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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanese%20variety
In mathematics, the Albanese variety , named for Giacomo Albanese, is a generalization of the Jacobian variety of a curve. Precise statement The Albanese variety is the abelian variety generated by a variety taking a given point of to the identity of . In other words, there is a morphism from the variety to its Al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20duality
In mathematics, coherent duality is any of a number of generalisations of Serre duality, applying to coherent sheaves, in algebraic geometry and complex manifold theory, as well as some aspects of commutative algebra that are part of the 'local' theory. The historical roots of the theory lie in the idea of the adjoint...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finalizer
In computer science, a finalizer or finalize method is a special method that performs finalization, generally some form of cleanup. A finalizer is executed during object destruction, prior to the object being deallocated, and is complementary to an initializer, which is executed during object creation, following alloca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunct
The term disjunct can refer to: disjunct (linguistics) disjunct or quincunx in astrology, an aspect made when two planets are 150 degrees, or five signs apart a disjunct distribution in biology, one in which two closely related taxa are widely separated geographically disjunct (music), a melodic skip or leap logic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic
The term "symplectic" is a calque of "complex" introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1939. In mathematics it may refer to: Symplectic Clifford algebra, see Weyl algebra Symplectic geometry Symplectic group Symplectic integrator Symplectic manifold Symplectic matrix Symplectic representation Symplectic vector space It ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20energy
High energy may refer to: High energy physics, a branch of physics dealing with subatomic particles and ionizing radiation Hi-NRG, a kind of dance music High Energy (The Supremes album), 1976 "High Energy" (The Supremes song), 1976 High Energy (Freddie Hubbard album), 1974 "High Energy" (Evelyn Thomas song), 198...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20algebra
In mathematics, differential algebra is, broadly speaking, the area of mathematics consisting in the study of differential equations and differential operators as algebraic objects in view of deriving properties of differential equations and operators without computing the solutions, similarly as polynomial algebras a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20change
In mathematics, base change may mean: Base change map in algebraic geometry Fiber product of schemes in algebraic geometry Change of base (disambiguation) in linear algebra or numeral systems Base change lifting of automorphic forms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity
Cavity may refer to: Biology and healthcare Body cavity, a fluid-filled space in many animals where organs typically develop Gastrovascular cavity, the primary organ of digestion and circulation in cnidarians and flatworms Dental cavity or tooth decay, damage to the structure of a tooth Lung cavity, an air-filled spac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Kimmel
Ron Kimmel (, b. 1963) is a professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy) at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1995) from the Technion, and was a post-doc at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Labs, and a visiting professor at St...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20function
In mathematics, a transition function may refer to: a transition map between two charts of an atlas of a manifold or other topological space the function that defines the transitions of a state transition system in computing, which may refer more specifically to a Turing machine, finite-state machine, or cellular ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing%20up
In mathematics, blowing up or blowup is a type of geometric transformation which replaces a subspace of a given space with all the directions pointing out of that subspace. For example, the blowup of a point in a plane replaces the point with the projectivized tangent space at that point. The metaphor is that of zoomin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20vector%20field
In mathematics and physics, a Hamiltonian vector field on a symplectic manifold is a vector field defined for any energy function or Hamiltonian. Named after the physicist and mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton, a Hamiltonian vector field is a geometric manifestation of Hamilton's equations in classical mechanics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20unit
In polymer chemistry, a structural unit is a building block of a polymer chain. It is the result of a monomer which has been polymerized into a long chain. There may be more than one structural unit in the repeat unit. When different monomers are polymerized, a copolymer is formed. It is a routine way of developing ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20biology
Reproductive biology includes both sexual and asexual reproduction. Reproductive biology includes a wide number of fields: Reproductive systems Endocrinology Sexual development (Puberty) Sexual maturity Reproduction Fertility Human reproductive biology Endocrinology Human reproductive biology is primarily co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic%20vector%20field
In physics and mathematics, a symplectic vector field is one whose flow preserves a symplectic form. That is, if is a symplectic manifold with smooth manifold and symplectic form , then a vector field in the Lie algebra is symplectic if its flow preserves the symplectic structure. In other words, the Lie deriva...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric%20Holt
Richard Craig Holt (February 13, 1941 – April 12, 2019) was an American-Canadian computer scientist. Early life Holt was born on in 1941 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to Vashti Young and C.P. Holt, but later moved to Toronto, Canada. As a teenager, he competed in track and field. He graduated from Cornell University in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20geology
Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal zone. Marine geology has strong ties to geophysics and to physical oceanography. Marine geolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20topology
In general topology and related areas of mathematics, the final topology (or coinduced, strong, colimit, or inductive topology) on a set with respect to a family of functions from topological spaces into is the finest topology on that makes all those functions continuous. The quotient topology on a quotient space ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/139%20%28number%29
139 (one hundred [and] thirty-nine) is the natural number following 138 and preceding 140. In mathematics 139 is the 34th prime number. It is a twin prime with 137. Because 141 is a semiprime, 139 is a Chen prime. 139 is the smallest prime before a prime gap of length 10. This number is the sum of five consecutive pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/146%20%28number%29
146 (one hundred [and] forty-six) is the natural number following 145 and preceding 147. In mathematics 146 is an octahedral number, the number of spheres that can be packed into in a regular octahedron with six spheres along each edge. For an octahedron with seven spheres along each edge, the number of spheres on the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Fleinhardt
Larry Fleinhardt, Ph.D., is a fictional character in the CBS crime drama Numb3rs, played by Peter MacNicol. He is the best friend and colleague of Charlie Eppes. Dr. Lawrence Fleinhardt holds the Walter T. Merrick Chair of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Science, CalSci (a university based on Caltec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20duality
In mathematics, Grothendieck duality may refer to: Coherent duality of coherent sheaves Grothendieck local duality of modules over a local ring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Mathematical%20Journal
Duke Mathematical Journal is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Duke University Press. It was established in 1935. The founding editors-in-chief were David Widder, Arthur Coble, and Joseph Miller Thomas. The first issue included a paper by Solomon Lefschetz. Leonard Carlitz served on the editorial board f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Nielsen
Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco. Work In 1998, Nielsen received his PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico. In 2004, he was recognized as Australia's "youngest academic" and was awarded a Federati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20solution
In mathematics, a fundamental solution for a linear partial differential operator is a formulation in the language of distribution theory of the older idea of a Green's function (although unlike Green's functions, fundamental solutions do not address boundary conditions). In terms of the Dirac delta "function" , a fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82odzimierz%20Sto%C5%BCek
Włodzimierz Stożek (23 July 1883 – 3 or 4 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics. Head of the Mathematics Faculty on the Lwów University of Technology. He was arrested and murdered together with his two sons: the 29-year-old engineer Eustachy and 24-year-old Emanuel, graduate of the In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw%20Ruziewicz
Stanisław Ruziewicz (29 August 1889 – 12 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. He was a former student of Wacław Sierpiński, earning his doctorate in 1913 from the University of Lwów; his thesis concerned continuous functions that are not differentiable. He be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Parsons%20%28philosopher%29
Charles Dacre Parsons (born April 13, 1933) is an American philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. He is professor emeritus at Harvard University. Life and career Parsons is a son of the famous Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons. He ear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific%20rotation
In chemistry, specific rotation ([α]) is a property of a chiral chemical compound. It is defined as the change in orientation of monochromatic plane-polarized light, per unit distance–concentration product, as the light passes through a sample of a compound in solution. Compounds which rotate the plane of polarization ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiomeric%20excess
In stereochemistry, enantiomeric excess (ee) is a measurement of purity used for chiral substances. It reflects the degree to which a sample contains one enantiomer in greater amounts than the other. A racemic mixture has an ee of 0%, while a single completely pure enantiomer has an ee of 100%. A sample with 70% of one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Kirtley
John Robert Kirtley (born August 27, 1949) is an American condensed matter physicist and a consulting professor at the Center for Probing the Nanoscale in the department of applied physics at Stanford University. He shared the 1998 Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, and is a Fellow of both the Am...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate%20acetalisation
In carbohydrate chemistry carbohydrate acetalisation is an organic reaction and a very effective means of providing a protecting group. The example below depicts the acetalisation reaction of D-ribose 1. With acetone or 2,2-dimethoxypropane as the acetalisation reagent the reaction is under thermodynamic reaction contr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar%20Langen
Ivar Langen (born December 21, 1942) was the rector at the University of Stavanger from 2003 to 2007. He was a central figure in the campaign to gain university status for Stavanger University College, which was awarded in 2005. Langen has been a professor of Mechanical Engineering since 1994. In 1997, he founded the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20neuroscience
Molecular neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that observes concepts in molecular biology applied to the nervous systems of animals. The scope of this subject covers topics such as molecular neuroanatomy, mechanisms of molecular signaling in the nervous system, the effects of genetics and epigenetics on neuronal d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s%20equation
In mathematics, Fisher's equation (named after statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher) also known as the Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation (named after Andrey Kolmogorov, Ivan Petrovsky, and Nikolai Piskunov), KPP equation or Fisher–KPP equation is the partial differential equation:It is a kind of reaction–diffu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Rudich
Steven Rudich (born October 4, 1961) is a professor in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. In 1994, he and Alexander Razborov proved that a large class of combinatorial arguments, dubbed natural proofs, was unlikely to answer many of the important problems in computational complexity theory. For this work, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Blue
Pacific Blue may refer to: Pacific Blue (company) (formerly Pacific Hydro), renewable energy company in Australia Pacific Blue (TV series) Pacific blue, a shade of azure manufactured by the Crayola company Pacific Blue (dye), a dye used in cell biology Virgin Australia Airlines (NZ) and Virgin Australia operated under...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverman%E2%80%93Toeplitz%20theorem
In mathematics, the Silverman–Toeplitz theorem, first proved by Otto Toeplitz, is a result in summability theory characterizing matrix summability methods that are regular. A regular matrix summability method is a matrix transformation of a convergent sequence which preserves the limit. An infinite matrix with comple...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard%20Van%20Beneden
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden (5 March 1846 in Leuven – 28 April 1910 in Liège) was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. In this work he discovered how chromosomes o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20parasitism
Social parasitism or social parasite may refer to the following: Parasitism (social offense), a label for those deemed to contribute insufficiently to human society Social parasitism (biology), interspecies relationship based on exploiting interactions between members of a social species "Social Parasite", a song ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End%20group
End groups are an important aspect of polymer synthesis and characterization. In polymer chemistry, they are functional groups that are at the very ends of a macromolecule or oligomer (IUPAC). In polymer synthesis, like condensation polymerization and free-radical types of polymerization, end-groups are commonly used a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinsried
Martinsried is one of Munich's two science suburbs. It is a section of Planegg municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria, Germany. Martinsried is best known as the location of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and the accompanying biotechnology campus, which ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20of%20Biochemistry
The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich. The institute was founded in 1973 by the merger of three formerly independent institutes: the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Institute of Protein and Leathe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival%20%28disambiguation%29
Survival is the act of surviving; to stay living Survival may also refer to: Biology Self-preservation, behavior that ensures the survival of an organism Survival of the fittest Medicine and statistics Survival analysis, a statistical technique to analyze longevity Survival rate, the percentage of people who ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instance%20%28computer%20science%29
When a computer system creates a new context based on a pre-existing model or scheme, the model is said to have been instantiated. The encapsulated context that results from this instantiation process is referred to as an instance of the model or scheme. This general concept applies specifically across computer science...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subclass%20%28set%20theory%29
In set theory and its applications throughout mathematics, a subclass is a class contained in some other class in the same way that a subset is a set contained in some other set. That is, given classes A and B, A is a subclass of B if and only if every member of A is also a member of B. If A and B are sets, then of co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon%20Benjamin%20Mountcastle
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s. This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-dual%20space
In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, the beta-dual or -dual is a certain linear subspace of the algebraic dual of a sequence space. Definition Given a sequence space the -dual of is defined as If is an FK-space then each in defines a continuous linear form on Examples Properties The beta-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijection%2C%20injection%20and%20surjection
In mathematics, injections, surjections, and bijections are classes of functions distinguished by the manner in which arguments (input expressions from the domain) and images (output expressions from the codomain) are related or mapped to each other. A function maps elements from its domain to elements in its codomain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico%20Comparetti
Domenico Comparetti (27 June 183520 January 1927) was an Italian scholar. He was born in Rome and died in Florence. Life He studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza, took his degree in 1855 in natural science and mathematics, and entered his uncle's pharmacy as an assistant. His scanty leisure was, however, give...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Watson%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson (born 3 May 1977) is a FreeBSD developer, and founder of the TrustedBSD Project. He is currently employed as a Professor of Systems, Security, and Architecture in the Security Research Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Education Watson graduated in computer scienc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendricus%20Stoof
Hendricus Theodorus Christiaan "Henk" Stoof (born 1962) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His main interests are atomic physics, condensed matter physics and many-body physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. During the last ten years, the group of H.T.C....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhelix
A superhelix is a molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix. This is significant to both proteins and genetic material, such as overwound circular DNA. The earliest significant reference in molecular biology is from 1971, by F. B. Fuller: A geometric invariant of a space curve, the writhing n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman (born August 21, 1947) is an American computer scientist, a Distinguished University Professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20factor
Load factor may refer to: Load factor (aeronautics), the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weight Load factor (computer science), the ratio of the number of records to the number of addresses within a data structure Load factor (electrical), the average power divided by the peak power over a period of time Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUS%20High%20School%20of%20Math%20and%20Science
The NUS High School of Math and Science, also known as NUS High School or NUSH, is a specialised independent high school in Singapore offering a six-year Integrated Programme (IP) leading to the NUS High School Diploma. Its parent university is the National University of Singapore. The school offers an accelerated mat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential-algebraic%20system%20of%20equations
In electrical engineering, a differential-algebraic system of equations (DAE) is a system of equations that either contains differential equations and algebraic equations, or is equivalent to such a system. In mathematics these are examples of differential algebraic varieties and correspond to ideals in differential po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%20Tatiana%27s%20Sex%20Advice%20to%20All%20Creation
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex is a 2002 popular science book by the British evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson written in the role of her alter ego, agony aunt Dr Tatiana. Dr Tatiana receives letters from various creatures about their sex lives, and r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Pontecorvo
Bruno Pontecorvo (; , Bruno Maksimovich Pontecorvo; 22 August 1913 – 24 September 1993) was an Italian and Soviet nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. A convinced communist, he defected to the Soviet Union in 1950, wher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFM
IFM may refer to: Organisations IFM Therapeutics, a US-based pharmaceutical company Institute of Fisheries Management, a UK non-profit organisation (Malaysian: 'Malaysian Physics Institute'), a Malaysian professional body Institute for Media and Communication Policy, a German research institution Intergalactic F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact%20Equation
In mathematics, the term exact equation can refer either of the following: Exact differential equation Exact differential form
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakayama%27s%20lemma
In mathematics, more specifically abstract algebra and commutative algebra, Nakayama's lemma — also known as the Krull–Azumaya theorem — governs the interaction between the Jacobson radical of a ring (typically a commutative ring) and its finitely generated modules. Informally, the lemma immediately gives a precise se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Lewis%2C%20Baron%20Lewis%20of%20Newnham
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham, FRS, HonFRSC (13 February 1928 – 17 July 2014) was an English chemist working mainly in the area of inorganic chemistry. Education and personal life Educated at Barrow Grammar School, he graduated in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of London, after whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichm%C3%BCller%20space
In mathematics, the Teichmüller space of a (real) topological (or differential) surface is a space that parametrizes complex structures on up to the action of homeomorphisms that are isotopic to the identity homeomorphism. Teichmüller spaces are named after Oswald Teichmüller. Each point in a Teichmüller space may...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%E2%80%93Fischer%20theorem
In mathematics, the Riesz–Fischer theorem in real analysis is any of a number of closely related results concerning the properties of the space L2 of square integrable functions. The theorem was proven independently in 1907 by Frigyes Riesz and Ernst Sigismund Fischer. For many authors, the Riesz–Fischer theorem refe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD-mix
In organic chemistry, AD-mix is a commercially available mixture of reagents that acts as an asymmetric catalyst for various chemical reactions, including the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes. The two letters AD, stand for asymmetric dihydroxylation. The mix is available in two variations, "AD-mix α" ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20conditional%20constant%20propagation
In computer science, sparse conditional constant propagation (SCCP) is an optimization frequently applied in compilers after conversion to static single assignment form (SSA). It simultaneously removes some kinds of dead code and propagates constants throughout a program. Moreover, it can find more constant values, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodynamics
Autodynamics was a physics theory proposed by Ricardo Carezani (1921–2016.) In the early, 1940s as a replacement for Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity. Autodynamics never gained status as a viable alternative model within the physics community, and today is wholly rejected by mainstream s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobi%C5%84ski%27s%20formula
In combinatorial mathematics, Dobiński's formula states that the n-th Bell number Bn (i.e., the number of partitions of a set of size n) equals where denotes Euler's number. The formula is named after G. Dobiński, who published it in 1877. Probabilistic content In the setting of probability theory, Dobiński's formu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20dependence%20analysis
In computer science, loop dependence analysis is a process which can be used to find dependencies within iterations of a loop with the goal of determining different relationships between statements. These dependent relationships are tied to the order in which different statements access memory locations. Using the anal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record-oriented%20filesystem
In computer science, a record-oriented filesystem is a file system where data is stored as collections of records. This is in contrast to a byte-oriented filesystem, where the data is treated as an unformatted stream of bytes. There are several different possible record formats; the details vary depending on the partic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plasma%20physicists
This is a list of physicists who have worked in or made notable contributions to the field of plasma physics. See also Whistler (radio) waves Langmuir waves Plasma physicists Plasma physicists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20Boolean%20algebra
In mathematics, a complete Boolean algebra is a Boolean algebra in which every subset has a supremum (least upper bound). Complete Boolean algebras are used to construct Boolean-valued models of set theory in the theory of forcing. Every Boolean algebra A has an essentially unique completion, which is a complete Bool...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Epstein%20%28cardiologist%29
Stephen E. Epstein is the Head of Translational and Vascular Biology Research at the MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Early Education After graduating summa cum laude from Columbia College and e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypton%20%28particle%29
In particle physics, the crypton is a hypothetical superheavy particle, thought to exist in a hidden sector of string theory. It has been proposed as a candidate particle to explain the dark matter content of the universe. Cryptons arising in the hidden sector of a superstring-derived flipped SU(5) GUT model have been...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20Marcus
Solomon Marcus (; 1 March 1925 – 17 March 2016) was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy (full member from 2001) and emeritus professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics. His main research was in the fields of mathematical analysis, mathematical and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20Panisperna%20boys
Via Panisperna boys (Italian: I ragazzi di Via Panisperna) is the name given to a group of young Italian scientists led by Enrico Fermi, who worked at the Royal Physics Institute of the University of Rome La Sapienza. In 1934 they made the famous discovery of slow neutrons, which later made possible the nuclear reactor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20interferometer
In physics, a neutron interferometer is an interferometer capable of diffracting neutrons, allowing the wave-like nature of neutrons, and other related phenomena, to be explored. Interferometry Interferometry inherently depends on the wave nature of the object. As pointed out by de Broglie in his PhD thesis, particles...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20fuzzy%20systems
In computer science and operations research, Genetic fuzzy systems are fuzzy systems constructed by using genetic algorithms or genetic programming, which mimic the process of natural evolution, to identify its structure and parameter. When it comes to automatically identifying and building a fuzzy system, given the h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-TEC
S-TEC may refer to: S-TEC Corporation, a US corporation and manufacturer of flight control systems Daewoo S-TEC engine, low-displacement engine codeveloped by Suzuki and Daewoo Motors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20closed
In mathematics a p-group is called power closed if for every section of the product of powers is again a th power. Regular p-groups are an example of power closed groups. On the other hand, powerful p-groups, for which the product of powers is again a th power are not power closed, as this property does not hold ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer%27s%20gap
Romer's gap is an example of an apparent gap in the tetrapod fossil record used in the study of evolutionary biology. Such gaps represent periods from which excavators have not yet found relevant fossils. Romer's gap is named after paleontologist Alfred Romer, who first recognised it. Recent discoveries in Scotland are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20energy
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to energy: Energy – in physics, this is an indirectly observed quantity often understood as the ability of a physical system to do work on other physical systems. Since work is defined as a force acting through a distance (a length of space), energy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerful%20p-group
In mathematics, in the field of group theory, especially in the study of p-groups and pro-p-groups, the concept of powerful p-groups plays an important role. They were introduced in , where a number of applications are given, including results on Schur multipliers. Powerful p-groups are used in the study of automorph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%27s%20equivalence%20method
In mathematics, Cartan's equivalence method is a technique in differential geometry for determining whether two geometrical structures are the same up to a diffeomorphism. For example, if M and N are two Riemannian manifolds with metrics g and h, respectively, when is there a diffeomorphism such that ? Although th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Twigg
Rebecca Twigg (born March 26, 1963) is an American former racing cyclist. Cycling career An academic prodigy, she enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle at the age of 14 and rode for the school's team. US national team coach Eddie Borysewicz saw her and invited her to join his team when she was 17. She e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC%20nomenclature%20for%20organic%20transformations
The IUPAC Nomenclature for Transformations is a methodology for naming a chemical reaction. Traditionally, most chemical reactions, especially in organic chemistry, are named after their inventors, the so-called name reactions, such as Knoevenagel condensation, Wittig reaction, Claisen-Schmidt condensation, Schotten–Ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-p%20group
In mathematics, a pro-p group (for some prime number p) is a profinite group such that for any open normal subgroup the quotient group is a p-group. Note that, as profinite groups are compact, the open subgroups are exactly the closed subgroups of finite index, so that the discrete quotient group is always finite. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Kramers
Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers (17 December 1894 – 24 April 1952) was a Dutch physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter and made important contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical physics. Background and education Hans Kramers was born on 17 December 18...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency
Latency or latent may refer to: Science and technology Latent heat, energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature process Latent variable, a variable that is not directly observed but inferred in statistics Biology and medicine Latency period or latent period, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Reece
Jane B. Reece (born 15 April 1944) is an American scientist and textbook author. Along with American biologist Neil Campbell, she wrote the widely used Campbell/Reece Biology textbooks. Reece received an A.B. in Biology from Harvard University, an M.S. in microbiology from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in bacteriolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Harman
Andrew Harman (born 1964) is an author from the United Kingdom known for writing pun-filled and farcical fantasy fiction. Life Andrew Harman studied biochemistry at the University of York, being a member of Wentworth College. Since 2000, Harman has moved on from writing to create YAY Games, a UK independent publishe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional%20genomics
Nutritional genomics, also known as nutrigenomics, is a science studying the relationship between human genome, human nutrition and health. People in the field work toward developing an understanding of how the whole body responds to a food via systems biology, as well as single gene/single food compound relationships...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Woit
Peter Woit (; born September 11, 1957) is an American theoretical physicist. He is a senior lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Woit, a critic of string theory, has published a book Not Even Wrong (2006) and writes a blog of the same name. Career Woit graduated in 1979 from Harvard Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Winter
Sir Gregory Paul Winter (born 14 April 1951) is a Nobel Prize-winning English molecular biologist best known for his work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies. His research career has been based almost entirely at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, in Cambrid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20compact%20quantum%20group
In mathematics and theoretical physics, a locally compact quantum group is a relatively new C*-algebraic approach toward quantum groups that generalizes the Kac algebra, compact-quantum-group and Hopf-algebra approaches. Earlier attempts at a unifying definition of quantum groups using, for example, multiplicative unit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Kibble
Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble (; 23 December 1932 – 2 June 2016) was a British theoretical physicist, senior research investigator at the Blackett Laboratory and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London. His research interests were in quantum field theory, especially the interface betw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Hellaby
Charles William Hellaby is a South African mathematician who is an associate professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, working in the field of cosmology. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and a member of the Baháʼí Faith. Life Hellaby was born to Rev. William ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616%20%28number%29
616 (six hundred [and] sixteen) is the natural number following 615 and preceding 617. While 666 is called the "number of the beast" in most manuscripts of Revelation , a fragment of the earliest papyrus 115 gives the number as 616. In mathematics 616 is a member of the Padovan sequence, coming after 265, 351, 465 (i...