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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplee%27s%20paradox | In relativistic physics, Supplee's paradox (also called the submarine paradox) is a physical paradox that arises when considering the buoyant force exerted on a relativistic bullet (or in a submarine) immersed in a fluid subject to an ambient gravitational field. If a bullet has neutral buoyancy when it is at rest in a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20cybernetics | Computational cybernetics is the integration of cybernetics and computational intelligence techniques. Though the term Cybernetics entered the technical lexicon in the 1940s and 1950s, it was first used informally as a popular noun in the 1960s, when it became associated with computers, robotics, Artificial Intelligenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20H.%20Moore | Eliakim Hastings Moore (; January 26, 1862 – December 30, 1932), usually cited as E. H. Moore or E. Hastings Moore, was an American mathematician.
Life
Moore, the son of a Methodist minister and grandson of US Congressman Eliakim H. Moore, discovered mathematics through a summer job at the Cincinnati Observatory while... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20geneticists | This is a list of people who have made notable contributions to genetics. The growth and development of genetics represents the work of many people. This list of geneticists is therefore by no means complete. Contributors of great distinction to genetics are not yet on the list.
A
Dagfinn Aarskog (1928–2014), Norw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplet%20state | In quantum mechanics, a triplet state, or spin triplet, is the quantum state of an object such as an electron, atom, or molecule, having a quantum spin S = 1. It has three allowed values of the spin's projection along a given axis mS = −1, 0, or +1, giving the name "triplet".
Spin, in the context of quantum mechanics,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelasticity | In materials science, photoelasticity describes changes in the optical properties of a material under mechanical deformation. It is a property of all dielectric media and is often used to experimentally determine the stress distribution in a material.
History
The photoelastic phenomenon was first discovered by the Sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20intermediate | In chemistry, a reactive intermediate or an intermediate is a short-lived, high-energy, highly reactive molecule. When generated in a chemical reaction, it will quickly convert into a more stable molecule. Only in exceptional cases can these compounds be isolated and stored, e.g. low temperatures, matrix isolation. Whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage%20effect | In chemistry, the cage effect (also known as geminate recombination) describes how the properties of a molecule are affected by its surroundings. First introduced by James Franck and Eugene Rabinowitch in 1934, the cage effect suggests that instead of acting as an individual particle, molecules in solvent are more accu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20tree | In computer science, an interval tree is a tree data structure to hold intervals. Specifically, it allows one to efficiently find all intervals that overlap with any given interval or point. It is often used for windowing queries, for instance, to find all roads on a computerized map inside a rectangular viewport, or t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20McRae | Maria McRae (born c. 1966 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a lawyer and politician. She represented the River Ward on Ottawa City Council, covering some of the city's southern suburbs. Born in Sudbury, Ontario McRae has an undergraduate degree in biology and a law degree from the University of Western Ontario. She moved to O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univalent%20function | In mathematics, in the branch of complex analysis, a holomorphic function on an open subset of the complex plane is called univalent if it is injective.
Examples
The function is univalent in the open unit disc, as implies that . As the second factor is non-zero in the open unit disc, must be injective.
Basic prop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity%20anomaly | In theoretical physics a quantum field theory is said to have a parity anomaly if its classical action is invariant under a change of parity of the universe, but the quantum theory is not invariant.
This kind of anomaly can occur in odd-dimensional gauge theories with fermions whose gauge groups have odd dual Coxeter ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartry%20Field | Hartry H. Field (born November 30, 1946) is an American philosopher. He is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University; he is a notable contributor to philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.
Early life and education
Hartry Hamlin Field was born on November 30, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCE | MSCE can mean:
Master of Science in Civil Engineering; see Civil engineering
Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology
Master of Science in Communications Engineering; see Telecommunications engineering
Master of Science in Computer Engineering; see Computer Engineering
Mobility and Supply Chain Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%20da%20Costa | Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa (born 16 September 1929 in Curitiba, Brazil) is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He studied engineering and mathematics at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba and the title of his 1961 Ph.D. dissertation was Topological spaces and continuous functions.
Wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercellular%20adhesion%20molecule | In molecular biology, intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAMs) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) are part of the immunoglobulin superfamily. They are important in inflammation, immune responses and in intracellular signalling events. The ICAM family consists of five members, designated ICAM-1 to ICAM-5. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20vector%20bundle | In mathematics, a complex vector bundle is a vector bundle whose fibers are complex vector spaces.
Any complex vector bundle can be viewed as a real vector bundle through the restriction of scalars. Conversely, any real vector bundle E can be promoted to a complex vector bundle, the complexification
whose fibers are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20National%20Medal%20of%20Science%20laureates | The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the following six fields: behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsymmetric%20gravitational%20theory | In theoretical physics, the nonsymmetric gravitational theory (NGT) of John Moffat is a classical theory of gravitation that tries to explain the observation of the flat rotation curves of galaxies.
In general relativity, the gravitational field is characterized by a symmetric rank-2 tensor, the metric tensor. The pos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20Selman | Bart Selman is a Dutch-American professor of computer science at Cornell University. He has previously worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is also co-founder and principal investigator of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Berkeley artificia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ochsenfeld | Robert Ochsenfeld (18 May 1901 – 5 December 1993) was a German physicist. In 1933 he discovered together with Walther Meissner the Meisner-Ochsenfeld effect.
Born in Helberhausen, Germany, Ochsenfeld studied physics at the Philipps University of Marburg. The subject of his PhD was the study of ferromagnetism. In 1932-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLG | The acronym OLG may refer to:
Oberlandesgericht, a higher regional court of appeals in Germany
Online gaming
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, a Canadian provincial government agency which operates lottery games and casinos.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Overlapping gene in genomes
Overlapping generations in popul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrene | In chemistry, a nitrene or imene () is the nitrogen analogue of a carbene. The nitrogen atom is uncharged and univalent, so it has only 6 electrons in its valence level—two covalent bonded and four non-bonded electrons. It is therefore considered an electrophile due to the unsatisfied octet. A nitrene is a reactive int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20structure | In mathematics, a smooth structure on a manifold allows for an unambiguous notion of smooth function. In particular, a smooth structure allows one to perform mathematical analysis on the manifold.
Definition
A smooth structure on a manifold is a collection of smoothly equivalent smooth atlases. Here, a smooth atlas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darboux%27s%20theorem | In differential geometry, a field in mathematics, Darboux's theorem is a theorem providing a normal form for special classes of differential 1-forms, partially generalizing the Frobenius integration theorem. It is named after Jean Gaston Darboux who established it as the solution of the Pfaff problem.
It is a foundati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactification%20%28physics%29 | In theoretical physics, compactification means changing a theory with respect to one of its space-time dimensions. Instead of having a theory with this dimension being infinite, one changes the theory so that this dimension has a finite length, and may also be periodic.
Compactification plays an important part in ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactification | Compactification may refer to:
Compactification (mathematics), making a topological space compact
Compactification (physics), the "curling up" of extra dimensions in string theory
See also
Compaction (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20norm | In mathematics, a matrix norm is a vector norm in a vector space whose elements (vectors) are matrices (of given dimensions).
Preliminaries
Given a field of either real or complex numbers, let be the -vector space of matrices with rows and columns and entries in the field . A matrix norm is a norm on .
This ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20response | In signal processing, phase response is the relationship between the phase of a sinusoidal input and the output signal passing through any device that accepts input and produces an output signal, such as an amplifier or a filter.
Amplifiers, filters, and other devices are often categorized by their amplitude and/or ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20coulometer | In electrochemistry, a mercury coulometer is an analytical instrument which uses mercury to perform coulometry (determining the amount of matter transformed in a chemical reaction by measuring electric current) on the following reaction:
These oxidation/reduction processes have 100% efficiency with the wide range of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20von%20Paula%20Schrank | Franz von Paula Schrank (21 August 1747, in Vornbach – 22 December 1835) was a German priest, botanist and entomologist.
Biography
He was ordained as a priest in Vienna in 1784, gaining his doctorate in theology two years later. In 1786 he was named chair of mathematics and physics at the lyceum in Amberg, and in 178... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20Ross%20Eckler%20Jr. | Albert Ross Eckler Jr. (August 29, 1927 – December 9, 2016) was an American logologist, statistician, and author, the son of statistician A. Ross Eckler. He served in the US Army from 1946 – 1947. He received a BA from Swarthmore College with High Honors in 1950 and a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 195... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosocialism | Nanosocialism refers generally to a set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the research, development and use of nanotechnology.
Politics
Nanosocialism is a stance that favors participatory politics to guide state intervention in the effort to ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA%20problem | In cryptography, the RSA problem summarizes the task of performing an RSA private-key operation given only the public key. The RSA algorithm raises a message to an exponent, modulo a composite number N whose factors are not known. Thus, the task can be neatly described as finding the eth roots of an arbitrary number, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRP | PRP may refer to:
Places
People's Republic of Poland, 1952-1990
Pleasure Ridge Park, Louisville, in Kentucky, United States
Preston Park railway station, in Sussex, England
Medicine and biology
Panretinal photocoagulation, a treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Penicillin-resistant pneumococci, a Str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahlund%20effect | In population genetics, the Wahlund effect is a reduction of heterozygosity (that is when an organism has two different alleles at a locus) in a population caused by subpopulation structure. Namely, if two or more subpopulations are in a Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium but have different allele frequencies, the overall hete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave%20Mal%C3%A9cot | Gustave Malécot (28 December 1911 – November 1998) was a French mathematician whose work on heredity had a strong influence on population genetics.
Biography
Malécot grew up in L'Horme, a small village near St. Étienne in the Loire département, the son of a mine engineer.
In 1935, Malécot obtained a degree in mathem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Wijngaarden%20grammar | In computer science, a Van Wijngaarden grammar (also vW-grammar or W-grammar) is a formalism for defining formal languages. The name derives from the formalism invented by Adriaan van Wijngaarden
for the purpose of defining the ALGOL 68 programming language.
The resulting specification remains its most notable applicat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20trap | In chemistry, a chemical trap is a chemical compound that is used to detect unstable compounds. The method relies on efficiency of bimolecular reactions with reagents to produce a more easily characterize trapped product. In some cases, the trapping agent is used in large excess.
Case studies
Cyclobutadiene
A famous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Cain | Herman Cain (December 13, 1945July 30, 2020) was an American businessman and Tea Party movement activist in the Republican Party. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Cain grew up in Georgia and graduated from Morehouse College with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He then earned a master's degree in computer science at Purd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotype%20frequency | Genetic variation in populations can be analyzed and quantified by the frequency of alleles. Two fundamental calculations are central to population genetics: allele frequencies and genotype frequencies. Genotype frequency in a population is the number of individuals with a given genotype divided by the total number of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgroup%20series | In mathematics, specifically group theory, a subgroup series of a group is a chain of subgroups:
where is the trivial subgroup. Subgroup series can simplify the study of a group to the study of simpler subgroups and their relations, and several subgroup series can be invariantly defined and are important invariants ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoruler | A nanoruler is a ruler of tiny proportions, made of a silicon crystal lattice structure. Since it can accurately measure fractions of nanometers, it could help standardize the future nanotechnology industry. Since the characteristics of silicon are well understood, the distance between one crystal lattice line to anoth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placement%20exam | A placement exam or placement test is a test designed to evaluate a person's preexisting knowledge of a subject and thus determine the level most suitable for the person to begin coursework on that subject.
In many countries, including the United States, it is not unusual for students to take a placement exam in a sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchling | In oviparous biology, a hatchling is a newly hatched fish, amphibian, reptile, or bird. A group of mammals called monotremes lay eggs, and their young are hatchlings as well.
Fish
Fish hatchlings generally do not receive parental care, similar to reptiles. Like reptiles, fish hatchlings can be affected by xenobiotic c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather | In physics, a breather is a nonlinear wave in which energy concentrates in a localized and oscillatory fashion. This contradicts with the expectations derived from the corresponding linear system for infinitesimal amplitudes, which tends towards an even distribution of initially localized energy.
A discrete breather ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Schwery | Henri Schwery (14 June 1932 – 7 January 2021) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Sion from 1977 to 1995. He was raised to the rank of cardinal in 1991.
Early life and ordination
Born in St-Léonard, Valais, Schwery studied mathematics, theoretical physics, Catholic theology, and philosophy in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Xiaoyun | Wang Xiaoyun (; born 1966) is a Chinese cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and System Science of Shandong University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Early life and education
Wang was born in Zhucheng, Shandong Province. She ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdal | Abdāl () lit: substitutes, but which can also mean "generous" [karīm] and "noble" [sharīf]) is a term used in Islamic metaphysics and Islamic mysticism, both Sunni and Shiite, to refer to a particularly important group of God's saints. In the tradition of Sunni Islam in particular, the concept attained an especially im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20cubic | In mathematics, a twisted cubic is a smooth, rational curve C of degree three in projective 3-space P3. It is a fundamental example of a skew curve. It is essentially unique, up to projective transformation (the twisted cubic, therefore). In algebraic geometry, the twisted cubic is a simple example of a projective vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20size | In population genetics and population ecology, population size (usually denoted N) is a countable quantity representing the number of individual organisms in a population. Population size is directly associated with amount of genetic drift, and is the underlying cause of effects like population bottlenecks and the foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injective%20sheaf | In mathematics, injective sheaves of abelian groups are used to construct the resolutions needed to define sheaf cohomology (and other derived functors, such as sheaf Ext).
There is a further group of related concepts applied to sheaves: flabby (flasque in French), fine, soft (mou in French), acyclic. In the history o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire%20rods | Cuisenaire rods are mathematics learning aids for students that provide an interactive, hands-on way to explore mathematics and learn mathematical concepts, such as the four basic arithmetical operations, working with fractions and finding divisors. In the early 1950s, Caleb Gattegno popularised this set of coloured nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20complex%20structure | In mathematics, a complex structure on a real vector space V is an automorphism of V that squares to the minus identity, −I. Such a structure on V allows one to define multiplication by complex scalars in a canonical fashion so as to regard V as a complex vector space.
Every complex vector space can be equipped with a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/136%20%28number%29 | 136 (one hundred [and] thirty-six) is the natural number following 135 and preceding 137.
In mathematics
136 is itself a factor of the Eddington number. With a total of 8 divisors, 8 among them, 136 is a refactorable number. It is a composite number.
136 is a centered triangular number and a centered nonagonal number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/173%20%28number%29 | 173 (one hundred [and] seventy-three) is the natural number following 172 and preceding 174.
In mathematics
173 is:
an odd number.
a deficient number.
an odious number.
a balanced prime.
an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part.
a Sophie Germain prime.
an inconsummate number.
the sum of 2 squares: 22 + 132.
the sum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20viable%20population | Minimum viable population (MVP) is a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild. This term is commonly used in the fields of biology, ecology, and conservation biology. MVP refers to the smallest possible size at which a biological population can exist without facing extinction fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-based | Carbon-based may refer to:
Biology
based on Carbon
Carbon-based life
Carbon chauvinism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20G.%20W.%20H.%20Beeger | Nicolaas George Wijnand Henri Beeger (1884, in Utrecht – 1965, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch mathematician. His 1916 doctorate was on Dirichlet series. He worked for most of his life as a teacher, working on mathematics papers in his spare evenings. After his retirement as a teacher at 65, he began corresponding with many ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy%20of%20biology | The philosophy of biology is a subfield of philosophy of science, which deals with epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences. Although philosophers of science and philosophers generally have long been interested in biology (e.g., Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant), philoso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption%20band | In quantum mechanics, an absorption band is a range of wavelengths, frequencies or energies in the electromagnetic spectrum that are characteristic of a particular transition from initial to final state in a substance.
According to quantum mechanics, atoms and molecules can only hold certain defined quantities of ener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Horsley | Samuel Horsley (15 September 1733 – 4 October 1806) was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1793. He was also well versed in physics and mathematics, on which he wrote a number of papers and thus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767; and secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Foundation%20Ireland | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI; ) is the statutory body in Ireland with responsibility for funding oriented basic and applied research in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with a strategic focus. The agency was established in 2003 under the Industrial Development (Science Foundation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Perlin | Kenneth H. Perlin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, founding director of the Media Research Lab at NYU, director of the Future Reality Lab at NYU, and the Director of the Games for Learning Institute. He holds a BA. degree in Theoretical Mathematics from Harvard University (7/... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMS | CAMS or cams may refer to:
Organizations
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
California Academy of Mathematics and Science, a high school in Carson, California, US
Calexico Mission School, a Seventh-day Adventist Church school, California, US
Center for Advanced Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Chantiers A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamfer | A chamfer or is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Sometimes defined as a form of bevel, it is often created at a 45° angle between two adjoining right-angled faces.
Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, furniture, concrete formwork, mirrors, and to facilitate assembly of many mecha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%20University%20College%20of%20Engineering | The College of Engineering is a division of Cornell University that was founded in 1870 as the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts. It is one of four private undergraduate colleges at Cornell that are not statutory colleges.
It currently grants bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in a varie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs | Gibbs or GIBBS is a surname and acronym. It may refer to:
People
Gibbs (surname)
Places
Gibbs (crater), on the Moon
Gibbs, Missouri, US
Gibbs, Tennessee, US
Gibbs Island (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica
2937 Gibbs, an asteroid
Science
Mathematics and statistics
Gibbs phenomenon
Gibbs' inequality
Gibbs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locant | In the nomenclature of organic chemistry, a locant is a term to indicate the position of a functional group or substituent within a molecule.
Numeric locants
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommends the use of numeric prefixes to indicate the position of substituents, generally by ide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Finetti%20diagram | A de Finetti diagram is a ternary plot used in population genetics. It is named after the Italian statistician Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985) and is used to graph the genotype frequencies of populations, where there are two alleles and the population is diploid. It is based on an equilateral triangle, and Viviani's theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyol | In organic chemistry, a polyol is an organic compound containing multiple hydroxyl groups (). The term "polyol" can have slightly different meanings depending on whether it is used in food science or polymer chemistry. Polyols containing two, three and four hydroxyl groups are diols, triols, and tetrols, respectively.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse%20on%20Metaphysics | The Discourse on Metaphysics (, 1686) is a short treatise by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in which he develops a philosophy concerning physical substance, motion and resistance of bodies, and God's role within the universe. It is one of the few texts presenting in a consistent form the earlier philosophy of Leibniz.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Basov | Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Russian Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.
Early l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20neuroscience | Evolutionary neuroscience is the scientific study of the evolution of nervous systems. Evolutionary neuroscientists investigate the evolution and natural history of nervous system structure, functions and emergent properties. The field draws on concepts and findings from both neuroscience and evolutionary biology. His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marston%20Bates | Marston Bates (July 23, 1906 – April 3, 1974) was an American zoologist and environmental author. Bates' studies on mosquitoes contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in northern South America.
Born in Michigan, Bates received a BS in biology from the University of Florida in 1927. From 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextualization | Contextualization may refer to:
Contextualization (Bible translation), the process of contextualising the biblical message as perceived in the missionary mandate originated by Jesus
Contextualization (computer science), an initialization phase setting or overriding properties having unknown or default values at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%20Punnett | Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS (; 20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967) was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotype... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20knot | In chemistry, a molecular knot is a mechanically interlocked molecular architecture that is analogous to a macroscopic knot. Naturally-forming molecular knots are found in organic molecules like DNA, RNA, and proteins. It is not certain that naturally occurring knots are evolutionarily advantageous to nucleic acids or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermolecule | The term supermolecule (or supramolecule) was introduced by Karl Lothar Wolf et al. (Übermoleküle) in 1937 to describe hydrogen-bonded acetic acid dimers. The study of non-covalent association of complexes of molecules has since developed into the field of supramolecular chemistry. The term supermolecule is sometimes u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20genetics | Conservation genetics is an interdisciplinary subfield of population genetics that aims to understand the dynamics of genes in a population for the purpose of natural resource management and extinction prevention. Researchers involved in conservation genetics come from a variety of fields including population genetics,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Lesk | Michael E. Lesk (born 1945) is an American computer scientist.
Biography
In the 1960s, Michael Lesk worked for the SMART Information Retrieval System project, wrote much of its retrieval code and did many of the retrieval experiments, as well as obtaining a BA degree in Physics and Chemistry from Harvard College in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-sectional%20study | In medical research, social science, and biology, a cross-sectional study (also known as a cross-sectional analysis, transverse study, prevalence study) is a type of observational study that analyzes data from a population, or a representative subset, at a specific point in time—that is, cross-sectional data.
In econo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20B.%20Provine | William Ball Provine (February 19, 1942 – September 1, 2015) was an American historian of science and of evolutionary biology and population genetics. He was the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor at Cornell University and was a professor in the Departments of History, Science and Technolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRN | PRN may refer to:
Computing
PRN:, a printer device name in DOS
Pseudorandom noise, in cryptography
Medicine
Pertactin (PRN), a virulent factor of the bacterium Bordetella pertussis
Pro re nata (P.R.N.), prescription jargon
PRN Forum, a precursor to the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Politics
Nationa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipodil | Hipodil ( ) was a Bulgarian rock band, founded in the late 1980s in Sofia by four classmates from the local Mathematics High School.
Hipodil's popularity was based in large on their aggressive, sarcastic, sometimes vulgar and explicit but yet humorous lyrics. Because of that Hipodil were known as a "scandalous and re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Di%20Giorgio | Frank Di Giorgio ( , ) is a Canadian former politician. He sat on Toronto City Council and represented Ward 12 York South—Weston from 2000 to 2018. Prior to the amalgamation of Toronto, Di Giorgio was a member of the North York City Council from 1985 to 1997, representing Ward 4.
Background
With a mathematics degree f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASMS | ASMS may stand for:
American Society for Mass Spectrometry, a professional society, as well as the society's annual meeting
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, a New Zealand trade union.
Australian Science and Mathematics School on the campus of Flinders... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Coifman | Ronald Raphael Coifman is the Sterling professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata.
Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the National Acad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLP | FLP may refer to:
Computer science
FLP impossibility proof in computer science
Organizations
Family Limited Partnership, holding companies
Forever Living Products, a US MLM company
Politics
Farmer–Labor Party, a former US party
Fatherland Party (Norway), a former party (Norwegian: Fedrelandspartiet)
Fiji Labou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Farnam | Henry Farnam (November 9, 1803 – October 4, 1883) was an American philanthropist and railroad president.
Biography
He was born in Scipio, New York, and grew up working on his father's farm. By his teenage years, he had begun studying mathematics on his own and in 1820 he gained employment initially as a camp cook on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20voice | Secure voice (alternatively secure speech or ciphony) is a term in cryptography for the encryption of voice communication over a range of communication types such as radio, telephone or IP.
History
The implementation of voice encryption dates back to World War II when secure communication was paramount to the US arme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20bond | In chemistry, delta bonds (δ bonds) are covalent chemical bonds, where four lobes of one involved atomic orbital overlap four lobes of the other involved atomic orbital. This overlap leads to the formation of a bonding molecular orbital with two nodal planes which contain the internuclear axis and go through both atoms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Crighton | David George Crighton, FRS (15 November 1942 – 12 April 2000) was a British mathematician and physicist.
Life
Crighton was born in Llandudno, North Wales, where his mother, Violet Grace Garrison, had been sent because of the bombing of London during the Second World War. He did not become interested in mathematics unt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devarda%27s%20alloy | Devarda's alloy (CAS # 8049-11-4) is an alloy of aluminium (44% – 46%), copper (49% – 51%) and zinc (4% – 6%).
Devarda's alloy is used as reducing agent in analytical chemistry for the determination of nitrates after their reduction to ammonia under alkaline conditions. It is named for Italian chemist Arturo Devarda (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20A.%20Muller | Richard A. Muller (born January 6, 1944) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In early 2010, Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller founded the group Berkeley Earth, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Courtois | Nicolas Tadeusz Courtois (born 14 November 1971) is a cryptographer and senior lecturer in computer science at University College London.
Courtois was one of the co-authors of both the XSL attack against block ciphers, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard, and the XL system for solving systems of algebraic equatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles%20and%20Standards%20for%20School%20Mathematics | Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (PSSM) are guidelines produced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in 2000, setting forth recommendations for mathematics educators. They form a national vision for preschool through twelfth grade mathematics education in the US and Canada. It is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Council%20of%20Teachers%20of%20Mathematics | Founded in 1920, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is a professional organization for schoolteachers of mathematics in the United States. One of its goals is to improve the standards of mathematics in education. NCTM holds annual national and regional conferences for teachers and publishes five jou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyinstantiation | Polyinstantiation in computer science is the concept of type (class, database row or otherwise) being instantiated into multiple independent instances (objects, copies). It may also indicate, such as in the case of database polyinstantiation, that two different instances have the same name (identifier, primary key).
O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proband | In medical genetics and other medical fields, a proband, proposito (male proband), or proposita (female proband) is a particular subject (human or other animal) being studied or reported on. On pedigrees, the proband is noted with a square (male) or circle (female) shaded accordingly. Denoting the proband is important,... |
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