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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade%20%28disambiguation%29
A palisade is a steel or wooden fence or wall of variable height, usually used as a defensive structure. Palisade, palisades or palisading also may refer to: Software PALISADE (software), an open source cross platform software library that provides implementations of lattice-based cryptography building blocks and ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms. It is the study of extant taxa (singular: extant taxon): taxa (such as species, genera and families) with members still alive, as opposed to (all) being extinct. For example: The moose (Alces a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthoud
Berthoud may refer to: Places Berthoud, Colorado, US Berthoud Pass, Colorado, US Burgdorf, Switzerland, (French: Berthoud) See also People Alfred Berthoud (1874–1939), Swiss professor of chemistry Denise Berthoud (1916–2005), Swiss lawyer and Red Cross executive Edward L. Berthoud (1828–1910), American militar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronoamperometry
In electrochemistry, chronoamperometry is an analytical technique in which the electric potential of the working electrode is stepped and the resulting current from faradaic processes occurring at the electrode (caused by the potential step) is monitored as a function of time. The functional relationship between curren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Schlenk
Wilhelm Johann Schlenk (22 March 1879 – 29 April 1943) was a German chemist. He was born in Munich and also studied chemistry there. Schlenk succeeded Emil Fischer at the University of Berlin in 1919. Schlenk was an organic chemist who discovered organolithium compounds around 1917. He also investigated free radicals ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%20group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree. Definition The expression is most easily illustrated by a cladogram: Taxon A and taxon B are sister groups to each other. Taxa A and B, together with any oth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20isolation
Matrix isolation is an experimental technique used in chemistry and physics. It generally involves a material being trapped within an unreactive matrix. A host matrix is a continuous solid phase in which guest particles (atoms, molecules, ions, etc.) are embedded. The guest is said to be isolated within the host matrix...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Lindenthal
Gustav Lindenthal (May 21, 1850 – July 31, 1935) was a civil engineer who designed the Queensboro and Hell Gate bridges in New York City, among other bridges. Lindenthal's work was greatly affected by his pursuit for perfection and his love of art. Having received little formal education and no degree in civil engineer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damodara
Vatasseri Damodara Nambudiri was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics who flourished during the fifteenth century CE. He was a son of Paramesvara (1360–1425) who developed the drigganita system of astronomical computations. The family home of Paramesvara was Vatasseri (sometime...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%201000
The Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000 are the first generations of PDAs produced by Palm Computing (then a subsidiary of U.S. Robotics). It was introduced in March 1996. The Pilot uses a Motorola 68328 processor at 16 MHz, and had 128 kB (Pilot 1000) or 512 kB (Pilot 5000) built in Random-access memory. The PDA has a plasti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20School%20for%20Advanced%20Studies
The International School for Advanced Studies (Italian: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati; SISSA) is an international, state-supported, post-graduate-education and research institute in Trieste, Italy. SISSA is active in the fields of mathematics, physics and neuroscience, offering both undergraduate a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Henry%20Thurston
Robert Henry Thurston (October 25, 1839 – October 25, 1903) was an American engineer, and the first Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He was assistant professor at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis and a published specialist on iron and steel as well as steam engines, when he was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20L.%20Kibbe
Dr. Alice Lovina Kibbe (27 June 1881 – 21 January 1969) was an American botanist, and Professor and Chair of Biology at Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois from 1920 to 1956. She was noted in the region as a natural historian, philanthropist and traveler, and for her role as an early female academic leader. Life Sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal%20adhesion
In cell biology, focal adhesions (also cell–matrix adhesions or FAs) are large macromolecular assemblies through which mechanical force and regulatory signals are transmitted between the extracellular matrix (ECM) and an interacting cell. More precisely, focal adhesions are the sub-cellular structures that mediate the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20electronic%20transition
In theoretical chemistry, molecular electronic transitions take place when electrons in a molecule are excited from one energy level to a higher energy level. The energy change associated with this transition provides information on the structure of the molecule and determines many of its properties, such as colour. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad%E2%80%93Shafranov%20equation
The Grad–Shafranov equation (H. Grad and H. Rubin (1958); Vitalii Dmitrievich Shafranov (1966)) is the equilibrium equation in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for a two dimensional plasma, for example the axisymmetric toroidal plasma in a tokamak. This equation takes the same form as the Hicks equation from fluid dyna...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Silver
Pamela Ann Silver is an American cell and systems biologist and a bioengineer. She holds the Elliot T. and Onie H. Adams Professorship of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Systems Biology. Silver is one of the founding Core Faculty Members of the Wyss Institute for Biologic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Sproull
Robert Fletcher "Bob" Sproull (born c. 1945) is an American computer scientist, who worked for Oracle Corporation where he was director of Oracle Labs in Burlington, Massachusetts. He is currently an adjunct professor at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Bio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anania%20Shirakatsi
Anania Shirakatsi (, Anania Širakac’i, anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields. Little is known for certain of his life outside of his own writings, but he is considered th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20Duane%20Ackerman
F. Duane Ackerman (born 1942) is an American businessman. He was the last chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BellSouth Corporation. Early life Ackerman was raised in Plant City, Florida. In 1964, he graduated from Rollins College with a B.S. in Physics. In 1970, he graduated from the Rollins College Crummer Gradu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji%20Tachikawa
is the president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Keiji Tachikawa was born in Gifu Prefecture on May 27, 1939. He graduated from University of Tokyo, Department of Electrical Engineering School of Engineering, in 1962. In 1978, he earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1982, he earn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20physics
Soil physics is the study of soil's physical properties and processes. It is applied to management and prediction under natural and managed ecosystems. Soil physics deals with the dynamics of physical soil components and their phases as solids, liquids, and gases. It draws on the principles of physics, physical chemi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuttall%27s%20woodpecker
Nuttall's woodpecker (Dryobates nuttallii) is a species of woodpecker named after naturalist Thomas Nuttall in 1843. They are found in oak woodlands of California and are similar to the ladder-backed woodpecker in both genetics and appearance. Description Nuttall's woodpecker has black wings and tail feathers with wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLG
WLG may refer to: Wellington International Airport (IATA code), Wellington, New Zealand White light generation, a process broadening the spectrum of a laser pulse William Lloyd Garrison, a U.S. abolitionist Without loss of generality, a frequently used expression in mathematics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Computer%20Science%2C%20University%20of%20Oxford
The Department of Computer Science is the computer science department of the University of Oxford, England, which is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. It was founded in 1957 as the Computing Laboratory. By 2014 the staff count was 52 members of academic staff and over 80 resear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBO
NBO may refer to: National Bank of Oman National Bank Open Natural bond orbital, a model within quantum chemistry Network of Buddhist Organisations Network byte order Niobium monoxide (NbO) Non-binding opinion (disambiguation) Northolt Branch Observatories Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg%20family
The Warburg family is a prominent German and American banking family of German Jewish and originally Venetian Jewish descent, noted for their varied accomplishments in biochemistry, botany, political activism, economics, investment banking, law, physics, classical music, art history, pharmacology, physiology, finance, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASN
ASN or Asn may refer to: Organisations ASN Bank, in the Netherlands American Society of Nephrology American Society for Neurochemistry American Society for Nutrition Archstone (former ticker symbol), a US real estate investment trust Association for the Study of Nationalities, an association devoted to the study...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formulario%20mathematico
Formulario Mathematico (Latino sine flexione: Formulary for Mathematics) is a book by Giuseppe Peano which expresses fundamental theorems of mathematics in a symbolic language developed by Peano. The author was assisted by Giovanni Vailati, Mario Pieri, Alessandro Padoa, Giovanni Vacca, Vincenzo Vivanti, Gino Fano and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20W.%20Malone
Thomas W. Malone (born 1952) is an American organizational theorist, management consultant, and the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Biography Malone received his BA in applied mathematics, graduating magna cum laude from Rice University. He earned his MS in engineeri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%2CN-Diisopropylethylamine
N,N-Diisopropylethylamine, or Hünig's base, is an organic compound that is a tertiary amine. It is named after the German chemist . It is used in organic chemistry as a non-nucleophilic base. It is commonly abbreviated as DIPEA, DIEA, or ''i''-Pr2NEt. Structure DIPEA consists of a central nitrogen atom that is bonded...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicial%20manifold
In physics, the term simplicial manifold commonly refers to one of several loosely defined objects, commonly appearing in the study of Regge calculus. These objects combine attributes of a simplex with those of a manifold. There is no standard usage of this term in mathematics, and so the concept can refer to a triang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortuga%20Island%2C%20Baja%20California%20Sur
Isla Tortuga (Tortuga Island) is an island in the Gulf of California, created relatively recently in geologic terms by the volcanism associated with the East Pacific Rise. It lies east-northeast of the city of Santa Rosalía, in Mulegé Municipality. It has a surface area of 11.374 km2 (4.39 sq mi). Biology The Tortuga ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E12
E12 or E-12 may refer to: Science, technology and mathematics the E12 series of preferred numbers E12 screw, a type of Edison screw the code name for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Siding Spring Survey code Transport Roads and trails European route E12 E12 European long distance path Ampang–Kuala Lumpur Elev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markush%20structure
A Markush structure is a representation of chemical structure used to indicate a group of related chemical compounds. They are commonly used in chemistry texts and in patent claims. Markush structures are depicted with multiple independently variable groups, such as R groups in which a side chain can have varying str...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses%20Gomberg
Moses Gomberg (February 8, 1866 – February 12, 1947) was a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and served as president of the American Chemical Society. Early life and education He was born in Yelisavetgrad, Russ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordstr%C3%B6m%27s%20theory%20of%20gravitation
In theoretical physics, Nordström's theory of gravitation was a predecessor of general relativity. Strictly speaking, there were actually two distinct theories proposed by the Finnish theoretical physicist Gunnar Nordström, in 1912 and 1913 respectively. The first was quickly dismissed, but the second became the firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aziridine
Aziridine is an organic compound consisting of the three-membered heterocycle . It is a colorless, toxic, volatile liquid that is of significant practical interest. Aziridine was discovered in 1888 by the chemist Siegmund Gabriel. Its derivatives, also referred to as aziridines, are of broader interest in medicinal ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonisation%20%28biology%29
Colonisation or colonization is the process in biology by which a species spreads to new areas. Colonisation often refers to successful immigration where a population becomes integrated into an ecological community, having resisted initial local extinction. In ecology, it is represented by the symbol λ (lowercase lambd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20LaMacchia
Brian A. LaMacchia is a computer security specialist. LaMacchia was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and headed the Security and Cryptography team within Microsoft Research (MSR). His team’s main project was the development of quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms and protocols. Brian was also a f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren%20Kohnfelder
Loren Kohnfelder invented what is today called public key infrastructure (PKI) in his May 1978 MIT S.B. (BSCSE) thesis, which described a practical means of using public key cryptography to secure network communications. The Kohnfelder thesis introduced the terms 'certificate' and 'certificate revocation list' as well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Dunnett
Charles William Dunnett (24 August 1921 – May 18, 2007) was a Canadian statistician. He was the Statistical Society of Canada 1986 Gold Medalist and Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Mathematics, Statistics, Clinical Epidemiology, and Biostatistics of McMaster University. Two of his papers are listed among the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upward%20continuation
Upward continuation is a method used in oil exploration and geophysics to estimate the values of a gravitational or magnetic field by using measurements at a lower elevation and extrapolating upward, assuming continuity. This technique is commonly used to merge different measurements to a common level so as to reduce s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo%20Owen
Guillermo Owen (born 1938) is a Colombian mathematician, and professor of applied mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, known for his work in game theory. He is also the son of the Mexican Poet and Diplomat Gilberto Owen. Biography Guillermo Owen was born May 4, 1938, in Bogotá, Colomb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance%20%28metaphysics%29
In metaphysics, balance is a point between two opposite forces that is desirable over purely one state or the other, such as a balance between the metaphysical law and chaos — law by itself being overly controlling, chaos being overly unmanageable, balance being the point that minimizes the negatives of both. More rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAD%20Electronics
NAD Electronics is a brand name of an electronics firm whose products include home hi-fi amplifiers and related components. NAD is an abbreviation for New Acoustic Dimension. The company was founded in London, England, in 1972 by Dr. Martin L. Borish, an electrical engineer with a PhD in physics. Its most famous produ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Figuier
Louis Figuier (15 February 1819 in Montpellier – 8 November 1894 in 9th arrondissement of Paris) was a French scientist and writer. He was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of chemistry at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. Louis Figuier was married to French writer Louise Juliette Bouscaren. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Thue%20system
In theoretical computer science and mathematical logic a string rewriting system (SRS), historically called a semi-Thue system, is a rewriting system over strings from a (usually finite) alphabet. Given a binary relation between fixed strings over the alphabet, called rewrite rules, denoted by , an SRS extends the rew...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20electron
Free electron in physics may refer to: Electron, as a free particle Solvated electron Charge carrier, as carriers of electric charge Valence electron, as an outer shell electron that is associated with an atom Valence and conduction bands, as a conduction band electron relative to the electronic band structure of a sol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum%28V%29%20chloride
Tantalum(V) chloride, also known as tantalum pentachloride, is an inorganic compound with the formula TaCl5. It takes the form of a white powder and is commonly used as a starting material in tantalum chemistry. It readily hydrolyzes to form tantalum(V) oxychloride (TaOCl3) and eventually tantalum pentoxide (Ta2O5); th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Vacca%20%28mathematician%29
Giovanni Enrico Eugenio Vacca (18 November 1872 – 6 January 1953) was an Italian mathematician, Sinologist and historian of science. Vacca studied mathematics and graduated from the University of Genoa in 1897 under the guidance of G. B. Negri. He was a politically active student and was banished for that from Genoa i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy%20%28biology%29
Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. There are a number of poorly understood factors which might cause an animal to become a vagrant, including internal causes such...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental
Accidental may refer to: Accidental (music), a symbol which changes the pitch of a note Accidental (album), by Fred Frith Accidental (biology), a biological phenomenon more commonly known as vagrancy The Accidental, a 2005 novel by Ali Smith The Accidental (band), a UK folk band Accidental property, a philosophi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Passaglia
Carlo Passaglia (2 May 1812 – 12 March 1887) was an Italian Jesuit and theologian. Life Carlo Passaglia was born at Lucca on 2 May 1812. Passaglia was soon destined for the priesthood, and was placed under the care of the Jesuits at the age of fifteen. He became successively doctor in mathematics, philosophy and theo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation%20%28particle%20physics%29
In particle physics, a generation or family is a division of the elementary particles. Between generations, particles differ by their flavour quantum number and mass, but their electric and strong interactions are identical. There are three generations according to the Standard Model of particle physics. Each generati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison%20Industries
Unison Industries, LLC, headquartered Jacksonville, Florida, is involved in the design, manufacture, and integration of electrical and mechanical components and systems for aircraft engines and airframes. History Frederick Sontag holds a B.S. in physics from Harvey Mudd College, an M.S. in physics from the University ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Wainberg
Mark Arnold Wainberg, (21 April 1945 – 11 April 2017) was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. His laboratory primarily studies HIV rever...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalization%20error
For supervised learning applications in machine learning and statistical learning theory, generalization error (also known as the out-of-sample error or the risk) is a measure of how accurately an algorithm is able to predict outcome values for previously unseen data. Because learning algorithms are evaluated on finite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20E.%20Williams
Born in Watertown, New York, on March 28, 1938, Arthur E. Williams obtained a commission as an Army engineer officer upon his graduation in 1960 from Saint Lawrence University, where he majored in mathematics. At St. Lawrence he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He later obtained a bachelor's degree in civil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inman%20Harvey
Inman Harvey is a former senior lecturer in computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of Sussex; he is now a visiting senior research fellow at the same university. His research interests largely centre on the development of artificial evolution as an approach to the design of complex systems. Appl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Husbands
Phil Husbands (born 27 June, 1961) is a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at the English University of Sussex, situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. He is head of the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems group and co-director of the Centre for Com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserved%20quantity
A conserved quantity is a property or value that remains constant over time in a system even when changes occur in the system. In mathematics, a conserved quantity of a dynamical system is formally defined as a function of the dependent variables, the value of which remains constant along each trajectory of the system....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Marshall%20Unger
James Marshall Unger (born May 28, 1947, in Cleveland, Ohio) is emeritus professor of Japanese at the Ohio State University. He specializes in historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia, but he has also published on Japanese mathematics of the Edo period. He chaired academic departments at the Univer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Blakemore
Sir Colin Blakemore, , Hon (1 June 1944 – 27 June 2022) was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong. He was a distinguished senior fel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20polarization
In particle physics, spin polarization is the degree to which the spin, i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of elementary particles, is aligned with a given direction. This property may pertain to the spin, hence to the magnetic moment, of conduction electrons in ferromagnetic metals, such as iron, giving rise to spin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20unit
Base unit may refer to: Base unit (measurement), in physics, a unit of measurement from which derived units may be compounded SI base unit, a base unit in the SI system An administrative unit of the United States Army Air Forces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20approximation
Generally in scattering theory and in particular in quantum mechanics, the Born approximation consists of taking the incident field in place of the total field as the driving field at each point in the scatterer. The Born approximation is named after Max Born who proposed this approximation in early days of quantum the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20optics
In physics, physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid. This usage tends not to include effects such as quantum noise in optical communication, which is studied in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency%20approximation
A high-frequency approximation (or "high energy approximation") for scattering or other wave propagation problems, in physics or engineering, is an approximation whose accuracy increases with the size of features on the scatterer or medium relative to the wavelength of the scattered particles. Classical mechanics and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spangled%20kookaburra
The spangled kookaburra (Dacelo tyro) also called Aru giant kingfisher, is a little-known species of kookaburra found in the Aru Islands, Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands of southern New Guinea. Practically nothing is known of its family life or breeding biology. Taxonomy Two subspecies are recognised: D. t. tyro –...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20lemma%20of%20the%20calculus%20of%20variations
In mathematics, specifically in the calculus of variations, a variation of a function can be concentrated on an arbitrarily small interval, but not a single point. Accordingly, the necessary condition of extremum (functional derivative equal zero) appears in a weak formulation (variational form) integrated with an ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoctenophora
Paleoctenophora brasseli is a fossil species of ctenophore, found in Devonian slate near the German town of Buntenbach in Hunsrück, Germany, as a member of the Hunsrück Slate Lagerstätte. Paleobiology It is approximately 400 million years old. Compared to the other Hunsrück species, Archaeocydippida hunsrueckiana, P. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek%20Nu%C5%A1l
František Nušl (; 3 December 1867, in Jindřichův Hradec – 17 September 1951, in Prague) was a Czech astronomer and mathematician. Life After high school in Jindřichův Hradec, he studied physics and astronomy in Prague, where he met among others the future president of Czechoslovakia, T. G. Masaryk, the linguist Jan G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrado%20B%C3%B6hm
Corrado Böhm (17 January 1923 – 23 October 2017) was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a computer scientist known especially for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda calculus, and the semantics and implementation of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20chromosome
A ring chromosome is an aberrant chromosome whose ends have fused together to form a ring. Ring chromosomes were first discovered by Lilian Vaughan Morgan in 1926. A ring chromosome is denoted by the symbol r in human genetics and R in Drosophila genetics. Ring chromosomes may form in cells following genetic damage by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive%20set
In set theory, a branch of mathematics, a set is called transitive if either of the following equivalent conditions hold: whenever , and , then . whenever , and is not an urelement, then is a subset of . Similarly, a class is transitive if every element of is a subset of . Examples Using the definition of ordi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena%20Chu
Athena Chu (born Chu Yan; 25 October 1971) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Zixia Fairy in A Chinese Odyssey (1995). Early life and education On 25, October 1971, Chu was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Her father was a mathematics teacher who later started a business with her mother. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Appell%20polynomials
In mathematics, a polynomial sequence has a generalized Appell representation if the generating function for the polynomials takes on a certain form: where the generating function or kernel is composed of the series with and and all and with Given the above, it is not hard to show that is a polynomial o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosylsulfuric%20acid
Nitrosylsulfuric acid is the chemical compound with the formula . It is a colourless solid that is used industrially in the production of caprolactam, and was formerly part of the lead chamber process for producing sulfuric acid. The compound is the mixed anhydride of sulfuric acid and nitrous acid. In organic chemist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPT
IPT may refer to: Medicine Insulin potentiation therapy, an unproven alternative cancer treatment Intermittent preventive therapy, a public health intervention Interpersonal psychotherapy Organizations Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics, NTNU Idaho Public Television Illini Prosthetic Tec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20W.%20Sciama
Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (; 18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was an English physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He was the PhD supervisor to many famous physicists and astrophysicists, including John D. Bar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discus%20macclintocki
Discus macclintocki is a species of land snail in the family Discidae known commonly as the Iowa Pleistocene snail and Pleistocene disc. It occurs in Iowa and Illinois in the United States. It is a federally listed endangered species. Biology This snail is limited to patches of algific talus slope habitat. It is a rel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelmannia%20%28disambiguation%29
The name Engelmannia has been given to two genera in biology: Engelmannia A. Gray ex Nutt., a daisy (Asteraceae) Engelmannia Klotzsch, a synonym for Croton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hegarty%20%28academic%29
John Hegarty is an Irish physicist and academic. He was elected 43rd Provost of Trinity College Dublin in 2001 for a ten-year term. Life He was born in Claremorris, County Mayo, and was educated locally at St Colman's College. He holds a BSc in Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics/Philosophy from St Patrick's College, Maynoo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20yield
In particle physics, the quantum yield (denoted ) of a radiation-induced process is the number of times a specific event occurs per photon absorbed by the system. Applications Fluorescence spectroscopy The fluorescence quantum yield is defined as the ratio of the number of photons emitted to the number of photons ab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%20Major
Drew Major (born June 17, 1956) is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his role as one of the principal engineers of the Novell NetWare operating system from early in Novell's history. Major received a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University in 1980, and graduated with honors i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWDD
The DWDD (Domain Wall Displacement Detection) is a media reproducing technology developed by Canon and Sony and first implemented in a commercial product in 2004 as part of Sony's Hi-MD format. The DWDD technology uses a physics phenomenon called domain wall displacement, which shortens the masks but does not need to c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidyasagar%20Evening%20College
Vidyasagar Metropolitan College is located in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. It is a government-aided college that offers undergraduate courses. The students get B.A, B.Sc or B.Com degree from the University of Calcutta depending on subjects they choose. The college has an equipped library as well as physics, chemistry and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20autoionization
In chemistry, molecular autoionization (or self-ionization) is a chemical reaction between molecules of the same substance to produce ions. If a pure liquid partially dissociates into ions, it is said to be self-ionizing. In most cases the oxidation number on all atoms in such a reaction remains unchanged. Such autoion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20dithionate
Sodium dithionate Na2S2O6 is an important compound for inorganic chemistry. It is also known under names disodium dithionate, sodium hyposulfate, and sodium metabisulfate. The sulfur can be considered to be in its +5 oxidation state. It should not be confused with sodium dithionite, Na2S2O4, which is a very different ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext%20expansion
In cryptography, the term ciphertext expansion refers to the length increase of a message when it is encrypted. Many modern cryptosystems cause some degree of expansion during the encryption process, for instance when the resulting ciphertext must include a message-unique Initialization Vector (IV). Probabilistic encr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorapidity
In experimental particle physics, pseudorapidity, , is a commonly used spatial coordinate describing the angle of a particle relative to the beam axis. It is defined as where is the angle between the particle three-momentum and the positive direction of the beam axis. Inversely, As a function of three-momentum , p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroendocrinology
Neuroendocrinology is the branch of biology (specifically of physiology) which studies the interaction between the nervous system and the endocrine system; i.e. how the brain regulates the hormonal activity in the body. The nervous and endocrine systems often act together in a process called neuroendocrine integration,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre
Torre (plurals torri and torres) means tower in seven Romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Italian, Occitan and Corsican) and may refer to: Biology Muir-Torre syndrome, the inherited cancer syndrome Sypharochiton torri, a mollusc Chess Carlos Torre Repetto, Mexican chess grandmaster Torre ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NECAP
The National Emergency Airborne Command Post is now named National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC). Or see kneecap. The New England Common Assessment Program (universally abbreviated NECAP, and generally pronounced "knee cap") was a series of reading, writing, mathematics and science achievement tests, administered ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemurgy
Chemurgy is a branch of applied chemistry concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials. The concept developed by the early years of the 20th century. For example, products such as brushes and motion picture film were made from cellulose. Beginning in the 1920s, William J. Hale, agricultu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s%20identities
In mathematics, Newton's identities, also known as the Girard–Newton formulae, give relations between two types of symmetric polynomials, namely between power sums and elementary symmetric polynomials. Evaluated at the roots of a monic polynomial P in one variable, they allow expressing the sums of the k-th powers of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Washington%20State%20University%20people
The Washington State University Alumni Association defines an alumnus as anyone who was a student at WSU and is no longer attending. This page lists accomplished alumni and faculty members of WSU. Nobel Laureates Irwin Rose, 1948, 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner for research in immune defense and proteins; disco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Medal
The Keith Medal was a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences. The Medal was inaugurated in 1827 as a result of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Blake%20%28dentist%29
Robert Blake (1772 – 25 March 1822) graduated from the Department of Physics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in September 1798, having trained to be a dentist for his uncle, Edward Hudson. Blake married Ann Higgins, daughter of the physician and chemist Dr. Bryan Higgins, on 25 November 1799, at St. James's ...