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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siloxane
In organosilicon chemistry, a siloxane is an organic compound containing a functional group of two silicon atoms bound to an oxygen atom: . The parent siloxanes include the oligomeric and polymeric hydrides with the formulae and . Siloxanes also include branched compounds, the defining feature of which is that each...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Farmer
Dan Farmer (born April 5, 1962) is an American computer security researcher and programmer who was a pioneer in the development of vulnerability scanners for Unix operating systems and computer networks. Life and career Farmer developed his first software suite while he was a computer science student at Purdue Unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipulator%20%28device%29
In robotics, a manipulator is a device used to manipulate materials without direct physical contact by the operator. The applications were originally for dealing with radioactive or biohazardous materials, using robotic arms, or they were used in inaccessible places. In more recent developments they have been used in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet%20state
In quantum mechanics, a doublet is a composite quantum state of a system with an effective spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −1/2 and +1/2. Quantum systems with two possible states are sometimes called two-level systems. Essentially all occurrences of doublets in nature arise fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20letters%20used%20in%20mathematics%2C%20science%2C%20and%20engineering
Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indel
Indel (insertion-deletion) is a molecular biology term for an insertion or deletion of bases in the genome of an organism. Indels ≥ 50 bases in length are classified as structural variants. In coding regions of the genome, unless the length of an indel is a multiple of 3, it will produce a frameshift mutation. For exa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursa%20%28disambiguation%29
Bursa is a large city in Turkey Bursa may also refer to: Places and jurisdictions Bursa Province, Asian Turkey, named after its above capital Bursa (electoral district) Bursa (woreda), a district in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia Biology Bursa (genus), a genus of gastropods Bursa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20Sigma%20Rho
Phi Sigma Rho (; also known as Phi Rho or PSR) is a social sorority for individuals who identify as female or non-binary in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The sorority was founded in 1984 at Purdue University. It has since expanded to more than 40 colleges across the United States. History Phi Sigm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnum
Regnum may refer to: Latin for kingdom or dominion, see realm Regnum, Latin word for Kingdom (biology) REGNUM News Agency, a Russian news agency Champions of Regnum, a computer game An online database for PhyloCode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf (born 22 February 1960) is a German oceanographer and climatologist. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He studied physical oceanography at Bangor University and received his Ph.D. in oceanography from Victoria University of Wellington (1990). His work f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Mayer%20%28astronomer%29
Christian Mayer (20 August 1719 Mederitz – 16 April 1783 in Mannheim) was a Moravian-German Catholic priest, astronomer and teacher. Life He was born in Mederitz, Moravia. He became educated in Greek, Latin, mathematics, philosophy, and theology, although his place of studies is unknown. In his early twenties he decid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstein%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, Eisenstein's theorem, named after the German mathematician Gotthold Eisenstein, applies to the coefficients of any power series which is an algebraic function with rational number coefficients. Through the theorem, it is readily demonstrable, for example, that the exponential function must be a transcen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar%20mass%20distribution
In polymer chemistry, the molar mass distribution (or molecular weight distribution) describes the relationship between the number of moles of each polymer species () and the molar mass () of that species. In linear polymers, the individual polymer chains rarely have exactly the same degree of polymerization and molar ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAAT%20box
In molecular biology, a CCAAT box (also sometimes abbreviated a CAAT box or CAT box) is a distinct pattern of nucleotides with GGCCAATCT consensus sequence that occur upstream by 60–100 bases to the initial transcription site. The CAAT box signals the binding site for the RNA transcription factor, and is typically acco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyal%20product
In mathematics, the Moyal product (after José Enrique Moyal; also called the star product or Weyl–Groenewold product, after Hermann Weyl and Hilbrand J. Groenewold) is an example of a phase-space star product. It is an associative, non-commutative product, , on the functions on , equipped with its Poisson bracket (wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20period
In developmental psychology and developmental biology, a critical period is a maturational stage in the lifespan of an organism during which the nervous system is especially sensitive to certain environmental stimuli. If, for some reason, the organism does not receive the appropriate stimulus during this "critical peri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20polymerization
In polymer chemistry, free-radical polymerization (FRP) is a method of polymerization by which a polymer forms by the successive addition of free-radical building blocks (repeat units). Free radicals can be formed by a number of different mechanisms, usually involving separate initiator molecules. Following its generat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishon%20model
The Harari–Shupe preon model (also known as rishon model, RM) is the earliest effort to develop a preon model to explain the phenomena appearing in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. It was first developed independently by Haim Harari and by Michael A. Shupe and later expanded by Harari and his then-student N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20Galois%20theory
In mathematics, the fundamental theorem of Galois theory is a result that describes the structure of certain types of field extensions in relation to groups. It was proved by Évariste Galois in his development of Galois theory. In its most basic form, the theorem asserts that given a field extension E/F that is finite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Wheeler
Anne Wheeler, OC, (born September 23, 1946) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer, and director. Biography Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years of travels inspired her to become a storyteller and when she returned she jo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetramethylsilane
Tetramethylsilane (abbreviated as TMS) is the organosilicon compound with the formula Si(CH3)4. It is the simplest tetraorganosilane. Like all silanes, the TMS framework is tetrahedral. TMS is a building block in organometallic chemistry but also finds use in diverse niche applications. Synthesis and reactions TMS i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible%20element
In petrology and geochemistry, an incompatible element is one that is unsuitable in size and/or charge to the cation sites of the minerals of which it is included. It is defined by the partition coefficient between rock-forming minerals and melt being much smaller than 1. During the fractional crystallization of magma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20capacity%20ratio
In thermal physics and thermodynamics, the heat capacity ratio, also known as the adiabatic index, the ratio of specific heats, or Laplace's coefficient, is the ratio of the heat capacity at constant pressure () to heat capacity at constant volume (). It is sometimes also known as the isentropic expansion factor and is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20control
Motion control is a sub-field of automation, encompassing the systems or sub-systems involved in moving parts of machines in a controlled manner. Motion control systems are extensively used in a variety of fields for automation purposes, including precision engineering, micromanufacturing, biotechnology, and nanotechno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent%20type
In computer science and logic, a dependent type is a type whose definition depends on a value. It is an overlapping feature of type theory and type systems. In intuitionistic type theory, dependent types are used to encode logic's quantifiers like "for all" and "there exists". In functional programming languages like A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Lemaire
Bernard Lemaire, (born May 6, 1936) is a Canadian businessman. He was the Chairman of the Board of Cascades Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of packaging products, tissue products and fine papers products. Biography Born in Drummondville, Quebec, he studied civil engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke and McGill U...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Willits
Tim Willits is the former studio director, co-owner, and level designer of id Software. As of August 2019, Willits is the chief creative officer at Saber Interactive. He became a Director of 3D Realms with Saber Interactive’s acquisition of the company. Biography Willits is a computer science and business graduate of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon%20Hayes
Sharon Ruth Hayes (born January 15, 1948) is a Canadian former politician. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she represented the riding of Port Moody—Coquitlam from 1993 to 1997 for the Reform Party of Canada. Hayes is a graduate of the Honours Math and Computer Science program at the University of Waterloo; while enrolled t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20genus
In mathematics, the arithmetic genus of an algebraic variety is one of a few possible generalizations of the genus of an algebraic curve or Riemann surface. Projective varieties Let X be a projective scheme of dimension r over a field k, the arithmetic genus of X is defined asHere is the Euler characteristic of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum is a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The first issue of IEEE Spectrum was published in January 1964 as a successor to Electrical Engineering. In 2010, IEEE Spectrum was the recipient of Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Science/Technology C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical%20Laboratory
The Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab) was a scientific laboratory at the University of Chicago that was established in February 1942 to study and use the newly discovered chemical element plutonium. It researched plutonium's chemistry and metallurgy, designed the world's first nuclear reactors to produce it, and de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20point%20%28mathematics%29
Critical point is a term used in many branches of mathematics. When dealing with functions of a real variable, a critical point is a point in the domain of the function where the function is either not differentiable or the derivative is equal to zero. Similarly, when dealing with complex variables, a critical point i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feza%20G%C3%BCrsey
Feza Gürsey (; April 7, 1921 – April 13, 1992) was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his contributions to theoretical physics, his work on the chiral model and on SU(6) symmetry of the quark model are the most well-known. Early life Feza Gürsey was born on April 7, 1921, in Istanbul, to Reşit Süreyya Gürse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s%20Golf%204
, known in the PAL region as Everybody's Golf (Everybody's Golf 2004 in Australia), and in North America as Hot Shots Golf Fore!, is the fourth game in the Everybody's Golf series and the second released for PlayStation 2. Features This game delivers more realistic physics, sharper graphics, more golfers, caddies and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20trap
An ion trap is a combination of electric and/or magnetic fields used to capture charged particles — known as ions — often in a system isolated from an external environment. Atomic and molecular ion traps have a number of applications in physics and chemistry such as precision mass spectrometry, improved atomic frequenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredholm%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, Fredholm's theorems are a set of celebrated results of Ivar Fredholm in the Fredholm theory of integral equations. There are several closely related theorems, which may be stated in terms of integral equations, in terms of linear algebra, or in terms of the Fredholm operator on Banach spaces. The Fredh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal
Primal may refer to: Psychotherapy Primal, the core concept in primal therapy, denotes the full reliving and cathartic release of an early traumatic experience Primal scene (in psychoanalysis), refers to the witnessing by a young child of a sex act, usually between the parents, which traumatizes the child Mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCR
DCR may refer to: Computing .dcr, a raw image format Decision Composite Residuosity in cryptography, see Computational hardness assumption Design Change request, also Document Change request and Database Change request Device control register, a hardware register that controls some computer hardware device like a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20order
In mathematics, given a partial order and on a set and , respectively, the product order (also called the coordinatewise order or componentwise order) is a partial ordering on the Cartesian product Given two pairs and in declare that if and Another possible ordering on is the lexicographical order, which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Pace%20Marshall
Stephanie Anne Pace Marshall (born July 19, 1945), is an American educator and the founding president of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Education Stephanie Anne Pace was born to Dominick Martin and Anne (née Price) Pace in the Bronx, New York on July 19, 1945, and grew up in the New York city area. Sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20DeMarco
Tom DeMarco (born August 20, 1940) is an American software engineer, author, and consultant on software engineering topics. He was an early developer of structured analysis in the 1970s. Early life and education Tom DeMarco was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20%28band%29
Physics was an instrumental band from San Diego, California, established by John D. Goff and Denver Lucas in late 1993 after the breakup of Johnny Superbad & the Bulletcatchers. History Featuring a rotating cast of musicians from the San Diego experimental underground but mainly composed of Denver Lucas on drums, Jef...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly%20compact%20cardinal
In set theory, a branch of mathematics, a strongly compact cardinal is a certain kind of large cardinal. A cardinal κ is strongly compact if and only if every κ-complete filter can be extended to a κ-complete ultrafilter. Strongly compact cardinals were originally defined in terms of infinitary logic, where logical o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Jeckle
Mario Jeckle (25 August 1974 – 11 June 2004) was a German computer scientist. From 1997 to 2003, Jeckle attended the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg. In 1998, he received his computer science degree for his thesis "Prozeßkettenmodellierung am Beispiel der Gießwerkzeugentwicklung und prototypische Implementi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Ringsdorf
Helmut Ringsdorf (30 July 1929 – 20 March 2023) was a German polymer chemist. His work promoted cross-disciplinary discussions and collaborations in the field of polymer chemistry, biology, physics and medicine. Ringsdorf's major research works deal with the self-assembly of polymers into functional aggregates, wher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-matter%20expert
A subject-matter expert (SME) is a person who has accumulated great knowledge in a particular field or topic and this level of knowledge is demonstrated by the person's degree, licensure, and/or through years of professional experience with the subject, i.e. a PhD in chemistry could be easily declared as a SME in chemi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeling
Channeling, or channelling, may refer to: Science Channelling (physics), the process that constrains the path of a charged particle in a crystalline solid Metabolite or substrate channeling in biochemistry and cell physiology Other Legal channeling, a contractual or legal redirection of responsibilities from an or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthilf%20Hempel
Gotthilf Hempel (born March 8, 1929) is a German marine biologist and oceanographer. Live Hempel studied biology and geology at the universities of Mainz and Heidelberg. In 1952 he gained his Ph.D. with a study on the energetics of grasshopper jumps from Heidelberg University. He then went on to work as a scientific ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organosulfur%20chemistry
Organosulfur chemistry is the study of the properties and synthesis of organosulfur compounds, which are organic compounds that contain sulfur. They are often associated with foul odors, but many of the sweetest compounds known are organosulfur derivatives, e.g., saccharin. Nature is abound with organosulfur compounds—...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabelian%20group
In mathematics, a metabelian group is a group whose commutator subgroup is abelian. Equivalently, a group G is metabelian if and only if there is an abelian normal subgroup A such that the quotient group G/A is abelian. Subgroups of metabelian groups are metabelian, as are images of metabelian groups over group homom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavriil%20Adrianovich%20Tikhov
Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (, 1 May 1875 – 25 January 1960) was a Soviet astronomer who was a pioneer in astrobiology and is considered to be the father of astrobotany. He worked as an observer at the Pulkovo Observatory from 1906 until 1941. After undertaking an expedition to Alma-Ata to observe the solar eclipse of S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinberg%20angle
The weak mixing angle or Weinberg angle is a parameter in the Weinberg–Salam theory of the electroweak interaction, part of the Standard Model of particle physics, and is usually denoted as . It is the angle by which spontaneous symmetry breaking rotates the original and vector boson plane, producing as a result the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JILA
JILA, formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, is a physical science research institute in the United States. JILA is located on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. JILA was founded in 1962 as a joint institute of The University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%20Endy
Andrew (Drew) David Endy (born 1970) is a synthetic biologist and tenured associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, California. Education and Work History Endy received his PhD from Dartmouth College in 1997 for his work on genetic engineering using T7 phage. Endy was a junior fellow for 3 years a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calixarene
A calixarene is a macrocycle or cyclic oligomer based on a methylene-linked phenols. With hydrophobic cavities that can hold smaller molecules or ions, calixarenes belong to the class of cavitands known in host–guest chemistry. Nomenclature Calixarene nomenclature is straightforward and involves counting the number of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geobiology
Geobiology is a field of scientific research that explores the interactions between the physical Earth and the biosphere. It is a relatively young field, and its borders are fluid. There is considerable overlap with the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, microbiology, paleontology, and particularly soil science a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiyama%20coupling
The Hiyama coupling is a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of organosilanes with organic halides used in organic chemistry to form carbon–carbon bonds (C-C bonds). This reaction was discovered in 1988 by Tamejiro Hiyama and Yasuo Hatanaka as a method to form carbon-carbon bonds synthetically with chemo- and r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon%20physics
Two-photon physics, also called gamma–gamma physics, is a branch of particle physics that describes the interactions between two photons. Normally, beams of light pass through each other unperturbed. Inside an optical material, and if the intensity of the beams is high enough, the beams may affect each other through a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Clapperton
Bain Hugh Clapperton (18 May 1788 – 13 April 1827) was a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa. Early career Clapperton was born in Annan, Dumfriesshire, where his father, George Clapperton, was a surgeon. He gained some knowledge of practical mathematics and navigation, and at thirteen was ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill%20Scholarship
The Churchill Scholarship is awarded by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States to graduates of the more than one hundred colleges and universities invited to participate in the Churchill Scholarship Program, for the pursuit of research and study in the physical and natural sciences, mathematics, engineer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Aquarium
There are several institutions known as the National Aquarium: Africa National Marine Aquarium of Namibia Asia National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Taiwan Europe National Aquarium Denmark National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth, England North America National Aquarium (Baltimore), U.S. National Aquarium...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Babayan
Boris Artashesovich Babayan (; ; born Baku, 20 December 1933) is a Soviet and Russian computer scientist of Armenian descent, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the former Soviet Union and Russia. Biography Babayan was born in Baku, Soviet Union to an Armenian family. He graduated from the Moscow ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Kaplan
Viktor Kaplan (27 November 1876 – 23 August 1934) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Life Kaplan was born in Mürzzuschlag, Austria into a railroad worker's family. He graduated from high school in Vienna in 1895, after which he attended the Technical University of Vienna, where he studied...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahn%E2%80%93Teller%20effect
The Jahn–Teller effect (JT effect or JTE) is an important mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in molecular and solid-state systems which has far-reaching consequences in different fields, and is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spectroscopy, stereochemistry, crystal chemistry, molecular and solid-state ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/149%20%28number%29
149 (one hundred [and] forty-nine) is the natural number between 148 and 150. In mathematics 149 is a prime number, the first prime whose difference from the previous prime is exactly 10, an emirp, and an irregular prime. After 1 and 127, it is the third smallest de Polignac number, an odd number that cannot be repres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNH
SNH may refer to: Scottish Natural Heritage Stanthorpe Airport, IATA airport code "SNH" Organotin hydrides R4−nSnHn in organotin chemistry SNH48
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20College%20%28Indiana%29
Franklin College is a private liberal arts college in Franklin, Indiana. It was founded in 1834 and has a wooded campus spanning including athletic fields and a biology woodland. The college offers its approximately 1,000 students Bachelor of Arts degrees in 49 majors from 25 academic disciplines, 43 minors, 11 pre-p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotropic%20manifold
In mathematics, an isotropic manifold is a manifold in which the geometry does not depend on directions. Formally, we say that a Riemannian manifold is isotropic if for any point and unit vectors , there is an isometry of with and . Every connected isotropic manifold is homogeneous, i.e. for any there is an isome...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christer%20Fuglesang
Arne Christer Fuglesang (born 18 March 1957) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. Married with three children, he was a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Gillies
Donald Gillies may refer to: Donald B. Gillies (1928–1975), mathematician and computer scientist Donald A. Gillies (born 1944), historian of mathematics Donnie Gillies (born 1951), Scottish footballer See also Donald Gillis (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3%20algorithm
In decision tree learning, ID3 (Iterative Dichotomiser 3) is an algorithm invented by Ross Quinlan used to generate a decision tree from a dataset. ID3 is the precursor to the C4.5 algorithm, and is typically used in the machine learning and natural language processing domain Algorithm The ID3 algorithm begins with th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4.5%20algorithm
C4.5 is an algorithm used to generate a decision tree developed by Ross Quinlan. C4.5 is an extension of Quinlan's earlier ID3 algorithm. The decision trees generated by C4.5 can be used for classification, and for this reason, C4.5 is often referred to as a statistical classifier. In 2011, authors of the Weka machine ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%20zero
In mathematics, more specifically in the field of analytic number theory, a Landau–Siegel zero or simply Siegel zero (also known as exceptional zero), named after Edmund Landau and Carl Ludwig Siegel, is a type of potential counterexample to the generalized Riemann hypothesis, on the zeros of Dirichlet L-functions asso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution
Distribution may refer to: Mathematics Distribution (mathematics), generalized functions used to formulate solutions of partial differential equations Probability distribution, the probability of a particular value or value range of a variable Cumulative distribution function, in which the probability of being no gre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20expansion%20coefficients%20of%20the%20elements%20%28data%20page%29
Thermal expansion Notes All values refer to 25 °C unless noted. References CRC As quoted from this source in an online version of: David R. Lide (ed), CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 84th Edition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida, 2003; Section 12, Properties of Solids; Thermal and Physical Properties of Pur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung-Chang%20Lin
Hung Chang Lin (Jimmy Lin) (; August 8, 1919 – March 5, 2009) was a Chinese-American inventor and a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland. Early life and education Lin was born in Shanghai, China. He attended Shanghai Jiaotong University, China on a tennis scholarship. Lin graduated with B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20O%27Keefe
Richard A. O'Keefe is a computer scientist best known for writing the influential 1990 book on Prolog programming, The Craft of Prolog. He was a lecturer and researcher at the department of computer science at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand and concentrates on programming languages for logic programmin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%E2%80%93K%C3%A4hler%20theorem
In mathematics, the Cartan–Kähler theorem is a major result on the integrability conditions for differential systems, in the case of analytic functions, for differential ideals . It is named for Élie Cartan and Erich Kähler. Meaning It is not true that merely having contained in is sufficient for integrability. Ther...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20affix%20grammar
In computer science, extended affix grammars (EAGs) are a formal grammar formalism for describing the context free and context sensitive syntax of language, both natural language and programming languages. EAGs are a member of the family of two-level grammars; more specifically, a restriction of Van Wijngaarden gramma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayori%20Inouye
Masayori Inouye is a distinguished professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University. He, along with his team, discovered natural antisense RNA. Inouye was also a key scientist involved in the discovery and characterization of retrons, whic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Grodzinsky
Alan J. Grodzinsky is an American scientist and Professor of Electrical, Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at MIT. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1971, obtaining a doctorate three years later under the supervision of James Melcher, with a the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportion%20%28architecture%29
Proportion is a central principle of architectural theory and an important connection between mathematics and art. It is the visual effect of the relationship of the various objects and spaces that make up a structure to one another and to the whole. These relationships are often governed by multiples of a standard uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20backup%20software
This is a list of notable backup software that performs data backups. Archivers, transfer protocols, and version control systems are often used for backups but only software focused on backup is listed here. See Comparison of backup software for features. Free and open-source software Commercial and closed-source sof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roborior
Roborior is a robot manufactured by the robotics company Tmsuk and marketed by Sanyo. It is used both for lighting and guarding homes. Roborior is roughly the size of a watermelon and can produce different hues of color ranging from blue, purple, and orange. The Roborior is also equipped with a digital video camera tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20L.%20Gormley
Joseph Leo Gormley (May 22, 1914 – June 6, 2004) was the chief of chemistry and toxicology for the FBI. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, he was raised in Somerville, Massachusetts. Gormley received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Boston College. With his wife Frances he fathered and raised nine c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering%20parameters
Scattering parameters or S-parameters (the elements of a scattering matrix or S-matrix) describe the electrical behavior of linear electrical networks when undergoing various steady state stimuli by electrical signals. The parameters are useful for several branches of electrical engineering, including electronics, com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neritic%20zone
The neritic zone (or sublittoral zone) is the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately in depth. From the point of view of marine biology it forms a relatively stable and well-illuminated environment for marine life, from plankton up to large fish and corals, whil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream%20%28disambiguation%29
A slipstream is a pocket of reduced pressure following behind an object moving through a fluid medium. Slipstream may also refer to: Computing Slipstream (computer science), the technique of running a shortened program concurrently and ahead of the execution of the full program Slipstream (computing), a slang term ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20geometry
In mathematics, arithmetic geometry is roughly the application of techniques from algebraic geometry to problems in number theory. Arithmetic geometry is centered around Diophantine geometry, the study of rational points of algebraic varieties. In more abstract terms, arithmetic geometry can be defined as the study of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak%20University%20of%20Technology%20in%20Bratislava
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) () is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the first 150 in Computer Science, the only university in central Europe in the first 200. However, it lost this position in the two ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse%20Ouimet
Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet, (June 12, 1908 – December 20, 1988) was a Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) from 1958 to 1967. Born in Montreal, Ouimet received a degree in electrical engineering from McGill University in 1932. In 1932, he helped design, build, and demon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehension
Comprehension may refer to: Comprehension (logic), the totality of intensions, that is, properties or qualities, that an object possesses Comprehension approach, several methodologies of language learning that emphasize understanding language rather than speaking Comprehension axiom, an axiom in Zermelo–Fraenkel se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depletion%20region
In semiconductor physics, the depletion region, also called depletion layer, depletion zone, junction region, space charge region or space charge layer, is an insulating region within a conductive, doped semiconductor material where the mobile charge carriers have been diffused away, or have been forced away by an elec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20structure
Ring structure may refer to: Chiastic structure, a literary technique Heterocyclic compound, a chemical structure Ring (mathematics), an algebraic structure See also Ring (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMCB
IMCB may refer to: International Medical Commission on Bhopal Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (disambiguation) Independent Mobile Classification Board, a defunct NGO replaced by the British Board of Film Classification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny%20Observatory
The Allegheny Observatory is an American astronomical research institution, a part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. The facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (ref. # 79002157, added June 22, 1979) and is designated as a Pennsylvania state and Pittsbur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Information%20Theory
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Information Theory Society. It covers information theory and the mathematics of communications. It was established in 1953 as IRE Transactions on Information Theory. The editor-in-chief is Muriel Médard (Massachu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossed%20module
In mathematics, and especially in homotopy theory, a crossed module consists of groups and , where acts on by automorphisms (which we will write on the left, , and a homomorphism of groups that is equivariant with respect to the conjugation action of on itself: and also satisfies the so-called Peiffer ide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Rosenhan
David L. Rosenhan (; November 22, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American psychologist. He is best known for the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the validity of psychiatry diagnoses. Biography Rosenhan received his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1951 from Yeshiva College, his master's degree in ec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleoperation
Teleoperation (or remote operation) indicates operation of a system or machine at a distance. It is similar in meaning to the phrase "remote control" but is usually encountered in research, academia and technology. It is most commonly associated with robotics and mobile robots but can be applied to a whole range of c...