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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton%20Laboratory
The Galton Laboratory was a laboratory for research into eugenics and then into human genetics based at University College London in London, England. It was originally established in 1904, and became part of UCL's biology department in 1996. The ancestor of the Galton Laboratory was the Eugenics Record Office founded ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenation
In chemistry, catenation is the bonding of atoms of the same element into a series, called a chain. A chain or a ring shape may be open if its ends are not bonded to each other (an open-chain compound), or closed if they are bonded in a ring (a cyclic compound). The words to catenate and catenation reflect the Latin ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution%20reaction
A substitution reaction (also known as single displacement reaction or single substitution reaction) is a chemical reaction during which one functional group in a chemical compound is replaced by another functional group. Substitution reactions are of prime importance in organic chemistry. Substitution reactions in org...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher%20Bureau%20%28Poland%29
The Cipher Bureau (Polish: Biuro Szyfrów, ) was the interwar Polish General Staff's Second Department's unit charged with SIGINT and both cryptography (the use of ciphers and codes) and cryptanalysis (the study of ciphers and codes, for the purpose of "breaking" them). The precursor of the agency that would become the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAX
EAX may refer to: EAX mode, a mode of operation for cryptographic block ciphers EAX register, a 32-bit processor register of x86 CPUs Environmental Audio Extensions, a number of digital signal processing presets for audio, found in Sound Blaster sound cards GTD-5 EAX, class 5 digital telephone switch typically use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic
Analytic or analytical may refer to: Chemistry Analytical chemistry, the analysis of material samples to learn their chemical composition and structure Analytical technique, a method that is used to determine the concentration of a chemical compound or chemical element Analytical concentration Mathematics Abstrac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Ticehurst
Kenneth (Ken) Vincent Ticehurst (born 22 January 1945) is a former Australian politician, and was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 to 2007, representing the Division of Dobell in New South Wales for the Liberal Party of Australia. Biography Ticehurst has a qualification in electr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20H.%20McConkey
Edwin H. McConkey is an American biologist. , he is a professor emeritus at the department for Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. His contributions to taxonomy include the original description the northern subspecies of mole skink, Plestiodon egregius sim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Darcy%20%28character%29
Lord Darcy is a detective in a fantasy alternate history, created by Randall Garrett. The first stories were asserted to take place in the same year as they were published, but in a world with an alternate history that is different from the real world and that is governed by the rules of magic rather than the rules of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Maynard%20Smith%20Prize
The John Maynard Smith Prize is a prize given by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology on odd years to an outstanding young researcher. It was first awarded in 1997 and is named after the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004). List of winners Source: European Society for Evolutionary Biology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%20conjecture
In mathematics, the Littlewood conjecture is an open problem () in Diophantine approximation, proposed by John Edensor Littlewood around 1930. It states that for any two real numbers α and β, where is the distance to the nearest integer. Formulation and explanation This means the following: take a point (α, β) in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling-element%20bearing
In mechanical engineering, a rolling-element bearing, also known as a rolling bearing, is a bearing which carries a load by placing rolling elements (such as balls or rollers) between two concentric, grooved rings called races. The relative motion of the races causes the rolling elements to roll with very little rollin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driss%20Chra%C3%AFbi
Driss Chraïbi (; July 15, 1926 – April 1, 2007) was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiographical. Born in El Jadida and educated in Casablanca, Chraïbi went to Paris in 1945 to study chemistry be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Brant%20Frost
Edwin Brant Frost II (July 14, 1866 – May 14, 1935) was an American astronomer. Biography He was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. His father, Carlton Pennington Frost, was dean of Dartmouth Medical School. Frost graduated from Dartmouth in 1886. He continued his education as a post-graduate student in chemistry and in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Mersenne%20number
In mathematics, a double Mersenne number is a Mersenne number of the form where p is prime. Examples The first four terms of the sequence of double Mersenne numbers are : Double Mersenne primes A double Mersenne number that is prime is called a double Mersenne prime. Since a Mersenne number Mp can be prime only i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Congress%20of%20Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before 2022 as the Nevanlinna Prize), the Gauss Prize, and the Chern Medal are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Jean%20Pierre%20Laurent
Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (or Joseph Laurent) (died 1900) was a French amateur astronomer and chemist who discovered the asteroid 51 Nemausa in 1858, for which he was a recipient of the Lalande Prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. It is also likely that he is the same person as the person of that name who ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone%20boson
In particle and condensed matter physics, Goldstone bosons or Nambu–Goldstone bosons (NGBs) are bosons that appear necessarily in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries. They were discovered by Yoichiro Nambu in particle physics within the context of the BCS superconductivity mechanism, and s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majoron
In particle physics, majorons (named after Ettore Majorana) are a hypothetical type of Goldstone boson that are conjectured to mediate the neutrino mass violation of lepton number or B − L in certain high energy collisions such as  +  →  +  +  Where two electrons collide to form two W bosons and the majoron J. The U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsirelson%20space
In mathematics, especially in functional analysis, the Tsirelson space is the first example of a Banach space in which neither an ℓ p space nor a c0 space can be embedded. The Tsirelson space is reflexive. It was introduced by B. S. Tsirelson in 1974. The same year, Figiel and Johnson published a related article () wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20automorphism%20group
In mathematics, the outer automorphism group of a group, , is the quotient, , where is the automorphism group of and ) is the subgroup consisting of inner automorphisms. The outer automorphism group is usually denoted . If is trivial and has a trivial center, then is said to be complete. An automorphism of a grou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Grant%20%28biologist%29
Bruce S. Grant is emeritus professor of biology at the College of William and Mary. He has a particular research interest in the peppered moth, He is a defender of the teaching of evolution and has criticized creationist Jonathan Wells, who has cited his work, as "dishonest." Grant has a B.S. in Biology from Bloomsbur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation%20property
In mathematics, specifically functional analysis, a Banach space is said to have the approximation property (AP), if every compact operator is a limit of finite-rank operators. The converse is always true. Every Hilbert space has this property. There are, however, Banach spaces which do not; Per Enflo published the fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%20space
In mathematics, the ba space of an algebra of sets is the Banach space consisting of all bounded and finitely additive signed measures on . The norm is defined as the variation, that is If Σ is a sigma-algebra, then the space is defined as the subset of consisting of countably additive measures. The notation ba i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomially%20reflexive%20space
In mathematics, a polynomially reflexive space is a Banach space X, on which the space of all polynomials in each degree is a reflexive space. Given a multilinear functional Mn of degree n (that is, Mn is n-linear), we can define a polynomial p as (that is, applying Mn on the diagonal) or any finite sum of these. If ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEA
HEA or Hea may refer to: Hektoen enteric agar, used in microbiology to identify certain organisms Higher Education Academy, in the United Kingdom Higher Education Act of 1965, an Act of the Congress of the United States which was supposed to strengthen the resources of colleges and universities, and to provide financi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%20logging
Exploration logging is the process of wireline logging, geophysical logging, geotechnical logging or geological logging of a drill hole, its core, or its rock cuttings for petrophysics or petrology. The practice is usually used in the mining, mineral exploration or oil and natural gas sectors. Note that logging in thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20function
In mathematics, the Dirichlet function is the indicator function of the set of rational numbers , i.e. if is a rational number and if is not a rational number (i.e. is an irrational number). It is named after the mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. It is an example of pathological function which provide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20nonsense
In mathematics, abstract nonsense, general abstract nonsense, generalized abstract nonsense, and general nonsense are nonderogatory terms used by mathematicians to describe long, theoretical parts of a proof they skip over when readers are expected to be familiar with them. These terms are mainly used for abstract meth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Hadwiger
Hugo Hadwiger (23 December 1908 in Karlsruhe, Germany – 29 October 1981 in Bern, Switzerland) was a Swiss mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography. Biography Although born in Karlsruhe, Germany, Hadwiger grew up in Bern, Switzerland. He did his undergraduate studies at the Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFER
In cryptography, SAFER (Secure And Fast Encryption Routine) is the name of a family of block ciphers designed primarily by James Massey (one of the designers of IDEA) on behalf of Cylink Corporation. The early SAFER K and SAFER SK designs share the same encryption function, but differ in the number of rounds and the k...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20geometry%20and%20analytic%20geometry
In mathematics, algebraic geometry and analytic geometry are two closely related subjects. While algebraic geometry studies algebraic varieties, analytic geometry deals with complex manifolds and the more general analytic spaces defined locally by the vanishing of analytic functions of several complex variables. The de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chow%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, Chow's theorem may refer to a number of theorems due to Wei-Liang Chow: Chow's theorem: The theorem that asserts that any analytic subvariety in projective space is actually algebraic. Chow–Rashevskii theorem: In sub-Riemannian geometry, the theorem that asserts that any two points are connected by a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score%20following
Score following is the process of automatically listening to a live music performance and tracking the position in the score. It is an active area of research and stands at the intersection of artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, signal processing, and musicology. Score following was first introduced in 1984 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20gene
In the field of genetics, a suicide gene is a gene that will cause a cell to kill itself through the process of apoptosis (programmed cell death). Activation of a suicide gene can cause death through a variety of pathways, but one important cellular "switch" to induce apoptosis is the p53 protein. Stimulation or introd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20group
In mathematics, an arithmetic group is a group obtained as the integer points of an algebraic group, for example They arise naturally in the study of arithmetic properties of quadratic forms and other classical topics in number theory. They also give rise to very interesting examples of Riemannian manifolds and hence ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure (Paris). Early life ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Daniel%20Phillips
William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. „Temperature is a measure of what we call kinetic energy, i.e. the energy of motion." Biography Phillips was born to William Cornelius Phillips of Juniat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20%28biology%29
In molecular biology, a library is a collection of DNA fragments that is stored and propagated in a population of micro-organisms through the process of molecular cloning. There are different types of DNA libraries, including cDNA libraries (formed from reverse-transcribed RNA), genomic libraries (formed from genomic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDES
In cryptography, the Generalized DES Scheme (GDES or G-DES) is a variant of the DES symmetric-key block cipher designed with the intention of speeding up the encryption process while improving its security. The scheme was proposed by Ingrid Schaumuller-Bichl in 1981. In 1990, Eli Biham and Adi Shamir showed that GDES ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo%20Kanamori
is a Japanese seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them. Career Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks developed the moment magnitude scale which replaced the Richter magnitude scale as a measurement of the re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractography
In neuroscience, tractography is a 3D modeling technique used to visually represent nerve tracts using data collected by diffusion MRI. It uses special techniques of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computer-based diffusion MRI. The results are presented in two- and three-dimensional images called tractograms. In ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20transport
In cellular biology, membrane transport refers to the collection of mechanisms that regulate the passage of solutes such as ions and small molecules through biological membranes, which are lipid bilayers that contain proteins embedded in them. The regulation of passage through the membrane is due to selective membrane ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap
In computer science, compare-and-swap (CAS) is an atomic instruction used in multithreading to achieve synchronization. It compares the contents of a memory location with a given value and, only if they are the same, modifies the contents of that memory location to a new given value. This is done as a single atomic ope...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Breazeal
Cynthia Breazeal is an American robotics scientist and entrepreneur. She is a former chief scientist and chief experience officer of Jibo, a company she co-founded in 2012 that developed personal assistant robots. Currently, she is a professor of media arts and sciences at MIT and the director of the Personal Robots gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney%20Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former direct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC2
In cryptography, RC2 (also known as ARC2) is a symmetric-key block cipher designed by Ron Rivest in 1987. "RC" stands for "Ron's Code" or "Rivest Cipher"; other ciphers designed by Rivest include RC4, RC5, and RC6. The development of RC2 was sponsored by Lotus, who were seeking a custom cipher that, after evaluation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon%20Even
Shimon Even (; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptogra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Laidlaw%20Maxwell
James Laidlaw Maxwell Senior (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má Ngá-kok; ; born 18 March 1836 in Scotland – March 1921) was the first Presbyterian missionary to Formosa (Qing-era Taiwan). He served with the English Presbyterian Mission. Maxwell studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, completing his degree in 1858 with the thes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerp
Lerp or LERP may refer to: Lerp (biology), a structure produced by larvae of psyllid insects as a protective cover Linear interpolation (Lerp), a method of curve fitting in mathematics Emil Lerp (1886-1966), German inventor of first gasoline transportable chainsaw Liberia Equal Rights Party Lyari Expressway Reset...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboush%27s%20theorem
In mathematics Haboush's theorem, often still referred to as the Mumford conjecture, states that for any semisimple algebraic group G over a field K, and for any linear representation ρ of G on a K-vector space V, given v ≠ 0 in V that is fixed by the action of G, there is a G-invariant polynomial F on V, without const...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifid%20cipher
In classical cryptography, the bifid cipher is a cipher which combines the Polybius square with transposition, and uses fractionation to achieve diffusion. It was invented around 1901 by Felix Delastelle. Operation First, a mixed alphabet Polybius square is drawn up, where the I and the J share their position: 1 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paley%E2%80%93Wiener%20theorem
In mathematics, a Paley–Wiener theorem is any theorem that relates decay properties of a function or distribution at infinity with analyticity of its Fourier transform. The theorem is named for Raymond Paley (1907–1933) and Norbert Wiener (1894–1964). The original theorems did not use the language of distributions, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptualism
In metaphysics, conceptualism is a theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind. Intermediate between nominalism and realism, the conceptualist view approaches the metaphysical concept of universals from a perspective that denies their presence in parti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMD
VMD may refer to: Vector meson dominance, in physics a model describing the hadron photoproduction process Versatile Multilayer Disc, a discontinued high-capacity optical disc technology The academic degree bestowed upon a Veterinary Medical Doctor or (colloquially) a veterinarian by a University—e.g. 'Jane Smith, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask%20%28disambiguation%29
A mask is a covering worn on the face, or an object depicting a face. Mask may also refer to: Technology Computing Mask (computing), in computer science, a bit pattern used to extract information from another bit pattern Affinity mask, a bit mask indicating what processor a thread or process should be run on Ima...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregate
Aggregate or aggregates may refer to: Computing and mathematics Aggregate (data warehouse), a part of the dimensional model that is used to speed up query time by summarizing tables Aggregate analysis, a technique used in amortized analysis in computer science, especially in analysis of algorithms Aggregate class, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20School%20of%20Mines
The Royal School of Mines comprises the departments of Earth Science and Engineering, and Materials at Imperial College London. The Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics and parts of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Bioengineering are also housed within the building. The school as an organisatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20School%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Science
The Alabama School of Mathematics and Science (ASMS) is a public residential high school in the Midtown neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama. ASMS is a member of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools (NCSSS). It graduated its first class in 1993. The school was founded in 1989 as a unique public-private partne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRAP
FRAP or frap may stand for: Acronym Facilitated Risk Analysis Process Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure Ferric Reducing Ability of Plasma, also Ferric ion reducing antioxidant power, a simple assay of antioxidant content in foods Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, an experimental technique in cell bio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McClelland%20%28doctor%29
Sir John McClelland (1805–1883) was a British medical doctor with interests in geology and biology, who worked for the East India Company. In 1835 he was sent on a mission (Tea Committee) to identify if tea could be grown in north-eastern India along with Nathaniel Wallich and William Griffith. This mission ran into t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%20Harbor
Friday Harbor may refer to: Friday Harbor, Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, a marine biology field station of the University of Washington Friday Harbor (series), a series of romance novels by Lisa Kleypas Friday Harbour Resort, a mixed-use development in Innisfil, Ontario, Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendixson%E2%80%93Dulac%20theorem
In mathematics, the Bendixson–Dulac theorem on dynamical systems states that if there exists a function (called the Dulac function) such that the expression has the same sign () almost everywhere in a simply connected region of the plane, then the plane autonomous system has no nonconstant periodic solutions ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20railway
A light railway is a railway built at lower costs and to lower standards than typical "heavy rail": it uses lighter-weight track, and may have more steep gradients and tight curves to reduce civil engineering costs. These lighter standards allow lower costs of operation, at the price of lower vehicle capacity. Narrow ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subkey
Subkey can refer to: A hard-coded parameter in a key schedule A key in OpenPGP that is bound by a master key See also Key (disambiguation) Key (cryptography)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu%20and%20Khafre
In cryptography, Khufu and Khafre are two block ciphers designed by Ralph Merkle in 1989 while working at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Along with Snefru, a cryptographic hash function, the ciphers were named after the Egyptian Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Sneferu. Under a voluntary scheme, Xerox submitted Khufu an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff%20paradox
The Hausdorff paradox is a paradox in mathematics named after Felix Hausdorff. It involves the sphere (a 3-dimensional sphere in ). It states that if a certain countable subset is removed from , then the remainder can be divided into three disjoint subsets and such that and are all congruent. In particular, it fol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%20compactification
In mathematics, the Bohr compactification of a topological group G is a compact Hausdorff topological group H that may be canonically associated to G. Its importance lies in the reduction of the theory of uniformly almost periodic functions on G to the theory of continuous functions on H. The concept is named after Ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipation%20factor
In physics, the dissipation factor (DF) is a measure of loss-rate of energy of a mode of oscillation (mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical) in a dissipative system. It is the reciprocal of quality factor, which represents the "quality" or durability of oscillation. Explanation Electrical potential energy is d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Vitali
Giuseppe Vitali (26 August 1875 – 29 February 1932) was an Italian mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Biograph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20evolutionary%20biology%20articles
This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology. A abiogenesis – adaptation – adaptive mutation – adaptive radiation – allele – allele frequency – allochronic speciation – allopatric speciation – altruism – : anagenesis – anti-predator adaptation – applications of evolution – aposematism – Archaeopteryx – aquatic ad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Kurtz
Thomas Kurtz may refer to: Thomas E. Kurtz (born 1928), professor of mathematics and computer scientist Thomas G. Kurtz (born 1941), professor of mathematics and statistics Tom Kurtz, rhythm guitarist for the band Starstruck that recorded the hit song Black Betty#Ram Jam version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro%20Cataldi
Pietro Antonio Cataldi (15 April 1548, Bologna – 11 February 1626, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation. He was one of many mat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ris%C3%B8%20DTU%20National%20Laboratory%20for%20Sustainable%20Energy
DTU Risø Campus is a satelite campus of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) north of Roskilde, Denmark which covers an area of more than 2.6 square kilometres. It houses a number of DTU's institutes, as well as Aarhus University's Department of Environmental Science and Department of Bioscience. The campus was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flying%20Circus%20of%20Physics
The Flying Circus of Physics by Jearl Walker (1975, published by John Wiley and Sons; "with Answers" in 1977; 2nd edition in 2007), is a book that poses (and answers) 740 questions concerned with everyday physics. The emphasis is strongly on phenomena that might be encountered in one's daily life. The questions are i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jearl%20Walker
Jearl Dalton Walker (born 1945 in Pensacola, Florida) is a physicist noted for his book The Flying Circus of Physics, first published in 1975; the second edition was published in June 2006. He teaches physics at Cleveland State University. Walker has also revised and edited the textbook Fundamentals of Physics with Da...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20%28disambiguation%29
Flux is a rate of flow through a surface or substance in physics, and has a related meaning in applied mathematics. Flux may also refer to: Science and technology Biology and healthcare Flux (biology), movement of a substance between compartments Flux (metabolism), the rate of turnover of molecules through a metab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20%28biology%29
A satellite is a subviral agent that depends on the coinfection of a host cell with a helper virus for its replication. Satellites can be divided into two major classes: satellite viruses and satellite nucleic acids. Satellite viruses, which are most commonly associated with plants, are also found in mammals, arthropod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organophosphate
In organic chemistry, organophosphates (also known as phosphate esters, or OPEs) are a class of organophosphorus compounds with the general structure , a central phosphate molecule with alkyl or aromatic substituents. They can be considered as esters of phosphoric acid. Like most functional groups, organophosphates ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Curtis%20%28athlete%29
Thomas Pelham Curtis (January 9, 1873 – May 23, 1944) was an American athlete and the winner of the 110 metres hurdles at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Curtis, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student of electrical engineering, travelled to Athens as a member of the Boston Athletic Association. Curtis was also a st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun%C3%A7%20Hamarat
Tunç Hamarat (born December 1, 1946) is a Turkish chess player living in Austria and the sixteenth ICCF World Champion, 1999–2004. Born in Istanbul, Hamarat attended the Austrian St. Georgs-Kolleg high school in Istanbul, and then graduated in Physics from the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara. In 1972...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transduction%20%28machine%20learning%29
In logic, statistical inference, and supervised learning, transduction or transductive inference is reasoning from observed, specific (training) cases to specific (test) cases. In contrast, induction is reasoning from observed training cases to general rules, which are then applied to the test cases. The distinction is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20security
In cryptography, a semantically secure cryptosystem is one where only negligible information about the plaintext can be feasibly extracted from the ciphertext. Specifically, any probabilistic, polynomial-time algorithm (PPTA) that is given the ciphertext of a certain message (taken from any distribution of messages), ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/196%20%28number%29
196 (one hundred [and] ninety-six) is the natural number following 195 and preceding 197. In mathematics 196 is a square number, the square of 14. As the square of a Catalan number, it counts the number of walks of length 8 in the positive quadrant of the integer grid that start and end at the origin, moving diagonall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/151%20%28number%29
151 (one hundred [and] fifty-one) is a natural number. It follows 150 and precedes 152. In mathematics 151 is the 36th prime number, the previous is 149, with which it comprises a twin prime. 151 is also a palindromic prime, a centered decagonal number, and a lucky number. 151 appears in the Padovan sequence, precede...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny%20Perepyolkin
Yevgeny Yakovlevich Perepyolkin (; 4 March 1906 – 13 January 1938) was a Soviet astronomer. He headed the astrophysics department of the Pulkovo Observatory until he was arrested on 11 May 1937 for counter-revolutionary agitation. He was sent to a penal labour camp in Krasnoyarsk Krai, and was executed on 13 January 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACES%20%28computational%20chemistry%29
Aces II (Advanced Concepts in Electronic Structure Theory) is an ab initio computational chemistry package for performing high-level quantum chemical ab initio calculations. Its major strength is the accurate calculation of atomic and molecular energies as well as properties using many-body techniques such as many-body...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSI%20%28computational%20chemistry%29
Psi is an ab initio computational chemistry package originally written by the research group of Henry F. Schaefer, III (University of Georgia). Utilizing Psi, one can perform a calculation on a molecular system with various kinds of methods such as Hartree-Fock, Post-Hartree–Fock electron correlation methods, and densi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimLife
SimLife: The Genetic Playground is a video game produced by Maxis in 1992. The concept of the game is to simulate an ecosystem; players may modify the genetics of the plants and animals that inhabit the virtual world. The point of this game is to experiment and create a self-sustaining ecosystem. SimLife was re-release...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra%20of%20sets
In mathematics, the algebra of sets, not to be confused with the mathematical structure of an algebra of sets, defines the properties and laws of sets, the set-theoretic operations of union, intersection, and complementation and the relations of set equality and set inclusion. It also provides systematic procedures for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach%20experiment
In quantum physics, the Stern–Gerlach experiment demonstrated that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized. Thus an atomic-scale system was shown to have intrinsically quantum properties. In the original experiment, silver atoms were sent through a spatially-varying magnetic field, which deflected them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20of%20Ranvier
In neuroscience and anatomy, nodes of Ranvier ( ), also known as myelin-sheath gaps, occur along a myelinated axon where the axolemma is exposed to the extracellular space. Nodes of Ranvier are uninsulated and highly enriched in ion channels, allowing them to participate in the exchange of ions required to regenerate t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchless%20technology
Trenchless technology is a type of subsurface construction work that requires few trenches or no continuous trenches. It is a rapidly growing sector of the construction and civil engineering industry. It can be defined as "a family of methods, materials, and equipment capable of being used for the installation of new o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why
Why may refer to: Causality, a consequential relationship between two events Reason (argument), a premise in support of an argument, for what reason or purpose Grounding (metaphysics), a topic in metaphysics regarding how things exist in virtue of more fundamental things. Why?, one of the Five Ws used in journalis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Huang
Kurt Huang is co-founder, president, and chief product officer of BitPass. He has a Computer Science degree from Harvard and an MD from Stanford. Named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review magazine. He was born in Chicago to immigrants from Taiwan. References Living p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near
NEAR or Near may refer to: People Thomas J. Near, US evolutionary ichthyologist Near, a developer who created the higan emulator Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine National Emergency Alarm Repeater (NEAR), a former alarm device to warn civilians of a foreign nuclear attack on the United Stat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Chemistry%2C%20Slovak%20Academy%20of%20Sciences
The research activities of the Institute of Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences are aimed at the chemistry and biochemistry of saccharides. The main fields of interest may be classified into the following directions: Synthesis and structure of biologically important mono- and oligosaccharides and their deriva...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWO
SWO or Swo may refer to: Places SeaWorld Orlando, a theme park in Florida, US Southwestern Ontario, a region in Canada Stillwater Regional Airport (IATA and FAA LID code: SWO) Science and technology Strict weak ordering, in mathematics Other uses Socialist Workers Organization (disambiguation) Surface warfare ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw%20%28disambiguation%29
A screw is an externally threaded fastener. "Screw" or "screws" may also refer to: Engineering and mathematics Devices with a helical thread: Screw (simple machine) Screw thread, screw thread principles and standards Archimedes' screw, a simple machine for transporting water to a higher elevation Leadscrew, a type o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20sphere
Poincaré sphere may refer to: Poincaré sphere (optics), a graphical tool for visualizing different types of polarized light Bloch sphere, a related tool for representing states of a two-level quantum mechanical system Poincaré homology sphere, in mathematics, an example of a homology sphere