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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg
Rydberg may refer to: People Gerda Rydberg (1858–1928), Swedish artist better known as Gerda Tirén Jan Rydberg, (1923-2015), Swedish chemist who worked on nuclear chemistry and recycling at Chalmers University of Technology Johannes Rydberg (1854–1919), Swedish physicist and deviser of the Rydberg formula Kaisu-Mirjam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derived%20category
In mathematics, the derived category D(A) of an abelian category A is a construction of homological algebra introduced to refine and in a certain sense to simplify the theory of derived functors defined on A. The construction proceeds on the basis that the objects of D(A) should be chain complexes in A, with two such ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOC%20Group
BOC Group may refer to: Bank of China Group (BOCG), Boc group, a protecting group used in organic chemistry BOC (company), a British-based chemical company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20CP%20problem
The strong CP problem is a question in particle physics, which brings up the following quandary: why does quantum chromodynamics (QCD) seem to preserve CP-symmetry? In particle physics, CP stands for the combination of charge conjugation symmetry (C) and parity symmetry (P). According to the current mathematical formu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuning%20%28physics%29
In theoretical physics, fine-tuning is the process in which parameters of a model must be adjusted very precisely in order to fit with certain observations. This had led to the discovery that the fundamental constants and quantities fall into such an extraordinarily precise range that if it did not, the origin and evol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20surface
In condensed matter physics, the Fermi surface is the surface in reciprocal space which separates occupied from unoccupied electron states at zero temperature. The shape of the Fermi surface is derived from the periodicity and symmetry of the crystalline lattice and from the occupation of electronic energy bands. The e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Marcy
Geoffrey William Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer. He was an early influence in the field of exoplanet detection, discovery, and characterization. Marcy was a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and an adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at San Francisco Sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccei%E2%80%93Quinn%20theory
In particle physics, the Peccei–Quinn theory is a well-known, long-standing proposal for the resolution of the strong CP problem formulated by Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn in 1977. The theory introduces a new anomalous symmetry to the Standard Model along with a new scalar field which spontaneously breaks the symmet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamism
Dynamism may refer to: Dynamism (metaphysics), a cosmological explanation of the material world Dynamicism, the application of dynamical systems theory to cognitive science Economic dynamism, a term related to the rate of change of an economy "Plastic dynamism", a term used by the Italian futurist art movement to descr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em%C5%91ke%20Szathm%C3%A1ry
Emőke J.E. Szathmáry, (born January 25, 1944, in Hungary) is a physical anthropologist, specializing in the study of human genetics. Dr. Szathmáry served as the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manitoba, 1996–2008. Dr. Szathmáry's first administrative post was as chairman of the department of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20class
In mathematics, a combinatorial class is a countable set of mathematical objects, together with a size function mapping each object to a non-negative integer, such that there are finitely many objects of each size. Counting sequences and isomorphism The counting sequence of a combinatorial class is the sequence of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20genetics%20research%20organizations
This is a list of organizations involved in genetics research. Africa Kenya International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi Namibia The Life Technologies Conservation Genetics Laboratory (Cheetah Conservation Fund), Otjiwarongo Asia Pakistan IBGE Institute of Biomedical and Genetic Engineering China B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20browning
Browning is the process of food turning brown due to the chemical reactions that take place within. The process of browning is one of the chemical reactions that take place in food chemistry and represents an interesting research topic regarding health, nutrition, and food technology. Though there are many different wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerted%20reaction
In chemistry, a concerted reaction is a chemical reaction in which all bond breaking and bond making occurs in a single step. Reactive intermediates or other unstable high energy intermediates are not involved. Concerted reaction rates tend not to depend on solvent polarity ruling out large buildup of charge in the tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, a norm is a function from a real or complex vector space to the non-negative real numbers that behaves in certain ways like the distance from the origin: it commutes with scaling, obeys a form of the triangle inequality, and is zero only at the origin. In particular, the Euclidean distance in a Euclidea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20systems%20theory
Dynamical systems theory is an area of mathematics used to describe the behavior of complex dynamical systems, usually by employing differential equations or difference equations. When differential equations are employed, the theory is called continuous dynamical systems. From a physical point of view, continuous dynam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Balian
Roger Balian (born 18 January 1933) is a French-Armenian physicist who has worked on quantum field theory, quantum thermodynamics, and theory of measurement. Balian is a member of French Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences). His important work includes the Balian-Low theorem. He teaches statistical physics at th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenville%20Turner
Grenville Turner (born 1 November 1936, in Todmorden) is a research professor at the University of Manchester. He is one of the pioneers of cosmochemistry. Education Todmorden Grammar School St. John's College, Cambridge (MA) Balliol College, Oxford In 1962, he was awarded his D.Phil. (Oxford University's equiva...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington%20Medal
The Eddington Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics. It is named after Sir Arthur Eddington. First awarded in 1953, the frequency of the prize has varied over the years, at times being every one, two or three years. Since 2013 it has been ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol%20Rapoport
Anatol Rapoport (; ; May 22, 1911January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Biography Rapoport was born in Lozova, Kharkov Governorate, Russia ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20%28historical%20chemistry%29
Earths were defined by the Ancient Greeks as "materials that could not be changed further by the sources of heat then available". Several oxides were thought to be earths, such as aluminum oxide and magnesium oxide. It was not discovered until 1808 that these weren't elements but metallic oxides. See also Rare earth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20symbol
A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender, for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy, or in the sociological fields of gender politics, LGBT subculture and identity politics. In his books (1767) and (1771), Carl Linnaeus regularly used the planetary symbols of Mars, Venus and M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalen%20der%20Physik
Annalen der Physik (English: Annals of Physics) is one of the oldest scientific journals on physics; it has been published since 1799. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed papers on experimental, theoretical, applied, and mathematical physics and related areas. The editor-in-chief is Stefan Hildebrandt. Prior ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGF
EGF may refer to: E.G.F., a Gabonese company East Grand Forks, Minnesota, a city East Garforth railway station in England Epidermal growth factor Equity Group Foundation, a Kenyan charity European Gendarmerie Force, a military unit of the European Union European Genetics Foundation, a training organization Eur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-set
M-set may refer to Sydney Trains M set, a class of electric train Set of uniqueness or Menshov set of harmonic analysis Mandelbrot set, a two-dimensional fractal shape A monoid acting on a set; see Semigroup action Mathematics disambiguation pages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine%20Burr%20Blodgett
Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979) was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or nonreflective glass while working at General Electric. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in physics from the University of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Demaine
Erik D. Demaine (born February 28, 1981) is a Canadian-American professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former child prodigy. Early life and education Demaine was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to mathematician and sculptor Martin L. Demaine and Judy Anderson. From the age of 7...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%20theory
Landau theory in physics is a theory that Lev Landau introduced in an attempt to formulate a general theory of continuous (i.e., second-order) phase transitions. It can also be adapted to systems under externally-applied fields, and used as a quantitative model for discontinuous (i.e., first-order) transitions. Althoug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic%20curve
Characteristic curve may refer to: In electronics, a current–voltage characteristic curve Semiconductor curve tracer, a device for displaying the above curve In photography, a plot of film density: see sensitometry In mathematics, used in the method of characteristics for solving partial differential equations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWR
BWR or bwr may refer to: Benedict–Webb–Rubin equation, an equation of state used in fluid dynamics Black Warrior Review, a non-profit American literary magazine based at the University of Alabama Boiling water reactor, a type of light water nuclear reactor used for the generation of electrical power BWR, the Toron...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton%20process
The Burton process is a thermal cracking process invented by William Merriam Burton and Robert E. Humphreys, both of whom held a PhD in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. The process they developed is commonly referred to as the Burton process. However, it should be recognized as the Burton-Humphreys process, as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20learning
Autonomous learning may refer to: Autonomous learning in homeschooling Learner autonomy Machine learning Self-paced instruction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20%28physics%29
A node is a point along a standing wave where the wave has minimum amplitude. For instance, in a vibrating guitar string, the ends of the string are nodes. By changing the position of the end node through frets, the guitarist changes the effective length of the vibrating string and thereby the note played. The opposi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20%28computer%20science%29
A node is a basic unit of a data structure, such as a linked list or tree data structure. Nodes contain data and also may link to other nodes. Links between nodes are often implemented by pointers. Nodes and trees Nodes are often arranged into tree structures. A node represents the information contained in a single ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Hershey
Alfred Day Hershey (December 4, 1908 – May 22, 1997) was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in chemistry at Michigan State University in 1930 and his Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1934, taking a position shortly thereafter at the Department o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius%20method
In mathematics, the method of Frobenius, named after Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, is a way to find an infinite series solution for a second-order ordinary differential equation of the form with and . in the vicinity of the regular singular point . One can divide by to obtain a differential equation of the form whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarendon%20Laboratory
The Clarendon Laboratory, located on Parks Road within the Science Area in Oxford, England (not to be confused with the Clarendon Building, also in Oxford), is part of the Department of Physics at Oxford University. It houses the atomic and laser physics, condensed matter physics, and biophysics groups within the Depar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20George%20Horner
William George Horner (9 June 1786 – 22 September 1837) was a British mathematician. Proficient in classics and mathematics, he was a schoolmaster, headmaster and schoolkeeper who wrote extensively on functional equations, number theory and approximation theory, but also on optics. His contribution to approximation the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethi%E2%80%93Ullman%20algorithm
In computer science, the Sethi–Ullman algorithm is an algorithm named after Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman, its inventors, for translating abstract syntax trees into machine code that uses as few registers as possible. Overview When generating code for arithmetic expressions, the compiler has to decide which is the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Control
Total Control may refer to: Total Control (Yo-Yo album), 1996 Total Control (John Norum album), 1987 Total Control (EP) by Missy Higgins]], 2022 "Total Control" (song), the second single by The Motels, 1979 Total Control (band), an Australian post-punk/garage rock band Total Control, media gateway technology crea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Applied%20Cryptographic%20Research
The Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR) is a group of industrial representatives, professors, and students at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada who work and do research in the field of cryptography. The CACR aims to facilitate leading-edge cryptographic research, to educate students ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20Sciences%20%28Cambridge%29
The Natural Sciences Tripos (NST) is the framework within which most of the science at the University of Cambridge is taught. The tripos includes a wide range of Natural Sciences from physics, astronomy, and geoscience, to chemistry and biology, which are taught alongside the history and philosophy of science. The trip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPU
NPU may mean: Science and technology Natural Product Updates, a journal in chemistry Net protein utilization, the ratio of amino acid mass converted to proteins to the mass of amino acids supplied NPU terminology, a medical terminology for the clinical laboratory sciences. Computing Network Processing Unit, for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20chemistry
An artificial chemistry is a chemical-like system that usually consists of objects, called molecules, that interact according to rules resembling chemical reaction rules. Artificial chemistries are created and studied in order to understand fundamental properties of chemical systems, including prebiotic evolution, as w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducibility%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, the concept of irreducibility is used in several ways. A polynomial over a field may be an irreducible polynomial if it cannot be factored over that field. In abstract algebra, irreducible can be an abbreviation for irreducible element of an integral domain; for example an irreducible polynomial. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20function
In mathematics, especially in the fields of group theory and representation theory of groups, a class function is a function on a group G that is constant on the conjugacy classes of G. In other words, it is invariant under the conjugation map on G. Such functions play a basic role in representation theory. Character...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisimple%20module
In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as module theory, a semisimple module or completely reducible module is a type of module that can be understood easily from its parts. A ring that is a semisimple module over itself is known as an Artinian semisimple ring. Some important rings, such as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20conjugate
In mathematics and mathematical optimization, the convex conjugate of a function is a generalization of the Legendre transformation which applies to non-convex functions. It is also known as Legendre–Fenchel transformation, Fenchel transformation, or Fenchel conjugate (after Adrien-Marie Legendre and Werner Fenchel). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watterson
Watterson may refer to: Places Watterson Corners, Ontario, Canada Watterson Park, Kentucky, United States Other Watterson estimator, in population genetics Bishop Watterson High School, Columbus, Ohio, US The Henry Watterson Expressway (I-264), a highway in Louisville, Kentucky, US Watterson Towers, a student r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20magnetoresistance
Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) is a quantum mechanical magnetoresistance effect observed in multilayers composed of alternating ferromagnetic and non-magnetic conductive layers. The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for the discovery of GMR. The effect is observed as a significan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-hash
In cryptography, N-hash is a cryptographic hash function based on the FEAL round function, and is now considered insecure. It was proposed in 1990 in an article by Miyaguchi, Ohta, and Iwata; weaknesses were published the following year. N-hash has a 128-bit hash size. A message is divided into 128-bit blocks, and eac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20determinacy
In mathematics, the axiom of determinacy (abbreviated as AD) is a possible axiom for set theory introduced by Jan Mycielski and Hugo Steinhaus in 1962. It refers to certain two-person topological games of length ω. AD states that every game of a certain type is determined; that is, one of the two players has a winning...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor%20Herman
Gabor Tamas Herman is a Hungarian-American professor of computer science. He is Emiritas Professor of Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) where he was Distinguished Professor until 2017. He is known for his work on computerized tomography. He is a fellow of the Institute of Elect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeotropic%20distillation
In chemistry, azeotropic distillation is any of a range of techniques used to break an azeotrope in distillation. In chemical engineering, azeotropic distillation usually refers to the specific technique of adding another component to generate a new, lower-boiling azeotrope that is heterogeneous (e.g. producing two, i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvanus%20P.%20Thompson
Silvanus Phillips Thompson (19 June 1851 – 12 June 1916) was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author. Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20%28C%2B%2B%29
In the C++ programming language, a reference is a simple reference datatype that is less powerful but safer than the pointer type inherited from C. The name C++ reference may cause confusion, as in computer science a reference is a general concept datatype, with pointers and C++ references being specific reference data...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues%27%20formula
In mathematics, Rodrigues' formula (formerly called the Ivory–Jacobi formula) is a formula for the Legendre polynomials independently introduced by , and . The name "Rodrigues formula" was introduced by Heine in 1878, after Hermite pointed out in 1865 that Rodrigues was the first to discover it. The term is also used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olinde%20Rodrigues
Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (6 October 1795 – 17 December 1851), more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social reformer. In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors, the Rodrigues formula about series of orthogonal polynomials and the Euler–...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Rose
Steven Peter Russell Rose (born 4 July 1938) is an English neuroscientist, author, and social commentator. He is an emeritus professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London. Early life Born in London, United Kingdom, he was brought up as an Orthodox Jew. Rose says that he decid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%20transform
S transform as a time–frequency distribution was developed in 1994 for analyzing geophysics data. In this way, the S transform is a generalization of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), extending the continuous wavelet transform and overcoming some of its disadvantages. For one, modulation sinusoids are fixed with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkin
Orkin is an American pest control company that was founded in 1901 by Otto Orkin. Since 1964, the company has been owned by Rollins Inc. Orkin has held research collaborations with universities around the country and with organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dating back to 1990 for pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasuella
Mountain coatis are two species of procyonid mammals from the genus Nasuella. Unlike the larger coatis from the genus Nasua, mountain coatis only weigh and are endemic to the north Andean highlands in South America. Genetics and taxonomy Genetic evidence indicates that the genus Nasua is only monophyletic if it also ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tus
Tus or TUS may refer to: Tus (biology), a protein that binds to terminator sequences Thales Underwater Systems, an international defence contractor Tuscarora language, an Iroquoian language, ISO 639-3 code Education Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland Tokyo University of Science, Japan People Anto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Scherrer
Paul Hermann Scherrer (3 February 1890 – 25 September 1969) was a Swiss physicist. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he studied at Göttingen, Germany, before becoming a lecturer there. Later, Scherrer became head of the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich. Early life and studies Paul Scherrer was born in St. Gallen. In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost
Boost, boosted or boosting may refer to: Science, technology and mathematics Boost, positive manifold pressure in turbocharged engines Boost (C++ libraries), a set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ libraries Boost (material), a material branded and used by Adidas in the midsoles of shoes. Boost, a loose term for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical%20flow
A supercritical flow is a flow whose velocity is larger than the wave velocity. The analogous condition in gas dynamics is supersonic speed. According to the website Civil Engineering Terms, supercritical flow is defined as follows: The flow at which depth of the channel is less than critical depth, velocity of flo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artronix
Artronix Incorporated began in 1970 and has roots in a project in a computer science class at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. The class designed, built and tested a 12-bit minicomputer, which later evolved to become the PC12 minicomputer. The new company entered the bio-medical computing market w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20theorems%20called%20fundamental
In mathematics, a fundamental theorem is a theorem which is considered to be central and conceptually important for some topic. For example, the fundamental theorem of calculus gives the relationship between differential calculus and integral calculus. The names are mostly traditional, so that for example the fundament...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apomorphy%20and%20synapomorphy
In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy). A synapomorphy is an apomorphy shared by two or more taxa and is therefore hypothesized to have evolved in their most recent common ancestor. In cladistics, synapomorphy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorobotics
Biorobotics is an interdisciplinary science that combines the fields of biomedical engineering, cybernetics, and robotics to develop new technologies that integrate biology with mechanical systems to develop more efficient communication, alter genetic information, and create machines that imitate biological systems. C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanorobotics
Nanoid robotics, or for short, nanorobotics or nanobotics, is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters). More specifically, nanorobotics (as opposed to microrobotics) refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20proof
In mathematics, an analytic proof is a proof of a theorem in analysis that only makes use of methods from analysis, and which does not predominantly make use of algebraic or geometrical methods. The term was first used by Bernard Bolzano, who first provided a non-analytic proof of his intermediate value theorem and th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Holbrook
Karen Ann Holbrook (born November 6, 1942, in Des Moines, Iowa) is the regional chancellor of University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee since January 2, 2018. Career Holbrook earned her B.S. and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in zoology. After teaching biology at Ripon College, she earned a Ph.D. in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20G.%20Schultz
Peter G. Schultz (born June 23, 1956) is an American chemist. He is the CEO and Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, the founder and former director of GNF, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedical Research (Calibr), established in 2012. In August 2014, Nature Biotechn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency%20%28disambiguation%29
Consistency, in logic, is a quality of no contradiction. Consistency may also refer to: Computer science Consistency (database systems) Consistency (knowledge bases) Consistency (user interfaces) Consistent hashing Consistent heuristic Consistency model Data consistency Statistics Consistency (statistics), a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20%28band%29
Chemistry (styled as CHEMISTRY) is a Japanese pop duo, consisting of and . History They were the winners of the Asayan audition (similar to the American Idol series) in 2000 organized by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Their first single "Pieces of a Dream" was released on March 3, 2001, and was the best selling si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%E2%80%93Eckart%20theorem
The Wigner–Eckart theorem is a theorem of representation theory and quantum mechanics. It states that matrix elements of spherical tensor operators in the basis of angular momentum eigenstates can be expressed as the product of two factors, one of which is independent of angular momentum orientation, and the other a Cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starquake
Starquake may refer to: Starquake (astrophysics), a phenomenon when the crust of a neutron star undergoes a sudden adjustment Starquake (novel), a 1989 novel by Robert L. Forward Starquake (video game), a 1985 computer game See also Asteroseismology, the study of oscillations in stars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum%20%28disambiguation%29
A pendulum is a body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity. Pendulum may also refer to: Devices Pendulum (mathematics), the mathematical principles of a pendulum Pendulum clock, a kind of clock that uses a pendulum to keep time Pendulum car, an experi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20equivalence
In mathematics, weak equivalence may refer to: Weak equivalence of categories Weak equivalence (homotopy theory) Weak equivalence (formal languages)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callus%20%28cell%20biology%29
Plant callus (plural calluses or calli) is a growing mass of unorganized plant parenchyma cells. In living plants, callus cells are those cells that cover a plant wound. In biological research and biotechnology callus formation is induced from plant tissue samples (explants) after surface sterilization and plating onto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciform
Cruciform is a term for physical manifestations resembling a common cross or Christian cross. The label can be extended to architectural shapes, biology, art, and design. Cruciform architectural plan Christian churches are commonly described as having a cruciform architecture. In Early Christian, Byzantine and other...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSD
GSD may refer to: Places Garsdale railway station, England (GB CRS code) Georgia School for the Deaf, Cave Spring, Georgia, United States Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US Science and technology Biology and medicine Genetic significant dose German shepherd dog Global ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalking
Firewalking is the act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones. It has been practiced by many people and cultures in many parts of the world, with the earliest known reference dating from Iron Age India . It is often used as a rite of passage, as a test of strength and courage, and in religion as a test ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio%20Garavito%20Armero
Julio Garavito Armero (January 5, 1865 – March 11, 1920) was a Colombian astronomer. Life Born in Bogotá, he was a child prodigy in science and mathematics. He obtained his degrees as mathematician and civil engineer in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National university of Colombia). In 1892, he worked as the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed%20convex%20function
In mathematics, a function is said to be closed if for each , the sublevel set is a closed set. Equivalently, if the epigraph defined by is closed, then the function is closed. This definition is valid for any function, but most used for convex functions. A proper convex function is closed if and only if it is l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartonella%20henselae
Bartonella henselae, formerly Rochalimæa henselae, is a bacterium that is the causative agent of cat-scratch disease (bartonellosis). Bartonella henselae is a member of the genus Bartonella, one of the most common types of bacteria in the world. The specific name henselae honors Diane Marie Hensel (b. 1953), a clinica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giemsa%20stain
Giemsa stain (), named after German chemist and bacteriologist Gustav Giemsa, is a nucleic acid stain used in cytogenetics and for the histopathological diagnosis of malaria and other parasites. Uses It is specific for the phosphate groups of DNA and attaches itself to regions of DNA where there are high amounts of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki%E2%80%93Witt%20theorem
In mathematics, the Bourbaki–Witt theorem in order theory, named after Nicolas Bourbaki and Ernst Witt, is a basic fixed point theorem for partially ordered sets. It states that if X is a non-empty chain complete poset, and such that for all then f has a fixed point. Such a function f is called inflationary or pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20theorem
In mathematics, a fixed-point theorem is a result saying that a function F will have at least one fixed point (a point x for which F(x) = x), under some conditions on F that can be stated in general terms. In mathematical analysis The Banach fixed-point theorem (1922) gives a general criterion guaranteeing that, if i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-complete%20partial%20order
In mathematics, specifically order theory, a partially ordered set is chain-complete if every chain in it has a least upper bound. It is ω-complete when every increasing sequence of elements (a type of countable chain) has a least upper bound; the same notion can be extended to other cardinalities of chains. Examples ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20%28computer%20science%29
A branch is an instruction in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate from its default behavior of executing instructions in order. Branch (or branching, branched) may also refer to the act of switching execution to a different instruction seque...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCA
JCA may refer to: Computing Java Cryptography Architecture Java EE Connector Architecture, for connecting application servers and enterprise information systems (EIS) Military Joint capability areas, US Department of Defense listing of military capabilities Joint Cargo Aircraft, US Army and Air Force designatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newmark-beta%20method
The Newmark-beta method is a method of numerical integration used to solve certain differential equations. It is widely used in numerical evaluation of the dynamic response of structures and solids such as in finite element analysis to model dynamic systems. The method is named after Nathan M. Newmark, former Profess...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Pinkerton
Mike "Pink" Pinkerton is an American software engineer who is known for his work on the Mozilla browsers. He lectures on Development of Open Source Software at George Washington University. Pinkerton studied at University of California, San Diego where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science, then at Georgia Inst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volterra%20%28disambiguation%29
Volterra is a town in Italy. Volterra may also refer: People Aaron Ḥai Volterra (), Italian poet and rabbi Daniele da Volterra (1509–1566), Italian painter Francesco da Volterra, Italian painter Vito Volterra (1860–1940), Italian mathematician Mathematics Lotka–Volterra equations, also known as the predator–pre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio%20Club
The Ratio Club was a small British informal dining club from 1949 to 1958 of young psychiatrists, psychologists, physiologists, mathematicians and engineers who met to discuss issues in cybernetics. History The idea of the club arose from a symposium on animal behaviour held in July 1949 by the Society of Experimental...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Barnsley
Michael Fielding Barnsley (born 1946) is a British mathematician, researcher and an entrepreneur who has worked on fractal compression; he holds several patents on the technology. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972 and BA in mathematics from Oxford in 1968. In 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley%20Rogers%20Jr.
Hartley Rogers Jr. (July 6, 1926 – July 17, 2015) was an American mathematician who worked in computability theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Born in 1926 in Buffalo, New York, he studied under Alonzo Church at Princeton, and received his ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Brooke%20O%27Shaughnessy
Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (from 1861 as William O'Shaughnessy Brooke) MD FRS (October 1809, in Limerick, Ireland – 8 January 1889, in Southsea, England) was an Irish physician famous for his wide-ranging scientific work in pharmacology, chemistry, and inventions related to telegraphy and its use in India. His m...