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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Ullmann | Fritz Ullmann (July 2, 1875 in Fürth – March 17, 1939 in Berlin) was a German chemist.
Ullmann was born in Fürth and started studying chemistry in Nuremberg, but received his PhD of the University of Geneva for work with Carl Gräbe in 1895. After some time in Geneva he went to Berlin in 1905.
Ullmann taught technical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome%20Research | Genome Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Disregarding review journals, Genome Research ranks 2nd in the category 'Genetics and Genomics' after Nature Genetics. The focus of the journal is on research that provides novel insights into the genome biology of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sex%20Files | The Sex Files is a television program broadcasting on Discovery Channel Canada and was broadcast on CTV network stations after the watershed, due to its highly explicit discussion of the nature of sexuality issues and behavior, from genetics, reproduction, sexual orientation, puberty, etc. As one would expect of a show... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagnation%20point | In fluid dynamics, a stagnation point is a point in a flow field where the local velocity of the fluid is zero. A plentiful, albeit surprising, example of such points seem to appear in all but the most extreme cases of fluid dynamics in the form of the "no-slip condition"; the assumption that any portion of a flow fiel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20reaction%20analysis | Nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) is a nuclear method of nuclear spectroscopy in materials science to obtain concentration vs. depth distributions for certain target chemical elements in a solid thin film.
Mechanism of NRA
If irradiated with select projectile nuclei at kinetic energies Ekin, target solid thin-film chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%20beta%20function | In mathematics, the Dirichlet beta function (also known as the Catalan beta function) is a special function, closely related to the Riemann zeta function. It is a particular Dirichlet L-function, the L-function for the alternating character of period four.
Definition
The Dirichlet beta function is defined as
or, equi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20Sauer | Joachim Sauer (; born 19 April 1949) is a German quantum chemist and professor emeritus of physical and theoretical chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the husband of the former chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. He is one of the seven members of the board of trustees of the Friede Springer Foundat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap%C3%A9ry%27s%20constant | In mathematics, Apéry's constant is the sum of the reciprocals of the positive cubes. That is, it is defined as the number
where is the Riemann zeta function. It has an approximate value of
.
The constant is named after Roger Apéry. It arises naturally in a number of physical problems, including in the second-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid%20%28mathematics%29 | This page discusses a class of topological groups. For the wrapped loop of wire, see Solenoid.
In mathematics, a solenoid is a compact connected topological space (i.e. a continuum) that may be obtained as the inverse limit of an inverse system of topological groups and continuous homomorphisms
where each is a circl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum%20integer | In mathematics, a natural number n is a Blum integer if is a semiprime for which p and q are distinct prime numbers congruent to 3 mod 4. That is, p and q must be of the form , for some integer t. Integers of this form are referred to as Blum primes. This means that the factors of a Blum integer are Gaussian primes wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%20Stopford%27s%20School | Bishop Stopford's School, commonly known as Bishop Stopford's, or (simply) just Bishop's, is a voluntary aided co-educational secondary school specialising in mathematics, computing and engineering, with a sixth form. It is a London Diocesan Church of England school with worship in a relatively High Church Anglo-Catho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adatom | An adatom is an atom that lies on a crystal surface, and can be thought of as the opposite of a surface vacancy. This term is used in surface chemistry and epitaxy, when describing single atoms lying on surfaces and surface roughness. The word is a portmanteau of "adsorbed atom". A single atom, a cluster of atoms, or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust%20%28disambiguation%29 | Thrust is a reaction force described by Newton's Second and Third Laws.
Thrust may also refer to:
Thrust fault, in geology
Thrust block, a specialised form of thrust bearing used in ships
Thrust (particle physics), a quantity that characterizes the collision of high energy particles in a collider
Thrust bearing, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20wheel%20%28firework%29 | The Catherine wheel or pinwheel is a type of firework consisting either of a powder-filled spiral tube, or an angled rocket mounted with a pin through its center. When ignited, the energy of the fireworks not only create sparks and flame, but cause the wheel to quickly rotate, making the display much more spectacular. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Callus is an area of toughened skin.
Callus may also refer to:
Fibrocartilage callus, the temporary new bony tissue that forms at the ends of a fractured bone
Callus (botany), a fleshy lump of tissue on the labellum (or lip) of orchid flowers
Callus (cell biology), a mass of unorganized cells
Callus (mollusc), a thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ice is the solid form of water.
Ice or ICE may also refer to:
Computing and technology
ICE (scanning) (Image Correction and Enhancement), for removing surface defects from a scanned photo/image
In Case of Emergency, emergency numbers stored on a mobile or cellular phone
ICE (cipher), a block cipher in cryptograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudder%20ratio | Rudder ratio refers to a value that is monitored by the computerized flight control systems in modern aircraft. The ratio relates the aircraft airspeed to the rudder deflection setting that is in effect at the time. As an aircraft accelerates, the deflection of the rudder needs to be reduced proportionately within the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Gravitational%20Physics | The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein's theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, and gravitational-wave astronomy. The institute was founded in 1995 and is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Quisquater | Jean-Jacques Quisquater (born 13 January 1945) is a Belgian cryptographer and a professor at University of Louvain (UCLouvain). He received, with Claus P. Schnorr, the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics in 2013, and the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award 2013.
On Saturday, 1 February 2014, Flemish public news age... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles%20and%20fixed%20points | In mathematics, the cycles of a permutation of a finite set S correspond bijectively to the orbits of the subgroup generated by acting on S. These orbits are subsets of S that can be written as , such that
for , and .
The corresponding cycle of is written as ( c1 c2 ... cn ); this expression is not unique since ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20solution | A solid solution, a term popularly used for metals, is a homogeneous mixture of two different kinds of atoms in solid state and having a single crystal structure. Many examples can be found in metallurgy, geology, and solid-state chemistry. The word "solution" is used to describe the intimate mixing of components at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma%20Goldberg | Irma Goldberg (born 1871) was one of the first female organic chemists to have and sustain a successful career, her work even being quoted in her own name in standard textbooks.
Life
Education
Born in Moscow to a Russian-Jewish family, she later traveled to Geneva in the 1890s to study chemistry at Geneva University.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promega | Promega Corporation is a Madison, Wisconsinbased manufacturer of enzymes and other products for biotechnology and molecular biology with a portfolio covering the fields of genomics, protein analysis and expression, cellular analysis, drug discovery, and genetic identity.
History
Promega Corporation was founded by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Cryobiology | The Society for Cryobiology is an international scientific society that was founded in 1964. Its objectives are to promote research in low temperature biology, to improve scientific understanding in this field, and to disseminate and aid in the application of this knowledge. The Society also publishes a journal called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20J.%20Weber | Robert J. Weber (born April, 1947) is the Frederic E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
Biography
Education
Weber received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1969 from Princeton University, and both his MS in 1972 and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon%20asymmetry | In physical cosmology, the baryon asymmetry problem, also known as the matter asymmetry problem or the matter–antimatter asymmetry problem, is the observed imbalance in baryonic matter (the type of matter experienced in everyday life) and antibaryonic matter in the observable universe. Neither the standard model of par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSF | LSF may refer to:
Science and technology
IBM Spectrum LSF, a software job scheduler formerly called Platform LSF
Laser-stimulated fluorescence, a spectroscopic method
Late SV40 factor, a protein
Lightweight steel framing, a building material
Line spectral frequencies, in signal processing
Line spread function, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorica%20Panti%C4%87 | Zorica Pantić, also known as Zorica Pantić-Tanner, born 1951 in Yugoslavia, is a professor of electrical engineering and past president of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
Pantić was previously the founding dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and director of the Sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20flow%20rate | In physics and engineering, mass flow rate is the mass of a substance which passes per unit of time. Its unit is kilogram per second in SI units, and slug per second or pound per second in US customary units. The common symbol is (ṁ, pronounced "m-dot"), although sometimes μ (Greek lowercase mu) is used.
Sometimes,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somos%27%20quadratic%20recurrence%20constant | In mathematics, Somos' quadratic recurrence constant, named after Michael Somos, is the number
This can be easily re-written into the far more quickly converging product representation
which can then be compactly represented in infinite product form by:
The constant σ arises when studying the asymptotic behaviour o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gemmell%20Cochran | William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States.
Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge. He worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1934 to 1939, when he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20cryptography | Strong cryptography or cryptographically strong are general terms used to designate the cryptographic algorithms that, when used correctly, provide a very high (usually unsurmountable) level of protection against any eavesdropper, including the government agencies. There is no precise definition of the boundary line b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Science%20and%20Mathematics%20School | The Australian Science and Mathematics School (ASMS) is a coeducational public senior high school for Years 10–12 located on the Sturt campus of Flinders University in Bedford Park, a southern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. As the school is unzoned, it attracts students from all across the Adelaide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOLF | AMOLF is a research institute and part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). AMOLF carries out fundamental research on the physics and design principles of natural and man-made complex matter. AMOLF uses these insights to create novel functional materials and find new solutions to societal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Reviews%20Microbiology | Nature Reviews Microbiology is a monthly peer-reviewed review journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2003. The journal publishes reviews and perspectives on microbiology, bridging fundamental research and its clinical, industrial, and environmental applications. The editor-in-chief is Ashley York.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Reviews%20Genetics | Nature Reviews Genetics is a monthly review journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2000 and covers the full breadth of modern genetics. The editor-in-chief is Linda Koch. The journal publishes review and perspective articles written by experts in the field subject to peer review and copy editing t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20E.%20Soul%C3%A9 | Michael Ellman Soulé (May 28, 1936 – June 17, 2020) was an American biologist, known for his work in promoting the idea of conservation biology.
Soulé was born in San Diego, California, the son of Berenice (Ellman) and Herman Herzoff. His father died when he was two, and he was adopted by his stepfather Alan Soulé. He... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BAlio%20C%C3%A9sar%20de%20Mello%20e%20Souza | Júlio César de Mello e Souza (Rio de Janeiro, May 6, 1895 – Recife, June 18, 1974), was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.
He wrote 69 novels... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20data%20type | In computer programming languages, a recursive data type (also known as a recursively-defined, inductively-defined or inductive data type) is a data type for values that may contain other values of the same type. Data of recursive types are usually viewed as directed graphs.
An important application of recursion in co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartha%20Knoppers | Bartha Maria Knoppers, OC OQ (born May 26, 1951) is a Canadian law Professor and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics, genomics and biotechnology.
Born in Hilversum, Netherlands, she received a Bachelor of Arts (French and English Literature) from McMaster University (1972), a Master of Arts degree in comparat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20classification%20%28disambiguation%29 | Scientific classification is a practice and science of categorization.
Scientific classification may also refer to:
Chemical classification
Mathematical classification, construction of subsets into a set
Statistical classification, the mathematical problem of assigning a label to an object based on a set of its att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnow%20Institute%20for%20Advanced%20Study | The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study brings together researchers from many disciplines to study the phenomenon known as the mind. A unit of George Mason University, the Krasnow Institute also serves as a center for doctoral education in neuroscience. Research at the institute is funded by agencies such as the Natio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrupole%20ion%20trap | In experimental physics, a quadrupole ion trap or paul trap is a type of ion trap that uses dynamic electric fields to trap charged particles. They are also called radio frequency (RF) traps or Paul traps in honor of Wolfgang Paul, who invented the device and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20A.%20Welch | Major William Addams Welch (August 20, 1868 – May 4, 1941) was an American engineer and environmentalist who would have a major impact on the state and national park systems of the United States. Born in Cynthiana, Kentucky, he obtained a civil engineering degree from Colorado College in 1882 and a master's degree from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Xaver%20Kugler | Franz Xaver Kugler (27 November 1862 – 25 January 1929) was a German chemist, mathematician, Assyriologist, and Jesuit priest.
Kugler was born in Königsbach, Palatinate, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1885, and the following year he entered the Jesuits. By 1893 he had been ordai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N400%20%28neuroscience%29 | The N400 is a component of time-locked EEG signals known as event-related potentials (ERP). It is a negative-going deflection that peaks around 400 milliseconds post-stimulus onset, although it can extend from 250-500 ms, and is typically maximal over centro-parietal electrode sites. The N400 is part of the normal brai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20numbers%20of%20the%20second%20kind | In mathematics, particularly in combinatorics, a Stirling number of the second kind (or Stirling partition number) is the number of ways to partition a set of n objects into k non-empty subsets and is denoted by or . Stirling numbers of the second kind occur in the field of mathematics called combinatorics and the st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20numbers%20of%20the%20first%20kind | In mathematics, especially in combinatorics, Stirling numbers of the first kind arise in the study of permutations. In particular, the Stirling numbers of the first kind count permutations according to their number of cycles (counting fixed points as cycles of length one).
The Stirling numbers of the first and second... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B6licher%20space | In mathematics, Frölicher spaces extend the notions of calculus and smooth manifolds. They were introduced in 1982 by the mathematician Alfred Frölicher.
Definition
A Frölicher space consists of a non-empty set X together with a subset C of Hom(R, X) called the set of smooth curves, and a subset F of Hom(X, R) called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminate | In chemistry, an aluminate is a compound containing an oxyanion of aluminium, such as sodium aluminate. In the naming of inorganic compounds, it is a suffix that indicates a polyatomic anion with a central aluminium atom.
Aluminate oxyanions
Aluminium oxide (alumina) is amphoteric: it dissolves in both bases and aci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Gazzaniga | Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12, 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the USA, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. He is one of the leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience, the study of the neural basis of mind. He is a member of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Elachi | Charles Elachi (born April 18, 1947) is a Lebanese-American professor (emeritus) of electrical engineering and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2001 to 2016 he was the 8th director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech.
Early life and education
Elachi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic%20energy%20length%20scale | The characteristic energy length scale describes the size of the region from which energy flows to a rapidly moving crack. If material properties change within the characteristic energy length scale, local wave speeds can dominate crack dynamics. This can lead to supersonic fracture.
Materials science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally%20measurable%20set | In mathematics, a subset of a Polish space is universally measurable if it is measurable with respect to every complete probability measure on that measures all Borel subsets of . In particular, a universally measurable set of reals is necessarily Lebesgue measurable (see below).
Every analytic set is universally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution%20ensemble | In cryptography, a distribution ensemble or probability ensemble is a family of distributions or random variables where is a (countable) index set, and each is a random variable, or probability distribution. Often and it is required that each have a certain property for n sufficiently large.
For example, a unifor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom%20ensemble | In cryptography, a pseudorandom ensemble is a family of variables meeting the following criteria:
Let be a uniform ensemble
and be an ensemble. The ensemble is called pseudorandom if and
are indistinguishable in polynomial time.
References
Goldreich, Oded (2001). Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 1, Basic To... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn | Spawn or spawning may refer to:
Spawn (biology), the eggs and sperm of aquatic animals
Arts, entertainment, and media
Spawn (character), a fictional character in the comic series of the same name and in the associated franchise
Spawn: Armageddon, a 2003 video game based on the comic series for sixth generation cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Hagen | Carl Hagen may refer to:
Carl I. Hagen (born 1944), Norwegian politician
Carl Fredrik Hagen (born 1991), Norwegian cyclist
Carl Heinrich Hagen (1785–1856), jurist, socio-economist and government official
C. R. Hagen (born 1937), professor of particle physics
See also
Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749–1829), German che... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20hypergeometric%20series | In mathematics, basic hypergeometric series, or q-hypergeometric series, are q-analogue generalizations of generalized hypergeometric series, and are in turn generalized by elliptic hypergeometric series.
A series xn is called hypergeometric if the ratio of successive terms xn+1/xn is a rational function of n. If th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPAC | MOPAC is a popular computer program used in computational chemistry. It is designed to implement semi-empirical quantum chemistry algorithms, and it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
MOPAC2016 is the current version. MOPAC2016 is able to perform calculations on small molecules and enzymes using PM7, PM6, PM3, AM1, MNDO... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Rusczyk | Richard Rusczyk (; ; born September 21, 1971) is the founder and chief executive officer of Art of Problem Solving Inc. (as well as the website, which serves as a mathematics forum and place to hold online classes) and a co-author of the Art of Problem Solving textbooks. Rusczyk was a national Mathcounts participant in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican%20Advanced%20Technology%20Telescope | The Alice P. Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope observing in the optical and infrared situated on Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, United States. Measuring wide, the telescope achieved its first... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execute%20in%20place | In computer science, execute in place (XIP) is a method of executing programs directly from long-term storage rather than copying it into RAM. It is an extension of using shared memory to reduce the total amount of memory required.
Its general effect is that the program text consumes no writable memory, saving it for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, data (treated as singular, plural, or as a mass noun) is any sequence of one or more symbols; datum is a single symbol of data. Data requires interpretation to become information. Digital data is data that is represented using the binary number system of ones (1) and zeros (0), instead of analog re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%20and%20hunter | In physics, The Monkey and the Hunter is a hypothetical scenario often used to illustrate the effect of gravity on projectile motion. It can be presented as exercise problem or as a demonstration. No live monkeys are used in the demonstrations.
The essentials of the problem are stated in many introductory guides to ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNDO | MNDO, or Modified Neglect of Diatomic Overlap is a semi-empirical method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in computational chemistry. It is based on the Neglect of Diatomic Differential Overlap integral approximation. Similarly, this method replaced the earlier MINDO method. It is part of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20Model%201 | Austin Model 1, or AM1, is a semi-empirical method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in computational chemistry. It is based on the Neglect of Differential Diatomic Overlap integral approximation. Specifically, it is a generalization of the modified neglect of differential diatomic overlap ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM3%20%28chemistry%29 | PM3, or Parametric Method 3, is a semi-empirical method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in computational chemistry. It is based on the Neglect of Differential Diatomic Overlap integral approximation.
The PM3 method uses the same formalism and equations as the AM1 method. The only diffe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Law | "First Law" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the October 1956 issue of Fantastic Universe magazine and later collected in The Rest of the Robots (1964) and The Complete Robot (1982). The title of the story is a reference to the first of the Three Laws of Robotics.
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octahedral%20molecular%20geometry | In chemistry, octahedral molecular geometry, also called square bipyramidal, describes the shape of compounds with six atoms or groups of atoms or ligands symmetrically arranged around a central atom, defining the vertices of an octahedron. The octahedron has eight faces, hence the prefix octa. The octahedron is one of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron%20%28journal%29 | Neuron is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier. Established in 1988, it covers neuroscience and related biological processes.
The current editor in chief is Mariela Zirlinger. The founding editors were Lily Jan, A. James Hudspeth, Louis Reichardt, Roger Nicoll, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry and physics, cohesion (), also called cohesive attraction or cohesive force, is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive. It is an intrinsic property of a substance that is caused by the shape and structure of its molecules, which makes the distribution of surro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20object | In mathematics, specifically in category theory, an exponential object or map object is the categorical generalization of a function space in set theory. Categories with all finite products and exponential objects are called cartesian closed categories. Categories (such as subcategories of Top) without adjoined product... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethyl%20borate | Trimethyl borate is the organoboron compound with the formula B(OCH3)3. It is a colourless liquid that burns with a green flame. It is an intermediate in the preparation of sodium borohydride and is a popular reagent in organic chemistry. It is a weak Lewis acid (AN = 23, Gutmann-Beckett method).
Borate esters are pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Trinkaus | Erik Trinkaus (born December 24, 1948) is a paleoanthropologist specializing in Neandertal and early modern human biology and human evolution. Trinkaus researches the evolution of the species Homo sapiens and recent human diversity, focusing on the paleoanthropology and emergence of late archaic and early modern human... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20scheme | The theory of association schemes arose in statistics, in the theory of experimental design for the analysis of variance. In mathematics, association schemes belong to both algebra and combinatorics. In algebraic combinatorics, association schemes provide a unified approach to many topics, for example combinatorial des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang%20scheduling | In computer science, gang scheduling is a scheduling algorithm for parallel systems that schedules related threads or processes to run simultaneously on different processors. Usually these will be threads all belonging to the same process, but they may also be from different processes, where the processes could have a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Tripos | The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. It is the oldest Tripos examined at the university.
Origin
In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was a distinctive written examination of undergraduate students of the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20inelastic%20scattering | In particle physics, deep inelastic scattering is the name given to a process used to probe the insides of hadrons (particularly the baryons, such as protons and neutrons), using electrons, muons and neutrinos. It was first attempted in the 1960s and 1970s and provided the first convincing evidence of the reality of qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20arithmetic%20progression | In mathematics, a generalized arithmetic progression (or multiple arithmetic progression) is a generalization of an arithmetic progression equipped with multiple common differences – whereas an arithmetic progression is generated by a single common difference, a generalized arithmetic progression can be generated by mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai%20Nessyahu | Mordechai Nessyahu (September 25, 1929 – April 23, 1997) was an Israeli political theorist and philosopher of science, as well as the originator of a worldview he called cosmotheism.
Biography
While studying physics and philosophy at the Hebrew University, Nessyahu began to formulate the worldview he eventually called... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aris%20Poulianos | Aris Poulianos (born 24 July 1924) is a Greek anthropologist and archaeologist.
Early life and career
Before becoming an anthropologist, Poulianos fought during World War II as a member of ELAS in 1942 and 1943. During the Greek Civil War, he fought on the side of the DSE in 1948 and 1949. After the war, Poulianos stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-generation%20wavelet%20transform | In signal processing, the second-generation wavelet transform (SGWT) is a wavelet transform where the filters (or even the represented wavelets) are not designed explicitly, but the transform consists of the application of the Lifting scheme.
Actually, the sequence of lifting steps could be converted to a regular discr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Forbes | Bruce David Forbes (born March 30, 1948) is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. Born in Michigan, he grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota. His parents, Ernest Linwood Forbes and Marie Louise Forbes, met in Rochester. Ernie eventually became a hospital administrator at Methodist Hospital in Mitchell. Marie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Klibanov | Alexander Klibanov may refer to:
Alexander Klibanov (biologist), professor of biology at the University of Virginia
Alexander Klibanov (chemist), professor of chemistry and bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohumil%20Sekla | Bohumil Sekla (16 May 1901 in Bohuslavice – 7 August 1987 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak biologist. He specialised in genetics and was known as an expert in determining parenthood by the biological-hereditary method.
Sekla studied at Charles University in Prague, first history, then psychology and finally biology. Afte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Honl | Ivan Honl (23 April 1866 in Zbýšov, Moravia – 7 June 1936 in , Náchod, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech bacteriologist, serologist and activist in the struggle against tuberculosis. Honl became one of founders of Czech microbiology.
Under the guidance of Jaroslav Hlava Honl gained his habilitation in bacteriology at Char... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20crystal | In materials science, a single crystal (or single-crystal solid or monocrystalline solid) is a material in which the crystal lattice of the entire sample is continuous and unbroken to the edges of the sample, with no grain boundaries. The absence of the defects associated with grain boundaries can give monocrystals uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20Hall%20effect | In solid-state physics, the thermal Hall effect, also known as the Righi–Leduc effect, named after independent co-discoverers Augusto Righi and Sylvestre Anatole Leduc, is the thermal analog of the Hall effect. Given a thermal gradient across a solid, this effect describes the appearance of an orthogonal temperature gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20%28producer%29 | Ronald Maurice Bean, better known professionally as Mathematics (also known as Allah Mathematics) (born October 21, 1971), is a hip hop producer and DJ for the Wu-Tang Clan and its solo and affiliate projects. He designed the Wu-Tang Clan logo.
Biography
Born and raised in Jamaica, Queens, New York, Mathematics was in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity | Continuity or continuous may refer to:
Mathematics
Continuity (mathematics), the opposing concept to discreteness; common examples include
Continuous probability distribution or random variable in probability and statistics
Continuous game, a generalization of games used in game theory
Law of continuity, a heuris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20F.%20Harrah | William Fisk Harrah (September 2, 1911 – June 30, 1978) was an American businessman and the founder of Harrah's Hotel and Casinos, now part of Caesars Entertainment.
Early years and education
Harrah was born in South Pasadena, California, the son of attorney and politician John Harrah.
Harrah studied mechanical engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Wilson%20%28astronomer%29 | Sir Robert Wilson (16 April 1927 – 2 September 2002) was a British astronomer and physicist. He studied physics at King's College, Durham and obtained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where he worked at the Royal Observatory on stellar spectra. His works laid the groundwork for the development of the Great Spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Napier%20%28chemist%29 | James Napier (1810 – 1 December 1884) was a Scottish industrial chemist and antiquarian. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Life
James was born in June 1810 in Partick, Glasgow the son of James Napier, a gardener, and Margaret Buchanan, a seamstress. He was apprenticed as a dyer and attended extramur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfone | In organic chemistry, a sulfone is a organosulfur compound containing a sulfonyl () functional group attached to two carbon atoms. The central hexavalent sulfur atom is double-bonded to each of two oxygen atoms and has a single bond to each of two carbon atoms, usually in two separate hydrocarbon substituents.
Synthes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20state | Range state is a term generally used in zoogeography and conservation biology to refer to any nation that exercises jurisdiction over any part of a range which a particular species, taxon or biotope inhabits, or crosses or overflies at any time on its normal migration route. The term is often expanded to also include,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfoxide | In organic chemistry, a sulfoxide, also called a sulfoxide, is an organosulfur compound containing a sulfinyl () functional group attached to two carbon atoms. It is a polar functional group. Sulfoxides are oxidized derivatives of sulfides. Examples of important sulfoxides are alliin, a precursor to the compound that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSSP | FSSP may refer to:
Families of structurally similar proteins, a protein structures database
Federal Bailiffs Service (Russia), abbreviated FSSP in Russian
Firing squad synchronization problem, a problem in computer science and cellular automata
Frances Slocum State Park, a state park in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether%20theories | In physics, aether theories (also known as ether theories) propose the existence of a medium, a space-filling substance or field as a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic or gravitational forces. "Since the development of special relativity, theories using a substantial aether fell out of use in m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNS | SNS may refer to:
Science and technology
Biology and medicine
Somatic nervous system or voluntary nervous system
Supplemental nursing system, to provide additional milk to a nursing infant
Sympathetic nervous system, part of the autonomic nervous system
Computing
Social networking service, social website
Amazon... |
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