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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi%20function | Psi function can refer, in mathematics, to
the ordinal collapsing function
the Dedekind psi function
the Chebyshev function
the polygamma function or its special cases
the digamma function
the trigamma function
and in physics to
the quantum mechanical wave function. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20ecology | Molecular ecology is a field of evolutionary biology that is concerned with applying molecular population genetics, molecular phylogenetics, and more recently genomics to traditional ecological questions (e.g., species diagnosis, conservation and assessment of biodiversity, species-area relationships, and many question... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Harold%20Copp | Douglas Harold Copp (January 16, 1915 – March 17, 1998) was a Canadian scientist who discovered and named the hormone calcitonin, which is used in the treatment of bone disease.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1939 and his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Calif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state%20quantum%20system | In quantum mechanics, a two-state system (also known as a two-level system) is a quantum system that can exist in any quantum superposition of two independent (physically distinguishable) quantum states. The Hilbert space describing such a system is two-dimensional. Therefore, a complete basis spanning the space will c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20horizon | In physics, a Killing horizon is a geometrical construct used in general relativity and its generalizations to delineate spacetime boundaries without reference to the dynamic Einstein field equations. Mathematically a Killing horizon is a null hypersurface defined by the vanishing of the norm of a Killing vector field ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverson%20bracket | In mathematics, the Iverson bracket, named after Kenneth E. Iverson, is a notation that generalises the Kronecker delta, which is the Iverson bracket of the statement . It maps any statement to a function of the free variables in that statement. This function is defined to take the value 1 for the values of the variabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverson%20notation | Iverson notation can refer to:
APL (programming language)
Iverson bracket, in mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20angular%20momentum%20%28disambiguation%29 | Spin angular momentum is a concept in classical mechanics.
It may refer to:
Spin angular momentum of light, a property of electromagnetic waves
A type of quantum mechanics angular momentum operator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Tuttle | Russell Howard Tuttle (born August 18, 1939) is a distinguished primate morphologist, paleoanthropologist, and a four-field (linguistics, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology and biological anthropology) trained Anthropologist. He is currently an active Professor of Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, History of Sci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98jvind%20Winge | Øjvind Winge (May 19, 1886 – April 5, 1964) was a Danish biologist and a pioneer in yeast genetics.
Education
Winge was born in the city of Aarhus in Jutland, the mainland of Denmark. After completing secondary school he travelled to the University of Copenhagen to study law but found himself more suited to the biolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20shelf%20pump | In oceanic biogeochemistry, the continental shelf pump is proposed to operate in the shallow waters of the continental shelves, acting as a mechanism to transport carbon (as either dissolved or particulate material) from surface waters to the interior of the adjacent deep ocean.
Overview
Originally formulated by Tsuno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Adams | Jerry McKee Adams, FAA, FRS, FAHMS, FRSV (born 17 June 1940) is an Australian-American molecular biologist whose research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy, led him and his wife, Professor Suzanne Cory, to be the first two scientists to pioneer gene cloning techniques in Australia, and to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth%2C%20fifth%2C%20and%20sixth%20derivatives%20of%20position | In physics, the fourth, fifth and sixth derivatives of position are defined as derivatives of the position vector with respect to time – with the first, second, and third derivatives being velocity, acceleration, and jerk, respectively. The higher-order derivatives are less common than the first three, thus their names... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Goles | Eric Antonio Goles Chacc (born August 21, 1951) is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France. A professor at the University of Chile, he is known for his work on cellula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation%20theory%20%28quantum%20mechanics%29 | The term transformation theory refers to a procedure and a "picture" used by Paul Dirac in his early formulation of quantum theory, from around 1927.
This "transformation" idea refers to the changes a quantum state undergoes in the course of time, whereby its vector "moves" between "positions" or "orientations" in its... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Waismann | Friedrich Waismann (; 21 March 18964 November 1959) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the key theorists in logical positivism.
Biography
Born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Waismann was educated in mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Iohannis | Klaus Iohannis (, ; also spelled Johannis; born 13 June 1959), sometimes briefly referred to as KWI (i.e. his initials) in the Romanian press, is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former physics teacher who has been serving as the president of Romania since 2014. He became the president of the National Liberal Part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipotent | In mathematics, a unipotent element r of a ring R is one such that r − 1 is a nilpotent element; in other words, (r − 1)n is zero for some n.
In particular, a square matrix M is a unipotent matrix if and only if its characteristic polynomial P(t) is a power of t − 1. Thus all the eigenvalues of a unipotent matrix are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary%20Lu | Cary Lu (December 4, 1945 – September 23, 1997) was an American writer specialising in the Apple Macintosh platform.
Early life
Born in Qingdao, China, Lu arrived in the United States at the age of three and grew up in California. He studied physics at University of California, Berkeley, and eventually earned a Ph.D. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20term%20symbol | In molecular physics, the molecular term symbol is a shorthand expression of the group representation and angular momenta that characterize the state of a molecule, i.e. its electronic quantum state which is an eigenstate of the electronic molecular Hamiltonian. It is the equivalent of the term symbol for the atomic ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20devil | Sea devil or Sea Devil may refer to:
Biology
The manta ray, Manta birostris
Its relatives in the family Myliobatidae
Deep-sea fishes in the family Ceratiidae
The deep-sea fish black seadevil
Members of the genus Lophius
Marine vessels
USS Sea Devil, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
HMS Sea Devi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%20L%C3%A9onard%20Mathieu | Émile Léonard Mathieu (; 15 May 1835, in Metz – 19 October 1890, in Nancy) was a French mathematician. He is known for his work in group theory and mathematical physics. He has given his name to the Mathieu functions, Mathieu groups and Mathieu transformation. He authored a treatise of mathematical physics in 6 volumes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu%20function | In mathematics, Mathieu functions, sometimes called angular Mathieu functions, are solutions of Mathieu's differential equation
where are real-valued parameters. Since we may add to to change the sign of , it is a usual convention to set .
They were first introduced by Émile Léonard Mathieu, who encountered them w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zassenhaus%20group | In mathematics, a Zassenhaus group, named after Hans Zassenhaus, is a certain sort of doubly transitive permutation group very closely related to rank-1 groups of Lie type.
Definition
A Zassenhaus group is a permutation group G on a finite set X with the following three properties:
G is doubly transitive.
Non-triv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20McVoy | Larry McVoy (born 1962 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States) is the CEO of BitMover, the company that makes BitKeeper, a version control system that was used from February 2002 to early 2005 to manage the source code of the Linux kernel.
He earned BS and MS degrees in computer science in 1985 and 1987, respectivel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%20boundary%20condition | In mathematics, a Cauchy () boundary condition augments an ordinary differential equation or a partial differential equation with conditions that the solution must satisfy on the boundary; ideally so as to ensure that a unique solution exists. A Cauchy boundary condition specifies both the function value and normal der... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%20problem | A Cauchy problem in mathematics asks for the solution of a partial differential equation that satisfies certain conditions that are given on a hypersurface in the domain. A Cauchy problem can be an initial value problem or a boundary value problem (for this case see also Cauchy boundary condition). It is named after Au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK-space | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a FK-space or Fréchet coordinate space is a sequence space equipped with a topological structure such that it becomes a Fréchet space. FK-spaces with a normable topology are called BK-spaces.
There exists only one topology to turn a sequence space into a Fréchet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BK-space | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a BK-space or Banach coordinate space is a sequence space endowed with a suitable norm to turn it into a Banach space. All BK-spaces are normable FK-spaces.
Examples
The space of convergent sequences the space of vanishing sequences and the space of bounded s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20distribution | In symmetric key cryptography, both parties must possess a secret key which they must exchange prior to using any encryption. Distribution of secret keys has been problematic until recently, because it involved face-to-face meeting, use of a trusted courier, or sending the key through an existing encryption channel. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20charge | In chemistry, a formal charge (F.C. or ), in the covalent view of chemical bonding, is the hypothetical charge assigned to an atom in a molecule, assuming that electrons in all chemical bonds are shared equally between atoms, regardless of relative electronegativity. In simple terms, formal charge is the difference bet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionophore | In chemistry, an ionophore () is a chemical species that reversibly binds ions. Many ionophores are lipid-soluble entities that transport ions across the cell membrane. Ionophores catalyze ion transport across hydrophobic membranes, such as liquid polymeric membranes (carrier-based ion selective electrodes) or lipid bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomagneton | The photomagneton is a theoretical treatment of the unitary group in quantum field theory and quantum chemistry that effectively describes the experimentally observed inverse Faraday effect. When circularly polarized light travels through a plasma, the angular momentum associated to the circular motion of the photons ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20H%C3%BCckel%20method | The extended Hückel method is a semiempirical quantum chemistry method, developed by Roald Hoffmann since 1963. It is based on the Hückel method but, while the original Hückel method only considers pi orbitals, the extended method also includes the sigma orbitals.
The extended Hückel method can be used for determining... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Guggenheim%20Fellowships%20awarded%20in%201978 | List of Guggenheim fellowship winners for 1978.
United States and Canada fellows
Alice Adams, Deceased. Fiction: 1978.
JoAnne Akalaitis, Director, New York Shakespeare Festival: 1978.
Jervis B. Anderson, Writer; Staff Writer, The New Yorker, New York City: 1978.
Stuart S. Antman, Professor of Mathematics, University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Biodemography%20and%20Social%20Biology | The Society for Biodemography and Social Biology, formerly known as the Society for the Study of Social Biology and before then as the American Eugenics Society, was the society dedicated to "furthering the discussion, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge about biological and sociocultural forces which affect th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphi%20Genetics%20Forum | The Adelphi Genetics Forum is a non-profit learned society based in the United Kingdom. Its aims are "to promote the public understanding of human heredity and to facilitate informed debate about the ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive technology."
It was founded by Sybil Gotto in 1907 as the Eugenics Ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somer%E2%80%93Lucas%20pseudoprime | In mathematics, in particular number theory, an odd composite number N is a Somer–Lucas d-pseudoprime (with given d ≥ 1) if there exists a nondegenerate Lucas sequence with the discriminant such that and the rank appearance of N in the sequence U(P, Q) is
where is the Jacobi symbol.
Applications
Unlike the standa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20D.%20Ford | Rear Admiral John Donaldson Ford (19 May 1840 – 17 April 1918) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.
Biography
Ford, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, graduated from the Maryland Institute School of Design in June 1861. He then attended the Potts School... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementation%20%28genetics%29 | Complementation refers to a genetic process when two strains of an organism with different homozygous recessive mutations that produce the same mutant phenotype (for example, a change in wing structure in flies) have offspring that express the wild-type phenotype when mated or crossed. Complementation will ordinarily o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Cornelius | Johannes Wilhelm Cornelius (27 September 1863 – 23 August 1947) was a German neo-Kantian philosopher and psychologist.
Biography
Born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria on 27 September 1863. He originally studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1886, before turning to philosophy. In 1894, he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban%20Terradas%20i%20Illa | Esteban Terrades i Illa (15 September 1883, in Barcelona – 9 May 1950, in Madrid) also known as Esteve Terradas, was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences, working not only in his native Catalonia, but also in the rest of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorbing%20set | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics an absorbing set in a vector space is a set which can be "inflated" or "scaled up" to eventually always include any given point of the vector space.
Alternative terms are radial or absorbent set.
Every neighborhood of the origin in every topological vector spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20diffeomorphism | In mathematics, more specifically differential topology, a local diffeomorphism is intuitively a map between Smooth manifolds that preserves the local differentiable structure. The formal definition of a local diffeomorphism is given below.
Formal definition
Let and be differentiable manifolds. A function
is a l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/194%20%28number%29 | 194 (one hundred [and] ninety-four) is the natural number following 193 and preceding 195.
In mathematics
194 is the smallest Markov number that is neither a Fibonacci number nor a Pell number
194 is the smallest number written as the sum of three squares in five ways
194 is the number of irreducible representation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MALOVA | The MALOVA (MALignant OVArian cancer) study is a multidisciplinary Danish study of ovarian cancer and encompasses epidemiology, lifestyle factors, biochemistry, and molecular biology with the purpose of identifying risk factors and prognostic factors for ovarian cancer.
External links
Aspirin May Decrease Risk of Aggr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theca | In biology, a theca (plural thecae) is a sheath or a covering.
Botany
In botany, the theca is related to plant's flower anatomy. The theca of an angiosperm consists of a pair of microsporangia that are adjacent to each other and share a common area of dehiscence called the stomium. Any part of a microsporophyll that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%99drzej%20%C5%9Aniadecki | Jędrzej Śniadecki (archaic Andrew Sniadecki; ; 30 November 1768 – 11 May 1838) was a Polish writer, physician, chemist, biologist and philosopher. His achievements include being the first person who linked rickets to lack of sunlight. He also created modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry.
Life and work
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planckian%20locus | In physics and color science, the Planckian locus or black body locus is the path or locus that the color of an incandescent black body would take in a particular chromaticity space as the blackbody temperature changes. It goes from deep red at low temperatures through orange, yellowish white, white, and finally bluis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Dubinin | Nikolay Petrovich Dubinin (January 4, 1907 – March 26, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian biologist and academician.
He worked under the supervision of Sergei Chetverikov.
He was a Corresponding Member of the Division of Biological Sciences from 1946 and Academician of the Division of the General Biology from 1966.
He w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional%20delay%20line | In mathematics, a bi-directional delay line is a numerical analysis technique used in computer simulation for solving ordinary differential equations by converting them to hyperbolic equations. In this way an explicit solution scheme is obtained with highly robust numerical properties. It was introduced by Auslander in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcad | Mathcad is computer software for the verification, validation, documentation and re-use of mathematical calculations in engineering and science, notably mechanical, chemical, electrical, and civil engineering. Released in 1986 on DOS, it introduced live editing (WYSIWYG) of typeset mathematical notation in an interacti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aravind%20Joshi | Aravind Krishna Joshi (August 5, 1929 – December 31, 2017) was the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2Net | C2Net was an Internet cryptography company founded by Sameer Parekh, which was sold to Red Hat in 2000. It was best known for its Stronghold secure webserver software.
Community ConneXion
C2Net started out as Community ConneXion in 1994, an Internet Privacy Provider similar to an "Internet Service Provider" providing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytree | In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a polytree (also called directed tree, oriented tree or singly connected network) is a directed acyclic graph whose underlying undirected graph is a tree. In other words, if we replace its directed edges with undirected edges, we obtain an undirected graph that is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarsoft | Solarsoft is a collaborative software development system created at Lockheed-Martin to support solar data analysis and spacecraft operation activities. It is widely recognized in the solar physics community as having revolutionized solar data analysis starting in the early 1990s. Solarsoft is in active development and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressivity%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, expressivity is the degree to which a phenotype is expressed by individuals having a particular genotype. (Alternately, it may refer to the expression of particular gene by individuals having a certain phenotype.) Expressivity is related to the intensity of a given phenotype; it differs from penetrance, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus%20Georg%20Zeuthen | Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (15 February 1839 – 6 January 1920) was a Danish mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics.
Biography
Zeuthen was born in Grimstrup near Varde where his father was a minister. In 1849, his father moved to a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Koltsov | Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov (; July 14, 1872 – December 2, 1940) was a Russian biologist and a pioneer of modern genetics. Among his students were Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson, A.S. Serebrovsky, and Nikolay Dubinin. Along with his students, he demonstrated the fine structure of genes, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Weiss%20%28neurobiologist%29 | Samuel Weiss (born 1955) is a Canadian neurobiologist.
Biography
Weiss was an undergraduate at McGill University, where he received a B.Sc. in Biochemistry in 1978. He then went on to take his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the University of Calgary. From 1983 to 1988 he held two postdoctoral fellowships funded by the AH... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrelled%20space | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a barrelled space (also written barreled space) is a topological vector space (TVS) for which every barrelled set in the space is a neighbourhood for the zero vector.
A barrelled set or a barrel in a topological vector space is a set that is convex, balanced, ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darboux%20basis | A Darboux basis may refer to:
A Darboux basis of a symplectic vector space
In differential geometry, a Darboux frame on a surface
A Darboux tangent in the dovetail joint
Mathematics disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20set | In linear algebra and related areas of mathematics a balanced set, circled set or disk in a vector space (over a field with an absolute value function ) is a set such that for all scalars satisfying
The balanced hull or balanced envelope of a set is the smallest balanced set containing
The balanced core of a se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely%20convex%20set | In mathematics, a subset C of a real or complex vector space is said to be absolutely convex or disked if it is convex and balanced (some people use the term "circled" instead of "balanced"), in which case it is called a disk.
The disked hull or the absolute convex hull of a set is the intersection of all disks contai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv%20Goldberg | Marv Goldberg (born 1944) is an American writer and historian of music in the field of rhythm & blues.
Biography
Goldberg grew up in the Bronx, New York and was a graduate of Stuyvesant High School (1960), City College of New York (Biology; 1964), and Pace College (now Pace University; Accounting; 1967). He wrote his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy%20Arboretum | The Eddy Arboretum is located at the Institute of Forest Genetics in the Sierra Nevada near Placerville, in El Dorado County, eastern California.
Collection
The arboretum contains what is claimed to be the best-documented collection of native and exotic pines in the world, in addition to many other native and exotic c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disproportionation | In chemistry, disproportionation, sometimes called dismutation, is a redox reaction in which one compound of intermediate oxidation state converts to two compounds, one of higher and one of lower oxidation states. The reverse of disproportionation, such as when a compound in an intermediate oxidation state is formed fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%20subgroup | In mathematics, specifically group theory, a Hall subgroup of a finite group G is a subgroup whose order is coprime to its index. They were introduced by the group theorist .
Definitions
A Hall divisor (also called a unitary divisor) of an integer n is a divisor d of n such that
d and n/d are coprime. The easiest wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolk%20plug | Yolk plug is the remaining patch of endodermal cells that is created during the formation of the dorsal lip of the blastopore in the amphibian. It is a patch of large endodermal cells which remains exposed on the vegetal surface of the blastula that will eventually be internalized by epiboly.
References
Amphibians
Ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20filter | In signal processing, a recursive filter is a type of filter which reuses one or more of its outputs as an input. This feedback typically results in an unending impulse response (commonly referred to as infinite impulse response (IIR)), characterised by either exponentially growing, decaying, or sinusoidal signal outp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatter | Scatter may refer to:
Scattering, in physics, the study of collisions
Statistical dispersion or scatter
Scatter (modeling), a substance used in the building of dioramas and model railways
Scatter, in computer programming, a parameter in network broadcasting
Scatter (band), a Scottish improvisational music collect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%20sieve | In mathematics, the Legendre sieve, named after Adrien-Marie Legendre, is the simplest method in modern sieve theory. It applies the concept of the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find upper or lower bounds on the number of primes within a given set of integers. Because it is a simple extension of Eratosthenes' idea, it is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorarinsson%20Medal | The Thorarinsson Medal is awarded every four years by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) for outstanding contributions to the general field of volcanology, and is the highest award given by IAVCEI. It is named for the Icelandic geologist and volcanologist Sigurd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocyanation | In organic chemistry, hydrocyanation is a process for conversion of alkenes to nitriles. The reaction involves the addition of hydrogen cyanide and requires a catalyst. This conversion is conducted on an industrial scale for the production of precursors to nylon.
Hydrocyanation of unactivated alkenes
Industrially, h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy%20in%20humans | Entomophagy in humans or human entomophagy describes the consumption of insects (entomophagy) by humans in a cultural and biological context. The scientific term used in anthropology, cultural studies, biology and medicine is anthropo-entomophagy. Anthropo-entomophagy does not include the eating of arthropods other tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinberg%20group | In mathematics, Steinberg group means either of two distinct, though related, constructions of the mathematician Robert Steinberg:
Steinberg group (K-theory) St(A) in algebraic K-theory.
Steinberg group (Lie theory) is a 'twisted' group of Lie type, in particular one of the groups of type 3D4 or 2E6. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ree%20group | In mathematics, a Ree group is a group of Lie type over a finite field constructed by from an exceptional automorphism of a Dynkin diagram that reverses the direction of the multiple bonds, generalizing the Suzuki groups found by Suzuki using a different method. They were the last of the infinite families of finite si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame%20test | A flame test is an analytical procedure used in chemistry to detect the presence of certain elements, primarily metal ions, based on each element's characteristic flame emission spectrum (which may be affected by the presence of chloride ion). The color of flames in general also depends on temperature and oxygen fed; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating%20sign%20matrix | In mathematics, an alternating sign matrix is a square matrix of 0s, 1s, and −1s such that the sum of each row and column is 1 and the nonzero entries in each row and column alternate in sign. These matrices generalize permutation matrices and arise naturally when using Dodgson condensation to compute a determinant. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgson%20condensation | In mathematics, Dodgson condensation or method of contractants is a method of computing the determinants of square matrices. It is named for its inventor, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his pseudonym, as Lewis Carroll, the popular author), who discovered it in 1866. The method in the case of an n × n matrix ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20metal%20pincer%20complex | In chemistry, a transition metal pincer complex is a type of coordination complex with a pincer ligand. Pincer ligands are chelating agents that binds tightly to three adjacent coplanar sites in a meridional configuration. The inflexibility of the pincer-metal interaction confers high thermal stability to the result... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rearrangement%20reaction | In organic chemistry, a rearrangement reaction is a broad class of organic reactions where the carbon skeleton of a molecule is rearranged to give a structural isomer of the original molecule. Often a substituent moves from one atom to another atom in the same molecule, hence these reactions are usually intramolecular.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermet%20Akayeva | Bermet Askarevna Akayeva (Kyrgyz: Бермет Аскаревна Акаева; born June 3, 1972, in Leningrad) is a Kyrgyz politician and former MP. She is the daughter of ousted former President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev. She graduated from the Frunze physics and mathematics school in 1989, studied at the Faculty of Computational Mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Morrison | Philip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics high energy astrophysics, and SETI.
A graduate of Carnegie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen | SCIgen is a paper generator that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers. Its original data source was a collection of computer science papers downloaded from CiteSeer. All elements of the papers are formed, including graphs, diagrams, and citations. Creat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent%20series | In mathematics, a series is the sum of the terms of an infinite sequence of numbers. More precisely, an infinite sequence defines a series that is denoted
The th partial sum is the sum of the first terms of the sequence; that is,
A series is convergent (or converges) if the sequence of its partial sums tends t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%20Wong | Winston Wen-Yang Wong OBE (; born 2 April 1951 in Taipei County (now New Taipei City), Taiwan) is the eldest son of Wang Yung-ching, chair of the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), by his second wife. Wong is now a widower with a son and a daughter after his wife died of stomach cancer in 2007. Wong holds degrees in physics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection%20ecology | "Resurrection ecology" is an evolutionary biology technique whereby researchers hatch dormant eggs from lake sediments to study animals as they existed decades ago. It is a new approach that might allow scientists to observe evolution as it occurred, by comparing the animal forms hatched from older eggs with their exta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20breakwaters | The Phoenix breakwaters were a set of reinforced concrete caissons built as part of the artificial Mulberry harbours that were assembled as part of the preparations for the Normandy landings during World War II. A total of 213 were built, with 212 floated or side-launched. They were constructed by civil engineering con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%20diagram | Smith diagram or Smith diagramme may refer to:
Smith chart, a diagram by American electrical engineer Phillip Hagar Smith, used in electrical engineering
, a diagram by British mechanical engineer , used in mechanical engineering
Smith diagram (combinatorics), a diagram by British statistian Cedric Austen Bardell Sm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion%20%28water%20waves%29 | In fluid dynamics, dispersion of water waves generally refers to frequency dispersion, which means that waves of different wavelengths travel at different phase speeds. Water waves, in this context, are waves propagating on the water surface, with gravity and surface tension as the restoring forces. As a result, water ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trends%20%28journals%29 | Trends is a series of 16 review journals in a range of areas of biology and chemistry published under its Cell Press imprint by Elsevier. The publisher in lieu is Danielle Loughlin.
The Trends series was established in 1976 with Trends in Biochemical Sciences, rapidly followed by Trends in Neurosciences, Trends in Pha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20spectroscopy | Gamma-ray spectroscopy is the qualitative study of the energy spectra of gamma-ray sources, such as in the nuclear industry, geochemical investigation, and astrophysics. Gamma-ray spectrometry, on the other hand, is the method used to acquire a quantitative spectrum measurement.
Most radioactive sources produce gamma ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20Genetics%20%28book%29 | Ecological Genetics is a 1964 book by the British biologist E. B. Ford on ecological genetics. Ford founded the field and it is considered his magnum opus. The fourth and final edition was published in 1975.
Ford's work was celebrated in 1971 by Ecological Genetics and Evolution, a series of essays edited by Robert Cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20length%20method | The Transfer Length Method or the "Transmission Line Model" (both abbreviated as TLM) is a technique used in semiconductor physics and engineering to determine the specific contact resistivity between a metal and a semiconductor. TLM has been developed because with the ongoing device shrinkage in microelectronics the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20W.%20Ewald | Paul W. Ewald (born ) is an American evolutionary biologist, specializing in the evolutionary ecology of parasitism, evolutionary medicine, agonistic behavior, and pollination biology. He is the author of Evolution of Infectious Disease (1994) and Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease (2002), and is currently dir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplication | Duplication, duplicate, and duplicator may refer to:
Biology and genetics
Gene duplication, a process which can result in free mutation
Chromosomal duplication, which can cause Bloom and Rett syndrome
Polyploidy, a phenomenon also known as ancient genome duplication
Enteric duplication cysts, certain portions of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equianharmonic | In mathematics, and in particular the study of Weierstrass elliptic functions, the equianharmonic case occurs when the Weierstrass invariants satisfy g2 = 0 and g3 = 1.
This page follows the terminology of Abramowitz and Stegun; see also the lemniscatic case. (These are special examples of complex multiplication.)
In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpad%20Elo | Arpad Emmerich Elo ( Élő Árpád Imre; August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was an American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess.
Born in Egyházaskesző, Kingdom of Hungary, he moved to the United States with his parents in 1913. He was a professor of physics at Marquette... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milislav%20Demerec | Milislav Demerec (January 11, 1895 – April 12, 1966) was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington [CIW], now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara McClintock and Alfred Hershey.
Demerec was born and raised in... |
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