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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational%20ecology | Organizational ecology (also organizational demography and the population ecology of organizations) is a theoretical and empirical approach in the social sciences that is considered a sub-field of organizational studies. Organizational ecology utilizes insights from biology, economics, and sociology, and employs stati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20ecology | Population ecology is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment, such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration.
The discipline is important in conservation biology, especially in the development of population vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Stapp | Henry Pierce Stapp (born March 23, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American mathematical physicist, known for his work in quantum mechanics, particularly the development of axiomatic S-matrix theory, the proofs of strong nonlocality properties, and the place of free will in the "orthodox" quantum mechanics of John von N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse%E2%80%93Weil%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the Hasse–Weil zeta function attached to an algebraic variety V defined over an algebraic number field K is a meromorphic function on the complex plane defined in terms of the number of points on the variety after reducing modulo each prime number p. It is a global L-function defined as an Euler product... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoisomerization | In chemistry, photoisomerization is a form of isomerization induced by photoexcitation. Both reversible and irreversible photoisomerizations are known for photoswitchable compounds. The term "photoisomerization" usually, however, refers to a reversible process.
Applications
Photoisomerization of the compound retinal i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetric%20quantum%20mechanics | In theoretical physics, supersymmetric quantum mechanics is an area of research where supersymmetry are applied to the simpler setting of plain quantum mechanics, rather than quantum field theory. Supersymmetric quantum mechanics has found applications outside of high-energy physics, such as providing new methods to so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20mathematicians | The chronology of Indian mathematicians spans from the Indus Valley civilisation and the Vedas to Modern India.
Indian mathematicians have made a number of contributions to mathematics that have significantly influenced scientists and mathematicians in the modern era. Hindu-Arabic numerals predominantly used today and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Lewis%20%28musician%29 | Michael Richard Lewis (born 17 August 1977) is a Welsh musician. He is best known as the former rhythm guitarist for the Welsh alternative rock band Lostprophets, Welsh/American alternative rock band No Devotion and hardcore punk band Public Disturbance.
Early life
Lewis studied civil engineering for a year before tur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virahanka | Virahanka (Devanagari: विरहाङ्क) was an Indian prosodist who is also known for his work on mathematics. He may have lived in the 6th century, but it is also possible that he worked as late as the 8th century.
His work on prosody builds on the Chhanda-sutras of Pingala (4th century BCE), and was the basis for a 12th-c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81v%C4%ABra%20%28mathematician%29 | Mahāvīra (or Mahaviracharya, "Mahavira the Teacher") was a 9th-century Jain mathematician possibly born in Mysore, in India. He authored Gaṇita-sāra-saṅgraha (Ganita Sara Sangraha) or the Compendium on the gist of Mathematics in 850 AD. He was patronised by the Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsha. He separated astrology from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype | Isotype can refer to:
Isotype (biology), a duplicate of the holotype of a species
Isotype (crystallography), a synonym for isomorph
Isotype (immunology), an antibody class according to its Fc region
Isotype (picture language), a method of showing social, technological, biological and historical connections in pic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Va%E1%B9%ADe%C5%9Bvara | Vaṭeśvara ( ) (born 880), was a tenth-century Indian mathematician from Kashmir who presented several trigonometric identities. He was the author (at the age of 24) of Vaṭeśvara-siddhānta written in 904 AD, a treatise focusing on astronomy and applied mathematics.The work criticized Brahmagupta and defended Aryabhatta ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameshvara%20Nambudiri | Vatasseri Parameshvara Nambudiri ( 1380–1460) was a major Indian mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama. He was also an astrologer. Parameshvara was a proponent of observational astronomy in medieval India and he himself had made a series of ec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahendra%20S%C5%ABri | Mahendra Sūri (c. 1340 – 1400) is the 14th century Jain astronomer who wrote the Yantraraja, the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe. He was trained by Madana Sūri, and was teacher to Malayendu Sūri. Jainism had a strong influence on mathematics particularly in the last couple of centuries BC. By the time of Mahendr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana%20sutras | The (Sanskrit: बौधायन) are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily ritual, mathematics and is one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE. They belong to the Taittiriya branch of the Krishna Yajurveda school and are among the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef%20aquarium | A reef aquarium or reef tank is a marine aquarium that prominently displays live corals and other marine invertebrates as well as fish that play a role in maintaining the tropical coral reef environment. A reef aquarium requires appropriately intense lighting, turbulent water movement, and more stable water chemistry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Gershenfeld | Neil Adam Gershenfeld (born December 1, 1959) is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab. His research studies are predominantly focused in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered%20Mathematician | Chartered Mathematician (CMath) is a professional qualification in Mathematics awarded to professional practising mathematicians by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in the United Kingdom.
Chartered Mathematician is the IMA's highest professional qualification; achieving it is done through a rigo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeosis | In evolutionary developmental biology, homeosis is the transformation of one organ into another, arising from mutation in or misexpression of certain developmentally critical genes, specifically homeotic genes. In animals, these developmental genes specifically control the development of organs on their anteroposterior... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streak | Streak or streaking may refer to:
Streaking, running naked in a public place
Streaking or surfactant leaching in acrylic paints
Streaking (microbiology), a method of purifying micro-organisms
Streak (mineralogy), the color left by a mineral dragged across a rough surface
Streak (moth), in the family Geometridae
Streak ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Nalbandyan | Robert M. Nalbandyan (, 1937–2002) was an Armenian chemist, the co-discoverer of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin, a pioneer in the field of free radicals, and a noted and prolific writer on various subjects in the field of chemistry.
Born in Yerevan, Armenia and educated at Moscow State University in Moscow, Russi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakatos%20Award | The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted. The contribution must be in the form of a monograph, co-authored or single-authored, and published in English during the previous six years. The award is in memory of the influential Hungarian philosoph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext%20stealing | In cryptography, ciphertext stealing (CTS) is a general method of using a block cipher mode of operation that allows for processing of messages that are not evenly divisible into blocks without resulting in any expansion of the ciphertext, at the cost of slightly increased complexity.
General characteristics
Ciphertex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20%28knot%20theory%29 | In mathematical knot theory, a link is a collection of knots which do not intersect, but which may be linked (or knotted) together. A knot can be described as a link with one component. Links and knots are studied in a branch of mathematics called knot theory. Implicit in this definition is that there is a trivial refe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20data%20type | In computer science, the Boolean (sometimes shortened to Bool) is a data type that has one of two possible values (usually denoted true and false) which is intended to represent the two truth values of logic and Boolean algebra. It is named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logic in the mid 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potts%20model | In statistical mechanics, the Potts model, a generalization of the Ising model, is a model of interacting spins on a crystalline lattice. By studying the Potts model, one may gain insight into the behaviour of ferromagnets and certain other phenomena of solid-state physics. The strength of the Potts model is not so mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20J.%20Lang | Robert James Lang (born May 4, 1961) is an American physicist who is also one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world. He is known for his complex and elegant designs, most notably of insects and animals. He has studied the mathematics of origami and used computers to study the theories behind origam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzoylecgonine | Benzoylecgonine is the main metabolite of cocaine, formed by the liver and excreted in the urine. It is the compound tested for in most cocaine urine drug screens and in wastewater screenings for cocaine use.
Biochemistry and physiology
Chemically, benzoylecgonine is the benzoate ester of ecgonine. It is a primary met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Krishnaswami%20Ayyangar | A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892–1953) was an Indian mathematician. He received his M.A. in Mathematics at the age of 18 from Pachaiyappa's College, and subsequently taught mathematics there. In 1918, he joined the mathematics department of the University of Mysore and retired from there in 1947. He was born in a Tami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class%20function | In computer science, a programming language is said to have first-class functions if it treats functions as first-class citizens. This means the language supports passing functions as arguments to other functions, returning them as the values from other functions, and assigning them to variables or storing them in data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20kinase%20C | In cell biology, Protein kinase C, commonly abbreviated to PKC (EC 2.7.11.13), is a family of protein kinase enzymes that are involved in controlling the function of other proteins through the phosphorylation of hydroxyl groups of serine and threonine amino acid residues on these proteins, or a member of this family. P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer | Meyer may refer to:
People
Meyer (surname), listing people so named
Meyer (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name
Companies
Meyer Burger, a Swiss mechanical engineering company
Meyer Corporation
Meyer Sound Laboratories
Meyer Turku, a Finnish shipbuilding company
Behn Meyer, a German chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot%20group | In mathematics, a knot is an embedding of a circle into 3-dimensional Euclidean space. The knot group of a knot K is defined as the fundamental group of the knot complement of K in R3,
Other conventions consider knots to be embedded in the 3-sphere, in which case the knot group is the fundamental group of its compleme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Heath | Michael Heath may refer to:
Mike Heath (baseball) (born 1955), baseball player
Michael Heath (cartoonist) (born 1935), British strip cartoonist and illustrator
Michael Heath (computer scientist) (born 1946), computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing
Mike Heath (swimmer) (born 1964), former America... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromism | In chemistry, chromism is a process that induces a change, often reversible, in the colors of compounds. In most cases, chromism is based on a change in the electron states of molecules, especially the π- or d-electron state, so this phenomenon is induced by various external stimuli which can alter the electron density... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, the precision of a numerical quantity is a measure of the detail in which the quantity is expressed. This is usually measured in bits, but sometimes in decimal digits. It is related to precision in mathematics, which describes the number of digits that are used to express a value.
Some of the sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Lepied | Frédéric Lepied (born 1967) is a French computer engineer, and was the CTO of Mandriva until January 2006.
Biography
Born in 1967, Frédéric Lepied took an early interest in computer science and was educated at the Bréguet school in Noisy-le-Grand, France.
In 1999, he joined the Mandrakesoft Research and Development... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interhalogen | In chemistry, an interhalogen compound is a molecule which contains two or more different halogen atoms (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, or astatine) and no atoms of elements from any other group.
Most interhalogen compounds known are binary (composed of only two distinct elements). Their formulae are generally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford%20Jackson | Sanford Jackson was a Canadian biochemist.
Jackson graduated from the University of Toronto in chemical engineering and pathological chemistry. He was research biochemist and biochemist-in-chief at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children 1937–1974.
Jackson was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Clinical Che... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Davis | Raymond Davis may refer to:
Raymond Davis Jr. (1914–2006), American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate in physics
Ray Davis (American football) (born 1999), American football player
Ray Davis (musician) (1940–2005), member of The Parliaments, Parliament, Funkadelic, and The Temptations
Ray Davis (businessman), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenching | In materials science, quenching is the rapid cooling of a workpiece in water, oil, polymer, air, or other fluids to obtain certain material properties. A type of heat treating, quenching prevents undesired low-temperature processes, such as phase transformations, from occurring. It does this by reducing the window of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann%20machine | A Boltzmann machine (also called Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model with external field or stochastic Ising–Lenz–Little model) is a stochastic spin-glass model with an external field, i.e., a Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model, that is a stochastic Ising model. It is a statistical physics technique applied in the context of cogn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Simms | David John Simms (13 January 1933 – 24 June 2018) was an Indian-born Irish mathematician who was a Fellow Emeritus and former Associate Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin. Born in Sankeshwar, Mysore (the state now known as Karnataka), India, he specialized in differential geometry and geometric quantis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Carson%20College | Rachel Carson College is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Named in honor of conservationist Rachel Carson, it is on the west side of campus, north of Oakes College and southeast of Porter College. The current provost of the college is Professor Sue Carter, also a faculty member of UCSC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20formula | In combinatorial mathematics, the exponential formula (called the polymer expansion in physics) states that the exponential generating function for structures on finite sets is the exponential of the exponential generating function for connected structures.
The exponential formula is a power-series version of a special... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICR | ICR may refer to:
Biology
Idiopathic condylar resorption, a temporomandibular joint disorder
Immunological constant of rejection, Immunology concept relating to tissue rejection
Implanted cardiac resynchronization device, in cardiology
Imprinting Control Region, genetic imprinting
Electronics and physics
Inducta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline%20Barton | Jacqueline K. Barton (born May 7, 1952 New York City, NY), is an American chemist. She worked as a professor of chemistry at Hunter College (1980–82), and at Columbia University (1983–89) before joining the California Institute of Technology. In 1997 she became the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20knots%20and%20links | This article contains a list of mathematical knots and links. See also list of knots, list of geometric topology topics.
Knots
Prime knots
01 knot/Unknot - a simple un-knotted closed loop
31 knot/Trefoil knot - (2,3)-torus knot, the two loose ends of a common overhand knot joined together
41 knot/Figure-eight knot (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal | Toroidal describes something which resembles or relates to a torus or toroid:
Mathematics
Torus
Toroid, a surface of revolution which resembles a torus
Toroidal polyhedron
Toroidal coordinates, a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system
Toroidal and poloidal coordinates, directions relative to a torus of referen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagawa%20number | In mathematics, the Tamagawa number of a semisimple algebraic group defined over a global field is the measure of , where is the adele ring of . Tamagawa numbers were introduced by , and named after him by .
Tsuneo Tamagawa's observation was that, starting from an invariant differential form ω on , defined over , t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20matrix | In mathematics, particularly linear algebra, a zero matrix or null matrix is a matrix all of whose entries are zero. It also serves as the additive identity of the additive group of matrices, and is denoted by the symbol or followed by subscripts corresponding to the dimension of the matrix as the context sees fit. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-transfer%20complex | In chemistry, a charge-transfer (CT) complex or electron-donor-acceptor complex describes a type of supramolecular assembly of two or more molecules or ions. The assembly consists of two molecules that self-attract through electrostatic forces, i.e., one has at least partial negative charge and the partner has partial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared%20Cohon | Jared Leigh Cohon (born October 7, 1947) served as the eighth president of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. he is a University Professor in the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering.
He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and MS and PhD degrees in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20blanket | In statistics and machine learning, when one wants to infer a random variable with a set of variables, usually a subset is enough, and other variables are useless. Such a subset that contains all the useful information is called a Markov blanket. If a Markov blanket is minimal, meaning that it cannot drop any variable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality%20%28mathematics%29 | In geometry, a figure is chiral (and said to have chirality) if it is not identical to its mirror image, or, more precisely, if it cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone. An object that is not chiral is said to be achiral.
A chiral object and its mirror image are said to be enantiomor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, a molecule or ion is called chiral () if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations, translations, and some conformational changes. This geometric property is called chirality (). The terms are derived from Ancient Greek (cheir) 'hand'; which is the canonical example of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality%20%28physics%29 | A chiral phenomenon is one that is not identical to its mirror image (see the article on mathematical chirality). The spin of a particle may be used to define a handedness, or helicity, for that particle, which, in the case of a massless particle, is the same as chirality. A symmetry transformation between the two is c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Sabatier%20%28chemist%29 | Prof Paul Sabatier FRS(For) HFRSE (; 5 November 1854 – 14 August 1941) was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard. Sabatier was honoured for his work improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals.
Educati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars%20%28M.%20C.%20Escher%29 | Stars is a wood engraving print created by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher in 1948, depicting two chameleons in a polyhedral cage floating through space.
The compound of three octahedra used for the central cage in Stars had been studied before in mathematics, and Escher likely learned of it from the book Vielecke und ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20level | Quantum level may refer to:
Energy level, a particle that is bound can only take on certain discrete values of energy, called energy levels
Quantum realm, also called the quantum scale, a physics term referring to scales where quantum mechanical effects become important |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheries%20science | Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines of limnology, oceanography, freshwater biology, marine biology, meteorology, conservation, ecology, population dynamics, economics, statistics, decision analysis, manag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-energy%20nuclear%20physics | High-energy nuclear physics studies the behavior of nuclear matter in energy regimes typical of high-energy physics. The primary focus of this field is the study of heavy-ion collisions, as compared to lighter atoms in other particle accelerators. At sufficient collision energies, these types of collisions are theoriz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Sejnowski | Terrence Joseph Sejnowski (born 13 August 1947) is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and is the director of the Crick-Jacobs center for theoretical and computational biology. He has performed pioneering research in neural ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biol | Biol may refer to:
Abbreviation for Biology
Biol, a commune of the Isère département, in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng%20Kang | Feng Kang (; September 9, 1920 – August 17, 1993) was a Chinese mathematician. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. After his death, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Feng Kang Prize in 1994 to reward young Chinese researchers who made outstanding contributions to comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P1 | P1, P01, P-1 or P.1 may refer to:
Computing, robotics, and, telecommunications
DSC-P1, a 2000 Sony Cyber-shot P series camera model
Sony Ericsson P1, a UIQ 3 smartphone
Packet One, the first company to launch WiMAX service in Southeast Asia
Peer 1, an Internet hosting provider
Honda P1, a 1993 Honda P series of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian%20principle | In quantum mechanics, the totalitarian principle states: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." Physicists including Murray Gell-Mann borrowed this expression, and its satirical reference to totalitarianism, from the popular culture of the early twentieth century.
The statement is in reference to a surprising feat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Delaney%20%28politician%29 | Bob Delaney (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was the Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Mississauga West and Mississauga—Streetsville.
Background
Delaney was born in Montreal, Quebec, and has a Bachelor of Science degree in physic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cold Spring Harbor can refer to:
Cold Spring Harbor (album), Billy Joel's first solo album, released in 1971
Cold Spring Harbor (novel), a 1986 novel by Richard Yates
Cold Spring Harbor, New York, a hamlet on Long Island
Cold Spring Harbor (LIRR station), a station on the Long Island Railroad
See also
Cold Spring Har... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20reading%20frame | In molecular biology, open reading frames (ORFs) are defined as spans of DNA sequence between the start and stop codons. Usually, this is considered within a studied region of a prokaryotic DNA sequence, where only one of the six possible reading frames will be "open" (the "reading", however, refers to the RNA produced... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological%20evolution | The term "technological evolution" captures explanations of technological change that draw on mechanisms from evolutionary biology. Evolutionary biology has one of its roots in the book “On the origin of species” by Charles Darwin. In the style of this catchphrase, technological evolution might describe the origin of n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable | In mathematical logic, the word definable may refer to:
A definable real number
A definable set
A definable integer sequence
A relation or function definable over a first order structure
A mathematical object or concept that is well-defined
Mathematics disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Neural%20Information%20Processing%20Systems | The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS and formerly NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. The conference is currently a double-track meeting (single-track until 2015) that includes invited talks as well as oral a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20of%20three-phase%20electric%20power | In electrical engineering, three-phase electric power systems have at least three conductors carrying alternating voltages that are offset in time by one-third of the period. A three-phase system may be arranged in delta (∆) or star (Y) (also denoted as wye in some areas, as symbolically it is similar to the letter 'Y'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido | Cupido may refer to:
Biology
Cupido (butterfly), a genus of butterflies
Biotodoma cupido, a species of cichlid
Tympanuchus cupido, the North American greater prairie chicken
Music
Cupido (group), a Spanish band that released the 2019 song "Autoestima"
Cupido (album), a 2023 album by Tini
"Cupido" (Tini song)
"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nobel%20laureates | The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Sykes | Bryan Clifford Sykes (9 September 1947 – 10 December 2020) was a British geneticist and science writer who was a Fellow of Wolfson College and Emeritus Professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford.
Sykes published the first report on retrieving DNA from ancient bone (Nature, 1989). He was involved in a numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Baars | Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, in Amsterdam) is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, CA., and is currently an Affiliated Fellow there.
He is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a theory of human cognitive architecture and consciousness. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mayow | John Mayow FRS (1641–1679) was a chemist, physician, and physiologist who is remembered today for conducting early research into respiration and the nature of air. Mayow worked in a field that is sometimes called pneumatic chemistry.
Life
There has been controversy over both the location and year of Mayow's birth, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Guthrie | Francis Guthrie (born 22 January 1831 in London; d. 19 October 1899 in Claremont, Cape Town) was a South African mathematician and botanist who first posed the Four Colour Problem in 1852. He studied mathematics under Augustus De Morgan, and botany under John Lindley at University College London. Guthrie obtained his B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silenes | In inorganic chemistry, silenes, or disilalkenes, are silicon compounds that contain double bonds. The parent molecule is disilene, .
Structure
The first transient disilene was reported in 1972 by D. N. Roark and Garry J. D. Peddle. Simple disilenes easily polymerize. To suppress this tendency, bulky substituents ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDiarmid%20Institute%20for%20Advanced%20Materials%20and%20Nanotechnology | The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (often simply called the MacDiarmid Institute) is a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) specialising in materials science and nanotechnology. It is hosted by Victoria University of Wellington, and is a collaboration between five universitie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Youxun | Wu Youxun (; 26 April 1897 – 30 November 1977), also known as Y. H. Woo, was a Chinese physicist. His courtesy name was Zhèngzhī ().
Biography
Wu graduated from the Department of Physics of Nanjing Higher Normal School (later renamed National Central University and Nanjing University), and was later associated with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20mathematics | In the foundations of mathematics, classical mathematics refers generally to the mainstream approach to mathematics, which is based on classical logic and ZFC set theory. It stands in contrast to other types of mathematics such as constructive mathematics or predicative mathematics. In practice, the most common non-c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20eddy%20simulation | Large eddy simulation (LES) is a mathematical model for turbulence used in computational fluid dynamics. It was initially proposed in 1963 by Joseph Smagorinsky to simulate atmospheric air currents, and first explored by Deardorff (1970). LES is currently applied in a wide variety of engineering applications, includin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20MacDiarmid | Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.
Early life and education
MacDiarmid was born in Masterton, New Zealand as one of five children – three brothers and two sisters. His family wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thigmotropism | In plant biology, thigmotropism is a directional growth movement which occurs as a mechanosensory response to a touch stimulus. Thigmotropism is typically found in twining plants and tendrils, however plant biologists have also found thigmotropic responses in flowering plants and fungi. This behavior occurs due to unil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%204-H | Georgia 4-H was founded in 1904 by G.C. Adams in Newton County, Georgia, United States, as the Girls Canning, and Boys Corn Clubs.
The Georgia 4-H Program is a branch of Georgia Cooperative Extension, which is part of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, and is funded by the Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Flory | Paul John Flory (June 19, 1910 – September 9, 1985) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a leading pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974 "for his fundamental achiev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCM | JCM may refer to:
Japan Collection of Microorganisms
James Clerk Maxwell
John Cougar Mellencamp
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Journal of Communications
AGM-169 Joint Common Missile
Jewish Children's Museum
Jackson Central-Merry High School, a public high school in Jackson, Tennessee
JunoCam, a camera on a planned s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdominance | Overdominance is a rare condition in genetics where the phenotype of the heterozygote lies outside the phenotypical range of both homozygous parents. Overdominance can also be described as heterozygote advantage regulated by a single genomic locus, wherein heterozygous individuals have a higher fitness than homozygous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change%20of%20basis | In mathematics, an ordered basis of a vector space of finite dimension allows representing uniquely any element of the vector space by a coordinate vector, which is a sequence of scalars called coordinates. If two different bases are considered, the coordinate vector that represents a vector on one basis is, in gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Campbell%20%28VC%29 | Kenneth Campbell, (21 April 1917 – 6 April 1941) was a British airman who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for an attack that damaged the German battlecruiser Gneisenau, moored in Brest, France, during the Second World War.
Early life
Kenneth Campbell was from Ayrshire and educated at Sedbergh School. He g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Werner | Alfred Werner (12 December 1866 – 15 November 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendroid | The word Dendroid derives from the Greek word "dendron" meaning ( "tree-like")
Dendroid may refer to:
Dendroid (topology), in mathematics
Dendroid (malware), Android malware
See also
Dendrite (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralism | Neutralism may refer to:
Biology
Neutral theory of molecular evolution
Politics
Neutral country
Nonalignment (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20Kok | Pieter Kok (born in June 1972) is a Dutch physicist and one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric optical lithography.
Kok was born in Friesland in the Netherlands. In 1997 he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory. In 2001, he received his PhD in physics from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESN | ESN may refer to:
Eastern Security Network, the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
Easton Airport (Maryland), United States
Echo state network in computer science
Edmonton Street News, a Canadian newspaper
Einstein summation notation, used in mathematical physics
Electronic serial number for mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Egyptian%20mathematics | Ancient Egyptian mathematics is the mathematics that was developed and used in Ancient Egypt 3000 to c. , from the Old Kingdom of Egypt until roughly the beginning of Hellenistic Egypt. The ancient Egyptians utilized a numeral system for counting and solving written mathematical problems, often involving multiplicatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping%20subproblems | In computer science, a problem is said to have overlapping subproblems if the problem can be broken down into subproblems which are reused several times or a recursive algorithm for the problem solves the same subproblem over and over rather than always generating new subproblems.
For example, the problem of computing... |
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