family Amoebidae Amoeb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba%20%28mathematics%29
In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, an amoeba is a set associated with a polynomial in one or more complex variables. Amoebas have applications in algebraic geometry, especially tropical geometry. Definition Consider the function defined on the set of all n-tuples of non-zero complex numbers with value...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Congress%20of%20Quantum%20Chemistry
The International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC), is an international conference dedicated to the field of quantum chemistry. It is organized by the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. The first conference was held from July 4 to 10, 1973 in Menton, France. The first conference marked the "50th an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20control%20technician
Fire control technician (abbreviated as FT) is a United States Navy occupational rating. Fire control technicians perform organizational and intermediate level maintenance on United States Navy submarines combat control systems and equipment, and associated test equipment including tactical computer systems and perip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Afzelius
Johan Afzelius (13 June 1753 in Larv – 20 May 1837 in Uppsala) was a Swedish chemist and notable as the doctoral advisor of one of the founders of modern chemistry, Jöns Jacob Berzelius. He was the brother of botanist Adam Afzelius and physician Pehr von Afzelius. Afzelius received his PhD at Uppsala University in 177...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axenic
In biology, axenic (, ) describes the state of a culture in which only a single species, variety, or strain of organism is present and entirely free of all other contaminating organisms. The earliest axenic cultures were of bacteria or unicellular eukaryotes, but axenic cultures of many multicellular organisms are al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Daut
Ryan Daut (born April 18, 1984) is an American professional poker player from New Jersey. After earning a degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Richmond in 2006, Daut began work on a doctorate in mathematics at Penn State University. He dropped out of the program after one semester to play...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20Sonnenfeld
David Allan Sonnenfeld (born July 31, 1953) is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and environmental policy at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, known for his work in the field of ecological modernisation. Biography Sonnenfeld was born to Joseph Sonnenfeld ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate%20Texts%20in%20Mathematics
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (UTM) () is a series of undergraduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by Springer-Verlag. The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are small yellow books of a standard size. The books in this series tend to be written at a more elementary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buformin
Buformin (1-butylbiguanide) is an oral antidiabetic drug of the biguanide class, chemically related to metformin and phenformin. Buformin was marketed by German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal as Silubin. Chemistry and animal toxicology Buformin hydrochloride is a fine, white to slightly yellow, crystalline, odorles...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate%20Studies%20in%20Mathematics
Graduate Studies in Mathematics (GSM) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The books in this series are published in hardcover and e-book formats. List of books 1 The General Topology of Dynamical Systems, Ethan Akin (1993, ) 2 Combinatorial Rig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20fluidity
In biology, membrane fluidity refers to the viscosity of the lipid bilayer of a cell membrane or a synthetic lipid membrane. Lipid packing can influence the fluidity of the membrane. Viscosity of the membrane can affect the rotation and diffusion of proteins and other bio-molecules within the membrane, there-by affecti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoornithology
Ethnoornithology (also ethno-ornithology) is the study of the relationship between people and birds (from "ethno-" - relating to people and culture - and "ornithology" - the study of birds). It is a branch of ethnozoology and so of the wider field of ethnobiology. Ethnoornithology is an interdisciplinary subject and co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%20Lawergren
Bo Lawergren is a Professor Emeritus of physics at Hunter College, The City University of New York. He is also a music archaeologist. He received his PhD in nuclear physics from the Australian National University of Canberra, Australia. Publications References Living people Hunter College faculty Year of birth missi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Farmer%20%28physicist%29
Frank Farmer OBE (18 September 1912 – 16 July 2004) was an English physicist, and a pioneer in the application of physics to medicine, particularly in relation to the practical aspects of cancer treatment by radiation. Early life and education Frank Taylor Farmer was born in Bexleyheath, Kent and studied at Eltham Col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSm
In molecular biology, LSm proteins are a family of RNA-binding proteins found in virtually every cellular organism. LSm is a contraction of 'like Sm', because the first identified members of the LSm protein family were the Sm proteins. LSm proteins are defined by a characteristic three-dimensional structure and their...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20T.%20Raines
Ronald T. Raines is an American chemical biologist. He is the Roger and Georges Firmenich Professor of Natural Products Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for using ideas and methods of physical organic chemistry to solve important problems in biology. Education Raines was born and rai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition
Recognition may refer to: Award, something given in recognition of an achievement Machine learning Pattern recognition, a branch of machine learning which encompasses the meanings below Biometric Recognition of human individuals, or biometrics, used as a form of identification and access control Facial recognition ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyal%20bracket
In physics, the Moyal bracket is the suitably normalized antisymmetrization of the phase-space star product. The Moyal bracket was developed in about 1940 by José Enrique Moyal, but Moyal only succeeded in publishing his work in 1949 after a lengthy dispute with Paul Dirac. In the meantime this idea was independently...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin%20Konner
Melvin Joel Konner (born 1946) is an American anthropologist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Gradibus
De Gradibus was an Arabic book published by the Arab physician Al-Kindi (c. 801–873 CE). De gradibus is the Latinized name of the book. An alternative name for the book was Quia Primos. In De Gradibus, Al-Kindi attempts to apply mathematics to pharmacology by quantifying the strength of drugs. According to Prioreschi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20by%20example
In computer science, programming by example (PbE), also termed programming by demonstration or more generally as demonstrational programming, is an end-user development technique for teaching a computer new behavior by demonstrating actions on concrete examples. The system records user actions and infers a generalized ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Horton
Andy Horton, an American sailor and Olympic hopeful, is best known for his accomplishments Match racing and Star sailing. Biography Andy began sailing on Lake Champlain in Vermont where he grew up. He went to prep school at Tabor Academy in Marion MA. After Tabor he attended Hobart college where he studied biology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutler%27s%20bar%20notation
In mathematics, Cutler's bar notation is a notation system for large numbers, introduced by Mark Cutler in 2004. The idea is based on iterated exponentiation in much the same way that exponentiation is iterated multiplication. Introduction A regular exponential can be expressed as such: However, these expressions be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%20equations
In fluid dynamics, the Kirchhoff equations, named after Gustav Kirchhoff, describe the motion of a rigid body in an ideal fluid. where and are the angular and linear velocity vectors at the point , respectively; is the moment of inertia tensor, is the body's mass; is a unit normal to the surface of the body at th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Kemmer
Nicholas Kemmer (7 December 1911 – 21 October 1998) was a Russian-born nuclear physicist working in Britain, who played an integral and leading edge role in United Kingdom's nuclear programme, and was known as a mentor of Abdus Salam – a Nobel laureate in physics. Life Early life Nicholas was born to Nicholas P. Kem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20spike
In neuroscience, a population spike (PS) is the shift in electrical potential as a consequence of the movement of ions involved in the generation and propagation of action potentials. Population spikes often reflect synaptically induced firing and therefore, they can be classified as a type of field excitatory postsyna...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusmayanto%20Kadiman
Kusmayanto Kadiman (born in Bandung, West Java 1 May 1954) is an Indonesian engineer and politician who served as State Minister for Research and Technology in the United Indonesia Cabinet between 2004 and 2009. Education He studied engineering physics at Bandung Institute of Technology, graduating in 1977. He receive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Erwin
Terry Lee Erwin (December 1, 1940 – May 11, 2020) was an American entomologist with the Smithsonian Institution. Erwin went to Vallejo High School and then graduated in biology in 1964, followed by a masters in 1966 from San Jose State College (now San Jose State University). He went to the University of Alberta to s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengalia
Bengalia is a genus of blow flies in the family Calliphoridae with one authority considering the genus to belong to a separate family Bengaliidae. These bristly and, unlike the greens and blues of most calliphorids, dull coloured flies, are especially noted for their relationship to ants. Little is known of their biolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Wagner
Carl Wilhelm Wagner (May 25, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was a German Physical chemist. He is best known for his pioneering work on Solid-state chemistry, where his work on oxidation rate theory, counter diffusion of ions and defect chemistry led to a better understanding of how reactions take place at the atomic level. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear%20acoustics
Nonlinear acoustics (NLA) is a branch of physics and acoustics dealing with sound waves of sufficiently large amplitudes. Large amplitudes require using full systems of governing equations of fluid dynamics (for sound waves in liquids and gases) and elasticity (for sound waves in solids). These equations are generally ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Sutton
Christine Sutton is a particle physicist who edited the CERN Courier from 2003 to 2015. She retired from CERN in 2015. Sutton was previously based at the University of Oxford, working in the Particle Physics Group and tutoring physics at St Catherine's College. She was Physical Sciences Editor for New Scientist magaz...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Pass
Nelson Pass (born June 27, 1951) is a designer of audio amplifiers. Pass is vocal that listening tests remain valuable and that electrical measurements alone do not fully characterize the sound of an amplifier. Pass holds at least seven U.S. patents related to audio circuits. Career Studies, PMA and ESS In 1974, he ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassim%20Almawi
Wassim Y. Almawi is professor in the School of Pharmacy at Lebanese American University in Byblos, Lebanon, and adjunct professor at Faculty of Sciences, El Manar University in Tunis, Tunisia. This followed appointment as professor and chairman of Department of Biochemistry at Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain from 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Leakey
Colin Louis Avern Leakey (13 December 1933, Cambridge, England – 29 January 2018, Lincoln, England) was a leading plant scientist in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Biology, and a world authority on beans. Background Colin Leakey was the son of Louis Leakey (1903–1972)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Angel%20Corzo
Miguel Angel Corzo (born January 1, 1942) is an American arts administrator and consultant. Early life and education Miguel Angel Corzo was born and raised in Mexico City. He completed an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1967. Professional life Corzo became ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Cascade%20Cipher
In cryptography, the Intel Cascaded Cipher is a high bandwidth block cipher, used as an optional component of the Output Content Protection DRM scheme of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The cipher is based on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) operating in counter mode, used for generating keys, and a 3-r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogolyubov%20Prize%20for%20young%20scientists
The Bogoliubov Prize for young scientists is an award offered to young researchers in theoretical physics by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), an international intergovernmental organization located in Dubna, Russia. The award is issued in memory of the physicist and mathematician Nikolay Bogoliubov. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside%20Methodist%20Hospital
Riverside Methodist Hospital is the largest member hospital of OhioHealth, a not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system located in Columbus, Ohio. As a regional tertiary care hospital, Riverside Methodist is host to a number of specialty centers and services, including Neuroscience and Stroke, Heart and Vascular, M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger%E2%80%93Hamilton%20stages
In developmental biology, the Hamburger–Hamilton stages (HH) are a series of 46 chronological stages in chick development, starting from laying of the egg and ending with a newly hatched chick. It is named for its creators, Viktor Hamburger and Howard L. Hamilton. Chicken embryos are a useful model organism in experim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton%20Oscar%20Person
Clayton Oscar Person, (May 16, 1922 – September 1, 1990) was recognized internationally as an authority on the genetics of host-parasite relations. He was born and raised in Aylesbury, Saskatchewan, Canada and died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His writings have made a major contribution to the development o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acousto-optics
Acousto-optics is a branch of physics that studies the interactions between sound waves and light waves, especially the diffraction of laser light by ultrasound (or sound in general) through an ultrasonic grating. Introduction Optics has had a very long and full history, from ancient Greece, through the renaissance an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseltamivir%20total%20synthesis
Oseltamivir total synthesis concerns the total synthesis of the antiinfluenza drug oseltamivir marketed by Hoffmann-La Roche under the trade name Tamiflu. Its commercial production starts from the biomolecule shikimic acid harvested from Chinese star anise and from recombinant E. coli. Control of stereochemistry is imp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%207%20bombings
Roger Charles Bell is a Canadian former secondary school teacher and convicted criminal from Prince Edward Island. Born in Murray River in 1944, Bell is a graduate of University of Western Ontario and taught high school chemistry at several schools in eastern Prince Edward Island. Criminal conviction Bell was arrested...