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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20studies | Animal studies is a recently recognised field in which animals are studied in a variety of cross-disciplinary ways. Scholars who engage in animal studies may be formally trained in a number of diverse fields, including art history, anthropology, biology, film studies, geography, history, psychology, literary studies, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Thomas%20Beer | Charles Thomas Beer (18 November 1915 – 15 June 2010) was a Canadian organic chemist who helped in the discovery of vinblastine.
Born in Leigh, Dorset, England, he received a D.Phil. in chemistry from Oxford in 1948. He came to North America in the early 1950s to the department of medical research at the University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%20geophysics | Exploration geophysics is an applied branch of geophysics and economic geology, which uses physical methods at the surface of the Earth, such as seismic, gravitational, magnetic, electrical and electromagnetic, to measure the physical properties of the subsurface, along with the anomalies in those properties. It is mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20D.%20Clark | David Dana "Dave" Clark (born April 7, 1944) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer who has been involved with Internet developments since the mid-1970s. He currently works as a senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Education
He graduated fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Shenker | Scott J. Shenker (born January 24, 1956 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the leader of the Extensible Internet Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California.
Over his care... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computer%20Science%20Institute | The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is an independent, non-profit research organization located in Berkeley, California, United States. Since its founding in 1988, ICSI has maintained an affiliation agreement with the University of California, Berkeley, where several of its members hold faculty appointm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limen | In physiology, psychology, or psychophysics, a limen or a liminal point is a sensory threshold of a physiological or psychological response. Such points delineate boundaries of perception; that is, a limen defines a sensory threshold beyond which a particular stimulus becomes perceivable, and below which it remains unp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobyna%20Ralston | Jobyna Ralston (born Jobyna Lancaster Raulston, November 21, 1899 – January 22, 1967) was an American stage and film actress. She had a featured role in Wings in 1927, and is remembered for her on-screen chemistry with Harold Lloyd, with whom she appeared in seven films.
Early life and career
Ralston was born in South... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxyTunes | FoxyTunes was a browser extension allowing control of media players from the web browser window. The company that developed FoxyTunes was bought by Yahoo! in 2008, and FoxyTunes was closed in 2013.
History
In 2004 computer science graduate student Alex Sirota was making Foxytunes available for free and accepting donat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Szekeres | George Szekeres AM FAA (; 29 May 1911 – 28 August 2005) was a Hungarian–Australian mathematician.
Early years
Szekeres was born in Budapest, Hungary, as Szekeres György and received his degree in chemistry at the Technical University of Budapest. He worked six years in Budapest as an analytical chemist. He married Est... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Wiesner | Jerome Bert Wiesner (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was a professor of electrical engineering, chosen by President John F. Kennedy as chairman of his Science Advisory Committee (PSAC). Educated at the University of Michigan, Wiesner was associate director of the university's radio broadcasting service and provided el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Simon%20%28actress%29 | Maria Simon (born 6 February 1976) is a German actress.
Family and background
Simon's German father originally hailed from Leipzig and studied mathematics in Leningrad. There he met Simon's Russian-Jewish mother, Olga, who studied electronics and originally hailed from Kazakhstan. The couple married while studying.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20trajectory | In mathematics, an orthogonal trajectory is a curve which intersects any curve of a given pencil of (planar) curves orthogonally.
For example, the orthogonal trajectories of a pencil of concentric circles are the lines through their common center (see diagram).
Suitable methods for the determination of orthogonal tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirimanoff%27s%20congruence | In number theory, a branch of mathematics, a Mirimanoff's congruence is one of a collection of expressions in modular arithmetic which, if they hold, entail the truth of Fermat's Last Theorem. Since the theorem has now been proven, these are now of mainly historical significance, though the Mirimanoff polynomials are i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20High%20Pressure%20Physics%20of%20the%20Polish%20Academy%20of%20Sciences | Institute of High Pressure Physics, also known as Unipress (Polish: Instytut Wysokich Ciśnień Polskiej Akademii Nauk) is a scientific institute founded in 1972 by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
Main fields of activity
Biological materials
Food preservation
High-pressure instrumentation
Nanocrystalline mater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Andrew%20Robinson | William Andrew Coulthard Robinson (born 14 March 1957) is a British author and former newspaper editor.
Andrew Robinson was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar, University College, Oxford, where he read chemistry, and finally the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minatec | Minatec (initially called the Micro and Nanotechnology Innovation Centre) is a research complex specializing in micro/nano technologies in Grenoble, France.
The center was inaugurated in June 2006 by François Loos, French Minister Delegate for Industry, as a partnership between LETI (the Electronics and Information Te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20specification | In computer science, formal specifications are mathematically based techniques whose purpose are to help with the implementation of systems and software. They are used to describe a system, to analyze its behavior, and to aid in its design by verifying key properties of interest through rigorous and effective reasoning... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymatroid | In mathematics, a polymatroid is a polytope associated with a submodular function. The notion was introduced by Jack Edmonds in 1970. It is also described as the multiset analogue of the matroid.
Definition
Let be a finite set and a non-decreasing submodular function, that is, for each we have , and for each we ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon%20%28physics%29 | In theoretical general relativity, a geon is a nonsingular electromagnetic or gravitational wave which is held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy. They were first investigated theoretically in 1955 by J. A. Wheeler, who coined the term as a contraction of "gravitation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Khorrami%20%28physicist%29 | Mohammad Khorrami, an Iranian mathematical physicist (born October 4, 1966, Tehran) is professor of physics at Alzahra University, Tehran.
Education
Competing with over half a million applicants, Mohammad Khorrami ranked first in national university entrance exams (konkoor-e sarasari) of 1984 in Iran..
He graduated w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump%20search | In computer science, a jump search or block search refers to a search algorithm for ordered lists. It works by first checking all items Lkm, where and m is the block size, until an item is found that is larger than the search key. To find the exact position of the search key in the list a linear search is performed on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabion | A gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning "big cage"; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning "cage") is a cage, cylinder or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.
For erosion control, caged riprap is used. For d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28E%29-Stilbene | (E)-Stilbene, commonly known as trans-stilbene, is an organic compound represented by the condensed structural formula CHCH=CHCH. Classified as a diarylethene, it features a central ethylene moiety with one phenyl group substituent on each end of the carbon–carbon double bond. It has an (E) stereochemistry, meaning th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Jones%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Clifford "Cliff" B. Jones (born 1 June 1944) is a British computer scientist, specializing in research into formal methods. He undertook a late DPhil at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) under Tony Hoare, awarded in 1981. Jones' thesis proposed an ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%20reaction | The Duff reaction or hexamine aromatic formylation is a formylation reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of benzaldehydes with hexamine as the formyl carbon source. The method is generally inefficient. The reaction is named after James Cooper Duff.
The reaction requires strongly electron donating su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iminium | In organic chemistry, an iminium cation is a polyatomic ion with the general structure . They are common in synthetic chemistry and biology.
Structure
Iminium cations adopt alkene-like geometries: the central C=N unit is nearly coplanar with all four substituents. Unsymmetrical iminium cations can exist as cis and tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%20Robinson | Frank Neville Hosband Robinson (13 April 192519 October 1996) was an English physicist.
Neville Robinson was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge, England, and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read Physics.
Robinson initially worked as a civil servant at the Services Electronic Research Laboratory (SERL) in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Mendes%20%28physicist%29 | José F.F. Mendes (born in Porto) is a Portuguese physicist (statistical physics) and professor of physics, best known for his work and contributions to the field of network theory.Graduated from University of Porto in 1987. He earned a PhD in March 1995 from the same University under the direction of Eduardo Lage, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cramer | John Cramer may refer to:
John Cramer (announcer) (born 1955), American television announcer
John Cramer (representative) (1779–1870), US Representative from New York
John Cramer (priest) (1793–1848), English classical scholar and geographer
John G. Cramer (born 1934), professor of physics at the University of Was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McAdam%20%28businessman%29 | John McAdam is a technology executive.
McAdam holds a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
From January 1995 until August 1999, he served as the president and chief operating officer of Sequent Computer Systems, a manufacturer of high-end open systems, which was sold to IBM in September ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20genomics | Computational genomics refers to the use of computational and statistical analysis to decipher biology from genome sequences and related data, including both DNA and RNA sequence as well as other "post-genomic" data (i.e., experimental data obtained with technologies that require the genome sequence, such as genomic DN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nello%20Cristianini | Nello Cristianini (born 1968) is a professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath.
Education
Cristianini holds a degree in physics from the University of Trieste, a Master in computational intelligence from the University of London and a PhD from the University of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Stoy | Joseph E. Stoy is a British computer scientist. He initially studied physics at Oxford University. Early in his career, in the 1970s, he worked on denotational semantics with Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20game | In mathematics, the term chaos game originally referred to a method of creating a fractal, using a polygon and an initial point selected at random inside it. The fractal is created by iteratively creating a sequence of points, starting with the initial random point, in which each point in the sequence is a given fracti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenesis | Palingenesis (; also palingenesia) is a concept of rebirth or re-creation, used in various contexts in philosophy, theology, politics, and biology. Its meaning stems from Greek , meaning 'again', and , meaning 'birth'.
In biology, it is another word for recapitulationthe largely discredited hypothesis which talks of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrable%20system | In mathematics, integrability is a property of certain dynamical systems. While there are several distinct formal definitions, informally speaking, an integrable system is a dynamical system with sufficiently many conserved quantities, or first integrals that its motion is confined to a submanifold
of much smaller di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-jet%20event | In particle physics, a three-jet event is an event with many particles in final state that appear to be clustered in three jets. A single jet consists of particles that fly off in roughly the same direction. One can draw three cones from the interaction point, corresponding to the jets, and most particles created in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative%20process | In particle physics, a radiative process refers to one elementary particle emitting another and continuing to exist. This typically happens when a fermion emits a boson such as a gluon or photon.
See also
Bremsstrahlung
Radiation
Particle physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leakage | A leakage occurs when fluid is lost through a leak.
Leakage may also refer to:
Leakage (chemistry), a process in which material is lost through holes or defects in containers
Leakage (economics)
Carbon leakage or emissions leakage, whereby another country increases its greenhouse gas emissions in response to a uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fubini%E2%80%93Study%20metric | In mathematics, the Fubini–Study metric (IPA: /fubini-ʃtuːdi/) is a Kähler metric on projective Hilbert space, that is, on a complex projective space CPn endowed with a Hermitian form. This metric was originally described in 1904 and 1905 by Guido Fubini and Eduard Study.
A Hermitian form in (the vector space) Cn+1 d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B6licher%20spectral%20sequence | In mathematics, the Frölicher spectral sequence (often misspelled as Fröhlicher) is a tool in the theory of complex manifolds, for expressing the potential failure of the results of cohomology theory that are valid in general only for Kähler manifolds. It was introduced by . A spectral sequence is set up, the degener... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactly%20supported%20homology | In mathematics, a homology theory in algebraic topology is compactly supported if, in every degree n, the relative homology group Hn(X, A) of every pair of spaces
(X, A)
is naturally isomorphic to the direct limit of the nth relative homology groups of pairs (Y, B), where Y varies over compact subspaces of X and B va... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergius%20process | The Bergius process is a method of production of liquid hydrocarbons for use as synthetic fuel by hydrogenation of high-volatile bituminous coal at high temperature and pressure. It was first developed by Friedrich Bergius in 1913. In 1931 Bergius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of high-pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetailing%20%28computer%20science%29 | Dovetailing, in algorithm design, is a technique that interweaves different computations, performing them essentially simultaneously. Algorithms that use dovetailing are sometimes referred to as dovetailers.
Examples
Consider a tree that potentially contains a path of infinite length (but each node has only finitely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATCS | ATCS may refer to:
Academy for Technology and Computer Science, part of high school Bergen County Academies in New Jersey, United States
Advanced Train Control System, a railroad safety and monitoring system
Areal Traffic Control System
Asian Touring Car Series, a touring car racing series in southeast Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejomayananda | Swami Tejomayananda Saraswati (born 30 June 1950), also known as Pujya Guruji and born Sudhakar Kaitwade, is an Indian spiritual leader. He was head of Chinmaya Mission from 1994 to 2017, until he was succeeded by Swami Swaroopananda in 2017.
Initiation and disciplehood
In 1970, Sudhakar Kaitwade was a physics student... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20state%20machine | In computer science, an abstract state machine (ASM) is a state machine operating on states that are arbitrary data structures (structure in the sense of mathematical logic, that is a nonempty set together with a number of functions (operations) and relations over the set).
Overview
The ASM Method is a practical and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20Szekeres | Esther Szekeres (; 20 February 191028 August 2005) was a Hungarian–Australian mathematician.
Biography
Esther Klein was born to Ignaz Klein in a Jewish family in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary in 1910. As a young physics student in Budapest, Klein was a member of a group of Hungarians including Paul Erdős, George Szeker... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20ending%20problem | In mathematics, the "happy ending problem" (so named by Paul Erdős because it led to the marriage of George Szekeres and Esther Klein) is the following statement:
This was one of the original results that led to the development of Ramsey theory.
The happy ending theorem can be proven by a simple case analysis: if fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%20Portmann | Adolf Portmann (27 May 1897 – 28 June 1982) was a Swiss zoologist.
Born in Basel, Switzerland, he studied zoology at the University of Basel and worked later in Geneva, Munich, Paris and Berlin, but mainly in marine biology laboratories in France (Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roscoff, Villefranche-sur-Mer) and Helgoland.
In 1931... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin%20total%20synthesis | Aflatoxin total synthesis concerns the total synthesis of a group of organic compounds called aflatoxins. These compounds occur naturally in several fungi. As with other chemical compound targets in organic chemistry, the organic synthesis of aflatoxins serves various purposes. Traditionally it served to prove the stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture%20Notes%20in%20Computer%20Science | Lecture Notes in Computer Science is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973.
Overview
The series contains proceedings, post-proceedings, monographs, and Festschrifts. In addition, tutorials, state-of-the-art surveys, and "hot topics" are increasingly being included.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20O%27Day | Marcus Driver O'Day (1897–1961) was an American physicist.
In 1918, he entered the military service in Eugene, Oregon after graduating from Centralia, Washington. He then attended the University of Oregon where he was assigned to the Students Army Training Corps, and was discharged at the end of the year.
Beginning i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserved%20sequence | In evolutionary biology, conserved sequences are identical or similar sequences in nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) or proteins across species (orthologous sequences), or within a genome (paralogous sequences), or between donor and receptor taxa (xenologous sequences). Conservation indicates that a sequence has been maintai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou%20Chaochen | Zhou Chaochen (; born 1 November 1937) is a Chinese computer scientist.
Zhou was born in Nanhui, Shanghai, China. He studied as an undergraduate at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Peking University (1954–1958) and as a postgraduate at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneity%20%28physics%29 | In physics, a homogeneous material or system has the same properties at every point; it is uniform without irregularities. A uniform electric field (which has the same strength and the same direction at each point) would be compatible with homogeneity (all points experience the same physics). A material constructed wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS-FACS | BCS-FACS is the BCS Formal Aspects of Computing Science Specialist Group.
Overview
The FACS group, inaugurated on 16 March 1978, organizes meetings for its members and others on formal methods and related computer science topics. There is an associated journal, Formal Aspects of Computing, published by Springer, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TE%20buffer | TE buffer is a commonly used buffer solution in molecular biology, especially in procedures involving DNA, cDNA or RNA. "TE" is derived from its components: Tris, a common pH buffer, and EDTA, a molecule that chelates cations like Mg2+. The purpose of TE buffer is to solubilize DNA or RNA, while protecting it from degr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzelhoehe%20Solar%20Observatory | The Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory or KSO is an astronomical observatory affiliated with the Institute of Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology out of the University of Graz. It is located near Villach on the southern border of Austria.
Its Web page usually posts current images of the sun, especially in the hydrogen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%20scheme | In mathematics, the Bernoulli scheme or Bernoulli shift is a generalization of the Bernoulli process to more than two possible outcomes. Bernoulli schemes appear naturally in symbolic dynamics, and are thus important in the study of dynamical systems. Many important dynamical systems (such as Axiom A systems) exhibit a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20variable | In mathematics, a function of a motor variable is a function with arguments and values in the split-complex number plane, much as functions of a complex variable involve ordinary complex numbers. William Kingdon Clifford coined the term motor for a kinematic operator in his "Preliminary Sketch of Biquaternions" (1873).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Lamoureux | Denis O. Lamoureux (born May 27, 1954) holds a professorial chair of science and religion at St. Joseph's College at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has doctoral degrees in dentistry, theology, and biology. The author of Evolutionary Creation and of I Love Jesus and I Accept Evolution, he ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20F.%20Haught | John F. Haught is an American theologian. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at Georgetown University. He specializes in Roman Catholic systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to physical cosmology, evolutionary biology, geology, and Christianity.
He has authored numerous books and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPE | DPE is an abbreviation for:
Organizations
Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO
Department of Planning & Environment, department of the New South Wales government
Department of Public Enterprises, South African government ministry
Dis Politika Enstitüsü, Turkish think tank
Science
Downstream promoter el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSD | RSD most often refers to:
Serbian dinar, ISO 4217 code for the currency of the Republic of Serbia
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy, see complex regional pain syndrome
Rejection sensitive dysphoria in psychology
RSD may also refer to:
Science and mathematics
Repetitive stress disorder, another term for repetitive str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Red | Texas Red or sulforhodamine 101 acid chloride is a red fluorescent dye, used in histology for staining cell specimens, for sorting cells with fluorescent-activated cell sorting machines, in fluorescence microscopy applications, and in immunohistochemistry.
Texas Red fluoresces at about 615 nm, and the peak of its absor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilin | Bilin may refer to:
Bilin, Mon State, a town in Mon State in Myanmar
Bilin Township, whose seat is Bilin, Mon State
Bilin (biochemistry), a type of biological pigment with a tetrapyrrole structure, for example found in bile
Bil'in, a Palestinian village in the West Bank
Bilin or Belin (river), a river in Tuva, Russia
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20Aspects%20of%20Computing | Formal Aspects of Computing (FAOC) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media, covering the area of formal methods and associated topics in computer science. The editor-in-chief is Jim Woodcock. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 1.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Schuster | Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster (12 September 1851 – 14 October 1934) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Schuster's integral is named after him. He contributed to making the University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro%20Pitati | Pietro Pitati (in Latin, Petrus Pitatus) (?-fl. ca. 1550) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. Bernardino Baldi, in his Cronica de matematici (1707) calls Pitati a noble Veronese who was trained in mathematics by a Benedictine friar named Innocentio da Novara.
It is known that he was the author of several astr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element%20Boolean%20algebra | In mathematics and abstract algebra, the two-element Boolean algebra is the Boolean algebra whose underlying set (or universe or carrier) B is the Boolean domain. The elements of the Boolean domain are 1 and 0 by convention, so that B = {0, 1}. Paul Halmos's name for this algebra "2" has some following in the literatur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20interface | In computer science, a public interface is the logical point at which independent software entities interact. The entities may interact with each other within a single computer, across a network, or across a variety of other topologies.
It is important that public interfaces will be stable and designed to support futu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrel%20R.%20Falk | Darrel R. Falk (born 1946) is an American biologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Point Loma Nazarene University and is the past president and a current senior advisor with BioLogos Foundation,
an advocacy group that emphasizes compatibility between science and Christian faith.
Education
Falk attended Simon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najam%20Sheraz | Najam Sheraz (Urdu: نجم شیراز) is a Pakistani pop singer and songwriter.
Early life
Najam Sheraz was born in Multan, Pakistan on 2 August 1969. He played professional cricket. He graduated from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in civil engineering. He formed his first band with his elder brothers B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station-to-Station%20protocol | In public-key cryptography, the Station-to-Station (STS) protocol is a cryptographic key agreement scheme. The protocol is based on classic Diffie–Hellman, and provides mutual key and entity authentication. Unlike the classic Diffie–Hellman, which is not secure against a man-in-the-middle attack, this protocol assumes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Albert | Heather Albert (married name Heather Albert-Hall, born May 27, 1968) is an American professional bicycle racer. She is also the author of a book titled "The Genisoy Diet".
Born in Sandy, Utah, Albert attended Brigham Young University, Utah, and has a Ph.D. in microbiology. A cross country runner in high school, she tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioEssays | BioEssays is a monthly peer-reviewed review journal covering molecular and cellular biology. Areas covered include genetics, genomics, epigenetics, evolution, developmental biology, neuroscience, human biology, physiology, systems biology, and plant biology. The journal also publishes commentaries on aspects of science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomechatronics | Bio-mechatronics is an applied interdisciplinary science that aims to integrate biology and mechatronics (electrical, electronics, and mechanical engineering). It also encompasses the fields of robotics and neuroscience. Biomechatronic devices cover a wide range of applications, from developing prosthetic limbs to engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taper | Taper may refer to:
Part of an object in the shape of a cone (conical)
Taper (transmission line), a transmission line gradually increasing or decreasing in size
Fishing rod taper, a measure of the flexibility of a fishing rod
Conically tapered joints, made of ground glass, commonly used in chemistry labs to mate tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodaikanal%20Solar%20Observatory | The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory is a solar observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is on the southern tip of the Palani Hills from Kodaikanal.
The Evershed effect was first detected at this observatory in January 1909. Solar data collected by the lab is the oldest continuous series... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannaka%E2%80%93Krein%20duality | In mathematics, Tannaka–Krein duality theory concerns the interaction of a compact topological group and its category of linear representations. It is a natural extension of Pontryagin duality, between compact and discrete commutative topological groups, to groups that are compact but noncommutative. The theory is name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Froines | John Radford Froines (; June 13, 1939 – July 13, 2022) was an American chemist and anti-war activist, noted as a member of the Chicago Seven, a group charged with involvement with the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Froines, who held a Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale, was charged with interst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevatron | The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began operating in 1954. The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain. It accelerated pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Jafarkhani | Hamid Jafarkhani () (born 1966, in Tehran) is an Iranian-born American electrical engineer and professor. He serves as the Chancellor's Professor in electrical engineering and computer science in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). His research focuses on communi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Challifour | John Challifour was a professor of mathematical physics at Indiana University's Bloomington campus. He was known among the math students of the university for his wry sense of humor and clear teaching style.
He was British-born (Bristol, 1938) but studied in the U. S. (Cincinnati), taking his bachelors (with highest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics%20%28Aristotle%29 | Metaphysics (Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics"; Latin: Metaphysica) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops the doctrine that he calls First Philosophy. The work is a compilation of various texts treating abstract subjects, notably substance theory, different kinds of causatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20Bayesian%20estimation | In probability theory, statistics, and machine learning, recursive Bayesian estimation, also known as a Bayes filter, is a general probabilistic approach for estimating an unknown probability density function (PDF) recursively over time using incoming measurements and a mathematical process model. The process relies he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Coster | Dirk Coster (5 October 1889 – 12 February 1950) was a Dutch physicist. He was a professor of Physics and Meteorology at the University of Groningen.
Coster was born in Amsterdam. On 26 February 1919 he married Lina Maria "Miep" Wijsman, who held a degree in Oriental languages. Eventually, she was one of the first wom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee | Wee or WEE may refer to:
Wee, a slang term for urine (see also wee-wee)
Wee, short stature, or otherwise small
Anthroponym
Wee (surname), Chinese surname and name
Wee Willie Harris, singer
Wee Willie Webber, Philadelphia radio and television personality
Wee Man, actor
Pee-wee Herman, comedian
Pee Wee Crayton... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20scission | Beta scission is an important reaction in the chemistry of thermal cracking of hydrocarbons and the formation of free radicals. Free radicals are formed upon splitting the carbon-carbon bond. Free radicals are extremely reactive and short-lived. When a free radical in a polymer chain undergoes a beta scission, the fre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Etheridge | Samuel Etheridge (April 15, 1788 – February 18, 1864) was a state senator for the seventh district of the state of Michigan in 1838.
Etheridge was born in Adams, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1788 to parents of English lineage. He received a common-school education and excelled in mathematics. He taught school for a t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKR | The initials PKR may refer to:
Codes
Pokhara Airport, Nepal, by IATA code
Pakistani rupee, ISO 4217 currency code
Krotoszyn County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, vehicle registration
Entertainment
PKR.com, poker site
Organizations
People's Justice Party (Malaysia)
Science and technology
Pauson–Khand reaction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Biochemistry%20and%20Biophysics | The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB)
is a pioneering Iranian research institute founded in 1976 to conduct world class research in cellular and molecular biology. It is affiliated with University of Tehran and is located in the university campus.
IBB is an educational and research oriented center for tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrace | Subrace may refer to:
Subrace, a taxonomic division below race (biology)
Subrace or sub-race, a particular variety ("Grey Elf", "Cave Troll", etc.) of a fictional "race" in fantasy fiction and gaming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Grossberg | Stephen Grossberg (born December 31, 1939) is a cognitive scientist, theoretical and computational psychologist, neuroscientist, mathematician, biomedical engineer, and neuromorphic technologist. He is the Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousef%20Sobouti | Yousef Sobouti (, born 23 August 1932 in Zanjan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian astrophysicist, theoretical physicist.
Biography
He got his undergraduate degree from Tehran University. In 1960 he received his MSc degree in physics from University of Toronto.
He finished his doctoral thesis on Astronomy and Astrophy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Danthine | André Danthine was a professor of computer science at the University of Liège from 1967 to 1997; he is now a professor emeritus there. He specialized in computer networks and created the university's Research Unit in Networking in 1972.
In 2000, Danthine won the SIGCOMM Award "for basic contributions to protocol desig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben%20Norton%20Horsford | Eben Norton Horsford (July 27, 1818 – January 1, 1893) was an American scientist who taught agricultural chemistry in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard from 1847 to 1863. Later he was known for his reformulation of baking powder, his interest in Viking settlements in North America, and the monuments he built to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmuir%20%28unit%29 | The langmuir (symbol: L) is a unit of exposure (or dosage) to a surface (e.g. of a crystal) and is used in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) surface physics to study the adsorption of gases. It is a practical unit, and is not dimensionally homogeneous, and so is used only in this field. It is named after American physicist Irvin... |
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