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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spence%27s%20function | In mathematics, Spence's function, or dilogarithm, denoted as , is a particular case of the polylogarithm. Two related special functions are referred to as Spence's function, the dilogarithm itself:
and its reflection.
For , an infinite series also applies (the integral definition constitutes its analytical extension... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20group | Virtual group may refer to:
Virtual band in music
Groupoid in category theory (an area of mathematics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliqarp | Poliqarp is an open source search engine designed to process text corpora, among others the National Corpus of Polish created at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Features
Custom query language
Two-level regular expressions:
operating at the level of characters in words
operating at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univariate | In mathematics, a univariate object is an expression, equation, function or polynomial involving only one variable. Objects involving more than one variable are multivariate. In some cases the distinction between the univariate and multivariate cases is fundamental; for example, the fundamental theorem of algebra and E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Zuker | Charles S. Zuker is a Chilean molecular geneticist and neurobiologist. Zuker is a Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and a Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1989.
Education and Academic life
Zuker was born in Arica,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Rolls | Edmund T. Rolls is a neuroscientist and Professor at the University of Warwick.
Rolls is a neuroscientist with research interests in computational neuroscience, including the operation of real neuronal networks in the brain involved in vision, memory, attention, and decision-making; functional neuroimaging of vision, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Whitten | Greg Whitten is an American computer engineer, investor and car collector.
Whitten graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in mathematics in 1973, and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1978.
He worked for Compucolor, a company in Georgia established in 1977 that made the hom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Harris | Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20H.%20Lieb | Elliott Hershel Lieb (born July 31, 1932) is an American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University who specializes in statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, and functional analysis.
Lieb is a prolific author, with over 400 publications both in physics and mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20S.%20Rawls | Jerry S. Rawls is an American businessman and philanthropist. He currently serves as the co-founder and chairman of Finisar.
Biography
Early life
Jerry Rawls was born in Houston, Texas, and graduated from Bellaire High School in Houston in 1962. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20graph | In computer science, in an object-oriented program, groups of objects form a network through their relationships with each other, either through a direct reference to another object or through a chain of intermediate references. These groups of objects are referred to as object graphs, after the mathematical objects ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Nordell | Jessica (Jess, J.D.) Nordell is an American writer, science journalist, and author.
Early life and education
Nordell was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Nordell attended MIT and received a B.A. in physics from Harvard University. She later earned a certificate in visual art from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20build | A static build is a compiled version of a program which has been statically linked against libraries.
Linking
In computer science, linking means taking one or more objects generated by compilers and assembling them into a single executable program. The objects are program modules containing machine code and symbol def... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Borromean%20rings | In chemistry, molecular Borromean rings are an example of a mechanically-interlocked molecular architecture in which three macrocycles are interlocked in such a way that breaking any macrocycle allows the others to dissociate. They are the smallest examples of Borromean rings. The synthesis of molecular Borromean rin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo%20Haro%20Observatory | The Guillermo Haro Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio Astrofísico Guillermo Haro - OAGH) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica - INAOE) in the Mexican state of Sonora. It is l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving | Moving or Movin' may refer to:
Moving of goods
Relocation (personal), the process of leaving one dwelling and settling in another
Relocation of professional sports teams
Relocation (computer science)
Structure relocation
Music
Albums
Moving (Peter, Paul and Mary album), 1963
Moving (The Raincoats album), 198... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20recurrence%20theorem | In mathematics and physics, the Poincaré recurrence theorem states that certain dynamical systems will, after a sufficiently long but finite time, return to a state arbitrarily close to (for continuous state systems), or exactly the same as (for discrete state systems), their initial state.
The Poincaré recurrence tim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20J.%20Bouchard%20Jr. | Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. (born October 3, 1937) is an American psychologist known for his behavioral genetics studies of twins raised apart. He is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Minnesota Center for Twin and Adoption Research at the University of Minnesota. Bouchard received his PhD from the Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Willerman | Lee Willerman (26 July 1939 – 10 January 1997) was an American psychologist known for his work on behavioral genetics using twin studies.
Biography
Willerman was born and grew up in Chicago. Willerman received BA and MA degrees from Roosevelt University in 1961 and 1964 respectively, and his Ph.D. from Wayne State Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Dillon%20%28composer%29 | James Dillon (born 29 October 1950) is a Scottish composer who is often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.
Dillon was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Honours inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent%20anti-Stokes%20Raman%20spectroscopy | Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy, also called Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy (CARS), is a form of spectroscopy used primarily in chemistry, physics and related fields. It is sensitive to the same vibrational signatures of molecules as seen in Raman spectroscopy, typically the nuclear vibratio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunopathology | Immunopathology is a branch of medicine that deals with immune responses associated with disease. It includes the study of the pathology of an organism, organ system, or disease with respect to the immune system, immunity, and immune responses. In biology, it refers to damage caused to an organism by its own immune re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisodesmic%20crystal | An anisodesmic crystal (sometimes anisodemic crystal) is a crystal containing bonds with differing electrostatic valencies. An example is anhydrite. All other crystals are known as isodesmic crystals (or isodemic) and examples include diamond and halite. These terms are of particular importance when discussing the str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20Loehlin | John Clinton Loehlin (January 13, 1926 – August 9, 2020) was an American behavior geneticist, computer scientist, and psychologist. Loehlin served as president of the Behavior Genetics Association and of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He was an ISIR lifetime achievement awardee.
Life and career
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy%20of%20atomization | In chemistry, the enthalpy of atomization (also atomisation in British English) is the enthalpy change that accompanies the total separation of all atoms in a chemical substance (either an element or a compound). This is often represented by the symbol or All bonds in the compound are broken in atomization and none a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%20DeLuca | Hector F. DeLuca, born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1930, is an emeritus University of Wisconsin–Madison professor and former chairman of the university's biochemistry department. DeLuca is well known for his research in involving Vitamin D, from which several pharmaceutical drugs are derived. He was elected to the United S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20buffer | In computer science, a data buffer (or just buffer) is a region of a memory used to store data temporarily while it is being moved from one place to another. Typically, the data is stored in a buffer as it is retrieved from an input device (such as a microphone) or just before it is sent to an output device (such as sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo%20Gleiser | Marcelo Gleiser (born March 19, 1959) is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He is currently Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College and was the 2019 recipient of the Templeton Prize.
Early life and education
Gleiser received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Real%20Eve | The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa is a popular science book about the evolution of modern humans written by British geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer.
The book is largely based on the "out of Africa" theory of human origins. Oppenheimer uses information from various disciplines including genetics, archaeol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Geoffrey%20Walker | Prof Arthur Geoffrey Walker FRS FRSE (17 July 1909 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England – 31 March 2001) was a British mathematician who made important contributions to physics and physical cosmology. Although he was an accomplished geometer, he is best remembered today for two important contributions to general relativi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Silbersweig | Dr. David Silbersweig is chairman of psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he also co-directs the center for the neurosciences. He was an academic dean at Harvard Medical School, and is Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry there.
Until 2008, Silbersweig was vice chair for research within the dep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleophilic%20aromatic%20substitution | A nucleophilic aromatic substitution is a substitution reaction in organic chemistry in which the nucleophile displaces a good leaving group, such as a halide, on an aromatic ring. Aromatic rings are usually nucleophilic, but some aromatic compounds do undergo nucleophilic substitution. Just as normally nucleophilic al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Rutherford | William Rutherford may refer to:
Bill Rutherford, British professor of biochemistry
Bill Rutherford (footballer), Scottish footballer
Bill Rutherford (politician), Oregon politician
William Gunion Rutherford (1853–1907), Scottish scholar
William Rutherford (mathematician) (1798–1871), English mathematician
Willia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilis%20C.%20Xanthopoulos | Basilis C. Xanthopoulos (also Vasilis; ; 8 April 1951 – 27 November 1990) was a Greek theoretical physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his contributions to the study of colliding plane waves.
Early years
Basilis Xanthopoulos was born in Drama. He excelled in high school showing an advanced ana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supramolecular%20electronics | Supramolecular electronics is the experimental field of supramolecular chemistry that bridges the gap between molecular electronics and bulk plastics in the construction of electronic circuitry at the nanoscale 1. In supramolecular electronics, assemblies of pi-conjugated systems on the 5 to 100 nanometer length scale ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20helix%E2%80%93loop%E2%80%93helix | A basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) is a protein structural motif that characterizes one of the largest families of dimerizing transcription factors. The word "basic" does not refer to complexity but to the chemistry of the motif because transcription factors in general contain basic amino acid residues in order to facili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20G.%20Saari | Donald Gene Saari (born March 1940) is an American mathematician, a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics and former director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
His research interests include the -body problem, the Borda count voting system, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Ross | Arnold Ephraim Ross (August 24, 1906 – September 25, 2002) was a mathematician and educator who founded the Ross Mathematics Program, a number theory summer program for gifted high school students. He was born in Chicago, but spent his youth in Odesa, Ukraine, where he studied with Samuil Shatunovsky. Ross returned to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet%20Raymo | Chet Raymo (born September 17, 1936 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is a noted writer, educator and naturalist. He is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Stonehill College, in Easton, Massachusetts. His weekly newspaper column "Science Musings" appeared in the Boston Globe for twenty years. This is now a daily blog by him. Ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRG | IRG may stand for:
IATA airport code for Lockhart River Airport
Ideographic Research Group on coded Han character sets
Intelligent Robotics Group
International Resources Group, a professional services firm
Iranian Revolutionary Guard
International Ratings Group, a credit ratings agency
Interest rate guarantee,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABAergic | In molecular biology and physiology, something is GABAergic or GABAnergic if it pertains to or affects the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). For example, a synapse is GABAergic if it uses GABA as its neurotransmitter, and a GABAergic neuron produces GABA. A substance is GABAergic if it produces its effec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retarder | Retarder may refer to:
Retarder (album), an album by The Unband
Retarder (chemistry), a chemical agent that slows down a chemical reaction
Retarder (mechanical engineering), a device for slowing down large trucks, lorries, buses, coaches and other vehicles
Retarder (railroad), a device to slow railroad freight car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%E2%80%93Nagell%20equation | In mathematics, in the field of number theory, the Ramanujan–Nagell equation is an equation between a square number and a number that is seven less than a power of two. It is an example of an exponential Diophantine equation, an equation to be solved in integers where one of the variables appears as an exponent.
The e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Sannipoli | Charles Joseph Sannipoli (1945-2015) was an executive in the computer networking industry, having served for more than 3 decades in many roles.
Life
He held a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and was a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was a resident of North Carolina.
Sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Life%20London%20Aquarium | The Sea Life London Aquarium is located on the ground floor of County Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames in central London, near the London Eye. It opened in March 1997 as the London Aquarium and hosts about one million visitors each year.
History
In 2005, the aquarium displayed three robotic Fish created by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Tribolet | José Manuel Nunes Salvador Tribolet (born 20 December 1949) is a Portuguese engineer, and Professor of Information Systems at the Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Portugal, who became known for his work on speech coding in the late 1970s.
Biography
Tribolet received his 5-Year "Engenheiro" Degree in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried%20Osann | Gottfried Wilhelm Osann (26 October 1796, Weimar – 10 August 1866, Würzburg) was a German chemist and physicist. He is known for his work on the chemistry of platinum metals.
He studied natural sciences and became a privatdozent in physics and chemistry at the University of Erlangen in 1819. Between 1821 and 1823, he ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopole%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a monopole is a connection over a principal bundle G with a section of the associated adjoint bundle.
Physical interpretation
Physically, the section can be interpreted as a Higgs field, where the connection and Higgs field should satisfy the Bogomolny equations and be of finite action.
See also
N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Anson%20Coons | Steven Anson Coons (March 7, 1912 – August 1979) was an early pioneer in the field of computer graphical methods. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He was also a professor at Syracuse University after leaving MIT. Steven Coons had a vision of inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20graded%20algebra | In mathematics, in particular in homological algebra, a differential graded algebra is a graded associative algebra with an added chain complex structure that respects the algebra structure.
Definition
A differential graded algebra (or DG-algebra for short) A is a graded algebra equipped with a map which has eithe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pourbaix%20diagram | In electrochemistry, and more generally in solution chemistry, a Pourbaix diagram, also known as a potential/pH diagram, EH–pH diagram or a pE/pH diagram, is a plot of possible thermodynamically stable phases (i.e., at chemical equilibrium) of an aqueous electrochemical system. Boundaries (50 %/50 %) between the predom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%20North%20High%20School | Omaha North High Magnet School is a public high school located at 4410 North 36th Street in the city of Omaha, Nebraska. The school is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) magnet school in the Omaha Public Schools district. North has won several awards, including being named a 2007 Magnet Schools o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20David%20Thackeray | Andrew David Thackeray (19 June 1910 – 21 February 1978), was an astronomer trained at Cambridge University. He served as director of the Radcliffe Observatory for 23 years.
Career
Thackeray went to school at Eton College, where he observed meteors for the British Astronomical Association. He went on to study mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congruent%20transformation | In mathematics, a congruent transformation (or congruence transformation) is:
Another term for an isometry; see congruence (geometry).
A transformation of the form A → PTAP, where A and P are square matrices, P is invertible, and PT denotes the transpose of P; see Matrix Congruence and congruence in linear algebra.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20moment%20gyroscope | A control moment gyroscope (CMG) is an attitude control device generally used in spacecraft attitude control systems. A CMG consists of a spinning rotor and one or more motorized gimbals that tilt the rotor’s angular momentum. As the rotor tilts, the changing angular momentum causes a gyroscopic torque that rotates the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrochemistry | Iatrochemistry (; also known as chemiatria or chemical medicine) is a branch of both chemistry and medicine. Having its roots in alchemy, iatrochemistry seeks to provide chemical solutions to diseases and medical ailments.
This area of science has fallen out of use in Europe since the rise of modern establishment medi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Rose%20%28electrical%20engineer%29 | Christopher Rose (born January 9, 1957) is a professor of engineering, former associate provost at Brown University in Rhode Island and a founding member of WINLAB at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; SB'79, SM'81, Ph.D'85 all in Course VI (Electrical Engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20for%20Cereal%20Science%20and%20Technology | The International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC) was founded in 1955 and was originally called the International Association for Cereal Chemistry. It was set up to develop international standard testing procedures for cereals and flour. It has currently more than fifty member countries and headquar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-or-nothing%20transform | In cryptography, an all-or-nothing transform (AONT), also known as an all-or-nothing protocol, is an encryption mode which allows the data to be understood only if all of it is known. AONTs are not encryption, but frequently make use of symmetric ciphers and may be applied before encryption. In exact terms, "an AONT is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hochachka | Peter William Hochachka, (March 9, 1937 – September 16, 2002) was a Canadian professor and zoologist at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is known for his foundational work in creating the new field of adaptational biochemistry, connecting metabolic biochemistry with comparative physiology.
Hochachka did ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monod%E2%80%93Wyman%E2%80%93Changeux%20model | In biochemistry, the Monod–Wyman–Changeux model (MWC model, also known as the symmetry model) describes allosteric transitions of proteins made up of identical subunits. It was proposed by Jean-Pierre Changeux in his PhD thesis, and described by Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman, and Jean-Pierre Changeux. It contrasts with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polony%20%28biology%29 | Polony is a contraction of "polymerase colony," a small colony of DNA.
Polonies are discrete clonal amplifications of a single DNA molecule, grown in a gel matrix. This approach greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio. Polonies can be generated using several techniques that include solid-phase polymerase chain reac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20T.%20Russell | Christopher Thomas Russell (born 1943 in St. Albans, England) is head of the Space Physics Center at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA, professor in UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, and Director of the UCLA Branch of the California Space Grant Consortium. He rec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhart%20Ahlrichs | Reinhart Ahlrichs (16 January 1940 – 12 October 2016) was a German theoretical chemist.
Biography
Ahlrichs was born on the 16 January 1940 in Göttingen. He studied Physics at the University of Göttingen (Diplom (M.Sc.) in 1965) and received his PhD in 1968 with W. A. Bingel. From 1968-69 he was assistant at Göttingen ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique%20%28disambiguation%29 | A clique is a close social group.
Clique or The Clique may also refer to:
Math and computing
Clique (graph theory)
Clique problem in computer science
Business and brands
Clique (vodka), a Latvian vodka sold in the United States
Entertainment and the arts
Clique (TV series), an online serial on BBC Three
The Cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IB%20Group%205%20subjects | The Group 5: Mathematics subjects of the IB Diploma Programme consist of two different mathematics courses, both of which can be taken at Standard Level (SL) or Higher Level (HL). To earn an IB Diploma, a candidate must take either Mathematics Applications and Interpretation (SL/HL) or Mathematics Analysis and Approach... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Moneghetti | Stephen James "Steve" Moneghetti, (born 26 September 1962), is an Australian long-distance runner and physical health consultant who has represented Australia on many occasions. Moneghetti has a degree in civil engineering, a graduate diploma in education and an honorary doctorate from the University of Ballarat. He i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Aizu | The University of Aizu () in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, is the first university dedicated to computer science engineering in Japan.
UoA was ranked 18th (2nd among public universities) and was ranked 7th in the field of computer science in "THE World University Rankings Japan 2022" by Times Higher Education (THE), a Briti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Yuri%20Rainich | George Yuri Rainich (Rabinovich) (March 25, 1886 in Odessa – October 10, 1968) was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century.
Career
Rainich studied mathematics from 1904 to 1908 in Odessa, in Göttingen (1905–1906), and in Munich (1906–1907), eventually obtaining his doctorate (Magister of Pure M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellos | Bellos is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alex Bellos, author of books on mathematics and football
David Bellos, English translator and biographer, father of Alex Bellos
Linda Bellos (born 1950), British activist and London politician. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del%C3%BAbio%20Soares | Delúbio Soares de Castro (Buriti Alegre, November 6, 1955) is a Brazilian trade unionist who has had a long professional association with the Brazilian Workers Party (PT). He is particularly noted for his involvement in the mensalão scandal.
Background
A native of Goiás, Soares graduated with a degree in mathematics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn%20al-Nafis | ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī (Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي ), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (Arabic: ابن النفيس), was an Arab polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He is known for b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els%20Goulmy | Els Goulmy (born 27 November 1946, The Hague) is an eminent professor of transplantation biology, especially regarding minor histocompatibility antigen, at Leiden University. Goulmy is an expert in the area of tissue typing and belongs internationally to the absolute top of her discipline. She was awarded the Spinoza P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewine%20van%20Dishoeck | Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck (born 13 June 1955, in Leiden) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, and served as the President of the International Astronomical Union (2018–2021) and a co-editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2012–present). ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Goldberg | Kenneth Yigael Goldberg (born 1961) is an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is professor and chair of the industrial engineering and operations research department at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicator | Communicator may refer to:
Computer science
Acorn Communicator, a business computer developed by Acorn Computers in 1985
Beonex Communicator, a separate branch of the Mozilla Application Suite
Netscape Communicator, a suite of Internet applications
Nokia Communicator, a brand name for a series of Nokia smartphones... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter%20Fenske | Dieter Fenske (born 29. September 1942) is a German inorganic chemist.
Life
Fenske studied chemistry at the University of Münster, received his PhD in 1973 and his Habilitation in 1978. He is Professor for Inorganic chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe and Director at the Institute for Nanotechnology (INT) of For... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20balance | In physics, a mass balance, also called a material balance, is an application of conservation of mass to the analysis of physical systems. By accounting for material entering and leaving a system, mass flows can be identified which might have been unknown, or difficult to measure without this technique. The exact conse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauksb%C3%B3k | Hauksbók (; 'Book of Haukr') is a 14th century Icelandic manuscript created by Haukr Erlendsson. Significant portions of it are lost, but it contains the earliest copies of many of the texts it contains, including the Saga of Eric the Red. In most cases, Haukr copied from earlier, now lost manuscripts. Among these are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex%20%28disambiguation%29 | A vortex is a dynamic phenomenon of fluids.
Vortex may also refer to:
Physics
Vortex ring, a torus-shaped vortex in a fluid or gas
Vorticity, a mathematical concept used in fluid dynamics
Quantum vortex, a topological defect exhibited in superfluids and superconductors
Autowave vortex, in active media described ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltammetry | Voltammetry is a category of electroanalytical methods used in analytical chemistry and various industrial processes. In voltammetry, information about an analyte is obtained by measuring the current as the potential is varied. The analytical data for a voltammetric experiment comes in the form of a voltammogram, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan | Orlan (born 1947) is a French multi-media artist.
who uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology to question modern social phenomena.
She has said that her art... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem%20on%20friends%20and%20strangers | The theorem on friends and strangers is a mathematical theorem in an area of mathematics called Ramsey theory.
Statement
Suppose a party has six people. Consider any two of them. They might be meeting for the first time—in which case we will call them mutual strangers; or they might have met before—in which case we w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocal | Equivocal is the grammatical quality of ambiguity due to a term's having multiple meanings. It is the latin translation of the greek adjective "homonymous".
Equivocation, in logic, a fallacy from using a phrase in multiple senses
Equivocal generation, in biology, the disproven theory of spontaneous generation from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable%20random%20function | In cryptography, a verifiable random function (VRF) is a public-key pseudorandom function that provides proofs that its outputs were calculated correctly. The owner of the secret key can compute the function value as well as an associated proof for any input value. Everyone else, using the proof and the associated publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Dialogues%20Between%20Hylas%20and%20Philonous | Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, or simply Three Dialogues, is a 1713 book on metaphysics and idealism written by George Berkeley. Taking the form of a dialogue, the book was written as a response to the criticism Berkeley experienced after publishing A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-learning | Self-learning can refer to:
Autodidacticism
Learning theory (education)
Night self-learning
Unsupervised learning, a kind of machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prephenic%20acid | Prephenic acid, commonly also known by its anionic form prephenate, is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine, as well as of a large number of secondary metabolites of the shikimate pathway.
It is biosynthesized by a [3,3]-sigmatropic Claisen rearrangement of choris... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Impagliazzo | Russell Graham Impagliazzo is a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, specializing in computational complexity theory.
Education
Impagliazzo received a BA in mathematics from Wesleyan University. He obtained a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. His advis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred%20frame | In theoretical physics, a preferred frame or privileged frame is usually a special hypothetical frame of reference in which the laws of physics might appear to be identifiably different (simpler) from those in other frames.
In theories that apply the principle of relativity to inertial motion, physics is the same in a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent%20hashing | In computer science, consistent hashing is a special kind of hashing technique such that when a hash table is resized, only keys need to be remapped on average where is the number of keys and is the number of slots. In contrast, in most traditional hash tables, a change in the number of array slots causes nearly all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20reference%20frame | In theoretical physics, a local reference frame (local frame) refers to a coordinate system or frame of reference that is only expected to function over a small region or a restricted region of space or spacetime.
The term is most often used in the context of the application of local inertial frames to small regions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak%20Khalatnikov | Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (, ; 17 October 1919 – 9 January 2021) was a leading Soviet theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to many areas of theoretical physics, including general relativity, quantum field theory, as well as the theory of quantum liquids. He is well known for his role in developin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecphorella | Ecphorella wellmani is a species of ant and the only known species of genus Ecphorella. The species is only known from workers from the type locality in Benguela, Angola. Nothing is known about their biology.
References
External links
Endemic fauna of Angola
Dolichoderinae
Monotypic ant genera
Hymenoptera of Africa
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav%20Smoljak | Ladislav Smoljak (9 December 1931 – 6 June 2010) was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter.
Biography
Smoljak was born in Prague. He tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter. Toget... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Johnson%20%28writer%29 | George Johnson (born January 20, 1952) is an American journalist and science writer.
Work
Johnson is the author of nine books, including The Cancer Chronicles (2013), The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (2008) and Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1999), and writes for a numbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20map | In computer science, a memory map is a structure of data (which usually resides in memory itself) that indicates how memory is laid out. The term "memory map" has different meanings in different contexts.
It is the fastest and most flexible cache organization that uses an associative memory. The associative memory stor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20group | A primary group may refer to:
In mathematics, a special kind of group:
a p-primary group, also called simply p-group; or
a primary cyclic group, which is a p-primary cyclic group.
In sociology, a primary group as opposed to secondary group. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20Energy%20Systems | Stirling Energy Systems was a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company which developed equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electrical generating systems using parabolic dish and stirling engine technology, touted as the highest efficiency solar technology.
In April 2008, Ireland-based NT... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghemical | Ghemical is a computational chemistry software package written in C++ and released under the GNU General Public License. The program has graphical user interface based on GTK+2 and supports quantum mechanical and molecular mechanic models, with geometry optimization, molecular dynamics, and a large set of visualization... |
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