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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharming%20%28genetics%29 | Pharming, a portmanteau of "farming" and "pharmaceutical", refers to the use of genetic engineering to insert genes that code for useful pharmaceuticals into host animals or plants that would otherwise not express those genes, thus creating a genetically modified organism (GMO). Pharming is also known as molecular farm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Friedrich%20August%20Rammelsberg | Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1 April 1813 – 28 December 1899) was a German mineralogist from Berlin, Prussia.
Life
After an apprenticeship in pharmacy, he studied chemistry and crystallography at the University of Berlin, where his influences were Eilhard Mitscherlich, Heinrich Rose, Christian Samuel Weiss and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental%20investment | Parental investment, in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, is any parental expenditure (e.g. time, energy, resources) that benefits offspring. Parental investment may be performed by both males and females (biparental care), females alone (exclusive maternal care) or males alone (exclusive paternal care)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U1 | U1, U.I or U-1 may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness, a 1981 video game
Yuvan Shankar Raja (stage name: U1; born 1979), a Tamil musician and film composer
U1 Technology, a video game publisher
U-1, protagonist of the Gitaroo Man video game
Computing and mathematics
U(1), in abstract... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20finite%20simple%20groups | In mathematics, the classification of finite simple groups states that every finite simple group is cyclic, or alternating, or in one of 16 families of groups of Lie type, or one of 26 sporadic groups.
The list below gives all finite simple groups, together with their order, the size of the Schur multiplier, the size ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie%20Derick | Carrie Matilda Derick (January 14, 1862 – November 10, 1941) was a Canadian botanist and geneticist, the first female professor in a Canadian university, and the founder of McGill University's genetics department.
Early life and education
Born in the Eastern Townships in Clarenceville, Canada East (now Quebec) in 186... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoogeography | Zoogeography is the branch of the science of biogeography that is concerned with geographic distribution (present and past) of animal species.
As a multifaceted field of study, zoogeography incorporates methods of molecular biology, genetics, morphology, phylogenetics, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to delin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum%20theory | In fluid dynamics, momentum theory or disk actuator theory is a theory describing a mathematical model of an ideal actuator disk, such as a propeller or helicopter rotor, by W.J.M. Rankine (1865), Alfred George Greenhill (1888) and Robert Edmund Froude (1889).
The rotor is modeled as an infinitely thin disc, inducing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20Goes%20to%20College | "Homer Goes to College" is the third episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 14, 1993. In the episode, Homer causes a nuclear meltdown during a plant inspection and is required to study nuclear physics at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Eppes | Charles Edward Eppes, Ph.D., is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of the CBS crime drama Numb3rs. He is portrayed by David Krumholtz.
Eppes is portrayed as a young mathematical genius and professor of applied mathematics at the fictional California Institute of Science, CalSci (primarily based on Calt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E2%82%80 | B0, that is "B subscript zero", is also generally used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging to denote the net magnetization vector. Although in physics and mathematics the notation to represent a physical quantity can be arbitrary, it is generally accepted in the literature, such as the International Society for Magnetic Res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Werner | Johann(es) Werner (; February 14, 1468 – May 1522) was a German mathematician. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, where he became a parish priest. His primary work was in astronomy, mathematics, and geography, although he was also considered a skilled instrument maker.
Mathematics
His mathematical works were in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Haralick | Robert M. Haralick (born 1943) is Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Haralick is one of the leading figures in computer vision, pattern recognition, and image analysis. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/143%20%28number%29 | 143 (one hundred [and] forty-three) is the natural number following 142 and preceding 144.
In mathematics
143 is the sum of seven consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31). But this number is never the sum of an integer and its base 10 digits, making it a self number. It is also the product of a twin prime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio%20de%20Giorgi | Ennio De Giorgi (8 February 1928 – 25 October 1996) was an Italian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics.
Mathematical work
De Giorgi's first work was in geometric measure theory, on the topic of the sets of finite perimeters which he called in 1958 as Caccioppol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contractible%20space | In mathematics, a topological space X is contractible if the identity map on X is null-homotopic, i.e. if it is homotopic to some constant map. Intuitively, a contractible space is one that can be continuously shrunk to a point within that space.
Properties
A contractible space is precisely one with the homotopy type ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20P.%20Moreland | James Porter Moreland (born March 9, 1948), better known as J. P. Moreland, is an American philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in La Mirada, California.
Biography
Moreland specializes in metap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore%E2%80%93Horspool%20algorithm | In computer science, the Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm or Horspool's algorithm is an algorithm for finding substrings in strings. It was published by Nigel Horspool in 1980 as SBM.
It is a simplification of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm which is related to the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm. The algorithm tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20B.%20van%20Niel | Cornelis Bernardus van Niel (also known as Kees van Niel) (November 4, 1897 – March 10, 1985) was a Dutch-American microbiologist. He introduced the study of general microbiology to the United States and made key discoveries explaining the chemistry of photosynthesis.
Early life
In 1923, Cornelis van Niel graduated i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett%20Lewis | Wilfrid Bennett Lewis, (June 24, 1908 – January 10, 1987) was a Canadian nuclear scientist and administrator, and was centrally involved in the development of the CANDU reactor.
Born in Castle Carrock, Cumberland, England, he earned a doctorate in physics at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 1934, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20the%20American%20Chemical%20Society | The Journal of the American Chemical Society is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1879 by the American Chemical Society. The journal has absorbed two other publications in its history, the Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry (July 1893) and the American Chemical Journal (January ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugi%20reaction | In organic chemistry, the Ugi reaction is a multi-component reaction involving a ketone or aldehyde, an amine, an isocyanide and a carboxylic acid to form a bis-amide.
The reaction is named after Ivar Karl Ugi, who first reported this reaction in 1959.
The Ugi reaction is exothermic and usually complete within minute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard%20%28disambiguation%29 | The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five "big cats" in the genus Panthera.
Leopard may also refer to:
Biology
Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), related species of Northeast Asia
Snow leopard or ounce (Panthera uncia), related species of Central Asia
Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), related spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20LeBlanc | Marc "Mahk" LeBlanc is an educator and designer of video games.
LeBlanc attended MIT where he received a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science.
Through his work with Looking Glass Studios, LeBlanc contributed to a number of important video game titles including Ultima Underworld II, System Shock, Flight Unlimited, Terra ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20David%20Peat | Francis David Peat
(Born 18 April 1938 Waterloo, England died 6 June 2017 in Pari Italy) was a holistic physicist and author who has carried out research in solid state physics and the foundation of quantum theory.
He was director of the Pari Center for New Learning, which is located in the village of Pari near Gross... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salginatobel%20Bridge | Salginatobel Bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge designed by Swiss civil engineer Robert Maillart. It was constructed across an alpine ravine in the grisonian Prättigau, belonging to the municipality of Schiers, in Switzerland between 1929 and 1930. In 1991, it was declared an International Historic Civil Engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superatom | In chemistry, a superatom is any cluster of atoms that seem to exhibit some of the properties of elemental atoms.
Sodium atoms, when cooled from vapor, naturally condense into clusters, preferentially containing a magic number of atoms (2, 8, 20, 40, 58, etc.), with the outermost electron of each atom entering an orbi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derived%20type | In computer science, derived type can mean:
a composite data type, one built out of other types
a subtype
a derived class |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propargyl%20group | In organic chemistry, the propargyl group is a functional group of 2-propynyl with the structure . It is an alkyl group derived from propyne ().
The term propargylic refers to a saturated position (sp3-hybridized) on a molecular framework next to an alkynyl group. The name comes from mix of propene and argentum, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superabundant%20number | In mathematics, a superabundant number is a certain kind of natural number. A natural number is called superabundant precisely when, for all :
where denotes the sum-of-divisors function (i.e., the sum of all positive divisors of , including itself). The first few superabundant numbers are . For example, the number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Bader%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David A. Bader (born May 4, 1969) is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Previously, he served as the Chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computational Science & Engineering, where he was also a founding professor, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannich%20reaction | In organic chemistry, the Mannich reaction is a three-component organic reaction that involves the amino alkylation of an acidic proton next to a carbonyl () functional group by formaldehyde () and a primary or secondary amine () or ammonia (). The final product is a β-amino-carbonyl compound also known as a Mannich ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOP | Fop is a pejorative term for a foolish man.
FOP or fop may also refer to:
Science and technology
Feature-oriented positioning, in scanning microscopy
Feature-oriented programming, in computer science, software product lines
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a connective tissue disease which can result in musc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Mannich | Carl Ulrich Franz Mannich (8 March 1877 in Breslau – 5 March 1947 in Karlsruhe) was a German chemist. From 1927 to 1943 he was professor for pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Berlin. His areas of expertise were keto bases, alcohol bases, derivatives of piperidine, papaverine, lactones and also Digitalis-gly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexene | In organic chemistry, hexene is a hydrocarbon with the chemical formula . The prefix "hex" is derived from the fact that there are 6 carbon atoms in the molecule, while the "-ene" suffix denotes that there is an alkene present—two carbon atoms are connected via a double bond. There are several isomers of hexene, depend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJK | IJK or ijk may refer to:
IJK (singer songwriter) (born 1981), Lebanese singer-songwriter
Haplogroup IJK
Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi, a political party in Tamil Nadu, India
International Youth Congress ()
Izhevsk Airport, serving Udmurtia, Russia
A convention of naming the axis of Euclidean vectors.
In computer sci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20mean%20square%20error | In statistics and signal processing, a minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimator is an estimation method which minimizes the mean square error (MSE), which is a common measure of estimator quality, of the fitted values of a dependent variable. In the Bayesian setting, the term MMSE more specifically refers to estimati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Goldacre | Ben Michael Goldacre (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer. He is the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford. He is a founder of the AllTrials campaign and OpenTrials to require open ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic%20cylinder%20function | In mathematics, the parabolic cylinder functions are special functions defined as solutions to the differential equation
This equation is found when the technique of separation of variables is used on Laplace's equation when expressed in parabolic cylindrical coordinates.
The above equation may be brought into two di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut%20Island%20%28Oahu%20Island%29 | Coconut Island, or Moku o Loe, is a 28-acre (113,000 m²) island in Kāneʻohe Bay off the island of Oʻahu in the state of Hawaiʻi, United States. It is a marine research facility of the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) of the University of Hawaiʻi.
History
In 1934–1936, Chris Holmes II, an heir to the Fleisch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20luminescence | Negative luminescence is a physical phenomenon by which an electronic device emits less thermal radiation when an electric current is passed through it than it does in thermal equilibrium (current off). When viewed by a thermal camera, an operating negative luminescent device looks colder than its environment.
Physics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmod | Gmod or GMOD may refer to:
Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD), a software project for model organism databases
.GMOD, file extension for Golgotha 3D models; See List of filename extensions (F–L)
Gamma-ray MODule (GMOD), an instrument on the satellite EIRSAT-1
G-module (G-Mod), in mathematics
Garry's Mod (GMod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20genetics | The history of genetics dates from the classical era with contributions by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, and others. Modern genetics began with the work of the Augustinian friar Gregor Johann Mendel. His work on pea plants, published in 1866, provided the initial evidence that, on its rediscovery in 190... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Batchelor | George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist.
He was for many years a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and was founding head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). In 1956 he fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20set | In functional and convex analysis, and related disciplines of mathematics, the polar set is a special convex set associated to any subset of a vector space lying in the dual space
The bipolar of a subset is the polar of but lies in (not ).
Definitions
There are at least three competing definitions of the polar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20hyperglycemia | Stress hyperglycemia (also called stress diabetes or diabetes of injury) is a medical term referring to transient elevation of the blood glucose due to the stress of illness. It usually resolves spontaneously, but must be distinguished from various forms of diabetes mellitus.
It is often discovered when routine blood ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Mathematical%20Union | The African Mathematical Union or Union Mathematique Africaine is an African organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Africa. It was founded in 1976 in Rabat, Morocco, during the first Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians with Henri Hogbe Nlend as its first President. Another key figure in its earl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPT | MIPT can refer to:
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
MiPT, N-Methyl-N-isopropyltryptamine
Male Iron Pipe Thread, see Gender of connectors and fasteners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiaminal | In organic chemistry, a hemiaminal (also carbinolamine) is a functional group or type of chemical compound that has a hydroxyl group and an amine attached to the same carbon atom: . R can be hydrogen or an alkyl group. Hemiaminals are intermediates in imine formation from an amine and a carbonyl by alkylimino-de-oxo-bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminal | In organic chemistry, an aminal or aminoacetal is a functional group or type of organic compound that has two amine groups attached to the same carbon atom: . (As is customary in organic chemistry, R can represent hydrogen or an alkyl group). A common aminal is bis(dimethylamino)methane, a colorless liquid that is pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molbank | Molbank is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal covering synthetic chemistry and natural product chemistry, established in 1997 as a section of Molecules and is published by MDPI. After 2001, the journal was published on its own, and become online-only in 2009.
The journal is focused on publishing short no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni%20De%20Michelis | Gianni De Michelis (1940 – 11 May 2019) was an Italian politician, a member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), who served as minister in many Italian governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Biography
De Michelis was born in Venice in 1940. He graduated in 1963 in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Padua an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%20School%20Mathematics%20Program | Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP) stands for both the name of a curriculum and the name of the project that was responsible for developing curriculum materials in the United States.
Two major curricula were developed as part of the overall CSMP project: the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20calculus | In mathematics, matrix calculus is a specialized notation for doing multivariable calculus, especially over spaces of matrices. It collects the various partial derivatives of a single function with respect to many variables, and/or of a multivariate function with respect to a single variable, into vectors and matrices... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap%20car | A mousetrap car is a small vehicle whose only source of motive power is a mousetrap. Variations include the use of multiple traps, or very big rat traps, for added power.
Mousetrap cars are often used in physics or other physical science classes to help students build problem-solving skills, develop spatial awareness,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkage%20isomerism | In chemistry, linkage isomerism or ambidentate isomerism is a form of isomerism in which certain coordination compounds have the same composition but differ in their metal atom's connectivity to a ligand.
Typical ligands that give rise to linkage isomers are:
cyanide, – isocyanide,
cyanate, – isocyanate,
thiocyana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ball | In theoretical physics, Q-ball is a type of non-topological soliton. A soliton is a localized field configuration that is stable—it cannot spread out and dissipate. In the case of a non-topological soliton, the stability is guaranteed by a conserved charge: the soliton has lower energy per unit charge than any other co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DII | DII may refer to:
Days in inventory, an accounting term
Dii, the Thracian tribe
Dii language
DiI, a hydrophobic cyanine dye used in cell biology
Dietary Inflammatory Index
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat
Diablo II, a sequel to the computer game Diablo
Division II, a compet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egorov%27s%20theorem | In measure theory, an area of mathematics, Egorov's theorem establishes a condition for the uniform convergence of a pointwise convergent sequence of measurable functions. It is also named Severini–Egoroff theorem or Severini–Egorov theorem, after Carlo Severini, an Italian mathematician, and Dmitri Egorov, a Russian p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsorizing | Winsorizing or winsorization is the transformation of statistics by limiting extreme values in the statistical data to reduce the effect of possibly spurious outliers. It is named after the engineer-turned-biostatistician Charles P. Winsor (1895–1951). The effect is the same as clipping in signal processing.
The distr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvection | Transvection may refer to:
Transvection (flying)
Transvection (genetics)
Mathematics
The creation of a transvectant in invariant theory
A shear mapping in linear algebra
Raising and lowering indices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coagulation%20%28disambiguation%29 | Coagulation is the process by which blood forms clots.
Coagulation may also refer to:
Coagulation (water treatment), in colloid chemistry, a process in which dispersed colloidal particles agglomerate
Coagulation (milk), the coagulation of milk into curd by rennet or acid
Coagulation, the loss of solubility as a re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Jantsch | Erich Jantsch (8 January 1929 12 December 1980) was an Austrian-born American astrophysicist, engineer, educator, author, consultant and futurist, especially known for his work in the social systems design movement in Europe in the 1970s.
Biography
Born in Vienna in 1929, Jantsch studied physics at the University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rematerialization | In computer science, rematerialization or remat is a compiler optimization which saves time by recomputing a value instead of loading it from memory. It is typically tightly integrated with register allocation, where it is used as an alternative to spilling registers to memory. It was conceived by Gregory Chaitin, Marc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%B6nwall%27s%20inequality | In mathematics, Grönwall's inequality (also called Grönwall's lemma or the Grönwall–Bellman inequality) allows one to bound a function that is known to satisfy a certain differential or integral inequality by the solution of the corresponding differential or integral equation. There are two forms of the lemma, a differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicative | Predicative may refer to:
Something having the properties of a grammatical predicate
Predicative expression, part of a clause that typically follows a copula (linking verb)
Predicative verb, a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective
In mathematics and logic something without impredicativity, without a self-ref... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2 | F2, F.II or similar may refer to:
Science and mathematics
F2, the chemical formula for fluorine
or GF(2), in mathematics, the Galois field of two elements
F2, a category in the Fujita scale of tornado intensity
F2 hybrid, a type of crossing in classical genetics
F2 layer, a stratum of the Earth's ionosphere
F-2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H4 | H4, H04, or H-4 may refer to:
Science and mathematics
ATC code H04 Pancreatic hormones, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
Histamine H4 receptor, a human gene
Histone H4, a protein involved in the structure of chromatin in eukaryotic cells
Hydrogen-4 (H-4), an isotope of hydrog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28B%2C%20N%29%20pair | In mathematics, a (B, N) pair is a structure on groups of Lie type that allows one to give uniform proofs of many results, instead of giving a large number of case-by-case proofs. Roughly speaking, it shows that all such groups are similar to the general linear group over a field. They were introduced by the mathematic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Microbiology%20Laboratory | The National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) is part of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible for public health, health emergency preparedness and response, and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.
NML is located in several sites across th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun%20Benson | Shaun Benson (born January 16, 1976) is a Canadian actor and director.
Early life
Benson was born in Guelph, Ontario. He is the son of Eugene Benson, an English professor and a prolific novelist, playwright and librettist. He later graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a bachelor of science in chemistr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20of%20computation | In computer science, and more specifically in computability theory and computational complexity theory, a model of computation is a model which describes how an output of a mathematical function is computed given an input. A model describes how units of computations, memories, and communications are organized. The comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon | Geon may refer to:
Geon (geology), a time interval
Geon (Korean name), a Korean masculine given name
Geon (physics), a hypothetical gravitational wave packet
Geon (psychology), a geometrical primitive out of which everyday objects can be represented
Geon, short for geonim, rabbis in the medieval era
Geon, a character ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra%20Wickramasinghe | Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 20 January 1939) is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist of Sinhalese ethnicity. His research interests include the interstellar medium, infrared astronomy, light scattering theory, applications of solid-state physics to astronomy, the early Solar Sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper%20Rine | Jasper Donald Rine (born 1953) is an American scientist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the University of California, Berkeley.
Rine received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1975 and his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermembrane%20space | The intermembrane space (IMS) is the space occurring between or involving two or more membranes. In cell biology, it is most commonly described as the region between the inner membrane and the outer membrane of a mitochondrion or a chloroplast. It also refers to the space between the inner and outer nuclear membranes o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaligned | Unaligned literally means "not aligned". It may refer to:
Unaligned characters in Vampire: The Requiem
In other role-playing games, it refers to someone who does not fit within the game's alignment system, for example, in NetHack, Moloch is unaligned
Non-Aligned Movement of states
Unaligned data structures in comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structurae | Structurae is an online database containing pictures and information about structural and civil engineering works, and their associated engineers, architects, and builders.
Overview
Structurae was founded in 1998 by Nicolas Janberg, who had studied civil engineering at Princeton University. In March 2012, Structurae w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformizable%20space | In mathematics, a topological space X is uniformizable if there exists a uniform structure on X that induces the topology of X. Equivalently, X is uniformizable if and only if it is homeomorphic to a uniform space (equipped with the topology induced by the uniform structure).
Any (pseudo)metrizable space is uniformiza... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigraph | In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a multigraph is a graph which is permitted to have multiple edges (also called parallel edges), that is, edges that have the same end nodes. Thus two vertices may be connected by more than one edge.
There are 2 distinct notions of multiple edges:
Edges without o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20mathematics | Elementary mathematics, also known as primary or secondary school mathematics, is the study of mathematics topics that are commonly taught at the primary or secondary school levels around the world. It includes a wide range of mathematical concepts and skills, including number sense, algebra, geometry, measurement, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tso%20Wung-wai | Dr. Tso Wung-wai (; born 28 February 1941), BBS is a Hong Kong politician and chemistry professor. He is an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has also served as a Hong Kong delegate to the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.
Tso Wung-wai completed his bachelor's de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betaine | A betaine () in chemistry is any neutral chemical compound with a positively charged cationic functional group that bears no hydrogen atom, such as a quaternary ammonium or phosphonium cation (generally: onium ions), and with a negatively charged functional group, such as a carboxylate group that may not be adjacent to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Ladenburg | Albert Ladenburg (2 July 184215 August 1911) was a German chemist.
Early life and education
Ladenburg was a member of the well-known Jewish in Mannheim. He was educated at a Realgymnasium at Mannheim and then, after the age of 15, at the technical school of Karlsruhe, where he studied mathematics and modern language... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoevenagel%20condensation | In organic chemistry, the Knoevenagel condensation () reaction is a type of chemical reaction named after German chemist Emil Knoevenagel. It is a modification of the aldol condensation.
A Knoevenagel condensation is a nucleophilic addition of an active hydrogen compound to a carbonyl group followed by a dehydration r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20threshold | In neuroscience and psychophysics, an absolute threshold was originally defined as the lowest level of a stimulus – light, sound, touch, etc. – that an organism could detect. Under the influence of signal detection theory, absolute threshold has been redefined as the level at which a stimulus will be detected a specifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-condensation | In organic chemistry, self-condensation is an organic reaction in which a chemical compound containing a carbonyl group () acts both as the electrophile and the nucleophile in an aldol condensation. It is also called a symmetrical aldol condensation as opposed to a mixed aldol condensation in which the electrophile an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Dynamics%20Engine | The Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) is a physics engine written in C/C++. Its two main components are a rigid body dynamics simulation engine and a collision detection engine. It is free software licensed both under the BSD license and the LGPL.
ODE was started in 2001 and has already been used in many applications and gam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactisole | Lactisole is the sodium salt and commonly supplied form of 2-(4-methoxyphenoxy)propionic acid, a natural carboxylic acid found in roasted coffee beans. Like gymnemic acid, it has the property of masking sweet flavors and is used for this purpose in the food industry.
Chemistry
Chemically, lactisole is a double ethe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphin%20%28software%29 | Endorphin is a dynamic motion synthesis software package developed by NaturalMotion. Endorphin can be used to generate computer simulations of large numbers of independent
characters interacting with each other and the world according to brief scripts or 'behaviours'. It combines physics, AI, and genetic algorithms to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T7 | T7 or T-7 may refer to:
Biology
Thoracic vertebra 7
Thoracic spinal nerve 7
T7 phage, a virus used in the study of biological systems
T7 DNA Helicase, a hexameric motor protein
T7 RNA polymerase, an RNA polymerase that catalyzes the formation of RNA
Transport
Île-de-France tramway Line 7
Olympic Park line, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetica | Arithmetica () is an Ancient Greek text on mathematics written by the mathematician Diophantus () in the 3rd century AD. It is a collection of 130 algebraic problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution) and indeterminate equations.
Summary
Equations in the book are presen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russoft | Russoft, headquartered in Saint-Petersburg, is an association of software companies from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. It was founded on September 9, 1999 and has merged with the Fort-Ross Consortium in May 2004. Today Russoft unites more than 80 companies with 7000+ programmers and software engineers with degrees in T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Allman | John Morgan Allman is an American neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, active in the fields of primates, cognition and evolutionary neuroscience.
Life
He graduated from University of Chicago with a PhD in anthropology.
In 2000, Allman's laboratory reported identification ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%20Teukolsky | Saul Arno Teukolsky (born August 2, 1947) is a theoretical astrophysicist and a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Caltech and Cornell University. His major research interests include general relativity, relativistic astrophysics, and computational astrophysics.
Biography
After matriculating from Selborne College (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Seven%20Daughters%20of%20Eve | The Seven Daughters of Eve is a 2001 semi-fictional book by Bryan Sykes that presents the science of human origin in Africa and their dispersion to a general audience. Sykes explains the principles of genetics and human evolution, the particularities of mitochondrial DNA, and analyses of ancient DNA to genetically link... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20Rutledge | Harley D. Rutledge (January 10, 1926 – June 5, 2006) was a U.S. physics professor, and ufologist.
Early life and career
In 1966, Rutledge completed his Ph.D. in solid state physics at the University of Missouri. He subsequently took the position of professor and chairman of the physics department at Southeast Missour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ashburner | Michael Ashburner (23 May 1942 – 7 July 2023) was an English biologist and Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He was also the former joint-head and co-founder of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and a Fellow of Churchill Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxation%20%28physics%29 | In the physical sciences, relaxation usually means the return of a perturbed system into equilibrium.
Each relaxation process can be categorized by a relaxation time τ. The simplest theoretical description of relaxation as function of time t is an exponential law (exponential decay).
In simple linear systems
Mechani... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Hora | Thomas Hora (January 25, 1914 - October 30, 1995) is considered the founder of the discipline of metapsychiatry, an attempt to integrate principles from metaphysics, spirituality, and psychology.
Education and early practice
After growing up in northern Hungary, Hora received medical degrees from Royal Hungarian Univ... |
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